19: Romantically Shitting on Paywalls w/ Pablo

April 1, 2026 · 1h 11m

About this episode

Gigi and Pablo discuss various projects and technologies related to Nostr and decentralized systems.

"I need to build something to test the thing." Pablo & Gigi take a walk. Recorded December 2025. Projects & tech mentioned: TENEX (multi-agent coordination on Nostr) Agora (Nostr client for local communities, by Pablo & Leopoldo Lopez) NDK Swift & NDK Kotlin (native ports of NDK) nostrdb (embedded Nostr database) NIP-60 (Cashu wallets on Nostr) Podcasting 2.0 (open podcast ecosystem) #DeMu (decentralized music on Nostr) Olas (rebuilt with TENEX agents) castr.me (Nostr-to-RSS podcast feed) ants (Nostr search) Boris (reading and highlighting) Pyramid (fiatjaf's invite-tree relay) Kevin Kelly's 1,000 True Fans In this dialogue: Agents tried to fix world hunger: made a Google Doc and a React app, nothing worked, world hunger still not fixed "We're behaving like LLM agents: never learn" Everything Pablo builds is a way to test TENEX: "I need to build something to test the thing" Agora: a Nostr client starting from the premise that you only care about your immediate surroundings Invitation-based trust networks: cryptographic proof of who invited whom into a relay, similar to fiatjaf's Pyramid Citizen journalism use case: pseudonymous publishing where a known figure…

People in this episode

Host: Gigi

Guest: Pablo

Topics covered

Nostr
technology
decentralization
podcasting
citizen journalism

Keywords

TENEX
Agora
Nostr
podcasting
decentralized music
citizen journalism
NIP-60
social key recovery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TENEX, Agora, NDK Swift, NDK Kotlin, nostrdb, NIP-60, Podcasting 2.0, #DeMu, Olas, castr.me