vinney...axkl

WoT/DCoSL R&D with https://brainstorm.world

- Pet project: https://catallax.network - decentralized labor/bounty protocol
- Order print books with bitcoin! https://whitepaperbooks.com
- Convert web pages to nostr longform posts: https://github.com/vcavallo/ReadToRelay

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npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl

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2026-05-25 16:16:32 CEST

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no, you can't stop there. that is terrifically unconvincing for all but the lowest iq antisemites. you haven't made a single point yet.
also, which weinstein brother are you referring to? you seem to be switching to bret now, but we started on eric..?

2026-05-25 16:14:26 CEST

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whoa.. sorry - i did not have "extreme vitriol" in mind when i wrote this reply... it was intended as a "we can just do things, isn't that great?!" sentiment.

2026-05-25 14:41:56 CEST

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sure! give me your best shot.

2026-05-25 14:23:27 CEST

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just build it on DCoSL or classic lists - you don't need permission from "big clients". implement something usable and well-documented, maybe make a small demo client that uses it. let that convince people.
ignore the haters - for whatever it is your project may be. and definitely don't seek their blessings

2026-05-25 14:13:31 CEST

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fair

2026-05-25 14:06:02 CEST

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years ago from @nprofile…pqyq 's personal site, which i found through @nprofile…kkzm 's static site generator project (Emanote), which i found due to my interest in #zettelkasten , as emanote is a zettelkasten->site generator written in Haskell.
basically fell through an "old web" style personal curation/link-ring paradigm and found myself in the future web. feels appropriate.

2026-05-25 13:59:34 CEST

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👀👀👀👀👀👀
https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Cryptodynamic-Principles

2026-05-25 13:49:40 CEST

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Matomo is very fully-featured (maybe more that you need) and sefl-hostable. i've been pretty happy with it in the past

2026-05-25 13:43:20 CEST

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welcome to the real world, neo

2026-05-25 01:17:56 CEST

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wouldn't you agree that the total economic activity of nostr-native vendors who take bitcoin is roughly on par with a farmers' market in a small town?

2026-05-24 20:34:12 CEST

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have you done any surveys of net sales of all the known merchants on nostr? to put against your "hardly any people village farmers market"? nostr is more than zaps - you know this.

2026-05-24 19:30:39 CEST

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Yea, you're probably thinking of https://catallax.network - which is a "metaprotocol" on nostr specifically for gig work, bounties and open source crowd-funding.
I also work on #WoT, which is a necessary building block for the above and everything else we're talking about.
for what it's worth, the #catallax reference/demo client has had a small number of actually successful transactions. real work delivered, real payments, etc. Like you said, it's a scale and adoption issue. The same processes with 100, 1,000 or 1M more users would be an unignorable force in the market. As is, it's "just" an encouraging experiment.

2026-05-24 19:24:01 CEST

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I like the pine tar for the shower. something about it feels "extra ablative" lol.
but i also get the goat milk tallow for everything else, including shaving. it's luxurious for shaving, with a proper cup and brush. i drop a chopped-off chunk in the cup and leave it in there until it's gone and reload it.
to be clear, these are the only two i've tried, so i'm not sure about the others! i bet they're all excellent.
I also exclusively use @npub1zzm…w5wy deodorant.
there is literally no other brand in my bathroom for any products except toothpaste :)

2026-05-24 18:59:35 CEST

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look closer
#nevent1q…nyax

2026-05-24 18:59:03 CEST

#stoicism is a framework of sovereignty, whereas everywhere in the bible you're met with dependence upon an external god for your peace and strength.
#nevent1q…ac0v

2026-05-24 18:52:54 CEST

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they spend it on goods and experiences that feel like they equal its value. like all the producers around here who make high quality handmade goods.
i've never regret a sats purchase from @nprofile…dpt9 @nprofile…92yc @nprofile…d5tl @nprofile…ncnc @nprofile…4j95 @nprofile…06fh or any others.
for instance, every time i put on my leathermint belt or shave with soapminer, i actually can't believe the deal i got because they improve my quality of life so much more than anything else those same sats would buy me today at a shopping mall, no matter how much the sats/dollar ratio changes

2026-05-24 18:46:01 CEST

i'll let my readers be the judge 👀
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/6a8bf71d505477bbc24f5a165ea30422dbd5ddb0d3aecac866dee391caae63dc.jpg

2026-05-24 15:05:04 CEST

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my vote + talk to him

2026-05-24 15:01:24 CEST

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doesn't seem to take much with them

2026-05-23 23:52:56 CEST

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...are we looking at the same charts..?

