Join ATL Bitlab for the first dedicated Nostr Atlanta meetup (outside the regularly occurring Bitcoin meetups). Calling all nostr users, content creators, enthusiasts, developers, and more!
This meeting will NOT contain a prepared presentation, but will instead we will watch a short video and then attempt to perform the Frostr steps live and in person. Bring your laptops if you want to follow along for yourself.
Born out of a hackathon at TABCONF 2024, Frostr may have just solved Nostr’s most pernicious issue: the inability to reset your password if your private key gets compromised.
Started in October of 2024, Frostr just announced the alpha release of Igloo and Frost2x, a desktop and accompanying browser extension key signers for the Nostr ecosystem.
This meetup will not be dedicated as technical or not-technical. Some topics we cover may be more developer focused, and others will be simpler stuff. If the meetup grows, we can think about whether we need dedicated developer nights or not.
What is Nostr?
A simple way to think of nostr is as a censorship-resistant social media protocol. In other words, instead of social media being owned by large tech giants, it could be a free and open protocol, the way email is.
However, nostr is being used for much more than just building social media apps. Nostr flips the current internet paradigm of “dumb client/smart server” to “smart client/dumb server”, by using relays and public-key cryptography. Nostr empowers users to control their own data.
🎉 Sponsored by C0MPLÉX1 and Delineator
What should I expect?
Agenda
6:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Come Early to Network – Free Food and Drink
6:30 PM – 6:45 PM
Overview of sponsors, announcements, and introductions
6:45 PM – 8:00 PM
Nostr Lightning Talks or Nostr News Upates
8:30 PM – Midnight
Dinner / hangout at nearby restaurant
Potential Topics
- How to start using nostr for newbies
- Nostr Implementation Possibilities (NIPs)
- Nostr client updates
- Nostr relay updates
- Show-and-tell
- How somebody rebuilt {whatever} using nostr (but has less users than {whatever})
📅 Monday, July 21, 2025
🕔 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
📍684 John Wesley Dobbs Ave NE Suite A1 · Atlanta, GA
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