EP #007 - Bitcoin, Decentralised Identity and The Next Web - With John Carvalho

“Slash Tags lets you own your data and update it securely — only your keys can write to your data feeds, which can be used across apps and websites.” – John Carvalho

Who is our guest?John Carvalho is the CEO of Synonym, a company building innovative Bitcoin tools including Bitkit, a wallet designed to hold your keys not only for Bitcoin but also for your accounts, contacts, and data feeds. Using underlying peer-to-peer technology like Hypercore, Synonym is creating a new web experience where users control their data, identity, and payments in a decentralised way.

What was discussed in this episode?John explains how Bitkit enables a fresh type of Bitcoin wallet with widgets that provide live data feeds from decentralised networks. He details Slash Tags, a protocol allowing users to own and update their public profiles and data streams securely, usable across multiple applications. The conversation covers Synonym’s vision to replace big tech, banks, and states by empowering self-sovereign users, their approach to open source development, and how technologies like Pair Credit aim to create credit systems without blockchains, offering private, peer-to-peer payments with no fees or routing requirements. John also shares insights into integration challenges, developer engagement, and the evolving Bitcoin ecosystem.

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