2026-05-23 23:51:16 CEST

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we have it on nostr already. let the X people know.
just need some more apps, clients and extensions. and people archiving. i've been hoping to see a bounty marketplace emerge (maybe using https://catallax.network ) paying people to archive paywalled content. Just takes one archive to make it free for everyone

2026-05-23 21:56:15 CEST

As far as possible _without surrender_ be on good terms with all persons (mute judiciously).
- The Desiderada

2026-05-23 19:38:24 CEST

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what's the deal with that first scene...?

2026-05-23 19:37:24 CEST

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bitcoin is metal
#naddr1qv…4rg8
h/t @nprofile…dxpg

2026-05-23 17:24:56 CEST

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for highlights behind paywalls to be shareable, you need this layer:
#nevent1q…rqwx

2026-05-23 17:20:09 CEST

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even better if the original sentence can never be changed or taken offline:
#nevent1q…88xn

2026-05-23 17:18:47 CEST

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even better if the comments are on permanent web archives (see below)!
parasite the entire internet
#nevent1q…rqwx

2026-05-23 15:41:27 CEST

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i find all the things you just listed very aesthetically unappealing. but it's just personal preference

2026-05-23 15:23:46 CEST

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eastern anime is embarassing-looking, stupid and cheesy. it's not about intense vs pure.

2026-05-23 14:40:30 CEST

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not for me.
maybe it's all the videos?

2026-05-23 14:37:28 CEST

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of course there's a difference.

2026-05-23 14:34:55 CEST

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this guy comes off as really trustworthy..........
#nevent1q…f6v3

2026-05-23 14:21:38 CEST

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haven't you heard you're supposed to never sell or spend bitcoin?

2026-05-23 14:20:05 CEST

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this is incredible

2026-05-23 14:18:49 CEST

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even "secret funds". lots of fun options

2026-05-23 14:11:43 CEST

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#nevent1q…lw25

2026-05-23 14:10:56 CEST

Nostr Silent Funds Wallet (NSFW). for those transactions you'd rather nobody know about
(that is, all of them..)
#nevent1q…pd97

2026-05-23 04:02:56 CEST

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thanks!

2026-05-23 02:30:11 CEST

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curious to hear when you generate one

2026-05-23 02:29:51 CEST

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integrate https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr-web-archiver ! then extension users can create web archives on blossom, taking the Wayback Machine to our lovely decentralized open protocol here.
then they can replay the archives on https://replay.wayback.st/ or https://github.com/vcavallo/NarChives ... or you can embed a replay engine in ditto 😉😉😉

2026-05-22 23:37:37 CEST

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CANNOT, definitionally. not "won't live to see the end of". the goal of the game is to continue play forever - not to win, terminally.

2026-05-22 23:35:45 CEST

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have you ever gone through all this guy's stuff?
https://onestupidfuck.com/

2026-05-22 23:34:08 CEST

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why not a free pile?

2026-05-22 23:30:35 CEST

The joyfulness of our infinite game lies in learning to start something we cannot finish
#FiniteAndInfiniteGames

2026-05-22 23:00:54 CEST

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this was a picture from the internet. have no fear, i buy organic almonds and make my own butter 🤝

2026-05-22 20:48:11 CEST

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people with real problems likely don't have the "luxury" of idle anxiety.

2026-05-22 19:21:49 CEST

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i might call that planning and preparation, with awareness of the badness

2026-05-22 18:57:42 CEST

we each have a limited worry and stress budget. save it for the real stuff: actual bad things WILL happen to you and people you care about, so don't blow your budget on anxiety about what **could be**. because when you're faced with what **actually is** you won't be able to step up to meet the challenge with your best. an optional, self-inflicted wound added on top of the inevitable circumstances that you cannot control.

2026-05-22 17:30:45 CEST

https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/dc55ae18219ad6773311fcb79ae59aaa4f7e7370c8c0561000110719d4d51009.png

2026-05-22 17:27:01 CEST

you come across a new project called "gnostr" - what do you guess that it is, by name alone?

2026-05-22 16:55:45 CEST

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we cross-posted.
okay. your whole hypothesis rests on sloppy mistakes and poor design within an otherwise impressive amount of collusion, technical innovation and high-stakes. that's fine, but I find it completely unconvincing.
#nevent1q…p2gh

2026-05-22 16:54:10 CEST

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I'm saying you need to propose a convincing explanation for why they don't just make the mask 2 inches longer to avoid these shadows. they can make a perfect human mask, but they habitually make it just a bit too short and "get caught" by the internet sleuths over and over?
The burden of proof is on whoever is claiming this massive, blatant impersonation conspiracy. And if you can posit a secret, high-tech mask industry and massive collusion with all people on set at Fox, but that giant complex of theorizing can't also deal with this completely retarded oversight (not making the excellent mask go as far down as the shitty mask), it falls flat, in my opinion.

