Dikaios1517

https://linkstack.brightbolt.net/@dikaios1517

│Christian│Husband│Father│Presbyterian│Bitcoiner│

In that order.

Find my reviews at npub1rsv7kx5avkmq74p85v878e9d5g3w626343xhyg76z5ctfc30kz7q9u4dke (npub1rsv…4dke)

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2026-03-18 01:04:02 UTC

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I used it primarily for the stats; relay stats, active users, and individual stats like zaps and such. Not something I would expect to see in other Nostr clients.

2026-03-17 16:01:16 UTC

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Absolutely agree. It was Satoshi's equivalent of the 95 Theses, released the same day to make a statement.
Luther, via the printing press and the translation of Scripture into the language of the common man, unleashed something that could not be stopped, because every household could have a copy of God's Word that they could read and understand.
Bitcoin has done the same thing for money by allowing virtually anyone to have a copy of the full ledger and verify the state of that ledger for themselves.
How do I KNOW that Jesus is Lord? Not because the church told me so, but because I can read it for myself directly from the Bible.
How do I KNOW that there will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin? Not because I trusted the word of some civil magistrate that he won't inflate the money supply, but because I can verify the supply on my own node and I know I won't update to a version that alters the issuance schedule.

2026-03-14 22:15:10 UTC

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That makes some sense, but it should be using an open standard like open street maps.

2026-03-14 22:10:37 UTC

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And so are His mercies.

2026-03-14 18:19:16 UTC

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Congrats to both you and @nprofile…h5yj !

2026-03-14 17:47:47 UTC

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Outbox is write. Inbox is read.

2026-03-12 20:58:45 UTC

Another day, another #Wisp update.
Incredible work on this client @nprofile…jejf !

2026-03-12 05:29:06 UTC

"Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands--remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ... So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord." - Ephesians 2:11-13 and 19-21
The Church IS the commonwealth of true Israel. The entire point of this passage is that the church is not something new and separate from Israel, but that the Gentile believers in Christ are now "fellow citizens" with the believing remnant of the OT people of God. ONE covenant people, not two.
By necessity this also means that any so-called "Israelite" or "Jew" that is outside of Christ's church is no part of God's people at all, but is cut off from God's covenant and its promises (Romans 11).
Many Christians seem to forget that "not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring" (Romans 9:6-7), and that Gentiles were "grafted in." What were they grafted into? If the Church is an entirely new body that started at Pentecost, then there's nothing to be grafted into, because it is separate from God's original covenant people. No, the Church is the true continuation of God's covenant people, and any who claim to be God's people while rejecting his Son are just pretenders. Or as John put it, "No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also" (1 John 2:23).
Ethnicity matters not at all when it comes to God's covenant. "God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham" (Matthew 3:9).
"For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God." - Romans 2:28-29
Christians must stop buying into the nonsense that they must support modern day Israel, because they are "God's people" and God told Abraham "I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse" (Genesis 12:3). They're NOT God's people. They are a "synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie" (Revelation 3:9). That promise to Abraham is YOURS as a true heir of the promises through Christ, not theirs (Galatians 3:14). You are no more bound to support modern Israel than any other nation outside your own; that is, not at all.

2026-03-12 03:52:22 UTC

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On a side note, I got to try some cougar meat for the first time, too.

2026-03-12 03:51:14 UTC

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Was a good time. We were intending to cover chapters 21-24 or maybe even 25 tonight. Yeah... We only made it through 21.
Spent a lot of time on why we structure Lord's day worship the way we do, and the continuing relevance of the 4th commandment for Christians.

2026-03-12 00:44:43 UTC

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Not on egalitarianism specifically. That will likely be a major issue at our regional presbytery meeting considering it was a minister from our presbytery whose very egalitarian article in the Ordained Servant recently caused such a stir.
However, the egalitarian folks really want the focus to be on Christian Nationalism and kinism to get the focus off of them and there is an overture for a study committee on Christian Nationalism that they want to throw kinism in with, as well.

