Welcome new Nostriches! Welcome to Nostr! Nostr has a large and passionate community with an equally diverse and thriving ecosystem. Use this note to help navigate this decentralized and censorship resistant communication protocol.
https://i.nostr.build/8w4atcThBIhAkYNS.jpg

Videos:

Watch why social media is broken and how we aim to fix it by nostr:nprofile1qqs0ulmtcmmn8zmkh0uqmdqz4hn9j5lzpvhj8enw3xpqfd3ucsjnngcpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucm9wf3kzarjdamxztndv5qs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq3kamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9h8qmr9vfejuer99jegvc
https://youtu.be/aA-jiiepOrE

Take the Nostr 101 course with nostr:nprofile1qqsqqx9hacelkffcgd3ecchzjtlvwq9xn2fmprhrwnzmm2t3exee2eqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqrswwax
https://youtu.be/_jrkUXDReqI

Learn about Nostr's permissionless nature with nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9uhxtnyd9nkwmm09e3k7mgprpmhxue69uhkvet9v3ehgu3wdehhxarjxyhxxmmdqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytndd9jxgmrfdenjumtev3h8xtn2wqergaw8
https://youtu.be/t-40158eRqo

Tear down your technical and social silos with myself and several Nostr developers https://youtu.be/SSFVR5ZXOuA

Podcasts:

Listen to nostr:nprofile1qqstsw3gkljwt5stm9svt7htvcjlj4ffze4chkcyt4pxxj30xkgeg5qpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdux3wqdz and nostr:nprofile1qqs9kqvr4dkruv3t7n2pc6e6a7v9v2s5fprmwjv4gde8c4fe5y29v0spr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t08zskr9 on Plebchain Radio. Many of their episodes are Nostr focused and very informative.
https://fountain.fm/show/0N6GGdZuYNNG7ysagCg9

Take a more technical approach to Nostr with nostr:nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgspr4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mf0adfqrk on the Thank God for Nostr podcast. https://fountain.fm/show/vnmoRQQ50siLFRE8k061

Articles:

Discover the basics of Nostr from nostr:nprofile1qqsrtv3u6qkj6a09tnhr3l0wy67g9uw3t57ftqyqpvztpk3wmd6306spzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0tsdfc0
https://river.com/learn/what-is-nostr/

Take a thorough deep drive and learn all about Nostr from nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm
https://www.lynalden.com/the-power-of-nostr/

Guides on Nostr:

Browse the #HOWDONOSTR hashtag on Nostr and follow my notes explaining several Nostr concepts and features.

Ask your questions with the #asknostr hashtag.

***NEW***
These are from my recent presentations at Nostriga and Baltic Honeybadger 2024:
Nostr 101: https://drive.proton.me/urls/JVV955JXRM#auCM2PWcCBuC
Being your own algorithm: https://drive.proton.me/urls/1NQPW740V8#Lqm46NkK3Pzz

Browse the ecosystem:

Visit https://nostr.how and explore all the ins and outs of the protocol yourself.

Nostr has dozens of other applications and use cases beyond Twitter like social clients. Nostr gives us a portable digital social identity that we can take with us and hop from app to app across the ecosystem. Find your next social app here https://nostrapps.com


People will eventually figure Bitcoin out, but will be partly AI.

What?! How did you grasp Bitcoin without an implant back in the day?

https://i.nostr.build/1PLxj8zli855Y0xV.png


Plus, if you click on the name it links to a Monero toxic maxi on Nostr. Which makes it double funny.


GN 😴


Keep posting useful nostr links on X and other platforms #grownostr (using Njump links)


“Their money printer is like a gun pointed at their own face, the more they go nuts with the printer, the more #Bitcoin is gonna go ballistic.”

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https://v.nostr.build/mGt5i2rFf2xkSC3V.mp4


Guess who is sponsoring bitcoin education? 😅
https://geyser.fund/project/miprimerbitcoin

https://i.nostr.build/Mr9q4Un7Xv6wvF5p.png


You can't be deplatformed here, Matt.


#macsabath


Practicing for Satoshi Rockamoto in Lugano.

https://v.nostr.build/05Igy3yd5XVYd938.mp4


Not public. Yet.


Laszlo Hanyecz Is A #Bitcoin Legend

Mined 80,000 BTC when it was under $0.01
Spent $2.4 billion on pizza.

https://i.nostr.build/B7rgK3AIlbIX2BOI.jpg


So true


PoW


What is nostr's killer feature?

A Censorship Resistance
B Interoperability
C Zaps
D Permisionless-ness
E Other(comments)


I will die on this hill for...


👀  Leaked on NOSTR first

https://i.nostr.build/EBHqNdIDVtr1uxHl.png


Bitcoiners won't suffer the same faith as the Libertarians movement, because...


Killing Bitcoin by nostr:nprofile1qqsd3fhv7rped64g77dyf9l7ndmae9mkxdz37099cc6wyzr9jytxg7cpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcj0d0xq

Every morning at 6am, in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the cynic weatherman Phil Connors wakes up to experience the same day over and over and over again. Stuck in a time loop, Connors tries everything to get his life back to normal – he gets stabbed, shot, burned, frozen and electrocuted, only to wake up again the next day as if nothing had happened. Connors quickly comes to the only plausible conclusion: he must be a god.

Thinking ourselves to be undefeatable has never been a particularly smart strategy, in times of war or otherwise. If we believe in cosmology, from Nietzsche to Hinduism, time is a loop, and there is a finite realm of possibilities which infinitely repeat – the only thing that we can really do is change how we react. Unless we learn from our mistakes, we are doomed to experience the same things over and over again.

Though often priding ourselves in exceptional intellect – I’ve found Bitcoin early, I must be very smart – it seems that learning from mistakes comes hard even for the most seasoned ‘Bitcoin advocates’. Public discourse seems to have shifted from the discussion of technological challenges and limitations to Deutsche Bank afterwork chats – Anything is possible, we’ll just need returns to remain on track.

When Bitcoin was first discussed in German Parliament back in 2014, ‘experts’ highlighted the ease with which bitcoin payments could be deanonymized via network analysis, speaking to the risks of widespread bitcoin adoption to lead towards total financial surveillance. Today, ten years later, as Bitcoin has returned to German parliament, ‘experts’ have been exchanged for influencers proposing Bitcoin as CBDC alternatives. Current ‘Bitcoin political debates’ cannot help but remind us of Bart Simpson running in circles banging a pan on his head.

As we continue to close in on the opportunist’s echo chamber, we have successfully swapped academic debate for cheerleading squads. Things will go great so long as you’re willing to take your tits out. ‘We’re winning!’ has long become the prevalent meme – Between ETF approvals, stablecoin issuances, and possible nation state adoption we are so confident in Bitcoin’s success that we seem incapable of realizing that this is precisely how you lose. Arrogance comes before most declines, and its exploitation has always been by design. By sowing manic delusions of invincibility, even the most trained commander will lead their sheep to slaughter.

Groundhog Day
A long long time ago, in a galaxy far away, we plugged our computers into landlines to access the three great W’s. For anyone who didn’t live alone, this practice was often doomed to reap a fair amount of havoc – Get off the computer, mom is waiting for a phone call.

So we can all agree that that sucked. But, due to a lack of technological advancements and accessibility to communicate wirelessly across distances (think of your favorite mesh network here), it was the most convenient option we had. The only problem: it led to a monopoly on web access points lying with telecommunications providers. Fast forward 20 years, and we now know that telecom providers monitor, analyze, and report anything that we do on the internet to government authorities under the guise of national security. A technology thought invincible for the liberation of the people quickly turned into its biggest enemy.

Now we can’t really talk about the success (and downfall) of peer-to-peer technologies without talking about Linkin Park. Linkin Park’s music, then still Hybrid Theory, circulated widely on the first P2P music file sharing network Napster. Downloaded from other people’s computers, accessing Linkin Park’s music was completely free. Their first studio album, Hybrid Theory, yet remains one of the top five most sold records in the world with 15 Million copies sold in the first three weeks alone.

Napster was a real world internet revolution – And the music industry was furious. As people happily infected their devices with potential computer AIDS, bands, rappers, and singer songwriters like the Arctic Monkeys, Dispatch or EMINEM were building fanbases even before breaking their first big record releases, and the musical establishment wasn’t having it. When Metallica sued the P2P platform for copyright infringement, clearly unhappy that their cult status and its consequential returns felt threatened, peer-to-peer music file sharing did not exactly die, but was quickly incorporated into more corporate friendly formats – from buying music via iTunes to music streaming via Spotify.

While it seemed unimaginable to put a technology like Napster back into the box, convenience, again, became king. Today, the majority of listeners do not own the music that they listen to, but subscribe to corporate databases of which neither artists, labels nor producers profit. Instead, the big winner of the music file sharing industry again turned out to be surveillance. Just last week, when Spotify updated its cookie policy, a push notification let EU users know which 695 data brokers would gain access to their information. Downloading files like ClapYourHandsSayYeah.mp3.exe. (RIP) clearly was risky business, but the risks of surveillance capitalism reach much farther than a trashed computer.

In essence, the same thing happened to search engines. Going online in the early days of the world wide web was like getting dropped off in the middle of Yellow Stone national park without a map. There were thousands of places to go, but you needed to know where they were. With comprehensive link collections, platforms like Yahoo, AskJeeves or Google offered tremendous value to those less versed in their way around the WWW. Instead of asking your peers where something cool on the internet was, you simply asked Google. But, with moving away from word-of–mouth formats, we ended up with what has today been termed the great enshittification. The first few links are paid affiliate sites, and the ones after that are those who figured out how to efficiently play Google’s SEO formats, of course all packed and tailored to your supposed needs. Today, Google is one of the most valuable surveillance companies in the world. A software meant to aid in the liberalization of free information essentially became a tool for censorship.

Again and again, thinking that ‘technology has won’ only exacerbated its demise. We choose what is comfortable now only to stab ourselves in the back down the road. And before you know it – BING! It’s the whistling belly button at the high school talent show as the weatherman strikes again. To put it bluntly: we’re fucking up.

It’s the Filters, Stupid
In today’s pop-culture Bitcoin discourse, ignorance runs rampant. Lightning works until it doesn’t, let’s spend millions to put the Dollar on Bitcoin; It’s called priorities babe, look it up.

When Ordinals hit Bitcoin – think of them what you will – we suddenly realized that we were in trouble. In the global south, people quickly became unable to transact non-custodially. All the people you’ve told to DCA suddenly saw themselves facing exorbitant transaction fees, unable to move their funds. For those valuing their privacy even for smaller spends, participating in coinjoin rounds turned prohibitively expensive. No matter where we look, we still have a scaling problem. This problem does not exist because of Ordinals. It exists because we were so convinced of winning that we lost track of keeping our ignorance in check.

