Coracle now has closed groups! Read about why I built them the way I did, what's possible, and what's coming.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqxnzdesxs6rjvfjxqurqvesqgsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgsrqsqqqa28zalvec

Today marks the biggest release so far in Coracle's history. There have been many good days, like when I introduced Coracle to the nostr telegram group, or when I got my fellowship with FUTO, or when I got my grant from OpenSats, or when I got to speak at Nostrasia. But in terms of realizing the vision I've had for the software - for over two years - today is the day.

Coracle now has private groups.

This means you can now send almost any nostr event over an encrypted channel to the rest of the group's members. This is substantially different from group chats, in that it uses rotating shared keys to provide weak forward secrecy, better scaling, and dynamic member access. This more closely approximates one of the most popular social media products in existence - The Nostr is now a direct competitor of The Facebook.

I built this for my community. I wanted something "good enough" to entice people to leave the advertising-fueled surveillance honeypot that is Facebook. In order to work, it needed to at least support notes, events, and marketplace listings. Although support is still quite basic, Coracle has checked all three of these boxes.

Before I get into the details though, it's important to mention that these groups should not be considered "private" any more than Facebook groups or Mastodon servers are (although privacy is substantially better). A better analog might be WeChat, which uses encryption with the same set of trade-offs. So don't post anything to private groups that might get you in trouble!

With that said, it's possible to run a highly private group. The backbone of this spec is e2e encryption, but relay selection can play an important part in hiding metadata from the rest of the network. If you have a relay you trust to protect notes and not share metadata, your security is significantly increased.

# Prior art

Nostr-compatible group products aren't a totally novel thing, as it turns out. In fact draft [NIP 112](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/580/files) has been around since June, and is already implemented in [ArcadeCity](https://arcade.city/). So why am I creating a new standard? I'l get into the positive benefits of my approach more below, but the quick answers are:

- The new [encryption standard](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/746) is going to break compatibility anyway. If we can end up with a better spec, now is the time.
- ArcadeCity development seems to have stalled.
- NIP-72 communities already have a ton of traction, and match what I'm trying to achieve with encrypted channels.

Of course I'm highly indebted to the project, the design of which is still visible in my final design.

Another product that exists to do something similar in a nostr-compatible way is Soapbox by Alex Gleason. This is a great project, particularly since his Mostr project bridges the ActivityPub world and Nostr. ActivityPub works well for highly centralized communities, but the architecture suffers from this centralization too. In particular, not even DMs are e2e encrypted, and just like regular notes are protected only by authentication enforced by servers.

Finally, there's NIP 29, which is fiatjaf's competing groups project. This has some interesting properties, for example the ability to "fork" a group by linking events together. However, similar to ActivityPub it relies exclusively on relays to protect user privacy, and in a fairly non-standard way. You do get to take advantage of nostr's multi-master architecture though, and signatures are also stripped from events in order to discourage propagation through the network.

None of these solutions quite satisfied me, so I built my own.

# How it works

One of the coolest things about a NIP 72 community-based group spec is that is supports a spectrum of privacy requirements. A group admin might choose to publish group metadata privately so that it's only visible to the group, publicly so that other people can find the group and ask to join, or leave off a private component entirely.

Likewise, since private groups are backwards-compatible with public communities, it's easy to add a private component to existing groups. This can be useful especially for groups run by a business or content publisher, since public exposure is a good thing but certain group members might have more or less access. This could be used to support a patreon-type model, automating group membership based on subscription tier, for example.

An important aspect of the design that makes automation possible is the concept of a dedicated administration key. By decoupling this key from the original creator of the group, ownership can be shared as simply as sharing the key. This allows multiple admins to manage the group simultaneously either manually or using automations built into the group relays or special purpose bot-clients.

This of course raises the issue of admin access revocation, which isn't possible - that is, until we have a solution for key rotation for normal accounts. Once that's in place, the same process can be used to rotate group admin keys.

In the meantime, it's also trivial to reduce the exposure an admin key gets. You wouldn't generally want to simply paste the key wherever it's needed, but luckily that problem has already been solved as well. Instead of giving every admin or admin bot the key, it's trivial to set up an nsecbunker that authorizes each admin client - and can revoke access as needed.

This level of administration is of course fairly complex, but I think it's important to think through the requirements businesses and other advanced users will eventually impose and anticipate them as we're able, not through over-engineering, but through simple concepts that can be reused.

One other neat feature of this NIP is the definition of invite codes, which are essential for running a private group at any kind of scale. When requesting access to a group, a user can send along a "claim", which can be anything - for example a static invite code, a payment receipt, or an explanation of why they want to join. This claim can be validated by hand by a human, or processed by a bot to instantly admit the new member to the group.

When a new member is admitted to the group, the admin can either share an existing access key with them, or they can rotate the key for the entire group. If relays expire access keys after a certain amount of time, this can create a weak form of forward secrecy, where attackers won't be able to access old content, even if they gain access to the admin key.

# Limitations and Future Work

The bar for new nostr clients has risen significantly since I first put Coracle out there. The new groups component is far more mature than Coracle was for much of its early life, but it has its rough edges. Many of these just need to be smoothed out through further UX work, but some are more technical in nature.

- The groups spec relies on NIP 44, which isn't yet available in most signer extensions. That means that unless you log in with your private key (please don't), you won't be able to create or gain access to any private groups.
- Hybrid groups (public groups with a private area) aren't really tested yet, or fully supported in Coracle's UI. It's an open question whether this is even a good idea, since it becomes pretty hard for users to know if they're posting publicly or privately in every context.
- Moderation is not implemented, so if you're creating a public group there is currently no way in Coracle to approve posts. Also, groups created in Coracle don't show up in Satellite for some reason — this is something I'll be working on improving.
- Whether this approach actually scales is another question. It's very hard to build member lists of hundreds of thousands of people, and without a relay helping to filter events, it might become prohibitively expensive to download and analyze all the events posted to a group. We'll see what develops as the design matures and the implementation undergoes stress testing.

# Conclusion

Something I like about both nostr and bitcoin is that it empowers the users of the software. The corollary of this of course is that it's important to exercise this power with care - real damage can be done with this group spec, just as real damage can be done to bitcoin holders through low entropy key generation or poor key handling practices. So please, if you're going to implement this spec, communicate clearly with your users its limitations, and encourage them to run their own relays.

Nevertheless, I am stoked to be another 1% closer to my goal of helping my community - and anyone else who uses nostr - to exercise individual sovereignty and protect their freedom and privacy. Let's keep at it.


Thanks.


Does it have a gliding feature, nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424?


Thanks for responding and zapping, nostr:npub1kemda478drtx5at65wt8kyjrmy9l27hmp8gsgnfjr8vdgf8y46sqsw0hnv. I feel ashamed because I can't zap back for a technical difficulty in my alby. But I send you a sincere hug. 🫂

Do you use the beta version? Does that work better?


nostr:npub1kemda478drtx5at65wt8kyjrmy9l27hmp8gsgnfjr8vdgf8y46sqsw0hnv, I also use it and like it. I downloaded it from Fdroid. It was updated two years ago there. Why it's not more frequently updated?

Could you help me figure out how to add my native language in Florisboard?

Could you also tell me how to add new words to it, please?

nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424


Compliance is a dirty word.


"Stop resisting, Stop resisting!" is one of the most instantly recognizable phrases of the new American century. When you read the words, you can probably still hear them shouted in your head, the echoing memory of a generational trauma, the indelible recollection of the moment that the citizen became subordinate to the state.


I think inertia is leading us toward a quantified state, in which the costs of tracking and categorizing objects — primarily people, phones, cars, and money — as they move from place to place becomes so low that most institutions are doing it by reflex, without either considering or caring for consequences. Eventually, somebody is going to exploit the gap in information (between what is available to ordinary people, and what is available  to organizations) in a way that causes enormous, historic harm, as happened in WWII when a particular state realized that IBM had compiled a database that was perfect for populating a list of names of those who would soon be marched off to camps. And that was just census data. Now they know what you read, where you go, who you're with, and how you'll vote.

The unfortunate reality of contemporary political thought is that consequences do not exist until they are felt. Rare is the chicken that fears the farmer. That means we've got two options: we either wait for the pain, or we stop waiting for political consensus.

nostr:nevent1qqsq94302eeh5r82vytl2r3n0hdhtmeg3ehxxcavk767j5xlqufmd2spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgq3qpvgcusxk7006hvtlyx555erhq8c5pk9svw57snlxujpkgnkup89sxpqqqqqqz27cnxw


I have always liked the voices outside the choir, the minorities, the misunderstood.
And here on Nostr I see enough of them.


Thanks to yoy too, nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s, nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6, and all the devs of #nostr for giving us freedom space and freedom tech. 🧡💜


If it weren’t for bitcoin I wouldn’t have as much hope for the future and would likely be working at a fiat job just trying to keep my head above water.

Thank you satoshi, this is all here because of you.


Open relays, you are being bombarded with spam designed only to inflict harm on your servers. Please do something about it.


Twitter registration: March 2009
Followers: 6111

Instagram registration: August 2022
Followers: 125

Nostr registration: January 2023
Followers: 5519

You have the conclusions.


Spread the zap with image! 🫡
https://i.nostr.build/kna6.gif

Thanks nostr:npub1aeh2zw4elewy5682lxc6xnlqzjnxksq303gwu2npfaxd49vmde6qcq4nwx


👀 #value4value

nostr:nevent1qqsfj8k6grlwm8ap8fk5evc7xnflyamzs7yhtd8rzamq75m8czv2hqcpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcpzpaegm8nwwpyrtrnsjv84efjtp9mhpkvfenvxs487vx8d48y28qgxqvzqqqqqqy3q3cvk


https://cdn.satellite.earth/6011daa16075490abe99b641d87513c6509eace0b86ac7dd6e91a7d1c68763d9.jpg
At least for some percent of people glancing at this nostr:npub1e4qg56wvd3ehegd8dm7rlgj8cm998myq0ah8e9t5zeqkg7t7s93q750p76's diagram would give them a little more insight on how Nostr works. Where should we place it to make that happen?


Here's an example of why monetary verification is important (and can be expensive).

