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Cryptocat creator will get insanely quick backing to construct p2p tech for social media

The idea for Capsule started with a tweet about reinventing social media. An afternoon later cryptography researcher, Nadim Kobeissi — largest recognized for authoring the open provide e2e encrypted desktop chat app Cryptocat (now discontinued) — had pulled in a pre-seed investment of $100,000 for his …
The idea for Capsule started with a tweet about reinventing social media. A day later cryptography researcher, Nadim Kobeissi — best known for authoring the open source e2e encrypted desktop chat app Cryptocat (now discontinued) — had pulled in a pre-seed investment of $100,000 for his …

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