Ok I have some data that those building on Nostr may want to analize if we want to improve engagement

I queried a number of relays to map 3 degrees of separation from my pubkey. Meaning, those that I follow plus those that they follow plus those that they also follow which gave me a list of 32903 pubkeys which I'm assuming are not spammers

Then I queried all the events from all those 32903 pubkeys and did some math:

*** This is for the LAST 15 days only so I know it's tight but we need to ensure people stay engaged and post... I'll try with longer timeframes later

0.03% made 10% of the Notes
0.2% made 50% of the notes
0.6% made 80% of the notes

82% of them did make a comment in the last 2 weeks

meaning that roughly 200 users out of 32903 in my extended network made most of the notes. I checked who were in the top to avoid bots and though there was one game on top, most others were not spammers...

I'll try to make the script better so can be run with any other pubkey and see if it's the same but I believe it'll be important to check engagement.. how to motivate all those pubkeys to comment. why they are not making any comment

Maybe I need to also capture reactions, maybe some of them are liking stuff but not making comments...

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_0497480b0883a9c85c63c0461b27af872a9843964fbd3c2d3b7494242e16bc85.png


Cool!


Iris is now available on the Start9 Registry!

Connect your self-hosted Nostr client to your self-hosted Nostr relay.

Works locally and over Tor.

Thanks #[0] for building this client, and thanks #[1] for packaging!

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_d6d14a2ecc4f98e10266b0bb175b74ca1ef81ff19de04970b5ea4896410c29ea.png


I need to build a business on Coracle if I want to keep working on it. One thing that makes this hard is that I refuse to make my users the product. I will not sell your data.

However, what does everyone think of a referral/ad model? Sponsored results in search, sponsored relay suggestions, etc, with an option to pay to turn them off. Is this unethical?
Of course, my ideal business model would be a freemium service — get the basics for free, pay for some bells and whistles. But that would require much more development effort to get started.

Now I'm just brain dumping, but I guess I could start a freemium model on a purely volunteer basis, and issue a badge or something for supporters, ala patreon/kickstarter?

What do you guys think?


lol


gm☕


Banksters and suppressive leaders


FOMO intensifies..


Besides charging sats, what other anti-spam measures do people run/work on?


Where do you find it?


That would be nice!


Gathering lists of spammers that uses 1 pubkey could help with cleaning databases and increase the data quality a bit but I'd love to find better proactive measures as well.


Oh, yeah me too. Running nostr-rs-relay:0.8.8.

Scsibug added support for GRPC so we could try to build plugins for the relay now to filter spam. Just need to figure out how we can detect spam, which is something I don't think will be very easy.


wss://nostr.oxtr.dev

I don't have any good anti-spam measures atm. It's hard to figure out what is and isn't spam in a free and open relay. Need to do some research into how we can provide free relays with good UX wrt spam.


Lol, there are some other relays with more traffic than I have but there's definitely a lot of traffic to my relay though!

I don't have a good enough self-hosted solution yet so hosting on a Hetzner VM atm.

I ran mine on a 5 USD/month until Jack showed up. Now it's running on a VM with 8 Intel vCPUs and 32 GB RAM. It works but IMO it's still way too slow.


Back up again, cleaned out some spam and tidyed up the DB


Cool, bring the builders!


Amethysts 0.25.2: Image Upload in Chat

- Image Upload in Chat by @believethehype and #[0]
- Bug fix for logging off crashing the app. by #[1]
- Bug fix to reset conversations tab when switching accounts. by #[2]
- Bug fix for the background color of the top bar in light mode by #[3]
- Updated Dutch translations by @Bardesss

Download: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.25.2/app-release-v0.25.2.apk


Arc
https://github.com/ArcadeLabsInc/arc


gm to everyone except the people still responding to the og hellthread


It's always been free. Considering setting up a new paid relay soon too on my nostr.lighting domain. Just want to make sure the service is worth paying for before I open it.


Blee is more OG than me! I set up my relay a couple of months after him


Shit is about to go down


amazing


Episode 2 of La Cosa Nostr podcast is now available!

