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2024-08-27 01:36:00

#asknostr which nostr apps have the best onboarding experience? Specifically focusing on the eas of nsec creation.

2024-08-10 08:25:24

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Im happy to use different clients for different experiences but I feel like the power of nostr would really come alive if there were more “kinds” for various different types of media. Looking at @npub1yfg…v6vg feed when they post a link to a playlist it just links to their website. Why not just let me play that playlist, zap the artists, etc directly from @npub12vk…pugg ?
https://m.primal.net/JuXQ.png

2024-08-10 05:49:51

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Been dealing with this for 15 years. I’ve come to realize that a lot of the ideas are actually good because they came from a need or problem. But instead of thinking critically about the problem and who might pay for a solution, non technical people jump straight to the first solution that looks like something they’ve seen before. Then they often can’t let go of their original idea that they’ve visualized in their head.

2024-08-10 05:38:57

#asknostr why isn’t there a nostr kind for things like podcasts, music, video, and other media for clients to implement. Feels like notes are all just Twitter posts with text and links with minimal support for images and videos. It could be so much better. What am I missing?

2024-07-18 00:55:40

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I did the poor man’s version. Chocolate chips poured into the peanut butter jar.

2024-06-25 19:13:02

I can’t think of a worse way to spend bitcoin than this. https://image.nostr.build/feb4c0291a75c0cf904ad4654e2764a14c7a8ab4a8be21283e3fb64e125f7057.jpg

2024-06-18 19:56:18

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I’ve been thinking more about this idea since your recent podcast. Would it be possible to create a fully open source Uber (or some useful subset of Uber) identity and payments is already solved with nostr bitcoin. I think the hardest part would be maps, then some kind of decentralized dispatcher service. But with those 4 things it could work. Then you could use that effort to create open Airbnb, etc.

2024-06-08 01:40:18

American Wagyu just a decent steak.

2024-05-18 23:56:11

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I think in this case the "go niche to win" is the right move. You would want to start this idea within the existing bitcoin community, similar to how nostr started with just bitcoiners who had little reservations against zapping people. Other apps can start this way, set a culture of paying small amounts for packages, and as other open source devs from the outside see that bitcoiner devs are actually getting paid for their work instead of begging for tips in their README.md files they'll want to put in the effort to get set up as well.

2024-05-18 10:54:41

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You’re right. That note took me 2 minutes of thinking to write. There’s a lot of nuance in how you would go about implementing something like this but would a company, for example, pay 10 Sats per install of a module they can’t get anywhere else that’s super useful to their product development and also potentially write off that money as donating to open source? I think yes.

2024-05-18 10:50:54

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I think there is a social dynamic at play in order to make it work. Module maintainers would need to list exclusively with this system. They could also test out freemium models. Like you get 10 installs of their module for free, if you keep using it then it’s 10 Sats per install after that, etc. needs to be thought out more but it could work.

2024-05-18 08:39:37

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Ok hear me out. What if we built some kind of paywall into a package manager like npm where an app that’s installing a package would get a lightning invoice as part of the ‘npm install’ flow. The app’s CI tool could could connect to their lightning node and pay the invoice programmatically. I’m thinking very small amounts per install or maybe even a one time fee. Relying on opt-in tips like most devs do now will never work.

2024-05-11 05:30:52

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👀 @npub1xnf…lpr5

2024-05-11 04:54:30

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@npub14ad…d7qq https://x.com/collinrugg/status/1788954532124455368?s=46&t=36KzeelOAD10ObL76btQiA

2024-05-10 22:26:13

@npub18m7…q955 @npub12vk…pugg and other clients. One feed enhancement I’d love to see is when someone is on the feed and new notes come in at the top of the feed, don’t jump the user to the top of the feed (index 0) jump them to the their previous top spot and, offscreen, add the new notes. Then I can start scrolling up from that spot to see all the new notes.