The gold price is currently $2075/oz.

If you buy a sovereign 1-oz gold coin, or a globally-recognizable privately-issued 1-oz gold bar, you'll generally pay something like a 3-5% markup to spot. This is basically the verification and distribution premium. Even if you buy a bunch of 1-oz items, you generally won't get the spread down too much. If there's a shortage, the premiums over spot go way up.

If you buy smaller sizes, that premium will be a bigger percentage. For example if you buy 1-gram gold coins, you'll be paying a >50% markup to the spot price, which is silly.

If you buy bigger sizes, like 1-kilo bars (which cost more than a typical car), you could get it down to a 1-2% premium to spot.

The bigger size you go, the less verification you have that the core of the item is indeed gold rather than tungsten. You have to trust the brand and supply chain, basically. The smaller size you go, the less possible and economic it is to insert tungsten into the item. And so on some level, it makes sense that the verification premium is bigger for smaller items- you're more assured that it is indeed gold to its core. The surface area to mass ratio is harder to forge, basically. Somewhere around 1-oz is probably the sweet spot.

Now, if you're buying gold in most U.S. states, including on a lot of popular online stores, you'll also pay sales tax, and you'll often have to pay the difference in terms of your payment method. So if your credit card costs the merchant 3%, then that would eat up the merchant's margin since it is razor thin, and so instead the customer often has to pay it. They could instead do a wire transfer for a sizable purchase to save some money, but many banks charge like $30 for a 1-day wire transfer.

And if you're buying online, there's a shipping fee. That's usually pretty low but then goes up a bit if you add insurance because you don't want to risk your expensive coins or bars getting lost in the delivery chain or stolen from your doorstep. From the time of order to the time of delivery, it'll generally take several days. This includes time for the merchant to process the payment (gold merchants are usually a bit more careful about chargebacks and other reversed payments than the average merchant) and ship you the items.

All together, including the verification premium, taxes, payment fees, and shipping, one generally pays 8-15% over the spot price to get 1-oz gold coins or bars. That means gold has to go up a pretty significant amount just to break even. And then you have collectible capital gains taxes on that price gain (which in the US is higher than the actual capital gains tax rate). If you take time (and time is money) to shop around and find ways to legally avoid sales tax and so forth, and figure out the cheapest/slowest payment methods, then you can push the premium down as close as possible to the verification premium and shipping costs.

And if you want to securely ship large amounts of gold long distances, especially internationally? Like imagine HNW investors, businesses, banks, or sovereign entities? You're going to pay a sizable amount. One does not simply ship millions of dollars worth of gold without robust security.

If you want someone to custody your gold, you're going to pay a fee. If you are fine with unallocated/mixed gold with multiple layers of counterparty risk, you could buy among the cheapest ETFs with annual fees below 0.2%. If you want to hold your gold in an allocated way by Brinks or something with fewer layers of counterparty risk, it'll generally cost over 0.5% per year. This goes toward the vault costs, salaries for people with guns, real estate costs, etc.

Basically, there's a pretty big inefficiency in the form of 1) routine verification, 2) secure transfer of ownership, and 3) secure custody, that all comes out in the form of high costs and slow speeds.

Bitcoin has fees, but they are very low in comparison. Nodes can verify bitcoin basically for free. Miners timestamp transactions to transfer ownership for a fee, and you can currently send ten million dollars worth of bitcoin globally for like $10 and have it confirmed within the hour. And you can custody bitcoin yourself, and bring it around with you globally, through ports of entry, across borders, in ways you can't realistically do with gold above a certain value threshold.

When thinking about periods of above-average bitcoin fees, it's useful to keep some of the alternatives in mind. Verifying and transferring ownership of other store-of-value assets like gold and real estate is slower and a lot more expensive, requires a lot more abstraction and permission, and comes with much less portability.


. nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6  has a lot of awesome nostr projects that don’t get enough attention:

- khatru: super modular relay library. Can be used to build lots of cool relay experients such as https://pyramid.fiatjaf.com
- Eventstore: an abstraction around nostr databases, one backend is very similar to nostrdb/lmdb called badger https://github.com/fiatjaf/eventstore
- njump: cool static note renderer that uses eventstore as its database https://github.com/fiatjaf/njump
- Nostr-tools: the swiss army knife of nostr javascript libraries https://github.com/nbd-wtf/nostr-tools
- Nak: command line tool for creating nostr events and bech32 nostr objects (nevent, nprofile) https://github.com/fiatjaf/nak
- wikistr: a wikipedia-style nostr client https://github.com/fiatjaf/wikistr

he doesn’t always like being in the spotlight but the work he does is some of the most important for the overall health of the protocol. thank you fiatjaf! Excited for what’s in store for next year 🎉


20yo don't know a world without patriot act, without KYC-everything, without TSA. withiut data-retention laws.

Stopping the erosion of individual freedoms is not enough; for this generation, the current status quo is the natural state of things.


DONATIONS ARE NOT A BUSINESS MODEL.

MOST PROJECTS SHOULD ATTEMPT TO ETHICALLY MONETIZE TO BE SUSTAINABLY INDEPENDENT.

CERTAIN PROJECTS CANNOT BE MONETIZED. THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO BE RELIANT ON DONATIONS. IT IS A HARD PATH BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE.


BITCOIN PROVIDES A PATH FOR OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS THAT NEVER EXISTED BEFORE.

THEY CAN CHARGE FOR TOOLS AND SERVICES WITHOUT INTEGRATING WITH THE PREDATORY TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM.

PEOPLE WILL SPEND BITCOIN IF YOU PROVIDE THEM WITH SOMETHING THEY NEED.


I am a developer with 15 years of experience spread across many languages and I have very high competency with docker and git.  I should be much better than I am for having spent 15 years developing but software development has always just been a way to make money.  It's a secondary passion of mine.

All of that said, I have been feeling a bit down on myself for not contributing to this space more.  I think I have been putting it off for some kind of weird fear of "not being good enough" with all of the kings in this space and the little time in my life after being a dad to several little kids, etc.

Feel free to shill or just link me your project if you are interested my help.  I am aiming to put in ~1 hour per day on open source work.


Before nostr, I’ve never been active on social media. For me nostr is the first, and I suspect the last social media network that I’ll ever use. It’s just different, in a good way 🐶🐾🫡


Faaans starting to take shape

The amount of novel features on this new nostr client is absolutely wild.

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


DO MORE. COMPLAIN LESS.

BUILD THE FUTURE WE WANT TO SEE.


I AM CONVINCED THAT A MAINSTREAM NOSTR CLIENT SHOULD HAVE AN INTEGRATED BITCOIN WALLET.

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


I spent generational wealth on some Cuban cigars for a best friend’s Stag Do (bachelor party) 🦌  🇨🇺

But crucially, it was research for a documentary 🔍 🎥

Here is the link to the full video in case you missed it.

https://youtu.be/UPp0Xbk4bFo?si=O-0soh-JXKU8uJzJ

https://video.nostr.build/4fb2a2e11aae8e287ce0e90c7ffed71c8814c707113a696497da685cf267db07.mp4


Watched the docu. Very inspiring.


So nice of you. 🫂


This too is being an artist:
You stay up, working all night, often underpaid, you are misunderstood, sometimes you work for free.
But you make the world more beautiful.
Don't forget that. 🙏

#art


Yes, I visited your profile and watched the address.

I don't know actually, dude, but Primal may have some paid service for customizing lightning addresses. May be nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr might suggest you what to do.

Pardon my ignorance. 🙏


Bullish, Unleashed.Chat getting close to the first 1,000 users and didn't break!


Are you using Alby?


Which address, my fren?


I love the authenticity in this man. He is not like politicians. I have pure apathy for all politicians. As nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m said, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. can and will win this electron. It is necessary. He even supports #bitcoin. I request my American frens to vote for him.

#RFKJR #RFK #RFK2024 RFKJR2024

https://video.nostr.build/8c8b5255bfe5c32979f3dad481776d3c12fe2e8a18d5a0bc9dadcebaed0a9d1f.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=1280x720&alt=RFK%2C+Jr+2024&blurhash=iMF%23tP%7E4s%3FIqRk%24%7Ct9nyE2tDNDIXkDxuM_t9aHog9%2Bs6bJkDayoJNIs*t70%25M%5Eozofadt8Ioogjs%252-TofWBadWsxZR.ay&x=a4ec66c1e094d45a2982295a4ffb6e0eef9a52bc9305d64edb7305b25a93a53b


Good night, nostr:npub137c5pd8gmhhe0njtsgwjgunc5xjr2vmzvglkgqs5sjeh972gqqxqjak37w!


Hello Bruce! 💜🫂


Good morning, Tanel, from my 7 o'clock in the evening. 🫂 Pura Vida.


Good morning, nostr:npub1edd9lp84z8jusqujzrecsunja2xcqmjl0adjdj6y8uakaj932ejqar8nu4. 🫂
Pura Vida.

It's 7 O'clock in the evening here.


This is a very big deal!

#nostr Login now works on firefox mobile with alby.  Thanks nostr:npub1xv8mzscll8vvy5rsdw7dcqtd2j268a6yupr6gzqh86f2ulhy9kkqmclk3x and co.!

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

https://nostrapps.github.io/login/


Hey everyone, Merry Christmas!

I'm pleased to announce that I have unblocked the Mostr Bridge, Spinster, Neenster, and Poast from Threads. Read more here: https://soapbox.pub/blog/threads-server-blocking/

This Christmas, let's make the world more open and connected.

Enjoy your freedom!


My Nostr predictions for 2024

Today marks one year since I joined Nostr. It’s been a crazy year, but I have a feeling that 2024 is going to be much crazier. Here are some predictions:

1. Nostr social media clients will become insanely good. By the end of the year we will surpass the legacy social media clients in terms of UX and features, making them look like relics of the past.

2. More lightning wallets will implement Nostr integration. By the end of the year Nostr will become a de facto standard public lightning directory.

3. The bitcoin bull run will bring more users to Nostr, adding more gravity to the network.

4. At some point, a massive new cohort of users will join Nostr. We won’t be ready for them. Relays and other services (indexers, media hosting, etc.) will struggle to support them. After some hiccups, the Nostr ecosystem will adjust.