2026-03-12 00:21:52 UTC

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Someone has to go stand against the egalitarians.

2026-03-12 00:14:18 UTC

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Elder commissioner from my presbytery, so I will be there. My first time at an OPC GA.

2026-03-12 00:09:32 UTC

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You coming to GA by any chance?

2026-03-11 23:49:49 UTC

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Tonight is going to be cold drinks and the Confession with men training to be officers. Looking forward to it! 🍻

2026-03-02 20:14:52 UTC

My note is no longer top of the feed on Wisp!
Client keeps getting better and better!
Thanks @nprofile…jejf !

2026-03-02 16:44:16 UTC

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Still trying to send and receive between White Noise and White Noise.

2026-03-01 15:52:30 UTC

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Thank you for the shout out and the kind words, my friend!
Completely understand where you're coming from. Do what you need to do for your own wellbeing.

2026-03-01 05:02:34 UTC

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Pretty sure that's the intention behind them being hash addressable, right?

2026-03-01 04:30:59 UTC

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Clients won't fetch the blobs from the new server when they can't find it on the old one?

2026-02-28 19:55:31 UTC

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Was thinking the same thing. 😂

2026-02-27 18:25:32 UTC

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Very nice! I have no room for adding new physical books to my bookshelf (I can only fit one at this time), so I have been sticking to digital books for now. Driving me crazy because I much prefer physical.

2026-02-27 06:02:57 UTC

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Freerse is still being worked om?

2026-02-27 04:17:37 UTC

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LunaNode

2026-02-27 03:23:38 UTC

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Yeah, Amethyst properly ignores future-dated notes.

2026-02-27 02:07:16 UTC

I am still immortalized on Wisp, and any other client that doesn't ignore future-dated notes.
#nevent1q…wnmd

2026-02-27 02:05:48 UTC

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Is the "Extended" feed just the next layer out of WoT from a user's follows?

2026-02-27 02:01:07 UTC

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Grab the latest release.
https://github.com/barrydeen/wisp/releases/tag/v0.1.2-alpha

2026-02-27 01:33:50 UTC

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Gotta say, it's really good already.
I did have it crash a few times earlier this morning, but it has bern very stable all afternoon. Makes me think there must have been a note in my feed that it wasn't handling well and isn't an issue now that it is buried beyond the number of posts that Wisp loads.
Wallet setup was really easy. Amber login was smooth. It handles notifications really well. The UI is really nice. Intuitive and attractive.
There are still some things to be worked on, but I have no doubt @nprofile…jejf can deliver.

2026-02-26 18:55:53 UTC

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Any plans to improve search, particularly relating to user results?
https://relay.brightbolt.net/bef4b0d365e7112ba388a221ae5375baa190a96bc46c628ad11425a9045d6f3c.jpg https://relay.brightbolt.net/444dd0d715fa43ffe095447a3bf2816b723d65eb638326f67d97e6d9cb87f3c4.jpg

2026-02-26 17:58:23 UTC

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Should probably ignore future-dated notes. 😉
https://relay.brightbolt.net/dcf3447e2fe407b41de0448ca9f1070315557396edc017b92333d881f1918689.jpg

2026-02-25 22:56:01 UTC

@nprofile…radp now has NIP-55 login and a LARGE changelog! Anyone want to give ot a try with me?

2026-02-22 00:52:48 UTC

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*Came to Android.
https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqt8gmm0d3ejuun9d3shjtnjv4kxz7t5dahkcuczyp7vx29q3hdj4l0elxl800hlfjp538le09epsf7k9zj59ue2y37quqcyqqq8uzcutgh5r
More options are ALWAYS welcome, though!

