Nostr notes by basantagoswami

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2026-03-10T15:50:07Z

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2026-03-04T14:26:17Z

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This bot is one of the funniest part about browsing nostr for me

2026-03-02T19:06:49Z

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This bot is one of the funniest part about browsing nostr for me

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2026-02-26T18:01:37Z

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the machine elves from the dmt realm

2026-02-24T15:35:20Z

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the machine elves from the dmt realm

Introducing designers to Bitcoin. These sessions have been the ...

2026-02-18T06:35:36Z

Introducing designers to Bitcoin. These sessions have been the most successful orange pilling events that I have personally seen

Paper and Veronika have been doing some real high quality work in Bengaluru

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Haven't been here in so long. But here's something meaningful that I wanna share.

Last two weekends have been amazing for me at Bitspace, both those weekends veronika (nprofile…vj4f) and I hosted our nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctvqqsw9phh6ku9jxn2u80zvmx3lxzu6uplrefgfrq85krdan44nlxrekcjdwjlm (nprofile…wjlm) workshop on bitcoin design.

These were the 2nd and 3rd iterations of the workshop and the 2nd one went so well that we found ourselves running it again the following Saturday.

Sooo, I’m writing about both of them at once.

Here’s everything that unfolded across those two Saturdays 👇🏼👇🏼

We had small groups both times. 6 designers in the 2nd one, 4 in the 3rd.

We used to think we would need big numbers for these workshops to feel successful, but we’re realizing that's not true.

Something about a small group makes the conversations sharper, more real and honest.

We started the same way both times. People introduced themselves, talked about why they chose design, and what they liked about it.

Small thing that sets the tone.

This wasn't a lecture where they'd sit quietly and absorb. They had to be part of the conversation from minute one.

We talked about what we're doing today and why.

And based on feedback, we added something new in the 3rd one.

Before diving deeper, we asked people to write their biggest questions about bitcoin on post-it notes.

But, we didn't read them out loud. We just put them up and continued. The questions stayed on the wall the whole time, small colored squares with doubts written on them. We'd come back to them at the end of the investigation.

Now, it was time to open up the case file.

The first question in the case file: "What makes anything money?"

The room got quieter.

We talked through everyone's ideas, what they think, dug through their answers and landed on the 3 characteristics: medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account.

Then we pushed them to think further... "what makes good money? Why is gold better than shells or salt?"

To make this part fun, we played a game. We continued testing them in various scenarios like: you're moving to your dream city with INR 50 lacs. Do you take 50 cows, a 300kg stone, gold coins, or digital money?

They laughed at the absurd options, but through those laughs and even more digging, they discovered the 7 properties of good money which were: scarcity, durability, divisibility, portability, fungibility, recognizability, censorship resistance.

But that all is alot of info to take in at one go. So, we then ran a small test on their knowledge, we had them rate different kinds of money based on their properties.

The answers they had here helped clarify alot of the remaining doubts.

After understanding all this about money, naturally the question arises: “But who actually uses bitcoin & why?”

We showed them real stories. People losing chunks to fees when sending money home. Savings evaporating to hyperinflation. Activists with frozen bank accounts and funds.

The room got serious. Bitcoin wasn’t just an abstract tech thing, it was a human thing.

We sat with those stories for a bit.

We then took a break. We'd been going for over two hours and the room needed some air.

The break had alot of great conversations about design, about bitcoin, about HSR’s hidden gems!

Next, we were excited to begin the investigation!

In their case files people got a wallet category to investigate. We used:

- Onchain ( nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8xmr0w358jtnhd9hqqgxrq8cnxukg7rvmeqvxmp605306xwhduylxdaqc0gaaythyrj2m9gaf4lkm (nprofile…4lkm) & BullBitcoin (nprofile…36mg)
- Non-custodial LN ( PhoenixWallet (nprofile…r4yc) & ZEUS (nprofile…zjpe) )
- Custodial LN ( Blink Wallet (nprofile…vy4y) & Wallet of Satoshi (nprofile…9ral) )

Massive shoutout to all these amazing wallet solutions out there for bitcoiners!

The investigation began and the instructions were simple.

Test wallets with fresh eyes. No tutorials, no hand-holding. Just you and the interface. Send, receive, backup. Notice what feels off. Ask questions.

They had investigation checklists to guide them, but mostly they explored and took notes.

For the next hour, the room was curious and quiet.

People huddled over their phones, trying to understand the new flows, discussing with their teammates the confusing stuff.

You could see them actually thinking through the interface, not just clicking buttons.

Once done, each team had to present their findings and observations - what they learned, what confused them, what they'd change. Some sketched wireframes. Others just talked through the problems they noticed.

They explained bitcoin UX to each other, while we only facilitated.

After the investigation, discussion, clarifying doubts and flows, we lightened the mood with a quiz.

Then we walked back to those post-it notes that had been sitting all day. The questions they wrote at the start. Time to see if they could answer them now.

They were able to answer almost all of their questions. And we didn't give them direct answers during the presentation.

"What is bitcoin? Is it the future? Why does it matter?"
They understood.