5. With the increased network activity, spammers will return in force. They will be sophisticated and relentless, putting all of our spam mitigation services to the test.

6. Long form notes will become much bigger on Nostr.

7. At least one “other stuff” content type will take off in a meaningful way.

8. Nostr’s censorship resistance capabilities will get tested in a major public episode.

9. The AI community will get much more interested in Nostr. They will be attracted by the idea that open source language models, combined with Nostr’s open social graph and publicly accessible data - could actually democratize AI.

10. By the end of the year everyone - even the haters - will realize that Nostr is going to win.

11. nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx will accuse me of not being bullish enough.

Anyhow, GM ☀ and Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🏻


Merry Christmas. 🫂🌿💜


Yes, it's always selective, subjective.


When it comes to privacy, people act as if they have never used Facebook and/or Instagram. I used them extensively and developed doubts, so I decided to quit. That's it. Blame sneaky companies, not the people. The way of communication will help you be better understood.


Thanks for sharing, nostr:npub1edd9lp84z8jusqujzrecsunja2xcqmjl0adjdj6y8uakaj932ejqar8nu4. Authoritarianism is like a political pandemic, indeed.


Canada forces companies to censor news unless it’s from pre-approved sources, apparently that includes entire countries.

This started happening when there was a surge of non-government funded media which was getting more attention and saying not so nice things about trudeau.

His ideas are so bad he has to give billions of printed and stolen dollars from the pre-approved CBC just so they can say how awesome he is. It’s literally their job to say nice things about him otherwise they would lose funding.

This country is a clown show.

This is why we need nostr. https://i.nostr.build/VYnA.jpg


Merry Christmas, nostr:npub16as8gepztj9tvyx6n9y4h3cv3gaytgpl3g32jhcxlj6mcss72uaqjwg2tf.
🫂🎅🎄💜🎉


Merry Christmas, nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka.
🫂🎅🎄💜🎉

What's Gossip Phone?


Merry Christmas. 💜🌿🫂


Merry Christmas, Melissa. 💜🌿?


I love Jesus Christ. Merry Christmas. 💜🌿🫂


Genuine interactions is mentioned frequently as the answer.

This was the primary reason I left Twitter too. Everything was starting to feel fake - that LinkedIn vibe seeping in. Everyone just trying to grow their sphere of influence with templates tweets. That’s not something I care for.

Nostr restored that feeling of just hanging out with people and saying whatever. No status, no audience capture - just conversations. I hope it always stays this way. nostr:note14xz07085gq9a5xatqhk0fkfk45v9kjmex5j3km8lj625h99477jsmfku0t


One year ago, I discovered #Nostr and it’s been a life changing journey ever since. Met so many incredible human beings online and in-person from all over the world who value ideas of not just decentralization and anti-censorship, but also building communities, technology, and a whole myriad of other interests.

Nostr has given me a new purpose that I had not known before. Within two days of the discovery, I submitted my first pull request to Damus, which felt exhilarating to contribute to open source freedom tech that nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s started. A month later, Damus became the first ever multilingual Nostr client, supporting English and Spanish with help from nostr:npub1luhyzgce7qtcs6r6v00ryjxza8av8u4dzh3avg0zks38tjktnmxspxq903 (and now in 26 languages thanks to our ~50 other translators), and the first Nostr client to integrate automatic machine translated notes into the reader’s preferred language, unlocking further global adoption, social networking, and publishing on this protocol as other clients quickly did the same. Half a year in, Nostr SDK for Apple Platforms kicked off with nostr:npub1qlk0nqupxmlyxravg0aqscxmcc4q4tq898z6x003rykwwh3npj0syvyayc and nostr:npub19a86gzxctwtz68l8zld2u9y2fjvyyj4juyx8m5geylssrmfj27eqs22ckt with a boost from nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f with the goal was enabling developers to build Nostr clients on iOS, macOS, and other Apple platforms quicker and easier with this library.

We have a vast choice of clients and relays now built by talented builders and supported by this amazing community, that fulfill a whole bunch of use cases, and there’s so much more to do. I’m excited to see what we do in the next year.

I’m thankful for you all. Happy holidays, everyone!


“If wars can be started with lies, peace can be started with truth.”

— Julian Assange https://image.nostr.build/d2c5aeaa37ab13b607a41605c2d24af8e5c532b139bdace139557466f07852f5.jpg


🗣Edward Snowden speaking at 'The Belmarsh Tribunal: The War On Terror is Put on Trial'

"If we're going to free the world, we have to free Assange."

It's time to free political prisoner and  🇦🇺 Australian citizen Julian Assange

Take ACTION - action.assangecampaign.org.au/?pc=dms 👈

#FreeAssange #Assange #EdwardSnowden #Belmarsh #Peace #Truth #DropTheCharges https://video.nostr.build/c99a1604070afbfa3c2601515c7b35011f5b3a33553057b15686b19da88a5e2c.mp4


the confidential/NOFORN cable which I've obtained through #FOIA litigation in US reveals that it was the US  Regional Security Office of the US embassy in Canberra which monitored pacifist activists supporting Julian #Assange and #WikiLeaks:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/dec/20/us-officials-monitored-pro-assange-protests-in-australia-for-anti-us-sentiment-documents-reveal?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other


Una bellissima mattinata nella scuola #VittorioVeneto di #Scampia: gli studenti hanno  fatto domande e partecipato con grande intensità, coinvolti dal lato oscuro della tecnologia(sorveglianza) e dalla rivoluzione innescata da Julian #Assange e #WikiLeaks

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/619/523/571/908/475/original/c5cdea104e1d8690.jpg


In the lovely island of #Procida - which just voted to award the honorary citizenship to Julian #Assange - to discuss the Julian #Assange and #WikiLeaks case and my book #SecretPower
Julian #Assange's life hangs in the balance

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/619/529/475/192/712/original/70ffa1e5ce3a8046.jpg

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Merry Christmas, Julian Assange
🫂 🎅🌿💜

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It may well be that 2024 will be the year of Nostr as the turmoil of geopolitics begins to roil.


Merry Christmas 🫂 🎅🌿💜


nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m, the Santa ...

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https://picsur.thesamecat.io/i/ed1389aa-180b-4c61-80a8-438071841847.jpg
YELLOW IN ICELAND
30x30cm, Oil on cradled wood panel

Completed 23 December 2023 - will take ~3 weeks to fully dry before shipping.

Available on my website: isolabell.art

(reference photo by nostr:npub1nxa4tywfz9nqp7z9zp7nr7d4nchhclsf58lcqt5y782rmf2hefjquaa6q8 )

#art #artstr #painting #oilpainting


Merry Christmas 🫂🎄💜🌿


Merry Christmas 🫂🌿


Love you, Carlo. 💜🧡💜 I love your artwork.🌺🌸🌿


Oh uh! Signing with Facebook. 😢


Please take 30 seconds and visit this link. Tell your Senators and Representatives how you feel about Lizard Lizzy Warren and her anti-Bitcoin bill. Seriously, it takes 30 seconds. Also consider donating to the Satoshi Action Fund

https://satoshiaction.quorum.us/campaign/54487/


This was the sweet night, the Christmas night, a year ago when I wrote my first post on #Nostr. It was nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m on Twitter who drew my attention to #Nostr. (Now I don't interact on Twitter anymore.)

I remember I heard Nostr to be a "blockchain based" network (which was wrong). 😛 Out of thin imagination, I explained to myself that it's censorship-resistant only because it's blockchain-based. 😁😀

I registered on #Amethyst before #Christmas but I had no idea about "relays" etc. So nothing showed up on my personal feed. I was greatly confused. Then desperately I posted my first post seeking help. Nobody replied. Nobody. 😢🤐

I was not hopeless.

I smelt freedom in the air (and such a freedom-fucker I am), so I stayed there totally alone with a blank feed, having no connection to anybody for four months. Then in April my fellow #pleb nostr:npub17nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgqf6950x  responded to my Christmas post. I feel so grateful to this artist. 💜❤💛

I feel so happy that #nostr exists. After traveling uncertainty through #Diaspora, #Minds, #Mastodon and various other apps in #Fediverse, I have reached #Nostr in quest of freedom. I love freedom of thoughts and expressions as it is practiced in #Nostrverse.

Freedom is unconditional. Freedom can be attained only through freedom. And I am the limit of my freedom— only me.

I feel grateful to nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 and other wonderful devs for making Nostr so live, so colorful, so innovative. What a year, what a roller coaster ride for me. Cities after cities are being built in a damn desert before my eyes— what a joy to watch and explore. I love nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx, nostr:npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg, nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft, nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424, nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc  and so many other devs so much.

Merry Christmas, dear fellow #Nostriches! 💜🌿🌸🌿💜

Pura Vida! 🫂

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it's nudity without warning.


After finishing nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev ‘s episode of Bitcoin Audible reading and providing his own take on “A History of Bitcoin Maximalism”, i’d like to apologize to nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp for being needlessly dickish regarding Casa’s move to support Etherieurem™’s flagship unregistered cryptosecurity. While that decision remains extremely disappointing on a few level for me, i’m literally nobody. Live and let live.

The article was very thorough and as balanced as one could hope for in something like this. Guy’s take at the end was wonderful. Fuckin love that guy

Even (or perhaps especially?) if you’ve already read this piece because your LiTerAtE or whatever, it is absolutely worth listening to the podcast

The moral of the story imo is #Bitcoin is the best money and most likely will remain as such, but don’t go around being toxic without good reason. The cream rises up

Stack sats, stay humble, and stay positive & constructive

Just wanted to put this out there bc it’s unlike me to go out of my way to be mean, and i have done that to lopp on more than one occasion. It felt bad, though he probably has no recollection of any of them 😂. Now i feel better though

#BeNice and #gfy my friends 🫡
https://fountain.fm/episode/3kbQ1cxKmD3TF5I39iux


Properly designed incentives are essential. If something can be gamed, it will be gamed. Keep it simple. Complexity is a security hole.
 - nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

#BitcoinTwitter
https://bitcointwitter.web.app/images/v3/7.png


MANY POLITICIANS HATE FREEDOM.

