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Why do Primal users often post hyperlinks to Primal, instead of nostr-native URIs? I keep seeing this and the link renders as an OpenGraph card instead of an embedded Nostr note.
We can't see the content.

2026-08-03 20:00:26 UTC

I thought my Bitcoin would quickly grow and eclipse my gold, but it went the other way around.
Kind of a let-down, but I have a new appreciation for not needing to lie awake at night, fretting about where my gold is.
https://i.nostr.build/MowWGsyC5pEbZey1.jpg

2026-08-03 05:31:38 UTC

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See what I mean? Nostr loves the slop, whether human or AI. Imagine writing that libraries shouldn't need to be secure, while keeping a straight face. 🙃
Don't even bother talking to such people about this. Waste of your time.

2026-08-03 05:00:19 UTC

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God can work through all things, yes, including the court system.
It is good for us to forgive those who have wronged us. That doesn't preclude further action, or even necessarily reduce our righteous anger, but it heals our hearts and clears our minds.
Forgiveness suppresses wrath, the same way fasting suppresses gluttony.

2026-08-03 04:47:57 UTC

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I see you have not yet accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. I assure you that He can give you the strength to love your enemies, and the assurance that His justice will be done and His vengeance will be had.
> Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. -- John 14:27

2026-08-02 13:42:04 UTC

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I included justice and excluded vengeance, yes. What God decides justice will look like is up to Him, tho. He has a larger plan.

2026-08-02 13:29:43 UTC

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Well, we have social proof for new keys, which is not nothing.
@npub1gzu…a5ds was talking about using a kind to create a social proof list of signers, who can publically validate a key, and then also validate the new key. Clients could automatically update follow lists, accordingly.

2026-08-02 13:18:33 UTC

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Yeah, this is why my Android app only allows Amber or Bunker sign-in. Need to remove nsec sign-in from my web app. Had it for testing, but it's not worth it.
Gonna go check them all and update. I think we use nostr-tools everywhere, but I'll check that, too.
And then I'll run my AI over Amber and nos2x-fox.

2026-08-01 22:25:37 UTC

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Even if this were true (Cold Card code was not really open-source, it was only published), doesn't that just mean we devs should also be using the open-source models for auditing?

2026-08-01 22:09:29 UTC

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Well, when any appears and we become aware of it, he can add an addendum.

2026-08-01 22:02:06 UTC

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Where they or their funds (Ten31 and OpenSats) using Cold Card? Were any coins compromised?

2026-08-01 18:26:10 UTC

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There is currently no evidence of malice.

2026-08-01 17:23:21 UTC

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I'm sorry for your losses, @npub1cmm…lr6f . Thank you, for informing us. 🫂

2026-08-01 17:17:45 UTC

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Yes, material losses don't equate to the loss of human life, regardless of how high those losses are.
But we should also not be oblivious to the fact that material losses can indirectly lead to loss of life. Unfortunately.

2026-08-01 16:01:23 UTC

2026-08-01 15:47:23 UTC

We should pray for everyone who has suffered devastating financial losses or severe emotional stress caused by this crises. Our hearts are truly filled with sympathy with and concern for them.
We should pray for each other, as hodlers, who are watching the purchasing power of our savings be negatively impacted by the chaos and bad press.
We should pray for the wider Bitcoin wallet industry, as they are going to be collectively tainted by these errors they hold no responsibility for, and will be left to repair the industry's reputation.
We should pray for @npub1az9…m8y8 and the employees of Cold Card. That they and their families remain physically safe, that they resolve the crisis in a judicious and swift manner, and that they make a sincere attempt at restitution for the widespread suffering their negligence and competence created.
Amen. 🙏

2026-08-01 15:39:49 UTC

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I am so sorry that y'all are going through this. I can't even imagine the emotional strain of the chaos this has caused.
Praying for all of you. 🙏

2026-08-01 15:39:20 UTC

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OMG.

2026-08-01 15:30:15 UTC

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He's had a very hard time in his personal life, but he shouldn't be bowling alone. Everyone tries to save on staff and ignore the downsides to being chronically understaffed.

