marcan0

👨‍💻 Engineer @ opennode.com
🎙️ Co-Host https://keypair.fm
🤌 Host of Jersey Shore Bitcoin Meetup

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2026-09-27 16:41:39 GMT

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The world has never had only one currency.
But I put effort into making sure one day I only need one currency.

2026-09-18 13:59:37 GMT

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I absolutely love the term "slop grenade." Tobi is a legend

2026-09-14 15:25:35 GMT

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I quit last month for the same reason as you. Honestly, just throwing out everything I had left made all the difference.

2026-09-12 22:09:35 GMT

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I don’t think that model will run locally on any hardware I have 😂

2026-09-09 16:00:55 GMT

Its amazing to me that in 2026, after all these hacked funds, we still aren't seriously considering covenants.

2026-09-04 02:43:25 GMT

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Did you feel all powerful and aroused?

2026-09-04 02:42:15 GMT

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Like, big enough to mint pokemon card ordinals and establish a nostr marketplace for them so we can collect/catch them all?

2026-09-03 13:25:50 GMT

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what substance were you vaping?
no judgement, just curious.

2026-09-02 18:11:52 GMT

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if you run omarchy i will follow you

2026-09-01 19:09:35 GMT

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As a fellow Omarchy user I will now be paying extra attention to this

2026-09-01 15:13:44 GMT

Now that nostr is nearly dead you have the opportunity to go from basically unknown to the top npub.
This is like stacking the bottom.

2026-08-31 02:30:29 GMT

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The quality of content

2026-08-11 01:30:15 GMT

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Man, that conversation was intellectually dead for years… don’t give it any more time or energy.

2026-08-08 21:19:09 GMT

2 CHAINZ!
https://blossom.primal.net/f7042dc16d893126d4df1bbf0402a915bd7b7f729b1bbb89ed2b9f33f3904b34.jpg

2026-08-08 00:20:36 GMT

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This would be fun, then everyone will be one step away from L402
#nevent1q…mq5n

2026-08-07 13:40:42 GMT

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My prime dev unit keeps wiping itself every time I grasp it too aggressively.
One part I find very nice (and frequent) is that it’s easy to recover with those cards!! 😂

2026-08-07 13:36:32 GMT

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My self-custodial lightning experience hasn’t changed in years… literally nothing but stability.

2026-08-06 18:39:46 GMT

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one of the xkcds that stick with you the most.

2026-08-01 03:22:27 GMT

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Ha! Yeah, same hodl

2026-08-01 03:20:37 GMT

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Bruh you live in NYC wtf are you doing?

2026-07-31 14:39:12 GMT

I'm sure my nsec generated/mined on my laptop is totally secure, right?

2026-07-31 14:38:26 GMT

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That, or Fable is less lazy/more persistent.

2026-07-23 23:58:34 GMT

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huge for payments

2026-07-22 21:33:34 GMT

Remember quantum?

2026-07-22 15:52:15 GMT

Some days I am convinced AI is going to make us all obsolete.
Then there are days like today, where Claude Code is spending 2 hours navigating a git rebase

2026-07-22 12:48:55 GMT

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I hear you. I want nostr to be embedded in our entire civilization too.
But for now in nostr's adoption cycle, we're more likely to confuse or turn people off ("gross, another crypto grift") than convert them.
I think its perfectly reasonable to have a valuable product that people adopt and love and purple pill the shit out of them in the developer docs when they're ready sold and curious to learn more.

2026-07-22 12:09:57 GMT

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GM sir.
I hear what you’re saying but how many bad product marketing pages has things like “written in Go” or some other programming language/implementation detail some nerd thought was relevant but didn’t affect the product?
Buzz didn’t need to use nostr. The marketing page listing benefits and features would be the same regardless if it were a nostr relay or a some REST server.
But nostr is cool, and I think they should find a way to make it more enticing like “infinitely extendable” showing off how a whole open ecosystem of tools and agents can use the data generated by buzz.
Idk bad example I’m not a marketer but basically if you put nostr on the marketing page you should tie it to a use case the average customer genuinely cares about.

2026-07-22 02:25:21 GMT

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People don’t need to know about nostr on the marketing page unless it provides a clear unique benefit around a job-to-be-done. But definitely on developer docs.
I see this as a win regardless

2026-07-22 02:22:02 GMT

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This is incredibly interesting.

2026-06-25 18:03:10 GMT

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Convincing plebs node running is virtuous to boost sales…

2026-06-24 01:38:27 GMT

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How much bitcoin does your node receive and verify on your behalf?

