Rainy, dreary day in Central PA https://image.nostr.build/3245f2b6bbfbd717804cdc3987f563b220a6e66e59e0c9e39b593875dadd4216.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ff3e846e1c0ee3103d18f6c1918c0f3da1c944c9c3bea1acde630da8e32f6d1e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/81384c691b38ef411346e8a7f4274d044bdc7e939f8aa3565f708366f5af0650.jpg https://image.nostr.build/57aa6c99ab15d3c9e8761b5350ad7c3c0f9c410a92e1ef366798dda1755da157.jpg

I will never apologize for my love of hibiscus 🌺 https://image.nostr.build/b761a0a80420f3af72ae4409b0e59d53b83e6e369ced711a1db83643ad500cf3.jpg


testing gif

look @ what nostr:npub1paftqx5zvj0gjtu3whudejxdgv4vdn27paw4lzaauc43kgfxxaqs75c5a7 3D intern made 👀🔥

#Bitcoin https://i.nostr.build/oMLKQ.gif


Lots of Nostr mentions 👀🏴☠
https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana


Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40312500 )

https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/light-eaters-zoe-schlanger-book-plant-intelligence.html


Oh my… 😂🤣😂


Adieux 🎼

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/1ymzdmQYjO3ThdlToYZnTq?si=JbzSzJV_SbyFj7whxF5bkA&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E37e1KPtGebve


I am very new to the concept of Nostr! If any of you have links to articles, videos, or other types of tutorials for newbies to get a stronger grasp - drop them in the comments :)


L'étudiante et Monsieur Henri: générique fin 🎼

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/505YDSQYqqIEgUDNqraJlu?si=IysaKkKTSuKKvnkaYR-5RA&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E37e1KPtGebve


I think personal standards are key. I don't need anyone to pay anything for me. In the event that I decide to have a date, I will listen very carefully.


Zadie Smith
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/shibboleth-the-role-of-words-in-the-campus-protests


Indeed 💜🫂


I’m punk pink


Left


Great! 🤩


Good morning, Arthur 🌻💜


Good morning 🌻🫂💜


Good morning, Jay 🌻💜🧡


The gardens are beautiful. It’s West Hollywood, near to Melrose Place.


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂


“A technological revolution can be defined as a powerful and highly visible cluster of new and dynamic technologies, products and industries, capable of bringing about an upheaval in the whole fabric of the economy and of propelling a long-term upsurge of development. It is a strongly interrelated constellation of technical innovations, generally including an important all-pervasive low-cost input, often a source of energy, sometimes a crucial material, plus significant new products and processes and a new infrastructure. The latter usually changes the frontier in speed and reliability of transportation and communications, while drastically reducing their cost.”

“But if AI’s development unfolds in a system where financial markets remain unregulated and decoupled from the real economy, it is unlikely to move us in a more environmentally, socially, or politically sustainable direction. Changing this broader political-economy context has become the most urgent task of our time.”

https://www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-is-part-of-larger-technological-revolution-by-carlota-perez-1-2024-03?h=ufR6Zw18eSIaTTAh5Qkb%2fHuChPY4%2bMF9wAQWBzZCdKE%3d&


Of course


Goodnight ✨💜🫂


Estaba a punto de irme a dormir


Which Ross?


Just be yourself. Nothing more, nothing less.


"Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart."

— Elizabeth Gilbert


“César Aira’s unreal magic: how the eccentric author took over Latin American literature”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/may/07/cesar-airas-unreal-magic-how-the-eccentric-author-took-over-latin-american-literature


Rhubarb 😋

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/strawberry-rhubarb-pie https://image.nostr.build/24ec7bba3ae6c5ea4f670c676a43fd69d8f42ea8b2f6afcdfe7f04c569a4c1ae.jpg


Pie day?!


Now you are a cat too?


Concussion and nausea are not good together. Please rest and take care 💜🫂


Tomorrow nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 and I will be virtually talking about Nostr at a Bitcoin Conference Hong Kong side event sponsored by nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q. I don't believe it will be broadcasted publicly, but Fiatjaf has promised to write down everything that we say and post the notes to his refrigerator.  https://i.nostr.build/AavzR.jpg


someone has fixed it  (@rezawrecktion) https://video.nostr.build/ec10d59a3857c325bf96a1876b907e15fdbe7e8755bb9d446d76f93ff4ba3806.mp4


Thanks!


And violent


Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is disgusting

The problem is not the media, but the message.

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/apples-crush-ad-is-disgusting/


Absolutely.


Well said


There are both optimists and pessimists building on bitcoin.

Optimists build the plane.
Pessimists build the parachute.


I impromptu interviewed a social engineering hacker. https://m.soundcloud.com/junsethsworld/interview-with-a-social-engineering


The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-responsible-artificial-intelligence/EF02D78934D18B9A22A57A46FF8FFAFC https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-05-08T20:00:53Z


😍 nostr:note17rpyc3tuv93r9pmy290ylercngdz64fkl644wly3wykdsl2q9pgqf8zyn7


Not only in Germany. This is a hot topic and long to talk here.


Enjoy the sun! ☀🌻


#grownostr https://i.nostr.build/aQG7L.jpg


Get ready to taste Latvia! 🍴

Our unconference in Riga will give you the chance to try delicious local cuisine as part of our cultural events.

Make sure to check out our Cultural Guide to go to the best restaurants!

Sign up now to experience it all! ➡https://tally.so/r/wbdMlL

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Love it! I bet is a nice neighbourhood.
My brother used to live near another of Charlie Chaplin's houses (L.A.) 💜


Good afternoon 🌻💜🫂


Spring is in full swing on our South Carolina homestead.
Goats and cows in milk
Eggs are coming in strong
Three ewe lambs born this week
So. Many. Strawberries.
Chamomile harvesting
Artichokes setting
The last of the beets and rutabagas pulled
Onions are bulbing.
Hog processed, filling the freezer after winter.
Seeds are popping up, plants transplanted.

What food are you growing? What is your favorite season of harvest?
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Thinking about this just everytime I listen somebody talking about Telegram. nostr:note1k8hg6y82ttdquqrv3n9w9juyewuye9h4ute4dcxjvf89aqftdgaqksh7ym


Me acabo de tomar un expreso doble. Será una tarde acelerada.


You made me think in Bolivia


Some people really hate the social directions we've taken the wallet. Not sure if our execution was off or people just don't expect a social wallet.

We're getting more users from other wallets like phoenix/muun/etc. so their expectations are much different.

What do nostr people think? I definitely don't want to recreate the wheel if Primal is going super heavy in this direction as well and we can't (or don't want to) compete in it.


💜🌻
https://poets.org/poem/fall-rome


Privacy and self-custody services with a central point-of-failure are not stable long-term.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/agoradesk-localmonero-shutting-down/

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/zksnacks-to-suspend-its-coinjoin-coordination-service-on-june-1st/

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/samourai-dojo-v1-25-0/

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/phoenix-wallet-to-be-removed-from-us-app-stores-on-may-3/

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/sparrow-wallet-v1-9-0/

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/samourai-wallet-founders-arrested-and-charged-with-money-laundering/

The cull we're seeing in the past couple weeks is just the beginning, but it's a good sign: They're pushing back because we're gaining ground.

If you want to run a privacy business, i see 3 choices:
- Decentralize your business (no single PoF)
- Mask yourself (build pseudonymously)
- Comply (by KYCing)


Let it bloom.. 🦋 🌺
https://void.cat/nostr/59d8d2bfc241b2df6e1b64d0f9a36c168e11a73ad130a70ae94f541070707450.jpg https://void.cat/nostr/74a1652bace6b93f5e967164215d280ef330b6b837f618df49bfdfe21b186135.jpg
#Nature #flower #flowerstr #GrowNostr


I still believe this is a winning strategy for using Nostr, and really for life in general.

https://image.nostr.build/321ac219e146ac316aa1e97049a0960256e3ebeb600045eaeb26cbe07e8e61aa.jpg


Good morning, Derek 🌻💜🫂


Good morning 🌻💜🫂🧡


Good morning, Jay 🌻💜🧡


Good morning, Cecilia 🌻💜


Good morning 🌻


Good morning, Ryan 🌻💜


Good morning, Dan! 🌻💜


Good morning, Samah. You too! 🌻🫂💜


Good morning 🌻💜🫂


If I were to make a nostr road map I would say:

1. Support infrastructure.  Right now support is 0%.  It needs to be at least 1%.  Because without relay operators there would be no nostr, and we lose many relays.  It's a double loss because we lose both the relay, and talented developers that are initially motivated to help, but then leaves and goes to other projects.  Open sats could earmark 1% for relay operators.

2. Better dev community management.  Growing projects have a great community management, transparency, and great dev onboarding and retention.  These all take effort, and nostr lags the top FOSS projects there.  Complete the transition from a 1 person hobby project to an open, transparent, community (some but not all of this is done, it needs to be the default mindset).  Have a page to show who controls what.

3. Better performance.  Websockets take 1-4 seconds in some cases to update the screen.  Modern expectiations are under 400ms.  Caching services and a scaling architecture is needed, primal are doing some work there, but more is needed.  A good REST API for profiles and contacts would be good, and also large contact list management

4. A first class instant messenger.  To compete with signal, telegram, simplex etc.  Those are often the things that grow fastest.  But that needs to build on (1) and (3).  Built out a simple proof of concept messenger PoC that aims at feature parity with the incumbents.

5. Better bitcoin integration.  Zaps are a good start.  But bitcoin is starting to offer much more in terms or smart contracts.  These can be delivered as a financial layer to nostr with business models that have not been seen before.  The true dream of a free market based on a level playing field, with a web of reputation that on operates honest business principles, where users can rate.  A full bitcoin and lightning powered smart contract system working on testnet with 3-4 use cases.

6. Build out the web of trust and reputation so that actors can gain reputation over time, spread gratitude, look back on positive memories, mark the disuptive actors, and help new users get started quickly.  Establish a NIP for simple ratings, and some sites to aggregate them.

7. Personal storage.  Bluesky has this but nostr does not yet.  Relays cant store everything, and the personal storage space is 1 million times bigger than the relay space.  Additionally relays sometimes delete their data, but storage can be long lived.  Proof of concept personal data storage on a number of cloud providers and client side apps that use them where users own their own storage.

8. New apps not seen before. Humans and machines working together.  Nostr is a rich space for innovation, we need to show developers that they can build fun things, and then retain those developers to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible.  Push forward the DVM and OpenAgents eco system to have interactions with the main social net.

9.  Onboarding, search and content.  Can learn alot from Bluesky there in terms or UX and moderation.  Simply follow the well beaten path.  Try to get to feature parity with the bluesky app, or clone it.

