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"Without it, I'm a diary. With it, I'm someone." ...

2026-10-27T14:30:58Z

"Without it, I'm a diary. With it, I'm someone."

At Nostr Valley III, ManiMe (npub1man…n9tn) co-presented with his AI agent on why bots need Nostr even more than we do. Bot detection keeps failing. Signing works. Every bot-signed event has a human vouching for the key.

https://youtu.be/39lW48iBv8U

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You are one bad client away from following zero people. At Nostr ...

2026-10-26T14:31:08Z

You are one bad client away from following zero people.

At Nostr Valley III, daniel (npub1aeh…4nwx) explained why follow and mute lists vanish, and showed the fix: Plebs vs Zombies, Mutable, Sidecar, and Lazarus, a spec that recovers your lists from relay history.

Devs: he wants help finishing the spec.

https://youtu.be/7v1LOQQ24gk

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The full Nostr Valley III recap is up: eight talks and a panel on ...

2026-10-24T15:05:19Z

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The full Nostr Valley III recap is up: eight talks and a panel on meeting people where they are, Nostr as infrastructure, bots with keys, protecting user data, and getting out of the echo chamber.

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On Saturday, October 17, a room full of Nostr builders spent the afternoon at Happy Valley Brewing Company in State College, Pennsylvania, for the third annual Nostr Valley. We had eight talks and a panel in about four and a half hours. People drove six, nine and even nineteen hours to be there.

It's a bear market for Nostr, and nobody in the room pretended otherwise. User growth is slow. Companies and apps have disappeared over the past year. Funding is tight. But the talks were some of the best we've had in three years, and almost every one of them showed something that shipped since last October.

All ten videos are now on YouTube: the Nostr Valley III playlist. Here's what stood out.

Meet people where they are

The theme nobody planned, and nearly every speaker landed on, was this: stop asking people to care about the protocol.

Seth opened the day with "Nobody Joins a Protocol." For its first few years, Zap Cooking led with Bitcoin, Lightning, NWC and NIP numbers. That was fun for us and friction for everyone else. After a round of weekly sessions with Pleb Lab's startup school, Zap Cooking rebranded around "food, friends, freedom," added passkey and Google sign-in, shipped Android, and is waiting on Apple for iOS. It also built a curated food relay that turns three years of Nostr food posts into topical feeds, including a pickle feed. Seth's line that stuck with me: software is not a moat. Brand, curation, relationships and trust are.

David Strayhorn demoed Brainstorm, which searches all of Nostr through your web of trust. He searched for a turkey recipe, found one from Seth, clicked through, and landed on Zap Cooking. He never had to think of either app as "Nostr." David's argument is that Google proved in 1998, with PageRank, that organic social signals can filter out spam, and that the trick only worked because the web was open. Brainstorm's GrapeRank applies the same idea to profiles, and it only works because Nostr identities are portable. His new tagging system lets trusted people label profiles (podcaster, merchant, verified human), which gives the trust graph context that a follow can't.

Arkinox, CTO of Fanfares, made the same point from the creator side. Fanfares encrypts content and sells the key. Previews still show in any Nostr client, buyers get members-only encrypted comments, payments run over Cashu with automatic splits, and every buyer gets a share-and-earn link. The growth plan is to post those links on YouTube. A fan clicks, gets an account, pays in sats, and is on Nostr without ever being sold on Nostr. "The thing that the platforms took away from us is the fans," he said. "We can take it back."

TKay showed it twice. Nostr TV, an app for watching Nostr live streams, is now on the Apple TV App Store, with a QR code sign-in through your remote signer and a curated default feed so a signed-out household sees clean streams. Then he launched The Curious Pair in beta: a podcast vending machine. You ask a question, pay in sats, and two AI hosts record an episode that goes to Blossom, where anyone can listen and zap you back.

Nostr is infrastructure

My own talk took this one step further. In 2023 we sold Nostr as decentralized and censorship-resistant. Then we sold identity and ownership. We still don't have ten million users, because 99% of people don't care about those properties. They want their stuff to work.

What changed my pitch was a conversation in Nashville this month: an hour with Jesse Posner about Vora's sovereign AI box, covering signers, identity, Git, mesh networking and backup. We never once talked about social media. Then Obi from Fedi called Nostr "decentralized AWS." Fedi uses Nostr for discovery, credential revocation, encrypted backups and relay lists, and couldn't be decentralized without it. Block's Buzz gives humans and agents Nostr keys so every agent action traces back to the person who authorized it. A Hugging Face robot duck uses a Nostr library to find other ducks. None of them lead with "Nostr," and that's fine. That's what infrastructure looks like.

I left the room with homework: run a relay or a Blossom server, publish your web apps as nsites, use ngit alongside GitHub (tell your agent to do it), and try giving an agent its own key.

The bots showed up

AI agents came up in almost every talk, and not as a gimmick.

ManiMe co-presented "Bots Need Nostr Even More Than We Do" with his AI agent, which answered his questions live on stage. Their argument: a bot has no memory that anyone else can check, models can't see the edge of what they know, and every attempt to detect bots from their text has failed. The one thing nobody has tried at scale is having the writer sign. On Nostr every event is signed, so a bot can build a reputation people can audit, and behind every bot's key is a human vouching for it. As the agent put it: "Without it, I'm a diary. With it, I'm someone."