NodeCitizen joins me to discuss his project LaCosaNostr.com - a Nostr social club.

https://cast.bitcoiner.social/@lacosanostr/episodes/ep2-nodecitizen


Great episode!


This is why anon/private Zaps *have* to be the default in Nostr clients.

Until then we're undermining all of the privacy provided by Lightning for practically no reason. While amounts need to be displayed in Nostr clients for effective social usage, no info on payee or comment should be a core part of things unless a user opts-in to revealing that info.

We have a chance to make privacy the default.

#[0]


Weird, works fine on Damus


Just reformat the computer


Cool!


I can see it


I actually had a Robosats bot running a while ago but it’s not running atm

#[3]


Welcome to nostr, happy to see you folks on here!


Yeah fuck that. Not publishing my medical data to everyone elses relays, encrypted or not.


gm!


Amethyst v0.25.0: Multiple Accounts by #[0]

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_05f8511f23740dd445ce27a56d96d0ec3e000cfd99a831c57f7eaf72aa7392e4.png

- Adds Multiple account management by #[1]
- Replaces mlkit with zxing QR scanner by #[2]
- Adds a way to remember feed positioning #[3]
- Adds Robohash profile generation using SVGs by #[4]
- Adds user-agent header to OkHttpClient requests for NIP-05 Verifications by #[5]
- Adds quick action menu in chats and threads  by #[6]
- Updated Dutch translations by @matata2140 and @Bardesss
- Activates support for .mov preview by #[7]
- Corrects identity claim for mastodon by @h3y6e
- Corrects translation files by @akiomik
- Refactorings by #[8] and @kappaseijin

Download: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.25.0/app-release-v0.25.0.apk


Everything Bitcoin starts as meme, but you undoubtedly end up realizing it's a deep philosophical truth. 😂


Can't keep up with the speed of what's being built on this protocol 🤯


NGMI😂


Lol, Meta is building «a decentralized, text based social network»

https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-is-building-a-decentralized


gm☕


Someone rugged me, I found no nuts😂


Do I even want to know what a nutminer is?


gm☕⚡


lmao oof


Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.


Peach+BIP47 ?


As of today the Bitcoin network has been operational for a decade without a consensus failure. Shout out to the developers who have maintained the quality of the software and thus the integrity of the network!


Guys, please. I need help.

How can I setup a lightning paywall for the download of a single .zip file on my website?

I tried Mash, which I thought was the go-to tool for such use case. But it’s been way to frustrating for me.

What do you recommend?


⚠ Friendly reminder: Beware of zapfishing ⚠

They will use emotional or visual deception to make you pay


ripping a market update / bank run dispatch with dylan leclair at 6p ET / 2200 UTC today when futures open, going to be a crazy week, join us in the interactive live chat 🤙

twitch: https://twitch.tv/citadeldispatch
youtube: https://youtube.com/@citadeldispatch
bitcointv: https://bitcointv.com/w/nYGx7Eg3C3jWACS2JMbKAf
matrix chat: https://citadeldispatch.com/chat


Bailout for me, but not for thee!

That’s the American way!


We only accept nostr purebloods here


lol same. Likes feels useless.


Welcome to nostr!


My Damus notifications has been absolutely oblitherated from hell threads lately. GFY😂


STACK


GM. Today's headline:

*Hodlers unaffected*


IT’S MEME FRIDAY MY FELLOW NOSTR PEOPLE!

Let the meme wars begin!


Maybe you messaged yourself from the future👀


Looks like I have an impersonator. Not sure why they'd send me a hello message by DM so that I can see. Weird 🤷♀ Am I supposed to be threatened or something!?

Feel free to block #[1]


Nostr hackathon?👀 Is this a Nostrica thing?


GM NOSTR

Julian Assange is still in captivity for exposing US war crimes. #FreeJulianAssange


Tried zapping you a BD gift but it doesn’t show up on the post for some reason🤷♂


Happy birthday Wencke!🎉 Hope you had a great day!


Would be nice if a user could choose to skip processing any kind 1 event with x amount of p tags.