2026-06-22 01:32:21 GMT

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in college I named all my serializers "derulo"

2026-06-19 15:51:29 GMT

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Definitely better with words. We're still hashing every TX twice lol

2026-06-18 22:05:56 GMT

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You really wanted to orange-pill them, didn't you?

2026-06-17 19:06:12 GMT

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KYC YOURSELF FOR THE SAFETY!
#nevent1q…20uj

2026-06-17 19:04:45 GMT

Anybody try out W yet?
Its super decentralized via the AT protocol and safely hosted in Europe where all the human verification takes place and thats good because truth.
https://wsocial.news/

2026-06-12 22:00:41 GMT

I'll rejoin X when @nprofile…tf6v rejoins X.

2026-06-11 12:34:10 GMT

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See you there bro

2026-06-11 12:31:30 GMT

Having some lightning issues, can someone zap this to see if my node works?
Will zap back

2026-06-06 17:18:10 GMT

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Also, do things that are easy for you but hard for others

2026-06-05 23:56:15 GMT

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People aren’t donating right

2026-06-04 15:46:26 GMT

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https://blossom.primal.net/25e5c880e91ef47f0045778180317758a9b5ac8b6293c7474a3486fbbc0d960d.png

2026-06-03 21:12:27 GMT

How I scroll nostr
https://blossom.primal.net/08e294e232eecb7365f815bec8e3cd5ac6f176375a64f3f3ff4b29046bc3c194.gif

2026-06-03 17:24:33 GMT

Who posts the edgiest content on nostr?

2026-06-03 03:34:21 GMT

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I’m not sure about pioneers and villagers… just drawing on insight from jobs to be done theory by Clayton Christensen
People need to have a problem before they have enough awareness to begin searching the market for alternatives and substitutes.
I agree there’s a lot to be built, but simply building stuff nobody is looking for isn’t going to create demand.
If there’s a bunch of people who get censored, or lose access to an api they built a business on, or some other side effect of centralization, it’s better to build features for that group of people that currently in need and searching for alternatives.
People didn’t join nostr in the early days because primal was feature rich and ready with a good UX. They joined because twitter failed them and they were willing to deal with rough edges if it meant they wouldn’t get burned again.
There’s a million things you could theoretically build, so why not build the things people might be looking for right here and now?

2026-06-03 02:24:40 GMT

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I actually think the opposite is better. You're basically saying if you build it they will come.
I think if they come, we will have a better idea of what needs to be built.
Let demand shape supply.

2026-06-02 15:14:09 GMT

Strava paywalling their API and killing off developer ecosystem.
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ttve5y/stravas_new_developer_program_just_killed_every/
Good opportunity to get some normies on nostr.

2026-05-28 13:42:42 GMT

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Evergreen. Share this one often.
#nevent1q…h93p

2026-05-28 13:40:35 GMT

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dude stop trying to poke holes in my half-baked ideas

2026-05-28 13:20:49 GMT

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to be clear, i think its only "dead" if nobody uses it.
but... i would consider anything that has organic growth to be "alive".
like nobody has to go around and http/smtp-pill people anymore. those networks have network effects and grow and sustain themselves on their own.
maybe we're just incubating?! it still feels early, unpolished, and without any sort of product market fit.

2026-05-28 04:21:41 GMT

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People thought they understood numbers before too. Then people discovered concept of zero which introduced negative numbers…
I don’t think we can ever say for certain that there is nothing left to discover in any domain.
Doesn’t mean what we know today isn’t useful.

2026-05-28 04:17:45 GMT

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Nostr was never alive to begin with… still fun tho!

2026-05-28 04:05:07 GMT

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Einstein's understanding of physics is closer to truth than Newton's. Newton's is closer than Aristotle's.
I mean it in the sense that we get closer and closer but never convinced we have it.

2026-05-27 20:44:22 GMT

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haha, not even. think there are universal truths, we just can't know for sure what they are. we can only get closer.

2026-05-27 19:07:18 GMT

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There is no truth

2026-05-27 19:06:10 GMT

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Obviously, the dates are the easiest thing to remember during a git checkout

2026-05-27 02:24:19 GMT

ruby on rails is still unmatched

2026-05-26 18:20:43 GMT

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what does the spark backend do?

2026-05-25 21:17:03 GMT

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so dope

2026-05-25 20:57:02 GMT

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I can definitely understand this from your side of the equation. I would prob trust a some stranger enough for them to hold a little of my pocket change.
But even if they are trustworthy and not a dick, i doubt its profitable to run a mint for people's pocket change. I imagine if routing fees are gonna float you, you'd need much larger reserves.

2026-05-25 20:52:25 GMT

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Do you run a mint for your friends/family? If so thats cool I'd like to follow you.

