• What Is Nostr?
  • Nostr works the exact same way, just for social media.
• How Does Nostr Work?
  • So, to summarize the above into simple bullets 👇
  • The game-changer of Nostr censorship-resistance in a nutshell:
• Content-Monetization on Nostr
  • How Nostr Fixes This
  • A quick summary to wrap up the above:
  • One may reasonably ask themselves: “Why would anyone pay money for MY content? Won’t folks be really stingy with their hard-earned bitcoin?”
• How Algorithms Work On Nostr
  • The result:
  • HOW COOL IS THAT??
• What Makes Nostr Different from Other “Decentralized Social Media” Attempts?
• Nostr In Action
• Nostr Fixes…
  • Censorship**
  • Monetization**
  • Having too many social media channels to juggle**
  • Algorithms**
• Why Nostr Matters
• How Do I Join Nostr?
• Things To Keep In Mind / FAQ
• Further Nostr Resources

Are you tired of social media apps:

• Censoring/shadowbanning you, no matter how many times their CEO told you “we care about free speech for real this time”

• Creating an obstacle course of entry-barriers stopping you from monetizing your content

• Acting as completely separate silos from one another, requiring you to constantly make the “Hey guys, go follow me on this other platform, and this other platform…” posts, starting from scratch with each move (while also requiring you to learn a completely different algorithm/set of censorship policies every time you switch)

What if there was an alternative social media network where:

• There is no mystery algorithm, CEO, or “fact-checking team” that can decide whether you thrive or die based on whether or not they agree with your opinions

• Instant content-monetization capability for EVERYONE, DAY 1, no matter the size of your account

• The network is a PROTOCOL (like email) rather than a PLATFORM (like X, IG, etc.), allowing a whole ecosystem of apps to be built ON TOP of your social graph, so your followers stick with you everywhere you go

*READ ON, because this social media network of the future already exists, and it’s going to change absolutely everything *⚡️

§What Is Nostr?

Nostr is a decentralized social media PROTOCOL (like email), rather than a PLATFORM (like X or Instagram).

Nostr is not a company, so it has no CEO, no board of directors, no “fact-checking team” that can censor you, ban you, or manipulate the content you’re able to send and receive through mysterious algorithms. Rather, it’s a foundational set of rails that allows app-developers to build ON TOP of the underlying protocol.

Note: we’ll be using email as the best analogy for an internet protocol throughout this post, as it will help you see how Nostr functions in a similar way.

Here’s how the email protocol works in a nutshell:

Email = the protocol

Gmail, Outlook, Protonmail, etc. = the apps (or clients) built ON TOP of the protocol

Nobody within this ecosystem of apps built by Google, Microsoft, etc. controls email; they merely work on top of it, as they all build independently within an environment where the different apps interoperate seamlessly with each other.

Example: I can send you an email from Gmail and you will receive it in Outlook just fine.

§Nostr works the exact same way, just for social media.

Unlike the current social media structure where you have a bunch of centralized platforms like Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, etc. operating completely separately, Nostr is a protocol that acts as a social glue, where apps just like these can all be freely-built ON TOP of the universal Nostr protocol, which allows users to carry the same followers with them across all of the different apps. And as this ecosystem of apps develops, it will have its own versions of all the social apps people know and love, like Instagram, X, etc.

Looking even further into the future, Nostr megabulls like myself foresee that the Instagrams and X’es of the world will eventually have to become Nostr clients themselves, as people will no longer see the point of investing energy into these platforms where they can be deplatformed at any time, and are making far less money than they can on Nostr.

FOLLOWING ME SO FAR?

Awesome.

Let’s continue…

§How Does Nostr Work?

“At it’s most basic level, Nostr is a communication protocol that acts as the social glue that binds all of your apps together.” - Derek Ross

https://youtu.be/0YDj1QdL2Zs

(Keep in mind there will be plenty of repetition of concepts/analogies throughout this post - I really want to drill in the fundamentals).

We’re now going to introduce a couple of vocabulary words that are commonly used in the social media conversation, to bolster your awareness as we dive deeper into the past, present, and future of social networking:

Client:** Basically just a fancy word for “app”. Gmail, Outlook, etc. in our earlier email example, as well as the X and Instagram apps you can download and open on your phone, are all clients.

Relay:** A Nostr-birthed term that basically just means “server” in the Nostr ecosystem. X, Instagram, and TikTok all have ONE server that holds allllll of the posts from their entire user base in a singular, massive database. The Nostr model, alternatively, allows all users to run their own servers (which we call “relays”), giving Nostr users the ability to post their content to a wide array of different relays (including their own if they choose to run one), thus eliminating the single-point-of-failure power of centralized Big Tech platforms.

