arthurfranca

Software dev + graphic designer + Nostr enthusiast

https://github.com/arthurfranca

Public Key

npub1l3cgtsurhfchg4cyhhqudm70074sr96srhje330xc5m6czej5n9s9q6vs2

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs0cuy9cwpm5ut52uztmswxal8hl2cpjagpmevcchnv2davpve2fjcpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujudp5vf5kcmrfdahzumn9wsf3skgv

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nos.lol

relay.44billion.net

pyramid.fiatjaf.com

Author Public Key

npub1l3cgtsurhfchg4cyhhqudm70074sr96srhje330xc5m6czej5n9s9q6vs2

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2026-06-29 14:46:13 UTC

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But seriously, I'm sure some of those, including me, have never been a NIP repo admin. Never from the Opensats Nostr board too and Jack doesn' knowt about my existence on Earth.
Real power is being closer to the money. Money kinda dictates what gets implemented (faster). And implementations that come first tend to become NIPs.

2026-06-29 14:35:26 UTC

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😎

2026-06-26 22:37:03 UTC

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I'll take a loot at Chatmail relays, thanks.

2026-06-26 21:35:55 UTC

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I'm open to learning. Yes, I can't think of any other infrastructure like nostr relays.
Filtering by tags, more than just a few hours of persitence, decentralized (not from one company).

2026-06-26 21:12:11 UTC

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Sovereign domains aside, I'm betting on using nostr relays simply as an ephemeral storage that keeps nostr events persisted for free for 1-3 days tops. This happen to pair well with the fact that most microblogging posts aren't meant to be revisited too far after publishing date.
The source of truth becomes the user devices' local DBs that gets synced (syncing uses nostr relays too).
This could make Nostr its own thing that doesn't need to compete on the same terms of players with deep pockets.

2026-06-26 19:20:10 UTC

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> As if what I would do if I absolutely insist on using Nostr [...] until they are indistinguishable from Email
The thing about email is that everybody only uses gmail/icloud/outlook. That's because they are "free". In the past, you had to pay some money for like 5-10MB (ok for the time) of disk space for a mailbox. Now nobody will pay.
If nostr relays become like email, how can they compete with the 15GB free quota Gmail offers?

2026-06-19 21:05:08 UTC

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Forked NIP-22 and just removed that line 🔥 https://nostrhub.io/compare?a=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fnostr-protocol%2Fnips%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2F22.md&b=naddr1qvzqqqrcvypzplrsshpc8wn3w3tsf0wpcmhu7latqxt4q809nrz7d3fh4s9n9fxtqqrxu6ts95ery36lwfc

2026-06-03 20:30:04 UTC

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Got it. Your spec is an important upgrade to nip44. Ima adopt it.

2026-06-03 14:53:43 UTC

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the AD doesn't need to be decrypted to be read, correct?
if yes, I wonder if it is really ok to reveal kind/scope metadata depending on the use case. didn't think much about it though.

2026-06-02 19:58:56 UTC

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For Nostr, atleast, it depends on what it wants to be. I myself don't understand what people expect from Nostr relays.
I would like Nostr to be free public relays that hold events for just 2 to 3 days, unless you pay them or are an influncer that brings traffic that could be of use for the operator somehow. <- This doesn't need scaled servers.
Though it looks like most of the current users and apps expect big relays and blossom servers to store events and media for free forever, which is an illusion.

2026-06-02 19:12:24 UTC

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I see, there's a need for an indexer to aggregate content from homeservers and then make endpoints available for fetching filtered data, like these: https://nexus.pubky.app/swagger-ui/.
There are pros and cons to doing it this way. Offering a reference implementation full of features from the start has its advantages. Requiring a big server is one disadvantage in comparison to non-indexer Nostr relays.

2026-06-02 17:23:38 UTC

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And by not imposing any shape to the data, it most likely means there's no API for searching data by some specific content field (as we have with one-letter event tags).
I think there's just fetching by path (like folders) and anything beyond that would have to be made custom by homeservers that care (similar to NIP-50 extensions). This aspect seems limiting.

2026-05-15 16:43:00 UTC

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thx for the different points of view. they have helped me improve a draft chat spec I wrote some time ago.
I want to position it between nip-17 and marmot in terms of ease of implementation, functionality and privacy.

2026-05-13 22:35:32 UTC

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This was the solution I came up with at the time: https://github.com/arthurfranca/anips/blob/main/wip-03-107febac73685.md
I plan to applying it in the near future.

