We don't do anything illegal, we should be good. Even if we do get banned, there are other nostr media hosts, other people can start a new host, etc.

If your favorite nostr app gets censored or banned, you can still use nostr.build to share your stuff direct to nostr!

Getting close

I did a thing today.

#Nostr is now my only social media account.

Decentralize.

All in.

Onwards.

I get a metric fuckton of interview requests.

In my early days I said yes to a lot of things, but now it would take up all of my time so unfortunately I say no to 95% of them. We rate by both size and alignment for first interviews.

For recurring interviews though, it's almost entirely just a vibe check. If I like the interviewer, probably met them in person, and literally just enjoy hanging out with them, then I don't care much about metrics. You could be 1/10th the size of someone who gets ghosted and I'll be like, "yeah man let's do it."

Made a bet today with a skeptic that Nostr will have more than 1M weekly active users by Jan 31, 2026

We are at ~35k today

That’s about 18 months from now

LFG 🚀

All of the profits from the first thousand copies of Broken Money went to the Human Rights Foundation, since Alex Gladstein's public research was so useful for the book and I like the work they are doing worldwide.

The profits from the next four thousand copies went to making an animated half-hour video about Broken Money to reach people that haven't read the book, which we released a few days ago.

My graphics/editing team wanted to make sure that the video had good average viewer time in the first week to help with the YouTube algorithm, rather than the video be sent a ton of clicks that might watch it only briefly and hurt the early quality metrics, so they advised me to soft-launch it at first. We purposely haven't notified my email list or my Twitter feed yet, etc. But it's out there.

It's a half-hour video about the technological evolution of money, with animation. We put a lot of production value into it. And for the people who were sad that I didn't narrate the Broken Money audiobook, I did narrate this video.

In the coming weeks I will spread awareness for the video across my platforms, but for starters, it has been found here on Nostr.

Enjoy:

nostr:note14tgqhfxeu05tyalg07pxqhyz3w3zfw8j8jcx27x9zq8p0y2ahdlqvay0am

You don’t have a #Nostr account. You have a key that signs events, and you publish those events, and then anyone who wants to read those events can do so by retrieving them from anywhere they exist. There’s no one to turn it off, there’s no account to suspend or restrict. There is simply information flowing to and from you and everyone else who uses it. This puts the power of speech back in our hands.

GM

The Primal web app has just been updated. Here’s what we have for you:

- Improved performance

- New note reactions dialog

- Automatic redirect from the new landing page

Try it out and let us know how we can further improve. 🫡

This is a wild graph when you consider they’re both at 1% of all available #Bitcoin.