

Thank God for Nostr
TGFB Media Podcast Network
The Thank God For Nostr podcast is hosted by Jon and Jordan and explores the ins and outs of Nostr, the decentralized social protocol, through a Christian lens. Join them and leaders from the Nostr, Bitcoin, and Christian worlds for free-flowing discussions that investigate why so many consider it an advancement on par with the creation of the internet.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Oct 3, 2023 • 59min
Nostr Book Club: The Shallows by Nicolas Carr
Jon is the developer of the Coracle Nostr client and an OpenSats grantee. He is focused on discovering what a healthy social network would look like, and helping Nostr make that vision a reality. Find Jon on Nostr at npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn , on twitter @hodlbod and on Coracle.social.
Jordan Bush is the founder and the Head of Content and Education at TGFB Media and host of the Thank God for Bitcoin Podcast. Find Jordan on Twitter @jmbushwrites and on Nostr: npub14f0xen78ed7rgvw39v82fwp7tv65yasz2gsgpf4gvxy4q5nlsydsk37k3l .
Episode Mentions:
The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
zephyr.coracle.social
Nostrdesign.org
The Thank For Nostr Podcast is a product of TGFB Media. The goal of Thank God for Bitcoin is to educate and equip Christians to understand Bitcoin and use it for the glory of God and the good of people everywhere.

Sep 26, 2023 • 1h 1min
PastorCoin
Pastorcoin is an ordained minister and bitcoiner, focused on helping Christians learn about fiat money, its consequences, and how bitcoin is part of the restoration of the Church and society. Find Pastorcoin on Twitter @pastorcoin. Check out his new book The Bible and Bitcoin over at thebibleandbitcoin.com.
Jon is the developer of the Coracle Nostr client and an OpenSats grantee. He is focused on discovering what a healthy social network would look like, and helping Nostr make that vision a reality. Find Jon on Nostr at npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn , on twitter @hodlbod and on Coracle.social.
Jordan Bush is the founder and the Head of Content and Education at TGFB Media and host of the Thank God for Bitcoin Podcast. Find Jordan on Twitter @jmbushwrites and on Nostr: npub14f0xen78ed7rgvw39v82fwp7tv65yasz2gsgpf4gvxy4q5nlsydsk37k3l .
The Thank For Nostr Podcast is a product of TGFB Media. The goal of Thank God for Bitcoin is to educate and equip Christians to understand Bitcoin and use it for the glory of God and the good of people everywhere.

Sep 19, 2023 • 49min
Nostr September In Review
Jon is the developer of the Coracle Nostr client and an OpenSats grantee. He is focused on discovering what a healthy social network would look like, and helping nostr make that vision a reality. Find Jon on Nostr at npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn , on twitter @hodlbod and on Coracle.social.
Jordan Bush is the founder and the Head of Content and Education at TGFB Media and host of the Thank God for Bitcoin Podcast. Find Jordan on Twitter @jmbushwrites and on Nostr at npub14f0xen78ed7rgvw39v82fwp7tv65yasz2gsgpf4gvxy4q5nlsydsk37k3l.
The Thank For Nostr Podcast is a product of TGFB Media. The goal of Thank God for Bitcoin is to educate and equip Christians to understand Bitcoin and use it for the glory of God and the good of people everywhere.
Show Notes and Nostr Happenings in September:
Snowden speaking at nostrasia
Snort has zap splits
Iefan has forked hodlbod’s calendar PoC
Semisol hates gift wrap and won’t support it on eden
Semisol has released noswhere, a search-specific relay
Man Like Kweks is back from hiking mt Kilimanjaro, listen to plebchain radio for more
relaying.io has a new public relay at public.relaying.io. You can also run your own relay there
Mazin has compiled a tree map of topics on nostr
NostrZine club
Lots of 9/11 truther memes
Pablo and Gigi talk about Sovereign Engineering in Madeira
Will is working on nostrdb
Sealed DMs
Nostrdesign.org is an amazing guide put together by Karnage for designing nostr apps
Ripple has acquired Fortress Trust
Primal censorship
Nostr.review panel on censorship
Max DeMarco is filming 3 documentaries in Japan on bitcoin, nostr, and nuclear energy
Spring browser
Broken Money
Ben Arc is selling nostr.com for $5MM
Relay.tools is a way to run your own relay with custom policies
FOMOstr by pablo
sticker.coracle.social
https://wikinostr.tijl.xyz/
Upcoming events:
NostrCon — Jan 12th
Nostrasia — November 1-3
Nostrville- November 9-10

