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An a peaceful anarchist city that aspires to be utopian. The ...

2025-07-13T17:59:33+02:00

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An a peaceful anarchist city that aspires to be utopian. The video shows a house being moved after the land underneath it was corruptly sold by a politician.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auroville

How can we flood this place with bitcoiners? It's a great ...

2025-07-13T09:38:32+02:00

How can we flood this place with bitcoiners? It's a great place for a holiday..

Gigi (nprofile…2qn4) justinmoon (nprofile…6yc9)

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Resilience 😢

https://youtu.be/G2EhXtr_e-g

Cc: gladstein (nprofile…89xw), Alex Li (nprofile…mzjt), HRF (nprofile…t5ph)

Resilience 😢 https://youtu.be/G2EhXtr_e-g Cc: ...

2025-07-13T09:33:17+02:00

Resilience 😢

https://youtu.be/G2EhXtr_e-g

Cc: gladstein (nprofile…89xw), Alex Li (nprofile…mzjt), HRF (nprofile…t5ph)

This is a social experiment to see if I can use the opportunity ...

2024-11-12T15:48:01+01:00

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This is a social experiment to see if I can use the opportunity to create schizophrenic clones of myself 😀

I'm retiring this npub. Please DM me for the new one. Reason: ...

2024-11-12T15:16:21+01:00

I'm retiring this npub. Please DM me for the new one.

Reason: nsec.app and nsec bunker are custodial solutions.

Be careful out there, sometimes things that seem like they are good for opsec actually harm your opsec!

@nprofile…2dy2 🤣

2024-11-11T19:35:19+01:00

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Sondre (nprofile…2dy2) 🤣

@nprofile…t80v sounds really interesting, though I wonder ...

2024-11-11T18:05:33+01:00

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unknown (nprofile…t80v) sounds really interesting, though I wonder whether its best described as investment or as philanthropy.

My understanding is that it's an effective tool for philanthropists to delegate the execution of a vision without being cheated.

Seems super useful to me. Especially in combination with SatShoot (nprofile…x3ak).

Can we use this to melt e-cash too?

2024-11-11T11:24:53+01:00

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Can we use this to melt e-cash too?

Upfront zap returned because it turned out to be more work than ...

2024-11-11T10:01:22+01:00

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Upfront zap returned because it turned out to be more work than expected. Others are welcome to pick up where I left off:

https://github.com/chGoodchild/tunnelsats/blob/master/hello-world/src/main.rs

https://github.com/Tunnelsats/tunnelsats/pull/143

Elections have always been KYC, but the next one will probably be ...

2024-11-10T22:38:06+01:00

Elections have always been KYC, but the next one will probably be digital + KYC

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/09/olaf-scholz-paper-election-germany-cdu/

@nprofile…w0xz, I started packaging it, but tunnelsats can only ...

2024-11-10T17:48:28+01:00

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Start9 (nprofile…w0xz), I started packaging it, but tunnelsats can only be setup if a lightning implementation is already running on the machine.

According to the forums, testnet bitcoind can't be side loaded onto the start9. What would be the easiest/fastest way to spin up core lightning on a start9 without downloading+verifying the entire chainstate?

Is there a way to sideload pre-pruned blocks to set things up more quickly?

https://ezno.de/packages/

The cost of the spent stack is a serious issue. We need the ...

2024-11-10T13:55:09+01:00

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The cost of the spent stack is a serious issue. We need the ability to make granular transactions...

Final 1 SAT settlement

2024-11-10T13:46:36+01:00

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Final 1 SAT settlement

Nostr event nevent1qqst4f6kk043vfv6xej940rsvke7f5kffu6fatd5kurgkhlah02c7zszyp38lesa9pc6dsuln2w3wy96rvgprcmktrld0ayz0q849tq09yqv54pduq2

2024-11-03T00:44:11+01:00

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@nprofile…zcmq I don't work on ngit, though I was recently ...

2024-11-02T23:15:42+01:00

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vicariousdrama (nprofile…zcmq) I don't work on ngit, though I was recently onboarded and I'm happy to share what I have learnt with other people who want to use it.

Regular demos might be interested for DanConwayDev (nprofile…crvd) though...

@nprofile…zcmq, it's super easy to use once your onboarded. ...

