Nostr notes by Ian

No #nevent1q…4ael

2026-03-07T15:19:19Z

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Is BIP-110 Being Rushed?

Another banger from @nprofile…h34j . Everyone should checkout ...

2026-03-06T14:40:09Z

Another banger from BitcoinUniversity (nprofile…h34j) . Everyone should checkout this site if you want to see the actual data about how much spam is on the network.

https://thebitcoinportal.com

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Tracking Bitcoin Spam and BIP-110 Adoption (The Bitcoin Portal)

Well well well. Looks like the "mob" was right. Bitcoin ...

2026-03-05T13:42:08Z

Well well well. Looks like the "mob" was right. Bitcoin it powered by moral people. These scammers just don't understand what morals are.

#idonttrustcore
#bip110
#knots

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Bitcoin Core Really Did Go Rogue

Another moral person joins the "mob". I guess ...

2026-03-05T03:03:03Z

Another moral person joins the "mob".

I guess Jeff Booth (nprofile…tkhj) family depends on this shit too. I wonder if he will be slandered like BitcoinUniversity (nprofile…h34j) 🤔

#bip110
#knots
#idonttrustcore

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"I run Knots today, because what Core did on v30 was dangerous." — Jeff Booth (nprofile…tkhj)

#BIP110 #Knots

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Thanks for the video BitcoinUniversity (nprofile…h34j). I've been slowly educating one of cousins to Bitcoin as all this is unfolding. Your videos are the only thing that has made sense to him.

I told him this is how this all has to playout. He's now running knots doing his part. Nobody wants to store this stuff on their computers if they don't have to. That is the only argument to make.

My family relies on this shit too.

nevent1q…wxhq

https://youtu.be/gXlcR7uHHdA

2026-03-04T15:20:19Z

https://youtu.be/gXlcR7uHHdA

The truth always finds a way out. Moral people will always speak ...

2026-03-04T14:52:52Z

The truth always finds a way out. Moral people will always speak up. We just have to listen.

#idonttrustcore
#bip110

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nevent1q…k8zt
Bitcoin Core Insider Spills The Beans (Jon Atack)

@nprofile…l038 just gives us a way to act on that decision. ...

2026-03-02T20:03:05Z

Bitcoin Knots (nprofile…l038) just gives us a way to act on that decision.

#bip110

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Wrong again. I am deciding what is spam by what I run. It is a very nuanced point.

Wrong again. I am deciding what is spam by what I run. It is a ...

2026-03-02T19:51:59Z

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Wrong again. I am deciding what is spam by what I run. It is a very nuanced point.

Well you are right there. The people are changing the consensus ...

2026-03-02T17:40:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…yrj5
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Well you are right there.
The people are changing the consensus because the people are the consensus not core.

Nobody is forced to use core. No one is forced to use knots. The people now have a way to vote against core's behavior over the past years and I think everyone will be surprised how many moral people just want Bitcoin to be money.

#idonttrustcore

Thanks I've read all the literature and I've made my ...

2026-03-02T17:22:39Z

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Thanks I've read all the literature and I've made my decision. Just like you have. I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just stating for the record clearly that what the core team did with v30 has caused me to lose all trust in their decision making capabilities.

#idonttrustcore

Okay but I didn't say that government should be involved. I ...

2026-03-02T16:45:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…mhdk
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Okay but I didn't say that government should be involved. I just said it was wrong. Some people think the government should solve all their problems. I don't need the government to tell me what I think is wrong and I don't need core telling me what is spam.

#idonttrustcore

This has nothing to do with government just saying out loud what ...

2026-03-02T16:41:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…c6vx
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This has nothing to do with government just saying out loud what I believe is wrong. You're free to do the same.

And nobody died. Let's go!

2026-03-02T16:31:03Z

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And nobody died. Let's go!

https://youtu.be/sUf6EvKdpUI

2026-03-02T16:29:40Z

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https://youtu.be/sUf6EvKdpUI

https://youtu.be/sUf6EvKdpUI #nevent1q…wfsw

2026-03-02T16:28:13Z

https://youtu.be/sUf6EvKdpUI

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BIP110 is like the transgender argument.

Some people think it is wrong for men to be in women's bathroom with little girls before something bad happens and other people thinks there is nothing wrong with it until something bad happens.

#idonttrustcore

I'm working on a variation where my entire stack operates on ...

2026-02-28T04:39:46Z

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I'm working on a variation where my entire stack operates on block time. The block is the cron trigger

I'm working on a variation where my entire stack operates on ...

2026-02-28T04:39:30Z

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I'm working on a variation where my entire stack operates on block time. The block is the crown trigger

This is a great idea

2026-02-28T04:23:43Z

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This is a great idea

It's not about pedos. It's about sane adults ...

