CappyNate🍁

Tech, money, startups, free-markets. Sidelined by undiagnosed neurological issues since 2020.

Re-spawned from here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanlabbe/

Public Key

npub1rr7vzwv4p2wvu0lwtmj0far08clsuvuzwlwv30xkj2euur55pp8qr9wudh

NIP-05 Address

[email protected]

NIP-57 Address

lnurl1dp68gurn8ghj7ampd3kx2ar0veekzar0wd5xjtnrdakj7tnhv4kxctttdehhwm30d3h82unvwqhhv6tpvfkx2mtpd9kxymmcxvesxkuafq

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsp3lxp8x2s48xw8lh9ae8573hnu0cwxwp80hxghntf9v7wp62qsnspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d58pt227

Publishing to

nos.lol

nostr.mom

e.nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1rr7vzwv4p2wvu0lwtmj0far08clsuvuzwlwv30xkj2euur55pp8qr9wudh

Show more details

Last Notes

2024-11-24 20:43:50 GMT

- reply

That's precisely why such a low level is required. A market's goal is to shake out conviction.
$100k shakes out permabear conviction.
But $80k, $50k, even $30k will not shake bullish conviction.
It will take deep levels. When all bulls throw in the towel, THEN we re-buy. And MSTR bankruptcy may very well be a marker for that (like FTX was).
I'm working on alternate all-time counts. The only bullish count I can find breaks 2 EW rules so it's considered invalid. I need to look harder. I can find 2 valid bearish counts that each point to corrections of 70% to 90%. It's really dangerous here.

2024-11-24 20:23:14 GMT

- reply

Since last year, we have much more clarity on the tail end of this move. The minimum became $95-100k. We got that now.
That means the entire 14yr move COULD be over.
There's still a chance of a near term exhaustive push to $100-130k to top after a drop back to $80k. But its very very very high risk on long term charts because again, we fulfilled all minimum target requirements at the known end of a move.
https://m.primal.net/MgOx.png

2024-11-10 14:22:05 GMT

Bitcoin $80k.
Completing White 3 soon. The 14yr top looks to target end of January. Right at inauguration. After that, run.
https://m.primal.net/Lynv.png

2024-10-04 19:14:42 GMT

- reply

Thx

2024-10-04 16:47:38 GMT

- reply

🤣 🤣 🤣 I knew that would get you. That's Creed's lead singer, Scott Stapp. Your BFF.
I'll find a way to add it to your playlists. 🫴

2024-10-04 13:08:35 GMT

- reply

Creed.

2024-10-04 00:55:52 GMT

- reply

Hey. Your bestie dropped a new tune last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wV2GFx_mtQ

2024-10-03 18:10:55 GMT

- reply

Ya man. I left after all the Bitcoin Worship. This message needed to hit this audience though.

2024-10-03 17:04:20 GMT

I wouldn't be holding Bitcoin right now.
This is just the A wave too. Show me low $50's and I'll make the ultimate call: $15k.
Shall I remind you I warned over 10 times that $74k was a possible top. The Bitcoin worshippers on here laughed. Nostr receipts are forever.
https://m.primal.net/LKCe.png

2024-10-01 05:07:27 GMT

- reply

Extremely interesting. But no Play Store links anywhere on their site. Or listed countries of operation.
I take it you can use as a payment processer, then convert back to fiat easily (non maxi's want this).

2024-09-29 04:06:08 GMT

- reply

You have very good takes and are under-followed.

2024-09-29 04:00:46 GMT

- reply

To fight censorship we must understand the attack points:
1) The app itself
2) The app stores it's distributed on
3) The ISP it's accessed over
Each problem needs solving
1) App: Solved via Nostr
2) Stores: Solved via APK distribution on Android
3) ISP: Solved via decentralized internet. Hardware. This is huge and its importance can't be stressed enough.

2024-09-29 03:57:28 GMT

- reply

🎯 🎯 🎯

2024-09-28 23:39:31 GMT

- reply

Free speech ain't for talking about the weather.