2024-05-10 22:12:54

In Block’s latest shareholder letter @npub1sg6…f63m doesn’t mention DIDs or verifiable credentials anywhere. Hoping they pivot their decentralized identity efforts to #nostr 🙏 https://s29.q4cdn.com/628966176/files/doc_financials/2024/q1/Shareholder-Letter_1Q24_Block.pdf

2024-05-10 01:49:31

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If that happens I think we would start to see them more in a positive light so maybe makes more sense to add them at that point?

2024-05-10 01:43:33

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When doing something just to stick to your pre-defined principles, it’s time to evolve your principles. Use this framework: “Will future me be happy I promoted a shitcoin app, or not happy?”

2024-05-10 01:29:00

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That’s the dream but people gotta eat.

2024-05-10 01:25:07

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I’d say it’s more likely than not.

2024-05-10 01:23:22

Just think, Satoshi probably has a fully kyc’d Coinbase account that he uses with his real life identity to get some liquidity on coins he had, not associated with his publicly known wallets. 🤯

2024-04-30 22:10:13

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Could also do this, but beaches are much more fun. https://image.nostr.build/efa3dfe52773e81760e40dbd01be907914cae084350a1540933f799c48efec03.png

2024-04-30 19:59:10

Accidentally deleted my nostr account, freaked out, found this https://nostr-delete.vercel.app/ deleted the delete event, was able to sign back in to #damus and #coracle but not #primal. I updated my kind0 profile on Damus and then primal let me log back in. 🫠

2024-04-30 19:42:51

test

2024-04-26 04:33:15

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They gotta justify all that Bitcoin paid for it somehow. Once epic sat loses its luster, we’ll start to see, “platinum epic Sats” “super platinum” and “galaxy platinum Sats” for sale.

2024-04-26 04:27:17

Have to give credit to @npub1rxy…hnp8 for his work. Even as a technical person, it’s helpful to simply watch someone walk you through the process of setting something up.
https://youtu.be/qNjJ0AuxgHs?si=As8YpbO7yi_v36--

2024-04-26 04:20:45

You can’t fault miners for doing this. That money will help their margins, cash flow, bills, and payroll. But for whoever bought that sat will just sit and stare at it for years with the worst case of buyers remorse ever. Who wants to buy a “epic sloppy seconds sat”?
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/one-of-only-four-bitcoin-epic-sats-just-auctioned-off-for-over-2-1-million

2024-04-24 18:46:40

Super excited to share this. Using the @npub18d4…6lt3 api a designer friend and I made this #bitcoin mempool explorer app, it shows the current mempool statistics and fee priorities to help determine what you should set your tx fees at to get into the next block. Many more features to come but message me if you want the TestFlight for iOS or apk for Android. #sharenostr #nostrdesign
https://m.primal.net/HzVl.mov

2024-04-23 00:15:55

#asknostr to all my bald brothers (and sisters who know a lot about scalp maintenance)
What products or treatments do you use for:
- reducing shine
- oily scalp
- sun protection
- sun spots
- scars from hitting your head on sharp things

2024-04-23 00:09:47

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What if… there was an open source email relay/server that could handle incoming emails and route them to an email client, but could also function as an lnurl payment receiver and nostr identifier. This gives you a nice single player mode that can scale to multi player mode over time. Killing email won’t happen all at once so we need something in between.

2024-04-19 04:11:33

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

2024-04-18 04:38:35

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Ah yes, the extra long mullet is a dead giveaway

2024-04-18 04:35:46

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Or when he played Kylo Ren in Star Wars?
https://m.primal.net/HweD.jpg

2024-04-18 04:29:58

#asknostr can you #zap a notes directly? If so what happens?

2024-04-12 23:09:10

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I think we’ve already passed that threshold 😰

2024-04-12 22:41:25

AI is going to create so many more jobs, just not for most existing devs.

2024-04-12 06:13:50

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I actually feel like it’s making me a worse programmer. It’s definitely comes in handy sometimes, but is just making me lazy so I’m shutting it off.