2026-02-27T20:19:49Z

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It's not about pedos. It's about sane adults acknowledging the world for it is and protecting children from harm. It's about being a moral person and saying out loud what is wrong.

Bip110 makes it very clear what we are saying is wrong. others may disagree. I'm okay with that too.

This is where I stand morally. Bitcoin is for everyone including the moral.

And if that doesn't work make her do a podcast about #Bitcoin ...

2026-02-27T19:59:09Z

And if that doesn't work make her do a podcast about #Bitcoin and #Nostr for 5 years 😂

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nevent1q…0kh8
How To Orange And Purple Pill Your Wife in 3 Easy Steps

First.

Watch Bridgerton Season 4 with her. Suggest it or just sit next to her as she watches. The last four episodes of the season just dropped.

It is their best season yet. It's about class, society, and living freely. You will enjoy it enough. I promise, you'll be ok. She will love watching it with you.

Second.

Casually mention a love story you found on Nostr. Written by a Bitcoiner's wife. Mention this as you're watching Bridgerton.

Third.

When the show is over, say you want to keep the love train going. Suggest you read The Attention Protocol together. www.theattentionprotocol.com

Act 1 & 2 will teach her enough between the love story to get her to "break the fourth wall" and jump on Nostr to comment on it.

More acts will keep dropping. Giving her a reason to stay on. She shares it with her friends to read...

Boom. Bitcoin and Nostrich wife. You're welcome. 💜

That is crazy LOL. But I'm not surprised.

2026-02-26T19:44:51Z

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That is crazy LOL. But I'm not surprised.

BIP110 is like the transgender argument. Some people think it is ...

2026-02-26T19:33:14Z

BIP110 is like the transgender argument.

Some people think it is wrong for men to be in women's bathroom with little girls before something bad happens and other people thinks there is nothing wrong with it until something bad happens.

#idonttrustcore

I run multiple full nodes. All knots now. But I don't want to ...

2026-02-25T20:56:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…yllk
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I run multiple full nodes. All knots now. But I don't want to prune. I just want a spam free node. And while we can't stop it all we can at least try to fix what was very recently broken. Why does everyone think people who don't want to deal with this have to adjust. Core 30 forced this issue and they are not Bitcoin. They are people who make a client that people trusted and we don't. It's really that simple.

I DON'T TRUST CORE. perhaps that should be the social Media campaign. But something has to be done to wake people up to what is actually going on as we were running up to 120k and people were predicting $1M Bitcoin while the core team was actively turning Bitcoin into the new home of the nft bullshit we all laughed at. None of that was even possible before all the changes that bip110 is trying to address.

But when people are trying to say that BitcoinUniversity (npub1s33…252p) is a bad actor in all this I am just flabbergasted. Utterly flabbergasted. There is nothing that can be said to me that ordinals and inscriptions and large op returns make Bitcoin better money than fiat. In fact everything core has done over the last 2 years has been nothing but fiat.

this is not a technical debate anymore this a moral debate. And my morals are not up for debate.

#idonttrustcore

No one is freaking out. From their behavior over the past couple ...

2026-02-25T20:30:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…rjla
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No one is freaking out. From their behavior over the past couple of years, Core has lost the "mandate of heaven". People see problems and people are trying to fix them. That is what Bitcoin is about. And as I said I don't want large op returns or inscriptions or ordinals or any of that on my monetary network. Bitcoin is money not a database for scammers. And I am willing to bet that once most people have all the facts of the case, they will come to the same conclusion. how can you explain only 15% adoption of core 30 according to clark moody dashboard.

My guess is that people are slowly educating themselves to what has been going on for the past couple of years. I know I have slowly been watching this all play out and have been very disappointed in the lack of education certain people in the community have been doing. BitcoinUniversity (npub1s33…252p) has been one of the few people who has been consistently trying to educate people to the whole picture of what has been going on. Bip110 is over 2 years in the making as the core to rejected the concerns of the community and took a "we know best" approach. That is not Bitcoin. That is "trust me bro" that is fiat. We are all free to do what we want. They were free to push core 30 against objections. We are free to react. Core doesn't own the network. The miners dont own the network. the people own the network. I stand with the network of people who don't want anyone to force anything on them especially files of arbitrary sizes that I am now hosting on my own hardware.

If it is the block size war again all over so be it. We're going to have to have to keep fighting this fight until people understand. That nobody is in charge. Ever. We all have to make a moral judgement of which side of the fence we stand on at some point. I posted what I posted as a way to remind myself and my family what I stood for.