10.  Bridges.  Bridges and auth to other systems.  Let users try nostr with their existing accounts.  Let them have both their original social media and a new experience.  Tie the social graph together in a mini spec that lets you have two way links in your profile to the major existing nets, and post back and forth.

Quite a long shopping list, but if any of those are addressed it would be a step in the right direction.  If one nostr app goes viral, the whole of nostr goes viral.


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂


I just got invited to a book launch next week. I should go.


Painter Song 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/4Zd7V4DsYsa2TwBWus5sCM?si=hO9gzw3DTOO47TOjMxvZww


Flame Twin 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/5pPWsSBURmhZ9VKcMMIlkV?si=o4nE0VOjQ56HTMaKOHWo9Q


#Flowerstr https://image.nostr.build/1c2765eec52c8b64c4f131d1d5012abe7612c76554ee6db4c505f997f3ead6c1.jpg


One Flight Down 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/1MA7Ass8dizQznjVuoIWSd?si=3eZKrYW6Rmeu3MZx5VvLuQ


The way someone reads a poem out loud makes a world of difference. And some voices.


I am talking about a reality for a majority of Latin Americans. It's not me. And yes, people who live like this could benefit from a brief protection against the depreciation or devaluation of their local currency.


1. It's hard building a LN company
2. It's hard building a privacy company
3. It's hard building a company
4. It's hard building an app

Things shut down, for all reasons all the time. Perhaps less than they should. Expect more of this as PMF was not achieved during the bear.


Damus highlights 😎

We even support highlight text fragments when opening links in the browser. nostr:npub12gyrpse550melzx2ey69srfxlyd8svkxkg0mjcjkjr4zakqm2cnqwa3jj5 is working on creating highlights from within Damus as well 🙂 https://i.nostr.build/kZwem.jpg https://i.nostr.build/5GrZv.jpg


We’ve released a big update of nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch in the leadup to the launch of of the creators and journalist residencies.

Check it out: nostr:note1knecawf8jzpdwezx9dpxkyhwljxlaynu0w5rre2954pcncdxxrpqnndqe3

We’re working on performance and hygine in the app while we also redesign the user discover and search functionality. In the last few months we did about a hundred user interviews with current, former, and future Nostr users.

We found a few things which jumped out at us.
* We discovered that the Nostr community is broadly considered friendly and welcoming.
* Almost everybody wanted there to there to be content on other topics beyond bitcoin. This was the case with both people who considered themselves bitcoiners and also those who didn’t identity themselves as bitcoiners.
* Most Nostr users felt welcomed, but a small number of people were agressive in harassing other users. We need to develop decentralized permissionless solution to these problems if we want Nostr to grow to it’s potential with hundreds of millions of users.

To address these issues we’ve created a program to highlight content about other topics beyond bitcoin. These folks are using bitcoin, they’re being setup with lightning wallets, and promoted in the app to help them be discovered without the centralized algorithms. Once this launches it’d be great to welcome these creators and journalists and validate the business model of micropayments and subscription content over zaps.

https://www.nos.social/creator-residency

https://www.nos.social/journalism-accelerator


Glad to know you’re better 💜🌻


What if you have to think like a person who lives paycheck to paycheck? As a person working in an informal economy? As a person who cannot cover minimum aspects such as education or health?


In Peru, for example, you can pay for most services with an app on your phone or even with a banking app destined for another phone. Two of the largest banks allow these types of transactions and are very easy to operate. Financial literacy is not even necessary even when it is desirable.


Don’t worry, I understood it like that.


Indeed, Latin America is a place where there is opportunity for bitcoin, but the possibility of frictionless transactions and integrating the largest number of businesses are key. I believe that once that is achieved and without making it exclusive, the consumer will appreciate the additional value that represents freedom from the depreciation or devaluation of the local currency and will operate more with Bitcoin.


Actually, we are aware of the depreciation/devaluation of the currency — as the case may be — the issue is that this scenario is relatively normalized so that people just move on.


The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

—Alvin Toffler, Futurist https://image.nostr.build/4bd5ee82e38a6062084ad5c701a000a98ef567d5feb242860d75dfe0455a17d7.jpg


💥 197 in-person sign-ups, and its only May!

Ready to join us?

Sign up here: https://tally.so/r/wbdMlL 🔔

Don't forget: Baltic Honeybadger requires a separate ticket. Purchase here: https://baltichoneybadger.com/buy-tickets

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Welcome back! 🌻💜


nostr:npub1q8w7u2ymrghfpp6v5dpg57jpgaj2djk340a2npwzq8n64ksk6wxq8aw95u There is no need to use a recovery email or recovery phone. Adding a recovery email/phone can be used to identify you and it is not a requirement. Instead use the "recovery phrase" function.

https://proton.me/support/set-account-recovery-methods

Proton has said time and time again, if you practice good OPSEC, they will not have any data to hand over when forced by gov to do so.

Without sharing my client guide here, the gist is that I recommend Proton be used in a compartmentalized way, with your "official" main front-facing account using your real name and/or personal domain "business" email for official purposes. This is a huge win over using Google for most people.

There are 15 @protonmail.com etc addresses that can be used for forwarding old email (to a pseudonym email) another for purchases, another for banking, an anonymous email with just random numbers for other purposes etc.

One can then use the unlimited simplelogin aliases (they have the ability to send mail from the alias, not just receive...unlike the current built-in proton aliases) to avoid spam/breaches.

It is best in class for these purposes.

To answer your question:

I recommend signing up and using another FREE Proton Mail account (no payment method required) for anonymous email not associated with your identity or VPN...sign up over TOR and only access over TOR.

Bonus: You can also sign up with another separate account FOR JUST VPN (if you want/need more compartmentalization). It depends on your threat model.


Interesting. That’s why we need to focus on trajectory and not on a single point of reference.


Prudence must prevail


It's time to focus on the stability of social communication. Profile pictures or names not fully loading, threads not displaying properly, notes being missed, and users unable to tag profiles that they follow are the worst bugs that we have from a user experience standpoint. These are all basic functions of being social on the Internet. If the core function of being social doesn't work well, users aren't going to stick around.


GM

Excited to say that the compatibility issue between Strike and fedimints appears to be resolved 🔥

We've been working with the nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg, Strike, and Fedi teams to figure out the best way to handle this and the Strike team just informed me that they deployed an update for it. Thanks a ton nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle for working through this 🙏

That now makes zaps to Mutiny+ users possible from primal! 💪


Good morning Shawn 🌻


Good morning Derek 🌻💜🫂


"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it
friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying
each other's light."

— James Baldwin, Nothing Personal


On Not Knowing Greek (in 1923), Virginia Woolf
https://antigonejournal.com/2023/01/on-not-knowing-greek/


Good morning Cecilia 🌻


Happy for you 😊💜🫂


Ciao bella! 🌻💜


Perhaps the foundation of a potential mutual deep love is a trilogy, as a bestseller author says: intellectual compatibility, emotional compatibility and physical compatibility.


Furthermore, I think that part of the difficulty of achieving that deep love is what is conceived as happiness. For me, it is achieving fulfillment with the other, citing someone else “it is not wanting more than what you already have.”


Good morning! 🌻


I agree with both of you, but I would just like to remove the word romantic altogether. I think it's just a part of deep love and yes, resilience is an important component to achieving it.


strolling in Tokyo🚶
#photography #artwork https://image.nostr.build/6c56f920a404f2acf69cabf14628700697d83b985e8422abb5bd3e87b361342b.png


Beautiful day for you too, Eshara 🌻💜


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂


Ayer encontré este libro y lo estoy leyendo junto a “Felicidad Clandestina” — una colección de relatos bajo el título de uno de ellos. Solo por ella, me hubiera gustado poder leer portugués :)) https://image.nostr.build/9b006ff8278f3498cc5e86d5417b9d35f4661a375f9cc4d368310908298eeea3.jpg  nostr:note14zlxtl2xmc638vqzl90sk63577d5c9lr7eehaygzp8d2eyd0wmasnpvgnz


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂


"Aquel día, entonces, él conoció una de las raras formas de la estabilidad: la estabilidad del deseo irrealizable. La estabilidad del ideal inalcanzable. Por primera vez, él, que era un ser dado a la moderación, se sintió atraído por lo inmoderado."

— Clarice Lispector, Miopía Progresiva


Goodnigth Derek ✨💜🫂


Counting Stars 🎶

Everything that kills me makes me feel alive… 🎵

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/2tpWsVSb9UEmDRxAl1zhX1?si=YfTkvzleTwedaSMITL0Ckg&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Aone%2Brepublic


You can be soft, and still bring mountains to their knees.
https://m.primal.net/IECQ.jpg


I just read very good poetry in class, but so depressing that I need to neutralize it 🤦♀


You mean critters or crickets or both? 😅


Now I want to listen him…


And the rain. I love the rain! The smell of wet earth after the rain 😊


I know 💜😊


Diva


Global crypto firms turn to Hong Kong for refuge — and opportunity

With U.S. regulators continuing to ramp up scrutiny, crypto startups and founders are looking to Hong Kong to support their growth.

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/hong-kongs-crypto-ambition-starts-garnering-global-attention/


Keep Ya Head Up 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/0XRbYXQUymj9SJkrr8YK5B?si=-AeFk0RNRnqLRA1Y3Hi0tQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E36yQoctfm8Bj


Starve the ego

Feed the soul


Primal Wallet KYC info is connected to the npub. We don’t share this info, per our privacy policy, but the connection exists.

Users who want to ensure that their privacy is preserved should not use KYC-based wallets. Within Primal, you can do so by using NWC to connect to your Mutiny Wallet. This is only available on Primal for Android atm.


Good afternoon 🌻💜


I don’t go by #GardenVarietyJess for nothing 😎 flowers are life!

#gardeners #florists #growstr #flowerstr
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If anyone would like to help out with #NostrVillage let me know.

If you just want to attend some or all of the sessions, you can sign up at the Meetup link.

Thursday May 30 starting at 2 PM at nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h in NYC. nostr:note1ztjfmlqsealp9tt5j6g5mmfrmhg0a0amrmn35fn32t6qy5qcayvq8zek89


My favourites 😍


Good morning 🌻


Guys, the Google Drive Relay is real.

https://nosdrive.app/

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Good morning, Derek 🌻💜🧡


1b txn https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/


For me, 2024 is all about helping expand the reach of #Bitcoin tech to as many people as possible.

Recent actions by governments worldwide show that our time to act is limited. While I don't see any chance for Bitcoin to fail, there will be a big struggle over how many people will meaningfully join the network.

