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 Finally got Zeus up and running, but worried about setting it as my main Nostr address until i fi... 
 Spend some! 
 What about Web5 
 Have any of the freedom-loving #iOS techies had a chance to sideload the nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e... 
 Does it just require weekly resigning? 
 This is amazing. First I’m hearing of it.  Will check it out. 

Is the Zeus .IPA gonna be uploaded to GitHub or do we need to build from source? 
 I didn’t even realize lol thank you - I only looked this far down https://image.nostr.build/ae1c86a01b492b1a688685afa89f20b25e8666bfeeb2b550c73ccc65dde15604.jpg  
 Do you know if you always have to have that “VPN” enabled to continue having the .ipa signed?

I ask because I heavily rely on WireGuard VPN already to access my home network. 
 I may play around with it for other apps before Zeus. 

It would suck to have the Zeus app expire and then have to import the seed into a new Zeus wallet, and wait up to 2 weeks for the channels to force close. 
 everyone so bullshit nostr:note1n4he4yzkm8xd8lpr4cp4ec6vv84ys6re4egklzy9lpl0r2ynkfaskcsn0w 
 I identify as NBB 
 BREAKING: man who can’t properly handle his own bitcoin private keys has released Bitcoin mining pool. 

I’m sure this will go well. 
 Not that I can see

https://ocean.xyz/about 
 "The Protestant movement spread to Oxford, where the great scholar William Tyndale, a master linguist who spoke fluently in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, and English, fled to Germany and carried out his ambition to publish an English Bible.
       Tyndale used his translation to further Protestant ideas, and upset the Catholic establishment in England by translating the Greek word '𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘣𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘳' as 'elder' rather than 'priest' or 'presbyter', and the word '𝘦𝘤𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢' as 'congregation' or 'community' rather than 'church'. By Tyndale's crafty translation, the New Testament existed for the first time in Church history 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 '𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩' 𝘰𝘳 '𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵'."*

*Translations inevitably reflect theology and hermeneutics, but some Protestant translations advance the cause of Protestant ideology more than they provide accurate translation. A good example of this is the New International Version (NIV), so exceedingly popular amongst Protestant Evangelicals today. The theological agenda of its translators is all too clear. Take, for instance, the word in the New Testament for tradition, in Greek, paradosis (παράδοσις). The New Testament refers to apostolic tradition, ecclesiastical tradition, which is to be embraced by all Christians, as well as man-made tradition, unholy tradition, which nullifies God's word and is to be avoided by Christians. Conveniently, but not honestly, the NIV translates all references to Apostolic 'tradition' by the word 'teaching' or 'teachings' and all references to man-made 'tradition' by the word 'tradition'. Hence, the innocent reader of the NIV will come to the conclusion that the only tradition that exists is man-made and unholy, and will never know that there is such a reality in the New Testament as apostolic tradition."

-Archpriest Josiah Trenham, "𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘥: 𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘹 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴" 
 ☦️ Christ is in our neighbor ☦️

Tell me who your friend is and I will tell you who you are.

Philip's friend was Nathanael. And when Philip found Christ, he went and found Nathanael and said to him: “Come, we have found the Messiah.”

Unhealthiness in friendship is betrayal, indifference, loneliness. Philip, this true [friend], goes to Nathanael and confesses to him about the authentic and true Found. But he objected, because he doubted. Philip wasn’t embarrassed, wasn’t disappointed [wasn’t upset]—he didn’t develop a complex.

When Nathanael told Philip whether there could be any good thing from Nazareth, Philip did not flinch, but, confident in the One he had found, in the One he had seen, in the One he had believed, he replied: “Come and you will see, come and see.” " And Nathanael went. The Lord is not some idea, some museum, [He] is not someone who needs us. King David, realizing this, admitted: “You are my Lord, because you have no need of what is mine.” Because You are my God, because You do not need me. And when Nathanael approached, Christ, like all the false teachers of the world, did not expect to be aware in order to behave accordingly, but He first turns to Nathanael and says to him, pointing to him to the others: “Behold the true Israelite, in whom there is no guile.” Before this, Nathanael cursed all of Nazareth and Christ along with him. But Christ, delicate and true, seeing the depths of man, recognizes him as good and non-evil. Although, on another occasion, he admonished the young man who called Christ himself good, and said to him: “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.” And now God, Christ, tells the others about his blasphemer: “Behold the true Israelite, in whom there is neither cunning nor guile.”

Who can boast that he has a pure heart? But Christ is not afraid to praise us. And Nathanael said to Him in horror: “How do You know me?” And Christ answered [him]: “Before Philip called you, and you talked among yourself, and [before] you cursed me, then, when you were under the fig tree, [I] saw you.” The fig tree was more than distant from the place where Nathanael later saw Christ. And in horror he confessed: “Rabbi, You are the Teacher, the Son of God, You are the Messiah, You are the Lord, You are my God.”

Joy to those people who had this meeting with Christ, with whom all the best that could ever happen happens in their lives - are they preferred? Each of us has this opportunity through everyday human relationships, if we are attentive, and just as fire is kindled from the chair, so through the everydayness of our relationships Christ shines. Otherwise, if we are not perfect with ourselves and with others, Christ will be before us, but we will not see Him, we will never meet Him, and at the Second Coming we will contradict Him. If we are perfect with each of our neighbors, we will immediately see and hear Christ speaking to us what only we know, or what we have not yet understood.

So, Christ, whom [we] are looking for and [whom] the world is looking for, is next to us, in our neighbor.

