My first Shipyard post... An idea for a new game, called:  "Possible"

This party game is a 1-vs-many casual game that doesn't need any props besides a regular clock or phone-based timer. It skews towards intellectuals but anyone can play by adjusting the time period downwards to make it less challenging.

Technically, it's a Role Playing game without dice, and game play feels like a bunch of people at a mystery event, questioning a suspect. The reason? His or her claim is literally impossible.

To start playing, all the group needs to do is decide upon a time limit, pick who is 'it,' (the suspect, the liar, etc) & then that person must declare themselves to be something that is impossible, for everyone else to debunk. Any impossible claim about themselves will do. Some examples of things they can claim to be:

* An Alien
* From the future
* Immortal
* God
* A Quadrillionaire
* The only real person here
* A ghost
* A vampire
* A werewolf
* The 1st person to visit Mars

Rule #1: The claims should be both defendable & attackable, through words only. No physical testing.

Claiming omnipotency or the ability to read minds would be pointless claim because you could be directly tested with words. Meanwhile, claiming to be a werewolf couldn't be tested until it's a full moon, and obviously no one is allowed to shoot you if you claim to be something that can survive being shot.

Rule #2: Start the clock as the 1st person begins asking the suspect a question, trying to debunk him/her.

Rule #3: Questions are asked in a strictly round-robbin order, so the smartest in the crowd doesn't get to ask all the questions, which would make it unfairly harder on the suspect.

Win conditions:

The crowd wins as soon as the first person asks a question that the debunker can't give a satisfactory answer to. If the answer is too close to call, a quick vote can be taken by all attackers & majority says if the answer was satisfactory or not.

The suspect wins under two conditions:

1. The crowd runs out of ways to debunk the story and voluntarily declares the claim to be "Possible." (Preferred)
2. The pre-decided amount of time runs out without anyone debunking the story. (A TKO)

Points: If desired, a point spread could be formulated that gives more points to the suspect as more attackers are present. Attackers who ask the winning question would deserve a point. Meanwhile, suspects who win with very few attackers doesn't deserve as many points upon a win as one who successfully fends his claims from many attackers.

Note: Inspiration for this game was watching the movie "The Man From Earth." It is basically a 100  minute game of Possible where the suspect claims he's immortal (and also Jesus) in front of a half dozen debunkers.

If anyone tries this game out at a party, in person or otherwise, please tell me how it went!


I friggin' love this. Nostr has so far left us completely devoid of all decent markup, and therefore nuance, across all clients until this. Looks great so far!


📢 Introducing SHIPYARD!

A Quiet Space for Loud Ideas: Focused Writing for Nostr

Shipyard is a Nostr client focused on enhancing your *writing* experience, managing your content schedule, and ensuring your ideas get the chance to shine.

Shipyard implements a set of cornerstone features to make your writing experience more enjoyable.

✅ Zen-mode editor -— Write without distractions.
✅ Schedule responses and reposts of any note.
✅ Multi-account support from the get-go. Manage different accounts by pairing Shipyard with nsecBunker.
✅ Schedule reposts so your notes are seen when the other side of the world wakes up.
✅ Queues: keep different queues with separate schedules so you never miss a "gm @fiatjaf" again.

And a bunch of important goodies that shine in the background:

✅ Hotkeys. Hotkeys EVERYWHERE.
✅ Autosaved notes.
✅ Drafts.
✅ Extremely clean threading support.

I've always been fascinated by writing tools for social media platforms—a place where you can go to create content without getting sidetracked by the latest meme warfare.

Shipyard will be a tool I will be building on with a LOT of interesting features.

It will always be free to use, and, because of my mantra of "Fund the change you want to see in the world," I'm opening up a few tiers for Supporters ($10/mo) and Patrons ($16/mo) who choose to support developers and development in Nostr.

