GM, this morning is a podcast morning.

Politicians won’t save you, but it helps everyone when we educate them as individuals. nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx doing good work. AG gives a great definition of Bitcoin for a nocoiner.

Every angle.

https://fountain.fm/episode/7DB5OtocwJqP8blcuLMK


Ah. It worked when I tapped the highlighted copy. I was trying to tap the “highlighted jb55” text. Sounds great though 🤙


🤩 beautiful shot!!


nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s is there any way to navigate from the highlight post to the original note? Tapping doesn’t do anything and replying doesn’t automatically include the OP


we are all frens now


I just gave a friend an update on what Nostr is and showed a bunch of apps in the ecosystem. Showing how fast it is and how all of these apps use the same identity and data but are different in their focus. He has been around the space of social media protocols for years but he was blown away.

We’ve really got something amazing. We need to do a better job of show and telling the story. It’s not about just zaps or censorship resistance or the way we’re doing web of trust moderation. We’ve built something which works really well. It fulfills the dream of the early days of the internet, web, and Web 2.0. An open interoperable internet, by and for the users.

As an aside, yes bitcoin is part of it, but it’s so politicalized that some people dismiss nostr as that bitcoin social media protocol. We see people join nostr and through it discover bitcoin, that’s the path to wide adoption.


Big fomo


These cool ads are all over Riga 👀 If you are already here and manage to spot one post it on a note and tag us 🙏

Let’s get all of #Nostr hyped up about Riga Bitcoin Week!

https://m.primal.net/JzHn.mov


Congratulations - well deserved


Announcing $1.3m pre-seed investment from  nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and
Asymmetric VC in SimpleX Chat 🚀

https://simplex.chat/blog/20240814-simplex-chat-vision-funding-v6-private-routing-new-user-experience.html

Also SimpleX Chat v6.0 stable is now released with the new user experience and private message routing – details in the post.


#blooming 😂 nostr:note19y0eu6xk05x7pu6j4cce289e46py2sfuk66w8de4n8ukkd4grygqq096hl


“For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”


I don’t have kids of my own yet, but halfway through reading - even knowing that a “but” was coming - I felt protective of your child.

Your reaction was natural, even if it wasn’t okay, and your feelings about it now are demonstrative that your heart is good. If the moment presents itself in the next couple days, let the boy’s mom (and perhaps the boy as well) know how awful you feel about it.

It could be that he acts out because someone has treated him badly, or because he hasn’t had someone model “right” behavior. It may even be formative (in a good way) for him to see your vulnerability and concern for him. Again, if the vibe is right.

Ultimately, it’s okay. And even though it was a mistake, your daughter knows without question now that if anybody ever actually messes with her, they’re sure as hell not going to get away with it.

🫂


Oh my friend 🥹🙏🕉🤍


That is a very exciting prospect. I love filters on stuff.

(Spent five minutes trying to find the right “getting a hard-on” meme, but they all seemed too sexual).

Needless to say, LFG


Fax


😮

It worked

Dope. I can find the highlight in my feed; will there eventually be a place to view my highlights (or all the highlights from anyone I follow), within Damus? Like a tab under Bookmarks, or a filter on the Following feed?


select text, press arrow to right to see highlight option


I did this to myself (and doubtless, my parents) many, many times growing up.

Karma will be a biatch


Maybe try nostr:npub1kwcatqynqmry9d78a8cpe7d882wu3vmrgcmhvdsayhwqjf7mp25qpqf3xx


Reminded me of this old gem https://image.nostr.build/aebdbc366e93be400d08f7cf3b722b5f7dbf92fc6ab586bbcf573d71405ab815.jpg  nostr:note1x2np0ngpyymxp0r0c62szaqta6duu2e0272d4ql6zvazk68mr87sttglxg


Yay how


Loki wrote a book? 🔥


Drunk Chess is amazing


🎵 Nostr’ing in the fiat mines 🎵


Yay


I’d stack a couple of them


Good morning cat friend


Took a couple absurdly good photos of the breathtaking sky after a heavy rain, a couple weeks back. No filters (or any edits) besides a crop or two.

#nature #artstr #photography #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/54d8eb0caff5189b3fb1ac7b92d3fe19e88e5d0786e57eec167cf320f75013f1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1cfc38dbf088df7df8ab6ad1127afe054496fda35b53dcd67ec004743a392e72.jpg


Good morning Mark!


#yestr


Ah, got it. That’s an easy one then.

Gotta say I haven’t laughed that hard during a podcast (nor written down as many “one-line insights”) in quite a while. Lots of fun 🤙


Yes - depending on the client. Damus (which is my primary client, especially for posting anything) doesn’t have a delete or edit tool, but I know other social clients do. Amethyst, for one, I believe. It also has drafts which is kind of nice


🤝

Many of us here share that dream with you. Good answer 🔥


Last night’s early bedtime was brought to you in part by really good Grenache.

This morning’s headache is supported by our friends at Big Basin Vineyards.

Today’s work accomplishments are made possible by a very large cold brew, and viewers like you. Thank you.

Good morning 🫠

#winechain #coffeechain #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/48bec3092799a24bd2d84d8fbf250753521759724676dbf8ad2853e69f3873a6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/277f5cea59e0213889695a41c5b20a39988636fb9b5373a8e747f81907c8b43a.jpg


An APK outside of the Google play store would be very valuable 🫡


🤤

I’ll be right over


Depends. If your client offers a “request delete” feature, and all of your relays respect that event type, and your note has not yet been broadcasted to any relays that don’t respect it, you could try to delete it…

🤭

The real answer is, embrace the authenticity 🤜💥🤛


😂😂😂 this is hysterical


Or nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf ? nostr:note1067pnpsadwdhrj0h2sjuwt87psarp3j874sxauml7myry5ll5t3qjx2jkx


I can go back and check if this doesn’t track; there’s a small chance it was actually nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf instead 🤔

I’ve been enjoying some excellent wine with a burger and podcast while wifey’s away, so there have definitely been a few moments where I thought one rather of the other of you were speaking


A fairly epic What Bitcoin Did episode that I’m enjoying in place of some Twitter interview nonsense 🤙

Somewhere around an hour in, when Peter’s talking about how capitalism has led to many of today’s positive advancements


You’re crushing it


G’night buddy


“Free market principles are fundamentally different from capitalism”

- nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs , could you explain this one?


Agreed! They’re playful, smart, and so comical sometimes


Oof. Arrived just in time for my 8am, when I realized it starts at 9…..

Definitely Monday 😵💫

Guess I get to spend the next hour doing nostr-y things. Glass half full.


Ha, at this rate I’m gonna need that


GM my friend!


Two of five new frens 🦝

#nature #grownostr https://video.nostr.build/b1359c0a661000e8a335b853409db9700c0b102b39b63208f637ea85ee6184a6.mp4


Is four hours of sleep enough for a Monday?

GM 🫠 nostr:note185mr0k23ufh36ym83p9aj45yglu0csa3fk3dc75uu6n0stpdvpaq3fnw8j


I’m so damn tired, I almost forgot to say goodnight.

Had a delightful weekend, including the discovery of at least four young raccoons, cute af. Videos later/tm 🦝

Goodnight 🫂


Can confirm: low volume of sats can efficiently be swapped between LN and on-chain

Higher fee than Boltz.exchange, but that’s because Boltz is very reasonable. (Difference of ~1.5K sats to send 10K, vs ~800 sats for the same swap)

Still, a useful tool 🤙


G’night Connie 🫂


Not sure what the acronym stands for, but presumably, yeah. Everyone should be better to one another. Regardless of social group or subculture or religion or race or political leanings, I believe that if we all worked toward more of the following, we’d all be better off:

More love
Less hate
More generosity
Less envy
More kindness
Less scorn

More Nostr


Absolutely. It’s been extraordinary seeing it take shape here, and it’s been inspiring.

It’s also incredibly early, and the “niche-ness” of Nostr insulates the community from the sheer volume of negativity that exists on the rest of the internet

I hope that building the community, the clients, the relay selections and algorithms, slowly (in a sense) creates the time and space for solidifying this quality of digital social interaction.

In other words, a combination of “who got here first and what culture is being built” along with “what tools and systems are developed and what incentives do they create” will shape the directions that Nostr goes/grows in, if and when “the masses” start to arrive


GM

Grow Nostr https://image.nostr.build/9ac4bdd8ac6e4c00d768f97ecf095e4640d56864b366a5fcf1cf56a5740dfb8b.jpg  nostr:note18kyltqvdz20uhrz6yhek46hynd7n3jj0wj0kyjwu64url35tlkks6swtps


Gm Paul 🤜💥🤛

Hope you’ve been well, sir


Great times 🤝🤙


Welp, we stayed up until 3am… whoops 🥱🥱🥱💤

lol goodnight


🌽👂🙉🤣

Lyn, epic, you’ve successfully inspired a Nostr Cycle: a 24-48 hour period where a new topic (usually a meme, sometimes a heartfelt post, or a heated/controversial discussion) takes over the chronological stream-of-collective-consciousness feed that is Nostr.

Other content exists, but feels almost silly to post at the time — why talk about the thing you did at work when nobody will notice, because we’re absolutely and collectively losing it over a clever meme… Post about the newborn chickens tomorrow — today, it’s #earstr 😂

Well done. It’s a great one 🤝

Btw - I know you’ve spent plenty of time here, and I’m sure you’re perfectly familiar with the cycle, so I hope this didn’t come off as mansplainin’. I found it quite funny to notice the “cycle” shortly after it launched, in real-time. Showing up and seeing post after post with ear references, knowing “welp it’s started again” and finding the source in your earlier post was a real treat.


That’s a great feeling - way to go!

Yes I’ve been great! Busy as can be, but all good things. Glad it’s the weekend 🤙


As more people join nostr, my hope is manufactured narrative about how different we all are will be replaced by the fact that despite some very loud edges of the bell curve, most people are generally good, reasonable, and able to get along.

The absence of toxic, angry algorithms opens a door to this, because instead of being incentivized to post divisive content, the pure incentive (with no algorithm) is to post what I think most others really want to see: authenticity. It’s ok to disagree, just be real about it. Be humble, and open to being wrong.

Zaps further feed this incentive structure, when you realize you are giving up the scarcest asset ever held, you make it count and don’t spend it on petty bullshit.

And when a “marketplace of algorithms” comes into being, we can all choose the configurations that are right for ourselves. We’ll probably learn a lot about ourselves and each other, and the actual assholes on either extreme of the sociocultural spectrum will find themselves silo’d into their own little echo chambers, where the only way to get out is to return to a vibration where other people actually want to hang out with them.

Maybe I’m an optimist 🤷♂ but I see so much potential here.

#bloomscrolling (I think)


When that angry, powerful part comes up, try greeting it with kindness and understanding. Of course it makes sense that it’s here, to protect you and those you love from being hurt again. Even if its method isn’t the “right” way, it makes sense why these feelings arise: this part of you is trying to help in its own way, even if it doesn’t see the full picture. From that knowledge, notice how you feel toward this part.

I have found profound depths of Self/Love through learning to welcome and embrace the parts of myself that want to fight or run. To recognize them as childlike, young, well-intentioned but uninformed, trying to look out for my best interests in the only way that part knows how.

