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.


:LMAO Pepe:


:Math Pepe:


I RARELY SMASH BUY (DCA IS THE WAY), BUT NOW IS THE TIME

https://image.nostr.build/b46af23e591c9848f469c8e9fd2b00cbae1bdad291d54c5e28b8397b7193a677.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1006x1920&blurhash=%5DnPZcKa%24bJbIbIITj%5BbIbIa%23_NWAjYayjs.9WAn%23jYj%3FIUa%23jYoJf5M%7Bj%5DbIj%3FWBxaj%5DW%3Da%7DaxM%7Boej%5BWXofM_odaea%23og&x=c621bb623d02cbca1f1685e25aad3df86c714ada50b9d33fea769607ad3e9198


:PepeLaugh:


:PepeHands:


Appreciate it


Agreed, but free sats are free sats


All those people were/is a sinner


Has anyone been able to withdraw sats from the updated Fountain app? I get a blank screen on Android and iOS

https://image.nostr.build/d9648a193d9eca8c7381740b6989cf069df282fe34b945038668339159e510df.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=937x1920&blurhash=%5B3Jb25ofazof00ayazay00aya%7Cay00fQfQay00fQfQay00fQfRfQD%25fQj%5BfQ-%3BfQj%5BfQ%7EqfQj%5BfQ&x=27bb15c200a3e91de32aa612dda47a53655ff2e73e140fd51e8955c0513a166a


:Gigachad:


The biblical virtue of meekness is not cowardice or a failing of any kind; it is strength and power that is held in check.

It is a wise, self-controlled calm mind displaying gentleness, that is not easily provoked. It is closely linked to (and dependent on) wisdom, humility, love and mercy.


:Noted Pepe:


There will be many more charlatans within the Bitcoin space


:Pepe Chain:


:Hacker Pepe:


:Big Brain:


We should party there sometime


Just got Lasik in Mexico, AMA


I hourly DCA


Working out your quads will help


:Eye Pepe:


:LMAO Pepe:


:PepeLaugh:


This but with bitcoin maxis for me


:Kek Laugh:


ZEUS v0.8.1-beta1 is now available for testing

* Nostr contact import
* Standalone Point of Sale w inventory management
* Persistent LND (keep running LND even when ZEUS is closed, this enables instant ZEUS PAY zap redemptions, makes zapping faster, and paves the way for NWC) [Android only]
* Node/account reordering
* Improved expiry display
* LND v0.17.3

## Links

Release notes: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.8.1-beta1

ZEUS documentation: https://docs.zeusln.app/
Embedded node FAQ: https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/faq
Fee structure: https://docs.zeusln.app/lsp/fees

Android

Universal APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.1-beta1-universal.apk
arm64-v8a APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.1-beta1-arm64-v8a.apk
Manifest: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.8.1-beta1.txt
Manifest Signature: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.8.1-beta1.txt.sig

iOS

Apple TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/vVnODWoi
IPA: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.1-beta1.ipa https://image.nostr.build/2113a01476cc737d575f55369057d384cbde2c12a5a7c22206edb69d99b80d6e.jpg


:Math Pepe:


:Troll Smile:


Hourly ftw


Just created another animate emoji pack to supplement nostr:npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg 's classic twitch pack...

nostr:naddr1qq99gun0d3kzq5rpvd4szyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn9qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqzyq0qv7lmtzpq2akl8khhevz363q3hq9qhrap9lp98ng2ksw0rgsxjqcyqqq82nspjmgm6


God will steer the boat, but you must row. https://image.nostr.build/cc6af64d55de3a65cb53422003f29c97611aea1d9c28890bcbcc54687c54a8f8.jpg


:blobDance:


:eyes:


What capacity and how many sats to open?


:vibePls:


Rick roll video


The Creature From Jekyll Island


No


I think so, haven't been able to connect to it since a hour ago


Me watching fees dropping on mempool and waiting to send corn to Whirlpool

https://media1.tenor.com/m/kJS0W9pqUDQAAAAC/lurking-creeping.gif


What were the transaction fees?


Strong side 💪🏻 #LFC #YNWA #Liverpool

https://image.nostr.build/ddde597f3d505d5e55bd8e9667f10b7c9b45813317611093ddc40f41e79d8959.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x1306&blurhash=_CHmQH0x00%3B%25%7EC%23%3B56Uv%25gtRV%40ozM%7BS1yrH%3FtRkWRPWUxu4ntlkqMxninis%3AT0IUe%3Doyt6oytQIAoztRe.njn%2BogIAxuofV%40oyj%5BjF%25MR6afoza_f%24oyI9%25ft7RkRQRkju&x=dfb86762b294c0161872b408c4dbe57411359587cb0d7a13fd8bd02ebb75e34a


Who’s ready for a new android client this year? 🤠


#pepethon 4ever. If you have heard about pepethon. Boost this post.

https://void.cat/d/ToZBo8RTkcyft4F3sF1dsn.webp


All of the faces / influencers here are ALL here for themselves. Accept that firstly before listening to a word. Then yes they say stuff that may connect with you…. But always remember YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN !


:PepeWhy:


Great book


Working on some #nostr explainer illustrations 🤖 https://nogood.studio/nostr/NG_Relays_Part01.jpg


He's definitely gonna slay


Like if you don't suck. Comment if you're cool. Repost if you like the sats


https://media1.tenor.com/m/PY4uJ0NkywQAAAAC/the-goon-dodgeball.gif

But have you tried poo-ing in the tub?


That's true. You do have to open to other peers with your liquidity... I've been out the game for a while, did things change?


Why don't you try some Rings of Fire or lightningnetwork.plus and get inbound for free?


Introducing Mempool Goggles!

Have you ever wished you had x-ray specs to see exactly what's inside the mempool?

No, me neither, but we built you a pair anyway.

https://image.nostr.build/6dfffff690ae12803d3646886ba448f2dfb1b9a1e4d3be35963bee0afdc9d8ec.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=893x900&blurhash=%7CAGjj%3D%2BwDgE01OKHD%7D-%40%238o%5Df-sFr%3ASJa*xGX8NFD4S%5Eb%24gRT3rY%255Z%7CO%3FrxwHJNKR%24%2BfzJ7nNxcOtWHg9nJj9TKi%5DW%3DV%40nMbuxwnNNHe%3AoHkCWS5ts*xlR%3Az%3FajT0bvS%24ktNHnLt7NZw%40R%3BT1w%5EJENem*XUPD%23%7Es%2BnOr%3F&x=a1f1c72026d28ee865cc29a3c2a0da3bfe676f5f3ad35374b9f1898f27a17e02

Click on the Mempool Goggles icon at the top left of the mempool block visualization to reveal the new filter menu.

There are 25 different categories to explore, or mix-and-match to narrow down your focus even further.

https://image.nostr.build/989f42be01721cedfac90f517c83d3dd0791bd0699b7ab62e6a13586c5fca1ae.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=669x680&blurhash=%7C29ZWg*JS6XR9_In0zRO0f-%3AoM%251kWkXs%2CR.w%5BIV9EMdtlWYbHxao%23xtj%5E%25Ms%3Bt7V%40kCoeRjt6R-9ERPoyV%40tlt7ogxaa%23VrM%7Bg3bIR*oLbct7o2EhV%40ofogf5ofV%40o0ofIAR%25R%2BaKWBflj%3FW%3DxtGbs%3ARPWVZ%7ER*slR-t6&x=78b74823e7a3f02cefef36ed5c2f7eb2ef596bae239446ff995de73ec8efd13a

Want to see how much of the mempool is occupied by monkey jpegs? Try the "Inscription" filter.

Curious how many transactions use both RBF and CPFP to bump fees? Hit the "Replacement" and "Pays for parent" filters.

https://image.nostr.build/faf9fcc03e238f6dcdfc9a6db242521816f4aca3e6b43c7fd83a0bd07bb1ff69.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=669x680&blurhash=%7C29PQd%5Ek1PNZ0%7CaIEfNGxHtTx%5ExuoIacRhRiaeo3Bqkr%252oIjDngngniWXOtT1X9sls8ngr%3DWBS4BWXAxaj%3Fn%23nhWAaxWXs%3BShoLxFS1axf5S2WWE%25WBjYa%7Ds%3Aofs%3AW%3BS2V%3FV%3FjEWXSis%3Bs%3BofWoM%7BV%3DnhS5S%24bdogs%3AoJ&x=81cf8255ab24c9456ed933da5f475b24f76334c8d3e20637aad3420af5f108f7

From simple mempool analysis to advanced technical insights, Mempool Goggles has something for everyone.

Check it out now on the mempool block page
https://mempool.space/mempool-block/0


1. Take free tampons
2. Repackage them with some marketing about freedom
3. Resell freedom tampons
4. Buy bitcoin


When it's all said and done, you'll go down as a legend in the Nostr movement... Thank you, Will


It did, thanks!


A call to crypto flippers

Whether or not there is another “alt season”, I invite all you crypto aficionados to redirect your life’s energy, up to now invested in feeding this addiction to coin flipping/“invoosting”, towards cleaning up your act instead. Come join us on the bitcoin front—we have a lot to give, yes, but we need you, too.

You see we’re approaching a battle of the ages here. One that will likely involve bank runs, devaluations, and wars in the West. A conflict whose outcomes will certainly impact the lives of our children and many generations after. And for that years’ long struggle our world needs all the help it can get.

I have a lot of sympathy for people suffering from behavioral addictions and general lack of impulse control—I struggle with this still myself. In fact I believe addiction is the dominant challenge of our current era, co-created by the fiat system which drastically reduces the rewards people can earn from deferral of gratification and a virtuous life in general.

But this is not the place to get in the intellectual weeds.

I’m just here to send you, to the best of my ability, a warm invitation to try and clean up your life. I’m here to remind you that the world is worth it, and to valiantly assure you that you are worth it.

So get yourself to a meeting (yes the one you’ve been telling yourself you don’t need), pick up that book you bookmarked a while ago, ask someone for advice or support, cue up that meditation podcast, walk a dog, go on a walk in nature, or take a cold shower for 30 seconds. I suggest beginning small, so small that you can take that first step right now.

