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I was told (by an LLM, lol) that using `backticks` should generally prevent Nostr clients from resolving a video link. I see now that this is not the case in the clients I've used 🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-01-29 04:34:46 CET

PLEASE READ, SHARE, AND COMMENT:
(Apologies in advance for any misconceptions I may have about the current state of Nostr. I admit to not having kept up.)
## Problem:
Nostr has been an important step in the right direction for decentralized and uncensorable social media, and furthermore giving us cryptographic proofs of the authenticity of every post.
HOWEVER, all external information (photos, screenshots, PDFs, audio & video) contained in a post *exclusively* relies on the existing DNS system, HTTP protocol, AND a *single* server, making it highly vulnerable to loss of content through situations like data loss, host shutdown, deplatforming, or government seizure.
Or WORSE, *content replacement*, leading to propagation of false information under the guise of being cryptographically verified.
If Nostr is ever to be a reliable (AND uncensorable) protocol for ALL media, we need a mechanism to cryptographically secure all types of media.
## Proposed solution:
We already have a decentralized uncensorable content network, widely used and proven over several decades:
**Bittorrent**
How can we leverage this network to further make Nostr the future protocol for publishing content?
These are the steps I see that can bring us into the next phase of Nostr:
1. Enable support for Bittorrent magnet links in posts.
Today an embedded HTTP link (to e.g. an `.mp4`) will embed the video instead of showing the link. A magnet link contains a content hash that points to content in the Bittorrent network, and the `so` parameter identifies the exact file in that torrent, thus a client can display the linked file in a similar way. So, just like an HTTP link:
`https://i.imgur.com/v6dFs83.mp4`
we should be able to use an file-indexed magnet link:
`magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3cf3eae685739b4792fd150443eeeb93fd0a28d1&so=0`
and achieve immutable and persistent content references.
2. Torrent contruction and publishing.
Step 1 might be sufficient, but not very user friendly. Nostr clients can assists in creating a torrent from the media content the user wants to include, just like the clients today upload to a choice of HTTP servers. This can be done in-app, or through a simple web API, like a regular HTTP content server (see below for a POC).
3. Improve availibility and distribution.
The first step alone is an improvement because it solves the problem of forgery, a core feature of Bittorrent, through content hashing. But we can also solve availability by giving Nostr users the ability to help seed content they think is valuable and worth preserving. This is obviously a client UX choice, but a ❤️ could mean that you help seed the content. Or if that's too heavy handed, more likely a dedicated 🗃️ button for this would be preferred for more transparency and choice. Seeding *can* be done on mobile devices, but power users and content producers might want to offload that to dedicated seed box, thereby helping the network. Such a seed box could also serve as a Nostr relay.
4. Nostr content signing?
For step 2, we could sign the content with a Nostr key. I originally thought this would be a core feature of Bittorrent on Nostr. But upon further thought I think this has very limitied useability. Step 1 simply provides support for displaying content from torrents, and is a big win on its own, however it does not provide cryptographic proof that the content is from the same key that is embedding the content. This is clearly not needed nor desired in many cases, but is it desirable for other use cases? I'm not sure.
## Conclusion:
My hope is that one day this video will play in most Nostr clients:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:439f914cf85da4a5975cef115634a108376fda8d&so=0
(Any mention of Bittorrent implicitly also infers Webtorrent)

2025-12-30 13:05:11 CET

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BlackRock owns them, OR is the custodian? HUGE difference.

2025-01-23 16:54:58 CET

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Didn't Ledger deny this earlier?

2025-01-21 19:41:39 CET

Wow, the bears keep trying to drown Bitcoin below the 100k waterline, but the bull keeps coming up for air. I think it's found a foundation to get completely out is the water.

