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npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6

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2026-07-31 11:29:19 UTC

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If you don't look at the code and compile it yourself on a computer you built yourself from scratch and a pristine OS you can never be sure, but my understanding is that doing these things on a ColdCard-style device is much harder than doing them on a normal computer of phone, so it is easier to make a mistake.
On a normal computer doing secure RNG is easy, so it's much less likely that the programmers will get confused and end up doing things wrong.

2026-07-31 11:02:48 UTC

Cool thing:
#nevent1q…hcyw
#nevent1q…z42q

2026-07-31 04:23:08 UTC

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I recommend looking at FROST and server-side multisig bunkers as a bridge between the two worlds out of an abundance of caution.

2026-07-31 04:15:37 UTC

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I recommend migrating to Rust out of an abundance of caution.

2026-07-31 04:04:59 UTC

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Seems to be this, taken from links from the article above:
https://nostr.media/c0260f242e1de4d408ec0b33b36934616b71dccf3cee59fefcdae4a1bc0f893c.png
https://nostr.media/39040e12417b3ce70bb4c0eae0e8c3720930d819cb5dffb7bf05c363e5fc2c6b.png
https://nostr.media/edc8237df402f529e7d234b78b27356ecb0297cc4f50bf34d944488d7ceb2ca2.png
Double-check the screenshots out of an abundance of caution.

2026-07-30 17:03:25 UTC

#pyramid hosting made easy: #nevent1q…cxtc
(It's already live.)

2026-07-30 16:43:54 UTC

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You are free to not look at them, you are free to block them in your relay, but you can stop people from writing whatever junk they want in their own relays (or whatever other relays that decide to accept them).

2026-07-29 01:51:11 UTC

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Or I can wait and ask someone who went.

2026-07-29 01:50:13 UTC

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No, it doesn't. You connect to random relays and fetch only from specific authors from such relays, that's in one scenario.
Then there is a different scenario in which you want to open yourself to reading stuff from strangers, in that scenario you choose relays wisely and take what they give you.
That's the fundamental duality of Nostr, or something. @npub1t6j…ksrw has written many notes about it, made videos, even gave a talk about it. He explains it better.

2026-07-27 11:09:18 UTC

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By the way, if you disagree with this, please let @npub1t6j…ksrw know how wrong you are and how much you want to learn the correct ways and he will gladly bash you in the head with the truth for hours if necessary.

2026-07-27 10:46:37 UTC

To everybody else and not only @npub1q3s…d26p, if you have any disagreements about this please voice them so you can be enlightened:
#nevent1q…mncv

2026-07-27 10:44:21 UTC

Please spread this message, follow, repost, like, subscribe, retweet, boost, share with your friends and family, bookmark, upvote:
#nevent1q…ess2

2026-07-27 10:25:11 UTC

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Wrong, the only scalable and decent way to prevent against spam is by picking relays that enforce limits and reading from such relays on a case-by-case basis.
If you rely on an "authors" filter and blind relays you're limiting yourself to only ever seeing stuff from people you know and never learning that other people exist in the world -- or every client has to perform complex and costly computations locally that then make that "authors" list so big that relays will rightfully reject it.
In other words: enforcing restrictions once per write is much more effective and efficient than trying to enforce them on every read.

2026-07-25 00:20:01 UTC

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@npub15qy…yejr is cooking faster.

2026-07-25 00:19:16 UTC

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I'm maintaining this one: https://nostr-protocol.github.io/registry-of-kinds/
But it's not pulling data from relays, it is manually documenting the tags and type of content expected for each kind: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/registry-of-kinds/blob/master/schema.yaml

2026-07-25 00:15:16 UTC

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No, no DMs were supposed to be sent. I meant just the webpage buttons that you pressed to request access and that kind of thing.

2026-07-22 14:42:16 UTC

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Yes, feature requests are very welcome.
What is the point of a Blossom cache? You mean downloading files and saving them locally?

2026-07-22 11:33:18 UTC

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Thank you for letting me know, should be fixed now in v0.20.2.
Please send more small issues if you have them.

2026-07-22 00:47:30 UTC

I finally managed to log in to Armada in my 4th attempt in a week and the first thing it did was to nuke my NIP-29 groups list.