2024-09-28 23:38:57 GMT

- reply

Censorship resistance is the ONLY selling point of Nostr.
Without it. Fuck Nostr. Might as well be Instagram.

2024-09-28 23:33:15 GMT

- reply

Mine is dynamic. Ever evolving.
You can be kicked off one branch but be re-entered by another. If the endorser believes you should be. Fully self-regulating by the userbase in real time.

2024-09-28 19:19:18 GMT

- reply

Not Vitor's decision to make, it's the network's.
And if these idiot devs built an algo, we wouldn't have this issue.
Nostr has some of the most brain-dead development I've ever seen. If I was healthy and flush with cash I'd annihilate these clients. They're sitting ducks for disruption.

2024-09-28 19:10:40 GMT

- reply

I told people 100 times on here how to solve spam. None of these fucking devs listen.
Opt in Web Of Trust. End of story.
https://primal.net/e/note1plrkxur0wtmzhtcfl6gyq8wg6wwzna298anj648dzxx9xjzddv6qw8fp68

2024-09-28 19:09:00 GMT

- reply

Censorship.
On a decentralized platform. Big problemo. Tons of fake free-speechers on here riding coat tails.

2024-09-27 11:46:44 GMT

- reply

Nailed it.
Finally honest rational discussion on here instead of blind Bitcoin worship.

2024-09-08 23:30:10 GMT

This is the solution to the Reply Guy issue. Opt-In endorsing. Said it many times on here.
#note1plr…fp68

2024-09-08 23:28:56 GMT

- reply

The Ol Sybil attack. Let's see how Nostr handles it. A censorship dilemma is created.

2024-09-05 15:33:54 GMT

- reply

No one is worried about the relays. They're quite decentralized. But you can't really use a relay without a client. Right now there's 3 main ones that work. That's why I raise the centralization point.
Open-source and forkable seems to be the most logical key to solving that. Looks like Will is doing that. Good.
Will check out Start9, looks interesting. Thx

2024-09-05 15:28:11 GMT

- reply

Elon's gaslighting is outrageous. Saving free speech, one limited visibility post at a time.
The dude is the king of narrative control.
He sued Jeremy Clarkson TWICE because he didn't like Clarkson's review of the Tesla Roadster on Top Gear. To suppress the bad press.
All of a sudden he's against lawfare, hush suits, censorship, and government subsidies.... Even though he rode each of these things all the way to the top. Insanity.
https://m.primal.net/KfdO.png

2024-09-05 15:23:41 GMT

- reply

Ya that's a good way. PWA is under-rated. Loses device-based functionality like push notifications though.

2024-09-05 15:19:52 GMT

- reply

Good. You're building robustly then.
On the iOS side, there's still App Store risk. Need good ways to sideload iOS apps without the store. Android is easy. I haven't see many non-jailbreak ways on Apple. Ideas?

2024-09-05 15:17:13 GMT

- reply

You're fucking back!?!?!?!?! Holy shit. I left after you did. Just poking my head in.

2024-09-05 15:15:48 GMT

- reply

You have services though, no? API's, your Relay, iOS versions.
Basically, can the app run forever without maintenance? If not, those fail points will be targeted.
Open source is good. If the app can live in a way that even you can't shut it down in any way, you've solved this problem.

2024-09-05 15:12:00 GMT

- reply

The owner of the client. For example, you, in relation to Damus.
Just like they did with Pavel Durov. They'll say, "Will, shut Damus down or we're putting you in a cage".
As a client operator, you need to prepare for that. Because eventually, it's a very likely scenario if Nostr takes off. This is a war.

2024-09-05 15:08:23 GMT

- reply

They can show up to the operators house and stick a gun to their head though. Single points of failure.

2024-09-05 15:06:03 GMT

- reply

He's got a point actually. A decentralized protocol is pointless if clients are centralized.
It's like holding decentralized Bitcoin on a centralized exchange.
I have no idea how to decentralize clients though....