2026-08-01 15:24:31 UTC

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Because people prefer to donate to a fund than to individual projects, as a general rule.

2026-08-01 13:04:04 UTC

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That is not true. Even a broken clock can tick correctly, twice per day.

2026-08-01 13:01:49 UTC

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First thing I checked this morning. No changes to the page.
https://opensats.org/about

2026-08-01 12:56:32 UTC

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I think the time for excuses is past. It's over. He's had three days to rise from the ded and he spent them digging a deeper ditch.
Shame about him. Moving on. I have software bugs to fix.

2026-08-01 12:55:42 UTC

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Tis.

2026-08-01 12:44:10 UTC

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What is TNP?

2026-08-01 12:35:05 UTC

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Well, I guess that's a wrap.
He can try to delete his stuff on here, but I know about some archive relays.

2026-08-01 03:54:21 UTC

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Some of us are trying to extend grace, as that is how we would wish to be treated, but there's been little effort to meet us halfway. That is on him, then.
My primary concern is with those who lost savings. That is a bit similar to your house burning down. Shocking and traumatic.

2026-08-01 03:45:41 UTC

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Bad taste to kick someone when they're down.

2026-08-01 03:33:27 UTC

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But typical. Get obsessed with some hot feature and neglect the dull basics you can't impress anyone with.
I see the same thing going on with the private messaging discussion on Nostr. I try to educate people about the topic, but they just want to tell me I'm being paranoid or overly-cautious. But if there is a leak (there will be one), they'll rip the developers to shreds and say, _But you were supposed to know better!_
Because we are. We're supposed to know better. We're supposed to be the adults in the room.

2026-08-01 03:15:07 UTC

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Developer myopia is common. That's why checklists were invented.

2026-08-01 03:06:38 UTC

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2026-08-01 01:39:00 UTC

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Everyone can be wrong. Everyone can make mistakes or have lapses of judgment or character.
I am not going to measure him with a longer stick than I use to measure myself. Computers are hard.

2026-08-01 01:09:48 UTC

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We are supposed to be staying humble, is the thing. We stay humble for our own sakes.
He could still redeem himself by showing heroic humility. Lots of his users are Christians and love a good redemption arc.

2026-08-01 00:48:15 UTC

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Good point. There might be other wallets with the same or similar problems.
Every wallet will have some problem. Including problems we don't yet know to be problems.

2026-07-31 23:33:18 UTC

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This is why people use exchanges: insurance.

2026-07-31 18:37:04 UTC

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Yes, certainly.
And the Cold Card people weren't the only ones full of themselves. We have all been flying so high, for so long, that we have forgotten to stay humble and remember that, in the end, it's just money.

2026-07-31 18:13:46 UTC

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It's not your body. It's a different person. Don't murder people. That is wrong.

2026-07-31 18:02:55 UTC

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Okay, but the diversification is less through sheer number than by diversity of providers and/or multisig (diversity of holders), or both.

2026-07-31 17:42:04 UTC

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The person who pays the piper determines the music he plays.

2026-07-31 17:12:29 UTC

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Vasectomies are not 100% effective.

2026-07-31 16:52:55 UTC

High concentration gives you a similar risk level, regardless of the asset. It's unreasonable to expect normal users to become cryptographers. Better to expect them to diversify wallets. Best to diversify wallets _and_ assets.
And invest in the people around you. Surround yourself with people who would continue to care about you, even if you were broke. They remain your best insurance against all risk and **we have no idea what man-made horrors are fast approaching us**. This was just the warning shot.

2026-07-31 16:33:39 UTC

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Because he's on the grant board.

2026-07-31 15:19:35 UTC

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If AI breached this, then the court will ask why they weren't using AI to audit this, themselves. Every software or firmware maker, going forward, will be expected to conduct regular 3rd-party human and AI audits.
Just publishing code doesn't mean the code has been properly and regularly audited. Most open source code is unaudited. They just vomit it up onto GitHub and call it a day. That is actually _less secure_ than keeping the code closed source, as it makes it easier to find potential exploits or to distribute fake clones that phish for keys.