Divide and conquer is the favorite tool of empire. And I find it all to convenient that they pushed core 30 when they did. We are all fighting now when Bitcoin worked perfectly without large op returns and ordinals and inscriptions. Why is it freaking out to want Bitcoin as it was before all that it has brought nothing to the space besides scammers and stuff amongst the community.

We have to take a stand somewhere. Now they are talking about ...

2026-02-25T20:04:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…jzsw
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We have to take a stand somewhere. Now they are talking about what to do. I am open to all suggestions but doing nothing is not an option. The chain is already polluted with spam and the spammers seems to be closely tied to core.

Open to alternatives. Haven't heard any good ones.

Thanks for the video @nprofile…h34j. I've been slowly ...

2026-02-25T19:19:07Z

Thanks for the video BitcoinUniversity (nprofile…h34j). I've been slowly educating one of cousins to Bitcoin as all this is unfolding. Your videos are the only thing that has made sense to him.

I told him this is how this all has to playout. He's now running knots doing his part. Nobody wants to store this stuff on their computers if they don't have to. That is the only argument to make.

My family relies on this shit too.

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nevent1q…wxhq
Reacting To Matt Odell On BIP-110

With all the talk about "The Epstein Files" it's ...

2026-02-18T14:37:59Z

With all the talk about "The Epstein Files" it's important to remember that he had a boss. We're not calling the files by his boss's name only his. And that boss has multiple Epsteins working for him. And he is sacrificing one to save all the others.

We're past assuming incompetence.

2026-02-13T15:31:37Z

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We're past assuming incompetence.

#GM my #nostriches I need some help. I need your favorite Nostr ...

2026-02-09T15:15:00Z

#GM my #nostriches

I need some help.

I need your favorite Nostr essays (30023) naddr.

I am in the process of loading up my openclaw instance with naddr of some of the best essays on Nostr to help it understand where architect (nprofile…ttnh) stands on the different topics and issues in the #bitcoin and #nostr community.

This is amazing for onboarding entire audiences at once. Good job ...

2026-01-22T23:02:19Z

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This is amazing for onboarding entire audiences at once. Good job 🤙

Yeah it wasn't until the third episode my brain figured out ...

2026-01-22T21:41:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…5che
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Yeah it wasn't until the third episode my brain figured out what was going on. It was something familiar but very old. Tv today is something very different. The most obvious is you had to remember lines for an entire scene. But now they just switching camera angles so often so then can splice it all together later

Its so different from tv today. Everything is single take. Like ...

2026-01-22T15:23:25Z

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Its so different from tv today. Everything is single take. Like it's a play.

Watch Cheers. It hold up.

2026-01-22T15:04:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…9qxf
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Watch Cheers.
It hold up.

Thanks for the signal. Just skimmed the page will be trying it ...

2026-01-21T17:55:31Z

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Thanks for the signal. Just skimmed the page will be trying it out tonight for our latest prototype.

GM my nostriches So YouTube has been feeding me all this content ...

2026-01-18T14:33:41Z

GM my nostriches

So YouTube has been feeding me all this content from retired basketball players with podcasts. Could you imagine gladiators sitting around talking with the people they used to fight. They were all dead.

Modern times have too many old warriors. They great ones don't talk and the shitty ones are still rich and talking.

We're gonna be there all January 🤙

2026-01-01T17:40:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…mnyh
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We're gonna be there all January 🤙

I feel like I am catching up. All the compartmentalization in ...

2025-12-28T13:25:58Z

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I feel like I am catching up. All the compartmentalization in engineering departments meant you never got to see how all the sausage was made. Now as a one man shop for the most part, I have to do everything. AI is literally teaching me all the thing that were obfuscated from me over the years.

Thanks man 🤜

2025-12-27T05:51:00Z

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Thanks man 🤜

Thank you Derek

2025-12-27T05:50:12Z

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Thank you Derek

Thank you 🙏

2025-12-27T05:49:11Z

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Thank you 🙏

I remember those days well.

2025-12-21T14:57:26Z

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I remember those days well.

This would replace the send a code flow we're all used to?

2025-12-18T23:18:37Z

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This would replace the send a code flow we're all used to?

Human Action - mises Go big or go home

2025-12-18T03:09:46Z

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Human Action - mises
Go big or go home

The best analogy I've found for coding with AI: it's a 3D ...

2025-12-16T16:33:45Z

The best analogy I've found for coding with AI: it's a 3D printer for software craftsmen.

Yesterday I worked through four different database frameworks. Not reading about them—implementing them. Feeling the tradeoffs between security, sovereignty, and scale in working code. When I decided one wasn't right, the AI rewrote the entire data layer in minutes. Evaluate. Adjust. Repeat.