2026-05-13 22:11:45 UTC

Why do some people want key rotation on Nostr? That's bad.
Like, you DM me about secret stuff, then I rotate to a new key, then I reveal my old key for anyone to decrypt and read those messages with proof that you wrote them.
Am I missing something?

2026-04-23 17:18:50 UTC

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I'm glad the fae found this useful!

2026-04-15 14:18:21 UTC

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NIP 4e is interesting but is rotating the encryption key regularly really a good idea?
If you decouple encryption from you main key and rotate encryption keys at will, there's no punishment to leaking conversations because revealing the message does not reveal the peer's main private key, just that disposable encryption key.

2026-04-15 12:41:20 UTC

Breek sdk powers many bitcoin wallets. They are rolling out a way to store seed phares that is identical to how we already storing nostr keys at https://44billion.net
They use a client-side passkeys flow so that you don't have to remember your seed, although you may export it at anytime.
However, we went a step further to make sure we can never steal your keys even if we wanted to. The vault (login module) is on a separate domain we don't control. By default it is on Github Pages. You may point to your own fork there or to your self hosted version anywhere by changing the url on the settings page!
You can read the breez blog post here: https://blog.breez.technology/no-seed-no-sweat-introducing-passkey-login-for-the-breez-sdk-2cb7a7ee0279
And check out or fork our vault source code here: https://github.com/44Billion/44b-vault

2026-04-14 19:42:00 UTC

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You kinda asked what was https://44billion.net so I'll hijack this post to explain it.
What if instead of an everything app, you had a website that is just a dock/toolbar where you "install" all nostr apps you like and access them easily with the same account? App discovery is achieved with the pre-installed app store.
The theory is that when you have all nostr apps at one place, you don't need a super app.
Let me know if you have any concerns/questions/issues if you test it.

2026-04-14 19:27:50 UTC

Vou pedir ajuda aos brasileiros, os únicos que me entendem. Quem tiver uma conta no github, por favor dêem um joinha clicando num botão de emoji lá no fim dessa "issue" aí do link.
Muitos "👍" fazem a minha proposta de funcionalidade ser implementada por uma IA automaticamente =o
#nevent1q…nqju

2026-04-14 19:15:14 UTC

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https://github.com/CodyTseng/jumble-ouro/issues/17
Ajuda com um joinha lá =D

2026-04-14 18:02:36 UTC

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I try to make it easy to grasp when talking about it because I think people would consider the details very boring, but devs may check the code that was made open-source recently https://github.com/44Billion/44b-relay. I'm happy to answer questions about it.
It's a mistery to me the reason why most people, specially nostr devs, show no interest. I stopped mentioning people on posts or advertising on their posts to avoid annoying them hehe.
The best I can do is post about it from time to time to my small follow base.

2026-04-14 17:25:02 UTC

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The wss://relay.44billion.net relay and the https://44billion.net platform are separate things, you can add just the relay as write/read relay (you need to find the relay configuration page on your nostr app of choice). Who runs it shouldn't matter much, but it's me.
This relay explanation: By people naturally requesting content from their follows and clicking around, they help the relay to know who are the interesting pubkeys and who aren't. The uninteresting pubkeys tend to generate spam/ads. The relay by default won't send these when you're checking your notifications, seeing post replies or the relay feed.
If people start picking just relays with spam protection such as that one, Nostr experience improves.

2026-04-13 19:46:44 UTC

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Hey you're Rob(ot?) from Opensats mail! I thought you were a bot, like look at the avatar and the nickname. I was like "damn, they're making me talk to a bot"
So are you human or a bot? lol

2026-04-13 19:08:25 UTC

Give wss://relay.44billion.net a chance by adding it to your read/write relay list. If big relays like damus and primal had the same spam-fighting tech, I'm pretty sure we could label nostr as child-safe ahn? Ok, maybe teenager-safe due to occasional b( . )( . )b-flashing gifs 😅.
#nevent1q…mhm0

2026-04-11 22:49:15 UTC

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I thought it was @npub1mel…5c24

2026-04-10 14:22:43 UTC

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test

2026-04-06 18:49:21 UTC

Excuse me, has anyone tried https://44billion.net yet?
✅ Passkeys login
#nevent1q…dypl