Sep 12, 2023 • 58min
A Conversation with Jimmy Song
Jimmy Song is a long time programmer, Bitcoin educator, and entrepreneur. He’s the editor of bitcointechtalk.com and blogs at medium.com. He’s contributed to Bitcoin Core as well as other Bitcoin projects. He was the former VP of Engineering at Armory, a Bitcoin wallet and one of the founders of Thank God for Bitcoin. He is the author of, Programming Bitcoin: Learning How to Program Bitcoin from Scratch, a contributing author of, Thank God for Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption and Redemption of Money, and just released his new book, Fiat Ruins Everything: How our Financial System Is Rigged and How Bitcoin Fixes It. Find Jimmy on Twitter @jimmysong.
https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/fiat-ruins-everything-pre-order
Jordan Bush is the founder and the Head of Content and Education at TGFB Media and host of the Thank God for Bitcoin Podcast. Find Jordan on Twitter @jmbushwrites.
The Thank God For Nostr Podcast is a product of TGFB Media.
The goal of Thank God for Bitcoin is to educate and equip Christians to understand Bitcoin and use it for the glory of God and the good of people everywhere.

Sep 5, 2023 • 1h 14min
Rabble
Rabble is a technologist working on the decentralized web and making the world a better place through civic technology projects. He was the architect and lead engineer at Odeo, the company responsible for the birth of Twitter. He is the Founder & CEO at nos.social & planetary.social. Find him on twitter @rabble and at nos.social http://rabble.nz
Jon is the developer of the Coracle Nostr client and an OpenSats grantee. He is focused on discovering what a healthy social network would look like, and helping Nostr make that vision a reality. Find Jon on Nostr at npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn , on twitter @hodlbod and on Coracle.social.
The Thank For Nostr Podcast is a product of TGFB Media. Find out more at TGFB.com.

Aug 29, 2023 • 48min
Digital Pirate Radio and Cross-Cultural Ministry
Jon is the developer of the Coracle Nostr client and an OpenSats grantee. He is focused on discovering what a healthy social network would look like, and helping nostr make that vision a reality. Find Jon on Nostr at npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn , on twitter @hodlbod and on Coracle.social.
Jordan Bush is the founder and the Head of Content and Education at TGFB Media and host of the Thank God for Bitcoin Podcast. Find Jordan on Twitter @jmbushwrites.
Episode Mentions:
https://calyxinstitute.org/projects/digital-services/tor-anonymity
The Thank For Nostr Podcast is a product of TGFB Media. Find out more at TGFB.com.

Aug 22, 2023 • 1h 32min
Fiatjaf Has Opinions
Fiatjaf is a well-known Marlon Brando fan and founder of the Nostr protocol.
Jon is the developer of the Coracle Nostr client and an OpenSats grantee. He is focused on discovering what a healthy social network would look like, and helping nostr make that vision a reality. Find Jon on Nostr at npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn , on twitter @hodlbod and on Coracle.social.

Aug 18, 2023 • 47min
Nostr 💜 ActivityPub with Alex Gleason
Alex Gleason, former Head of Engineering at Truth Social, discusses integrating ActivityPub and Nostr protocols. The podcast covers the benefits of Noster's identity management, the risks of federating with unreliable servers, differences between NoStir and ActivityPub, the challenges and opportunities of decentralization, retaining users in decentralized social media, and building a business and interoperability in decentralized social media.

Aug 15, 2023 • 52min
Nostr Book Club: Human Forever by James Poulos
Buy Human Forever and read other work by James Poulos at https://humanforever.us
Find more from James Poulos at the Claremont Institute and the American Mind Podcast:
https://www.claremont.org/leadership-bio/james-poulos/
https://americanmind.org/audio/
Follow Jon
- On Nostr: npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn
- On Twitter: @hodlbod
- On Coracle.social (the Nostr client he's building)
Follow Jordan
- On Nostr: npub14f0xen78ed7rgvw39v82fwp7tv65yasz2gsgpf4gvxy4q5nlsydsk37k3l
- On Twitter: @jmbushwrites
- At TGFB.com

Aug 9, 2023 • 1h 13min
What is Nostr? Part 2
Follow Jon
- On Nostr: npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn
- On Twitter: @hodlbod
- On Coracle.social (the Nostr client he's building)
Follow Jordan
- On Nostr: npub14f0xen78ed7rgvw39v82fwp7tv65yasz2gsgpf4gvxy4q5nlsydsk37k3l
- On Twitter: @jmbushwrites
- At TGFB.com
Show Notes:
Visit Nostr.how to learn how to get started on Nostr.
Recommended Nostr Clients:
iOS: Damus, nos.social
Android: Amethyst, Plebstr
Desktop: Gossip
Web: Snort.social, Iris.to
Coracle has a list of other small apps built on nostr:
Wavman, Zapstr
Highlighter
Blowater
feeds.nostr.band
listr.lol, pinstr.app
Nostr Nests
listr.lol lets you browse lists published by your follows.
Nostr.directory is a helpful tool to look for finding people if moving from Twitter.
getalby.com and getflamingo.org for help with key management.