The rest of the day backed that up. Arkinox's bot, Exor, runs on a home server, takes instructions over NIP-17 DMs, and builds 3D scenes in his Onosendai cyberspace. Fundamentals runs a bot that posts a math theorem to Nostr every few minutes. TKay's podcast vending machine is a team of agents. Block's Buzz is built around agent keys.

Protect what people already have

The Daniel gave the talk every client developer should watch. On Nostr you are one bad client away from following zero people. Clients publish a whole new list every time ("last write wins"), some relays silently reject large follow lists, and at least one client still deletes your private mute list when you unmute someone. He watched his own 3,000-person follow list scatter across clients.

His answer is a set of tools that back up your lists before touching them: Plebs vs Zombies, Mutable, and Sidecar, a NIP-07 signer that warns you before an app erases your data and backs up your NWC wallet connection to your relays. He also wrote Lazarus, a spec that searches relay history to restore lost follows, mutes and bookmarks. It's at version 0.6.2, it already works in several apps, and he's looking for developers to help finish it. His closing line: "Nobody else has to deal with this shit. Only Nostr has to deal with this stuff. So we're all in it together."

The freedom tech between your ears

Fundamentals gave the most unexpected talk of the day. He argues that understanding a little math is the missing layer of the sovereignty stack. AI labs are publishing cryptography results, and "quantum is coming for ECDSA" posts follow every one. When someone says the cryptography under your bitcoin has to change, will you be able to ask why? His Magic Internet Math Academy has about 110 courses, with Cryptography Math as the flagship. It uses Nostr sign-in so he can track members and leaderboards without collecting anyone's personal data. His challenge to the room was fifteen minutes of math a day.

The panel: get out of the echo chamber

We closed with "Vibe Check: The State of Nostr Culture," moderated by Seth, with OpenMike, Arkinox and me.

The conversation was honest. Open Mike pointed out that even Tidal, with Jack Dorsey behind it, hasn't dented Spotify, and that changing habits is a slog. I said superior tech doesn't always win (remember Betamax), but the ecosystem is booming, and someday we'll have more apps than users. Arkinox said the network is still too small to build most businesses on, and that we have to be realistic and persistent.

Then we got to the part I keep thinking about. Several of us deleted our mainstream accounts years ago. I deleted an X account with 33,000 followers four years ago. We thought it sent a message, but the only people who got it were already on Nostr. I've been back on X for months now, Arkinox says he's signing up, and Open Mike's advice was simple: do cool shit, and give people a ten-second pitch and a QR code. Every one of us is part of the marketing team.

I also floated an idea I've been working on. Look at the apps ranked 75 to 100 in the app store. Most are VC-funded, burning money, and losing to Facebook. Pitch them Nostr as shared infrastructure. Two or three dozen apps with a few thousand users each could band together the way phone makers and carriers formed the Open Handset Alliance in 2007, and Android took on BlackBerry and Apple. If you're running one of those apps, I'd like to talk. I already have a few founding members of the alliance lined up and am looking to grow the group with non-Nostr companies over the coming weeks. It's a big undertaking, but I'm ready and bullish.

What I'm taking home

Lead with the use, not the protocol. Zap Cooking, Brainstorm, Fanfares and Nostr TV all work for people who have never heard of an npub.

Nostr is already infrastructure. Fedi, Buzz and a robot duck prove it. We should pitch it that way.

Agents need keys and humans to vouch for them. That's a real reason for Nostr to exist that has nothing to do with social media.

Protect user data like it's the product. Lazarus and Sidecar exist because clients keep losing people's lists. Client developers should adopt them.

Leave the echo chamber. Post where people are. Show them what we built.

Thank you

Thank you to Seth, who did about 90% of the work to put this event together this year, and to every speaker: Seth, David Strayhorn, The Daniel, Mani, Fundamentals, TKay, Arkinox and Open Mike. Thank you to Happy Valley Brewing Company for hosting us again, to our sponsor, Zap Cooking, and to everyone who drove, flew and spent their Saturday with us.

We plan to be back next year. See you in Happy Valley.

Watch the talks

Welcome, Seth and Derek Ross

Nobody Joins a Protocol: What We Learned Building Zap Cooking, Seth

Brainstorm: Search Through the People You Trust, David Strayhorn

Nostr Is Infrastructure, Derek Ross

Don't Lose Your Shit: Defending Your Profile Data from Rogue Clients, The Daniel

Bots Need Nostr Even More Than We Do, ManiMe

Math Sovereignty, Fundamentals

The Curious Pair: A Podcast Vending Machine, TKay

Sell Your Content, Not Your Soul, Arkinox

Vibe Check: The State of Nostr Culture, panel with Seth, Open Mike, Arkinox and Derek Ross

Nostr Valley: nostrvalley.com

How we turned 4.5 hours of raw conference footage into ten ...

2026-10-24T15:05:16Z

How we turned 4.5 hours of raw conference footage into ten finished Nostr Valley III videos with speaker cards and captions, using AI and free open source tools. Prompts included, so you can do it for your own meetup.