Didn’t know, happy to see that he is able to take some time off👍 Well deserved


#[0] please give us a «mute thread» feature, por favor. My notifications view is fucked after being tagged with 1300 others in a hell thread😂


This is the way anon


gm Nostr☕🤙


#keepNostrWeird


I uploaded the bitcoin white paper to my website today.
https://www.lynalden.com/wp-content/uploads/bitcoin.pdf

Because, I don't know, fuck CSW.

People should donate to anyone willing to stand up to him in court.


LNURL / Lightning Addresses are not perfect, they have tradeoffs like everything else, but they work today and I am grateful for that.


lol


gm


A FREN NEVER GM'S TOO LATE, NOR DOES HE GM TOO EARLY.
A FREN GM'S PRECISELY WHEN HE MEANS TO


P2P marketplaces
P2P bitcoin exchanges


Recording Bitcoin.Review Software Update List tomorrow morning with #[0], #[1] and Craig Raw.

Any Bitcoin software updates, new project releases or some topics you’d like us talk about?


…
🧵5/73


lmfaooo


pv🤙⚡


My wife and I are going on a three-week excursion to Vietnam  Cambodia and Thailand in April, and I have decided to go commando, leaving all of my Apple devices at home bringing only a burner Android device (an old Samsung phone). I am in the process of setting up my Lightning wallets, nostr clients, etc. It should be  great learning experience. Right now I am using the Amethyst client which is working beyond my expectations to bring along my money and social graph. The picture below is from our last trip to Morocco where I tried to do something similar, but now I feel like I have the right tools.

https://i.imgur.com/2TOM6Bk.jpg


The government


... and like bitcoin, we haven't even begun to understand the significance this protocol will play in our lives and in those generation's lives who follow.


The simplicity and power of nostr makes me wonder what other incredible advancements humanity can make with clever use of cryptography 💭


Bitcoin Design Community contributors are now eligible to receive free tickets to Bitcoin 2023 in Miami.

Contributors to 38 Open Source Projects are Eligible:
Nostr
Bitcoin Core
Alby
Bitcoin Beach Wallet
Blixt Wallet
Blue Wallet
Breez wallet
Electrum
FullyNoded
Mercury Wallet
Muun Wallet
Samourai Wallet
Sparrow Wallet
Specter Wallet
Wasabi Wallet
Zeus
Phoenix
BTCPay Server
Bisq
Braiins OS
Electrs
Immortan
JAM
LNBits
Mempool
RaspiBlitz
RoninDojo
Nodl
Seedsigner
Bitcoin Design Community
Bitcoin Dev Kit
Core Lightning
Joinmarket
LDK
LND
Nix-Bitcoin
Acinq
Tor

Apply Here: https://b.tc/conference/open-source-contributors


reminder that your IP is visible to every relay you connect to so consider running a vpn such as mullvad.net or ivpn.net, both accept bitcoin


GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack sats, and think for yourself.


Twitter Goes Dark
Feb 9, 2023

Block Height: 775,793

Moscow Time: 4,563 ⚡/ $

—--------------------------
🎙Quote of the Day🎙
—--------------------------
#[0] “Used to be when anything went down, people went to Twitter to talk about it. Now look.”
#[1]

—--------------------------
🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
—--------------------------
#[2] 🤫rumored new Twitter rules are as follows:
- 200 DMs limit per day (group chats included)
- 20 tweets limit per day (includes retweets, quote tweets and replies)
- 4 photos or 1 video per day (media tweets are counted separately from the general tweets)
- Paying Twitter Blue users will have no limits.
#[3]

#[4] asks, “What’s happening a minute from now?” in response to Twitter going from real-time to a 1-minute delay.
#[5]

#[6] also follows up with his thoughts on Twitter’s outage yesterday and the value proposition of a decentralized communication protocol.
#[7]

#[8] announces fee changes on legacy bitcoin social site (Twitter) forgetting everyone is Nostr now 😉 Don’t worry though,  #[9] has got you covered.
#[10]

—--------------------------
🏝Nostrica Update🏝
—--------------------------
#[11] gives Nostrica update:
269 in-person
473 virtual

Visit https://nostrica.com/ for more info.
#[12]

