Nostr Needs Reputation Management
Spam is unnecessary, unwanted, or repetitive content that clogs email inboxes, directs message chats and clutters social media feeds. The term “spam” has been used to refer to junk messages since the earliest days of the internet and is a practice that has remained around even as the internet matures; while we may have spam […]
8 Reasons Why Content Creators Should Be Using Nostr
Social media has become the internet gateway for billions; it’s where they find their news, connect with their friends, update others on their lives and simply have public discussions. It’s become so entrenched as a behaviour it’s hard to remember a time before we had these platforms. Despite breaking new ground in the early days, […]
What Is A Nostr Relay?
The issues with social media are well documented; Facebook and Twitter started out as information distribution networks, but through censorship and algorithmic curation, the experience they used to provide continues to be tainted by politics and biases. Certain narratives are surprising; certain personalities are de-platformed, and all the while, advertisers are in a race to […]
How To Get Your Nostr Account NIP-05 Verified
The internet and its various communications mediums, be that email, social media or instant messaging, has lowered the barrier to accessing eyeballs. Today if you have someone’s contact information, it’s very easy to get a hold of them or, worse, spam that user to no end. Having email centralised through ISPs or services like Gmail, […]
Bitcoin App: Apollo
Review portals are sites that collect opinions from customers and publish them for others to leverage when gauging a brand or business’s reputation. The principle is based on curating the wisdom of the crowd and ensuring reviews of products, services or companies can provide value even with paid reviews, biased reviews and brand management teams […]
What Is A Point Time Lock Contract?
After the scaling debate for bitcoin has settled on the idea of side chains and parallel protocols, we’ve seen the emergence of alternative networks where bitcoin can operate without the constraints of the base chain; of these new environments, none more popular than the Lightning network. Known as a bitcoin “second layer” because most of […]
What Are Slashtags?
The bitcoin network has brought self-custody and self-sovereignty to money, should you choose to hold and spend your bitcoin using your own infrastructure. Once you set up a bitcoin node and connect it to a wallet, no one stands between you and broadcasting transactions directly to the network. The concept of taking control of your […]
Bitcoin App: Lightning Gifts
Getting your friends, family, customers or strangers at a dinner party into bitcoin through sheer orange pilling is a tough task. Despite how good your arguments might be, normies have to see it in action to believe it, and rightly they should. When it comes to bitcoin, you “don’t trust, you verify” so what better […]
How Bitcoin Could Solve The Streaming Wars
The internet has changed how we consume media; if you consider two to three decades ago, before high-speed bandwidth, if you wanted to watch a movie in the comfort of your home, you would need a VCR, BetaMax Player, DVD player or Blu-Ray player. Once you had the equipment to decode the information, you still […]
Bitcoin App: Slice
If you’re using the popular gateways of the internet in search engines like Google or Bing, or social media applications like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the like, then you’ve probably had your daily fill of online ads. Many of us have become fed up with having ads forced on our faces whenever we view an […]