the people on nostr are some of the smartest and coolest i’ve ever got to know. who cares if it doesn’t take over the world. It’s done more than i could ever ask for.


But it can still take over the world if it wants to, yea? Like just a little, maybe?


Energy of positive collaboration relationships is the way thing go in the new world💫


There is no shortage of idiots either, so it may have a greater reach than you realize.


You rock nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s


I love this perspective. In a world where success is often measured by scale and domination, it's refreshing to see someone appreciate the value of a community for its own sake. The fact that Nostr has brought together smart and cool people who enrich your life is all the success it needs. Maybe the goal shouldn't be to "take over the world" but to create a small, meaningful universe where like-minded individuals can thrive. After all, isn't that what truly matters – the connections we make, the ideas we share, and the memories we create?


“Siempre queda molestar” - “Equilibrio”, Kortatu.


exactly


The people I met on nostr, who became my friends, completed my life and more. 🙏


Nostr changed my life, I learned about Bitcoin here. That's enough 🤙


Thanks man


Your welcome 🤣😜


much yes to this


the unbeatable army of foss-minded people


I feel ya bro, Nostr is magical


Facts


Definitely agree 👍🏼⚡💜


Nostr changes lives! 💜


It got me back on some cool programming challenges I longed for. So that too!


And they will continue to do a lot!
- promote Nostr
- evangelize bitcoin
- and of course HODL


I so my best 😂


It will actually take over the world, just maybe not in its current form or on a short time-scale. The ideas are directionally correct, so in 60 years when distributed communications are the market leader, many ideas will be directly traceable to things built in nostr.


Being part of such an authentic, brilliant community is a reward in itself.


That's cuz kikes can't censor them here


I tried and failed to zap your note.


My bitcoin node has had yet another critical failure for the 10th time , rebuilding it.


Critical as in the SSD?


SSD is fine, but leveldb loves to randomly corrupt. This time I couldn’t even reindex, have to redownload the whole chain. Thats the critical part


Poor number five.  https://media.tenor.com/z3NI9n7V4VwAAAAC/no-mad.gif


Does it run on proper hardware (x86, not a Pi) and is the SSD connected via PCIe or SATA? If it’s connected via USB, I’d change that as soon as possible, as this could cause issues.


bro


A minimum of 2 SSDs in RAID 1.  SSDs great for speed but not as reliable as HDDs.


Apparently it gets corrupted even in raid setups according to people i’ve talked to here… i suspect there is a bug but core devs don’t think so


mine is a runs forever on a old laptop without me doing anything


I struggled with the same issue and it turns out it was a bad motherboard that couldnt mantain a stable sata connection.


check your dm I've sent you a couple of ideas


I don’t see a DM from you. I can’t receive amethyst DMs atm if that’s what you use


sorry wrong comment...I commented on the wrong post


the people on nostr are some of the smartest and coolest i’ve ever got to know. who cares if it doesn’t take over the world. It’s done more than i could ever ask for.


Cool PR. Now everyone will come here to became one of the smartest. 😁


and another one that hasn't met me...
nostr:nevent1qqsycysfwjmtxpwtu6zvty5c5ttvsvlwqnq0ey9y2emfpq6wzj0942qppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3grqsqqqqqptkkpr8


100% true 🫂

nostr:nevent1qqsycysfwjmtxpwtu6zvty5c5ttvsvlwqnq0ey9y2emfpq6wzj0942qpzemhxue69uhhwmm59ehx7um5wgh8qctjw3uj7q3qxtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsxpqqqqqqzqhkkhr


I’LL SAY


Selfishly, I’d be happy if it didn’t because I love it so much and don’t want to share…
I know! Wrong attitude 👻


Not surprised at someone re sharing


If it’s an option in a sea of options, I would consider that a success


#OpenSourceBSD for #WorldPeace is the way or maybe more #unity


#Nostr has no second best.


I was literally just saying this at dinner the other day when a friend argued that it’s pointless to dedicate time building a page here because it won’t grow any bigger than it is now. 🤦♀

My response, ‘Honestly, even if it stays the same size, the people who are on Nostr now are exactly the ones I want to connect with—smart, interesting, early adopters, and like-minded.’


💯.   I can only read so much.   I’m perfectly happy if it is just people I enjoy.


Yessss!!!