2026-07-20 00:52:36 UTC

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I agree that trying to build "everything" on Nostr is a bad strategic error. Specially when these things are even more dependent on network-effect than a microblogging social network (like uber or Nostr, for example) or when they depend on private communications. People have been trying to do this since day one, though, it's just something wrong with the mind of developers.
But I think tools that are "social" in nature and mostly involving publishing human-scale content in the open but don't require that the entire world is using them in order to be useful (like geocaching, for example) are good niches through which Nostr can expand.

2026-07-20 00:35:42 UTC

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Yes, but people choose what torrents they seed.

2026-07-19 17:10:46 UTC

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No, I hate satellites.

2026-07-18 15:53:10 UTC

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Gold is used as a financial instrument and most of its value come from that.
It would be same with Bitcoin, as long as it was perceived as money by normal people. The moneyness of Bitcoin would form the core of its value on top of which other types of demand would be stacked.
With Gold I believe it has a fundamental demand for jewelry and other small use cases, and on top of that there is a vast amount of financial use cases that make its value be much bigger than that of other rocks.
In both cases if you remove the fundamental source of value the thing tends to zero.

2026-07-18 15:34:41 UTC

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I always say this. Basically everything we do on Nostr is "social" in some way, but if everybody reads "social" and immediately assumes it's just microblogging then I don't know what to do.

2026-07-18 10:47:45 UTC

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I thought bolt12 had already solved everything 8 years ago, or maybe when it was actually finished 2 years ago?
I think waiting another 8 years should do the job. I know that is a good idea because we are early and Bitcoin has already won.

2026-07-18 02:16:15 UTC

Finally a client that allows me to browse only through @npub1jlr…ynqn's notes in Latin: https://spatia-arcana.com/198225f2f09789a1566ad3b5053df3b5d51c3e2541cc627d2864e089aefd888a.png

2026-07-18 00:57:53 UTC

Welcome to wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com, @npub18mf…nyu5. Did the invite flow work reasonably well?

2026-07-18 00:55:13 UTC

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Looks like a good idea to me.
The problem is getting the rest of the world to notice it and add support.

2026-07-17 19:17:59 UTC

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These days it's getting increasingly harder to find people who actually believe the goal of Bitcoin is to end fiat. Even in this trailer, only @npub1t28…nkzs said it explicitly, I wouldn't be surprised if all these others were more worried about other things that aren't clear and didn't care if Bitcoin remained a niche useless rock forever.

2026-07-17 00:45:42 UTC

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What happened with supposed thousands of drones that were flying all over New Jersey 2 years ago?

2026-07-17 00:40:51 UTC

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I use a desktop.

2026-07-17 00:31:47 UTC

Few things on the internet are worse than the fad of "vertical short videos".

2026-07-16 15:09:32 UTC

Relays that want to be public or semi-public need more ways to discern an npub that has a real person behind it from an automated sybil attack, and this is a great idea.
But instead of selling npubs someone should sell badges.
But if you're doing it from a physical location then a badge could just be given for free as long as the process can't be automated.
#nevent1q…c33p
Then we will just need someone to manually collect a list of of these badges are worth an npub be recognized as a human and relays can pick from that.

2026-07-16 15:01:01 UTC

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It's not that these people need Bitcoin or anything, it's that the people who need it need that these people also use it, so they have to be led into using it even though they don't care.
There is also the greater goal of starving the State and associated evil elites of their money-printing machine, and that can't be achieved unless basically everybody is using money they can't print.

2026-07-16 14:48:46 UTC

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> IF you want to move from one context to another then you have to generate the ZK proof
I don't understand. What is this ZK proof you're talking about and what are these "contexts"?

2026-07-16 12:40:59 UTC

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I did, it is better, but also kinda sucks. In my understanding you have to rely on some big servers that keep the full history of all nullifiers forever so they can compute proofs on behalf of normal users. How much can that scale, if each person is making 3 transactions per day, and if each transaction will use more 2 nullifiers on average due to mixed inputs? That's over a petabyte per year just in storage.
Or maybe I misunderstood the requirements. Clarifications welcome.

2026-07-16 12:37:18 UTC

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It's not clearly self-custodial. Nothing is clear, everything is awfully confusing and that's how everybody is tricked about the claims of Spark, but not only Spark, it also applies to Ark and Lightning itself.

