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**The Seed Was Planted in 2009**

Fifteen years ago—on 23 October 2010—Satoshi Nakamoto dropped a quiet bombshell on the BitcoinTalk forum. Someone had suggested bundling short messages inside Bitcoin transactions. Satoshi’s reply was instant and surgical:

> “It would be unwise to have permanently recorded plaintext messages for everyone to see. It would be an accident waiting to happen.

> If there’s going to be a message system, it should be a **separate system parallel to the Bitcoin network**. Messages should not be recorded in the block chain. The messages could be signed with the Bitcoin address keypairs to prove who they’re from.”

That single paragraph is the **original NOSTR white-paper**.

A censorship-resistant messaging layer, signed by Bitcoin keys, running **parallel** to the money—exactly what we have today.

**Fast-forward to 2020**

A Brazilian developer who goes by nostr:nprofile1qqspwwwexlwgcrrnwz4zwkze8rq3ncjug8mvgsd96dxx6wzs8ccndmcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszxrhwden5te0ve5kcar9wghxummnw3ezuamfdejj7ekel7y read Satoshi’s words, opened a markdown file, and typed:

```

Nostr = Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays

```

He shipped the first relay in weeks. No ICO. No foundation. No roadmap. Just a protocol so simple you can implement it in an afternoon.

**2025: We Are Living Satoshi’s Vision**

Sixteen years after the Bitcoin white-paper, fifteen years after Satoshi’s forum post, we are running **NOSTR LONDON** for over a year now—the meetup that turns a 2010 forum thread into real-world lightning.

Every month coders, artists, podcasters, and cypherpunks pack into the Blockwork Gallery

**"If you use NOSTR, you are ahead of 99.9 % of the Bitcoin curve, not mentioning normies".** - Anon2140

You already own:

- A **decentralised identity** that no platform can ban

- A **contact list with built-in payment rails** (follow = Lightning address)

- **Community relays** you can fund with a subscription zap

- **End-to-end encrypted DMs** that never touch a corporate server

- **Live streaming** that pays the creator per minute

- **Long-form articles** that live forever, signed by your npub

- **Dapps**

**NOSTR is not “another Twitter”**

NOSTR is the **parallel layer Satoshi described**—the free-speech nervous system sitting on top of Bitcoin’s indestructible money.

**We are the early ones.**

It feels damn good to be here—building the thing Satoshi sketched in a forum reply before most of us had heard of Bitcoin.

**Join us.**