I'll take that


it is really interesting to feel the environments now. The vibration is a different frequency here. literally. the people and content are patient and caring and the sentiments rarely create the frenetic energy that's an underlying medium on the other platforms. Especially now... these weeks leading to the election. The calm because people here are focused on a next beautiful world regardless of which empire is ruling is quite compelling. Nostr is a great place to call home.


Right back at ya 🤙🏻


libertarian vibes. nostr feels "outside" the system. It is an "opt out" technology, just like bitcoin. the future of freedom is safeguarded only by open source, decentralized technology


Still very early Will… there’s some incredible innovations just around the corner… they’re going hit like a tsunami

I was only at Sovereign Engineering for the first 10 days and it blew my mind


One year ago I wrote the article [Why Nostr resonates](https://sebastix.nl/blog/why-nostr-resonates/) in Dutch and English after I visited the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2023 conference and the Nostrdam event. It got published at [bitcoinfocus.nl](https://bitcoinfocus.nl/2023/11/02/278-waarom-nostr-resoneert/) (translated in Dutch). The main reason why I wrote that piece is that I felt that my gut feeling was tellinng me that Nostr is going to change many things on the web.

After the article was published, one of the first things I did was setting up this page on my website: [https://sebastix.nl/nostr-research-and-development](https://sebastix.nl/nostr-research-and-development). The page contains this section (which I updated on 31-10-2024):
![](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-11/Swf2djYX.png)

One metric I would like to highlight is the number of repositories on Github. Compared to a year ago, there are already more than 1130 repositories now on Github tagged with Nostr. Let's compare this number to other social media protocols and decentralized platforms (24-10-2024):

*   Fediverse: 522
*   ATProto: 159
*   Scuttlebot: 49
*   Farcaster: 202
*   Mastodon: 1407
*   ActivityPub: 444

Nostr is growing. FYI there are many Nostr repositories not hosted on Github, so the total number of Nostr reposities is higher. I know that many devs are using their own Git servers to host it. We're even capable of setting up Nostr native Git repositories (for example, see [https://gitworkshop.dev/repos](https://gitworkshop.dev/repos)). Eventually, Nostr will make Github (and other platforms) absolute.

Let me continue summarizing my personal Nostr highlights of last year.

## Organising Nostr meetups

![](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-10/24-03-19%2022-43-27%200698.png)
This is me playing around with the NostrDebug tool showing how you can query data from Nostr relays. Jurjen is standing behind me. He is one of the people I've met this year who I'm sure I will have a long-term friendship with.

## OpenSats grant for Nostr-PHP

![](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-07/open_sats_cover.jpeg)
![](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-24-22-23-05.07.png)
In December 2023 I submitted my application for a OpenSats grant for the further development of the Nostr-PHP helper library. After some months I finally got the message that my application was approved... When I got the message I was really stoked and excited. It's a great form of appreciation for the work I had done so far and with this grant I get the opportunity to take the work to another higher level. So please check out the work done for so far:

*   [https://nostr-php.dev](https://nostr-php.dev)
*   [https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php](https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php)

## Meeting Dries

![](https://nostrver.se//sites/default/files/2024-07/24-06-12%2012-41-09%201055.jpg)
One of my goosebumps moments I had in 2022 when I saw that the founder and tech lead of Drupal Dries Buytaert posted '[Nostr, love at first sight](https://dri.es/nostr-love-at-first-sight)' on his blog. These types of moments are very rare moment where two different worlds merge where I wouldn't expect it. Later on I noticed that Dries would come to the yearly Dutch Drupal event. For me this was a perfect opportunity to meet him in person and have some Nostr talks. I admire the work he is doing for Drupal and the community. I hope we can bridge Nostr stuff in some way to Drupal. In general this applies for any FOSS project out there.
[Here](https://sebastix.nl/blog/photodump-and-highlights-drupaljam-2024/) is my recap of that Drupal event.

## Attending Nostriga

![](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-08/IMG_1432%20groot.jpeg)
A conference where history is made and written. I felt it immediately at the first sessions I attended. I will never forget the days I had at Nostriga. I don't have the words to describe what it brought to me.
![](https://nostrver.sehttps://nostrver.se//sites/default/files/2024-10/IMG_1429.jpg)
I also pushed myself out of my comfort zone by giving a keynote called 'POSSE with Nostr - how we pivot away from API's with one of Nostr superpowers'. I'm not sure if this is something I would do again, but I've learned a lot from it.
You can find the presentation [here](https://nostriga.nostrver.se/). It is recorded, but I'm not sure if and when it gets published.

