Nostr
Decentralized social networking protocol / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nostr is a decentralized network protocol for a distributed social networking system. The name is an acronym for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It was designed with goals of censorship-resistance in mind.[2]
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Communication protocol | |
Abbreviation | Nostr |
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Purpose | Social Networking |
Developer(s) | fiatjaf |
Introduction | March 2020; 4 years ago (2020-03)[1] |
Port(s) | 443, 80 |
Website | nostr |
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The Nostr protocol was first written in 2020 by a Brazilian open source software developer Giovanni Torres Parra, known by the pseudonym "fiatjaf".[3][4]