2024-04-12 04:59:18

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Are you doing the lightning prism payment yourself? Ready to give a talk about prism payments at bitdevs?

2024-04-12 01:31:18

#asknostr Do you secure your #bitcoin keys in a safety deposit box? Two SDBs with half seed in each? Any other solutions?

2024-04-10 00:29:41

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I mean, that’s kind of what happens when you centralize all the extensions and try to maintain them yourself. 🤷

2024-04-04 06:09:29

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@npub12z5…9k9c got any Bitcoin pogs and slammers?

2024-04-04 03:52:45

If you know what game i’m teaching my kids right now, we can be friends.
https://m.primal.net/HrDZ.jpg

2024-03-16 09:14:32

Who’s paying 6033 sat/vB to get their tax into a block when the average price is in the mid 80s? 🤯
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/nostrcheck.me_4231910857444761621710576781.webp

2024-03-05 20:36:46

#asknostr Bitcoin/lightning testnet is horribly broken. What are you using to test your apps with real users but not on mainnet?

2024-03-05 16:22:48

Oh my https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/nostrcheck.me_7376030894671467111709652158.webp

2024-03-01 01:17:43

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I’ll be honest, the acting was pretty bad. But visually pretty good and it followed the animated series pretty well. Definitely enjoyed it. Saca’s nose is pretty distracting though.

2024-02-27 06:35:26

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Yup, agreed. I do t plan to add identity at all unless the nostr community has a good idea for it. Honestly not having to implement auth for it has been amazing so far.

2024-02-27 06:06:33

#asknostr I’m building the mempool.space of mobile apps. Should/How could I integrate #nostr in a useful way?

2024-02-13 18:00:42

Whoa, this is a big deal. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/former-paypal-ceo-peter-thiels-founders-fund-bought-100-million-of-bitcoin

2024-02-07 19:04:57

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https://media0.giphy.com/media/kPIswn0RfPTGxOvDj5/giphy.gif

2024-02-07 02:26:42

Fiat rent seeking meets science https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_8765978349627794551707269166.webp

2024-01-18 22:02:47

Whoa https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-surpasses-silver-to-become-second-largest-etf-commodity-in-the-us

2024-01-13 20:59:20

My daughter calls my bitcoin basketball my “money ball”. She knows what’s up. https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_5432846527826064011705175906.webp

2024-01-09 01:55:51

Stuff like this is why I couldn’t make any progress on integrating #lightning while I worked at blockchain.com.
Shitcoins simply take up too much mindshare for people, and the thing, Bitcoin, that drive almost all of the revenue and usage always gets deprioritized. It doesn’t make any sense.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_6602874764869385791704761576.webp

2023-12-14 01:57:55

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Just like blocks maybe? Your peers determine which code (commits) are the trusted ones and then you build the source code based off that commonly agreed upon commit sha.

2023-12-13 23:49:09

Good idea or bad idea?
Instead of hosting history’s greatest money, #Bitcoin , on servers owned by Microsoft’s GitHub, why not store the git repo in each bitcoin node’s codebase? Then the node syncs its commits and prs over the network and devs can use an open source git gui locally on their computer?

2023-12-06 01:03:44

What are the most timeless #Bitcoin articles?

2023-11-16 18:57:30

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Ah I see, I was thinking the process running on the users node would occasionally ping your server with their min sendable amount that you could store along side their node id in your db. Maybe that’s too complicated though. I like your idea of updating the lnurl spec more.

2023-11-16 08:16:55

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Yeah totally. Could you even build some kind of script that node runner could install next to their node that somehow signals the lowest fee someone is willing to take? If you built that service you could also report that information back to your own server to tell advertisers what range they should set it at. (ex. Reach 10 nodes by paying 10k Sats, reach 100 nodes by paying 1k Sats, reach 10k nodes by paying 1 sat). I guess there are privacy concerns with that scripts but it could be done in a privacy preserving way. 🤯🤯🤯

2023-11-15 23:58:12

Hey @npub1ew4…6qlf I both love and hate that you started the first LN ad network. I guess it had to happen eventually. Could you add some kind “market rate” for sending satograms? It’s getting annoying seeing all these 1 and 2 sat keysend payments in my tx list.