“Anyone can run a relay. A relay is very simple and dumb. It does nothing besides accepting posts from some people and forwarding to others. Relays don’t have to be trusted.”\

• @fiatjaf

§So, to summarize the above into simple bullets 👇

Instagram has:

• A single CLIENT (i.e. the app you tap on your phone to open it up)

• A single centralized server (or RELAY) where all the posts/content from every user on Earth flows through

Nostr breaks up both of these pieces (CLIENTS and RELAYS). So:

• There’s an open marketplace of different CLIENTS you can choose from (just like in our email example where you can select between Gmail, Outlook, etc.), or, if you’re a developer, you’re free to build your own

• This open ecosystem of Nostr clients are all COMPETING for your use in a free market environment (there are already tons of awesome ones out there for you to try, see nostrapps.com)

• There’s also an open market of RELAYS, meaning when you post, it doesn’t just go to one gigantic centralized server that can easily censor, shadowban, or manipulate how others see that content. Rather, you as a user can post your content to as many servers as you want (most people connect to 10-20 by default, and there are already thousands for you to choose from)

• Since anyone can run their own relay, even if every other one on Earth decides to team up and ban you from being able to post on theirs, you can just run your own relay, then anyone who wants to follow you just needs to connect to yours

§The game-changer of Nostr censorship-resistance in a nutshell:

If you don’t like a certain Nostr Client, you can move to a new one, or build your own.

If you’re getting censored by a certain Nostr Relay, you can move to a new one, or run your own.

While all of this is happening, you can get paid in Bitcoin (censorship-proof money) for your content with one tap, from anyone on Earth who values your content (more on that in the next section!)

 One last point of clarification on relays before moving on, as this is a very common question:

“If ANYONE can post ANYTHING on Nostr…won’t scrolling the feed be a total mess of vulgar/disgusting content that I don’t want to see?”

2-part answer:

1. You would have to go out of your way to find the “Global” feed that shows every post flowing through every Nostr relay. Client developers know this isn’t what the average user wants, so the default view on all top clients shows only the content from the people you’ve chosen to follow, trending posts, and other stuff like that (similar to how when you make a new account on IG or X, you don’t get fed a page full of Chinese characters and hentai porn; the apps are designed to give you a pleasant starting feed of recommendations. Nostr clients do the exact same)

2. As touched on earlier, individual relays DO have the power to censor whatever content they want, and all the most popular relays implement filters to keep the vulgar garbage out. The difference is, everyone in the network can see which relays are censoring what content, so if you don’t agree with how heavy-handed a relay is getting on culling certain content, you can just move to a different relay, or again, take ultimate control and run YOUR OWN relay where YOU can decide exactly what type of content you want to see.

Again, most of the above points will be irrelevant once you’ve created a follow list (since that’s going to be what populates your feed), but it’s still worth discussing.

Due to the above factors at play, the free market of Clients and Relays is highly incentivized to block out ONLY the universally-agreed-upon really bad stuff (you can use your imagination on what I mean by that…) from users’ feeds, and NOTHING ELSE. Thus, the average user will have an experience just like they do on the legacy apps, where all they ever see is content from the accounts they follow, and perhaps trending/recommended content if they so choose to. (More on how this choice of algorithms works on Nostr later.)

https://youtu.be/mBQgoL-BlV4

Now, we need to talk about a huge, downright revolutionary piece of Nostr, which we’ve only grazed thus far: INSTANT, DIRECT CONTENT-MONETIZATION!

§Content-Monetization on Nostr

*“Payments make social media better because it’s less about engagement and views, and more about value being transferred.”\

• Lyn Alden*

On legacy social media apps, in order to start earning money for your content, you typically have to hit a certain threshold of followers, impressions, or other arbitrary metrics imposed by the platform’s overlords. Then, when you finally finish jumping through all of the hoops they’ve made up…you find out firsthand that creators ALWAYS get the short end of the stick on these monetization models, as at the end of the day, these are all Big Tech companies who are incentivized to pay their creators as little as possible, so they can dish out massive CEO bonuses and pad the pockets of their shareholders. (Just ask anyone who’s been grinding to make money on YouTube, Twitter, or the other platforms that have relatively easy/well-paying monetization programs. 9/10 of them are unhappy with what they’re receiving in return for their hard work).

