TGFB Media Podcast NetworkBusiness, Technology
TGFB Media Podcast NetworkBusiness, Technology
TGFB Media Podcast NetworkBusiness, Technology
TGFB Media Podcast NetworkBusiness, Technology

About

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.

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  • Artur
    Artur explains his approach to nostr, his thoughts on building a business, and his effort to make NIP 46 remote signers work for everyone.
  • Verbiricha
    Jon and Verbiricha talk about their respective groups clients, their different approaches to building groups on nostr, and the things they've learned along the way.
  • Franzap
    Franzap and Hodlbod talk about the benefits and downsides of open source grants, and the future of making a living on nostr development.
  • Niel Liesmons
    Niel explains just a few aspects of his vision for how relays already work for communities, and how to build out that use case to do what big tech can’t.
  • Nip 29 Chat
    In this episode we get into the weeds on the new “simple groups” proposal and sort out the good, bad, and ugly.
  • Andrew McLuhan
    Jordan and Jon talk with Andrew McLuhan, the director of the McLuhan Institute, to explore the legacy of Marshall McLuhan and the nature of technology and its impact on individuals and culture. They discuss the history of the McLuhan Institute, McLuhan's literary approach to understanding media, the importance of the tetrad in analyzing media's effects, and the balance of optimism and pessimism regarding technology's role in society.
  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Part 2
    In this episode, Jordan and Hodlbod continue their discussion of Marshall McLuhan's book, 'Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.' They explore the impact of technology and social media on our souls and examine how McLuhan's ideas can challenge programmers as they seek to build constructive forms of media.
  • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
    Jon and Jordan begin a series discussing Marshall McLuhan's book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. They explore McLuhan's concept of hot and cold media, the shift from a spoken word society to a written society and now to the electronic age, and how technology has the power to transform language and consciousness.
  • Jimmy Song
    Jon and Jimmy discuss what Bitcoin and Nostr have to do with virtue, explore the possibility of social media platforms that encourage virtue and true community, and investigate different avenues for improving Nostr.
  • TGFB24 Panal Discussion: Freedom Tech Stack
    This week's episode is another panel from the TGFB24 Conference in which Jon participated. The panel was hosted by Paul of Mutiny and also featured Zack Mahoney and Cory Pyke of Indeehub.Studio and Skyler of Finite Supply. The panel was entitled, "Freedom Tech Stack" and addresses why and how Christians should think about and use technology.
  • Reforming Technology: Applying the Lessons of Bitcoin
    Jon discussed the role and purpose of technology in his keynote presentation at the Thank God For Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville.
  • AKA Profiles
    Neil and Jon talk nyms, badges, web of trust, communities, privacy, and how all those things fit together.
  • Arkinox 2
    Hodlbod and Arkin0x talk about his new work over at FanFares, an open-source, Nostr based platform that is revolutionizing the world of content creation through Bitcoin lightening micropayments. They also discuss the theology of technology and how evolutionary theory has put its mark on technology.
  • David
    Jon and David explore web-of-trust, evaluating the implementations that currently exist, examining how David is working to create a framework for contextual trust, and looking forward to the future of web of trust and what it might teach us about human society at large.
  • Average Cypherpunk
    Jon and Gary talk about Bitcoin Veterans, ROSTr, identity, and how technology fits into a vision of the future.
  • Fabian
    Jon and Fabian talk about how Fabian got into nostr, custom feeds, web of trust, and more.
  • Alex Gleason Ditto
    Alex and Jon cover the salient points of how to serve different types of communities, how to handle content reporting, and the tradeoffs of building nostr communities on top of fediverse APIs.
  • Dikaios1517
    Jon and Chris explore what bitcoin and nostr can do for the church, and riff on the future and theology of technology.
  • Garden to City Part 2
    In this episode, Jordan and John discuss the book 'From the Garden to the City' by John Dyer. They discuss the different layers of technology, including tools, manufacturing, methodology, and social usage and explore the impact of a Christian worldview on various aspects of technology. In their third installment of Parsed Nips they discuss Nip 10.
  • Garden to City Part 1
    Jon is back with Jordan to discuss a series of videos from pastor and theologian James B. Jordan unpacking the movement of humanity throughout the Biblical narrative arc from gardens to cities. JBJ, who was known to read the Bible five times every year, is one of the most insightful theological minds of the 20th century and this conversation sheds a little light into why. Jon and Jordan talk about gardens and cities as technology, how and why cities frequently become monuments to pride, and how cities come to be redeemed as priorities of their inhabitants become increasingly conformed to God's own vision for the world, and much more.