#348: Building "Web 3.0" the right way on Nostr with jb55
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
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🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Join Marty as he sits down with jb55 to discuss building distributed apps on Nostr that monetize via the Lightning Network.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, Freaks? |
| 0:06.2 | It's your boy Marty Bent here to intro, Rip 347, or excuse me, rip 348 of TFTC. |
| 0:13.4 | I just sat down with J.B55, who's a longtime Bitcoiner, long-time core lightning developer. |
| 0:20.4 | And more recently, he's been building out an open source protocol. |
| 0:23.6 | Messaging protocol called Nostra, which is getting me excited. |
| 0:28.6 | Super TestNet demoed an app that he built an UberLight competitor using Nostra |
| 0:34.6 | and the Lightning Network at the Austin BitDev's meetup last week. |
| 0:42.7 | And I've known that J.B.5 and Fiat Jaff have been working on this protocol for some time. |
| 0:45.4 | I've only observed it at an arm's length. |
| 0:50.6 | But after seeing that demo last week, I decided I had to reach out to J.B.55 and have a conversation about what he's building with all these developers on Nostra. |
| 0:53.9 | And I'm very bullish on this protocol, especially. have a conversation about what he's building with all these developers on Nostra. |
| 0:59.4 | And I'm very bullish on this protocol, especially after this conversation. |
| 1:00.8 | I think you guys are going to enjoy it. |
| 1:05.6 | It's a bit more technical, but I think even if you're not a technical person, you should really listen to this conversation and what these guys are trying to build, or they are building, they're not trying to, it's working. |
| 1:13.9 | It could be massive for the future of content distribution on the internet, |
| 1:19.9 | social media, and a wide range of other economic interactions we have on the internet. |
| 1:27.8 | This trip was brought to you by our good friends at Unchained Capital. |
| 1:33.0 | What more do I have to say? |
| 1:34.2 | Unshane Capital, I mean, it's proven itself to be one of the stalwarts of the industry. |
| 1:40.7 | It's proven itself to be one of the better operators in the industry |
| 1:45.0 | because they leverage Bitcoin's native multi-sig properties to bring you a suite of products. |
| 1:51.1 | It starts with their Volt product, which is a two or three multi-sig. |
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