2023-11-10 19:15:01

Just got paid for my first bounty on Stakwork. Looove these kyc free Sats.
https://community.sphinx.chat/bounty/656

2023-10-27 18:25:00

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_9427993451025364871698423892.webp

2023-10-17 18:09:37

Glad my employer doesn’t force me to stand outside and do yoga in the morning. The employees looked embarrassed as hell when I walked by.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_2745887488054190961697558860.webp

2023-10-12 00:46:31

Twitter is down right now but there’s no way to tell everyone on Twitter to switch to #nostr 😭😭😭

2023-10-10 21:54:50

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You can always try this as well.
#note1te8…vnye

2023-10-06 19:55:02

👨‍👦🥹 #bitcoin
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_5275638128430917151696614817.webp

2023-10-06 01:09:12

It hurts to say but tether on trim may just be the best thing that ever happens for #bitcoin adoption.

2023-10-05 19:44:51

I hear people taking shit on Pacific Bitcoin for not being technical enough, but I’ve never seen a more diverse crowd at a conference. It’s wild. There’s a table of 3 women in their 60s next to me… at a bitcoin conference. I also see a ton of couples here together. This is how Bitcoin scales adoption.

2023-10-05 19:37:37

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👋

2023-10-05 19:21:31

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The first panel just started. I don’t see much nostr stuff here though. :(

2023-09-27 18:40:55

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Does nostr also keep your house warm though? ;)

2023-09-16 06:35:21

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Ohhh I have to get that hexagon funnel thing. That never came with mine. Thanks for the tip!

2023-09-15 21:30:36

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Pics of your setup???

2023-09-15 20:49:38

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I love mine as well but there’s always that tense moment where you’re pressing it down and if your cup isn’t stable you feel like it might slip and spray glass and boiling hot coffee everywhere.

2023-09-14 00:13:40

Just got my @npub1nfd…0n06 order that I bought with #lightning got a free chapstick too. :D
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_4403127393516021441694642670.webp

2023-09-12 18:56:03

If #nostr ends up beating out Block/TBDs #web5 initiative, it will remove any hesitations I have about large centralized tech being able to overpower truly decentralized, grassroots, movements.

2023-09-11 07:30:18

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Special shoutout to @npub10vl…sp42 @npub1qny…95gx @npub1guh…6hjy @npub1h8n…rpev for their writings that have helped me see many things in a new light.

2023-09-11 07:28:29

#FiatRuinsEverything
In the last few years, California has added a new grade to public schools called TK, or transitional kindergarten. Each year, they have also been lowering the minimum age for children to attend. Last year, my eldest daughter became eligible for TK, so we took her out of her in-home daycare, located in our neighborhood, and enrolled her in public school. It's amazing! She loves her new friends and school, and we get to save $1500 per month. Win-win!
However, she also loved her old friends, and her previous daycare was a quick bike ride away. Now, we have to drive farther and sit in traffic to drop her off at "free" school. We also have to pay $500 per month for after-school care on campus. It's starting to feel less free now.
Part 2 of the story is about my second, younger daughter. She is 3 years old and attending preschool in our neighborhood, which is within walking distance. Again, we're paying $1500 per month, but next year she'll be eligible for TK, so more "free" school is on the horizon.
Recently, her preschool sent out an email asking parents for help in getting new students. At first, I was skeptical and thought it was just another tactic to get more money from parents. But a point they made completely flipped my thinking on its head: "the State of California began to offer 'free' public education to four- and five-year-olds, thus further impacting private education."
I was blinded by "free" this whole time and didn't realize that the public school system is actually contributing to the degradation of local communities. Here's an example of how it happens: "free" school now encompasses your child's age bracket, so you enroll. As a result, local private daycares and preschools see less attendance each year, which leads to price increases due to lower income and the inability to hire good educators. Parents become frustrated with low quality and high-priced private daycare, so they leave. As a result, they travel farther and pay more for quality care for their children. Eventually, the government notices this and steps in to "help" by reducing the age limit for public education. The vicious cycle repeats.
Knowing what I know now, I think I'll keep my child in preschool for an extra year or two. She has great (local) friends and is learning so much about STEM and God, which is very important to us. In the end I think this comes from decades of #fiat mentality that we don’t even recognize we have. As Americans, and beyond, we need to wake up and start recognizing and taking action to keep our local communities sustainable.

