Matt Hill on Total Digital Sovereignty – Epi-3052
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Matt Hill is a passionate leader by example with 12 years experience building products, teams, and companies. Matt is the CEO / Co-Founder of Start9 Labs, founder and developer of WorkBlast, the co-creator of Borker, and the co-architect and former CTO of SALT Lending. Matt joins us today to discuss sovereign computing and true digital privacy
In 2022, the news headlines are filled more than ever with warnings for the future of those who value freedom. We must go beyond recognition of the significance of exposing personal / private information to companies like google, facebook, coinbase, and amazon. We’re entrusting important information to companies that do not have the incentives in place to protect it or may even have incentives to further compromise that data. And yet, we often do utilize their services – they are easy to use and appear cost effective.
Many listeners of the Survival Podcast have started using the Start9 Embassy to take that power (their data) back from big tech. You do not need to be tech savvy to run a personal server anymore. If you already own an Embassy, Start9 has big news – we’ve launched the latest iteration of our product: 0.3.0. Join us for a review of 0.3.0 – all the functionality currently available on Embassy in one place and a continuation of the discussion around what makes us Start9: the individuals, the values, the goals.
Resources for today’s show
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- Join Our Forum
- Walking To Freedom
- TspAz.com
- TSPC on Discord
- TSPC Group on Telegram (group chat)
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- Jack on Flote
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- Join Me on Odysee
- Buy Crypto Safe and Easy on CoinBase
- My Favorite NoKYC Cryto Exchange CoinEx
- Get Paid in Bitcoin with Strike
- EtekCity Lanterns – Item of the Day
Resources Matt Mentioned
- Start9.com
- Note Matrix Chat, Bitwarden, PhotoView and File Browser are Open Source Tools and to use them the way Matt Describes they should be installed on Embassy via the Embassy MarketPlace
- Element App – this is what you run for the user side for Matrix Chat as Matt explained
- Start9 Blog Post on the Latest Version of Embassy
- Angel List Syndicate – I was unable to locate the Start9 1031 Listing
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I was hoping to see the link for where we can invest in the company. I’m not seeing it on their website either.
And yes, being a supporter of this podcast saved me a lot of money on the device! If only I can get the “.local” domain working for the apps. Still trouble shooting it when I have time.
Here is the announcement from Ten31 regarding the raise. https://twitter.com/jkirkwoodmd/status/1486151534337531910
Matt, can you comment on why Start9 chose to stay with the RasPi platform? I am a big fan of the RasPi and have owned them back to the initial release. However, once you add a case and SATA drive you are getting close to the price of a X86 PC. Granted the RasPi offering is in a small package.
It is important that it is possible and easy for people to build their own Embassies using commodity hardware. The Ras Pi is a great fit for that. It was also an expedient way for us to go to market quickly. We will absolutely be supporting alternative SBCs as well as X86 this year.