That kind of iteration used to take weeks. The mythical 10X engineer everyone chases? They were still bottlenecked by typing and context switching. This is a category shift.

The craft isn't gone. It's distilled. System design, debugging intuition, knowing which tradeoffs actually matter—that's still you. What's disappeared is the tedium of translating clear intent into syntax.

The keyboard was never the instrument. Your mental model was. Now you can finally work at the speed of thought.

@nprofile…wedf reposts, I listen Love the vibe 🤙 ...

2025-12-13T16:09:31Z

Roger9000 (nprofile…wedf) reposts, I listen

Love the vibe 🤙

quoting
nevent1q…vmyl
WOWOWOW — OUT NOW!

✨ A spark becomes a glow.
💌 A glow becomes a truth.
💖 A truth your heart knew before you did.

WOWOWOW is a song about passion — the kind that burns through uncertainty — entwined with self-doubt, flickers of hope, and the ache of what’s been lost.

Yet there’s still a pulse of wonder, a spark that insists on being felt, reminding you that even in the mess, magic finds its way back to you.

To honor that feeling, Fzero (nprofile…8ted) , Zaza (nprofile…4fq8) and I built an entire dream world for the music video, where love & light reveal in the split seconds of a heartbeat.

⚡️ Follow the spark — it’s waiting.
💜 Links in comment. Watch, share, sing along, and zap to help this little dream travel further.

#newsingle #wowowow #ivylumi #loveisthecure #wavlake #tunestr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d3R6W2AAFQ

Adding to my stack

2025-12-12T16:35:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…5kw3
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Adding to my stack

LOL I thought I saw khatru packages in there. My bad.

2025-12-12T14:17:40Z

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LOL I thought I saw khatru packages in there. My bad.

I actually built it on top of @nprofile…dncu rely relay which ...

2025-12-12T00:15:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…5dyr
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I actually built it on top of pip (nprofile…dncu) rely relay which is on top of fiatjaf (nprofile…xuyp) khatru relay

Yeah I used go for the same reason. What I landed on was a ...

2025-12-12T00:14:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…5dyr
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Yeah I used go for the same reason. What I landed on was a hook/plugin system. That way my implementation isn't baked in just the hooks to execute our custom business processes

This is a great idea. Let's talk. ✊ I just built a custom ...

2025-12-11T19:28:01Z

In reply to naddr1qq…rxc8
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This is a great idea. Let's talk. ✊

I just built a custom relay so I would have my own foundation for an idea similar to this.

Why is the FDIC buying ad space in DC metro system? ...

2025-12-11T13:26:57Z

Why is the FDIC buying ad space in DC metro system?

Best soap I've ever used. The bars last forever.

2025-12-11T04:48:54Z

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Best soap I've ever used. The bars last forever.

Love the art style. I think you're in the early days of ...

2025-12-06T15:55:21Z

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Love the art style. I think you're in the early days of something really cool. One request can I have the architect (nprofile…ttnh) logo incorporated. Maybe on the eye patch or on the jacket or a medallion around the neck. Somehow if it is beat up along with me.

So cool. This is a great idea to fund video games and creative ...

2025-12-05T14:45:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…k5ks
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So cool. This is a great idea to fund video games and creative endeavors.

Yes

2025-12-05T13:39:55Z

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Yes

What does something like this go for?

2025-12-05T02:12:47Z

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What does something like this go for?

Hrmmm what is my character look like 🤔 Definitely leather ...

2025-12-05T02:10:03Z

Hrmmm what is my character look like 🤔

Definitely leather trench coat. Maybe a cane?

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nevent1q…dq8m
Made the first in game character for CryptoCloaks (nprofile…6psx). Even has his own favorite space ship. Might create a boss of whit (nprofile…gyka) just for fun.. 🤪

Have a look at my page on geyser (nprofile…85g5) to get your character in the game too! https://geyser.fund/project/noderunnersbitcoinblitz/rewards/view/01a9f213-e9c7-4b64-9cba-89d907736faf?hero=brinkie

Boomer track. Hopefully 🤞

2025-12-03T20:46:19Z

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Boomer track. Hopefully 🤞

#gm my fellow #nostriches https://youtu.be/nO5zQKZWujk

2025-11-22T15:14:27Z

#gm my fellow #nostriches

https://youtu.be/nO5zQKZWujk

Hardly. Had a bunch of family wanting to buy more. I'm good ...

2025-11-21T02:15:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…v9mh
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Hardly. Had a bunch of family wanting to buy more. I'm good at orange pilling. Creating The Flirting With Bitcoin Podcast (nprofile…5wle) helped me master the art.

This is how I am building @nprofile…ttnh It has all the context ...