In short, the monetization schemes of centralized social media platforms ALL SUCK FOR CREATORS, as they’re designed to siphon the majority of the money to the top of the food chain.

§How Nostr Fixes This

Firstly, the arbitrary obstacles required to monetize your account are GONE. All you have to do to monetize on Day 1 is attach a Bitcoin Lightning wallet to your Nostr account and voilà, you’re all set to receive payments from anyone who wants to “zap” your content! (Some clients, including Primal, even allow you to create a wallet from WITHIN their client, removing the step of needing to spin up a Lightning wallet somewhere else. This is a big reason why I recommend Primal as a fantastic starting client where beginners can create their account and start posting.)

Now let’s take another quick vocab break to brush-up on some Nostr lingo you’ll hear commonly used within the Nostrverse:

Zap:* The term for sending small fractions of Bitcoin (satoshis, or “sats”, which are one one-hundred-millionth of a Bitcoin each) to other users on Nostr. On all top clients, you can zap users on their posts, or directly through their profile.*

Red arrow: zap button (it looks slightly different on each client, this is Primal)
Blue arrow: total zaps on the post (notice this kind stranger sent me a 21K zap [~$21 based on current BTC price of ~$100K] just for an off-the-cuff quote post. You’d be amazed how generous nostriches are!)

On her very first post, the wife of the Bitcoin legend Hal Finney earned ~1 Million sats ($1,000) from 809 zappers.

Ian Carroll, who did a great job posting a “Nostr 101” video to all of his platforms in order to bring his audience over, earned 674,000 sats ($700) from 636 zappers on his first post.

Now, it’s important to stop and clarify HOW this money is being made, as it operates in a completely different way than the centralized platforms.

On X, TikTok, YouTube and similar, you create content, and get paid based on how many eyeballs you bring to advertisements. It is ALL ad-based.

On Nostr, all value-exchange runs on the “Value-4-Value” model.

Value-4-Value:* A monetization ethos based on completely voluntary exchange, where Supporter A can choose to send money to Creator B in a fully-open, peer-to-peer way. Think busking but digital.*

• The Freedom of Value - How Value-for-Value Fixes the Monetization of Information* (amazing article by Dergigi breaking down how V4V is the content-monetization model of the future)*

• Lots more resources on V4V* (WhyBitcoinOnly.com)*

• My podcast episodes discussing V4V with creators* who are building & thriving on the revolutionary payment model*

§A quick summary to wrap up the above:

On Nostr,

• There are NO hoops to jump through to start earning for your content (other than plugging in any Bitcoin Lightning wallet to your account, which takes mere minutes). You can stack sats for your posts immediately on Day 1

• There is no centralized leader (like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.) you need to beg for money from, or pray the payment model doesn’t reduce creators’ cut, as on Nostr, payments flow directly between users, without any middleman!

• Creators’ income is no longer dependent on pleasing advertisers. As those who’ve pushed the boundaries of “the narrative” on the centralized socials in recent years know, the second you start getting a little too close to the truth, places like YouTube will completely cut off your ability to monetize, as advertisers don’t want anything to do with controversy. To the controversy, many Nostr creators (myself included) have seen a healthy premium paid out for pushing the boundaries and being fearless in sharing controversial content, as those who follow you APPRECIATE you for being fearless in speaking your truth

§One may reasonably ask themselves: “Why would anyone pay money for MY content? Won’t folks be really stingy with their hard-earned bitcoin?”

To that I’d simply answer: Go start posting and find out for yourself! You will soon find that, despite being a relatively tiny user base at this early stage, the people of Nostr are VERY generous with sending zaps all over the place to content they enjoy.

Some more examples of heavily-zapped posts, in addition to the above screenshots I shared (the number next to the “⚡️” signifies the number of sats earned):

• A couple carnivore friends making their #introductions posts, earning $17 and $23 right away, respectively

• Filmmaker Max DeMarco earning 5 MILLION SATS on his Nostr documentary

~5 Million sats ($5,000) from 658 zappers

Obviously these aren’t universal/guaranteed outcomes (Max’s Nostr documentary is one of the most zapped posts in Nostr history so far), but they lay the template for how much potential there is for creators to build a brand on Nostr that earns solid money, without any need for an over-arching Big Tech company gatekeeping their paycheck.

To the contrary, given how miniscule the Nostr user base is compared to all the legacy centralized apps, I venture to say top Nostr creators will be out-earning ALL of the top influencers on the legacy apps in the very near future…

§How Algorithms Work On Nostr

We’ll keep this section short and sweet, since we’ve touched on it a couple times.