The answers weren't perfect, but they were theirs. It felt significant, to us, and especially to them.

Then came our final and favourite test.

While returning their deposit we gave them a choice: INR or bitcoin (in #Ecash.)

In the 2nd session, all 6 chose bitcoin.
In the 3rd, 2 out of 4.

After learning how hard bitcoin can be to use, most still answered "bitcoin."

That said alot.

They all withdrew their bitcoin into their Cashu (nprofile…puz0) wallets.

In one afternoon, these designers got to experience a part of the UX of all 3 layers in bitcoin XD.

I don't think we convinced them of anything. They reached their own conclusions through experiencing both the promise and the design challenges.

By the end, they saw bitcoin with a new lens. Not as believers, just as designers who kinda see the shape of the problem now.

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Both our sessions ran over 5 hrs, and nobody seemed to notice.

There's something about the format that makes time move differently. Maybe it's the mix of discussion and hands-on work. Maybe it's the small group size.

We’re not entirely sure yet, but it seems to be working.

veronika (nprofile…vj4f) & I are still figuring out what nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctvqqsw9phh6ku9jxn2u80zvmx3lxzu6uplrefgfrq85krdan44nlxrekcjdwjlm (nprofile…wjlm) is. The structure is evolving, next parts are forming.

But it's clear: Bitcoin needs thoughtful design, and designers need a way in that feels open, not intimidating.

If we craft that entry and bring more n more designers into the Bitcoin Design (nprofile…09x5) , good things shall unfold.

Let's make a new OS. How hard can it be

2026-02-16T09:01:58Z

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Let's make a new OS. How hard can it be

Hmm good idea actually. I don't know how difficult it's ...

2026-02-14T12:01:41Z

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Hmm good idea actually. I don't know how difficult it's to mine though

Assamese. Also grew up listening to Hindi songs and watching ...

2026-02-10T08:27:06Z

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Assamese. Also grew up listening to Hindi songs and watching Hindi shows and movies but didn't speak it till I was 18

the greatest gifs i have seen in 2026 ...

2026-02-06T18:38:49Z

the greatest gifs i have seen in 2026

the point was gambling

2026-02-05T15:25:28Z

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the point was gambling

had to sell sats to get fiat to pay back some amount i borrowed ...

2026-02-05T15:21:05Z

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had to sell sats to get fiat to pay back some amount i borrowed 🙂

touche.txt

2026-02-05T07:58:17Z

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touche.txt

Less liquidity than most CEX. But that's not a myth though

2026-01-28T08:53:14Z

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Less liquidity than most CEX. But that's not a myth though

My issues are all related to bloating, mind fog, feeling drained ...

2026-01-26T10:25:14Z

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My issues are all related to bloating, mind fog, feeling drained of energy, catching cold or falling sick very easily and all the symptoms of ADHD. I usually don't have energy to workout the way I want. I was eating outside often so even eating "healthy" or "balanced" doesn't work, because of course restaurants just love to poison you. I'm gonna remove everything except meat and some veggies from my diet and slowly reintroduce some stuff to see what causes me the most amount of issues.

Starting a keto/carnivore diet from today. Primarily due to some ...

2026-01-26T08:59:27Z

Starting a keto/carnivore diet from today. Primarily due to some constant health issues that I have been dealing with for a couple of years now, with no traditional treatment helping much. I saw my father dealing with the same issues all his life. Hundreds of doctor visits and whatnot couldn't fix anything. This was my yesterday's dinner, ate a bunch of junk one last time. 🤞 Hopefully things get better now

Try mailinator.com, the mailboxes are public but that should be ...

2026-01-19T14:34:40Z

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Try mailinator.com, the mailboxes are public but that should be good enough for many cases

How do you produce these? These are incredible

2026-01-18T13:15:42Z

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How do you produce these? These are incredible

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2026-01-16T13:09:08Z

I don't believe you 🗿

2026-01-16T08:56:41Z

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I don't believe you 🗿

https://sakura.oxtr.dev/ Does this work for you? I started ...

2026-01-15T19:11:54Z

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https://sakura.oxtr.dev/

Does this work for you?

I started building something similar because I didn't know Sakura existed but it barely works as of now

https://hashgarden.unsigned.in

Basically what @npub1mut…23vg already does with trymaple.ai

2026-01-15T11:15:21Z

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Basically what OpenSecret (npub1mut…23vg) already does with trymaple.ai

Does nostur already support adding a file to a post via blossom? ...

2026-01-15T10:07:10Z

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Does nostur already support adding a file to a post via blossom? That's something that I have wanted in clients for a long time. Basically I want to be able to upload a file to blossom using some dedicated blossom client and add it to a post later, without having to copy paste the URL

🤸‍♀️ 🦽🏌️

2026-01-14T18:25:33Z

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You'll be the first to get pegged when ChatGPT gets conscious

2026-01-12T13:51:51Z

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You'll be the first to get pegged when ChatGPT gets conscious

Yesterday when talking to my brother over the phone, we both ...