Over the past four years, the majority was more concerned with furthering its own narrative – everything is awesome and Bitcoin is the bestest currency on earth – than facing uncomfortable truths. We then proceeded to respond with an exorbitant amount of shortsightedness: it’s the filters, stupid.

Filtering out Ordinals transactions is a short term solution for a long term problem. Sure, blocking arbitrary data on the blockchain will necessarily drive fees down, but if global Bitcoin adoption is what you want, you’re not doing yourself any favors by proposing selective solutions to systemic issues. The thing is that being angry at JPEGs is easy. Taking on problems that challenge the ‘greatness of Bitcoin’, which some appear to have turned into their whole personality, is not. For every tweet that claims for Bitcoin to bring world peace – clearly by pure magic, or what the Wall Street losers turned Bitcoin economists call some backwards form of game theory – a little of the system dies.

We do not need your hopium; We need real world solutions to real world problems. That includes laying down the crack pipe and talking about the uncomfortable stuff: we are not winning – we are doing the opposite, because our ‘long time preference’ reaches about as far as our investment portfolios. You can kill Bitcoin. And it’s easier than you’d think.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
Over the past few years, debates around Bitcoin ‘winning’ looked pretty much the same. Senators are embracing Bitcoin: see, we are winning. BlackRock is embracing Bitcoin: see, we are winning. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they realize that all you want is a pat on the back before the policeman comes to take your toys away. The laughing hasn’t stopped, it just happens behind your back.

The most plausible death of Bitcoin would happen less in name than in its total incorporation, at a point where the technology is simply not yet ready for ‘mass adoption’ – just like we have killed all peer-to-peer technologies that came before it. The death of Bitcoin is not the death of the tech, but the death of its usability.

At the center of the death of Bitcoin, at least in essence, continues to stand the scaling debate. When Gigablocks were first proposed, it seemed fairly obvious that a blockchain that takes 10 years to sync will lack in decentralization. In came the Lightning Network, which seemed to solve all of our issues: Scaling off-chain, securing on-chain. Smart. Except that we can only fit around 5000 channel opening and closing transactions inside of a block – hardly enough to let 8 Billion people use Bitcoin non-custodially.

Unfortunately, that didn't stop influencers – or really anyone - from proclaiming their Hail Mary of desperation; Scaling Bitcoin obviously is a problem for future me. Too high was the thrill of finally being able to sit at the corporate dinner table and smug the obligatory 'I told you so'. Putting non-believers into their place simply had to come first; if Bitcoin doesn't exist to feed our fragile egos and pump up our sad little bank accounts, what really was the point? Freedom, Carajo! Welcome to your involuntary conversion at the church of satoshi's witnesses, where we drop speeches on saving the world from tyranny more often than Biden changes his diapers.

So here we are. Six years after we bought our first stickers at the Blockstream store – the only thing you were able to buy when the first Lightning implementations launched, besides beer – and we're still scrambling. Instead of fostering broad discussions around covenant proposals, which do come with real trade-offs and risks, we are busy labeling anyone not willing to ossify a spook, while ossification at this point in Bitcoin will certainly be the surest way to kill it.

Sometime in the near future, we'll wish ourselves back to a time of a few hundred vBytes in fees. By then, we will have no choice but to use Bitcoin custodially. Say goodbye to freedom money: Bitcoin as we know it will be dead, unless we stop making the same mistakes.


Yup.


Bold move, good luck! I feel similarly stoked, although I'm not a dev I can sense where this is going... ♾


This is an interesting idea, which is worth exploring further imo. #nostr

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Guess what fixes this?

https://v.nostr.build/8j6feiXRqPvjmVPA.mp4


It it also available as webapp?


0xchat 👇

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Love it, and how does it compare security wise.


What are the main advantages of 0xchat I'm comparison to Signal?


Yessir. Welcome


Morning brother Royster


Forever bullish AF


GM! Stunning view


GM


Looking forward to unite, brother. It's been a while.


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Peer curation, interesting:
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Great article, thanks for sharing!


GM ☀

30 min interval training:

5 min Airbike (warming up)

5 min Rowing (30 sec slow, 20 sec full speed)

- 1 min break -

5 min Ski Erg (30 sec slow, 20 sec full speed)

- 1 min break -

3 rounds Kettlebell swing 30 kg
5x
10x
20x

- 1 min break -

Burpee broad jumps 50m

- 1 min break -

3 rounds Kettlebell swing 30 kg
20x
10x
5x

- 3 rounds Wall balls 12kg, 9kg, 6kg
20x
10x
5x

Keep pushing forward! https://i.nostr.build/WLKltZiThdEcIWjm.jpg


NOSTR encourages deeper relationships over high quantity of followers, because a smaller group of motivated followers returns more value than a lot of passive tourist followers.


Same here
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Which one would you use to stealth mode your dms plus group chat? Signal or NOSTR based 0xchat?


Sending #Bitcoin via text message without an internet connection ⚡🤯

https://v.nostr.build/DY48bKMzdEWybWhw.mp4


Imagine a colorful world filled with vibrant villages, each bustling with activity. Each village has its own unique roads and parks where people gather to share their stories, pictures, and ideas.

**Village A** is like a big, crowded gathering spot, similar to Facebook, where everyone loves to post their adventures. But there’s a dark cloud hanging over it. The village leaders, while wanting to keep things friendly, are constantly pressured by the government to monitor what people share. If someone posts something that the government doesn’t like, the leaders might say,
> “Hold on! You can’t share that!”
 It feels more like a prison than a park, where the rules can change at any moment, and everyone is afraid to speak freely.

**Village B** is a chaotic place where folks send quick messages back and forth, just like Twitter. Here, too, the leaders face immense pressure from the government to control conversations. If you say something that doesn’t fit the official narrative, they might silence you or even banish you from the village. Plus, when you share your thoughts, you don’t really own them. The leaders can sell your data and connections to the highest bidder, leaving you feeling like just another product.

Then there’s **Village C**, a trendy spot for sharing beautiful photos, like Instagram. But beware! The leaders here are also under the thumb of the government, which has its own set of oppressive rules. If someone posts something that challenges the status quo, it might just vanish without a trace. And just like in the other villages, your data and followers aren’t really yours—they can be sold off without your consent.

But wait! **Enter NOSTR**, the magical map that connects all the villages without any leaders telling you what you can or can’t share. It’s like building roads that anyone can use, with no gates or guards in sight.

With NOSTR, if Village A wants to share a story with Village C, they can do it directly, or through Village B, without anyone stopping them. It’s permissionless, meaning you don’t need to ask for permission to share your thoughts or ideas. Plus, all content lives everywhere at once, thanks to special relays, so you can find it no matter where you are!

Here’s the best part: with NOSTR, you own your own data, connections, and followers! It’s like having a special key that only you control. No one can sell your information or take away your followers because you’re the one in charge.

And let’s not forget about the exciting micropayments called “zaps” using Bitcoin! Imagine if you could send a little thank-you to someone for a great story or a beautiful photo, right there in the moment. It’s like tossing a coin into a fountain to show your appreciation, but digital and instant!

And here’s a side note: with the rise of AI, people can create even more amazing things, like art or stories, and share them freely through NOSTR. There’s no one to censor or control what you create, so everyone can express themselves fully.

As more and more people flock to NOSTR, the other villages start to lose their users. They realize they need to adapt or risk fading away. Some leaders begin to think about integrating NOSTR into their own platforms, but there’s a catch: they have to rethink their entire profit model first. This leads to a battle of ideas, as they struggle to find a way to keep their users while also embracing the freedom that NOSTR offers.

In the end, while the centralized parks are dark and oppressive, ruled by leaders who are pressured by the government to control every word and image, NOSTR allows all the villages to connect freely. It’s a place where everyone can share their voices without fear, a world of endless possibilities where creativity thrives, and you truly own your data and connections!

In a vibrant realm, NOSTR shines bright, where voices soar free, unbound by night. Centralized shadows fade, as users unite, with ownership and joy, they reclaim their light.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq0nwqu6m3ghfd7x0vclkf5zth882jvd0e3tl2snuxkaksk0ftj9zqqxnzdejxsursdfnxcunswpejkj9qh


Imagine a colorful world filled with vibrant villages, each bustling with activity. Each village has its own unique roads and parks where people gather to share their stories, pictures, and ideas.

Village A is like a big, crowded gathering spot, similar to Facebook, where everyone loves to post their adventures. But there’s a dark cloud hanging over it. The village leaders, while wanting to keep things friendly, are constantly pressured by the government to monitor what people share. If someone posts something that the government doesn’t like, the leaders might say, “Hold on! You can’t share that!” It feels more like a prison than a park, where the rules can change at any moment, and everyone is afraid to speak freely.

Village B is a chaotic place where folks send quick messages back and forth, just like Twitter. Here, too, the leaders face immense pressure from the government to control conversations. If you say something that doesn’t fit the official narrative, they might silence you or even banish you from the village. Plus, when you share your thoughts, you don’t really own them. The leaders can sell your data and connections to the highest bidder, leaving you feeling like just another product.

Then there’s Village C, a trendy spot for sharing beautiful photos, like Instagram. But beware! The leaders here are also under the thumb of the government, which has its own set of oppressive rules. If someone posts something that challenges the status quo, it might just vanish without a trace. And just like in the other villages, your data and followers aren’t really yours—they can be sold off without your consent.

But wait! Enter NOSTR, the magical map that connects all the villages without any leaders telling you what you can or can’t share. It’s like building roads that anyone can use, with no gates or guards in sight.

With NOSTR, if Village A wants to share a story with Village C, they can do it directly, or through Village B, without anyone stopping them. It’s permissionless, meaning you don’t need to ask for permission to share your thoughts or ideas. Plus, all content lives everywhere at once, thanks to special relays, so you can find it no matter where you are!

Here’s the best part: with NOSTR, you own your own data, connections, and followers! It’s like having a special key that only you control. No one can sell your information or take away your followers because you’re the one in charge.

And let’s not forget about the exciting micropayments called “zaps” using Bitcoin! Imagine if you could send a little thank-you to someone for a great story or a beautiful photo, right there in the moment. It’s like tossing a coin into a fountain to show your appreciation, but digital and instant!

And here’s a side note: with the rise of AI, people can create even more amazing things, like art or stories, and share them freely through NOSTR. There’s no one to censor or control what you create, so everyone can express themselves fully.

As more and more people flock to NOSTR, the other villages start to lose their users. They realize they need to adapt or risk fading away. Some leaders begin to think about integrating NOSTR into their own platforms, but there’s a catch: they have to rethink their entire profit model first. This leads to a battle of ideas, as they struggle to find a way to keep their users while also embracing the freedom that NOSTR offers.

