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Pay to read, free to write: a market design for censorship-resistant video

nostr+blossom should be able to offer youtube level of service but without the censorship and without the advertisement. This article describes a model that builds on patronage, freemium and a paradigm shift on who pays for hosting and bandwidth.

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Pillars of Propagation

When the internet goes down, a lot goes down with it. All communication grinds to a halt. A functioning internet is about getting in the new order for tomorrow's groceries. It's about getting the truck-driver at the right loading-dock to pick up that load, and give him the right delivery address. Now imagine that when the internet goes down, we simply... ...wouldn't care?

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Where Do You Want to Wake Up Tomorrow

Forty thousand forest parking spots across Europe, auto-discovered from open map data, scored for silence, isolation, and trees. Free download below.

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Own Your Outbox: Running Haven as Your Personal Nostr Relay

Your relay, your rules. Haven bundles four relay functions into one binary, easily deployable on a cheap VPS in an afternoon.

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Nostr-Native Distributed Storage System

The latest iteration of Garland, a privacy-preserving distributed storage system built on Nostr and Blossom, using erasure coding for durability and single-key recovery.

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Garland: Your Keys, Your Files, No Trusted Third Party

Garland turns Blossom blob storage into a virtual drive on your device. Your Nostr key is your password. No accounts, no cloud lock-in.

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Sifting Through the Archive: Private Set Membership for Blossom

Binary Fuse filters let Blossom clients privately check which files exist on a server - download a compact filter once, query locally with zero server load, and use delta lists for real-time accuracy.

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Garland: Exploring the Architecture

We're exploring an architecture for Garland: Cryptomator for encryption, Blossom for blob storage, Nostr for state. Your nsec becomes your Cryptomator password. We think this works - but we'd love your feedback before we commit.

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Your Software Runs on Enemy Infrastructure

Freedom tech projects build censorship-resistant tools on censorship-susceptible platforms. The Nostr stack offers a coherent migration path for sovereign development infrastructure.

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BudaBit: CI/CD Without Capture

How Nostr Enables a Compute Marketplace, and Why BudaBit Can Ship It

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2025 Q4 Report

Project updates from Q4 2025

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Opensats Vertex Report: Oct to Jan

This is what I have achieved on a per-project basis in Q4 of 2025.

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Why isn't Blossom more torrent-compatible? For censorship, of course.

How Blossom uses its own separate hash addresses to strike a balance between censorship resistance and practical control

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Maps on Blossom and Nostr

Demo project to serve map tiles from blossom blobs.

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Testing a new app, blossom uploads added

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2024 Q2 Report

A summary of all the projects and features I worked on in Q2 of 2024

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最小化部署自己的 Nostr Relay 和 Blossom 媒体上传服务

简单部署自己的中继器和媒体存储，方便维护和迁移。

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Decentralized Media Hosting via Blossom

Blossom is a simple solution to a complex problem made possible by the fact that Nostr exists. In this article I will explain what Blossom is, how it works, and how you can leverage it from Primal to create more resilient content on Nostr.

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A few words about blossom.band implementation

A short insight into Blossom protocol implementation by nostr.build.

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Guía: Blossom

Blossom nos permite usar claves nostr como nuestras identidades para subir archivos a servidores de medios. Cuando se utiliza como "relays" para nostr, Blossom puede añadir redundancia y resistencia a la censura a tus medios.

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Running a blossom server using npx

> NOTE: this is just a quick technical guide. sorry for the lack of details ## Install NodeJS Download it from the official website https://nodejs.org/en/download Or use nvm https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm?tab=readme-ov-file#install--update-script ```bash wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash nvm install 20 ``` ## Clone example config.yml ```bash wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hzrd149/blossom-server/master/config.example.yml -O config.yml ``` ## Modify config.yml ```bash nano config.yml # or if your that type of person vim config.yml ``` ## Run blossom-server ```bash npx blossom-server-ts # or install it locally and run using npm npm install blossom-server-ts ./node_modules/.bin/blossom-server-ts ``` Now you can open http://localhost:3000 and see your blossom server And if you set the `dashboard.enabled` option in the `config.yml` you can open http://localhost:3000/admin to see the admin dashboard

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How to self-host 🌸Blossom server/drive and Dive Into Decentralized Nostr Storage

Blossom offers a bunch of HTTP endpoints that let Nostr users stash and fetch binary data on public servers using the SHA256 hash as a universal ID.

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Introducing Blossom Drive

Blob storage for nostr

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