VitorPamplona
Vitor Pamplona

Nostr's Chief Android Officer - Amethyst Social

Public Key

npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z

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nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qythwumn8ghj7anfw3hhytnjv4kxz7tfdenju6t08w85jx

Publishing to

nostr-pub.wellorder.net

vitor.relaying.io

relay.noderunners.network

a.nos.lol

oxtrdevav64z64yb7x6rjg4ntzqjhedm5b5zjqulugknhzr46ny2qbad.onion

pyramid.fiatjaf.com

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npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z

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Published at

2026-06-10T20:44:15Z

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Last Notes

2026-07-18 02:59:46 UTC

👀
#nevent1q…xttk

2026-07-17 18:07:20 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/fa906631787975e4714ab29311c178a3e84014be243b897bf6eb8379261f4d5d.mp4

2026-07-17 13:19:15 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/a822e9c7f139dd57ddd99aa46eb5d2869ac348fc010ac80e9e0ffd366ecd0d12.jpg

2026-07-16 01:04:08 UTC

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That's why we Nostr.. :)

2026-07-15 20:42:40 UTC

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Sorry, I forgot my Mexican filter on...

2026-07-15 18:33:16 UTC

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The reaction without p-tags was one of them... On my side, I need to show channels in a more interesting way.

2026-07-15 18:28:45 UTC

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Its on the main branch already, but I need to solve some kinks

2026-07-15 18:26:14 UTC

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Wait until you get all the invalid Concord wraps.

2026-07-15 18:25:37 UTC

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Almost ready

2026-07-15 18:16:02 UTC

Me, before and after interacting with an AI...
https://image.nostr.build/cd688592365242851987f622b8395eb0bd0417f4a24896abeb2de201fd2c2087.jpg

2026-07-15 15:19:09 UTC

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Dick pics everywhere.

2026-07-15 12:44:59 UTC

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Just kotlin

2026-07-15 02:40:43 UTC

https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/d910bfa16727ce68f22c474c085fcf3d28ab74725818bd7785c8ea679e9155eb.jpg

2026-07-14 21:08:38 UTC

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They need to finish that protocol

2026-07-14 20:49:52 UTC

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Your profile picture is offline

2026-07-14 20:33:53 UTC

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Your profile picture is offline.

2026-07-14 16:06:39 UTC

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If you want to take this seriously and to the next level, you need to tell me why would I follow them... Like follow this to her more Linux content. Follow that to get more interesting takes about the world cup. Follow this other one to see more memes. Follow your brother to see more family pictures you are in... Etc..

2026-07-14 15:40:34 UTC

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Ohhh Discover didnt work for me.. But I just realized that it takes about 10 seconds to load.
Results are fine... It's the people are know are on Nostr because my follows keep retweeting them... So the feeling is like.. more of the same. Similar to the old DVM algorithms. If I wanted to follow them I would have already done so.
+ A lot of corporate accounts (Damus, primal, Bitcoin magazine, Blockstream, ....) I definitely don't want to follow
+ A lot of very old accounts that are not active on Nostr anymore since... Years.. The like The Nostr Report.
That's the thing with Recommendations that to me algos are not good enough. Its not recommending anyone interesting that I have not already decided to not follow.

2026-07-14 15:16:50 UTC

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Looks ok. That algo seems to work well for direct follows, but if I search for people in my larger network sometimes they don't show up. Like.. if I search for Vitor, I see 3 out of 4 of my accounts and 4 out of the ~10 other Vitor's I know on Nostr.
Plus I see a lot more impersonators/scammers in the Relevent algo than your normal one... I am not sure why.
I was talking about that with David a few days ago, my larger WoT network (follows of follows of follows...) has about 1M profiles if the crawler follows outbox. If the crawler is just based on a fixed relay set, it drops to about 150-000 to 300,000 profiles.
Also, no typo correction algorithm (Victor -> Vitor) so search is less effective.. People never remember how to spell the user's name.

2026-07-14 14:53:09 UTC

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Could work as well. To me this is all about figuring out what types of endpoints cannot be run locally and cannot be solved via the usual nip85/nip50 routes that we have great caching for already.

