Derek Ross

The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.

Developer Relations at Soapbox.

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2026-09-11 01:56:06 CEST

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As a Jellyfin user, I support this.

2026-09-11 01:34:57 CEST

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No.

2026-09-10 17:29:59 CEST

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https://blossom.ditto.pub/f42ed97467c1ac981bf38d2304056ad8e84b46686f08682dd1b6d9ed7e231217.mp4

2026-09-10 17:29:15 CEST

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More work to do

2026-09-10 16:40:26 CEST

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Brian Armstrong also tried to email @nprofile…20wr some bitcoin.

2026-09-10 16:09:31 CEST

DeepSeek 4.1 Flash scored 98% of GPT-6 Astra’s score at 1.4% of the cost on everyday design tasks based on user requests. https://blossom.ditto.pub/bca402ef865464277c9c5cde41a8e6dab5b96303785a7c66e1e5214ca0d1c4dd.jpeg

2026-09-10 15:43:44 CEST

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Well yeah, dude only "changed" parties so he could get elected.

2026-09-10 15:40:57 CEST

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That would be the funniest outcome.

2026-09-10 15:40:32 CEST

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I wanted the dancing TikTok girl meme but I don't know what that's called, so this was my backup template. Perhaps I need to call in the meme master to help me find that template @nprofile…jvzg

2026-09-10 15:05:16 CEST

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Understood.
I'd love to make it to FOSDEM 2027 👀

2026-09-10 15:03:49 CEST

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Just trying to figure out if you actually needed money or if you were a scammer. Still here still deciding.

2026-09-10 15:02:36 CEST

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Yes.

2026-09-10 15:02:08 CEST

How to grift: https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/33a6c1dc778eace4a0088f9890b124475a5e78a2998a7f20e70074c511989db6.jpg

2026-09-10 13:06:30 CEST

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Always have fun. That should be a protocol rule. @nprofile…nj27 can we get this into NIP-01?

2026-09-10 05:22:50 CEST

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Gemini also has mental health issues too.

2026-09-10 04:58:27 CEST

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I'm leaning that way too.

2026-09-10 03:29:36 CEST

"The United States needs mandatory, capability-based national regulation that can evolve as the technology does."
https://openai.com/index/ai-policy-window/

2026-09-10 03:12:35 CEST

Don't forget to tell Claude please and thank you in your prompts or you'll end up on his naughty list.
#nevent1q…32xp

2026-09-10 02:34:31 CEST

Anthropic is reportedly building a surveillance system to monitor anti-AI activists and protests.
🤔

2026-09-10 01:56:59 CEST

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Only the class of 24-26. Maybe class of 23.

2026-09-10 01:36:38 CEST

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2026-09-09 20:07:07 CEST

funds are safe and recovered <3
#nevent1q…wwz6

2026-09-09 19:45:53 CEST

Last year's BitFest and Nostrshire was a lot of fun. It was a small conference with a lot of signal. These are the best conferences, because you can literally talk to _everyone_ in attendance if you wish to do so.
I look forward to this year's event. See you there!
#nevent1q…rnxd

2026-09-09 18:00:56 CEST

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Or tag your agent 😜

2026-09-09 17:00:10 CEST

if you wanted to learn more, i'll be using chantools later today to recover funds from two defunct nodes. the plebs have worked together to make this happen. pleb1 has shared their node private key with pleb2. pleb1 has 0 to minimal funds on their end and didn't care to restore their defunct node. pleb2 had a lot of funds on their side of the channel and did care about getting those funds back. since we'll have both private keys, we can recover the funds.
https://github.com/lightninglabs/chantools
#nevent1q…tp8x

2026-09-09 16:49:04 CEST

just a random thought... does anyone else actively help plebs recover funds from their nodes? i've been doing this now for 4 years... i love doing it, it's essentially what i've done for the last 30 years i guess, tech support, fixing someone else's computer :P

2026-09-09 16:23:36 CEST

Your entire Nostr history in one file you own, and one click to push it back to any relay. That's Ditto's new Import & Export feature, and I wrote up how it works and why it exists.
Leave anytime. Take everything.
https://soapbox.pub/blog/ditto-import-export-take-your-history-with-you
Note: If you are a mature Nostrich and/or a Nostrich with a lot of content, these backups may time-out or cause your browser to OOM. This is a known limitation for those of us that have been around for a while and post very often. I promise a fix for us soon :)

2026-09-09 15:54:28 CEST

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I'm surprised that Nostur doesn't? @nprofile…9vq6 👀

2026-09-09 15:47:01 CEST

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You know what? We need this in Ditto. Far too many clients don't have it. Who else needs it?
@nprofile…g58a there's already a spec for Zap splits, I assume we'll want to do on-chain Zap splits as well for feature parity.