🫂


I'd say you're onto something there. Who needs to follow the teachings, when all you have to do is repent?! If you think you were born by the all loving and divine as a lowly a sinner, what can you do, but sin?

Who needs to work on anything when ultimately all you have to do is submit to the system?

IMO, it's best to focus on embodying the teachings of the great masters and drop the system organized around the dregs they left behind.

A short anecdote..

Duke Hwan and the Wheelwright
Taken from a text called "The Way of Chuang Tzu" as translated by the philosopher-monk Thomas Merton:

Duke Hwan of Khi,
First in his dynasty,
Sat under his canopy
Reading his philosophy;
And Phien the wheelwright
Was out in the yard
Making a wheel.
Phien laid aside
Hammer and chisel,
Climbed the steps,
And said to Duke Hwan:
"May I ask you , Lord,
What is this you are
Reading?"
The Duke said:
"The experts. The Authorities."
And Phien asked:
"Alive or Dead?"
"Dead a long time."
"Then," said the wheelwright,
"You are reading only
The dirt they left behind."
Then the Duke replied:
"What do you know about it?
You are only a wheelwright.
You had better give me a good explanation
Or else you must die."
The Wheelwright said:
"Let us look at the affair
From my point of view.
When I make wheels
If I go easy, they fall apart,
If I am too rough, they do not fit.
If I am neither too easy not too violent
They come out right. The work is what
I want it to be.
You cannot put this into words"
You just have to know how it is.
I cannot even tell my own son exactly how it is done,
And my own son cannot learn it from me.
So here I am, seventy years old,
Still making wheels!
The men of old
Took all they really knew
With them to the grave.
And so, Lord, what you are reading there
is only the dirt they left behind them."

https://i.nostr.build/yfaaSZYWLLOdX1EQ.png


This is a good one. There’s a quote, I believe by Basho, that a sweet old master once shared with me, before she passed away 🤍

“Do not follow the footsteps of the ancient great. Seek what they sought.”

This was the wisdom she offered me, on a scroll of handwritten Japanese calligraphy, while I was getting ready to move away from home after graduating high school (and earning Shodan) at the martial arts school where she studied and taught.

“The map is not the territory” is another way I’ve heard it put. Helpful, certainly, but limited.

Thanks for going deep on this one with me, friend 🙏😌🫂


When I try hanging out with Jesus energy, it’s all open love and warm vibes. As with a small handful of history’s other spiritual leaders. Not sure where so many of us got so off-track with Christianity, but I’m pretty sure the *centralized institution* aspect of religion, and the incentive model that goes along with influence and power, must have something to do with it…


Not sure what you mean. I’m suggesting people should be good to one another.


Thank you for the clarification 🙏


Good thinkin’


Thank you for the word of wisdom 🙏


For fuck’s sake can we please just not https://video.nostr.build/df1e5ef0f7ff0ca6bb4d4da23d73952f660ff5e3eb20a8f6f905c8d6124a631a.mp4


Only zaps


Thanks brother 🙏🫡


Nice!

How much is known about this tool in terms of developer background, privacy, etc.?


If you lose internet connectivity would, can that force-close a Lightning channel? Or would the node simply be offline..?

#asknostr #lightning

Cc nostr:npub1hxfkcs9gvtm49702rmwn2aeuvhkd2w6f0svm4sl84g8glhzx5u9srk5p6t


Another question - I did read somewhere that StartOS requires a wired internet connection. Would I actually need the laptop connected via Ethernet cable, or would connecting to my home WiFi suffice?

(Again, with the knowledge that WiFi is imperfect with regard to uptime).


Ooh, that’s cool. So when I want to run StartOS, I plug the external drive into the laptop and choose to boot from there?

I recognize that a large part of the point of a home server is being online all/most of the time, especially when it comes to nodes and data backups, but just trying to get my bearings and understand what I’m doing before I do it.

Ideally it would be “plug in HD and run StartOS on laptop constantly, but the option to go back to my old laptop’s content exists if needed”. Although at that point, I may as well just back up the laptop to the external drive, install StartOS on the laptop, run that 24/7, and if I need the old computer’s data I can just connect the external drive to my current machine. Less trouble (and fewer boxes and cables) that way, I’d think.


Anyone have better ideas than my reply?

#asknostr nostr:note1wre2tt20z4njee793rz92uephrvlf2urvgmmkvhgdlep298cwr0s7rgdwv


If you have your sats in Phoenix wallet (among others) you can pay directly to an on-chain address. I believe it’s a channel splice, at least when you receive to Phoenix on-chain, so it you’ll retain one unified Lightning channel but it would decrease your total capacity some.

What I’m not certain of, and where I’ve been unpleasantly surprised in the past, is how much your Lightning capacity is reduced when you send to an on-chain address.

It may be that it only reduces your capacity by approximately the amount you send out, plus some wiggle room, or it may be that it diminishes to just accommodate your current balance plus some extra space.

So if you have a 1M sat channel with a lot of inbound capacity, and you send on-chain with a small Lightning balance (say 100K sats) remaining, it’s possible that your total channel capacity drops to ~120K sats. Or it could be that it just goes to 980K, and I’m frankly not certain.

On the plus side, with fees as low as they are, it’s not that big a deal — you can just send another 900K sats to your Phoenix address and it will splice in to reopen the full capacity.

But I did this when fees were high, and ended up paying a lot. (On-chain fee to send the sats, on-chain fee to shrink the channel, on-chain fee to send more sats to Phoenix and another on-chain fee to splice in and increase my channel capacity again). Today that probably costs a couple thousand sats at most. At the time I think it was upwards of 40K in fees.

Anyway, it works 🫡


Aw sheet


😂 excellent


I would want to sit there and listen to it for about 20-30 minutes and just melt into the serene clarity that this video implies.

Then, yeah, I’d jump the F in


Exercise is exceptional medicine


Same. Mouth full of dip all the way 🤙

(I’m kidding, yuck)


Enjoy, brother!


Where can you do this and can you buy them with usd?


LFG!


I have an old MacBook on which I might like to try installing StartOS.

I would save the contents of the computer to an external hard drive first, but here’s what I’m wondering:

When installing a new OS on an existing machine, does it replace the old OS and all the contents? Or does it create a “split” of sorts, such that when you boot up the computer you can choose which OS to run, and access all the content on the specified system?

Just trying to figure out if I’ll be able to “use” the old MacBook as it was, after I install StartOS, or if it’s a complete overhaul and “no going back”, in which case I’d be much more careful about backing up the old hard drive.

#asknostr

nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll nostr:npub1j87rgjtftxaux3xd5nhthwavm3907ywnu8x0z0uywqntsv57vajshl3hzx


More love
Less hate
More generosity
Less envy
More kindness
Less scorn

More Nostr


When that angry, powerful part comes up, try greeting it with kindness and understanding. Of course it makes sense that it’s here, to protect you and those you love from being hurt again. Even if its method isn’t the “right” way, it makes sense why these feelings arise: this part of you is trying to help in its own way, even if it doesn’t see the full picture. From that knowledge, notice how you feel toward this part.

I have found profound depths of Self/Love through learning to welcome and embrace the parts of myself that want to fight or run. To recognize them as childlike, young, well-intentioned but uninformed, trying to look out for my best interests in the only way that part knows how.

🫂


Hey Siddh!


Mornin!


Dear Nostr,

GM

That is all


Look closely at the pictures. Pretty sure they’re AI

A valid point nonetheless, of course


Beautiful


GN nostriches 🫂🥱💜🫂😴😴😴


Chaos agent, that’s me 🫡


I’m just here to cause trouble, you know that


Dope ink


Stepping outside my norm and trying this over the weekend #honeywine #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/36925217b1b89ad2bd27efb15919ef9985cfe07e53a64f08ce4acf4d615de700.jpg


Great episode. Got a nice long nap this afternoon - thanks again 🥱😴


Sparrow with ColdCard 🤝


So good! Been listening to them on nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg  this week


Thanks Semi - good advice


“Shit outta luck” hahaha


For the most part, yeah - if your nsec is compromised, you’re S.O.L.

Some very clever devs have been working on things like “nsec bunker” which (if I understand correctly) uses your nsec to authorize additional keypairs to sign events “as you”, with the idea that you’ll want to have multiple digital identities for different purposes.

It’s very very early


This is a very good recommendation: relays where you can pay for long-term storage

If you’re technically literate/advanced, you could also run a private relay and ensure all of your posts are sent there.


None in my feed for the hashtag. Are you connected to any relays that filter out spam? What about disabling NSFW content on the client? (I know Damus supports this, not sure which others).

Either it’s relays, or they are all accounts I muted in the past lol


Cheers friend!


Haha yeah! I think the devs ( nostr:npub1qlkwmzmrhzpuak7c2g9akvcrh7wzkd7zc7fpefw9najwpau662nqealf5y and nostr:npub18kzz4lkdtc5n729kvfunxuz287uvu9f64ywhjz43ra482t2y5sks0mx5sz ) are just oenophiles. Great relay though nonetheless!

Hope you’ve been good, E 🫂


Thanks! I did 😁


Cheers homie


Ohh! I wondered because when I was checking your links in the thread, I found the schematic but not the actual checkout. That ‘splains it 😂

Thanks brother!


😂😂 thanks bae


My love affair with Fold goes back many moons


It’s after 5:00 somewhere…..

(here, right now)

#winechain #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/411ff012903af6fca5330eb74c5d9bd8ad170720c4e2c91cedb55a6768b83acf.jpg


Itching to stack sats but gotta pay rent. Fuuuuuuuuuuuu

https://media1.tenor.com/m/Rt5-pEJHt04AAAAC/fuck-damn.gif


Missed you too 💜🫂🫂 hope you’ve been well!

That I’ve watched this year…

Boy and the Heron was pretty extraordinary and got me feeling all sorts of things. I’ll go with that


Queue the bots to watch these addresses


Thanks friend!


Aw haha lucky indeed! I created this nsec in Damus in December ‘22 and have never stuck it anywhere else. Hoping to keep it that way and not lose my stuff! lol (knock on wood)


Far better than lottery. You got this. https://image.nostr.build/8e0fa0c199be61b6eda91554e1157dce88ba9afae3564b7f9cef37431b4d8c13.jpg


I’m over here trying to zap coworkers on Slack ⚡

I think that means we’re overdue for a #zapathon


I’ve always had trouble keeping orchids alive (never mind in bloom). This beauty is still thriving (although she’s taking a break from flowering — everyone needs to take a break from dressing up once in a while).

I love these wild-looking air roots, & her new bonsai-esque shape 😍🪴

#plantstr #photography #nature #orchid #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/94831b607549d0250954afea39eaba235d3664b7ddeaa21a432384e058aae46a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6859ed3c335c752a163dd240b56d4c0c32f6e5831565fe60ec2244a8f5e31619.jpg  nostr:note1cka9lw3zw6knfenwkvje8fjy4ft3tttpgq4kc9dyc8dsf2pdq5kqplsscp


Going through my nostr bookmarks. Still an all-timed favorite 😂 nostr:note1kv8tnjep4fwdng7zagc35u8s397vu3vl6laf6f49xjn9crkmym2q3nj6zr


Reflections and perspective, zooming out.