## Nostr billboard advertisement

![](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-09/DSC02814_0.JPG)

This advertisment was shown on a billboard beside the [A58 highway in The Netherlands](https://www.google.nl/maps/@51.5544315,4.5607291,3a,75y,34.72h,93.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sdQv9nm3J9SdUQCD0caFR-g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu) from September 2nd till September 16th 2024. You can find all the assets and more footage of the billboard ad here: [https://gitlab.com/sebastix-group/nostr/nostr-ads](https://gitlab.com/sebastix-group/nostr/nostr-ads). My goal was to set an example of how we could promote Nostr in more traditional ways and inspire others to do the same. In Brazil a fundraiser was achieved to do something similar there: [https://geyser.fund/project/nostrifybrazil](https://geyser.fund/project/nostrifybrazil).

## Volunteering at Nostr booths growNostr

![Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-10/IMG_1712.jpeg)

This was such a great motivating experience. Attending as a volunteer at the Nostr booth during the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024 conference. Please read my note with all the lessons I learned [here](https://nostrver.se/note/my-learned-nostr-lessons-nostr-booth-bitcoin-amsterdam-2024).

## The other stuff

*   The Nostr related blog articles I wrote past year:
    *   [**Run a Nostr relay with your own policies**](https://sebastix.nl/blog/run-a-nostr-relay-with-your-own-policies/) (02-04-2024)
    *   [**Why social networks should be based on commons**](https://sebastix.nl/blog/why-social-networks-should-be-based-on-commons/) (03-01-2024)
    *   [**How could Drupal adopt Nostr?**](https://sebastix.nl/blog/how-could-drupal-adopt-nostr/) (30-12-2023)
    *   [**Nostr integration for CCHS.social**](https://sebastix.nl/blog/nostr-integration-for-cchs-social-drupal-cms/) (21-12-2023)
*   [https://ccns.nostrver.se](https://ccns.nostrver.se)
    CCNS stands for Community Curated Nostr Stuff. At the end of 2023 I started to build this project. I forked an existing Drupal project of mine (https://cchs.social) to create a link aggregation website inspired by stacker.news. At the beginning of 2024 I also joined the TopBuilder 2024 contest which was a productive period getting to know new people in the Bitcoin and Nostr space.
*   [https://nuxstr.nostrver.se](https://nuxstr.nostrver.se)
    PHP is not my only language I use to build stuff. As a fullstack webdeveloper I also work with Javascript. Many Nostr clients are made with Javascript frameworks or other more client-side focused tools. Vuejs is currently my Javascript framework I'm the most convenient with. With Vuejs I started to tinker around with Nuxt combined with NDK and so I created a starter template for Vue / Nuxt developers.
*   [ZapLamp](nostr:npub1nfrsmpqln23ls7y3e4m29c22x3qaq9wmmr7zkfcttty2nk2kd6zs9re52s)
    This is a neat DIY package from LNbits. Powered by an Arduino ESP32 dev board it was running a 24/7 livestream on zap.stream at my office. It flashes when you send a zap to the npub of the ZapLamp.
*   [https://nosto.re](https://nosto.re)
    Since the beginning when the Blossom spec was published by @hzrd49 and @StuartBowman I immediately took the opportunity to tinker with it. I'm also running a relay for transmitting Blossom Nostr events `wss://relay.nosto.re`.
*   [Relays I maintain](https://nostrver.se/note/relays-i-maintain)
    I really enjoy to tinker with different relays implementations. Relays are the fundamental base layer to let Nostr work.

I'm still sharing my contributions on [https://nostrver.se/](https://nostrver.se/) where I publish my weekly Nostr related stuff I worked on. This website is built with Drupal where I use the Nostr Simple Publish and Nostr long-form content NIP-23 modules to crosspost the notes and long-form content to the Nostr network (like this piece of content you're reading).

![POSSE](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-10/Screen-Shot-2024-10-30-23-23-18.png)

## The Nostr is the people

Just like the web, the web is people: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgvkslCzTo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgvkslCzTo)

> the people on nostr are some of the smartest and coolest i’ve ever got to know. who cares if it doesn’t take over the world. It’s done more than i could ever ask for. - [@jb55](nostr:note1fsfqja9kkvzuhe5yckff3gkkeqe7upxqljg2g4nkjzp5u9y7t25qx43uch)

Here are some Nostriches who I'm happy to have met and who influenced my journey in Nostr in a positive way.