2026-07-31 14:01:04 UTC

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Anyone who has worked on Nostr projects knows that open-source only leads to higher quality and deep review if multiple teams are auditing the code. Usually because they use the code or were hired to inspect it.

2026-07-31 13:54:27 UTC

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The company might hold reduced blame, if they conducted the quality assurance that is industry standard practice. (Which they probably didn't.)
Might also affect their insurance coverage.

2026-07-31 11:37:41 UTC

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Are those dice evenly-weighted? 🎲

2026-07-31 11:34:06 UTC

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#nevent1q…789z

2026-07-31 11:26:21 UTC

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Sorry, need to add auto-rebroadcasting of quoted or embedded notes. It's on the list.

2026-07-31 10:54:07 UTC

This is looking a bit ironic, today.
Hope the donated funds weren't on their own HWW.
#nevent1q…qv75

2026-07-31 10:20:38 UTC

More young people want blue collar jobs, due to the rise of AI, as they are considered more future-safe.
#nevent1q…zgw4

2026-07-31 10:17:03 UTC

This craziness, again.
#nevent1q…ds3n

2026-07-31 04:36:09 UTC

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Everyone has cut QA. Too expensive. Always complain about the bugs. Always wanting to do code reviews. So negative. Not fun.
Signed,
unemployed QA engineer

2026-07-31 04:33:39 UTC

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Don't murder your offspring.
Don't spy on your citizenry.

2026-07-31 04:27:50 UTC

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I don't have the nerves to be all-in Bitcoin.

2026-07-31 03:20:12 UTC

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Yeah, learned that in my uni algo class.

2026-07-31 03:01:19 UTC

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Feel like I just "liked" a car crash, but whatever.

2026-07-31 02:56:57 UTC

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I just read about what happened and thought, "Good thing I also have gold." 😬
Not a CC user, but still. Could be any of us, next. May we live in interesting times, eh?

2026-07-30 20:57:42 UTC

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Sovbit has both. Both also coming to my pipe relay.

2026-07-30 20:35:57 UTC

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Life hard, bro. Chillax harder.

2026-07-30 20:33:18 UTC

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https://i.nostr.build/eSVhyFZOvymllACG.gif

2026-07-30 20:28:38 UTC

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This is what it looks like when my mom and I play Housewives of Austin all week. 😂

2026-07-30 20:23:26 UTC

When you're unemployed, but you prefer to ignore the recruiters and suffer in peace.
https://i.nostr.build/rA8MD7wW0DD6rTFw.jpg

2026-07-30 14:37:54 UTC

Core price inflation (minus energy and food) is 3.7% in the USA and 2.4% in the EU, both above the 2% central bank target.
https://i.nostr.build/eyhWh7RH1qk8Lzeg.jpg

2026-07-30 14:33:46 UTC

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Mass-migration was triggered by a baby boom in poor countries that is already petering out.

2026-07-30 14:21:56 UTC

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We will solve wealth inequality by making everyone a trillionaire. Math. Winning.

2026-07-30 14:17:43 UTC

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It's like watching a slow-moving train wreck.
Trump says it doesn't matter because the entire country will be paved and turned into a data center, financed by government borrowing. I guess we can then upload our consciousness to the Internet and use the last of our munitions to blow our own brains out.
4D chess, baby.

2026-07-30 13:48:50 UTC

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2026-07-30 11:53:37 UTC

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Yeah. It's fine.

2026-07-30 11:35:06 UTC

Well.
Looks like the USA spent all of its defensive rockets and oil reserves, and it's now doubling-down and Congress is just pretending to not notice.
Okay. 🤷🏻‍♀️ GM

2026-07-30 11:26:42 UTC

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Flock centers and Build Your Own Pornhub. 😂

2026-07-30 02:50:40 UTC

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Including me, tho. 😂
But it's like we're in a competition I didn't even know about and they're already 2950 cupcakes 🧁 ahead of me and I am just staring in shock at their dedication.

2026-07-30 02:46:21 UTC

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But they'd be wondering if I were there to pick up the laundry, or pick the cotton, or something.

