Something big is happening on Nostr — and it’s not about social media anymore. Programs and websites can now live directly on the protocol — signed, versioned, and published as events. ⸻ NIP-A5 — Programs WASM binaries signed by developers, published to relays, executed by any client. No backend. No app store. The sandbox is the platform. ⸻ NIP-C8 — Websites Files hashed, manifest signed, fetched and verified by clients. No “trust this server.” Sites are published, not hosted. ⸻ Why it matters Nostr = identity + distribution + executable content. IPFS + Ethereum tried this; now it works with just keys + relays + WASM. No tokens, no gas, no consensus overhead. ⸻ The web was programmable at the edges. Then it centralized. Now: clients run code, relays distribute, users own the keys. We’re building a verifiable, executable web

Everyone’s talking about “agentic AI,” but here’s a real use case for builders. Analytics is still painfully manual—whether it’s Google Analytics or Plausible. Then I tried PostHog. One command: npx -y @posthog/wizard@latest --region eu With Anthropic’s Claude, it: • Understands your code • Adds event tracking automatically • Sets everything up No manual tagging. Just useful analytics. This is what AI should be: → Understand your product → Integrate itself → Deliver real value Not hype—actual leverage.

BitLasso is live !!! When I founded HexQuarter, I wanted to build something beyond a engineering firm. 
I wanted a circular economy with the clients I work with. The idea was simple: every payment becomes a receipt minted as a token. 
That token has real value — it can be redeemed for discounts on future projects. 
The more a client works with HexQuarter, the more tokens they accumulate, the better their discount, the more incentive to keep building together. 

A retention loop grounded in actual work done. The scarcity of the token isn't arbitrary. I
It's backed by a Proof of Work — a real project completed, a real payment made. 
Value derived from work accomplished, not speculation. But to make this work, I needed to accept Bitcoin. And every option was broken. Custodial processors took a cut and held my funds. 
Self-hosted nodes meant managing rates and invoicing manually. 

There was no middle ground that was both sovereign and operational. So I built it myself. BitLasso started as a product for my own needs. 
Then I realized the gap was bigger: there's no cheap, simple way for businesses to accept Bitcoin without giving up custody or paying % fees on every transaction. So I made it ~$1. Under the hood: → Payments settled over Spark/Lightning/Bitcoin L1 — non-custodial → Nostr , is the anchoring layer, with no database we control, completly decentralized → Loyalty credits are tied to your wallet (Spark BTKN tokens), not an account that can be deleted This is what Bitcoin-native commerce looks like. 
Not a crypto wrapper on the same old stack. If you're a business done trusting intermediaries — or a developer curious about what building on Bitcoin actually looks like — come take a look. -> bitlasso.xyz View quoted note →

Nostr is a powerful engineering tool for modern decentralized apps. I’ve been exploring this technology to create apps that last—reducing the need for backend servers, whether for persistence, communication, or synchronization layers. This is underestimated. It’s too often framed as just a social network, but it goes far beyond that. There is so much potential. For example, we often have to deal with authentication. With Nostr, you can replace that with public key authentication—no more JWT, OAuth, etc. What about settings and customization across systems or apps? You can build that with Nostr as well. It’s as simple as publishing events—completely under your control and decentralized. Need a notification system? No more SMTP to configure, push services to maintain, or other infrastructure. Just push messages to a user’s Nostr profile—directly to their mailbox and without censorship. Want to reduce your storage dependencies and improve persistence fault tolerance? Write your data to Nostr relays and benefit from strong redundancy, auditable authorship, and cryptographic trails. Let users bring their own feed into your app. Let them tip other users with Bitcoin over Lightning. As you can see, many aspects of modern apps can be addressed through strong and efficient decentralization—without necessarily relying on full Web3 or blockchain protocols. But when you combine Nostr with those technologies, it becomes a nuclear power source for your apps. Let me know if this is of interest to you. I’m dedicating a major branch of HexQuarter to Nostr’s decentralized capabilities, and I would love to hear your feedback. Go beyond traditional ideas and disrupt your industry.

