* The history of the Nostream project

* How Ricardo purple-pilled Anton at work

* Relays and the motivation for paid relays

* Relay federations

* Philosophy of relays as content agnostic

* Advice for new Nostr client developers to work well with relays

* Advice for new Nostr relay operators

* Stats, reads:writes, purging messages

* Pricing models and the evolution

* Standardization of governance or operating principles

* Nostr and bitcoin/lightning convergence

* Choice and freedom

In this conversation I discussed Nostr and open protocols with my friend David N who has built products at big tech for the past decade. Specifically he worked on core communication tools at Google (Gmail), Facebook/Meta, and Apple.

It was interesting to hear about some of the the cultural beliefs at big tech around open versus closed, his rigorous focus on user value props when trying to decide what he believes about Nostr, and how some of what he saw on the Gmail team hints at one of the best reasons to be optimistic about the possibilities of Nostr.

I hope you enjoy our conversation!

Welcome to Nostr Talks a podcast where I interview the people building on Nostr, cover the latest news of what’s happening around the ecosystem, and I share my own thoughts on where this technology is going.

Nostr is a simple open source messaging protocol. But its potential impact on how we communicate, publish, and share information on the Internet is profound. It radically reshapes our assumptions about web publishing and opens up new frontiers in free speech - a web without masters. Along the way it explores radical new approaches to product innovation, too.

Join me on this journey to learn about these new tools to build a more open Internet and to empower greater human freedom.

Aligned with these ideals, this work is part of the podcast 2.0 or value4value podcast movement. I value your time and attention and so I won’t be reading ads on-air. If you find the podcast valuable you can send me tips via the bitcoin lightning network at my lightning address: ⚡️ [email protected]