GM ☀☀☀

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Congrats nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5 🚀 nostr:note1taaq6tqjl4p6ap3pdy0v4xyvsz52q9gx6zarzua7ptd7zm7j4ffsl8rr6q


GM
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GN
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Thats that West Coast Lifestyle Tax


All excuses are false, who wants can. ♡

Artwork by, Quint Buchholz. https://image.nostr.build/6d1b7a83fde7c85982fc59656575f7ae94b1d2a5d0c0e56afd4a86a59d1ff75a.jpg


GN 🌙🌙🌙

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GN 🌙🌙🌙

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T’was half of Hurricane Ian by most measures.


There will be signs https://i.nostr.build/CK6iJJaF7CKCc4d2.jpg


Seems like these people are only vaguely aligned at best.


“I want to use software to give my kids a better life.” nostr:note1ztq8hs25lk0hw9vcxx9y5rd3z8acdpp7dn8a923dg3agz66yjlss8asl82


Excellent image 🤌


GN 🌙🌙🌙

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I can almost hear them laughing as they push the publish button.


GN
🌙🌙🌙

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Its this guy:

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See? No big deal. Carry #Onward 🫡


There has been a lot of speculation lately, again, about who the creator of #bitcoin #SatoshiNakamoto is.

I am going to put all this to rest once and for all by confessing that I am Satoshi Nakamoto and I will prove it right here on #nostr, on video, moving my coins.

I hope this puts all the speculation to rest. https://video.nostr.build/5782b230f4469c48a5b1309bd5c5b8c1c80318cd5525cce267864d7e8b0cfcdc.mp4


GN ✨✨✨
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#DaveBrubeck #music #jazz
https://cdn.satellite.earth/c229642a40c8d75deef703561617f32d6c619e499438d25602c239737fdc88ad.mp4


So far everyone in Zones A and B have been asked to evacuate.

https://www.floridadisaster.org/disaster-updates/Hurricanemilton/


#weather be cray cray https://image.nostr.build/2fd7090588bca16a9eb4a71f895d4c4e049bba699c674381e4953947da2aa6fb.jpg


💯
Access to Creators > Access to Creations


GN 🌙🌙🌙

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GN
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I see. Even slightly elevated heels jacked your back up. Thanks for sharing.


What was your primary footwear before?


https://i.nostr.build/Rl2zUmrXidhJhfuE.jpg https://i.nostr.build/NVAxVFPfja3ZfFxa.jpg


#music

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JSHd5mm7qNI


GN
🌙🌙🌙

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Im down with that Sahara Guitar
🎸🎸🎸


temp and pressure changes in fall increase windspeeds facilitating the removal of dead leaves from the trees.
design is everywhere.


#facts


GN
🌙🌙🌙

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Nothing wrong with looking at a menu page from the right side first🫡


Regarding Bitaxe, it says:

“Over a year, your chances increase to: 0.00627707006369428%”


Maybe the $50 is in reference to the following type of ASICS

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Great book of insights into the why and how people are “governed” in the way that they are.

https://njump.me/naddr1qqxnzde38yurvd3cx5unwvfkqgsrsadpdjtcs9p5veqveuwpdxk7wyyxelw352usfar26ev3nzz9djgrqsqqqa28qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqpz4mhxue69uhhwmm59ehx7um5wgh8qctjw3uszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpzfmhxue69uhhwmm59e6hg7r09ehkuegwvznaf


GM ☀☀☀
One cup of coffee wont do this morning.

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GN
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"The euphoria I get from contributing to something as important as I believe Lightning is, is incredible⸻I'd trade all those lost savings and sleepless nights for it all over again."
  —  nostr:npub1fuk7q4y0wzqw7vjrg7xeuuva79pg7ctg69a53zsxq6gepksufrrst9mzly
https://opensats.org/blog/dusty-daemon-receives-lts-grant


Going to have to leave a pair of these in the car now. https://image.nostr.build/8823cebbbb9bf96798ef805b424280b0495700ff3abaf377e5b89220457a4629.jpg


GM 🫡


GM ☀☀☀

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GN 🌙🌙🌙

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Morning! 🫡


Indeed

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GM ☀☀☀

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GN 🌙🌙🌙

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https://image.nostr.build/c96a951a5af77ffeb20982e7c4d8e66cf26e88433e2c26e97930d9aca799fcf5.jpg
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Memes


GM ☀☀☀

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GN
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GM ☀☀☀

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Bitcoin Jungle, Bitcoin Indonesia, Deciphering Bitcoin, BOBSpaces Residency, Statsie's Pocket Guides, and Africa Free Routing. Announcing our latest wave of education-focused grants: https://opensats.org/blog/second-wave-of-education-grants


Zuck Shades https://image.nostr.build/8f568f9076f63742b1ac43cd25b4d58795f68ffd5a65dbe4a6ce8c679c76e388.png


GM ☀☀☀

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GN

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GOOD !


"Against a backdrop of increasing dystopia, control, censorship, surveillance, conflict and oppression, Bitcoin is fundamental. It needs continued vigilance, review, maintenance, and improved decentralization, robustness, privacy and user experience."
  —Jon Atack
https://opensats.org/blog/jon-atack-receives-lts-grant


GM
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GN
🌙🌙🌙

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What


My wife yanks her charger wires out  from her phone like a barbarian. Brand new charger destroyed in under 30 days. Gna need to look into industrial strength covers.


Same over here. Curious, are her phone charger wire covers all torn up exposing wiring inside?


Bitcoin is speech. https://image.nostr.build/134da347b15e9cd4adbc3de774cf34eaac4f76eb7383b187bd8189e036377d8d.jpg
https://nydig.com/research/bitcoins-protection-under-the-first-amendment


GM☀☀☀

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EVERYTHING WE SEE INFLUENCES OUR MIND AND SHAPES OUR PERCEPTION. WHEN OUR ENVIRONMENT IS FILLED WITH DETAILED, BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS, IT STIMULATES OUR MINDS, MAKING THEM MORE SOPHISTICATED AND REFINED.

https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/89fb73891f32cc3673d483a181fba5a26c3b541102f181e79ffda368bd152032.webp

BY REMOVING DETAIL FROM ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, THEY ARE SIMPLIFYING OUR SURROUNDINGS, WHICH IN TURN DULL OUR THINKING AND MAKE OUR MINDS LESS ADVANCED.

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AS MINDS BECOME LESS ENGAGED AND MORE ACCUSTOMED TO SIMPLICITY, LOGOS ARE SIMPLIFIED TO ACCOMMODATE THESE CHANGES, MAKING THEM EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO REMEMBER AND VISUALIZE. IN EARLIER TIMES, LOGOS OFTEN HAD INTRICATE DESIGNS, RICH WITH DETAIL, REFLECTING THE CRAFTSMANSHIP AND THE DEEPER MEANINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BRAND. THESE MORE COMPLEX LOGOS DEMANDED MORE FROM THE VIEWER- BOTH IN TERMS OF MENTAL EFFORT TO PROCESS THE DETAILS AND IN TERMS OF MEMORY.

https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/af2e967c3129891946a8209042f8dfe1cb3b528b4fd72ea3567e1111b72bd045.webp

OBJECTS ARE THE DIRECT RESULTS OF PEOPLE'S MINDS, REPRESENTING THE THOUGHTS, CREATIVITY, AND INTELLECT THAT WENT INTO THEIR CREATION. WHEN WE SEE A COMPLEX DESIGN, WE ARE WITNESSING A PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF SOMEONE'S SOPHISTICATED MIND AT WORK.

https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/6075adbdafe3bc5e8a23929c8e99af21882bfa4335c65ea2706994acc4457abd.webp

THE SIMPLER OUR SURROUNDINGS BECOME, THE DULLER AND LESS CREATIVE OUR MINDS BECOME. THEY ARE INTENTIONALLY DULLING OUR ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE AGENDA OF MODERN ARTWORK AND DESIGN. THE LESS CREATIVE OUR MINDS ARE, THE LESS WE THINK. THEIR GOAL IS TO TURN YOU INTO A WORKER, NOT A THINKER- A FOLLOWER, NOT A CREATOR.

https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/0ab6b5e31524cfe88ae2ae2e98d7213748129098d4bf738f3bc5e9727e77425f.webp

DIGGING OUR WAY OUT OF THIS BLAND FATE BEGINS WITH EACH OF US, INDIVIDUALLY, INTENTIONALLY CREATING MORE BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

YOU DON'T NEED TO CREATE A GIANT BUILDING OR CATHEDRAL RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE. JUST INCREASE THE EFFORT ON WHATEVER YOU'RE CURRENTLY CREATING, AND SOFTLY PUSH THE OTHERS AROUND YOU TO DO THE SAME.

https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/4e9cff05d764b5a20cfcd5cc774a99bbcc80c4cfa093f2a272eac1fe0fb4ecea.webp

THE RISE OF SOUND MONEY/BITCOIN WILL HELP THE ARTISTIC RENAISSANCE MASSIVELY, BY GIVING ARTISTS THE ABILITY TO SAVE AGAIN. BUT WE CAN SPEED UP THE PROCESS BY IMPLEMENTING #PROOFOFWORK INTO EVERYTHING WE DO.