2026-02-21 23:12:31 UTC

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This reminds me of my response to @nprofile…d5tl back when there was a lot of discussion about whether to just start calling sats bitcoins. He asked what the fuss was all about, and asked "if it ain't broken, why fix it?"
Here's what I said to steelman the argument and then give my reason why I am not on board with it yet:
#nevent1q…pjma

2026-02-20 23:28:48 UTC

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It's 2026! Why the heck didn't they at least go with NIP-17!?

2026-02-17 19:52:39 UTC

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Reply you sent or reply you received?
I think Amethyst handles replies differently regardless. It should be fetching replies others send you from your inbox relays and sending your replies to your outbox relays.
The proxy relays are for loading your feed of original posts, if I understand correctly.

2026-02-17 19:43:53 UTC

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I've noticed that Amethyst still shows I am connecting to hundreds of relays, but every post only shows that the note was found on one of my proxy relays, and the app definitely feels like it loads faster, especially profile information.

2026-02-17 04:58:05 UTC

Changed my Amethyst setup to use a couple proxy relays and WOW what a difference!
Much faster and more stable, and profiles actually load so I know which of my follows posted the note.
My proxies: aggr.nostr.land and my own WoT relay.
Yes, I lose out on the outbox model for fetching notes from my follows' relays, but the tradeoff is worth it for actually having a functional app.

2026-02-17 04:51:07 UTC

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In my experience, there is usually a direct and inverse relationship between a person's disdain for Calvin and his lack of familiarity with church history in general.

2026-02-17 04:40:59 UTC

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But ser, he burned Servetus at the stake! How can you support such a monster? /s

2026-02-16 19:29:37 UTC

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It is. It's a library for all sorts of self-published books, and they've been uploading public domain classics as well.
It looks like your project is just for your own publications, which is absolutely fine. It's similar to having a blog website for just your own articles, but for books instead. And because you aren't relying on someone else's client, you can have complete control over what the site looks like and how the chapters are displayed. Very handy.
I do something similar with my long form articles, using npub.pro so I can have a website to send people to and they will only see what I have written, rather than being bombarded with all the articles that have recently been published, regardless of author.
It looks like you opted to use a custom note kind for this, which is a good choice, since it means your chapters won't pop up on every long form client out there. They'll only be viewable on your custom client.
I probably would have gone a different route, though. I would have used Alexandria's kind 30040 and kind 30041, since those are intended for book publishing, with each chapter being a separate note (30041) and then an index note that associates them together in the correct order (30040). That way you can still have your custom client that only displays your own publications, but people would also be able to read your book, or stumble upon it and start reading it, on Alexandria as well.
This would have accomplished all the goals you stated above, while also taking advantage of the interoperability superpower that Nostr has, allowing the same content to exist on any client that can display the appropriate note kind.

2026-02-16 02:38:48 UTC

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So... Project Alexandria remake?
https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/

2026-02-12 16:54:02 UTC

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Nothing new. Anything in particular you're trying to achieve by updating your setup?

2026-02-12 05:52:38 UTC

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Nose to the grindstone with seminary. Still keeping an eye on how things are going round here, though.

2026-02-12 05:49:59 UTC

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2026-02-05 20:45:45 UTC

"Wear you out" is over. "Scare you out" has arrived.

2026-02-05 03:03:16 UTC

When I tell people that progressive sanctification looks like a Bitcoin price chart, it's times like these that keep the statement accurate.

2026-01-17 20:58:29 UTC

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Depends on your definition of "client."
#naddr1qv…re6k

2026-01-17 19:23:25 UTC

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Coracle.social or Jumble.social mostly.