2026-07-14 14:50:35 UTC

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For Ubuntu, @nprofile…94k8 is working on a full desktop version of Amethyst

2026-07-14 14:39:19 UTC

Getting ready for Android laptops...
https://image.nostr.build/fe267577afccd36157fa5de6536db0cca6b04270cb5fa7198373658efaefbfeb.png

2026-07-14 13:17:58 UTC

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It's the easiest way to make a billion dollar company.

2026-07-14 13:16:18 UTC

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Search will always be NIP-50 because of the other filter options.. I can search on comments of a thread, for instance. Only on a hashtag, only in some id set that I have... Etc,
Recommendations is more interesting, but we need to have better algos and more interesting inputs. Blind recommendations without asking what type of users or posts the account is looking for doesn't work. It's just a feels good feature that nobody actually uses. Or a way to centralize the network even further around the already the big accounts.

2026-07-14 12:59:54 UTC

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I think people severely underestimate how much money is available to buy datasets from any company. VCs, goverments (international), ad platforms, credit agencies, insurances... Everybody wants everything they can get on you. It's quite literally a founder playbook.
These days any company can call one of Palantir's proxies and secure themselves a great deal for their data.

2026-07-14 12:53:53 UTC

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Money.

2026-07-14 12:38:14 UTC

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We were talking yesterday about features that would inherently need a server to process things for the client and one of those things is an endpoint to give me all paths between two pubkeys so I can render that small graph in the client.
Or maybe something on the lines of... give me a summary of this account's latest usage of Nostr: list clients they use, list nostr features they use, list languages, list topics, positive/negative post ratio, how their follows usually react (positive or negative), maybe some examples of the previous ratings. All in one return. This would need to parse images and videos they post to see what they are about. Same analysis could be done for each post too, but we don't have large threads anymore.. so it is less effective these days.
Needs to be fast though, because I will need to pre-load this on scrolling for all users visible in the feed. That's usually my concern when working with servers... Amethyst can easily DDOS them with simple regular usage. We already DDOS relays from time to time...

2026-07-14 11:51:15 UTC

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Not sure where to use it yet...

2026-07-14 01:35:10 UTC

Creator: I just used Y and is the best thing ever!!
Me: hey clanker, is that true?
Clanker: lol, no. They were sponsored by the parent company just a couple videos ago.

2026-07-14 00:53:39 UTC

Amethyst is becoming so large that we need our own resource management screens to see what's consuming memory and bandwidth. 🤪
https://blossom.ditto.pub/539cf3292cbda26688c60c14a51ecb14a665aaebf219aeab2046267f892da650.mp4

2026-07-14 00:16:02 UTC

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Done: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/pull/3548

2026-07-13 23:45:26 UTC

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Is it still more stressful to watch than to cook that food yourself?

2026-07-13 15:05:03 UTC

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Done: https://blossom.ditto.pub/e3b7b33084d27684a7ea9a0570ebf5a3282cbd41b19feb051cce54a678cdfa76.png

2026-07-13 14:31:41 UTC

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Every day since I closed my previous company... :)

2026-07-13 08:55:05 UTC

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Try adding nos.lol and nostr.mom to your public outbox and inbox relays.
The damus relay you are using is going away by the end of the month and it is currently very unstable.

2026-07-13 08:42:36 UTC

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It's not about animations.. that's just the easy way to see how old technology can't keep up. The entire stack of libraries everybody uses is optimized for instructions and capabilities available in newer phones to match new behaviors expected in new android versions. A lot has changed since pixel 5a, which was launched using an outdated snapdragon 765G processor... Everything is 3x slower in those models when compared to recent midrange 7xx series.

2026-07-13 01:26:58 UTC

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The old processors simply cannot run most of the new animations properly. There is just not enough power to even play things correctly. So the framework already disables most of it, but it cannot disable it all, so everything becomes VERY slow compared to any newer phone.
I mean, even on my Pixel 8, Twitter, WhatsApp, Gmail is all VERY slow compared to a pixel 10. And that is just 2 years... But it is visible when putting them side by side.
There is no magic to old hardware. They just don't perform. Our standards on what's acceptable for a good UI move on, and the older phones suffer.