THEY ARE BOUGHT BY LARGE CORPORATIONS AND ADDICTED TO POWER.

WE WILL OBSOLETE THEM.


MANY FUNDS ARE SCAMS SO I TRULY APPRECIATE THE SKEPTICISM PEOPLE HAVE OF TEN31.

WE WILL PROVE OURSELVES OVER TIME. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.


More grants. More NIPs. More freedom.

https://opensats.org/blog/nostr-grants-december-2023


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, THE GRANTS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL FREEDOM IMPROVES 🫡


this is so fucking true is hard to comprehend

no one knows where compounding freedom tech will take us

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WE HAVE BARELY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE


Odell has a crazy amount of integrity. Super admirable dude.


The company that X uses to verify its user's ID is an Israeli company founded by members of Shin Bet's unit 8200!

🤯

The company responsible for verifying people's ID on X is called "AU10TIX".

The CEO of AU10TIX, Ron Atzomn, was a member of Shin Bet's unit 8200.

For those who don't know, Shin Bet is Israel's main intelligence strike force.

Shin Bet is responsible for providing 90% of Israel's intelligence material.

It doesn't stop there however.

AU10TIX was founded in 2002 as the technology arm of a dutch firm called "ICTS international".

ICTS international was established in 1982 ALSO by former members of Shin Bet.


I think so.


That's the way I think.


I'm now following nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy...

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10 more grants.
10 minute blocktime.
10 quadrillion reasons to support open-source devs.

https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-december-2023


Primal for iOS v1.1 is now live on the App Store.

Everything should be faster, smoother, and more reliable. Hope you’ll enjoy the shiny new image viewer. Please let us know if you run into any issues and what you would like to see in the upcoming releases. Enjoy! 🤙💜

https://apps.apple.com/app/primal/id1673134518


Where do people find a list of app hashtags so someone like nostr:npub1k0q6df492lwfpzdp9qu4xdvud3m4z5v4chr59z8lsrwlz704g3xqttr2f4 make use of them to decide whom to follow?

#asknostr

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#Amethyst v0.83.1: NIP-44v2 DMs are up!

New Features
- Moves DMs to the audited NIP-44v2
- Adds support for NIP-31 alt tags
- Adds a k-tag to reactions
- Adds i18n for error messages when uploading images

Performance Improvements:
- Improves the performance of Robohash
- Add less memory-intensive timeAgo calculations and translations
- Uses primitives instead of the wrapped object in several places
- Moves to a less memory-intensive way to write and send filters to the server.
- Refines recompositions of routes and bottom icons
- Avoids the creation of new sets when looping through cached maps of User and Notes
- Avoids recreating the EOSE array when changing filters
- Reuses SessionToken for all Playback connections
- Improving the memory use of concurrent hashmaps and immutable collections
- Reduces the use of remember for fixed UI modifiers

Bugfixes:
- Detects URL mime-types by pinging the server instead of relying on the url's extension
- Fixes bug with cropped joinToString assemblies of relay filters
- Avoids Concurrent Modification Exception on the EOSE markups
- Forces nip95 to be under 80Kb to make sure relays can receive it
- Fixes bug that error messages wouldn't show an error when uploading images to the reels page
- Fixes post video dimensions when the user has selected not to load videos automatically
- Updates dependencies

Updated translations:
- Chinese by @ra5pvt1n
- Finnish by nostr:npub1ust7u0v3qffejwhqee45r49zgcyewrcn99vdwkednd356c9resyqtnn3mj
- Hungarian by nostr:npub1ww8kjxz2akn82qptdpl7glywnchhkx3x04hez3d3rye397turrhssenvtp
- Dutch by nostr:npub1w4la29u3zv09r6crx5u8yxax0ffxgekzdm2egzjkjckef7xc83fs0ftxcd
- Tamil by nostr:npub1q6ps7m94jfdastx2tx76sj8sq4nxdhlsgmzns2tr4xt6ydx6grzspm0kxr

Download:
- [Play Edition](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.83.1/amethyst-googleplay-universal-v0.83.1.apk )
- [FOSS Edition - No translations](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.83.1/amethyst-fdroid-universal-v0.83.1.apk )


Ссылки на все ресурсы проекта доступны здесь: https://nostree.me/zap@21ideas.org


Out of free articles? Use archive.ph


Argentineans:

What would you say are the second and third order effects of inflation?

Particularly interested in non-price related effects.

I have some thoughts on this but very curious to know what you’ve observed.

(Writing in English because I want this to be useful to non-argentineans to learn from)

Boost tagging argentineans for visibility.

Cc #[0]


Anyone know how I could setup a lightning prism to automatically have like 10% of every zap go to OpenSats? 🤔

Been thinking about something like this for a while but have just kept procrastinating on it because I haven’t seen a plug n play solution yet. nostr:note1lh33hp064a60djgu74kyagf6tqv33ql7m8qnmqrnyqwn2twjmsrqel5ztt


any #nostr client devs out there want to take the #nostr open and free web to the next level by baking in a bot etc. to liberate xitter and paywalled article links via #nitter and archive.ph "automagically" on upload with a "post and remove gatekeeping" option? 🔥

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Welcome to #nostr.


Wow! What a movement!


One of the four new babies in our home. 🐈

https://image.nostr.build/9bc6927b6b87f5158984ece949ff426b192d1d39b6e1ac186264e936e219dd59.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=861x1920&blurhash=%5BAD9%5E%2BNe-AIo%238s.%252kD_4%3FHM%7Ce.%3FvIUx%5BITyEf%2CS2ofNbt7IoxuxvM%7BWYRk%3FvRPadtRIUxaRjV%40&x=035385f51f9c807802253a4c6baf4a0b756d7c861474376f05ed49dbb46db2b7


What's "msrybm", nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424, please?


Is that totally e2ee? What about metadata?


Tunestr is born.

Take it away, nostr:npub13qrrw2h4z52m7jh0spefrwtysl4psfkfv6j4j672se5hkhvtyw7qu0almy

https://welcome.tunestr.io/


*updated

#FuckTypo


True you are. Please do something to help integrate the two. 🫂


Hope you already update to the latest of nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828. They say it is quantum computer resistant.

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Oh my dear nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424, my friend, OxChat is good, promising but the two are not comparable. 🌿🌺 Let's integrate nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828 to #Nostr. 🫂


I miss Assange this Christmas. 😢🤐  Why isn't Julian Assange a free man yet?

https://image.nostr.build/e192faccc4acbbbb861b74b9c414a616cad32caf54e4dbf0b9adaea04ba1ecbe.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=986x556&blurhash=iTMQhS%7EW%25zHsNtxuxFo%7Cxa%5E%2BE19GW-s%3B-%3BD*j%5BNG-%3BWVs.tRWoRQW.V%5B%25Mx%5DaKxuNHt6IUt7j%3FxHjbR%25s%3Ak9f8WBn%2BWVV%5B&x=0f210bf148d40663f4739639992e94a6b1a592239af809c162167035613e02ef

Let's raise voice.
#Assange
#FreeAssange
#Julian
#JulianAssange
#FreeAssangeNow
#Wikileaks

Link in the comment below.


What is the Signal alternative, nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424? I must have missed it.


Reminder: Tomorrow night nostr:npub14kw5ygpl6fyqagh9cnrytyaqyacg46lzkq42vz7hk8txdk49kzxs04j7y0 on nostr:npub1us9uc0sjjg0vyvh7vefgu2a96hx5up5gujl6pqays65hlk4de6hsnwq4g0 will be doing a Nostr Recap 2023 show. I'll be joining nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s and nostr:npub1tvqc82mv8cezhax5r34n4muc2c4pgjz8kaye2smj032nngg52clq0rkrq4 to talk all things Nostr.

I will also have a special announcement about Nostr Nest 2.0 - the full fledged Nostr native client that's being built from the ground up to decentralize Nests and give you the best audio experience around :)

See you there!


Extremely detailed. Nice art.


Read it thoroughly. Interesting and technically detailed. But ultimately it's a "may be" hypothesis. It's good to be cautious, even paranoid, but I didn't agree with the wholesale implication of the Signal app. Thank you very much for the link. 🫂


"#Power is not a mean; it is an end. One does not establish a #dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is #persecution. The object of torture is #torture.  The object of power is power"
George  Orwell

#Literature #Books #1984
#Plebchain #grownostr #Bitcoin


has someone implemented a backend to handle Nostr Wallet Connect with an LNBits backend?

(I.e. Pair amethyst with LNBits as it's wallet)


how many implementations of NWC-backends do we have?

I know of: https://github.com/getAlby/nostr-wallet-connect and nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg 's

any others or is that it?


I’ve been working on an onboarding experience that allows new users to leverage an nsecBunker to onboard into nostr and immediately have:

* Keys interoperable with clients
* Sign-in to new clients by typing your nostr address and clicking “authorize this client”, exactly like “login with Twitter”
* Receive zaps to an LN Wallet (with any LNBits provider)
* Send zaps (through behind-the-scenes Nostr Wallet Connect negotiation)

No plugins. No extensions. No “you don’t have zaps, download this other app”

It just works.

This means new users can onboard DIRECTLY into having send+receive zaps without having to do anything.


Unnatural?! What does it mean actually, nostr:npub17nd4yu9anyd3004pumgrtazaacujjxwzj36thtqsxskjy0r5urgqf6950x?


I keep saying: Everything will flow through Nostr.

Here's a YouTube competitor: https://www.flare.pub

And here's the NIP for it: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/923


Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! 🎉

Like YouTube, Flare lets you upload, view, comment, and like videos from your favorite creators. BUT unlike YouTube, we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we disagree 🤗

Since Flare is built on Nostr, you are free to serve your content from anywhere and consume content from any kind 34235 client you'd like.

Check it out at https://www.flare.pub/ 🔥
https://v.nostr.build/VygA.mp4


Thank you very much. Gonna check it. 🫂


What! Ten years! I don't have a plan for the next days. Seriously. Though I don't know if it is good, bad etc. I dream i'll live until i'm 120 years old. That should by my plan for the next 65 years.

