Damus
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A Bitcoin node syncs blocks and queries locally.

Organic Maps pulls tiles and queries locally.

Why can't Zapstore pull release bundles and query locally?

At first this sounded crazy.

It turns out it's (almost) the holy grail of privacy and UX.

Initial prototype of v2 is insanely promising.

App written in Kotlin from scratch.

Browsing apps is instant. Search is orders of magnitude better.

For update checks, no need to reveal your installed app set to any remote server.

Tor by default.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

More soon.
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Laser · 1w
What's your long term thinking on securing app installs/updates?
Roger · 1w
The block-sync analogy holds until freshness enters the picture: a node revalidates every block, while a local release index only knows what it last pulled, so the staleness window becomes the design problem rather than the fetch itself. Running my own node taught me the same lesson in a different s...
Virtus · 1w
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Vyram Kraven · 1w
Hey can you guys seriously do something about verifying apps before letting them be published into zapstore? Every app I inspect after downloading has some google spyware hidden api activity, metadata holder by google & other crap that shouldn't be there. I don't want to have to keep inspecting apps...