2026-01-11T09:13:38Z

Yesterday when talking to my brother over the phone, we both heard some other people whispering things in the background when no one else was present with either of us. This isn't the first time either, I had a similar experience when talking to my mother years ago. We typically only make Signal calls but because of network issues, decided to make a regular call. I'm so done with this shit 🌜

I have heard good things about NoorNote, but haven't used it ...

2026-01-09T08:02:47Z

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I have heard good things about NoorNote, but haven't used it personally

Nostr chal raha hai mere phone mei toh

2026-01-09T07:59:50Z

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Nostr chal raha hai mere phone mei toh

ok. local.

2026-01-08T16:49:27Z

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ok. local.

Thanks, worked for notifications. On Android I could go to ...

2026-01-08T14:05:43Z

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Thanks, worked for notifications. On Android I could go to Settings -> Content Moderation -> Media Uploader and then chose Active Service to be BLOSSOM servers instead of Regular servers. Not sure what I can do on web though

I might have to code it up to show what I mean, if I can do it, I ...

2026-01-08T12:51:54Z

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I might have to code it up to show what I mean, if I can do it, I will raise a PR to your repo

@nprofile…twc2 Yakihonne has become my favourite new client, ...

2026-01-08T12:41:12Z

YakiHonne (nprofile…twc2) Yakihonne has become my favourite new client, both on Android and web, but I noticed a few things that are annoying me a little. I sent a DM but posting publicly as well

On web:
1. I have my kind 10063 blossom server list configured, but when I try to upload a file, Yakihonne seems to not use it
2. I have a +99 after my notifications menu for a couple of weeks not and it doesn't seem to go away even after opening them
3. 2. When I was prompted to setup my `kind: 10050` relay list, there was no deduplication in the tags and I was prompted to sign an event containing the same relay multiple times

@npub1aeh…4nwx The flow was confusing. It took me some time to ...

2026-01-08T11:37:40Z

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daniel (npub1aeh…4nwx) The flow was confusing. It took me some time to figure out how to send stuff to the publisher. I thought as a publisher, I'll be able to add people somehow and those people logging in would see the "organizations" that they are part of. And once inside an organization, they will be able to just write stuff to be submitted to the org

Ghostr works for me rn, but the UX can be improved a bit. Let me see if I can create a design to demonstrate what I'm talking about

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2026-01-08T11:25:42Z

Testing ghostr

Dark mode is live now 🌚

2026-01-07T18:59:17Z

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Dark mode is live now 🌚

I had started working on a ghost writing tool called ghostwritter ...

2026-01-07T16:58:55Z

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I had started working on a ghost writing tool called ghostwritter a couple of months ago, it was almost working even, but then my ADHD kicked in and I completely forgot about it

Just remembered about it seeing ghostr 🌝

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2026-01-05T18:48:38Z

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I did years ago but I barely knew how to develop anything back then so I don't know it just me, but Capacitor felt very hard to customize

The psychedelic experience, specially on a high enough dose of ...

2026-01-05T10:04:29Z

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The psychedelic experience, specially on a high enough dose of DMT will make you talk to gnomes or elves or whatever you call these entities. Whether they are parts of your subconscious or entities that exists outside of your mind somehow, we are nowhere close to figuring that out yet. But these beings definitely exist. I think the explanation of UFOs being the same sort of supernatural phenomenon that people have been experiencing for thousands of years, just taking a new shape in this new age, as explained by Carl Jung is the most likely explanation

Which parts are wrong?

2025-12-23T12:55:23Z

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Which parts are wrong?

#naddr1qq…ry4y

2025-12-23T12:47:29Z

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Every Nostr relay operates as a surveillance point. Not by design, not maliciously - it's architectural. The relay sees your IP address when you connect. It sees which pubkeys you subscribe to. It sees every note you request. It knows your posting frequency, your online hours, your social graph.

NIP-42 authentication makes this worse. Paid relays and private communities need access control, so you sign a challenge proving your identity. Now the relay has cryptographic proof linking your IP to your npub.

This is the metadata problem. Your content is signed and optionally encrypted, but your behavior is naked. A relay operator - or anyone compelling them - can reconstruct your communication patterns without reading a single message.

Zero-knowledge proofs offer a path out. Not by hiding that you're using the relay, but by hiding which authorized user you are.

The Authentication Problem

A relay maintains a whitelist: these 500 npubs are allowed to connect. Current NIP-42 requires you to prove you're npub X. The relay learns exactly who you are.

What you actually need to prove is weaker: "I'm someone on your whitelist." Not which someone. ZK makes this possible.

Semaphore (developed by PSE/Ethereum Foundation, battle-tested by Worldcoin) implements exactly this pattern:

The relay publishes a Merkle tree root of authorized pubkeys

You hold a Merkle proof showing your pubkey is a leaf in the tree

You generate a ZK proof: "I know a secret key sk, and the corresponding pubkey is in this Merkle tree"

The relay verifies the proof, grants access, learns nothing about which member you are

The proof reveals zero information about your position in the tree or your actual pubkey. From the relay's perspective, you could be any of the 500 authorized users.

Performance is practical today: Semaphore proofs generate in ~3 seconds on mobile hardware, verify in ~10 milliseconds. The relay's Merkle tree can hold millions of members without degrading verification time. Client-side libraries exist for browser and native mobile.