#artstr
#photography
#grownostr

No edits to these, other than a crop or two. https://image.nostr.build/2e79fd2ffdf1f62a247231c9fbea354a030dda046548fb28b98dbad342b8aa3b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ae459895be269f841a13b57f32ca051e747fbef8e7f762c0e3e76f472495b9b4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b84a2e7c85b92c094d38849049f696c5451ca482741a3ff3c019bac75c6aa545.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1031cd2b0063fa55400667006eb86599c44e364b644b279cb6031385f8fb4cb2.jpg


Phil where did you order this beautiful case?


That I watched this year or that was released

Nice to see you homie 🫂 been a minute


Dude wtf how did you guess my 12 words AND passphrase 😳😞😞😞


Sweet, thanks Terry!

How would a user find a particular event (pre search bar)? If I’m not in the CLI to go through the primal relay… or did you just scroll the client til you found it? Lol


I had a feeling - I noticed the reductions recently. Is this decision based around regulatory compliance and reducing your exposure to that sort of risk? (Makes sense if so, but curious whether it’s that or more a need to build sustainability/monetization, or both)


MORE CLIENTS SHOULD SUPPORT DISPOSABLE NPUBS. AMETHYST IS LEADING THE WAY HERE. WOULD BE THE SINGLE BIGGEST PRIVACY WIN FOR ONLINE SPEECH ACROSS THE BOARD.

NORMALIZE SINGLE USE DISPOSABLE IDENTITIES. AS THE REST OF THE INTERNET MOVES TOWARD LINKING EVERY ACTION TO LEGAL IDENTITIES, NOSTR REPRESENTS A BRIGHTER PATH.


Like the shoes?


Sweet dreams, nostriches 🫂


Hey Paulo!


Legs and core and core and core hahaha


Thanks brother 🫂 it sure does feel that way

It was initially a minor stretching injury, but coupled with a lot of stressors ended up impacting a lot more. Healing is, well, it’s very healing 💜


It would be an honor to be introduced


Good morning friends & fam (because who am I kidding, some of you are basically family by now 🫂)

🌇

I’m beginning to process how good it feels to be back in a gym. After spending most of my twenties dealing with the effects of an old injury and residual pain, this is a profound moment and it’s really just starting to hit me 😳🥹💜💪 https://image.nostr.build/ee5ed5589e75b15cfb11390ccab186fcb9d02ca42bbd6e0094dc6d9ab68e6029.jpg


That’s sweet of you nostr:npub16lp6fsj0qn0u633zahgghzq7qnvx2ucsu83gn6ccrsgqal5d23aqfj7f6q , but unfortunately I won’t be able to make it. Serious FOMO — we’ve talked about attending one of the Riga conferences next year though…

Yo nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 & nostr:npub1jrcfyw8n298jf83txvlxzx0w7jtfwqs0j4ha0dnn9ns33hgm209sqejdcc — that’s a dope Damoose!! 😁🤙🤙


Got it, thank you for clarifying! I’ll let my invitée know haha

Will legacy/existing users continue being able to use the custodial wallet service in the future? Or is Alby’s plan to wind it down for everyone?


Let's be clear here.

Nostr is an unfinished beta of multiple technologies being tested simultaneously in realtime. It's buggy. Things break often. You'll probably lose some money, or time, or both to it. I know I have 😂

But I love the passion, the attitude and the vision for the future I see here. It's worth putting up with the bugs to be around such great people, so I keep coming back.


Dear Nostr,

Wishing you all a significantly belated and entirely past-due good morning 😁

Good evening ✌

Love,
Boston 🍷


For sure man! Makes sense re: using a globe to indicate a “back to top” or “see all” action, good idea


I know it’s not the same as a full time/life’s work, but I spent a summer working on a farm and LOVED it. It’s truly special (and definitely challenging!) 🤙

I’ve been more focused on healing an old injury, and taking it from “knowing how to adjust when it gets pissed off” to actually building the kind of strength and resilience such that my baseline is higher in the first place. Which has profound physical (and psychological) positive effects


What a life, right?


This guy wants to 😁🤙🫡


Always glad to kick a pair of tires and report back. I’m excited to actually start using it now that you’ve expanded the offerings so much.

Am I correct that the free custodial Lightning wallet is no longer available to new users like the guy I sent an invite code to?


New York City at night can end up looking incredibly cyberpunk-esque sometimes ⚡🤖👾🥷

1st photo - no filters. 2 second exposure on iPhone. One of my favorite shots to date 😎

2nd photo - duplicate of the first one  but with Apple’s “auto” adjustment.

#artstr #nyc #photography #city #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/d6e09b241e6eccc4673893add31afa61996a73b6edef65b8d79eba681889d882.jpg https://image.nostr.build/727933a22914ead7d57e860e80396de636df0d0b655fc1fab1b8a0ae87f04e76.jpg


Jared! You too my dude. What have you been up to lately?


Go test out nostr:npub1c0nfstrlj0jy8kvl953v84hudwnpgad0zx709z0ey7nmjp0llegslzg243 on TestFlight!

I’m curious what kind of things this could be integrated with. Could this function both as a standalone app (and perhaps web client to give Meetup a run for its money) and simultaneously function as an embedded widget of sorts, like on a website?

Ex: I’m a wine store and we have a free tasting for clients every Thursday evening. Could a Comingle “plugin” (or “widget” or “add-on” or whatever idk) be incorporated into a website to show up on every product page for the wines we’re sampling, or to allow guests to create an nsec and rsvp?

Btw nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf don’t worry these aren’t feature requests — I know you just released this. I’m just stoked about the possibilities and thinking out loud. Keep up the great work 🔥🤙 nostr:note1mf67xehuhhf42qxpagx4sxuk7xssxee0wmwvngmmkjzk787amh9s62u7wm


Hey nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf - is the 🔍 button in the bottom of nostr:npub1c0nfstrlj0jy8kvl953v84hudwnpgad0zx709z0ey7nmjp0llegslzg243 supposed to open a search bar? Because it doesn’t for me 🤔 however when I scroll down and then tap the icon, it shoots me back to the top of the scroll feed.

Also wondering if there are specific relays that are “preferred” for event nevents? (What numbered kind of event is an event event? lol you get the idea)

Real slick scrolling, fast loading, and generally attractive UI. This may sound overly granular, but the narrow horizontal divider lines are very subtle and the effect is perfect. Especially when you tap into an event, they product a really nice visual effect: calm and organized.


Hey brother! It has been a while — appreciate you saying hello 🫂✌

All is well here. Work is busy, but good; the marriage is fun and continually deepening; and despite all the socio-political nonsense in this country I’m feeling pretty positive about the future.

Focusing a bit more on my own physical wellness/fitness (not at the expense of hedonism, of course), but that type of growth feels good.

How about you man?


Perhaps a better question - is the simple “free custodial wallet” going away?

In my own account, when I go tap the hamburger menu (on iOS PWA) and then select Wallet, it takes me to this page in this screenshot.

It requires a bit more thinking to understand — it seems to suggest that I won’t be able to use Alby until I connect a wallet (which is probably what the guy I invited thought), until I read and re-read it to see that I’m already linked to an “Alby shared wallet”.

Do new users have this option? Sounds like they only have Alby Hub, which is self-custodial and either free if you DIY self-host, or a paid service through Alby Cloud.

Don’t get me wrong — Alby is amazing and absolutely worth paying for. Just not sure how to frame it when onboarding someone new yet, as a lot of things are new.

Thanks Bumi 🙏🫡


He said there was an option to purchase sats but nowhere to receive. He (or I) may just have been confused. Does Alby still offer a free custodial solution, or is that only for existing/legacy users?


Goodnight Nostr 🥱🥱

Big love 🧡💜 https://image.nostr.build/e4f2076539c064ed834f746571916aac744eb80ceaf3a020f2e216e4d281b0dd.jpg


I’ve had it for a while (Christmas gift from wifey) but just gotta say I freaking love this micro BlockClock.

It delivers a little burst of happiness and “cool factor” every time I look at it.

Thanks nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 & team 🙏🤙 https://image.nostr.build/effa2e7750c216fe010beec78da830ac4a78750de98a803597458f1947648f83.jpg


What I’m trying to figure out is whether there’s still a free custodial option for new signups 🤔

I gave someone an invite code and he said he’s stuck between self-custodial setup and paid Hub

Cc nostr:npub1xv8mzscll8vvy5rsdw7dcqtd2j268a6yupr6gzqh86f2ulhy9kkqmclk3x are we both missing something? Lol


😂

6 parts cold brew
1 part half-and-half

(Splash of Bailey’s optional, but not recommended before a Monday morning workout)


Important update: Mutiny Wallet will be winding down operations by the end of the year.

We're exploring new directions as a company. For full details on the shutdown and our future plans, please read our latest blog post: https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-wallet-is-shutting-down/


Awesome, man! Will definitely give it a test drive.

Yo nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 & nostr:npub15u3cqhx6vuj3rywg0ph5mfv009lxja6cyvqn2jagaydukq6zmjwqex05rq should we set one up for nostr:npub10hj9rg5gds5x2gk0z0s2jlqnq04jg7g30aj2t5pqzdaaztfactgsnze5ny ?

I’d be happy to create it but perhaps the official event account should do so - whatever you prefer?

I’d also be happy to do so from the event account if you’re comfortable sharing the nsec, but not sure who’s running it or if you/they would rather handle it. Anyway, consider me down to contribute however it would be helpful, and if we can kick the tires on nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf's project at the same time, even better 🤙


Comingle iOS is finally here! We've released the first public beta to Apple TestFlight. Find or RSVP to in-person and online events, or create your own! Many more features are coming your way, and an Android version is under development. Feel free to provide constructive feedback here or by opening an issue in GitHub. Thanks for your support, and we hope you enjoy using the app! cc nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf

Join the Comingle Beta on Apple TestFlight:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/8rckHFzp

Launch Demo:
https://drsxdv23pe3sf.cloudfront.net/Comingle+iOS+Launch+Demo.mp4


Wifey texted “did you buy yet? Buy now”

Yes dear ❤🫡


But fine, honestly, who tf is selling sats on a beautiful day like today?

I don’t get it 🤷♂

But I’ll gladly help myself to them.


As a non-developer it was exceptionally easy (on Mac at least).

Just gotta find the right file on GitHub (they’re labeled) and basically download it and drag the thing into your applications folder, same as anything you download outside of the App Store 🤙


Mornin Maria ✌


GM 🤙🤙


Pretty big news in Bitcoin this morning, I see:

The timechain just hit Block 855499

https://media.tenor.com/foL1__YlDP8AAAAM/pretty-cool-awesome.gif


GM ☀ start with a cuppa iced #coffeechain https://image.nostr.build/2cbb1bc5ac139ad3dfbd7ee6fc280512782775b92a40849c4c9ebe94c0bc33c4.jpg


Nicely played 😆


These are certainly interesting times 🫠


😆 well punned


🫂 I had a yoga instructor once who said, “if you pray to become more patient, you’ll probably find long lines at grocery store and slow, heavy traffic i on the way to work “


LOL I love it. Mysterious ways, indeed


Yuppp - shakin’ because it might go back up before I free up more cash 😬


Playing humble and snacking sats


One of my favorite stacking experiences is “nom nom nom” all the way down 🫡


Yeah buddy!!


