Derek Ross

The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.

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Last Notes

2026-05-08 21:56:53 CEST

wild.
#nevent1q…3uqw

2026-05-08 21:56:43 CEST

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oh wow. now that is incredibly interesting...

2026-05-08 21:52:57 CEST

@npub1xts…kk5s weren't you thinking about bolt12 zaps many moons ago? plz halp me zap daddy. how would that work?

2026-05-08 21:31:25 CEST

nuts and bolt12s

2026-05-08 20:04:34 CEST

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Oof 😂

2026-05-08 19:09:42 CEST

👀
#nevent1q…dc70

2026-05-08 19:08:42 CEST

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I'd be down for it. People love these.

2026-05-08 18:35:51 CEST

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Ditto

2026-05-08 17:17:26 CEST

I honestly love coming into Bitcoin Park for events and working for a few hours from there. I love my home office, but there's something about working where freedom technology is facilitated too.

2026-05-08 16:09:15 CEST

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I feel that Bitcoin and Nostr have a beautiful relationship. You can trust me on the, bro.

2026-05-08 16:08:22 CEST

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Gotta be like me and get them drinks for free. RIP.

2026-05-08 16:07:57 CEST

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https://media.tenor.com/lNMyjjSWLYcAAAAd/my-man-my-man-denzel.gif

2026-05-08 16:07:20 CEST

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@nprofile…tkue UFO

2026-05-08 16:07:01 CEST

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Johnny...

2026-05-08 16:06:40 CEST

Still time for all to FOMO into #NostrNights at Bitcoin Park on Monday.

2026-05-08 16:04:11 CEST

Nashville. I am in you. 💜🫂🤙🏻

2026-05-08 16:03:45 CEST

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GM. I just landed in Nashville. I assume the good news is that you decided to come. Nice.

2026-05-08 14:05:11 CEST

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See you soon 👀

2026-05-08 13:33:49 CEST

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Some stories must be told 🤙🏻🫂💜

2026-05-08 13:17:50 CEST

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PV 🤙🏻

2026-05-08 13:17:32 CEST

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👀👀👀 OMW to Nashville @nprofile…lw26.

2026-05-08 12:39:00 CEST

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No, it's just early as fuck because I had a 6am flight. So, I woke up at 3:30am. Oof.

2026-05-08 12:38:13 CEST

It's a good day to be alive.
https://blossom.primal.net/feb47d5a56b90721c43de9b0e10137cab0a1418d3615912d16309ae076903154.jpg

2026-05-08 11:27:31 CEST

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Yeah, that's a downside to the convenience. I've been on the last flight of the evening coming home and have had that flight be cancelled. That sucks as there's no alternative as you said.

2026-05-08 11:10:42 CEST

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PV 🫂

2026-05-08 11:10:23 CEST

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The dream. GM.

2026-05-08 11:00:31 CEST

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! The nice thing about small regional airports is you can get there 5 minutes before you board. 🫂💜🤙🏻

2026-05-08 04:58:55 CEST

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https://blossom.primal.net/ca06e2fee990070b43cd805bc524ce90fdf9ec3e33acc4c09fd8032021a5d276.mp4

2026-05-08 04:51:04 CEST

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Unless it's Ron Burgundy.

2026-05-08 04:44:15 CEST

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Sir this be a shitpost. Mostly because I'm annoyed at the news. And sitting on the toilet.

2026-05-08 04:43:01 CEST

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I kind of want the aliens and/or interdimensional beings though. Maybe they can help us figure out Nostr's Lightning onboarding issue.

2026-05-08 04:42:11 CEST

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Three psyops at once? Someone is working overtime.

2026-05-08 04:39:26 CEST

Wild times. WW3, rat viruses, and interdimensional beings. Seriously, can we not? Here I am just trying to purple pill a few thousand more people. 2026 has different plans I guess.

2026-05-08 04:35:04 CEST

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Maybe tomorrow we can get alien models 🤓

2026-05-08 04:28:19 CEST

Welp. https://blossom.primal.net/96b180d9cdaffa5bf8bce5bcc062bebb4701509ad6cbade5225362590f4ba619.gif

2026-05-07 23:35:05 CEST

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oh fuck. that's definitely not good.

2026-05-07 22:22:21 CEST

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This is amazing 😍

2026-05-07 19:44:34 CEST

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It's a good shirt.

2026-05-07 19:44:13 CEST

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I forget the question that I asked. Who has shitposted on Nostr? Maybe. 🤣

2026-05-07 19:41:13 CEST

Memers. Do you thang. https://blossom.primal.net/899a89073fb751f3b5d26559ed7800a6ca7b526524824ed13421f26d5a4a55e0.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/a39c84805a4c3261689c4b50042926e8ac3a3647831290463dd5cdd0cc21e29c.jpg

2026-05-07 19:27:40 CEST

Who here has sent @nprofile…pqyq a GM? https://blossom.primal.net/34f2bdf08a09821ac372c5bf911a61157460d787ba1f022fbffc523fb332f60c.jpg

2026-05-07 18:09:58 CEST

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I saw the discover button and thought that worked well.

