0:00 #marchofftwitter, a bridge to traditional tech builders 8:30 podcasting at Nostrica 12:10 keep nostr punk 16:18 zap mania 25:50 zap/lightning ambassadors - e.g. bitcoinbull 28:37 StackerNews, Fountain, forwarding/splitting tips 30:20 paywalls/content unlocking 33:25 Kevin Kelly - “Better Than Free”, “1000 true fans” 39:17 Stats Time - stats.nostr.band - Artur 55:55 Max/DK book corner 59:31 lightning tip bot 1:00:55 fiatjaf nostr fund - “report on how Jack’s money is being spent” 1:03:07...

In this episode I catch up with my long-time tech friend Yanda Erlich. We originally met at Google almost two decades ago and have been friends on the journey building and investing in technology startups. We talk about our journey of understanding bitcoin together and our current hypotheses about artificial intelligence and its potential existential threat to Google. But that’s all background to the Nostr discussion. I wanted to share my excitement about this new protocol and to hear his...

“Nout” is a pseudonymous friend of mine. He moves around the internet without revealing his true identity as a way to learn about, test, and to help ensure these tools for freedom are accessible to people who may have an urgent need to use them. Why is Nostr exciting to you if it’s not privacy-oriented? 2 types of information: 1. Information that should never get exposed 2. Information that should never be suppressed Each plays an important role in Freedom Tech. Nostr is focused on the...

* 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 This is...

In this conversation I discussed Nostr and open protocols with my friend David Nachum 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...

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...