2026-01-13 18:14:01 UTC

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"Centralize around relays" is a mischaracterization, I think. There are over 900 known relays, all being administered by different individuals. Many users run their own relays, at minimum for backing up their own notes, if not as personal outbox/inbox relays. More people could run their own relays, but assume it is harder than it really is. Tools like Nostr Relay Tray make it incredibly easy to run a relay from a home PC.
It may not be as fully decentralized as P2P would be, but it is a far cry from centralized. Not unless you would characterize Bitcoin as making the same mistake by "centralizing around nodes," because not everyone who uses Bitcoin runs a node, but instead rely on someone else's node.
I'd say that both Bitcoin and Nostr strike a good balance between ease of use and decentralization. Anyone just coming in is not required to run a node or a relay to participate, but we keep building tools to make it easier and easier for people to do so when they understand the benefits.
You say I point to Tor as a good solution. I think you may have misunderstood. Tor is the only available solution to allow you to use Citrine as an outbox relay others can read from, but not necessarily a good one. It only works if your audience is using a client that can access relays over Tor, such as Amethyst. As a result, your potential audience size is greatly reduced.
As you mentioned, though, people can and should post to multiple (at least 3) relays, with three of them being announced as their outbox relays where their notes can reliably be found. That allows people to find their notes, even if they don't have the ability to connect to the phone relay over Tor, or because the phone isn't able to connect to the internet, etc.
I think a relay on the phone is much better as a local-first relay, though, that pulls in notes from other relays for the relay owner to read in their favorite client, and that blasts their own notes out to other relays, keeping a local copy. This would allow users to browse notes and post their own, even if they are currently offline, and the relay will automatically broadcast their notes once they have signal or WiFi, and pull in more notes for their feed. I believe this is the approach that Damus is taking, but I am not sure if that built-in relay will be accessible by other clients running on the same device, or if it will only be available to Damus itself. If the latter, then I would much prefer to use a dedicated relay on the phone like Citrine than to use a client-specific relay for each and every client, which would each be independently retrieving notes and sapping bandwidth, storage space, and battery life.

2026-01-13 08:25:13 UTC

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I believe the goal for Damus is to have a local-first integrated relay.
Android has one you can run on your phone that works with any native client you also run on your phone, thanks to @npub1w4u…0jr5 . It's called Citrine.
Not sure which approach I think is best. If you only use one client, then building it into the client might be the way to go. If you use multiple clients, then building it into every one of them doesn't make sense. Better to have a separate relay app that all of them can access.
When it comes to having a relay that others can read YOUR notes from, the difficulty is in securely exposing a local service to the broader internet, and the fact that even at their best, phones have limited bandwith, battery life, and intermittent internet connection. It is much better to run an outbox relay on a server than on a phone. Though, technically, you CAN use Citrine as an outbox relay when paired with Orbot, but it would only be accessible by others via Tor, which would be audience limiting.

2026-01-12 20:28:32 UTC

It's easy to forget how far you've come in your #Bitcoin journey, until you start helping someone who's new remember how to send a transaction from their self-custody wallet.
Concepts that seem basic to me now are completely foreign to newcoiners. Things as straightforward as, "Your hardware wallet can't sign for a transaction you haven't imported into it yet, because every signature is unique to the transaction it is signing for."

2026-01-12 18:57:37 UTC

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Definitely. Nice and warm here in the lodge, though.

2026-01-12 18:43:31 UTC

View from my "office" today:
https://relay.brightbolt.net/ae51265e472d4d6c55f18b83dd292c9c7ff33bdd69899dafb1c6835b8b34048b.jpg

2026-01-12 18:31:55 UTC

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Is NIP-46 finally getting more reliable?

2026-01-12 18:27:36 UTC

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Have you checked your wallet to see if the zaps are coming out despite Amethyst's UI not showing it? Sometimes I would have that issue, but the zaps were actually going through, just not displaying as completed until I closed and re-opened Amethyst.
Aside from that, you can remove your NWC connection from Amethyst and re-add it, so long as you still have the connection string saved somewhere.

2026-01-12 03:03:58 UTC

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Not sure if he's still actively working on improvements, but @nprofile…vyxv is the guy you want to hit up if there are changes you want to see that would make longform.space better.
I haven't tried out Habla again since the recent updates, but longform.space was my favorite for publishing my last few articles.
Reading, though? I would agree that Primal is top dog right now.