Simply put, YOU HAVE CONTROL of your algorithm.

Unlike the centralized social platforms where you have practically zero control over what content you see (despite you physically choosing who you want to follow), Nostr clients are already giving users complete control over how they want their feed to look.

Primal, the Nostr client I’ve mentioned a couple times now, is doing this as well as anyone.

https://twitter.com/primal_app/status/1872625464885592077

Primal gives you the ability to hand-select EXACTLY what type of feed you want, from options like:

• Chronological

• Trending (1hr, 4hr, or 24hr)

• Text only (for an old school Twitter-like experience)

• Images only (for an Instagram-like experience)

• Vertical videos only (for a TikTok-like experience)

You can also choose certain hashtags you want to see, certain topics you want to see, and build your own CUSTOM FEEDS that can be any combination of any of the above that you want.

Example: Let’s say I want to have a Custom Feed that contains exclusively videos that are less than 1 minute long that include the word “doggo”.

§The result:

§Then, in 1 tap, you can save this Custom Feed as “doggo vids”…

§…then you’ll have it saved to your Home page, for you to select anytime you want to doggo-scroll to your heart’s content:

§HOW COOL IS THAT??

X or Instagram could never.

In short, you have TOTAL CONTROL over the exact type of content you want to see on your feed, and who you want to see it from.

§What Makes Nostr Different from Other “Decentralized Social Media” Attempts?

Short answer: Because all other so-called “decentralized social media platforms” are just that - PLATFORMS - and thus were never able to solve the actual problem.

We’ve all heard the “decentralized” buzzword spammed to death in the last several years, and with this has come with many supposed “decentralized social media” products. A few that have seen their turn in the limelight:

• Bluesky

• Mastodon

• Steemit

• Gab

• Hive

So, why have none of these truly taken off?

In short, because they aren’t built on a foundation that actually fosters the core ethos of decentralization in the first place. They are still centralized platforms, or in Mastodon’s case, broken up shards of centralized platforms that ultimately still lead to censorship that prohibits users’ ability to both speak, and be heard by those who want to hear them.

Basically, while all of these platforms market themselves as “decentralized”, they’re just centralized with extra steps. They still have CEOs, “moderators”, or other arbiters of speech that can stop users from posting content, often with a flashy shitcoin to sell you on top of the grift.

Here are 2 excellent videos with the man who I believe breaks down the difference between all of these next-gen social media contenders better than anyone, Rabble 👇

https://youtu.be/XUsk7cqZyKU

https://youtu.be/U-eNYRwyADI

As Bitcoin and Email have taught us, OPEN PROTOCOLS are the way, and Nostr is the first social media network that has perfectly implemented this concept into the social communication layer.

§Nostr In Action

How Ainsley Costello supercharged her musical career with Nostr

Kathryn “getting Nostr immediately”

Kathryn, a singer brand new to Nostr, already earning more money from zaps than she ever did before

How UK musicians are using Nostr to supercharge their artistic ventures

Lindsay instantly getting it

Bitcoin is being used for payments in Brazil

Buying gas in El Salvador with bitcoin using a… social media app?

NVK paying for a surfboard on the beach with Bitcoin in Costa Rica

ALRIGHT, I think we’re finally ready to start bringing things home! 👇👇👇

§Nostr Fixes…

§Censorship**

*“You have people debating ‘How much should we censor?’ One way to end that debate is to make everything uncensorable. If there are enough people using Nostr and it’s a working freedom web of communication, and you also have [customizable] algorithms to help you sort it to make sure it’s usable, then that ends the debate.”\

• Lyn Alden*

Centralized social media platforms will always cave into censorship eventually, as they are enormous honeypots of social discourse, and therefore the social zeitgeist itself.

The powerful forces of this world will always want to control this public discourse, so no matter how cool or “pro free speech” a social media platform’s CEO seems, recent history has proven that it doesn’t matter -  they will always end up bending the knee to allowing certain narratives to thrive, and “wrongthink” to be squashed by either demonetization, direct account-cancellation, or mysterious shadow bans.

A new social media structure is needed where there is no top-down control over the content being shared. Nostr achieves this perfectly, as both the client and relay sides are decentralized, i.e. open to a free market of competition where ANYONE can run their own, and nobody can stop you (unless they literally sent police to your house to shut down your relay, which would be impractical/impossible at scale).

