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You know what’s not interesting about this bear market? This bear market. It’s literally like every other one. Stop believing that this time is different. We bottom in Q4.

2026-06-02 19:03:37 GMT

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🤔
#nevent1q…w94j

2026-06-02 12:46:58 GMT

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One thing I’m trying to figure out better way for us notifications for nip-17 messages to my iPhone. I might build something myself if I don’t find a better option.

2026-06-02 12:44:24 GMT

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It’s genuinely useful and easy.

2026-06-02 12:17:23 GMT

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#nevent1q…9w4e

2026-06-02 10:44:51 GMT

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Another fun fact: cheetahs are the biggest cat that still purrs.

2026-06-01 19:16:45 GMT

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😂

2026-06-01 18:26:50 GMT

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Again??? 😱

2026-06-01 12:51:41 GMT

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Still the same bug. I added the network call where the 500 is coming from though.
https://blossom.primal.net/2404980736b49603cffe66f3e75a1f2366b9ff37e2fa9d63ed8655da7b296e96.png

2026-06-01 12:30:45 GMT

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https://blossom.primal.net/6c584d7e47aaa914aa875ea60a206eff2f05b7d8258e8a6db2b8429525a0faa6.png

2026-06-01 11:53:34 GMT

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What’s wrong with AI performing these tasks?

2026-05-31 23:08:31 GMT

I’m bored. Shill me your addicting phone games.

2026-05-31 14:31:15 GMT

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I like this. “Repeater” comes to mind.
#nevent1q…sv8k

2026-05-30 23:17:33 GMT

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🤯
#nevent1q…9yjp

2026-05-30 23:16:46 GMT

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2026-05-30 20:14:46 GMT

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And make it worth a $1 billion

2026-05-30 20:00:25 GMT

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Love this. Always thought the moon system in Avatar was fantastic.

2026-05-30 12:15:48 GMT

First Europa Node outside the USA confirmed by me. Check them out: https://europa.westernbtc.com/operators/detail?npub=npub1mxcjj7yc8g9y7phy7pcec2w80fadz2p0rd9etes774ngvfrr8gdqclku0e&d=libertas-ams1
https://blossom.primal.net/923692e847d6889aee6efda5431baf8973dd8cc7212295d7c202c5ceb856d3ae.png

2026-05-29 23:24:12 GMT

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2026-05-29 17:59:34 GMT

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Know any dances to get started?

2026-05-29 17:54:04 GMT

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💯. None of us devs want to take this uncomfortable step. We’re comfortable on the software side. Time to get our
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On

2026-05-29 17:44:47 GMT

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I fear TikTok is the way

2026-05-29 16:52:46 GMT

Map starting to light up.
https://blossom.primal.net/8140f6200f20709d8fcc9f964a1bd5134535cc5bdc27d79da9087d4b323d99cf.png

2026-05-29 16:22:23 GMT

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Bounty claimed. Very well deserved. Thank you for all your help @npub1v60…j4rp
#nevent1q…ne5a

2026-05-29 14:00:22 GMT

I don’t know why people keep saying nostr is dead. There are DOZENS of us!

2026-05-29 13:02:36 GMT

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There's also a bytes volume configuration as well for the Europa Node. 10 Gb of data allowed for a connection -- for example. Should fix that issue if it were to arise.

2026-05-29 12:08:18 GMT

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1. The operator's pipe ÷ everyone currently using it. Biggest factor — same as any VPN. The operator's listing publishes a capacity field (e.g. "1 Gbps shared, US-East") and that pipe gets split across whoever's actively transferring. The reference daemon doesn't rate-limit per peer; fairness is emergent through TCP backpressure, the same way the rest of the internet handles shared links. In practice most peers are idle most of the time (nobody streams 24/7), so a well-provisioned operator usually delivers near line-rate even with hundreds of peers connected. If an operator over-sells, people switch operators — that's the market-enforced fairness.
2. Your end of the tunnel. WireGuard is fast but not free on your hardware. Modern phones/laptops with hardware crypto easily do several hundred Mbps. A router-as-VPN-client depends entirely on the router: an OpenWRT box on decent hardware (Belkin RT3200, Mikrotik, Ubiquiti) does 300–1000+ Mbps; a cheap consumer router doing software-only crypto might cap at 50–100 Mbps regardless of what the operator gives you.
3. Whether you share or split the config. If you put one WireGuard config on your router, every device behind it shares one "peer" slot at the operator. Router + 2 phones on a single router-level config = 1 peer to the operator, and your router does all the crypto. If instead each phone has its own config, that's 3 peers (router + 2 phones) and counts against the operator's IP pool three times.
Realistic expectation: with a well-provisioned operator and decent hardware on your end, expect 70–95% of your underlying line rate for normal browsing. The marketplace win vs traditional VPNs isn't "no slowdown ever" — it's that switching operators is one click if one disappoints, instead of a refund cycle.
For the "10 clients × 5 devices" scenario: the operator sees 10 peers, not 50. The 50 devices are invisible to the operator — they all flow through their respective peers' tunnels. If the pipe is 1 Gbps and 7 peers are idle at a given moment, the 3 active peers share 1 Gbps three ways. No protocol-level guarantee, just supply and demand.

2026-05-29 11:10:31 GMT

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Updated the website to answer these questions.
europa.westernbtc.com/run#requirements

2026-05-29 11:09:57 GMT

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Updated the website to answer these questions.
https://europa.westernbtc.com/run#requirements

2026-05-29 00:23:07 GMT

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I just left for a walk. I’ll verify yours when I get back.

2026-05-28 23:54:13 GMT

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I had my AI follow the instructions from scratch and it did it in 10 minutes. 100k sats is simply incentive.