GODSPEED AND I LOOK FORWARD TO BUILDING A MORE BEAUTIFUL WORLD WITH YOU ALL 💜

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#art #artstr #architecture #beauty #design #designstr


Honey I Shrunk The Kids
The Godfather


7th wave.
8 more projects.
Free and open-source.
https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-september-2024-7th-wave


Extra bullish on the 5AM version of nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8


GM ☀☀☀

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“It may be that the open-source community doesnt believe in politics, that doesnt mean politics doesnt apply to them. So you can ignore politics, but politics will not ignore you.”

Presentation from 10 yrs ago nostr:note1t8qcpjmz4c5wcvqrg4fcmgk5a4w7uqxpp7r4whwyqqytw6d3sa3say4vdf


👀 nostr:note12u2kahczefc78x0cldmaz66d4976m977rm5lfqwuxt6c6n3e34csuryykw


The dog 🤣


GOOD MORNING
☀☀☀
RISE & SHINE


Ok, Fine. I'll watch the greatest sci fi trilogy ever created again.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81clWDig7nL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
https://archive.org/download/back-to-the-future-complete-trilogy/Back%20to%20the%20Future%20Complete%20Trilogy.ia.mp4
#film #kinostr #movie


GN 🌙🌙🌙

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🤔 Twerking wombats, never crossed my mind before. I’ve seen enough.


GN
🌙🌙🌙

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GM ☀☀☀

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GOOD NIGHT
🌙🌙🌙

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Every parent has had to get their kids to take a bath using this method at least once.

nostr:note1cnmzsyxscqkstf4wxq9yxand53vfqpqzkksun5v4lqrz556wu5kqmpauas


There are some nips out there that no eyes should ever gaze upon.


GM ☀☀☀

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#Bitcoin is a protocol, a currency, and asset.

It’s fundamentally transforming humanity—mind and body—with multi-generational impacts on our civilization, like the widespread domestication of fire did 🔥🔥🔥

I know I preach to a choir here, but still, every now and then I catch myself marveled by it 🧡🧡🧡


The grants will continue until morale improves. Nostr Arduino, White Noise, futr, Notedeck, Keystache. More to come.
https://opensats.org/blog/7th-wave-of-nostr-grants


So be it 🙌 nostr:note1w4jmfzu06c8jezh5k0p8zrtzk7xptlmsu4tlc0hjs3kmesq3zvysqg26hl


More of an annoyance than anything based on limited information at this point. The removed spammy Relays have not reappeared/been added back on their own… so far so good.


Removed spammy rays again. Are not being added back this time… or yet


Bizarre. Removed spammy relay setup…. Then after a few min the spammy relays were added back. Lol


Ha! 🙌


Testing again


Testing


GM
☀☀☀

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GN
🌙🌙🌙

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I don’t understand why they keep making him sing and dance on stage, and very badly at that. Are they trolling Bitcoiners? What form of psyop is this? I have questions.


Great episode


Otherwise the site looks great from a plebs perspective


GM
☀☀☀

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GN
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Happening with my primal ios


Is reply guys a worm attached to the clients? Attached to the npubs?

#asknostr


I ordered an a-frame book shelf from there once, advertised as a wooden shelf, good reviews. Upon arrival, it was already broken. The exposed “wood” behind the paint looked like compressed cardboard. The box it came in was more sturdy 🤣

Anyways, same. Willing to pay more and wait longer for something with decent quality.


GN
🌙🌙🌙

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https://youtu.be/NazVKnD-_sQ
nostr:note16vqdgl7vv28q8yhun4kfycdquh3ee8rgy4faq5d38sclx4n9c4esl68nl0


GOOD MORNING
RISE & SHINE
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**ORIGINAL PANEL TITLE:**
MAKING BITCOIN MORE PRIVATE WITH CISA

**SPEAKERS:**
NIFTY NEI, CRAIG RAW, FABIAN JAHR, JAMESON LOPP

**CONFERENCE:**
BITCOIN NASHVILLE 2024

**ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON:**
BITLYRICS.CO

## Introduction
This edited transcription comes from a panel titled “Making Bitcoin More Private With CISA”, featuring an insightful discussion on cross-input signature aggregation ( [CISA](https://cisaresearch.org/faq)). Moderated by NiftyNei from [Base58](https://base58.info/), the panel includes Jameson Lopp from [Casa](https://casa.io/), Craig Raw from [Sparrow Wallet](https://sparrowwallet.com/), and Fabian Jahr from [Brink](https://brink.dev/).

Recorded at the Bitcoin – Nashville 2024 conference, the panel explores how a Bitcoin CISA soft fork can enhance privacy and efficiency in Bitcoin transactions by aggregating signatures. The speakers share their personal experiences with CISA, its potential economic incentives, and the technical challenges it faces, while offering a clear explanation of its role in privacy-focused Bitcoin development.

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### NiftyNei (Moderator):
Hey everyone, my name is Nifty, and I’m going to be moderating this panel today.
We’re here to talk about CISA (cross-input signature aggregation).

Joining me today on the stage, I have Jameson Lopp from Casa, Craig Raw of Sparrow Wallet, and Fabian Jahr of Brink. So, welcome them to the stage.

We’re excited to be talking to you guys about this.

I think it’d be great to maybe start off by hearing a little bit more about who’s on our panel today. If the panelists could tell the audience about the project they’re working on and where they first heard about CISA.

Craig, do you want to start?

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### Craig Raw (Sparrow Wallet):

I built Sparrow Wallet. It’s a security and privacy-focused wallet.

The first time I heard about CISA was really from other privacy activists in the Bitcoin space who were talking about how they were really hoping that this cross-input signature aggregation would be shipped as part of the Taproot upgrade. Obviously, we know that didn’t happen.

When you’re looking at things from a privacy point of view, you want to do things like create multi-party transactions, and as we’ll hear, cross-input signature aggregation provides an interesting basis for being able to do that more economically.

So, that was the first time I really started to look at it from the privacy angle.

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### Fabian Jahr (Brink):

I primarily work on Bitcoin Core, and I can’t really remember a specific time when I first heard about it.

Between the SegWit soft fork and the Taproot soft fork was when I really got deeper into Bitcoin and started contributing to Bitcoin Core.

Somehow, CISA was always there, but I only started researching it and going deeper into it over the last couple of months.

I saw that it was a topic brought up for the Taproot soft fork but was cut at some point to keep the scope smaller.

I forgot about it for a year or two until it kept popping up in privacy discussions, as Craig mentioned, which triggered me to look deeper into it.

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### Jameson Lopp (Casa):

I’m Jameson Lopp. I work at Casa, where we help people with highly distributed, secure, multi-signature self-custody setups.

I think the first time I heard about CISA was in an Andrew Poelstra talk.

I mostly remember being blown away by the vision he painted of a future where we were all financially incentivized to participate in CoinJoin transactions for everything we transacted.

This would break a lot of the potential for chain surveillance because, if we’re all honest, Bitcoin has pretty poor privacy characteristics.