2024-09-03 20:00:37 GMT

Over the next 5yrs, Elon could own and control:
-The Social Graph (Twitter)
-The ISP (Starlink)
-The ISP Launcher (SpaceX)
-The Bank (X Bank)
-The Car (Tesla)
-The AI driving the car (Autopilot)
-Camera's on tens of millions of cars (God Mode like)
-A humanoid (Optimus)
The person claiming to "save free-speech" is usually the one who wants to control it the most.
Only Nostr people understand how insanely dangerous this is.

2024-08-29 19:19:53 GMT

- reply

Yes but freedom tech on an iPhone is a bit like 20" rims on a Toyota Tercel.

2024-08-29 03:10:30 GMT

- reply

KYC = Bad altogether.

2024-08-25 22:30:33 GMT

- reply

Accurate. Need good proxy network and a ISP bypass network.

2024-08-25 22:27:18 GMT

- reply

Thank you sir. Spot on.👏

2024-08-12 17:13:55 GMT

- reply

We literally expose bot users on LI. 🤦

2024-08-12 16:43:52 GMT

- reply

I want Nostr to succeed. I'm not slamming it to shit on it. I'm pointing out critical issues preventing its mainstream adaptation. To fix them. So it can adopt quicker!
Nostr has the nuts and bolts to do so. And still may eventually.
I'd much rather move to Nostr now, rather than risk bans on LI.
But I'm also not going to post into the void while the growing pains are worked out. Especially when devs show no intention of fixing them.

2024-08-12 16:27:52 GMT

- reply

What client has push notifications?
Not in-app notifications. PUSH notifications.

2024-08-12 16:07:21 GMT

- reply

Think it was just a glitch. But things got a little rowdy over there.

2024-08-12 16:06:13 GMT

- reply

False. All real.
https://m.primal.net/JxQJ.png

2024-08-12 15:49:03 GMT

- reply

Laugh all you want. LinkedIn gets distribution.
Without distribution (an algo), you might as well be shadow-banned. Because the effect is the same.
https://m.primal.net/JxPe.png

2024-08-12 15:37:36 GMT

- reply

Truth hurts.

2024-08-12 15:37:03 GMT

- reply

And this attitude is why Nostr is still under 20k DAU's after 2yr+.
Until it perishes, Nostr will remain smaller than a Reddit Sub. The nuts and bolts exist here to be mainstream though.

2024-08-12 14:50:43 GMT

- reply

Devs won't listen. So Nostr is only backup worthy until they do.
A social network only needs 2 functions:
-An Algo. (For Post distribution + Feed curation)
-Notifications.
Nostr has neither.
It doesn't need all this useless bullshit that Nostr devs seem distracted building. All while the 2 most critical functions remain unbuilt. So back to LI until devs wake up. Or get wiped out.

2024-07-31 23:18:05 GMT

Only 3 months away from Nostr and I already got a possible LinkedIn ban. I still have access, but they may nuke me.
If they do. I'll be back here.
If not, on LI we stay. For now. (LI has been great other than this)
Drop any major Nostr developments I missed in the last 3 months.
https://m.primal.net/JkgN.png

2024-06-06 20:58:02 GMT

- reply

Massive scoop. Thx.

2024-05-30 02:46:09 GMT

I'm leaving Nostr indefinitely.
I joined because legacy social muzzled my voice via censorship.
However, the lack of post distribution on #Nostr is equally as muzzling. Defeating Nostr's entire value proposition.
The insufferable Bitcoin Worship and fake positivity here is the cherry on top.
While Nostr development is fast, it's highly misguided. Dev priorities are upside down. I don't see devs clueing in until enough people leave. And unfortunately I'm not in a place to build and fix it.
So back to LinkedIn I go.
Any market updates will be exclusively posted there.
#FuckNostr 🖕

2024-05-30 02:09:53 GMT

- reply

March 9, 2023

2024-05-30 02:03:53 GMT

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

2024-05-30 00:02:05 GMT

Endorsement Lists are the solution to #Nostr Web Of Trust issues.
User 1 endorses User 2, bringing them into the WoT.
Only endorsed users are allowed to bring new users inside the WoT.
Here's the kicker, it's hierarchical.
If a bad actor sneaks into the WoT and brings a bunch of bots, any person above them can knock the whole branch off.
Not sure if this could be added to NIP 51, or if it needs a new NIP.