2026-09-09 15:45:20 CEST

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I find this happens with almost all Nostr web apps. The fix seems to always be to delete your locks cache and cookies for the website and then login again. And yes, we do need fixes for these.

2026-09-09 15:32:24 CEST

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! What's one improvement you wish your favorite Nostr app had? 💜🫂🤙🏻

2026-09-09 04:59:51 CEST

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I watched a documentary about this about 40 years ago.

2026-09-09 04:42:21 CEST

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They have been sounding the alarms for a while, you're right. With Mythos 6 months ago and now Astra, things are definitely accelerating. One or two more leapfrogs and we'll have true AGI, IMO. Sometime next year. Which would continue to follow 2027 Problem short story nearly to the letter. It's wild to watch all of it play out, how the predictions are very accurate.

2026-09-09 04:28:50 CEST

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Great work my friend. We are going to win.

2026-09-09 04:28:29 CEST

Let's go!
#nevent1q…vuzd

2026-09-09 04:04:05 CEST

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Unless you have the hardware for o use open models at home, the risk is the exact same as using your OpenClaw with any other cloud provider though. So this is nice for that reason.

2026-09-09 03:53:00 CEST

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But we have to trust Zuck that it's private. And he doesn't have a good history on this.

2026-09-09 03:50:04 CEST

An AI pretraining researcher resigned from Anthropic today, and his exit thread is interesting.
His claim: the people building frontier AI genuinely believe it could kill us all by 2030 and they're racing to build it anyway. At Anthropic, everyone understands the stakes. Their answer to "why?" is: someone will do it, so it has to be us.
When the risk is everyone's, the choice can't belong to a handful of companies who each believe they're the only responsible ones, which is exactly what every one of them believes.
The answer isn't better behaved centralized systems. I believe the answer is open, verifiable systems.
https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843

2026-09-09 03:45:13 CEST

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This is 99% what I drink.

2026-09-09 03:38:54 CEST

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2026-09-09 03:38:46 CEST

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Damn. That's a nice sized fish.

2026-09-09 03:37:52 CEST

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Hello! I can look into this issue and see if there's something with Clave or signers in general. However, Zuka isn't going to work properly unless you can provide your own AI keys. We still want to try and get funding to continue developing this application.

2026-09-09 03:34:13 CEST

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Perhaps.

2026-09-09 01:04:05 CEST

im literally vibing 3 different apps right now.
#nevent1q…jmam

2026-09-08 22:50:54 CEST

Muse.ai a new assistant from Meta... that has a dedicated, secure computer with its own browser. Muse Secure VM runs on a persistent, isolated Linux virtual machine equipped with a full browser and enough storage, CPU, and memory to do the kinds of things you'd do on your own computer.
https://muse.ai

2026-09-08 21:58:33 CEST

Nostr, I've been grinding all day. I didn't drink any coffee this morning. I'm going to have a cup at 4pm. Is this allowed? 👀

2026-09-08 21:57:46 CEST

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Perhaps we just need the perfect meme?

2026-09-08 21:14:40 CEST

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Have you tried asking Claude?

2026-09-08 21:13:20 CEST

He only accepts bitcoin. Not that fake shit.
#nevent1q…8w4v

2026-09-08 16:12:47 CEST

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! Always forward. 🤙🏻🫂💜

2026-09-08 16:11:53 CEST

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Some clients will always want run their own relays though, so that they can tailor their client experience for their users and also not have to rely on volunteers. We'll always have both IMO.

2026-09-08 08:42:06 CEST

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We are so back.

2026-09-08 08:25:20 CEST

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I gotchu.