2026-04-05 21:44:01 UTC

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Yes, boss, for you I show the code.
Granted you access to the github repo.
This is where it all starts: https://github.com/arthurfranca/44b-relay/blob/main/services/relay/nostr-message-handler/req-handler.js#L104-L122
With that data we assign popularity levels to pubkeys. Then on broad filters like relay feed, notifications etc we filter out content from unpopular pubkeys by default.
The popularity calc happens here: https://github.com/arthurfranca/44b-relay/blob/main/models/job/jobs/calc-popular-pubkeys.js#L167

2026-03-31 18:43:20 UTC

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Nothing left to build. Maybe it's time for Amethyst web version.
Aren't you using this already? https://kotlinlang.org/compose-multiplatform

2026-03-28 19:42:29 UTC

This is a web platform giving you back control. Update apps just if you want to.
This is https://44billion.net, one step at a time.
https://image.nostr.build/18ba81ee18f72b11c6bb32d00696620b488d08a6db3bca10efd28a5ace6f14f0.png

2026-03-28 03:30:10 UTC

Erinia tinha mais jogador simultâneo, hein
https://youtu.be/FtD36B4Ikfg?t=868
#nevent1q…vq97

2026-03-27 22:36:13 UTC

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I like nostria a lot cause it's feature-rich. But I'd like to use it inside my platform (it acts as a nip07 ext), which only works with nostr apps that are static websites that runs fully client-side.
But when I checked your code here https://github.com/nostria-app/nostria I saw many mentions of SSR (server-side rendering).
By any chance is there a build script for production usage that makes it work fully client-side?

2026-03-27 20:55:33 UTC

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at the end things didn't change much for me.
see, I wasn't that fast of a dev compared to some around here.
then came LLMs, but my AI plan is lower tier than those of the other devs.
so I got faster but so did they 🤑

2026-03-27 20:45:55 UTC

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I noticed I'm already addicted.
The other day I reached the 5-hour usage limit. It would reset in 1 hr. I just stopped "coding" for 1hr.
I hope competition catches up to keep prices under control

2026-03-27 19:44:00 UTC

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LLMs are horrible at coding.
Except for Claude Opus. Aren't you using this one?

2026-03-27 19:11:27 UTC

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That's very creative

2026-03-27 19:03:53 UTC

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Sorry, I meant imo.
Expanding the topic: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2282#issuecomment-4144596447

2026-03-27 17:34:50 UTC

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@npub107j…ncxg the only change I did to your code was adding window.nostr.peekPublicKey: https://github.com/44Billion/grimoire/commit/8231fd6a3fd3090ef70060ef580211f0f4d143d0#diff-3c73b2292663fac5adcb9dd52506ef1265fa6a6053a64ab9da0c4e73a603c246

2026-03-27 17:30:08 UTC

This is grimoire as a napp: https://44billion.net/+PXfOfvuXLNcahdsi2e4T2drbjhuoRyxyJczqR0BUmWlTqFPx9qLmOuIn3f
#nevent1q…mnd8

2026-03-27 15:19:09 UTC

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Oh and this is important too https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2233
I forked fevela just to add that, so that the user logged-in the platform will be already logged in fevela when they open it.

2026-03-27 15:16:54 UTC

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This is the NIP I'm using https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2282
And this is the CLI to upload any static website that has nip07 support to turn it into a napp https://github.com/44Billion/nappup

2026-03-27 15:10:22 UTC

This is fevela as a napp (nostr web app aka the future): https://44billion.net/+32Wp7Qdz5XIbjlzHht7GdEP8IDxk6CC90ee8lRxYjx0stjsVBRV4gLWV
#nevent1q…vvgm

2026-03-27 14:38:38 UTC

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waah is the experiment over?
https://ditto.pub/messages is returning a 404 status

2026-03-27 14:35:21 UTC

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adding nip07 shows the intent

2026-03-27 14:34:42 UTC

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yes migrated it to nip5a spec yesterday

2026-03-27 13:13:33 UTC

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@npub1qe3…zefe Are you going to upload a nsite that supports NIP-07?
If yes, your nsite is also a napp.
In this case, there's this cli that will upload your static website to the pubkey's blossom servers (as nsites) and also publish an app listing event at the same time automatically. https://github.com/44Billion/nappup
By the way, I'm using relay.nosto.re for the @npub1t29…vsrw (nsite/napp) uploads now. I think its yours isn't it? Is there some whitelist or something, may I keep using it or is it for personal use?