2024-05-29 23:30:23 GMT

Peter Thiel has backed the Dope Olympics. No drug testing.
https://m.primal.net/IRxT.png

2024-05-29 21:41:56 GMT

- reply

When sequel?

2024-05-29 05:47:01 GMT

- reply

Taxes pay for services.
The first step to eliminating taxes is finding what services can be offloaded to the free market. Most can. Education, welfare, retirement, health, etc.
Reduce spending = reduced taxes.
Consumption taxes are only 1 method of taxation. A highly administrative and prying one too. There's better methods for what little taxation is still required.

2024-05-29 05:28:17 GMT

- reply

This is how you do it. Small deliberate teams.

2024-05-28 18:02:30 GMT

- reply

It's true. Blazing dev ecosystem here. Excited to try out Damus Android.
I just hope clients can monetize and sustain themselves. 🤞

2024-05-27 21:32:02 GMT

Everybody Hates Us - Music Video.
🔊 Sound on
@npub103m…d3h5 This up your alley? 🤣
https://m.primal.net/IPWc.mp4

2024-05-27 06:13:34 GMT

- reply

Easy. Two wallets, two accounts. Zap publicly, funnel back privately. Rinse, repeat.

2024-05-27 06:10:21 GMT

- reply

The key is a hierarchical ability to revoke your WoT endorsement.
When you revoke a bad actor, you also revoke everyone that bad actor brought into the web too.
The branch gets cut off, then the market re-evaluates the leftover pieces of that branch, to decides who to endorse back into the WoT. Carefully, so their sponsor doesn't cut them off.

2024-05-27 05:57:06 GMT

- reply

Something is wrong with those stats.
2 weeks ago the same days showed like 25% lower and downtrend. Now upend.
Look super close. The data got flat out changed.
https://m.primal.net/IMep.png

2024-05-27 04:06:10 GMT

Made a little Fuck Trudeau Song on Suno.
Whatchu think @npub103m…d3h5?
https://m.primal.net/IOca.mp4

2024-05-27 03:01:03 GMT

- reply

Are you talking a follower/follow backup tool? Any other contact mgmt I have no idea lol
https://follows.nostr.com/

2024-05-27 02:36:24 GMT

- reply

Yup. Exactly. VPN's have effectively already been banned by the internet.

2024-05-27 02:19:31 GMT

- reply

They weren't kidding they trained it off Reddit. 🤣 🤦‍♂️

2024-05-27 01:30:33 GMT

- reply

IRS costs USA $4.7T per year.

2024-05-26 23:32:56 GMT

- reply

Ya. I'm pretty frustrated with it.

2024-05-26 21:39:31 GMT

- reply

Or, do direct Lightning to Fiat exchanges exist in Canada?
I usually went from WoS Lightning, to On-Chain Shakepay, Convert to CAD, Send to bank.
That's 4 steps and tons of fees. Not practical for a business processing regular payments.

2024-05-26 21:33:49 GMT

- reply

Physical. Cool will check Zaprite.
Wallet Of Satoshi is so easy to use. But Bitcoin hesitant merchants won't want to hold BTC after accepting it. So I'm looking for an easy way to get them back to fiat.

2024-05-26 21:30:16 GMT

- reply

@npub1hcw…h9rq do you have any plans to offer fiat settlement? Either directly, or via partner? Actual fiat, not stablecoin.
(I notice you team up with Moonpay but they don't work in Canada.)

2024-05-26 21:27:07 GMT

What's the easiest Lightning POS that automatically settles into Canadian Dollars? Either end of day, or per transaction.
#AskNostr

2024-05-26 21:09:31 GMT

- reply

haha the ol' email flooder. Keep that email safe or use a proxy bud!
And definitely don't publish the celly. Call flooder is even worse.