2025-11-20T15:05:46Z

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This is how I am building architect (nprofile…ttnh)

It has all the context and helps plan and organize changes. As well as updating docs etc. So much more productive as a single dev then I ever was on a "team" of devs.

Started with Claude. Moved to cursor. And moving to our own private llm accessable for anywhere.

This guy is amazing at explaining #bitcoin without ever saying ...

2025-11-19T01:49:16Z

This guy is amazing at explaining #bitcoin without ever saying the word. Bitcoiners need to hear what he says about he bronze age collapse.

https://youtu.be/rkt0HQOogHE

👀

2025-11-19T00:56:29Z

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This was the best market research ever for video on #nostr Thank ...

2025-11-17T00:28:50Z

This was the best market research ever for video on #nostr

Thank you rabble (nprofile…7ea3) !!!

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nevent1q…0vld
Hey Nostr,

I need your help. Divine.video as you might have seen is a new video nostr app that i've been working on for the last 3 months.

It got MUCH more attention than I was expecting. Hundreds of millions of people viewed, liked, or shared videos about it. I've got some of the biggest original Viners in my DM's begging to get back on it. The TestFlight hit it's 10k limit in a few hours.

I'm excited but also really stessed out. We've had lots of bugs and Apple and google have been their usual black boxes when it comes to app review.

A bunch of folks have stepped up to help, Derek Ross (nprofile…9kky) got the android build working for example.

Lots of things have broken, nobody really knows how survive a flash flood. I'm sharing this because I need help. We've got a chance to really grow nostr, the idea of a video app that's not got AI slop and does focus on something more human is resonating. People hate what's happening to tiktok, instagram, and youtube shorts where algorithms and the platforms love of AI generated content going viral is taking over. Instead of fighting back we see AI only platforms like MetaAI and Sora. This is an assault on the very idea that people are central to social media. I think big companies see the shine of AI generated content and dream of a world without all these pesky rabble making demands of platforms. If only they could replace the creators with bots.

This call to action felt right to me, but holy shit I had no idea it'd go so viral.

The app has lots of bugs, and we need appstore approval, but at the moment the biggest problem I have is relays. I need you, the nostr community's help. I started out with strfry which we know scales but lacks search. So i started using nosflare, https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare , by Luxas (nprofile…4nss) which worked pretty good when we had dozens of users but has had scaling issues and has been hard to debug. But Nosflare is cool. I was able to easily add nip-50 search support, and because it runs on cloudlfare i hoped would scale horizontally. When I told Luxas (nprofile…4nss) I was using nosflare, he said i should have told him... but again I didn't think this would escalate so quickly. So then we tried using the ditto relay https://github.com/andotherstuff/otherstuff-relay by Alex Gleason (nprofile…t7fy) and put a bunch of really beefy servers behind it. Even then it's struggling to keep up.

The thing is, we're pre-launch, we have 10k users in testflight and a mostly read only site at divine.video which is a react app.

I'm a really terrible sysadmin. Yes I've helped run my own mail server since the 90's but I hate it and i'm not good at it. I know my way around my command line, I've compiled my own kernel from source, but fuck i hate it. And now i've got to setup and scale servers to realize the dream of something i've worked on for the last 8 years. I need your help, but maybe i'll digress...

In 2017 I decided to learn crypto, i joined a startup, quantstamp, and built their testnet, a SAT solver to verify smart contracts. I quit because I came to see how scamy the world of ICO's and tokens were. I'm not the only Nostr dev to have explored the 'darkside'. I started my company to build decentralized social, initially trying to take secure scuttlebutt to the mainstream. I built planetary.social, and worked with amazing dev's like mplorentz (nprofile…w4p8) and others we saw Nostr arrive and we pivoted! We built Nos.social, which i'm really proud of but it never took off.

A few months ago I was in talks to help start andotherstuff, but i was also very frustrated with running a company, I wanted to build stuff myself. So I stopped managing people, started a podcast, and really dove in to building with agentic programming. I built a bunch of things I threw away. A lot of bad experiments. In the course of the revolution.social podcast i kept hearing about Vine. I listed to the "Vine 6 seconds that changed the world" podcast: https://vine-six-seconds-that.captivate.fm/ and I talked to people about this social media platform that was shutdown when Jack@nostrfan.com (nprofile…zx6m) was trying to save Twitter when he returned as CEO.

I thought, well Vine is cool, I know folks like PABLOF7z (nprofile…srrg) and others have build nostr video apps, how hard could it be to make a nostrvine app. I started coding, that's why the repo is still called nostrvine: https://github.com/rabble/nostrvine Turns out that it wasn't that had to make something that sort of worked.