In the end, while the centralized parks are dark and oppressive, ruled by leaders who are pressured by the government to control every word and image, NOSTR allows all the villages to connect freely. It’s a place where everyone can share their voices without fear, a world of endless possibilities where creativity thrives, and you truly own your data and connections!

nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq0nwqu6m3ghfd7x0vclkf5zth882jvd0e3tl2snuxkaksk0ftj9zqqxnzdejxsursdfnxcunswpejkj9qh

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


Elon Musk moving forward to integrate NOSTR and Bitcoin zapps would certainly be the most entertaining outcome.

https://i.nostr.build/X32Vb1Hp0P7VQqP4.png


People cross posting on X

https://i.nostr.build/am5FEHI7XcKp43WN.png


Pavel Durov now charged with violence against women in Switzerland.

Man. Same old playbook.

Every single time.


Yo nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle when is your debate with Peter Schiff?

https://v.nostr.build/uhWeMi5exH9r9B1U.mp4


nostr:npub10qdp2fc9ta6vraczxrcs8prqnv69fru2k6s2dj48gqjcylulmtjsg9arpj What's this? I'm just lurking.

https://i.nostr.build/i9zW5nhOrez1LAvP.png


Once you understand the implications of Bitcoin, you should never go back to saving nor spending in fiat money you have no control over.

Once you understand the implications of NOSTR, you should never go back to communicating in digital prisons you have no control over.


Good evening


Had too much coffee today


I would not go that far, that's disrespectful.

They are more like... lazy fucking slave satans cheering on their distopian daddies to rule over everyone god damn living soul.


NOSTR feels like the internet and bitcoin in the early days. Bunch of pirates


Here;s 10% of a slice


Tatum at it again, what a genius!

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What are you saying, you paid with nostr?


Thanks Rikki, although you can be a bit intimidating at times, I always appreciate your humor and clarity.


LFG


Do we even realize how important it is that control obsessed authorities are not able to censor us anymore? NOSTR is the real town square.


How to add value and earn more sats on NOSTR:

1 Appreciate, follow and onboard new people: #introductions
2 Check #Asknostr to help people setting up their wallets for zapping
3 Invite people you like to nostr
4 Say GM and reply to people saying GM
5 Built something if you are able to
6 Use hashtags so people can easily find you
7 Dare to be different or weird
8 Have fun and act like you do in real life
9 Don't self censor, nobody can cancel you
10 Treat other people the way you like to be treated
11 Renote posts that contribute to #grownostr


Yes, a Juicy Zapp cocktail


Ahah there is no nsecond beer


Imagine the first physical NOSTR bar called the "nPub" opening in  Paramaribo, Suriname.

Would you visit? if yes, what should we serve, and what would you like to experience there?

https://i.nostr.build/8ZvcObzMtx9CkjfK.png


GM


X will be just another NOSTR client. Adapt or die ELON.


What made you finally leave the MatriX, Bram?
#introductions


That's why devs like printer software


Ditto.pub


We need to practice more "hard love" in society, especially with your friends: the ability to confront your friends directly if they talk BS, harm others, behave idiotic or make dumb life decisions.

Bully them a bit into self reflection if you see it.

Because, if you can't confront a friend from time to time, are you even a friend?


Trying to trade bitcoin is...

This message contains OG trade secrets...


No one knows, we can only guess. Authorities will always try to enforce rules on gatekeepers, but with NOSTR it is much more difficult to track them down. That said, I’m not technically/forensically skilled enough to speak in certainties.


The proces is you report a note, and than it's up to the relay admin to remove it, but because it is broadcasted to many relays at the same time, it's practically impossible to remove everywhere.

This is how a free internet is supposed to work anyway.

People just have to accept what we can't control.


Exactly


Knock knock


There is some horrific content posted daily in the Global tab (which can be reported to relay admins), but with NOSTR we have the optionality to just ignore/mute what we don't like.

On NOSTR you can always speak your truth without fear of being cancelled/kicked off the protocol. We have to stop asking for permission and just act like you do in real life. Most people are friendly, peaceful and helpful.


Some bitcoiners are little Peter Schiffs in disguise, but what can you do?! Well, for starters, stop comparing, stop convincing, stop complaining.


Say something offensive to find out


"#SimpleX is the best for privacy, but I think it has occasional issues with groups. #0xchat runs on #nostr, but the privacy isn't that great yet. If you don't mind the lack of privacy, which #Telegram didn't have anyway, 0xchat is fine. Eventually, NIP-104 for EML will be finalized, and then 0xchat can implement it, and it'll be the obvious choice."


Check out 0xChat for secure group chats based on NOSTR:
https://www.0xchat.com

https://i.nostr.build/0HEZJMNVxeyHVmuT.png


Good morning NOSTR

Create some notes today, make it a habit to engage with the only free protocol for communication.


Yes


What?! I don't remember adding any amount to zapp for this poll.


What is a bigger idea?


Yo


Came for the attention, stayed for the revolution


God, I love humanity for this!!


Nothing stops ETH... from falling and failing.


Wow. I did not expect an answer like this at all. Will have to reread it a few times though.


nostr:nprofile1qqsd3086elxcwhgevfgmp60u66fjl9swytj960nvcjxgnzgh42tkgkcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcqy3e2x chime in brother


Well done. Now, off you go, explore and expand upon the infinite possibilities that lead to even more transformative insights...


So, what's next after we fixed free speech with nostr?


Ahum *likely


Bitcoiners are either totally crazy, or everyone else is. The chances of the latter seams more unlikely with every bitcoin heartbeat. Tick tock maniacs


Make clients that auto switch relays?
Make temporary relays that auto expire? Relay mixers/randomizers? Let personalized AI choose the best option to broadcast so there is no single throat to choke at any given point in time? Let this relay code live inside of a bitcoin block?


Yo Nico! Warm welcome


Be more original


Aren't we all


See, there is no need for a stable coin


Thanks to #NOSTR and #bitcoin, I have a healthy zen approach to life.


Nobody on NOSTR is posting their twitter handles 😂


Doing my part #grownostr

https://i.nostr.build/ZLYBHJDBpgJS295S.png


Every platform that integrates NOSTR will thrive.

Every platform that does not integrate NOSTR is anti freedom.

There is no excuse.


Welkom bij NOSTR!


Block time is universal for everyone. Makes more sense to use that as a metric instead of days/hours.


Extra KARMA points: help some newbies at #introductions

https://i.nostr.build/Sle5RlcQQU4EXhxc.jpg


Value Per Block is the new ROI


Easy. Stop thinking in days. Start thinking in blocks.


✓ Unlocked next life accomplishment

https://i.nostr.build/r94EKhtZxeSEodrH.png


Was waiting for a NOSTR client that has a way to bookmark notes. Ditto.pub supports this! Highly recommended.

https://i.nostr.build/zCtBuqnz7Ebc8OB6.png


Nice!


So, to summarize...

1. YOU DO NOT KEEP YOUR BITCOIN ON AN EXCHANGE
2. YOU DO NOT SHARE YOUR PRIVATE KEYS
3. YOU DO NOT SELL YOUR BITCOIN
4. YOU DO NOT SHARE YOUR NOSTR NSEC
5. YOU DO NOT FORGET TO ZAPP USEFUL NOTES

Anything I missed?


I see your article show up, what’s your take on the Habla editor? nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpk9ult8ump6ar939rv8flntfxtukpc3wghf7dnzgezvfz74fwezmqqxnzdejxsmnsve3xqcryvfnzyzaf9


I think when publishing an article it gets broadcasted to other nostr based long read platforms as well like https://blogstack.io.

Hopefully this helps.


Check out the video, you can markup your posts on Habla and publish it on multiple relays: https://v.nostr.build/HCCfzGzvJ5NuJj6a.mp4


Good question, I think Habla is built for this Habla.news/faq although I haven't used it. I see it as a decentralized kind of Blog front-end like medium.


GM
https://i.nostr.build/W2W9OfCMw445BUWV.png


Yeah, we've seen this movie before. Nobody uses Netscape or IE anymore. It took a decade to figure out browsers.

But not this time around. I a few years I imagine there to be hundreds of high quality clients and millions of relays.


Connecting the dots is not so hard anymore in 2024.
Everything is out in the open.

https://i.nostr.build/DHC6aFaqsazKkojU.png


Just try another client, and give it some time...
https://nostr.com/clients


GN! To everyone except France!


When you get to a certain level of #Bitcoin understanding, you change. You enter into a mad dash. You do everything in your power to stack sats. Then after some years in the game, you slow down. All that stacking gives you options & power. You start exercising your power.

The first step is hitting your first stacking goal. Usually this involves an amount that takes care of you for several years. You have money, but you're not rich yet. You're still in the mad dash.

The second step is accumulating enough BTC to last you the rest of your life. This is the F-You-Money stage. You have enough to say F-You to the world, but you're not in lambo territory yet. At this point it's hard to appreciably increase your stack anymore percentagewise. You begin to slow down here.

You start to question what you're doing with your time. You have the ability to take more risks and perhaps start a business or learn a valuable skill. All the while, the ethos of Bitcoin has entered your bloodstream. You look to optimize your life in ways that were not possible before. You seek to live in a more based way. Life gets immeasurably better.

The last stage is having so much Bitcoin that you don't think you'll ever spend all your wealth. You spent the F-You-Money phase upgrading your life. Now this is a habit and you keep optimizing your life, but you're more focused on deciding what to do with the newfound power you have.

The next logical step is philanthropy and activism. You start to desire to change more than just your world. You seek to reshape and mold the external world too. This is when the fun happens. Having all your needs taken care of, it becomes pleasurable to see to the needs of the world.

Forget the lambo. At this stage you can afford one, but you don't want one anymore. Instead, you play the game of life as God intended. You're a ball of growth. And you're contagious.

Godspeed, Bitcoiners. You may be in the mad dash phase right now. But in short order you'll make your mark on the world. It's your destiny. If it weren't, you would not be this early in understanding Bitcoin.
--
Undisclosed ₿


GM!


Why did Satoshi choose orange as a color for Bitcoin?


Yo brother


Hallo Denise! Ben je Nederlandse?


Sounds like a good follow! Nice to have you on board.


Yeah Jack promised me Lambo


Hang in there. Hope you feel better soon brother


The ability to move your money and identity globally offers some protection due to escapism via Bitcoin and Nostr, in the really rough scenarios. Like Venezuela.

Locally, we should note that it’s not like Telegram users are arrested. That would be unworkable. Only the CEO was. The more individual a policy gets, the more expensive and unpopular it is to enforce. There is no CEO of Bitcoin or Nostr.

The1930s gold ban was brutal, but hardly ever enforced. Going after individuals was both expensive and unpopular. That applies today as well. And information travels faster now. We should use it.