2024-05-26 20:39:26 GMT

- reply

Wallet Of Satoshi is still the GOAT imo.

2024-05-26 01:29:01 GMT

- reply

Holy fuck that was an impact. The horse got nipped too though. Wow.

2024-05-25 17:53:34 GMT

- reply

Good that you aren't. As you mention, others will.
Batch muting will occur regardless. It can't be stopped. The key fight against it is being able to see it occurring. To expose + address.
The second we can't see it (private), we're hooped.
I just put a post up, feel free to attack it. This definitely isn't a client-side or Damus issue, so not directed at you. Seems like a protocol-wide issue.

2024-05-25 17:48:41 GMT

Private Encrypted Mute Lists could be catastrophic to #Nostr.
Muting users is an important function on a P2P level. Batch muting will occur no matter what. It can't be stopped, nor should it.
But the key to keeping batch muting in check is via PUBLIC mute lists. Because if batch muting starts to be abused, at least we can see it occurring, and possibly address it.
The second that mutes go private, we can no longer see it. Huge swaths of users can be shadowbanned, without anyone knowing the extent, and without any ability to address it. Defeating the entire purpose of a censor-resistant protocol.
Mute lists should have remained public. Further, mutes should be extensively monitored for abuse and mass #censorship formations.
If every Bitcoin financial transaction can be publicly auditable, then every Nostr event should be publicly auditable too.
Don't trust. Verify. Remember?
Unfortunately the encrypted mute NIP likely opened Pandora's Box.

2024-05-25 17:23:34 GMT

- reply

That's cult response.
There's nothing wrong with muting. Muting is excellent. P2P muting.
The second you add batch muting and private muting, the game changes entirely. A function can now be weaponized without anyone knowing. Creating a shadowban effect with no way of stopping it.
All mutes should be public. And a mute monitoring service should be paramount to ensure batch muting isn't being weaponized. This can only be done publicly.
If every Bitcoin financial transaction can be public, every Nostr event can be too.

2024-05-25 17:06:46 GMT

- reply

I certainly don't want to tell people who they are allowed to mute.
But if the entire purpose of the protocol is to resist censorship, and muting (a method of censorship) is opaque, then it's impossible to even know if abuse is occurring.
If mutes are public (as they should be), then at least if batch muting gets weaponized it can be exposed.
Without transparency, you get a shadowban, of an unknown extent. The exact same thing the protocol was created to deter.

2024-05-25 16:57:01 GMT

- reply

Could a user not take a public "bad actor" list, and mute it privately?
Leaving no way for outsiders to audit the extent that batch muting is occurring, on a protocol-wide basis?

2024-05-25 16:43:57 GMT

- reply

Are you serious? You don't see the problem with hiding mute lists on an "open" and "censor-resistant" protocol?
Hiding mutes is literally opening the door to shadow-banning. At a user level OR a client level.
A bad actor list forms, everyone adds it to their private mutes, weaponizing the function and shadowbanning a swath of users.
Encrypting mutes is terrible function, bordering catastrophic to the purpose of the entire protocol.
I would much rather see an aggregation service that publicly shows how many people have muted each user. To verify batch muting isn't occurring. This is really bad stuff.

2024-05-25 16:32:46 GMT

- reply

What is an encrypted mute list and what is its use case?

2024-05-25 16:31:34 GMT

- reply

But the architecture is still filtering notifications App-Side, no?
If so, that's the wrong architecture.
Filter them relay-side so no app-side discarding/suppressing needs to occur.

2024-05-25 14:28:18 GMT

- reply

@npub1fjq…leku Where are these clients typically filtering feeds?
Relay-side? Do they run a caching intermediary? Or fully app-side like @npub1m4n…c2jl is alluding to?

2024-05-25 14:21:08 GMT

- reply

Interesting. An app-side filter. That kinda makes sense architecturally actually. Skips requiring a server. What client?

