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William Casarin

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  1. “The two modes I've been thinking about recently, and then you can have a node in your own Which is cool is every time you send a speech into the internet, it's getting backed up onto your node or in your house. And then if you ever want to broadcast your history of your speech, you can do that to the internet. And just backing it up has that benefit of no one can just delete your speech off the internet or take you off the internet. You can always broadcast it to new relays. So yeah, it has a lot of cool properties in that aspect”

    2023-01-04 · We Study Billionaires · BTC111: Nostr - Decentralized Social Media and Bitcoin w/ William Casarin (Bitcoin Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “So, the way that I look at a relay, a relay in some sense is like you take the Times Square. So Twitter and Elon is trying to, you know, Twitter is going to be the new public Town Square on the internet. That's fine, but it's in control of one person. So what a relay is that in my mind is it's democratizing the town square on the internet so that anyone can become a platform of speech that you can connect to. So they're kind of like free speech nodes on the internet. The way that I see it breaking down is I can see it. There's probably going to be like a public good or like a public relays, which are kind of crazy. There's going to be a lot of spam, but anyone can go there and get their message out. It might be a shelling point for meeting up and things like that. But maybe you don't want to have that crazy hectic wild west of communication. So maybe you would pay some money to whitelist your pub key and get onto another, like maybe more semi-private public relay where you can have a more civilized conversation. But the cool thing about clients is they can connect to both. I can connect to the public relay. I can connect to the more chill relay that's like less crazy and then I can turn them on and off at will and just see different perspectives of the worldwide conversation.”

    2023-01-04 · We Study Billionaires · BTC111: Nostr - Decentralized Social Media and Bitcoin w/ William Casarin (Bitcoin Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “All this blockchain craze that took off recently, and this idea where you just collect everyone's transaction, everyone has a store, everyone's transaction. This is not what Nashra is. Nasha is not a blockchain. It's not these like, we're not trying to achieve global consensus. So if you want to just run a relay in your own house that just stores your messages and your messages for your friends, that's completely okay. You probably don't want to sync Twitter's database to your note at home because you'll probably, your computer will catch fire. It's kind of specifically designed in a way that allows you to get the messages from the people you care about from your own nodes, and then you can ignore a lot of the other busier stuff. And so we can kind of start to talk about like different types of relays that might be in the future. I sort of think about this a lot now in terms of like what's a public relay versus like a private relay. But yeah, we're just starting to see the beginnings of this because right now there are just a bunch of public relays that everyone's just kind of sending all their messages to. But it's starting to get kind of crazy with like a lot of crazy people on the relays. So we're trying to think about how we're going to scale this out and what that's going to look like.”

    2023-01-04 · We Study Billionaires · BTC111: Nostr - Decentralized Social Media and Bitcoin w/ William Casarin (Bitcoin Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “In terms of you being censored or you being like your speech being controlled, but also you get the benefits of having high performance servers and versus some type of peer-to-peer model where we're all trying to get it from each other, which can be kind of bad for performance. If a new type of protocol, I don't know that many protocols that do it in this particular model, but for the use case of social media, it works really well.”

    2023-01-04 · We Study Billionaires · BTC111: Nostr - Decentralized Social Media and Bitcoin w/ William Casarin (Bitcoin Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “The way I like to describe it is if you're not familiar with internet protocols, they underlie a lot of the technology we use, like our web browser. It speaks the HTTP and TLS protocol, and that allows us to contact any server, and the browser knows how to fetch the page and render it and things like that. There's other protocols like email where we can run many different email clients, so like Gmail, Outlook, and they all can talk to each other because they're using this underlying language. So this is all what a protocol is. It's just an underlying language that computers can use to talk to each other. So what NASRA is we're trying to, what's the language? What's the computer language for social media? The basic idea that we're trying to go for here is instead of like we're a Twitter-like model where you're just sending a tweet to a single server, you just send that event or that note like you mentioned, you just send it to like any server you want. But they all kind of have the same, they understand the message that you're sending them. So they'll understand like, okay, this is a tweet that this person sent out and they save it to their server. And other people who are also connected to those relays can just pull those messages. So instead of just getting it from one server, you're just now getting it from 10 servers. So that kind of decentralizes the risk.”

    2023-01-04 · We Study Billionaires · BTC111: Nostr - Decentralized Social Media and Bitcoin w/ William Casarin (Bitcoin Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “So, when you're trying to build a network that everyone in the world can connect to and communicate with each other, you naturally have centralizing effects just because to even pull that off, you need some beefy servers and those people are run by someone in the minute you try to make things more decentralized, typically the user experience gets very poor. These networks tend to be kind of a little bit more complicated than a centralized solution like Twitter. So now we're just trying to figure out what's the best way to do this in a way that we can scale it out to more and more people. So this is where Nostra comes in. We think we have a pretty good idea of how to do this with like not just one person in control, but maybe like a small set of people. So it's like a little bit more decentralized. And it's a tough problem, but I think we actually might be able to crack it with this one.”

    2023-01-04 · We Study Billionaires · BTC111: Nostr - Decentralized Social Media and Bitcoin w/ William Casarin (Bitcoin Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “So nostra is an idea that started from someone named Fiat Jaff. He was a Bitcoiner in the Bitcoin community, and he was just trying to come up with a way to build a social network like Twitter, but make it decentralized so that it's not in control of a single party because we were starting to see the issues crop up around that recently. So he just came together with like the simple, it was just like a markdown document like, hey, how could we do this? And that's where it started. And I saw this technology a while back. And I'm just like, hey, let's try to build a client. And then started building on it. I've just been like blown away how impressive it is and how simple it is.”

    2023-01-04 · We Study Billionaires · BTC111: Nostr - Decentralized Social Media and Bitcoin w/ William Casarin (Bitcoin Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Yeah, it's great to be here. It's the first time I haven't watched too many other podcasts, but yeah, I'm excited to be on and chat about”

    2023-01-04 · We Study Billionaires · BTC111: Nostr - Decentralized Social Media and Bitcoin w/ William Casarin (Bitcoin Podcast) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT