TLS59: Paolo Ardoino & Mathias Buus on Holepunch, Keet, Building P2P Apps, and Lightning Adoption

Jul 26 2022 • 1hr 39m

Show Notes

Paolo Ardoino and Mathias Buus are the co-founders of Holepunch, a fully encrypted platform for building peer-to-peer applications. Matthias is the CEO, who has been building P2P products for a decade, and Paolo is CSO, along with being the CTO at Tether.
In our talk, we spoke about what Holepunch is and how it works, how P2P apps can eliminate the costs and risks of relying on cloud data storage, we explored the apps developers could build on top of Holepunch, and the ways they could monetize their apps with Bitcoin or stablecoins on Lightning.
→ Holepunch: https://holepunch.to/
→ Keet: https://keet.io/
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
02:25 - Mathias Buus & Paolo Ardoino Intro
13:08 - How Do Holepunch & Keet Work?
21:23 - BitTorrent vs. Holepunch
25:41 - What Happens To Datacenters In A P2P World?
32:19 - Will Web 2 Companies Adapt To P2P Technology?
45:47 - Why Is Holepunch Being Built Today?
52:17 - Holepunch vs. Personal Servers
1:11:46 - What Can Developers Build on Holepunch?
1:18:07 - Will Holepunch and Keet Make Money?
1:25:29 - The Lightning Round

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@gs_svrgn

25,000 sats

Jul 27 2022

Thank you Paolo and Mathias, you are continuing Satoshi’s work.

@inevitabill

1,200 sats

Jul 29 2022

wow loved this episode! Do you envisage users being incentivised to hold data for others in a ‘swarm’?

@permaculture_

1,000 sats

Jul 27 2022

this type of forward thinking in regards to private data streaming over an open protocol really gets the imagination going! robots making transactions amongst themselves sounds like a very useful technology. better search engines are needed. I can't find anything on YouTube anymore.

@bon

1,000 sats

Jul 27 2022

do you dox your IP to the other people you are connecting to? this is a huge turn off if so. I didn't hear this asked or answered.

@italivar

555 sats

Jul 27 2022

I’m extremely excited for holepunch, it makes so much sense when they talk about it, a true revolution.

@mrmiyagi

500 sats

Aug 1 2022

Punching holes for sats