Structural debasement requires obfuscation in order to secure unaware seigniorage from its public. The more that it’s brought to public awareness, the weaker it is.

What you can do: make money honest again.

Make them tell us our laws.
Make them tell us we can’t hold sound money.
Make them tell us we can’t transmit digital money to our friends like we would with cash. And then ask why.
Make them tell us they need to tax us, because they can’t quietly debase us.
Make it more transparent. Shine a light on it and ask people if it’s just.


Why are CBDCs bad?
Listen to the full interview - link below, and join me at “Liberty in our lifetime” conference in Prague - Nov. 1-3, 2024.

https://v.nostr.build/NhZiF5HxIhAGEjvr.mp4


No tradeoffs baby


Time for energy


AMSTERDAM is full of soy boyz Noshole


I'm kinda surprised nobody asked me about my trades yet.


Critical mass for what? Use NOSTR to post the more interesting stuff, short clips on centralised platforms, pull them in


Warm Welcome!


Followed!


Amethyst users: zapp your support to nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug


We're all carrying the purple torch, spreading unconditional freedom of speech forever on NOSTR.

Next likely attack vector: internet providers


Run A Relay: Save The World Tyranny


Yeah, the most principled individuals on a spectrum move first and the rest will follow suit I guess.

Will prolly take 2/3 years before every bitcoiner/sovereign individual will be full time on nostr.


Good to blow off some steam, no worries.

Everyone faces different challenges in this regard, but when we stick together as likeminded brothers and sisters and we come back stronger.


Kind reminder: open-source developers on Nostr are assuming a huge amount of risk.

Yes, Nostr is a Hydra, and when totalitarians cut off one head two more will grow in its place… But each developer IS a head, and by simply writing code they put themselves in a dangerous position. By writing code that enables freedom technology, they make themselves a target.

They know this, and they do it anyway.

It should not be this way, I know. Code is speech. But it is the reality of the world we live in today.

Thankfully, open-source developers are creating tools that will make the world of tomorrow a better, freer one. The kind of world you want your children to inherit.

So, whatever Nostr client you’re reading this on, go zap the developer. Give them some of your monetary energy.

They fucking deserve it. nostr:note1sqfy325zy39fqvc0yhr0u992gdpdp28x6hfkwavm0gs4hj083xrs8j5q95


You can use nostr.build to do it today.


Well put Latrica. It's the most rational path forward. What is your ministry/content about?


I lost my nsec on a safari trip #grownostr


I'm kinda slow, he he :)


Good you moved on from this nonsense.


I have no doubt that some "respected journalist" out there is trying to find an angle how to frame talking about health as being racist/far right.


Watch out people
nostr:note1kn5k3y6kujkk6eqas4rtxx6f9flas07q3p9kyqj4074994v4uexsqr9t56


Check out Captain's log #3 from nostr:nprofile1qqsth5k6rwr35mhxmtfplrcgxmalpkezyjltmeqpj7u8x00wr87xynspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ukzcnvv5hx7un89uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46qz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9e3h2unjv4h8gtnx095sfcpyfh, where she reveals the origins of Daedalus Labs and our exciting future ahead!

https://www.daedaluslabs.io/log/our-journey-so-far

https://image.nostr.build/fe3822a23a173b3326a796d87b3700115bb0aeaadbd9c9ec352111fa2d7fb793.jpg


7 strong ideas for effective freedom fighting:

1. The layers:
Understand that people's ideas and our belief systems form the foundation of the other societal layers, with the monetary system being the second most important layer.

2. The battle of ideas:
Win the battle of ideas, and you win the battle for everything else.

3. Help others:
Join others in their fight for freedom instead of just asking them to join your fight for #Bitcoin, food security, drug decriminalization, etc.

4. Copy, copy, copy!
Let others copy your good behavior and ideas, and become adept at copying others' good behavior and ideas.

5. Show what you are capable of:
Let the world see that you have power and are willing and able to use it, especially against those who try to ruin civil discourse and when others are under attack.

6. No freeriders:
Never be a free rider, as those who only seek to benefit from others' fight for freedom without contributing themselves destroy people's motivation to fight.

7. Show your pride:
Be open about how proud you are of what you stand for, and wear your freedom fight as a badge of honor (Satoshi t-shirt, anti-NATO button, Norway out of EEA pins, etc.) https://image.nostr.build/5407b859696c350ff6c9f23c3280586ae99060eb2aa06ab7ecda680b060b8927.jpg


I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.


GM!


⚡ Lightning Network

🪫 Total Capacity: 5,008 BTC
🪫 Avg. Capacity: 10,288,320 sats

🖥 Total Nodes: 12,805
🤵♂ Clearnet: 1,738
🕵 Tor: 8,885
🔀 Channels: 48,675

💸 Avg. Fee: 794 ppm
💸 Avg. Base Fee: 940 msats

#Bitcoin #LightningNetwork


Great work nostr:npub1n0sturny6w9zn2wwexju3m6asu7zh7jnv2jt2kx6tlmfhs7thq0qnflahe 👏
https://image.nostr.build/dbfc76c4a7a21c16c28786474de4b7f9f8901e106daec687b55d705a2dd5361f.jpg


How do I get started with meshtastic?


Proof of Heavy Work

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


That's the spirit.


*new customers


You ARE special. The new elite.

So, this fee applies for new customers that sign up after date X or to all customers?


#BitAxe is anarchy in the #Bitcoin mining industry. The anarchy “A” in our brand symbolizes:

•No hierarchies.
•Non compliance.
•True decentralization.
•Freedom.
•Inclusion.

Global hash rate distribution has commenced. The open source mining ideology will never die. The miners of last resort will ensure freedom money prevails for the future inheritors of the world
https://m.primal.net/KITH.jpg


"We need to bankrupt them"

nostr:npub1t289s8ck5qfwynf2vsq49t2kypvvkpj7rhegayrur0ag9s2sezaqgunkzs https://video.nostr.build/bbf99b924636866dd17e4de02689f856ecd4a6a179aae23336deeae5a4e2928c.mp4


Why?


Also for existing customers


1,000 USD annual fee ftw?


∞ / fuck around, find out


Grocery stores are magnificent modern marvels & they are literally everywhere.

But you can even be thankful for the bonds between the atoms beneath your feet that prevent us all from melting into some sort of primordial ooze. If that shit isn't fuel for walking down the street by yourself & smiling like a weirdo then idk what is.


nostr:npub1qe3e5wrvnsgpggtkytxteaqfprz0rgxr8c3l34kk3a9t7e2l3acslezefe have you seen this?


Wow, this really shows the power of Nostr


Great take!


The problem facing people who hate Bitcoin is that it’s superior to its alternatives and they need it, regardless of how they feel about the other people who use it. The same will be true of Nostr.


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

Fountain 1.1 with #nostr is now live on iOS and Android!

Why Nostr?

We regularly hear from both listeners and podcasters that the social features in Fountain are a great way to discover content that's worth listening to.

When you support a podcast, or comment on an episode, your message is surfaced to your followers in the Fountain home feed and anyone that sees these can add the content to their library.

But this came with a few problems. When you first start using Fountain you wouldn't have any followers so your posts wouldn't get seen. If you wanted to share something you were listening to, you had to choose between leaving a comment on Fountain, or sharing on another social platform.

Today we are excited to announce a massive update to Fountain that solves these problems with Nostr:

- You can bring your existing profile and followers to Fountain
- Your boosts and comments will be surfaced in other Nostr clients
- Posts shared from other Nostr clients relating to audio will appear in your feed
- Conversation and interactions now flow freely across multiple apps

Read more about the new Fountain nostr features here: https://blog.fountain.fm/p/1-1


It says GM GE GN while zapping me back


for those who enjoy thinking about things in weird ways, to observe whether they are true or not, the internet is an accelerated version of the world.
it iterates through the good and bad decisions of mankind at an accelerated rate. it fast forwards through replays of lessons we should have already learned. Or perhaps did, and forgot.

we are currently watching season 2, episode 2, “The emergence of the Oligarchy, and the Resistance”


Wow. Enjoy!


Omg he took her neck?


General cultural rule of thumb I've experienced...

Americans want to feel smart, Azians want to feel respected, Europeans want to feel liked, Russians want to feel strong.

If we just be aware and recognise each others needs of this general rule, we could prevent a lot of suffering to begin with.

Am I wrong?


Building software is mostly about making it work faster, fixing bugs, and figuring out the UX. Only a tiny part is the creating sexy new features.

And in honor of that reality, we’ve got an amazing update of nos.social with even more bug fixes.

nostr:note1pxclrckwqyew7pm7ncfa9qt595gavtdzy53ufhzx685p5k4crfeq9mp7yu


Listen, I think nostr:nprofile1qqsy86rlt3pvtvfuryalrehjjaqv4g2recqj9zhyh49svf2gx3vqe2sppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0fjdkvm might be right that through programmable and surveilled stable coins (which is supported by both red as blue politicians and pro bitcoin media),  there is a fair chance Bitcoin will be coopted and will never be the medium of exchange freedom money loving bitcoiners want.

In that scenario, the dollar will inflate into bitcoin and the digital dollar will dominate MoE, bitcoiners will be rich on paper, but we have no freedom to spend it as we like.

So,there is a call to action there, to build better tools on top of bitcoin that are censorship resistant, while we orange pill as much merchants as we can to build critical mass.

The fight continues...

Am I wrong?!

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/08/investigative-series/the-chain-of-issuance-the-people-and-patents-that-built-the-financial-surveillance-network/


If Nostr stays just as it is, my life is already better for it. And we’re only getting started. GM.


happy #BitcoinInfinityDay fam
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Oh really, will check it out. That unfortunately excludes people on iOS from the group.


So, anyone built a group chat based on NOSTR? Killer use case imo #asknostr

https://media.tenor.com/dngTVsPlCIcAAAAC/baby-assembly.gif


I suspect that lightning fees (with people holding self custodial) will be the true risk free rate (see Breez) of the new system.
Which (as fees rise) in layer 1, will push more people to the interoperability layer of lightning, (and provide through supply and demand) a market for fees that is bounded by free market competition and protocols like Fedimint which would have lower fees.
But the real crux of your question comes down to the world we live in is one of financialization and many people will try to play that same game and people will fall for it (offering higher fees by not being fully reserved) - which will then blow up (with no one to save them)

Still lots of investments and funding of the free market. Our fund is a perfect example where we believe we can beat a 45% IRR (#Bitcoin rate of return in USD) by investing in entrepreneurs building the new system and as a byproduct…..building their balance sheets in bitcoin. (By offering 10x value to users)
The choice will always come down to an investor’s belief that they can beat the risk free rate by investing in something that outperforms it. (Against the risk of that investment)


Nostr Freedom Pro setup:
- AlbyHub for self-custodial lightning wallet and Nostr Wallet Connect for one-click zaps
- nostr.build pro account for unlimited hosting of image and video files
- nostr.wine account for all your posts
- relay.tools account to collect all your posts and all notifications to you
- inbox.nostr.wine account for all your DMs


Yes talk is cheap


Are you acting tough or are you mentally strong?