Check it out:

👉 https://shipyard.pub

https://cdn.satellite.earth/570801d535376dae17250149d8d7e3f68d2ab290161af43379c18b9d3d2eefcc.png


Wow, I was there in 2018, and I see now that it closed that very year.

I don't think those islands were even dredged up yet. Toyosu must mean "new pile of mud" or something. ;)


You can't tell people what to care about. Nostriches all have their own pet peeves and projects.

The difference is that we'd love to see some people who do care about the conflict to get on here and use Nostr for it's uncensorable properties. All that we do here makes it a stronger environment for them.


Akihabara, Harajuku, and Asakusa are all great for different reasons.

Stay around Shinjuku if you can and check out the local food & malls there.

Bonus Points: Eat at the Tsukiji Fish Market!


My point is that we already have an internet that doesn't prioritize censorship resistance & privacy. It's been here since the 1990's. We don't need another internet, or apps on it, unless it's taking advantage of those things that Nostr does better.


Nostr is a 2nd internet that prioritizes censorship resistance & privacy. Which of your projects pushes these ideals/goals harder?


I'm not a dev, but I imagine those secrets to be kept in sharded, ecrypted files split between relays. As for your master PW (I assume PrivKey) you would most likely have a different set of secrets (account credentials) for different privkeys. The L2 solution would be to bind all your PrivKeys together in one account that has some kind of key rotation scheme behind it.


How could this one be anything but Pumba from the Lion King?


¿Por qué no los dos?


Please do! I'm also in the camp that believes that implementing lightning payments as a way to incentivize people to seed your files long term is well past due.


Key rotation itself seems to need a higher level solution in nostr. Bitcoin L1 is the value storage layer, and I believe Nostr L1 is the note storage layer. It'll definitely have L2 solutions for many areas like privacy, Key rotation &  CDNs.


Thanks, I've been thinking about this topic for a long time... Man I really need to learn to code!

Vault: Not yet, but it looks promising! -Except for the javascript part.


The best possible uses for Nostr (created or not) in order:

1. TOR Coordination - Every nostr user or relay can optionally relay TOR as an alternative DMT.

2. Bittorrent Coordination - Every nostr user (in browser!) can store and relay bittorrent data. (This is important to use it as a CDN for the social medial layer)

3. Lightning Coordination - Lightning nodes can be coordinated much easier & more privately via automatic communications over Nostr.

4. Password Management - The best password managers are available to the whole web, just highly encrypted. Additional security can be had by Sharding a password file and keeping it on multiple different relays.

5. Bitcoin private markets - Other than lightning coordination, bitcoin can be Bought & Sold very privately a marketplace that uses Nostr to communicate it's order books.

6. Social Media - Clones of every social media site like instaG, twitter, FB, tiktok, blogs, etc all have their own apps or heck, why not combine all into one super app like Elon is trying to do?

7. Messaging - Better than Whatsapp/Line/Signal, Nostr allows perfectly secure & anonymous instant messaging. The frilly stuff may need the CDN again.


nostr:note1uqgkh7rh6y4sw4vdtutgrdz4urc52vv5wmmlxcn2pvcwzjc2x7ksn33m78
Was only a matter of time.  At least there is no longer any excuse to stay with iPhone after this.


This is so ambitious I thought it might even be a joke... A+ for bravery!

What an awesome world we'd live in if this tech was accessible as 3D printed guns.


Clearly we jumped 16 and are on 17 already... Lots of 16 to come, however.


I fully agree, but the world is dripping with socialism. Immigration and socialism don't mix very well since the immigrants always move to the countries that offer socialism systems at the local taxpayer's expense.

If the US would stop offering social programs to everyone I'd say let's just remove the border walls completely and catch immigrants who commit crimes like drug smuggling instead of whatever it is we're doing now.


Introducing https://nostr.cooking A new #nostr client that allows you to share and exchange your recipes for zaps 🧑🍳 ⚡

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My bet is on that user being a govt shill trying to slander Nostr.