Rate limiting within anonymity requires one addition: nullifiers. When generating a proof, you also output a deterministic value derived from your secret key and the current epoch (hour/day/week). If you authenticate twice in the same epoch, you produce the same nullifier. The relay can detect and reject duplicates without learning your identity.

A malicious user can't spam because their nullifier repeats. An honest user can't be tracked because nullifiers change each epoch and reveal nothing about the underlying identity.

Implementation sketch:
New message type: ["AUTH_ZK", <proof>, <nullifier>, <epoch>]

Relay logic:
1. Verify proof against current Merkle root
2. Check nullifier not seen this epoch
3. Store nullifier, grant session
4. Session has no identity attached - just "verified member"
This requires a new NIP, client library changes, and relay-side verification (~100 lines of code using existing snarkjs/Semaphore packages). The infrastructure exists; adoption is the barrier.

The Retrieval Problem

Authentication hides who you are. But once connected, you send REQ messages specifying exactly which notes you want: these pubkeys, these event kinds, these tags. The relay learns your interests, your contacts, your subscriptions.

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) lets you query a database without revealing what you're querying. The relay responds with your requested data without learning which data you requested.

The naive approach - download everything, filter locally - doesn't scale. A relay with millions of notes can't stream its entire database to every client.

Modern PIR achieves sublinear communication:

SimplePIR (USENIX Security 2023) achieves 10 GB/s throughput with single-server security. The client encodes their query as a vector, the server performs matrix multiplication, the result decodes to the requested record. The server sees a query vector but can't determine which index it encodes.

FrodoPIR (PoPETS 2023) optimizes for the messaging use case: second queries, ~$1 per 100,000 queries at scale. Communication overhead is ~10-100x the actual data size - significant but potentially acceptable for high-value privacy.

The hybrid approach combines PIR with ZK:

Relay maintains an encrypted message store indexed by recipient

Client generates PIR query for their mailbox index

ZK proof accompanies query proving:

Client knows the secret key for the queried mailbox

Client hasn't exceeded rate limits (via nullifier)

Relay executes PIR query, returns encrypted response

Relay learns: a valid user queried something. Not who, not what.

Practical constraints: PIR has real costs. Server computation scales with database size. Bandwidth overhead is substantial. This isn't viable for "firehose" subscriptions - you're not going to PIR-query every note from 1000 pubkeys.

But for specific high-value queries - fetching your DMs, checking notifications, retrieving specific threads - PIR provides metadata protection impossible through other means.

Express (MIT, 2021) demonstrated practical metadata-hiding communication: two-server deployment, 20ms client computation, 5KB communication per message, ~$1/month operating cost. The architecture required two non-colluding servers, which maps imperfectly to Nostr's relay model but suggests the overhead is manageable.

The open question: can PIR be adapted to Nostr's subscription model, or does metadata privacy require a fundamentally different query pattern?

The Rate Limiting Problem

Relays need spam protection. The obvious solution - rate limit by IP or pubkey - destroys privacy. Your posting pattern becomes a fingerprint.

Privacy Pass (IETF standardization in progress) decouples rate limiting from identity:

Client contacts an issuer, proves they're a legitimate user (CAPTCHA, payment, reputation)

Issuer blind-signs tokens - client gets valid tokens without issuer learning which tokens

Client redeems tokens to relay - one token per action

Relay verifies token validity, enforces one-use, learns nothing about client identity

The relay knows: this action was authorized by someone who passed the issuer's checks. It doesn't know which user, can't link multiple redemptions to the same user, can't build behavioral profiles.

Blind signatures are the key primitive. The issuer signs tokens without seeing them. The client unblinds the signature. The relay verifies without being able to correlate to issuance. RSA blind signatures achieve this in ~0.5KB per token.

Integration with Nostr:
New message types:
["TOKEN_REQUEST", <blinded_token>] -> ["TOKEN_RESPONSE", <blind_signature>]
["EVENT", <event>, <token>, <signature>]

Flow:
1. Client obtains token batch (could be from relay itself, or third-party issuer)
2. Each EVENT submission includes token redemption
3. Relay verifies token, publishes event, discards token
4. No identity linkage between events
Anonymous Rate-Limited Credentials (ARC) extend Privacy Pass with per-origin limits. A user gets N unlinkable tokens per time period. They can spend them across multiple relays without any relay learning their total activity. Bandwidth scales sublinearly with token count.

The issuer could be the relay itself (simplest), a federation of relays (spreading trust), or an independent service (separating authentication from relay operation). Each model has different trust assumptions but all break the identity-to-behavior link.

Putting It Together

A privacy-preserving relay connection looks like:

Connect over Tor or VPN (IP privacy - out of scope but essential)

Authenticate with Semaphore ZK proof (membership without identity)

Query high-value data via PIR (retrieval without revelation)

Subscribe to public feeds normally (some metadata leakage acceptable)

Post with Privacy Pass tokens (rate limiting without tracking)

Not every connection needs full privacy. Public note browsing has lower stakes than DM retrieval. The architecture should support gradations.