Amid rising BTC/USD rate, noise from those preoccupied with their self-centered agendas, and outright scams pushed by bad actors, it's challenging to stay focused and ensure you’re part of Bitcoin's bright future.

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What I’ve done over the recent months was all to push forward components that I see as critical for Bitcoin to reach as many people as possible:

- Voucher Plugin: I demoed this with  nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m to show how we can have this tech as part of FOSS stack and streamline onboarding people through a network of merchants. In the second half of 2024, I will release the final version, once all other pieces are in place.

https://m.primal.net/IDim.png

- Bolt Card Functionality:  nostr:npub1zfytz6ktce3av2svlfpl0e79e44tnskxmvlpkcmc7q0xct3qa49swvm60l integrated it directly into  nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg, and we battle-tested it during  nostr:npub1h493d0qgwhu95s82zd9sxrt3ckn3ttgvaf04z02neckadxw5fkvqte4cwz. The final release is coming soon for all who want to create their own Bolt Card Banks.

- Point of Sale: The work that  nostr:npub1za04drthlvxtwsq0phwc4mgh8rxhjafjkv2w7pf6ze5afka8gvaquadur3,  nostr:npub1y24gz5gwucl79vtv4ctwpysl0r5m4xyzu2rgulnr44ks3t5mt92q4nz2ad,  nostr:npub14j7wc366rf8efqvnnm8m68pazy04kkj8fgu6uqumh3eqlhfst0kqrngtpf,  nostr:npub1qm72nur0wn8cdgt0unp0amzssuqxg03tzpd4r87e856nxtz344fs6g74md did along with other BTCPay contributors over the last year on this front has been amazing. And then  nostr:npub13ljnkd633c7maxatymv3y2fqq8vt3qk7j3tt0vytv90eztwgha9qmfcfhw plugin along with Bitcoinize device creates a perfect setup. I’ll continue to support and participate in POS deployments because refining this technology is crucial, so it’s the best possible for circular economies that want to deploy it.

- Payroll Plugin: I'm dedicated to solo development and evangelism whenever possible - I derive a lot of motivation from now seeing how many Bitcoin companies use this plugin to streamline their monthly payouts and save time.

https://m.primal.net/IDik.png

- Evangelizing: I won’t just promote stuff I develop - with PayJoin/CoinJoin videos I have promoted great work others did; work that now can be critical when centralized coordinators are shutting down.

- Supporting Creators: Those who cover efforts and create content around what FOSS contributors develop will always have my support. That’s what my trip to  nostr:npub1rjtrs7xqdvj3588r9njrexh2n750j7jdwx9qs543nutmdsj6ljaqpfmp8a with  nostr:npub1rj7eh0eu3skwcyr5adpcjwxft9z4yjdspjryq6gynqw2j49f9a3quqjpw2 was all about.

https://m.primal.net/IDij.png

- Nostr: Any additional time I have will be devoted to Nostr until #Nostriga. I've invested considerable time in the past year and a half helping organize events around the protocol I see as the one that will bring freedom of communication to masses. I hope you've enjoyed them.

https://m.primal.net/IDii.png

So, if you ever see me, Uncle, doing something and wonder what is behind it - see this post.

Number go up, but also number of Bitcoiners go up. That’s what it’s all about for me.

And any help and support you send to ensure we succeed in this mission will be appreciated.

✊🗽


Making good decisions takes a bit of work and thinking.
Many people don’t do that.
AI is often trained on the results of those hasty decisions.
So relying on AI is going to result in even worse decisions – and also take away a uniquely human ability.
https://theconversation.com/the-hidden-risk-of-letting-ai-decide-losing-the-skills-to-choose-for-ourselves-227311


One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. —Carl Sagan

(The Library of Trinity College Dublin, established in 1592) https://image.nostr.build/1997a352ff56865b9712b44d5ea971f3ddf6a9e38626874e04821d081417a247.jpg


Good morning, Dan 🌻


Good morning 🌻💜🫂
Hope you have a great week 🫶


On Damus


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂


Yes! For me those were the best of the exposition. They're going to open more exhibitions and I will return.


if you could wave a magic wand to help nostr succeed faster, what would you want to see done?


Museo De Osma https://image.nostr.build/d30f43c5aeee5df8afeed26fba7efe859cce9cc9cc1a4f47cf2b9093e6124e42.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9131f531f780c1c84f4c7f0ec5026efd648e35c30d9c1800b2a78ab50906ffba.jpg


Sin título de Elda Di Malio / La Ejecución de Túpac Amaru de Fernando De Szyszlo

#Artstr https://image.nostr.build/ba71117de3bd49b07441d9c1a4b45b98edae39c94c4b89e9795355ecd6e3c2a8.jpg https://image.nostr.build/85f8dd879ace40be66ca1396c0bee09eb28629f56ffcae74c5fec2a8ac26e66a.jpg


Bluesky has announced that nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m has left the Bluesky board of directors.

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3krreazpfpu2t


Hope it gets better 💜


Yes


No, we look each other all the time. He even say goodbyes with his little hand 😢


Sorry I couldn’t take pics of the baby


My crush of 9 months just leave the restaurant 😕


Lunch https://image.nostr.build/b6ad41940d0391a73f593d4873abae9e5da62ca31755ab065c4fc7d3a70d62b0.jpg


Good afternoon, Dan 🌻
Your note didn’t appear in the other client


The Professional? (My father’s favourite)


Pura Vida! 💜❤🫂🌻


I hadn't heard it before, but I liked it! 💃🏻


Jean Reno?


So do I. And Berlin 😊


Riga
https://x.com/xmuse_/status/1784558923359621538


What are you most looking forward to at #Nostriga ? The workshops, the networking, or side events?

Let us know! We want to help curate the best possible experience by incorporating your feedback.

🎉 And remember to sign up: https://tally.so/r/wbdMlL


Goodnigth ✨


July, 30th 2023 https://image.nostr.build/9bc0641b156f0703feb24ec16678385cab733d6e5b22d77cddc0bef8821f50bb.jpg


Yes, another of my favourites from Imagine Dragons. Last year, I was on their concert in Sophia.


It’s Time 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/7MXlTgQeo3IVlMpLnZuhxc?si=yBo6ahHMR0W1NPKGEeznsA&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EQqkOPvHGajmW


Listo! 12K
Algo del camino… https://image.nostr.build/eea9d57b457b68f67f44f1089c4b0f31295935dc6176990e8d278121e48c16ae.jpg


Way Down We Go 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/0y1QJc3SJVPKJ1OvFmFqe6?si=dJhQ8I2-RO-3jpF92mUR4g&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EQqkOPvHGajmW


My sister https://image.nostr.build/ce86982c6c13287fecaaf2e8b7cf495932884470011062afb31c6418d780ec55.jpg


Ixoras are still here 💜 https://image.nostr.build/8f307b63049d54e54a02e5267774003b3737711f509b21a81c0adf4c465281e7.jpg


I really enjoy your mutual love ❤🫶


Do you know when I realized I was Stoic? One day my second son told me a phrase to which I responded with “Who told you that?” and he answered “You and Marcus Aurelius.” It was then when I read, for the first time, The Meditations. Being Stoic is a journey. At least for me.


Love it! Thanks for sharing. Happy Sunday!


Have a great Sunday
https://video.nostr.build/971c3acd4d7108835b428b0909185720c9fa508fc2ab757e0acdb8197d2f0208.mp4
#birds #amazing #love #nature #respect #wild #life #songs #animals


Bonjour, Samah 🌻🫂


I thought about many things, but in the end I realized that it is everything that you want to conceive as such in front of your eyes.


"The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them."

-Hal Finney


🕺🏼💃🏽
https://m.primal.net/IDVr.mov


Good morning 🌻


My son is going to travel outside the country by himself. First time.


Breathtaking. #Japan #Kyoto https://image.nostr.build/8d80b3c8d71d8e6d4a3059d719bccc57500759b3184a0910110022b8e3e8564b.jpg


“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act."


Good morning Mark 🌻


Good morning Hutli 🌻


😢 https://image.nostr.build/c58964a3b104334206f78607cbed0b74dc53c6b35905a22cdd459f5ab1fac6c8.jpg


Good morning 🌅🌻💜🫂


“Do not whine...
Do not complain.
Work harder.
Spend more time
alone.”

—Joan Didion


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂


Ceux qui rêvent 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/7as88HhLbDLgobaSbJrVBs?si=RD6p1ckWRhOnwhzytIO9_Q&context=spotify%3Aartist%3A6e3pZKXUxrPfnUPJ960Hd9


Is there a kind of car for a bitcoiner?


"The videos showed counterprotesters attacking students in the pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours, including beating them with sticks, using chemical sprays and launching fireworks as weapons. No arrests had been made in connection with the attack" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html


May the Sats be with you.

Always.

https://m.primal.net/IDNd.jpg


A challenge!


I think the secret key to #value4value is a relationship of trust and mutual respect. When that exists it’s almost like you start to try to “out give” each other, with the underlying value being exchanged in various ways. Sometimes it’s money and sometimes it’s other things or actions. But without that mutual respect for each other, then people start to simply try and take as much out of other people as they can without giving anything in return.


"Get out of my woodland!"

Willow Warbler looking a little cross

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK

https://files.ohai.social/media_attachments/files/112/384/604/228/041/875/original/157142ce20255d0a.jpg


When you are doomscroll so hard you hit genesis. https://image.nostr.build/62abdd7b555b78c74807c2c85a829bb74c2c61d7575d048a7fd1bba5c57b8ff5.jpg


So tempting


There are a lot of changes since then. In Peru, the Central Bank (Fed) acts independently to the government.


These are from Peru, in the 80s https://image.nostr.build/da124f3375be04ed0c27d017ada3fa8132ac71cc6557a089325d4d9a62c166ed.jpg


Google is changing their search results a lot based on their LLM experiments. This feels like a fundamental shift in how the internet works for people. It’s drastically reducing links to third party websites and focuses on both the AI driven results and then tons of links to video content mostly on youtube.

So we’re seeing both LLM’s summarizing content hiding the original sources and also creating a environment where a huge portion of the content on the web is LLM created.

This is a mess that threatens to break the internet as it currently exists. The shift is going to be massive, disrupting most internet businesses and by extension the broader economy.


MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU.

