#17: Organic Tech w/ Arjen

March 31, 2026 · 1h 13m

About this episode

Gigi and guest Arjen discuss organic technology and the future of data flow in the context of Nostr.

"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…

People in this episode

Host: Gigi

Guest: Arjen

Topics covered

organic technology
Nostr
data flow
local first
router-to-router payments
self-healing links

Keywords

Nostr
organic tech
Blossom
local relays
router-to-router payments
Cashu
self-healing links

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Blossom, noDNS, Tollgate, Wally, innpub, Citrine, Amber, nostr-relay-tray, Applesauce, Wingman