2024-11-02T22:15:24+01:00

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vicariousdrama (nprofile…zcmq), it's super easy to use once your onboarded. Perhaps this is one of the things we need to spread P2P..

Would you like a short onboarding session?

I don't think there are any questions at the moment. I just ...

2024-11-02T21:09:53+01:00

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I don't think there are any questions at the moment. I just wanted to shill satshoot and I linked your npub, because I couldn't find an npub specific to satshoot...

Yes I'm referring to the @nprofile…w0xz + @nprofile…0q7u ...

2024-11-02T19:17:18+01:00

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Yes I'm referring to the Start9 (nprofile…w0xz) + TunnelSats (nprofile…0q7u) bounty 😀

@nprofile…2dy2 I might take you up on that. Have you considered ...

2024-11-02T17:28:55+01:00

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Sondre (nprofile…2dy2) I might take you up on that. Have you considered making an offer on satshoot? I'm sure Five (nprofile…5zpj) will be happy to provide support around this freelance nostr client 😀

https://satshoot.com/

Have you looked into cherry tree? It's a Merkle tree that ...

2024-11-02T17:08:52+01:00

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Have you looked into cherry tree? It's a Merkle tree that tracks file chunks which can be placed on blossom. Could be useful..

#SovEng

2024-10-31T13:57:24+01:00

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#SovEng

DVVM

2024-10-22T21:53:39+02:00

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DVVM

@nprofile…lzc5, is there any chance we can use your VPS as a ...

2024-10-20T22:25:45+02:00

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LNVPS.net (nprofile…lzc5), is there any chance we can use your VPS as a DVM on future?

LNURLw works if you're offline, but your internet gateway is ...

2024-10-20T03:30:12+02:00

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LNURLw works if you're offline, but your internet gateway is online to redeem the payment. You can also use e-cash non custodially if you run your own mint

Custody clearly comes with risks, though I want to have e-cash if I must use a custodian, because standardizing the interaction with custodians allows me to leave the custodian frictionlessly and it happens to come with privacy.

Yesterday I witnessed atomic real time channel rebalancing involving mints. Users of lightning can benefit from the liquidity without using custodians themselves.

LoRa (and nostr) can be really useful for metadata that routers ...

2024-10-20T03:15:47+02:00

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LoRa (and nostr) can be really useful for metadata that routers use to discover new peers. When it comes to transport, I've accepted that TCP-IP is the best we've got. However, I don't accept authorities like ICANN and IANA as a requirement. I think nostr relays allow us to have efficient transport on competing networks.

@nprofile…l3vp what's the best thing to do after a ...

2024-10-16T11:36:58+02:00

Minibits (nprofile…l3vp) what's the best thing to do after a lightning payment timed out in mini-bits? The lightning payment was successful, but I didn't get change for the e-cash note that this payment spent...

Yes exactly, now you need to pay for WiFi at 7-Eleven if your not ...

2024-10-13T12:28:54+02:00

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Yes exactly, now you need to pay for WiFi at 7-Eleven if your not a customer with encumbered e-cash on an invoice.

It sometimes takes days to send fiat between German banks 🤣

2024-10-10T09:16:37+02:00

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It sometimes takes days to send fiat between German banks 🤣

I'm about to make a reservation for dinner with some ...

2024-10-08T17:33:18+02:00

I'm about to make a reservation for dinner with some nostriches at Mr. Chai Walla at 18:30 this evening. Npubs that react convincingly will get a seat at the table.

Location:
Kantstraße (Charlottenburg) 31
Location: geo:52.50628,13.31725?z=17
https://osmand.net/map?pin=52.50628,13.31725#17/52.50628/13.31725

Another interesting take: #naddr1qq…9t38

2024-10-08T14:58:27+02:00

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Another interesting take:

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The concept of value of value is one where information yearns to flow freely, transactions should be voluntary, unlimited and direct. In V4V model, people pay what something is worth to them.

Sounds great. On paper. There are some issues…

Free sucks

At least, that’s the perception. People don’t assign much value to free. Ask anyone who has ever ran any business and has not suggested a value for a product or service and they’ll tell you that they earned far less than when charging for the thing.

It’s true, some people will give a lot, some a little, and most none. Most - none. None.

