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#17: Organic Tech w/ Arjen
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- Mar 31, 2026
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Summary
"Nostr is organic tech. Data will flow more naturally instead of going out and fetch, going out and coming back, going out and coming back." Arjen & Gigi take a long walk. Recorded October 2025. Projects & tech mentioned: Blossom (self-healing links) noDNS Tollgate (router-to-router payments) Wally (Cashu wallet connect) innpub (positional audio, innpub.dergigi.com ) Citrine (Android local relay) Amber (Android signer) nostr-relay-tray Applesauce (code snippets) Wingman (remote dev assistant) CDK (Cashu dev kit) NIP-03 (OpenTimestamps) ants (Nostr search) OTRTA / Routstr (pay for LLM compute with Cashu) Notedeck & nostrdb gitworkshop.dev (Nostr-native git collaboration) Boris (reading and highlighting) Spotstr & Earthly.city (maps on Nostr) In this dialogue: Convincing hzrd to make Blossom more of a protocol Self-healing links: content addressing like Nostr but for blobs Blossom pacemaker: a tool that monitors your notes and blobs, rebroadcasts and re-uploads as needed Local first: local relays, local blossom, local cash, local signers "I still get shit for the audio quality" Verschlimmbesserung: the German word for making something worse by trying to improve it "We should reclaim localhost" Every Nostr app should work in airplane mode Citrine roadmap: auto-rebroadcast local events once you're online again Tollgate v0.2.0: router-to-router payments, released at btc++ "Some people just hate e-cash" -- "Those people can't be helped" Cashu and CDK: making it easy for devs to use e-cash without managing wallets Wally: Cashu wallet connect, like NWC but for e-cash, runs local Install Wally and you're good to go with everything Nostr Special-purpose components that do one thing well Zero configuration: if there's a local relay, use it; if there's a local sign…