2026-05-07 18:03:39 CEST

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okay i see now. i can switch to zaplocker and then we move back to how things originally worked at launch, where i have to open zeus once a day or the hodl invoices expire and sats are returned to sender.
that's too complicated, so cashu works better in that regard, but it's another piece in the complexity puzzle.
if you go the cashu route, zeus is essentially acting as a layer to get you to dump the custodial sats into a LSP channel/node in the phone channel.
this is all fine and probably less complicated than the lightning node i've been running for 6 years, but is it normie ready, probably not. more time is needed to tinker and scenario play.

2026-05-07 17:57:33 CEST

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hmm. it's actually more complicated than i had hoped. i picked LDK because *shrug* assuming that a normie would just use the first option available to them. having to pick a cashu mint is confusing when all im trying to do is send and receive zaps. i have it all working, with cashu, but i wanted to use my LDK phone node.

2026-05-07 17:40:45 CEST

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i have yet to find anywhere locally where this works besides the place i setup last fall :(

2026-05-07 17:38:10 CEST

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always be trying new and old tools.

2026-05-07 17:31:09 CEST

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right. i used it when it first launched node in the phone and zeus pay a few years ago, but i didn't feel it was ready for prime time. i have been convinced that it might be now. i look forward to this real world trial.

2026-05-07 17:30:23 CEST

congrats to the winners! #WoTathon
https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/394e4160cf29aee46dc8ffa99173a74d175ec0efdf5dc2ec3fbf1619ef37c222.png
this entire campaign had an incredible amount of projects. keep building WoT.

2026-05-07 17:22:33 CEST

i've been using cashu for zaps for the last 6 months because i wanted to give it a 30 day real world trial and it worked so well. but perhaps it's time to try something else for a 30 day trial period. im thinking @npub1xnf…lpr5.

2026-05-07 17:19:33 CEST

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buy more than you sell? i mean, sure, but what a clown.

2026-05-07 16:52:22 CEST

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It does. I've been running a lightning node for 6 years now. I don't mind it. I think it's fairly easy. But I am not the other 8 billion people on the planet. If I were, well the world would be boring AF, but also Lighting would have larger adoption. We haven't found a solution that's a beautiful marriage of trust and complexity.

2026-05-07 16:50:14 CEST

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GM 🫂

2026-05-07 16:40:50 CEST

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Then that's fine.

2026-05-07 16:36:41 CEST

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Good morning 🌄

2026-05-07 16:34:36 CEST

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I don't like how relay operators can delete my money.

2026-05-07 16:34:12 CEST

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That's a fair way to look at it. Perhaps I'm not comparing them entirely in the same light. While CashApp is easy to use, I do have to have a bank account or debit card which is an entire process itself.

2026-05-07 16:08:34 CEST

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! Zaps have been the largest hurdle in the onboarding flow for three years now. I want them to work and users to get through that section of onboarding without having to explain everything. If you have to explain how to use a feature, it's too complex. https://blossom.primal.net/a6950575bcb51c43e7ab875da86887217cfb9206d3c916d55bcc815fdc4f9741.gif

2026-05-07 16:02:50 CEST

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This is a cool and interesting solution, but has trade offs just like any other solution and I think the trade offs are too many for me to fully like it. My main issues are speed and fees. It's only acceptable now. I don't believe fees will always be as low as they are now which makes this very hard for sending small amounts. I don't believe the price of bitcoin be always be this low, so again this makes it incredibly hard for sending small amounts. I could be wrong but I also feel that telling someone I tipped them but due to randomness, they can't use that money for an hour seems like bad experience. Maybe this last one isn't a big deal, because it's a tip and they don't need the funds ASAP. I don't like that we're setting people's keys up to be incredibly more valuable than social communication. I like that this is all part of the conversation. We need to keep having these, because ultimately someone will solve many of these issues and make trade offs minimal.

2026-05-07 15:42:35 CEST

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Then you're out of touch with billions of humans.

2026-05-07 15:33:38 CEST

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I want something that's as easy as generating a bitcoin address or Nostr profile and boom you can receive zaps.
I want something as easy as CashApp. Install an app, tap a couple buttons, boom.
Normies need this.

2026-05-07 08:11:03 CEST

https://mempool.space/address/bc1qtjjcvn98wh7dfd55m8kxhjcfexanttwt8gtan8
#nevent1q…00gy

2026-05-07 05:52:01 CEST

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Good looking dinner.

2026-05-07 05:50:47 CEST

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You can probably vibe code one with Shakespeare.