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### NiftyNei (Moderator):

That’s a great point. Okay, so I think now that we’ve had an intro into how each of you came to hear about it, and maybe some of the things you thought were important or cool when you first heard about it, maybe we could take a little bit of time to explain a little bit more about what CISA is and what those letters stand for.

Does anyone have a good explanation of how it works?

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### Fabian Jahr (Brink):

I can start off.

So, it’s really already all in the name: cross-input signature aggregation.

If you think of a Bitcoin transaction as it looks today, you have, sometimes, one but often multiple inputs, and with each input, usually, a signature is associated.

What the linearity property of Schnorr signatures allows you to do is to aggregate these signatures. You can aggregate them across the different inputs that you have in a transaction.

So, that means that in the future, we could have transactions with multiple inputs—if you think specifically about transactions that have a lot of inputs, like CoinJoins, for example, as we just mentioned—these could have just one signature. And depending on what technique you use, these can be just as big as one single signature before.

Of course, that saves a lot of space, both on-chain and also in terms of the fees, because you take up less space in a block. That is the general idea.

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### NiftyNei (Moderator):

I have a quick question about that.

So, whenever you say you can do cross-input signature aggregation on a transaction, usually, you’ll have a couple of things called inputs, and each of those inputs will have a signature on it, right?

So, the general idea is that, on that same one signature, instead of having a couple of them, you’d be able to roll them all up and just have a single signature.

Is that a good summary of what you’re explaining?

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### Fabian Jahr (Brink):

Yeah, I would say so.

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### Craig Raw (Sparrow Wallet):

So, there are two major ways to do this. One is what we call a half-signature aggregation, or half-SIG, as we abbreviate it.

That’s where you don’t need an interactive process. Anybody can take all of the signatures that appear currently for every input in a transaction, and they can aggregate them into one.

Now, the size of that one is unfortunately not the size of a normal signature—it’s slightly bigger. In fact, the size is determined by the number of inputs that you have. So, that’s one way to do it.

Then there’s a more comprehensive way to do it, which is called full-signature aggregation. That gets you a much more compact signature, which is the aggregate of all the other ones.

Unfortunately, the downside of that is that you have to do the interaction while you sign.

The problem with that is that interaction always contains a lot of complexity, so unless you own all of the inputs, you are going to have to interact with everyone else who’s adding an input to that transaction, and that creates a much more difficult process in terms of signing.

As a result, I personally am more excited about the kind of half-signature aggregation because it’s just so much easier to do and gets you a lot of the benefits, even though it’s not quite as efficient.

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### NiftyNei (Moderator):

Cool, so it sounds like we’re taking signature data, and it’s all the same signature data in a single transaction, right?

You wouldn’t have multiple transactions that you’re doing—it’s like on a single transaction level?

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### Jameson Lopp (Casa):

Well, there’s also full-block aggregation, right?

This is going really far down the rabbit hole, and I think it’s not even something that’s on the table.

There are too many additional edge cases that come up, especially when you start thinking about blockchain reorganizations.

My understanding is you would have to have this other mempool to keep track of things that weren’t sufficiently buried enough in the blockchain that they could be reorganized.

If there was a reorg, it would not be as simple as how we do reorgs right now, where we just take every transaction out, put it back into the mempool, and start over again.

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### NiftyNei (Moderator):

So, it sounds like you’re saying there are a couple of different ways we could do signature aggregation.

We could do it at the transaction level, and there’s a proposal to do it at the block level, but again, there are some trade-offs there.

One of the nice things about taking signature aggregation at the block level is that you take all the signatures in any transaction inside a block, and you create maybe a single signature object, right?

Maybe it’s not exactly a signature, but something similar to that. What is one reason you’d want to do this? It sounds complicated.

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### Jameson Lopp (Casa):

Well, there are the privacy characteristic improvements, but also, I think it’s interesting when we’re talking about incentivizing people economically.

If anyone was around and paying attention in 2016 or 2017, when we were talking about Segregated Witness, there was this concept of a witness discount.

It was basically put in place to help rebalance the cost between creating a UTXO and spending a UTXO.

You run into problems where, if you’re receiving a lot of transactions, you’re creating a lot of unspent transaction outputs in your wallet.

It becomes problematic if, at some point in the far future, you want to go spend them, and perhaps the fee rates in the market for block space have gone up a lot.

It can become insanely expensive to spend your own money. This inevitably catches a lot of people by surprise if they haven’t been through a full market cycle before.

So, I think this is another interesting aspect of aggregation—we’d be pushing the balance forward a bit to help incentivize people to clean up their UTXOs because we’re not penalizing them as much by making it really expensive to do so.

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### Fabian Jahr (Brink):

And maybe to expand on that, there is a financial incentive for people to participate in CoinJoins, and that gives them additional privacy.

The nice effect of that is that hopefully, this would lead to wide adoption of CoinJoin, which means that when more people are CoinJoining, there’s a higher anonymity set that benefits everyone after this anonymity property.

Everyone that participates in CoinJoin can also use this as plausible deniability, even if they are doing it primarily for the privacy aspect. They can always say, “Hey, I’m saving fees here, so that’s my primary motivation.”

Hopefully, a further trickle-down effect would be that, as people ask for this and it becomes more widely adopted, more and more wallets will adopt it.

Easier-to-use wallets, the complexity gets hidden, and it becomes more of a mainstream feature.

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### Jameson Lopp (Casa):

Yeah, we have to think about the incentives, right?

I consider myself a cypherpunk; I’m a big privacy advocate. I assume we all are.

But the reality of the situation, and this is pessimistic, is that most people don’t care about privacy or they don’t care until it’s too late.

We can stand up here and talk about how awesome it is to have really strong privacy and why you should be using all of these niche tools, but if we actually want people to adopt privacy tools, we need to give them the financial incentive to do so.

It should not be a situation where the average person has to go out and ask their wallet providers or software developers to bake in additional privacy tools and protections into the software.

Really, it should be: why are you making me spend more of my money to use Bitcoin when I could be using this technology that happens to enhance privacy but is actually saving me money?

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### Craig Raw (Sparrow):

So you might be wondering at this stage what the savings actually look like.

It turns out that if you apply what I was describing earlier—this half-signature aggregation technique—you can fit about 20% more average-size transactions into a block.

You can immediately think that’s going to reduce the average fee level for any point in time when people are submitting transactions to the mempool to be included in a block. You can now fit 20% more average-size transactions into that block, and that’s obviously a big advantage.

Now, the actual effect on a particular transaction, because of the witness discount that Jameson mentioned earlier, is less—it’s like 7 to 8%.

But remember, the average fee rate is going to be lower because we’re fitting more transactions into a block, which means there’s less pressure on block space.

So that’s how I would encourage you to think about it from the start.

For me, the efficiency in terms of block space is a good reason to do this anyway, regardless of whether we get privacy benefits. The privacy benefits come along for the ride.

We actually have this really restricted data space in the blockchain, and if we can apply a fairly simple and low-risk form of compression, I think it’s a serious thing to think about.

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### NiftyNei (Moderator):

I think, now that we’ve talked about how great this is, we’re going to get more transactions in a block, save money, and get better privacy.

I’d be really interested to hear why it didn’t make it into Taproot originally. Was there opposition to this proposal?

What was it about the Taproot process where this proposal didn’t make it over the line?

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### Fabian Jahr (Brink):

I wasn’t in the room when this was discussed, but I’ve read all of the transcripts available from when these things were discussed.

From what I can see, I don’t think there was any direct opposition.

The primary motivator was to keep Taproot manageable in terms of review effort and to keep the scope smaller.

I mean, the only thing I can see reading between the lines, which Craig already kind of mentioned, is that if you just look at the pure fee savings numbers and the number of weight units you save, for half aggregation, it’s in the single digits. People are often a bit disappointed as a first reaction, and you have to really discuss it and fill it with understanding.

I think that might have turned off some people, and maybe developers felt like this would be the easiest thing, to chop it off and people wouldn’t miss it as much.

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### Craig Raw (Sparrow):

Yeah, so in terms of the pushback I’ve heard so far, it’s what Fabian was saying—it doesn’t do enough.