2026-05-25 20:51:44 GMT

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Do you run a mint?

2026-05-25 20:51:29 GMT

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Do you run a mint?

2026-05-25 20:47:22 GMT

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Great observation. At this stage nostr needs retention more than interoperability.
Having the most interoperable protocol in the world doesn't matter if people don't use it.
#nevent1q…xq5s

2026-05-25 20:24:46 GMT

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Not to sound like a dick but why would any of those people run a mint?

2026-05-25 16:00:28 GMT

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If I understand it right, in the US any business that would run a mint would have to obey KYC/AML laws because they have unilateral control of funds... yet would be unable to comply due to the nature of ecash.
I think this is a non-starter for many businesses.

2026-05-25 04:26:20 GMT

who would you trust to run a cashu mint?

2026-05-19 15:15:14 GMT

bitcoin script should enable more math opcodes so everyone can choose whichever signature scheme they want.
optimize later when we need to reduce tx size

2026-05-19 13:05:10 GMT

good morning.
don't forget to claim some sovereignty today.

2026-05-15 11:20:52 GMT

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This is the way

2026-05-15 10:53:42 GMT

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Supra cycle?

2026-05-12 13:56:19 GMT

The recent ads in the @nprofile…3wxf podcast are like vending machines in a monastery

2026-05-12 13:39:23 GMT

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I couldn't read because of the paywall so i fixed it for you: http://archive.is/q8vQs

2026-05-11 14:19:52 GMT

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don't need luck. you're gonna crush 'em

2026-05-08 15:52:55 GMT

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I got a dev unit at OpNext and still trying to figure out what to build with it 😅

2026-05-06 12:51:58 GMT

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would be interesting to see https://nostr-stats.vercel.app/ (or an app like it) break down engagement by creators/contributors
... then we could assume the lurker count

2026-05-06 12:20:01 GMT

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I haven't! Based on the github, looks like a nixos configured bitcoin node?
Definitely a step in the right direction. I'm more curious about something user-facing though. Like an OS with a wallet built in, decent UX, etc.

2026-05-06 00:43:31 GMT

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i'm not sure if you're joking or not but i found this very funny

2026-05-05 23:33:16 GMT

Tiny batch 1!
@nprofile…k875 @npub1wm7…pud0
https://blossom.primal.net/d7b0585e79e96f569409cece6c31b5db0cefd7753a1a97ba22d57d017d30b4f8.jpg

2026-05-05 23:09:00 GMT

Has anyone made a desktop linux distro using nostr/bitcoin as first-class primitives?

2026-05-05 23:05:28 GMT

Eavesdropping on a door dasher on a bike explaining how he vibe coded an app to help him navigate delivery routes in a day.

2026-04-26 19:25:26 GMT

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@nprofile…dh97 is a G

2026-04-24 17:39:37 GMT

What was the last software product/service that excited you?

2026-04-23 21:41:29 GMT

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update: no testnet3 coins were harmed
#nevent1q…5cks

2026-04-23 21:28:02 GMT

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I may have accidentally burned some testnet3 bitcoin
#nevent1q…8j9r

2026-04-23 18:19:50 GMT

The only thing more scarce than bitcoin is testnet3 bitcoin

2026-04-23 11:56:12 GMT

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Love to see some L402 in the wild

2026-04-21 17:43:01 GMT

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Finally!
#nevent1q…v0gg

2026-04-08 22:22:54 GMT

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Is the substance “Claude code”?

2026-04-02 12:49:01 GMT

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shame, or opportunity?

2026-04-01 13:24:30 GMT

make computers personal again

2026-03-30 20:26:08 GMT

I am gonna assume active users are 10% of total users. So 500k? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
#nevent1q…ucgv

2026-03-30 19:23:57 GMT

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How do you know they don't have an npub?

2026-03-30 02:19:25 GMT

pay per use is the worst application of L402.
just like electronic cash is the worst application of Bitcoin L1.
might dominate the narrative, but its technically incorrect.

2026-03-29 03:53:55 GMT

Pi is the Arch Linux of coding agents

2026-03-26 20:12:01 GMT

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We got tired of regurgitating the same talking points every 4 years

2026-03-24 12:59:25 GMT

The hottest new tech stack is english + markdown + bash

2026-03-20 15:03:48 GMT

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Much bigger design space. I'm now constantly tackling ideas that were unfeasible before.

2026-03-20 11:49:53 GMT

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patio11 is a legend

2026-03-19 21:16:53 GMT

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I can't verify this is the real Frank until I see a shoe on his head.
#nevent1q…d6sq