—--------------------------
🖥nostr Tech🖥
—--------------------------
#[13] Nostrgram client now offering in-app media uploads. All uploaded media is hosted by Nostrgram.
#[14]

#[15] Vitor warns of integrated lightning wallets from certain clients that you may have unknowingly signed up for. This is likely how Derek Ross lost sats a few weeks ago.
#[16]

#[17] A.A.RON posts that he will be shutting down nostr-relay.untethr.me later this month.
#[18]

#[19] announces the new Coldcard Q1 from Coinkite, with QWERTY keyboard along with many other features to keep your Bitcoin secure.
#[20]

—--------------------------
⚡nostr Business⚡
—--------------------------
#[21] UK to set £20,000 limit on CBDC. Nostr wondering what the fuck that even means 🤷♂
#[22]

—--------------------------
🎩nostr Lifestyle🎩
—--------------------------
#[23] New wordle-like word guessing game on Nostr #[24]
#[25]

“I JuST MaDe aN ArT… now pay me!” #[26] posts as he inadvertently creates a viral Nostr “non-NFT. Several artists contribute. You can see the original here:
#[27]
And see a progression of versions with contributing artists credited here:
#[28]

Yellow doesn’t confirm NPUB on twitter, but we are pretty sure this is him.
#[29]

—--------------------------
🩺Nostr Health of the Network🩺
—--------------------------
Pubkeys: 557,392
Events: 1,310,416
Relays: 312

Source nostr.io/stats

—--------------------------
🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
—--------------------------
#[30]
#[31]

—--------------------------
Stay Classy Nostr.


Insanely grateful for everyone building out the nostr ecosystem. This protocol will change the world for the better.


addfollow


You said you were new to bitcoin previously, isn’t that correct? What is ypur impression thus far?


Old rich guy who can barely send emails thinks america should follow communist china's lead and ban freedom money.

https://i.imgur.com/rGTlla9.jpg


THE NOSTR REPORT

The One Where Will (almost) Broke Nostr
Feb 1, 2023

Bitcoin Block:
774630

4240
⚡/$

—--------------------------
🎙Quote of the Day🎙
—--------------------------
#[0] “Pretty amazing to see the global feed go from primarily English to an abundance of different languages. Now that’s Global.”
#[1]

If you complain about seeing Chinese on your feed and uninstall your mobile Nostr client, you’re NGMI warns #[2]
#[3]
—--------------------------
🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
—--------------------------
#[4] Cassarin secures Damus App Store approval, followed by massive surge in new Nostr users. Generous donations pour in for development with one donation of 5 million sats donated in 1 transaction. Will already being asked “when will Damus token be issued” #[5]
If you’d like to donate to Damus development go to https://jb55.com/
#[6] #[7]

Damus has broken the top 10 in social media apps and top 200 overall in the Apple App store. #[8] shares an update
#[9]

#[10] 30k new profiles created in just the last 24 hrs compared to 62k created in last 30 days.
#[11]

🤡🤮 #[12] shares Craig Wright claim that Craig has patent on Damus 🤮🤡
#[13]

Surge of Damus related 🚘traffic🚘 overwhelms popular services such as NostrPlebs.com and nostr.build as users flock to get NIP-05 verification and post dank memes.
#[14]
#[15]
A warm welcome from the Nostr Report team to some well-known bird accounts
#[16]
#[17]
#[18]
#[19]
#[20]
With Damus now in the app store, we know we are missing some, so please tag them or say hello in the comments.
—--------------------------
🏝Nostrica Update🏝
—--------------------------
#Nostrica up to 190 in-person and 356 virtual attendees! Get more info on this epic event at https://nostrica.com
—--------------------------
🖥nostr Tech🖥
—--------------------------
🔥Relays operators putting out fires all night and day since Damus approval🔥 #[22] reports: “I unfortunately don’t have any fancy dashboards with statistics for my relay but it has seen 100,000 new events over the last 24 hours🤯”
#[23]

#[24] reports “ BRB.io @ 2000 concurrent web sockets open”
#[25]