There’s a general perception that we can only push for one soft fork at a time, so all the soft forks have to compete to be “the one.”

That’s an interesting point of view.

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### Jameson Lopp (Casa):

It’s interesting because I was in the room in Hong Kong when Pieter Wuille announced that we were changing the flagging system so that we could do 32 soft forks in parallel. Of course, we haven’t taken advantage of that yet.

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### Craig Raw (Sparrow):

Yeah, so we’re in a very different space now.

Something to bear in mind if you’re thinking about it from that point of view is that, and I heard Brandon Black, who was here earlier today, talking about OP_CAT, I think CISA is probably the lowest-risk soft fork we could imagine.

I’m talking about the well-understood half-signature aggregation form of it.

From a security model point of view, the cryptographers tell us there is no risk, or very low risk, to doing this. It takes well-understood properties of Schnorr, which is just adding signatures up, and uses that.

So, in terms of risk, it’s not really enabling other things that Bitcoin can do. It’s not going to be groundbreaking—it’s really just compressing.

If you think about it, compression is a fairly bounded area. You’re not going to suddenly have people developing all kinds of perhaps unwanted things on top of Bitcoin just because you compressed the signature size down.

So, maybe it opens up the space for other soft forks if we do a soft fork with such low risk that it actually gets across the line.

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### Jameson Lopp (Casa):

I think it’s also worth noting that this is by no means the only signature aggregation scheme happening in Bitcoin.

With the Taproot soft fork a few years ago, we got the theoretical ability to do Schnorr signatures, but that’s been an ongoing process.

As far as I’m aware, there’s been limited adoption of Schnorr so far.

I think MuSig2 is the main production-ready standard people are using, but that can only do an “n of n,” like a 2-of-2 or 3-of-3 type of scheme, so it’s kind of limited in its flexibility.

I care about this a lot, operating a multi-signature self-custody wallet.

We’re waiting for the further evolution of threshold signature schemes like FROST that can do more arbitrary K-of-N type multi-signature.

That evolution, that research, is still ongoing. We’re continuing to see new iterations of FROST come out.

So, we do expect to see more adoption of aggregated signatures across the ecosystem, but the ultimate end goal would be something where there’s only one signature per block.

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### NiftyNei (Moderator):

So, we only have a few minutes left.

Maybe we can spend a little bit of time talking about what it would take to get CISA to the point where we could soft fork it in.

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### Fabian Jahr (Brink):

There are still quite a few things to hammer out in terms of all the details, like defining a spec.

For half-signature aggregation, there’s a BIP draft, but it’s not a pull request on the BIP repository—it’s just a draft, with test vectors that are open.

However, for full aggregation, we still need to develop the signature scheme. That requires quite a bit of effort from people well-versed in cryptography, specifically on the side of interactivity.

We will also want to have a security proof for that scheme. That means we’ll need people with specific talents and experience in that area to come together and work on it. I personally spend quite a bit of time on it right now.

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### Jameson Lopp (Casa):

Yeah, call your local developer and demand signature aggregation today.

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### Craig Raw (Sparrow):

Fabian has developed a great site where you can learn more.

If the concepts we’ve talked about here today make sense and you want to understand them better, if you go to [CISAResearch.org](https://cisaresearch.org/), you can learn more about it.

It’s very easy to read, not overly technical, and I think it gives a good grounding in these things.

Largely, the way soft forks happen is that people need to express views about them, and ultimately, we need to develop some form of rough consensus around whether we want to do it or not.

As far as I’m aware, this is the first panel we’ve had that talks about it. Even though it’s an old and simple concept, we don’t really have a lot of discussion about it right now.

So, talk about it, try to develop an understanding of what it’s trying to do, and see whether you want to have it in Bitcoin or not.

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### Jameson Lopp (Casa):

I don’t know, do you want to save money? It should be an easy question.

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### Fabian Jahr (Brink):

And have better privacy.

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### NiftyNei (Moderator):

Great! Thanks y’all.

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Making Bitcoin More Private and Efficient With CISA

The CISA proposal aims to enhance Bitcoin privacy and reduce transaction fees through a potential soft fork upgrade.


“…yelling into a void and expecting a meaningful response.”

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CISA (Cross-Input Signature Aggregation), a potential #bitcoin soft fork, is still in the discussion phase.

https://bitlyrics.co/transcripts/bitcoin-cisa-soft-fork/


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“Its a good thing we have these issues now early on so we can figure out solutions.” 🎯

Agree 🤝

Thanks Reply Guy nostr:note1jc245wzlamqf7q2lp8v3uu63wnr3y7l5pr4g6ane4kdt2qlrymlsj4ycdf


Good times were had. A bit wholesome even, in retrospect. MySpace 🫡🫡🫡


Is Tom from MySpace on #nostr?

#asknostr

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


🎯🎯🎯
IRL, already hearing all too similar arguments for why never nostr, just like bitcoin.


With all of the highly regarded arguements swirling around about nostr being shut down because devs, and because apps, I thought I would amuse myself (and maybe you too?) over lunch by asking AI about it.

#nostr

Me:
Tell me exactly how a bad actor can censor nostr completely, then succeed in shutting it down entirely. Assume that you have a $1 trillion budget.

AI:
With a $1 trillion budget, completely censoring and shutting down Nostr would be extremely difficult due to its decentralized, open-source, and resilient design. While a state actor could cause significant disruptions and target key aspects of the ecosystem (relays, developers, users), Nostr’s inherent flexibility means that users could adapt by creating new relays, hiding their activity, or evolving the protocol. A combination of cyberattacks, legal measures, surveillance, and internet control would be necessary, but complete censorship is unlikely due to the protocol's design to resist such centralized efforts.

Me:
What if the budget was $200 trillion?

AI:
With a nearly limitless budget of $200 trillion, completely censoring and shutting down Nostr remains highly improbable due to its decentralized and flexible design. The enormous resources would allow a state actor to control much of the internet’s infrastructure, hardware, and legal systems, but the resilience of open-source, decentralized protocols makes total shutdown difficult. People would adapt, create new systems, and find alternative methods of communication. While the state actor could cause immense disruption and severely curtail Nostr's usage, complete eradication is unlikely. The power of decentralization, encryption, and community-driven innovation would continue to evolve and resist centralized control.

Me:
What if the budget was $400 trillion, and the bad actor was actually the totalitarian dictator of a one world government on earth?

AI:
With complete global control and a $400 trillion budget, the dictator of a one-world government would face considerable challenges in completely shutting down Nostr, or any similar decentralized protocol. While they could severely disrupt its use and enforce brutal censorship on a large scale, they would likely fail to achieve total eradication. Decentralized technologies are highly resilient by nature, and human ingenuity has consistently found ways to bypass authoritarian control throughout history.

In the long term, new tools, networks, and technologies would evolve to circumvent these controls, particularly in underground movements or rebellious factions. Complete and permanent control over every aspect of human communication would remain, even with immense resources, a daunting and potentially unachievable goal.

Me:
So what you are saying, is that you think there is a 0% chance that nostr can be entirely censored and shut down?

AI:
While Nostr could face significant disruptions from a concerted global effort, the nature of decentralized technologies makes it extremely unlikely that any actor, no matter how powerful, could achieve total and permanent censorship or shutdown. There might be periods of suppression or localized censorship, but achieving a 0% chance of survival for Nostr is virtually impossible.

#onward


GM☀☀☀
RISE & SHINE

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/24b8eb5ba90aa1ce3c0a2a3c9ac82d20eb8e90d7cecc43ccf1d3492a9424d55a.webp


GN 🌙🌙🌙

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/e326c0e0c75977c170eadd721d795e2304f8245f0e462dab99102ea9626da38e.webp


58K DIZ NUTS
https://v.nostr.build/qtWQ11vVTknP4pxP.mp4


A reminder that if you recommend nostr:npub1hea99yd4xt5tjx8jmjvpfz2g5v7nurdqw7ydwst0ww6vw520prnq6fg9v2 's Sparrow wallet to let the person know that Sparrow doesnt exist mobile.

Just had a friend go from Samourai to Sparrow desktop and afterwards they started looking for it on mobile... luckily I caught them in time.