2026-05-22 16:49:58 CEST

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if you'd read my argument you'd understand that my whole point was that IF you start with the given that realistic masks exist, you have to then provide a convincing explanation for why they don't make them 2 inches longer to get rid of these "smoking gun shadows" that always serve as the basis for this conjecture.
I await your proposed explanations.

2026-05-22 16:32:27 CEST

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Explain this:
#nevent1q…0rln

2026-05-22 16:31:42 CEST

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I'll admit that's something to explain if you'll admit that the Fox news guy's face, lips, eyebrows, facial muscles etc. look nothing like the same on the british mask guy's face.
if you'll concede that, then the world we're in is: "good mask tech exists. the british video proves it. the Fox news guy's face is very much more life-like (essentially indistinguishable), so the available mask tech is many multiples better than what 'we're being shown'. Okay - so they _can_ pull off basically perfect faces, BUT when they're using the 100x better mask tech, they just get super careless around the neck... meanwhile, the crappy-looking british mask includes a simple bib down the front that easily solves the neck line issue."
This just strikes me as extremely unbelievable. Making the super advanced mask 100% unnoticeable by plebs on nostr would only require extending it a few inches longer - which is already the norm on much shittier masks in evidence - but they don't do it because....?

2026-05-22 16:06:35 CEST

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#nevent1q…4l6l

2026-05-22 16:04:54 CEST

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#nevent1q…28yf

2026-05-22 16:03:17 CEST

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#naddr1qq…ylx5

2026-05-22 15:44:57 CEST

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sounds awesome. i have a branch somewhere that built something somewhat similar - i'll find it for you in case it's helpful in some way

2026-05-22 14:44:03 CEST

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none of the above during that test

2026-05-22 14:43:40 CEST

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that is very obviously a mask. look at his mouth.

2026-05-22 06:00:40 CEST

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did someone say hypercard?

2026-05-22 05:53:38 CEST

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https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/29965436d9e238dba691c3ebe8c8bdce592e8f821c92634fae5cc9e94fa8d457.jpg https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/87a17d22ad2d2f1a05daec2dd6081bb96c3f98d5da504dff0712f1b25b80f6e4.jpg
infinite spinners on any wallet i create

2026-05-22 03:45:13 CEST

at this point i can't get any NWC wallets working in #amethyst - they all just spin. and the nwc string from #cashu .me has an illegal character at index 221 (or so says amethyst)

2026-05-22 03:43:10 CEST

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if they're doing it right it should always be better live.
don't trust a band that's worse live!

2026-05-22 01:36:24 CEST

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downstream from socialized healthcare and other compulsory “public services".
you can't be allowed to splatter yourself across the pavement, because other people are coerced to pay for it

2026-05-22 01:06:58 CEST

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you've never seen how studio lights work

2026-05-22 00:58:46 CEST

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soil, toil, seeds weeds & water

2026-05-21 21:37:50 CEST

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gotcha - the server is the part i was assuming out of my picture. it's a nicpicky detail, so i won't belabor it - but there is a small difference in accountability and liability (as a developer and maintainer) if you're running a server that explicitly provides this service to users of your app, vs distributing client-side code the users do whatever they want with.
anonymously provide some html and js, on the one hand. vs running a server that explicitly facilitates money transfer for unknown users on the other.
like i said though, that's a tangent to the ux point and i didn't know about the path you described wrt npub.cash auto-receive and smushing it into a client application. thanks for addressing that

2026-05-21 20:47:19 CEST

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(And this is not even to mention that they would have to occassionally switch over to the npub.cash tab in their browser... vs just staying in the streaming app 100% of the time!)

2026-05-21 20:46:04 CEST

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so a nostr client that wishes to have payments embedded in its ui - say it's a streaming platform where you get paid per minute by viewers or pay per minute as a viewer - would need to get a brand-new user to **take some action** to set up npub.cash in order to send first? compared to nutzaps where they could send instantly on "signup" to the app without touching anything else.
do you see my point? i can't tell if i'm not making this clear or you are continuously avoiding addressing this use-case head on...

2026-05-21 20:10:08 CEST

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in the ux i'm describing, don't you need both? each is necessary but not sufficient for that user experience. do you know of another way to arrive at that ux i'm describing?

2026-05-21 19:35:17 CEST

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you are dodging the hell out of this point, man... nutzaps gets you a send and receive wallet in a supporting client with exactly zero work from the user beyond "generate npub" button. what else has a ux hurdle THAT low and gets you an address that can both send and receive?

2026-05-21 18:49:28 CEST

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oh, a user can just automatically have a cashu sending wallet without having to take any action? how does that work?

2026-05-21 18:48:13 CEST

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precisely!

2026-05-21 17:28:47 CEST

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like in bitcoin, nostr builds through it's "bear".
there is a lot of really exciting stuff coming up.