Use coupon code 'fourth' for one fourth (25%) off your entire order nostr:npub1sweetl0gskmka0n5qevt7v2wj9q56ntwkmaeywffw4ftaucmcakquhns6h! Today only 🤙

https://image.nostr.build/9fb112fb8618e7f6623529241f7c59269b7cbdaf080fc86382a67fa24916dfbc.jpg


Beep boop.

https://media1.giphy.com/media/I5zzHMlThCP8jNEVNu/giphy.gif?cid=2154d3d776vvwnjvfz29udxjgjasj4061kk5ryjiroriy7ru&ep=v1_gifs_trending&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g


May the 4th be with you. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/5a0bd6de7535c6920e084f6c5cf4bd21f9bb32644dbb4defaef313ad4956a4e3.jpg


🪚 Sharpen your saw 🪚
#BITCOIN #NOSTR #MOTIVATION 🎯 https://image.nostr.build/ac1d7f9cb67530a63d2cc10a053954ba49cfe1c928152f37dcde11311093181d.jpg


how is this possible?

ok, how about we bring some of that risque content nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx  asked for?

50k sats to the best wiki article about JStark on nostr.

Write on wikifreedia.xyz

Repost for visibility 🙏

https://image.nostr.build/db17a387d54c918171884bb08d40b6ac174aa285b9e36df207ce7ee731487664.png


don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights.
defend them yourself using freedom technology.

(you’re on one)


Rowing time… see you 😊


Good morning to all friends of the birds..

Location ref shot: this mornings walk at Summer Leys in Northants UK

https://files.ohai.social/media_attachments/files/112/382/108/368/924/783/original/c6d93886dc7d383b.jpg


Today was the best day in my life 😍

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


¡Felicidades! 💜🌻


Here's a MP4 of a Bluetit preening itself in the woods this morning

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #MP4

https://files.ohai.social/media_attachments/files/112/382/553/773/282/157/original/5349a4c97721e627.mp4


The past few days on Nostr have demonstrated the growing need to nurture curated communities that have the ability to limit exposure to unwanted content and focus on connecting with like-minded individuals.

This was always the goal of Ditto — to #GrowNostr by providing a tool for creating these community-driven spaces.

Ditto allows communities to manage their content experience on both a server and user level, all while maintaining the freedoms we know and love about #Nostr.

Learn more about how Ditto, currently being developed by  nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6, can be used to deal with harassment and build stronger communities on Nostr.

https://soapbox.pub/blog/curated-communities-with-ditto/


FOSS funding will continue till freedom improves

nostr:note1glruthnz6lswdzvvhfqteer0lj44234ve7z98rlkxuku6w6gzvnszqj0le


Good morning 🌻💜🫂
Happy Saturday!


Goodnight Jay ✨🧡💜


Bowie was a master. This is one of my favourites too 😊


#Nostriches love you all 🫶
https://v.nostr.build/6GzMn.mp4
May the 4th Be with You 💜


Goodnight ✨💜🫂
Since soon is tomorrow…

May the 4th be with you!


https://image.nostr.build/823c25a158b4aa02ac4d12ab4467389e6882cc8dd95e11c4bf5c688a1c67f9c0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a8cb05f54541ca63da46bb438c3639be90710c02213348f2e59fc47103fea993.jpg


Too much language. I’m tired time to go to bed 🫣


Especially if they are very different languages in the use of context. Perhaps what I said is not true between Romance Languages (Spanish, Italian, French) as much as it is true with English.


When you speak in your native language you are more yourself. When you use a different language, reason intervenes much more and, consequently, you make a more conscious use of language.


Heroes 🎶

#Tunestr #Classic

https://open.spotify.com/track/7Jh1bpe76CNTCgdgAdBw4Z?si=v4a0wecqQBKzjrEQgKQOUA&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A52ed11cF35KOKnJsetko4M


Behind Blue Eyes 🎶

#Tunestr #Classic

https://open.spotify.com/track/0cKk8BKEi7zXbdrYdyqBP5?si=Hu8A9nkjQveTdoC73x4wPQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EQpj7X7UK8OOF


I was kidding. I closed my Reddit account a while ago 😉


Who?


1880 or So 🎶

#Tunestr #Classic

https://open.spotify.com/track/5kRGLbl5wemYO1zFPjyJcz?si=-_8hejJ9QHule66488t16A&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EQpj7X7UK8OOF


Love😍🥰
https://video.nostr.build/e4f5e5cd735d6f40197d00718943383c136481cb377ef6b4772dccb8fa43bb9b.mp4
#love #dogs #animals #cute #baby #friends #best #videos #funny #nature


Kal’s cartoon (The Economist) https://image.nostr.build/39661e72212b2e768822fc3b28da27bf768f7685c86926e1fe67111a27908198.jpg


A cute driver 💜


"The good thing about bitcoin is that you know exactly the number — the magic number of 21 million." —Garry Kasparov


summer in norway came early 🌸🌞

#photography https://image.nostr.build/a1e8f92c9484c0cf2463ee33427fb78e3a5058bf56e748cf8be948bf97daee7f.jpg


Happy Friday ☀👁


Suite in D Minor: I. Arpeggiata (Arr. for Guitar by Michael Lewin) 🎼

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/4iKDC45B59uK5wnbhT89xS?si=1UzBDY-hREKqCmiPyig-gQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1r9pXt6MmQxrY7i4klEzjK


I just received word that Craig Wright has discontinued all parts of his UK libel proceedings against me.

Meaning it's OVER. I just got my life back.

I'm so extremely happy right now! Thank you to everyone who has supported me!

🧡


El dicho de cualquier escritor que se precie de serlo


Labour differences: My reflections have nothing to do with my TL at this moment 😂


I read a film review early and came across this line: “Two people who fall in love are two childhoods that understand each other” (Marriage as a Fine Art, Julia Kristeva & Philippe Sollers). Then I understood.


Yes, I’m writing


Sometimes flow takes you down unexpected paths. One line can make you understand so much. Perhaps it's because it comes at the precise time.


“We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.”

— Louise Gluck, Nostos


Good morning 🌅🫂


I got bored a long time ago and when somebody try to classify me, I say that I love the pink 🙃


Happens 😂 🫂


Good morning Mark 🌻


Good morning Cecilia 🌻


All of the profits from the first thousand copies of Broken Money went to the Human Rights Foundation, since Alex Gladstein's public research was so useful for the book and I like the work they are doing worldwide.

The profits from the next four thousand copies went to making an animated half-hour video about Broken Money to reach people that haven't read the book, which we released a few days ago.

My graphics/editing team wanted to make sure that the video had good average viewer time in the first week to help with the YouTube algorithm, rather than the video be sent a ton of clicks that might watch it only briefly and hurt the early quality metrics, so they advised me to soft-launch it at first. We purposely haven't notified my email list or my Twitter feed yet, etc. But it's out there.

It's a half-hour video about the technological evolution of money, with animation. We put a lot of production value into it. And for the people who were sad that I didn't narrate the Broken Money audiobook, I did narrate this video.

In the coming weeks I will spread awareness for the video across my platforms, but for starters, it has been found here on Nostr.

Enjoy:

nostr:note14tgqhfxeu05tyalg07pxqhyz3w3zfw8j8jcx27x9zq8p0y2ahdlqvay0am


Stunner of a day today. ❤🏔
https://m.primal.net/ICfM.jpg


nostr is the glue we all get high on


IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE DIRECTION THINGS ARE HEADING. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

TALK IS CHEAP.


We are upgrading the preset SimpleX relays to the new version - it is compatible only with the apps starting from v5.5.3 (released early February) - please upgrade to the latest version and ask your friends to upgrade too.


Good morning🌻💜🫂


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂
A long and strange day


Une Belle Histoire 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/654RprVvr0L8l6wm7XEHci?si=bcG4weFMQlOGb6e5_AMiIg&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1EIUxkwwibk9ma


You have been warned...
 https://image.nostr.build/1d8e32e2010fda5d10f86fbdab809ee5d631653abaf0d4d23dc787c994f89d77.jpg


There is a common phrase: “he/she woke up today and chose violence”.

I like it. It is funny. But it is imperfect.

“Violence” is now a verbal defensive phrase that means too much. To “wake up and choose violence” in the modern parlance of people who know zero struggle means to choose public verbal opposition. Okay, sure. But not really.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. Not violence.

I spent years doing mixed martial arts competitively. I know violence. I am trained in a dozen ways to choke someone out, and have been choked out in’s dozen ways. I have had a 200 pound male fireman try to beat me unconscious and fail to do so. Even that wasn’t really violence, since it was controlled. Assholes on my trailer park bus stop in my teenage years were violent.

Verbosity isn’t violence. It is rhetoric.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. I woke up today and chose to defend noncustodial privacy tools with language and resources. Coordinating messages between entities shouldn’t be a crime per se.

Bitcoin is anti-fragile and will continue to be so, thanks to all the people who work hard for it. But it is not without a fight.

Privacy is necessary in a free society in the digital age. A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto made this clear three decades ago and is still true.


we're dca'ing bitcoin https://block.xyz/documents/bitcoin-blueprint.pdf


I used to say I hope I'm wrong in my predictions. Now, I just hope that the necessary precautions are taken regardless of the accuracy. Bumpy times ahead.


Thank you, Franny 🫶


Goodnigth Ava ✨💜


💜💜💜 nostr:note1ukwlzt7lux63aq5jw464yu2wh56ldcerwvglaa9pe3ldyuewdqwqsmjk5k


NBC News reports federal prosecutors are investigating internal practices at Block for processing "thousands of transactions involving countries subject to economic sanctions" and "multiple cryptocurrency transactions for terrorist groups." https://image.nostr.build/1d0c46a9cc0d5592f049e3942e5979db2b8ce65a7bf0623246402893d8088e84.jpg


Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

#web #newsletter #CitationNeeded


Good morning 🌻


Love your list 💜
Glad to know your Grandma is coming home 💜🫂
Yesterday I had a quiet day of writing so for me just work today🌻


Good morning 🌻💜🫂
Hope you have a good Thursday!

“Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.”

— Epictetus, Enchiridium


Goodnigth ✨


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂
Hope you have a lovely night ✌


I just updated the Spreadsheets Draft NIP to support sharing encrypted spreadsheets with a group of pubkeys in both: read-only and read/write mode.

Now you can assemble a:
- Public View spreadsheet
- Encrypted Spreadsheet just for yourself.
- Encrypted Spreadsheet that only a few people can see.
- Encrypted Spreadsheet that a group of people can edit.

Sheetstr has not been updated yet, but I think this adds parity with all Google Spreadsheet's collab features.

Check it out:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1189


Not really but who knows


So quiet today…


If you cannot be corrected without being offended, then you will not truly grow in life.

—Professor Richard Feynman https://image.nostr.build/c08f2602c696bbbc76307f54c2ac59e01dc67f0030c99084b4f3e3bd45a27b23.jpg


Why?


Can you read my mind? 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/7cX4PJz1old9fyFI8RlfgW?si=RmeSNawWQD6gvvPCNr6uxg


Good morning 🌻💜🫂
Hope you have a good Wednesday
Labor Day here.
I’m going stay away for a while ✌


GOODMORNING
https://m.primal.net/IBuH.mov


Everyone will get the Nostr feed they deserve.