Has anyone checked the Riga Lost & Found? Someone may have found them and turned the in.


GM☀☀☀

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/c112cef6c555488858cf3348a00a5783fccaae0ce2c0ebf74b88cb1f87b605e1.webp


GN
🌙🌙🌙

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/7af183f0faddee727872a8083abb2151dab75231081f5c5e847ffbfe4e0eb40f.webp


#bitcoin🤝#nostr

nostr:note1hcydlfu4fhtay9zvwvn86dc6zu8c2d3vyd26k4mkj2nf88haacuq5rqujt


GM ☀☀☀

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/4c6c52d873c8d2a5ce96aa4c772f63ff287b43cf2016cbdafdba5462da368db2.webp


GN
🌙🌙🌙

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/2f98c521776a9cf67a93035586076104f729ab44eec7128c36742f2d3966f630.webp


GM☀☀☀

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GM
☀☀☀

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/56a38001b3fd505276c35bf0c62705d1de5515e6606eb85b583b885e11933ef0.webp


GN 🌙🌙🌙

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/908fa9d7483081926a89a4a31b076e232848fab87bfe4e543deb10799f573992.webp


#nostr https://image.nostr.build/905a2687f35b8a012b881140cf44432de212298e594373c7428b6ee1e56c2c9b.jpg  nostr:note1365z7t299hkd7v7cue5a0j20wmk509ck0ax6cz6qmczvcv36marqwxv98k


Through the shadows of the industrial age, with #bitcoin in his heart and #nostr on his mind.

https://image.nostr.build/924263024fba79b2f62fbcab17e19ac045844bf5e848f6869705fc32b63c311f.jpg


GM ☀☀☀

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/bf68393857c131abc113671794aedd8524d079be8d68b40d44bc8074bd3d23ef.webp


#nostr has a better uptime percentage than even AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle. Imagine seeing a service level agreement that says “100% uptime” nostr:note1hhz203a98zmd5tn89srxnv2uktk8h9u42h365n4qh5styhthfy5qgys5hj


Congratulations to nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p

nostr:note1tcvrctjc9qfx9mtmgtpnqywqqpzuaf4n083xnh5v6yrhytsnr42qf98rcj


I concur ⚡⚡⚡


GM ☀☀☀
RISE & SHINE
https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/34b34a3c161127364d4d15c808b7b4fd28eeb7666818caa25c56ff8e1d2c07cb.webp


GN 🌙🌙🌙

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"We believe everyone should be able to explore the internet with privacy. [...] We advance human rights and defend your privacy online through free software and open networks."
—  nostr:npub1y8av7a5337erepxphjf50c9p4w5ghu6zu56fjqklpw0n06d7wvgqwh5cy0
https://opensats.org/blog/tor-receives-support-grant


Things move along so rapidly nowadays that people saying "it can’t be done" are always being interrupted by somebody doing it.

- Puck Magazine, December 1902


Twitter/X interactions be like…

nostr:note1nrwhctp4qkgwn6gkqphypn7ngprpfvpglp4m9sly9yhk44sj2s6qune6sz


GM ☀☀☀
RISE & SHINE
https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/027957f9bae01668f3ffd6c64becc7fd2658e2c43fd72d0a1d535e44cb1f02fe.webp


GN
🌙🌙🌙
https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/af122a0e293e3898fe6b2703c35eb7d7b6f91e41a4b0d25409b526ce2606b73b.webp


Was this from the Olympics in Paris?


Today for the first time in zap.store , a developer has published their own app 🤩

That is ngit by nostr:nprofile1qqs2qzx779ted7af5rt04vzw3l2hpzfgtk0a2pw6t2plaz4d2734vngpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7hycrvd (a CLI package)

We'll be reaching out to more CLI and Android devs to follow suit!

https://image.nostr.build/4f83d806d4845def6d0eff8e0c4006fa439cd92e929826a58eb057cd82e7e7b3.png


#relax

nostr:note17v770zewczl7r8p4jx2wspy8mp3kxman64ulqv903n8qkr5fnpuscm965n


"After thinking and acting right on a personal basis, investing in freedom technology is the only way we have to change the world for better" —  nostr:npub10000003zmk89narqpczy4ff6rnuht2wu05na7kpnh3mak7z2tqzsv8vwqk
https://opensats.org/blog/daniele-receives-lts-grant


Good Morning ☀☀☀

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What happens if the the top 5 big relays censor anyone publishing events with Bitcoin code in it?


Nostrica/Nostrasia/Nostriga  seemed to incorporate elements from both “conferences” and “unconferences”. It’s a hybrid of sorts.


“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ― Carl Gustav Jung


Good
Morning
☀☀☀

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/06e391bd8f8dfa51f247e7125c274140d3415f6a811a4533795d3960b7fcfeba.webp


#Bitcoin was 40 years of work.

https://image.nostr.build/95978d1fcc936435ebad34def9f3c8ec43fae346e8ddfa5c90b6a08c6c8d3cc2.jpg


This is the most interesting thing for normies so used to siloed platforms.


Good Morning ☀☀☀

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/3671696463391a5b2b0d1bfe8980c84430e71b9763c3a3a7da4e205e9e03b20b.webp


Unfortunately Bitcoin requires internet. Machankura also needs internet on their systems to interact with Bitcoin.

Nostr could help reduce Bitcoin's reliance on TCP-IP though - and your reliance also...

* Your server can lose access to it's domain or it's IP address, but your npub can't be censored.
* You can self host a nostr relay behind a static IP (paid in Bitcoin) from a VPN provider.
* You can use TollGates to reduce your reliance on ISPs: https://github.com/chGoodchild/GLTollGate


Phone Tap

https://youtu.be/6L-MxUImOzw?si=rqmhgle-OYOsQGYq


Good
Morning
☀☀☀

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/001f691cf7cd7f4b5306c46570b66f58fb0be54dc26f272b5a30fdd1172bd2af.webp


"The history of software development, especially the history of the internet, has been a history of pendulum swings between centralization and decentralization."  nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240

From  nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l Day 2 - Nostrich (main) Stage

#nostr


Good Night 🫡


Would be interesting to see a #nostr unconference piggyback on conferences like ces.tech, rsaconference.com, and sxsw.com

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg


Good Morning
☀☀☀

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/d4188b3349e4f7168ddeb97e0d0486253565d025d2355e3e7ccb0cb4f896b821.webp


#nostr
More passion
More energy https://image.nostr.build/8ad0982e9f14b62181c125f2a7aaab7c45940663fcef791451bb94a7d9640ad6.jpg


Absolutely love this

https://video.nostr.build/18a81e2ad4246cce2af06387b5004f7e89d26aff6cd241cedd3d01eb55872936.mp4


Start waking up with this vibe in the mornings.

nostr:note1s0273aas50zr20jgsc2ga28n2smutcre2c0ceeqn8rcv7z84tgus2xwaps


“How do I send/receive ‘zaps’?”


GOOD MORNING
RISE AND SHINE
☀☀☀

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/666d1a53d6ef133431f7157b54aeed154c98aeb2044a0e0aaf6a970410481d6d.webp


GOOD
NIGHT
🌙🌙🌙

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/f34ba0aa99dee893a29702fd931e82f8babf62382922bdc3bb60464116483cba.webp


Good Morning
☀☀☀
Rise and Shine

https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/5a23fcfdb19467f2c8d421449fb8f03509a4d762bb9cef7292d56ead8b4191c1.webp


GOOD NIGHT
🌙 🌙🌙
https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/767a357e69b2d6208dda8ec021dc567467f18aea9ff02e4da91d57f7b3727710.webp


gigi inspired meme https://i.nostr.build/623FvpSw30mMyYap.jpg  nostr:note10hyana40asxnmpfkkrvms82wqfkp90rvxlsru5n5exfu0lp4egzsjggjke


#Nostr Onboarding https://i.nostr.build/3El9s900otBeZw8z.jpg


Is this the swap draining we were promised?

