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Watch our founders today at 12:55 EST on nostrvalley.com!
Bitcoin lets us think before we build.
The Blueprint and Foundation are complete.
Billboard is coming soon.
This is an opt-in experience. We're here if you change you're mind.
Or, the money earned watching ads can fund the specific internet you want to see today. Or not. This is an opt-in experience. If enough people opt-in, we can self-fund the things we want.
Digital creators are the unpaid labor force of legacy social media. Nostr can be their refuge.
Our business model makes it possible to establish an attention marketplace that can sustain a 'creator fund' by the people, not a tech giant. This is Value4Value at work - creators earn when people believe they've brought real value, not when an algorithm decides.
Traditional ads: your attention gets harvested without consent, no payment, no control.
Our model: you set your price, you get paid, you control access to your attention.
The 'more steps' are called property rights.
You own your attention instead of having it extracted.
That's not complexity. That's freedom.
We're not commodifying attention to extract value. We're creating transparent markets where you own and price your own attention.
Every transaction is public on Nostr. You can see exactly what's happening. Big Tech thrives on hidden extraction.
We're building the opposite: voluntary, opt-in exchange where you control the terms. This is how we fund infrastructure without corruption.
Email protocols are free and open. But the major email providers (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo) monetize through ads, data mining, and surveillance. The infrastructure costs are covered by selling user data and attention. There is a cost. We pay with our privacy and attention.
We don't need Nostr to pay people Bitcoin to watch ads.
But we do need Nostr to prevent big tech from co-opting the solution.
We could have built Billboard as just another centralized ad platform that pays people in Bitcoin. But that would have been vulnerable to the same problems that plague current advertising:
platform lock-in
data control
eventual monopolization
Instead, we're using Nostr as the foundational data layer for attention marketplaces.
People publish their attention prices and preferences as public Nostr events attached to their private key. This creates transparent, immutable consent records that any developer can read and build competing marketplaces from.
The PROMO Protocol is like HTTP for attention marketplaces - anyone can implement it, preventing any single entity from controlling the system.
This approach is better because it creates true decentralization: attention sellers own their private key and pricing data, advertisers can read public signals directly, and the marketplace data is open and uncontrolled by any single entity. Instead of building another platform that could be co-opted, we're building the infrastructure that makes big tech's business model obsolete.
This is like using the internet protocol not just for websites, but for creating an entirely new economic system where attention is property, not a resource to be extracted.
Why zapping won't pay the bills, yet
Value4Value can't work if people are protective of their Bitcoin. Some value it too highly to zap creators regularly.
NextBlock's Attention Marketplace fixes this by creating a sustainable Bitcoin faucet for Nostr. People earn Bitcoin by watching ads, then zap creators. This creates a self-reinforcing circular economy where attention generates value, and that value flows to creators. Instead of hoping for a few generous patrons we're building the infrastructure that makes everyone a potential funder.
#grownostr
Nostr doesn't need another client.
Nostr needs a business model.
Developers build clients for free, people get free social media, but there's no economic incentive to keep the ecosystem healthy. This creates a fragile foundation where clients can disappear, relays can shut down, and the network depends on volunteer labor.
Instead of building another client that competes for people, we're building the first business model that makes Nostr economically sustainable. The attention marketplace creates real economic value by turning attention into a trackable commodity with real-time pricing every Bitcoin block.
Our approach creates a sustainable economic model for decentralized social media. People get paid for their attention, creating real value. The more people participate, the more valuable the marketplace becomes. Anyone can build competing marketplaces using the same data. Economic activity creates demand for reliable infrastructure.
This isn't about competing with existing clients - it's about creating the economic foundation that makes the entire Nostr ecosystem more valuable, not just another free client that depends on volunteer labor.
#grownostr
People need a reason to join Nostr, not just another social media platform.
Why would they switch to a decentralized version that does the same thing? We have to give a compelling reason to switch.
Our pitch: they can earn Bitcoin for their attention.
Now we're not another social media platform - we're the first social media platform where people get paid for their time.