Acting tough:
1. You mask insecurities
2. You think failure isn't an option
3. Your self-worth depends on how others see you
4. You suppress your emotions
5. You deny your pain
6. You think you can do everything
7. You try to control other people
8. You project instead

Mentally strong
1. Be open and truthful
2. Learn from failures and start over
2. Realise there can be multiple truths
3. Regulate your thoughts and emotions, they are not you
4. Prefer gradual change above quick wins
5. Be brave to choose a different path
6. Don't self blame and resist having a victim mentality
7. Resist to compare yourself with others and don't judge others
8. Admit you are wrong or don't know the answer
9. Ask more questions than to assume
10. Be aware of group think, dogma and narcicism.
11. Master giving and receiving feedback


Little tech take big tech nostr:note10szz3g82xe8rwfuvczkhl0gnhu5c29899z5c8wkza20kxmr6khwszre2mg


Just an idea for you, write a little story for every picture you take, describing the scene. Hope it helps.


'Can't rember the last time I tweeted', is gonna be the new 'can't remember the last time I watched TV'.


You know what to do NOSTR
nostr:nevent1qqspjn6pv09cu5pew2qwhyh82fjf0r00vmuvu22pm8nd2vrfdt04zkqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs0wa4ucy38r0nel3cmv40ne0lt829pd8enacfntlxqcg5znyqa5jsrqsqqqqqpzwq2xg


Forced by who?


Is he on NOSTR?


All I see is a Miner haha


Tick tock


Yeah, Its gard to imagine order if magnitudes, but happens every time again with the corn


Because yield brought us in this mess in the first place.


What a looser, go get em Ben


Fow sure


Bullish


Which brand is most likely to transition to NOSTR only?


Remember Ralphie, got to work on the godlike though lol https://i.nostr.build/G6jq1SsZyKt3pTxu.jpg


Haha, yessir. I like my cheap sats cheap.


I'm calling it like nostradamus.

We're never going below 59k ever again.

Because nobody expects it.

(Trying some voodoo reverse psychology shit out I learned this weekend)


Nostr Safebox Update

Not yet ready for prime time, but I am a making super progress.
Nostr safebox is a proof of concept to test whether a ‘wallet’ can exist ‘out there’ in the nostr network (encrypted data on redundant relays). So far it is progressing better than expected, I can:

1. Receive a lightning invoice and ‘deposit’ funds as Cashu tokens.
2. Make a payment to a lightning address using those tokens.
3. Receive a Cashu token from another mint, swap funds to home mint.
4. Store and retrieve private encrypted information.

A few next steps,

1. Support holding tokens from multiple mints (right now swapping to a single home mint).
2. Accepting tokens with nostr DMs
3. Continued testing across relays (a relay out of China is my fave to test so far.
4. Continued development, with the goal of replacing the backend component of my Lightning address payment system to remove dependency on a custodial wallet database.
5. Documentation of the functionality so it can be implemented in other languages (currently Python)

Of course, all open source. Repo with the latest below.

https://github.com/trbouma/safebox https://image.nostr.build/9d06ba115167fd10e56f5b8f2c3a675e0b11bc39082ac1906905f3d8e3297880.jpg


The Proof of Stake system we live in, is designed to make you feel.

Feel good, feel bad, feel numb, feel powerless. The media companies sponsored by bad actors acting like non profits, injects sentiment on repeat in society to stear outcome.

The contrast with the Proof of Work system can't be bigger. It's designed to make you think and validate instead of trust.

These reprogramming doesn't work there, they fall completely flat.

This makes me hopeful for my children's future.


By going through the Bitcoin rabbit hole, I discovered the power of Stoicism.

This ancient philosophy teaches the importance of focusing on what we can control and accepting what we cannot.

This resonated deeply with me and it helped me to resist societal noise/pressure... https://i.nostr.build/YNUnZz5OI36dqg7z.jpg


Everyone wants to build a legacy so that the after world remembers we bitcoiners already made history we realized that something was wrong in this world like Neo, we all felt that splinter, but we couldn't put a finger on it until bitcoin opened the floodgates to all the lies and deception. We are the first wave of people who refused the matrix and all of it's programming, we unlearned all the lies we were told. Our legacy is written on the blockchain for everyone to witness today and in the centuries to come. #bitcoin


Suriname Presidential candidate nostr:npub1h0fd5xu8rfhwdkkjr78ssdhm7rdjyf97hhjqr9acwv77ux0uvf8q23kvcg describes how she views the role of the State on THE #Bitcoin Podcast

https://youtu.be/fQkWUz-0MHw


Some wise company here, should I purple pill them? https://i.nostr.build/9NswxN7L2hE6B8LL.jpg


Have fun!! Ask them if they could share their npubs


Going live now!
https://www.youtube.com/live/CA_MWKqLtuA


EET smakelijk boyz


Good to see you interact here, doc!


I've just published the draft NIP to bring highly secure DM and group messaging to Nostr via the MLS protocol.

I've been studying this space for months now and after looking at a lot of different options, MLS (messaging layer security) stood out as the right way to approach solving DMs and group messages. It's highly scalable, an internet standard, and allows for graceful upgrading over time.

Done right – this NIP allows us to build extremely secure, uncensorable messaging clients that have no centralized coordinators or servers. Which is what I plan to do next. 😉

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1427


Live with nostr:npub1gu47n7fxfm4py48jktmu6tdqcvva4e87fntynuzzf62zxnw2e7tsc6907g at 6pm ET!

https://www.youtube.com/live/lJqXYeThK94


Now live: Tune in with BTC Sessions on things happening in Bitcoin and NOSTR https://www.youtube.com/live/lJqXYeThK94


getting serious fomo


LFG vote to #grownostr

https://image.nostr.build/ba87d09ea5de2213652ae8895f35e52127996ece15a79591e1d63d2ebc45b039.png
nostr:note1w5ky9f4aqheyuyyckv0usek0aaj3suv0d3r86j8ja3yelwcxu4rqhkkx4s


Thanks, don't know if it the grand also applies to UX designers.


Agreed. Where do I apply?


Is there a free and open source AI image generator? #AI #imagegenerator


nostr:npub1k5f85zx0xdskyayqpfpc0zq6n7vwqjuuxugkayk72fgynp34cs3qfcvqg2 https://media.tenor.com/gH3uJQSXyvIAAAAC/look-up-there-south-park.gif


Damn, I told you not to push that button, but you couldn’t resist. https://media.tenor.com/EqeLLBlFyIYAAAAC/gif.gif


Damn. Hold on Carla.


GM!


Bitcoin is built to be attacked. Tick Tock.
https://v.nostr.build/YcEDEB4B7ukLqMUZ.mp4


“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequence of ignoring reality”

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


You are exactly where you are supposed to be


Don't try to hit me, and hit me!


#Bitcoin isn't just in our wallets, it's in our hearts. It fuels our passion and powers our dreams.  http://res.cloudinary.com/duz6er8nb/image/upload/v1717638694/sxnla1snhfzknvxfz5jq.jpg


Note to self.

It’s not healthy to be in any rabbit hole too long.

As I observe it, the shadows and mirrors in the deep are lurking to extract life energy and will eat your soul and can have a sort of haunting effect.

Instead, I’ll try to be in the physical objective reality of the world. In nature, cheerful and light.

Don’t take the weight of the world on you, it’s not meant to be carried anyway.

You won’t be an NPC for just breathing once in a while.

Relax.

#Lifehabits #rabbithole


GM Frens!

Starting my day fresh, listening to Noderunners Radio https://zap.stream/noderunnersradio

https://i.nostr.build/wLIAs4dd9p302Ksp.png


Good observation, might come true.


Sounds good! LFG


GM, Sunshine, yoghurt and a workout!


Feel free to DM me with more info/questions! I might be available for 1/2 days a week starting next week.


In times of mass confusion

We are proud individuals

Holding up the flame

In a cold society

We got the power to rise

Into freedom

Over fear

We just got to hodl on

Make this life free and beautiful

NO MORE FEAR

Love and freedom

LOVE AND FREEDOM GODDAMNIT

#bitcoin #nostr


Sounds interesting, but not sure how much work this is


What are you saying, that I should shower 3 times a day?


For designers the stakes are higher and rewards are fewer. But most people don’t understand this. nostr:note14aetjsek2nlru8y6zjucmjw3972tqgn5usal5yrtx90mq5p45kksu5sm58


TLDR, listen to your wife 90% of the time


Here's another fragment https://njump.me/nevent1qqszxzfm3rncnfgff5e7m3j3y7fdwpx0th6ftue6s0n79ee5tw7493qppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsrd7ttev9myjjj9n3v96r8es6536jvfru4rtjf6f86xrm59lec3zcrqsqqqqqpq679dg


Getting there...

Tbh I think most people will not get the cash register sound.

Would be even cooler with more scenes from other types of people like politicians/activists talking about human rights, or even plebs talking about censorship.


Throwing up heart attack


Nsac incoming. Keep up!

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Of course, but a man can dream.


NOSTR should not be a platform for political polarisation.


Super nice! Mooie aankoop


Agreed, honeybadgers can do a better job to be friendly, positive and welcoming just like we do IRL.

Let's make NOSTR a place for positivity, knowledge, depth, weirdness, and support!


Nightmare are your brain processing memories and tensions. Perfectly normal, I had the same, first nightmares and than I noticed my dreaming became more about small superficial stuff...

Touching grass and regular unplugging did it for me. Give my mind some peace instead of filling it during the day with noise.


Hi Lex,

Nostr is een beetje zoals 1998 toen het internet net opkwam. Vol met UX issues en vooral vooral techies die het gebruiken. Het heeft nog wat tijd nodig.

Maar ik zie steeds meer engagement en verbeteringen de laatste tijd.

Centraal beheerde platformen zijn een nogo geworden voor mij als bitcoiner. Ook al zijn die platformen fijner in gebruik, ik weiger nog langer het spel mee te spelen.

NOSTR is ook veel positiever, mensen zijn aardiger en behulpzamer. En het is veel meer dan social media alleen.

Wat tips:

Kijk naar accounts die veel volgers hebben en volg die allemaal. Gebruik meer hashtags bij je berichten. Kijk via nostr.band welke relays anderen gebruiken en voeg die toe, zodat de kans toeneemt dat je berichten ook getunneld worden via meer wegen en zichtbaar worden.

