TPB59 - Nostr: The Everything App of Freedom with Ben Arc & Rabble

The Progressive Bitcoiner

"The history of social change shows us that it's not fear that leads to better situations. It's Hope." - Rabble

My guests today are Ben Arc and Rabble. Ben is a FOSS (free and open source software) hobbyist and activist, founder of LNbits, bitcoin/lightning software and hardware builder, and creator of one of the first twitter clones utilizing the nostr protocol. Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath is a social media pioneer, Jack Dorsey's former boss at Odeo (where they worked together on code that would become what we now know as twitter/x), and and creator of Nos social, a nostr client. In this episode we discuss all things social media and how Bitcoin-inspired tech like Nostr aims to reinvent social media as an open ecosystem beyond the control of big tech gatekeepers. Beyond social media and bitcoin, we discuss culture, how we interact with one another in this rapidly evolving and information intensive world, and hope we have for social change. It's such a pleasure to sit with two technology/social media pioneers like Ben and Rabble and hear their reflections on the world and a possible path forward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsu_VInPazY

Ben Arc
twitter: https://twitter.com/arcbtc
nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm
Rabble:
twitter: https://twitter.com/rabble
nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240
Trey: https://nostree.me/[e-mail]
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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 Start
00:00:06 Introducing Guests
00:06:02 Bitcoin and Social Media
00:17:16 Building on Nostr
00:25:21 Freedom of Association
00:31:15 Economics and Social Change
00:38:52 Hopes for the Social Web
00:45:30 Sponsor Ad
00:46:05 Early Adoption Challenges
00:55:01 The Shock Doctrine
01:10:00 Building Connections
01:18:10 Conspiracy Theories
01:27:02 Catastrophe and Control
01:35:10 Slow Change Over Sudden Revolution
01:41:00 Where to Find the Guests
01:45:36 Conclusion

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