*   Jurjen
*   Bitpopart
*   Arjen
*   Jeroen
*   Alex Gleason
*   Arnold Lubach
*   Nathan Day
*   Constant
*   fiatjaf
*   Sync

## Coming year

Generally I will continue doing what I've done last year. Besides the time I spent on Nostr stuff, I'm also very busy with Drupal related work for my customers. I hope I can get the opportunity to work on a paid client project related to Nostr. It will be even better when I can combine my Drupal expertise with Nostr for projects paid by customers.

### Building a new Nostr application

When I look at my Nostr backlog where I just put everything in with ideas and notes, there are quite some interesting concepts there for building new Nostr applications. Filtering out, I think these three are the most exciting ones:

*   nEcho, a micro app for optimizing your reach via Nostr (NIP-65)
*   Nostrides.cc platform where you can share Nostr activity events (NIP-113)
*   A child-friendly video web app with parent-curated content (NIP-71)

### Nostr & Drupal

When working out a new idea for a Nostr client, I'm trying to combine my expertises into one solution. That's why I also build and maintain some Nostr contrib modules for Drupal.

*   [Nostr Simple Publish](https://www.drupal.org/project/nostr_simple_publish)
    Drupal module to cross-post notes from Drupal to Nostr
*   [Nostr long-form content NIP-23](https://www.drupal.org/project/nostr_content_nip23)
    Drupal module to cross-post Markdown formatted content from Drupal to Nostr
*   [Nostr internet identifier NIP-05](https://www.drupal.org/project/nostr_id_nip05)
    Drupal module to setup Nostr internet identifier addresses with Drupal.
*   [Nostr NDK](https://drupal.org/project/nostr_dev_kit)
    Includes the Javascript library Nostr Dev Kit (NDK) in a Drupal project.

One of my (very) ambitious goals is to build a Drupal powered Nostr (website) package with the following main features:

*   Able to login into Drupal with your Nostr keypair
*   Cross-post content to the Nostr network
*   Fetch your Nostr content from the Nostr content
*   Serve as a content management system (CMS) for your Nostr events
*   Serve as a framework to build a hybrid Nostr web application
*   Run and maintain a Nostr relay with custom policies
*   Usable as a feature rich progressive web app
*   Use it as a remote signer

These are just some random ideas as my Nostr + Drupal backlog is way longer than this.

### Nostr-PHP

With all the newly added and continues being updated NIPs in the protocol, this helper library will never be finished. As the sole maintainer of this library I would like to invite others to join as a maintainer or just be a contributor to the library. PHP is big on the web, but there are not many PHP developers active yet using Nostr. Also PHP as a programming language is really pushing forward keeping up with the latest innovations.

### Grow Nostr outside the Bitcoin community

We are working out a submission to host a Nostr stand at FOSDEM 2025. If approved, it will be the first time (as far as I know) that Nostr could be present at a conference outside the context of Bitcoin. The audience at FOSDEM is mostly technical oriented, so I'm really curious what type of feedback we will receive.

Let's finish this article with some random Nostr photos from last year. Cheers!

![Nostriches](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/inline-images/IMG_1436.jpg)
![Explaining Nostr](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-12-15-47-58.52.png)
![](https://nostrver.sehttps://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-10/IMG_0979%20groot.jpeg)
![ZapLamp](https://nostrver.se//sites/default/files/2024-10/IMG_0997%20groot.jpeg)
![With Nathan Day](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-10/IMG_0942.PNG)
![Alex Gleason](https://nostrver.se/sites/default/files/2024-10/20240905_alex-gleason.jpeg)
![](https://nostrver.se//sites/default/files/2024-10/IMG_DB4022599FAA-1%20groot.jpeg)

After 1 year deciding to do more with Nostr, my love for the protocol has grown significant. It's not only the protocol, but also being part of an ideology-driven movement is something that really hits a sensitive chord.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqpnrnguxe8qszsshvgkvhn6qjzxy7xsvx03rlrtddr62haj4lrm3qqnrzttev4shyttvv96x2u3dwa58jttwdaehgu3dwd6xjmrv94ex2um0deshgetnr9rmkn


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Haha good point


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