2026-07-30 02:38:19 UTC

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Well, maybe 86.32% of the USA. Give or take 0.317%.

2026-07-30 01:51:52 UTC

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In the land of the pink-haired women who are too fat to walk, the brown-haired woman who is too fat to jog is queen. 👑

2026-07-30 01:35:23 UTC

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I legit don't even know how it is even possible.
I have a polka dot dress, tho. It's very cute and retro. 😂

2026-07-30 00:45:47 UTC

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They lowered the bar so low that everyone halfway normal gets to feel like a supermodel. 😂
What is up with the neon-colored hair? I actually saw polka-dot hair, yesterday, and developed a serious staring problem.

2026-07-30 00:43:25 UTC

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This whole thread is a comedy of errors, starting with the N SFW OP. 😂
Everyone is going to be so disappointed, when they see what is behind the message.

2026-07-29 23:46:27 UTC

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British women are as underrated as German women, TBH. I told people that my daughter looked like an English Rose 🌹 and they were like
https://i.nostr.build/WOSpRzfXhSVR4swd.gif
😂🤷🏻‍♀️

2026-07-29 23:42:47 UTC

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Yo, I'm an American.

2026-07-29 22:41:38 UTC

It's easy to feel unusually attractive in the USA. I won't elaborate on why.
Just saying. Returning to Europe is gonna be a serious reality check.

2026-07-29 22:23:26 UTC

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He is around.

2026-07-29 14:43:36 UTC

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Are you just adding support for kind 39701 web bookmarks like
#naddr1qq…xxey

2026-07-29 12:08:07 UTC

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It's scary that elected seats can just stay vacant for that long. Actually incentivizes kidnapping elected representatives.

2026-07-29 11:58:30 UTC

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I wasn't bored, for a second. Didn't even take a bathroom break.
It's different than I remember from the readings, but if you just suspend disbelief, it's fun.

2026-07-29 05:14:42 UTC

Just watched the Odyssey and I'm exhausted and rattled. Would watch again, but we're planning on watching the same people in Spider-Man, instead.

2026-07-29 00:59:26 UTC

Where is Mitch McConnell? 👀
#USA #politics

2026-07-28 20:40:00 UTC

I totally co-sign this article. I'm another one of these computer dinosaurs, from the 90s. 🥹
#nevent1q…6q0f

2026-07-28 19:56:44 UTC

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That can happen from a signed one, too, tho. The dev doesn't always know that their code base is infected and can transmit malicious code unwittingly.

2026-07-28 19:53:41 UTC

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That's what I do on pipe. I just roll off anything over 300k events, or with an overdue expiration tag or deletion request. That's plenty useful and that keeps it from exploding.
https://pipe.imwald.eu/

2026-07-28 19:39:09 UTC

Which of you also have working Tor or I2P addresses in your relay lists?

2026-07-28 15:18:33 UTC

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If it's phone-2-phone, then human trust comes back into play.

2026-07-28 15:16:38 UTC

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This makes it a lot more useful.

2026-07-28 15:08:53 UTC

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So many people were using that relay for so many things that it was a gigantic monster to maintain, but it earned him no income and caused Nostr to be too centralized.

2026-07-28 14:09:16 UTC

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You can also add wss://freelay.sovbit.host and wss://pipe.imwald.eu, for general-purpose relays.
For documents (longform, highlights, wikis, publications, gitstuff) add wss://thecitadel.nostr1.com.
For profiles use wss://profiles.nostr1.com

2026-07-28 12:35:32 UTC

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I'm a Luddite. Drives everyone nuts, but lots of IT workers are IT Luddites.

2026-07-28 00:33:40 UTC

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Congratulations! 🎉

2026-07-28 00:26:08 UTC

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Exactly! 😂

2026-07-28 00:23:38 UTC

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I am in Texas, tho. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

2026-07-28 00:00:23 UTC

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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

2026-07-27 23:43:08 UTC

I am not even getting into any discussions on race here because I just get told that I am speaking from a place of privilege.
🤷🏻‍♀️