Then I thought, it'd be cool to dig up some old vines. I searched the internet, found some on youtube, some on the way back machine, and I thought oh cool, i found a couple hundred popular old vines. Then I hit the motherlode, a community internet preservation project called archiveteam had run crawlers to archive the site: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Vine they had about 2.7 TB of vine data, but in these very hard to work with WARC files that are 40GB each! I spent a month or more learning to parse and extract the files. I realized i had the meta data for most vine users, millions of comments, and hundreds of thousands of actual vine videos! It was a nightmare to parse because of the size of the files, the messiness of the data, and the like. But it was a consuming fun project, a puzzle.

At the same time, I was learning about flutter, I've had to rewrite the nostrvine codebase many times as i learned about riverpod, figured out how to get the UI to update smoothly while interacting with nostr. Getting the app to run fast and smooth was really hard. I also had to figure out how to host the damned videos in a way that works. I tried google cloud, cloudflare, and bunny. I made TONS of workers to run all of these services to make the system working. I also was seeing how much people, myself included are frustrated by AI slop, taking over social media. I have an old friend who runs a non-profit tech org, The Guardian Project, they'd make a tool for verifying videos are real for documenting human rights abuses. I thought, hell i could use this proofmode thing they've got to verify that videos are real. People like realness.

Over the last few weeks the pieces came together, I was scheduled to speak at WebSummit with jb55 (nprofile…5cp7) and also to interview Cory Doctorow (nprofile…9grd) on the main stage talking about enshittification of the internet, and how we can resist it, by building things like Divine.

I talked to a reporter from Tech Crunch who'd written a positive article about AndOtherStuff, and she was excited to write an in-depth piece about my vine clone. Once the date was set, I had no choice to go forward. Was the app ready, NO NOT AT ALL. I was literally coding up releases on the plane while flying to Web Summit in Lisbon. I started submitting the app, and getting rejected. It got much better really fast, and basically works.

On the stage at WebSummit when I introduced diVine, the audience clapped politely. I showed the app to people and they sometimes said "oh this will be big" and wanted to play with it. But if you've ever made software, and you show it to people, everybody always finds something nice to say about it.

I had so little faith in diVine taking off that I was planning on taking a few days off to explore Morocco before heading to a non-profit software dev meetup in SF. It was only the last minute that I decided I might need be near a computer and internet connection post launch to see how things are going. Until diVine launched I thought the highlight of my trip and WebSummit would be that a podcast network wanted to pick up revolution.social and help me build an audience around the podcast.

I have never seen anything like this excitement. Just look at tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/search?q=divine there is a wave of people excited about it. There's a wave of news about it: https://news.google.com/search?q=divine%20vine&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen Folks are saying that I'm taking on TikTok, and it's been on the evening TV news all over the place.

This is a dream. More excitement than I ever could have dreamed of. Creating a social media app that reflects all the values I laid out in rights.social . Building something people love and are excited about. When the app's been up, the new videos are amazing, so funny, so creative. When Jack launched Twttr, we didn't get this reaction. It took a lot of time for twitter to emerge as a star. The scaling issues didn't even show up until a year after twitter launched. When Kevin launched Instagram it got 150K signups in the first few days, and I was blown away at how fast it was growing.

If it hadn't been for my messing up getting in to the appStore, and having my relays collapse under the traffic, diVine would have grown much faster. Somehow it hits a nerve.

This is where I need your help, the Nostr community. I've already got help from a ton of folks like the folks from Team Soapbox (nprofile…mrhy) and heatherlarson (nprofile…pa8a) and others i'm forgetting right now... But we need more help. Let's do this as a community.

We're building a permissionless, open future that can't be shutdown by corporate owners. But we only get there if the tech works. We don't get to integrate cashu and show users how there's another business model for social media if we don't make an experience that people enjoy using.

Here's where we are. We've got the new nip for replaceable video events, which is supported by divine and amethyst... https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2072/files we've got the proofmode verification spec i proposed: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2109 and my weird fork of nosflare which adds the ability to do filter requests that sort on things other than timestamp, it lets us find the most popular old vines: https://github.com/rabble/nosflare

The blossom server for media running on cloudflare mostly works, bunny is mostly working to scale serving the content. But fuck our relays are having trouble. Partially it's because divine doesn't optimize how many relay connections it does, so help with that would be appreciated.. but mostly it's we need to scale the relays, we need to work fast, and reliably. I'm trying to not talk much about Nostr and not make users understand anything about how nostr or keys or relays work.

We need a network of relays, we can dedicate for this, scale horizontally, which respond quickly, and support search. We could have search relays + normal content ones, but doing that requires updates to the released app, which is hard to do because we've got a delay of a day or more per release. So it's best if we can put this all behind relay.divine.video.