In het komende jaar zullen steeds meer mensen hier naartoe trekken en weer weggaan, maar ik zal blijven, want de fundamenten van NOSTR kloppen, het is een kwestie van tijd dat iedereen hier naartoe vlucht en niet OF net zoals bij Bitcoin, slowly then suddenly.

Cheers!

Ralphie


Amethyst op Graphene OS (Aangepaste Google Pixel) en diverse webclients op mijn desktop: Iris.to en Nosster.com waarmee ik inlog via browserextensie Nostr connect.


Legends adapt to new technology, they don't fear it. #LegendsNeverDie #bitcoin haha

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Lol https://www.twitter-95.com/tweet/45833


Yeah, I collected some game sounds check it out... https://ufile.io/f/cgf4l


What do you first think about when you hear the word FREE?

In the fiat world the word FREE is mostly refered to as getting something without a cost.

In the Bitcoin/Nostr context FREE refers more to the concept of FREEDOM.

These parralel realities use language and its meaning in a totally different way.

FREE being a good example.


Fuck, just realised my tendency to get obsessive with things I love moved to NOSTR.

Ah well, live and learn I guess. Haha


Not only silent.link is substantially less expensive than competitors, it also features:
• Zero KYC / no reg
• No speed throttling
• Auto global roaming
• Data never expires
• Accounts never expire
• Works around state firewalls of China, UAE, Russia, etc https://image.nostr.build/a6361233e549c59bf7cc9e6ad11ff5721c593a659aebec61787fe0e8c7ae6371.jpg


Reality version 2.0


Ah your bat poo crazy. Sure those are rats.


Love this conversation.

There is still hope for free and open source development.

The first nation adopting code friendly laws and policies will win in the new bitcoin paradigm.

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What do you mean? Knights hugging don't qualify as rats.


When recession really hits we will see who the real hodlers are. #bitcoin


Brilliant, tie them all together as an add for nostr.


Lol. I would not go that far, but he's def quite the actor


Same here. Such a disappointment


These people must be internally conflicted  AF talking about based principles all day and propagating investigative journalism, while fiat minded AF.


Okay. I'll get back to you on that.

Any chance you're going to nostr:nprofile1qqst9tfm3y59vs54ednmqsehtj3ql2phnamk379f8vutnd9e98gujmspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejq5w77gp in November, home of nostr:nprofile1qqsth5k6rwr35mhxmtfplrcgxmalpkezyjltmeqpj7u8x00wr87xynspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ukzcnvv5hx7un89uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46qz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9e3h2unjv4h8gtnx095sfcpyfh who as many know by now is running for office to become the next bitcoin president.

Still looking for speakers by the way. nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnfdenx7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0yhx7unpdenk2urfd3kzuer9wcq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7raruhg


Just chill a bit. Nostr is your safe heaven.


Something is off with Tucker Carlson.

First his dumn rejection of Bitcoin being coopted by CIA.

And now I hear him in a commercial for a company called Unplugged which markets themselves as freedom lovers by advocating big tech can't be trusted and that there is no free lunch. Which is true in context of the fiat system.

But then, they go on to sell some kind of privacy smartphone with a kill switch and own OS which they created.

So now I have to trust that company? Feels like a honey pot to me tbh.


Got to love NOSTR
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Yeah. Fkn fiat. There is no free lunch.

WordPress works though


Is there a good alternative?


Yes. It would be my honor to officially 'crown' you.

It involves a short funny ritual though plus it can only be received in person.

Just like nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uwrrtwk received one at nostr:nprofile1qqsd0f68dvf98gvs9am9dp0lu0f4r7xzu2k89rm9tt448axf5tu6wlgpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0szgcak.

Talking if which... nostr:nprofile1qqsdhd9anmv3j8khd3d08kxy0238np94h9cj0zqsjw6p707ysmtwe0qpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9esh57npd4hjumn9wsq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmnyujdmpe you shared that video yet on NOSTR?


I almost orange pilled a friend today, and then suddenly he said out of the blue: 'this all sounds too good to be true, sorry you're living in a dream world.'

Still flabbergasted. #fail #bitcoin


Bitcoin can only thrive on NOSTR


Please don't https://i.nostr.build/8oLGp1yvV6wjGObI.jpg


https://fountain.fm/episode/DUK8fSbdKrjooDEdYC2N bullish on bitcoins impact


This is what I am talking about... https://v.nostr.build/1EB6qEnw69d0O5Kw.mp4


But first... You run a node, right? You already have a Dutch Noderunners Pin? I can maybe hook you up.


I miss Tomer on NOSTR


GN looks like you like shifting power.


*Back paddle note hahaha but man you're right. No one said Low Time Preference was so freaking boring.


Thanks brother! Appreciate your effort.


What is it doing outside of the fridge,

What is it doing outside of the fridge MTF!!! https://i.nostr.build/WwykISlTwsldkQym.jpg


They should def talk as we're gearing up our vision for LatAm on a Bitcoin and NOSTR standard.

Maya is not taking short cuts.


Stupid question: where to find the search on Graphene OS?


And we will forever profit off of everyone's future proof of work as long as we keep bitcoin and nostr secure and decentralized. And weird of course.


Better call it unbankify


Keep NOSTR weird, with in this episode nostr:nprofile1qqsp7q32elec9dtwvfp5grflvevnnunj95ynny7ttugkngcpfgga9mqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvr5llpd nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gprpmhxue69uhhwetvvdhk6efwdehhxarj9emkjmn9qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2yhtlun nostr:nprofile1qqsdgvut0sesvjgulh65j9x3554cp2t9dp0hxcf3r6h9704078fr5kcpqqqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdsnc6zvh

https://i.nostr.build/OxAtmcLDPylLaz95.jpg


Here's my profile for Reason on Nostr and why it could very well change the world

Pasting a few paragraphs here, you can find the rest at the link

Feel free to spread far and wide 😉

*************

Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True?

Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network

Alex Gladstein | 8.13.2024

Virtually everyone agrees that social media is broken. On Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, people fear out-of-control algorithms, fake news, state actor censorship, and propaganda. Google and Meta collect vast troves of personal information on their users and receive hundreds of thousands of requests every year from governments around the world to access that data. YouTube has become arguably "the most powerful media platform in the history of humanity," yet its algorithm is an ever-changing black box to the creators that populate the platform with videos. During the pandemic, federal officials were in contact with every major social media platform, coercing them to remove content.

The problem is centralized control. We can't trust companies to run our primary communications infrastructure. Government regulation only makes matters worse because it creates new legal barriers to entering the industry, which protects incumbent players and stifles innovation.

What if there were an alternative, not owned by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or the Chinese Communist Party? What if there were a way to control your own data to prevent companies from harvesting and monetizing it? What if you had granular control over what you see in your feed, with the freedom to choose your own algorithms? What if you owned your identity, which could be accessed seamlessly across different clients? That way, if you disapprove of the changes that Elon Musk brought to X, instead of closing your account you could take your handle and followers elsewhere.

That alternative exists. It's called "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays"—or Nostr.

The Decentralized Solution

Invented by a pseudonymous programmer and overwhelmingly funded by grants from non-profit foundations, this decentralized, free, and open-source protocol has been quietly evolving for the past three years. Like bitcoin, Nostr is a community-run digital network highly resistant to censorship and corruption. It has 40,000 weekly active users and a growing ecosystem of clients and applications ranging from social media to long-form publishing to payments.

Nostr is only necessary because our existing internet is so broken.

Fifteen years ago, social media seemed destined to decentralize the world and give power back to the people. In 2009, we watched as Arab Spring activists used Twitter and Facebook to organize, coordinate, and help topple several long-standing dictatorships. The promise was that these new social platforms, designed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, could help liberate the masses.

It was intoxicating—but turned out to be a mirage. The Arab revolutions stalled out when brutal military regimes cracked down. These platforms became tools for spying and censoring their users. X and Facebook have helped journalists and human rights activists reach bigger audiences, but they haven't fulfilled their revolutionary promise.

Jack Dorsey's Shift from Bluesky to Nostr

This was a major theme at the 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum, which is put on annually by the Human Rights Foundation, where I serve as chief strategy officer. At this conference for democracy and human rights, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey told the audience that the problem was, actually, guys like him: The very fact that Twitter, now X, has a CEO makes it a single point of failure. Governments routinely pressured Dorsey to censor content; once the company's offices in India were raided. Dorsey says that under the new Musk regime X complies with whatever governments want.

The X network is proprietary. Known as a "silo," this construct traps a user's identity, followers, and data. X also has the power to evict anyone from the platform and delete what they've written. Several years ago, when he was still running the company, Dorsey became convinced that Twitter should become an application instead, where users could post content to an open, ownerless network. This would make it similar to how bitcoin works, where you use an application called a wallet to interact with the network, but the network itself is neutral and open.

Building a non-proprietary architecture was Dorsey's original vision for Twitter, but over time the need to maximize revenue to build a business and serve shareholders undermined that goal.

Nevertheless, in 2021, Dorsey encouraged the creation of Bluesky—an initiative bootstrapped in-house to create that open neutral base layer. But after Musk bought the company, the managers of Bluesky were afraid they would run out of money and started raising funds from venture capitalists, which undermined the vision of building an open platform. Dorsey grew disenchanted and left the Bluesky board.

At the conference in Oslo, Dorsey explained what happened next:

I asked a question: What open source initiatives should I be funding that would be helpful to the public internet? And people kept tweeting at me that I should be looking at Nostr. I found the GitHub that described it and it was 100 percent what we wanted from Bluesky, but it wasn't developed from a company. It was completely independent. Its paper diagnosed every single problem we saw and had. But did it in a grassroots and dead simple way, that felt like the early Twitter where any developer could get on and really feel it.

Escaping the 'Golden Prisons'

Nostr was created in 2020 by the pseudonymous Brazilian programmer fiatjaf, who describes it as "the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global 'social' network once and for all."

Though nobody is in charge, Nostr works as promised and is thriving. "It is the solution we've all been looking for," says Miljan Braticevic, founder of Primal, one of the two dozen plus clients now available for the Nostr protocol. "Nostr is not a Twitter competitor or a Mastodon competitor. This is the biggest misconception at the moment. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Nostr is nothing less than the foundation for the new internet. Meaning almost every conceivable app we have today will be built on Nostr."

Braticevic's prediction is echoed by at least a dozen other prominent developers. Martti Malmi, the first coder to work on bitcoin alongside Satoshi Nakamoto, is now a Nostr developer. In a recent talk, he said he had started to work on similar ideas around decentralized identity in 2019, only to come close to giving up. But then he found fiatjaf's invention, which he called a "godsend."