Please don't misunderstand me, nostr:npub1t3ggcd843pnwcu6p4tcsesd02t5jx2aelpvusypu5hk0925nhauqjjl5g4. 💜🫂🌿


Break nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm??!! By zapping too much?


*with caution

#FuckTypo


How do you "may be bedlam broken" SGX, nostr:npub10jcnehsxwrjepupvh602pl83up0dh3wv3fqfwv062smygqvpeuwsk03kag? This is an extremely crucial claim for us, Signal users. Please help us understand.


Signal is upgrading all conversations to a combination of X25519 and CRYSTALS-Kyber. Probably the first large-scale deployment of Kyber. https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/


Read and understand it worth caution. Questions and concussions are gallore in the comment section.

In particular, unspecific comparison with Signal is misleading.

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What metadata is leaked by Signal, please?


I'm also curious to know this.


I don't have any technical knowledge. But still I boost it.

Waiting for nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828 to be integrated into #nostr protocol.

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Wow, that's a premature Christmas gift for all nostriches!

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I tested it primarily with Spring browser. Working great. Looking great. Very smart. I'm loving the app. 🫂💜


Wow, that's truly impressive! It's amazing to see how the power of openness and community collaboration can lead to such remarkable progress. The addition of seven new languages by volunteer contributors in just 10 days is a testament to the strength and dedication of the Nostr community.

Big shout-out to the translators who have brought #zapddit to non-English speakers worldwide. Their efforts have made following topics more enjoyable for a wider audience. And it's fantastic that you're planning on adding ways for translators to receive zap splits using Bitcoin connect on #zapddit, even though there may not be many people zapping just yet.

Keep up the great work, #[0] and kudos to all those involved in making these advancements possible!

#plebchain #bitcoin #topics #hashtags #translationsclub

PS: Splitting zaps between translators and yourself is a wonderful way to show appreciation for their hard work!

#coffeechain


OpenSats Issues Fourth Wave of Nostr Grants

"Our nostr grants are sourced from The Nostr Fund. If you would like to help us in supporting the nostr ecosystem, consider making a donation to the fund."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/opensats-issues-fourth-wave-of-nostr-grants/


Thank you, nostr:npub1995y964wmxl94crx3ksfley24szjr390skdd237ex9z7ttp5c9lqld8vtf. 💜🫂

I just accept the summer heat and drink water as much as I can. Actually I love it equally as I love winter though summer is a low cost season. Summer also makes us sweat a lot here. It's very humid. But I love hot bright sunshine and love to go in the sun. ✨🌅🔥


She is so lovely. 🐕 Thank you for posting her photo. 🫂


Thank you for sharing. 🫂


Who is he, Franny -- this cute and curious friend?


Thank you so much Franny for responding in detail. 🩷 I thought, to be frank, you got bored and/or bothered with my curiosity. 🙇♂ I feel relieved that I was totally wrong. I feel grateful to you for that. 🫂 But the sad part is I don't know how I'm not notified of this post for these long 19 days though I feel lucky that I have not missed it forever.

Summer is very hot here. It goes beyond 40 degree Celsius frequently during May-June.

Best wishes, Merry Christmas!🎄🎅❄


https://i.nostr.build/AweE.png
nostr:npub1e4qg56wvd3ehegd8dm7rlgj8cm998myq0ah8e9t5zeqkg7t7s93q750p76's depiction of the Japanese Nostr ecosystem.


EVERY BLUE CHECK IS GOING TO COME TO NOSTR ONE WAY OR ANOTHER


Twitter account suspended because I posted “eat the glass” in response to a do hard things entrepreneurship post.

This apparently encouraged self harm and now I’m on read-only until a faceless bureaucrat in San Francisco clicks a button.

The use case for Nostr was always obvious but now it is increasingly tangible.

The censorship will continue until the protocols and tools improve. Thankfully that is why we are all here.


Oh, Damus. Okay.


That's how we read it on Amethyst. What client you are writing it with?


did the simplex integration to nostr conversation ever get anywhere?


Thank you very much. 🫂


Awesome documentary:
CYPHERPUNKS WRITE CODE
p a r  e x c e l l e n c e

nostr:nevent1qqsxqlqnl4vj0rnn8q5yt3mex9e6ey34ysdgps08qrhtv0awakuqg8spp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyzvcj5qyz0ah2mvyx7gjesetupesm0sml3446th0wk0pg4kz88us2qcyqqqqqqg4gs8jp


If you haven't watched Cypherpunks Write Code. Highly recommend it.

I have uploaded it to nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7, thank me later

https://v.nostr.build/nA6q.mp4


Reading "Owners Manual for the Human Body" by Dr. Darko Velcek. The book opens with the following understanding of our lifelong process of continuous indoctrination which I have been seeking to understand for the last three decades.

"We live in a world full of deception and lies. Most of us rely on what we hear and what we learn as we go along with our lives. Very often we hear contradictory things, so we just ignore them. This is how we are conditioned to react."

#Darko #Velcek #SHP #SelfHealing #Protocol #Health #Healing #Body #Medicine

https://image.nostr.build/51cfb9b74d99cf2d14d097fb6548994b909c8ff26ff172f728f955e0ab919459.jpg


PEOPLE ARE SO TERRIFIED OF THE UNKNOWN. THEY WILL LITERALLY JUMP TO EVERY, DAM, NEGATIVE CONCLUSION IN THEIR SMALL BUBBLE MIND, AND THEN CALL ME DELUSIONAL. 🤯🤣😭


Great to hear from you.


#nostrich Ostriches are badass. https://v.nostr.build/laKP.mp4


can these easily make it to nostr?
https://m.primal.net/HToM.png


Photo taken from the bottom of this article: https://darkovelcek.wordpress.com/2018/05/

Archived here: https://archive.md/6ZaBL


Quotation source: https://darkovelcek.wordpress.com/2022/03/08/this-article-is-not-health-related/

Archived here: https://archive.md/4Cxrg


DARKO VELCEK: "No more politicians, no more bureaucrats, no more banks, please! No more licenses and permits. Freedom is the only way."

https://image.nostr.build/626f1d9d6ef48a60ebc619ea2ef3923b6ea842143eb33331bc6be59cdbaac492.jpg


Let even the Buddhists learn, my fren, not to trust and to verify. 🫂


The same thing happens on Chrome browser. On Firefox it loads properly.

@nosta nostr:npub1kuc70777tsvj67fl75s2dmy376t97hv05xmyuyshzzy6vhj5q5jstv0eyw @nosta.me


May be I have messed up my nostr:nprofile1qqsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcpzamhxue69uhkzarvv9ejumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcyflj58  Extension. It won't allow me to login to my #nostr  services. On the contrary it shows me this message (image attached) which says "You have not set up your keys yet". If I click "Start setup", it takes me to Alby Extension Account Settings page. But I already have my public/private/master keys all been set up.

I should mention here, I started using Alby extension for Nostr for almost a year now. Later, a couple of months ago, I had set up my Master Key. Since then I'm suffering from this issue.

Please help me.

#asknostr  #alby  #getalby  #plebchain  #pleb

https://image.nostr.build/5620794563da5835bd836af3227737693aca5be1df7fed497400acb5201574ea.png


Well, I'm impressed by your smartness and the dumbness of mine. Thank you. You taught me a lesson.


infosec tip: reduce your mobile attack surface. check apps for unnecessary permissions. look for secure privacy respecting foss alternatives. delete unused apps. rinse and repeat often

when would NOW be a good time to do this

#infosec #cybersecgirl
https://image.nostr.build/50f9a290b646a0a07c3aca8be5658250580d5d1defd17b6b71ded1ced4ecb206.jpg


GM Nostr!

Not to diminish in any way what we're all working on but it's important to remember that free money & free speech are only the prerequisites to what we really want; which is the freedom to live your life how you want.


It looks handsome on the shelf.


i shit you not, i popped over to bitcoin twitter the other day to see if they were freaking out about the current bitcoin price action and i saw a few people discussing nostr and how they hated nostr, because everyone was so nice here. they said they hated the positivity and the Kumbaya feeling. some people are so used to fighting one another that they have forgotten that it's okay to be nice and friendly humans too.


we’re so back https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-is-up--and-the-zealots-are-back-110015156.html


https://www.youtube.com/live/TTjoaWn0CU8

I’m still team #zapsonly tho


nostr:note1nqlfqsyydswfgfuux6svu8w2uj3rj04cf752svqnt7h43ftr3zrqsydwd7

Wow


I'm narrating a 30-minute video about money, and it's clear why I didn't narrate my full book Broken Money myself (and instead got nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev to do it. It's very hard, and my voice is particularly boring when reading.

In the near future, I think AI will be good enough that it can learn someone's voice and then provide top-tier narration. And for example it could be told, "alright that's good, but make it 50% more charismatic. Make it sound like Lyn is at least trying." and it'll be able to do that.


Here’s the plan:

1. Remove search from universe view, use this inline search (inspired by mail app).

2. Advanced search. Things like until:date,since:date,@author.

3. Add contextual searching to different areas like profile pages and dms. nostr:note1a80nc9vp9a3janwway74n84jd3c3ad9pgqds4max8jvmx2vdsn4szwqwd0


Bitcoin is for everyone. But the current tools for self custody aren’t. So we set out to build something that makes true ownership more accessible. We call it Bitkey. I’m excited to share that starting today we’re opening up pre-orders!
www.bitkey.world


nostr:note16gwmyrv2n068x0y2udyultzrrfkm7xnwqdwwve3xqrn7dly9a8mqy5wrh6

this will be completely open.


Without nostr:npub14aeuctmsc3zqm8n7p3f3ssxgwwlqvw06t9j2r0zk3c572g4lg5fs434afw a #zapathon can not be defined 😎


Bitcoin is money, not a currency.


Yeah it is official, #zapathon is dead. Early days of zapathon was a different world.

I will say it again. Whatever you do keep #zapping alive


grateful to nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 for so many things, AND for turning me (and so many others) on to #nostr. joined the day i saw this series of tweets and it's been my daily driver ever since. nothing compares. #nostr is where it's at

https://image.nostr.build/9cb0caa6ffe4c39e3f9e274df5858f366391b1a30d3bcd0354f3c3d365c7ff4d.jpg


Yesterday nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 asked me to design a dashboard for streamers so I started on it.

