What started as an idea during Bitcoin 2024 Amsterdam, we accomplished it on February 1 & 2: be there with Nostr at FOSDEM! FOSDEM is one of the worlds biggest conferences for free and open-source minded people & communities held since 2000 in Brussels (Belgium).
2025 already started and I'm behind sharing weekly updates around the Nostr stuff.
As a OpenSats grantee every quarter I need to report what I've done regarding to my grant application. This is my second 90-day report (Augustus - October 2024) for the work I've done for the Nostr-PHP helper library.
While a new version of PHP is released (8.4) the latest version of 8.2 and 8.3 introduced a bug which leads to errors for signing en verifying events in the library.
Summary of Nostr stuff I worked on in these two weeks.
In the previous article, "Personal data are outlawed" it was described how everyone, in theory, has a personal graph. This graph can be built up from existing graphs such as the link, social, and interest graph.
In a previous article, "We're Giving Everything Away," it was described how each of us is a product within various social media services. We trade our digital identity for the free use of these services. We pay, as it were, with a piece of our privacy. In itself, this principle is not necessarily a problem. However, it often remains unclear what exactly happens with our data.
Personal information belongs to you, not to Facebook, Google, Hyves, or other social media platforms. Yet, we've been giving it away to them for years, without fully realizing the potential indirect consequences that may arise in the future. In my opinion, there are still many people who don't fully understand that they can use these social media platforms for free, but at a cost.
1 year later, why Nostr still resonates and NIP-19 struggles with encoding TLV
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.
FOSDEM 2025, NIP-42 and NIP-19, transpher
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. With a group of volunteers we would like to attend the event with a stand / booth. In this article you can read our submission for a Nostr stand.
Week 42 updates
Week 40: PHP async concurrent websocket requests
Week 41: Nostrdam and the Nostr booth @ Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024
Weekly updates for week number 39.
Some work in progress updates of this week.
Working out the code for doing async PHP requests with a WebSocket connection and the famous Http/Guzzle client.
A lot of Nostr side-projects are on my plate as we're gearing up for setting up a next-level Nostr Booth at Bitcoin Amsterdam. For Nostr-PHP I finally started to work out a proof-of-concept doing async concurrent requests.
Week 34 updates for Nostr-PHP
Development of Nostr-PHP library
Progress Report #1 - May - July 2024