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 Good morning… that TikTok vid I made about #Nostr is popping off, but riddle me this: why do people keep jumping in my comments claiming Nostr was made by the CIA? 🤨 it just doesn’t seem controllable enough for those folks. 
 It’s possible I just stumbled upon the paranoid crowd… 
 We’re not paranoid if we know who created things, the whole point of Noster, they always say trust and verify well know the history of how the Internet was created know what happened know who seeks to created better and be fine with that 
 It's good to be skeptical. Verify. The apps are open-source and the protocol is open-source https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

I built my own client and relay so I know the CIA isn't involved in that. You could build your own too. 
 Well. CIA will say the same - the CIA isn't involved. 🤓  
 I didn't say to use my app.  I said to build your own.  Only then can you know the CIA isn't involved. 
 Let me add that except for DMs (which probably shouldn't be part of nostr), nostr isn't about secrecy. It doesn't matter if the CIA is involved. As long as your notes get out there. The point is to be public and not be censored, not to be private.  If you want privacy you need a different tool. 
 “You keep saying these words… I do not think they mean what you think they mean…” 😅
https://m.primal.net/HkBg.jpg 
 Here’s one of the three letter invokers- ol’ CheeseSteak. Lol
https://m.primal.net/HkBr.jpg 
 Link to video?
Or perhaps upload it so we can view here pls 
 https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTR9AW1/

Can I upload videos directly? I heard someone say only embeds? 
 Maybe upload at nostr.build or similar hosts 
 Media hosting is coming, we just haven't standardized on anything yet. Torrents could work, nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq35amnwvaz7tms09exzmtfvshxv6tpw34xze3wvdhk6tcprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuargv4ekzmt9vdshgtnfduhsqgpxdq27pjfppharynrvhg6h8v2taeya5ssf49zkl9yyu5gxe4qg55jklmqa  is working on something called blossom that might work well.

BTW, you should try coracle.social (I wrote it) 
 One of the best part of being here is getting to talk to the creators/devs! 
 How will the media hosting work. Is the initial idea WebTorreBT based/related? 
 OK Jessica well here’s the thing …
I’m a retired Fed I admit to that
 I have from the beginning because I believe in being honest with people I hold no shame I have a history. I have a life and I see seek to do better now. 🧘🏻‍♀️🙏

If you go back far enough in history, you’ll see that most of the advancements in history came via the what  ….

Times of war. Sadly 😭

That’s a deep banger for
Those in the back 

Look who built the Internet look who created it look who funded it follow the money 

Look up Aaron Swartz look up, creative Commons follow the money 

Make your own choices 
 War is fiat. Study bitcoin. 
 I just heard about #Nostr today because of your TikTok! So glad I came across it. 

Now to figure out how it works haha 
 Haha same here.. I am lost.. but hopefully more ppl migrate here. 
 Of the decentralized alternatives to mainstream social media, I think Nostr has a good shot. But it will take time.

Welcome! Glad to have you. 🙏 
 Welcome! If you have questions, use the #asknostr hashtag and someone will hopefully help out. 🙏 
 Hi Bryon - get set up with a Bitcoin wallet so we can zap you! 
 In the words of Bruce Willis in Die Hard:
WELCOME TO THE POTTY, PAL! 
 Everyone’s a spook 😂

https://i.imgflip.com/8hmpkq.jpg 
 Don't worry, the Cuban G2 is also in this 👀 
 Welcome and glad you made the video! 
 Very well done Jessica! 

@fiatjaf is the head of the CIA. But this should remain a secret. 👀🤣 
 Lol it's just a knee jerk reactionary reflex to say the CIA or similar is responsible for such and such. 

