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# Nostr Rising — podcast series (bitcoin.review)

**Hosts:** NVK (bitcoin.review) + rotating guests from the Nostr core dev community.
**Status:** publicly available podcast; transcripts not freely re-hostable. Episode
list with summaries below; play directly from the linked URLs.

The series is the single best public conversation record of *why* design
decisions in Nostr were made. When the synthesis cites "the literature," this
is a meaningful chunk of it.

## Episodes

| # | Title | Guests | Topic | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Permissionless Algos | JB55, Hodlbod, Miljan | Why algorithmic feeds belong to users; relay-side vs client-side curation | <https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-78/> |
| 02 | Communities | Rabble, Alex Gleason, Hodlbod, Pablo | Communities = relays; NIP-72 / NIP-29 trade-offs | <https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-79/> |
| 03 | Relays & Scaling | Fiatjaf, Mike Dilger, Pablo | The outbox/gossip model; what scale means without a global topology | <https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-80/> |
| 04 | DMs and Groupchats | Fiatjaf, Hodlbod, Jeff G | NIP-17, NIP-44, NIP-59 gift wrap; MLS for groups | <https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-81/> |
| 05 | Podcasting 2.0 | Kieran, Odell, Hodlbod, Oscar Merry | Long-form audio + value4value over Nostr | <https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-82/> |
| 07 | Long Form Content | DK, Miljan | NIP-23, content distribution, why long-form pulls from a different relay set than kind:1 | <https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-84/> |
| 08 | Nostr Funding | Lyn Alden, Max, Odell | Sustainability of relays + open source | <https://bitcoin.review/podcast/episode-85/> |

(Episode 06 was published but is not surfaced in current listings.)

## Themes that recur across the series

- **Relays are not commodity infrastructure.** They have policies, costs, and
  audiences. Treat them like services.
- **The outbox/gossip model is a *consequence* of relay diversity, not a
  preference.** If all relays were equivalent and uncensored, you wouldn't
  need it. They aren't, so you do.
- **Per-domain routing.** DMs ≠ public broadcast ≠ communities ≠ long-form ≠
  podcast feeds. Each has its own routing pattern. Don't conflate.
- **Permissionless algorithms.** Anyone can publish a kind-30000-range
  filter/feed and let others subscribe to it. Algorithmic feeds become
  user-portable.
- **Sustainability is a design concern.** Funding for relays, NIPs, and core
  clients (Coracle, Damus, Amethyst) is part of why the protocol stays open.

## How this informed the synthesis

Episode 03 (Relays & Scaling) and Episode 02 (Communities) are the most
load-bearing for [`design-synthesis.md`](https://npub1d70emggs6jzun5lhvqnfqsd9reqmaarn2qjf6q3r02gryyl4v8sqjn44xe.nsite.lol/docs/design/design-synthesis.md) §2 (per-kind routing) and the
"relays are services" framing.