Nostr Talks CuriousDK

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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
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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


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where we talk about PWAs, Nostr Browsers, DVMs, GPUTopia and more


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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 future. Finally we did a deep brainstorm around relays and how they could fit into a Subreddit-like/Zine-like thing on Nostr.
1:05 Thank God For Nostr
5:50 Ira Glass - on creative work
9:51 Christianity and Nostr
30:30 Relay selection and visibility
39:49 Commoditization of relays
51:58 Gossip model
1:08:53 Subreddit-like things/Zines on Nostr


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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 deeper on the key philosophical and technical principles behind their work and how they think about Nostr. We were also lucky to include Mark Harding who is CTO of Minds.
0:00 Opener
0:42 DK intro to convo
1:34 Minds - philosophy and exploration of nostr and other open source projects
4:04 What’s important when evaluating open source technologies?
4:20 3 Pillars: Sovereign Identities, Interoperability, Portability
6:45 Minds history with various technology approaches
9:42 adapting centralized approaches to decentralized technologies
19:00 why email signup is needed for spam prevention
24:28 will there be “one ring to rule them all”?
28:39 web5, Dorsey
30:27 schema-first approach
32:34 AT-protocol
35:12 fiatjaf’s feat of magic
36:37 a possible Minds fit in the nostr world
38:27 Verified Credentials
42:23 NFTs, token-gated community
44:22 making money on Minds
50:00 Minds business/community funding/advertising
56:30 Some final thoughts on interoperability and portability
57:12 Collaborate with Minds! https://gitlab.com/minds


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