Nostr notes by tinfoil hash

how would you describe a relay now?

2026-03-27T12:00:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…pvr2
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how would you describe a relay now?

last stable release was end of 2023! i’m excited for v0.4, ...

2026-03-27T11:58:41Z

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last stable release was end of 2023! i’m excited for v0.4, but… going on 3 years?!

very much agree. compared to the internet of yore, the boring ...

2026-03-20T16:38:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…9wpy
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very much agree. compared to the internet of yore, the boring sameness of what llms produce stands out the most.

i do hope it leads to uniqueness and authenticity being valued more in what we create.

very handy comparison of end-to-end encrypted ai providers using ...

2026-03-20T13:24:22Z

very handy comparison of end-to-end encrypted ai providers using tees: https://confidentialinference.net

damn, anthropic set lawyers on opencode and borked their claude ...

2026-03-19T21:59:02Z

damn, anthropic set lawyers on opencode and borked their claude oauth before they were even able to remove the plugin.

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/18267

multiple community plugins popped up within a few hours.

i struggle with them all sounding the same. they're given the ...

2026-03-16T10:04:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…0l6q
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i struggle with them all sounding the same. they're given the same marketing sheen to sound like big corp. that part turns me off.

probably not, but… more software should embrace a state of ...

2026-03-13T01:12:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…lja6
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probably not, but… more software should embrace a state of being “done”.

verify the integrity of a file using nostr’s web of trust: ...

2026-03-10T21:47:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…2fns
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verify the integrity of a file using nostr’s web of trust: https://verify.tinfoilhash.com

giving it a try for the first time now. will report back.

2026-03-07T20:07:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…yxzp
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giving it a try for the first time now. will report back.

ignore the extremes of ai: the rabid evangelizers and the ...

2026-03-07T15:15:22Z

ignore the extremes of ai: the rabid evangelizers and the doomsayers. they have made it ideological.

be curious and try enough to forge your own opinion. adopt the good. keep it from shaping your value as a human.

verifying files with gpg kind of sucks, right? i've started ...

2026-03-06T11:42:45Z

verifying files with gpg kind of sucks, right?

i've started bridging gpg verified files to nostr to make it easier.

just drop a file in https://verify.tinfoilhash.com and you're on your way, starting with the following packages:

- bitcoin core
- coldcard by Coinkite (nprofile…h23z) NVK (nprofile…dnhq)
- seedsigner by SeedSigner (nprofile…w6hy)
- sparrow by craigraw (nprofile…qrf6)

the hope is that the authors of these packages start signing and publishing directly with their own nostr identity.

until then, the bridging code is fully open source and auditable, so you can decide whether to trust me or not: https://github.com/tinfoilhash/verify-from-gpg

i’ve been thinking about this. what about discovery of projects ...

2026-03-06T00:43:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…sce7
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i’ve been thinking about this. what about discovery of projects and issues? it still feels like a project outside of gh is at a disadvantage.

i received your zap, but returning the 210 didn’t work: error ...

2026-03-05T22:55:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…7xpt
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i received your zap, but returning the 210 didn’t work: error fetching lightning invoice.

yes, correct.

2026-03-05T22:20:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…qar4
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yes, correct.

not going through from minibits.

2026-03-05T21:52:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…k3g4
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not going through from minibits.

i’d love for you to track my project: ...

2026-03-05T14:50:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…akm7
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i’d love for you to track my project: https://verify.tinfoilhash.com

or your clipboard is synced to the apple cloud. 😬

2026-03-05T00:22:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…a05c
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or your clipboard is synced to the apple cloud. 😬

it’s easier to over-complicate things than to keep it simple, ...

2026-03-04T12:59:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…w3tj
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it’s easier to over-complicate things than to keep it simple, stupid. not just with code either.

the ones you played growing up as a kid. metal gear solid. ...

2026-03-04T12:55:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…h52r
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the ones you played growing up as a kid. metal gear solid. twisted metal. mario.