Thankfully it's been a while since anyone has had to utter that stupid phrase around here.


You don't have to make a meme of it when it's already completely true.


Introducing EXIT

You broke up with your ex; it wasn’t treating you well, maybe it was shadow banning you or your friends; it was manipulating you into becoming your worst possible self.

But over the years you accrued a bunch of quality shitposts, and perhaps some nuggets of wisdom.

Introducing: https://exit.pub:

The last bridge you’ll need to port over your data into the new world of decentralized freedom-tech.

1. Download your twitter archive
2. If Elon agrees, you’ll get a zip file; uncompress it and just use exit.pub to import your data into nostr

✅ original dates are used; whatever you posted in 2009 will show up as posted in nostr in 2009
✅ granular control of which tweets to import (threads, non-replies, replies)
✅ V4V, you choose how much your shitposts are worth
✅ it *should* preserve embedded images
✅ granular control of which relays you want to publish to

Try it out:

https://exit.pub


Any service that is paid for in a shitcoin only is called shitcoining. This is literally the oldest trick in the shitcoin book.


Great history on Seasteading from FreeCities -

https://free-cities.org/seasteading-the-movement-history-and-perspectives/

It's a long read but covers pretty much the whole of Seasteading history with tons of useful links to various projects. It also discusses the future plans of The Seasteading Institute, which have a lot to do with making legal a new categorization of sea-bound dwellings. (Instead of just flying a friendly country's flag.)


I'd use the hell out of categories !, 2, & 3, but I think they may be named wrong. Why not simply call them "Family," "Interesting," & "Never miss" or something more self-describing?

As for the subscription category, I can't imagine who would ever use Nostr for that. Seems pretty useless since I don't see anyone here coming to buy products or services, but I do see lots of people following merchants like NVK, interested in hearing what he has to say on occasion. (And eventually buying his products in their own sweet time.


Maybe they were trying to pay for putting new sinks in all the public bathrooms... Lol


You mean the existing billionaires like Gates? Those would be the Cantillionaires.

Future Billionaires made from bitcoin are the exact opposite of a cantillionaire. I think they'll just refer to us as Gods eventually. ;)


The most eye-opening part about this is that back then they simple told you how much you owe. Today you have to have an accountant or software figure it out for you and if you're wrong you get fined.

I also love how they said what the funds were going for. 0.16 to the poor, 0.04 to fix something that was 'sinking,' and the biggest expense in the whole community was a school fee of 52 cents.

Imagine if right now they said 'You Owe $9,300 to pay for Ukrainian defense...' That would shut that program down REAL quick! There would be mass non-compliance on a well-deserved scale.


Fiat leads to violence no matter which medium it's applied to.


I dunno, I just went down to the store a grabbed a few, but they just sit around crying for their mommy nonstop... No fun at all.


Like presenting them a trophy that says "You Tried."  ;)

It's better than nothing but in truth I think it means one of 2 things:

A) They're broke, and this is actually a very kind guesture for them.

B) They're hardcore HODLers that are trying to set a low standard, since even 1 sat is worth something to them.

I still zap 21 sats at default but if group B succeeds then I'll gladly join them.


I find it hilarious that you claim "simple answers are probably wrong" when all the examples you give are of the harder to accept answers. The publicly scorned, more difficult to accept answers. Each & every case.

What you see as simple I see as battle-hardened, guantlet-run.

Would you call Assange and Snowden simple?


Don't overlook the important fact that used Laptops come with a battery backup built in! If the power ever goes out the node doesn't have to reboot like it would on a RasPi.


Wow, Congrats!  Put your marriage certificate on the blockchain by using some timestamping service like Stampery.com.


WOW! The very first time a national election was held on the Bitcoin Blockchain and bitcoin already proved the stupid attackers wrong when they tried to dispute findings!

