Nostr Talks

* Max’s idea that Bitcoin startups often hold their balance sheets in USD and BTC, with varying levels of Bitcoin exposure. * The majority of Bitcoin-focused companies have some exposure to Bitcoin, and this exposure depends on the founder's preferences. * The conversation highlights the importance of non-custodial wallets and the impact of recent developments in the eCash space on Bitcoin adoptio...

* nsec.app is a web-based solution for key management in the Nostr ecosystem. * It implements the Nostr Connect protocol, allowing users to remotely access their keys. * The goal of nsec.app is to simplify key management for new users and make it more accessible. * Other apps, such as Amber Android app and Gossip client, also support Nostr Connect. * The conversation discusses the idea of username...

Takeaways * eCash is a layer on top of Bitcoin that aims to improve the user experience of Bitcoin payments * Static messages in eCash allow for one-click payments without the need for complex invoice processes * Stable eCash tokens enable the representation of stable value on top of Bitcoin * Boardwalk Cash is a platform that facilitates the sending and receiving of eCash tokens Boardwalk Cash al...

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The more Nostr-specific stuff starts around 52:37 . We spent the first hour catching up on the following: walks, AI/Nostr/Lightning Hackathons, Max's interest in Ancient Civilizations, n00b podcasting tips from another n00b, intros to bitcoin, bitcoin ETF, Solar/Wind/energy Thanks for reading Curious DK! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you...

where we talk about Nostrasia, Bob's Prisms, building businesses in AI, AI to build custom software, StackerNews and Territories and The Network State, nostr search, prediction markets This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.curiousdk.com

where we talk about PWAs, Nostr Browsers, DVMs, GPUTopia and more This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.curiousdk.com

I got a chance to catch up with Hodlbod, one of the original client developers on Nostr. We started by talking about how he sees his work on Nostr through the lens of Christianity (and his new podcast Thank God For Nostr which goes deeper on that). We also went deeper to discuss how much relay selection should be visible to users and how relay commoditization and competition might work in the futu...

Minds.com is one of the original approaches to building a social networking service that seeks to empower users with more freedom (e.g., free speech, portable identities, etc.). Beginning over 10 years ago they’ve evolved the service to play a role in the modern architecture we’re exploring with Nostr. After Bill’s recent appearance talking about Nostr on Joe Rogan’s podcast we got a chance to dig...

0:00 the warm-up/welcome 4:15 making zaps work without support 10:55 new use-cases Max is following - Pablo’s data vending machine 29:30 software development changes based on AI 47:50 Nostr documentary 50:09 Danny/Deezy - Astral Desert - open source ordinal mosaic 53:00 lighting labs l402 - lightning payments for npm packages 1:03:37 Can Threads (Facebook/Meta) be good for open ecosystems? 1:11:45...

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. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.curiousdk.com

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 h...

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. Thanks for reading C...

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...

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...

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...

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 bi...

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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 - cro...

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TOPICS 7:01 - Nostr. Band - stats review 11:26 - Primal - discovery services - https://primal.net/explore 12:26 - Nosta - https://makers.bolt.fun/story/a-bold-... 28:45 - Taibbi 34:30 - Purple Text, Orange Highlights - Gigi - https://dergigi.com/2023/04/04/purple... 39:14 - Zapworthy - Highlights tool by Pablo 46:48 - “swarm highlights” - AI, Stability. AI 51:35 - NDK - https://github.com/nostr-de...

2:02 Different lenses to view Fedimint - custodial hardware, programmability, ecash, privacy 4:34 Fedimint solves community custody - midway between exchange or full self-custody 6:00 What is eCash? 7:11 Digicash - David Chaum 14:39 Eric’s early concern about Fedimint 17:24 bitcoin scalability problems 19:00 scale of Fedimint operations 23:42 programmability use-cases 33:20 Fedimint protocol ecosy...

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0:00 Nostrica was filled with hope, opening up to more use-cases, freedom tech 7:22 GSovereignty: The user is often the developer in Nostr 9:36 GSovereignty: Music on Nostr, new ways for musicians to make money, NostrPleb spaces 16:02 🎤🎶 Max a.k.a. “Cipher Perro” spits fire 🎤🎶 18:20 PabloF7z: “Zaps are an incredibly sticky product” 24:55 PabloF7z: Protocol Network Effects: “Anything that has a...