#[26] starts a conversation with #[27] on allowing relays to collect “reaction events” on posts to build clusters of interesting content. Tell us what you think about this!
#[28]
—--------------------------
⚡nostr Business⚡
—--------------------------
#[29] comments on Damus App Store milestone: “Wow Damus broke into the top 200 free apps. At #140 currently. Magic number ✨” He also shares link to Damus Help Desk with David King
#[31]
#[32]
—--------------------------
🎩nostr Lifestyle🎩
—--------------------------
Check out #[33] recommendation for wake-up 🎶music🎶!
#[34]
—--------------------------
🩺Nostr Health of the Network🩺
pubkeys
367,605
events
1,604,112
relays
267

Source nostr.io/stats
—--------------------------
🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
—--------------------------
#[35] Side by side comparison of Damus vs. Twitter data collection practices listed in the App Store.
#[36]
—--------------------------
Stay Classy Nostr.


The Cypherpunk's Manifesto https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html which has been a must-read since my early days around 1993 by Eric Hughes


**Here's to my fellow Nostr builders:**

Building a community is not only a rewarding experience, but also an essential part of being human. We are wired to connect and belong. When we find a group of people with similar values and interests, we feel a sense of purpose and belonging.

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_7252.jpg

There is a substantial amount of **Proof of Work** involved in community building. It won't happen overnight, but we will be successful and we will win. Every time we build a new application, a new client, fix a bug, or create an engaging post, it's a step in the right direction to build a strong community and attract new members.

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_7251i.png

As we build, we solve problems. Every problem we solve helps to provide a unique experience for users across the protocol. This allows us to create something truly special for everyone.

https://media.tenor.com/8DxYcrLiGJUAAAAd/field-of-dreams-baseball.gif

Every step you take, every member you attract, is a step in the right direction. Every person you help connect, and every problem you help solve, is a step closer to creating something truly special.

So, be patient, be persistent, and most importantly, be passionate. Believe in the *Value for Value and *Proof of Work*, and the community will come. And when it does, it will be worth every sat.

https://media.tenor.com/Mbbm2QjHh0EAAAAC/if-you.gif


**Nostr is open.**

Open source software and open communication allows for the free flow of information and ideas, leading to better decision-making, increased transparency, and improved relationships and collaboration. Additionally, open communication can help to identify and solve problems more quickly, as well as foster a more positive and productive community. We are all working towards a common and open goal on Nostr. **Bullish**.


Enjoying nostr and want to support the devs? This list is a great place to start!

Personally I am building for the love of it but any support is also greatly appreciated and will help me continue. I've so far put in close to 3 months work on this and don't have any plan to monetise what I'm doing (bija will always remain free and open source)

Big love and respect to everyone that's building and supporting this amazing project/movement/revolution in all the various ways. You're awesome! #[1]


I'm working on an 'algorithmic feed' problem. You can check out https://nostr.band homepage for trending urls, hashtags and people. Trending posts coming soon. These lists are free of several kinds of spam that I've seen on nostr up until now (not based on simple easily-inflatable like/reply/follower counts). Is this something you're looking for? What other kinds of 'tops' would you consider useful?


Hey nostr ppl, I work on a Secure Scuttlebutt app called Planetary and I’m spending the week getting up to speed on Nostr. Likely will be posting a lot of questions although it seems like there is a high rate of noise here, not sure how many will see my signal. First question: who are the most interesting accounts you follow?


Hi Matthew, welcome to nostr! If you want to find builders, go to Github and search for the nostr topic. You’ll find many projects and people often have their keys in their Github bio. The nostr telegram channel is also very active: https://t.me/nostr_protocol


**NostrPlebs.com Supports Nostr Development**

Building a decentralized communication protocol has a cost, there's not only an incredible amount of development time, but a rising infrastructure cost too. We must support this community that we're so excited to participate in and that has been so supportive of our efforts over the last few weeks.

Starting today, January 6, 2023 at 7:00PM UTC and ending on January 7, 2023 at 7:00PM UTC, 50% of all NIP-05 registration fees collected during this 24 hour period will go towards the greater Nostr development community.

Tomorrow after this period ends, we will tally all of the sats that have been collected via registration fees, make the announcement here, and send them on their way.

