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The well-off boomers of Canada are the main cohort saying the US is the major threat. Completely disconnected from reality but it's what the MSM incessantly pushes.

2026-02-15 00:57:31 UTC

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Lol welcome to Canada where people can only define culture as "not American" but it's just thinly veiled American.

2026-01-26 00:59:30 UTC

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Only grows in dry shitty soil here in the middle of summer, so it's almost a delicacy for me.

2026-01-26 00:54:17 UTC

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Succulent and tangy. It's great.

2026-01-13 13:51:34 UTC

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The bulk of basic science is actually good science being done by genuine people with the noble desire to learn more about the world. The pseudo science and the highly politicized subjects get most of the public attention, unfortunately.

2025-12-30 01:20:14 UTC

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The federal level would be broke. No reason to keep the system going. Each province or groups of aligned and neighboring provinces as sovereign nations.

2025-12-28 15:21:17 UTC

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Maybe accountability is not the most significant contributing factor to road deaths?

2025-12-05 00:35:41 UTC

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Study the infinite diversity of nature

2025-12-01 14:27:40 UTC

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Trying to ration my single-serve pack for the next 3 days

2025-11-29 14:56:17 UTC

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The fact that journals don't pay highly qualified experts for extremely valuable peer review creates the incentive to offload academic work to AI when researchers already have too much to do

2025-11-22 19:24:35 UTC

It takes the problem of AI in science for MSM to shed light on the absolutely atrocious parasitic state of academic publishing. In some way I guess that's progress.
#nevent1q…3ajm

2025-10-27 19:41:18 UTC

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How would you quickly discern between machine-made and humanade? Seems like that in itself is a chore

2025-10-19 12:48:52 UTC

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This is the way

2025-09-30 14:20:20 UTC

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I like the ideas for novel ways of interacting with research you mentioned here. It's all very compelling from a user perspective, but maybe even more so is the potential for organic growth beyond what we might imagine currently. It could be something that lowers the barrier to entry for "non experts" to learn and engage, and maybe even to contribute to experiments and validation but that won't be the case for most experiments. Equipment and materials are expensive in many fields of research. Either way, making research more accessible, and open to both interaction and discussion is a great way to build trust.
As for attracting research to Nostr, I'm ambivalent about zaps as an incentive. The problem is that it's an incentive that may or may not align with the vision of making research more open and accessible and, more importantly, building trust. Contrary to some narratives out there, I know plenty of people that are die-hard scientists with a genuine curiosity about the world. Money is just another necessary tool to keep the research going, and they honestly couldn't care less about it. That said, the current paradigm of "publish or perish" is not so different from zapping in that it, too, is just an incentive that may or may not align with good science.
The same ambivalence I have about zaps to attract content applies to the peer review process. Currently peer review is unpaid work, which is actually criminal, but introducing zaps from anyone to anyone for peer review can also have a corrupting effect. I honestly don't have a good solution that applies universally, and I'm not sure there is one, but good solutions may evolve organically depending on unique sets of conditions.

2025-09-29 19:40:42 UTC

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Getting citations on published work is also validation that the research is valuable because it implies others are building on top of it, or adjacent to it, or at least recognized in some way. If works published through medschlr start getting cited through other various channels then that could boost its legitimacy. There's still the peer review problem to deal with though.

2025-09-29 19:29:06 UTC

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This is a really tough problem to solve. Getting research into the public's hands isn't very difficult because you can just put pre-prints into biorxiv or medrxiv. Doesn't really matter what the content is as long as it follows the formatting guideline. I think the bigger problem with those platforms is the limited functionality to interact with the content. It's basically no different from just reading printed paper.
What currently gives the research weight is the peer review process and the "scarcity" perception of the publishing outlet. Peer review is already highly skilled unpaid work because journals maintain their monopoly over the process, and the journals themselves manufacture scarcity by publishing only what they think brings them more money. By extension, funding typically goes to researchers that publish in those artificially scarce journals. That creates a lot of intertia in the system.

2025-09-24 17:37:50 UTC

It's been just over a year since the war started against the parasitic monopoly of the science publishing world https://www.lieffcabraser.com/pdf/AcademicPublicationsComplaintFinal.pdf
It's going to be long and grueling to dismantle that system. I'm not particularly hopeful about the outcome of this case because it'll probably just result in anti-trust law enforcement where some bits and pieces of the parasite get broken up and sold off. The inherent problem of third parties gatekeeping information will remain largely intact and academics will remain largely at their mercy.

