Yesterday, Nostr users from around the United States came together at New York City’s best Bitcoin bar PubKey for Nostr Village, a mini-conference concentrated on the open procedure that makes it possible for worldwide, censorship-resistant social networks and more.
Who’s concerning #NostrVillage tomorrow?
It’s a day of censorship resistant worth for worth innovative expression and zaps, and it’s all taking place at PubKey beginning at 2 PM.
Meet your preferred nostriches, and ask anything!
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The name of the conference consisted of a nod to the area in which PubKey lies, New York’s historical Greenwich Village. It was also a play on Nostrville, the name of a 2023 Nostr conference that occurred in Nashville, TN, which Daniel Modell, Head of Marketing at PubKey and organizer for Nostr Village, went to.
“Nostr is something that I was involved with prior to being part of PubKey, and I wanted to bring it to more people,” Modell informed Bitcoin Magazine at the occasion.
“We’re still very early in the Nostr adoption curve and so we have to be the ones to spread the word, just like with Bitcoin in the earlier days,” he included.
The ambiance at Nostr Village felt quite like what I’d envision the ambiance at a smaller sized Bitcoin conference resembled in Bitcoin’s 4th year of presence (Nostr went live November 2020) — amazing and illuminating yet a bit uncomfortable, as Nostr is still an extremely nascent innovation and nobody yet understands rather what it will end up being.
However, with numerous active Nostr users in presence at the occasion, there was no lack of individuals sharing what they do comprehend about Nostr in efforts to inform the other guests.
On panels such as “Design and Code: User Experience Is Everything” and “Value For Value and Community: Nostr Is For Creators”, everybody from designers to creatives added to broadening the understanding base of those in presence.
Avi Burra, author of the Bitcoin fiction book 24 and host of the Plebchain Radio podcast, participated in 2 of the panels — “Can’t Cancel This: Censorship Resistance On Nostr” and “Nostr for Noobs” — and worried that Nostr is a lot more than simply decentralized social networks.
“The biggest misperception of Nostr is that it’s just a social media app,” Burra informed Bitcoin Magazine at the occasion.
“I’m hopeful that Nostr’s design at the protocol level can enable a truly censorship resistant communications platform but also that other stuff that can be built on it — YouTube replacements, Spotify replacements,” he included.
[Editor’s note: Sam Means, co-founder of Wavlake, a music streaming platform built on Nostr that let’s fans stream sats to their favorite musicians — an alternative to Spotify’s model — was in attendance at the event.]
Burra also kept in mind just how much of a success the occasion was merely due to the fact that it provided “Nostriches” — a slang term for devoted Nostr users — a chance to link in reality.
But not everybody at the occasion was a Nostr pro. Some guests existed to get more information about exactly what Nostr is and how to utilize Nostr customers like Primal, Flockstr and Coracle.
Parker Worthington, director of My Trust In You Is Broken, a documentary on BTC Pay Server, also went to the occasion and talked about how crucial occasions like this are to those who are brand-new to the Nostr area.
“One of my favorite things about smaller Bitcoin or Nostr meetups is that there’s always [some] people that have either never heard of Bitcoin or never heard of Nostr in the room,” Worthington informed Bitcoin Magazine at the occasion.
“It rubs off on them so quickly that they now have this group to go to,” he included.
While the occasion wasn’t technically a meetup, it did have the sensation of a larger variation of one, and this belonged to Modell’s intent.
“What we do at PubKey is different than traditional Bitcoin conferences, because we think of ourselves as almost an anti-conference space,” discussed Modell.
“We do these smaller events, [but] people who weren’t even here who were watching on the livestream — on zap.stream — posted things like ‘This is a real conference,’” he included.
A genuine conference it was, and, according to Modell, it will likely be the very first of lots of to come.
“I’d love to be able to do a Nostr Village every year and see how year over year we grow and what technologies develop on Nostr,” concluded Modell. “We’ve only been doing this (referring to teaching one another about Nostr) for a short time, and so there’s a lot more to do.”
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