What Is LNDHub?
The emergence of the Lightning Network has given rise to a wave of new financial technology. Today, millions of micropayments are routed through the network each month, moving around as little as a satoshi at a time. Despite the rising popularity of the lightning network, it can still be challenging to navigate and understand this […]
A Nostr Approach To NFTs
Humans have been hard-wired to want to collect things that are deemed scarce, and this programming has been used to fuel trend after trend of collectables. From tulips to beanie babies and now jpegs files with a serial number on a blockchain, trends come around, pull people into a complete frenzy that grows and draws […]
10 Tips To Protect Your Bitcoin Full Node
Are you looking to get involved in the rapidly evolving world of bitcoin and do it in the way it was intended, by taking no custodial risk? Then building a bitcoin full node is a great way to start, and the best part is you don’t need to be a tech guru to do it. […]
How To Run A Private Nostr Relay
Nostr, which stands for “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays“, is a social media protocol that doesn’t rely on a central server, nor is it a peer-to-peer architecture. It relies on distributed servers known as relays which allow users to exchange signed messages with one another. Using these networks of relays, which are servers, […]
How To Source Lightning Network Liquidity
The Lightning Network is currently the most widely talked about and used second-layer solution for the bitcoin network. It offers the fastest settlement and cheapest fees, making microtransactions possible and with more people flocking to it, we’ve seen the development of services, applications and protocol improvements continue. The Lightning Network now holds thousands of bitcoin and […]
What Is A Paid Nostr Relay?
Traditional social media is pretty intuitive for most people; you hand over an email address, set a password, maybe a 2FA option or two, and you’ll have access to their servers. You’ll now have the ability to create a profile, follow and be followed and, most importantly, create content on these networks. Traditional social media […]
Why Would A Bitcoin Transaction Remain Unconfirmed?
If you’ve ever traded bitcoin on-chain before, then you probably have experienced the cold sweat and tightened sphincter that is waiting for that first confirmation. Moving money on a network with strange text string addresses and waiting for a miner somewhere in the world to secure it into a block is always going to be […]
What Are Nostr Key Management Tools?
If you haven’t lived in the mountains for the last few years, you’ve probably set up several social media accounts in your lifetime; many of us live with the reality of managing multiple accounts for work or play. You might use Twitter for news and shouting at strangers online, while you find Instagram your go-to […]
How Nostr Could Reshape Paid Groups
Social media sites are blasted with content every second, and dealing with all that noise requires users to curate their own feeds or allow algorithms to do it for them. In the case of traditional social media, they’ve opted for algorithmic curation because it can be optimised to meet certain business goals like time on […]
Monetisation Within The Nostr Ecosystem
Nostr has been around since 2020 but really got mainstream attention after the donation from former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and being listed as a platform Twitter doesn’t want users to promote on their site. These two media highlights, along with the overall sentiment around traditional social media, have seen more users set up a […]