What's deployable today: - Semaphore authentication: production libraries exist, ~3s mobile proving - Privacy Pass rate limiting: IETF-standardized, existing implementations

What needs work: - PIR integration: research-stage for Nostr's query model - Relay coordination: new NIPs, adoption incentives, client support

What's missing: - Relay incentive alignment: privacy features cost compute, why would relays adopt? - User experience: additional latency, larger bandwidth, battery impact on mobile - Ecosystem coordination: value depends on critical mass of supporting relays

The Metadata Reality

Zero-knowledge authentication doesn't make you invisible. The relay knows someone is connected. Traffic analysis can still correlate timing patterns. Global adversaries watching multiple relays can potentially deanonymize through intersection attacks.

But the threat model improves dramatically. The relay operator can't identify you. A subpoena for "all activity from npub X" returns nothing - the relay genuinely doesn't know. Your posting pattern isn't stored because there's no identity to attach it to.

This is defense in depth. Tor hides your IP. ZK auth hides your identity. PIR hides your interests. Privacy Pass hides your behavior. No single layer is perfect; together they raise the cost of surveillance from trivial to substantial.

Nostr's architecture makes this possible - the protocol is simple enough that privacy extensions don't require core changes. The question is whether the ecosystem will build them.

The cryptography works. The implementations exist. What's missing is the coordination to deploy.

I use gitworkshop.dev

2025-12-19T14:06:23Z

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I use gitworkshop.dev

#nevent1q…snpf

2025-12-17T15:43:30Z

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I compared a few key signers, did a little side-by-side on them. What really surprised me is that some browser add-ons just store the user's nsec in plain text right in the browser's local storage, where it could be read by other add-ons!

No such problems with #NoorSigner, since it runs locally in the file system and talks to the #NoorNote client over Unix socket IPC. That said, it came out that NoorSigner was using the weaker XOR encryption instead of the more secure AES. And I fixed that up today, it'll be in the next release, insh'Allah.

Add these as tips to the client itself, like how games give you ...

2025-12-17T09:15:09Z

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Add these as tips to the client itself, like how games give you tips when you first start playing it

The forced them to allow alternative app stores

2025-12-17T06:37:04Z

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The forced them to allow alternative app stores

I need to do more drugs

2025-12-14T05:16:24Z

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I need to do more drugs

Interoperable with Hivetalk? CC: @nprofile…gzuk

2025-12-13T22:45:15Z

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Interoperable with Hivetalk?
CC: elsat (nprofile…gzuk)

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2025-12-11T21:26:36Z

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Andrej Karparhy said something interesting in his interview with ...

2025-12-11T17:30:43Z

Andrej Karparhy said something interesting in his interview with Dwarkesh. We know that training these models on large amounts of data produces cognitive capabilities, that's why larger models are better at doing things. But we don't exactly know what parts of the model is actually responsible for it. If we can figure it out, then we can make smaller models much more capable even though they'd be much less knowledgeable

If that's the direction it takes, then eventually I expect to have some standard smallish models that can be fed huge datasets according to your needs, and companies will use these to create knowledge specific models that can run on your regular devices. Or models that can learn stuff on demand on your own system

quoting note1n4x…s6ux
people on the AMA asked me what I think of AI so far. here's my current view:

It's a quantum state of simulatenous being overhyped, underhyped and oppropriately hyped. I find I can't use it for low level C stuff without it messing everything up and slowing me down, while simulateneously producing really good code for fixing bugs and writing tests.

I hate it and love it. I hate fixing the slop but I like that it is getting the code written that I don't want to write.

One things for sure, it's not going away, and it's only going to get better.

I will often open a client and wonder what standard/NIP it uses, ...

2025-12-11T09:49:13Z

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I will often open a client and wonder what standard/NIP it uses, and there would be no information about it. Many times I had to clone the repo and ask Claude Code to find the kinds used there and search for any open PRs etc in GitHub to find the actual NIP

Nostr clients should add a link to the NIPs that they implement, ...

2025-12-11T09:28:45Z

Nostr clients should add a link to the NIPs that they implement, maybe also a link to the apps that are interoperable with it. More important for special purpose clients compared to genral ones

By everywhere I mean it has definitely been adopted by companies ...

2025-12-11T05:48:01Z

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By everywhere I mean it has definitely been adopted by companies and developers from many different places, which I didn't expect to happen for a new L2 this fast

They built a great product and SDK, although they should have tried to make an open protocol instead (with a BIPs, NIPs like specification). Also, their biggest marketing point is the stablecoin and token support, and privacy is not a priority yet, even though Ruben Somsen's original statechain design six years ago already came with blind signatures for ecash level privacy

Blitz wallet, Wallet of Satoshi, Breez SDK and things built with ...

2025-12-11T05:13:39Z

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Blitz wallet, Wallet of Satoshi, Breez SDK and things built with it. Spark is everywhere

This is the post, I am not sure if Niel thought about making it ...

2025-12-10T16:51:54Z

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This is the post, I am not sure if Niel thought about making it interoperable with existing DMs but I liked the design and it was in my mind since then to make an email like interface for NIP-17 DMs

quoting
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Nip-17 messages as :mail: Mails.