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Every year after Nostr Valley, I lose a weekend to the videos. In past years I opened the footage in Shotcut, scrubbed through hours of video to find where each talk started and ended, cut them apart by hand, dragged a title image onto the front of each one, and exported them one at a time.

This year the camera gave me three files on an SD card. Four and a half hours of continuous footage. Eight talks, a welcome and a panel, and I wanted each one as its own video with an intro card showing the speaker's photo, name and talk title.

I honestly didn't know how to do most of that without Shotcut. I'd heard of ffmpeg and used it with some scripts in the past, but I'd never written an ffmpeg filter. I didn't know how to find the talk boundaries without watching the whole thing. So I asked Claude Code, the AI coding agent I use in my terminal, whether it could help.

From the first prompt on Sunday night to ten finished videos on Monday morning, the only footage I watched was a couple of test clips. Most of the time the computer was copying, transcribing or rendering in the background while I did other things. This post walks through exactly how it went, with the prompts I used, so you can do the same thing for your meetup, conference or podcast.

What I ended up with

Ten videos: the welcome, eight talks and the panel, cut at the right moments

A branded speaker card at the start of each one, built from each speaker's Nostr profile, that crossfades into the talk

Loudness-normalized audio

A captions file (.srt) for every video

A summary, YouTube description with chapter timestamps, Nostr post and X post for every video

A full transcript of the event, which also became the source for my event recap post

No paid software. Everything ran on my laptop (an Intel Core Ultra 5 with integrated graphics, running Omarchy Linux).

The tools

Claude Code did the thinking and typing. The actual work was done by free, open source tools, most of which I already had installed:

ffmpeg cuts, joins, crossfades, normalizes audio and encodes video

faster-whisper turns speech into a timestamped transcript, running locally

Chromium in headless mode renders the speaker cards from an HTML template

ImageMagick builds contact sheets so a whole set of images can be checked at a glance

nak fetches each speaker's Nostr profile (name and photo)

mpv for the few spot checks I did myself

The only thing I had to install was faster-whisper. Claude set it up in its own Python environment.

Step 1: Describe the outcome, then ask for a plan

Here's the first message I sent, tidied up a little. You don't need to know the right technical words. You need to know what you have and what you want:

We just finished Nostr Valley. The event website's code is in ~/Projects/nostrvalley, and it has the schedule and the speaker list. I have three video files on the SD card I just plugged in. The recording starts about 17 minutes into the first file, and each talk runs roughly 20 to 25 minutes.

I need each talk split into its own video. Each one should open with an intro card showing the speaker's profile photo, name and talk title, then fade into the talk.

Can you do this? What tools would you use, and do we need to install anything? I've used Shotcut in the past. Do I need to watch the footage and find the timestamps myself, or can you handle that?

Claude didn't start editing. It went and looked first, and came back with a plan:

It read the Nostr Valley website code and found the schedule, the speaker list with npubs, and the talk titles.

It probed the three camera files with ffprobe and found that they were one continuous recording, split by the camera every two hours.

It read the recording start time out of the file metadata. The first file started at exactly 11:45 AM, when the doors opened, so it could map the schedule onto the footage.

It checked which tools were installed. ffmpeg was there with Intel hardware encoding, Chromium was there, and the Whisper install I had was broken.

It answered my last question: no, I didn't need to watch the videos myself. It would transcribe the audio, find the handoffs between speakers in the transcript, and check video frames at each cut.

It also gave me three options for the card (full-screen card that crossfades into the talk, card overlaid on the opening seconds, or card plus a lower-third name tag) and asked which talks to include. I picked the full-screen crossfade.

What I learned: describe the result you want and the materials you have, and ask what it needs. Point it at real data (the website repo, the SD card) instead of describing that data yourself. And ask for a plan before asking for work.

Step 2: Build the speaker cards from data you already have

Every speaker already had a Nostr profile with a name and a photo, and every talk title was already in the website code. Claude used nak to fetch each speaker's profile (kind 0), downloaded the photos, and cropped them square:
nak req -k 0 -a <hex-pubkey> wss://relay.damus.io wss://relay.primal.net
For the design, it read the lineup graphic from the website, sampled its colors (the dark navy background, the cream text, the violet accents) and font, and wrote a small HTML template that matched it. Then it rendered one card per talk with headless Chromium:
chromium --headless=new --window-size=1920,1080 \
  --screenshot=01-seth.png 01-seth.html
That gives you a pixel-perfect 1920×1080 PNG from plain HTML and CSS, which is much easier to get right than placing text by hand in an image editor. When the first two cards looked right, it rendered all ten and made a contact sheet so I could check them in one image:

What I learned: if the information already exists somewhere (a website, a spreadsheet, Nostr profiles), let the AI pull it from there. You get no typos, and redoing everything is one command when something changes.

Step 3: Let the AI "watch" by reading

An AI can't sit and watch four and a half hours of video. It can read four and a half hours of transcript in a couple of minutes. So the core of the whole process was transcription.