We’re all going to die one day. You know it, and deep down you also know what kind of life will make you feel proud to have lived. Sure, you can keep trying to get that chuckle out of other degen traders, and get on a little buzz by setting up that 10x leveraged play, but deep down you know that is just a poor surrogate for making a real connection with yourself and the rest of this world.

Here is the good news: once you start walking the path towards the good life (not as in hedonism but as in doing the right thing), you will, little by little, start noticing that you are in fact not alone, that in fact we are all in this together. You’ll start developing friendships and rekindling old ones that you’d forgotten you lost. And, paradoxically, as you slowly face your fears of “not having enough” head on, you’ll realize you already have so much to be grateful for, and you’ll start to feel happier than you’ve ever been.

Help yourself, you’re worth it! Under that thin cynical veneer, a truly beautiful person resides. That person knows in his bones that this little planet, with all its male and female silliness, with its songs of pain and sorrow, this blue-green-orange place teeming with life, is surely worth it too. Your possible reaction to this paragraph, that “meh…” or eye rolling part of you, that’s not all of you, that’s not who you are deep down. There is wonder in you, and joy, and a thirst for worthwhile adventure. If you can’t feel it, it doesn’t mean the sun isn’t there for you, but just that there’s clouds hanging out in your sky. An ominous sky makes place for a cheerful one, over time but inevitably, once one starts walking the path of the good life.

So join us my friend. Join us bitcoiners in the fight to defend life and liberty on earth. Lord of the Rings is real, and we are the Hobbits: weak physically, sure, but possessing a unique power to save the world of man. Time to leave the Shire!


It’s ‘Merry Christmas’ not ‘Merry Xmas’.

Don’t take Christ out of it ✝


Merry Christmas!


Has anyone recently tried to withdraw their sats from Lolli? We're you successful? I initiated a withdrawal 10 days ago and it's still pending 😑


Dang forgot they fought early because of the time zone 🤦🏻♂


Did he ever welcome you?


rural-bronze-sturgeon@ghst.to

https://media1.tenor.com/m/x9HyTfKBXVEAAAAC/doja-cat.gif


MASSIVE GAME TODAY

WHOEVER LOSES WILL NOT WIN THE PREMIER LEAGUE

#LFC #YNWA #UPTHEREDS

https://image.nostr.build/1aafdeaa9913b871b19829ac4b7f4edaf0f7f31b70a0c6807945d60abf476e33.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x1335&blurhash=_AIf*%3D2.00%3BO%7ED-CELqu.StlMxj%5DRjtR*IMJ%25gtRRPR*oz00x%5Ex%5DVss.aeRjtlRPafS2RPRis%3ADiXSX8RPVsjFtRV%3F%25gs%3AV%40fPayjF%25gRPoftRWBWBWB8_x%5BozbHayozWW&x=330e96cd5437e3490fef639f79d2470038c41580aef341c97f521e0edf2b60b4


I thought it was entertaining, did take some time though


Please don't tell me you paid $13.99/lb?


Pricing your assets and net worth in #bitcoin is an eye-opening experience.

You may be gaining in US dollar (or other fiat currency) terms, while losing in #bitcoin terms.

I highly recommend this practice.


Thank you sir


Would someone zap me please? Testing out nostr:npub19tcpurtt6xulhw0r6sc404j9jraj0h8me2lzs7z2tqewz7l0hpas59nlea's Ghost address


The wait for the new Ghost-enabled thunderhub is over! Now available on Umbrel!

Thanks for the lightning fast update!
👻⚡☂
https://image.nostr.build/65d761c6dc86077d70f6233b3dd005d912aa7dcb988444d9c24e3f277913c9a1.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1480x1151&blurhash=%23QH27%3A%23hDOxT%5Eks7wNs*RQ%5Du%2B%40whwbw%7Dwbw%7Ds8sqD*-6%3FunlD%25oMSfjItQ%24.n%24S0NxR%25ShS1S4S1-%3Bj%3BIUS%24xuR%2CWVW%3DRj-Ys9WToNWAj%5DWBj%5DbEt8sloJa%24jYkCoLWXjZ&x=430ce3078709cba3dc30c4e0601e372e3d9daca82bceaac33ec0c0cf5d496209

nostr:nevent1qqsx6s43z026g3h4x6u9rghhz8a2app870vdsm0k49klqp5t6xqu59cpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qgsz4uq7p44arw0mh83agv2h6ezep7e8mnau403g0p99svhp00hms7crqsqqqqqpvyrqjv


:PepeLaugh:


pretty...pretty...pretty good, right?
https://media1.tenor.com/m/AOPxeZh1jbkAAAAC/larry-david-pretty-good.gif


:PepeMoney:


:PepeMoney: :PepeMoney: :PepeMoney: :PepeMoney:


cmon nosbros, call for the encore


:ganacci_dance: :ganacci_dance: :ganacci_dance: :ganacci_dance: :ganacci_dance:


:catJAM: :catJAM: :catJAM: :catJAM: :catJAM:


:vibePls: :vibePls: :vibePls: :vibePls:


the nosbros la sugar wore off


nostr:npub13wfgha67mdxall3gqp2hlln7tc4s03w4zqhe05v4t7fptpvnsgqs0z4fun  whats the current price of bitcoin


EW can suck on deez nutz


:Pog: :Pog: :Pog: :Pog: :Pog:


:ratJAM: :ratJAM: :ratJAM: :ratJAM:


:monkaW: :monkaW: :monkaW:


Master Shredder


:CATJAM: :CATJAM: :CATJAM: :CATJAM: :CATJAM:


nosbros are def jealous


:peepoClap: :peepoClap: :peepoClap: :peepoClap:


:pepeJam: :pepeJam: :pepeJam: :pepeJam: :pepeJam:


LMAO the bros!


the snozberries taste like snozzberries


thinking i got a bad batch


I tried a heroic dose and nothing happened


:dancing_banana: :dancing_banana: :dancing_banana:


:blobDance: :blobDance: :blobDance: :blobDance:


I cut refined sugar out of my diet


:PepeLaugh: :PepeLaugh: :PepeLaugh:


I've never heard of either of these artist ever before in my life


:Dance: :Dance: :Dance: :Dance: :Dance: :Dance:


:catDance: :catDance: :catDance: :catDance:


:ganacci_dance: :ganacci_dance: :ganacci_dance: :ganacci_dance:


JL running on the CP time


:PepeLaugh:


Shredding


Boosters?


Merry Christmas!


You can't... You can only control your actions and responses


When you have to wait for Umbrel to update to the latest Thunderhub version so you can try out nostr:npub19tcpurtt6xulhw0r6sc404j9jraj0h8me2lzs7z2tqewz7l0hpas59nlea's Ghost address... Might have to ssh and do it manually

https://media1.tenor.com/m/RFVkFuKn0S0AAAAC/cmon-dude-cmon-man.gif


Introducing the Ghost Address! 👻⚡

A Ghost Address is a Lightning Address for every lightning node, eliminating the reliance on custodial intermediaries to obtain a Lightning Address.  Ghost Addresses enable easy lightning payments directly to self-custody!
https://amboss.tech/_next/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fblog%2Fghost-addresses%2Fhero.webp&w=1920&q=75

What's a Ghost Address? 👻

It's the fusion of Phantom Payments first described by nostr:npub1spralxq6jlw5rdy0249vqr5sh43rfrlx2wzv3rhjjqedw559w9psrs8s72 with the simplicity of Lightning Addresses from nostr:npub1rvg76s0gz535txd9ypg2dfqv0x7a80ar6e096j3v343xdxyrt4ksmkxrck . It's all about making lightning transactions as easy as email. 📧⚡

Getting started is easy. Update to the latest Ghost-enabled Thunderhub.io , claim your Ghost Address, and step into the new era of self-custodied lightning zaps!
https://image.nostr.build/05bd50be440908dede1aa9527d95135bd31a016a5307d99a87462bde45fd7254.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=662x259&blurhash=Z04B%7CSo%24_3%3FbIT%25gITM%7BIA%7Eq-%3B%25M%3FbWBt7ofIUWAD%23%7Eqxu%25g-%3BRjxuM%7BWWRN-%3A_3Rj%3FbazIUxuIU&x=d23ba8a784c77403aae841466756a6d86031ef08960d5260825c42f54060a467

Dive deeper into Ghost Addresses, how they work, and their impact on the Lightning Network in our latest blog post: https://amboss.tech/blog/ghost-addresses .

Lastly, Merry Christmas from the Amboss team! Now we can be sure that you'll be getting into the Christmas Spirit! 👻🎄


Been working on this during every waking moment I've had for over a month.

feelsgoodman.jpg

https://github.com/MutinyWallet/mutiny-node/pull/867

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


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


#LFC

5-1 and this beauty

https://video.nostr.build/a468c6a4dac4aabb12d4c5e85b412a1c8d1228fe2a1ce4cf6b8121fb8f31be83.mp4#m=video%2Fmp4&dim=960x544&blurhash=i3CQ%5E2cUpBadkk%25etQV_Rj%2BoVLn%25RloeM%7DV%5BoyWTDJRRxGozjvW%2CM%7CWCxsHma3jIkCWER*brM%7Dt7Hlr%5DbXV%5Bxaazjuj%40ae&x=805983ce5caeb2a7c20b167dd70331437a8af563883adab406a7153c15240ee5


DN can


Classic Fold


Micro-g


I have decided to refocus this account on the mission: spreading #bitcoin adoption

I will no longer be getting involved in debates as I think it only lessens the impact I'm trying to make.

