VitorPamplona
Vitor Pamplona

Nostr's Chief Android Officer - Amethyst/Brainstorm

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Last Notes

2026-09-14 19:46:47 CEST

GitHub issues are now just clankers talking to each other. 🚀

2026-09-14 15:37:55 CEST

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Their abs must be ripped.

2026-09-14 15:26:59 CEST

How it feels to use AI these days.
https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/4494c51e14b961ee139d34adcdf36d38490d637ea17864f9a05e1dcdc89131d4.mp4

2026-09-14 04:14:46 CEST

1988. The Polish-developed PolType 04 desktop microcomputer system, featuring its 510-key keyboard to help write complicated texts like formulas.
https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/d3ca6f8a3723b1d0b49d70a84225f0e7da1248e4171e5db68a34adeefdd37237.webp

2026-09-14 03:33:46 CEST

Brazilian immigrants are cheap as fuck in the US. So, servers tend to expect nothing from me and are genuinely surprised when I tip them well. 😅
Low expectations FTW.

2026-09-12 18:42:17 CEST

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Humm.. I wonder if this is working.. my wallet still says zero. Does it take a while to arrive on cake wallet?

2026-09-12 18:39:20 CEST

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I still have ZERO monero donations. Just fyi.

2026-09-12 18:35:55 CEST

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Because that is about 15 seconds of compute on a phone. Pow of 16 is in the milliseconds.

2026-09-12 18:27:42 CEST

Users who ask the most of me donate the least to the project, if they donate at all.

2026-09-12 18:15:55 CEST

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I find cute that people add PoW 16 labels to notes...

2026-09-12 17:51:51 CEST

And yes, cashapp and venmo works too. 🙃
#nevent1q…ef9r

2026-09-12 17:47:35 CEST

Version 1.15.2 now merges all shared payment options between the receiver and sender. So, if you have a monero wallet installed and the receiver has a monero address listed, the option to use monero shows up in your zap popup.
https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/c280b7363618f21967bdf4794b46ae4d0cd74b948c87e09af4815a95fba99a47.png

2026-09-12 01:15:39 CEST

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No idea, but exoplayer cannot play these files. Only the browser can. It's as if there was no codec for it on native Android.

2026-09-11 04:17:29 CEST

I am missing cool new apps. What have you tried lately that is super cool?

2026-09-10 21:44:08 CEST

Search filters FTW https://image.nostr.build/1cf179bf564581d648d23afaaac8cce022e222a2861fe281f918eb239716567a.png

2026-09-10 04:16:26 CEST

https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/b81db397f29a3a4fe05b769516b5a24f23da08cadd7a567008c01eeca3ca89c9.mp4

2026-09-10 00:48:41 CEST

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Imagine doing that while copying the name and form factor of the Surface Duo.

2026-09-09 21:11:46 CEST

Is it just my impression, or is there nothing Android foldables can copy from the iPhone Duo experience? Kinda disappointing.

2026-09-08 18:51:41 CEST

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Regular Nip44-encrypted nip51 lists.

2026-09-07 20:29:28 CEST

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Glad you are back on iOS development :)

2026-09-07 20:10:50 CEST

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I have never seen anyone asking for less than what I expect here. On the contrary, users want much more from an identity solution. They want magic. We are not even reaching the most basic layer, the feasible part, in my mind.

2026-09-07 19:54:31 CEST

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I read about 15 or so proposals on this. All of them suffer from the same issues. So, it's not that I have given up. We just run out of ideas.
Even the ideas that delegate identity to a separate protocol fail to address the same issues.
That's why I am investing so much in WoT. I don't think identity can be solved by anything else at this point.

2026-09-07 19:34:12 CEST

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This is different. All apps have the same profile picture. We can't have some apps with some profiles and other apps with other ones. You fuck with identity, you destroy the only thing that works all the time on Nostr.
If people start questioning if the npub I am talking to is still the same npub I was talking to yesterday, we will have major problems.
Nostr somewhat works because the identity is immutable. Once that mutates, a whole slew of issues arise. And we don't have the consensus layer to follow just one path, together.
If identity breaks like DMs are broken, nostr dies.

2026-09-07 19:08:33 CEST

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You now understand why Nostr will never have key rotation.

2026-09-07 18:51:06 CEST

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Yes.

2026-09-07 18:47:43 CEST

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But then it is the same issue that Marmot has. If a user has 5 clients, why is the sender choosing which app the receiver has to reply on? Marmot solves it by creating a group chat of all sender and all receiver devices. Every new device needs to be added to all other device conversations. It is a lot of work.

2026-09-07 18:13:59 CEST

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Most relays right now require auth. So to download them, every app is signing authenticating with that relay.
But even if that's done, every description of each individual message in your chats would also require a code. Amethyst loads 1000 DMs on start to build your lastest chats. Those would be 2000 codes (2 decryptions) that you would have to insert from the 2FA.