2026-07-16 12:34:43 UTC

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Yes, I'm super married to a $5 airdrop I will be getting, already making plans to buy a bag of milk with it.
What is the flaw in hashrate escrows?

2026-07-16 12:34:26 UTC

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This is true. If Monero adopted Drivechains I think it could become a real contender. Still, though, it would have to migrate most of its activity to the sidechain and make mainchain very small, in that sense it would be basically the same as eCash, only with a bigger initial user base and name recognition.
The bigger question to me is: can Monero scale to billions of people via Thunder-style sidechains but with Monero technology? If yes then those sidechains should probably be used in eCash instead, but I don't know.

2026-07-16 11:40:39 UTC

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Even if we assume away the problem of data availability it wouldn't be great to have the entirety of the world's monetary transactions depend on a single company building the blocks and publishing zk-proofs. I guess you can say this block generation can be made to be more open, but I think the incentives are that it would be very centralized regardless, no?
It's a similar problem of Spark: even if you could make it be totally trustless it would still be bad for it to be controlled by a single company.

2026-07-15 11:21:47 UTC

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I used to think there were two ways of scaling Bitcoin: one would be with trusted entities, i.e. banks, but deployed in a decentralized way that limited liability and government capture, and the other way was with Drivechain.
Given what we're seeing with all the Lightning custodial wallets being targeted, implementing full KYC and migrating to Spark (which is becoming almost the one world central bank) that first option is looking worse.
(To be fair my plan was never to have these companies be the custodians in the first place, but it was a bad plan anyway.)

2026-07-15 11:18:31 UTC

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Correct, but Zcash, Monero and BCH are all unscalable to billions too (like Bitcoin, although Bitcoin has made all the influencers believe it could do the scaling "in layers" for the last nine years).

2026-07-15 11:11:32 UTC

Finally a client that displays same-author "threads" in the old Twitter style:
https://c.nostr.media/233/a9e/233a9e01606252d00d8be83e3f2b77acfcd41b367cbb1afb3179dd5b6b0ff1e3.png
https://c.nostr.media/531/9e6/5319e6957e34831c0bc0ec7bd4acfb7029d293329bbc705c47f7b90c73f303a0.png

2026-07-14 17:20:22 UTC

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I'm helping them embrace the chaos.

2026-07-14 17:19:22 UTC

Look at this amazing video about bananas:
#nevent1q…vj3x

2026-07-14 04:58:20 UTC

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It is truly awful.
But the solution is simple.

2026-07-14 01:50:52 UTC

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But can anyone run a Windows executable on their computers without having to click on weird places in order to authorize the execution of malware?

2026-07-14 01:47:28 UTC

paru -S nostrord-bin

2026-07-14 01:38:20 UTC

Finally a way to reply to multiple notes at the same time:
https://nostr.media/0e95ec049a29de25c23623403b694394032f66931bdb1974eca24f26c5fe5b03.png

2026-07-12 22:13:09 UTC

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The video in this page is good if you want a short talk: https://drivechain.xyz/
If you prefer to read then maybe start with the article I wrote when I finally understood the idea many years ago (on that page). Paul Sztorc's explanations apparently don't click easily for most people, but to me they are pretty good. I guess you have to try multiple of these explanations from others until one of them makes sense.
Drivechain enables so much it's hard to describe, we wasted too much time defending the idea from bad repeated criticisms we forget to advertise the benefits:
- absurd self-custodial scaling for payments, such that Bitcoin payments for everything everywhere can finally be a reality;
- enabling everything that can be imagined as working on a "blockchain" immediately in Bitcoin without reducing decentralization;
- all the network-effect, developer time and interest ever poured into other shitcoin projects going back to Bitcoin to make it immediately at least 3x in size and importance from the getgo (with of course much more growth that will come from this);
- perfect privacy (not for all forms of transactions, but at arms reach of anyone -- and could be the default for most payments);
- fixing the security budget (Bitconeirs in general like to forget about this, but someone has to pay the miners) while keeping transactions cheap for everybody;
- finally a chance that Bitcoin will replace fiat once and for all and become the money of the world.

