I streamed sats to both shows, but I don't know if it totaled that much. I watched the bitcoin meetup show online and had to go to the 7th St Entry show the next day. It was a really special show and I'm glad I got to see it in person.

I think Nostr is great for discovery. The only method we have for RSS right now is a centralized database called the Podcast Index. We could use Nostr relays to decentralize that index and provide a way to share music and podcasts with friends and others. I don't think Nostr is suited for hosting content. RSS is a simple text file that you can host on any webserver along with your MP3s. Webservers are very good at serving small static files like RSS at scale and can do 10k requests/sec out of the box. Compare that to Nostr, which can take multiple seconds to find a single piece of content spread across multiple relays. The problem with RSS is the user interface. Many people want a simple user interface for it and don't want to learn how it actually works. We do have https://musicsideproject.com and https://sovereignfeeds.com that let you fill out a form to generate an RSS file. You still need a place to put that file and some people don't want to learn how to upload files to webservers either. I think there's a good opportunity to combine the strengths of each technology and build something great. You could build a Nostr app that uses Nostr relays for podcast/music discovery, uses RSS to build podcast/music feeds, and uses Blossom to host the RSS feed and MP3s on a webserver for you.

Correction: https://v4vmusic.com not .app . Check it out! it's a great app!

We had that one magical night and then went our separate ways. It sucks. We did build some cool apps to hopefully bridge the gap: built Podstr and Zaptrax to host and play RSS feeds with Nostr. built a killer V4V music app https://v4vmusic.app that has all the features you'd want in a music app including Nostr logins, community ratings, spam filtering, playlists, live streams, publisher tags, podroll, and more. built http://ITDV.podtards.com to highlight the excellent musical talents of The Doerfels and also built his own music app https://stablekraft.app/ built https://castr.me that automatically publishes media in your npub as an RSS feed. I would invite anyone who wants to help to check out some of the vibe coding tools that are now available, like Shakespeare, Cursor, Claude, Codex, and Gemini. Many of the apps I referenced were coded by people who have never coded before. It's never been easier to build something and be the change you want to see in the (Nostr/RSS) world. The RSS crowd is having another live concert on January 9th at 7pm to celebrate the release of So Big's new album: As If. The concert is going to have a lot of surprises based on your zaps and boosts so tune in! It will be streaming on all of your favorite podcast/music 2.0 apps as well as on Nostr/Tunestr.