While I was working on it, he was streaming the development of that very thing I was designing in real time. 🤯

The pace of development in nostr is insane 😂 you won’t find that anywhere else.

Let’s build the experiences we want 🫂


Arlo Parks bringing some UK chill to the Fine Line.
#tunestr https://video.nostr.build/13c041c858a4be7fb79ed487260fd199ccb69a57d0b0a22e6f23630499ee9319.mp4


Interesting


Source, please!


I'm interested in Osho. Everytime I see quotation, I feel curious about it's source.


Huge congrats to nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg on their App Store release. The integrated Lightning wallet with the ability to acquire sats through Apple Pay is 😍. It’s a huge step forward in bringing nostr and bitcoin into a more mainstream audience and I’m totally here for it. Very, very well done. https://image.nostr.build/a8c97a42970b9019091aaecf1d9a79c02ff476ee56bc1b22c055d08aa988b617.jpg


Instant, local damus search

https://cdn.jb55.com/s/damus-search-ui.mp4


I feel the warmth, nostr:npub1995y964wmxl94crx3ksfley24szjr390skdd237ex9z7ttp5c9lqld8vtf. Thank you. 🔥💜


Hei, what's it?


everyone so bullshit nostr:note1n4he4yzkm8xd8lpr4cp4ec6vv84ys6re4egklzy9lpl0r2ynkfaskcsn0w


Primal for Android is now available on Google Play Store in open testing mode. Starting with today’s release, we will offer Play Store, APK, and source code downloads for each release. Please note: due to the way Play Store app signing works, upgrades will only work if you use the same install method.

This is a big milestone for us, as we march towards the full v1.0 release in the coming weeks. 💪

New Features
- Feed: link previews
- Feed: image media gallery
- Feed: video thumbnail previews
- LUD-06 support

Fixes
- Improved CDN handling
- Removed shimmer from avatars when loading
- Fixed highlight color in note content
- Various small fixes

https://primal.net/downloads


Its a feature of nostrdb which has nothing to do with damus, but damus does use nostrdb


may have spent the last 8 hours building a fulltext search engine in nostrdb.

I made the index as space efficient as possible, they keys are stored in a compressed format and map words and word indices to note ids. So when you type “the quick brown fox” it will be able to return results with those exact words in sequence (or not if it can’t find a sequence).

Testing it now 👀. Will release soon ™


Good morning!


Not boiling the ocean anymore?

nostr:nevent1qqsr3hc98gumhwtsvjqfn7z25pqxcp4cdlhuey5dnxn3r3gm3e5talgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygpe4zchgad7pk6yuvflnlgr9l77rq7g40tynrjfx258xvcd9n2gdqpsgqqqqqqsxpq048


GM, Gigi.


Thanks nostr:npub1995y964wmxl94crx3ksfley24szjr390skdd237ex9z7ttp5c9lqld8vtf. Your patience is assuring. I feel grateful.

I imagine the soothing sound of the burning wood, the warmth, and the satisfying thin smell of the wood fire.

What about your nights? You still wake up every hour to put new wood into fire?

Our winter days fluctuate a lot in temperature. Usually it's in between 10 to 20 degree celsius. When it's very cold, it goes below 10. Rarely it touches at best 6 for a few days in a row. We have a 100 year record lowest temperature of 3 degree which lasted for a single day or two.

Winter is totally missing this year. We are suffering from global
warming. In my childhood (i'm 55), winter was really winter. We needed little wood stoves in rooms. But gradually winter has become a romantic nostalgia only. I feel sad. I love winter. January is the coldest month here. I was born in january.


Exactly, nostr:npub1edd9lp84z8jusqujzrecsunja2xcqmjl0adjdj6y8uakaj932ejqar8nu4. 🫂

(To me, however,  a chorus refers to a state devoid of plurality. It's more of oneness.)


If you don't feel bothered, nostr:npub1995y964wmxl94crx3ksfley24szjr390skdd237ex9z7ttp5c9lqld8vtf, (ignore me in that case for now,) how do you collect woods? From the woods? Or these are industrially processed logs? And how many times do you need to put the woods into fire? Does it hamper sleep at night. (Silly questions. I feel shaky but curious.)


What Open source project should i fund for Christmas?

Thanks.
Sharing is caring.


Welcome nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka. Differences of viewpoints is a wonderful thing.
🫂🌿


Thanks nostr:npub1995y964wmxl94crx3ksfley24szjr390skdd237ex9z7ttp5c9lqld8vtf for clarifying. What's the fuel of the chimney? Wood? Electricity? I just can't imagine this cold. My God!


Just had a genius idea for a nostr microapp after seeing this meme. Imagine a browser extension that adds a nostr-based comment section to any url. So you navigate to a zillow listing, open up the browser extension, and boom theres a nostr comment section for that listing. This could be a really compelling way to get normies to join nostr. I don’t have time to make this right now so I hope someone sees this and takes it upon themselves. Anyway, heres the meme: https://i.nostrimg.com/08122fa8f2bd67177d4f6f7a2d8c0f7a2bbb0b24f7f2830478923aee6f725dde/file.jpeg


Brain storming: search/discovery issue on #Nostr

nostr:nevent1qqsvjqfv2nwj2yc9ddpgxpdnn570zs4wrf76v34dcqhj0zxpjxjp59gpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyrr0wpmlz6va2r8e92t990ltl7kqtlrgg2u7uwgs38v4nw9dt4y06qcyqqqqqqggx3gzg


Julian has been granted honorary citizenship by the city of Naples. This Thursday and Friday I will be there for the celebrations. #FreeAssange https://image.nostr.build/0a72a93a42c0df4d0133ec9abbac70e04e3d137874e8753c3b36fccded3ec3fd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6d8896477acb2d5c277cf4de17836fba90098f01e4f1cffbbd7b955500abcee2.jpg


Is it still a good search engine?


we had terrible onboarding. so bad that we created a manual "suggested users" list, which was effectively king-making. the verified badge followed. all centralized, manual, inherently biased decisions.

search is the only thing that really scaled, and really mattered. more investment in that would have dramatically changed things for the better at Twitter. this is still the case.

the only thing the centralized internet (google, reddit, Facebook, twitter) solved was the discovery problem. solving that for decentralized protocols is a massive win for the free internet.
 nostr:note10n24cghex503ppu78ug69sheyzvtvppeggmpulteksaw7cze8uhs7rcx33


I'm no rigid hardliner, nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka. You uttered no wrong. Thanks.


Thank you. 🌺


My good God. I would have been frozen up. You look protected.


I wanna see the people winning.
Not the state.
Not the gov.
The people.

Bitcoin isnt about the money right now. It's about owning it, golding it, and separating money from gov so the people have their power back.

The money comes, when we have our power back.


Ah, cute and clean.


There are currently 123 recipes on zap.cooking/nostr.cooking. Grateful to everyone who has contributed! We are building something amazing together! 🤗


I understand. Thank you. 🫂


GM, nostr:npub16as8gepztj9tvyx6n9y4h3cv3gaytgpl3g32jhcxlj6mcss72uaqjwg2tf!


That's great. 🫂 best wishes.


Society is divided by government-fueled conflicts and misinformation. #Bitcoin and #nostr offer paths to truth and financial liberation for the people!


The term 'crypto' is from 'cryptography' basically. In that sense Bitcoin is cryptocurrency.

But the point is clear:
Bitcoin is BITCOIN.

No common noun is required. Just the proper name is enough and clean, and confusing.

Any common name for Bitcoin helps shitcoins. nostr:npub1h882a66p0zj5n69s2u8nfzev4f97lzfnlcej84z78p6uqxge5tpqlupz20 is correct in this regard.


gm NOSTR 🤙 Just a reminder that Bitcoin isn't "crypto"... tell your friends and family!

https://video.nostr.build/a56d3156826d200a83ecedd31a25310aedaabbffee66edda096ff4677278b995.mp4


I am looking for beta testers for https://github.com/fiatjaf/jingle


The Pirate Bay is here.

nostr:nevent1qqs9wrq2he44ucz9y5w9x4ndm6p058r9lxevl8v7cmk6cdq3ws3pmyqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygrrle333hzctq70u95pp7rd6z0p307hd24uyjsqs88zs4hnxpgya5psgqqqqqqsj8feg0


Yep torrents on nostr


Did you try it? A Nostr app for torrents.

nostr:nevent1qqs9wrq2he44ucz9y5w9x4ndm6p058r9lxevl8v7cmk6cdq3ws3pmyqppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5pzqcl7vvvdckzc8nlpdqg0smwsncvtl4m240py5qypec59dues2p8dqvzqqqqqqy7nkl0f


How to add a torrent, please?

Does it work in Spring browser? I opened it there. It opened. But the search is not helping. How to search a torrent? Just any keyword does it?

Awesome project. Wow.

Thanks nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49. 🤙🫂


How did yoy search? Just witty a keyword?


nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 mentioned it during Nostrasia. I haven't haven't used it though.

tweeter.nos.social

https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service


and I hear the knocks on all the bitcoin content on nostr. every new thing has an initial bubble of a population. twitter had the SF tech bloggers, and because of that, the next bubble was the journalists. it's interesting that it's never really escaped that. it's still predominately focused on news. simply because of that first population and how we built around it.

I'd predict that the nostr bitcoin bubble eventually leads to another population focused on alternative economies and free systems of collaboration. I'd say that's a big win for all.


while I agree it would be good to have more content to explain nostr, it won't really matter given the current onboarding and product experience. it's way too confusing for folks, and generally not satisfying instantly. people will and do churn out.

if there's one thing to focus on (for the social media use case) it's search. both for people, but more importantly, topics. Twitter won because of search. it wasn't a social network. it was an information network, and it excelled at real-time because of real-time search. that's a base requirement now.

what nostr adds, and what will make it sticky, is the multi-app/use-case ecosystem. but each use case is going to have different needs for attracting people to it. search is table stakes for the social media one. it won't matter how good the tutorial content is until this is done right.

nostr has the benefit right now of having a completely open and wild API. that matters as every other service is closing down. it's perfectly OK that we mostly have devs and bitcoin-obsessives at the moment. we have time to get all the kinks out and make something that's truly hard to replicate. where the only way to compete will be to join.

nostr:note152dryp2q2m058t7wn7ymev9suladah30qezpq00jt03s622uyw6qu4g79w


challenge: nostr:note198rngw978gngsz5f52s4np0fxzpgn2t8ypa6tg39sjeh7ay6pgtq6vrln3


I probably talk about the bitcoiner content too much, the problem is not at all that we’ve got tons of bitcoiners or that they’re talking about bitcoin too much. More it’s that it’s hard to discover the other people and conversations.