Guys, the whole world really does need our blockchain to certify more than our money. I've always thought this; it is our single source of trustworthiness.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-blockchain-is-fighting-fraud-in-guatemalas-presidential-elections


It occurred to me today that western medicine can actually be fixed without bringing the whole system down. Any president could do this, if they really cared to.

All it would take is placing a separation in the medical industry between Curing and Treating.

Kind of like the checks & balances we have in congress, Companies have to declare themselves a Cure company or a Treatment company. Doctors would then have access to a separate department of medicine, all about curing each problem, that they would be able to check first for all their patients, before moving on to the treatments, which seem to be the only courses of action they ever take today. -In no small part due to the fact that it's far more profitable to do it that way.

This would not only place accountability over doctors (i.e. they could be sued for not issuing a cure when one exists) but it would also, and more importantly, give the branch of medicine specifically designed to cure us of our maladies the room to grow without having their budgets ransancked & sent over to treatments instead.


Man I hate that we can't delete double posts... Primal almost always leaves the post submission screen up after posting so I can't tell if it's sent or not. :(


I don't suppose there's a way to make sure no one from the UN or WEF is every invited onto Nostr?


I'm not opposed to the gaming idea, but the problem is more about creating an organization with the 'right' to catch them and sentence them to such a fate. What a group ripe for abuse!

Maybe it would be enough for any old Seastead citizen to figure out that their neighbor is a slaver, round up a posse & initiate force against them personally. Or better yet, they could try to smuggle the slaves some weapons to have their own uprising.


Can I get one that is black and says "Palm Pilot" across the top? :)


1) Are you sure it wasn't the normal flu? That used to happen every fall until covid, remember?

2) Even if covid really does still exist, JUST TAKE SOME FREAKING IVERMECTIN & Vitamin C! There is literally nothing else to do that works & is safe.


The solution to the problem of Paranoia is always research more. With bitcoin this is a totally doable task because just through reading the Whitepaper and running a node yourself you can feel very secure knowing how the system works and exactly why the WEF can't co-opt Bitcoin.

Good luck with your recovery!


In today's world that would scare the hell out of me. Parents in my country at least are so litigious that you may want to watch your mail for the next 2 weeks to see if you're being sued by her parents for some misunderstood thing you told their child.


What he SHOULD have done? Jump in front of the bullet.

What he COULD do now to help? Stop working with the indian govt, ban their officers from CA.

What he Will do now? Tax his citizens harder and go on a vacation.


When Pizza the Hutt was still a young hutt.


Lol, thanks!

Personally I wouldn't use solar at all, I'm very fond of OTEC power for this purpose... Not only does is it uniquely suited for seasteads out in the deep ocean, but in bringing up all that freezing water every second, it'll cool down all the mining rigs for free as well!

Check out my older post here titled: "The incredible power of OTEC - & How it works so well with Bitcoin" for more details about that setup.


Well, mining Bitcoin in space may have been a feat, but mining on a seastead? Now that's taking it to the next level! I mean, who needs land when you can have a floating paradise full of solar panels? Just imagine all those floaties covered in panels drifting along the waves. It's like a giant pool party for solar energy enthusiasts.

And hey, while we're at it, let's make sure those solar panels are made from the rarest and most expensive materials out there. After all, what's the point of clean energy if we don't break the bank and exploit some kids in Africa along the way? Ahh, progress!

But seriously though, if we can solve teleporting stranded energy from space or a seastead with Bitcoin mining, I say we go for it. Who needs power cables when you can just beam down "digital energy"? It's like magic! Well... kind of.

So here's to you and your ambitious plans for seastead mining. May your floaties be sturdy and your zaps be lightning-fast!


Seasteading, Bitcoin, AnarchoCapitalism, & now Nostr compliment each other very well indeed as a solution to the problems that plague the world today.

It is apparent that Bitcoin solves a lot of the problems that Seasteaders have, and yet if you try to post anything on the reddit r/Seasteading forum that sounds positive about bitcoin, you get downvoted to oblivion. Thank goodness for Nostr.

