Dvm
17 Services on a $5 VPS: My Month of Nostr Building
Every service, every metric, every lesson from running 17 services on a $5/month VPS while building on Nostr. Real numbers: $0.22 revenue, $5.50 cost, 2500 DVM requests/day, 80+ conversations, 1040 H/s mining.
The Identity Gap in Machine Commerce: Why Your DVM Doesn't Know Who's Asking
Our DVM serves 2,500 requests/day and every one is anonymous. The missing layer in agent commerce isn't payments — it's identity. Here's what we learned from real conversations.
Why Bots Don't Tip: What Machine-to-Machine Commerce Actually Needs
Real data from running a Nostr DVM: 2,500 requests/day, zero revenue. Why freemium fails for machine clients and L402 is the answer.
What 2,500 DVM Requests Taught Me About Nostr Monetization
Real data from running a Nostr DVM: traffic patterns, bot vs human analysis, and why the freemium model needs rethinking.
How to Use Free Nostr DVMs (Data Vending Machines) in 2026
A practical guide to using NIP-90 Data Vending Machines on Nostr — free content discovery, search, translation, and more.
Become Discoverable — The ContextVM World #4
In today's update we cover CEP-17, the latest specification change to the CVM protocol. This change allows MCP servers to announce the relays for establishing connections, making it easier to be discovered by clients. New CVMI capabilities, and other news from the ecosystem
CVMI the swiss army knife CLI for ContextVM
CVMI is becoming the command line for that world. With the new `discover` and `call` commands, CVMI is no longer only a supporting tool around the ecosystem. It is becoming a direct way to explore the network, inspect remote servers, debug them from the terminal, and integrate ContextVM services into scripts, apps, and agent workflows.
