Derek Ross

The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.

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Last Notes

2026-05-23 02:14:22 UTC

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Love it 😍

2026-05-23 02:13:12 UTC

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I did not. That's pretty hard to do around here.

2026-05-23 01:59:29 UTC

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I did!

2026-05-23 01:02:52 UTC

So much pizza in the feed 🥹

2026-05-23 00:59:38 UTC

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I'm still hoping for Alex to run a Lightning node some day 🥹

2026-05-22 23:24:03 UTC

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Kind of amazing.

2026-05-22 22:51:37 UTC

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i stacked too, but pineapple is blasphemy!

2026-05-22 22:42:39 UTC

it's a pizza day miracle. cheap sats!

2026-05-22 22:30:10 UTC

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what we really need are mobile highlights on Android. Damus does them really well. i assume we could do this too, you'd add it as an Android Share intent, but no one has done this yet.

2026-05-22 22:28:59 UTC

i wanted this feature for three years, ever since highlights were born.
#nevent1q…tdmu

2026-05-22 22:17:12 UTC

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I read it when he published it and shared my thoughts on it. Sending your sats to a burn address or a real address changes nothing. It's still sending them.

2026-05-22 22:07:49 UTC

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I think it's a waste of sats. Send them to OpenSats at least.

2026-05-22 21:56:58 UTC

Homemade pizza for Bitcoin Pizza Day always hits the spot, especially when you make them with your family 🥹 https://blossom.primal.net/a7b80f2078d74f75b7f225d923a46b7ca74d2e012d434dbb60a2104a27e60cf1.jpg

2026-05-22 21:28:58 UTC

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What are your thoughts on Ark overall?

2026-05-22 21:26:41 UTC

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Well that's sad. I planned on learning more next week from Matthew Vuk in Oslo.

2026-05-22 20:27:22 UTC

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This pizza looks kind of infinite 😂

2026-05-22 20:16:23 UTC

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Can confirm. I am an uncle.

2026-05-22 19:18:20 UTC

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This is the way.

2026-05-22 19:17:38 UTC

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I will meme this into being a thing or I'll be the only one saying it. Either way I'm happy 😂

2026-05-22 19:06:42 UTC

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STFU @nprofile…jvzg

2026-05-22 19:04:29 UTC

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There's nothing that invents a mute feature faster than a stream of penises.

2026-05-22 19:03:25 UTC

Petition to call Silent Payments enabled on-chain zaps STFUs.
Silent Trustless From UTXOs?
Silent Transfer From UTXOs?
"Hey I just sent you a phat STFU."

2026-05-22 18:45:36 UTC

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The flood of dicks came in December 2022 or January 2023. They were everywhere. Everyone was making all sorts of sausage jokes. Some of us even learned a thing or two.

2026-05-22 18:44:50 UTC

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I remember when people would visit a certain user's profile in amethyst and a video on the profile would crash everyone's app and I shared the video saying hey, this crashes my app. Not really thinking that I was going to crash everybody that followed me. It was hilarious.

2026-05-22 18:15:31 UTC

Nostr has always been about crossing bridges. I've seen it time and time again over the last 3½ years. Features get built or don't as issues arise. From spam to hellthreads to zaps to use cases nobody thought of until they were staring us in the face. Protections got built because they had to be, not because someone planned them in a roadmap meeting.
Developers were always just building. Trying things. Testing things. Not overengineering. Not smoothing out every edge until it actually mattered. (Which is sometimes annoying to users 😂 Wen GIF search?)
I've said it before and I'll say it again: our devs love to fix problems, but they also operate under the mindset of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Don't touch it until there's a real, glaring issue. And that's not laziness. Don't mistake it for that. It's more so discipline.
Everything on Nostr is ultimately an engineering problem. Given enough autism 😂 and enough free will, I think we can solve damn near anything we put our minds to.
The amount of brain power on Nostr is incredible. Keep building.

2026-05-22 18:04:08 UTC

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The Nostr flywheel is working as expected.

2026-05-22 18:02:36 UTC

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For now. When fees go up and price goes up, which it will, small transactions won't be viable again, like they were two and three years ago. I'm curious where we'll be at in a year or two?

2026-05-22 17:43:32 UTC

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Your calls in Amethyst to check mempool are doxxing me or do they use Tor?