2026-07-12 21:46:22 UTC

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Many otherwise intelligent people have this condescending attitude too. I understand it looks more serious and conservative to "accept" the forms of organizing society supposedly created by our forefathers (or whatever). But that by itself doesn't constitute an argument or a solid position to hold.
I think the mistake you and others make is that they compare a relatively good government that a very civilized society has created with what they imagine would be "anarchy" for a very barbaric and messy population. So the comparison is not apples to apples.
I guess there is also some missing details about how absurdly bad governments can be. The bar is really low.

2026-07-12 10:52:24 UTC

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It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than a system of anarcho-tyranny in which a bunch of pedophile psychopaths enslave the rest of the population.

2026-07-11 15:00:17 UTC

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1. Bitcoin can only be saved by activating Drivechain.
2. Core will never merge or support Drivechain activation (or any soft-fork).
3. Miners won't move their asses until they see sufficient real-world evidence.
Any reasonable Bitcoiner accepting these premises should support the eCash hardfork even if they are initially disgusted by the idea of betraying the Bitcoin brand and the maximalist cult (I was myself), because from these premises we have to conclude that the only thing that can save Bitcoin is a real-world thriving ecosystem of useful sidechains paying fees to miners that finally convinces them to activate Drivechain via CUSF.

2026-07-11 14:47:26 UTC

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What does that mean? We chose something and we can never change our minds? No one should have a blind devotion to Bitcoin. Bitcoin was always only our best chance of fixing the problem of government monopoly over money issuance and related evils, not an idol to be worshipped.
If we spot something else that might give us a better chance we should definitely switch immediately.
With that said, Bitcoin is still miles ahead of anything else. If eCash proves to work even a little bit we may have a better chance of miners activating it on Bitcoin and that will be great.
If not, and if Bitcoiners don't come up with any better solutions (it is very unlikely they will, and even if they get a better solution it is even more unlikely that they will be able to activate it) that will mean that Bitcoin will die slowly over many decades. This will be bad as most people will not see it happening. Our only hope in this case is that eCash captures more users from outside the current Bitcoin sect and gets bigger faster than Bitcoin gets smaller. I guess this will have to happen anyway if it has any chances anyway.

2026-07-11 13:22:52 UTC

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Because of custodial regulation all Lightning wallets are migrating to use Spark, which claims to be noncustodial.
But Spark is a central server that sees everything, can block anything and whose claims of "unilateral exit" are at best vastly oversold: https://xcancel.com/francispouliot_/status/2075284584489439668 (see how even at 1sat/vb and a small amount of users -- meaning small transaction trees -- you already lose 10% of your money, at 5sat/vb you lose 40% and so on).
In fact the situation is only getting worse. Before we had a dozen of different custodians spreaded throughout the globe, soon it will be a single proto-custodian controlled by a US corporation.

2026-07-11 00:26:19 UTC

I can't find an app that allows me to download a file from a URL on Android.
(I'm just complaining, not asking for recommendations.)

2026-07-10 23:45:17 UTC

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I thought you used jj like all the other leftists.

2026-07-10 20:09:56 UTC

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Also I hear from people that just telling the LLM to use the CLI directly works well enough the MCP isn't needed.
I'm not sure about that. In my experience the LLMs are incapable of reading the help text and the README examples, so it ends up not using even 10% of nak's capabilities.

2026-07-10 20:08:29 UTC

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Do you use it? I'm glad to hear that. I don't use it myself because I prefer to use Nostr directly than to ask the robot, so it doesn't get much attention.
Please send feedback if you have any.

2026-07-10 15:38:29 UTC

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More evidence that shoving encrypted communications into Nostr events was a bad idea.

2026-07-07 18:39:44 UTC

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https://grimoire2.netlify.app/

2026-07-07 18:08:04 UTC

Am I the only person bothered by the YouTube videos and other things on the internet that were published >20 months ago but their date fields says "1 year ago"?

2026-07-06 19:13:37 UTC

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No, that's not what I'm talking about.
If the thing is living in a blockchain, then I should be able to interact with it by building my own transactions and submitting them to the blockchain, right?
And if I can do that that also means someone can make a program that allows me to do that more easily with a UI and so on, right?
Polymarket is banned in banned in multiple countries, but Polygon isn't, which means there must be big demand from people from these countries to use another interface that isn't blocked.

2026-07-06 18:57:20 UTC

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If Polymarket is in some kind of blockchain or something doesn't that mean it should have a bunch of different frontends and wallets able to interact with it?