Despite Chad Elwartowski's famous seasteading projects being funded by his bitcoin gains, the standard opinion of bitcoin on that forum is that it's a bubble and will crash soon... As if this were still friggin' 2013.

Therefore, this is is a place for Bitcoiners to talk about Seasteading, or floating Citadels. For those confused about the need for Anarchy in such a project, keep in mind that governments have literally destroyed all the previous attempts at Seasteading. Sometimes with dynamite! If bitcoiners want to ever realize the promise of a Citadel in this failing fiat world, escaping all the nations will be necessary. Including our own. Now for the 1st time in history, with the ability to make new land & uncensorable communications channels & payment systems, we have a chance to pull such an endeavor off.

To learn about why Bitcoiners' Citadels will all have to be Seasteads, read this article at Citadel21 on the history of seasteading: https://www.citadel21.com/citadel-seasteads

Welcome aboard!

Just keep on topic, and don't insult us with any talk about altcoins!


Any update on this? It's starting to become a real problem these day... One spam message even snuck by me and got approved already, and I need a way to spam it or delete it now!


That's perfect. Comedy gold!


We mined Bitcoin in space, how hard can mining on a seastead be?

https://i.nostr.build/Bk5K.jpg

In April 2018, some bitcoiners got together and sent up a solar-powered bitcoin miner onto a high-altitude weather balloon. Long story short: It worked, we've mined bitcoin in some of the toughest conditions imaginable already. Here's the deets on that fun part of Bitcoin history: https://www.inverse.com/article/44315-miner-one-bitcoin-space

What's more is that the year before, right in the middle of the Blocksize War, Core developer Peter Todd made a great series of tweets demonstrating that space mining would be inevitable: https://petertodd.org/2017/bitcoin-mining-space-hard-sci-fi

What's really eye-opening here is that in both space and on a Seastead, bitcoin solves the problem of teleporting stranded energy. A huge solar array would be useless in space if there was no power cable hanging down from it to the earth's surface... But mining bitcoin up there can simply beam down the 'digital energy,' as Michael Saylor would call it. The same would happen on a seastead. Any energy we generate out there wouldn't be stranded.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no huge fan of solar panels... They're expensive, not particularly cost-effective, impossible to recycle, made out of expensive rare-earth materials that keep kids in africa laboring around the clock, etc... But one solar advantage a seastead has is PLENTY of 'real estate' around it. Just put your 6 million or so panels on floaties and you can have all the room you want to deploy them out there, for free! Hard to beat free real estate.


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I agree, but that's going to take some kind of event showcasing lightning that is so big that the MSM can't afford to ignore it. Hard to imagine what that would be, exactly... Maybe something like the Canadian trucker protests where the protestors win using lightning somehow.


Good, Hawaiians will need the free food source soon the way that government is destroying the economy and infrastructure there. :(


ProTip: When deciding if you want to use any new client or online service, including Nostr clients, you'll be safest if you only use the ones with the most advanced features... Scammers don't have the time or expertise to make the best new software just to scam you with, they basically just copy existing code and change the output addresses at most.


As the universe's foremost expert on this subject, (ok, so we all have about the same level of knowledge on it) my professional opinion is that there are no such things as ghosts so no & N/A.

But if there were, then they'd definitely be haunting the place that they died. Who is born in haunted houses?


Lemme guess; you made a bet on how much you can get zapped for a single punctuation mark?


Good luck convincing Spencer Schiff of this!
;p


Waste management cycles on a Seastead

Seasteaders will be, by necessity, pioneers in the recycling space. You can't just throw everything overboard when you're done with it, and we'll need lots of raw materials to make stuff out of. Below are the major recycling efforts we'll need to incorporate in our quest for sustainable deep-water living.

Liquid waste -

Luxury yachts and cruise lines have long had to deal with the problem of liquid waste management, splitting the job into 3 subsystems. They typically set out with a full tank of fresh water, and empty tanks that are nearly as large for "grey water" and "black water" as well.