2023-09-08 02:48:19

Gonna tell my kids this was congress. #fiat https://image.nostr.build/db1f75d60616def7ff084e3dc6ae80361e6bb737d93ed70d8b66db7e6308a1e9.jpg

2023-09-07 23:27:59

Life gets so much better when you’ve gotten rid of yarn and just use npm on all your projects.

2023-09-06 23:57:45

I just picked up Nostrnauts.com, what to build? https://image.nostr.build/eacba2c3fdf1f73a8aabef86e8247cda9425f5c4fc6bbc2ac2557c52952254c2.gif

2023-09-06 23:36:58

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I’m partial to #bada55

2023-08-31 23:40:18

#Priorities 🍑☕️ https://cdn.nostr.build/i/32d3d33bd7aa732c145f127ad4f9505f0e4033c95c5031a88145b741749db502.jpg

2023-08-31 23:07:19

Any #lightning wallet suggestions for sending keysend payments specifically with a message?

2023-08-30 20:53:55

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https://media.giphy.com/media/pzuye8RSBJFgk/giphy.gif

2023-08-30 19:10:00

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Do I get residual star power since my avatar is right next to his?

2023-08-30 19:09:06

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Given the shape of his avatar, I’d say it’s an L

2023-08-30 18:11:08

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Damn, I got all excited for a sec.

2023-08-30 16:51:25

Does anyone one else remember those few years where people stopped smoking cigarettes but vaping hadn’t begun yet? Good times.

2023-08-29 21:55:20

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Yup correct. You can still “control” the funds on both sides but since it’s custodial you’re right you have the counter party risk. I just use this hack to get some initial liquidity for small projects so I don’t have to beg (or pay) for inbound.

2023-08-25 06:38:22

Seeing a lot of duplicate notes on #Damus lately. Anybody else getting this?

2023-08-24 20:03:15

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I’ve also done this with Purse.io

2023-08-24 20:02:14

Nice little hack for getting a little inbound liquidity to your #lightning node.
1. Login or create a stacker news account.
2. From your node, connect and open a channel to stacker news node. (Node ID is in the footer of their website)
3. From your stacker account creat a deposit invoice for some amount of sats.
4. Pay the invoice from your node.
Done! Now you have a channel with Sats on both sides of the channel but you still have control over it all.

2023-08-24 18:35:09

To all 7 people in the world who have USDC on Solana, they can now buy crap with it on Shopify? 🤡🌎

2023-08-23 23:32:26

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Die in a fire

2023-08-23 23:03:27

Me after using the exfoliating face wash my wife gave me, every day. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/10b8d878866b19d5b547c80f0c3e7bc06db832ffb14d07bbbc44bff78b8c7541.jpg

2023-08-22 22:37:28

What is your #nostr #zap strategy? Zap anything and everything? Only zap notes that make you 🤔? What else?

2023-08-22 17:55:02

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Guessing you’re not coming to Pacific Bitcoin conference then?

2023-08-22 08:24:04

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We’ll I guess this answers it #note1az7…zy28

2023-08-22 08:14:06

Is the intent for #nostr to have an enormous amount of event types or a relatively small set of different event types? It would be awesome if there were a structured way to do almost anything on nostr but not every client (or relay) would have to support every event type.