2026-07-06 18:13:57 UTC

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I think you can just deposit Bitcoin at Polymarket.

2026-07-06 03:07:16 UTC

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That was always their plan.

2026-07-06 00:30:16 UTC

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Ok, these are strong points. I finally understand it.
I think many of these are neutralized if the thing is running on Drivechain separate from the Zcash people and with a completely different initial coin ownership. The issues of undetectably exploitable bugs and the problem of the difference between shielded and unshielded pools remain.
If it's running on a Drivechain then it can be just the shielded pool -- but then we fall on the previous criticism of the toolbox with different sidechains being analogous to the shielded/unshielded situation, and it would also affect a Monero-like sidechain.
The only solution would be for we all to agree to just use this privacy sidechain for all the normal payments.
Like everything else this is so unlikely it's hard to imagine it will happen, but it is much more likely than getting Bitcoin to adopt some privacy protocol natively, and arguably more likely than Monero becoming the money of the world. I'm happy with any of these outcomes.
Either way I am now thinking that Thunder may not be what we want as the main eCash payments layer, so thank you for putting another problem in my mind.

2026-07-05 19:18:28 UTC

Looks like the Satellite CDN is down again @npub1lun…27lj

2026-07-05 18:21:45 UTC

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Paul's plan is that everybody will use Thunder for the "money" part. Thunder is not one but multiple blockchains that optimize for smaller transactions and grow in size as the time passes.
I think that can work in practice, but it is so ugly! I would rather have a more elegant solution than blasting cheap transactions into blockchains that miners are running and hoping for the best.
The more elegant solution might as well be something like a big Tachyon chain, which as far as I understand scales much better than a normal blockchain and is fully private and everybody just uses that for commerce.
I could never understand the actual criticisms of Monero people against Zcash (every time I tried to ask I got the answer that it was a "fedcoin", what that means exactly and why I don't know). The Zcash technology looks good to me, but of course I don't understand it fully.
In any case, if Zcash/Tachyon is bad then I also don't see why the daily payments solution people use on eCash can't be one or more big Monero-like chains instead of Thunder. I also never heard Paul Sztorc saying anything about why he isn't pushing for a Monero-like sidechain together with the Zcash/Orchard sidechain L2L is doing, my impression is that that he just likes Zcash technology more and didn't want to confuse things with two privacy sidechains, but I think he should at leat mention the possibility, maybe some Monero enthusiasts would be excited to build it. Paul definitely doesn't think he has all the answers, he is pretty ok with being surprised by drivechain usages he hadn't anticipated.

2026-07-04 16:22:12 UTC

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Problems of this kind happen on basically every app or website I visit, by the way.

2026-07-04 15:59:38 UTC

Nostrord has asynchronous group threads now, also previously know as a "forum".
#nevent1q…3l6d

2026-07-04 15:56:48 UTC

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Because I didn't know how to do it better, you have to first run the crawler that goes through the kind:3 contact lists of all people recursively many times and determines who is worth being included.
Then you have to run the fetcher that downloads the notes from everybody.
And then you run the server/relay process.
You can probably run these simultaneously, but let me know if you can't. The idea was that one would run the crawler once a week, the fetcher like once a day, and the server continuously. More than that is probably unnecessary.
Unfortunately the crawler takes an awfully long time to finish, but that is probably because I'm stupid, so if you or any of your bots know how to improve on that please let me know.

2026-07-04 15:53:10 UTC

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If you also want to fetch all notes from these profiles and also expose them through a NIP-50 interface in a simple and efficient Nostr search engine, that's also what you want.
Hopefully the instructions on the README are clear enough.

2026-07-04 15:51:00 UTC

If you ever wanted to run a big server that indexes Nostr users filtering out bots and throwaway accounts, serves their kind:0 metadata via a normal relay interface, allow them to be searched via NIP-50, you could try this:
#naddr1qq…9429

2026-07-04 15:47:24 UTC

@npub1zfs…w445 I just tried the new Coop mobile and I have bugs to report.
I pasted my bunker code and it spinned a little, asked me to authorize on the signer, but there was no authorization needed, I pressed the button again and it loaded forever, so I tried to stop it and was going to paste an nsec, but then it moved me to the logged in account area, however the app didn't even know my public key as the bunker stuff had failed, so I was just in this area where I was named as "Unknown". Clicking to log out doesn't work.