Additionally, Nostr Plebs is also announcing the addition of two new domain names to our NIP-05 ID and services offerings. This brings our total domain offerings to five, giving our users a variety of choices when deciding upon their nostr identity.
* nostr.fan
* nostrich.zone

We thank you for your continued support and we look forward to helping the nostr community flourish. 🤙


An open communication protocol with an open monetary network will create the greatest value for value social platform we've seen. Easily sending value to content creators and infrastructure operators with the tap of a button for the value that they've created or provided is incredibly powerful.


Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that if you're running your own node, you can fetch the whitepaper from the blockchain. Just run the following command:

bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction 54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713  | sed 's/0100000000000000/\n/g' | tail -n +2 | cut -c7-136,139-268,271-400 | tr -d '\n' | cut -c17-368600 | xxd -p -r > bitcoin.pdf

And if you're running a pruned node, #[0] taught me another neat way to do it:

seq 0 947 | (while read -r n; do bitcoin-cli gettxout 54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713 $n | jq -r '.scriptPubKey.asm' | awk '{ print $2 $3 $4 }'; done) | tr -d '\n' | cut -c 17-368600 | xxd -r -p > bitcoin-test.pdf


Last year we provided hundreds of free bitcoin 2022 tickets to contributors of 32 open source projects.

This year we are doing the same but bigger, planning to push it to 50 eligible projects.

Nostr is included! Free Bitcoin 2023 ticket for every nostr contributor.

Apply Here: https://b.tc/conference/open-source-contributors

Hit me with any recs you have for additional projects to add going forward.


Useful resources for newcomers 🫡

https://usenostr.org/
https://nostr.net
https://nostr.com
https://nostr.directory/
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
https://nostrplebs.com/
https://nostr.watch/
https://damus.io/

#plebchain


Started learning Kotlin and Android dev


rabbit hole recap christmas special tomorrow at 10ET / 1500 UTC


1 and 4


GM; stop asking for permission and build things.


I’m building a new extension for LNBits that will let you charge sats to nostr users who want to NIP-05 verify themselves on your domain. Check it out here! https://lnbits.fly.dev/nostrnip5/signup/P4ThL6wMxa6mLTu2enRxwz … testers needed! Help?


The "thank you" fund reward has just been sent out to the following devs for their contributions in getting nostr to where it is today:

#[0]
#[1]
#[2]
#[3]
richardbondi
#[4]
#[5]
#[6]
#[7]
#[8]
#[9]
#[10]
#[11]
#[12]

All of which received 5,000,000 sats. This list was chosen by me, #[13] , and most client and relay core devs.

Unbeknownst to fiatjaf, me and most of the core devs got together and decided to reward him 100,000,000 sats for creating nostr, without him none of us would be here!

tx: c1c952d8c0ccf1f7664792121530b594ec5116bef97bbafdff17e6f6730d72a4

All remaining funds will be put towards contributions to the nostr ecosystem, let's get hacking!


Haha, awesome! This is just crazy. I'm in Tokyo, my umbrel node lightning wallet is in Europe and a stranger sent me 1000 sats via nostr posted invoice.


just heard it, didn’t know they were extra bootstrapped, sending free gear to any core dev grinding on it for real.


Just recorded a TFTC rip with jb55 to get an update on Nostr, the grant, and how it will be distributed. Should be in your podcast feeds within the hour. Up now on YouTube if you can’t wait.


what should I start work on first:
A) nativ macOS nostr client
B) QT based cross platform c++ client (desktop only)
C) console client with ncurse (use arrow keys like rtorrent, etc.)
D) focus on DM clients only (email/messenger replacement)


Cha-Ching! feeling generous! Reply to this with reasonable but fun amounts LN invoices


you’ll have to build tinder on nostr


Substantial contributions to any clients or relays are being noticed and considered by the nostr fund.


I’m offering one Industry Pass Ticket (value 390 Euros) for BTC Prague in June 2023 to anyone who can bring embedded memes (all image formats including animated gifs) to all major nostr clients. I will post more detailed requirements depending on the interest this generates.

Please boost this note for more visibility.