2026-09-08 08:23:01 CEST

This is a good reminder. It's great that OpenSats exists and that they're able to fund many individuals and projects, but it's also a fact that OpenSats cannot fund everyone or every project. Keep this in mind and donate to your favorite Nostriches building the future of social communication. 🫂💜🤙🏻
#nevent1q…03kd

2026-09-08 08:17:27 CEST

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But their videos will play beautifully on all other clients!

2026-09-08 07:49:51 CEST

Do Ditto users want private replies? I don't see why we couldn't add it if it's wanted.
#nevent1q…fwtj

2026-09-08 07:46:51 CEST

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👀👀👀

2026-09-08 07:45:29 CEST

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Sir, did you just save the Nostr?

2026-09-08 07:19:51 CEST

In total, OpenSats has allocated $36,688,950 USD to free and open-source projects and sent ~41.9 billion sats to 426 grantees in 40+ countries.
#nevent1q…4hrl

2026-09-08 01:15:36 CEST

Remote signing now available on Nostr.build 🥹
#nevent1q…a4w6

2026-09-08 01:11:57 CEST

I love to see people building their communities on the Nostr 🥹
#nevent1q…4wwn

2026-09-08 00:06:32 CEST

If it were me and I were in the Liquid white hat hacker's position, I would have taken the ~4000 Liquid bitcoin to stop others from doing it, then returned the full amount and then asked for a reward. I would have explained that as soon as I found the vulnerability, I thought by the time I did a responsible and private disclosure that someone else could have swept the funds. I would have hoped for a 1% reward from Blockstream for my good nature. The "white hat" taking ~15% is called theft.

2026-09-07 23:50:57 CEST

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Definitely. And we'd really never know.

2026-09-07 23:10:14 CEST

Small communities are also why I built my Concord events app (and soon those lessons will be coming to Plektos). I have most of my local friends and family using Nostr now. They used to to RSVP to a private event and to sign up for what dishes and items to bring. It's all built on Nostr.
#nevent1q…wvgf

2026-09-07 23:08:10 CEST

Small community relays are one of the methods that Nostr gains adoption. Many have been preaching this for years, including myself. We need better governing and moderation tools for our small communities though. That part has been a missing piece of the puzzle. We're on our way with apps like Armada, Vector, and Flotilla and NIPs like NIP-85 and Web-of-Trust. We're getting there.
#nevent1q…fqja

2026-09-07 23:05:27 CEST

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I think this is something that I have been preaching for years though. Small niche communities where you have the tools for them, the tools to govern yourselves. I'm sorry I have failed you 😩

2026-09-07 23:02:00 CEST

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I need that kind of legacy 😂

2026-09-07 21:48:57 CEST

The "white hat" hackers kept 600 of the 4000 bitcoin 🤣

2026-09-07 17:15:09 CEST

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The profile pic URL was a nice hack during the reply guy/girl days.

2026-09-07 16:52:04 CEST

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Amethyst and Ditto do mutes the best IMO.

2026-09-07 16:45:43 CEST

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Said this yesterday. It would have been easier to sign a Bitcoin transaction and drop an npub. Then they can DM back and forth all they want and post publicly all that they want. Use VPN or Tor and you're done.

2026-09-07 16:43:58 CEST

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I always have the best time here and I don't know how much more convenient I need Nostr to be. It's already everywhere and in every app or device I need. Do we need a Nostr smart glasses app? That's probably what we're missing.

2026-09-07 16:15:06 CEST

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GM. I love Nostr 🫂💜🤙🏻

2026-09-07 16:14:55 CEST

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Good morning sir 🫂

2026-09-07 16:03:21 CEST

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! I love Nostr more today than I did nearly 4 years ago. Why? The growing ecosystem of applications and use cases. Nostr's simplicity makes it quite versatile. 🤙🏻💜🫂
#nevent1q…08xj

2026-09-07 05:56:21 CEST

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I don't. What's the point of sending it back if someone else will just steal the funds again?