Pricing is Signal

Pricing is a signal of desirability and quality. Of course, it is often incorrect and people manipulate pricing all the time. But for the most part, people don’t see much value in free. Unless a recommended price is offered, people will usually pay nothing. This is not a great model to thrive on if you spend years of your life acquiring knowledge and turning it into products that nobody ultimately buys.  I have very personal experience with free. I’ve created and sold digital products and ran many pricing experiments myself. The highest priced products usually generated the most revenue. Surprise! The middle cost product (same product, just priced less) decimated the revenue stream. When set to 0 (even with a suggested minimum price), I generated almost no revenue at all.

None of this is surprising. Pricing acts as a psychological anchor. “You get what you pay for” is ingrained in our brains whether we think about it or not.

People are clueless

The issue with price is that most people don’t have a clue what anything is worth. The only time people have any rough idea of what they should pay for something is when they have already purchased that thing in the past. But, introduce something they have never before purchased and they won’t have a single clue about what to pay. Take for example a set of professional photos of you and your family. Unless you’ve been to a photo studio in the last 5 years, you probably won’t have a single clue what that package of photos is worth. Does that mean the product is worthless? Of course not, but people don’t know what to pay.

In a value for value model, the absence of price makes it super difficult to determine the value of anything. You may take some social cues from previous payments from other people, but this could backfire for the content creator.

Suppose I created a UI framework that saved developers hundreds of hours. In theory, I should be able to charge at least a few hours’ worth of value for this product. If the developer’s time is valued at $100/hour, a $200 price for a product that saves you $2000 worth of time seems very justifiable. Not only do you get to use it once, but you can re-use the product for ALL future projects and employment.

Now, remove the price and see what people pay. Absolutely nothing. You may have a few people who pay $200 voluntarily, but it’s highly unlikely The vast majority will pay nothing, and some may “tip” in the 5-$60 range. Anything that approaches a $100 mark is seen as a purchase. Hey, I don’t make the rules, I just see what other founders have figured out long ago and combine with my own observations. Don’t kill the messenger.

Free is Expensive

If I am accurate in my assessment and recall my personal experiences accurately, then the majority of people who consume your value will do so for free. When that content is a product, you may end up spending a lot of time on supporting the thing that is not generating any revenue. You don’t want to be rude and ignore people so you’ll probably spend your valuable time answering questions and helping them troubleshoot issues. All of that time adds up. Startup founders who offer free tiers or near free tiers of services learn very quickly that free customers are the most painful and demanding. You are basically forced to charge just to avoid dealing with demanding people who expect everything for nothing.

Free is Noise

Price is not just a request for value, but it acts as a feedback signal for future content. If you have no idea what people are paying for, it’s difficult to know if what you create is worth anything. A situation where the vast majority of your content is consumed for free yield a lot of noise.

Well, why not focus on the people who pay? You certainly could, but it ends up being a tiny fraction of the sample size you could have had if you actually charged something up front.

Lack of forecasting

Businesses rely on predictible revenue. Forecasting is necessary for all sorts of decisions if you work with anyone but yourself. It helps with purchasing decision (expenses) and with planning of future products. Value for value makes it impossible to know what your revenue will be next month as you just have no idea if everyone pays nothing or a lot.

V4V could make you uncompetitive

In a model where one person charges a fixed price and the other is relying on the good will of the people to "see the value" in their work, the person with predictible revenue will most likely win out in a competitive environment - enabling them to get ahead of you and your business. They will have an easier time planning further content / products and hiring people to scale the business even further.

It’s not all hopeless

That’s not to say that I don’t like the idea of value for value. Of course I only want people to pay if they find the thing useful. The issue is that people may not know the thing is useful until they’ve already acquired it. At that point who is going back to pay for the thing they already got for free? Few to none.

Value for value may work. For some.

I’m not saying value for value doesn’t work sometimes, for some people. It is entirely possible that a person earns a living on v4v transactions. However, I think for that to be true there may be other factors at play such as social standing, personal brand, influence, likability, status within a community. The vast majority of creators do not fall into this category and will just struggle.

I’m cautiously optimistic about V4V and hope it works out at scale. But as it stands, I have not seen much evidence that it actually pays the bills. Yes, there has been some support for podcasts on Fountain, but it is unclear whether it is just as or more significant than traditional transaction model.

