Will is the Founder of damus.io, a mobile client for the decentralized social media protocol Nostr. In addition to his work on damus, Will is a regular contributor to Bitcoin Core and the Lightning Network. Follow Will on Twitter @jb55 and find him on nostr: npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s.
\n[2:18] - Will\u2019s early interest in the internet and experience watching it mature
\n[8:00] - How Will discovered Bitcoin and used it as a tool in his work
\n[11:25] - An introduction to internet protocols
\n[14:21] - The issue of self censorship
\n[18:21] - Breaking down the architecture and censorship resistance of the Nostr protocol
\n[23:41] - Building damus as a mobile client on Nostr
\n[26:16] - Catalysts for Nostr adoption and interoperability
\n[31:38] - How damus is integrating Bitcoin\u2019s Lightning network for payments
\n[33:34] - Will\u2019s approach to financing his work building damus
\n[37:15] - Participating in a distributed workforce and building open-source software
\n[40:18] - Will\u2019s strategy to allocate donations among community contributors
\n[42:12] - Nostr\u2019s competitive positioning and future outlook
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