2026-07-03 03:40:17 UTC

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You realize you didn't explain why this will be the last, right?

2026-07-02 20:47:28 UTC

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Interesting, I didn't know you were doing all of that. Indeed I don't see a sea of spam when browsing wss://nos.lol anymore (not sure I ever did but I think yes a while ago).
I actually tagged you because I had in my mind that I was seeing that bot "Primal Protocol" on your relay all the time but looking now it doesn't seem to have published any notes there for weeks.

2026-07-02 20:43:31 UTC

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Do you know how many users they have?

2026-07-02 20:39:45 UTC

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If the thing is supposed to be generic email why don't users have email addresses to be contacted at?

2026-07-02 20:31:10 UTC

I've installed 3 Chatmail clients on my phone today (I think Chatmail is the name of the protocol, but everybody calls it Delta Chat, but then Chatmail doesn't present itself as an interoperable protocol either, it presents itself as a collection of software projects and it's unclear whether Delta Chat is part of it or a spin off):
- Delta Chat
- Arcane Chat
- WhatsDown
The 3 are basically the same app. I didn't check but they probably share 99% of the codebase. I don't understand.
Also they allow you to share an invite link for others to talk to you, but I couldn't take the invite link from one and paste on the other because there is no place to paste, only a place to read a QR code.
It's not clear whether I'm supposed to share this invite link publicly or if it's a private thing for only one person to message me (the invite link is big and full of metadata in it). If it's private how am I supposed to send it to someone, using another messaging app?
Also apparently they create accounts for you in a random chatmail server, or Delta Chat at least seems to do that, while Arcane Chat seems to always use arcanechat.me (or something like that), so that could be the reason why they have different apps that are almost exactly the same: the hardcoded setup parameters.

2026-07-02 17:44:08 UTC

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It's a horrible law.

2026-07-02 14:43:39 UTC

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@npub1nlk…jm9c what do you think of this?

2026-06-28 14:20:20 UTC

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Then get one from 2015.
This will suffice: https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/09e4bc1bb3053008f9b63be32db672d35cecc2f0/hub/2014/01/03/2bef9017-84a0-11e3-beb9-14feb5ca9861/DSC_0758.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=1200&width=1200

2026-06-28 14:12:28 UTC

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Unifi is garbage. Just use a normal router made in 2005.

2026-06-28 13:26:05 UTC

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This only proves that network effect is basically all that matters, so you can't say that email is undefeated because it is technically superior or better designed or anything like that.
You can still sing the praises of email for having network effect, but I don't see the point of cheering for a fact of nature. It's like claiming that elephants are the biggest animals, and shaming all the other animals for not being big enough.

2026-06-28 02:22:52 UTC

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Millions use it every day? Of course not. What kind of bogus statistic is that?
Also no, you don't know my argument, I'm not a big blocker, I want blocks to be smaller than they are today.
Someone did invent a way to scale payments without the centralizing tradeoffs: it's called Drivechain.
Here's the simplest way to scale payments using Drivechain: https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/thunder/. I don't like it, because it looks so dumb, but it's infinitely better than Lightning.
There are other ways, though, like Shielded CSV: but all of these methods require a bridge to a parallel network, and only Drivechain can provide a decentralized bridge.
We could have had this 10 years ago if it hadn't been for Lightning or the blocksize war. It's sad that these two things happened, both could have been prevented. Still, if we activate Drivechain today we can prevent wasting the next 10 years.

2026-06-28 02:08:50 UTC

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Lightning is probably the worst thing that has happened to Bitcoin.
Sadly, because in theory it is super cool the first time you hear about it, 10 years ago.

2026-06-27 16:13:26 UTC

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IRC is nice, but doesn't use Nostr identities and chats can't migrate across servers. Insert these two elements and you get NIP-29.
Still, that isn't what I was dreaming about for 1-on-1 DMs, but maybe variations of NIP-17 is the best we'll ever get anyway.