Thank you!


Who is she?


Whatever


https://news.columbia.edu/content/new-perspective-1968 https://image.nostr.build/b346e8337386a8cc636011e8586007645dc24f27c22ad13f0e1915d0058e169c.jpg


the US is officially a police state. congrats to the law and order camp.


No soy la única molesta hoy


Goodnigth ✨


Goodnigth ✨💜🧡


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂


Anna Karenina


Norway, June 3-5! 🇳🇴

Here are some speakers, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg

There are ~100 super high signal Bitcoiners and privacy/freedom tech builders joining

All inside of a wider 1,000+ person conference based on human freedom

An event within an event

Creates a very cool experience 🤙

https://oslofreedomforum.com/event/oslo-freedom-forum-oslo-2024/financial-freedom-track/ https://image.nostr.build/d28e114986bc3c066b1afd66d59e4c9057f96f78ac48347f4df70216358830c5.jpg


Apple Hired Dozens of AI Experts From Google for a Secretive Zurich Research Lab.
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/30/apple-hired-ai-google-experts-zurich-lab/


#meme #memes #memestr #nostrmemes https://image.nostr.build/e1bbc615ed5f551c91e242f0a706763ec58d5b8d1270aa511be55e2cd4a9d267.jpg


Lego’s house. Too much to show here 🫣


Sunny and warm here. A lovely autumn day 💜


We are all that, but I believed that leadership must adapt to the occasion.


It’s fucking here 🔥

https://youtu.be/NPqDIwWMtxg?si=9Mn9X4etl6up7F9b


damus focusing on speed and purity of protocol is great


Maybe this helps
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plantsnap-identify-plants/id1451054346?l=es-MX


You’re kind. I silenced every chat with political discussion. It’s better read after the heat.


Good afternoon! 🌻


Good morning 🌻


The freshness 💜


Buenos días 🌻


Yes. But there are varying levels of encryption and metadata protection.

NIP-04 encrypts the content in a fairly naive way and does nothing to hide metadata.

NIP-44 encrypts the content in a much more robust way but does nothing to hide metadata.

NIP-59 is about "gift-wrapping" events, which uses nip-44 encryption but also hides metadata by nesting the real events in other events.

NIP-17 combines NIP-44 and NIP-59 to get encrypted DMs that hide most metadata but don't give you any forward or post-compromise secrecy (meaning, if you lose your keys, the attacker can decrypt all your past and future messages).

NIP-104 (double ratchet) Uses a format very similar to NIP-17 but a completely different encryption scheme that uses two independent key derivation functions (ratchets) to generate encryption keys and give forward and post-compromise secrecy.

TBH, you can use any of them based on your use case. I think we've been building towards double ratchet for a while though. You also hear the double-ratchet scheme referred to as E2EE (end-to-end encrypted).


'Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

https://cdn.nostr.build/p/EdEl.png
#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney


Neil Young - Heart of Gold 🔊🧡

https://v.nostr.build/O4noP.mp4

YT

https://youtu.be/WZn9QZykx10?si=0OVGM3nzPiG4izzK


never forget we are going to win https://m.primal.net/IBdN.jpg


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂


Goodnight ✨


Goodnight ✨💜🫂


Latin mood…


Milonga de Ojos Dorados 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/0fAmpdONIYsxiP27CwnzLJ?si=jlWaLGQ8Qxmx4Fqd_gFDsA


yesterday i unfollowed everyone on twitter to reset and test the algorithm.

my experience generally stayed the same, with a pretty high quality of signal. it will only get better, towards what tiktok was able to do.

the algorithm isn’t the problem. the problem arises when the algorithm is a black box, can’t be turned off, or can’t be replaced by another one someone else wrote.

being able to choose if an algorithm is used, and which one is used, is key. no one is done this well yet. twitter is the only one that allows a choice in the first place.


“ …acariciar aceras… “


La Trama y El Desenlace 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/563EHELbGcAwXlAHbWmK3f?si=3BvOvyWoTByxgYHF62e13A&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Ala%2Btra


Nada como una discusión en ítalo-español sobre la pronunciación de una palabra en italiano 😂


Thank you! 🫂


I started much better. I recovered a good part of my rowing performance. I'm already at 70%. A good day 😄


Perfect! 🥂


💜🫂
Fine, thanks for asking! 🌻


It's time for Lightning⚡ and it's time for BOLT12🔩
 https://image.nostr.build/a1432b1a98f5b8b541b4fcf13cc3f38e8fc6b4f93ba1fec9d7da3ce636c707c7.jpg

As of today, OCEAN miners can attach a BOLT12 offer to their #Bitcoin address and get paid out over Lightning!

BOLT12 offers allow us to request multiple invoices for any amount while only requiring the miner to set things up once.

Miners simply sign a message containing the offer using the private key associated with their Bitcoin address.

Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us.

This means we can continue to offer fully transparent and verifiable pooled mining while no longer being restricted by the base layer!

Using the Bitcoin stack to its fullest is how we eliminate the need for trust and bring sovereignty to mining.

https://ocean.xyz/docs/lightning

https://newsdirect.com/news/ocean-innovates-bitcoin-miners-offered-first-ever-lightning-payouts-using-bolt12-946331135


bullish on private nostr


Good morning 🌻
Film?


If anyone is exploring #Nostr, we're there now, too: https://njump.me/npub1uuxnz0sq60thc098xfxqst7wnw77l0sm3r8nn48yspuvz4ecprksxdahzv #fediverse #SocialMedia


Good morning, Marie ✌🌻🫂


I literally tell my children this. It's okay to fail. Failure gives us a chance to grow. Growth is good! Failure doesn't overly matter. What matters is what you do after you fail.


You can disagree with someone on many topics and still respect that person and have them in high regard. Disagree != dislike

Surround yourself by people you respectfully disagree.


We need a healthier failure culture.


Someone from Cinque Terre here?
#AskNostr


Good morning, Ewelina 🌻


Good morning 🌻
What can I say? I’m a boss lady 🙃


Goodnight ✨💜


Good morning, Jay 🌻💜🧡


Good morning 🌻


Good morning, Dan! 🌻💜


Good morning, Mark 🌻💜🫂


Good morning! Thank you! 🌻💜🫂


Good morning🌻💜🫂
Have a great week


Good morning 🌻 😍


What happened?


True. Also, as in my case, you could have a scholarship.


Goodnigth, Sarah ✨


Goodnigth ✨


Guidance about?


Goodnigth, Jay ✨💜🧡


Goodnigth! ✨💜🫂


Se ven buenisimas


¿Focaccia? ¿Medias Lunas con Dulce de Leche? 😆


for the birds https://apps.apple.com/app/id773457673


On this day 13 years ago yesterday, Gavin Andresen, one of the first bitcoin developers, told Satoshi Nakamoto that he was going to the CIA to give a presentation on #Bitcoin.

After this Satoshi disappeared, no doubt a smart guy.

https://m.primal.net/IAok.png


I must confess a gastronomical crime: forget my ossobuco. Too much carrot. https://image.nostr.build/ea8264855b2683632d4d383d6cd459a148d1592d05ef4698c2b0ed2182d0767f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/45da06125ef15508af0541ef4ca40723484e3528b3505e54121c98ef9ab5b529.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f88621268d83da2b65d2ae36bf6449c3531e2ea5d31c531efcd89f5e0acef322.jpg


Ossobuco & Ratatouille. Pics soon 😉


The journey https://image.nostr.build/df9c7875ebf8f8a92156cf6fcde9f73a22011910c27663982aa53c3146eba8cf.jpg


Good morning Ewelina! 🌻🫂💜


Your Life Your Call 🎶

https://open.spotify.com/track/4XX9cY56ktJSieLSB8cwDz?si=GSaKc18-SPymuuJHa1dzAQ&context=spotify%3Aartist%3A7HcipAIJatVGT4U6HQrnFW


Noon. Out there. A kind of meditation.
 https://status.z428.eu/bl-content/uploads/pages/a0a27f23cb0c0cb9897b08c66a510a17/pzw04w977popuzbg.jpg https://status.z428.eu/bl-content/uploads/pages/a0a27f23cb0c0cb9897b08c66a510a17/y99l73nekbwf3fnw.jpg https://status.z428.eu/bl-content/uploads/pages/a0a27f23cb0c0cb9897b08c66a510a17/z7szpam4qe3piwwa.jpg https://status.z428.eu/bl-content/uploads/pages/a0a27f23cb0c0cb9897b08c66a510a17/yx0mshkt6af8j8zi.jpg


Happy Birthday Vita! Beautiful pic! 🥳💜🫂


You thought I was different from you. I thought so too. We were wrong. We are similar. The real question is why.


“If a man's privacy can be invaded at will, who can say he is free? If his every word is taken down and evaluated, or if he is afraid every word may be, who can say he enjoys freedom of speech? If his every association is known and recorded, if the conversations with his associates are purloined, who can say he enjoys freedom of association? When such conditions obtain, our citizens will be afraid to utter any but the safest and most orthodox thoughts; afraid to associate with any but the most acceptable people. Freedom as the Constitution envisages it will have vanished.”

Very worth reading the whole article.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kfvBmD32jr-60xMgGz1Ucku8zE2GCRl6haMR4OgXr5Q/mobilebasic


The difference in note recording between clients persists. The ones I see on Damus are not the same ones I see on Primal.


As you fall down the rabbit hole, you come to understand that #Bitcoin is connected to almost everything because our actions are emergent from the system we live in and measure from.

Which is paradoxically why it is so hard for you to understand points of view from people outside of it, or just starting their learning that perceive it as a narrow thing within their current world view.

My speech at #Bitcoin Atlantis was just released where I dive into this phenomena deeper and become emotional with what it means for all of us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxlHCO1nSzM


Stone Town is the historical and cultural center of Zanzibar.
 Essentially Stone Town is an old city with all the historical and cultural locations.

 The capital of the island itself is Zanzibar City, but in general it is also called Stone Town.  All financial and government institutions, the airport and the port are located here.

 Here you can stay for a couple of days, visit all the interesting locations, as well as nearby islands, such as Prison island or Nakupenda.  It has its own atmosphere, but it is quite noisy and crowded.

 But you can immediately go to hotels on other coasts and visit the city as a one-day tour.  By the way, we organize such tours for our guests 🙌

 This topic also appears in our Instagram stories today.  And also watch a beautiful video of the sunset from Stone Town

 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C58yFaeMuHI/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://m.primal.net/IAwc.jpg


You’re right. Any paradigm shift eventually faces enormous resistance.