2026-05-21 17:27:34 CEST

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"i'm being spied on by intelligence agencies"
THIS GUY MUST BE CRAZY

2026-05-21 17:21:08 CEST

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whoa i feel the exact opposite!

2026-05-21 17:17:27 CEST

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what about sending? you're only touching receive

2026-05-21 17:16:41 CEST

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what if you don't have one installed or otherwise set up? how could you SEND a payment?
are you really going to claim that "generate npub, instantly be able to send payments, nothing to install or setup" is not a lower-friction user experience than any of the other pathways on offer today?

2026-05-21 13:35:11 CEST

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the experience for a normie of just instantly having a usable wallet in a browser is pretty valulble to just leave on the table though...

2026-05-21 13:30:24 CEST

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oooh right! the little receipt printer for weather, news, crosswords, etc lol
the personalized daily newspaper. yea maybe now's the time 😉

2026-05-21 05:08:11 CEST

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https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/2cd028b8e9744032a68d9bf4a5bb5c1f8ccb5ecaac0bb317c3ea321d8ed06cca.jpg

2026-05-21 04:57:31 CEST

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the fuck is this guy talking about

2026-05-21 04:54:06 CEST

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lol wat? the weather?

2026-05-20 18:56:24 CEST

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He's right.

2026-05-20 18:38:12 CEST

Just re-upped on my @npub1zzm…w5wy essentials that get me 99% supplied on all toiletry needs - soap (shower, hair, shaving) and deodorant.
next time I order I'm going to add tallow body balm. Currently running through some I picked up locally.

2026-05-20 17:05:15 CEST

Phew, good thing claude for government is still operational!
https://i.nostr.build/z4N5d8zMZ3QYAhk0.png

2026-05-20 17:03:29 CEST

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relays/ directory is interesting. i meant this more as a search tool for my own notes (necessarily need to pull in other people's referenced content for that to be robust), so i'm not i actually care about relays. but that's a very good addition for the "gumshoe" angle.

2026-05-20 16:24:05 CEST

I got Claude to build a markdown files layer, projected out of a local nostrdb process that continually pulls down all my notes and anything i've interacted with (reactions, reposts, etc).
The upshot: I can open the files as an Obsidian vault and get a fully-backlinked and full-text-searchable view of my whole nostr universe. References, mentions, tags, etc. get converted to Obsidian-friendly links, so backlinks and the notes graph come for free.
https://i.nostr.build/SA86Z823NTY6dXWP.png
https://i.nostr.build/3UUogNNYD0Yx2rTO.png
....look how dense that obsidian graph is lol.
#obsidian #nostrdb

2026-05-20 05:28:01 CEST

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i get that they're trying to run a profitable platform, and i wish them well. but things like this (below) are not in line with the goals of catallax - i'm trying to build permissionless open protocol primitives, not a platform.
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/fb5b5b69d4b5a6927b196c0855856c2b34706e28d72f2da82ed481946c69db25.jpg
https://npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl.blossom.band/a141ad19333505ee686b470e1613172c30ab384855c7569be488ac58d88b725f.jpg

2026-05-20 05:05:40 CEST

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as far as i know they're not using nostr events for anything more than sign-in. and if they are, they haven't published a nip or spec for interop

2026-05-20 03:40:05 CEST

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Catallax is for gig work, not exactly simpatico with a marketplace spec that assumes inventory and products. I'll think about if there's some overlap/compliment though...

2026-05-20 03:38:42 CEST

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I am not. I'm not sure if the #catallax approach would conform to the Open Market spec - I'll have to investigate! sounds appealing.
When are the calls?

2026-05-20 01:39:31 CEST

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#nevent1q…4eef

2026-05-20 01:39:01 CEST

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see http://catallax.network - we've proposed (and implemented, and had users on) escrow advertisement as part of a NIP PR - https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1714 . consider using the existing emerging standard, if possible

2026-05-19 21:42:05 CEST

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Dude got thin

2026-05-19 19:17:34 CEST

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likewise. and my life is vastly improved as a result.
turns out all the old people have always been right about everything

2026-05-19 19:15:29 CEST

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yes, it is, agreed. warnings and helpful comments are good. but some of the "helpers" seem to not understand the extent to which their advice is ultimately irrelevant when it comest to the free actions of third parties

2026-05-19 19:12:57 CEST

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1. you're forgetting about forking.
and 2. consensus is irrelevant in open protocols. i can be in a minority of three on nostr wrt some issue or feature and the three of us can build our own client and use the open protocol together. everyone else can come along or not. the consensus part doesn't matter - it just describes how large or small your voluntary sub-network may be.
your son can't shit on YOUR floor, in the analogy, he can shit on HIS floor - and you can EACH either choose to join your rooms by a hallway or not.