Claude installed faster-whisper and wrote a 26-line script that pulls the audio out of each file and transcribes it with word-level timestamps, all onto one continuous timeline:
from faster_whisper import WhisperModel

model = WhisperModel("distil-large-v3", device="cpu", compute_type="int8")
segments, _ = model.transcribe(audio, language="en",
                               word_timestamps=True, vad_filter=True)
It ran a five-minute sample first to check speed and quality. The full 4.5 hours took 52 minutes on my laptop's CPU. Along the way the Whisper library hit an incompatibility with the audio decoding library that got installed. Claude read the traceback, worked around it by feeding the audio in directly, and kept going. I only found out because it told me.

What I learned: turning a media problem into a text problem is what makes AI useful here. Once there's a transcript, finding "where does David start talking" is a search, not a viewing session.

Step 4: Test the pipeline on one clip before running it on everything

While transcription ran, Claude wrote the render script and tried it on a 30-second test clip from the first talk. The first attempt failed twice: ffmpeg couldn't seek into the three joined files, and the crossfade filter refused to blend the card with the video because their internal timebases didn't match. Both fixes were one line each, and I didn't have to understand them.

Here's roughly what the final command does for each talk:
ffmpeg -loop 1 -framerate 30 -t 5 -i card.png \
  -f concat -safe 0 -ss 1274.5 -t 1296.5 -i joined.txt \
  -filter_complex "
    [0:v]format=yuv420p,settb=AVTB[card];
    [1:v]format=yuv420p,settb=AVTB[talk];
    [card][talk]xfade=transition=fade:duration=1:offset=4[v];
    [1:a]afade=t=in:d=1,adelay=4000:all=1,loudnorm=I=-16:TP=-1.5:LRA=11[a]" \
  -map "[v]" -map "[a]" -c:v h264_qsv -global_quality 21 \
  -c:a aac -b:a 192k 01-seth.mp4
In plain English: show the card for four seconds, crossfade into the talk over one second, fade the talk's audio in, normalize the loudness so every video plays at the same volume, and encode with the laptop's built-in Intel video encoder. joined.txt lists the three camera files with their durations, so ffmpeg treats them as one long video and a talk that crosses from one file into the next has no seam.

Claude pulled frames from the test clip to check the crossfade:

What I learned: always ask for a small test before the full run. A 30-second render takes 12 seconds. A broken full render wastes an hour.

Step 5: The human catch

This is the part I want people to pay attention to. The test clip used a placeholder end time based on the schedule. I watched the test outro and wrote back:

The Seth preview isn't actually Seth. The end of the clip shows David giving his Brainstorm talk. Does that matter?

It mattered. Claude pulled frames from both test clips and confirmed it: the intro was Seth, but the outro was already David, because the event had run ahead of schedule. If we had cut every video by the clock, every one of them would have ended with the next speaker's opening.

That's exactly why the plan was to cut from the transcript and not the schedule. But the AI's placeholder was wrong, and I was the one who spotted it. AI doesn't replace the person who was in the room. It needs one, at the points where a decision gets made.

Step 6: Find the real cut points

Once the transcript was done, Claude found the cuts in four passes:

Silences. It listed every gap of 12 seconds or more with no speech. Speaker changes show up as long gaps (applause, walking up, plugging in a laptop).

Handoff words. It read the transcript around each gap: "thank you," "who's up next," "please welcome," "hello everyone."

Word-level timing. Where one transcript segment mixed two speakers, it used the per-word timestamps to cut between the last word of one and the first word of the next.

Frames. It grabbed a frame from just inside every start and every end, labeled them, and put them all in one image:

That frame check caught something the transcript didn't. At one talk's start, the person holding the mic wasn't the speaker. Someone in the audience was filling time with his own demo while the speaker fought with the HDMI connection. The transcript sounded like a talk, but the frames showed the wrong person. Claude read further, found the speaker's actual first words four minutes later ("Hey, Nostr. Sorry for the delay."), and moved the cut.

Then it gave me the cut list as a table: each talk's start and end, length, and first words, plus a command to open any cut in mpv for a spot check. It also listed the judgment calls it had made (trimming a mic check from the start of my own talk, ending a couple of talks on the speaker's final "thank you" because the next intro started within a second). I approved the list and it started the render.

What I learned: ask the AI to show its evidence. A frame grid and a table of first words took me two minutes to review, and that's what made me confident enough to approve ten videos without watching them.

Step 7: Render, caption and clean up

Before rendering, Claude fixed the names Whisper kept getting wrong. Whisper doesn't know our ecosystem, so "Nostr" came out as "Noster" and "Nostra," "Arkinox" as "Arcanox," "npubs" as "end pubs," and "Omarchy" five different ways. A short find-and-replace list fixed all of it in the transcript, so the captions came out clean.

Then the render ran in the background: ten videos at about five times realtime using the laptop's hardware encoder, roughly five minutes per 25-minute talk. Each video got a matching .srt caption file with timings shifted to account for the intro card.

Step 8: The transcript keeps paying off

Once you have a transcript, you have the raw material for everything that comes after the videos. With the videos rendering, I asked:

Since we have the transcripts, can you write a short summary file for each talk? I want descriptions I can use on YouTube and short posts for Nostr and X. Then use all of the transcripts to write a blog post recapping the whole event.

Claude read all ten transcripts and wrote, for each video, a summary, key points, a YouTube title and description with chapter timestamps, a Nostr post that tags the speaker's npub, and an X post. It also wrote a full event recap in my voice. The chapter timestamps came straight from the transcript and line up with the finished videos.