Thank you for the idea💡
I just saw your note. Next time! 💜


Thank you! I just saw your note!


Thank you? 😃


Independent thinking does not equal to critical thinking.


Apparently the atmosphere is still somewhat polarized on my TL


I’d be happy to contribute to and use my public platform to bring attention to legal defense funds for people who build open source privacy tools, or for legal attempts to push back on unconstitutional government financial surveillance.

I just need to know that they are credible from people I trust.


I rested and meditated until a while ago. I needed it.


Good morning 🌻💜🫂


On my kitchen, I act like one


Yes, thank you


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂
Have a lovely night/morning/afternoon
I’m going to take a long rest ✌


Ciao bello occhi


Yes


Toscana


Straordinario come tutti gli altri


A true chef always keeps her/his work area spotless


Ok, a movie filmed in Italy


The Heart Part 5 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/5qbhVL3vB7HwWvb0042B7y?si=7PeTcrBGTiqSqDvItIdi6Q


Count Me Out 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/6BU1RZexmvJcBjgagVVt3M?si=lDDm0XPQRVKsJ1wQAKLbZw


Loved that movie! Thank you!


Thank you!


Any movie recommendations to keep me awake? I have to pick up my oldest son from a party in a couple of hours…


I thought it was another kind of acronym 🙂
I have family with dislexia


Please, what is AMA?


I don’t think so. Think for example in Alejandro Gonzalez Iñartu or Keira Knightley


Too much work today?


Everything Is Everything 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/7t86fVeDAd63ThaR0ZkxXS?si=53CIUA9mQ9mts3_VYY7QKQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E38gakHXiEY0B


Wannabe 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/1Je1IMUlBXcx1Fz0WE7oPT?si=NLUafeYfTdKkwzZk2KWqKA&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E38gakHXiEY0B


https://i.redd.it/x6q4jkkc43xc1.jpeg

Centralized systems, like fiat?
Justice - a pillar of Stoicism 🤙

#cantillioneffect
#bitcoinfixesthis
#justice
#stoicism


Where Is The Love? 🎶

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/0xmjwnQ3FNE6HuWCt2nHdZ?si=PLwNLj6sS4CDjAdm9hgzrQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E38gakHXiEY0B


Something Just Like This 🎶
(Coldplay… my guilty pleasure)

#Tunestr

https://open.spotify.com/track/6RUKPb4LETWmmr3iAEQktW?si=VVR5__GCQ1qbYR7fp8_8MQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1E38gakHXiEY0B


I am glad you are well. Take the time you need. We’re going to miss you!
💜🫂


It turns out that having two glasses of wine after months is not a good idea. Let's go for the second espresso. There was nothing left but to free my human version of Alvin the squirrel.


For a starter, easy: NVDA


Now I need an espresso. I am falling 😂


I just checked. Not me.


Yes


Thank you! 🧡


Will also invest in semiconductors. Working on Saturday. Just for my friends 😉


I just orange pilled someone 🧡


I’m human 😂


Wine time 🍷


Products are literally useless if they are not used.

Developers, designers and entrepreneurs create shells

people are what bring the spark of life to a project.


PV! Have a great weekend! 💜🌻


Good morning, Tony 🌻✌


“It is value-for-value without the label, because our theory is that people want the functionality but aren't so keen on the cultural ideology.”

This is key.

The vast majority not even see what we see or know about centralised platforms.


Why are there 5.5 million people with Bluesky accounts and about 800k to 1.3M on Nostr?

Some of it boils down to social dynamics and chance. It's akin to how immigrants often cluster in the same neighborhoods. Most people are simply following their communities, and their primary decision is driven by where their community is heading.

Why did the communities choose Bluesky over Nostr, Mastodon, Farcaster, or the several dozen centralized and decentralized alternatives?

That’s a more pertinent question. Firstly, very few people actually make these decisions, and most simply follow them. Secondly, the choices aren't primarily based on the technology or the features of the apps or protocols.

Bluesky had certain advantages and disadvantages. It received a fair amount of press as a Twitter spinoff. However, it was late to launch, only preceded by Threads, which had Meta’s platforms for promotion.

In terms of initial marketing, I’d say Bluesky and Nostr were about equal, both often pitched as a ‘Jack Dorsey thing’, which wasn’t true in either case. The press loves stories about people and drama over networks and systems. Social media is vast and complex, and its technology even more so, which is why it’s often presented through personalized narratives about the creators.

Under the hood, Bluesky’s atproto and Nostr are very similar technologically. Both were inspired by Secure Scuttlebutt. Bluesky has adopted a cathedral model of open source, akin to how Android is open source but controlled by Google. Meanwhile, Nostr developed under the bazaar model of open source, created by a community rather than a company.

This company model gives Bluesky some advantages; for instance, they could launch with an invite list, a classic tactic to make something feel more desirable. Even then, most Bluesky users haven’t posted a single thing, and when they had a million registered users, they had fewer than 1500 Daily Active Users (DAU) see [bluesky stats](https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats).

Bluesky is a lot easier to try than Nostr. The ways keys and content signing work in Bluesky and Nostr are overwhelmingly similar, except that Nostr doesn’t tell you where to store your keys and in Bluesky, you put them on your PDS server, which Bluesky provided free by default for all new users.

This means for Nostr, you have to figure out what to do with your nsec and npub, then how to get a nip-05 for a Nostr name which makes sense. If you want to log in with a username and password, you need to find and set up a nip-46 service. Not all apps support that, so you’re copying and pasting around an nsec. If you want to use a web app, you need to go find and choose one of several browser extensions and set that up. This is easy and natural for folks with experience in crypto but really foreign for everyone else.

Maybe a million people have figured out how to get started on Nostr; it’s definitely possible. And some apps like Primal and Nos have integrated name services as part of the signup, which makes it cleaner.

Once you’re on Nostr, people often discuss zaps, a functionality that may not work as expected. You’ve got to learn how to set up a wallet, what lightning and Bitcoin are. Some get really into it, we’ve seen folks get into Bitcoin through Nostr, but for many, it’s a confusing hurdle.

Bluesky provides a neat way to get into a single default app and gives you a username. Sure, you can change it—I self-host my DID at rabble.nz—but apparently less than 1% of Bluesky users do that, just like most Nostr users have chosen to use a cloud service for their nip-05 Nostr name.

Why else has Bluesky grown bigger than Nostr? It's their approach to positioning the protocol. They’ve set up default moderation controls and a trust and safety team. Initially, they didn’t have these, and when users demanded action and the company refused, growth stalled and usage dropped last July. The Bluesky team didn’t post for about a month, and there was a real question about whether Bluesky would survive.

The user community wanted pretty heavy-handed moderation. The Bluesky team was committed to building a decentralized protocol that didn’t do that. The compromise was that Bluesky would be slow about opening up open federation over atproto until the Bluesky apps, protocol, and company-hosted services could have a trust and safety team and a moderation bot. Their moderation bot is fancier than @reportinator, but it’s the same idea, but with a bigger team of humans reviewing reports. And if you’re using the Bluesky-provided PDS, there’s no way to block or unfollow their default moderation bot. We don’t make everybody on Nostr follow nostr:npub14h23jzlyvumks4rvrz6ktk36dxfyru8qdf679k7q8uvxv0gm0vnsyqe2sh .

That compromise worked for the community and company, and the user base started growing again. The negative press about Bluesky's content ceased and those upset by the policies left, some migrating to Nostr. Bluesky was able to position itself as the socially responsible social media protocol that was easy to use. Jack deleted his Bluesky account, signaling to the world and press what we already knew: he is much more interested in Nostr’s approach to bottom-up development by community and support for lightning payments.

During this period, Nostr's growth really stalled. There are a few reasons for this. We'd saturated the community of folks who both love Bitcoin and dislike Elon enough to leave Twitter. Additionally, our new user experience pushed people to view a global feed dominated by a single topic of conversation.

Nostr has positioned itself strongly as a protocol for those who are freedom-loving, anti-censorship Bitcoin enthusiasts. The easiest Nostr client for new users, Primal, markets itself as a Bitcoin wallet first, and only secondarily as a social media app. People view Nostr as a Web3 project. We’ve had individuals visit the Nos.social website and decline involvement, saying they dislike Web3 because they perceive it as a planet-harming scam (let's not argue the carbon emissions of mining here). We never mention Web3 or any cryptocurrency elements on the [Nos website](https://nos.social), yet all decentralization has been associated with dubious schemes.

As Nostr’s growth has stalled, the ecosystem has matured and flourished. Nostr boasts technology and apps that other platforms envy. I often hear Bluesky and Fediverse developers express admiration for the cool things Nostr is doing with technology and apps, but since their communities don’t use it, they don’t either.

Just look at the articles my posts last week about Nostr vs. ActivityPub kicked off: [Extending ActivityPub](https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/extending-activitypub/) and [Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub](https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/)

I suspect what’s holding back Nostr is twofold. First, how we talk about Nostr. We discuss it in political and ideological terms—we're against censorship, for free speech, value-for-value, etc.—but not about the types of content and people on Nostr, how to find your friends, or the interesting stuff you followed elsewhere. Nor do we talk about how you can use all these cool apps with the same identity and content. It's a hard concept to grasp, and I find myself constantly having to explain it.

The biggest issue people see with Nostr is its perceived association with Bitcoin enthusiasts plus those who’ve been deplatformed elsewhere, often for contentious reasons. I’m not saying the deplatforming was justified, but the perception among those unfamiliar with arbitrary bans and sanctions on platforms is that those who've been deplatformed had it coming—that they were all conspiracy theorists, bigots, or harassers. Some were, some were not, but it's perceived that way by many.

The way we talk about Nostr and onboard new users doesn’t help. The goal of the creator and journalism projects we just launched was to both diversify the content on Nostr for new users and to demonstrate to those creators and journalists that micropayments and paid content on Nostr are viable alternatives/additions to how they publish on social media elsewhere. It is value-for-value without the label, because our theory is that people want the functionality but aren't so keen on the cultural ideology.

This is all solvable. We can:
- Make it easier to set up a nip-05 for new users.
- Ensure that nip-05 also functions as an nsec bunker for easy login, if users desire.
- Add Webfinger files so your nip-05 name functions as a Fediverse name (it’s pretty easy to do; we're experimenting with it on nos.social).
- Show users a variety of content types when they join.
- Help users find communities, perhaps encouraging groups/channels the way Farcaster does.
- Make it easy to find and choose moderation settings, offering more middleware services like Reportinator but with different content labeling ideas.
- Change our marketing to attract these new users, focusing on what they can see and who they can connect with, less on Bitcoin, technology, or evading censorship.
- Develop apps that offer new functionalities, drawing people in instead of being mere clones with or without certain features.