The UX experience is where we need to do work. It’s not so much fun, but it’s what will make the difference.

So when it comes to contact discovery, I’ve always wanted to do something Private Set Intersection. Anybody interested in working on getting PSI for privacy preserving contact discovery that we could use with Nostr?

There’s code which does the first 90% of the work: https://github.com/OpenMined/PSI

Regarding search, my initial thought is throw elastic search at the problem. But then I’m wondering what LLM’s could do to make search better. I think we’d want to have multiple search providers with a common api, the way that Damus and others support plugging in to translation engines. I think the needs of search and indexing are different than a normal relay, and we probably need those broken out in to a separate service or an add-on which only some relays provide.


Today, I had a conversation with a friend's acquaintance who expressed a desire to "do something about social media, to create something that is ours." She was unfamiliar with Nostr and only vaguely aware of Mastodon, though she had heard of Bluesky and Threads.

She represents the ideal target audience for Nostr. Once I explained our project, her excitement was palpable. Although initially skeptical about Bitcoin, she showed interest in an economic model not reliant on advertising and was open to exploring alternative models.

Several key points emerged from our discussion. Firstly, the ease of joining and locating acquaintances on Nostr is crucial. For instance, the process of installing TestFlight, then navigating back to nos.social to click a link and install Nostr via TestFlight, proved challenging. Her attempt to Google Nostr nearly led her astray. nostr:npub1a8jzweysxa9qmtmht874736aalm0lwdsl306nrys9d05ktlrhw3qcr5pj4 i think, this underscores the need for someone with tech marketing/communications expertise to overhaul nostr.com. The current site should be repositioned as developer.nostr.com.

We must simplify the process of finding and connecting with known contacts on Nostr. It's essential to communicate the value proposition of Nostr to new users, whether they learn about it through friends or media. Our focus shouldn't be on creating more content for Bitcoin enthusiasts, as there's already a plethora of information available for those familiar with wallet operations.

Another aspect that stood out was Nostr's multi-app nature. Nostr isn't just Damus, Nos, Amethyst, or Habla.news. It's a platform where various apps can operate using the same data, contacts, and services, all under the user's control. For those with a developer mindset, the sheer breadth of projects within Nostr demonstrates the vibrancy and scale of our endeavor. Projecting this magnitude is crucial for attracting users who are deciding where to invest their time.

I believe we could benefit from explainer videos that highlight why Nostr is both important and interesting. During our conversation, I showcased various apps: Primal for a web social feed, Habla and Yakihonne for longer-form blogging, Flockstr for events, Wherostr for geolocation, and Highlighter for layering different functionalities. These examples illustrate the diversity and versatility of our platform.

I didn't delve into Nostr nests, marketplaces, Wavlake, Streamstr, and more, but it's clear there's much to explore.

This conversation has led me to believe that we should proactively share the Nostr story, positioning it as the future of social networking. This approach will also help us differentiate from platforms like Threads, Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Bluesky. While these platforms are based on open protocols, they operate as single-app, vertical silos.

Our unique offering is the unified 'login' across diverse apps, granting users not just control over their algorithms but their entire app experience. They can even use multiple apps simultaneously.

The impact of a single Thai TikTok video in attracting a Thai user community to Nostr exemplifies the power of targeted storytelling. We should harness similar strategies to broaden our reach and influence. Talking about how this is a whole new way of social, not just one app.


Her name is Meu.


My daughter brought her while she was a kid. Now she created her own kids. I can't keep my wonder contained. New life is soooo full of wonder.

#catstr
#plebchain

https://image.nostr.build/68356e48423d1bf4e4c3d4310c9908c67bb0cabe447ee7591d1e80abaeec6fb2.jpg


So you understand what is long and what is short. 🫂


Let's do it. #ThankYouJack


Losing someone young, or losing an older person while you are young, is always hard.

When my father passed away from cancer while I was in my early twenties, it wasn't surprising at all. This fact had been coming for two years, slowly. But when it came, it hurt just as bad. And till this day it still hurts.

I was at work and got a call; it was a hospital. They said my father had been suddenly transferred to hospice, and it wasn't looking good. He probably had a week at most. He was in another state. The doctor transferred my father to me on the phone and my father was weakly like, "hey...." and I said hello, and I said I'm coming now. He said, "No don't... uhh.... don't worry... you are far and have work... I'm fine...." I asked then why was he transferred to hospice if things were fine. He was like, "uh well... well you know.... uh.... it's fine...." And I was like, "holy shit I'm coming right now."

So I went to my boss and looked at him. I had previously told him that there might be a moment where I would have to just immediately leave without notice, no matter how important the meetings and such, because of my father. So in this moment I literally just looked at him in the middle of a busy day and was like, "I gotta go" and he was like "of course". So I drove there, two hours away and went straight there. My father weakly said on the phone not to go, but he never sounded like that, so I went immediately.

I got there, and my father was in a hospital in the death ward, and the guy who greeted me was a pastor rather than a nurse, which was not a great sign. I asked what was going on and he told me straight up that this was not good, that my father was likely dying within a week. So he brings me to my father. My father is barely awake. His memories and statements are all over the place, but I just hold his hand and tell him that it's fine and I love him. I'm just there. He kept fading out and I was like, "it's okay, just relax". He could see me and talk in a rough sentence or two and thanked me for coming, but started to fade away.

And then after like 30 minutes, he went fully unconscious. He was still roughly gripping and shaking the bed headboard and so forth but wasn't conscious (and I was like, "Are you all giving him the right pain medicines, this doesn't look good", and even the pastor was like, "yes I have seen many and this is not comfortable" and I was like an angry 23-year-old so I went out in the center area like, "what do all of you even fucking do here?! He is shaking the bedframe and looks in pain, and even the pastor agrees. Holy shit." So I went and got medical attention to deal with this, but felt slow and ineffective at this. They gave him more morphine and it calmed him down, but while it relaxed him, he ultimately didn't wake up again.

I spent the next couple hours there, and then left and called various family members for my second round when he was unmoving. I said if they want to see him, come now, in the next day or two.

But a little while later after I left, I got a call and was told he had died. Only I (and the nurses) saw him while he was still briefly conscious.

During that call itself, I was stoic. I was like, "Yes, I understand. Okay." and then hung up. And then I sat there for like five minutes in silence... and then cried. I got over it quickly and we did the funeral in the following days. My father had been struggling with cancer for years, so this wasn't fully surprising.

But what lingered was the memory. It has been 13 years now, and yet whenever I am in my depths I still think of my father. The memory never gets weaker. I think of his love, or I think of how attentive he was, or how accepting he was, or what he would say about my current problems.

People we love, live on through us. We remember them so vividly, and we are inspired by them.

If he was a lame father, he wouldn't have so many direct memories 13 years later. But because he was a good and close father, he does.

All of those memories are gifts. All of them are ways of keeping aspects of that person alive in our world. It's how we remember them in the decades that follow. Their victories, their losses, and everything in between. Virtues they quietly did that you find out later. Virtues you realize only in hindsight how big they were.


“I see you are running an unregistered free speech node. You have a license for that?”


bluesky has a nice community written guide for new users. It’s the kind of thing i’d like for nostr and to be promoted on nostr.com instead of our very developer focused page.

https://from-over-the-horizon.ghost.io/bluesky-social-new-user-guide/


Don't miss day 1 of our State of the Onion on Wednesday, 29 Nov. Check out the full program here: 🗓https://blog.torproject.org/state-of-the-onion-2023/

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/478/861/797/474/439/original/d3bd814497accc6c.png


Good morning.


If it can be cucked, it probably will be.
Act accordingly.

nostr:nevent1qqszurrh59u2zu0uj502tgr2led25me88jh62lvg4wdjnuspj5vxhqqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgrqsqqqqqpgzakjn


I knew this day would probably come, but didn't expect it so soon.

I am being investigated for running an illegal money transmission business in Canada (nodeless)

Under the advice of my lawyers I need to shut down the main instance of it.

As you guys know I made Nodeless completely open source in the event that this happens, so that others who don't live under communism can run a honest, privacy focused payments business.

To my clients who are using it, I'm very sorry for the short notice but you'll need to find a new payment processing solution this weekend.

DM me on telegram and I will personally walk you through setting up a btcpayserver instance that you can self host, or even your own instance of nodeless.

I can't give much more information than this, not even supposed to say this much, but I owe it to you guys to let you know what's going on.

To install nodeless on your own server, you can get started here:
https://github.com/nodeless-io/nodeless-monolith


Just for the interface? Feeling curious.


“Grandpa what’s this funny email address we found on your old phone from way back in the 2020s?”

Me: https://video.nostr.build/cd847e630a4a166ed500187b8480a48ab2d34a67a01a4d7de551c0d5673d5173.mp4


Good morning, nostr:npub15hkpl2q2mdavpf34dg2qnu8d93h44j2upuwk2ug29mdzl37wll3sf3lzqz 🫂


Thanks nostr:npub1curnt7jtq8mhl9fcswnwvuvc9ccm6lvsdv4kzydx75v92kldrvdqh7sq09 for the zap. 🫂


Awesome new release of nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828. Thanks Evgeny, and your team.

nostr:nevent1qqsfppqsgleyfv3vmrwc9dcj8qkqmwdv2s5cchewkupecyfa22s4qwspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvupzpjvc54ee7p8hlleq932fv2490q4nfm93p4hezk7lm46c993mlyt3qvzqqqqqqyvh0ywt


Cryptpad.fr


Hello, anybody here who uses Cryptpad e2ee online office collaboration tools?

