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Follow @NOSTR LONDON / nostr.london founded by 2140.wtf in 2024 for the @BITCOIN CULTURE FESTIVAL, LONDON 2025 29OCT-05NOV **The Seed Was Planted in 2009** Fifteen years ago—on 23 October 2010—Satoshi Nakamoto dropped a quiet bombshell on the BitcoinTalk forum. Someone had suggested bundling short messages inside Bitcoin transactions. Satoshi’s reply was instant and surgical: > “It would be unwise to have permanently recorded plaintext messages for everyone to see. It would be an accident waiting to happen. > If there’s going to be a message system, it should be a **separate system parallel to the Bitcoin network**. Messages should not be recorded in the block chain. The messages could be signed with the Bitcoin address keypairs to prove who they’re from.” That single paragraph is the **original NOSTR white-paper**. image A censorship-resistant messaging layer, signed by Bitcoin keys, running **parallel** to the money—exactly what we have today. **Fast-forward to 2020** A Brazilian developer who goes by @npub1zuua...c2uc read Satoshi’s words, opened a markdown file, and typed: ``` Nostr = Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays ``` He shipped the first relay in weeks. No ICO. No foundation. No roadmap. Just a protocol so simple you can implement it in an afternoon. **2025: We Are Living Satoshi’s Vision** Sixteen years after the Bitcoin white-paper, fifteen years after Satoshi’s forum post, we are running **NOSTR LONDON** for over a year now—the meetup that turns a 2010 forum thread into real-world lightning. Every month coders, artists, podcasters, and cypherpunks pack into the Blockwork Gallery **"If you use NOSTR, you are ahead of 99.9 % of the Bitcoin curve, not mentioning normies".** - Anon2140 You already own: - A **decentralised identity** that no platform can ban - A **contact list with built-in payment rails** (follow = Lightning address) - **Community relays** you can fund with a subscription zap - **End-to-end encrypted DMs** that never touch a corporate server - **Live streaming** that pays the creator per minute - **Long-form articles** that live forever, signed by your npub - **Dapps** **NOSTR is not “another Twitter”** NOSTR is the **parallel layer Satoshi described**—the free-speech nervous system sitting on top of Bitcoin’s indestructible money. **We are the early ones.** It feels damn good to be here—building the thing Satoshi sketched in a forum reply before most of us had heard of Bitcoin. **Join us.** Next NOSTR LONDON: keep an eye on our feed via @Nostria , @npub142gy...xrj0, @YakiHonne or visit Bring code, bring memes, bring sats. Leave with superpowers. **Let’s build Satoshi’s parallel system—out in the open, one relay at a time.** Nostr London is calling. The protocol is ready. Are you? Follow @NOSTR LONDON / nostr.london #nostrldn #nostrlondon