What Nostr Did with Ben Arc - WBD700

Ben Arc is a free open-source software advocate and founder of
LNbits. In this interview, we discuss a range of subjects
covering poverty, politics, and technology. We talk about the
value of hard work, the impact of Brexit, the potential of
decentralized platforms like Nostr, privacy concerns, censorship
on social media platforms, and the importance of freedom of
speech.


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Ben Arc is one of the Bitcoin community's most unheralded
heroes’: there are numerous occasions when LNbits, which he
co-founded, has been mentioned as a vital cog in the development
of new Bitcoin software and hardware across the world,
particularly in Africa. Then there is Ben’s leading development
in the censor-resistant social network Nostr. And, he was an OG
Bitcoin progressive pushing against the dogma that Bitcoin was
solely a libertarian tool.


In this great podcast, we discuss a range of subjects close to
Ben’s heart that fall into the big buckets of politics and
technology. Ben has a personal experience of poverty, which has
shaped his political views. We talk about this and the most
important political event to have affected the UK in our
lifetimes, Brexit, which has dominated headlines for years and
still continues to divide opinion.


We then focus on Ben’s opinions of the potential for
decentralized platforms to resist censorship and government
interference. Nostr was developed out of an LNbits proof of
concept application for a decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace.
It has morphed into a technology that's not only revolutionizing
the way developers build applications but also facilitates a
censorship-resistant global social network.


In an era of increasing digital censorship, alternative platforms
that prioritize freedom of speech are more important than ever.
With the backing of influential figures like Jack Dorsey, Nostr
could become a dominant platform in the tech world that
disintermediates middlemen and tackles censorship. And it shows
the potential of Bitcoin to continue to revolutionize industries.


Show notes: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/what-nostr-did


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