Nostr

Nostr is a protocol where identity is a keypair, messages are signed JSON events, and servers called relays do nothing but store and forward them.

Why it matters

It removes the account. There is no signup, no platform that can delete you, and no username someone else controls — your identity is a key you hold, portable across every client.

How it works

A user has a private key and a public key. Everything published is a signed event with a kind number indicating what it is: a note, a profile, a reaction, a long-form post. Clients push events to Relay servers and read from several at once. Relays are intentionally dumb, and the interesting behavior lives in clients.

Protocol extensions are proposed as NIP documents.

Heard on the show

30 moments across 24 episodes.

E234 · 12 Oct 2025 · Slopcasting
- Adam floats Nostr for metadata, killing keysendtimeline
E206 · 10 Jan 2025 · Substance Dualist
- 45:00Adam makes the case for embracing Nostr + stablecoinstimeline
E190 · 23 Aug 2024 · Chattelle
- Nostr in Fountain launchedtimeline
E185 · 19 Jul 2024 · Shock Collars
- First talk of Oscar adding Nostrtimeline
E151 · 20 Oct 2023 · One Big Table
- 16:00NOSTRtimeline
E137 · 16 Jun 2023 · Wonk Factor
- Damus removed from App Storetimeline
E132 · 12 May 2023 · Felt-Manhood
- 1:24:29NOSTR to replace RSS?chapter
E130 · 21 Apr 2023 · For All The Drummers
- 9:00Nostril chatchapter
E223 · 6 Jun 2025 · Messy Desks
- 1:32:07Nostra wallet connect.transcript
E202 · 29 Nov 2024 · Walletpocalypse
- 1:07:49this case, on Nostra Relay as an event.transcript
E193 · 13 Sep 2024 · Helpful Little Wizards
- 1:33:27Fountain, it's not like you have to be on nostr No fountain istranscript
E182 · 7 Jun 2024 · Drop the Dongle
- 1:52:58was going to say something about the nostril bros but aftertranscript

and 12 more episodes, back to E85 (13 May 2022).

Show all 30 moments across 24 episodes

E234 · 12 Oct 2025 · Slopcasting
- Adam floats Nostr for metadata, killing keysendtimeline
E223 · 6 Jun 2025 · Messy Desks
- 1:32:07Nostra wallet connect.transcript
E206 · 10 Jan 2025 · Substance Dualist
- 45:00Adam makes the case for embracing Nostr + stablecoinstimeline
E202 · 29 Nov 2024 · Walletpocalypse
- 1:07:49this case, on Nostra Relay as an event.transcript
E193 · 13 Sep 2024 · Helpful Little Wizards
- 1:33:27Fountain, it's not like you have to be on nostr No fountain istranscript
E190 · 23 Aug 2024 · Chattelle
- Nostr in Fountain launchedtimeline
E185 · 19 Jul 2024 · Shock Collars
- First talk of Oscar adding Nostrtimeline
E182 · 7 Jun 2024 · Drop the Dongle
- 1:52:58was going to say something about the nostril bros but aftertranscript
E151 · 20 Oct 2023 · One Big Table
- 16:00NOSTRtimeline
E147 · 22 Sep 2023 · Like Lavender
- 1:49:07adverse my impression of nostre fans. I did not intend to ignitetranscript
E137 · 16 Jun 2023 · Wonk Factor
- Damus removed from App Storetimeline
E132 · 12 May 2023 · Felt-Manhood
- 1:24:29NOSTR to replace RSS?chapter
E130 · 21 Apr 2023 · For All The Drummers
- 9:00Nostril chatchapter
E129 · 14 Apr 2023 · Turkish Punk
- 24:33idea into any combine that with nostra identities, so you cantranscript
E128 · 7 Apr 2023 · Fully Fingered
- 1:31:00There’s something about NOSTRchapter
E127 · 31 Mar 2023 · Fortress of Freedom
- 1:17:05There's something about NOSTRchapter
E124 · 4 Mar 2023 · Undeplatformable
- 1:29:08NOSTR hostility?chapter
- 1:30:00Nostr talkclip note
E123 · 24 Feb 2023 · Get Off My Chain!
- 57:49Nostr - key send - LNURL mafia?chapter
E122 · 17 Feb 2023 · We're Trending!
- 14:25NOSTR - Breaking the worldchapter
E120 · 3 Feb 2023 · Chop & Drop
- 1:34:00NOSTRchapter
E114 · 23 Dec 2022 · Protoflexible
- 1:00:11Nostr makes sense for...chapter
- 1:00:15Big one: paywall vs V4V, Nostr talk, PC 2.0 has 1 BTC on the nodetimeline
- 1:13:43NOSTR bridges?chapter
- 1:14:30Adam: "why doesn't Oscar put his comments on Nostr?"clip note
- 1:21:58NOSTR for live chat?chapter
E113 · 16 Dec 2022 · Substance Dualism
- 1:32:28Nostr?chapter
E86 · 20 May 2022 · Stackin' Salad Dressing
- 1:33:03Nostr mentioned for the first timetimeline
- fiatjaf/nostr: a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of workingshow notes
E85 · 13 May 2022 · Loot The Room!
- NOSTR fiatjaf/nostr: a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of workingshow notes

From chapter titles, show notes, the PC 2.0 Timeline and the clip notes. Where those say nothing, from the episode transcript — which reaches further but only records that a word was said. 214 of 266 episodes have curated notes; 177 moments come from transcripts.