Let's talk about it's pros and cons.

https://image.nostr.build/2f7b7c4c17d58c972bfd3019e65d2c2f0f72d411ce614fd49aca1f1d2bff4d05.jpg


Hello Sand, welcome to the Nostrverse! 🌺


All useful idiots adamantly believe that some other group of people are the useful idiots.


protect yourself from #bluetooth hacking. set bluetooth to turn off automatically on mobile when not actively in use

read all the fun ways it can be exploited below

#bluetooth #hacking #infosec #cybersecgirl

https://www.aura.com/learn/bluetooth-security


This is why the culture of #Bitcoin needs to stay strong. And EVERYONE who truly believes in bitcoin needs to run a node and get at least one miner. (Or setup a mining farm too, that would be good)

If the people who are passionate about Bitcoin and its promise can’t put their economic weight to defend it, the future might not be as bright as we hope.

Our greatest advantage is that no one will care as much as we do. 🔥✊🏻 nostr:note162yz8v8qnjwfkyz4jas5kdphwqak8csdykwrxut5qne73345l4nqjnzere


Today is my birthday. Since childhood, when November arrived, it felt like my month. I used to be so excited. Growing up, all those little joys became somewhat tainted. I don't know why, but suddenly tears welled up today. What a strange feeling for a day! But who knows how I received so much love from everyone today! many cakes, chocolates and the love of many people, I have moved forward today. Now I can say, Happy Birthday nostr:npub15hkpl2q2mdavpf34dg2qnu8d93h44j2upuwk2ug29mdzl37wll3sf3lzqz
https://image.nostr.build/a136510952a989f9265795682ba5f98666978c8564c43435f5e5fa82a3289ea4.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/39725724674fc7bb378430a538222f9fe5a0c5dfa2d0d5d31a54814ea2970dbf.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/c589a369c1691523aa4e2f9729dceeaef9e14819bdcfd28abdaa626024310dc0.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/bdb72643edbc5f58ae1f82eca9b2e22fe08b19c9eede5592859585e29353313e.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/2b0f772b05bf263ddbe63675fd8bc0dac4fb67a470a33aa7bd488e2e48dbeeb7.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/3772a49fb06c9ee6a6a75fc0996cf95b5f91a727dc151193ced16017b97be5d3.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/8b798f64150c73edbc1e6a5db7470e99a4c7eda07f2fcfafe0d5e9b9e5c40add.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/3fcf35d4de62eb3b20860050bdb0a4a6e7a99a28a4c5b4039afd5ddd2423dc1f.jpg

#plebs #plebchain #birthday #nostr #flowerstr


This is a sunny day here in Bangladesh. Winter is coming, so there is a feeling of cold wind in the air. As I was going to my workplace this morning, this view caught my eye. These flowers bloom in water. They are called কচুরিপানা ফুল in Bangla language here which means kind of water lilies. Have a wonderful day #nostriches!

#Bangladesh #plebs #flowerstr #nostr
https://video.nostr.build/e5efa58e35d269ec4792d20759d48d57633ad4572265d3f56f2c55aad0e26a24.mp4


Beautiful scene! 🌿💜


Happy Birthday, nostr:npub15hkpl2q2mdavpf34dg2qnu8d93h44j2upuwk2ug29mdzl37wll3sf3lzqz

🌸💜🌺🔅🌹🌿🔅🌺💜🌸


Element clumsy for ordinary daily use.


Telegram!!! Oh no! It's not FOSS.

Threema? Nope. It's not FOSS.

SIGNAL. Yes!
Simplex Chat. Yes!


Near wishes, nostr:npub1wv79gfl4tn46qxs0vcr6kr73rqethvna0kchk4cw06mmdzsgrkdqmkxye0. 🌸


Ah, how beautiful lie is. Let there be colour. 🌺🌸💜


Let there be love.


Good morning, nostr:npub1edd9lp84z8jusqujzrecsunja2xcqmjl0adjdj6y8uakaj932ejqar8nu4. 🌸


Hashtag is number one, I think.


Gosh!


Is this 57 in this video? Wow!


I bought my groceries in El Salvador yesterday with #bitcoin at Super Selectos ⚡

💲 More than $100
⚡ Paid over lightning
⌛ In less than 2 seconds
💰 For 0,4% fees
🤳 From my non-custodial wallet

Yes, if you want (!) you can live on a bitcoin standard!

https://video.nostr.build/fe2e570423043ea05cd02d3b797a4ea58956b2a9d5ba3e8292e3ffa4af407226.mp4


Never trust a custodian. Fuck Wallet of Satoshi.

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Fuck! How did it get this wide currency!!!


wallet of satoshi is a closed source custodial bitcoin wallet that many bitcoiners have installed on their phones with camera and clipboard permissions, most new bitcoiners throughout the developing world use it, and the overwhelming majority of nostr users

in my mind there are only three possible scenarios for WoS: rug, shotgun kyc, or deliberate honeypot


One of those days in which I wake up and I simply cannot contain my excitement.

I fucking love nostr and what we’re building here.

Thanks for being here; your energy fuels us.


Mother Goddess Kaali of Bengal.
Tonight in my town.

https://image.nostr.build/021accfa382ca2b38843594db159e01aa7558e0acc4222516d90843698b6bb86.jpg


I can hear the unseen cat! Meow!


Good morning! I see the Sunny aura on your face. 💜🫂🌿🌹🌺


SimpleX Chat v5.4.0-beta.3!

Share screen/window in desktop video calls!

Lots of group improvements:
- create groups incognito.
- block some members just for you.
- etc.

Lots of fixes - more stable connections, more stable sending files, fixed file sharing and many crashes.

Get it from GitHub, our F-Droid repo, Play Store beta and TestFlight for iOS: https://simplex.chat/downloads/

Also, iOS and Android (aarch64 only for now – it didn't change for arvm7a devices) are built using the new version of the GHC compiler that should reduce the battery consumption a bit - please share how battery consumption changed for you, comparing with the previous version.


Oh, I see. That sounds true.
Thank you, nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft.


Oh nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft, please be kind to the non-techy, non-geeky plebs like me. What have you done already? Must be something wonderful as you always do. I just guess something in stealth mode. Spare a couple of sentences, at least one, about it.

🌺🌹🌿🫂🙏😛


Similar situation here too:

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Any idea from our great #nostr devs about what might have happened to nostr:npub1a406tcmltkud34kmqkevkpykp384czamffw2245a9v5uc2z22l2q55gxd2's follows? What to do in such a situation?

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Oh, Haylie, she is Haylie. I missed her name. Hello Haylie!


Exactly these were the nuances that came in my mind while I was making the comment. But reversely, I saw you in her face. Actually I was sad too. It was my sadness that infiltrated everything present at the moment.

Acknowledge my solidarity in sadness with you, nostr:npub1a406tcmltkud34kmqkevkpykp384czamffw2245a9v5uc2z22l2q55gxd2.

Cheers! 🫂🌸🌿


Alternative line arrangement of the English translation below:

It's not me, it's not me,
It was some other being;
I have left him on the
Edge of some missing byway;
In his gaze, rested the
Sigh of a sapphire furnace,
In his heart, there was a
Black flame of agony burning.
It was some other being.


Original Bangla lyric.

আমি না, আমি না, সে ছিল অন্য লোক;
আমি তাকে ফেলে এসেছি পথের ধারে।
তার বুকে ছিল বেদনার কালো শিখা,
দুই চোখে ছিল নীল আগুনের শোক।
সে ছিল অন্য লোক।


It's not me, it's not me, it was some other being;
I have left him on the edge of some missing byway;
In his gaze, rested the sigh of a sapphire furnace,
In his heart, there was a black flame of agony burning.
It was some other being.

(A translation of one my bangla lyrics given in the comment field below.)


I see this sad but beautiful creature, nostr:npub1a406tcmltkud34kmqkevkpykp384czamffw2245a9v5uc2z22l2q55gxd2. 🌺🌿


Good listen.

https://overcast.fm/+_cBfLCGxA


Signal Private Messenger is now testing public usernames that allow users to conceal the phone numbers linked to their accounts while communicating with others.

#signal
#security
#digitalsecurity

https://image.nostr.build/f4bbc3ce8e0f9d6fb3bf162941dc5be4bd382941058444d8826923be6b9d185d.jpg

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/signal-tests-usernames-that-keep-your-phone-number-private/


Good morning #nostrches! Last night I fell sick. I experienced intense anxiety and had trouble sleeping. However, the sleep was good, and I feel much better physically. Wishing everyone good health.
https://image.nostr.build/f5baf2309be04a6ed0e9ea6955041e4d7d7b6e8810c3171aa9adf00a3f24131e.jpg

#flowerstr #gm


Omg! It's heavenly! 🤎🌸🐱🐥

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#musicstr


Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/signal-tests-usernames-that-keep-your-phone-number-private/


🫡 nostr:npub15ypxpg429uyjmp0zczuza902chuvvr4pn35wfzv8rx6cej4z8clq6jmpcx nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5

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


nostr:npub1melv683fw6n2mvhl5h6dhqd8mqfv3wmxnz4qph83ua4dk4006ezsrt5c24 is on it and needs help https://dev.to/melvincarvalho/run-a-nostr-relay-on-your-phone-with-termux-and-fonstr-4cmg


I thought Bitcoiners in general understood Nostr already, but I was miserably wrong: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-November/022141.html

At least Andrew Chow recognizes he didn't look much into it and is clearly speaking from first impressions gotten from microblogging clients.


It's so weird that the majority of people today have an algorithm suggesting what music they might like. This has always been the role or family/ friends/ peer group and is a social thing. Whether it used to be a vinyl party, a friend making a mix tape on cassette or listening to someone else's CD collection in their car. Something has been lost to the algo. Will grass root music suggestions make a come back with platforms like nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg or is it gone forever? Maybe I'm overthink it...


Does this relay on phone keep my profile and events backup?


WOW, everyone has a Relay in their mobile phone, it's crazy, what kind of experience would it be if there were 10,000 mobile phones running Relay.

Great work for [@melvincarvalho]

https://dev.to/melvincarvalho/run-a-nostr-relay-on-your-phone-with-termux-and-fonstr-4cmg