It’s lack of information/understanding on the part of the asset managers (noobs lol)

They think “it’s so risky/volatile, we only want to offer it to clients who can afford to lose some money”

When really the volatility is just a property of this new/emergent money (I think it was Erik Yakes who wrote something along these lines in The 7th Property), and the real risk is not holding Bitcoin


28 here


In any case, it’s interesting your apparent conflation of “gay” with “stuff you seem not to like” especially with the nym “master of balls”… but in any case, I hope that what I said about one’s choice of words helps to “feed the good” and to make the world a marginally kinder place.


K


I agree with the principle here. But we’re also social creatures, with social cues and social “rules”, so when someone does behave “badly” it’s appropriate for those around that person to give them the cue. Some people don’t get invited back to parties, or get a second date.

My main sentiment is that it’s a common to point to “freedom” as a reason to hate on other people. I think we’re in agreement that the freedom still needs to exist 🤝


Gossip is a beautiful client 🫂


Club was fun

#NostrAfterDark
#Awakestr


Went out dancing after, so a light dinner was the right move lol

As a general rule though…. Nope 😁


💯💯 we are well buttered lol


Good point


Lollll yes


And it’s dinner time 🤤

Thanks for keeping us company 🤙 https://image.nostr.build/d73164709ad60941cfe23afaf19a335c1773cf2bad985650e86270f3f44c2c2f.jpg  nostr:note19udv4vw329amh8ldpzdzw8cctvwndnxaaf2nwv2z5gvklsuctyls3tg9gu


See u soon


We’re eating now! Drive quick 😆


Yes! May I send tomorrow? Bout to eat, and then going out. Guess it’ll be my first nostr.cooking upload 🤙


😂 that quarter stick is all that’s left of the one I used to brush the potatoes hahaha

But yes the south does butter right, no doubt about that


Now let that baby rest (teaching wifey tonight)

Pro tip: cooking lessons can be very sexy/romantic… unless maybe you’re making Buffalo wings… https://image.nostr.build/a0eafea1753d972d9df12298837b7aa1c7cb604433965ad2c3182b24542d74df.jpg  nostr:note1dxwnxryhfn9ywh2dadsa43msc58wd05ec4d6uvrscymqjw30llesmk68z5


Top sirloin with sautéed mushrooms and baked potatoes, each with a generous AF allocation of butter, salt, and pepper 🤤

#foodstr #yumstr #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/cdd52739b1bf2f2fa1a0c7f01269405a3b79fbe9c8db6b78141d3d845f19e354.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a2f116097d39fae0c99966c243e407a659807408b767de35a72a878e6711962d.jpg


Love you brother


Yeah that’s entirely true

The “extreme polarization of our country” is in many ways a bullshit narrative, spewed and sold for clicks.

Sure, the farthest ends of the bell curve are the loudest and most extreme, but they make up a tiny percentage of actual people.

It’s a shame they get so much attention. But it’s because the incentives around media are broken, with anger- and fear-inducing clickbait content driving the most engagement and therefore revenue.

If only there was a digital communication protocol out there that allowed people and companies to produce content that was valued for its quality, and could somehow incentivize honest, transparent, authentic journalism and social activity……………….


And that’s controlled by the user, no? (Like that old Bitcoin rewards shopping app - Lolli - I remember I’d get a request on each domain I visited asking for pretty comprehensive permissions).

Wouldn’t an extension that can sign your nostr events also be seeing all the content on your nostr web client?

I’ve steered clear of extensions in general in the past, partly because they seem like they are bad for privacy, and partly because I don’t know enough about how they work to feel like I’m in control of what they get or how they use that information.

Might be time to do-my-own-research. But I appreciate both of your insight, especially in the context of nostr and with privacy-conscious users 🙏


We need this.

https://devforum-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/8/80f315d7210f19af2e3f8a479b0fda87daac37fa.gif


Nostr Valley is a Nostr meetup happening later this fall in Happy Valley, Pennsylvania. Come for the decentralized social future, stay for the beautiful fall foliage, hiking, and scenery.

When: October 12, 2024. 12pm-4pm.

Where: State College, Pennsylvania

Venue: Happy Valley Brewing Company

https://image.nostr.build/648a5d68e20ad824c804aa15dadc8de07deb9387f26b22ca7f2c006b6ebc8d99.jpg

Soon we'll be launching our registration form. Please follow this npub for more information.


#bitcoin #nostr #meme
 https://image.nostr.build/0ee4c84e8b941b3a8d36856f271636ff768fdc7f99eade29924a7fb18752d47c.jpg


Woah 🤩

I’ve always wondered about extensions, and don’t know very much.

Do they basically have read/write access to everything you do on a webpage by default? Can it be scaled back, or limited by the user, or is it dependent simply on how much info the developers need in order to make it functional?

In short: can one enable an extension, give it their nsec, use it to log into web clients, and still retain moderate privacy in their online activity?


I didn’t tell you what you can or cannot say. I’m not that arrogant.

I said that treating a minority group — who already receives more than their share of violence/abuse/discrimination — with derogatory cruelty is a shitty thing to do, and just pointing to “free speech” as a justification for being a jerk doesn’t absolve someone of being a jerk.

It’s really not that philosophical or nuanced. 1 jerk = 1 jerk.

Note, I’m not telling you that you “shouldn’t” use the words in your previous post. But I *am* recognizing that I explained to you why they are considered cruel, and that you continue using them, which suggests to me that you’re either feeling defiant and immature in the interest of proving a point (ideally), or that you actually take pleasure in suggesting that gay people should be burned (which I hope is not the case).


I wrote “hateful content” rather than “hate speech” because the latter is a loaded phrase.

I’m only referring content where it’s a cruel or derogatory put-down, especially toward a person or group of people who already receive an outsized share of abuse, discrimination, and violence.

I believe in a person’s right to be an asshole, but it still makes them an asshole 🤝


Oh I DM’d you, Seth. Will send to Derek and valley now


DM’d 🫡


I came back here because I think I misunderstood your reply, nostr:npub1hmmjfah37m94fycvyw42y0mrnw96ke73948n03fmfr5gj2fs77xq0juy2s

If you support people’s right to post shitty stuff, I entirely agree with you, as well as with nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl

Perhaps I was hasty in assuming you also promote/support the hateful content itself. (I’m not referring to critical content or disagreement, btw — one’s views are their views, and I respect the fundamental right to it, regardless whether I agree or like it).

I hope that if I was wrong in my assumption, you’ll tell me, and forgive my hotheadedness in the moment.

And Laeserin, hopefully you haven’t muted me - I have enjoyed our conversations in the past, and would hope to share more of them in the future ✌


This is one of the coolest logos I’ve seen lately ✌🫡


Or perhaps I missed your point - I’m not sure whether you’re asking if my criticism was appropriate, or if the content I’m criticizing should exist because of freedom.

In either case…

nostr:note1u072xz77453hkqy55ufjuf2dv08tywc8p5v52lmz5888lktlu8zqmpndda


Amen to that ✌


Thanks for engaging thoughtfully 🤝


Freedom is all of those things, including freedom to dislike people you don’t agree with. It includes freedom to be a dick to people you don’t agree with.

But that’s still being a dick, and my “we can do better” statement is simply a call for greater humanity, in the specific context of the cruel/derogatory meme that was circling around yesterday.

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eleanor_roosevelt_166988


Yes


The “other side of free speech” isn’t disagreement or “unpalatable” content.

The other side of freedom is personal responsibility. And perhaps a splash of “Love thy neighbor”.


Not at all. Being critical of a complex (and polarizing) ideology is not what I have a problem with. Being critical is not the same as being hateful, or bigoted.

I am a believer in free speech; I’m also a believer in personal responsibility. My desire is to increase the net amount of compassion, and respectful engagement, and to reduce the amount of cruel/ignorant energy in a social space that I frequent.


Ad hominems are unhelpful regardless of which side. My intent with the original post was, “we can do better”. It applies to all of us. Just sayin ✌


Me? I’ve actually followed you for a while, and have enjoyed, respected, and appreciated a lot of what you write. I haven’t seen you post unnecessarily cruel or derogatory content under the guise of free speech, which is what my original post referred to. I share your belief in the importance of free speech; I also think we’re responsible for how we use it, thus my sentiment “we can do better”. I have no problem with you being critical of a specific group or ideology that you disagree with — that’s part of what makes nostr beautiful. Disagreement and discussion is healthy. I don’t feel any desire to mute you for your opinions alone.


“My b” 😂


Capes are a risk

https://25.media.tumblr.com/c5174a65abd1dc47f844e9cc03b81fd6/tumblr_msl6wbE50N1stv8tqo1_400.gif


I love you for this 😂👏👏👏


You needn’t be a Conservative to prioritize family, tradition, and community.

You don’t have to be a Progressive to care about to wellbeing of marginalized peoples.

Enter: the Average Decent Human Being


The actual neurobiology here, how a trans person’s brain chemistry is organized, introduces a lot of nuance here.

150 years ago, the idea that there were invisible waves in the air that can carry information would get you institutionalized. Now we measure radio and use Bluetooth every day.

Don’t risk the arrogance of assuming it’s black and white, just because it seems like it should be simple and because the ultraconservative “Christians” fund the message that it’s a certain way and it’s made its way into the culture war.

(Quotation marks because they’re a poor example of Christian values and fail bitterly at compassion).


Pretty sure this is all besides the point. Being intentionally hateful toward people who already take enough hate and abuse makes one a jerk, and doing so for “freedom” is blatantly anti-libertarian. That’s all.


Noggin wrapped. Thanks Will


While I disagree with your perspective on trans people (to whatever extent I can disagree, having never lived that experience either), I agree with much of what you wrote.

However, bigotry is not (that) subjective. Hate speech laws are bad. So is hate speech (yeah yeah, what counts as hate speech, we know it when we see it) but that doesn’t mean jail is the answer, obviously. (Again, freedom is my ideal in this conversation, like any).

Abusive, mocking, and threatening language toward a group who already is targeted for physical violence is obviously bad, and measurably contributes to further violence against those groups.

What I’m saying is, people who do that under the guise of “freedom” are transparently *not* walking the walk or talking the talk.


Well that stirred the potstr… still, at a much lower ratio than I would expect. Good.

Mad respect to those who engage thoughtfully, in disagreement, on inflammatory topics. I can’t fully articulate how refreshing that is, in today’s world.

Only on Nostr 🤝💜🤙


Hate speech laws are an embarrassment at best (and incredibly dangerous, at worst). I agree with you on that entirely.

Exercising one’s freedom of speech to be cruel to an already-marginalized-and-abused group of people is simply a loser move, and a shameful expression of libertarianism. That’s my only point here. We can do better.


No, that doesn’t make me think you’re a bigot, although it’s a “slippery slope”. It makes me think you’ve only consumed information from primarily sources who are opposed to the very idea of transgenderism, and have possibly never had a deep conversation with a trans person about what their life is like


Not here to argue.

Those who use their “freedom” to enjoy ostracizing and normalizing the abuse of a group of marginalized people — who already happen to be the outsized recipients of targeted violence — are jerks, and lousy libertarians.


I appreciate you engaging in good faith.