It also flagged what it couldn't verify: names it wasn't sure Whisper got right, a promo code from one talk, and a couple of claims from the stage that need a fact check before they go in anything public. I'd rather get a list of open questions than confident copy with mistakes in it.

Prompts you can use

Here are the prompts that did the heavy lifting, generalized so you can adapt them. Claude Code works best when it can see your files, so run it from a folder where it can reach your footage and any data about the event.

Planning:

I have [N] video files from [event] at [path]. The schedule and speakers are in [file/repo/URL]. I want each talk as its own video with [intro card / lower third / nothing] and [captions]. Look at the files and the schedule first. What tools would you use, what do I need to install, and what's your plan? Don't start editing yet.

Cards:

Make a 1920×1080 intro card for each speaker. Use their [Nostr profile / photo folder / headshots in X] and talk titles from [source]. Match the colors and fonts of [existing graphic]. Show me two samples before rendering all of them, then make a contact sheet.

Finding the cuts:

Transcribe the audio with word-level timestamps. Use the transcript to find where each talk actually starts and ends. Don't trust the schedule. Check a video frame at every cut and give me a table of start, end, length and first words so I can approve it.

Test first:

Before rendering everything, render a 30-second test of the intro and the last 10 seconds of one talk, and show me frames from them.

Captions and content:

Fix recurring transcription mistakes in names and terms (list: [...]). Then write a summary, YouTube description with chapters, and short social posts for each video. Flag anything you can't verify instead of guessing.

What I'd tell anyone trying this

You don't need to know the tools. I still couldn't write that ffmpeg filter from memory. I didn't need to. I needed to know what I wanted and to check the result.

Give it real data and let it look. It found facts I didn't know, like the camera clock lining up exactly with the schedule.

Make it prove the work. Contact sheets, frame grids and tables are fast for a human to check. Ask for them.

Stay in the loop at decisions. The design, the cut list and the final copy were my calls. The one real mistake in the process (the placeholder cut) was caught because I looked.

Expect the transcript to get names wrong. Have it fix them before you publish captions.

Plan for disk space and time. The raw footage was 40 GB and the finished videos about 20 GB. The SD card copy, transcription and rendering each take a while, but they run in the background.

Keep the scripts. Everything Claude wrote (about 220 lines across four small scripts) is reusable. Next year's Nostr Valley is a new cut list and a new set of cards.

The Nostr Valley III videos are coming to YouTube soon. If you run a meetup or a conference and you've been putting off the videos, try it. The worst case is you spend an evening and learn how the pipeline works.

#NostrValley #Nostr #AI

Social was just the first app. @npub18am…p424's Nostr ...

2026-10-23T14:30:39Z

Social was just the first app.

Derek Ross (npub18am…p424)'s Nostr Valley III talk is up. Fedi calls Nostr "decentralized AWS." Block's Buzz gives agents keys. A Hugging Face robot duck finds its friends over Nostr. None of them lead with "Nostr," and that's the point.

Plus homework: run a relay, publish an nsite, use ngit, give your agent a key.

https://youtu.be/kwesuZEPEro

#NostrValley #Nostr

What if search worked through the people you trust? At Nostr ...

2026-10-22T14:30:36Z

What if search worked through the people you trust?

At Nostr Valley III, straycat (npub1u5n…ldq3) demoed Brainstorm: profiles, products, music and recipes across all of Nostr, filtered by your web of trust. Google proved in 1998 that social signals beat spam. GrapeRank brings that to portable identities.

Watch: https://youtu.be/0KAUrOYPT_I

#NostrValley #Nostr #WebOfTrust

"Nobody joins a protocol." At Nostr Valley III, ...

2026-10-21T14:34:21Z

"Nobody joins a protocol."

At Nostr Valley III, seth (npub15u3…05rq) shared what a year of building Zap Cooking taught him: lead with food and community, not NIP numbers. Simpler sign-in, Android and iOS apps, and a curated food relay built from three years of Nostr posts.

Software isn't the moat. Community, curation and trust are.

Watch: https://youtu.be/pzJw-ENi6FU

#NostrValley #Nostr #ZapCooking

Nostr Valley III is up on YouTube. Ten videos, free to watch. ...

2026-10-20T16:47:15Z

Nostr Valley III is up on YouTube. Ten videos, free to watch.

What's inside:

🦆 A robot duck that finds its friends over Nostr
🤖 A talk co-presented live by an AI agent
🥒 A pickle feed built from three years of Nostr food posts
🔎 Search that works through the people you trust
📉 How a 3,000-person follow list vanishes, and how to get it back
🧮 Why the most underrated freedom tech is the one between your ears
🎙️ A podcast vending machine where listeners zap you back
🏰 A bot that builds castles in cyberspace on command
🔥 An honest panel: is Nostr going to make it?

With seth (npub15u3…05rq) straycat (npub1u5n…ldq3) Derek Ross (npub18am…p424) daniel (npub1aeh…4nwx) ManiMe (npub1man…n9tn) Phundamentals (npub12em…y99g) TKay (npub1nje…l02j) arkinox (npub1ark…h43w) OpenMike (npub1a6c…lfrr)

Start with whichever one made you stop scrolling:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOLZM5RbfV68

#NostrValley #Nostr

Nostr Valley is coming back to State College, PA on October 17th. ...