2026-07-13 01:18:19 UTC

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All the translations are local AI models. Newer phones offer proof reading and writing tools when composing on Amethyst. Other phones have "alt" descriptors automatically generated for the pictures you submit so that the blink can imagined what's on them. All local.

2026-07-13 01:06:16 UTC

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Sure.. it's that we run several AI models locally so automating locally is also possible.

2026-07-13 01:02:03 UTC

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We can add it. Would you want to just have a way to update the user's name to whatever you want or something more automated?

2026-07-12 22:03:19 UTC

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Really... After all this time? Interesting... Did you have to change it to make it useful for you?
Frankly, I wanted to get rid of all the properties on the NIP and let relay operators and clients negotiate new properties that are actually useful. I feel like we bloated NIP-11's limits with random stuff that we don't even use and/or are not effective at all.

2026-07-12 21:15:42 UTC

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Does it work? I tested I2P embed on Amethyst a couple months ago, but it was so slow (1-2 mins boot up to the first good reply then then very slow connections later) that I gave up.

2026-07-12 21:13:43 UTC

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Has been fixed already.. it will be there in the next version

2026-07-12 15:07:25 UTC

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Yep, but not fucking git commands. Learn what it does, not the syntax to do this you know it can do.

2026-07-12 14:06:09 UTC

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Just ask the AI to use ngit instead.. nobody has the time to learn and memorize these commands.

2026-07-12 00:10:59 UTC

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Bounties are always welcome. And it is usually quite effective with us as long as the value in the bounty makes sense.

2026-07-11 18:45:53 UTC

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Pixel 5A? Yeah. That is never going to work. My minimum now is Pixel 7. And it will be pixel 8 by the end of the year.
It's not that we don't care. Everyone has moved on to newer phones. We please the average. Supporting super old phones is way harder than it seems.

2026-07-11 04:20:46 UTC

https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/7906b0aa2462076dd11509ac46b3b44e634959fb4490342e09ea59121c6b4524.mp4

2026-07-11 01:45:50 UTC

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Your coffee was awesome!

2026-07-11 01:34:34 UTC

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Far too many people have misunderstood Nostr as something philosophically different than other systems. There are many technical differences between nostr and other social media networks.. but an account is still an account.

2026-07-11 01:24:36 UTC

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Yes, but your account in a pyramid relay is your nsec. There is no other account with them. So, your nsec is the account.

2026-07-11 01:21:57 UTC

That was way too easy... Let's try PoW 30

2026-07-11 01:19:46 UTC

Lets see if this works.. PoW 20 from Amethyst

2026-07-11 01:18:13 UTC

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Each nsec you have controls a Nostr account. Your name can have as many accounts as you wish. We don't have accounts with relays on Nostr.

2026-07-11 01:05:34 UTC

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Every nsec is an account. Attributes of the account are saved in about 20 different event kinds. Accounts don't necessarily need registration with anyone else.

2026-07-11 00:56:34 UTC

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Everywhere? Because we call account the users logged in... Everybody else is just a profile/user.

2026-07-10 23:34:19 UTC

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In the outbox, that multiplies the number of relays you need to connect by about 10x... I can check to see if it works.

2026-07-10 21:54:42 UTC

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I don't think anyone would trust everybody in a relay. So, you have to trust the relay (follow/accept connecting to the relay) and then within the relay filter by your user follows.

2026-07-10 21:41:43 UTC

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No, this just checks if the user wants to authenticate with relays that other people are running.
What you are asking can be done but your relays need to offer it.

2026-07-10 21:40:53 UTC

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Always assume relays are tracking you. Then allow tracking for those you trust.

2026-07-10 21:25:19 UTC

Nostr is so weird. I have been running crawlers to find stuff in my larger web of trust and the delta between runs of the nodes/relays I can access changes on about 30% from hour to hour.
On a bad run my web of trust (follows of follows of follows... to infinity) captures 400K people.. on a good day, it finds relays for 600K people.
Now It just found over 1M pubkeys through the discovery of some very old Contact Lists.
This is nostr for you.

2026-07-10 19:05:46 UTC

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Lol, hopefully it's not too little too late.