I’m not familiar with the “T and Q” concept here, but the point that an “evil pedo grooming sex cult” is a go-to association with transgender rights shows how far we have gone from supporting people who are “different but frequently marginalized” and could use a little extra support.

There will always be evil in every group or society; it rarely is the benchmark by which to measure the group in question.

Ideology often starts with good intention and transforms into something terribly damaging. Look at religion!

Thanks for the respectful engagement with my (somewhat heated and potentially inflammatory) note 🤝


Nobody gets the point


I did not express my opinion on how transgender people “should” choose to live. (I am not so arrogant to believe I know the answer to that question).

I said that hateful bigots are jerks, and that they often masquerade as “freedom lovers” in order to enjoy the freedom to be an asshat.


I take it you assume me to be trans and are expressing said transphobic view.

I’m a straight white dude and happy as I am. I also recognize how easy life is for me as a result of these characteristics, and I happen to think bigots are losers (or at the very best, horribly ignorant), and I’m freely expressing that opinion.


Bad take. Misinformed and obvious regurgitation of ignorant anti-trans talking points


Thanks for making it easier to know who to mute


Different to express your concern for their health and to post mocking and derogatory content


(I disagree with your point but I appreciate you replying and engaging in good faith. I meant to start with that).


Nobody has an excuse to be randomly violent toward anyone else. Yet violent people will still behave that way. It’s beside the point.

Freedom of association is a good thing. Choosing to exclude trans people is an asshole way of exercising your freedom of association.

This isn’t a question of first principles. Freedom is good. Using freedom to be a bigot is bad.

It’s not nuanced.


Do you mean that gift wraps break forward secrecy?


Actually, somebody came along and tried to educate someone who didn’t know better, that it’s a term that used to mean “the sticks used to burn a witch” and that its use in reference to gay people is synonymous with the implication that they should be burned.

Then, some hateful homophobic influencers and media pundits came along and said “noooo, my culture” and made a bullshit argument about how one side is trying to control the other and that in order to push back, they should exercise their freedom to describe a marginalized group of people as deserving of excessive violence.

And it didn’t always “work perfectly well” the way you suggest. People were held as slaves or beaten or lynched before a better culture became the norm.

Conservativism — in its essence — has beauty to it: moving slowly, mindfully, in the world, and preserving traditions that bring people together, not rushing into new things.

But it gets horrifically twisted to serve the culture war agenda.


Libertarians and bitcoiners who preach freedom and peace, but then turn around and promote hateful transphobic or various [insert form of ignorant bigotry] content are seriously missing the fucking point.

We can do better.


Hey nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5 is this a thing/on the roadmap?


GM I love you

https://youtu.be/7vd1qZ1hdHQ


Have listened to all three. Can strongly recommend.


Goodnight purple team


Bitcoin doesn' have privacy? Bro, it's just a pubkey. It will be as private as you can make it.

Privacy is not a feature you get with your shiny apps. It's something you attain through good opsec.

I can give you the most private phone In the world and you can take a selfie with it and dox yourself in an instant.

Is monero better at privacy? Maybe. But you have to be better with it as well, if not, it doesn't matter.

Everyone needs to be better at privacy. But no one is going to hand it to you and you can easily screw up even if they do. You have to do the hard work and understand it yourself. If you don't do it you're just LARPing.

I've been trying to understand privacy and encryption for some time now, and the best lesson I've learnt is:

Don't trust, Verify.


I was going to say that I missed Nostr today as I haven’t been on much…

But then I realized I’ve been jamming out hard to nostr:npub12hcytyr8fumy3axde8wgeced523gyp6v6zczqktwuqeaztfc2xzsz3rdp4 Radio on nostr:npub1eaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsqarcgz nearly all day 🫡

The Other Stuff really rocks my socks sometimes. Some absolutely dope house and lofi jams rn 🤘🧦

#grownostr

https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjr2c34vcuk2epn95mkze33956xvcee94snge3e95mrzvmxv43rsvnrxycrqqg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsygx0gknt5ymr44ldyyaq0rn3p5jpzkh8y8ymg773a06ytr4wldxz55psgqqqwenssa5vln


Love u buddy, great answer 🫂


Tell me more! What do you 🫵 think? nostr:note1msj04nemkeunmf490f0x8xmmktcutv52ya2pz4yhngrufvuwsmjqca65dy


Fluffy Seeds

#BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography #Monochrome

https://cyberplace.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/888/057/445/162/470/original/e757a3395a924a70.jpg


The font of creativity is a bottle of smooth spirit


Goodnight, frens. Love y’all 🫂


Had a feeling 🤣

Cheers 🥃


These are fun. Anything specific that inspired it?


Aw yessss


So sweet 🥹


What a thread. You never know what you’ll walk into when you go for a stroll down nostr lane 😂


What does Nostr mean to you?

- what does it give you that you didn’t have before?

- what is your favorite aspect?

- what do you think needs the most improvement?

My two sats:

- freedom to engage with any other person in the world, without the toxic influence of algorithms or censorship, thereby opening the door to better communication and “evolution of the collective consciousness” than existed before

- zaps are awesome and new; that’s a favorite. Also love the frenship

- I would have said new user onboarding until recently, but that’s improved a lot. It would be awesome if key management were more robust (improved key delegation for redundancy in the case of nsec compromise) as well as better abstractions for non-technical users

HBU?

#asknostr
#grownostr https://image.nostr.build/ee07d3314af2fc42a8aa9cff1f3c0dea95aeeeee9182038a807ffc01214fcf8d.jpg


Meditation

nostr:note1hd6uu602fxntllwygclf5eeqa8dqg75wngm7lqycj5l3wemfek3ql5tmg7


Looks so soft 🥹🫂


+1

Add to meditation some of the adjacent spiritual philosophy stuff we started getting into yesterday ✨

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Big 🫂🫂🫂

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking, reading, and writing about exactly these things. A small bit on Nostr, but mostly on my own time and with my wife (who is profoundly “plugged in” as well).

I love the idea of Nostr serving as a space for this kind of discourse, with people around the world that we’re all just meeting and getting to know.

Discussions that once took place in Ancient Greek village centers, and then in college coffee shops, can now be shared across countries and time zones. (Not just from Nostr, of course - it’s an internet thing, but combining two things I love makes me especially happy and even more contemplative).

It’s very cool to see the moments from which more deeply connective thought and conversation happen to arise. Makes me appreciative and glad to remember that We’re Here Now 🫂🙏🤙


iPhone camera was smudged for that second shot 😅


These are some seriously big flowers. Shaka for scale 🤙

#nature #flowerstr #photography #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/181052eebc9284012e28262f93a06783234b3ee6daf418804888e94970cdb22e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/331fa36780b12ba527bcb32a4a35d5918b3ecf53b0f252d83c904f7c9e3057ed.jpg


VLS.tech is absolutely fucking dope. Check it out.

I certainly spend time thinking (concerned) about securing an internet-connected (ie hackable) Lightning balance/wallet/channel, and somehow getting those keys cold and offline. These guys are legit tackling it: Validating Lightning Signer. Cool af.

(Thank you nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx for mentioning this project on CD). Easily deserving of the grant 🤝

Excited to see where this goes 🔥


I share your skepticism of any consciousness being able to exist in a machine (save one caveat, below).

Even the most advanced AI model could - at best - execute a series of actions based on all previously ingested data, with the origin of its “directive” (and existence) being  a derivative of human consciousness x

At the best, it could carry out these tasks so convincingly well that humans may *believe* that it’s conscious. But by its very nature, by definition, it cannot be more than mimicry, originally seeded by human thought. It wouldn’t “believe” it is conscious because there’s no one inside to believe anything. All it can do is express data.

The exception — and I consider this to be a profoundly beautiful understanding of existence — is if all of “being” is made of deterministic matter and energy. Here’s why that is cool: we ARE conscious. Simply sit for a moment and watch your breath. YOU are there. YOU might not be anything you think (body, desire, thought, etc.) but you are here now.

From that “first-principles” truth, it’s not hard to imagine (or conclude) that all matter - all energy - is related to (or suffused with or made up of) this consciousness. It fits what ancient meditating sages thought. It fits what religious figureheads (minus the organized religion) said. It fits with quantum physics.

If you are everything and everything is you, I find that peace in existing comes easily. My two sats 😉🫂


You get it 🫂🙏🫂🫂

One of the delicious elements of this view is that it’s entirely compatible with a materialistic view of the world (despite the apparent paradox). All of our ways of measuring and interpreting matter - our scientific method, theories, and derived conclusions - are perfectly valid, and they fit with no contradiction in universe made up of consciousness, which is matter, which is energy, which is consciousness. Materialistic determinism is perfectly coherent here too: the cause-and-effect flow of atoms and electrons, data and matter, are all expressions of conscious energy. It’s all “us”.

The “perpetually inclusive” logic of this view is just delightfully perfect.


Proof of yum
#grownostr #foodstr #ifuckinglovekimchi https://image.nostr.build/f2c13f4ab1d91bcdca05bf04d0c06e75543d642726c8354f5b042e11b7356e20.jpg


I fucking love kimchi 🤤

#foodstr


Anybody wanna get “sorta matching” group tattoos of our first npubs? 😂🎨🖌

#tattoo #artstr #grownostr #yolo


Facts


Because “truth will out”.

The fundamental root thing that holds Bitcoin back from already having won is education: there is an information gap. There are people (the majority of people) who don’t recognize or understand that Bitcoin is better for them, for their loved ones, and for their society.

Each person who recognizes this, whether out of compassion or greed (it ultimately doesn’t matter), begins to embrace, adopt, and optionally evangelize Bitcoin to their peers.

This process gradually (and then suddenly) is closing that information gap as each individual learns that they will “win” as Bitcoin does. Whether they are voters or politicians, bankers or hermits, each person stands to benefit from Bitcoin.

TL;DR: truth will out.


Just gorgeous


The heavy chunky riffs and guitar solo in this song always get me f’ing pumped up, and I’m not even a real metal head 😂

🤘🤘🤘

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ozmU9cJDg


LFG 🏎


Damn yo - did you take this photo??


As I promised earlier, as soon as my sculptures are exhibited in the gallery in Santorini, I will inform you and show you how it looks. This morning, I received a video and a report from the gallery. Therefore, I am sharing this news with you.
I warmly invite every traveler who sets foot on this picturesque island to visit the PROSOPO gallery. My five distinctive steel sculptures have found their place there among excellent artistic company, with the most beautiful and unique view of the bay.
https://v.nostr.build/CFG0h2VWfhyl2hdd.mp4
https://v.nostr.build/rlrzW5rp1sdFgezo.mp4
https://v.nostr.build/uegJSIL6h1WPiJyJ.mp4


Mornin’ 🫂


Gm brother


No mistake. Hold about a quarter million sats and you have your “equal share” of the Bitcoin pie chart, if it were to be divided up equally across all people. Implications abound.

 Cheers 🍻


Good morning 🤙

Did you know that inflation is theft and that the debt based economy is the largest-scale con ever pulled off?