It's probably projection from tik Tok peoples subconsciously realizing they are using a heavily controlled app by intelligence agencies... Source? Trust me bro 😈🤙🏽.  
 Seems to have been useful to people. Awesome work! 🫂🧡 
 Jess! I just saw your TikTok video and it's amazing. You truly understand Nostr and you outlined Nostr features in layman terms. I love it. Thank you for your work on this and spreading the purple word! Let's go! 🔥🔥🔥 
 We use Bitcoin here which - as everybody knows - was also created by the CIA, so it just makes sense 😂 
 Yes! It’s the whole CIA/bitcoin ruse all over again to scare people off 😒 
 tbf sometimes when we break shit the clients work about as well as a .gov website 😆🏴‍☠️🤙 
 Our TikTok ambassador 🥹
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 Nicely done, bravo. 
 Nostr was created by our friend @fiatjaf and you can verify it on GitHub:)

Welcome! 
 More like ciatjaf. 
 utxo also a spook. Its national nostr spook day weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 
 Everything is made by the CIA nowadays 🫣🤭 
 They get all the credit 🤣 
 Yeah, CIA are the new innovators of the world, they make everything now 😅 
 Those are most likely replies from CIA bots. 
 Because we see eye aye! Ok.. that was lame. I'll go back onto the window ledge.  
 Appreciate your post! Been here a year and never heard that. I’d say many of us appreciate privacy, some share more than others. 🤷🏻 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33746360 
 People says the same about Bitcoin, so yeah… Spooky people 😂 
 Atleast they are gonna use #nostr😂 
 Funny that someone on TikTok is worried about surveillance. 
 Meet the people where they are. 
 I meant the person claiming that nostr was made by the CIA. I don't really have a problem with people using TikTok  
 Incredible! Keep it up!  
 Zap Her! 
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 your video is 🔥 thanks for spreading the word. 
 Great video!!! If you could do one explaining zaps it would be amazing! 
 https://m.primal.net/HkfS.jpg  
 Villains in Scooby Doo always have some amazing sideburns 
 It was the rose colored glasses...

But f the paranoid, they're prolly the real psyops... Nostriches salute you! 
 It does bother some to know the death of ignorance comes 
 It's how some people dismiss the things they haven't put in the works to try to understand while still believing they are intellectually superior. 
 How ironic. 
 They'll say everything was made by a 3 letter haha.  
 Good job on the video. We appreciate the help. Btw I’m not an alphabet soup agent 😂

Welcome 👋🏼🤠 
 Link? 
 I’m here from your video! Thanks for posting. Excited to keep learning more!  
 After I watched your video I closed tiktok and now I been here for hours haha thank you!! 
 It’s the damn CIA agent @fiatjaf   😂 
 Even if it was, I'd thank them for doing such a good job. 
 Indeed. Like the code is verifiable. Wouldnt matter who made it if the tech is good. 
 Doesn’t really matter who made something if it’s open source. 
 You famous now. 👐 
 Internet famous! 😅 
 Was it made by the CIA? Wow

Should I be worried? 
 Them are just bots 
 Lol so the people using a CCP app are worried about the CIA? hmmm weird flex 
 Link to video? 
 Anyone got the link to the video?

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 Doesn’t hurt to use a vpn. All the relays you’re connecting to have your ip address if that’s of any concern 
 Indeed, Nostr protects you from corporate greed, not from governments. 
 Here's a great tool for helping new ppl get started with #Nostr
https://nostr-resources.com 
 Here is the Tik Tok video that might of unboarded some new people to Nostr. Welcome them all 🫂
https://v.nostr.build/Rm72A.mp4

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 🙌🙌🙌🙌 
 Word 
 wow, great job letting people know about Nostr🫂💜 
 𝗡𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆

We are the DIA. 
I'm a #DIA agent, #GM department #PV devision 🫡🤙

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 Welcome to the fud swamp. We have boats 
 Everything's gotta be a conspiracy, even when (especially when?) it would make zero logical sense.

I say this as someone who loves me some good conspiracy theories. 
 Good job 
 How do we know you're not the CIA? 🤔 
 🤟💚 
 Awesome video!!! Thank you Jessica 🙏🏻 
 But nostr *was* made by the CIA. 
Cringe, introverted autists.  
 Once CIA Always CIA 
 really the CIA is so deeply involved in fabricating social movements it's hard to know what is what, and people with immunoneurological disorders are prone to see connections due to reasons that usually don't make sense

these same people can't distinguish between a color revolution and an uprising so it is simple to point out that this is just a broad stroke pattern match that lacks depth 
 Here’s the creator @fiatjaf ask him 😉 
 Going OK about? Leukaemia or whatever killed him.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-government-unveils-extremism-definition-002347249.html 
 Cocaine is hell of a drug, but why are public servants cracking? 
 How the young lady is a factor here unless going the white whores predicament as a good blowing agent? 
 lmfao what 😂 
 Good shit! 🐮 
 Anything's possible. The internet was created by #DARPA. I go by the technology. Is it good. Is it useful. Does it fix a problem.