2026-03-26 20:09:05 UTC

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hmmm "a" tags. have to check that too

2026-03-26 20:06:22 UTC

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Ok i've just tested it:
`['OK', '3b0a8e9e37c52ef9f249bc37249755250b841d925fbd4a4b877f388d0d5585af', false, 'invalid: the author requested the deletion of the event you just tried to store']`
It is deleting events correctly.
Isn't it another relay that is keeping your notes around? Jumble has a button on each note on the bottom right to check where it found the note

2026-03-26 19:39:05 UTC

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it should honor. I thought it was.
I'll check it later

2026-03-26 14:52:03 UTC

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Há um tempo atrás a bipa me negou abertura de conta.
Acho que sou pobre d+ pra eles kkk
Mas os kras me mantiveram no banco de dados deles só p/ me enviar email com marketing de novidades da bipa. Sacanagi

2026-03-26 14:48:23 UTC

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By the way, can you recommend me some free blossom servers that would accept these file types?

2026-03-26 14:45:35 UTC

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Oh sorry things are bugged yet. I have to add blossom servers to that npub.
The migration to nip5a is still under way.
Thx for pointing that out or else it would take time to notice.

2026-03-26 01:41:14 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKI67lb_Luw
#ProgramaDoHugo era muito bom
Quem viu, viu

2026-03-26 01:18:48 UTC

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nymchat is nice. when i tried it i think it was just for burner/anon accounts

2026-03-26 01:17:06 UTC

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it seems https://ditto.pub/messages is working well
there's a dropdown to choose between nip04/17

2026-03-25 19:45:14 UTC

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I did try this one before but couldn't find the "Messages" button, there r so many buttons. Now I see it, thanks.

2026-03-25 19:32:35 UTC

#asknostr any good nip17 web client to recommend?

2026-03-25 19:12:28 UTC

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nvm, found it on chachi

2026-03-25 19:04:50 UTC

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both ^^

2026-03-25 19:03:25 UTC

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I couldnt find a client to open this ='(
just 0xchat let me search by addr/id but my message wasnt sent dont know why.
send me a direct link plz like flotila.social/something or chachi.chat/something xD~

2026-03-25 14:50:01 UTC

This NIP was renamed to "scrolls".
That's a good time to ELI5 it for you all non-devs.
We had @npub1era…skz0 spells and they were good. But now anyone that isn't a wizard can consume a scroll and cast a single spell (fireball etc), which is great news for us regular humans.
#nevent1q…9jup

2026-03-25 14:20:29 UTC

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@npub1uac…99rx DM

2026-03-25 14:14:48 UTC

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Cool. Looking forward to it

2026-03-25 13:21:33 UTC

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Could you also post an "app listing" event, considering jumble is a nsite but also a nostr app (because it supports nip07)? If you can find the time it would help me a lot with testing.
You'd just need to look at this section and ignore what's above it:
https://github.com/arthurfranca/nips/blob/e846d3f5417cd016d75df7ad65025948990ef410/C8.md#app-listing-event
Upload the app listing event to wss://relay.44billion.net (and optionally to your write relays).
You don't need to re-upload the site manifest (nsite thing) to wss://relay.44billion.net.

2026-03-25 03:52:36 UTC

#hashtags are the #future
but to sound much like Vegeta or @npub1nsh…cgnl: "only a genius like me" would be able to build a nostr client capable of extracting hashtags' full potential
soon™
well, not thaaat soon
#dbz #nostr

2026-03-25 03:18:36 UTC

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and i know you're online reading this cause of wisp's online presence feature @___@
nice one @npub1utx…50e8 by the way

2026-03-25 03:17:32 UTC

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se o alexandre gleason não comentar sobre o evento de "app listing", acabou! não desço mais pro play se ele estiver lá.

2026-03-24 21:25:38 UTC

-- pra quê essa violência toda
-- calma
#nevent1q…m9q8

2026-03-24 19:01:22 UTC

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i think i got muted instead ^^

2026-03-24 18:54:08 UTC

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nsite & napp, a match made in heaven

2026-03-24 18:29:48 UTC

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hey, you can't be sure of that unless you're the one selling 🕵

2026-03-24 14:07:30 UTC

my new tactic to push specs forward is to mention people on nostr and annoy them.
will this work? probably not, but it's different

2026-03-24 14:04:28 UTC

@npub1jlr…ynqn I ask you to please try https://44billion.net/ with a new npub created there. if the log in popup doesn't open, reload the page (sorry it's beta, i need to fix things) - use an up-to-date browser that works with passkeys
then please open the app store and install any app there. all these apps were manually patched on a fork of mine to call `peekPublicKey` on load.
do the same with another npub. switch accounts and try any app.
at the end tell me if you can't feel the magic of `peekPublicKey` yet

2026-03-24 13:54:55 UTC

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nsite? but but but this https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1538#issuecomment-4106869631 (d tag related comment)
which was what led me to https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2282
for which @npub1ye5…knpr and @npub1q3s…d26p said nothing, even though the PR 2282 is puh-fect!