2026-07-10 18:59:05 UTC

Coming up: AUTH permission requests to log into your follows ' relays!
KYT.. Know your trackers.
https://image.nostr.build/78b2722dd70248976f5b0e93403abf27d42ea0a75db5629c53b2f574e04d6157.png

2026-07-10 18:58:15 UTC

Coming up: AUTH permission requests to log into your follows ' relays!
KYT.. Know your trackers.
https://image.nostr.build/78b2722dd70248976f5b0e93403abf27d42ea0a75db5629c53b2f574e04d6157

2026-07-10 00:45:32 UTC

If you re-watch Iron Man movies, you will notice the way Tony talks to Jarvis and other robots around is exactly the way we code with AI.
He even had a Dum-E AI arm robot that makes stupid mistakes in the same way LLMs do today.
Weird feeling all through it

2026-07-09 02:54:16 UTC

https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/787f2b6e310ed9b7e1466661b2e8594b4b2cbedce66128829f1c93205c18ee14.mp4

2026-07-08 12:08:36 UTC

It's the age of AI.. People have the power to build whatever they want.
And they are choosing to build things that barely work.
Wtf.
GM.

2026-07-08 11:48:40 UTC

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Then you have never used lightning

2026-07-08 03:08:20 UTC

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Yes, I am an Alby customer for over 3 years and your customer too. Shit doesn't work. Your site is not even understandable to me, a CS graduate.
I just had to talk to Alby 2 days ago to manually change one of my peer nodes IP address because the peer channel owner decided to just move IPs and everything broke.
It's like you have to have a computer science degree to keep simple things tolking to one another.
The state of lightning is terrible.

2026-07-08 02:56:48 UTC

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Oh great.. all I wanted... More idiots selling shit we don't want.

2026-07-08 02:56:04 UTC

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I have an agenda... Shit needs to work 100% of the time. It must NEVER fail.
When wallets fail, channels disappear, sats disappear, fees debit from the balance without any confirmation or in a hidden way and/or when people cannot complete a simple zap fast enough to see the result come back, they fully give up the idea of using Bitcoin.

2026-07-06 02:32:43 UTC

Some people asking for zaps on nostr
https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/ddae95062588f2412459e74a5d80d901cded875bd80a56c8a8d55a7e83d3a72d.mp4

2026-07-06 01:12:21 UTC

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Nenhuma app que usa o Tor consegiu isso.

2026-07-06 01:10:53 UTC

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E colocar no nosso GitHub? :)

2026-07-06 01:09:41 UTC

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Pq é controlado pela Microsoft.

2026-07-06 01:07:47 UTC

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O fdroid não aceita nada com a lib oficial do tor pq eles distribuem via GitHub e isso não é permitido. Eu desisti do fdroid...

2026-07-06 00:36:03 UTC

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Ahhh vc quer a customização.. entendi. Tem um commit ja na próxima versão que dará para fazer algumas trocas, includindo a cor principal. Talvez eu precise adicionar mais opções.. não sei quantas opções o telegram tem.. deixei de usar o telegram uns 10 anos atrás, mas vou investigar.

2026-07-06 00:31:27 UTC

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Nunca tivemos um designer :)
Em relação ao telegram, vc fala de um redesign dos nossos chats ou do feed? Não sei se eu já vi feeds no telegram.

2026-07-06 00:24:16 UTC

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Que tipo de design vc gostaria de ver?

2026-07-05 21:58:08 UTC

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Only if you run your own node in an infrastructure that is not tracking you on transport.

2026-07-05 21:37:22 UTC

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Added but it's just hiding it... https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/pull/3481

2026-07-05 19:57:25 UTC

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It will never be opt in. It doesn't matter what we do. Hiding it doesn't make it opt in. In this case, nothing ever will.

2026-07-05 19:53:41 UTC

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I mean, if we had to remove features that we have but other clients don't see it, we would only have one feed and nothing else.
The funny part is that I had the exact same discussion when doing pronouns in people's profiles and some users wanted me to hide it...
Actually, I have this discussion in virtually every feature we add. There is always somebody asking me to hide things without understanding that it doesn't change anybody else's view of you.

2026-07-05 19:49:15 UTC

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Lightning is not private. It never was and never will.