§Monetization**

*“Nostr has Venmo-like capability where I can just look you up and pay you. It’s a big, organic, public payment directory, with its own built-in fraud detection since you can just look at someone’s followers and know it’s them.”\

• Lyn Alden*

The process of monetizing your content on centralized platforms is a total mess, even for those who have a strong following that WANTS to support them.

This is unlikely to ever change, as the centralized structure of companies like Instagram, X, YouTube, etc. have ALL of the power over the flow of money within their walled garden (which of course their plan all along), and the incentives are clear for the executives of these companies to lower creators’ payouts as much as possible to pad their own coffers.

Nostr blows up both the difficulty of getting monetized AND the difficulty of earning money directly from those who want to support you, via the revolutionary Value-4-Value model that’s native to all top Nostr clients.

§Having too many social media channels to juggle**

It makes no sense to have to start over with zero followers every time you create an account on a new platform.

What if your social graph stayed stuck to you no matter which app you went to, so you could move from app to app and have the same follower base everywhere (plus the ability to send and receive zaps for the content you create across all of them?)

This simply makes more sense, and will save creators COUNTLESS hours of grinding out those annoying “Hey everyone, go follow me over on this other platform too!” posts.

§Algorithms**

*“If you just observe someone on their phone, they’re scrolling…tap tap…scrolling…tap tap…that company has successfully made them an employee without paying them. Every time you hit the heart or retweet something, that’s a signal to an algorithm which then takes that and uses it as a way to push content into someone else’s feed. All of these algorithms are focused on increasing the number of impressions, to increase advertising revenue for them. It has nothing to do with you. They’re programming you. And they can (and will) keep changing the algorithm to program you in different ways. Do you want to live in that world, give the algorithms your attention, and work for free? Or do you want to OWN something where you can build on top of it, and YOU control your media, story, and narrative, along with all the other people who are interested in unleashing themselves from this dynamic we’ve been trapped in?”\

• Jack Dorsey*

In recent years, as public discourse has become increasingly, let’s call it…”contested”, nearly everyone has now felt either the blessing or the curse of a mysterious algorithm either boosting or crushing the content they post.

On Nostr, you can kiss this opaque arbiter of reach goodbye, and take complete control over whatever algorithm you want to use (or if you want no algorithm, purely chronological).

Even if you only plan on posting tame content that wouldn’t be at odds with tyrannical algorithms on the centralized apps, I think after a few weeks on Nostr you’ll be surprised at how even the peaceful content was robbed from you over on X/IG. They truly do design it in such a way that keeps you angry and fighting with people, so whether you want a blissful, happy feed, or a hardcore truth-speaking feed, you’re goig to get more of what you actually want on the freedom protocol.

*“People are increasingly realizing that centralized social media is not great for our mental health, because we get stuck in these big centralized algorithms that want to advertise, bring volume, and generate a lot of activity. Negativity tends to sell—the more we’re online arguing and fighting with each other, the more we’re drawn to it—so Big Tech platforms capitalize on that. A cool thing about Nostr is that there’s no central authority setting the algorithm like this. Different clients can have different ways of helping you discover content, and in the future, we’ll see entire marketplaces of algorithms (even on one client) where you can manage different algorithms you’ve created yourself.”\

• Lyn Alden*

Yes I am spamming Lyn Alden quotes in this post. It’s not my fault she’s been one of the most consistently-dialed voices on the power & potential of Nostr since the beginning!

§Why Nostr Matters

https://youtu.be/oGu-XCdQiNc

This has been a consistent theme throughout the course of my podcast, so if you want a detailed answer, I recommend you check out my Nostr YouTube Playlist.

The summarized version is this:

Up until now, social media has been a jumbled mess of:

• Popularity contest

• Algorithm-gaming contest

• Unrealistic highlight reel (lacking true humanity)

• A magnet of negative energy (negativity sells ads)

All of these things are slashed away on Nostr, where YOU control the algorithm, everyone can freely share and receive REAL monetary value, and genuine, non-ragebaiting humanity is rewarded rather than punished.

Like Bitcoin, it’s easy to go off the rails ranting about how this one technology will fix ALL THE THINGS EVERYWHERE…but when you truly stop and think about it, it’s impossible to overstate the amount of power the overall field of social communication holds, and how much world-changing potential is on the table if we were to fix the core problems that rot the status quo of corporate centralization.

What I can say for sure is this:

Nostr has without a doubt helped ME become a better person, and everyone I know who’s spent a significant amount of time on there has said the same.