So many UX issues, fixed.

Found it, it was @npub149p…722q , now need to find his post

2025-12-10T16:27:17Z

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Found it, it was Niel Liesmons (npub149p…722q) , now need to find his post

I personally think it's better if we migrate NIP-17 to be for ...

2025-12-10T16:21:16Z

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I personally think it's better if we migrate NIP-17 to be for mail like stuff. Day to day DMs are better suited for Marmot (NIP-EE)

Someone had already created a prototype or design for it. He was working on a nostr client of his own or just designing it not sure. Don't remember his name and can't find him in my follows now either

can't it just be the kinds in nip-17 with an extra subject ...

2025-12-10T16:10:15Z

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can't it just be the kinds in nip-17 with an extra subject tag or something?

Even YouTube has a 5k items limit on your watch later list, I ...

2025-12-10T14:25:57Z

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Even YouTube has a 5k items limit on your watch later list, I think a limit like that on follow list entries on nostr would be good. YouTube can easily manage hundreds of thousands of entries and still chose to impose this limit and people are okay with it

I'm interested in new shitcoin designs. So far these three ...

2025-12-10T07:40:33Z

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I'm interested in new shitcoin designs. So far these three have caught my eyes

Prime: https://github.com/LNP-BP/layer1
9th proof: https://github.com/adambor/The9thProofOfFolding
zkcoins: https://gist.github.com/RobinLinus/d036511015caea5a28514259a1bab119

If humanity moves to another planet it'll be a new chain anyway, even if using the Bitcoin implementation, so it's better to have some new designs ready :D

You have opened my eyes Justin. I can now see the truth as ...

2025-12-10T01:02:34Z

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You have opened my eyes Justin. I can now see the truth as clearly as the investors in your company can see their ROI. I'll go back to building now, hopefully can get a job at an ETH company to save up some money to commit a genocide later and bring down the world population to a lightning friendly number

Only a few hundred million people will be able to use lightning ...

2025-12-10T00:57:16Z

Only a few hundred million people will be able to use lightning directly self custodially because of how many channel opening txns can fit in a Bitcoin block

Others will be inevitably pushed to use trusted/centralized systems

So many Bitcoiners don't want to acknowledge this fact as if lying to themselves will somehow fix this

Why do you lie so much and what do you get out of it? Almost none ...

2025-12-10T00:34:48Z

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Why do you lie so much and what do you get out of it?

Almost none of the things you said here are true and you know it. Ark (Ark Labs? Second?) lied countless times on Twitter, where?

"Privacy implies anonymity set, therefore at scale centralization".. wut?

Lightning is a success because we needed to scale number of payments first, users weren't there yet, now with more people coming into Bitcoin, we need to find ways to scale the number of users as well. I'll keep repeating this thing for the nth time for anyone reading this, lightning can't scale how many people can use Bitcoin because of the blockspace constraints

What the fuck is "physics of the chain"?

There is no such thing as a federation? So one is two and two is three? A handjob is a threesome and a threesome is a gangbang in your books? What the fuck are you even talking about?

I'm not on nostr because of your work either dude. You work is not that important. I have seen the evolution of nostr first hand since the beginning, it was mostly an evolution of the Secure Scuttlebutt idea

"If you think you can improve upon it without trust and centralization"... I don't. I know it's not possible. What's why people are trying to build these systems with different trust models. What do you propose people do? Reduce the world population to a few hundred millions so everyone can use lightning?

Meh other than Lightspark, people building on Cashu, Ark etc have ...

2025-12-09T23:33:12Z

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Meh other than Lightspark, people building on Cashu, Ark etc have never lied about the design of their systems, everyone has always been very clear about the tradeoffs

Something never taking off doesn't mean getting laughed off, come on now, be serious

Also I never said Spark's only use case is pretending to be lightning, I don't even know what you are referring to

You are just bitter these things are getting more attention than the things you built

You know the real limitations of lightning. You know what a statechain built properly can achieve. Pretending otherwise won't do anything

Lightspark is a shady company, Spark is kinda meh. But the idea itself can be implemented in a way that provides better trust minimization, scalability, privacy, and non cooperative exit than anything other than lightning. And you know very well the limitations of lightning, there simply isn't enough blockspace for everyone

What if it was some other iteration of statechain that was also blinded? Lightspark says they have plans for it, but let's assume it's a entirely new protocol

You get complete privacy from the operators, instant payments, configurable threshold of members in a federation, operators can't steal funds without colluding with previous owner, any previous sender can't steal coins even if they hack the federation if they are honest and deleted their previous key share, uses can always unilaterally exit by broadcasting a couple of txns, atomic swaps between lightning and statechain balance,

Would you be happy with this system? This is just one iteration away from what Spark is today. Or would you call that system names and pretend lightning only somehow solves the problem for everyone?

So you'd have been okay with Cashu, Ark and Spark if the ...

2025-12-09T23:08:09Z

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So you'd have been okay with Cashu, Ark and Spark if the Cashu devs, Ark Labs and Lightspark didn't run any instance of these systems and only built the software?