No more noise. Just signal! 🫡


What do I expect in 2024 for #Bitcoin? ⚡💡🏗

- Bitcoin layers adoption (RGB/Liquid)
- Growth of the Lightning Network
- More anti system applications like Coinjoin
- Growth of Nostr
- Web5 applications
- Activation of the BIP-119 soft fork or similar
- Frost, Miniscript, Musig2 under construction and implementation
- Taproot Channels in other implementations like LDK and Eclair
- Bitcoin halving
- Stratrum V2 and Braidpool adoption
- Fedimint and Cashu with new apps and implementations
- More DLCs applications

#bitcoin #nostr


JA MORANT

BANG BANG


Alligator, crocodile, caiman (from top to bottom)... Based off of the length and width of their snout


Buy USB adapter and have spare storage


The mempool clearing nicely as expected


pssst, likes and engagement are trivial


World Industries


I think you're spot on... From what I've read, it seems pretty fishy that the SEC would prefer cash redemptions over in kind unless there were underlying motives to be able to rehypothecate the actual bitcoin


You can dollar cost average and then set a threshold where they will send to your cold storage/Bitcoin address


#tunestr

https://song.link/i/1455694862


You can check any node's status at amboss.space

Just enter their public key and then click on channels


Just fleeced Bitcoin Magazine out of 175 sats pretending to read their articles, AMA

https://media1.tenor.com/m/oziArFwwX78AAAAC/rich-man-homer.gif


I will


What's that? Is it like a raised bed or something?


What do you use for alerts?


Might start a class action law suit for tall people


They'll clear around Christmas


A NIP for liquid tips called squirts? 💦


BAM RODRIGUEZ 👀👀👀


There are 60 million millionaires in the world, and every single one of them has a store of value problem. And so does everyone else in the world.

The cost to ship a sizable amount of gold internationally costs hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. Even if you just buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold domestically and bring it home, you're paying a spot markup of thousands of dollars. The cost to close a luxury mansion real estate deal (which many wealthy people just own and leave empty as a store of value) can be hundreds of thousands of dollars or more, and then depending on their jurisdiction they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in property taxes on it. An international wire transfer often costs like $30 and takes days and is entirely permissioned/centralized/credit-based. Credit card fees are like 3%. The global banking industry generates hundreds of billions of dollars in fees per year even though it's all centralized.

Bitcoin is a decentralized global liquid store of value and settlement network. You can send money to any internet-connected person in the world generally in an hour or less depending on desired block confirmations. You can indefinitely self-custodially store value in a unit that is scarcer than gold and scarcer than real estate and that unlike both gold and real estate is globally portable. It currently costs like $35 to do this and everyone is losing their minds at how expensive that seems. But $35 is an *outstanding* price for this service, and in ten years I have no idea what the price will be but there are many scenarios where it could be way higher.

Right now, bitcoin fees are higher than normal because people are trading frogs on the timechain and so forth. But regardless, people need to be ready for the prospect of sustained high fees if bitcoin adoption continues to grow structurally with limited block space. This means users, developers, businesses, etc. To put it into this bigger context, fees are still insanely cheap compared to other alternatives listed above that give similar store of value and global payment properties at scale.

I'm a bit surprised fees haven't *already* been $35 on a regular basis by now. So to flip it around; fees aren't expensive because there are frogs on the timechain; fees are still cheap because relatively few people are using bitcoin to send and store money compared to the total addressable market that could be doing so.

Does this price out small users? Unfortunately, yes. That's where layers come in, and the options vary depending on if someone is a power user or not. Hal Finney wrote about that in 2010; it's not a new narrative.

A couple Lightning channels can open a lot of payment liquidity for you. Sidechains like Liquid didn't get much attention when fees were low but now people are giving them a second look. Chaumian mints allow communities around the world to set up their own community banks/custodians with built-in privacy.  Places like Cash App allow people to buy bitcoin with decent custodial assurances run by serious people (eg it's not some crazy-haired idiot in the Bahamas). These are all tools that people can use to have bitcoin price exposure, pay in bitcoin, etc. And a unique aspect of bitcoin is the ability to split control. Multi-institution multi-sigs, or federated sidechains: the fact that ownership can be broken into several different entities is not something available to gold or similar assets, and yet a lot of people take it for granted on bitcoin. These are all tools that businesses can offer and people can use for smaller amounts, and then pull into on-chain self-custody if they have a sizable balance for longer-term storage.

In the future, some soft forks or non-form upgrades might allow other types of models. I think the ecosystem is still in its infancy. But in the meantime, it helps to have perspective on what bitcoin offers compared to alternatives, and to be realistic about the long-run inevitability of substantial base-layer fees if any meaningful adoption becomes sustained, and thus the importance of preparing for them.

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


High fees at this stage are GOOD for bitcoin.

Ordinals are fee payers (or maybe better stated as mempool fillers) of last resort. Just like bitcoin mining is energy consumers of last resort. Ordinals fill the mempool that might otherwise be partially empty. Without high fees and full blocks, the long term economic viability of mining is questionable.

Oridnals are pushing fees up and creating a floor price and pushing layer 2 innovation and adoption. It's spurring conversations and debate around Lightning, fedimints, liquid, etc.

A high fee environment is a proving ground that mining/hashing can remain economically viable even without block rewards. This is critical as hashrate secures the network.


What's your source? When I did calculations between River and Strike I found that the spread from River was a lot smaller than Strike


I'll take them


With a name like Babylon and backing by Nic Carter, what could go wrong???


🚨🚨 nostr:npub1hte85nxymfyez0nlmmxf287nh9cujfuetxhk9vptwcdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d 🚨🚨


George Santos


As much as I cringe sometimes reading your stream of consciousness, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!


Ye is a master troll 🤣🤣
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A short (and incomplete) story about #nostr relays nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6

https://nogood.studio/nostr/NG_Relays_001.jpg https://nogood.studio/nostr/NG_Relays_002.jpg https://nogood.studio/nostr/NG_Relays_003.jpg https://nogood.studio/nostr/NG_Relays_004.jpg


nostr:npub1csamkk8zu67zl9z4wkp90a462v53q775aqn5q6xzjdkxnkvcpd7srtz4x9 nostr:npub1hte85nxymfyez0nlmmxf287nh9cujfuetxhk9vptwcdqg0pn8pxqxasw3d IT'S TIME ...

https://media1.tenor.com/m/ED-FjaZEvdAAAAAC/hurry-up-judge-judy.gif


Was also going to apply but saw in some of the comment that it does require some technical/coding experience...Good luck though!


Bitcoin Trading Cards Attempts To Make Influencer Circle Jerk Even Gayer
https://www.thebitcoinbugle.com/bitcoin-trading-cards-attempts-to-make-influencer-circle-jerk-even-gayer/


Reading The Creature from Jekyll Island...

The Rothchild's Formula:

1. War is the ultimate discipline to any government. If it can successfully meet the challenge of war, it will survive. If it cannot, it will perish. All else is secondary. The sanctity of its laws, the prosperity of its citizens, and the solvency of its treasury will be quickly sacrificed by any government in its primal act of self-survival.

2. All that is necessary, therefore, to insure that a government will maintain or expand its debt is to involve it in war or the threat of war. The greater the threat and the more destructive the war, the greater the need for debt.

3. To involve a country in war or the threat of war, it will be necessary for it to have enemies with credible military might. If such enemies already exist, all the better. If they exist but lack military strength, it will be necessary to provide them the money to build their war machine. If an enemy does not exist at all, then it will be necessary to create one by financing the rise of a hostile regime.

4. The ultimate obstacle is a government which declines to finance its wars through debt. Although this seldom happens, when it does, it will be necessary to encourage internal political opposition, insurrection, or revolution to replace that government with one that is more compliant to our will. The assassination of heads of state could play an important role in this process.

5. No nation can be allowed to remain militarily stronger than its adversaries, for that could lead to peace and a reduction of debt. To accomplish this balance of power, it may be necessary to finance both sides of the conflict. Unless one of the combatants is hostile to our interests and, therefore, must be destroyed, neither side should be allowed a decisive victory or defeat. While we must always proclaim the virtues of peace, the unspoken objective is perpetual war.


Bro I just followed you and now I see this

https://media1.tenor.com/m/LoZlpBdGi2AAAAAC/joe-biden-cmon-man.gif


You're welcome


What'd taste like?


NICE TRY FBI!


Check out our latest Frostsnap prototypes.

Hardware wizardry nostr:npub164hqu5x5jn0smy7ftfdzadsv3ncv9myay5e3fpqgc8a7exnq8tkqe89e55

App ingenuity nostr:npub1xh897wvhn93tda0zws94mdyc7eagc8qm0798clp7x48zh6kjwazq29gst6

Welcome to the future of #bitcoin self-custody ❄
https://frostsnap.com/demo.mp4

Frostsnap is a mobile-first hardware wallet 📲

Begin your self-custody journey by plugging Frostsnap devices into your phone and naming them via the Frostsnap app.

Choose a security threshold and begin key generation to easily set up a multisig wallet in a matter of seconds.

In this demo we create a 2-of-3 multisig between the devices. A threshold of two means we need any two of the three devices to sign in order to spend funds from the wallet. ❄🔒

Daisy-chained Frostsnap devices participate in distributed key generation, each contributing entropy to a joint secret shared across multiple devices.

No single device knows the overall secret, only a fragment.

You, the user, can easily verify the key was created securely ✅

After creating a new key, you can hide your Frostsnap devices in different locations or share them among people you trust. 🏘🏝👨⚖

When it comes time to make a bitcoin transaction or sign a Nostr post under your Frostsnap key, you must sign on multiple devices.

Frostsnap is crafting a whole new Bitcoin experience,

And we're fixing the problems of self-custody today:
security, accessibility, cost, and privacy.

Frostsnap is making #bitcoin ownership easy, personalized, and secure.

Stay Frosty ❄


PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

#permies

https://video.nostr.build/324713b9f10fb33ff6fa146aae79c1eafc5e7edeacab078f5539ea7e7e791cc3.mp4


🤯 https://v.nostr.build/gQkl.mp4


If you're into men...


TIL nostr:npub1mc20uche0cy599vpl850aschpu7wteundgsnf0msep79lu3fu5aq3r4ptv is a woman

https://media1.tenor.com/m/spSgkqK707kAAAAd/ok-all.gif


Haney looked pretty good


Are they free at the local pickup sites?


NICE RACK of books!


On Ocean Mining Pool, Inscriptions and Luke
———————————————

There's been a pretty big flare up in the Bitcoin community about Ocean Mining's two recent blocks. Namely, that they didn't include certain transactions designed to use the block space for something other than its monetary transactional uses. Indeed, many influencers, especially those that are pro-BRC20 and Ordinals, are condemning this course of action as censorship.