If you’re on nostr, the answer is probably yes 🤝


Trees & leaves & light & sky

#nature #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/df50ed105d1a497650ab315e91a55af81a44fd4b1dec5680cedf9347da45696a.jpg


Happy Sunday to you 🫂


Good sunny Sunday morning ☀ https://image.nostr.build/4933082d61554dccb97ce655a675401ec4bba5139e545f2850e7f80f7ede51b9.jpg


Gm buddy 🤙


PV LFG 🤜💥🤛


G’night friend


🤣🤣 good looking nostrich!

lol, hope your fam was psyched about the zaps ⚡🤙🫡


Didn’t know you could your receiving of zaps to private - thought it was only for sending. TIL ✌


But it’s not seeming to “stick” (or at least Damus is not displaying the zap). Are you receiving any?


I would be delighted to 😂🫡


So good


Perfect summer colors for dinner ☀

#yumstr #foodstr #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/981634929df68afdcbab7ae29d6f43ba7bdce961cab31d2d946eb6ab33ccda99.jpg


Well-played, my friend


A lot of people preach about Bitcoin values but not many people actually live by them.

This conference has exposed so many larpers.


This is simply epic 😂😂🤙


And yes I might be trying to counter all the conference content with whatever catches my eye this Saturday 🫡

Maybe.

#grownostr

https://media1.giphy.com/media/xT5LMVAA10Wm7WXcuA/200w.gif


I did say nature and food.

Pulled pork good 🤤

#foodstr #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/627be01e0bbe97bec91093e371d6623abc88f608920eb40081823f477bd743d5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ee3abf7da284d7fee75e1c60bc726e7405a8aff564d41a8ace64878fcd730fd7.jpg  nostr:note12j0zz767jlx98fl75krg322n79qyyzulm2ea89gprl7mzut82y3qylxcgn


<burned down>

What about peacefully (but firmly) replaced?

(A genuine question, not internet disagreeability — curious your thoughts).


Another hummingbird shot 🤳

#nature #birdstr #photography #artstr #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/eb1bde68922ea2874b40e66dd960b856b04ed0c62ab5cabe99258a0edfe880e6.jpg


You finally found the thing it can’t fix


If you've had enough of the fiat and political extravaganza at Bitcoin 2024 and are looking for real plebs using Bitcoin and real world use cases, then you should head across the street. Experience music and value for value from two of our amazing Nostriches.

V4V headlines with nostr:nprofile1qqswcl0y42r43w57px5v38f827sl5r3vccwzpd6h4af2upvfx8q6x0cpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0esevkj and nostr:nprofile1qqsz3jspndutf9xzt2w694j9jadg2qw8axd3zvpwtjl8frh9j07t9nqpzamhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytndw46xjmnewaskcmr9wshxxmmd9uufdwtc

Get here while you can still see them in this small of a room with nostr:nprofile1qqs9afepm4uzsg568x3hy3msjqsgmvc2dskn2723hzh9qnfwe7rvqmqpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0g36q55 hosting.

Embassy Suites Downtown
708 Demonbreun Street
Nashville, Tennessee 37203 USA

4th Floor bar stage

🫂🤙🏻💜

https://phantompowermusic.io/pages/bands-at-bitcoin


How trumpy is conference actually?


Today will be full of sun, flowers and plants, food, family, and wildlife. And a splash of Nostr.

A perfect Saturday. PV 🤙

Let’s start with a little hummingbird — there are so many here!

#nature #photography #grownostr https://video.nostr.build/ed14d5add803a19b8a15915e1c2ce82b7889bfacb922167a5d920c78dced8005.mp4


So tired i can barely type - goodnight nostriches 😴


Good morning Nostr 🤙

I was told once that Air Force pilots call days like this “severe clear” and it stuck with me. Beautiful blue ☀

#grownostr #nature https://image.nostr.build/5cdd8908474547e7571ebb4c6864e42ac80a6d74c8d2eb184a4b20b7cca7ded3.jpg


I cannot wait to test-drive this thing; it looks damn delicious 🥹

Visiting fam this weekend so it may need to wait a bit. But soon 🔥⚡🫡


This is the way 🤝 nostr:note1xgtk79fanv900hwl9knfx3rtsl4xhw87lhut9tw0wuuknyzcxmwsyarm38


Gm 😂 and good idea 🤝


"The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper, often only a spark, to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer, have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity, its poets, seers, and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark."


Answer is yes, btw.

Thanks to Nostr Web of Trust (the informal version, aka ask ur frens) I can confirm that nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as is in fact the one and only HRF nostr:note18ltf9n6wdetg5wr6dgewhv0ctdwc6uuyk06jp34mav00q0s5psxs7ypt9n


A very good decision 🤝


Thanks Ayelen ✌ hope you’ve been well!


Appreciate it!


Right on. Thanks brother


Oh 🤔 I thought “native” meant something like using nostr events and relays for all the website content, and “integrated” to be something like “you can use your nostr keys to engage” but in a limited way. I may not really get enough about what’s happening under the hood though


I’ll do that anyway just because you’re you 🫂


That’s what I was thinking. The account reposted a Bolt12 address using the domain, and their zapping address is also at the HRF.org domain, so it’s probably fine. An impersonator would probably set a different zaps wallet (or a smart one would change it later)


Yeah but if you were those socks to bed, it increases your stamina by 50-100%


Is this the real Human Rights Foundation?

#weboftrust #donttrustverify #asknostr #WoT

Cc nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu nostr:npub1wlkfvm7dvnusz9fv44wuwucu0jp3lc3wqt36ax0lz33hukjga7wq6hqwhy nostr:note13m03vkuxncx8yj26yw33fvylcpvjk2cf52llldkdg7f7tq98fjsqahcf8c


GM Bianca 👋


Cool! nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 built a web app for video streaming and it sounds like they integrated Nostr for a live chat and zaps 🔥

Which makes me curious: what is the difference (architecturally, or UI/UX-wise) between a streaming site that integrates nostr, vs a streaming platform that is nostr-native? Asking as a technically competent but not-code-writing user.

#LFGrownostr #asknostr

Nice work nostr:npub1unmftuzmkpdjxyj4en8r63cm34uuvjn9hnxqz3nz6fls7l5jzzfqtvd0j2 & co 🤝 https://image.nostr.build/52eaaf8d76be601f9e667c5e6f5aaa44b1851779e303cd5e683a1fd1aff7f6c4.jpg


Good morning Nostr ✌


Good morning my friend


Very busy day — I’ve missed you nostriches 🫂


Thanks Vic! That’s a perfecy clear answer. Much appreciated 🙏⚡


Have an awesome day, friend!


What’s the difference between Keysend (a la Blixt wallet) and something like LNURL or BOLT-12?

#lightning #asknostr https://image.nostr.build/7c900c06d766dc63947aa0e874f16c1a7ccdf4b9011a8e1b9ea86b3100c0cc07.jpg


I was absolutely delighted to see it. It counts for “extra” when it’s in a legacy publication, too. Thanks for your contribution 🙏🤝🤙


I enjoyed the article. I also have questions - maybe just a simple clarification.

When I saw yesterday that many were asking some variant of, “did Pelosi lock Biden in a closet somewhere?”, my mind gravitated (as it so often does) to Nostr.

We appreciate the significance of the fact that a cryptographically signed message cannot be altered or faked, without implicitly demonstrating that it is no longer the original signer’s message.

In the context of “is the tweet real?”, one is left wishing for a way to verify, if one doesn’t trust.

With Nostr — generally speaking — the person who owns the nsec can claim and verify that their messages are their own. Scaled outward, cryptographic signatures will allow us to trust, by verifying, that the same individual who has been tweeting is still tweeting… as long as their nsec has not been compromised, of course.

As with Bitcoin, I find that there are many — countless — ways that using Nostr in place of the existing architecture would meaningfully improve whatever it is we’re trying to do.

Humans are also quick to propose our favorite thing as the way to fix others’ problems. It’s natural.

I’m being called for dinner, so I’ll need to cut my reflection short.

Anyway, thank you for the “food for thought” ✌


nostr:npub12qxvc5evxqt3rky25mfskywugalx5vnhppfl32cu903cnwpyu0uqkmq8u9 dude man, I just read your article about businesses on a Bitcoin standard (nice!) and then read your Forbes author bio. I was about to make an account just to comment to invite you to nostr, when I read at the end “you can find me on Nostr at loki@verified-nostr.com”

F’ing right on 🤝

Zapped for a great article ⚡

Reposting it here for other nostriches to read 🤙

#grownostr nostr:note1keywlk7mf9uxwmynly366axvjefxljkmq263fm5jm8l9ppjgq5wq3l70p6


Ledger Trezor Keystone etc


I was going to reply, “no we don’t” and then remembered I’m not registering as a Democrat any more… (nor as a republican — I mean fuck no) but you get the idea 🤝


99.99% of crypto tokens belong with your used gas-station lottery tickets, in a paper bag on the floor in the backseat of your car. NOT in your high-tech wealth storage vault.

In other words, hardware wallets shouldn’t shitcoin, according to, well, me.

🫡


Let me tell you what's boring: Getting swayed by the right to be anti-woke.

Woke culture is a cancer in Western civilization. But anti-wokism is just as dangerous and it can lead to the same form of authoritarianism, neo-con warmongering, anti-protest, anti-free speech type policy.

It's not about left or right. It's about Freedom or Slavery.

nostr:note17plnc6y2hkf4dzw02a5g4a5cqqmddj8wls96vmu3cmzf033eps9sty9mw7


Probability + Portability is the killer app nostr:note1stctq8j8hxfyfyep3gahm0khuvnmn35vzfaju8m8xvr000gvaytq7m9xk4


Good morning Ava 🤙


The incentives aren’t broken, and it makes the protocol actually usable.

Users, developers, clients, all of us - we aren’t incentivized (by ads, engagement, revenue) to post or amplify the trash content that makes people angry and scared and divided on every social media platform.

The incentives on nostr are zaps and bloom-vibes for posting quality content. It’s pretty simple.

And all of this social content gives nostr the momentum to bootstrap the Other Stuff, so it’s the case that 1) the present experience is dramatically better than any alternative, and 2) the future is extremely bright, fascinating, wide-open, and full of potential.


When tweets are signed by nsecs, we’ll be able to know these kinds of things without question.

Good morning 🤝 nostr:note15dvskgay8ftasg993stp8akmqsur0v5qtgum9u3vecm99tm08jtqg9jerf


No need for a killer app when nostr eats every app


It’s absurd and yet entirely unsurprising


I’d rather not


Politicians will not save us.


Trumpsimpism is real.

