What Are Nostr Zaps?
Social media is increasingly becoming an essential part of our lives, with over 3.81 billion people using one or more platforms. While we’ve become accustomed to exchanging ideas and information through these platforms, the ability to settle payments instantly and across borders was missing. In traditional social media, content creators have had to turn to […]
How To Send eCash Tokens To Nostr Users
Nostr has taken the bitcoin ecosystem by storm, with many a pleb signing up to use the protocol and testing out available clients. One widespread use for Nostr is sending users satoshis via the Lightning Network; users would post invoices or assign a static LN-URL to accounts in the early days to facilitate payments. As […]
What Is A NIP (Nostr Implementation Possibilities)?
Nostr is an open-source project that focuses on allowing users to communicate with one another in a decentralised manner, using public and private key cryptography. As an open-source project, anyone with an idea or improvement can contribute to Nostr, be it an overall change to the protocol, adding additional features or standardising and streamlining certain […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
What Is A Nostr Client?
If you’ve heard about Nostr and done some research online, you’ll probably have found many articles and GitHub pages that don’t exactly point you towards anything useable. If this is a new social media platform, where is the Nostr website? The truth is, there is no Nostr website because Nostr isn’t a social media platform; […]
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 […]
Why Brands Should Add Nostr Support
It should come as no surprise that living in a digital era, where more users are online than ever before, brands and businesses are dedicating more time and budget towards promotion, content creation and advertising on social media. Companies need to head to where the customers are spending their time, and it quickly becomes a […]