The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.
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At Imagine IF, I explained Nostr to a key-management expert and never mentioned social media. Here is what Nostr as infrastructure means, the building blocks (relays, Blossom, nsite, napps, napplets, ngit, GRASP, FIPS), and how they fit together.
Replies to Nostr notes are moving from kind 1 to NIP-22 kind 1111 comments. It breaks things, and the people pushing back have real points. I went through the specs, the client code and the relay data. It's still worth doing, as long as we do it deliberately.
In high school I mocked Prince for changing his name to a symbol. At Paisley Park last weekend I finally got it. Own your name. Own your work. Own your money. No gatekeepers. That's the Bitcoin ethos. That's the Nostr ethos. Prince would have been one of us.
There was no Nostr signer for the Linux desktop, so every app and script wanted my nsec. Opal is a small daemon and a gem in the Omarchy bar that keeps the key in the keyring, signs for apps under rules I set, and brings notifications and status along.
I write in Omawrite now. Carnelian adds a Publish to Nostr entry to the Omarchy Share menu that uploads my images to Blossom, signs the article through Opal, and sends it to my own relays. One key, one dialog, done.
Agora campaigns can now live anywhere on the web. Pick a widget, preview it live, paste the code, and visitors donate Bitcoin without leaving your page. Here’s how.
Your entire post history in one file you own, and one click to push it back to any relay. A walkthrough of Ditto's Import &
Two weeks in the Mediterranean, one question at every dinner table: why does a social media company need Bitcoin? The answer is about freedom, not price.
Armada Communities are serverless and end-to-end encrypted, so the relay can't moderate for you. Here is the bot we built to watch every message and act on spam in seconds, and how to run it yourself.
GitHub is one company, one jurisdiction and one takedown notice away from your project being a 404. That is why we moved Armada off it and onto Nostr. Here is what actually replaced it, what it cost us, and why the daily loop is still just git push.
Armada communities already run without a host. Here is how to own the rest: the app you load, the relay your messages travel over, and the server your calls go through.
Block's new workspace put agents in the member list, and it clarified something we'd been stumbling toward for two years: agents should be themselves when they need to be themselves, and extensions of their humans when that's appropriate.
NIP-04, NIP-17, NIP-29, Marmot, and now Concord. A personal account of every wall we hit trying to build encrypted communities on Nostr, and why we kept going.
People keep asking how a small team ships so many Nostr apps so fast. The honest answer: there's no secret. It's all open source, and it's all in our Toolbox. Here's the whole playbook.
The UK's under-16 social media ban means age-checks for everyone. Here's how to opt out with Nostr, Bitcoin, NostrVPN &
How Bitcoin Conference Week 2026 played out for Soapbox: five panels, NosVegas 2.0, V4V music payouts, and Nostr finally landing as infrastructure.
The three C's: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication, are durable in a way that technical skills aren't. They transfer across tools, industries, roles, and eras. They're what made humans valuable before AI, and they're what will make humans valuable after AI becomes ubiquitous.
What I learned teaching a two-part AI seminar to local entrepreneurs.
