Nostr and Holepunch and Keet and Pears
You know Nostr. The decentralized social media protocol.
Let me tell you about the rest.
Keet.io is a peer to peer app. Not yet open source. It is beta. But you need to try it out. It is peer to peer. You can use a nym. No email, no name, no telephone number. Use a vpn, save your seed phrase. Chat, dm, hold meetings.
Holepunch is the company creating Keet. They are sponsored by Tether. So Paolo is doing something great here. Creating peer to peer technology.
Holepunch means: You punch a hole through walls, servers etc and you establish peer to peer connections. Globally. I can send you a 1 gigabyte file fast, peer to peer, globally.
Pears is the runtime. You can create desktop, terminal apps. If you know nodejs, javascript, html and css you can create any pear to pear app in minutes.
The whole software stack is open source. Keet is the first example of an app created with Pears runtime. You got databases, connections, all local running.
Check docs.pears.com and the holepunch github repository. And you see many examples of software.
Unstoppable software.
Peer to peer.
No infrastructure.
No servers.
No need for email nor your telephone number.
Nostr and Pears
There is a place for both.
They are not competitors.
There is a bridge. But nobody has built that bridge yet.
There is more once you enter that Holepunch/Pears world.
There is peer to peer AI.
There are wallets to send Bitcoin.
I wish islands could build on top of Nostr and Holepunch and Pears.
Connect islands. To create Island Wealth.
Thriving small businesses.
Trading.
Connected.
In a Hyperswarm!
Check it out!
And let me know your thoughts.
Let me know what you are going to build.
Peer to peer.
Be unstoppable.
Be local.
Runy
Island Wealth
In a volatile world of tariffs you want to build on Bitcoin
The world seems like more volatile. Stocks of German, Dutch, Danish public companies can just dive because the USA President Trump put tariffs.
If you have a portfolio of stocks, what if they lock your account: not your keys not your stocks.
What if they close your bank account? Your credit card?
If you have a business, what if you cannot accept money any more because your bank account, your credit card has been closed?
I live in the Caribbean. We already have the priviledge here to NOT having business paypal accounts!
Some Caribbean islands can receive Paypal payments. But not Curaçao. Not Sint Maarten.
We know what it is to do business without Paypal.
Now imagine a world in its fourth turning. Imagine a world in the last phases of its global debt cycle.
Imagine a world full of debt.
A world where anything can happen.
Your payment gateway can just stop working.
You own Greenland? Now you don’t own it any more.
Venezuelan oil?
Now you don’t own it any more.
A world where trust has broken.
Not only the money is broken.
Trust has broken down.
A trustless world.
Enter Bitcoin.
You don’t need to trust the banks.
You are your own bank.
You run your own Bitcoin node.
Your own Lightning node on top of it.
Your own mempool app.
A world where you have your own non custodial wallets.
A world where you do unstoppable business with all the world.
You pay with Bitcoin!
You save in Bitcoin!
You receive your sales in Bitcoin.
A world where you can hire hundreds of students of the My First Bitcoin certificate.
Because they all got the basics of Bitcoin.
A world built on the Nostr protocol.
Where you can plug in.
It feels like code is the new trust.
No matter how volatile the world gets.
Bitcoin will tick every 10 minutes.
Unstoppable.
Build on Bitcoin.
Runy
Island Wealth
Check this out! I will dive deeper into the stats with you, but lets see.
According to these data the exports to USA are double those to China.
What would happen it Europe would double its exports to China? And leave USA?
See my other posts.
If USA don’t want European products they could go to China.
China’s economy is growing faster than the USA.
Chinese businesses and citizens have higher purchasing power and could buy these products.
The Chinese market is larger than the USA market.
China is part of the BRICS, together 40% of the world population.
What do you think Europe should do?
Trade with China?
Foxus on China instead of on USA?
What would you do?
Runy
Island Wealth
Imports of the world are used to produce USA goods. Why you didn’t want to live in East Berlin
Hey imagine I’m a hotel in the USA.
When you enter a hotel you see steel, material, furniture. You go in the kitchens you see Siemens and Whirlpool.
When you go to a room you see Samsung TV. Your Wifi system. Look at the brand.
You go to the swimming pool. Look at the brand. The cooler. Look at the brand.
I bet you: say 50% of all the stuff you see was IMPORTED!
Why?
Because the world made it cheaper, faster, and better quality than the USA.
The USA has a better financial system than the world. You can buy stocks, bonds, options. Wallstreet is top of the world making financial products.
But making physical stuff, manufacturing, the world, China, is faster, better and cheaper than the USA.
That is why you import! Because YOU benefit!
Check your numbers.
That means your wealth is dependent from the world.
What is wealth? What gives you a higher standard of living?
Your wealth- the options you have, the variety of brands, the colours, the features is dependent of what you see in your shelves.
Why are the people in Venezuela less wealthier than the USA?
Their shelves are empty. Only the very wealthy in Venezuela can get a variety of stuff. Different brands, different colours.
If they are in a hospital and the machine that they cannot import any more is broken: people die.
You don’t die because your hospital can import that Siemens machine. You are not blind because your hospital has that eye machine of a top European brand.
If you did not import it you are blind or you die. Can you see this?
Your hotel in USA is luxurious, has everything BECAUSE you trade with the world.
Now lets stop all these imports. 10.000% tariffs. On everything.
Because the world has been taking advantage of us.
They have sent us all their physical stuff their machines and we have been sending them a piece of paper that we can print unlimited.
What do you think is going to happen when that pool engine in that hotel breaks?
What when that Samsung TV needs to be renewed?
Are we going to put USA brands only?
Can we produce it cheaper, faster ourselves? Or will it be more expensive, and of less quality?
I was in East Berlin.
Before the walls went down.
East Berlin was a place that traded with nobody. That did not trade with the world. No imports from the world.
You had to be there.
You had to look at the streets, the buildings, the hotels and the shelves!
You had to become sick and end up in a hospital.
I wish you were there.
Your wealth, your options, your way of life, depends on trading with the world!
Imports are contributing to your way of life.
Every timeyou hear tariffs on imports I wish you hear tariffs on my way of life. On my options.
Runy
Island Wealth