2025-01-19 17:29:49 CET

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I would wager that you added a little more to the prompt than what you admit here

2025-01-19 17:27:43 CET

The TikTok ban, like COVID, clearly shows who believes in freedom and who believes in government propaganda.
And I wonder how large the overlap is 🤔

2025-01-16 16:24:55 CET

if you're not using the Moon Visa X card, you should probably look into it.
Non-KYC debit card, refill with on-chain or LN ⚡
https://paywithmoon.com

2025-01-04 17:41:29 CET

Delicious coconut water, paid with Lightning ⚡
https://btcmap.org/merchant/node:12431784500
https://m.primal.net/NRqM.jpg

2024-12-26 08:35:19 CET

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/russia-is-using-bitcoin-in-foreign-trade-finance-minister-says

2024-12-05 03:46:26 CET

Putin: “Who can ban Bitcoin? Nobody.”
https://nostpic.com/media/730dbcc90943bf184a7135091f8b46b9dba4bcf7314d05afdea01404d62f8d96/9d39b638415315f66236d08b7ca200adb955534bdc5caf3a696d271184ebdd3b.mp4

2024-11-10 14:44:48 CET

#Satsconf2024
https://m.primal.net/LymY.mp4

2024-11-10 14:42:17 CET

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you want free access, i.e. communism?
If not, you need to pay, and there's only two ways to pay, either unlimited data within a paid time window, or per amount of data, time window being irrelevant (mostly, might have expiration).

2024-11-07 12:58:24 CET

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Monero literally doesn't fix anything. It's such a shitty meme.

2024-11-07 12:57:24 CET

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except there's no unifying of Bitcoin and state happening. Those are just words without meaning. Bitcoin remains outside government control, but will hopefully co-opt government, at game theory dictates.

2024-11-06 14:21:53 CET

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Same thing happened under W, and they failed miserably. That was my wakeup call. Maybe this time it'll be yours?

2024-11-06 14:20:20 CET

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Pay one month in advance vs 1 minute in advance. Same principle, just better granularity with LN.

2024-11-06 14:18:50 CET

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most ISPs are a subscription model, where you pay per month. This is normal most places. That's metered access, just on a longer timeframe than your willing to consider. But there's really no difference.

2024-10-19 23:30:47 CEST

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it's not metered, you're paying for time, just like any other ISP.

2024-10-19 23:30:40 CEST

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it's not metered, you're paying for time, just like any other ISP.

2024-08-29 09:31:22 CEST

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This means you think another school is *more* correct. Which one?

2024-08-28 11:24:55 CEST

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Interesting. I wish they'd use Nostr DM instead of email though, or at least as an option

2024-08-22 14:38:34 CEST

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https://image.nostr.build/aba517e9b99835f1a925f72a55ed2f3ade09510c2022269737575a0ab407484a.jpg

2024-07-28 11:34:25 CEST

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Literally nothing new, except for revealing how little he understands

2024-07-27 23:00:22 CEST

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So cringe, and boring too. Bitcoiners are gullible.

2024-07-27 22:57:53 CEST

Wtf @nprofile…vhd7, special guest??

2024-07-25 21:34:13 CEST

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Then why do you mention Monero?

2024-06-26 13:09:45 CEST

Why do so many websites assume that their users never travel and won't ever need to access the site from another location? I understand that it's a crude form of DDoS protection, but come on … how smooth brained is that?
And then some *also* block VPNs 🤦🏻‍♂️

2024-06-04 14:07:19 CEST

How do people live with Apple products? What absolute shite ecosystem. It's apparently impossible to simply transfer files from a Windows laptop to an iPhone.
My GOD, how do you people deal with this locked down piece of shit??

2024-06-03 09:45:01 CEST

I'm at a loss of words
https://nostpic.com/media/730dbcc90943bf184a7135091f8b46b9dba4bcf7314d05afdea01404d62f8d96/53e31533fc4c4256e05db7f77cb4e935dc6fffed3ed86f2d932bdd42eec9f780.webp

2024-05-28 07:01:52 CEST

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I will be there! 🏴‍☠️

2024-05-28 00:53:38 CEST

I'll believe Nostr can overtake Twitter when someone can tell me how Nostr will prevent me from getting a gazillion spam messages every single day from fresh npubs and fresh relays, churned ad infinitum.

2024-05-19 05:46:26 CEST

Watch this, if you have time. And if you don't have time, watch it anyway
https://youtu.be/dP0-YohJR-g

2024-05-15 06:11:08 CEST

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That's maybe 10% of the metropolitan area

2024-05-15 06:08:28 CEST

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxmgBjtFfe0LneyyHk98z5vYiSJlGPyhgG

2024-05-03 20:40:08 CEST

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Shakespeare's complete works?