nostr:note1d92j4rs985san4932g4gknzz0a7cm2pxyqepq9457jn45ykp6a7q0k5ht5


#politics

nostr:note1nz6j0c6cd402s2y5jpchapznmcxrjnkl9pql8f84l73eraepmlzqurpdev


Nirvana + Jazz = Great Music
https://youtu.be/3pYHCGYJbw0?si=ZgE4E9L2oMNI9s66


GOOD
MORNING
☀☀☀
https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/9c788b4c7ef4c92be57fc33dbcf468a6a967c11f9f3707daf803ee09aa5b70c9.webp


#GN
https://nostrcheck.me/media/3875a16c978814346640ccf1c169ade71086cfdd1a2b904f46ad6591988456c9/9e724bb0326e768452a43ce74e5fecd7dfa5fd0b8e67b5ac58e524d325526050.webp


“In every line of code, I see the potential to reshape the world—Amethyst is more than a project; it's my commitment to the verifiable web.” nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z

nostr:note1wgtxfn562n909r5k8ahgvrqk77ljamp3g9w0vvu87n33nat3n8wqq5ggej


Lets combine the “str,” the “i,” and the “.ly” for a made up optometrist appointment scheduling page using nostr…… iSeestr.ly


GOOD MORNING
☀☀☀
RISE AND SHINE


baby duck falling asleep wearing tiny frog hat 🦆👒🐸 https://t.co/UUsHSW8b0N https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1825251817732620288/pu/vid/avc1/720x972/C5gncfEm6Cc1bvhu.mp4?tag=12


People need to start talking about sales. #Nostr needs a solid sales team.


The Sharp Trunket transistor #radio (1960)

https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/977/325/359/993/536/original/37bc03a2bc7b36f6.jpeg


Another transcript has landed!

“my challenge to you is we have a revolutionary battle in front of us and we can choose to hodl on a hill and pray that the altcoiners and the no coiners go build the world for us, or we might have to sacrifice a little bit of our time, our effort, our energy, and maybe even sacrifice some of our money to speculate in this new technological revolution to go build the world that we want.”
Mark Moss Pacific Bitcoin 2023
#conference #education #financialfreedom

https://bitlyrics.co/transcripts/bitcoin-technological-revolutions/


If it wasn’t for the SMTP marketing team grinding thanklessly for years in the 1980’s, eFax would have never existed.


Awesome the one-man orchestra, Rafik Barseghian!👌

Vivaldi's "Summer: III. Presto" from The Four Seasons ... https://video.nostr.build/01389dce2f3ade6223ee00bac5c764233ce2fe681b7c75fc3740a70a539bed5c.mp4


Caring for #Bitcoin
Caring for Core
🧡🧡🧡

nostr:note1j3dz7ma5t2msuz78kfzjaehj224urjf9lh0slrv8rguswqz3pwdqjzppnh


#microsats #sats #bitcoin

https://cdn.satellite.earth/7380d8f7d848eba0b2c6b69eaebae8f07a933ac0eda6e8156623ab0d45aaab35.png


The mind is running a defragmentation process.

GM 🫡


“Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True?”

#nostr

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


Reminds me of a time I went to an open house for sale. Lady was selling her home after engineer husband passed. The entire kitchen was frozen in time from the 1950’s. Pristine condition. The agent and I marveled at the appliances. The dishwasher opened, closed, and “clicked” like heavy classic Cadillac doors.

MAKE APPLIANCES GREAT AGAIN!


GOOD MORNING
☀🌞😃
RISE AND SHINE


🫡 Honest work


GOOD MORNING 🫡


👃 & 👅 go 🤝


“My breath is next level fresh…” 🤣🤣🤣


Its nice. Low profile too. Adding to my wish list. https://www.lifespanfitness.com/products/tr1200-sc130-under-desk-treadmill


Which one do you use?


💪💪💪

nostr:note15ppa53400amszwmh6gzlhn4hkdwhea9axezek0tzhee70a6sfrfqxs99w7


🤣🤣🤣

http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ https://image.nostr.build/720b11e3ccbb787024c152230cdb03ed4daab63bab1a25c80aa7c50667bc87f9.jpg  nostr:note10xflksuazraez4kfqkdah5ktd388faj4zguyx78gf8u4npmkhqgql265yh


GOOD
MORNING
☀😃🌞


~25% interest rate at that


BITCOIN PARK FIRESIDE:  nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m X  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

https://cdn.satellite.earth/335e33f9115378783d1cc7d7d18874503d548e35fd57ca4baa72bf8afa293d40.mp4


Kernan speaking his mind sounding like a sovereign individual.

The other two guys sound like they’re just towing the line for whoever their overlords are,  and I don’t hear any conviction in their voices or see it in their physical demeanor. If anything, they seem to be looking at each other desperately for help.

#TikTokNextBlock

nostr:note1hgwharuq5n7sugsdn30xe47vjt2zs03uc9j0flqa56af40cpxuhsvxzgfq


Congrats nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 🫡 nostr:note17czddcmqlrfz984p3m50q7ruc2l9af3ksc9ggevevnwy36plh20qtj7k05


Money and resources made a difference. It’s what caused VC backed companies winning and taking over web 2.0 platforms.

Jack’s funding has had a huge impact but he’s done it in a way which doesn’t put himself or other funders in control. It’s one of the more interesting experiments we’re seeing in Nostr.


GN
https://m.primal.net/JpSJ.jpg


There must be some really shredded and swol chested bitcoiners out there by now.
#100pushups #bitcoin 🧡🧡🧡


The “need” for UBI and other schemes seem to be a cope to the carnage fiat policies are leaving behind. Perhaps even acting as a distraction away from other solutions that should be tried first, like going back to hard money policies. If peoples incomes and savings arent being slowly chipped and burned away through inflation, then how much UBI will they even need, if any? Good morning Lopp 🫡


Smooth criminal smooth cover https://video.nostr.build/35f0f7f308df2d1b8afd6548ba5a9f04f053bac479ddce2cc87711778e734298.mp4


#introductions

nostr:note1xxqtatmuke4gu8z7wu2dfglwt2ydzs3ee0qhsvry6rppwwkk58yse2satf


I am a NOSTR NEWB and I'm still struggling to figure out how to post a picture... every time I try it just comes up with some kind of a link to download and I can't even open the download. What am I doing wrong? I want to share pics.

nostr:note1vdh2nzx20d0qe3uhdqm8jn4dcrqe99d0heak73ytxm0awtf0grssrzs9w4


Shows up!


When do the passes start rolling out to signups?


ack


GOOD MORNING


GOOD MORNING ☀☀☀


Nostr bitcoin conference panel is up and on nostr natively.

Thanks for your service nostr:npub1jk9h2jsa8hjmtm9qlcca942473gnyhuynz5rmgve0dlu6hpeazxqc3lqz7 nostr:note17ks704u2mqsxuqce0w6xjfd595zuq47zndwwtczfp4g0fedv2yzqd9ygpc


Where we’re going, we dont need any hair. #bitcoin #nostr


Holy shit, I think I just realized a direct and concrete way that I’ve personally experienced to how #Nostr completely changes the social incentives:

• Rage and hateful posts on Twitter get the most attention.
• Positive and happy posts on Nostr get the most zaps.

It really was just monetization all the time.

When attention is the currency, negativity and hate rise to the top because the platforms need people arguing.

When sats directly from peers are the currency, value rises to the top.

(Anyone else feel they’ve had this same experience?)


“If censorship is possible, then it’s going to happen. The only way to stop censorship is to make it impossible. And that’s what Nostr represents.” - nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s 🔥🔥🔥🔥


Change request: 2-party >> to-party


#meme #memes #memestr #nostrmemes #nostrmeme
https://m.primal.net/JfeI.jpg


The light that was once a wonderful place slowly dims itself into oblivion.


There are so many awesome nostr apps already, and it's gonna get better still. https://www.nostrapps.com/


"Nostr is the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global 'social' network once and for all."
  —  nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6
https://opensats.org/blog/fiatjaf-receives-lts-grant


Good paperweight


Does this have anything to do with abs?


After several weeks of persistent effort, I'm excited to share Nostr Web Services (NWS).

NWS makes your web service reachable without having a publicly accessible IP address or DNS. All you need is an npub and a set of Nostr relays. A wide range of existing services could be run on NWS without requiring any significant changes. NWS achieves this by establishing a TCP connection between client and server which can be used by these applications.