2026-03-24 13:05:56 UTC

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um ano de Jumble pass renovado!

2026-03-24 13:04:08 UTC

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"44" i mean xD new branding

2026-03-24 13:01:09 UTC

fixed topic detection on 44b relay. it should find related topics much better from now on.

2026-03-23 21:13:28 UTC

test: posting from the bottom of the pyramid
#nevent1q…plu5

2026-03-23 19:31:57 UTC

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Thx for letting me know. I reviewed and bumped a bit the limits and fixed the ok-false subscription reference.
I also made the message more specific to help us figure out what happened. You were rate-limited but it wasn't because of the number of authors on the filter. Please try again.

2026-03-21 21:41:06 UTC

NIP repo is like a bad joke: a man enters a bar...
- man: hey, I propose that the world should speak only English.
- guy: ok, but "in", "on" and "at" mean the same thing, please stick to one way of saying things
- girl: NACK! We've been using Japanese for much longer, we should use Japanese instead

2026-03-21 18:37:08 UTC

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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2280 <- a way to advertise support

2026-03-20 20:01:09 UTC

Hello devs, from now on wss://relay.44billion.net is persisting kind 10002 events forever-ish. Feel free to backup your users' relay lists there.

2026-03-20 19:49:02 UTC

We support hashtag feeds now.
Look: wss://relay.44billion.net/.well-known/nip50/sort:top/topic:nsfw
Calm down, we have no new notes with hashtags yet xD~

2026-03-20 19:02:50 UTC

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#atree #forest test

2026-03-20 19:01:30 UTC

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#thenostr protocol

2026-03-20 18:57:47 UTC

hashtag test #nostr #permissionless

2026-03-19 22:38:02 UTC

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C'mon, one final sprint! hehe Let's interop
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2274

2026-03-19 18:56:12 UTC

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Hold your horses, i've been adding support for blossom apps to 44billion.net (besides the current relay-based storage).
They really are the same thing as the new nsite spec (plus an extra event to set the "app store page", for discovery). Just static websites.
Will write it down and post it soon.

2026-03-18 21:07:46 UTC

Nobody likes a smart-ass. That's why I have few followers ^^
I'm trying to improve as a person by voting using code instead of pointing fingers at NIPs and apps.
https://image.nostr.build/f23ed5649794ee80f4fcbe9c5546c30687302f0c7d80e503cdc5241bfff778cc.png

2026-03-17 18:50:57 UTC

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🫂

2026-03-16 21:14:55 UTC

Whoa AI is rapidly polluting the nostr event kind space
#nevent1q…0nms

2026-03-16 18:59:38 UTC

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Great cartridge arts

2026-03-16 14:39:35 UTC

yolo, back to coding.
fixing nostr step by step. localized trending topics is next.
but first, 3 spoons of this:
https://image.nostr.build/1ef50df69299da85ef0bc43a43b580a0d462ca6b6aeb1ebe1ea97465cf6d781e.jpg

2026-03-15 19:03:26 UTC

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Try this wss://relay.44billion.net for an anti-spam xp. Add it as write/read relay

2026-03-15 18:56:24 UTC

2 days left to the end of the internet in Brazil as we know it. Government want us to show an ID or biometric data even to use Linux.
https://image.nostr.build/be01f171435f23a90daab7dc461e13f31148e980cc8b03e6dd7b1c3149853cd4.jpg

2026-03-14 19:56:34 UTC

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kkkk

2026-03-14 04:11:04 UTC

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@npub1vxd…rs50 o Jumble não tem isso. E agora??

2026-03-14 04:05:09 UTC

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Ok I can see me using the poo silhouette with a fake account using someone else's pic. Me gusta!

2026-03-14 03:43:41 UTC

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It would be interesting to read a contrary opinion, although unlikely.
A curious fact: I was just browsing the cashu repo and read a comment suggesting that in the future they may have to represent amounts in nanosats instead of millisats (which is already a unit 1000x smaller than what is officially considered the smallest unit of bitcoin) as if the price of bitcoin was going to rise to the moon.
Dishonesty or pipe dream?