"Bitcoin is freedom of money, and Nostr is freedom of everything else," Malmi said. "I was there" in the earliest days of bitcoin, "and Nostr is even more intense."

For something that could be world-changing, Nostr is quite simple. To join, you sign up with a mobile or desktop client, which helps you to create a public and private key pair. The public key (or "npub") is used as your identifier, and you share it with clients and other users so that people can find your posts or pay you for your content. The private key ("nsec") is hidden by the user, stored safely (just like a bitcoin seed phrase), and is your way to log in to different services. Unlike platforms like X or Facebook, no other information is required to set up and use Nostr.

This gives users a powerful range of sovereignty. You can use a client, for example, that has strong hate speech controls. Or you can choose one that doesn't have any at all. You can use a client with aggressive algorithms, just like the ones X uses today. Or you can use one without any algorithm at all. Today, when you log in to an app like Primal, you can sort your feed by what's the latest, by what's most popular, by what's most zapped, or by customized keywords. It's up to you.

Last month, the macroeconomist Lyn Alden, author of one of the best books on bitcoin, published a long essay about Nostr's potential:

[Nostr] is a simple set of foundational building blocks that, if widely adopted, could gradually reshape "the Web" as we know it. Instead of a separate set of siloed social ecosystems, we could gravitate toward a more interoperable set of ecosystems, with more of the power dispersed to the content creators and to the audience, and away from the middlemen corporations.

The Nostr network is constructed like a spider web that can morph and regenerate, making it almost impossible to censor. When you set up a client on Nostr (perhaps, Primal or Damus on iOS; Amethyst on Android; or Coracle on the web), you choose from a variety of relays to connect to. This architecture ensures no single point of failure: If you are connected to seven or eight relays, and half of them choose to censor posts, your feed remains censorship-free, as your app will display the net sum of everything broadcast from each relay. If the Chinese government decides to attack your relays—as it did in 2023 when Damus launched on the Hong Kong and mainland app store—then more can be spun up. "The enemy," said Damus creator Will Casarin, "is too numerous."

Prominent bitcoin developer and educator Gigi—who switched to Nostr and deleted his X account—says that what helped it become so resilient is that it has zero exit cost. If the Chinese Communist Party bans YouTube, its domestic users lose everything. There's no way to get back their profiles and followers. The same is true if a user voluntarily closes an account.

Gigi calls these corporate silos "golden prisons" with no escape. Nostr's spider-like architecture makes escaping easy. If one client goes down, or you fail to connect to one relay, you just find another client or connect to another relay. You keep your posts, photos, preferences, contacts, and even algorithms of choice. If you use X, you are an X creator. But if you use Primal, you aren't a Primal creator, you are a Nostr creator.

https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/


Only kneel for Noderunners and alien technology

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Nostr will just keep going and going and going and going just like bitcoin and fiat expansion, sovereign to tech, Fedi omg the implications...

When we grow old the world will look so different.


Sounds good, I count on you trying new things out. Keep me posted


Appreciated listening to nostr:nprofile1qqs8f3kfn69gqrhq6ndxq2yqyuhhzmxz0f2k5sx3nf2dkk2uhtq6zfqpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3e8yetvv9ujuamfdcq3samnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wdamx2undd9hxgtnvdakqz9rhwden5te0dehhxarj9ehx2cn4w5hxccg407382 on nostr:nprofile1qqs8spcgqfgzxkcnerak0t40xs8jfsecgkeywrnam3lvp4qvqp5zv3gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhslcfx3t

https://v.nostr.build/KI90HCiPNQqVV8Cb.mp4

https://fountain.fm/episode/dRU0cscVNAD0XBCPrH7Y


What is the advantage of speed.app for you?


Break your crew out of jail!

Set up a Graphene Pixel preloaded with

Tor browser/ Orbot
Obtainium
Amber
Citrine
Amethyst
Minibits
Zeus

And show them how to use it.

Cypherpunk as fuck dropping a full stack of freedom tech on them.

Get your crew #nostr maxxing!


In deze nieuwe aflevering van nostr:nprofile1qqsgvudxu5vg7ul8w3kv7rw3dxl55eu9gw9h9sfplqalllgylzqef5gpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumtfde5ky6t5wvhxxctndql9zk3q stelt ervaren bitcoiners Kim de Vos diverse heilige huisjes in de bitcoin wereld ter discussie, zoals 'Fix the money, fix the world', self custody, wallet security en nog veel meer... #bitcoin #belgium

https://fountain.fm/episode/9YyTYoJnmuCKOWcnJTLw


🎯
If you say your project is open source then it must have MIT licensee or GFY

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Ew


Assessing the Lightning Network's Last-Mile Solutions

A look at different solutions to solving the issue of end users interactions with the Lightning network, i.e. the last mile problem.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/assessing-the-lightning-networks-last-mile-solutions

#Eenentwintig #Nieuws #News #BitcoinNews


Don't die with your #Bitcoin.

Call Onramp to discuss their multi-institutional, multi-geographic, multi-sig offering.

Yes, BITTEN will also save you cash.

Full episode with founder Jesse Myers (Croesus) below.

https://fountain.fm/episode/hQkEzcV6kuYF6arPUwQX


#Bitcoin and #Stoicism share intriguing philosophical parallels that reflect on the nature of human autonomy, truth, resilience, time, and value.

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one!”

Don’t miss this episode, live at 20:21 CET: https://image.nostr.build/a6b59339bb7eea0877712aefe12b8ddea79d9160786cd410f4af66a23ef484a5.jpg


It is afraid


Lol


Deliver some value to get my sats


Gigachad right here


'Everybody deserves a second chance'.

Sure they do, they just have to create another npub and start over.

Nostr is the great filter which teaches that if you overstep, you relentlessly loose your following.

#nostr #mute


People are allowed to talk about whatever they wish on #nostr if you don't want to see it then mute it or just move past it.


Where can you look that up?


Economy is "still fine"

So, we're fucked basically

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Can other people see which accounts I muted?


Umbrel/Start 9/ Block ?
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Last week, crypto industry leaders, including executives from Coinbase, a16z, and Kraken, had a conference call with White House officials and a Kamala advisor. The media framed it as a potential shift in the Democrats' stance on crypto, as did some of the executives. But at the same time (literally, the same day) the Fed issued an enforcement action against Customers Bank, one of the few U.S. crypto-friendly banks left, that requires it to notify regulators 30 days before taking on any new crypto clients — in other words, Choke Point 2.0 continues unabated. If your single issue is Bitcoin, and you’re still drinking that Coconut Koolaid? I don’t even know what to tell you at this point. Left wing economic ideology relies on inflating the dollar to increase the size of the government. It’s fundamentally incompatible with Bitcoin. So stack sats while you still can, anon. They’re never going to stop.

Brandon Gorrell for Pirate Wires Daily


How about... YES 🤠


Govern me harder, daddy.
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Wow, mooi plekkie hoor! Leuk dat je dit post.


This #freespeach
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1822315909077237760/vid/avc1/1280x720/SMGsV-WAkNu-tmZU.mp4


Goedemorgen!!


BTC - Be The Change
SAT - Simple As That


The government wants a monopoly on misinformation and privacy in addition to its existing monopoly on violence


Because he came out of the fiat prison


Wait so if I promise to zap everyone, I'll get a primal 24hr Trending post and a bunch of people will follow me?

BROOO ITS THAT EASY 💪💪💪💪💪💪


"Bitcoin is slowly, steadily, uniting, enriching and liberating the world."

- nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu


#Bitcoin maxis are freedom warriors  http://res.cloudinary.com/duz6er8nb/image/upload/v1720186328/foyjd71gx4bzkg7yp2ef.jpg


Interesting to taste, but a full glass of it... I dunno


Hahaha also as I designer I can very much relate to this situation.

Seeing the ego death after asking a few questions about the plan is also great.


How is the taste? Speculoos/speculaas is a special tasting cookie here in the Netherlands.


Absolutely, still need to hear your full interview with her. What was your biggest takeaway, Walker?


Every time nostr:npub1h0fd5xu8rfhwdkkjr78ssdhm7rdjyf97hhjqr9acwv77ux0uvf8q23kvcg speaks I hear snoop dogg whispering in my ear how cool she is.
https://v.nostr.build/FX5f7pkP7E7P2Ply.mp4

Check out what she is and all the other amazing guests (like nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a are bullish about at nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 Why are we bullish https://www.youtube.com/live/XneO_-II5k0?si=6jGo-tymPDgO6Jis


The urge for snacking goes away within 5 min
The urge for engagement on X goes away within 5 weeks

Same thing IMO.


Stop crying. Start doing. Grow your self respect.


Beautiful.


I can smell it though te picture


It's a pity


Absolutely, sweaty moments before confirmations


You only need a train image, no need for other gifs hehe


GM NOSTR ☕


So inspiring!! thanks for sharing Ben!


There is no bitcoin price.

There are only inferior assets priced in bitcoin.

There are no other absolute scarce digital assets.

There is that.

Happy days.


People don't grasp 1 btc = 1 btc.

It cracks their brain if I explain the principle.


Which one of these would you pick, and why? #ai #asknostr
https://i.nostr.build/Mg7a3ARptS9K4J0e.png


What is the goto privacy friendly browser on a desktop?

Looking for something to browse the web the NOSTR way.

Fully open source is a must have.


Sure you do https://nostrcheck.me/media/3e6e0735b8a2e96f8cf663f64d04bb9cea931afcc57f5427c35bb6859e95c8a2/0b682aaa3bc652bc323e4c041cc593c69e673bbc1215ba3c69bd14e70fc82555.webp


Agreed.

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Manually, because we have some custom components/behaviors


We use Tailwind to both design as well as develop. The dev's can inspect which Tailwind component is used and implement it according to specs of the design system.


Welcome to NOSTR Shaunie, let me know if you need any help how to do things over here. I'm also quite new but we're all figuring it out along the way.


GM


Unreal
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Wow man enjoy the fkn moment!!!


nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a Bitcoin is heavy metal!


Is it desired?
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nostr:npub1uq70uqgas9pyhds2zt57kr9se8rg3s68ztphjnq82ts8rzeknmeql7u0c2 just launched. Interview with nostr:npub1kp7jzme0qs3wcqjjmkq6v5fm359sclhc22glhadgtmerlr0h37nsn8487l dropping shortly.

Download the Fedi app here and watch the launch event: https://www.fedi.xyz

Subscribe to nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 here to get notified when the episode is live.

https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast


There are key beliefs and concepts we understand that drive our lives. It is important to revisit and reanalyze these time to time. Why do we believe it? Do we really understand?


More fiat macro bro's discover Bitcoin.

And that is ok.

Pump my bags for my children's future optionality.