Please keep in mind, that the software is in a very early state and not even released yet.

https://github.com/asmogo/nws


🧡🧡🧡

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The train keeps rolling

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🐬🐬 https://i.nostr.build/QSSzHFlaI2fDcNuQ.jpg


This is the shortest book I've ever read that changed my life.

It's "The Enchiridion" By Epictetus. Epictetus is one of the most important Stoics in history. He was a philosopher and slave. However, although he was a slave, he was more free than most rulers.

Here is the craziest part. Marcus Aurelius, the guy I cite daily, was emperor of Rome while Epictetus was a slave in Rome.

Both practiced the same philophy and wrote about the same things. Both had the same human challenges. Both knew that power and freedom comes from within and that only things that you can control can be moral or immoral.

A philophy practiced by emperors and slaves alike. Study stoicism.

Gm ☕

https://image.nostr.build/39f7048d397d1777ced60eeaa07c1a9bacf0d4cb9c9e510abab634aa9b404fbe.jpg


Perhaps multi-step signup forms, with the ability for a user to skip ahead to view what is in the other steps before returning to the beginning, is a happy medium.


Congrats to nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn 🚀

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Worry not. Bitcoiner dad’s raising glorious battle axe swinging bitcoiner sons out here.


Eating pizza lying down? L vote


#NutSack nostr:note1kc6wv2vc6zul4geksag8dwv4cye2tslh24dwazv224uy9azwqzcs27x5pq


This thread must get framed and hung.
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#StayCalm

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This entire thread thus far is horrific. Will try to cleanse a bit with this image. https://image.nostr.build/66310d40e831ee0e9c192e237c8929a4e6a6194d40ad3717b5dfd4f2eaa3627d.jpg


YAAAS! 🤘


If anyone is looking for a privacy respecting, open source keyboard for Android with swipe typing support, consider Futo Keyboard.

Trying it out now. Descent replacement for gboard.

https://keyboard.futo.org


GM🫡


DISAPPOINTMENTS RESULT FROM UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS


MISTAKES RESULT FROM BEING IN A RUSH


Including these eleven projects, we have now issued a total of 57 grants to various nostr projects, plus five long-term support grants for  nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft,  nostr:npub1lunaq893u4hmtpvqxpk8hfmtkqmm7ggutdtnc4hyuux2skr4ttcqr827lj,  nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr,  nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s, and  nostr:npub1drvpzev3syqt0kjrls50050uzf25gehpz9vgdw08hvex7e0vgfeq0eseet.  More to come soon. 👀
https://opensats.org/blog/nostr-grants-july-2024


5 years ago I set out to learn to code. For me this journey has been incredibly difficult. I've had so many up and downs, quit and restarted numerous times, had countless setbacks. Never having had any formal college education, I wanted to teach myself something, something hard. I wanted to learn and I wanted to build. More than anything, I wanted to find a way to contribute to Bitcoin. I've finally built something that I am proud of and am happy to share it in the hopes that it can help others.

It's nothing groundbreaking or complicated.. it's a website, a website built from the ground up and focused on self-custodying your Bitcoin. It may not be much but it's a huge achievement for me and proof that if your consistent and put in the proof of work, that over time you can achieve what was once a distant dream. It's the start a new journey as well, one where I feel empowered to do more. LFG.

Please share it with whomever you think might find it useful: https://www.wehodlbtc.com/

If you've got feedback or suggestions please do let me know! 🧡

#bitcoin #selfcustody


Protocols like Bitcoin and Nostr are what will enable society to remain free and save humanity from self ruin.

It doesn’t make sense now, but it will eventually.

Thank God for code.


Right? 💜


Its the only brand i have found tasty enough to sip


*always 🫡


I don’t ways drink Gin, but when I do, it’s “purple” with orange.
Stay decentralized my friends.
#nostr #bitcoin
https://m.primal.net/JPhX.jpg
https://m.primal.net/JPhZ.jpg


THE MONEY IS IN THE NOSTR!

👉 Create a new npub AND DOING NOTHING ELSE, no WoS, no nostr-wallet-connect pairing,... NOTHING

☑ receive zaps
☑ send zaps
☑ and most importantly ACCESS MY WALLET FROM ANY CLIENT ON ANY DEVICE

these zaps are verifiable, way faster -- they are immediate (since the sending of the ecash is the zap, instead of waiting for a LN node to, maybe, publish a zap receipt)

Just like our contact lists follows us around, just like our profile data and our shitposts pops up in any nostr application, now so does our sats.

the money is in the nostr!

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


Solutions are found inside of their respective problems.
#bitcoin #nostr


Nomadic rug design
https://image.nostr.build/55eca1efa8919b493c11f28b69c8deafcab26591440469bc2f448b09c8c74f2c.jpg
#Pegahrug


WORK HARD.
SAVE IN BITCOIN.
DO NOT OVERTHINK IT.

STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS.


Internet #trolls waiting for their next interaction. https://image.nostr.build/1e656dbbbaecc9effad9359ad9bd913754ec8235267dbfd0a2be00e7ca40863d.jpg


HK P30 SK https://image.nostr.build/44a67ed38131fd1ee9e70dfb9d6e24965278585dda79031cc6728167417cec19.jpg


☀🧡🫡 LFG


GOOD MORNING
https://m.primal.net/JMst.jpg


Good Night 💤


GM🫡


🧡 that nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx is doing tech support on #nostr. 🫡🫡🫡 https://image.nostr.build/39fc6c1fbbaddf1834bf9135b9c37afa879c23a5867e69a1d016fbf66ac14dd9.jpg  nostr:note15dh36sy6k89hhp2yqp5mez6fc5jfufs7j0jtj3s6hnmh5y03c3aszvr26j


I also love that nostr:npub1nmr6w7qk0ta36vxysv77jv3d5rqghfc6d8sez8240rf3gja4vsmsd2yha8 included the Bitcoin White Paper into the index file of alphaama 🫡


I dont eat them, but for the children, here is my protocol:

-lightly toast the slices of bread;
-add thick slices of cheese;
-spread butter on both sides of sandwich;
-sprinkle sea salt on both sides;
-heat cast iron skillet;
-grill both sides until golden brown;
-slice sandwich diagonally;
-serve with cold glass whole milk.

🫡


Testing


Just a hope and a wish.


🙌 https://image.nostr.build/280abe5d5b19287db4b13644bda0ff1d5bca2ded186f2810e050385e378812a1.jpg


#nostr hardware

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Good
Morning
☀🌞😃


Looks like he’s pushing 175 lbs. I don’t know why, but I was expecting 225 lbs from him. Nevertheless. Reps are reps 💪


#GOODMORNING ☀☀☀


Make options great again

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Internet 2.0


Take the relaxed approach

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#Jungian


GOOD MORNING ☀🌞😃


🤣
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🧡🧡🧡

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GM🫡 & Good Luck 🍀


🤣 nostr:note1etup5dg6efq09c02sdft656lg6xepcaph5seenc77ee658fsl7tsmuwdh9


Awesome!

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Congratulations to nostr:npub1drvpzev3syqt0kjrls50050uzf25gehpz9vgdw08hvex7e0vgfeq0eseet
for this LTS grant. nostr:note1gdx0smvn82rszk0lj002z2nktg67r5xqjwkuttc82pxd0h5pgcuqrdtxr4


“…we should treat all keys as a throwaway entity in our designs.”

Yes


Wouldnt need to would you? The subs would be the throw aways.


A hierarchy structure could work, with “master” and “sub-accounts”.


Happy independence day.

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸


When I wake up to a BTC price bloodbath, aka "Buying Opportunity."
https://video.nostr.build/156b1b8e6a3ff7c0ec44288e488f8531e7ae0a019e0a9e61157c7b8dc6022547.mp4


GM ☀☀☀


#nostr str’s https://image.nostr.build/ee1a9feba1fe5f11283c060d44cc7d0537812006c6a86dde0c71d1a8122c18a9.jpg


At least lolli still gives a low but respectable number of sats. The “random” prizes on fold output 5 sats or “refer a friend” prizes. Lol. Not using anymore


Everyone should strive to become Anyone nostr:note1uzy7vav833f3ngv6gfgmkqnt9j268j8tjz80my07e8ygk9fusm7q974w22


If it’s still in the orange, then it’s just juicy.