2025-09-03 01:00:50 UTC

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The V4V R&D model strikes me as just a different form of gofundme campaigns. Just not the same vision, time preference or scale for most fields of research.

2025-09-02 19:18:44 UTC

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If only I had $$$ for lab equipment so I could just do research

2025-09-02 18:31:53 UTC

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Researchers are actually all over the new stuff all the time, but starting a project on it is very difficult because of all the bureaucracy and begging involved for funding

2025-08-23 00:27:21 UTC

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Make the Windforce drop for me on my first Pindleskin run plz

2025-08-13 12:07:43 UTC

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🫡

2025-08-13 03:12:08 UTC

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lol I don't think I'd be on nostr if I were

2025-08-13 03:00:18 UTC

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Just a mute? How polite of you

2025-08-13 02:56:52 UTC

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Got eem

2025-08-13 02:52:09 UTC

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What if I pay 1000sats for a follow but I only post about how communism is the only way to save humanity?

2025-08-13 02:47:38 UTC

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Not fake news, just bad science.
#nevent1q…07x7

2025-08-13 02:14:07 UTC

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Sigh. Another junk academic article with a sensationalist title but with little substance.
tldr they found a correlation between people who both had some thyroid nodule and also answered their questionnaire on bluetooth usage. That's right, they asked people about their bluetooth usage and set out to find correlations with medical conditions.
No information on where sub-population sampling was done, age distribution, occupation, diet, exposure to all sorts of other stuff that can lead to the same medical condition, etc., etc. Questionnaires are already a very bad source of information, but it gets worse. They basically don't have good positive controls and essentially no negative controls. No discussion on how bluetooth frequencies compared to other much more damaging forms of radiation. I could go on. All the hallmarks of just plain bad science.

2025-08-13 01:42:06 UTC

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Very good chance that Dennis Porter played more of a funding/PR/project management role vs any of the analyses & write-up. First author on papers are usually the ones that do most of the work and come up with most of the ideas.

2025-08-11 20:09:20 UTC

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Literally any kind of app you want, doesn't have to be nostr exclusive. Apparently you can also build an entire ecosystem for lightning nodes too!
#nevent1q…8hth

2025-08-11 15:08:50 UTC

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I remember seeing a note of yours about the idea a while back, but the implications are finally starting to click for me.
I've been diving into rust recently for other reasons but I may just start building some useful stuff for myself on this.

2025-08-11 13:27:22 UTC

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I didn't have notedeck-as-a-ln-node-manager on my bingo card for 2025 but it kinda blows open the door for some interesting stuff. Like, why not have Dave manage my node for me at that point?

2025-08-11 00:48:07 UTC

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I'm getting sold more and more on cln

2025-08-09 02:02:30 UTC

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💯 I really dig the simplicity of lnsocket-rs

2025-08-09 02:01:34 UTC

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Great demo of how relatively simple it is to build lightning apps for notedeck

2025-08-09 01:58:41 UTC

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The lnd equivalent is LL's Lightning Network Connect, if I understood correctly

2025-08-06 12:46:57 UTC

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Awesome. Is it possible for this stack to be adapted for lnd?

2025-08-04 00:18:52 UTC

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Peak LLM is already upon us?

2025-08-02 04:28:12 UTC

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The year 2017 called, they want their bad narrative back.

2025-07-18 12:52:15 UTC

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#nevent1q…juy3

2025-07-17 17:29:49 UTC

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In lnd I'm not sure the OpenChannel endpoint has control over that. Just 1 conf seems risky to me for other reasons, like a reorg happening after the channel has been used to spend.

2025-07-16 20:51:54 UTC

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A post mortem on this exploit if you're curious. The attacker paid a hold invoice as expected, but force-closed the channel immediately on first confirmation of the funding transaction, which is very much not expected. That basically broke the signalling chain such that publsp expected an 'OPEN' status but it never got it since the default number of confirmations for the LN implementation to send the 'OPEN' is 3. So the preimage needed to settle the invoice was never released. That's the second problem. The preimage needs to be released in order to actually claim the attacker's payment, but persistence was in memory only, and after the dust settled on what happened, the preimage was effectively gone, thus dashing any hope of claiming the lost funds. The HTLC will have expired and the attacker will have walked away with the pushed funds.
#nevent1q…ksv6

2025-07-16 18:01:19 UTC

Regretfully, just several hours ago an attacker took advantage of some still unknown exploit in the LSP liquidity leasing flow in publsp and liquiditystr. The tldr is that the attacker managed to get some LSPs, including myself, to lease liquidity with some initial balance on the attacker's side but without paying the full amount for that pushed balance.
Through some small miracle I picked up on it relatively early on. I managed to get in touch with the LSPs that had active ads to help mitigate the impact of the exploit but, despite my best efforts, other LSPs have also lost funds in this attack.
To be honest, I think that's the part that hurts more than the funds I lost. Others trusted the project enough to give it a try but ultimately got burned by something I built. I'm gutted over the fact that some node runners have lost some of their hard earned sats, and I'm truly very sorry this happened.
I'm still bullish on the vision of more decentralized marketplaces over nostr, including one for Lightning liquidity. However, for the moment I'm too shaken by the events that took place that I'm going to step back for a while and figure out how to be better.