2026-07-05 19:48:03 UTC

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But we have lots of warning messages when putting money in and removing from it. As long as they receive in Nostr and send in Nostr, everything is fine.

2026-07-05 19:46:56 UTC

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Maybe I am not making myself clear, we can add this, but seeing how every company in our space just adds bullshit to pretend that things are solved when they are not.... I don't want to participate in that disinformation campaign...

2026-07-05 19:41:22 UTC

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Like I am trying to say, we can code your preference... But historically every client just ignores it.

2026-07-05 19:38:48 UTC

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The recommendation I make to anyone is to have two separate wallet groups. Public and private ones, regardless of the tech stack. Never put your private lightning or cashu wallet on Nostr. Similarly. Never mix your Nostr on-chain wallet with your private on-chain wallet. Never transact between any of them. If you do it once, your private setup is already exposed.

2026-07-05 19:35:03 UTC

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It's not a feature in my mind.. it's just not an opt-in process at all. Youd socially linked transactions will always be public as long as you send them through any Nostr client. Lightning, no lightning, it doesn't matter.
The only way to opt out is to have a Bitcoin wallet that no client sees. And never link the two. You can opt to not use the zap features on a Nostr client but all off those features are there and those wallets are all public.

2026-07-05 19:21:25 UTC

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I am not trying to derail. And I agree that they are complementary to each other. But I also know you cannot separate them from each other.
The point of a zap is to link your social and financial information in a single pubkey.

2026-07-05 19:20:01 UTC

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We can do preference signals... But people don't even set their outbox relays right.. so not even that crucial part of nostr is working correctly... :(

2026-07-05 19:19:06 UTC

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After all these years of being lied to from Bitcoin experts selling their shitty "privacy" solution back to us, I am now more convinced than ever that there is not a single way to stay actually private in Bitcoin. Everything has been captured via layered services or cryptographic tricks.
And definitely using utxo for each transaction doesn't do anything for privacy. It's all bullshit that can easily be correlated with other information that is already on the web and will be confirmed on chain as soon as the user starts spending those coins using any wallet out there.
For us on Nostr, since the point of this network is to create a public trace of your information for free, including zaps and other money transfers, the idea what any pubkey-liked Bitcoin, lightning or Cashu usage can remain private is laughable.

2026-07-05 18:03:01 UTC

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Why not? I think people think it is different because it has clear nominal value, but information is far more interesting and valuable than money in social networks. There is no point on applying different standards for them.
Remember that our largest trillion dollar companies are based exclusively on the idea of tracking and selling your social interactions, not your financial transactions.

2026-07-05 17:58:20 UTC

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We already have that, but nobody uses it, and clients just ignore it. So it not effective. it just adds to the confusion and friction when using Amethyst... :(

2026-07-05 17:22:23 UTC

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Just to give you a proof point, we tried this idea of blocking people from sending things on the NIP 17 spec, where if the receive doesn't have a DM relay list, the client is not supposed to send the DM.
Virtually every client ignores that rule. So much so that I had to change Amethyst to find nip 17 DMs in other relays just to see those clients DMs.
I think we are the only ones that still block it if the receiving user doesn't have a DM relay list. But I might change that soon to avoid the friction.

2026-07-05 17:14:22 UTC

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Like everything else on Nostr, if you send something and the receiving user doesn't have a client to see it right away, it doesn't fail.
Because there are so many clients that implement various things in different ways, there is no way on Nostr for you to reliably say that you don't want something. Your keys can be put anywhere the sender wants and I actually think that is what defines Nostr.
For instance, we all might have received transfers from many shitcoins out there. We all might have money waiting for us in several Cashu mints, etc.
You cannot block any of that from happening.

2026-07-04 21:01:40 UTC

USS Constitution firing the old cannons: 🗽🌭
https://blossom.ditto.pub/7f6f1a10d5cd7c414b499d99a81d8959f1d13bd82a68526eb5f81a964ab9afd1.mp4

2026-07-04 15:01:42 UTC

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Have you seen this one?
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2187

2026-07-04 14:41:22 UTC

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Most Bitcoin debates since 2014 have been idiotic in hindsight.

2026-07-04 14:38:12 UTC

Happy 4th, folks! Happy 250, USA! Still the greatest country on earth.