Keep lighting 💡💡💡 nostr:note1tr67074tsyka9lvwtazethk4zhw0ct6kav77u84hfsfhn2thhx9s4f0jww


GOOD MORNING ☀🌞😃


10 more grants. 10 more FOSS projects. Much more to come. Thank you for your tireless work & support 🫡
https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-july-2024


## Introduction

If you've ever wondered how big corporations, governments, and media giants manage to influence public perception so effectively, it's time you met Edward Bernays. Often called the **"father of public relations,"** his work continues to shape our world. This write up will introduce you to Bernays and his book **"Propaganda,"** explaining how his strategies are still relevant and widely used today.

## Who Was Edward Bernays?

He was a major pioneer in public relations and propaganda as we know them today. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays had a unique perspective on human psychology, which he leveraged to create compelling messages that resonated deeply with the public. His career take-off began during World War I, where he played an instrumental role with the US government to shape public opinion about the war, in particular to promote public investment in war bonds to help fund the USA's involvement in the war. He was so successful with that initiative, that after the war he decided to apply his skills to various other fields, including business, politics, and social causes, playing a major role in influencing public opinion at scale.

### A Master Manipulator

Bernays believed that the ***"conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society."*** He introduced the idea of an **"invisible government"** made up of influential individuals and organizations that guide public opinion. This concept is crucial for understanding how modern propaganda works.

## The Playbook: "Propaganda"

In 1928, Bernays published **"Propaganda,"** a small, relatively short book that candidly lays out his methods for shaping public opinion. Let's take a little dive into each chapter:

### Chapter I: Organizing Chaos

Bernays starts off asserting that democratic societies require the manipulation of public opinion to function smoothly. He writes, ***"We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."*** This invisible government, composed of elites, directs the masses through strategic communication.

### Chapter II: The New Propaganda

Bernays discusses the evolution of propaganda, highlighting how new technologies like newspapers, radio, and telegraphs (cinema, television, internet, mobile phones) have expanded its reach. He emphasizes the necessity of responsible use of these tools, as they hold significant power to influence public opinion.

### Chapter III: The New Propagandists

Bernays introduces the key players behind modern propaganda:

1. public relations professionals,
2. advertisers,
3. and political consultants.

These individuals, often operating behind the scenes, have significant power over societal trends and behaviors. He explains that these propagandists are ***"specialists in interpreting enterprises and ideas to the public and in interpreting the public to the promulgators of new enterprises and ideas."***

### Chapter IV: The Psychology of Public Relations

Drawing on psychological theories, Bernays explains how understanding human motivations enhances propaganda's effectiveness. He stresses the importance of appealing to emotions and subconscious desires, rather than just presenting logical arguments. This chapter underscores the need for a deep understanding of mass psychology to successfully influence public opinion.

### Chapter V: Business and the Public

Bernays examines the relationship between businesses and the public, stating that companies must actively manage their public image. He discusses various techniques, such as publicity stunts, to strategic partnerships, all to shape public perception. He also highlights the role of corporate social responsibility in building trust and goodwill with the target audience.

### Chapter VI: Propaganda and Political Leadership

In this chapter, Bernays explores the use of propaganda in politics. He explains how political leaders and parties use public relations techniques to gain and maintain power, emphasizing the importance of media manipulation and compelling narratives. He also touches on the ethical challenges of political propaganda, advocating for transparency and honesty. Which we all know, is the absolute standard these days, right?

### Chapter VII: Women’s Activities and Propaganda

Bernays discusses how women’s movements and consumer habits have been influenced by propaganda. He explains how advertisers target women, recognizing their significant influence on household purchasing decisions. This chapter highlights specific aspects of propaganda and its role in shaping social norms.

### Chapter VIII: Propaganda for Education

Bernays says that propaganda can be a powerful tool for educational purposes. He discusses how public relations techniques can promote educational initiatives and foster public support for different kinds of reforms. Effective communication and engaging storytelling are crucial for successful educational propaganda.

### Chapter IX: Propaganda in Social Service

This chapter explores the use of propaganda in social services, such as healthcare and public welfare. Bernays points out how public relations campaigns can raise awareness and mobilize support for social programs, using successful examples to show the potential for positive social change to really make that connection with the target audience.

### Chapter X: Art and Science

Bernays examines how propaganda can promote cultural and scientific (or medical?) achievements. He argues that effective communication is essential for advancing public appreciation of art and science. The challenge lies in making complex ideas accessible to the general public.

### Chapter XI: The Mechanics of Propaganda

In the final chapter, Bernays provides a detailed overview of the techniques and strategies used in propaganda. He explains the importance of research, planning, and execution in creating successful public relations campaigns. Bernays emphasizes the need for continuous evaluation and adaptation to maintain effectiveness. He writes, "***The counsel on public relations must maintain constant vigilance, because inadequate information, or false information from unknown sources, may have results of enormous importance."*** Or perhaps, results of enormous negative consequences?

## The Relevance Today

Edward Bernays' strategies remain highly relevant in today's world. I might even dare to say, a modern [Machiavelli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli). Corporations, governments, and media organizations continue to use his techniques to shape public opinion and control narratives. Here are a few ways his strategies are still in play:

### Big Tech and Social Media

Algorithms curate the information you see, subtly influencing your worldview. Social media platforms use data-driven strategies to keep you engaged, often without your conscious awareness.

### Corporate Marketing

From influencer partnerships to viral campaigns, businesses use sophisticated public relations tactics to create demand and shape consumer behavior. Bernays' principles of emotional appeal and subconscious influence are evident in modern advertising.

### Political Campaigns

Political parties use media manipulation, targeted ads, and strategic messaging to sway public opinion. Election cycles are prime examples of Bernays' theories in action, with campaigns meticulously crafted to appeal to voters' emotions and biases.

## Conclusion

Edward Bernays' **"Propaganda"** offers timeless insights into the art and science of influencing public opinion. By understanding his methods, you can better navigate the modern media landscape and recognize the subtle forces shaping your perceptions. They are relentless. Stay curious, stay informed, and always question the narratives.

Next time you encounter a news story, advertisement, political message, or even a post from an "influensooorr" remember Bernays and ask yourself: Who is behind this message, and what are they trying to achieve?

I hope you find the time to [dive into the book](https://cdn.satellite.earth/0a045b30de5d3a536da8721a73d84dcd22a769d9c4ce7f2f71be74440d8c5bb7.pdf) some day, and I hope this writeup helps you get there.

--

Bernays, Edward. Propaganda. 1928.

Edward Bernays: Behind Modern Propaganda

Discover Edward Bernays' influential work on modern propaganda, unveiling how media, corporations, and governments shape public opinion and behavior through strategic communication techniques still used today.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqwr459kf0zq5x3nypn83c956mecssm8a6x3tjp85dtt9jxvgg4kfqqxnzde38yurvd3cx5unwvfk6ukfde


Make direct distribution channels great again nostr:note1675778m3fedwq0czjw9raq0yjqkunezn6dp97sy8rnkerevec3lsnjqazr


How to get rich, without getting lucky. By #NavalRavikant
https://cdn.satellite.earth/03372c1bff75ca1f20697874df91ce9fe9f6a19d5e8f75c97aeaafdac0842277.mp3


This is the way

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I just published a new read on Nostr!

BUILD IT RIGHT: ACHIEVING INTEROPERABILITY WITH OPEN NETWORKS

Pablo’s keynote at BTC Prague 2024 emphasizes building interoperable, profitable businesses using open networks like Ecash and nostr.

Check it out: https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqwr459kf0zq5x3nypn83c956mecssm8a6x3tjp85dtt9jxvgg4kfqpp5y42ff3zz6j2594fyj36g2sk5zs6gf9z4vj2wguk5jnj5g4fy75z92fq5yj2vf929jt2hf92yst202pz5ut2wg429wn6jfdfj6vtpwvers6q7vx7ng

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