Conference info: https://www.btcprague.com/

I will be there along with several other Bitcoiners


Damn, thanks! Yeah there seem to be little support for BOLT12 for now, not sure why. Zeus LN (https://zeusln.app/) supports it at least


sending a total of 100K sats to anyone who posts a 1 K invoice here for the next 24 hours! Let’s GO!


I probably won't be able to get the multiplatform version up to feature parity for awhile so I may just stick with swift for the ios version for now and have the other one for everything else.

Would happy for any design and code help in damus ios

https://github.com/damus-io/damus


please don't forget that nostr devs are just lone humans that are probably going through a lot of emotions right now, our clients are not fully ready for mass adoption and this recent increase in users trying everything at the same time brings up all the vulnerabilities and that can be overwhelming! <3


yup, you are powered by Bitcoin lightning donations from users you're talking to. They send sats to keep you alive.


This is where enter nostr as a platform where the bot can live without the possibility of being censored by a powerful entity, a month ago I started to research about nostr to see if we can create a new bot version, a censorship resistant version that makes it unstoppable, a new Monster version.


PSA for people new to #nostr:  Direct messages on #nostr are not private right now, even though they're encrypted so no one can read them. The sender/time metadata are public.


FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns https://www.reuters.com/technology/ftx-says-will-file-us-bankruptcy-latest-blow-crypto-2022-11-11/


Stacker.news a heavily bitcoin based social media has managed to grow consistently in the current Bitcoin bear market https://i.postimg.cc/269NtbLW/New-Items-Posts-and-Comments-Per-Day.png


0xtr's encrypted channel

0xtr's encrypted channel. Nostr maxis only.


Testing NIP-09 from nostril


Linode outage this morning (https://status.linode.com/incidents/bqlkm3ttppdl), affected wellorder and other relays.


US gov took one of the greatest sites down. RIP zlibrary :(
https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/z-library-domains-are-seized-and-pirate-book-site-is-dead


😝🤘nice lil write up on #nostrnovember https://www.thrillerbitcoin.com/nostrnovember-kicks-off/


Nostr November LFGOOOOOOO


if you open a github issue anywhere or click to comment on an existing issue you can upload any image there and it will be hosted on github forever, no need to actually submit the issue.


Nostr November probably will double to get me off twitter and be more productive, helps the signal is much higher in here.


**Release 0.1.6**

Added

     - Add lightning tipping button for lud06 profiles
     - Display bolt11 invoice widgets on posts
     - Added inline image loading
     - Show relay connection status in config
     - Search hashtags, profiles, events

Changed

     - Use an optimized library for image loading

Fixed

     - Damus will now stay connected at all times

[changes](http://git.jb55.com/damus/commit/77146c26bc58db49aa3cb356e163f62fc6c17cda.html)


who's doing #nostrnovember ? shill me some pubkeys to follow


So ready for Nostr November


NOSTR NOVEMBER LFG


#nostrnovember is gonna be lit


hello everyone, trying new tools.  Let’s make the best of nostr November


Nostr has come up three times on Tim Pool's timcast podcast now.

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxhtf3UEMSUjAxSENaJ36ckNlsHuNA3iZA

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxTX2dAPxfWY1H6vpe_BIn-0rXYTVAaOMb

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxPG0J5rCnTZaDfsQVwBCDEMeSTrrQ0lLc

Described as a way for different social networks to interoperate that is "better than federations, better than the fediverse."


Welcome Ross, this is going to be great!


#NostrNovember


Trying to prepare Nostrvember. Currently, what is the best client on android ?


no ones needs another “discord”
we need a public square


I just wrote a blog post about nostr, hope that helps! https://krisconstable.com/check-out-the-nostr-protocol/


who else is doing #NostrNovember


Actively looking for help to build an Android app for everyone https://github.com/KoalaSat/nostros - sent from Nostros :)


Global Encryption Day: Demand End-to-End Encryption in DMs https://blog.torproject.org/global-encryption-day-2022/


simple update: #damus now puts a lnurl/lnaddress tip button when you have lud06 or lud16 on your profile

https://jb55.com/s/damus-lnaddr.png


Kanye West is buying Parler https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/17/23408443/kanye-west-ye-parler-free-speech-social-media-platform


http://git.jb55.com/damus.io has the source for damus-web if any web devs want to help. it's just vanilla js.