- Archimandrite Dionysios https://image.nostr.build/00d8bcb17d7f1b1d56431181c8770ea4402d8c1bde6e4b67aff1a09e872476d0.jpg  
 Canadian moose shekels rekt 
 Stay strapped. Especially at Target 🎯 
 does tweetdeck for nostr exist yet? 
 If not, whoever makes it should call it snotdeck 
 thankful for spooks in canada and nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s... 
 I believe they have a native client, but it’s android only. 
 David Grush on JRE was so good. 
 Aliens are fake and gay. 

Demons, however, are very real. 
 That’s what I’m saying 
 My XMR node is more reliable than any bitcoin node I’ve ever run. And it’s on a raspi lol 
 I’m approaching 9 months of uptime 😂 
 I use this: https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/PiNode-XMR

There is a telegram group too, there the project maintainer is active. 
 Not determined yet, but based on the 2 devices where the seed was stored, one being a Windows 10 device, my guess is that the seed was somehow compromised. 

https://cointelegraph.com/news/monero-community-wallet-loses-all-funds-after-attack

Problem is they can’t trace it… since it’s Monero 😂 
 I wonder if it was deleted? I noticed it was gone for a second and then someone reposted it back ... 
 I'm noticing that I'm ending up right back where I started. Muun and Electrum.  
 Yeah when fees are high Muun is BRUTAL on fees. Meanwhile using a real lightning wallet you will continue to pay low tx fees even during a high on chain fee environment 
 I still use Muun primarily as a means of converting on-chain to lightning for various purposes. 
 No one will ever convince me to stop listening to Trans Siberian Orchestra in Nov/Dec 
 If WoS rugs im just gonna laugh. Sorry not sorry. Not your keys not your cheese.  
 Who owns/maintains nostr.cooking? Is there a repo that I can submit feature requests to? 
 Thank you! 
 I love this idea but also think it’s going to be completely unusable in practice. 😂 
 All you’d need is the ability for a client to add ability to filter to specific views or modes to only use certain relays. For example, create a Twitter mode which only shows and posts notes to 140 char relays (you tell the client which relays are 140 char relays)

I think @jb55 is working on this already with Damus and filters. Not 100% for sure tho. 
 You could have a single client, tailored to the specific modes you care about: 

- Twitter (140 chars)
- Medium (long form)
- Instagram (images only)

I’m sure there are cool things you could do if you were able to customize both the event kinds, relays, etc. 
 good morning nostr, appreciate y'all 🫡 
 Thankful for you, Matt 
 A few days ago I had lunch with nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9... 
 Are emojis each counted as one character? 
 Please comment if you post things that are not related to bitcoin or nostr, so that I can follow ... 
 I post frequently about Orthodoxy ☦️ 
 @sommerfeld did you figure out how to select your country in the bitcoin company’s app? https://image.nostr.build/fb12621e9854bcf2137b45cf84f4c2e986cf7b6875f46d7ca44a6d6ea4cdbed9.jpg  
 Yeah it’s brutal.

cc: @thebtcco this should be top priority 
 Can I use the LSP from Mutiny on Zeus? 
 Truth 
 Officially increasing my #zap amount thanks to nostr:npub16r0tl8a39hhcrapa03559xahsjqj4s0y6t2n5gp... 
 😂😂 
 Demons make three pitfalls for us whenever we try to please God.

First, they fight to prevent us from doing good. 

Secondly, when they are defeated in this first attempt, they try to make sure that what we have done is not according to God’s will. 

If they fail to succeed in this intention, then they quietly come to our soul and pamper us as though we were living in harmony with everything that God wants. 

The first temptation is resisted by the carefulness and care of death; the second by obedience and humiliation; and the third by the constant self-abasement. 

This work is before us, until we go into the sanctuary of God (cf. Psalm 73:17). Then we shall no longer suffer the violence of evil habits; for our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29) and He consumes every burning and movement of lust, every bad habit, every bitterness and wickedness, both inner and outer, visible and conceivable.

- Saint John Climacus https://image.nostr.build/8a8de740ea38a33659015d6f277d8f3f7e8e81b22cf967a984fa87ca61d98dea.jpg  
 :/ nostr:note1dnyz7umwpr5tzeqhzmz6u4w0yy2pt6j8f5ylkqwyuky9uydacrwsnr5gna 
 Incoming lawsuit 
 IPTV really is the best. Since switching (to an albeit sketchy looking playlist provider) I've be... 
 As does IVPN. 

IVPN runs their own BTCpayserver for maximum privacy, and accepts lightning natively as well as XMR. 
 Doh! 
 Is anyone working on a nostr equivalent of YouTube? nostr:note10ce66wa68znveqw80nph3grwn9uf425gv2kclxmt3zs9dzhspt6sczvyah 
 Isn’t that more of a twitch alternative? 
 I see nothing about nostr on piped 
 Ngl, It's been really hard to stack sats p2p in this high fee environment. Even when using robosa... 
 You aren’t spending enough ;) 
 I hear you. Can you buy gift cards from @thebtcco ? 
 Nope, I know for a fact it’s available in many countries 
 nostr:npub18tcc00lqpysdsurg567dllzg7jeyr5wcyk2v6w23rx3s3ygyze2qv32nxxaybe ask them? Their website says it’s global 
 Weird Damus bug ^ 
 They have international visa cards 
 GN beloved 🌛💜
"God became man so that man might become god." - St. Athanasius of Alexandria... 
 A beautiful thing about the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Orthodox Church is that no matter where in the world you are, you can find the same faith ☦️