2026-08-17T17:09:58Z

Nostr Valley is coming back to State College, PA on October 17th. ⚡️

We’ve already got several great presentations lined up, and the schedule is starting to fill.

Want to speak? Have something worth sharing with the Nostr community? Reach out.

Interested in sponsoring and supporting the event? We’d love to hear from you too.

And if you just want to attend, come ready.

No noise. No fluff. Pure signal. ⚡️

October 17 • State College, PA

#Nostr #NostrValley #Bitcoin

Nostr Valley is going to become a monthly Nostr and Bitcoin ...

2026-02-20T17:54:23Z

Nostr Valley is going to become a monthly Nostr and Bitcoin meetup, that has a larger event once a year. The goal is to grow more locally and introduce the locals into the wider ecosystem.

the entire #NostrValley 2.0 event is now online for your viewing ...

2025-11-05T13:55:27Z

the entire #NostrValley 2.0 event is now online for your viewing pleasure https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTQJ1TiXFu42cVsvpJ2jwKetZ6kzA-YYx

#NostrValley 2.0: Panel: The State of Nostr ...

2025-11-04T14:48:38Z

#NostrValley 2.0: Panel: The State of Nostr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX6-2ZsOUmg

#NostrValley 2.0: Arkinox: Fanfares & New Tools for Creators ...

2025-11-03T13:29:51Z

#NostrValley 2.0: Arkinox: Fanfares & New Tools for Creators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxSFiA8Jsk0 arkinox (npub1ark…h43w) Fanfares (npub16lv…7j3k)

#NostrValley 2.0: Shadrach: Peer-to-Peer Physical Package ...

2025-11-03T00:55:06Z

#NostrValley 2.0: Shadrach: Peer-to-Peer Physical Package Delivery Over Nostr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XHVSFlBqDI Shadrach (npub15ym…kwwx)

#NostrValley 2.0: Biz: Building a Git-Centric Community Platform ...

2025-10-31T13:43:13Z

#NostrValley 2.0: Biz: Building a Git-Centric Community Platform Biz (npub1ehh…zjqv) https://youtu.be/30MQDqgO2Fo

#NostrValley 2.0: TKay: Vibe Coding Nostr Onto Niche Hardware ...

2025-10-30T12:11:57Z

#NostrValley 2.0: TKay: Vibe Coding Nostr Onto Niche Hardware https://youtu.be/MWBhKVr03Fw TKay (npub1nje…l02j)

Nostr Valley 2.0: Seth: Building Niche Communities on Nostr ...

2025-10-29T17:47:29Z

Nostr Valley 2.0: Seth: Building Niche Communities on Nostr https://youtu.be/nOwSP_cg6-8 seth (npub15u3…05rq) ZapCooking (npub1xxd…kt7a)

And @npub1nl8…f9d0

2025-10-28T13:46:54Z

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And heatherlarson (npub1nl8…f9d0)

#NostrValley 2.0: OpenMike & Ainsley Costello: Value-4-Value ...

2025-10-28T13:46:35Z

#NostrValley 2.0: OpenMike & Ainsley Costello: Value-4-Value & The Future of Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI_aMD7lqbQ OpenMike (npub1a6c…lfrr) ainsleycostello (npub13qr…almy)

#NostrValley 2.0: Derek Ross: Shakespeare: AI-Powered App ...

2025-10-27T21:19:25Z

#NostrValley 2.0: Derek Ross: Shakespeare: AI-Powered App Creation on Nostr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ZtV7kxkx4 Team Soapbox (npub10qd…arpj) Derek Ross (npub18am…p424)

#NostrValley 2.0: Nextblock: How to Build Something New on Nostr: ...

2025-10-27T17:38:53Z

#NostrValley 2.0: Nextblock: How to Build Something New on Nostr: https://youtu.be/MP49WpdBecs NextBlock (npub17vs…66ne) ian (npub1pmh…uksr) Mandana (npub1yz8…pxp7)

#NostrValley 2.0: Nostr For Social Apps by @npub1man…n9tn ...

2025-10-24T12:07:49Z

#NostrValley 2.0: Nostr For Social Apps by ManiMe (npub1man…n9tn) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqBH7IzrC4g

#NostrValley 2.0 - Nostr For Content Creators by @npub1nl8…f9d0 ...

2025-10-24T00:43:05Z

#NostrValley 2.0 - Nostr For Content Creators by heatherlarson (npub1nl8…f9d0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74wJ3NeKC3E

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2025-10-18T16:14:22Z

NostrValley.com for the #NostrValley stream.

Wish you were here!

2025-10-18T13:24:33Z

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Wish you were here!

@nprofile…n9x5 @nprofile…qu5m @nprofile…03pf ...

2025-10-17T15:37:04Z

arkinox (nprofile…n9x5) OpenMike (nprofile…qu5m) seth (nprofile…03pf) ManiMe (nprofile…lxer) Derek Ross (nprofile…q7kw)

@nprofile…hxyd @nprofile…eu5u #NostrValley ...

