{"id":250484,"date":"2026-05-20T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/bitcoin-developer-launches-privacy-focused-nostr-vpn-using-public-keys\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:35:49","slug":"bitcoin-developer-launches-privacy-focused-nostr-vpn-using-public-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/bitcoin-developer-launches-privacy-focused-nostr-vpn-using-public-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin developer launches privacy-focused Nostr VPN using public keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.net\/news\/blockchain\/32891743\/\">Bitcoin developer launches privacy-focused Nostr VPN using public keys<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.net\/news\/blockchain\/32891743\/\">https:\/\/cryptonews.net\/news\/blockchain\/32891743\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 10:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cryptonews.net\">cryptonews.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martti Malmi, an early Bitcoin developer who worked with Satoshi Nakamoto, has published a new privacy-focused version of Nostr VPN inspired by Tailscale, replacing email addresses and third-party accounts with Nostr public keys.<\/p>\n<p>Malmi said in a Tuesday X post that the new version of Nostr includes a multiplatform interface for managing VPN settings across devices, as well as Nostr-based multihop routing that acts as a fallback system when direct peer-to-peer connections fail.<\/p>\n<p>The new version uses Nostr cryptographic keys instead of email logins or third-party accounts, reducing reliance on centralized services. The project aims to offer a more decentralized alternative to traditional VPN providers that route traffic through company-controlled servers.<\/p>\n<p>VPNs, or virtual private networks, create encrypted connections between devices and the internet to help hide users\u2019 IP addresses and internet traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <span>Martti Malmi<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin advocate Swiss Hodler <span>called<\/span> decentralized VPNs \u201cfreedom technology\u201d that makes online censorship more difficult as it helps remove more infrastructure from \u201ccentralized control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malmi, also known as \u201cSirius,\u201d is a Finnish computer scientist and developer who was known as one of Nakamoto\u2019s first major collaborators between 2009 and 2011. Malmi helped design Bitcoin\u2019s first graphical user interface, co-managed Bitcoin.org and co-founded the Bitcoin Forum, later rebranded as <span>Bitcointalk<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><span><strong>Capital B boosts Bitcoin reserves with $15.2M purchase<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Internet users seek privacy-focused VPN solutions<\/h2>\n<p>Developers have been building more decentralized VPNs to answer the growing user demand for privacy-focused solutions.<\/p>\n<p><span>ZeroTier<\/span> launched in 2013 as one of the first privacy-focused VPN solutions that were built on a private mesh network. By 2024, ZeroTier <span>said<\/span> it had garnered over 3 million connected devices across 5,000 paid accounts and 600,000 network administrations.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, a community of open-source developers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.net\/news\/blockchain\/32891743\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin developer launches privacy-focused Nostr VPN using public keys https:\/\/cryptonews.net\/news\/blockchain\/32891743\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-20 10:24:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cnews24.ru\/uploads\/802\/802ef6396d97c64001dda6af58859d74ee3b3335.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250486,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250484\/revisions\/250486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}