Expert Take: 10 Years in the Bitcoin Ecosystem A decade in this industry sharpens your lens. Crypto developers are fleeing to AI. The numbers don’t lie: -8 points of active blockchain devs in 2025, GitHub commits down ~75%, and over $270B in VC flowing toward AI versus $49.75B for crypto. LinkedIn’s fastest-growing roles? All AI. I’ve watched this pattern before. A wave of developers drawn by opportunity — then gone just as fast. This exodus isn’t a mystery. It’s the reflection of a short-termist approach, dictated by trends rather than conviction. But for those who are deeply aligned with the values of freedom, transparency, fairness, censorship resistance, and sound money — there is no better sector to build a lasting legacy in. They say it takes 10 years to truly master a domain. The “snake” strategy — slithering from trend to trend — can generate quick wins. But it builds nothing solid. I chose the long game. Human and societal values. The conviction that technology can genuinely liberate the individual — during our brief time on this earth. Not the trend. Not the opportunity of the moment. Proud of these 10 years. Proud to keep building.

Nostr is a powerful engineering tool for modern decentralized apps. I’ve been exploring that tech to create apps that last. Reducing the need of backend servers either for persistence or communication layers. This is underestimated, and too often framed as social network but there is so much potential!

While many people are focusing a lot on AI, I decided to focus mainly on Bitcoin… It seems the right choice today. Don’t you think ?

Lessons from a Decade building on Bitcoin & Decentralized Protocols 1️⃣ Self‑custody isn’t an afterthought – it’s the core security model - Design every component assuming the user holds the private keys. - Eliminate hidden custodial layers; expose clear key‑management flows and recovery paths. 2️⃣ Unilateral exit must be baked in, not bolted on - On‑chain settlements and Lightning withdrawals should be executable by a single party without third‑party approval. - Expose an immediate on‑chain close or Lightning force‑close, preserving funds even if the service disappears. 3️⃣ UX = abstraction of complexity, not removal of it - Hide protocol jargon behind intuitive actions while keeping the underlying guarantees visible in the UI for power users. - Provide progressive disclosure: basic flow first, advanced settings on demand. 4️⃣ Security is non‑negotiable - Threat‑model from day 0: key leakage, replay attacks, fee‑sniping, and network partitioning. - Adopt formal verification where feasible (e.g., script validation, channel state machines). - Run continuous fuzzing and audit pipelines; treat every new dependency as a potential attack surface. 5️⃣ Assume the network will fail – design for fault tolerance - Graceful degradation: fallback to on‑chain paths when Lightning nodes are unreachable. - Stateless services where possible; store only immutable transaction data. - Redundant routing and multi‑path payments mitigate temporary topology failures. Bottom line: Build for self‑custody, unilateral exit, and inevitable network disruptions. Simplicity in the UI masks the rigorous, fault‑tolerant architecture underneath—because security and resilience are the only things that survive the long run.

Agreed. Discovered that world. It is crazy how it is expensive either to participate or to share something. Everything it is turned for marketing over disruption.

Today I just replaced my website blog post system by coding a simple Nostr client. Awesome how slick and powerful it is.

With the rise of AI on social media , one day we will pay human to create content… and Nostr is already building the rails

I’ve spent a long time in this space, and one thing is clear to me: Bitcoin didn’t “fix money.” It fixed something more specific — the need to ask permission to settle value. Every system before it broke at the same point: someone had the final say. And final say always turns into leverage. Bitcoin changed the incentives. Control became fragile. Censorship became costly. But that’s just one layer. Governance, credit, RWAs, stablecoins — those still need serious engineering. The next decade won’t be about BTC vs fiat. It’ll be about permissioned systems vs protocol-native ones. That’s where the real work is.

Love that kind of initiative to project Bitcoin usage beyond just payment and resolving a painful subject for investor while supporting disruptive project. I do appreciate the Bitcoin only as it is anchoring more into the ecosystem.

French lawmakers just passed a bill that would ban social media by under 15s. This raises a lot of concern, as this comes perfectly with the agency of next presidential campaign starting in the next September 2026, the same date as the bill's application date. Strange timing...! Thing is to ban social media for teenagers, this will require massive identification either through AI, identity method (KYC like), trusted certification issuers. The problem is even bigger as this will not only check ID of teenagers but every French citizen to make sure they will be above the age. IMO, everything is in place to prevent foreign interference for the election campaign, and shut the most freedom network and go in the censorship. Fortunately, Nostr is there, completely decentralized, free, p2p. This will become the only alternative long term for freedom of speech and opinion.