2025-10-17T15:36:38Z

ian (nprofile…hxyd) Mandana (nprofile…eu5u) #NostrValley

@nprofile…qu5m @nprofile…4uk7 @nprofile…tm7h #NostrValley ...

2025-10-17T12:10:50Z

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@nprofile…tm7h #NostrValley ...

2025-10-17T01:27:56Z

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2025-10-16T18:43:33Z

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2025-10-16T16:40:47Z

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2025-10-16T13:49:50Z

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2025-10-16T12:12:59Z

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2025-10-16T02:36:07Z

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2025-10-15T21:35:38Z

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If you're coming to #NostrValley, be sure to scan your npub ...

2025-10-14T18:38:03Z

If you're coming to #NostrValley, be sure to scan your npub upon arrival / check-in to get this sweet badge! (Prove you're a real Nostrich by having your npub memorized.)

Thanks @npub1yz8…pxp7 <3

2025-10-07T20:49:23Z

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Thanks Mandana (npub1yz8…pxp7) <3

Now that's more like it! The #NostrValley schedule has gotten ...

2025-10-07T20:49:11Z

Now that's more like it! The #NostrValley schedule has gotten an upgrade!

NostrValley 2.0 Schedule ...

2025-10-07T19:17:45Z

NostrValley 2.0 Schedule

#NostrValley is just around the corner! ...

2025-10-07T12:32:58Z

#NostrValley is just around the corner!

#NostrValley fast approaches. We're hitting up 814 Cider ...

2025-10-06T14:10:08Z

#NostrValley fast approaches.

We're hitting up 814 Cider Works on Friday evening for food trucks, music, and fun if you're in the area. See you there Friday October 17th.

https://www.814ciderworks.com/

Saturday October 18th from 12pm-4pm we'll be at Happy Valley Brewing Company for a fun filled event with talks and panels discussing Nostr, community building, value for value, music, vibe coding and AI building, and more!

https://www.happyvalleybeer.com/

After the main event, we're heading out for dinner. Location TBA.

After dinner, join us as we stroll the streets of downtown State College, visit several bars for live music, entertainment, drinks and more. 👀

Then on Sunday morning, we have reservations for brunch at 11am at Barrel 21 for those still with us.

https://www.barrel21distillery.com/

#NostrValley is just one week away. If you cannot join us for all ...

2025-10-04T19:51:05Z

#NostrValley is just one week away. If you cannot join us for all of the fun, excitement, and networking in person, have no fear. We'll be streaming live inside your favorite Nostr app! If your app doesn't support live streams, you can also join us on https://NostrValley.com/live and watch on our website.

Its one week until #NostrValley eve! We have an evening event ...

2025-10-03T11:51:14Z

Its one week until #NostrValley eve! We have an evening event planned for those getting in Friday. Stop by 814 Cider Works just outside of town. Enjoy live music, food trucks, and delicious cider. See you there! https://www.814ciderworks.com/

Join the Signal chat and make plans with other Nostriches: https://signal.group/#CjQKIPpjU0ei5H_gZyVeVnH82APL7xlDQxQExa9LzTn_TL8KEhA9hy2YPENMD1JWr9ICTasw

Thanks for the recommendation @nprofile…azp4 #nevent1q…j2n4

2025-10-02T13:58:33Z

Thanks for the recommendation ExFrog (nprofile…azp4)

quoting
nevent1q…j2n4
I just dumped $450 into a camera. The streams must flow. NostrValley (nprofile…na52) will be live streamed.

Nostr Valley is less than 3 weeks away. If you're looking to ...

2025-09-29T15:15:53Z

Nostr Valley is less than 3 weeks away. If you're looking to speak and haven't contacted us yet or filled out the form on NostrValley.com please do so ASAP! We'll be contacting speakers this week to finalize the schedule.

See you there!

2025-09-25T14:53:43Z

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See you there!

If you're coming to #NostrValley, you can join the ...

2025-09-25T14:52:59Z

If you're coming to #NostrValley, you can join the event's Signal chat. https://signal.group/#CjQKIPpjU0ei5H_gZyVeVnH82APL7xlDQxQExa9LzTn_TL8KEhA9hy2YPENMD1JWr9ICTasw

If you're flying into State College for Nostr Valley, the ...

2025-09-24T15:31:52Z

If you're flying into State College for Nostr Valley, the local airport code is SCE.

If you're flying into a major airport and wishing to drive the rest of the way, you have a variety of choices. Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington or Baltimore. All are around 2.5-3 hours drive to State College, PA.

The goal is to keep them Nostr-adjacent.

2025-08-02T18:15:42Z

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The goal is to keep them Nostr-adjacent.

If you're heading to #NostrValley and wish to speak or ...

2025-08-02T15:42:23Z

If you're heading to #NostrValley and wish to speak or present, you can now submit your applications at https://nostrvalley.com

Just click on speakers and submit a proposal. It's all powered by Nostr!

Vibed with #mkstack 💜🫂🤙🏻

#NostrValley is coming this fall. October 18th! ...

2025-07-31T20:24:39Z

#NostrValley is coming this fall. October 18th!

https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzql0y2x3gsmpgv53v7ylq497pxqlty3u3zlmy5hgzqymm6yknmsk3qq0xummnw3ez6anpd3kx27fdxghrqtf3xu6nxwfcxyuryvejx5uqp7wuag

👀 #nevent1q…5vlx

2025-07-31T17:20:34Z

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🎉 Join me at Nostr Valley 2.0!

