BR018 - Nostr Deep Dive Panel with NVK ft. Jack Dorsey, Fiatjaf & William Casarin
I’m joined by guests Jack Dorsey, Fiatjaf and William Casarin to discuss Nostr.
Discussion Topics:
00:01:56 What is Nostr?
00:03:24 State of development for Nostr
00:04:16 What attracted Jack to Nostr?
00:06:11 NVKs initial thoughts on Nostr
00:07:03 Nostr versus “competitors”
00:13:42 The simplicity of the Nostr protocol
00:18:00 How does Nostr work?
00:21:19 NIPs and maintaining Nostr
00:22:50 What is Nostr seeking to solve?
00:32:21 Nostr relationship with Bitcoin
00:43:10 Nostr use cases
01:11:14 Key management
01:17:16 Cryptography and encryption
01:19:40 Exploring unique use cases
01:24:12 Experimenting with new technology
01:25:17 Simplicity of Nostr and scaling applications
01:28:01 Micro apps and realising creative concpets
01:34:03 Scaling up and censorship resistance
01:40:03 How does Nostr win?
01:56:57 Final thoughts and what people can do to help Nostr
Notes & Resources
Tutorials
usenostr - A small, concise nostr guide
nostr.guide - A guide to all things nostr
heynostr.com - Nostr explainer site that helps explain and introduce Nostr to new users
Articles
How To Get Started With Nostr [Forbes]
André Neves: Set up your very own #nostr relay server in under 5 minutes
Scaling Nostr via Open Caching Services by Miljan
How to build a nostr gm bot (without writing any code) by Gigi
A small minimal guide on setting up NIP-05 identifier on branle/nostr [metasikander]
What Is Nostr and How Do I Use It? by Walker V.
Nostr, an Introduction by Greg Heartsfield
Nostr Newcomers Most Common Questions and Answers by pitiunited
Why Nostr Matters by Jameson Lopp
Podcasts
Shows
The Nostr podcast - All the new projects, all the new cool stuff, all the new NIPs, it’s all here. Once a week.
Episodes
Bitcoin Review Podcast BR018 - Nostr Deep Dive Panel with NVK ft. Jack Dorsey, Fiatjaf & William Casarin
Lightning Tidbits 769571 - fiatjaf talks nostr with André Neves
CD63 - building nostr, a censorship resistant alternative to twitter ft. fiatjaf, jb55, and kukks, hosted by ODELL
BA691 - A Native Protocol for Social Media by jack on Bitcoin Audible
BTC111 - Decentralized Social Media & Bitcoin with jb55 on Preston Pysh/The Investors Podcast
Statistics
nashboard - A Nostr network dashboard with network statistics
nostr.io - Network statistics with last published notes, top 50 publishers, and top 50 followed users
nostr.band - Nostr Real Time Statistics
Community Groups
nostr telegram group - a telegram group for nostr protocol discussion
nostr español/spanish telegram group - A spanish telegram group for nostr
nostr reddit - a subreddit for nostr related discussion
nostr discord - a discord server for nostr enthusiasts and developers
I’m ready, where do I get started?
Nostr clients:
iOS:
Damus https://damus.io
Android:
Amethyst https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst
Nostros https://github.com/KoalaSat/nostros
Web Clients (for web clients use the getAlby.com browser extension):
https://nostrgram.co
https://iris.to
https://astral.ninja/
https://snort.social
https://Yosup.app
Initial people to follow:
https://brb.io/n/note1j25chytjcj7auegkt58fwtg7azsuu7n0ja42nw4kd42khcuh79escu2pw6
Find people to follow from twitter:
https://nostr.directory/
How to upload images:
https://nostr.build/ and post an URL link.
https://Imgur.com copy the img url and post it
How do I get verified with NIP5:
https://nvk.org/n00b-nip5
More information for the rabbit hole:
https://uselessshit.co/resources/nostr
https://nostr-resources.com
https://www.nostr.how/
Dev? Nostr work bounties:
https://bountsr.org
Episode submission ideas
We’re looking for ideas for interesting panel conversations. To send Bitcoin related questions, just go to bitcoin.review and follow the contact links at the bottom of the page.
Get in touch with the pod
Nostr & LN ⚡nvk@nvk.org (not an email!)