Selling on Nostr: NIP-15 Marketplaces and Bitcoin-Native Commerce
How NIP-15 Nostr marketplaces work: stall/product events, the order-payment flow, Shopstr and Plebeian Market, and pairing with Lightning and BTCPay.
Nostr Bitcoin Mining Guides
Decentralized identity and social protocol — NIPs, relays, and Zaps
Nostr Data Vending Machines (NIP-90): The Decentralized AI & Compute Marketplace
How Nostr Data Vending Machines (NIP-90) work: job-kind events, the Lightning-zap payment loop, DVMs vs centralized AI vs DePIN, and running your own.
Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC): Connect Any App to Your Lightning Wallet
Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) is an open protocol, defined in NIP-47, that lets any app control a Lightning wallet by exchanging encrypted messages over Nostr…
When the ISP Drops: Mesh Keeps Your Node, Miner, and Agent Online
Power and compute are useless if you cannot reach your node, miner, or AI agent when the ISP drops. Here is how a low-bandwidth LoRa mesh plus Nostr keeps the critical signals flowing — honestly, without over-promising broadband.
Nostr on Self-Hosted AI: Bring Your Identity to Your Own Inference Stack
If you are already running your own inference stack, Nostr is the identity layer you did not know you needed. npub-auth replaces API keys, zaps-for-prompts replaces credit cards, and signed model output gives you cryptographic provenance on every response.
Zaps Explained: Lightning + Nostr as Sovereign Social Monetization
A zap is a Lightning payment stapled to a Nostr note. NIP-57 specifies the handshake. The result is the first native monetization primitive the open web has ever had: no ads, no platform tax, no KYC. Here is how it works and how to turn it on.
Run Your Own Nostr Relay: A Bitcoiner’s Self-Hosting Guide (strfry / nostr-rs-relay)
A Nostr relay is a dumb WebSocket pipe that stores signed events and forwards them to subscribers. Running your own is the single most sovereign thing you can do on the network. Here is the pleb’s guide to strfry, nostr-rs-relay, and how to ship one that survives.
Nostr for Bitcoiners: Why the Pleb’s Sovereign Stack Needs an Identity Layer
Bitcoin solved money. Your social graph, your identity, and your speech still live on corporate servers. Nostr — Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays — is the identity layer that finishes the job. Here is the pleb’s primer.
Related products, repair, and setup paths
- Bitcoiner sovereignty hub
- the plebs sovereign stack
- Nostr for Bitcoiners
- run your own Nostr relay
- getting started with Meshtastic
- Bitcoin over Meshtastic mesh networks
- open-source hardware tools directory
- off-grid Bitcoin mining
Last reviewed March 6, 2026.