Nostr Talks

In this recap of the past month we catch up on the Damus/AppStore conflict, what could go wrong with Nostr, what Nostr needs next to break out, and how might alternatives to the AppStore work.

Jeff G is no stranger to the nostr development community. We first met in person at Nostrica earlier this year. This was fun to finally lay down a video together where we cover his move from the US to Italy and how his orange/purple-pill is going in his remote mountain village. We also learned about his beliefs on how we can help Nostr succeed faster, how he decided to go “all-in” on Nostr, what he’s building with Listr, and his ideas to spur education and to improve developer experience with NDK.

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0:00 moving from the US to the mountains in Europe

6:10 orange/purple pilling the neighbors in Italy/EU

11:00 attract developers/designers/creators instead of regular “users”

21:25 going all-in on Nostr

31:47 venture funding, grants, consulting… many paths

36:29 educational resources for nostr

38:14 Lists on Nostr

46:57 progressive decentralization possible?

51:01 data is the new “oil” or “liability”

55:05 Listr as micro-app vs. site

59:16 Keystr - key management with everything orchestrated as a micro-app

1:03:00 NDK - Nostr Development Kit

1:05:25 onboarding new users

1:10:10 onboard developers

Hodlbod was so early to building in this space that he almost built a competing social media protocol, but once he found Nostr he decided it was sufficient for his needs. So instead he built one of the first big Nostr clients called Coracle. He’s excited about pushing the art forward on building for community and messaging use-cases and is “going all-in” on building on Nostr.

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0:00 Hodlbod on his nostr journey

9:18 Relays with topics, read/write rules

14:38 Coracle

22:17 Search

26:16 NIP-95 - relays as images hosts

31:30 Decentralization and pragmatism

39:46 Relays should have routing function for things like search services

46:20 Coracle’s future - FUTO fellowship

52:05 Bluesky vs. Nostr

1:01:25 Hodlbod’s decision to “go all-in”

1:13:00 Blowwater - https://blowater.deno.dev

1:18:10 Source control idea

1:20:00 OpenSats

0:00 bitcoin Miami - big Nostr energy

6:18 Wolf Lightning Accelerator

14:34 supercycle of compounding tools - Nostr + AI + Opensource

21:00 Lightning payments from/to Machines

29:55 AI/LLM decentralization/open

38:37 "Open" AI

39:48 Curated Feeds by @brugeman​

54:55 Dhruv Bansal - Will AI Dream of Electric Bitcoin?

1:07:07 Scenius on Nostr: https://kk.org/thetechnium/scenius-or-comm/

1:14:15 Hack Nostr On

1:15:47 fiatjaf relay showcase based on PoW

1:19:25 Damus one-tap zaps and zap payment split

1:26:43 Podcast Highlighter by Karnage

1:28:54 Highlighter product updates!

1:31:39 SimpleX - private messenger https://simplex.chat/

1:36:00 app stores, micro-apps, super-apps

0:00 Q&A on "trust rank", "trending/top" posts

7:44 Nostr Lists and architectures for pluggable ranking services

15:41 dumb relays vs. content-centric relays

26:15 Nostr.band for various data services

33:10 Nostr.band as a micro-app

40:08 App Store obsolescence

43:08 Granularity of micro-app

47:02 What is an Operating System?

53:52 https://nostrapp.link

58:47 Nostr is the Super App

1:04:15 fun of developing on Nostr

1:11:45 Artur's new app idea - kids video feed

GSovereignty is host of the popular Nostr podcast Nostrovia. In this episode we turn the tables as the host becomes the guest and we learn about his Nostrocket project, China, organizational design, bitcoin versus power, making money on nostr, and how to get started building.

0:00 DK kicks it off with a spicy Cardano troll inquiry from the audience

9:05 G's motivation

11:06 G's choice to live in HK

13:56 Internet/Nostr in China

20:42 Nostrocket, Amdahl's law

26:12 what's the point of contributing to legacy civilization right now?

31:26 Nostrocket on Organizational design - holocracy

38:19 Nostrversary - on Going All-In

42:39 bitcoin isn't fixing the world fast enough

47:06 honeymoon phase of bitcoin vs. powerful people

50:18 US attempt to overpower network?

54:44 China, hashpower

1:10:05 Developer ecosystem growth

1:11:30 Making money on Nostr

1:14:11 How to get started developing on Nostr

3:20 @RobertKennedyJr​ joins Nostr!

13:07 Podcast audio consumption into Nostr Notes with @gsovereignty

18:51 #proofofwalk app idea

24:04 WayMo Love 💜

29:14 AI - will it be decentralized?

36:08 How to build the Hivemind with Nostr?

39:35 Private Groups on Nostr

44:00 Bluesky is a scam - @fiatjaf

47:11 @max’s on faith, complexity, and emergent behavior

52:55 does Nostr need the defensiveness of bitcoin?

1:05:20 Nostr Wallet Connect on @damus - @jb55 @bumi

1:09:00 ZapPlanner - periodic payments in bitcoin - https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzd3cxvmryvpjxc6rxwpkqgsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0srqsqqqa282e7u34

1:11:40 Unpopular Zap Opinion - @karnage

1:20:30 creating a game to welcome new users

1:24:15 list to view feeds by collection of people (demoed Nostr.band with Amethyst) - @brugeman @vitor @jeffg -

https://listr.lol

1:32:47 Nostrasia registration - @mcshane

1:34:00 Bluesky visualization shared by @rabble - we need this for Nostr!

https://bsky.jazco.dev

0:00 computer science and professional baseball

4:03 2017 bitcoin and "crypto" pulling his interest, cut from Cardinals

7:00 bitcoin engineer: BitGo, CashApp (Square/Block), Deezy

14:28 government, regulatory

19:46 running one of the largest lightning nodes

29:10 nostr, ordinals, lightning?

31:19 Deezy - how to decide the focus of the company?

35:52 Midjourney

42:49 💡 nostr + AI + lightning - crowdfund AI art

1:00:42 decentralized order books, ordinals

1:32:45 algorithms in social

1:35:26 Primal - discovery services

1:37:04 - NosFT website

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