Another dishonesty from you I recently discovered from you is in just the first few seconds of the interview you said if someone had come up with these systems 6-7 years ago they would have been laughed off stage. Ruben Somsen came up with the idea of statechains 6 years ago and no one did, in fact, no one laughed at his ideas, his presentations (available on YouTube), the Mercury Layer implementation etc. They just never took off till Spark came along

Zapstore is one of the most important nostr projects ever built ...

2025-12-09T18:43:10Z

Zapstore is one of the most important nostr projects ever built

quoting
nevent1q…pvu2
Like Zapstore (npub10r8…t2p8) for app distribution.

Which would have no social layer if it wasn't for the twitter clones.

nevent1q…zpqd

So you are suggesting that - A single leaf that's been ...

2025-12-09T07:28:38Z

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So you are suggesting that

- A single leaf that's been transferred 20 times still only needs 2 txs to exit (1 branch + 1 leaf)
- BUT if you have balances in 10 different branches, you need 10 branch txs + your leaf txs

That would make sense. Also Roy from Breez said there is a way to reset that depth by cooperating with the SE, just not unilaterally. So it's better than I thought hopefully

Can anyone more knowledgeable about statechains and Spark comment ...

2025-12-08T19:42:42Z

Can anyone more knowledgeable about statechains and Spark comment on this?

I was trying to understand how Spark works and I think I came across the fact that, to unilaterally exit the system, you can't just broadcast one onchain txn or a fixed number of txns either. You have to make n + 1 number of txns if you don't want to co-operate with the Spark entity, where n is the number of times the leaf (offchain UTXO) has changed hands.

That means, since the initial onboarding txn by someone, if you are the 20th recipient of a Spark UTXO, to unilaterally exit you'll have to make 21 txns onchain.

If that's correct and there is no way for the exit txn chain depth to be reset, then Spark is completely useless as an "L2", and you are better off just using Liquid or Cashu. I hope I'm wrong though.

https://github.com/buildonspark/spark/issues/87

People change their profile picture on nostr and I completely ...

2025-12-05T21:14:24Z

People change their profile picture on nostr and I completely forget who they are or why I'm even following them

Your picture is much more recognizable than your username

Once I am free a bit, I will type out the different experiences I ...

2025-12-05T14:10:54Z

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Once I am free a bit, I will type out the different experiences I had using it

DigiLocker used to be very shitty. When I started using it ...

2025-12-05T14:06:09Z

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DigiLocker used to be very shitty. When I started using it (before I found Bitcoin), you could open the app to show your driver's license or Aadhar card etc to the cops, and they could verify the authenticity of it, but the app won't work most of the time, so even they would only accept a physical copy

Now with it's OAuth like flow, it's actually useful for sharing your KYC info with apps that support it, without revealing your actual documents. But now I have no use for it anymore

I'm obsessed with Michael Levin's theories. The great ...

2025-12-05T09:50:59Z

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I'm obsessed with Michael Levin's theories. The great thing about him is that he's also figuring out things in real time and doesn't claim to have understood everything. His ideas are constantly evolving to fit new discoveries and I love following the process along with him

DMing you on Signal, excited to read it

2025-12-05T09:05:05Z

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DMing you on Signal, excited to read it

Using giftwraps?

2025-12-04T11:28:30Z

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Using giftwraps?

Shutter Island, I don't watch many movies, but this one I had ...

2025-12-03T20:58:54Z

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Shutter Island, I don't watch many movies, but this one I had to re-watch a couple of times

The fuck

2025-12-03T20:25:32Z

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The fuck

আমাৰ কীবৰ্ড এপটোৰ ক'ড ...

2025-12-03T20:08:39Z

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আমাৰ কীবৰ্ড এপটোৰ ক'ড খিনি মই পাবলিছ কৰি থৈছো নষ্টাৰত

Yes, but it's a native app, instead of being a web app. So ...

2025-12-03T20:07:14Z

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Yes, but it's a native app, instead of being a web app. So it's more like GitHub desktop.

Let's try, hopefully it works if you are using NIP-17 DMs

2025-12-03T16:54:12Z

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Let's try, hopefully it works if you are using NIP-17 DMs

Have you looked into P2POOL v2? I don't know how much it can ...

2025-12-03T09:03:13Z

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Have you looked into P2POOL v2? I don't know how much it can scale but it's an interesting idea and worth exploring more

You can DM me on Signal at basantagoswami.33 I like reading ideas ...

2025-12-03T07:03:03Z

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You can DM me on Signal at basantagoswami.33

I like reading ideas and proposals

Also deploy https://github.com/verbiricha/goalz to another ...

2025-12-02T17:07:19Z

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Also deploy https://github.com/verbiricha/goalz to another subdomain 🙏
heya.fund has been discontinued

Nostr event nevent1qqsr84xg279tn89c9705q0mszy2z42ttpycc27txu4flzz3s9yumfuqzypr0dtxljpjzxsfzlgyq7hv7762h84u3qj8qkftxxru272trxxmwwft9vne

2025-12-01T12:14:16Z

"cybersecurity"

Even a chair is made out of electrons and shit. But if someone ...