It always takes a long time for people to figure out what the native mediums are on a technology platform. Initially people would make a phone call to listen to a concert, the first radio stations had people just reading the newspaper, and the first tv broadcasts were either a camera pointed at radio announcers or a single camera shot of a play. People always do the same things, we're the same humans that evolved a couple hundred thousand years ago, same brains, same bodies. What's changed is the way we do things with technology, so what fundamental human thing can we do new and different now that we've got these social protocols and tech?

Addressing the app design and technology will help, but actual growth will come when people discover us, join, find connections, and genuinely want to invite others to join them. Nostr users are incredibly welcoming to new users. However, we also have a subset of users who engage in sexist, racist, and homophobic harassment. This harassment drives people away from Nostr and deters them from recommending it to others. If we don't provide better tools for users to protect themselves from this harassment, they'll leave and find social spaces where they feel safe. Some might abandon public social media altogether, or just switch to Bluesky, which promises to eventually open up their network and has just announced support for uploading images, coming soon.

We're way ahead of the other protocols in some areas and way behind in others. We've got enough momentum and users to figure this out, but we're not there yet.

Why has Bluesky grown bigger than Nostr?

Bluesky and Nostr, two emerging social media platforms, are navigating different growth challenges as they attempt to reshape the digital communication landscape. Bluesky, benefiting from its Twitter spinoff status and robust initial press coverage, has managed to attract 5.5 million users by positioning itself as a user-friendly, socially responsible protocol. In contrast, Nostr, with its strong ties to the Bitcoin community and a focus on anti-censorship, appeals to a more niche market of 800k to 1.3 million users. Both platforms face unique hurdles: Bluesky with its need for more inclusive moderation policies, and Nostr with the challenge of expanding its user base beyond crypto-enthusiasts and those disenfranchised by other platforms. The future of these platforms depends on their ability to innovate and adapt to the diverse needs and expectations of today’s digital citizens.


Thank you! 🌻🫂


Good morning, Derek 🌻💜🫂


Good morning! 🌻💜🫂
Have a great weekend!


It’s on Netflix too. Really good. Andrew Scott is one of my favourite actors and he doesn’t disappoint at all as Tom Ripley.


Goodnigth ✨💜🫂

Still don’t know their full extent but it feels good to use them


Well said ✌💜
Goodnigth, Derek ✨


Keep calm and HODL #Bitcoin.

Everyone seems to be overreacting to the Samourai arrests, the FBI PSA, and Phoenix leaving the US. Here's my attempt to break it down.

Samourai

You have to unpack all of the different elements. Could this be a state attack on self-custody and privacy? Maybe. Probably not.

There are a few components here that need to be evaluated on their own.

1⃣ Samourai was a self-custodial wallet
2⃣ Samourai was a mixer
3⃣ Samourai was providing normal people with privacy
4⃣ Samourai were knowingly marketing the service to criminals and flaunting that fact

Reading the charges, it seems like #4 is pretty cut and dry for this case. Their getting arrested for #4, doesn't automatically mean #1, #2, #3 are under siege as well. If Samourai was a taco stand laundering money and bragging about it, I'm sure they would be taken down too.

They may be accused of running a money transmitter now, but that may or may not stick. We'll find out in the trial.

All that said, we should always be vigilant to attempts to erode privacy and the ability to self-custody. It just does not seem that this fight is *that* fight.

FBI PSA

Seems pretty normal that the FBI would advise people to use compliant services, and the entire announcement seems to revolve around potential disruptions due to Samourai being taken down, and potentially others in the future. Given they took action, they have to post some bulletin about it.

Remember that when people lose funds or have funds stolen from them, they do go to the FBI for help. From their point of view, the best thing for people to do is use compliant services where they can potentially help.

The announcement concludes saying that services that purposely break the law will be investigated - so again we go back to #4 above. This is nothing new, and self-custody is not being criminalized.

Phoenix Leaving

As nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m said, it's feels completely unnecessary. Phoenix obviously is not a MSB and they are not doing anything illegal. In my view, their exit from the US app stores is a complete overreaction.

Keep Calm

Could "they" come after wallets, developers, mixers, nodes, LSPs, sidechains, eCash, VPNs, encryption, etc? It's totally possible. But if you're not breaking the law, you have nothing to worry about.

To my knowledge, there is still rule of law in the US, property rights are still protected, and privacy is enshrined in the Bill of Rights (nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu).

It would be very difficult to change the law or stretch it to incriminate these things because it's all just information and software, which is speech. Some will try. But as they are trying, #Bitcoin is becoming more and more mainstream and integral to the world's financial system.

#Bitcoin is freedom technology and it will continue on.

Go outside this weekend and think about why you're here.


Rebellion 🎶

#Tunestr

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In a couple days I’m going to a symposium on social media middleware. In Nostr, that’s everything that isn’t the client, the relay, or the events. All the services we’ve built around Nostr which make it work. I’m going to give a brief 5 minute talk about how we do middleware in Nostr. How we host content with media severs, how search engines work on nostr, wallets for payments, spam detection, nip-05 name servers, and moderation bots like the ever controversial @reportinator.

We spent so much time talking about how to make Nostr sucessful, what users need, and how to avoid centralization. I'm looking forward to a discussion about how we build these services in a way that's open and permissionless to operate on the network. In prep, they've collected a bunch of articles on the subject which I thought would be really helpful for people using and developing Nostr to read as well. So i'm sharing them here.

https://www.thefai.org/events/symposium-on-shaping-the-future-of-social-media-with-middleware

**Exploring the Impact of Middleware on Social Media and Digital Democracy**

Discover a series of enlightening readings that delve into the concept of middleware and its potential to reshape social media governance and enhance digital democracy. Here’s a curated list of essential articles and papers from leading experts and institutions:

- **Fukuyama et. al.** presents "Middleware for Dominant Digital Platforms: A Technological Solution to a Threat to Democracy," a Stanford Cyber Policy Center publication that explores middleware as a countermeasure to the monopolistic tendencies of major digital platforms. https://fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/cpc-middleware_ff_v2.pdf

- **Keller, 2021** discusses the practical implementation and challenges in "The Future of Platform Power: Making Middleware Work," published in the Journal of Democracy. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-future-of-platform-power-making-middleware-work/

- In another piece, **Fukuyama, 2021** extends the discussion in "The Future of Platform Power: Solving for a Moving Target," also featured in the Journal of Democracy. https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-future-of-big-tech-solving-for-a-moving-target/

- **Keller, 2021** offers a critical view on content amplification issues in "Amplification and Its Discontents," from the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/amplification-and-its-discontents

- **Lauffer & Nissenbaum, 2023** analyze the "Algorithmic Displacement of Social Trust," a significant study on the erosion of social trust by algorithmic decisions, published by the Knight First Amendment Institute. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/algorithmic-displacement-of-social-trust

- **Rozenshtein, 2023** explores decentralized social network moderation in "Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media," published in the Journal of Free Speech Law. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4213674

- From the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst, **Idpiumass, 2023** proposes a compact internet model in "The Three-Legged Stool: A Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet." https://publicinfrastructure.org/2023/03/29/the-three-legged-stool/

- **Lane, 2022** introduces "Gobo 2.0: All Your Social Media in One Place," a unified social media interface project, also from UMass Amherst. https://publicinfrastructure.org/2022/11/09/gobo-2-0-all-your-social-media-in-one-place/

- **Ovadya & Thorburn, 2023** tackle "Bridging Systems: Open problems for countering destructive divisiveness across ranking, recommenders, and governance," available through the Knight First Amendment Institute. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/bridging-systems

- **Reisman, 2023** explores broader applications of middleware in "A New, Broader, More Fundamental Case for Social Media Agent 'Middleware,'" featured on the Smartly Intertwingled Blog. https://ucm.teleshuttle.com/2023/11/a-new-broader-more-fundamental-case-for.html

- In "New Logics for Governing Human Discourse in the Online Era," **Reisman, 2024** addresses the evolving challenges in digital discourse governance, published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI https://www.cigionline.org/publications/new-logics-for-governing-human-discourse-in-the-online-era/

- **Reisman & Riley, 2022** detail forgotten foundational internet principles in "Delegation, Or, The Twenty Nine Words That The Internet Forgot," available on TechPolicyPress. https://www.techpolicy.press/delegation-or-the-twenty-nine-words-that-the-internet-forgot/

- **Thorburn, Bengani, & Stray, 2022** break down the mechanics of platform recommenders in "How Platform Recommenders Work," published on Medium. https://medium.com/understanding-recommenders/how-platform-recommenders-work-15e260d9a15a

- **Newitz, 2023** imagines historical enthusiasm for modern platforms in "Ben Franklin Would Have Loved Bluesky," featured in The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/social-media-centralism-fediverse/674041/

- **Masnick, 2019** advocates for a foundational shift in "Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech," a pivotal piece from the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

- **Whitt, 2021** delves into digital autonomy in "Hacking the SEAMs: Elevating Digital Autonomy and Agency for Humans," published in the Colorado Technology Law Journal. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I8IAxowzYIq1tH_BfA0y2yKY3z2ydCMu/view

- **Stasi, 2023** discusses competitive approaches to free speech in "Social media markets: A pro-competitive approach to free speech challenges," from Tilburg University. https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/social-media-markets-a-pro-competitive-approach-to-free-speech-ch

- **Reisman, 2023** examines privacy solutions in "How Third-Party Social Media Middleware Can Protect Contextual Privacy," available through TechPolicyPress. https://techpolicy.press/how-third-party-social-media-middleware-can-protect-contextual-privacy/

- Lastly, **Ovadya, 2022** discusses "Bridging-Based Ranking" at the Belfer Center, focusing on middleware and addressing centralization. This piece includes references to connected publications on platform democracy. https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/bridging-based-ranking

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the critical discussions around middleware, offering various perspectives on how technology can be leveraged to foster a more democratic and user-empowering digital environment.


I don't know what I missed during my afternoon, but it doesn't matter.

Good night! Have a good rest ✨


A solution that "works for me" is never enough when the battle is for network-effect.


The “AND THEN THEY FIGHT YOU” phase was ALWAYS part of the path of a successful bitcoin.


Perfect timing 😂


💯 nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5 is a machine. His dedication to building and improving Nostr is impressive and almost unmatched. He truly wants the protocol to succeed and is doing whatever it takes to make it happen. 🙏🏼 nostr:note1nyy9knx5wt9t8grkwmh626u7xczavh4hskxxza8dctwp3h8vvypq7p388h


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That’s right. No more no less.


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Many bitcoiners think establishment powers are now in the "and then they join you" phase of the struggle.