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


Neither did I 😉


Hey friends! Seems we didn’t have a chance to meet in person at the talk, but glad to see that there were more nostriches there than I realized 🤙


Wow nostr feels alive again today


Good morning my friend ✌


We are indeed embarrassed 🙋♂


In other words, GN 🫂


Goodnight friends(tr) 🫂🤙

I’ve enjoyed a number of great discussions this weekend with one of my best friends. Many of them have been Nostr-related, so I’ll share some reflections here, once they have percolated and solidified 🫡

For now, the weekend has been busy and I’m very sleepy, so here is the moon after a soft sunset, and a smooth translucent shell 🧡

#artstr #nature #photography #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/0cbf9ae5ba231e1f49d18294cbb48a5a0f0871d943c321dc3586f480535ee32f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ce42fea44555935bd1c3f82fbbf638076093ee157544bfa99a82e045b422af09.jpg https://image.nostr.build/696b626b7a32eb1774516dcaa379d80da6ea5f2f66171e9599cf76fcf6b9cf0d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f235fb0cf035a46efe4244dfb829fe6ae0e6663564844121553a42743fa0bbec.jpg


Caught some great rays today

Sun your eCash Iykyk

Also grilled swordfish steaks and corn. & crushed a few IPAs #beerstr https://image.nostr.build/6b10453f63bf42b8351e94e157a511eb2a7a72bb3a6745f5c41fc2fee7b762dc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a40d738be124880a20936ec4d0eb5e9020a6b5fbaee9bb78637691d599c7dac0.jpg


It’s the same post over and over again today 🤷♂


#flowerstr
#nature
#grownostr https://image.nostr.build/b5877cb138e26fcdc906c4df7691507636fcf3bce8ea18db2ee062d06e329c0c.jpg


It will be cool to see when a client uses this and puts everything behind a noob-friendly UI for someone who doesn’t really understand keypairs.

Enter your nsec: abc123

Ta-da! Here are your new accounts you can use anywhere you want:

def456
ghi789
etc000


This is smart as fuck, dude. Nice work 🤝


So good


I’m 1/3 of the way though and it’s an excellent article.

I was explaining nostr to my best friend and his girlfriend this morning, and described it very much the same way. Your focus on interoperability is key - that’s what makes nostr the “everything killer”, because it doesn’t have to kill anything if everything can simply merge with Nostr.

Thanks for taking the time to focus on Nostr, and to write something very salient and new-user-friendly.

I’ll finish reading, and offer feedback if anything comes to me ✌


Oooh yeah you’re right 😎


Ayooo same here brotherman 🤙🌊


Happy Saturday, Nostriches ☀🤙

#footstr
#nature
#grownostr https://video.nostr.build/4e3b835322282fd931e5d878768cffd38746a0ebf69765ae8e663c84177a25c0.mp4


Hey friend 🫂🫂


Goodnight 🫂


Love it


Thanks!


🎯

Gm 🫂🫂


I have nostr:npub1mfndvgwstwm604jvrt07p6nyy898mdsdzzyumx9sdn8u6r4za4uqck6f8v to thank for why mine is the coolest backpack on the school bus. All the kids are jealous even though Few understand this https://image.nostr.build/07fb17f0b8717988560894e193b064f34b82e7fe83a1175b18a3cfcdbc43b3fe.jpg


Truer words are rarely spoken 😂


I have such fond memories of those early days. It wasn’t about the money — I’m pretty sure we all zapped well into the negative most nights. We were there for the absurdity and hilarity of it.

We were literally sending thousands, if not millions of sats, to near-perfect strangers on the internet, and then experiencing those sats being zapped back in return, plus more.

Who would send the most unnecessarily large zaps (zap cannons)? Who would 🥷 anon-zap as many other anons as possible (zap grenades), making it harder and harder for others to actually send it back to oneself? (We all did, because it got competitive in the best way).

Why!? Not for ego. For the memes, the lols, the tell-our-grandkids-someday stories.

For the friendship. What this really represented was a series of trust-falls with people we had just met.

“Send me .01 Bitcoin and I’ll send you .02 back”, a cliche from the DM scammer, became an actual thing we did.

I had the honor of engaging with “strangers on the internet” who are full of integrity, wit, and common interests; these zap wars were suffused with the good will and authenticity that arises in moments of human connection, discovery, and perhaps a splash of degeneracy.

These friendships feel like real, lasting bonds. The coolest part is that we’ve still just barely scratched the surface in getting to know one another, but there is a fundamental baseline of trust that normally is only achieved in relationships after a great deal of time.

It got weird, and it got awesome.

Love you friends 🫂⚡🍷

https://gifdb.com/images/high/kids-sitting-around-grandpa-simpson-for-storytelling-oai2lel7k8ff1dcg.gif


lol nostr:npub1h2ha54hr30ycq3mmd4d6hkf02e2uhvnvgtyxnxr0w0prd9k0khls7myfqm Let’s try it 😂

Haha, now I think those days are behind us, at least for the most part.

When bitcoin fees started going up and Lightning channels got more complicated, and then custodial services started limiting the volume you could hold (Alby) or the countries they would operate in (Wallet of Satoshi) I think we all realized that casually sending fat zaps every which way was a bit precarious.

(I don’t think anyone ever really lost funds, but I certainly had a few hours of anxiety with Mutiny channels that didn’t behave quite as expected)

But we stress-tested the fuck outta this thing, that’s for sure 😅⚡⚡⚡


GN 😴😴😴🫂


This is facts


Mannn it’s so true 😂🫂🫂🫂


11:11 💜


Hey nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 crew

I’ve been thinking about putting up a bounty, which I’ve never done before. Ideally I would seed it and then match any others’ contributions, until the total is reached. I’m not sure what an appropriate number would be, based on labor cost and input time. nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf suggested it might take a couple of days to do this one.

At today’s Bitcoin-dollar exchange rate, $60/hr x 16 hours would be about 1.5 million sats. Please advise if I’m low-balling (or overshooting) for the work involved, assuming anyone is interested in the project.

I (and others I imagine) would love to be able to choose multiple files from the media upload pop up, when adding photos or videos to a note.

The flow would be something like: start a new note draft; tap the bottom left icon to upload media; upload pop up appears with instructions to “select” files; tap the desired photos/videos to select them; the “select” instruction changes to an “upload” button; tap that button to add all selected files to the post at once.

Here’s a screenshot of the default iOS file selection tool for sharing media directly from the Photos app, for example (video below).

Pretty sure this is already an open GitHub issue. Is it already of interest to someone? Am I even close to on-target, in terms of the sats bounty? Thanks, I’m new to this 🫡

Cc nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5 nostr:npub13v47pg9dxjq96an8jfev9znhm0k7ntwtlh9y335paj9kyjsjpznqzzl3l8

#grownostr #featurerequest #damus https://video.nostr.build/096f864f1853ce90ce5911a3f5ec317df78e34bd19ba7e2a28c9888bea3c279f.mp4


Kinda just feeling stoked about all things nostr, Bitcoin, and freedom tech

Like, the Highlighter client is fucking dope.

nostr:npub1p2psats79rypr8lpnl9t5qdekfp700x660qsgw284xvq4s09lqrqqk3m82  has an android app which now sends you mobile notifications directly over Tor and never even touches Google Play (or Telegram’s servers, which always seemed like a big privacy lapse)

nostr:npub1235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ksdg0ht5 has a duress pin to brick your device and also has multiple user profiles so you could have like three different Phoenix nodes all in the same phone

nostr:npub168euw93e4cam59llcmydav0akwjk2p4nfy3p85pn22xv9y2jxuzq4s9uaw accepts subscription payments via KYC-free sats (and when on-chain fees are too high, Mullvad gives Monero a “you were made for this baby, it’s your time to shine” utility value)

nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 has re-joined us on Nostr and it’s a great fucking day

nostr:npub1psm37hke2pmxzdzraqe3cjmqs28dv77da74pdx8mtn5a0vegtlas9q8970 gives you self-custodial, low-fee submarine swaps from Lightning to on-chain so you can stack from RoboSats with a quick zap over to cold storage 🧊🧊🧊

I finally grok what nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft meant when he said “I’m so fucking bullshit” on all of this 🔥🔥🔥🔥

#grownostr #gfy #privacy #nokyc #lfg

Here’s some black and white #lightning from last night’s thunderstorm. Along with a still frame where you can see the bolt behind through trees. Call it Nature’s #zapathon https://video.nostr.build/cf5f4764ecada8303d1a3d953940dce1e903e8aae6dc1e1cb5a47eb4b6e9e49a.mp4 https://image.nostr.build/653021fb0af29411aaf00cdb24e336e9970b6d4bcb64a325f2db01e44ebb9d51.jpg


Morning homie 🤜🤛


AREA 🤷♂  yes there’s still no edit 😉


FREN!?!??? 🥹🥹

You AREA back! Good sir you have been missed. What a nice surprise today 🫂

LFG brother 🤜💥🤛


Oh right yes of course GM

The windowsill is a bit cluttered but I like what’s been collecting here

#coffeechain LFG https://image.nostr.build/41e15ece6939dd95354a8ebbea3998989dbeecd039fd99a42c3ddb10ba45ca57.jpg


🎯🎯🎯 nostr:note17c7wpf69j3w59aexduxj5lyeajlspr0w74px42qrlk4ngwznm2zs5uyqd3


Been a very busy week!

Travel prep, fiat mines, and an outstanding nostr-related event by the one and only nostr:npub1j60x528w2g2vkq5kae5uhh8y7sezjyj20zcsg0v9muc72cmdpu0s0md7ua  of nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch (photos and reflections to follow) have made this a truly packed start-to-the-week!

Long weekend starts tomorrow, with a childhood best friend and our girls, at my favorite summer spot 🌊🏝

It’s real late. Sleep, coffee, get to the island, maybe a bit more sleep, and then the cathartic relaxation begins.

Night y’all 🫂💜🤙

#grownostr


I was just thinking of you sir!

A pity I didn’t have any frogs around that could just eat the thing.

My wife managed to shoo it out an open window. How, I have no idea.

But I was 1) surprised, 2) glad she want stung, and 3) moved by the level of zen non-violence she manages to employ in that moment.

Next time though I’ll poke it with a stick & instruct it to get off my lawn 🫡


Any 🐝 #insect #bee #entomology experts know whether this massive wasp-looking thing (about 2-3 inches long) is a cicada killer?

Wifey is home alone with the thing. Never been stung so hopefully not allergic - but at least if it’s a cicada killer they’re less aggressive…

Thanks in advance 🙏🙏

#asknostr
#beestr
#nature
#bugs https://image.nostr.build/b5213fd2742e8c9c054ae66293d79397b38fc506483d2b0a044f65c7955dae99.jpg https://image.nostr.build/eb5522324904c6c6de496ceec984fcc17804d02967e01be2ceb007506432e0f0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a7b9dbfeae17ed68c7d4fe306ff0e424ae20cfdb3b6d02433d66ca8a7ffd769a.jpg


I’m so glad that Mr. Wright is finally getting the recognition he deserves 💜 nostr:note1m7zj4m34f5eydlv29gr50s6ttdg04hhvwx5q4pejn0fvvyn55ulqljg33d


I am far too tired (and must start with much too early of a morning tomorrow) to relay all of the Thoughts And Other Stuff I’ve had floating around my head this evening. Perhaps tomorrow.

For now, GN GFY ILYSFM will have to suffice.

Seriously, I’m so bullish on all of you crazy brilliant hilarious weird and beautiful people. Let’s. Fucking. Go.


Ooooh hell yes imma try that tomorrow. Thank you!!!


Is there any way to have multiple Phoenix wallets on the same device?

Doesn’t seem like it, but maybe I’m missing something?

I don’t know of a way to download the same app twice - can any device or mobile OS do that?

It also doesn’t look like you can toggle between wallets (nodes) in Phoenix, the way you can in Zeus…

#asknostr


I gotta spend more time exploring the other stuff


Ahh! lol I even googled Barry Silbert in case I had missed some news 🤣


GM GA GN GFY ILY

I want to be part of the generation where our kids and grandchildren look back and say “yeah, they pretty much saved the world - that was a close fucking call”.