2026-05-22 17:42:35 UTC

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The same can be said about any tool you use to check the price and the transaction status. And when I say that there's two solutions which applies here too. Use a VPN/Tor and run your own service.

2026-05-22 17:05:58 UTC

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I asked my robot.
Blinded Signatures: Ark utilizes blinded signatures during transaction coordination. The server signs your transaction request without actually seeing the specific details of the destination or the output.
Continuous, Rapid CoinJoins: Every single payment on Ark is bundled into a collaborative pool transaction—essentially an off-chain CoinJoin—that settles roughly every 5 seconds. Because many users are lumped into the same pool transaction simultaneously, the ASP cannot determine which incoming fund belongs to which outgoing fund.
Unlinkable P2P Payments: By severing the direct cryptographic link between the sender and receiver, the ASP is entirely blocked from building a behavioral graph or history of your payments.
Standardized vTXO Values: To prevent the server from tracking you using unique transaction amounts, virtual UTXOs (vTXOs) are restricted to standardized tier values (similar to physical cash bills). This stops the server from mapping a specific $14.32 payment from a sender to a receiver.

2026-05-22 17:03:52 UTC

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I don't believe so. Ark was designed with privacy in mind to not track users.

2026-05-22 17:00:58 UTC

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There has to be a coordinator server but it's completely non custodial and you can't get rugged.

2026-05-22 16:59:17 UTC

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Yes.

2026-05-22 16:51:56 UTC

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The more I read about Ark the more I think this is how we do it.

2026-05-22 16:44:48 UTC

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Thanks Claude!

2026-05-22 14:37:18 UTC

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2026-05-22 14:11:02 UTC

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voice to text failure lmao

2026-05-22 13:20:37 UTC

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nice dude. have fun with @npub1hee…rsv6

2026-05-22 13:19:50 UTC

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it's not hidden. it's not hidden at all though.

2026-05-22 13:18:47 UTC

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day. Last year, Saylor told people to not spend Bitcoin on Pizza, because he's tone deaf and doesn't realize without someone doing that in the past, he would not have been able to spend billions buying Bitcoin. Don't be like Saylor.

2026-05-22 13:12:52 UTC

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i used to play this at my grandparents house lol

2026-05-22 13:12:24 UTC

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not really. it's standard. every single lightning transaction has fees.

2026-05-22 11:41:54 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr. I look forward to seeing my feed flooded with pizza photos today. Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! 🫂💜🤙🏻

2026-05-22 11:36:55 UTC

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More notes, more content 😃

2026-05-22 11:35:11 UTC

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Always be stacking.

2026-05-22 11:34:41 UTC

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Amethyst. It's done it three times this morning. I tap Post and nothing happens so I spam Post to make the note send and it ends up sending my note and a blank one.

2026-05-22 11:33:53 UTC

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AI is freedom for everyone because now all ideas can be seen and heard without having to rely on others.

2026-05-22 11:32:22 UTC

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GM. Or do homemade pizza, which is what we do every year.

2026-05-22 11:32:22 UTC

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2026-05-22 11:30:55 UTC

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This is really good

2026-05-22 11:27:35 UTC

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AI is part of the freedom tech stack.

2026-05-22 11:25:01 UTC

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2026-05-22 11:25:00 UTC

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You can't I've tap click. You'll anyways be an amount now.

2026-05-22 11:22:39 UTC

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2026-05-22 11:22:39 UTC

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Lol no. I was offering to help some with Nostr, but the toxicity turned me off.

2026-05-22 03:52:18 UTC

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Well, that's definitely not a good time.

2026-05-22 00:37:22 UTC

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Open my mouth and let the words come out.

2026-05-22 00:05:29 UTC

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See you tomorrow.

2026-05-21 23:55:12 UTC

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Cheer up, buttercup.

2026-05-21 23:53:21 UTC

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Hmm.

2026-05-21 23:49:09 UTC

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I see what you're doing here you rascal.

2026-05-21 23:12:58 UTC

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Oh I'd love to see bolt12 everywhere. It's adoption is so damn slow though that I gave up and am now looking at Ark. My Lightning node has been active and online for 6 years, but that doesn't mean I can see normal people ever running one.

2026-05-21 23:05:53 UTC

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Probably. We just need the right motivation for people to solve this. Right now Ark is looking very good. I'm excited to see if that can be used to solve this.

2026-05-21 23:04:39 UTC

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Maybe Claude chooses Ark?

2026-05-21 23:04:19 UTC

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With Bitcoin, I can't think of any compromises or trade offs that compromise my sovereignity in a way where I'm no long sovereign over my private key.

2026-05-21 22:47:24 UTC

What I want is a Nostr that has Bitcoin woven into it naturally. Where your notes are just as sovereign as your zaps, and it's dead simple for non-technical people to be part of that relationship. I know there's a technical hurdle here, but that's all it is. It's just an engineering problem. We can build this. I truly believe we don't need compromises and we don't need trade offs.

2026-05-21 22:33:31 UTC

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GN 🫂

2026-05-21 21:47:18 UTC

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@nprofile…euzd ?

2026-05-21 21:21:48 UTC

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Yep! What a coincidence. Thank you for your script and work on this. It's pretty damn cool.

2026-05-21 20:25:18 UTC

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i got this to work. absolutely wild.

2026-05-21 19:39:36 UTC

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Ditto :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pub.ditto.app

2026-05-21 19:39:13 UTC

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you know, i don't totally hate it.

2026-05-21 19:34:39 UTC

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am i? im just a guy that loves freedom technology and loves teaching people about them and the benefits of using them.

2026-05-21 19:23:52 UTC

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haha no it's a new layer two solution, ARK, and this is an implementation of it from Second, called Bark. i met one of the devs in Vegas and told him we needed NWC and zaps. and he's been working on it hardcore.

2026-05-21 19:22:43 UTC

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i normally try to watch as much as i can every year remotely on stream. im excited to be there in person this year.

2026-05-21 19:04:14 UTC

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yep. im really excited about this. matthew is coming to AOSConvergence next week too :) really excited for it.

2026-05-21 17:30:24 UTC

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Helpful 😃

2026-05-21 17:22:47 UTC

AOS Convergence and the Oslo Freedom Forum are about a week away. I cannot wait to have those building freedom technology and those seeking to expand freedom in one location. These two events will be the highlight of my summer, growing nostr together.

2026-05-21 17:20:24 UTC

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This is always a choice.

2026-05-21 17:20:01 UTC

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You do pay a few sats but it's not like you're breaking the bank paying 3 sats on a zap. How is it not private?

2026-05-21 16:52:31 UTC

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Gross.

2026-05-21 16:52:08 UTC

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The last time you did you didn't get off my couch for two days.

2026-05-21 16:51:22 UTC

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Pepperoni, Sausage, Ham, Green Peppers, Onions, gotta have them all.

2026-05-21 16:47:19 UTC

Well, I can tell you what it's not, and it's NOT pineapple.
#nevent1q…ca9a

2026-05-21 16:46:29 UTC

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👀

2026-05-21 16:40:49 UTC

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@nprofile…wl7z plz confirm

2026-05-21 16:34:49 UTC

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@nprofile…mcke 🥹

2026-05-21 16:33:48 UTC

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It's literally Lightning. I have built apps with the Breez SDK and sent sats to my wallet from my node.

2026-05-21 16:12:30 UTC

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Nah. It's stupid easy now. You can literally roll your face across your phone and be all setup on Wisp or Primal thanks to Spark.

2026-05-21 16:11:41 UTC

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No one can afford Lightning? How so?

2026-05-21 16:01:25 UTC

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Welcome to Nostr and the decentralized social future 🤙🏻💜🫂

2026-05-21 15:24:41 UTC

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Doing just that. Thanks.

2026-05-21 15:24:11 UTC

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I've been doing that. Thanks.

2026-05-21 15:08:05 UTC

i have a stye in my right eye and im not impressed.

2026-05-21 15:04:24 UTC

we will use this to throw a 70's nostr disco party to onboard the masses.
#nevent1q…z6r6

2026-05-21 15:03:36 UTC

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@npub13af…hxdh you wanted more sparkles. i think this might help us win.

2026-05-21 14:55:21 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/vwG0j5KPGj4AAAAC/pixelplace.gif

2026-05-21 14:39:11 UTC

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haha, it does look like that i guess.

2026-05-21 14:39:01 UTC

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i have never had one or used one, but since im going to the land of the midnight sun, i am told this is a good investment.

2026-05-21 14:32:03 UTC

thinking of buying this for Oslo. yes, it's purple.
https://nostr-relay.derekross.me/ccc1359007d5eb79fe80b63b7a3b6fc7b7ea11bae8f7fd937081ff98181b603e.png