2025-07-16 00:00:25 UTC

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Heartbreaking story, but also the beginning of a great new journey. All the best.

2025-07-12 03:25:51 UTC

https://github.com/djkazic/abacus 👀

2025-07-06 01:39:56 UTC

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If only life were that simple

2025-07-03 12:46:30 UTC

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This.

2025-07-03 02:51:12 UTC

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I think they replenish quantities every so often but irregularly? Last time I checked a month ago or so they had some in stock.

2025-06-24 13:38:56 UTC

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So many things to do but still on nostr even if I don't post much

2025-06-19 17:44:13 UTC

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They're pretty to look at

2025-06-19 16:47:40 UTC

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Dope. Been looking forward to this.

2025-06-18 17:05:16 UTC

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👀
#nevent1q…9q3f

2025-06-17 14:14:32 UTC

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By that logic MSTR & co are the same as the Lightning Network.

2025-06-16 15:41:23 UTC

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We should talk about LSPs that advertise liquidity through nostr, there's a growing number of them! See the list at https://liquiditystr.space

2025-06-15 04:24:54 UTC

Lightning⚡Connect, the latest LSP to offer liquidity over #nostr at highly competitive rates. Have a look at https://liquiditystr.space https://image.nostr.build/077a772a27f680d0fbdf04d3b92174c2d5dea8d2ea12e79830a480ac1923fc73.jpg
#lightningnetwork

2025-06-10 19:29:16 UTC

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Just to prove the point, @nprofile…f670 will reply to this note.

2025-06-10 12:35:11 UTC

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Wouldn't I just waste more time on my phone looking for the junk that I normally waste time on?

2025-06-10 12:30:34 UTC

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That was exactly my issue. I didn't have the latest for whatever reason.

2025-06-10 01:30:07 UTC

@nprofile…uffm I'm playing around with sendPrivateMsg in nostr-sdk-js thinking it behaves like the Python counterpart where I can give rumor_extra_tags but there isn't an equivalent option. Is that on purpose or maybe it's not built yet?

2025-06-08 03:12:36 UTC

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Brb turning on my reply bots

2025-06-08 03:06:28 UTC

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Spent a good 30 seconds thinking about that one.

2025-06-08 03:03:49 UTC

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Replies aren't well contrived notes?

2025-06-07 20:55:08 UTC

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This is cool af

2025-06-07 17:33:01 UTC

In an open P2P #LightningNetwork liquidity marketplace on #nostr, the market conditions can change very quickly for a variety of reasons. As an LSP might want to adjust fees based on spikes in the mempool, or react faster to competition, or run a flash sale.
Publsp now lets you hot-load new ad settings to do exactly that! Just modify a field, save the file, and your ad will automatically get re-published with the new settings.
Give it a try https://github.com/smallworlnd/publsp

2025-06-06 23:53:06 UTC

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Thank you, kind sir. I'm going to hang this one up on my wall.

2025-06-06 22:44:46 UTC

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We're so back
#nevent1q…ls8w

2025-06-06 17:42:37 UTC

Some upgrades pushed to https://liquiditystr.space to get a better picture of LSPs offering liquidity over #nostr and better control for configuring the lease.
https://video.nostr.build/b691127baafe3087e19bc6b0155b3fba3055a248dd06c018e11cc714d7273aa1.mp4

2025-06-05 17:03:25 UTC

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It's basically powering the nascent P2P #LightningNetwork liquidity marketplace over #nostr
#nevent1q…8tgz

2025-06-05 16:54:52 UTC

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Choice between Coca-cola or Pepsi?
Or choice to go outside and touch grass when I want?