In a sense, this is exactly what all pools do. They create a block template for everyone else to mine. In that sense, each miner to a pool is really renting the pool hash rate and the pool does the work of using that hash rate to create blocks, whatever they may be. But it's a bit disingenuous to complain specifically about Ocean, since lots of pools have made blocks that didn't create the optimal profit-driven block.

Not every pool makes the maximal amount of fees for a block, whether because they have bad software, certain policies or just because the block was found before a block template could be constructed. The optimum is an ideal and though the modern economic assumption of idealized homo economicus would create these blocks each time, we don't have a steady-state mining economy so not everyone mines the theoretic optimum.

In a sense, the analysis of pools and the block templates these critics make is flawed because they assume some optimized economy. Given ideal conditions, of course, there is an optimal set of transactions you accept to increase fees. Over a long enough time period, those should result in more profit which get spread over the participants which should make the pool more popular, making those that don't perform the optimum lose profit and eventually bankrupt. But that's a very narrow analysis based purely on monetary incentives.

We don't live in under ideal conditions and situations change all the time. Basic things, like getting a block template ready quickly after a block is found is an optimization that's difficult and still not completely solved. But there's also the opinions of the miners themselves. Are they all strictly profit driven?

Think about normal businesses. Why do they offer fair trade coffee? From a purely monetary perspective, fair trade coffee doesn't make any sense. They're more expensive for the same good. From a profit-maximizing analysis that MBAs are so fond of, the non-fair trade coffee would put the fair trade coffee out of business. But yet, in the real world, they do not because people care more than just the good itself, but what it took to make the good. In other words, the homo economicus analysis of economic situations rarely is the optimum for the real world. There are other considerations other than profit that go into any business.

And that's really at the heart of what's being argued here. Luke believes that inscriptions are a waste of block space, a public nuisance and that even if his pool participants have to take a loss, that it's worthwhile because of the public good that it does. In other words, he sees these inscriptions as *immoral* and that the price he's willing to pay is fees that he would otherwise have gotten.

People are acting like this is some sort of affront to market forces or game theory and that the only consideration he should have is like that of homo economicus, whether he makes more profit or less. But this is a very fiat/Keynesian way of looking at the whole picture. People are more than just profit-maximalization machines and mining pool participants are no different.

Indeed, that's the impression I got from the Ocean Mining Pool summit I went to a few weeks ago. They are that response to the many mining pools that are doing unethical things like not paying out their participants for fees that come in off band.

The calculation that Luke has made is that being moral, that is not polluting blocks, is worth the 1% loss in fees. Given what I know about Luke, even a 90% loss in fees is unlikely to sway him. Morals have a place in any ecosystem because they, too, have value. A mining pool that doesn't burdens nodes with extra data that they have to persist has positive communal value. A mining pool that does the opposite has detrimental communal value. And from Luke's perspective, not burdening nodes is important enough that he chooses not to include them in his block templates.

This moral reasoning is not something that is welcomed by a lot of people and it's hard to miss that many of the critics are creating ordinals, BRC-20 and so on. They want to run this centralized scheme over Bitcoin and make money. In other words, they have a strong economic interest in getting their transactions included and shout censorship whenever they're not.

But we must be careful, because this is not the same as, say, the OFAC prohibition list. And this is where things become a little harder to explain because most people have no sense of the difference between centralized rules being enforced under threat of violence and bottom-up moral behavior slowly adopted. But what Luke is doing is very much bottom up. He's specifically doing something out of moral conviction. Whether you agree with him or not, you can understand why he's doing it, particularly  the moral reasoning. This is different than a centralized mandate with threats of violence against those that don't comply.

I believe that what Luke is doing is a good thing. He's showing his convictions and reasoning about why inscriptions are bad through these templates. The participants are free to move if they disagree. I suspect, though, that there are many that agree with him and they'll vote with their hash rate.

For homo economicus, something like fair trade coffee does not make sense. Yet people gladly pay a little more for it because they believe that it ultimately helps those people produce and live a better life. I believe what Luke and Ocean are doing is similar. They're offering less-bloated blocks even at the cost of some fees.


Considering that you can

https://video.nostr.build/0e9f19edb2723a13f51f554d67eae586f7e3418a82ca5762e0fcb993346046dc.mp4

Yes


Let's be honest, all men are sinners... Christians included


Welcome. I'm just here to troll you when the gooners bottle it like they usually do


Fold


ME WHILE READING MY FRIENDS MESSAGES ASKIGN ABOUT BITCONS AND NOT ANSWERING: https://video.nostr.build/5be4b616dc16d8e7b70ca974bfa47345ad3281ebde496d52db2d7b018b87dd73.mp4


Introducing anon mode. Hide all usernames and profile pictures so you have no idea who you are talking to.
https://i.nostr.build/yyyK.png
Inspiration nostr:nevent1qqsxvkjgpc6zhydj4rxjpl0frev7hmgynruq027mujdgy2hwjypaqfspzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszythwden5te0dehhxarjw4jjucm0d5sfntd0

Give it a try https://next.nostrudel.ninja


grateful to have lived through the btc -> sats transition


Incredible day serving the medical and dental needs of El Zonte. The medical/dental facility we are building will have an enormous impact on the community if today was any indication. https://image.nostr.build/b9d7c712b9e57f2874b6d8af2f2e8dcb0a56591b8f7e787f06078527c9cfb103.jpg https://image.nostr.build/99a40e0208855fbc90a0e73f666ff69c3e442303417d9703455c8ca20b0031d2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/37a01d1fc8a6c52e873e3dcd2a0306d7d909b8cf9e03f841b68be0b63ca9ccb9.jpg


Pretty easy


Second


H/T nostr:npub1mc20uche0cy599vpl850aschpu7wteundgsnf0msep79lu3fu5aq3r4ptv

https://media.tenor.com/0C2yts9AX8oAAAAC/jayz-stare.gif


Ryan Garcia is a good fighter but he isn't a superstar... Should stick to YouTube


Ooohh i thought you were running your own node (in which case using Tailscale or Lighting Terminal makes the connection super quick)..., using the LSP is a different setup so I'm not really sure 🫤


Have you tried connecting with Tailscale or Lighting Terminal?


"Carsten Jabba" 🤣🤣🤣


Me knowing that nostr:npub1p5ryszcvdca78jdp5ewhu67zpyfz042m7nrha6mqx7a8wakrqrkqre5ksj jimmies get rustled when bitcoin pumps

https://media.tenor.com/uyGbTp6UJZkAAAAC/emperor-palpatine-evil-laugh.gif

nostr:nevent1qqs0vwyme0exfu9pha7dmwywu9qpacw0xca46hfpg664fj7qnz9c5ecpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyqxsvjqtp3hrhc7f5xn96lntcgy3yf74t06vwlhtvqmm5amkcvqwcqcyqqqqqqgd5s4x5


Sometimes it looks like everyone is trying to prove their maximalism is more maximalist than someone else's.


ZEUS v0.8.0 submitted to the app stores.

Same content as rc2 minus the version tags.


Printing money is immoral.
Shitcoin creation is money printing.
NFTs are a subset of shitcoins.
Ordinals are a subset of NFTs.


No, but I am buying every 20 minutes


"suck on my pp" 😂😂🤣🤣


I’m fed up with people saying “if there’s a recession.” Chief, it’s been a Depression since 2008. Stop believing the Ministry of Plenty’s fabricated statistics.


ZEUS v0.8.0-rc2 is now available.

## New in rc2

- ZEUS PAY optimizations
- Bug fixes

## Links

Blog post: https://blog.zeusln.com/zeus-v0-8-0-open-beta/

GitHub: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.8.0-rc2

ZEUS documentation: https://docs.zeusln.app/
Embedded node FAQ: https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/faq
Fee structure: https://docs.zeusln.app/lsp/fees

Android

Universal APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.0-rc2-universal.apk
arm64-v8a APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.0-rc2-arm64-v8a.apk
Manifest: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.8.0-rc2.txt
Manifest Signature: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.8.0-rc2.txt.sig

PGP Key: https://zeusln.com/PGP.txt

iOS

Apple TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/vVnODWoi
IPA: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.0-rc2.ipa https://image.nostr.build/cf74df9c7141ed7c18f4976773fb912b6a651f5b479b25bfea2b2091afd53642.jpg


The future home of Ocean Health in El Zonte. God willing construction will begin in 2024. https://image.nostr.build/0600b1bf9439aeed6940713b35aa3e38b154f9256e092089ab1928bb66c49963.jpg


https://dtan.xyz/e/nevent1qqsvdqrj820yryw2gwe6e7n9z2ggdr74tqmj6jjrpqwu342g87nvcpsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsp8zp7grkpkx2q5e2l5am26hfnwet2dpm8j6zeswypfzuh0et92rcrqsqqqp7nqmghpk

Haven't created a torrent in ages, trying out dtan. Here's just a small slice of the books I've finished reading because of Bitcoin. Enjoy!

I usually go with epubs and listen to them through Librera (FOSS) using text to speech -- I find that I can crunch through books quickly doing that.

Hoping people upload the rest of my reading wishlist to libgen, not that it matters because my backlog is massive 🥲


Rupa is a legend. https://twitter.com/TheFP/status/1730290825110696335/video/1


Check out what I’ve been hacking on this week in nostrdb + damus!

https://cdn.jb55.com/s/nostrdb-search.mp4


₿-Letters design in a white object frame with glass and space for shadows. Painted wood, 240 x 300mm. More: https://kanuto.io/art

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bitcoin-B-Letters-Shadow-01.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bitcoin-B-Letters-Shadow-02.jpg


Wait do you just post random pictures of steak?


People that listen to their phones in public places without headphones gotta have an average IQ of around 75.


It’s wild to me how much hypocrisy exists even among highly principled maximalists. We turn a blind eye to what suits our world view as long as it’s convenient to us.