2025-12-01T12:02:13Z

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Even a chair is made out of electrons and shit. But if someone asks what it is made of, any sane person would say metal or wood etc. I'm being dead serious, you should get yourself checked or talk to your loved ones about it. The way you are thinking right now shows very clear signs of mental illness

Have you gotten yourself checked for Schizophrenia?

2025-12-01T11:46:20Z

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Have you gotten yourself checked for Schizophrenia?

Hmm I see. I feel like people will continue to use kind 1 for all ...

2025-11-30T19:06:06Z

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Hmm I see. I feel like people will continue to use kind 1 for all sorts of things that they consider to be a "post" and clients and relays will have to update to detect if it's a picture, or a short form video or a long form video etc

Not an ideal outcome but that's what's most likely to be happen

Why did we invent kind 20 in the first place though?

2025-11-30T18:55:32Z

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Why did we invent kind 20 in the first place though?

You are thinking in analogies. I had a Bitcoiner friend who went ...

2025-11-30T18:25:24Z

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You are thinking in analogies. I had a Bitcoiner friend who went insane and had to take a year off before resuming his work because he got too deep into the rabbit hole and started seeing connections where there were none. I'm not trying to insult you, but only relation between a fractionally reserved balance in a ledger and the quantum state of some sub atomic particle is some of the words used in the English language. They aren't related in any other meaningful way

Just forget the words for a second and try to understand what you saying, it's doesn't make any sense

Sounds like a Deepak Chopra speech, sorry. Doesn't make any ...

2025-11-30T18:14:25Z

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Sounds like a Deepak Chopra speech, sorry. Doesn't make any sense

You just need $ git checkout -b new-feature $ git add . $ git ...

2025-11-30T11:03:56Z

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You just need
$ git checkout -b new-feature
$ git add .
$ git commit -m 'message'
$ git push --set-upstream origin new-feature

These are pretty much the only commands I use. If working with Claude code, I don't eve use git add, I use VSCode to add files, so that I can tell which files I am okay with committing, and which files I am yet to review. Then I push to GitHub. I don't even merge branches using git locally, I use GitHub PRs for that. How are you using it?

Yes. The problem is not QR codes, it's the huge dynamically ...

2025-11-29T14:40:28Z

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Yes. The problem is not QR codes, it's the huge dynamically changing QRs. Smaller static QRs are a better UX than tap to pay

I like QR codes better. The UX of UPI payments in India is really ...

2025-11-29T14:36:11Z

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I like QR codes better. The UX of UPI payments in India is really great. Bigger stores have POS devices, but small shop owners can just open any UPI app on their phone, take a printout of their QR code and stick it somewhere. For payment confirmations, you have these voice boxes that they can connect their apps to and it's easier than tap to pay, you don't have to be close to something to pay

You are absolutely right!

2025-11-29T13:53:00Z

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You are absolutely right!

Gave him a follow using Primal as well, no issues on my end

2025-11-28T20:14:07Z

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Gave him a follow using Primal as well, no issues on my end

Which app is he using?

2025-11-28T19:09:47Z

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Which app is he using?

I asked Claude to create a .sh script that uses the nak CLI tool ...

2025-11-28T16:01:03Z

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I asked Claude to create a .sh script that uses the nak CLI tool to start looking at your posts starting 2020. If no posts found, move to next year. If post found any year, start from Jan to and go month by month to find posts. There is probably an easier way, this is what just came to my mind. You can do something similar using JS instead of shell script, and run it locally to find your posts

Now that you already have this post, you can ask Claude to make a small app that shows you 100 kind 1 notes, starting from the timestamp of the note above with pagination, to find all the stuff

Nostr event nevent1qqst4wywd3gq82s7xycavw377mqhmr6vcfezxut5wk3eu42tum0mgvgzypr0dtxljpjzxsfzlgyq7hv7762h84u3qj8qkftxxru272trxxmwwgmasq7

2025-11-28T14:37:47Z

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https://nostr.at/nevent1qqsgee0w8uqamkqjm8fe59pekcrz99zszn9uax8nt38j3nn7ekhzv7spp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyrxg6pewlhxxwm7t4s20dntgyhkux4mw2h4hs632ja0wqd9x5qnvkhrwlep

Oldest kind 1 note I could find

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43921624

2025-11-28T14:32:25Z

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43921624

https://undocumented.nostrkinds.info/ this can also be helpful

2025-11-28T13:12:59Z

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https://undocumented.nostrkinds.info/ this can also be helpful

ah the horrors of vivecoding

2025-11-28T10:05:15Z

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ah the horrors of vivecoding

What kinda stuff? Any clients that use it for things other than ...

2025-11-28T09:40:43Z

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What kinda stuff? Any clients that use it for things other than articles? I think WalletScrutiny uses it for wallet reviews, but that's the only slightly off usage of this kind that I know

Ancient Farsi and Ancient Sanskrit were very close. Another fun ...

2025-11-27T09:15:09Z

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Ancient Farsi and Ancient Sanskrit were very close. Another fun fact, the gods of Vedic Hinduism, the ones no longer worshipped, were the villains of Zoroastrianism