2025-06-05 16:49:17 UTC

Thanks to @nprofile…uffm for building https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr
It does all the nostr heavy-lifting for https://github.com/smallworlnd/publsp

2025-06-04 19:17:57 UTC

New release of publsp available where you can more easily run the LSP-side as a daemon for your scripting/automating pleasure! Try it out https://github.com/smallworlnd/publsp
#LightningNetwork #devstr #liquiditystr

2025-06-04 19:13:33 UTC

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I guess I'm an invalid

2025-06-03 14:52:54 UTC

The second ever liquidity offer over #nostr! I didn't expect that so soon
https://image.nostr.build/d23d1fec2fe5dde2a9b9933f12f79abd9f083bbd1745dc387fde83038174e2b7.jpg

2025-06-03 12:53:50 UTC

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🤣 admittedly doesn't roll off the tongue very well but at least you can fork it and give it a better name

2025-06-03 12:49:09 UTC

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Informally like any venue that doesn't have a central coordinator, by "word on the street". There could be some formal structure for it over nostr, like some new tag or event kind or through communities or maybe something more imaginative.

2025-06-02 22:21:02 UTC

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🤙🤝 much appreciated

2025-06-02 21:08:00 UTC

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We can now add #liquiditystr to that list. Next step is to make it just as easy for LSPs to advertise.
#nevent1q…j50l

2025-06-02 19:40:41 UTC

GM #LightningNetwork #devstr
Introducing https://liquiditystr.space the first webapp to find and purchase Lightning liquidity from an LSP, fully and privately coordinated over #nostr. The whole process is super easy: browse the list of LSPs, pick one that suits your needs, send the order, pay the invoice, get liquidity.
https://video.nostr.build/a3d83d09a29d3de784582b31792773f840fc430ce5320486a8dda85a4ee2c5d9.mp4
Nostr keys are auto-generated and thrown away after each session. All you need to provide is a pubkey URI for the node receiving liquidity.
liquiditystr.space is just a simple frontend (source code at https://github.com/smallworlnd/liquiditystr) that runs entirely on the publsp API (https://github.com/smallworlnd/publsp), have a look at https://liquiditystr.space/api/docs. Run it yourself or hack it to your taste. Also sedn PRs.
GN #liquiditystr

2025-06-02 12:36:59 UTC

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Neither?

2025-06-01 17:11:49 UTC

Finally migrated my #LightningNetwork node from freebsd to linux. Ezpz and now quality of life is so much better now. Inspired by @npub1fjh…negv's recent and successful lnd migration.

2025-05-29 00:25:18 UTC

#nostr is where I go to get my dose of skeptical takes on #bitcoin conference events

2025-05-29 00:04:17 UTC

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What did you learn?

2025-05-28 18:50:34 UTC

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Can confirm

2025-05-26 23:30:50 UTC

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Number of nodes probably closer to 100k, certainly not all economic nodes though

2025-05-24 14:55:16 UTC

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#notedeck

2025-05-22 21:11:09 UTC

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Adorable

2025-05-22 21:07:59 UTC

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Félicitations et courage!

2025-05-22 19:04:25 UTC

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Not sure if they have a guide, but the general idea is that you'd want to figure out a way to plug in that new drive, maybe via usb, so you can format it the same as the old drive and use a tool like rsync to copy over everything from the old drive to the new. Of course you'd have to shutdown all the running apps first before copying. When that's all done, you'll then physically replace the old drive with the new, and modify your /etc/fstab file to point to the new drive (depending on how the old drive was mounted).

2025-05-21 23:04:23 UTC

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👀
#nevent1q…yj0n

2025-05-21 23:02:43 UTC

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🫠

2025-05-21 14:50:41 UTC

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Make good use of that yard and plant fruit trees

2025-05-21 13:27:07 UTC

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Is this peak bull market signal?

2025-05-20 16:35:50 UTC

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Got to watch the recording at least. Went for the liquidity sourcing mention, stayed for the lnproxy crash course. Nicely done!
Publsp is just a start to #LightningNetwork liquidity sourcing over #nostr, it's only going to get better over time:
#nevent1q…p4kz

2025-05-20 12:52:57 UTC

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Going to be late tuning into this one but looking forward to it.

2025-05-19 13:20:24 UTC

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I'm currently working on a simple website that runs the customer backend of publsp to allow anyone with an internet connection and a wallet to purchase liquidity from LSPs advertising over #nostr.
Having an Umbrel/Start9 app for it would be fantastic for LSPs.

2025-05-19 13:13:00 UTC

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You can use publsp to sell liquidity

2025-05-19 13:12:04 UTC

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The advantage of a p2p #nostr liquidity marketplace is that anyone can build on it.
#nevent1q…p6r3

2025-05-17 21:09:45 UTC

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👀
#nevent1q…gd7u