2024-05-25 14:11:40 GMT

- reply

Hmmm, not happening to me on Primal or Amethyst. Takes a minute to propagate a mute. But no problems here on that front.
The latter. Questionable.

2024-05-25 14:09:08 GMT

- reply

Elaborate?
In your feed, they're still showing you people you've muted.
Or, by you or I muting someone, clients are suppressing that person in everyone else's feed?

2024-05-25 13:56:24 GMT

Is NostrBand fudging stats?
Screenshot 2 weeks ago shows declining trend, in the range of 10-12k DAU's.
Now, the exact same dates show 12-14k DAU, showing an uptrend.
Note Apr 8 specifically. The same date magically changed from 10k to 13k+. Are rewriting history here to #grownostr? Something is fishy.
https://m.primal.net/IMep.png

2024-05-25 13:36:05 GMT

- reply

Yup. There's a lot of bullishness out there right now saying we're out of the woods. I've been arguing we aren't.

2024-05-25 12:25:16 GMT

Friendly reminder: The Yield Curve is STILL inverted, 2yrs later.
That's deeper and longer than any inversion in the last 40yrs.
Recessions come after yield curve inversions. And we still haven't had ours yet.
https://m.primal.net/IMIz.png

2024-05-25 04:04:17 GMT

- reply

No chance. Too many CRM's as it is. Nostr has no value add. This is buzzword chasing and reinventing the wheel.

2024-05-25 03:54:51 GMT

- reply

🤣 🤣

2024-05-25 02:27:01 GMT

- reply

Entitlement seems only be for critical notifications (emergency alerts, alarms, overriding ringer silencers, etc).
Are you triggering the notify service directly from Damus Relay? If so I would work on "filtering" the notifies Relay-side.
In the same way that you would filter Relay-side that Bob only gets notifies on events for Bob's posts (and not Sally's).... A similar Relay-side filter should be able to filter out events from muted parties too.
Then use Apple Notify service under "Active" level, without need for entitlement.
https://m.primal.net/IMBJ.png

2024-05-25 01:23:26 GMT

- reply

Sound like Apple. What are they preventing?

2024-05-25 01:03:02 GMT

Censorship surging on Tittler.
https://m.primal.net/ILxj.png

2024-05-25 00:02:12 GMT

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

2024-05-24 21:08:28 GMT

Everyone talks about censorship. But no one talks about what DRIVES censorship. To me, it's driven by 3 main behaviors:
-HYPERSENSITIVITY: This offends me.
-GROUPTHINK: I can see how this is offensive to you, therefore it offends me too.
-COERCION: Since this offends us, we should "protect" others from the same discomfort we feel, by censoring offensive stuff.
We can build all the censor-resistant mechanisms in the world. But so long as sensitivity and groupthink pervade, weak people will strive to coerce strong ones.
We need to normalize:
-Feeling uncomfortable
-Thinking outside the Overton Window
-Challenging beliefs
-Being different (truly different)
Until we do, the urge to censor will seep out no matter what medium or tangible tools we build to prevent it.

2024-05-24 19:10:33 GMT

- reply

Yup @npub1a2u…32qc is right.
Demand for BTC comes from 2 things: 1) Inflation resistance 2) Censorship resistance.
Stop inflating via currency debasement and you remove 1 demand prong for BTC. Of course that's not just 1 country, that's all countries. Will never happen with idiot lying politicians in charge.
And if/once BTC reaches critical mass, something we're approaching, it becomes much harder to put the rabbit back in the hat.

2024-05-24 16:30:58 GMT

- reply

SimpleX is great.

2024-05-24 16:29:13 GMT

- reply

Govs stop printing money.

2024-05-23 15:25:53 GMT

- reply

Hail Hydra. 🐍

2024-05-22 21:36:39 GMT

- reply

A UX idea for you @npub1jlr…ynqn. Most important stuff first, minimal clicking, minimal hidden behind menus, no calendar selectors.
Advanced selections hidden. No double redundant logic confusion issues. Sequential logic. Add conflict notes and tool tips as needed.
https://m.primal.net/IKNB.mp4