“Information is not scarce” is irrelevant

There’s some notion that information yearns to be free and cannot be scarce by nature. I think this may be a false argument from the start. When we purchase digital things, we are not paying for scarcity - it’s totally irrelevant. We pay for the experience and the feeling we get from that thing. In fact, the same is probably true for physical products (with the added benefit of personal sustenance). I don’t go into the grocery store to buy a dinner and fork over the money because it’s scarce. I pay because I’m hungry. There’s utility and there’s pleasure and fulfillment. If I’m having a dinner with friends, there’s also fun. Unless I am totally misunderstanding the argument, I’m not sure how it applies.

In Summary

Value 4 value may work at scale, but remains to be seen

It could be great fun money but not serious enough to pay the bills (for most of us)

Sounds good on paper but we humans have our own ways of thinking about value and what it's worth

May work well for people who build a personal brand or have status in a community

As always I look forward to your thoughts. Let me know if I’m overlooking something or should consider some point of view in more depth.

#nevent1q…xxtx

2024-10-08T13:53:11+02:00

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quoting nevent1q…xxtx

OUR GRANDFATHERS FLEW PRIMITIVE PLANES INTO WAR BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE THE BALLS TO DELETE YOUR X ACCOUNT.

@nprofile…dllq ledgers connect to an endpoint through ledger ...

2024-10-07T21:02:35+02:00

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Derek Ross (nprofile…dllq) ledgers connect to an endpoint through ledger live to check for firmware updates, because they need to install the "Bitcoin app" every time the user resets their seed phrase.

It's only a question of time before they sign off on a malicious firmware update and 20% of all Bitcoin is at risk of going off the market 🤣

Nostr.watch rocks! Thanks for working on this @nprofile…z549 ...

2024-10-04T19:41:09+02:00

Nostr.watch rocks! Thanks for working on this sandwich (nprofile…z549) 🙏

With the Bitaxe and StratumV2, ideological miners bring an ...

2024-10-04T15:19:40+02:00

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With the Bitaxe and StratumV2, ideological miners bring an interesting twist to security.

You can mine at a loss to enforce your mempool policy if you don't like ordinals.

IANA is just another reason to mine at a loss - which is probably good for decentralization...

Currently there is no incentive for pools to do this, because ...

2024-10-04T15:15:00+02:00

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Currently there is no incentive for pools to do this, because everyone is using ICANN domains and IANA IP addresses.

Currently there is also no incentive for me to mine at home, because I would make a loss. However, I would love to mine at a loss with my RaspiBlitz if an upstream pool or proxy were to take on the role of IANA by giving me an IP address. Sure this would initially be an IP address in a local network, but why not do the same on a global level if it proves to be useful locally.

Pools that compete with IANA could serve a market of miners who care about removing the authority from their addressing system more than they care about profitability.

Regarding domains: ICANN just manages a fiat list of who owns what namespace. We don't need them because we can create our own namespace (npubs) managed by entropy rather than fiat.

I realize this means giving up the existing network effects on ...

2024-10-04T11:29:13+02:00

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I realize this means giving up the existing network effects on the fiat internet, but how else are we going to bootstrap a network without fiat authorities?

People who are buying an IP address from their fiat ISP are out ...

2024-10-04T11:25:00+02:00

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People who are buying an IP address from their fiat ISP are out of luck. I won't find them, because I'm on the proof of work (inter)network and it isn't their IP address on this network 😀

We already trust our DNS servers and our e-cash mints not to mess ...

2024-10-04T11:21:12+02:00

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We already trust our DNS servers and our e-cash mints not to mess with us. This DNS server is a pool, so you don't buy a domain. You mine Bitcoin and you get address space + Bitcoin for your work.

Wow neat! Apologies for my premature comments and thanks for ...

2024-10-04T11:13:39+02:00

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Wow neat!
Apologies for my premature comments and thanks for explaining 😀

I think we can replace IANA with nested StratumV2 pools that run ...

2024-10-04T11:10:25+02:00

I think we can replace IANA with nested StratumV2 pools that run e-cash mints and assign address ranges as autonomous systems.