The #Nostr technology seems good. The evolution of social media and the internet. That's all that really concerns me.

#Bitcoin is much the same. The evolution and perfection of hard money, and not a minute to soon..💎💜🧡🦅🗽😊🌎 
 it is a classic misdirection used by statists always to attribute great inventions to the government when scientists who were being paid by the government made the discoveries

this is the same false argument that some bitcoin maxipads like to use against people who are working in association with shitcoin projects, it's lazy thinking, and untrue

the people bumble into their position and the genius is granted by God, and inevitably sometimes that is gonna happen with extortion money and scam profits equally as any other source, probably the bias is more towards this kind of mechanism because the fiat profit chasing VCs are looking for the things that they can launch, then sell off before they start to incur maintenance costs 
 Great video!  
 Stockholm Syndrome. They fear hope. 
 Hh it was the same with Bitcoin. „Bitcoin was made by the CIA“ i think it takes time to understand that both things are not controllable… 
 Peeped the TikTok comments. Normies have a long way to go - they seem intimidated. 
 Yeah the comments have been really interesting. A lot of not understanding. Definitely more bullying than I usually attract but that’s sometimes how people react (with insults) when they are too insecure to admit they don’t understand something. It’s not personal but it is very interesting.  
 Meh. You get to Nostr at the privacy pain point you deserve. In the meantime ignore those who aren’t yet ready. 

And a Happy Friday from #China. 
 How did u post a 6 min video on nostr? Tried uploading a 30 sec clip and it keeps failing. Do u use a paid relay for storing your videos? 
 I posted it to TikTok and put the link here. From what I understand only certain clients allow direct video upload (like flare.pub?) - I’m still new here 😄 
 I paid for personal storage on @nostr.build so I can upload videos myself. 
 https://nostr.build/ is good site for uploading videos and you can buy more space for your uploads if you need that sort of thing 
 Then just copy a link and use in any client. Primal has good video upload integrated in the client, but dont know whats the limit 
 Direct upload can be easily done from clients like #Damus or #Amethyst and generally they use nostr.build as source to upload the video and give you a link to put on the note. 
 Definitely checkout Nostr.build. That’s what you’re looking for to post videos directly! 
 I love how rich the app ecosystem is here 
 Nostr.build acct removes video size limits. We are integrated with most clients also.
https://nostr.build/plans 
 Welcome to the future 
 Thank you!! It really is exciting 
 Who this lady and why is she wearing orange glasses  
 Who is this replier and why are they talking about me in 3rd person? 😅 orange glasses are to prevent migraines 🫶 
 I might need one of those  
 Thought you got orange pilled.
But purple billed is good too.
I like your video, good job 
 Great job with this vid. I will share it multiple times. Please do a follow up in the future and talk about zaps, value for value, and that fact that the government can’t get control of the “centralized management” and coerce them into censorship & and political warfare. There is a lot to explain. You are doing it right! 
 If they like CCCP-made TikTok they're gonna love CIA-made Nostr 
 I think those tinted glasses are going to ruin your color vision. And welcome! 
 😅 more than the blue backlight on my device screens? I only use them on a computer 🤙 
 The CIA are big supporters of free and open communication, stateless money, and strong encryption technology 
 How did you discover Nostr? 
 I think someone in the comments on her TikTok video mentioned #Nostr 
 Can I see the video without being on tickytocky?  
 I believe you can x-out the login prompt and just watch it in browser. 
 Morning☕😊 
 As long as it works the same and is censorship free I dont care who makes it. Everything posted is public anyways. 😅
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 @bitcoin 
 😂 
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