I know that sounds like a crazy thing to say about a social media network—especially when we’ve been fatigued by so many similar ones over the years—but I really can’t praise it enough.

I will just keep coming back to this: you have to try it yourself for a while, and you will quickly understand!

§How Do I Join Nostr?

Easy!

1. Download any Nostr client onto your phone. I personally recommend Primal as a starter, since they have an awesome built-in Lightning wallet you can activate directly in the app (which saves you the step of having to create one elsewhere and link it to your account)

2. Upon signup, you will receive a Public Key (starting with “npub”) and a Private Key (starting with “nsec”). Just like Bitcoin, the Public Key is the thing you can share everywhere to help people find you, while the Private Key should be kept PRIVATE, as that is essentially your password (WRITE IT DOWN SOMEWHERE SAFE AND DO NOT SHARE IT)

3. Once you’ve filled out your profile just like you have on a million other social media platforms, you’re ready to partake in one of Nostr’s most storied traditions: Your #introductions post! This is just a post where you introduce yourself to the community, letting people know who you are, what you’re about, and what kind of value you will be adding to the wild world of Nostr. Attach a few interesting photos/videos and the hashtag #introductions, and watch as the Nostr community jumps in to welcome you to the future of social media! 🤙⚡️

4. From here, it’s off to the races on learning, exploring, and experimenting! Go download some other clients (Amethyst on Android / Damus on iPhone would be my picks for your next client to play with) to see how the interoperability works (i.e. the ability to switch between clients and see the same content/followers everywhere), begin following accounts that interest you, and most of all, HAVE FUN!

“Any type of social media you like, whether it’s Twitter, Pinterest, or anything in between…With Nostr, you can have that kind of experience with a big, interoperable back-end where you can access all the other ecosystems. That’s a MASSIVE idea.”\

• Lyn Alden

A video covering ALL of the above setup steps if that’s more your style 👇

PRIMAL: Nostr Decentralized Social Media Meets Bitcoin! Full Tutorial (BTC Sessions)

§Things To Keep In Mind / FAQ

• I mentioned this in the “How To Join” section above, but it bears repeating: Don’t EVER share your private key (starting with “nsec”). This is your password; if someone gets ahold of it, your account is theirs. DO share your public key (starting with “npub”); this is how people can find and follow you!

• We are extremely early! Since Nostr itself is only a few years old, don’t expect a buttery smooth experience on any of the clients just yet, at least not on the same level as the legacy apps like X/IG which have been around for over a decade. Bugs will happen, random app crashing will happen, and the general experience will contain hiccups. Don’t worry, developers are working hard to improve their clients across the ecosystem. EMBRACE THE CHAOS! (And don’t hesitate to post bug reports and tag the client developers directly - the Nostr ecosystem is extremely feedback-friendly)

• The algorithmic playing field is leveled on Nostr, which could hurt or help you. If you’re the type of person that likes posting about trending topics that get boosted by the algorithm on legacy apps, you’ll probably see an engagement drop in the early days. On the flipside, if you’re someone like me who likes to post crazy conspiracy theories that get you blocked or banned everywhere else, you may see MORE engagement than usual once you set up a starting follower base, as you’ve freed yourself from the algorithm that’s able to handcuff certain keywords or phrases it doesn’t like.

• Again, just remember the most important rules: EMBRACE THE CHAOS, have fun, and enjoy the process!

§Further Nostr Resources

Documentary: Social Media is Broken - Can We Fix It? (Max DeMarco)

Nostr 101 w/ Derek Ross (Ben Wehrman Podcast)

Building NOSTR w/ Will Casarin (Ben Wehrman Podcast)

Nostr breaks every social media paradigm w/ Rabble (Ben Wehrman Podcast)

All other NOSTR episodes on the Ben Wehrman Podcast

Nostr’s permissionless nature with Jack Dorsey

BTC Prague Panel: All Your Silos Are Broken (Martti Malmi, Aleksandar Svetski, Pablof7z, Miljan, Derek Ross)

A whooooole lot more Nostr educational resources that will answer every other question you have

That’s all for now, folks! I hope you got a lot of value out of this post - I put a lot of hard work into it!

If you feel so inclined, you can put straight into action one of the main points I highlighted in this post - that once you’re on the Nostr protocol, it’s extremely easy to send value to creators who’ve given value to you.

You can follow me, shoot me some zaps, and keep in touch on NOSTR via the npubs below.

Ben Wehrman:
@benwehrman

Why Bitcoin Only:
@faz0…tu9c

Why Carnivore:
@508r…twu3

-Ben