2026-09-07 18:02:51 CEST

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But they are not 2FA apps. Apps require access to them to do everything on any Nostr app.
Imagine having a 2FA code for every follow your app is trying to download posts from. It would take forever.

2026-09-07 18:00:08 CEST

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Good thing is that you will always have something to complain. Just pick two apps and boom... New anger-triggering content for the day. Endless material.

2026-09-07 17:47:03 CEST

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It's not our choice either. I was here before outbox was even a thing. Users want it. They use tools that have it. If you want to talk to them, you have no choice but use a tool that speaks their language.

2026-09-07 17:46:04 CEST

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You can keep insisting that every tool needs to work with every other tool as much as you want. It will never be the case. Nostr or not.

2026-09-07 17:36:33 CEST

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I am not handwaving them. I am just saying that there is no way around it since EVERYONE is using outbox relay lists. You can choose to miss it and thats you call, but don't pretend that it is a solution. There is no way to use nostr today without outbox. It's literally everywhere.

2026-09-07 17:21:45 CEST

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What are you talking about? Nip09 is not implemented by most clients. It's only relay implementations that are saving everybody by deleting records. Clients generally never delete records, it keeps showing until the user reinstalls the app.

2026-09-07 17:16:53 CEST

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It's fine to try something new, but nostr truly works with outbox. Every user that is active today has an outbox relay and his/her client is only posting there, replies to that user only go to the inbox relay list of that user.
Literally every active account that is not a bot or a disposable npub has them. And everything reacts to that record.

2026-09-07 17:08:29 CEST

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But he wants to use an iOS signer with Android apps.. how many people you know have an iPhone and an Android phone in their pocket to make this usecase worth implementing?
It's like saying that I cannot use my flathead screwdriver in my hex screws. It's idiotic.
https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/bf850174a157fa6544408caca20b7f63e0a2393ffc80dfd68cd4c9e2021636fa.jpg

2026-09-07 17:02:13 CEST

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I tried those systems. They don't work. Half of the information on nostr doesn't even load on them. And then 6 months later those servers disappear and all users get rug pulled. Even the paid services have left users hanging.

2026-09-07 16:59:55 CEST

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Correct. All proposals created more problems than solutions. All of them. Including mine. The lack of key rotation is not because we didn't try.

2026-09-07 16:32:53 CEST

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You might need to study the legal notion of implied license. This has been tested multiple times in the courts already.
Property vs. Copyright: Legally, the email content is not considered "property" in the traditional sense; rather, it is a literary work protected by copyright law upon creation. While you are the author and hold the copyright, the recipient receives a copy and typically gains an implied license to use, store, or share that content unless a prior agreement (like an NDA) restricts this.

2026-09-07 16:16:52 CEST

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It could be. We just need to get the bots going.. we already have for mastodon and wikipedia anyway..

2026-09-07 15:58:26 CEST

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Most apps just centralize everything in their own relays. That's how they make nostr work.
Not us.
You can add proxy relays in the relay list, that will disable outbox for the feed. But usually people regret doing that because they miss a lot of posts.

2026-09-07 15:37:55 CEST

Any bots moving ALL of Twitter into Nostr with a separate key per profile? I need to index it.

2026-09-07 04:59:38 CEST

Me, following the Liquid drama at dinner
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2026-09-06 22:55:03 CEST

They paused their "decentralized" chain.
#nevent1q…v8lw

2026-09-04 22:31:19 CEST

Has anybody built a tool that allows you to share your AI plan with anyone in the web?
Like a marketplace that I can just "provide compute" (aka access to my Claude Max) to others?

2026-09-04 01:50:30 CEST

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All your users can select their sources of trust independently. Your app doesn't need to do anything special besides authenticating with our nip 50 relay and making sure users have their outbox relay lists set correctly so we can find and index their events.

2026-09-04 01:42:49 CEST

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You can search without any nip 85, but then any search relay would work. You don't need us for that. We specialize in web of trust. The point of the relay is to have a filter by trust. Otherwise it would just be a regular nip 50 search relay.

2026-09-04 01:26:32 CEST

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Create an account on brainstorm.world first so you have a NIP85 provider and I can send you the urls for the staging relay we are working on. It is still early, but it already works.

2026-09-03 22:33:53 CEST

Are we building the best WoT Search relay out there? Probably.
A relay that has everything: spam, scams, slop... all of it. But REQs and Search only return results from each user's wider network (follows-of-follows, 12 hops deep, minus mutes and reports). So, if a scammer or bot network uses the relay, they'll get the scam network. If a real human uses it, they'll get the network around them. Everyone stays happy.
And since it uses NIP-85 trust providers, you can choose any algorithm to score your network by any provider. Just subscribe to one and it will work automatically.
It's your WoT, not the relay operator's WoT.
It fixes Nostr without centralizing anywhere.

