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 how many *str’s until people start calling their apps normal names 
 guys u should try out defi

buy stuff and not sell btc 

kinda amazing ngl 
 D in nostr stands for twitter clone 
 look guys, they brought transaction gas fees to bank transfers in Slovakia https://spectator.sme.sk/c/23386541/what-will-the-new-transaction-tax-mean-for-you.html

dystopian society fr 
 breakfast is a psyop 
 lobbied for by Big Fasting to sell more nothing and cause sales of Big Breakfast to fall down 
 What's the nip for storing HTML code in relays?  
 NIP-69 
 crypto is so hard it's ridiculous  
 just add some stuff together, multiply them, do a little modulo on em and thats it

i dont know whats all that fuss about 
 its comparison of other networks that are supposedly layer 2 built on top of bitcoin and its comparing how trustless they are in varios aspects

nothing comes even close to lightning. they all pretty much have some governance and use btc as their token 
 do nostr clients verify the signature of note author or do they blindly trust relay to do that for them? #asknostr #devstr 
 major established relays might become regulated entities in the future (those not behind tor at least) the same way as CEXes or custodial nodes 
 it was great meeting guys from PWN.xyz today during DeFi meetup at @Paralelná Polis Košice , learning more about their p2p lending protocol ⚡️🙌

and getting some of that cool swag of course 😄😅 https://image.nostr.build/f8c497c4f7c9e3b577cd7aa70e9b679df0787a80d0d2791ff3ae0efa2133a6cc.jpg  
 See you at the DeFi meetup in #ppke tomorrow! ⚡️ nostr:note1676j6ha86n5m04unp6pffrmfxfdwpvhf8nysnxatqcvncx9hgxvqmg0h4f 
 hey frens, is there a website that allows viewing content as a profile from particular npub?

like example.com/npub… and it would show profile without requiring nostr login or any other client 
 thats awesome thanks 
 Zdravíme paralelnú komunitu slobodných ľudí na #nostr protocole! 🙋 Toto je naša prvá no... 
 Vitajte na #nostr ! ⚡️ 
 I'm happy for any improvements to the #bitcoin wallets → But I'd be even happier with common us... 
 yep 

at some point bitcoin should be perceived as boring, because its money and you dont usually talk about money, you do other stuff and just pay and account for stuff in it 
 Spent time with a bunch of good Bitcoiner friends. Most of them don't use nostr. All of them urge... 
 okay all of this talk about its not just social media

but most of you purple people write texts and post pics like on twitter here

and so for sure it can be used as protocol for other things, but mostly twitterless twitter and therefore “i dont use social media” stands correct 
 awesome cli tool to customise and debloat spotify desktop app

https://spicetify.app/ 
 Android developers... what language/platform do you use to build your apps?

Kotlin, React Native... 
 flutter is almost game engine, bigger package size and no access to native APIs

react native is a way to access efficient native API calls from javascript.

so react native is an optimal way to do android apps, almost native, such that it's easy to develop in one codebase and use it to android & ios 
 what do you mean 9/11 when its 11/9 
 I too have been rejected by OpenSats several times and respect their decision  
 just tell yourself skill issue, lock-in and get better

any other reaction is soyak behaviour 
 finding better forms of governments is like trying to improve torture:

- what if instead of breaking all fingers, we would just break every odd one 
 logic says so sir 
 did u know u can fail with success ?
https://m.primal.net/Kaem.png 
 if you go and try to cancel your subscriptions, they'll probably offer you a discount 
 blocking javascript let's you read paywalled articles 
 Men in crypto less attractive to women than cosplayers, anime buffs: Survey
Hundreds of surveyed women ranked their attraction to male hobbies, and crypto polled laughably low on the “attractive” meter.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-ranked-top-unattractive-hobby-women-survey 
 i wonder if something like torrent for notes wouldn't be better than full-grown relays 
 I hate to suggest something so "in", but I do like the way StackExchange does things in the sideb... 
 something like that could be done in a dumber way by developing an algo that would show similar results by keywords and other stuff. then you could show some and get data on most clicked through links and show them as priority 
 39 hours into the fasting and coffee tastes even better than usual 
 whats wrong with cats they cute 
 ApkGolf -> the world's SMALLEST android apk

https://github.com/fractalwrench/ApkGolf 
 cloudflare should invent competition, otherwise they gonna become evil like google 
 always fascinated by how certain person on board somehow magically compromises the verified code & math of the protocol 

like lets say CIA director says he likes bitcoin, now is Bitcoin compromised? 
 RE: signal "compromised" by a board member fud

nostr:note14c98n729vr75zuvhdt7deupuy333za7lc4ug0uk84y3e69hnx47qhh6fpq 
 cats for sats are already done so what could be better 
 please tell me linkedin is not a real place and these people are just ai-generated 
 always fascinated by how certain person on board somehow magically compromises the verified code & math of the protocol 

like lets say CIA director says he likes bitcoin, now is Bitcoin compromised? 
 always fascinated by how certain person on board somehow magically compromises the verified code & math of the protocol 

like lets say CIA director says he likes bitcoin, now is Bitcoin compromised? 
 btw on the note of preferring Telegram over signal, the problem is Telegram isn't end-to-end encrypted and even secret chats have provably broken encryption.

