No Solutions

Walking towards a better internet since 882,690.

No Solutions is a podcast about freedom tech, open protocols, and the trade-offs of building in the open. These are walking conversations with people trying to make the internet, and the world around it, a little more sovereign.

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“Once it left its AI psychosis phase it has had some good moments.”
— fiatjaf

Episodes

29: State of the Mint and Mind

calle 💯 (guest) Jun 7, 2026 1:05:39

"You cannot look at something without touching it."

28: Speak Human

MouxDesign (guest) Jun 2, 2026 1:03:10

"We just need to speak human."

27: Separation of Business from State

gsovereignty (guest) Jun 1, 2026 1:05:52

"It’s the people who receive Bitcoin as payment for something who decide what Bitcoin is."

26: Zapstore

Franzap (guest) May 31, 2026 1:07:48

"The user joins the community, and the community does a lot of the heavy lifting."

25: White Noise, MLS, and marmot

Jeff G (guest) May 30, 2026 1:14:44

"What we're actually building is an unstoppable messenger."

24: Building FIPS

Johnathan Corgan (guest) Apr 16, 2026 35:46

“Don’t be afraid of going your own way.”

23: Shipping Violently

Justin Moon (guest) Apr 13, 2026 1:40:13

“I want to optimize for hackability and customization.”

22: Sovereign Engineering

Yo (guest) Apr 5, 2026 1:07:08

“Permissionless, permissionless, permissionless.”

21: Hashtree, Nostr VPN, and Iris

Martti Malmi (guest) Apr 4, 2026 1:17:59

"We have this window of opportunity to steer the LLMs and the future of technology into a freedom-tech direction."

20: Archipelago Meshtadels

Shadrach (guest) Apr 2, 2026 1:43:40

"Bitcoin doesn't need more believers. Bitcoin needs more understanders."

19: Romantically Shitting on Paywalls

Pablo (guest) Apr 1, 2026 1:10:35

"I need to build something to test the thing."

18: Rewriting TENEX

Pablo (guest) Apr 1, 2026 46:09

"You're yelling at someone who is lying to you."

17: Organic Tech

Arjen (guest) Mar 31, 2026 1:13:12

"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."

16: One Click and Run

Sovereign Engineering (guest) Mar 31, 2026 9:35

"You have a roaming army of servers."

15: Make Localhost Great Again

Sovereign Engineering (guest) Mar 31, 2026 15:00

"127.0.0.1 -- that's the only IP address we're gonna need."

14: Building Browsers

Justin (guest) Mar 31, 2026 22:27

"I want Nostr to be the perfect thing just for me."

13: The Linux of Social Media

hzrd149 (guest) Oct 24, 2025 1:25:50

"The identity should be outside of the computer."

12: The Windy Lawnmower Stuff

Pete (guest) Oct 24, 2025 1:36:38

What does it mean to build something "in the spirit of Bitcoin"?

11: 10x Less Productive

Pablo (guest) Jun 21, 2025 1:39:13

What does it mean to build something "in the spirit of Bitcoin"?

10: Walking with Jesus

Gzuuus (guest) Apr 22, 2025 1:36:12

"It's gonna be permissionless or hell."

09: No Strudelutions

hzrd149 (guest) Apr 18, 2025 1:55:05

"It isn’t obvious that the world had to work this way. But somehow the universe smiles on encryption."

08: Navigating the Vibe

Pablo (guest) Apr 4, 2025 1:35:28

"With the shift towards this multi-agent collaboration and orchestration world, you need a neutral substrate that has money, identity, cryptography, and web-of-trust baked in, to make everything work."