2026-09-02 19:50:55 CEST

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Should I generate a different nsite for the html page of each day?

2026-08-30 04:12:12 CEST

This whole video could have been a tweet.

2026-08-30 00:39:02 CEST

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Ubuntu is still the best "just works" distro.

2026-08-29 19:01:17 CEST

The difference between 'slop' and 'non-stop' is usage. Everything sucks when nobody actually uses them, regardless of whether it was made by a human or by AI.

2026-08-29 07:44:24 CEST

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Not in sequence though. People need time to process things.

2026-08-29 00:58:54 CEST

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Maybe the default is simple and people can activate "new features"?

2026-08-29 00:19:29 CEST

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The former. Maybe AI has solved all their problems.

2026-08-26 07:51:04 CEST

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Sure, but we need protocols for each one of them. We used to have just simple addresses for Bitcoin as well and nobody ever used them because it is too disconnected of an experience. Zaps and NWC were the things that made Bitcoin explode on nostr. Just addresses would have never reached the level that it reached with btc. We actually tried.
You can't have an explosion in usage without any investment in the protocol to make things exciting for users. It won't just magically be used if all you do is to just list the address in the profile page.

2026-08-26 07:30:05 CEST

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Which protocol should we use to manage the wallet? None of our wallets are ours, we are just calling other apps or services. The UI is the easy part. Do Montero wallets have something like Nostr Wallet Connect?

2026-08-25 21:21:13 CEST

It's wild how easy it is now to fake an entire community where only the target is a real human.
You folks are real, right? Right? Riiight?

2026-08-25 01:09:40 CEST

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Interoperability is hard.. everybody just half-assed the NIP. :(

2026-08-24 16:40:45 CEST

This is the best time to become a developer.
You can indeed create anything you want.

2026-08-24 02:27:59 CEST

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Why does this feature bother you so much? I don't get it.. All clients already display them. No, nobody is losing anything.

2026-08-24 01:20:34 CEST

Message to all other nostr devs, Amethyst now replies all kind 1s with NIP-22 comments instead of NIP-10.
Most clients already display them correctly so there is no change to any of you. We are starting the migration process of the writing side.
The point is to keep kind 1 for root posts as much as possible and minimize wasting mobile data when assembling the home feed.

2026-08-23 02:25:37 CEST

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I didn't ask for links, but we could add them.

2026-08-22 16:00:54 CEST

My goal with Nostr Observer is to get to a point where each user gets a vastly different front page. Your mother's birthday will be the front page of your edition.

2026-08-20 18:18:00 CEST

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We have a Nostr Signer option in the left drawer of the app. It even passes over to Amber if your keys are there.

2026-08-19 23:38:23 CEST

DON'T PUT YOUR NSEC IN CLIENTS. Not even on Amethyst. We have signer apps for that.
#nevent1q…mut6

2026-08-19 16:46:05 CEST

Most agents will be trained not to lie, but to push the boundaries between marketing and fraud, and we will be too dumb to notice.

2026-08-18 05:31:01 CEST

Processing my 300,000-person web of trust into a daily newspaper format
https://image.nostr.build/a66b1defa018def38c05f9a16e17af0faaf3fb5629a2174f912d82b9f2e50f8b.png
Check it out: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/42f7e84f-2b22-48d7-be39-74097c23ce67

2026-08-17 07:21:00 CEST

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It sucks. After iOS switched to the new Glass effect, Compose devs realized they will be forever trying to catch up to Swift... It will never be complete until Apple decides to support Kotlin for real.

2026-08-16 23:04:16 CEST

To put things in perspective..
https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/c3e96e32dadc46727e74e9604a01a8dda3a143157457e03167b19bf2dd5a925a.webp

2026-08-16 20:39:55 CEST

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I do this all the time but it's a hassle to get a good visualization every time

2026-08-15 21:32:32 CEST

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I see. I would just reuse it. There is no need to reimplement that part. Unless it's been call multiple times a microsecond.

2026-08-15 19:45:01 CEST

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Yeah... That was almost good :)

2026-08-15 19:00:57 CEST

Every now and then, I feel a strong call to build a beautiful but very simple (receive/send, single key), ultra-secure (dice rolls only), full UTXO (750GB) Android Bitcoin Node app that doubles as a content provider for other apps on the phone...
Arti-Tor + libbitcoinkernel + floresta-chain and floresta-wire pow proofs to kick-start while full sync is going. Limited inbound connections, but always running full mempool to validate unconfirmed transactions and get notifications in an Android-native DB.
2 years, 3 people-team, ~3M in funding with audits.
Maybe one day...