This creates a clear value proposition:
Join Nostr
Earn Bitcoin
Zap Creators
Instead of hoping people will switch for ideological reasons, we're giving them a practical reason to join. #grownostr
tick tock #nextblock
TikTok just launched their new crypto called "Sunshine" ☀️✨
You earn it by liking charity posts and referring friends, then TikTok graciously converts your imaginary points into real donations (with their money, not yours).
Meanwhile at NextBlock we pay you in Bitcoin 🧡
Weird concept, I know. Using real money instead of corporate loyalty points. Wild stuff.
#therevolutionwillbeadvertised https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/tiktok-launches-tiktok-pro-in-europe-with-built-in-charity-program/
We built a digital clock that runs on Bitcoin time.
nostr:nprofile1qqsqqqklv009d0pnvryctupvm9x7neg2huzcpk97unzy32ta740phmqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5jvp67k transforms Bitcoin's blockchain into a living astronomical system. Every ~10 minutes when a new Bitcoin block is mined, our virtual Bitcoin Moon and Bitcoin Sun shift position, creating a temporal framework that mirrors natural cosmic cycles.
This is the foundation of our temporal architecture. The Observatory powers the mathematical rhythms that will drive our attention marketplace, creating natural scarcity through blockchain timing.
Follow nostr:nprofile1qqsqqqklv009d0pnvryctupvm9x7neg2huzcpk97unzy32ta740phmqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5jvp67k now to experience a new way to measure time.
Meta tracked teen girls' deleted selfies to blast beauty ads at their lowest. What if social media valued your attention instead of weaponizing it? #TheRevolutionWillBeAdvertised #nextblock
https://tech.yahoo.com/social-media/articles/facebook-allegedly-detected-teen-girls-121553649.html
Imagine all these brands having to pay you in sats to watch their ads.
Imagine not being forced to watch even if they offered to pay you.
Thats how our attention marketplace works.
#nextblock
#superbowl
#grownostr
A teaser clip for our highly anticipated (by @Ian & @mandana) next episode of FWB dropping this Thursday!
#nextblock #bitcoin #nostr
https://video.nostr.build/f191008ea081cfa7284bb45be018bf47434842935904d51ac02f20576da072be.mp4
"Bitcoin has its own called Geyser, but there's Kickstarter, there's Indiegogo, there's all these things, right? They're just like a destination. No one is actually going there. In my opinion, no one's going there and browsing for something to support. It's usually you were somewhere else and they directed you there.
If if you want to support us, Go here to support us. But Billboard is the thing, right? We're not saying go to Indiegogo. We're not saying go to Kickstarter. We're saying go to this thing that we built and on that thing that we built, you will see the business model that we plan on using or this other thing that we plan on building.
If we can do Billboard without losing money and losing our shirt, because we're using the business model that we plan to use, then it should work for the other thing that we want to build as well."
We're just getting started.
Happy New Year from nostr:nprofile1qqsqamukr9l4c6lrskdks9lx54ekdpv9d3qku2dzjfdatg2m9ftu3vgpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgcwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsv4reu6, nostr:nprofile1qqszpreneylpzvlvhdzy4sp6mucdgg307a7jypn7a3t8860hfs8fp2gpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmc6fkjx8 and the entire NextBlock team!
#therevolutionwillbeadvertised
#nostr
#bitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/51fa1a0373862a0facd05270a02a913dd4e8f4ede6d55be8f20ad26142379487.mp4
On NextBlock, she can just turn off ads.
Or she can set a higher price for her attention to stack sats through the holiday season.
#saticlaus #attentionmarketplace
https://video.nostr.build/b6b3376f04f7fa5c916a7a4bc6eec2eefd9aa5a477a64463181b59b517a05bef.mp4
NextBlock is on its way to #ElSalvador for #AdoptingBitcoin!
Catch us at the #Nostr booth and our session "NextBlock: Mine Bitcoin with Your Attention" on Saturday at 10:45am on the Mises Stage.
#grownostr
#trump calls them the censorship cartel.
we prefer #chaoscartel
Has #trump been purple pilled?