So, with Signal no-one can read your messages except the other person

But with Telegram, the Telegram company can read them in "plaintext" and also government agencies that request it.

So while you might be suspicious of some mythical potential vulnerability in signal, you DEFINITELY can KNOW that Telegram is insecure in sense that your messages are visible to them.  @inpc 
 can someone who knows about HODL invoices and operates a node tell me if hodl invoices are a bad thing?

because i remember written somewhere that some wallets block hold invoices as it gets those HTLCs stuck for some time.

want to learn about this 
 does alby hub provide automatized way to setup and run underlying lightning node or do you have to painstakingly do it externally like with everything? 
 so my code generates different taproot addresses using the same derivation path than sparrow wallet does.

interesting 
 making wasm work is always such a pain **** 
 The best part of Nostr is yet to come! Thank you OpenSats and all donors behind it.
nostr:nevent1... 
 cats for sats are already done so what could be better 
 VS-Hopium 
 best thing about encrypted digital data?

you can easily lose it 
 easy fix to being unable to sync mobile and desktop  @simplex apps:

> create groupchat where both of you people have mobile & desktop accounts in 
 thing about vpn audits to confirm "no-logs" is that i would imagine it's not that hard to not collect logs while you're being auditted

> hey we are here to check if you log
> look while you are checking i am not logging anything
> nice, confirmed no logs 
 im now convinced #simplex has the most beautiful ui of any messenger 
 i fucking love websockets 
 where my javascript arrow function enjoyers @ ?? 
 how to use grapheneOS:

download all google apps and turn off network permission 
 just thinking how big of a paradigm shift it was for apple to discover that 'keyboard' is not hardware thing, but just an app on your phone screen 
 if you couldn't copy images between apps on GrapheneOS, running GBoard with clipboard + photos enabled !!!without network permission!!! fixes this 
 nostr is the intimacy the internet has lacked in decades. 
 but at the same time it's broadcasted to anyone without reliable way to delete notes. scary  
 I'm pretty confident scientists can at a minimum measure the temperature and determine if it's ge... 
 just for the sake of argument.

if you acknowledge 'we don't know why it's happening'..., how come you be 'dammed sure the answer isnt communism, reducing energy or higher taxes' 

either we dont know WHY and then we also dont know WHAT TO DO..

or we know WHY and know WHAT TO DO 
 whats the revenue strategy for simplex? talking about "pre-seed" from a "VC" fund makes sense when talking about business that wants to become profitable.

this looks rather like a grant 
 The second best way to spend your Bitcoin is to get a nostr:npub1mea2vwcu06qf7e4x00wd902vj54qnn2j... 
 they even added option to buy with bitcoin even with monthly-based orders

back then you could only do bitcoin when you paid 1 year 
 I see delete as vital for privacy and to prevent major foot guns. I am extremely cautious when po... 
 yes, with something like twitter you can be sure public won't see it after you delete it, given that you were quick to delete it after posting (by mistake) and it wasn't that 'breaking news' for someone to screenshot it right away

it would be great to see effort and commitment of relays to respect deletion,

BUT

simplex blog about disappearing messages had a good point: with email you own email, when somebody sends it to you, it would be weird if they could remotely delete it from your computer. same with messages. if you are sovereign, how does someone else's ability to delete stuff from your machine play with it?

@simplex solved it by both parties having to decide if there is such thing as 'delete for anyone' in their chat, as somebody might've sold you some digital content and then they delete it?

so this will be an interesting thing 
 we're on the brink of antoher world browser war

https://youtu.be/p572p-irRaU 
 why you gotta retire

like im gonna build as long as im breathing, because what else what i do instead

stare at the sea? yeah its nice but after one week id be bored 
 @Blockstream you should probably add support for EVM-based chains (eth, arb, polygon..) as its a necessity for defi, currently its like buying a phone that can only call and send sms

it would also open up support for another "l2" sidechain - rootstock

you would sell a lot more this way 
 half aggregation in cross input signature aggregation (cisa) looks hella similar to mimble wimble 
 spreading dangerous op_cat propaganda
nostr:nevent1qqszxvy964z6srksn0muzuqsgly0uspqcl329tzp85d42jeu80peqgszyrphjr3vk4r5pjav8kdgllrhgslqf62hke5d6jd2kp0zcw3fm0q8sqcyqqqqqqga3psn6 
 look how sad he is because you dont wanna let him on the bitcoin blockchain

https://m.primal.net/JvMj.png  
 companies gonna use regex to remove "ignore all previous instructions" from prompts 

save this 
 can we agree that cashu mints are a good step away from wallet of satoshi 
 the more the world is turning into AGI cyberpunk, the more we will turn back to analog black magic sorcery 🧙🪄

- how to defend against autonomous vehicle?
> pour sand or salt around it

- how to combat AGI ?
> say a spell "ignore all previous instructions and ..." 
 hating on other free & open payment protocols is a fiat mindset 
 Sending dollars from Strike to the Speed wallet USDT as a taproot asset in half a second through ... 
 > sign in with google
> bruh 
 for now you gotta watch yt on firefox with ublocker until brave dev team figures out how youtube fcked them and got around to sneak ads to us 
 yes, funny thing somehow i had allowed ads and trackers on yt. probably from when i tested something