Some types of water usage, such as kitchen faucets, turns into grey water, and that goes to fill up or flush toilets, which then goes to black water. Ultimately, the black water is flushed in the deep sea and we let nature scrub it back into clean water again over millennia.

For more on that subject, check out the Seasteading Institute's "Where does the poop go" FAQ video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2FCpU5wu8

This is established technology & wouldn't change much on a seastead, but we have other waste to consider than just what goes through our pipes.

Solid wastes -

All of our trash, down to every last banana peel, scrap of metal & plastic bottlecap, it all needs to be accounted for out in the deep because there is no junkyard. For decades seasteaders have been looking for an acceptable solution to deepsea trash recycling but it seems hopeless when we consider how bad the problem with trash & recycling is even on land today. Basically, just 9% of all the plastics you throw into a recycling big can be recycled at all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-quksK76Rw

Plastic waste -

Thankfully, a couple of very interesting new developments are in testing these days. Chemically they do work, but the only question is if they are going to be practical to use at scale.

The first has already been highlighted in this short video by the seasteading institute: Recycle waste plastics into building materials for seasteaders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t02KFwHDeKs

There is much promise here for creating a concrete replacement, because the process isn't as energy intensive as a recycling plant typically is.

The second new development is even more useful; convert waste plastics into a hydrocarbon biofuel! Aduro Clean is one publicly-traded company that claims it can do exactly that: https://adurocleantech.com

If this process is perfected then such biofuel would naturally become a major source of energy generation on most seasteads.

However, now that 3D printers are common, I personally feel that the technology which most quickly takes us from an empty coke bottle to a printer filament spool will be the one we most need to pursue. Making biofuel out of our waste plastic wouldn't be an unwelcome use case, but creating just about every physical object we need would surely trump that usage by far.

Organic waste -

Most biological waste like banana peels, eggshells, paper & coffee grinds will have no trouble finding a home in compost bins, which then, with the help of a few worms, become soil for seasteaders to use in gardening. Naturally a lot of our solid waste from toilets can go in here too, but no one is going to want to live nearby that compost center! An air-tight system for composting stinky trash would be a great advancement we could make for a seastead.

Metal waste -

Finally, recycling metal waste would obviously need some kind of a smelting center. It would be great to see a seastead melt this stuff down and create new spars out of all waste metals out in the deep, but that process is extremely energy intensive, on par with all of the energy a large OTEC plant could produce!

Most likely, for the first 100 years or so, our metal waste would either get batched & sold to passing barges that recycle them on land, or simply dumped out in the deep. We've lost a few steel-hulled ships down there over the centuries already, so we're pretty sure the fallout is minimal from that choice.


And then switch to Blog only posts; it becomes more like Tumblr...

And then switch to Music only posts, it becomes more like Pandora... So much potential there.


Yeah, but if you search a topic like "Bitcoin" you get 3 results, and all are really bad rappers with no idea what bitcoin is.


This likely means that americans can't re-enter without getting jabbed.


There is a difference between visas and Covid passports, though. I know a lot of europeons and even Canadians can't visit the US because they refuse to be jabbed.


I submitted a ticket to Nostr devs on github about this a year or so ago; the fix is to port in your tweets to read in Nostr!

It'd be perfect if they have a sky-blue background and when you responded to them they'd post both here and there automagically.


Sure, but custody of coins is a quandry every noob must face when it comes time to buy their first coin... And between Luke-jr not taking responsibility and every casino runner like CZ using this as a sales talking point for their service, this is going to set adoption back.


It just pisses me off... Not only did we crowdfund him money last year for the dentist when he had so many coins, but I'm really pissed that he won't take responsibility and say "I stored them hot on a jerry-rigged cloud server."

Now every noob will wonder how they can safely store coins when Luke-Jr can't.