Amethyst feature request: Mark All Read for Direct Messages

50K sats bounty by me. Feel free to add to it.

https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/issues/172


the entire point of bitcoin is a system that obsoletes corrupt regulators

it does not matter what gensler thinks about bitcoin, what matters is he cannot stop it even if he wanted


If you're new to Nostr, paid relays may seem a bit confusing. You just need to do a little bit of up front work.

You need a Bitcoin Lightning wallet. Lightning is a fast, cheap and scalable solution for Bitcoin that makes paying for goods and services extremely easy. Wallet of Satoshi is probably one of the easiest options available. You can also use others too, such as Alby, ZBD or Muun.

You can find a list of all known paid relays at https://relay.exchange. While this website lists plenty of relays and their fees, what it doesn't tell you is their popularity or location. You can ask your followers or the people that you're following which paid relays that they're using or you can view their profile (pending client support) and view the relays that they're using.

Once you know which relays that you're going to try out or use, you'll want to visit their website, pay the admission fee, and add their relay address to your profile. Be sure to enable both read and write capabilities and then save or post the changes. That's it.

These are the paid relays that I'm using and have been using over the past month.

wss://eden.nostr.land
wss://puravida.nostr.land
wss://atlas.nostr.land
wss://relay.orangepill.dev
wss://nostr.milou.lol
wss://nostr.wine


Welcome 🫡


GM ☕ PV 🫡


GN 🫡


Welcome 👍


Nostr is not social media. Nostr is a censorship resistant communication protocol.


Credit to #[0] for this awesome meme. It’ss too good. The jack figure on the shelf is brilliant.   😂

Thanks for using my #nostr icon attempt. Humbled. 💜

Willi tip you, need to add more sats to my wallet first. ⚡

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_67a832655fd24b9e03fdbd74dd9fdc1e853a880e47c2a3cec5ac3dbe806c9e04.jpg


GM 🫡 PV


Zaps are taking over. Today, we saw ln.tips join the NIP-57 train. Who will join tomorrow? Wallet of Satoshi is close. Bitcoin Beach is working on it, too. I'd love to see #[0] add support since they're a popular wallet extension here on Nostr.


Easy to follow recipe for monetary and social success:

Run Bitcoin node.
Verify your Bitcoin transactions.
Run a Lightning node.
Open channels to a few larger nodes.
Open channels to a few pleb nodes.
Run a Nostr Relay.
Backup your Nostr data.


Everyone is starting to realize why we've been bullish on Nostr over the past two months. The freedom is spreading. It's only a matter of time before the stragglers from Twitter show up. Keep building. 🤙


Yes 🤙


Nostr is internet 2.0


Year of first contact:

1985 Computer
1994 Internet
2011 Bitcoin
2023 Nostr

Yes, I'm putting Nostr at that level.


To truly get Bitcoin's value proposition, study economics first and technology second.

There are plenty of people that understand the technology of Bitcoin, but haven't bought. Much more important is an understanding of economics and the monetary properties of Bitcoin.


You can find relays at nostr.watch


I think we are in the phase of running away from things like Twitter/Reddit to nostr, so the conversation is about that.

But it goes much broader than just social media. It’s a generalized protocol that enables many use cases, and I think the power of it comes in the ability to go from one use case, or client, to another, quickly and easily.

We haven’t seen much yet around this idea but we will.

I’m personally really hoping for a github replacement that Bitcoin core would feel safe using.


- Open protocols don't die easily
- nostr can't go bankrupt
- All accounts already exist
- Social media is only the 1st use case
- It's an identity and reputation layer
- Many "stupid" things will run over nostr
- (Calendar sync, TODO apps, etc.)
- Private relays will be big
- Pay-to-write is not a paywall
- Paywalls (pay-to-read) = stupid
- NIP-07 kills usernames and passwords
- It will improve massively over time
- Time and attention are horrible graph currencies
- Sats fix this & enhance the social graph signal
- Special clients will replace whole networks
- Pivot to nostr or perish


I am writing a public article that is partially about Nostr.

What are some easy-to-miss Nostr details that would be worth mentioning? Audience will be a mix of bitcoiners and general macro/investing audience. Mostly I sm writing for the latter- people who may not have heard about it yet.

I already included a Nostr section in my latest private research report, and included a slide about Nostr in a guest lecture at Princeton last week. I am spinning up my research on it over time, with public articles and broader reach being the next phase.


LOGO Nostr Protocol?


Twitter is dead. Long live nostr. ✊
H/t #[0] for the new icon

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_db91dfd284bd3c093107cd8d37edfd11d8d9cc346b1c17cb11db7d295f7a4009.gif


At first I was really upset and protective. As time has moved on and I've discussed it more, my opinions have changed. I don't like it. I think it's dumb. And that's okay. I'm allowed to have my own thoughts and opinions. I can't tell someone how they're supposed to use Bitcoin. I trust that the system will work itself out given enough time. Until that happens, I'm looking at this as an orange pilling event. I'm helping NFT fans run Bitcoin nodes, Lightning nodes, and teaching them about UTXOs. It's great for Bitcoin...for now.


Twitter is dead. Long live nostr. 🤙


Pura Vida 🌤


Nice 🔥


Snort login page is beautiful with art from #[0]

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_965fef8b7d13f06a396eaf5820c89bd05db72d69eff55eb7afd18b26bbcf989e.png


pretty sure this is the future of funding content


The question you should ask to every altcoin apologist: why do you need a token? Why don't you just use Bitcoin?

They'll misdirect you and never give you the straight answer, which is: they need free money from a gullible public.


My latest article for @BitcoinMagazine is about fiat money incentives at the individual level and how that is destroying lives one at a time.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/fiat-breaks-individual-incentives


Niceee


## Blogstack

Blogging Platform for #nostr:

- https://blogstack.io/

### Source

- https://github.com/nodetec/blogstack


Twitter is dying so damn fast. The 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.

🤣


ProtonVPN spiked more than 30,000% yesterday after Twitter was blocked in Turkey

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_89a990ef81f3cc9555fb95af3c2bec7d112a1d8ee5e19ac4d3cd76f5e4f1f2b2.png


Large companies are extensions of the state. Or conversely, the state is an extension of large companies.


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


Welcome to Nostr


Hello world.


Nostr and Damus are both trending on Github!

https://github.com/trending