Custody account holders could withdraw their remaining coins today, Earn users sometime in Jan I believe


Just withdrew some sh!tcoins from Celsius, sold for Bitcoin, and transferred to my node

https://image.nostr.build/eda2dd51848646a9c75596f5264f90d168b5de73d2b768f2a93fe01e445a8114.jpg

https://media.tenor.com/7TYUqHYdp48AAAAC/trippy-ripple.gif


My first Shopstr sale is a massive amount going through Cashu and being redeemed directly inside Amethyst. 🚀

https://image.nostr.build/bc65a9a4666acb4955fe3bc4553e36cbe5532e8c81e38ac2909c2849a01610ef.jpg


Hello big guy, let's have a bet. You give me 1 BTC if it reaches $1M+ during 2024, I give you 0.05 BTC if it does not. What say you?

nostr:note1uhpvw3dndc9kul3n55z0sc6avxs6apaje7p74emwc3gesmq03pusx0a3l5


reposting yourself is lame nostr:note1jqunas0d27fkuftwd6n88u00cpv0y0c2qvjhu3n890672k7q3lcqza0clq


https://media.tenor.com/Be54aT3kdSsAAAAC/nope-nah.gif

It's actually pretty cringe


NICE RACK of clothing!


I had this problem but hadn't entered my nsec... Maybe the update erased it?


ZEUS v0.8.0-beta5 is now available.

## New in beta5

- LND v0.17.2
- Dynamic LSP fees
- Tap to enlarge QRs
- New sending lightning animation
- Express Graph Sync on by default
- Updated default LN fee limits
- Removed 50k onboarding limit
- Onboarding improvements
- UI improvements

## Links

Blog post: https://blog.zeusln.com/zeus-v0-8-0-open-beta/

GitHub: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.8.0-beta5

ZEUS documentation: https://docs.zeusln.app/
Embedded node FAQ: https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/faq
Fee structure: https://docs.zeusln.app/lsp/fees

Android

Universal APK: https://zeusln.app/zeus-v0.8.0-beta5-universal.apk
arm64-v8a APK: https://zeusln.app/zeus-v0.8.0-beta5-arm64-v8a.apk
Manifest: https://zeusln.app/manifest-v0.8.0-beta5.txt
Manifest Signature: https://zeusln.app/manifest-v0.8.0-beta5.txt.sig

PGP Key: https://zeusln.app/PGP.txt

iOS

Apple TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/vVnODWoi
IPA: https://zeusln.app/zeus-v0.8.0-beta5.ipa https://image.nostr.build/cf74df9c7141ed7c18f4976773fb912b6a651f5b479b25bfea2b2091afd53642.jpg


BRING BACK THE UN -COMMERCIALIZED NOSHOLE!


Huh, I always took you for a 👇🏼 kind of guy

https://image.nostr.build/a27a9a0dfdc7eba5323a0dc1337ecb059ec8a7adf069eac7c0e6da111ee0369d.jpg


Good take


I was also going to make fun of his dickless crotch


The fat one


Oof I know your pain


#Nostr #meme https://image.nostr.build/6826c88851fdad118870396d66321535e5f9ac97807072bd7a34a3d3fc1ea673.jpg


Woke up and no new nostr:npub1ymt2j3n8tesrlr0yhaheem6yyqmmwrr7actslurw6annls6vnrcslapxnz videos

https://media.tenor.com/RFVkFuKn0S0AAAAC/cmon-dude-cmon-man.gif


I can comment about you having a nice chest if that would help!


YOU LOVE ALL OF DEEZ NUTZ I ALREADY KNOW


Don't get fat. If ur already fat, get less fat.

We say this because we care about you. Fat people are limited in life, and statistically, they die much earlier.

Reaching ur potential doesn't include being 40 plus lbs overweight.


Thank you! It settled!


Ok, changed my Nostr keys on Zeus. Can someone test zap please?

nostr:nevent1qqszftu6w3d63pdg52c6ctkrn57h684843c0tlkqkkn8a3mq0p0dudqpzdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ukzcnvv5hx7un8qgsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9grqsqqqqqp5yhasz


Ok added my Nostr nsec but all my pending zaps disappeared 😬


Having trouble redeeming zaps in Zeus... Any suggestions?

nostr:nevent1qqswfw06keexrpv9rf6t0us4kct07zxn38fh4e2qzt2y9fj3u5gylaqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurvv438xarj9e3k7mgzyq0qv7lmtzpq2akl8khhevz363q3hq9qhrap9lp98ng2ksw0rgsxjqcyqqqqqqg6sehds

https://video.nostr.build/110d0b81af08ff7c378cfd512f63ad0aa41be7138f39b90f4ed28ab3590125cb.mp4


Just changed my Lightning address to zeuspay while in Mexico... Please zap to test 🙏🏼


Please subsidize my future Pixel 8 Pro
lnbc8010250n1pjkq8vmpp578mt6ynwgeekvkmgp9lqjr5qujdvsazktsgpwxxl8w40vu3jcr0qdqqcqzzsxqyz5vqsp5q3q2687ywevdjfaw3lj4zwp0m0fvaedlyuurftu52g4nrme5pa2q9qyyssqc04lgevvjtutukx8nu34083vxrkpnly82twvt2a697n334ahjy7q3qsulh6cml385gt2nhgt4ftql080ypz97nuwe38p8m924lapa3gp9grv9e


I'll hold it for you

lnbc6669u1pj4llhgpp5wt8ywvuf3jxqlrlclq66qt7chr5khf6exmlazhyhlxlx5k0wcswqdqqcqzzsxqyz5vqsp5qnmc7ahd75j02fpg2nmr8kw5pal5jtmljs6ve0sw0z5n9pa9q6dq9qyyssqkvkenceqt699gkvewj9l2ug30skym3zvfs4namfcunve868zjve8rt9yh5fckeaqq909ew39kpms3t8q0ymrg4njha9z54kszte0pugqcynrvp


https://image.nostr.build/eed60d60a77529a35bd479e309c0b4214f8b89bebdf6dcab748166c13e79cb79.jpg

https://media.tenor.com/17lhpjPUD4kAAAAC/foghorn-leghorn-dont-add-up.gif


Still working both ways


https://media.tenor.com/DKB4fw7EACwAAAAd/true-correct.gif

ETF incoming


Happy Thanksgiving

https://video.nostr.build/ad1250d959a13582dd8595437b6fd3376aacfb4081020893f91634cb175470ae.mp4


Sparrow v1.8.1 released with:

Fee rate estimation from oxt.me
Export transactions with historical values
Wider range in fee range slider

And more: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.8.1

https://sparrowwallet.com/download/


Respect their humanity but we should not be respecting sin... Haven't read the full details on it but was quite puzzling when I first heard about it


Good take


I don't mean to alarm anyone but someone just wrote a sha256 function for bitvm:

https://techmix.github.io/tapleaf-circuits/

I think this means we can validate merkle proofs now...which means we can also do 2WP sidechains now

😱😱😱😱

https://image.nostr.build/7aa78913c16a4d54995f2ef4db29ab8a9682400e685eb70e81d56b53e5f4102f.jpg


*LIGHTNING


I don’t come to the #Nostr expecting anything, but if you wouldn’t mind boosting this note I’d appreciate it. 🙏

I’m one of the founders of nostr:npub1hxfkcs9gvtm49702rmwn2aeuvhkd2w6f0svm4sl84g8glhzx5u9srk5p6t, a community of noderunners on the Nostr, currently with over 340 member nodes and an active Telegram group, where we help new and experienced users connect, share knowledge, and expand the Lightning network together.

I started my journey into running a bitcoin and Lightning node in early 2021, when I was one of the first 100 members of Plebnet.

Built on a Raspberry Pi4 with 8 GB of ram, my current node, Dan on the Moon now runs 60 channels with a total capacity of nearly 175 million sats.

In early January, 2023, soon after joining the Nostr, I realized there was no organized group of noderunners, so I decided to start one along with a few other people. Within 3 months, we had reached 200 members, and are on track to double that by our one year anniversary.

Due to the current high-fee environment, my node hardware is struggling under the load. With no way to expand memory and disk space in the current configuration, it's due for an upgrade.

Because it runs Umbrel, I've decided the path of least resistance will be to purchase an Umbrel Home, which sells for $500 US, and ships with a migration assistant to seamlessly move all of the existing node data and channels.

In the future, I plan to also build a second node on custom-built components, but the current need is to keep this node stable and not end up in a situation where any of my channels get force-closed.

If I am able to raise the funds through Geyser, the node will be renamed "The Nodestrich" and will provide more stability for my channel peers, who have been some of the most supportive and helpful people I have met since I started my journey.

Thank you! 💜⚡🫂

https://geyser.fund/project/thenodestrichnode


https://media.tenor.com/jz5siTqAdk4AAAAC/larry-david-seinfeld.gif

I added extra cayenne pepper to the dry rub and then had a sweeter BBQ sauce to finish cooking it... Pretty 🔥🤤


MSM rn:

https://media.tenor.com/42dTDm68Qk4AAAAC/no-nooo.gif

😂😂😂


He's got the right energy.

https://video.nostr.build/38c731567237f17f0ee589e9cfa7538e87d40f31dcd11f9ff275dbaf8cef2e0e.mp4


#BitcoinNeedsMilei

https://songwhip.com/lilwayne/a-milli


CC: nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n


#BitcoinNeedsMilei

https://image.nostr.build/fb9ba0cfe7143d2eceec11d35f56e4c790eb5ad5a2cdb7ecbe200f63bd4ee180.jpg


#BitcoinNeedsMilei

https://image.nostr.build/4a7c2c07eb6dc65de8e3623a98c9dd7e53ff065b67047efafdbdcf84246935d3.jpg


Bitcoin about to pump when he wins


They were

https://media.tenor.com/jz5siTqAdk4AAAAC/larry-david-seinfeld.gif

nostr:nevent1qqszrgxvcxghgtvlphfmwf9x20u7jy44q7ef8da68qgpvze9yjvfc2gpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyq0qv7lmtzpq2akl8khhevz363q3hq9qhrap9lp98ng2ksw0rgsxjqcyqqqqqqgwt9z42


Did you ever use LNDg? Simplifies the channel management


No childhood is complete without a rickety, unsupervised, rope swing over the water.