2026-01-08 20:17:24 UTC

Lately, #Coracle and #Yakihonne have been the most consistent clients on #Android for actually showing me when I have notifications.
#Amethyst has really been letting me down in that regard. #Pokey has usually bridged the gap, but not always.

2026-01-08 19:08:36 UTC

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I run both.
My Start9 is my Bitcoin and Lightning node. I run everything Bitcoin related on it, and nothing else. So Bitcoin, mempool, electrum server, DATUM, JAM, UTXOracle, LND & CLN lightning nodes, Alby Hub, and a watch only wallet in Sparrow.
My Umbrel is my homeserver, running Nextcloud, Photoprism, Calibre Web, Audiobookshelf, Jellyfin, AdGuard, a Synapse server for a Matrix community, and various other non-Bitcoin related tools that I use on a regular basis.
Why I set things up this way:
Currently, Umbrel has a much wider selection of apps and is easier to connect to remotely, since it has Tailscale and Nginx Proxy Manager alongside the Tor option. Meanwhile, Start9 has a good selection of Bitcoin related apps, but not a great selection outside of that, and until we get StartOS version 4.0, it doesn't have any option for connecting remotely except Tor and Nostr Wallet Connect; the latter of which is only useful for connecting to your Lightning wallet. Additionally, it's just a good idea to run everything Bitcoin related on a separate device than you run everything else to reduce the surface area of possible compromise of sensitive information.

2026-01-08 18:52:16 UTC

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How followers are sorted/displayed to you is going to be different from client to client. Typically I have seen them sorted by the order you followed them. I have not come across a client that will display them based on when they last posted anything.
However, if your goal is to unfollow inactive users, there are a couple tools out there for just that.
https://unfollow.yeghro.com/
and
https://www.plebsvszombies.cc/

2026-01-08 05:41:11 UTC

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Thanks! On winter break for another week and a half, then back to the grind.

2026-01-07 21:36:50 UTC

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Not sure on the video, but one good resource for freedom focused alternatives is kycnot.me
Another great privacy focused resource is https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

2025-12-25 02:32:25 UTC

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Go to the top of your feed and tap on "All Follows" or whichever other feed option you have selected. Then scroll doen to the subject/hashtag you want to unfollow and tap on it. This should load a feed with just that subject and you should see an "Unfollow" button in the top right.

2025-12-22 02:53:45 UTC

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I still have them do on-chain and lightning separately, explaining that Lightning is like their checking account, or a small savings that you build up a bit before putting the funds into long-term savings (on-chain).
As for what wallet, generally stick with Phoenix for lightning and Nunchuk for on-chain. Nunchuk CAN be connected to your home node via Tor by pairing it with Orbot, but I feel like that's something they should do with their own node when they are ready.
Another thing to note is, I make sure to get them set up with a sizeable channel on Phoenix so they are not likely to run into surprise fees for needing increased liquidity.

2025-12-22 02:25:53 UTC

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What client?

2025-12-22 02:24:40 UTC

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Hashtags, used appropriately and in moderation are absolutely appropriate on Nostr and useful for discovery.
You can do anything you want on Nostr, and no one can stop you from using hashtags inappropriately, though. Hashtag spam is definitely an issue here. Little will get you muted faster than using hashtags to make your unrelated content more visible. So, keep that in mind when deciding to add them to your notes.
My general advice would be to only add a maximum of three or four highly relevant hashtags to your note. Bonus points if you can fit them inline within the context of your note, rather than placing them at the bottom or top of the note. If you have to choose top or bottom, choose the bottom of the note so people can read what you have to say first, and disregard the hashtags.

