Day Two didn’t disappoint, with some amazing speakers covering everything from the history of decentralized communication protocols, to the future of Nostr. Check out the official Nostrica 2023 YouTube channel to watch the talks! https://www.youtube.com/@nostrica2023
The first talk on the Main stage was by John Dennehy from ‘Mi Primer Bitcoin’, who runs a Bitcoin education non-profit based in El Salvador. Check out his site at https://miprimerbitcoin.io/en/my-first-bitcoin/
Derek Ross (npub18am…p424) followed up with a talk covering his NIP-05 provider Nostr Plebs, Nostr Nests, and future plans for his services.
Svetski (npub1dtg…up6m) then took the stage with a discussion on Nostr Bitcoin and how these tools that allow for sovereignty impact businesses.
Rabble (npub1wmr…g240) gave a great talk about the history of Nostr-like protocols, including the founding and history of Twitter, and how we got here! He also encourages in-person devs to stick around for the NosTropical Hackathon (nos.social/nostropical)
After the lunch break, there was a relay panel moderated by walker (npub1cj8…rz4u) Guests include PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft) Lee from BitcoinJungle (npub14f2…v7lu) anton (npub1h72…k5rt) and myles_snider (npub1xwm…5c2p) from Kollider.
After a brief intermission, UNCLE ROCKSTAR (npub1j8y…vrvg) moderated a talk with NVK (npub1az9…m8y8) and jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s) where they discussed lessons they've learned starting products/companies, and how that can be applied by those building on nostr.
On the Workshop stage, talks were kicked off by Nabissmo Prime (npub unknown), who discussed running your own relay where he went through Cameri (npub1qqq…n47m) ‘s Nostream. Next up was a great panel that covered “Working with Markets in Nostr”. The Panel included Mark (npub unknown), Ben Arc (npub1c87…8avm) p2x (npub1g8h…jhqh) PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft) and JeffG (npub1zuu…c2uc)
One of the highlights of the conference, which produced a plethora of Nostr memes, was a workshop on bitcoin mining by TatumTurnUp (npub1hte…sw3d)
quoting nevent1q…53q9Hear me out…
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Reverend Hodl (npub1fdh…glhr) discussed music, payments, and digital rights.
Zamir Dhanji (npub unknown) gave an interesting talk on Culture, Consciousness, and Technology. And JeffG (npub1zuu…c2uc) discussed contributing to Nostr, even if you’re starting from a non-technical background.
Can’t believe we are ⅔ done! Looking forward to tomorrow’s talks.
Stay Classy, Nostr.