El Fin

https://image.nostr.build/d1f9a854761b63b41be4dd0781e4b196e8cb315d94c8f3d0265471da8f702ded.jpg

nostr:nevent1qqs03tzgravf4qy6cq9mdnmcrmm5ddxce8cxucff8lq4jtax28ym63gpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyq0qv7lmtzpq2akl8khhevz363q3hq9qhrap9lp98ng2ksw0rgsxjqcyqqqqqqg0wgzqn


Anyone ever air fry ribs? Going to try it for the first time

https://image.nostr.build/7da32b6124aa7d249b44100740f51ce82387afbec02c2eae9dc2c948bc2d190c.jpg


deez nutz


B


BREAKING:

https://image.nostr.build/d34107708bbd8998009efd8ce28f18b7d40b2c4896c7f3e3516c7babe863eea6.jpg


Hyperinflation? LMAO! Bitcoin bro, bitcoin


That's when you hit her with the classic

https://media.tenor.com/fAeiH83I2w0AAAAd/the-rock-know-your-role.gif


Mole laser 🤣🤣


💯💯 much more stable than Tor


Wait until you learn about penis butter nostr:note1hpsvv7f0px4z54ndgmmhy3pgv9rse45yyyf23r4nyufe52d2xkksvwawv5


Believing that fiat is the real world

https://media.tenor.com/KbfM27b5cl4AAAAd/jimmy-butler.gif


Get ready for the Milei pump

#thisisfinancialadvice
#bitcoinneedsmilei

https://image.nostr.build/a2d857b8e35ce9c8a69ac9dcf05b78381d6528bd20f9352edd34c719efa16999.jpg


I just wanted to let you know that you should all immediately switch to my new client in honor of nostr:nprofile1qqst4un6fnzd5jv38elaany4rlfmjuwfy7v4ntmzkq4hvxsy8sensnqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xar0dejhytnrdakj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcw0smlk

https://nostatum.onrender.com/


Is this your mom?


Looks like a scam


Just started syncing my 2nd node LFG🛜


Big #Nodestrich announcement! 💥⚡

After surpassing 339 nodes, we are now the 6th ranked node on nostr:npub19tcpurtt6xulhw0r6sc404j9jraj0h8me2lzs7z2tqewz7l0hpas59nlea with the last two node additions bringing our community up to 341 members.

Thank you for everything you do, noderunning plebs! We're still building. If you run a node, join us and keep the Lightning network strong and decentralized. It's more important than ever! ✊
https://image.nostr.build/63a038a3febcdfe2c640fb53f2b515010a291c485f0b60e5a941c1d74d335cc2.jpg


ZEUS will never block payment to our competitors’ wallets, disparage or belittle anyone trying push Bitcoin adoption forward, or give up on trying to ship self custodial solutions.

We will, however, continue to push the limits of what is possible on Lightning in order to provide an amazing payments experience, in a self custodial manner, for as many people as possible.

The app store release of ZEUS v0.8.0, featuring our embedded node(“the node is in the phone”), OLYMPUS LSP, self custodial Lightning addresses, and rebrand, drops in December. Much more will follow in 2024.

We’re grateful to everyone who’s come along for the ride with us and we’re excited to help onboard the next wave of Bitcoiners.

✌


Buying bitcoin approximately every 20 minutes

https://image.nostr.build/6df7fd302c006c9777971a6c403b4cefb3e2264b6c6b07ebba31541586ed268f.jpg


Your mom

(sorry it was to easy to pass this one up)


here me out.

What if all laws and regulation were required to have a full git commit history? then we see which fucktard charged what and when.

code will be law in the future.


Was pretty nice, bought Bitcoin immediately


Really good client. Impressive. nostr:note163cwv493rfv5czlxnnrygewglu559rgj4vxh54t5w3f0as44sgjqcrhr8k


Damus for Android??!

https://media.tenor.com/mJTh5IRNQ-0AAAAd/licking-lips-thirsty.gif


If you’d like to download my Nostatum client to play around on it and try to break it, you can find docs and download links for Android and iOS here: https://r.mtdv.me/nostatum-download


Two ballerinas that just took a dump


She doesn’t let her #knitstritch leave her side. Thanks again nostr:npub1jrcfyw8n298jf83txvlxzx0w7jtfwqs0j4ha0dnn9ns33hgm209sqejdcc and nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 ! https://i.nostr.build/qeEa.jpg


A broad coalition of Tibetan, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Uyghur, and Mainland Chinese activists are protesting Chairman Xi JinPing and Chinese Communist Party human rights abuses in San Francisco. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1070445764045705307/1174451839849214002/IMG_4058.jpg?ex=6567a482&is=65552f82&hm=be6cde9983a5b52d0d15554475167a28e5e70932243eb26ef13d0f24a1b0451a&


Nah, and even if it was people can gft


The left and the media, "why doesn't anyone trust us anymore, it must be the Ultra Maga Trump propaganda, it can't be anything we did".

Also the left and the media.  👇
https://void.cat/d/7HVqd1KxfA4zwHmQ5HtNTD.webp


Just got a free dozen donuts from Krispy Kreme, AMA


+1, I was super engaged with Atlas Shrugged


Definitely see the influences of Atlas Shrugged 💯💯


But in the end Nollie was the one that actually saved capital that allowed the family to move back together?


Just finished reading The Mandibles... As the ole saying goes, "don't trust, verify"... As bitcoiners you should never just trust the recommendations of Bitcoin influencers, but verify for yourself. The author is excessively verbose, Bitcoin fails in Shiver's future, and it almost felt like a knock off of 1984. I'm glad I only rented it from the library


#Christianity is the ultimate 'Red Pill,' and it will cost you everything. But you will gain your own soul.

Jesus said, "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his own soul?" [Mark 8:36](https://esv.org/Mark+8.36)

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." [John 14:6](https://esv.org/John+14.6)


I always felt that Cory was a little shady


New bounty alert: 100K sats to integrate Flockstr's events (Meetup Calendars) on Amethyst: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/issues/687


Legend


What's the biggest lie?


Is it a certain metric, gut feeling, or something else?


+1...I give up 4% match but get to invest in the hardest asset ever created. Bitcoin is my retirement account.


What's your theory for not DCA-ing in?


It's official. DCA-ing moved to nostr:npub1xkere5pd94672h8w8r77uf4ustcazhfujkqgqzcykrdzakm4zl4qeud0en.
https://image.nostr.build/7af376bf296e2e469c230692cd10cfc7a86b16a5330f8421d77419220e5b313b.jpg


We did it boys (and even made some fiat gains)... Time for some real corn

https://image.nostr.build/18966d6efb77ce3dd10220948ce8f5ee08da07931c0ece1c64832008b5ba88c6.jpg


It's the 12-year anniversary of when I sold a pan of baklava to Roger Ver for 14 BTC.

I barely remember my life before that. #Bitcoin    changes everything.

Everyone always asks if I HODLed those BTC.

Of course not!

It took a few months of earning and spending Bitcoin for me to see the value in holding. Then I worked towards earning 100% income in BTC.

Fiat - just say no


Is this your fee predicting app?


You: "River, wen Android app?"

Us: "Now River Android app!" 🤖

🎉 Yes, the River Android app is here!

✔ Check the #Bitcoin price, view your portfolio, buy, sell, and zero-fee recurring orders https://m.primal.net/HPox.mp4


Here you can see hundreds of Palestinians queuing for food, but they're not in Gaza. They're in Yarmouk, Syria.
The UN agency reports that only "20% of the food needs" are met for Yarmouk's population. Yet, there's silence from the pro-Palestinian movement in the West.
No marches in Sydney or Melbourne; no outcry against Bashar al-Assad's regime. Why is this tragedy overlooked?
This is part of the Syrian civil war. A conflict that has claimed over 200,000 lives and displaced more than 10 million people. The conflict has also killed 5,522 Palestinians since 2011. Where is the outrage?
This selective focus isn't unique. Other tragedies like the Yemeni civil war, Uighur camps in Xinjiang, and the Rohingya crisis also get scant attention in the West.
Marches opposing Israel attract large crowds. Some march out of genuine compassion for Palestinian lives. Others march out of ignorance or extremism, influenced by various teachings and theories. This ignorance and extremism create a dangerous environment for Jewish citizens.
Anti-Semitism is resurging, disguised as "Palestinian solidarity," from university slogans to extreme chants of of “gas the Jews” at the steps of the Sydney Opera House in Australia 🇦🇺 https://image.nostr.build/c92a5c8cb2a826738693f7ed93cb6c6f164c8c5791cbe0bb323d4d2241f2aced.jpg


Conferences are just ops to distract you from buying bitcoin

https://media.tenor.com/7HUogy7rXs4AAAAC/feel-me-think-about-it.gif


Nice rack!


Zap to help pay my ACL reconstruction surgery deductable...(3 months post op)

#zapathon
https://image.nostr.build/9c07031584728b6493c4d80ae743f886f615563c8c6a23841c2e4e3a5d2e5edf.jpg


Nah, there are signing apps but clients have to be compatible... Check out the nostr GitHub, it lists others for iOS too

https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber (Android)


surely some nostr dev can make a nostr version of omegle?


Lol 🤣 I’ve mostly stopped zapping every little post/comment people make. It’s not natural and creates strange expectations. People posting voluminous amounts of nonsense and ripped off memes, etc. in the hopes of snagging a couple sats here and there. It’s much better in my opinion to send fewer larger zaps when someone posts something of substance, something I truly resonate with, something which makes me respect the amount of time and effort they put into it, etc.


nostr:nprofile1qqsvn0dkjt80raqrxd470c98n7zrdehmcvj6p5hgw3kyku6zyd8z0fqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ukzcnvv5hx7un89uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgunsd3jkyuewvdhk6tcj8gsp8  nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq35amnwvaz7tmsw4exzanfv3sjumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs8d5ukj  Yo Jack, would you help me out and increase my cash withdrawal and bitcoin send limits please? I'm not trying to have multiple utxos with my stash I've accumulated... Appreciate any help!


Sparrow v1.8.0 released with:

Transaction diagram captions
Larger and denser QR display
Search all open wallets
Airgapped message signing
Satochip and Krux support

And much more: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.8.0

https://sparrowwallet.com/download/


What are your thoughts on Ye?