2026-09-07 05:40:52 CEST

They want Blockstream to fix the bugs before returning the funds.
Please fix the bug first. The chain is under risk at latest commit right now. Make sure every node is patched. Then we will transfer the money back safely after confirming the fix. The detail is as follows
https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/cc5fe8481f628f3ac8e171694b22026b5511e3ff370308bf3afa311cf1bc6dbb.png
#nevent1q…t3dz

2026-09-07 05:37:25 CEST

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Finder's fee 🤣

2026-09-07 05:03:59 CEST

Nvidia's CEO says a company that used his GPUs created AGI. 😆 I haven't used Astra as I don't use OpenAI models, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I don't believe it. Is Astra a massive leap forward. From what I've seen on benchmarks and from what I've read, yes, it seems like it is a massive leap forward. Perhaps we'll have AGI in 6-9 months. What are your thoughts?
https://blossom.ditto.pub/aa94f54811b7d2da3f39f42ba66c3418386fc9371b81f030940dcb78f8d1b2b1.png

2026-09-07 04:49:23 CEST

the Liquid 'white hat' is asking about sending funds back?
https://blossom.ditto.pub/359f1859212271a251fa0160e1e4f8a74054f4e70d6ba973a666db10c7aec826.png https://mempool.space/tx/3a3eac4a26395b8c2563aaf1eb8b1b77798c81c7d6337f51321827a244a480aa

2026-09-06 23:11:43 CEST

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They're doing great work in this space. It's wild too because they're handicapped at the GPU chip layer. So, their models have to be more efficient.

2026-09-06 23:00:34 CEST

This is the new normal and it's party because of model gatekeeping.
AI didn't break our software. It's discovering decades of human slop that was always there.
It gets worse from here.
Anthropic's answer: Project Glasswing, a private club of ~200 companies gets the defensive model. Everyone else is locked out.
It's clear to me Glasswing will be seen as an overall failure. It will have saved the few.
Chinese companies and their open models will save the rest. Open source. Open weights. Models the masses can run to secure the world, not Anthropic's Claude Mythos.
Maybe Mythos already hardened the infrastructure and operating systems. But daily software? The apps, the libraries, the wallets, that's where the real attack vectors live.
Why is Bitcoin getting hit? It's an easy target: direct financial gain, and no central authority coordinating a defense. Though, the Red Team is doing amazing work here trying to stay ahead of the curve.
I look forward to the next model from DeepSeek, Moonshot, Z.ai, etc. that puts the power of AI into the hands of everyone, allowing everyone to secure their applications and their systems.
It will be a race, but it's a race that the white hats and red teams will win.
Stay frosty and stay bullish.

2026-09-06 22:45:11 CEST

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If they don't now, black hats will.

2026-09-06 22:26:04 CEST

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Yes. I believe so.

2026-09-06 22:25:07 CEST

It's perhaps not a coincidence that a new LLM model dropped and a new attack surfaced a couple days later.

2026-09-06 21:59:14 CEST

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That's what I thought and why I was curious if the network is paused on purpose or paused because there's no liquidity in the contract or the contractor closed.

2026-09-06 21:26:24 CEST

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I don't know how people are getting this concept confused? One is selling a product or service for a price. The other is giving it away for free (where the consumer or user can pay if they desire). They're not even close to the same concept.

2026-09-06 21:22:08 CEST

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Are the coordinators paused?

2026-09-06 21:16:40 CEST

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Oh really? That's an even larger yikes.

2026-09-06 21:13:37 CEST

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That's the cool thing about value. What I find valuable you might not and vice versa.

2026-09-06 21:12:28 CEST

Yikes. If you have any Liquid sats, I'd peg out to on-chain ASAP to be safe.
#nevent1q…ar7t

2026-09-06 20:29:25 CEST

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These were really good 😂

2026-09-06 18:09:59 CEST

Just booked my flight and hotel room for Imagine If from @nprofile…lw26 October 5-6!
What's Imagine If?
Imagine IF returns October 5-6 at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Nashville. Two days at the convergence of AI, energy, and bitcoin with the people building at the frontier.
https://imagineifnashville.com

2026-09-06 16:54:38 CEST

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GM.

2026-09-06 16:50:32 CEST

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Looking good!

2026-09-06 16:37:12 CEST

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! The future isn't written yet, that means we have a lot of vibing to do 💜🫂🤙🏻

2026-09-06 15:33:07 CEST

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GM PV 🤙🏻🫂💜

2026-09-06 04:47:30 CEST

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I'm happy your son is healthy. Hopefully your wife makes a speedy recovery 🫂🫂🫂 Congratulations again!

2026-09-06 04:05:53 CEST

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Holy shit. Congratulations my friend. I'm so happy for you! 🫂🫂🫂