Good morning! ☀ As the markets dance today 📈📉 remember much like fiat currency, the ego can inflate, losing touch with its true value. #Bitcoin can offer us an alternative, grounding ourselves in humility and bring genuine growth and connection. We are all working to change the world and contribute somehow 🕵 enjoy the experience.  #nostr #grownostr


Fire Sale
https://i.nostr.build/lmnbvMrz389Xerfl.jpg


LFG!


An extension to [[NIP-32]] (Labeling). This NKBIP defines a standard for attaching vector embeddings to any Nostr event. These embeddings can represent text, images, audio, video, or any other type of content. The specification includes a way to denote the model used for creating the embedding, the type of content embedded, and the embedding vector itself.

![](https://i.nostr.build/ijZF6rJ3MM0wiVjZ.png)# NKBIP-02: Embedded Content
`draft` `optional`

Allowing rich content to be embedded within Nostr events opens up new possibilities for applications built on the protocol. This is highly synergistic with [[NKBIP-01]], where we can decompose existing events into their most semantically closed forms as defined either by the author or the analyst (see [[Semantic Closure]]) for precise semantic embeddings, but this process can be applied to any other event. Embeddings are also typically computationally expensive, which makes it beneficial to compute them once and store them for reuse.

## Motivation
Hashtags and labels already exist as one way to classify content, embeddings allow for a fine grained resolution of content. Every embedding model has tradeoffs, so if you need something more specific than what is available, use your model.

Nostr events are public, therefore it is to be expected that any event can be analyzed. Given this fact, it only makes sense to formalize and allow anyone to work with it. Embeddings are useful for various applications, including:

1. Semantic search across Nostr events
2. Content recommendation systems
3. Clustering similar content
4. Multimodal AI application

## Specification
The `1986` event are embedding specific labels for an event.
### Required Tags

1. `e` - The id of the original event being embedded
2. `model` - The name and version of the model used to create the embedding and if possible, a link to download/source
3. `type` - The type of content being embedded (e.g., "text", "image", "audio", "video")
4. `vector` - The embedding vector, represented as a comma-separated list of floating-point numbers

### Optional Tags

1. `dims` - The dimensions of the embedding vector (integer)
2. `norm` - Boolean attribute whether the vector is normalized to range [0,1]
3. If there is a download link, use the tags `hash` and `hash_type` to verify the model being used.
4. `source` - Original data source that is being embedded. Mainly suited for text. This allows the original data to be attained without fetching the original event.
5. All other tags and labeling conventions may also apply such as specified in [[NKBIP-01]]and [[NIP-32]]
### Example Event

```json
{
  "id": "<event_id>",
  "pubkey": "<pubkey>",
  "created_at": 1234567890,
  "kind": 1986,
  "tags": [
    ["e", "<original_event_id>", "<relay_uri>"],
    ["model", "openai/text-embedding-ada-002", "<optional download link>"],
    ["type", "text"],
    ["vector", [-0.006929,-0.005135,0.003592,...,0.004543]],
    ["dims", 1536],
		["norm", True],
		["source", "This is a snippet of the original text content"],
		["hash", "<string>"],
		["hash_type", "<string>"]
  ],

  "content": "",
  "sig": "<signature>"
}
```
## Guidelines
1. For non-text embeddings (images, audio, video), the `source` tag may contain a URL or identifier for the original content.

2. The `model` tag should be as specific as possible, including version information and location to download if available. This ensures that clients can properly interpret and compare embeddings.

3. Multiple embedding events can reference the same original event, allowing for different embedding models or content types for the same source material.


Probably


Maybe we can use more 'conversational design' best practices instead of page based interactions so it feels more alive instead of static.

Subtle micro animations work as well to engage and captivate users.

What most clients lack is support for gestures (swipes) to make it feel more smooth.


Just kidding.

Of course we need more nostriches and network effects to reach full potential.

One solution is to provide so much value it can't be ignored plus meme them into oblivion using our ghost accounts.

So, let's build even more products and services that use NSEC as the only identifier.


Nostr does not need marketing.

We live in an attention economy, dopamine driven NPC's will hate nostr.

Let's keep it that way.

Many nostriches came here to flee that system after all.


Hush child don’t worry, this is how psychopaths are made.


Exercise to physical exhaustion and you won't give a fuck about the market anymore 💦👼

#BlockchainBarbellClub #Fitstr #CrossFit https://image.nostr.build/cd114b77b122bb9a098efc8d98f21db3c4fb2153a6a9f5acac7ec50fed0bb0b4.jpg


And Suddenly Things Change...
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/and-suddenly-things-change


Thank you NOSTR!!

#grownostr https://i.nostr.build/Wfc96TIwFatIkuHo.jpg


Awesome, Trent would love this for sure


Julian says... Hi NOSTR


Shitcoinerjobs.com
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nostr:nprofile1qqsgx23t8nh5k965cjn4w2ty53xmvngeahmz0mz9z7d4r8g2t6hgrxgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0s0lfgj who could have predicted this? Presedent for the rest of Europe?


The nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm browser extension connects soooo nicely to my own CLN node running on my Sovran Pro!

And by the way CLN is an awesome Node implementation (and it is already installed on the Sovran Pro).

I can zap sats (all over the privacy network Tor) quick and easy.

We are so moving in the right direction in regards to making this easier.

https://getalby.com/#extension

https://blockstream.com/lightning/


Possess your own notes by running the Nostr Relay app on your Umbrel.

#Plebchain

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


Followed!


Lovely and what a quality!!


Define growth


In that case it probably makes sense. https://i.nostr.build/w6OcTceKUIAt0R9z.jpg


This is what bitcoin should be all about. Exposing truths even if it hurts. Be brave.

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Thanks for sharing your truths with us so we can do our own research.


Thanks for the honesty. https://i.nostr.build/7fXWSpAbMd8HTqyj.jpg Can you clarify, 'fallen out of love with bitcoin?'


Real talk


GM!


Yes, a self fulfilling prophecy. Every time.


If you own the S&P, the Nasdaq or any of your EV indices, you indirectly own #Bitcoin through $MSTR, $TSLA, ...

It will be impossible not to have #Bitcoin exposure in the future as more and more companies buy it as a reserve asset.

Deal with it.


I tend to agree with @bitcoinpierre on the perfect Sunday to learn about money. The current situation fits this early morning read https://mises.org/mises-daily/yield-money-held-reconsidered


That makes no sense


Absolutely ! 💯


A that’s great Bob! That kind of setup is more enough I guess. 👌


A pi is quite good, if you only need a nostr relay I guess...

But if you also consider to run a Bitcoin/Lightning node (which I certainly would recommend) Umbrel hardware is superior to a Pi, which is less user friendly to maintain (also depending on your technical skills).

For backing up your nostr activity, Umbrel Home has an app for that https://apps.umbrel.com/app/nostr-relay

I found the Pi to be less stable over time (external SD cards sync can brake down, and be a pain in the ass to recover when updating the Pi).

A start 9 is even better, but more expensive and probably too heavy for this single usecase.

Any further suggestions nostr:nprofile1qqst2yn6pr8nxctzwjqq5su83qdflx8qfwwrwytwjt09y5zfsc6uggspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6un9d3shjtnyv4ex26mjdaehxtndv5q3jamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3hxy6t5vdhkjm3wvdar5l5kc2x?


Sounds like people who haven't read "The Genesis Book" by nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5


There’s no better community than the Bitcoin one. 🧡
https://m.primal.net/JmHV.jpg


THE IMF IS EVIL

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GM


Nah, they are too incompetent too release something like this without getting noticed by the online community.


Do you run your own relay?


3 reasons magnetic switches are shaking up the keyboard scene

Mechanical keyboards have been responsible for a huge shift in user behaviour, owing to the superior typing experience they offer over traditional or membrane keyboards. Mechanical switches are at the core of that experience, offering a satisfying tactile and auditory response to users, which can't be replicated on conventional keyboards.

We are now witnessing what could be another radical shift in switch technology — magnetic switches. To be clear, magnetic switches didn't come up yesterday. The tech has existed since the 60s, and we've seen it in popular keyboards from brands like Wooting since late 2022. However, what's new is the bubbling interest in magnetic switches from consumers and manufacturers, with brands like Wooting and Razer fighting hard to come out on top.

What is interesting to me about this, is that I think of magnets as losing power over time and having imprecise points at when they trigger. It seems that I was very wrong on this.

The key thing here is these are permanent magnets  and they use the Hall effect switches (like we use Hall effect sensors for measuring electrical current travelling through a wire). So this also means being able to have dynamic actuation and reset points. Also, there is no physical contact switch, so they could last a lot longer (and be silent).

See https://www.xda-developers.com/magnetic-switches-shaking-up-keyboards/

#technology #keyboards
https://image.nostr.build/d31e9f2fb70deb21bc1e4880e8cd16e89933e1f7bc529b69120457e262e3a0ca.jpg


New: check out the new Noderunners relay to expand your network with better connectivity by my friend nostr:npub1p6xyr6u5vet33r4x724vxmp9uwfllax5zjdgxeujyrtxt90lp74qvah0rm

https://relay.noderunners.network/invoices

This Nostr relay requires a one-time admission fee.

Once payment is complete, you will be able to post and fetch events from this relay.

40% of all payments go to the Noderunners pot.

Let’s get this party started!

https://video.nostr.build/4c85e62ab7f68b270010ec1f6258c15a53591aa5bd8265deb2600cab7501db41.mp4


Everybody used to use little pieces of paper as money and when some needed more, they just could print more, while others had to work for it. #Bitcoin fixed this Ponzi scheme.

- History Books looking at the Fiat Standard.
 - nostr:npub10wv37amdqnv8edw5yktgsxr62g8k4lqkk2u66fk6c6uwuakzssxsf4v22x

#BitcoinTwitter
https://bitcointwitter.web.app/images/v3/599.png


I don't want to be rude but if you send me a DM that is not giftwrapped, I'm probably not going to answer. Please use a nostr client that supports giftwraps (Amethyst, 0xChat, ...) or use Matrix to reach me (contact in bio).

If you don't use giftwraps, everyone can see that you've messaged me. Some bored weirdo is going to look at our metadata and post it publicly as a display of their genius. It happened in the past. I wish I could prevent people from sending me DMs here in the first place.

Please be aware of this and don't use normal nostr DMs to improve your own privacy and the privacy of your peers.

Stay nutty 🫡


Every app design should start with a fresh copy of the tailwind design system. Makes development way easier.

I wish I practiced this earlier! Only started recently and love it!


Instagram is such an evil and horrible hack into our brains.

They get you by being a great way to share moments with family, specially when you live from family and have small kids.

But then they add a bunch of random brain sticky things, lots of great botty and stuff to one click buy. Ppl get stuck on the scrolling and waste their lives on it, just like they use to on the shopping channel.