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Talking Pears with Guy Swann
Freedom Tech Friday

Talking Pears with Guy Swann

January 10, 2026 · 01:05:26 · Max BBB, Bitcoin QnA, Seth For Privacy, Guy Swann
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New year kickoff and show intros
Coffee banter and holiday catch‑up
Todays topic: building apps without central servers
Guest intro: Guy Swan and his connection to Holepunch/Pear
What problem is Holepunch trying to solve? Censorship and control
What is Holepunch vs the Pear stack? Naming history and scope
Decentralisation compared: Bitcoin, BitTorrent and consensus
If BitTorrent were built today: mutable feeds and updates
Keys, backups and responsibility in Pear apps
How NAT traversal works: port birthday trick and speed
Tailscale analogy and no-coordinator networking
Identity design: device keys, topics and optional global IDs
P2P vs central servers: choosing the right mix
User-level view: Keet, Pear Pass and Pear Drive
Scaling upside: swarms, uptime and the hug of death solved
Startup costs, relays and hosting at home
Pear Drive goals: seamless multi-device file sync
Sharing, recovery and social file vaults
Backups: friends, home servers and blind cloud storage
State of the stack: stability, bugs and rebuilding the core
Technical hurdles: hyperdrives, core stores and hyperblobs
Making it boring: Pear Drive core for app developers
Listener Q&A: open source status (Keet vs others)
What is Warefam and when Android? Location sharing app
Wrap-up and next weeks show

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