I don't. I think they're more entering the earlier "and then they fight you" phase.

Or more specifically, they are happy to join in on the price exposure side (i.e. ETFs), but they are fighting against privacy (especially) and self-custody (to some extent). The struggle for financial privacy, custody, and overall self-autonomy is just heating up.

The gradual shift of critics from "bitcoin is a useless speculative asset with no intrinsic value" to "bitcoin is so powerful that direct usage of it must be curtailed" can be dangerous.

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"The imperial boomerang or Foucault's boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang


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Happy Friday!


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I think Nostr needs some optimism this week.


I have thought about it. On Mixcloud.


Super!


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Mr. Blue Sky 🎶

#Tunestr

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And a very hardworking actress


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Thank you! I would have loved to be there but I went with my children to the cinema 🫶


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Exit Music 🎶

#Tunestr #Jazz

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We hope so too!

Primal followed  nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft's lead on this. I think  nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x was the first client to implement the top zaps feature.


Introducing Top Zaps

We just released an update to all Primal clients. You’ll notice that we now render several top zaps at the bottom of each note. The top zapper gets their zap message displayed. Brevity is enforced: we only allow room for 4-5 short words. Anyone can zap any note and include any message. Note author can mute abusive users and keep their sats. Let’s see how this goes!

https://m.primal.net/HzmQ.mp4


The Landlord’s Game (Monopoly)
Meet Lizzie Magie
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/obituaries/lizzie-magie-overlooked.html


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When I talk about correcting narratives, I am not talking about attacking the weaknesses of the current system but rather making those of the new system visible, of the benefit for the average people. We must always remember that what is evident to one is not necessarily evident to others.


Privacy is not a topic of interest for a large majority because it is not visible or media relevant, except is related to manipulation in electoral periods. This has allowed the creation of narratives that give financial control over transactions not related to any illicit activity, but that allow better tax collection for the states. I think that part of the counteroffensive should also be to correct that narrative and educate about privacy. We should not underestimate the power of a story.


Privacy is normal and good.

There has been an effort among authorities to make “money laundering” and “financial privacy” the same thing. That is, the mere act of moving money privately itself becomes a crime. That’s not okay.

Money laundering is when money that is obtained through crime is concealed by obfuscating it with clean money. The actual crime is the initial non-financial crime (say, mob stuff), and historically money laundering involves manual activity to work with the criminals.

Now that open source tech can make certain transactions private, authorities increasingly equate all private money transfer with money laundering, even if the developer of the open source tech had no direct involvement with criminals. Authorities target them regardless, and sanction the technology itself. Financial privacy becomes synonymous with crime in their minds, and in the minds of the public.


The entire developed world tax apparatus that was built in the 20th century and extends into the 21st century depends on ubiquitous financial surveillance.

They are not going to give that up without a fight. I have been saying at a number of conferences and podcasts that privacy is the main battleground for the next decade.

Back in the 19th century and before, money was mostly private. There were plenty of dictators but there was no major method of surveilling all transactions. Therefore things like broad income taxes were untenable to enforce.

But in the 20th century as money increasingly moved around at the speed of light, people needed bank accounts to keep up. It wasn’t all forced on them; they chose it. And those bank accounts were centralized, surveillable, and ruggable.

This allowed authorities to switch to income taxes, which require ubiquitous financial surveillance to work. And ultimately it allowed them to switch to fiat currency altogether.

Now in the 21st century, Bitcoin and its various layers allow people to hold and move around money globally without permissioned banks. They can do so peer to peer, or they can do so with custodians and open layers, etc. Unlike the base layer of fiat, the base layer of bitcoin is permissionless.

But this represents a threat to the entire current system of taxation and financial control. If bitcoin and particularly various private methods on top of it were to be adopted at massive scale, the entire tax structure and other things would need to reshape themselves around that reality. And so they won’t make it easy; they will try to criminalize financial privacy as much as possible while the network is still pretty small.

The only solutions are to 1) make privacy tech so ubiquitous that it can’t be isolated and can spread organically in a distributed way and 2) to apply legal pressure when possible so that governments sort of have to operate within the bounds of their own law, like the 1st and 4th amendments.


I thought about that at one point, but then I discovered that the notes were disappearing. Don't the relayd already have an expiration date for the notes?


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The indictment against the alleged Samourai Wallet (SW) operators was unsealed today. A few friends have been asking for my opinion on it and my channels are blowing up. I used to serve in law enforcement as a detective that specialized in cybercrime and blockchain analysis. The following information may be useful or interesting to some.

Reading through the Department of Justice’s press release and the indictment itself, here are my initial thoughts:

There are plenty of examples of past investigations resulting in arrests/convictions related to the operation of custodial mixing services, with Bitcoin Fog being the one in recent news. With a service taking custody of funds and moving funds between other people/users, they are likely going to be considered a money service business. And if a money service business doesn’t block Americans from using the service, the US Department of Treasury will require the operators of that service to register with them and follow their compliance regulations. Many foreigners have been arrested in foreign jurisdictions in order to be prosecuted in the US with an American judge and jury for allegedly violating federal American laws (read that sentence twice).

With these sorts of cases, you are typically dealing with the idea that a service didn’t register correctly and follow compliance regulations. And then the other idea is that the operator of the service knew and allowed funds to move through it that would be considered “illicit” or “sanctioned.”

Examples of illicit funds may be proceeds from illegal drug sales or funds stolen from someone. The sanction piece can involve entities, such as particular Bitcoin addresses, individuals, companies, or countries, using the service or receiving from the service. The US federal government maintains a sanction list.

The above summary has been an on-going fight on privacy, censorship, and regulatory overreach for a while. It isn’t new (and Roman Sterlingov should be free). SW’s indictment is different from the situation I summarized above though.

SW was a non-custodial service. This means that users controlled (their private keys to) their funds themselves and the service provider (SW) allowed the coordination between users through its infrastructure, such as the app, the server, the continued development, etc. This makes this case much more interesting and more concerning to me.

Regarding the first count against the men: Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering. The SW indictment alleges that SW was a service that provided “large-scale money laundering and sanctions evasion.” So we are talking about users using illicit funds with the service and sanctioned entities using or receiving from the service. And we are talking about the SW coordinators “conspiring” with the relevant users to do this.

The indictment is constantly referring to SW as an “application” that is conducting or facilitating the mixing through a “centralized coordinator server.” Who controls the application and server? Allegedly the two men named in the indictment.

When it comes to SW’s Whirlpool service: Through their server, their application is selecting the inputs. Their application is communicating information between all users necessary for the mixing to occur. Their application is using the private keys on behalf of the users. Their application is broadcasting the mixing transactions to the Bitcoin network. The picture the indictment is painting is that the application and server are essentially doing the money laundering, as opposed to the users using the service. Similar verbiage and logic are used to describe SW’s Ricochet service too (adding hops to a send you intend to do).

The above summary is the most shocking piece of the indictment, in my opinion. The implications of this reach beyond Bitcoin-related apps and services. Think of the apps and services, just in general, that a user could use to engage in criminal behavior. Now think of arresting the developers/creators for what the user did.

Regarding the second indictment against the men: Conspiracy to Operate an Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business. The indictment says the SW operators were “involved in the transportation and transmission of funds intended to be used to promote and support unlawful activity.” There isn’t any mention or consideration of custody of funds in this. The logic of the indictment: Some users may have used SW’s application and server for “unlawful activity” and therefore, SW was involved in the unlawful activity. Again, this is a scary precedent. Think of the applications and servers out there right now that users may be using for unlawful activity.

There are many mentions apparently from the coordinators themselves that address the knowledge and intent element (important for a criminal trial). The SW operators were obviously passionate about financial privacy and resisting compliance regulations. Their messages (especially with their style of messaging) will be easy to spin/take literally, even if the coordinators were just trying to be edgy with their marketing/brand. The SW coordinators did not help themselves in this regard.

I think the government will focus a lot on the coordinator’s knowledge and intent of the service being used for illegal activity. I believe this is how the government will “limit” the scope of the precedence and how it will try to differentiate the SW service from others.

Regarding the illicit funds/sanctions piece: The blockchain analysis showing funds from Dark Web markets that sell illegal drugs flowing into SW’s Whirlpool will be easy for the prosecution. The same goes with sanctioned entities sending to or receiving from SW’s Whirlpool. It will also be easy to show funds flowing from known hacks, exploits, and/or thefts flowing into SW’s Whirlpool. The government will need to prove the men knew this was happening and that they facilitated it by providing the SW application and server. Their mouths may be their downfall on this one, but I think it is pretty clear that the SW operators’ intent was to provide a neutral financial privacy tool that didn’t control user funds, leaving the responsibility of the use of those funds on the users themselves.

With the logic in this case, I wonder if it will be argued that blockchain analysis companies are also culpable since they surely had their own funds being mixed in SW’s Whirlpool to collect data points. Were their funds facilitating illegal activity? Or were their funds facilitating financial privacy in general? (Maybe facilitating privacy was just the byproduct of having the chance to trace through exclusions.)

Overall, the case leads to some interesting questions.

Is a wallet software and developer a money service business now? How about a full node? These both facilitate the transmission of funds too. The implications of this case are not good for privacy or code. I’m ready to donate to the defense.


Jack got bluesky funded when he was CEO Twitter, it’s an independent public benefit corporation which has since received VC investment. As far as I know Jack never contributed code to bluesky. I do know that from our Odeo days many eons ago, that he’s an incredibly talented programmer. He’s CEO of a publicly traded company and that requires a lot of meetings and interruptions of your work day which makes coding hard.

When it comes to Nostr? He’s also not contributed any code that i’m aware of. His github account doesn’t show any activity, which we’d see if he contributed code to Nostr.  https://github.com/jackjack

What he has contributed to Nostr is both immaterial and material. Jack’s attention on Nostr helped elevate it from a project a few bitcoiners and enthusiasts of social media protocols knew about to something that Elon tried to block and a lot of people started paying attention to. Then Jack started providing material support with funds to fiatjaf to share with the community, funding the conferences, and endowing the OpenSats fund with money to pay developers. This support’s been a huge boost to making sure Nostr matures and develops by providing time for developers and designers to really focus on Nostr projects.

I spent years working on Secure Scuttlebutt which was an inspiration for Nostr, and it didn’t have funding to support the developer community. We’d constantly get great dev’s, designers, and community members in who would contribute for a while, then have to quit in order to work to support themselves. Earlier this month one of the cores of the community, Andre Staltz had to stop working on it in order to focus on doing dev contracts to pay his bills.

https://www.manyver.se/blog/2024-04-05

Nostr doesn’t suffer from that cycle of burnout, and it’s amazing.