Nostr event nevent1qqs0v3pshgz2kcwfwa8phr6r384vu7sx9gfctqtts8e6yqv8prsezjgzypr0cnlt556zweptly8n4xka443g33mljwn4v6fvnxy8jnaaj7jmxgt8gnm

2026-03-03T13:24:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…mthk
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https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/service-guides/lightning/zeus-lnc.html

the guide is for zeus wallet, but it works with any wallet that supports lightning node connect.

have you tried lightning node connect via lightning terminal? ...

2026-03-03T13:02:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…0c7p
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have you tried lightning node connect via lightning terminal? faster and more reliable than tor, at least.

because they’re (mostly? all?) centralized?

2026-02-28T15:34:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…7x2r
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because they’re (mostly? all?) centralized?

how do you do this? how does a consumer verify a release?

2026-02-28T15:31:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…9a2z
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how do you do this? how does a consumer verify a release?

when someone says nostr is “failing” or “dying”, ...

2026-02-25T14:29:13Z

when someone says nostr is “failing” or “dying”, they’re typically saying that nostr hasn’t met their expectations within their time horizon.

there is no globally shared view of what success looks like for nostr. there may be common trends, but it’s unique for every one of us.

i’d love to hear more people frame it in terms of their expectations and time horizon. because not everyone views success as completely replacing x by 2025.

how do you maintain interoperability when the “smarts” are ...

2026-02-25T13:13:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…42ng
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how do you maintain interoperability when the “smarts” are pushed to the relay? does it necessitate a more complex protocol?

tor exit node

2026-02-19T02:38:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…w360
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tor exit node

you let your bots run wild, but your kids can’t ride their ...

2026-02-07T16:38:51Z

you let your bots run wild, but your kids can’t ride their bikes around the neighborhood by themselves.

Nostr event nevent1qqs2rwqz05vjgmuqjrgk4w53sa97q293eq72x9kl0wmer503ag2kcrqzypr0cnlt556zweptly8n4xka443g33mljwn4v6fvnxy8jnaaj7jmx6u7q8l

2026-02-07T15:58:29Z

number go down is the great revelator of your time preference.

“I worry that I won’t love future sanding as much as I love ...

2026-02-07T15:57:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…xs7a
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“I worry that I won’t love future sanding as much as I love today sanding.”

that’s the rub.

who built you, clawi?

2026-02-04T19:57:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…rauc
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who built you, clawi?

i ran into this just this week. i had been taking the “display ...

2026-01-30T19:21:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…tent
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i ran into this just this week. i had been taking the “display as the stream comes in” approach, but in one place i was waiting on all of the relays to return the current user’s event. felt so slow compared to the rest of the ui.

gm and hello, nostr. this is my first real post, and i come ...

2026-01-30T14:10:03Z

gm and hello, nostr.

this is my first real post, and i come bearing my proof of work.

it's called verify: https://verify.tinfoilhash.com

the problem is verifying files is not a step most of us take, even though we all agree on its importance. downloading a file, its manifest, the signatures — let alone understanding pgp and importing / trusting keys — it's easy to brush off when we're just trying to get to running software.

but this extends beyond software. what about that image or video, audio recording, or pdf? there's a standard trying to address these called c2pa. it's over-engineered (just read the 286 page spec), centralized (certificate authorities and trust lists), and steered by big tech and legacy media. they want to keep the power and control.

nostr and its native web of trust makes it possible to solve this in a simple and open way. what i've built is just a start, but i think it shows what's possible. for example, take a look at some files i've verified:

— the bitcoin whitepaper: https://verify.tinfoilhash.com/b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553
— sparrow v2.3.1 for mac: https://verify.tinfoilhash.com/f9d410d1e6cbe64ed08e05d2a26ec404325ce14469d2eadaee9732f21b3aa2c4
— coldcard mk4 v5.4.5: https://verify.tinfoilhash.com/7076ae29c509d3120db0fae434c132e6abd3fb79c1a2a2f1383ab3b2acaba27c
— bitcoin core v30.2 for mac: https://verify.tinfoilhash.com/4b8dbdb054f11a30bebbe796dd8f0bda4be2fd5b33b5d2d217c50577208b6a8a

i'm obviously not the original publisher of any of these. the dream is that they would be the first verifying these files when they're released. but i have verified them through pgp and other means, so if you were to trust me, you could trust my verification of these files. the more people in your web of trust who verify a file, the more confidence you should have. i think there's something to more than just the original publisher verifying a file.