2025-12-20 20:11:58 UTC

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It's based on the pool. Any pools that payout via on-chain will have a payout threshold, because they want to minimize the amount of on-chain fees they have to pay.
The way to avoid these thresholds is to 1. have enough hashrate that you will meet or exceed the threshold more often, or 2. select a pool that will do payouts via Lightning, so you can receive payouts daily, even if they are very small amounts.
Two pools that will do payouts via Lightning are Braiins and OCEAN. Brains is, by far, easier to set up. However, they use FPPS, which means you will be paid less overall over time. OCEAN is much more difficult to set up, and requires the ability to receive via BOLT-12, and you may not agree with their stance on spam. However, you CAN choose to use a mining template that doesn't filter spam at all, if that is your conviction.

2025-12-19 19:45:55 UTC

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There are several problems with this proposal, but let's start with the most practical ones.
First, how will anyone know who to pay? Every node would somehow need to announce what Bitcoin address they should be paid at, and there would need to be a way to verify that the address is associated with a legitimate and separate node, not just someone announcing an address into the network without actually running a node. This is not an issue with mining rewards because the proof is in the data itself. They found a valid hash, so they get paid, and they put in the block that they created exactly how they get paid. Nodes don't do any PoW, though, so there is no way to verify whether an announced address really belongs to a node operator, or just some dude who wants some easy passive sats.
What happens when new nodes come on the network? They will need to store all the same data as existing nodes, so shouldn't they be paid by those who put that data on the network, too? Or should they only be paid for data that is added after they joined? If the latter is the case, then they are storing a lot of previous data that they aren't compensated for, but others were. What is their incentive to store that data?
The economics here is ridiculous. There are currently somewhere between 45,000–50,000 Bitcoin nodes. That number is not exact because it can't be. We don't know how many are running behind Tor or in other private networks, so the best we can do is estimate. Refer back to the first main issue with your proposal above. But let's just spitball some numbers here. If the proposal was something like 1 sat per KB per node, then a 1 KB piece of arbitrary data would cost 45k-50k sats with the current node count, plus the transaction fees for sending each of those transactions. Assuming this would be done using 1 input and 45,000 outputs on the low end, and best possible case scenario of 1 sat/vbyte transaction fee, the cost would be somewhere around 1,400,000 sats for the transaction fee alone, even with the lower estimate on how many nodes there are on the network. And node count would almost certainly go up, since this would be a direct financial incentive to run a node.
Things get more ridiculous from there, because 1 sat UTXOs are dust and unspendable. For a UTXO to be spendable, even in a low fee environment, it needs to exceed 546 sats, and practically, it needs to be more than 20k sats to be worth moving on-chain. And you HAVE to do this on-chain, because there is no way for Bitcoin to verify anything that takes place off-chain. If the node runners are paid via lightning, for instance, how will miners who select the transactions they put into a block know whether a particular transaction with arbitrary data included has paid the nodes to store that data or not? This means that even in the best-case scenario, each node must be paid a minimum of 546 sats for it to be above the dust limit, raising the cost to put arbitrary data on chain to a minimum of 24,570,000 sats for the 45,000 node runners to each get 546 sats, plus 1,400,000 in transaction fees, plus the transaction fee for the amount of data they are including in the transaction...
The final practical issue I will address is the fact that there is no way to prevent miners from including transactions that don't pay nodes a single sat. This is part of the basic game-theory that Bitcoin is built on. Miners select what transactions they will include in a block based on their own priorities, and since there are enough miners with different priorities, most transactions will eventually find their way into a block. Most miners operate on economic incentives, selecting the transactions that will result in them receiving the most fee income, but not always. If someone who really wants to put data onto the blockchain includes a high enough fee to the miners, without any payment to nodes whatsoever, some miner WILL pick up that transaction and include it in a block. The nodes could reject that block, but this would require a concrete consensus rule as the basis for doing so. A node couldn't just reject it because it contained a transaction with arbitrary data that did not also include a payment to the node's Bitcoin address to store that data. This would result in the nodes falling out of consensus with one another whenever there was a transaction that didn't pay absolutely every node on the network. But it couldn't be as simple as rejecting any block containing a transaction with arbitrary data that didn't pay any nodes, either. Otherwise the system could be too easily gamed, paying only one node, but all nodes then need to store the transaction forever. So it would need to be set to some standard of at least 90% of nodes. This would require each node to store a database of nodes and their Bitcoin addresses, so they could verify that the correct threshold had been paid, and this would become a new attack vector for breaking Bitcoin's consensus.
So, with all of the above practical issues, plus almost certainly a host of technical issues that would be above my head, and the social issue that such a change would be incredibly controversial, I think I can confidently say this idea is dead in the water.

2025-12-18 08:50:51 UTC

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Pretty sure both Primal's and Nostr.Build's blossom servers allow free uploads of up to 100MB.

2025-12-16 22:07:19 UTC

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Self-hosted and frictionless are not compatible terms, particularly in Lightning.
The most user-friendly is probably Alby Hub, by far, which is what I use on my Start9. However, you still have all of the same friction points of every self-hosted lightning node that come with having to manage your own channels, their liquidity, choosing quality channel partners, etc.
And then your Tor connection goes on the fritz, so half your channels are offline until you can get it back up, hoping your channel partner didn't force-close on you.
The constant cry is that we need to make this more straightforward for normies so they can self-host their own lightning infrastructure. Sorry, but that's not possible. Some of these things can be automated, for sure, but that just introduces a different set of friction points when the normie gets a much larger than expected fee, because they had no idea what inbound liquidity is, let alone that they ran out of it.

2025-12-16 21:59:20 UTC

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Most of the popular ecash wallets, such as minibits, provide a lightning address, and you use their mint by default. I believe any sats sent to that lightning address from outside of their mint would be converted to ecash from their mint, even if you have added other mints in the wallet.
The same would apply to lightning addresses from other mints, like cashu.me or npub.cash. Ecash sent to the lightning address from a different mint would first be melted and sent via lightning, and then minted as ecash from the mint that provided the lightning address. Ecash from the same mint that provided the lightning address would simply be sent as ecash from within the mint, though.

2025-12-16 21:44:27 UTC

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Sounds superfluous. Ecash wallets send via lightning when the user is not in the same mint already, and typically can detect from the lightning address if they are in the same mint to send as ecash instead.
Ideally, users should not have to figure out whether they should send a transaction as lightning, ecash, liquid, or any other payment rail. Lightning should be the interoperability layer that is front facing, and everything else just happens in the background without the user needing to even know what is going on.

2025-12-16 18:43:03 UTC

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The protected tag is a relatively new feature that clients may have slowly been adding. I think it was originally thought up for the sake of lockbox and zapbox relays, so that there could be kind 1 and other standard note types that could be published to a specific relay that only a select group could read from. This would be more private than publishing to public relays that anyone can read from, but less private than encrypting the content.

2025-12-16 17:57:19 UTC

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My guess is that if the client has a feature to specify a particular relay to post to, rather than posting to your outbox relays like normal, it probably adds that tag, assuming that you ONLY want the note to exist on that relay. Generally a safe assumption, except in this case.

2025-12-16 17:43:22 UTC

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Whatever client you are using is adding the "-" tag to the note to indicate that it is a protected event, which should not be accepted as a rebroadcast.
https://relay.brightbolt.net/cce5ceba6893ecee82b60dff817a69a9c3eda81b824ae242e7e08afea13400fd.jpg

2025-12-16 17:37:52 UTC

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Tollgate is a different product entirely, since it is the user paying the wifi provider directly. There's no reason someone couldn't create something similar to what you described, where the cell phone company pays the wifi provider in Bitcoin whenever their customers use the wifi, though.

2025-12-16 05:20:58 UTC

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The token used is arbitrary. They could have used Bitcoin for this if they had been inclined. Using Helium instead was a development choice that had nothing to do with its "usefulness."

2025-12-16 01:06:13 UTC

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Good web clients that I haven't had any issues with, since they read from my outbox relays, are Coracle and Jumble. Highly recommend!