Whenever a pool finds a new block it becomes the DNS server that calls the shots till a new block is found. How many IP addresses an autonomous system controls depends on the amount of hashrate that it contributed to that block. Oh and domains aren't strictly needed. The DNS server could just map npubs to IP addresses (or ranges).

Just point your hashrate at your internet gateway - which also happens to be a pool, and you get your fair share of public IP addresses.

Indeed, timestamps are really useful in nostr notes. I agree that ...

2024-10-04T11:01:06+02:00

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Indeed, timestamps are really useful in nostr notes.

I agree that inconsistency is often undesirable, though I'm hesitant about concluding that relays should coordinate. It's my nostr client's job to ensure that the content is consistent across all the relays that I use. Perhaps I should be using fewer relays if I'm unable to maintain sufficient consistency across all my relays. It's enough to have just one relay with the outbox model 😀

I realize the UX suffers from having all the business logic in the client, but where do we draw the line between Twitter and nostr if our relays keep getting smarter?

Bitcoin nodes use proof of work to ensure that our nodes can all ...

2024-10-04T10:45:06+02:00

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Bitcoin nodes use proof of work to ensure that our nodes can all agree on the current state of the Blockchain. However, I can't afford to shit post on those nodes because the consensus mechanism forces all nodes to store the same thing - which doesn't scale to many posts.

Nostr relays (and git remotes) don't have such a consensus requirements, which means that different relays may give you different profiles pictures. This seems annoying, but I also don't want all relays to agree which of my content to store, because in most cases they would agree that it's too costly to store any of my content.

Just use Bitcoin if you want consensus. Nostr is scalable because ...

2024-10-03T20:29:07+02:00

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Just use Bitcoin if you want consensus. Nostr is scalable because it doesn't come with guarantees...

When I drove from Berlin to Switzerland with the FM radio on I ...

2024-10-03T08:51:21+02:00

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When I drove from Berlin to Switzerland with the FM radio on I found straight out contradictions between what swiss radio and German radio were reporting with respect to Ukraine..

Good morning 😀

2024-10-03T08:45:13+02:00

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Good morning 😀

I didn't realize there was a measurable decline. To me this ...

2024-09-29T12:52:11+02:00

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I didn't realize there was a measurable decline. To me this was more of a theoretical possibility...

Is the decline temporary? What are the explanations?

Thanks for your input guys, this is exactly what I was hoping to ...

2024-09-29T12:30:28+02:00

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Thanks for your input guys, this is exactly what I was hoping to find out! Nostr is a true super power when one has such questions 😀

Seeing that syncthing exists makes me wonder why anyone would ...

2024-09-29T11:50:38+02:00

Seeing that syncthing exists makes me wonder why anyone would want to host their data on something like owncloud. Where is the catch?

hzrd149 (nprofile…5pxf) do you have an option on this?

https://syncthing.net/

Hmm ya I can relate to that. Would you say that the movement ...

2024-09-24T12:05:54+02:00

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Hmm ya I can relate to that. Would you say that the movement around Bitcoin is bad for Bitcoin? So far my assumption was that it's a requirement at an early stage...

Perhaps the movement nurtured Bitcoin in the beginning and hinders it later on.

I guess the word "leader" comes with a lot of baggage...

2024-09-24T10:10:35+02:00

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I guess the word "leader" comes with a lot of baggage...

There is also a RaspiBlitz hackday on the 10th and BTC++ on the ...

2024-09-24T10:04:05+02:00

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There is also a RaspiBlitz hackday on the 10th and BTC++ on the 11th to 13th. So lots of reasons to come. I might even have a spare ticket for BTC++...

Interesting, yes I see a lot of value in working with others who ...

2024-09-24T10:00:12+02:00

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Interesting, yes I see a lot of value in working with others who bring insights or skills that I don't have and have the conviction to take things in a new directions.

However, I also see value in a project having visibility, users and momentum. Not sure if you had the audio on in the movement video. The narrator does emphasize the importance of the second and third participants rather than the person who started it.

Perhaps both teams and momentum/movement are required for impact...