2026-06-27 15:26:55 UTC

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Things will be muddled in any way or another. Making a new NIP doesn't really change that. You're just moving the muddling to another department, but you'll have to deal with it anyway.
It's like making a new kind with a different content-type, or a new "version". It's all cosmetics for "making a new protocol". Essentially it all comes down to creating new work for everybody to maintain everything at the same time and wrap their heads around the new stuff.
In this case I think it is worth it.
But honestly, I just wish someone did something different. Would be nice to have a more specialized and more efficient Nostr-like protocol around "chat servers" (as opposed to Nostr relays). Reuse Nostr identities, use Nostr for signaling, I don't know, but don't send the actual messages as Nostr events to relays, that is ugly.

2026-06-26 19:32:46 UTC

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It is allowed to have an X account for such practical purposes, but it must be read-only. It is also allowed to write on X but only if it's to promote The Nostr.
All other cases will cause the immediate and irrevocable expulsion of the offender from The Nostr.
Correct, @npub18am…p424?

2026-06-26 18:56:30 UTC

http://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nRN_VDg5R9JNeoRofghelc9EuDOPqS0dw

2026-06-26 14:18:58 UTC

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No, I don't. I just disagree that you and other designers have the perfect formula for the best user experience. I think the thing is much more subjective and random than you think, and that ultimately there is no formula (the fact that different UX designers disagree among themselves and disagree with their peers of the past is evidence of this).
I also completely oppose hiding the important parts of the protocol, even if that is going to result in more users (I don't think it will, in fact I think it's the opposite of that in the stage we are of early adopters and enthusiasts). But of course there are better ways and worse ways of exposing the internal protocol.

2026-06-26 13:08:29 UTC

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Can you give some examples of what is this technical debt?
If you were a Nostr lover and wanted to build a forum or group chat protocol from scratch, but abiding to the same principles of Nostr, how would you do it?
Now, what if you were to build it yourself, with all your lack of love for Nostr, how would you do it (except for the identity part, which I assume would be pkarr or your new blockchain name thing)?

2026-06-25 18:28:41 UTC

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He didn't fork Bitcoin, he just supported Jihan Wu's fork, and he wasn't selling some valueless shares that he made up himself for an arbitrary price, he was operating an exchange and giving people actual BCH. I don't know the details, but that doesn't sound super scammy to me, specially if you consider that no one owns the "Bitcoin" brand, not even the Bitcoin Core organization (I know, it's shocking). The fact that he owned the bitcoin.com domain is more of a failure of the DNS system than anything, the same applies to nostr.com today.
Now what if Nostr was adopted by Facebook and Facebook decided that everybody would just read from the facebook.com relay and other clients followed that decision, then, worse, Facebook started to use a complicated key delegation scheme and everybody else followed on that and everybody was calling that "Nostr".
Then Rover Ger, an idealistic Nostr enthusiast, would say: "no, that is not the original Nostr" and make a client that is compatible with the Nostr we have today and host it on nostr.com and say that was the real Nostr, tricking users who wanted to talk to their Facebook friends, who would then call him a scammer for that.
Is Rover Ger a scammer?

2026-06-25 03:28:50 UTC

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Are we allowed to say that Satoshi did a premine now? He made a rule that blocks can only be mined when more than one node is online, but then he just connected himself twice and mined and mined.
The "immaculate conception" of Bitcoin is a myth.

2026-06-24 21:25:55 UTC

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The fact that most Bitcoiners hate Roger Ver is a sign that something is very very wrong.

2026-06-24 20:14:44 UTC

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This is correct.

2026-06-24 19:36:35 UTC

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Can you define what each role can do in the dashboard?
What does it look like? Is it like one role can delete other people, other role can delete events, another role can write to the featured content feed?

2026-06-24 13:18:58 UTC

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I get it. These are the narratives I'm trying to combat right now, not only for git stuff, but for other things too. People have to wake up for the fact that relays are just simple servers and clients can choose from which relays they read.
This comment in which you are clearer about this part and not only dunks on Nostr for being a place full of nazists helps my case enormously, so thank you.

2026-06-24 11:02:49 UTC

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Please help me understand:
If you host your stuff on some relay you control and moderate, then you use a client that only reads comments from that relay that you control and moderate, then you tell everybody to use that client and you link to your page on that client such that anyone using that client will never see anything outside your control, is that enough?
Now if some other client shows up with 2 users and that client chooses to read comments from the harassment-maximalists relay, does that make it a deal-breaker for you?