14 of my finest

https://image.nostr.build/8d8c44cc322ac0d81a6fd2c6dcddb97170716832ce714974eb9a063467a7291c.jpg


How about me?


It just occurred to me, due to a nostr bug, that it might actually be pretty cool to have social media hide *who authored* the posts on your TL to force a kind of double-blind perspective. You'd know the post or reply is (or probably is) from one of the people you follow, but you wouldn't be so quick to agree (and perhaps might even be more willing to disagree) if you aren't just smashing the heart button as a reflex because you like the guy. It might make discussions more communal and disagreements less personal if you knew that you're still talking to someone you generally like and respect, but you don't know whether it's "that one guy on the internet" or, like, your actual Mom.

(Nostr, due to ramshackle Tor support, often displays notes from people without correctly fetching their profiles for me, so I find myself liking or replying or following people without having any idea as to their nym or avatar)


⏰ 24 times a day. 168 times a week. 8,760 times a year.

Introducing: Zero-Fee Hourly Recurring Orders for #Bitcoin

It’s 24 times better than daily recurring orders!
https://m.primal.net/HPgt.mp4


💯💯💯

Just checked my Strike purchases and it's around .8% spread...

I was a pleasure doing business with you Strike


Just signed up and previewed a reoccurring buy... Around .1% spread...I think this is much better than Strike

CC: nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle


How's the spread compared to Strike?


Your mom


Freedom Tech meets great brand design.

Couldn’t be more proud of the work we did on nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5. Thank you nostr:npub19kv88vjm7tw6v9qksn2y6h4hdt6e79nh3zjcud36k9n3lmlwsleqwte2qd for seeing the potential and trusting us to execute 🤝 Truly one of the most meaningful project my team and I got to work on.

The New ZEUS is here.

Full case study coming soon.

LFG. nostr:note1mzdwqugk4rhal9yngdku7kldg6zdnpfvugu42l0pagj0vlhjsp4q733qfc


Scope creep


The fact that Nostr's official mascot being an ostrich is because someone asked chat-gpt to make a dad joke about the platform is pretty trash


Nope


What if one of my 2/3 keys is a Ledger?


Your mom's house


Shrooms


Prolly Anna or Marce


Remember nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj, the originator of the Primal cEnSoRsHiP and ShAdOwBaNnInG narrative?

Check out his latest work below. He took the time to create a fake Primal content advisory. Even put in the effort with the border gradient to make it look real. Then he got nostr:npub1ezw0xm0w52rd4yfdg9zlw9qvwdy46alzelklkefptrd203m37tuq4djmeg to post this and boosted to create outrage. Kinda similar playbook as the original attack a couple of months ago.

The sad part is that many people take him seriously. We got some questions yesterday, so I’ll repeat again here. The image below is 100% FAKE. Primal does not display content advisories.

As for nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj, dude are you okay? Seriously concerned for you. You are a talented developer, why waste your cycles on such negativity? Find something productive to work on. This is Nostr; that level of hate does not vibe here. Pura vida. 💜☀🫂

https://m.primal.net/HPKR.jpg


Many will


What was the best flavor?


Yeah, I stopped contributing... It was the match that enticed me but that 4% doesn't even cover inflation


PSA. nostr:npub1fl7pr0azlpgk469u034lsgn46dvwguz9g339p03dpetp9cs5pq5qxzeknp is dishonest and not to be taken at his word. It means nothing as he will renege on a deal without hesitation. Be cautious.

Yes, I know it was dumb to send that many sats to an internet stranger but I said I would and I’m a man of my word. He clearly is not.

And now I get to reply guy his nostr to inform people. 🤷♂ nostr:note144kc9t65ptwkqvhw48nx6edxv486h4j2vlrrxdkejvs0rrs47zdq28h5ur


Happy All Saints’ Day ✝❤ https://image.nostr.build/998398025982328ab7b1fdd00a2c58079c5d8f406c216a28bd8d3f79f106d229.jpg


Finally! Thank you, nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle !
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/a779d357d279096f1a4300d7923d24c1295af5c5cb318a9b19624b41b87339b6.webp


He didn't lose the fight


Who wants some action in this Fury Ngannou fight?

I got 10,000 sats on Fury... Will pay you 30,000 sats if Ngannou wins


What's the recipe?


Our embedded node, LSP, and self-custodial lightning addresses are now available for everyone to test.

https://blog.zeusln.com/zeus-v0-8-0-open-beta/


@note18cqzw78pk8tu9kwmnwq2cjyak7z9dcaxeuheur2nj4v9y5ac9tasku49dy
 nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 and anyone having issues with a FC channel with BCash_Is_Trash

whitslack got back to me and sent me this... I was able to recover funds:

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/discussions/7465#discussioncomment-5126996

Hope this helps, good luck!


Will always be a Nodestrich 🫱🏻🫲🏽 but the risks to have a large Lightning node isn't worth it


Never left, but stopped posting... Mental health can be a btch


I feel you, I opened a 7.5m to him... https://mempool.space/lightning/channel/855907130166345732

At this point I chalked it up to the risk of experiencing with Lightning


Rumor is that he runs a CLN node with cherry picked PRs that don't play nicely with other nodes


https://github.com/whitslack

https://www.reddit.com/user/whitslack/

But no node runners that I've known have ever been able to contact him... I've tried myself but no luck... Still got sats locked up in a channel that didn't FC correctly


yes


Same, still sunny in the whale's vagina though


Sunday thought :  Lightning Nodes are the backbone of Nostr zaps.  So, thank a Noderunner.


I will always run a Lightning Node. Although, it is losing Sats with random force closes lately by other nodes and high fees.  Lightning Nodes are the backbone of Bitcoin LN payments and for Zaps on Nostr. So, if we Plebs don’t run a node, no one else will run it for us. Self sovereignty is key.
⚡🧡💪


#[0] is your node down?


I can’t believe it’s been less than 2-months since we launched #[0]  - it honestly feels like it’s been a year. Time is strange in the Nostriverse. But I couldn’t be happier with where we are and who I work with. Very grateful for the team #[1] #[2] #[3] and the fantastic people I’ve met along the way 🤙 #[4]


Darwin and Konate back


I'm on the latest Amethyst, not seeing any issues with my notifications


Any idea on how much I should allocate to a HSA for the procedure?


Twitter deactivated, screenshot?


🔥 Never satisfy the trolls by giving them your energy.

#[0]


I wonder if this is going to make #[5]

https://media.tenor.com/x0k3jHO41aoAAAAC/eating-popcorn-nom-nom.gif


🤷🏻♂ but followed

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


Why dream about it, do it... It's the most economical way if you're deploying liquidity


How about a batch open?

https://i.imgur.com/aFGG5I8.png


You needed to be the first 10k participants before the slots filled up


TestFlight


Good morning!

https://i.imgur.com/edwQWlS.png


Up the Reds!


Got tired of seeing those, had to mute


🫡🫡🫡, pretty much already there


👆🏼 💯

Non-mindless way, install a Linux distro, install Bitcoin Core, install LND or CLN (both of the implementations have good documentation either on their website or on GitHub)


Using Amethyst at the moment so it's Global


Followed! #plebchain #Bitcoin


Yup, used your post to follow plebs! TY! #plebchain


Goodnight!


Because then we'd have the real info.


With zaps?


Currently using my Android phone/ Amethyst so rather not go through all the steps to download Kiwi and nos2x extension


Can't zap yet

https://media.tenor.com/ckyZ0OkRYOYAAAAC/cry-sad.gif


One more node stronger 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼


Wait so the "nostrich" was really created by chatgp3 🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂


#[4] what's your mobile client of choice? Why do you think Amethyst !> Damus?


Correct


Bad idea to run other apps on your Lightning node. Keep LN+Bitcoin separate for security reasons. Other apps setup a separate rig. This has been discussed in Plebnet for long time now. Keep Lightning node clear off shenanigans.


Lost some follows so re-followed! #plebchain #Bitcoin


1/3

#[3] , #[4] , #[5] , #[6] , #[7] , #[8] , #[9] , #[10] , #[11] , #[12] , #[13] couple more approvals please 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼


#[0] #[1] forgot to post my thanks for the inbound yesterday! Thank you!

#Nodestriches if your looking to connect to a well connected routing node, feel free to open to djmeistro... My pubkey is linked in my profile or search for djmeistro on amboss.space

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_936e870d93ede3d96b6ffde73766cf0fcb442b48d335fff5125413a482a829ec.png


Not sure how y'all were on my feed but followed! #plebchain #Bitcoin


That looks like it's about to be fun


#[6] followed! #plebchain #Bitcoin


#proofofsnort


3/3 welcome!


Just got back on TestFlight


#[0]  #[1] #[2]  #[3] #[4] and any other #nodestriches we need two more approvals for #[6]

https://amboss.space/communityRequest/168d86ff-a750-4a65-8861-fe7b743e6404


#[0] has a #nodestrich request...NODESTRICHES ASSEMBLE

#[2] #[3] #[4] #[5] #[6] #[7]


I see 120


Et cum spiritu tuo


#[0] #[1] #[2] #[3] or any other #nodestrich could you help out?

https://amboss.space/communityRequest/6fe48cf6-6404-4528-98a1-563c7a7e5d41


Yeah but got some free sats sooooo...


👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #[2]

Thank you for #plebchain !


Easy choice 👉🏻


Approved!


https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_21686ad5bf4b2f6cf8cd509abc38f9ba0d255a8c34d650160638ab252880f5d9.jpeg

👀👀


I see the approval and we're gonna approve ASAP but there's one more step according to Jestopher... Standby


Good morning 🌞


Anything is a little complicated if you haven't used it before but it's pretty simple once you use it... There's a Telegram group that's really helpful with any questions

https://t.me/+03YtC6VgBLQxYWYx


Same same


Welcome #[1] ! We've been waiting for you 🫶🏼


Do you have to respond?


**NIP-69 is being proposed to use the Stacks blockchain and BNS .btc name system for Nostr Names**

The proposal states to use the Stacks "Bitcoin Name System", which has nothing to do with Bitcoin, but uses that name for name recognition only, as a new *"Nostr Names"* implementation. This is being proposed as an improvement to NIP-05 IDs. As a NIP-05 ID service provider, I will agree that the NIP-05 is not perfect, but NIP-69 is **not the solution**.