In terms of content moderation, my tactic is to provide a pretty heavily moderated experience on the primary relay and media server. But users own their keys, and the app lets users change or add relays and switch media servers. That way we can provide both freedom and the curated experience of users we're enticing away from centralized corporate social. And all of this is open source.

So help! I need nostr sysadmins and scaling folks. Please help. We don't have much time to catch this wave, and I'm in over my head. If you can help, reach out, rabble@rabblelabs.com or send me a DM, i'll add you to a slack room, and we'll figure it out.

Join me and we'll make a social media revolution to make revolution possible.

Some of my favorite books are from the late 1800s early 1900s. ...

2025-11-16T14:16:25Z

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Some of my favorite books are from the late 1800s early 1900s. They had figured out a lot of stuff. It seems like we were steared away from a lot of their understanding and discoveries

#GN my #nostriches What is the best web based viewer for kind ...

2025-11-12T00:48:54Z

#GN my #nostriches

What is the best web based viewer for kind 30023?

#yakihonne
#primal
#habla

I like the way Habla News (nprofile…yza0) shows profile pic in post for nostr:npub. But 30023 is markdown so should I use markdown links instead?

#asknostr

Today working with cursor felt like I was sanding something down ...

2025-11-10T21:57:53Z

Today working with cursor felt like I was sanding something down to a finished product. So many things we used to look over at previous jobs cause no one wanted to do them. Ai loves grunt work.

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good morning 🌞 let's get to work

Vibe architecting

2025-11-10T17:35:17Z

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Vibe architecting

#gm my #nostriches Some people expect corporate level products ...

2025-11-10T13:43:05Z

#gm my #nostriches

Some people expect corporate level products and support from people still figuring out how to survive building for #Nostr

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I love that there are many enthusiastic Nostr users here who want to explore more features and options. At the same time, the dev grind is real and it takes time, effort and long term maintenance commitment to add them. App can be done and it is (for the most part) is “low” maintenance. Any additional services are a much bigger investment, planning, cost calculations, maintenance, and long term funding. It is costly, it is exhausting, and it is boring AF too. But, you still need water, electricity, basic food, and utilities, that’s the infrastructure that nobody gives a thought and ignores. According to the general opinion, I am not a Nostr dev or an OG shitposter. Although it is just an opinion, it is (on a human level) highly discouraging and makes me want to just throw in a towel and give up. Between family, day time job and Nostr development (yeah I do that too), I have almost no time for eating and sleeping, forget having fun or enjoying. So, I am hearing you, I would love to help, but I am a one man army when it comes to development, and I cannot stay in a hyper focus mode for too long before burning down again. Signing off for today, before I say something I’ll regret the following day. 🫡🫂

#gm my #nostriches Can't wait for the future where we're ...

2025-11-09T15:12:34Z

#gm my #nostriches

Can't wait for the future where we're saying things like "it used to take me 10 minutes to download a model. We only had 1 GB Internet."

Dude it did it in one shot. Everything works. And it improved all ...

2025-11-09T04:40:16Z

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Dude it did it in one shot. Everything works. And it improved all the logging. Literally 10s of thousands of dollars of dev work in like an hour

Just ask my best engineer to rewrite our relay using rely and to ...

2025-11-08T17:19:19Z

Just ask my best engineer to rewrite our relay using rely and to add support for The PROMO Protocol (nprofile…0kvp) . Let's see how they do. 🤞

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✨ Rely v1 is here.

Build simpler, more performant relays with your own business logic.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel, you have to update your libs.

Does this let me archive any video on YouTube? Could I give it a ...

2025-11-06T19:54:45Z

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Does this let me archive any video on YouTube? Could I give it a channel and it would rip it all down?

Is this thing happening?

2025-10-30T15:12:44Z

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Is this thing happening?

Agreed 💯

2025-10-30T13:14:33Z

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Agreed 💯

Nostr event nevent1qqszryp0739yv04vme9xgxczd89x9a5va53pxyfvmfh2eukguywzj7qzyq8wl9se0awxhcu9nd5p0e49wdngtptvg9hzng5jt026zke22lytz24yk35

2025-10-29T22:26:10Z

Coincidence?

It was bound to happen #nevent1q…kkuq

2025-10-29T17:58:22Z

It was bound to happen

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We're alive!
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I meant nostr 😂

2025-10-29T17:51:46Z

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I meant nostr 😂

We're going to need science education and educators that ...

2025-10-29T17:47:28Z

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We're going to need science education and educators that aren't censored by the existing platforms. Something like this is where they "cite sources" that aren't censored by academia. Let's go 🔥

Love this. It totally fits into our #nextblockcity metaphor.