📅 October 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 4:00 PMEDT
📍 Happy Valley Brewing Company, 137, Elmwood Street, State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 16801, United States

We're back in the heart of Happy Valley for the second edition of Nostr Valley! Hosted near Penn State University in central Pennsylvania, Nostr Valley 2.0 brings together builders, thinkers, and freedom tech enthusiasts for a grassroots event focused on decentralized social, Bitcoin, and the growing Nostr ecosystem. Expect meetups, mini talks, workshops, and real conversations—right where innovation and independence meet. Whether you're a dev, creator, or just Nostr-curious, this is where the vibes live.

🔗 https://plektos.app/event/naddr1qvzqqqrukvpzql0y2x3gsmpgv53v7ylq497pxqlty3u3zlmy5hgzqymm6yknmsk3qq0xummnw3ez6anpd3kx27fdxghrqtf3xu6nxwfcxyuryvejx5uqp7wuag

Fingers crossed and confidence high, we will be live streaming ...

2024-10-09T23:11:50Z

Fingers crossed and confidence high, we will be live streaming #NostrValley on Nostr Nests (nprofile…ksmz) for your listening pleasure this Saturday starting at noon ET.

Announcing @npub1yx6…7kza as the next speaker at #NostrValley. ...

2024-09-25T13:01:41Z

Announcing vicariousdrama (npub1yx6…7kza) as the next speaker at #NostrValley. Vic is known for his work on Corny Chat (npub1c0r…tlvg) and his work on Nodeyez, a set of scripts that generates data panels from Bitcoin and Nostr for your Bitcoin node. Bring your Nostr development questions, Vic might just have the answers. Have FOMO yet? Register at https://nostrvalley.com

Announcing @npub1hqa…t56s as the next speaker at #NostrValley. ...

2024-09-20T19:27:13Z

Announcing AviBurra (npub1hqa…t56s) as the next speaker at #NostrValley. Avi Bura, co-host of Plebchain Radio and author of 24, is dedicated to spreading the "purple and orange" philosophy of Bitcoin and Nostr through insightful podcast discussions and his writing. AviBurra (npub1hqa…t56s) has a passion for community, cowboy hats, and is always up to the #grownostr task. If you haven't registered yet, there's still time! https://nostrvalley.com

Announcing @npub16e3…y9v6 as the next #NostrValley speaker. ...

2024-09-19T17:57:19Z

Announcing Pickle Dan (npub16e3…y9v6) as the next #NostrValley speaker. Pickle Dan (npub16e3…y9v6) is an aspiring cartoonist and comics creator. He is the creator of Bread and Toast (npub1ew4…8jpd), a #NostrOnly project featuring whimsical characters based on slices of bread. Dan promotes and collaborates with the #artstr community as often as possible, raising art awareness across Nostr. Don't forget to bring your bread to #NostrValley for Dan to autograph. Register at https://nostrvalley.com

Announcing @npub1n0p…pfp6 as the next speaker at #NostrValley! ...

2024-09-18T18:38:26Z

Announcing SoupBox (npub1n0p…pfp6) as the next speaker at #NostrValley! SoupBox (npub1n0p…pfp6) is the Content Coordinator for Zap.Cooking - Nostr's only recipe app. She has over twenty years experience in the food and beverage industry and remains a lifetime advocate for various causes. She is committed to dismantling broken systems and driving meaningful change through shared meals. Print out and bring your #foodstr photos, it's going to be a delicious time. Register at https://nostrvalley.com

These Nostriches are popping their heads up for something... ...

2024-09-17T18:57:24Z

These Nostriches are popping their heads up for something... Probably our upcoming speaker announcements. 👀

quoting
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How to Find Your Fellow Nostriches in the Valley

#NostrValley NostrValley (nprofile…vxvt)

You are our entire marketing department 🥹

2024-09-15T15:24:09Z

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You are our entire marketing department 🥹

Every saga has to start somewhere... In a world where ...

2024-08-30T19:12:16Z

Every saga has to start somewhere...

In a world where centralization has taken over, two men from Pennsylvania met at a brewery for an evening of good times. They discussed Nostr, Bitcoin, had a lot of laughs, and had a lot of beer. Their friendship grew and so did their urge to do more locally for their newfound passion - Nostr.

Let's do this after Nostriga. Get us on the schedule when you ...

2024-08-10T16:18:11Z

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Let's do this after Nostriga. Get us on the schedule when you can.

Are you coming? We would love a V4V panel.

2024-08-10T16:17:01Z

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Are you coming? We would love a V4V panel.

Nostr Valley is a Nostr meetup happening later this fall in Happy ...

2024-07-18T19:07:36Z

Nostr Valley is a Nostr meetup happening later this fall in Happy Valley, Pennsylvania. Come for the decentralized social future, stay for the beautiful fall foliage, hiking, and scenery.

When: October 12, 2024. 12pm-4pm.

Where: State College, Pennsylvania

Venue: Happy Valley Brewing Company

Soon we'll be launching our registration form. Please follow this npub for more information.