Nostr event nevent1qqswmtp8elqzu8hst954v32cksdzd8e63qyfluud7x5hgmuxc6a62uqzyp38lesa9pc6dsuln2w3wy96rvgprcmktrld0ayz0q849tq09yqv5jkw97z

2024-09-24T09:38:06+02:00

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https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy2cn358jpnz9gmz64v7jlx7u98rrrd38dkhr422l5cf9ag725cagpz3mhxw309ucnydewxqhrqt338g6rsd3e9upzqu07dq334uff9kcsn0yqxvhdy73xvk83qcxk9wtavzm45zarfng3qvzqqqqqqyg7gm29

I guess there might also be a distinction between a team and a ...

2024-09-24T09:33:42+02:00

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I guess there might also be a distinction between a team and a movement. Latecomers to a movement might start putting the people who started the movement on a pedestal. Maybe it's just human nature...

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Any chance you can make it to the hackday? I think this sort of ...

2024-09-24T09:23:43+02:00

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Any chance you can make it to the hackday? I think this sort of input would be really valuable...

quoting
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Please join us at the nostr hack day on the 9th of October in Berlin!

Free registration here: http://nostrhackday.orangesync.tech

I really hope it becomes a thing to support outcomes through zaps

2024-09-24T09:22:55+02:00

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I really hope it becomes a thing to support outcomes through zaps

This is why I'm a big fan of the bidding approach that ...

2024-09-24T09:18:51+02:00

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This is why I'm a big fan of the bidding approach that SatShoot (nprofile…x3ak) is going for. I think its a great way to accelerate projects rather than accelerating individuals 😀

Sounds like your describing legacy social media, where the relay ...

2024-09-23T08:35:03+02:00

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Sounds like your describing legacy social media, where the relay assigns content to users.

Nice catch! They probably don't need to rely on the relay ...

2024-09-22T13:33:26+02:00

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Nice catch! They probably don't need to rely on the relay mentioned at the end of their reply though. They could parse the previous notes to detect repetition maintain a list of their colluding peers.

However, this might give them an incentive to make their replies more repetitive / less interesting...

Looks like you have a nostrich in your neighborhood: ...

2024-09-22T11:03:19+02:00

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Looks like you have a nostrich in your neighborhood:

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🇯🇵

I didn't realize bostr was unpopular. Why are people banning ...

2024-09-21T17:41:08+02:00

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I didn't realize bostr was unpopular. Why are people banning it? Does it have something to do with bostr giving npubs access to more relays than they would normally access with the limited bandwidth on their mobile clients?

The problem is that people on Nostr want to have their cake and ...

2024-09-21T16:20:44+02:00

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The problem is that people on Nostr want to have their cake and eat it too. They want absolute freedom to be totally anonymous, ephemeral identity, to see and be seen by everyone. Yet they simultaneously don't want to be spammed by anonymous random accounts. I believe this is the true internal conflict that ReplyGuy exposes.

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nevent1q…mg3s
Proper WoT is not just critical for nostr to work, it’s critical for the internet at large to work. (Although “nostr” here could be used interchangeably with “internet”)

Producing garbage is extremely cheap and getting increasingly cheaper, or, said another way, it’s getting increasingly more expensive to discern what is garbage.

You either go with an authority that helps you remove 99.99% of the existing garbage or you use an approach that, much like cryptography, makes the cost of putting garbage in front of your eyes asymmetrically expensive.

We’ve tried the authority-first approach and it has led to the current state of manipulation, polarization and reduction of individuals’ agency.

@nprofile…ag5n who enforces the rules of those initial trials ...

2024-09-21T16:19:38+02:00

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Alex Gleason (nprofile…ag5n) who enforces the rules of those initial trials and how is consensus over those rules established?

Are you funding reply guy?

2024-09-19T13:41:39+02:00

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Are you funding reply guy?

Nostr event nevent1qqs00g96gvn4fdw6x3fml7l4uu7lw5p0a40rx4h2yclwhsag9pzncagzyp38lesa9pc6dsuln2w3wy96rvgprcmktrld0ayz0q849tq09yqv54wv7ql

2024-09-18T21:09:56+02:00

MVP

The man knows his rights

2024-09-17T17:25:19+02:00

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The man knows his rights

@nprofile…es9t perhaps a nostr integration could be useful for ...

2024-09-17T11:56:44+02:00

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NixOS (nprofile…es9t) perhaps a nostr integration could be useful for nix as well?