2026-05-07 05:48:31 CEST

I'm not thrilled about everything centralizing around Spark. Yeah, we use it. I even tell people to use it because it's easy. But easy doesn't mean right. The last thing I want is every Bitcoin app depending on one provider. That's literally the problem we left.
Lightning isn't perfect. Never claimed it was. But it's the best we've got right now. Maybe something better comes along, a new L2 that actually works for normal people without centralization. Maybe it's just BOLT12? Maybe it's Ark? Until then, we work within the constraints we have.
Ultimately, this is an engineering problem. We can solve it. We have Claude. We have brilliant developers. Keep building. Keep trying new things.

2026-05-07 05:36:28 CEST

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I'd prefer if it was a toggle. I'd even be fine with USD the standard and then we can enable sats in an advanced setting. I don't mind catering to normies but we can't forget our roots!

2026-05-07 05:34:01 CEST

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Aliens.

2026-05-07 04:13:49 CEST

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I choose to believe differently. Otherwise I'll be very disappointed 😬

2026-05-07 02:48:54 CEST

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This is the way. Congratulations brother.

2026-05-07 01:37:54 CEST

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When you send money with CashApp does it tell you about all of the banks and monetary networks that it's using? No. Money just shows up.
Most people don't care how the sausage is made, they just like how it tastes. Bitcoin is no different.
And lastly, normies don't like Bitcoin. The media has lied to them and they don't know better. Use Bitcoin as the rails as @nprofile…uh0e said years ago in his peanut analogy.

2026-05-07 01:35:21 CEST

Given the hype, the current thing, and the colors of the Android, I assume it's Google's Android with Gemini inside. Gemini would no longer be an afterthought or a second class citizen. Google's flavor of Android would be an operating system built with Gemini/AI at the forefront. https://www.android.com/new-features-on-android/io-2026/

2026-05-07 01:31:38 CEST

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It's good UX.

2026-05-07 01:31:21 CEST

No mention of the Big Bad B-word anywhere, just using Lightning and Bitcoin as the monetary rails. The technology just fades into the background. I like it.
#nevent1q…aspv

2026-05-07 01:29:31 CEST

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What wallet is that?

2026-05-07 01:25:38 CEST

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Gives clear stablecoin regulation to make you a genius. Duh.

2026-05-07 01:12:15 CEST

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We need less jank. That's the issue.

2026-05-07 00:58:33 CEST

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You're not wrong. I have made the fees argument.

2026-05-07 00:57:14 CEST

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Welcome to Nostr 🫂💜🤙🏻

2026-05-07 00:56:07 CEST

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It's very useful 🤓 I wish more clients implemented it

2026-05-07 00:55:30 CEST

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Oof

2026-05-07 00:54:55 CEST

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What media player is that?

2026-05-07 00:54:17 CEST

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Eventually, yes. Right now though, Ditto's lowest on-chain zap is $1.

2026-05-07 00:52:15 CEST

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@nprofile…xxx2 @nprofile…vyla @nprofile…s2k9 @nprofile…9k9u @nprofile…yrsy thoughts on this?

2026-05-07 00:50:45 CEST

I actually think this is a good idea. Thoughts?
#nevent1q…70n6

2026-05-07 00:42:19 CEST

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https://Shakespeare.diy

2026-05-07 00:41:57 CEST

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I don't think it's a good idea either and I don't see myself using it, but I'm presenting a counterargument to see what others think because I'm always open to have my mind changed.

2026-05-07 00:39:45 CEST

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I thought this as well. Still more work to do.

2026-05-06 23:18:15 CEST

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Welcome to Nostr 💜🫂🤙🏻

2026-05-06 23:16:41 CEST

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I literally told my friend about it earlier today lol

2026-05-06 23:00:36 CEST

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Because I want Nostr to win.

2026-05-06 22:59:21 CEST

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😂

2026-05-06 22:55:24 CEST

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Wisp. Amethyst. I don't think anything else?

2026-05-06 22:49:16 CEST

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this is what we already do with DMs lol

2026-05-06 22:47:38 CEST

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absolutely. and we should just treat it as monetary rails for them. if they want to learn more, they can. we need normie mode for the normies.

2026-05-06 22:47:03 CEST

Zaps for normies.
https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/a1878fbfe2f0d646008ae3accfa2efdba592ce9c2e9c631fbed0ea24cd24d713.png

2026-05-06 22:44:32 CEST

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if someone keeps a whole coin in a zap wallet then they're very different than me. i have 3K sats in my npub.cash wallet at this time.

2026-05-06 22:43:07 CEST

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absolutely, but again as a zap spending wallet, it's no different than what we have now publicly posting our transactions with lightning.

2026-05-06 22:31:09 CEST

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For two dollars worth of zaps? No. If they get a thousand dollars? Yes.

2026-05-06 22:25:44 CEST

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Yes. But again tracking a few dollars back and forth across the network isn't worth much when there are people sending millions of dollars to track.

2026-05-06 22:24:13 CEST

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Oh I have fee concerns too. I don't really like on-chain zaps. I've told Alex this dozens of times. I just think that for a small spending wallet, accumulation or size is not an issue.

2026-05-06 22:06:26 CEST

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Hell yeah! Glad to hear that.