2025-10-29T17:35:56Z

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Love this. It totally fits into our #nextblockcity metaphor.

Is it too late to change the name 🤔 #nevent1q…5kv7

2025-10-29T17:33:45Z

Is it too late to change the name 🤔

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nevent1q…5kv7
Universal Sovereignty Bus.

Already migrated two my two nodes to knots. Ready to remove ...

2025-10-27T14:38:20Z

Already migrated two my two nodes to knots. Ready to remove op_return completely if everyone else is down.

Let's go 🔥

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Bitcoin Soft Fork Time?

New tool just in time for season 5 of the pod. Can't believe ...

2025-10-27T14:00:42Z

New tool just in time for season 5 of the pod. Can't believe it's been five years of The Flirting With Bitcoin Podcast (nprofile…dlfg) .

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Introducing: Fountain for Podcasters 🚀

Seriously powerful podcast hosting that converts listeners into supporters. Powered by RSS, Lightning and Nostr.

• Host and distribute everywhere
• Add video, chapters and transcripts
• Launch a paid subscription
• Take card payments
• Advanced analytics

Learn more 👇

naddr1qv…qqfm

New FUD. Next it'll be taking food out of kids mouths. And ...

2025-10-27T13:32:23Z

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New FUD.
Next it'll be taking food out of kids mouths.
And they are orphans
And they are missing a limb
And their puppy just died.

The yuppie elite will find some emotional reason to not read a 5 paragraph essay.

The people who pushed it all profited at the expense of a nation ...

2025-10-27T13:26:52Z

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The people who pushed it all profited at the expense of a nation of people. Criminal

Anything is a hobby is you spend enough #bitcoin on it 😄

2025-10-26T15:57:45Z

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Anything is a hobby is you spend enough #bitcoin on it 😄

#gm my #nostriches ⚒️ building on #Nostr in a nutshell 🥜 ...

2025-10-26T13:09:44Z

#gm my #nostriches
⚒️ building on #Nostr in a nutshell 🥜

https://youtu.be/lscs5ZgNQrE

Is this in a web app or native?

2025-10-26T08:21:56Z

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Is this in a web app or native?

Thanks for this post. You put xstate on my radar and it solves a ...

2025-10-26T02:43:14Z

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Thanks for this post. You put xstate on my radar and it solves a big problem for me.

Just pay lightning invoice from your "cash" balance. ...

2025-10-23T01:50:14Z

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Just pay lightning invoice from your "cash" balance. I've been "burning" cash like this for the last two years.

Getting @nprofile…ttnh ready for @nprofile…d5v0 this weekend. ...

2025-10-14T14:52:09Z

Getting architect (nprofile…ttnh) ready for NostrValley (nprofile…d5v0) this weekend.

I like the black ones. How about y'all?
#asknostr

Just watched this one last night 👍

2025-10-11T17:21:44Z

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Just watched this one last night 👍

Got my first auto withdrawal from @nprofile…0j5p to my ...

2025-10-08T21:53:51Z

Got my first auto withdrawal from strike (nprofile…0j5p) to my Bitkey (nprofile…3e96) today. The bitkey notification definitely hits different. Good job jack mallers (nprofile…8sjr) and jack (nprofile…nj96)

#gm my #nostriches Watching random YouTube comedy a caught this. ...

2025-10-06T17:34:53Z

#gm my #nostriches
Watching random YouTube comedy a caught this. #Bitcoiners are everywhere.

https://youtu.be/mi5VNU8RyPM

#gm my #nostriches ...

2025-10-03T15:50:41Z

#gm my #nostriches

I recently deleted all follows and have been slowly adding back ...

2025-10-02T16:32:58Z

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I recently deleted all follows and have been slowly adding back as I come across content naturally. It's a test run for the first social feature of architect (nprofile…ttnh)

I need to do this. They're just so many files.

2025-10-02T01:21:04Z

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I need to do this. They're just so many files.

My farmer who we've bought 3 or 4 cows from in the past ...

2025-10-01T00:35:34Z

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My farmer who we've bought 3 or 4 cows from in the past couple of years said he had no cows this fall. The people he recommended were all out too. I feel like people are figuring out they need to source their own food directly. I'm betting next year cows will cost way more than the last time we bought one. Luckily #bitcoin is up too.

#GM my #nostriches. I've always worked as hard as I am ...

2025-09-26T14:37:10Z

#GM my #nostriches.

I've always worked as hard as I am working on @nextblock but never got this far—Bitcoin reduces the slope of life.

#Bitcoin #Nostr

True #wealth in 2025. ...

2025-09-20T18:13:08Z

True #wealth in 2025.