2024-05-03 20:13:50 CEST

I've never seen anything more honest. And revealing of the 🤡🤡🤡 that govern us.
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1786049431478939649/pu/vid/avc1/640x360/aeGhMl9mu7IYA4sr.mp4

2024-05-03 20:09:20 CEST

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So you're a shitcoiner?

2024-05-02 23:08:00 CEST

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You seem to have a weird attitude about working in an adversarial environment. I'm not sure I should trust whatever you're building if that's the approach

2024-05-02 20:29:58 CEST

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Can't a coordinater be run as an onion endpoint?

2024-05-02 20:27:55 CEST

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That's not yours, so quit whining

2024-04-29 18:56:25 CEST

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Why don't you just set up your own sandbox?

2024-04-29 18:51:03 CEST

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🎶 We will, we will, ROCK YOU! 🎶

2024-04-29 18:49:14 CEST

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Just saw your post on Twitter. Decided to follow 👍🏻

2024-04-13 19:52:39 CEST

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Because it's a neutral protocol? And it's slow, I like that 😄

2024-04-12 04:54:40 CEST

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Reference?

2024-04-11 05:16:41 CEST

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https://channel3now.com/2024/01/27/temple-of-set-founder-united-states-army-lt-col-michael-aquino-psychological-operations-died-by-suicide/

2024-04-07 18:03:29 CEST

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No, it'll be a VPN moment

2023-12-19 06:57:52 CET

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Leon …

2023-12-15 02:54:02 CET

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If they're unspendable then they can safely be pruned immediately

2023-12-15 02:49:40 CET

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Haven't watched this yet, so I don't know if it's addressed, but my concern has always been how privacy is affected by turning years of accumulation of small fragmented, but privacy preserving, UTXOs into a single big one, or perhaps a few. I never see this talked about.
Sorry, if you already address this, I'll watch it when I have time

2023-12-15 02:46:01 CET

https://archive.ph/CIPGN

2023-12-11 01:14:07 CET

"¡Viva libertad, carajo!"
https://video.nostr.build/d972ffe1e4ffd596635a05067584d647a4ad16f34d6ba7d7268ab904bd36979f.mp4

2023-12-07 17:03:01 CET

Robot malfunction?
https://youtube.com/shorts/-i7ekK9UzRk

2023-12-04 00:15:16 CET

🤨
https://image.nostr.build/cfecfb9a64389f3f5e7002315ac4f2784241e427d2ccf0d3a2fee5da3955f74e.jpg

2023-12-03 18:56:54 CET

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Tor is a given (or equivalent). Should be interesting to see how this plays out

2023-11-26 22:51:34 CET

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Wen drogs?

2023-11-11 19:17:29 CET

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I just mean that relays could charge sats for traffic. I don't know enough if that's already built in or not.

2023-11-11 19:15:48 CET

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Agreed, but they are explicitly telling you how to bypass this

2023-11-08 04:04:10 CET

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Yeah, but I think it's easier to leverage sats as a proxy for pow

2023-11-08 04:02:58 CET

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Yes, but the data ends up in other chain(s), which is effectively the same downside, which ultimately means that it can't be relied upon as a solution to anything

2023-11-07 20:27:01 CET

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It's likely to crumble to a pancake on impact

2023-11-07 20:21:44 CET

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But other than that, I agree that self-custodial Lightning will not solve Bitcoin scaling.

2023-11-07 20:19:46 CET

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You want bigger blocks indirectly through DC, even though it solves nothing

2023-11-05 17:08:55 CET

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Dude, even bcash block size is not enough. Go join CSW if you want terabyte blocks. Ridiculous.

2023-11-04 17:59:58 CET

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It makes that calculation given assumptions that existed back then. So it doesn't consider splicing, channel factories, or CISA, nor any other future changes that address scaling.
This is like the BSVers who think that Bitcoin changes ended when Satoshi wrote the whitepaper

2023-11-02 22:48:01 CET

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Yeah, Jack, how's Brazil looking?