Mistake that many make. Self custody comes with responsibility, ...

2024-09-16T21:23:35+02:00

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Mistake that many make. Self custody comes with responsibility, but it can be very empowering.

Aah, that makes more sense... People like me make the figures ...

2024-09-16T21:20:01+02:00

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Aah, that makes more sense... People like me make the figures worse then because I'm a new follower who didn't realize there was a previous NPUB 🤣

Did you transfered your followers from one npub to another ...

2024-09-16T21:08:44+02:00

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Did you transfered your followers from one npub to another without them signing anything?

How did you do this?

2024-09-16T20:56:52+02:00

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How did you do this?

Glad to hear that your working on LoRa for nostr. After ...

2024-09-16T20:53:57+02:00

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Glad to hear that your working on LoRa for nostr. After struggling to add value to nutband I shifted my attention to OpenWRT and WiFi captive portals that accept Bitcoin.

I think nostr relays are the perfect glue for various transport solutoons interfaces like LoRa, TCP/IP or ham radio.

Not sure if I understand the graph approach. Do you mean ...

2024-09-16T15:01:39+02:00

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Not sure if I understand the graph approach. Do you mean somethingike a "Markov Chain" where redundancy leads to a lower probably of failure?

Yes the metrics are an issue. If someone claims that nostr is a decentralized identity layer, I would strongly agree because it gives anyone with entropy an identity. However, I might disagree with claims that it's a decentralized transport layer because we rely heavily on ICANN and IANA to exchange notes.

Free as in freedom, not as in Beer.

2024-09-16T09:23:27+02:00

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Free as in freedom, not as in Beer.

I see a KeePass mirror on your gitlab. Does it already ...

2024-09-15T09:02:39+02:00

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I see a KeePass mirror on your gitlab. Does it already synchronize the passwords stored in the hardware with KeePass?

https://gitlab.hax0rbana.org/signet

Wow that sounds amazing! So it's like the hardware version of ...

2024-09-15T08:58:14+02:00

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Wow that sounds amazing! So it's like the hardware version of KeePass?

First time I hear of it. How does it differ from a Yubikey? Can ...

2024-09-15T07:31:39+02:00

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First time I hear of it. How does it differ from a Yubikey? Can it be used to sign nostr notes?

Tick tock next block

2024-09-12T16:23:12+02:00

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Tick tock next block

#nevent1q…ncp5

2024-09-12T08:57:52+02:00

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quoting nevent1q…ncp5
OUR GRANDFATHERS FLEW PRIMITIVE PLANES INTO WAR BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE THE BALLS TO DELETE YOUR X ACCOUNT.

Verifiable deletion would probably make the accounts more fun to ...

2024-09-12T08:06:33+02:00

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Verifiable deletion would probably make the accounts more fun to delete.

If only they included open time stamps and some proof of work in these deactivation messages...

True.. Does wss://local help with responsiveness? I should ...

2024-09-11T21:34:47+02:00

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True.. Does wss://local help with responsiveness?

I should probably set up one of those. My bostr2 bouncer is unresponsive sometimes because it's on a cheap VPS.

Any recommendations for setting local relays?

Nostr.watch actively finds and lists them. Do you have an example ...

2024-09-11T21:23:31+02:00

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Nostr.watch actively finds and lists them. Do you have an example of a relay that isn't listed?

Would be cool relays published some usage stats for scrapers like nostr.watch to gather...

#nevent1q…ktcq

2024-09-11T21:14:13+02:00

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quoting nevent1q…ktcq

Voskuil explains how an SPV client would validate tx inclusion without 64 byte soft fork.

Looking forward to how future versions of Fountain will handle clip sharing. It's a bit too tedious still. Ideally timestamps in the shownotes are some RSS annotation could automate the process.

https://fountain.fm/clip/6e6xMkP1ilq0JcoohJTI

#bitcoin #consensus

What about StratumV2? Strictly speaking node operators run their ...

2024-09-11T20:39:04+02:00

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What about StratumV2? Strictly speaking node operators run their nodes at a loss, but they still do it.

RaspiBlitz + StratumV2 + Bitaxe = price the big guys out of the market

How does one even measure decentralization? What I love about ...

