Peer-to-peer networks have no servers—just devices talking directly to each other. Henry interviewed Mathias Buus Madsen, CEO of Holepunch, about how BitTorrent handled 40 million users without servers, why their messenger Keet can't go down even when usage spikes, their new P2P password manager, and how P2P apps are more energy efficient than data centers.

🔗 LINKS

• Holepunch: https://holepunch.to/
• Keet Messenger: https://keet.io
• Pears: https://pears.com
• Pear Pass: https://pass.pears.com

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

0:00:00 INTRO

00:01:25 WHAT IS PEER-TO-PEER (P2P)?

00:03:16 BENEFITS OF P2P

00:05:38 GETTING STARTED IN P2P

00:08:43 NEGATIVE P2P ASSOCIATIONS

00:14:13 P2P CENSORSHIP RESISTANCE

00:17:14 P2P SAFETY

00:21:29 KEET (P2P MESSENGER)

00:26:21 OPEN SOURCE?

00:27:12 BEING SERVERLESS

00:31:04 OPEN SOURCE VS. CLOSED SOURCE

00:34:05 ARE UPDATES P2P?

00:34:33 IS THERE AN APK?

00:35:37 BACKGROUND SYNC

00:39:27 WHAT ELSE DOES HOLEPUNCH WORK ON?

00:42:04 MORE INFO ON THE STACK

00:45:00 FUNDING + TETHER

00:48:09 P2P PASSWORD MANAGER?

00:54:48 AUDITS

00:55:57 AVAILABLE ON LINUX?

00:58:33 CENTRALIZED/HYBRID P2P?

01:01:49 P2P DOWNSIDES?

01:05:01 APPLE FINDMY NETWORK

01:07:16 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

01:11:48 SERVICE DOWNTIME

01:12:52 HOW TO FOLLOW

01:13:59 OUTRO

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