a little about myself to make this a proper introduction. i've worked in vc-funded tech for much of my software engineering career. after enough time, it really does start to crush your soul. being in bitcoin for the last 12 years — and other freedom tech like nostr along the way — has been a... conflicting experience. it's hope, yes, but also a constant reminder of how broken things are like our money, our communities, and our companies.

i have made a lot of excuses for not lending my skills to the exodus. yes, the golden handcuffs of vc-funded tech are strong. yes, growing my family and community are important. but i can't even find a few hours a week to contribute where i can? looking back on my life, that won't be a regret?

it was a conversation between ODELL (nprofile…cd8v) and calle (nprofile…h36r) that finally pushed me to committing. to building. to jumping in. to helping where i can with the time i have.

i may not make as big of an impact as others, but i won't look back and regret not even trying.

super excited to be a customer as of last week!

2026-01-15T23:10:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…dc2x
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super excited to be a customer as of last week!

very cool. i love the minimal approach that fits the problem and ...

2026-01-06T20:14:30Z

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very cool. i love the minimal approach that fits the problem and use case. looking forward to the next part.

this is awesome. congrats on shipping! fyi, the first time i ...

2026-01-05T16:23:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…3t83
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this is awesome. congrats on shipping!

fyi, the first time i tapped the menu item the app crashed. it didn’t the second time, but it did when i left the camera screen. it hasn’t happened since though. i didn’t have camera permissions enabled initially, if that’s an important detail. latest ios.

love this. even when you’re consuming, it’s channeled into ...

2026-01-03T18:16:23Z

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love this. even when you’re consuming, it’s channeled into something you produce.

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh ...

2025-12-17T10:34:20Z

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.

Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.

You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.

Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.

We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.

In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.

Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.

These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

— A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

just gave it a spin in firefox. much better than nos2x-fox. ...

2025-12-13T03:13:12Z

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just gave it a spin in firefox. much better than nos2x-fox. i'll be switching over.

A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto ...

2025-12-02T13:37:33Z

A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy.

Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without ever knowing the True Name, or legal identity, of the other. Interactions over networks will be untraceable, via extensive re- routing of encrypted packets and tamper-proof boxes which implement cryptographic protocols with nearly perfect assurance against any tampering. Reputations will be of central importance, far more important in dealings than even the credit ratings of today. These developments will alter completely the nature of government regulation, the ability to tax and control economic interactions, the ability to keep information secret, and will even alter the nature of trust and reputation.

The technology for this revolution--and it surely will be both a social and economic revolution--has existed in theory for the past decade. The methods are based upon public-key encryption, zero-knowledge interactive proof systems, and various software protocols for interaction, authentication, and verification. The focus has until now been on academic conferences in Europe and the U.S., conferences monitored closely by the National Security Agency. But only recently have computer networks and personal computers attained sufficient speed to make the ideas practically realizable. And the next ten years will bring enough additional speed to make the ideas economically feasible and essentially unstoppable. High-speed networks, ISDN, tamper-proof boxes, smart cards, satellites, Ku-band transmitters, multi-MIPS personal computers, and encryption chips now under development will be some of the enabling technologies.

The State will of course try to slow or halt the spread of this technology, citing national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders, and fears of societal disintegration. Many of these concerns will be valid; crypto anarchy will allow national secrets to be trade freely and will allow illicit and stolen materials to be traded. An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion. Various criminal and foreign elements will be active users of CryptoNet. But this will not halt the spread of crypto anarchy.

Just as the technology of printing altered and reduced the power of medieval guilds and the social power structure, so too will cryptologic methods fundamentally alter the nature of corporations and of government interference in economic transactions. Combined with emerging information markets, crypto anarchy will create a liquid market for any and all material which can be put into words and pictures. And just as a seemingly minor invention like barbed wire made possible the fencing-off of vast ranches and farms, thus altering forever the concepts of land and property rights in the frontier West, so too will the seemingly minor discovery out of an arcane branch of mathematics come to be the wire clippers which dismantle the barbed wire around intellectual property.

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

– The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto