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 Lightning, nostr, cashu, fedimint, blossom, ...
My friends made these tools.
My friends aren't special people, they're just dudes, but look at how powerful they are. 
 You can simply walk away from the modern systems of slavery.
Why don't you? 
 Consider if your soul is worth the price. 
 Build freedom tech and travel the world. 
 The more builders I talk to, the more I realize I gotta talk to more builders.

If you're building something meaningful, let's talk. 
 In case you're thinking to start trading to earn more sats, browse through this feed and reconsider.
nostr:nevent1qqsrkysd08krljmkal998h4qk6z3jfasdtxx98fz3uhdxgyyu3g4a5gpzdmhxue69uhhwmm59e6hg7r09ehkuef0qgspcm9j9xtt42lfyx7dghytvgfm9k4sjmuguja9v7x585v45xrg25grqsqqqqqp3cdrr4 
 Is there a podcasting app that automatically skips add reads? 
 The zk whiteboard sessions are really good, the second season is currently being released.
Worth watching if you're curious how zk might help nostr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksTTyt0GTvQ 
 One app with your private key.
One app with your relay.
A thousand apps with your interface. 
 Was thinking about this, but I'd prefer the key app to not have any networking capabilities. It could still do remote signing, if the local relay gets the nsecbunker events. 
 Exactly. 
 The signer app can be on a dedicated computer.
https://nostrsigningdevice.com/ 
 Apps should do one thing REALLY well.
Which means apps must work well together.
Private key security is paramount, so there should be a dedicated app for that. Copying private keys into many apps is bound to bring problems.
Loading time is a crucial UX hurdle, and so data should be pre processed in a dedicated relay app, so that other clients don't need to make privacy degrading online queries.
With such a setup it might be possible to run useful nostr apps that don't even have internet access, but get everything from the local network. 
 If you have a chance to see a Bruckner symphony live, do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSGOaTuAesY 
 New nostr client idea:

Only show the text of the notes in the feed, no pictures, no usernames.

Focus on the message, not the messenger 
 Nice!
Wen apk sir? 
 I love it when builders already built what I want... 
 Beautiful. 
 You could filter the feed by followers, so you know its in your web of trust, just not fron whom exactly. 
 Do you believe in a bitcoin denominated circular economy?  
 Yes.
Denominating contracts in an asset is a lot easier when that asset has a stable purchasing power. There are ways to structure contracts adequately despite volatility, it just gets more complex.
So I wouldn't be surprised if it takes another couple halvings until Bitcoin is a widely used unit of account. 
 Decreasing sat denominated prices is basically a discount for customers, so in some sense it's a marketing campaign that can be frequently repeated. 
 Is there a DVM that suggests new npubs to follow? 
 Yes!
Thanks 
 THE COMMON ECONOMIC PROTOCOLS
Version 3, by Paul Rosenberg

1. The purpose of The Common Economic Protocols (CEP) is to facilitate beneficial interaction and to minimize conflict. It rests on three primary principles: Individual Autonomy, Private Property, and Free Contract.
2. Progress must not be hindered.
3. Free, open, and functional markets must be preserved.
4. The CEP deals with individual parties only.
5. Agreements must be communicated openly and clearly.
6. Individuals/parties should keep their agreements.
7. Individuals/parties should not aggress against, encroach upon, or defraud others.
8. Private property is to be respected and protected.
9. Self-induced harms are the sole responsibility of the individual or party in question.
10. All the effects of an action must be taken into account.
11. Restitution is preferred above punishment.
12. Violence is a very costly means of solving disputes and is to be avoided.
12. Mistakes and emergency actions are part of human life, but must be repaired.
13. The CEP does not require omniscience of anyone.
14. The purposes of judgments are to secure free and functional markets and to recompense injured parties.
​15. The standard for the application of the CEP is the reasonable man. 
 Get the full paper on cooperation space by Paul Rosenberg
https://freemansperspective.com/product/cooperation-space/ 
 Zap my performance at Adopting Bitcoin! 🇸🇻🇸🇻⚡️🙌 
 So cool!
It's kinda wild how much better the UX for tipping got in only a couple of years. 
 The fact that Amber is now widely supported makes nostr on android so crazy usable, so trivial to try out new clients. 
 Living on a bitcoin standard is so easy with proxy merchants like shopinbit.com 
 Yeah, progress is wild there.

With shopinbit you can get the flight tickets for bitcoin  
 You're sitting on the most magical precious stone in Cyberspace, other people will do anything to convince you to send them some. 
 Exactly.
The answer to "but what can you buy directly with bitcoin" is "literally anything" now... 
 The travel service works international. 
 A price worth paying for freedom. 
 Do you do phone cases nostr:nprofile1qqsx845ex2wm3cu9d8e93xm282nmpu33emyr5aufu20s5wt8sx7h6uspzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0cnuf5l? 
 understandable, thanks.
You could just do grapheme compatible phones, and the variety decreases drastically.  
 Here a panel with nostr:nprofile1qqsfu8jfssstclp470360rfqq3d5eq6rnpk6ujrnjavmeje2yl5gc5cpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0vj7szh, Max Hampshire, Liam Eagen and myself about freedom tech at HCPP24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEfTyv-7xNo 
 Is there a way to get all of my and my wot notes into citrine? nostr:nprofile1qqs827g8dkd07zjvlhh60csytujgd3l9mz7x807xk3fewge7rwlukxgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9usjfpck 
 Yeah, it's a great backup solution. 
 Exactly.
I have a couple gigabytes to spare, that fits a lot of notes! 
 Is there another app that could feed the data to citrine already now? 
 Arti, the new Tor client written in rust, is making excellent progress.
If you have already integrated Tor in your app, refactoring with this new library will lead to substantial performance improvements.
If you haven't yet tinkered with Tor, now is a good time to see how it can make your tech better.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti 
 TailsOS, but for phones. 
 More interested in the amnesia part. 
 Cars need to be fixed so bad... 
 But to be fair, android has very strong sandboxing per app. 
 Would be cool in nostr:nprofile1qqs24yz8xftq8kkdf7q5yzf4v7tn2ek78v0zp2y427mj3sa7f34ggjcpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj703s8dt to have a default emoji with a single click, and multi emoji picker on long click. 
 There could be after a long press the preselected emojis, with an edit button to get to the default picker screen. 
 It won't get better, until you get better. 
 Who's a Japanese bitcoin only content creator?
Someone without price talk, blockchain hype, or nfts. 
 The most cypherpunk as fuck podcast.

https://taz0.org/bitstream/

I highly recommend listening through it from the beginning. Smuggler and nostr:nprofile1qqsxd7rasz53jav2vjlq6twg5wj68lgvm0t4lj79skkka9jju8qfv3cpzpmhxue69uhnzdps9enrw73wd9hszxthwden5te0v9j82mr59ccnsurvw4ejuum0vd5kzmqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2uc9a2xcy are two legendary builders, strategists, and philosophers. Their mindset and articulation is inspiring. 
 You know it's cpaf when the episode numbers are in hexadecimal... 
 Nice.
But kinda brutal to give a recovering addict one more hit, with nothing more to come in the future... 
 Three legends you might never have heard about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXInVwICggg 
 Wen blossom in nostr:nprofile1qqs24yz8xftq8kkdf7q5yzf4v7tn2ek78v0zp2y427mj3sa7f34ggjcpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj703s8dt? 
 Beautiful talk by nostr:nprofile1qqsd4dkxqewy8xum47ctpu0ltgxxsfemeewpjkdyzk9ddfcg286s0dsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvduhq6r9wfc82mnt9e6x7erp0yhs4deh46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFasLWSk-rI 
  ̶F̶r̶e̶e̶d̶o̶m̶ ̶t̶e̶c̶h̶
Freedom sweat.
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 Freedom sweat 
 Any applied cryptographers looking for a review job? 
 The most radical thing you can do, is to live free and unashamed. 
 Thanks brother 
 Thanks Rod, I appreciate it. 
 Crazy to see high quality products for sale pop up in the shitposting client.

Cypherpunk future is now. 
 Heads up! We're rebranding zap.store to Zapstore.

The premium domain renewal is too expensive, s... 
 Key rotation in the legacy realm. 
 All talks of the 11th and final hackers congress have just been uploaded!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_88YKXiY1KDqbS38DVnCqg 
 Lots of drama, I guess... 
 What purple pilling nerds feels like 
https://image.nostr.build/dc30e9b00bf91fba4084a55811b4651a2b4ef28c7f079177284f3e739cecb1c4.gif
It might take a couple different apps, but eventually one connects really hard. 
 It usually is nostr:nprofile1qqsvrlrhw86l5sv06wkyjgs6rrcekskvk7nx8k50qn9m7mqgeqxjpvgpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0tc48yt nostr IOT that delivers the TKO 
 New free city in Argentina
https://lospropietarios.com/ 
 In their books its just a company owning land, hopefully not too controversial.