The day past, Nostr customers from round the USA got here in combination at Unused York Town’s premiere Bitcoin bar PubKey for Nostr Village, a mini-conference centered at the distinguishable protocol that permits world, censorship-resistant social media and extra.
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The identify of the convention integrated a nod to the community during which PubKey is positioned, Unused York’s historical Greenwich Village. It was once additionally a play games on Nostrville, the identify of a 2023 Nostr convention that took park in Nashville, TN, which Daniel Modell, Head of Advertising at PubKey and organizer for Nostr Village, attended.
“Nostr is something that I was involved with prior to being part of PubKey, and I wanted to bring it to more people,” Modell instructed Bitcoin Book on the tournament.
“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 added.
The vibe at Nostr Village felt very similar to what I’d consider the vibe at a smaller Bitcoin convention was once like in Bitcoin’s fourth era of life (Nostr went reside November 2020) — thrilling and illuminating but slightly awkward, as Nostr continues to be an overly nascent generation and nobody but is aware of moderately what it’s going to develop into.
On the other hand, with such a lot of energetic Nostr customers in attendance on the tournament, there was once incorrect dearth of family sharing what they do perceive about Nostr in efforts to teach the alternative attendees.
On panels reminiscent of “Design and Code: User Experience Is Everything” and “Value For Value and Community: Nostr Is For Creators”, everybody from builders to creatives contributed to increasing the information bottom of the ones in attendance.
Avi Burra, creator of the Bitcoin untruth secure 24 and host of the Plebchain Radio podcast, took section in two of the panels — “Can’t Cancel This: Censorship Resistance On Nostr” and “Nostr for Noobs” — and stressed out that Nostr is a lot more than simply decentralized social media.
“The biggest misperception of Nostr is that it’s just a social media app,” Burra instructed Bitcoin Book on the tournament.
“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 additionally famous how a lot of a good fortune the development was once just because it gave “Nostriches” — a slang time period for avid Nostr customers — a possibility to join in actual moment.
However no longer everybody on the tournament was once a Nostr professional. Some attendees have been there to be told extra about what precisely Nostr is and tips on how to utility Nostr purchasers like Primal, Flockstr and Coracle.
Parker Worthington, director of My Accept as true with In You Is Damaged, a documentary on BTC Pay Server, additionally attended the development and commented on how noteceable occasions like this are to those that are brandnew to the Nostr length.
“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 instructed Bitcoin Book on the tournament.
“It rubs off on them so quickly that they now have this group to go to,” he added.
Moment the development wasn’t technically a meetup, it did have the sensation of a larger model of 1, and this was once a part of Modell’s goal.
“What we do at PubKey is different than traditional Bitcoin conferences, because we think of ourselves as almost an anti-conference space,” defined 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 added.
An actual convention it was once, and, in step with Modell, it’s going to most likely be the primary of many to return.
“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.”