2024-09-11T09:21:14+02:00

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How does one even measure decentralization? What I love about nostr is the fact that anyone with a source of entropy can have an identity and the fact that one doesn't need a static IP address to be discoverable on the internet (NWS).

That said, I strongly hope we manage to fund open source development through zaps in future:

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nevent1q…5k5u

ODELL (nprofile…vd2m) I really liked your intro on decentralizing support for open source through zaps.

Your talk helped me to appreciate the challenge of people wanting to donate without having to think about which project to support.

I wonder if grant organizations could function as oracles for intellectually lazy people who want to do good with their zaps.

https://youtu.be/JWZPN-SAO3U?feature=shared&t=10m56s

Looking forward to trying it out 😀

2024-09-10T18:49:57+02:00

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Looking forward to trying it out 😀

The modern CI-CD pipeline for testing hardware: 1. VPS publishes ...

2024-09-10T17:58:03+02:00

The modern CI-CD pipeline for testing hardware:

1. VPS publishes a note mentioning the git commit hash, git branch etc on nostr.
2. VPS replies to the note with a URL for downloading the binary upon success or with a URL of logs in the case of failure.
3. Device runs tests on first boot and replies to note with test result.
4. VPS publishes binaries on blossom...

Does this sound useful to others too?

Any recommendations around existing nostr tooling for git?

This will double the number of nostr users!

2024-09-10T16:25:42+02:00

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This will double the number of nostr users!

Stability is a lie

2024-09-10T16:10:10+02:00

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Stability is a lie

Sounds like we need the signal algorithm to work

2024-09-10T15:46:59+02:00

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Sounds like we need the signal algorithm to work

@nprofile…8t66 I must confess that I commented on something I ...

2024-09-10T15:42:38+02:00

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Liberty Farmer (nprofile…8t66) I must confess that I commented on something I don't sufficiently understand. Reticulum has a lot of moving parts, but I appreciate the fact that it supports multiple interface types.

My hope is that adding other interface types (like radio & LoRa) to nostr relays could allow nostr relays to serve as glue between the interfaces without requiring that we find consensus on "details" like route finding.

Perhaps this hope is naive so I'm keen on getting further insights from people who know about reticulum 😀

When cashu?

2024-09-10T12:43:11+02:00

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When cashu?

It's a certificate, but there is no guarantee that this ...

2024-09-10T10:35:29+02:00

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It's a certificate, but there is no guarantee that this certificate will buy you 1 hour in the year 2050.

To me it seems like reticulum is an overlay network - like nostr, ...

2024-09-10T09:14:09+02:00

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To me it seems like reticulum is an overlay network - like nostr, but it comes with more complexity because it tries to address problems like path finding.

I think it would be a mistake to make one overlay network (nostr) depend on another overlay network (reticulum) which still depends on TCP-IP. Tor gives relays cryptographic addresses, but it's inefficient and unreliable as a transport layer.

I guess there is no harm in relays supporting multiple deferent protocols / technologies. Time will tell what works best...

To me it sounds like the relays need a verifiable identity! Users ...

2024-09-10T09:04:13+02:00

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To me it sounds like the relays need a verifiable identity! Users who currently find their relays via DNS and talk to them over cleaner TCP-IP need a way to identify their relays in a post DNS environment.

How about we create an NPUB for each relay and that NPUB publishes a note with its Tor address and its cleanet data. Now nostr clients can scrape this data before it's too late...

Same question here

2024-09-09T17:51:06+02:00

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Same question here

Let's submit a complaint to the CEO of nostr...

2024-09-09T15:04:10+02:00

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Let's submit a complaint to the CEO of nostr...

What makes your bank and your government more trust worthy than ...

2024-09-09T14:42:21+02:00

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What makes your bank and your government more trust worthy than an exchange?

@nprofile…cadf there are always tradeoffs in life. The ATMs are ...

2024-09-09T14:40:08+02:00

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Jacob | APTea (nprofile…cadf) there are always tradeoffs in life. The ATMs are expensive because the market values that set of trade-offs.

Censorship resistance means you need to curate your own feed. You ...

2024-09-09T14:33:28+02:00

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Censorship resistance means you need to curate your own feed.

You can give up your nsec and and follow someone else's feed using their npub if you don't want the responsibility.