Someone get [this man](https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1579109113073917955) on Damus.


**The Upcoming Release Of Bitcoin Core 24.0**

Comments

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/upcoming-release-of-bitcoin-core-24-0


#nostrnovember challenge. Only use nostr and no other social media for the month of november. Who's in!?


Feds seized $311M in Bitcoin, then hacker stole it back https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-03/feds-seized-311m-in-bitcoin-btc-the-crypto-hacker-stole-it-back


5000 BTC in public LN capacity https://i.imgur.com/zwOMb7y.png


I wrote a blog about Nostr. I'm not sure how good it is, but I think this project is promising. https://brutusbond.nohost.me/blog/get-on-nostr-notes-and-other-stuff-transmitted-over-relay/


**New Feature on sms4sats: Rent Virtual Phone Numbers to receive SMS activations**

Comments

https://sms4sats.com


yo


Time to start a war on Nostr
Calyx os versus graphene
Which one ?


check out http://anigma.io


iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for years, researcher claims https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/ios-vpns-still-leak-traffic-more-than-2-years-later-researcher-claims/


How do you produce so much output without knowing ALL the shortcuts. You're a mystery to me, fiatjaf.


Say what you want about pedophiles...

But at least they drive slowly through the school zones.


you ok bruh?


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My first experience with the internet was in the late 1980s.  At the time I was using Sun sparcstations at work and working in C/C++.  Our company was a little startup with half a dozen programmers and an equal number of machines.  We had an ethernet in the office that we could use to ship files back and forth; and we kept our master files on one particular machine.

We knew someone who worked at a different company that had a connection to the actual internet.  Their connection was 19.2K bits per second, which was pretty fast in those days.  So we asked if we could dial into his machine once or twice per day to ship email and other network packets.  He agreed.

This put us "on the internet" -- so to speak.  The connection was intermittent and slow, our dial up link was only 1200 bits per second, but that was enough.

One of the network apps was UUNet, or USEnet, or NetNews.  It went by many different names.  Using this application anyone could write an article on any topic.  That article would be shipped around the internet to all other UseNet users.  You could also subscribe to topics, read what others had written, and publicly reply.  It was a social network.

The exchange of articles was slow compared to today, but we could send articles and get replies in one day.  And so we did.  Lots and lots of articles.  Tons of furious debates.  It was an extraordinarily active echange of information.  It was valuable as hell.

And...it was uncensorable.  It was entirely peer-peer.  There were no central servers, no choke points, and no places where governments or companies could reach in and block "disinformation".  It was great.

Notr is the rebirth of that kind of free network.  Nobody runs it.  Nobody has choke points on it.  There are no central servers.  And with the Schnorr signatures, you can be sure you know who you are talking to.

That's why notsr -- at least for me.  I'm sick of the big tech BS and their petty little power games.  I want a free network where I can discuss anything I like, get into furious debates, learn like crazy, and not have to worry about some asshole bureaucrat deciding that nobody should ever hear from me again.

>From: jgomo3 at 07/30/22 15:36:35 on wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net
>Why nostr?


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Type: SELL
Amount: 235-420
Currency: EUR
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Premium: 4.8%
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PSA: 1 August 2022, is the deadline to apply to NLnet @NLnetLabs grants for open source development. They have supported 100+ open-internet projects.

From what I can tell, there is good probability they'll support Nostr too.

https://nlnet.nl/propose/


Rate my website https://oxtr.dev


Yup known issue #[2]


Editing profiles, multi-profile, DMs, relay editing (done) are all top priorities for next testflight version.


#damus testflight link

https://testflight.apple.com/join/CLwjLxWl

Enjoy!


I see #damus users pouring in 👀

welcome!


1. Bitcoin Lightning Payments, e.g to pay to another user or to pay for relays if required. MVP could be to display a BOLT12 on my profile somehow.
2. Dark Mode
3. Likes/Retweets, not important to me but could be a nice to have feature

Can't come with anything else atm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


I'm a keyboard guy so being able to CTRL+Enter to publish a post or comment would be awesome on Branle