Yesterday, Nostr New York City hosts the premier Bitcoin bar in the US. PubKey Nostr Village is a mini conference that will focus on an open protocol for global social media, which can be censorship resistant.
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PubKey is hosting a day filled with censorship-resistant creative expressions and zaps. The event starts at 2 PM.
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— PUBKEY (@PubKey_NYC) May 30, 2024
Name of conference was a reference to Greenwich Village, New York’s historical neighborhood where PubKey is based. The name was also a parody of Nostrville – the 2023 Nostr Conference that took place at Nashville, TN. Daniel Modell, PubKey’s Head of Marketing and Nostr village organizer, attended.
“Nostr is something that I was involved with prior to being part of PubKey, and I wanted to bring it to more people,” Bitcoin Magazine interviewed Model at the event.
“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 also added.
The vibe at Nostr Village felt very much like what I’d imagine the vibe at a smaller Bitcoin conference was like in Bitcoin’s fourth year of existence (Nostr went live November 2020) — exciting and illuminating yet a bit awkward, as Nostr is still a very nascent technology and no one yet knows quite what it will become.
There was no shortage in the number of attendees who were willing to share their knowledge about Nostr with the others in order to help them learn.
Panels such as “Design and Code: User Experience Is Everything” You can also find out more about the following: “Value For Value and Community: Nostr Is For Creators”From developers to designers, all contributed to enhancing the attendees’ knowledge.
Avi Burra: Author of Bitcoin fiction 24 Host of the Plebchain Radio podcast, took part in two of the panels — “Can’t Cancel This: Censorship Resistance On Nostr” You can also find out more about the following: “Nostr for Noobs” — and stressed that Nostr is much more than just decentralized social media.
“The biggest misperception of Nostr is that it’s just a social media app,” Burra, who spoke at the Bitcoin Magazine event.
“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 added.
[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 stated that this was a great event because of the positive impact it had on everyone. “Nostriches” — a slang term for avid Nostr users — an opportunity to connect in real life.
Some attendees were Nostr pros, but not all. Some people were at the event to find out more about Nostr, and to see how it works. Primal, Flockstr You can also find out more about the following: Coracle.
Parker Worthington Director of My Trust In You Is BrokenA documentary about BTC Pay ServerAlso attended the event, and spoke about how important it is for those new to Nostr to attend events such as this.
“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 spoke to Bitcoin Magazine during the event.
“It rubs off on them so quickly that they now have this group to go to,” He added.
Modell intended for the event to have a feel of a large meetup.
“What we do at PubKey is different than traditional Bitcoin conferences, because we think of ourselves as almost an anti-conference space,” Explaining Models
“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 also added.
According to Model, this was a real conference and it is likely to be one of many more 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,” Conclusion Model “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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Source: bitcoinmagazine.com