2023-11-02 22:47:03 CET

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That's a feature

2023-10-31 16:51:40 CET

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"in theory" is the operative phrase here. You'd think both Putin and Zelenskyy would both have been off'ed already, if it was that easy?

2023-10-29 20:59:46 CET

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Perhaps 2 is a hedge against 1?

2023-10-29 19:08:38 CET

@npub1xtd…8zsj
https://image.nostr.build/dcccb4cb56333c665acfe896daa0e46a83d84dd1038e280cca40b71f5a4f7297.jpg

2023-10-29 18:45:36 CET

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

2023-10-29 18:41:23 CET

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Not anymore. Super reasonable now

2023-10-19 15:02:22 CEST

Nostr is pseudonymous without any barrier to entry. Twitter has failed to control bots, despite substantial effort.
How will Nostr handle bots, once they come, other than clients simply blocking anyone they're not following?

2023-10-18 02:06:23 CEST

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"What. The. Fuck. Just. Happened?"
🐄🐄🐄

2023-10-18 01:35:30 CEST

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This is nothing I've spent even 2 minutes thinking about, but could you combine the Bloom filter with a Cuckoo filter and get better (perfect?) accuracy?

2023-10-14 21:31:26 CEST

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What about the jaded freedom minded?

2023-10-13 02:07:54 CEST

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Let's hope that's not the nuclear codes pattern 🤦🏼‍♂️

2023-09-21 19:23:22 CEST

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He had Roger Ver blow a gasket, which was fun, if not admirable

2023-09-19 02:33:17 CEST

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So you drink your own piss too?

2023-09-17 14:16:33 CEST

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Maybe I don't know enough. I'm thinking that a system certificate ensures system integrity and modification should not, for obvious reasons, be possible. It would seem that my understanding is, at least, incomplete, but can you elaborate?

2023-09-12 19:34:19 CEST

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Coins are always at risk on a side chain

2023-09-11 18:45:54 CEST

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Can you explain the implications?

2023-09-09 15:58:53 CEST

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Yeah, we no longer have a neutral Internet. A large reason for that is the lack of cost. VPN addresses are blocked largely because they're used in DDoS attacks, and SMTP is no longer an open protocol because of spam.
The internet should not be free to use.

2023-09-09 15:49:59 CEST

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It's a chicken/egg problem. Merchants should be all over this, due to irreversibility and low fees, but no one takes Bitcoin seriously. It's just a volatile asset in most people's minds. And as a consumer I like that I can reverse a transaction if the merchant doesn't deliver what was promised, and the 1-3% cash back doesn't hurt either.
We're fighting an entrenched legacy system, and until enough people are denied access, it's an uphill battle.
That's why the developing world will embrace this before the developed world.

2023-09-09 13:06:25 CEST

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Mint the coin?

2023-09-03 18:23:51 CEST

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I thought @npub1cn4…3vle already did this?

2023-08-28 15:46:32 CEST

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judge: please leave the stand, bubye

2023-08-28 00:54:48 CEST

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Not even 3 weeks worth

2023-08-24 04:08:56 CEST

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I do, but most people don't

2023-08-24 03:47:57 CEST

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UTC

2023-08-24 00:59:19 CEST

As part of the scaling and drivechain debate, I'm just gonna say this:
If Bitcoin ever takes over the world, and I see that as inevitable, Visa and Mastercard will take care of the scaling.
(they're credit cards, so the trust is reversed, no custody risk)

2023-08-23 18:39:42 CEST

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Hivecoin, Jesus, more shitcoinery. And you're wrong, it does affect Bitcoin and everyone owning Bitcoin. It changes miner incentives. We don't, and can't, know how exactly, but it can lead to greater centralization in a number of ways. It's a risk that cannot just be ignored, particularly when there's nothing about DC that actually benefits Bitcoin. The main argument has always been "destroy shitcoins by enabling them on DC". I don't know any Bitcoiner who wants those degens leaching on Bitcoin. It's bad enough we got NFT inscriptions.

2023-08-23 15:03:38 CEST

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What is hivemind and why does Bitcoin need it?

2023-08-23 04:09:38 CEST

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Who?