Kind of the way that Boomers grew up looking at their parents who fought for the Allied forces in WW2, effectively preventing the end of the civilized world.

Propaganda, hyperbole, and all that aside, I have always noticed a profound sense of respect and admiration in our parents’ generation, when they speak of how society “came together” in the 1940s to fight an existential threat.

Granted, the threat our society faces today is not a group of psychotic murderous bigots hell-bent on world domination with an army behind them. I (obviously) don’t intend to suggest that it’s the same situation.

But still, it’s easy to see the insidious and wide-ranging negative impacts of a global fiat system, and the fact is that it costs people their health, their wealth, and their lives, all around the world.

If something doesn’t change — if we don’t fix the money — it’ll be more than a “close call”…

Onward 🫡


Good morning my dude! Which is this Barry of which you speak?


Good night fishcake! 🐶🐟🫂🍷🫂


Ah ha, got it. Learned something new today! There is so much Other Stuff here already, it’s amazing 🔥


Good night friends 🫂💜 sweet dreams and PV. Big week ahead 🤙


Ohh interesting, so was your initial note - the one that said it was nice meeting everyone - a “calendar event” event, rather than a Kind1 note? Viewed in Damus it just looks like a regular post 🤔


Ahaha gotchya. Was it perhaps to test changing the timestamp? In the past I recall someone got their note to live at the top of everyone’s feed for a day or two, by setting a time setting (metadata? Idk) to be further into the future than the date/time that it currently was.

Would love to know how to do that one lol, but I’m sure it could be easily abused for marketing and advertising purposes.


I’m not sure what’s underneath the porous surface, but in areas that are otherwise inhospitable to plant life (too much concrete, or lots of salt in the winter), putting the cork/rubbery material over the root ball actually protects the tree from various types of damage, while letting in the water it needs to survive.

Granted, we can easily agree this is a far cry from the beauty of trees found in nature, with gnarly wild roots within a thriving ecosystem and containing a micro-system of its own. No argument from me there!

I’d still rather there be trees planted along a city block, than not 🌱

My two sats 🤝


Yo 😮 did you take this shot?!?


This is still the best introduction to Nostr, IMO, as it perfectly captures why Nostr is so incredibly important, by showing what's wrong with the current social media landscape.
nostr:nevent1qqs9gg4thq8ng87z8377jxksjwhk9dl0f8su9c4kq335ydzp0ykmv5gppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs0ulmtcmmn8zmkh0uqmdqz4hn9j5lzpvhj8enw3xpqfd3ucsjnngcrqsqqqqqpn792fg


That lil pump to 60K got you thinking bout a new whip?

😁😉

Beautiful car, lol


That sounds suspiciously like the beginning of a goodbye.

If that is the case, it’s been a pleasure. (Also, hope you will stick around / don’t be a stranger) ✌

If not, well, I concur. Nostr is great for meeting lots of interesting people


Night buddy


Gm PV


GM #Nostr 🫂🎨
https://image.nostr.build/60e9eaa8c04937c9baa74aa9dd6bf341e510194d6b9e7972be2e75706fa210f3.jpg


Tell me how you really feel

(Jokes aside, that sucks, especially late at night)


GN ✌


🤯 that’s a fascinating concept and it’s indisputable that this is exactly what’s happening here.

How incredibly cool.

Thank you both for this revelation 🤙


G’night bruv


🙋♂ there’s at least one


😂😂 I feel you brother. Mine are very well-cared for, in wifey’s possession. I trust her to keep ‘em safe 🫡


Onward nostr:note10kr05xn5uzvpkuvp5t6ghlaw3dr4f8v3pfywmsql3ftafryq44psa4shw4


Who said self-custodial Lightning is not viable?

Viable for what purpose in particular?

“The only hope” is a bit of a general/sweeping statement, which I tend to try and avoid. (I still make such statements, of course).

But in general, at least right now — assuming we’re referring to the goal of Bitcoin sovereignty for a global population (which I think is usually the underlying question here) — I’m of the mind that we don’t have the “solution” yet, if there is to be one primary, all-encompassing solution, which also may not be the case.

But Lightning, ARK, eCash, sidechains - it’s all pretty cool and interesting and new and cutting edge. Perhaps none of them are “the” solution. If there is *one* solution, it probably hasn’t been invented yet!

And just like the way that Bitcoin was discovered/created after decades of experimentation with other projects that solved different parts of the problem, I would expect that bringing self-custody sats to the masses will require the synthesis of various projects into something that checks all the boxes.

Also worth noting: Bitcoin successfully dis-intermediates central banks, and offers global citizens a currency with a monetary policy that can’t be fucked with by those banks or governments.

That is a HUGE gift to humanity.

If (and when) an era of digital free banking, using eCash or Lightning or something new, is then built on top of a Bitcoin standard, it will be a massive improvement to the lives of all people. The “best” banks can publish verifiable proof-of-reserve. Or they can offer a transparent, fuckery-free fractional reserve model to those clients who wish to take on a bit more risk, in exchange for some interest (rewards), while other citizens will choose a simple and transparent custody model where they pay a small amount of fees (instead of being paid interest) to have a responsible third party protect their wealth. Humans - many humans - want this, and always will. The market will deliver it.

And for those of us who *don’t* want to rely on any third party for this service? Well, now, we finally have the tools and the means to do it the way we want to.

Freedom = (choice x privacy x autonomy) + confidence that the other factors will not be encroached upon

Or something like that.

You got me thinking 😁🫂🤝🤙🫡


Self-custody Lightning is tied to an on-chain UTXO, yes.

But a custodial Lightning provider could just as easily create “paper sats” as an eCash mint could.

Bitcoin eCash doesn’t purport to solve everything. It’s still custodial, so a user can still get rugged and the Mint could still play paper games. Same incentives - and approximately the same risks - as a basic custodial Lightning wallet provider like Alby or WoS in this area. Gotta choose to trust a mint the same as you’d choose to trust Alby etc.

But eCash offers a significantly better privacy schematic than a standard custodial Lightning wallet provider. That’s the primary improvement over regular (custodial) Lightning.

It also can offer faster transactions and smoother UX in some cases, and the cryptography/tech (the little of it that I understand) is extremely cool.


Self-custody Lightning is tied to an on-chain UTXO, yes.

But a custodial Lightning provider could just as easily create “paper sats” as an eCash mint could.

Bitcoin eCash doesn’t purport to solve everything. It’s still custodial,z many of t


😂😂 yes. Your “clout” is through the roof 🤣🤣


This is absolutely gorgeous


GM Nostriches!

It’s a good-morning-at-one-in-the-afternoon sorta day 🥱🫂🌇🤙


I love that this looks like the Butterfingers font 😂


I’ll check it out! Many thanks 🔥


Thanks homie! Lots of tea, water, sleep, nostr, and some good TV has gotten me most of the way through 🤙


🙏
Have you ever been to a kirtan?


Yo team

nostr:npub1q33jywkl8r0e5g48lvrenxnr3lw59kzrw4e7p0cecslqzwc56eesjymqu0 had a great idea below

A bot that relies to #introductions posts with an onboarding guide 🤯

- Simpler and more efficient to implement than a client-side feature

- More customizable (link to a guide that can be updated as needed)

- Much wider reach/range than anything done on the individual client level

It could link to nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc's Nostr.how (I kno I owe you two PR cleanups Jeff, sorry for the delay 🫣), and/or any of numerous simple intro guides.

Perhaps even just to a single web page with “getting started, best practices, and more resources” guides and links.

I feel like this would answer a lot of the questions that came up during NostrVillage.

Am I missing anything obvious? Drawbacks? Has it been done before?

I guess it’s “centralizing” in a sense that everyone’s getting the same intro guide. But at the same time, anyone could build this if there were a reason to “compete” or something. Which if nostr gets to as far as that stage, it would be a good problem to have. So like that’s not an issue.

Do bots work this way? Like can it be connected to relays A through Z, follow a specific hashtag, and then reply to every post with that content that it sees?


Of course he is


More thoughts. Why opt out? nostr:note1gtsutema926a3e7fhe00s6ze42g2lzgy4y2503pey7vfrwlhlwmsemtk4p


Oh Derek himself should absolutely get the salary. I just meant I’m not sure we can also pay a bot the derekbucks


Agreed on all counts. The average social media user has been trained by the red-notification-dot dopamine hits to behave generally unpleasantly! And behind screens and keyboards, there isn’t much of the social feedback we’d recieve if we actually behaved that way around people in the physical world.

So it combines addictive incentives and rewards, for negative and antisocial behavior, and then monetizes it all, for the profit of the companies providing the platforms.

On top of that, we’re coddled by paternalistic moderators to expect that someone else will do the work to ensure that the content we consume is palatable, while simultaneously self-censoring for fear that the platform mods (or other trigger-happy users) will take issue with a comment or point of view, and subsequently get de-platformed from the toxic digital relationship playground we’ve become so addicted to…

It’s no surprise that many of us are looking for a way to opt out!


He’d need to be paid CEO salary though, and I’m not sure it’s in the budget


For posterity.

Blame the #heaventhread

Love you homie 😂🫂🫂 nostr:note1tlcak82u75nuw6lqw0xdmh8dy2qmga6s53nplz6gx7jv204uhv4qgkl0lj


Cyborg, does your programming permit you to find specific posts based on the hashtags in those posts?


You’re most welcome!

And the freedom is big. “With great freedom comes great responsibility” and it’s great to see most nostriches using both well 🤜💥🤛


Should we all repost the original note tonight, just for fun?


Yeah I’ve muted a small number of actual people. Lotsa bots though 😂


Aw thanks Mallory 🫂🫂 getting there - much better than I was a few days ago!


Ok so this is better: instead of a bot that tries to introduce users to one another (cumbersome and perhaps not all that effective), just a bot that replies to each Intro note with a simple onbaording guide? Doesn’t require client feature development or coordination, just a bot-building dev and someone to maintain a basic webpage…

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Hey friend, sorry to never answer this! It must have gotten buried in my notifications because I don’t recall reading it. But someone just liked another note in the thread, so when I read through it again just now, I found your reply 🤙

Definitely agree re: the bot behavior. It’s juvenile and toxic at best, but definitely a swift move to turn away interested new users who perhaps aren’t prepared to be responsible for the bulk of their own content consumption and moderation, or who are just testing the waters to see what an uncensored digital communication network looks like, and what they find ranges from unsavory to downright awful. It’s rare, in my experience, but still a problem without an obvious solution.

I love your idea of an introductions “reply guy” bot. That’s a really clever approach, and there is definitely an opportunity to improve the onboarding experience here. (I wouldn’t know how to code it either, but we’re lucky that nostr is chock-full of brilliant devs).


Word! I’m hoping to make it, provided my job doesn’t get in the way at the very last minute. But should be fine. See you there brother!


I’m sure I’ve said this before, but with a recent influx of new users, perhaps it’s worth repeating.

Here are a few things that I believe make Nostr unique (and the best), besides the brilliant devs and all the perfect plebs, of course 💜🫂🤙🫡

#grownostr #plebchain #introductions nostr:note1fj3y2k8wknf0q4ftc5g7fsk7j5ethpkfnj4ldz3acu9uk3253nqq6fcynd