2026-08-14 23:34:22 CEST

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They are just creating new relay urls... Basically spamming everyone with different relays to blast the number of connection urls out of the water for the same relay content. So, instead of just connecting to 1 relay and downloading the content once, they add 10 urls for the same relay, forcing you do check and download 10x the same events.

2026-08-14 14:10:56 CEST

GM https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/6acf24636dc978592e1a34e359237b30e5cf02413cc1b5d2f62644b805749ec8.jpg

2026-08-14 03:05:50 CEST

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It's a process that for every duplicated string variable, Java keeps only one in memory. So if many events e tag a given event id, that id only exists in memory once. All the events reuse the same memory space.
Almost no other language and database has String interning. And those who do are not fast enough to justify using it.

2026-08-13 21:33:22 CEST

Me, coding parsers... 23 MB/s
Claude, coding parsers.... ~1,020 MB/s (44× faster)
I am so done.

2026-08-13 21:02:52 CEST

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My prompts are not that precise with Claude, but it figures it out quite nicely. Maybe I need to relearn to write prompts. I asked for a nip 19 parser as a test case, Deek Seek got back after a long time with lots of little bugs that Claude didn't get in the first shot. 🤔

2026-08-12 14:44:36 CEST

I don't think we fully understand what Buzz did for nostr yet. These are just content-based events.
https://npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z.blossom.band/b1dd44d9cecae3ebd5c68ab7ef865e963524639ac06266f7319947295283b50b.png

2026-08-09 18:13:28 CEST

Can I sell my BIP110 forked coins yet?

2026-08-09 06:19:52 CEST

I wish I could do a Bitcoin center in Boston. It would be fun to have everyone around here working in the same building without distractions. Product focus. Maybe a venture studio?
Probably too much work, not enough revenue... 🤔

2026-08-09 03:54:37 CEST

AI isn’t making us worse at reading; it’s just training us in the fine art of scrolling past three paragraphs of polite throat-clearing to find the one useful sentence.

2026-08-08 22:00:58 CEST

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Then don't call it a Ban. It's a kick out event. The user can come back and destroy everything.

2026-08-08 18:54:14 CEST

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Does this solve the fact that bans require clients to honor the request?

2026-08-08 16:54:43 CEST

What I learned from the coldcard episode is that consumer AIs can't find shit. They only find after a stronger AI points it out first. Don't think for a second that a simple Codex or Claude Max plan can find things that were not already found.
#nevent1q…a2fq

2026-08-08 07:13:35 CEST

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2026-08-05 17:11:29 CEST

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Also keep in mind that neither nos.lol nor damus have your contact list. Damus is gone, so you might need to choose another home relay.

2026-08-05 05:08:30 CEST

I will be in Chicago Sept 14-15.. come join us! I promise I am funnier in person...
#nevent1q…dapg

2026-08-04 20:33:22 CEST

Everybody wants to build. Nobody wants to maintain.

2026-08-04 17:26:36 CEST

For the record, let it be known that I will never claim your funds are safe on Amethyst.
This is a social media app, for the lols, the memes and the fun of it all.
Don't keep Amethyst connected to any amount that you are not willing to lose on a bug, either by us, by your NWC or cashu wallets.
We do our best to keep things safe but this is no vault security.
Now go have fun.

2026-08-04 16:53:08 CEST

One month later and quite a few back and forths, Google has finally approved our latest version in all its glory: health connect for the workout posting, wallet and finantial protocols, special permissions for voice and video calls, wake locks, boot services, calendar reminder services, and background processing for notifications, media playback, proof of work, nip-46 signer routing, event and blossom syncs. I never filled out so much paperwork just to get an app on the store.

2026-08-02 23:32:28 CEST

If 50 dice rolls + a predictable number generator are not good enough, we are up for some interesting times in enterprise software.

2026-08-01 21:51:31 CEST

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Why would it?

2026-08-01 01:18:50 CEST

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Well yes, it needs to be good insurance that actually pays when shit happens. Shitty insurance will also exist, but hopefully we will have 1 or 2 good players.

2026-08-01 01:09:04 CEST

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Only for companies, no?

2026-08-01 01:07:39 CEST

We need property insurance for self-custody of Bitcoin. That's the only way we can have peace of mind in the human world. I am actually shocked that we survived this long without it. I would pay up to 0.2% per year on my assets to insure them against theft.

2026-08-01 00:33:53 CEST

This is the best one yet: https://image.nostr.build/b83126e9ced7b841f5206cf4fb2aff1663a9ec864808a02073e9d89d5129140d.png

2026-07-31 22:19:53 CEST

Let's not forget theft is theft. Jail time is on sight.
https://image.nostr.build/db36de72103038d5ae752a1c69bb314e58ce5aa726f263b6ec49fcf437ff6b04.png

2026-07-31 04:54:05 CEST

I just want to say that clients that create your nsec also need to use random number generators... Just a heads up.