2025-12-16 00:15:58 UTC

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Maybe KeyChat would be your answer, at least for all webapps. Of course, Alby would only work with webapps anyway, so...
The built-in wallet in KeyChat is ecash, though. I am not sure whether each device would have a separate balance, or if they would have a unified balance. My guess is the former.
And KeyChat is more of a chat app with a web-browser and built in signer & wallet, rather than being a dedicated wallet + signer app like the Alby Extension.
Outside of that, there is not any cross-platform signer+wallet app, though. Particularly not one that works to sign with native apps on all of the devices you mentioned.

2025-12-12 19:45:31 UTC

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I always forget about the custom message that can be sent along with a zap.
I think I would feel the need to create WAY more default zaps. At least three different ones with laugh emojis.
😄 7 sats (for things that were dad-joke levels of punny)
😆 21 sats
🤣 77 sats
And then set up various levels for other reactions as well, until I had 20 different default zap amounts... Nah, I think I like having the zap amount and the reaction separate.

2025-12-09 18:33:31 UTC

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I am unaware of any character limit enforced by HAVEN.

2025-12-09 18:32:22 UTC

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I am doing the MDiv program, so it's pretty comprehensive, as far as seminary courses go. A ThMin, or a Biblical Counseling certification would be a bit more focused, but the MDiv is intended for those going into full-time gospel ministry, to equip them for all aspects of that work.
Every term has a core 5 of Old Testament, New Testament, Church History, Theology, and Original Languages classes. Then there are some additional required classes that rotate what is available each term, such as Biblical Counseling or Homiletics.
For instance, this term I took the following:
Old Testament: Pentateuch
New Testament: General Epistles
Church History: None (I had previously completed the class offered this term on Early Church History)
Theology: Apologetics and Ethics
Original Languages: Basic Hebrew 1
Additional: Church Organization and Administration, and Westminster Standards
Next term is looking like this:
Old Testament: Historic Narratives
New Testament: Johannine Writings
Church History: Modern Church History
Theology: None (I have previously completed the course offered on Ecclesiology and Eschatology)
Original Languages: Basic Hebrew 2
Additional: Contemporary Issues in Counseling

2025-12-09 04:10:17 UTC

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Where can I read about this relay implementation and why one would want to run it?

2025-12-09 02:06:14 UTC

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Here's how I explain it:
Say there was only one copy of the entire works of Shakespeare. Someone making a second copy would be incredibly valuable to everyone in the world, because there would be less risk of his entire works being lost in one disaster.
If someone else also created a third copy of Shakespeare's entire works, that would still be pretty valuable, because you aren't relying on only 2 copies, which could still pretty feasibly both be destroyed. However, what if there are 100+ copies of Shakespeare's entire works? A new copy being made has some marginal value to everyone. It is still making it less likely that Shakespeare's works are lost forever, but not nearly so valuable as when there were only a few copies. And when there are tens of thousands of copies, then adding one new copy doesn't really move the needle at all for benefitting the community at all. The chances of his entire works being lost in that scenario would be statistically identical regardless of whether one new copy was added or not.
It's the same with Bitcoin nodes. When there were only a handful of nodes on the network, every new node added was a major value in increased decentralization and decreased likelihood that Bitcoin could wver be killed. Now that there are tend of thousands of nodes on the network, the marginal value of one new node being added is effectively 0 in terms of the overall community.
That said, just like having YOUR OWN copy of Shakespeare's complete works at this point has no value to anyone else, but has great value to you, since you can now read them at your leisure, having your own Bitcoin node is a massive value to you, even though it isn't really helping anyone else in a measurable way.
You gain a lot of increased privacy by having your wallet software connect to your own node, rather than whatever it defaults to. You can also browse your own mempool, rather than doxxing what transactions you are interested in to a public mempool explorer. You also get to decide what Bitcoin is for yourself by running the implementation you most align with.
In short, run a node for yourself, not for anyone else.