The Nostr Names NIP-69 proposal states that NIP-05 is flawed because:

* DNS names are controlled by the state and 3rd parties
* they're expensive, need to own a server, ssl, etc
* you need to be skilled to do it

The first key point is true, DNS names are controlled by third parties. That's something we can't fix yet.

The second point about being expensive is completely false. Domain names are fairly cheap and you don't need to pay for SSL certificates, nor do you need to own a server.

*For example: derekross.me costs me $12 a year. The server is a Rapsberry Pi 4. The SSL certificate is free from Let's Encrypt.*

The third point is partially false. The skill required isn't incredible, but it probably is too much for the average person to handle. This leads us to third party services such as NostrPlebs.com providing ID services for customers. This can lead to some centralization and trust, but we will reach a point where certain providers are better than others. Some providers will allow anyone to register, some will charge for this service, some will provide additional perks and support to their members. As time progresses, clear leaders in this new industry will merge and providers will be known and judged by their reputations, services, and support.

"Nostr Names" states the following are benefits to using NIP-69:

* use the centralized service btc.us to register a name
* learn how to use Stacks Clarity language and programmatically register your name
* use the Stacks blockchain, run a Stacks node

So, it sounds like you need to use a centralized service and you need to be skilled to register a NIP-69 Nostr Name, doesn't it? I thought these were issues that NIP-69 was trying to solve for NIP-05?

It costs about $10 for 5 years, so a BNS name is cheaper. That's a plus.

**But you still need to use Stacks.**

I like the effort here as NIP-05 is not perfect, but I'm sorry, I'm going to say no to this one.

[Source](https://www.newinternetlabs.com/blog/nostr-names/)


Yours isn't animated anymore either... I've seen them animated on other clients though


I still see your profile pic but it’s not animated… using Damus 1.0.0 (9)


I don't think that's what Darth is saying... having so many options could open you up to attack vectors... Most of the Android clients aren't on the Play store so if you can't read code you're basically trusting the developers


You make some great points on *why* it couldn't work but my point was more directed to the fact that (imho) "influencers" are just riding on Bitcoin's coattail without really adding value because, like you've said, incentives


Agreed, so to my original question, should Bitcoin influencers be transparent about their promotional earnings?

To answer your questions:

1. Not strikes per se but as soon as I have a gut feeling that their promotion doesn't align with who they portray to be

2. This one is a tougher question because people can change, but I'd say I'd have to observe them for a couple months to make an informed decision


I'm a 9 on the Bitcoin troll level in real life


Appreciate it bro


Will check it out 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼


I thought it was interesting. Ye, like every other person in this world, is a sinner. He's making steps towards growing in his faith. Is he perfect? No. Am I perfect? No. Are we in a position to judge him by just watching a video? No.

His comments about loving Hitler was said in the context of the fact that God created every human being. And with that said, Ye believes that God endows every human being with value and talents. He praised Hitler for the creation of highways. His comments about the Holocaust are way off according to objective history, but here again, his point could be taken out of context. My personal opinion on what he was trying to emphasize was the fact that abortion is magnitudes worse if you just went by the numbers.

My other opinion on the interview is that free speech is a God given right. Do some people have extreme takes? Absolutely. But imho blaming it on his mental health issues is a cop out, and I'm saying that as someone who's had their own battles with mental illness.

The fact that the large majority of the world thinks Bitcoiners are crazy speaks exactly to this point. If we'd listen believed what the"mainstream" thought of us, then we're all f-ed in the head. In reality, is that really true?


I watched the whole 3 hour+ interview with Alex Jones... Per usual people take clips of it out of context


He's still based


Man now I'm confused...I originally said it how KP said it but you make a good point

https://media.tenor.com/_90ngLQufGIAAAAC/sheeeeiiittt.gif


Animal style makes them more paletable but yeah it's their burger and shakes for me


Unpopular opinion: their fries are trash


TY


At a high level, what are labels and what do they allow you to do?


Iris


☝🏼

Followed #[3]

#plebchain #bitcoin


Deets?


Zzzaaammmn zzzadddy!


😂😂...ARM if you want to indirectly invest


Let me try to find the link...

https://nostr.build/i/4746.png


Have you tried the Iris beta test? Currently using it and it's by far the most polished Android client


Lost with pocket Aces

https://media.tenor.com/RFVkFuKn0S0AAAAC/cmon-dude-cmon-man.gif


About to play poker with some friends, hopefully invest the winnings in bitcoin


#[3]

https://media.tenor.com/KKcXhHn1C58AAAAd/family-toretto.gif


Good morning! I am about to execute **Life Hack 6102-F: Pay bills with Fold and get bitcoin back**. *May the gambling odds ever be in my favor.*

**What am I doing?**

I use a rewards credit card to purchase *everything*. Then, once a month, I pay the full credit card bill off via my Fold debit card. I get bitcoin back for things that I would normally have to buy and I also earn other rewards. It's a win/win.

**How do you do it?**
I use PayPal's bill pay feature. I have my [Fold debit card](https://use.foldapp.com/r/DEREKROSS) setup in PayPal. I use PayPal to find and add my bills. I pay the bill with PayPal and set PayPal to use my Fold debit card for that transaction. PayPal then debits my Fold card and I get bitcoin back!

**How much do you get back?*
Well, that depends. You can get a flat 1% back or you can gamble a bit and spin a wheel of random opportunities. Generally speaking, if you have enough spins available, you can get 2% back or sometimes more if you're really lucky. I generally try to have ~10 spins available for paying large bills. That *almost* guarantees 2%. (I was able to get 3% back on my mortgage last week.)

**Fold sucks!**
Yes. Fold's rewards and gamification efforts have declined. They keep changing their rules and modifying how *the game* works. I fully agree, I hate it, and it's annoying. That said, until something better comes along that is going to give me ~500K sats back every month for things I have to do anyways, then I'm going to continue to use this.

I am excited to see what Strike offer's when they launch their [debit card](https://invite.strike.me/OL0N3F). Maybe they'll give a more flat rate in rewards and you won't have to play these games? Who knows?


You tell us #[3] ... Followed #plebchain #bitcoin


Source? I'm curious


Will take a look but won't want to pay a premium when I can just do a balanced open with another peer. Appreciate the info though 🤙🏼🤙🏼


#[1]

https://media.tenor.com/qEV9igsXP4YAAAAC/welcome.gif


Android maxi here too, but the Damus UI is just light-years ahead of Android native clients rn... They're catching up though


#[2] followed! #plebchain #bitcoin


Mohawkstrich FTW


Good morning! 🫡🫡🫡


Hope you're joking

https://media.tenor.com/SqD2xKy43LMAAAAC/what-why.gif


Invoice from the node?


😂😂 followed! #plebchain


Followed #plebchain #bitcoin


Whenever I read a comment, the majority of the time since gif reaction pops into my head. So you're getting djmeistro's curated gif reply. Many wouldn't ever know that.

FEW.


Not a lot of people engage with my sh!tposting gif replies but someone's got to do it!

https://media.tenor.com/OvCO9wv3qWcAAAAC/raise-eyebrow-sexy.gif


Are you based in Cuba? If so, how's adoption there?


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Derek be camping by his computer


That medium rare 🤤🤤🤤


The Erin Malone? Followed! #plebchain #bitcoin #noderunner


Indeed! Followed! #plebchain #bitcoin


I'm an Android maxi 4 sure, but using my work iPhone for Damus 🤫🤫🤫


https://media4.giphy.com/media/S3Ot3hZ5bcy8o/giphy.gif

Followed! #plebchain


Bitcoin Cash, but I think someone answered before I could


Lightning network?


Faketoshi


Followed! #plebchain #bitcoin


Buy the Amazon gift card through Fold and use it as payment on Robosats


I've used Robosats several times. It works great, though it is a bit different and does takes once or twice to get the hang of it. If you're a Fold user, you can get extra sats by choosing Amazon GC as your Robosats payment method and buying the GC from Fold.


Man, your sat hacks are on point... Keep em coming!


I hope this was sarcasm because TA is a scam


Followed #plebchain


Nostros isn't anywhere near the level of development compared to Damus yet... I'm rooting for you #[4] ...


Agreed, makes connecting to your node super snappy... There's also Headscale which is the open source version of Tailscale


The most you should use for any bill is $1250. That's $25 at 2%, which is the 2% cap. I just pay bills over multiple payments and sometimes over multiple days if I need to earn more spins. It's a bit of work, but worth the sats IMO.


Oh snap, I didn't know there was a reward limit... Thanks for pointing this out! And followed!


Fold Card to PayPal and pay mortgage I believe


Is that the Spin+?


GM! 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻


Welcome to the #plebchain! Followed!


Speed and iterative significant improvement in UI/UX is brilliant.  Well done guys…including everyone who is testing and providing constructive feedback.  What a nice community this is.


#bitcoiner followed!


Followed! #plebchain


https://i.postimg.cc/HnGQqRqw/2-C6-D9-D05-810-C-4141-AC00-BAFB3-EB465-F1.jpg

H/t a Pleb


Followed!


Bitcoiner?! FOLLOWED🖖🏼!


GM, take a follow!


Bitcoiner??! FOLLOWED 🖖🏼!


Nostr on Damus is a giant whirlpool of Sats. Watching a perpetual receive and send payments amongst random plebs is awesome. ⚡🧡


TY! Recieved!


Appreciate you! Received!


Back atcha!


Really?? What's your pubkey?


No idea what y'all are talking about... But you're a bitcoiner... FOLLOWED🖖🏼! #plebchain #Bitcoin


Not rendering on Damus for me


FOLLOWED🖖🏼! #plebchain #Bitcoin


FOLLOWED 🖖🏼! #plebchain #Bitcoin


FOLLOWED 🖖🏼! #plebchain #bitcoin


FOLLOWED 🖖🏼! #plebchain


Nostros, but the features aren't really built like Damus


Same


Merry Christmas! Christ is born alleluia!


Followed 👊🏼