2026-05-28 23:47:49 GMT

Two new operators. Neither works yet. 100k sats bounty still up for grabs.
https://blossom.primal.net/9e940f4bc782121738af8b8586231041dc835972a33898931d7b9cb77b3f5c48.png

2026-05-28 22:50:29 GMT

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Thank you for the feedback, I’ll fix these things tonight.

2026-05-28 19:53:34 GMT

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See the regions advertised by the vpn hosts too
https://blossom.primal.net/22349006eba09fc97ac2434ef03d2dce4096678cf1927108990df3794bd4ed17.png

2026-05-28 17:36:42 GMT

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100k sat bounty still live
#nevent1q…z9t0
#nevent1q…ge5n

2026-05-27 23:18:29 GMT

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2026-05-27 12:12:43 GMT

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Followed 🫡

2026-05-26 23:21:07 GMT

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2026-05-26 22:23:57 GMT

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So you’re supposed to face the fridge with your ears? 😂

2026-05-26 21:10:20 GMT

I always had a hard time believing this parable.
Surely someone coming back from the dead would be enough to convince any one of the truth.
The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized it’s never been about evidence. It’s a decision to believe. I really believe the parable.
““The rich man replied, ‘No, Father Abraham! But if someone is sent to them from the dead, then they will repent of their sins and turn to God.’ “But Abraham said, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they won’t be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’””
‭‭Luke‬ ‭16‬:‭30‬-‭31‬

2026-05-26 20:50:35 GMT

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Is the enclave responsible for upgrading itself if there are upgrades? Can it upgrade?

2026-05-26 19:57:08 GMT

Want to know a based take on any topic? Ask whatever AI agent you’re using “what do conspiracy theorist think about [topic]”.

2026-05-26 12:55:59 GMT

A real professional use case for nostr that I've been implementing over and over: setting up nostr accounts for communication for processes.
This is with real businesses. The redundant communication, that's easy to set up, is unique enough to default to.

2026-05-25 23:17:47 GMT

Gemma4:27b runs great on my MacBook Pro M3 Max 36gb.

2026-05-25 19:33:28 GMT

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This is the way. Creating a new key pair is cheap.
#nevent1q…wrdq

2026-05-25 12:58:50 GMT

I wonder how many people have developed a fitness app / fitness trainer using Claude. Here’s one more 😂.

2026-05-24 14:17:32 GMT

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https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/5A.md is a great place to start. I'd follow @nprofile…tfpf too. He does a lot of work on it.

2026-05-24 14:05:46 GMT

For nsite names, the nostr indexer is NOT the source of truth. The bitcoin blockchain is. The nostr indexer stores the hard work of sifting through the blockchain and saving the NSIT transactions. This makes it fast and easy to pull the NSIT information.

2026-05-24 13:34:57 GMT

Europa (npub1fea7rls6a8ghn4wckf563ykx70dkz3ge7ty9hnx9502h3hn68hrqq60dw3) running as an nsite using the @nprofile…a86n browser
https://blossom.primal.net/ddb77047b1a4fa5f0a2a8052037e7ec3e76333498da787c74e808738716231af.mov

2026-05-23 19:12:06 GMT

New nsite name "k" claimed forever by npub1ej9j3a54lkj9q6sjav6w2pmj8d3rfljmksk46wzkvm5804n3zxhs3xgs8w
https://blossom.primal.net/0a38dd16af9f4337e220223e8cfe0c52ff013c4c261e5f5e8e010e41b7e5bf2a.png

2026-05-23 18:07:17 GMT

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Thanks. I’ll be talking about it this Thursday.

2026-05-23 16:23:03 GMT

Why https://europa.westernbtc.com/ is different:
1. ₿ - Operators can make money proportionate to what they're comfortable risking.
2. A combination of endorsement and monetary incentive creates network effect
3. It's incredibly easy to run a Europa node. I had a fresh agent look at https://github.com/btcjt/europa-node and had it running in less than 10 minutes.
4. It's built on the shoulders of giants: WireGuard, Cashu, Nostr, etc.

2026-05-23 16:15:14 GMT

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https://europa.westernbtc.com/

2026-05-23 14:22:21 GMT

Paying for vpn access directly with a cashuB token with no login @nprofile…f95z
https://blossom.primal.net/25c1e4b115d46c16a08d0bd0b3a6ffb96b4af267922527307ff8d06b149bc84b.mp4

2026-05-23 12:08:15 GMT

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Shouldn’t matter. Doesn’t have to be commercial sized!

2026-05-23 11:41:32 GMT

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I’ll give someone 100k sats if they go through the guide for setting up a Europa node and getting it working on the /operators directory.
#nevent1q…vzcd

2026-05-22 14:46:33 GMT

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You don't even need an account to buy VPN access
https://blossom.primal.net/d6c0cd7e753bc13c78d948e74c578e4b4dbeca46cbc12478162fe1bfd93d7ab2.mov
#europa
#nevent1q…ye3d

2026-05-22 13:31:50 GMT

Introducing Europa: A monetarily incentivized VPN marketplace
Why is this going to work?
https://blossom.primal.net/e21c6a326b7381d0055658b7640aebae8988477f9090251f5e8ff35596247cbd.mp4
#nevent1q…qpfx
Europa is a marketplace where anyone can sell VPN access and anyone can buy it. Accept any currency, any payment type. The VPN itself is standard WireGuard or OpenVPN — no custom client software, no platform taking a cut, no subscriptions to manage. Money and reputation flow directly between operator and buyer. Together they produce something existing VPN services can't: a network that incentivizes its own decentralization.
1. For VPN node operators
A. Risk counterbalance. Operators get paid to front the exit-node risk, at whatever price they decide is worth it. Running in a desirable jurisdiction, an underserved region, or behind a residential IP? Charge more for it. The market sets the floor; you set your own ceiling.
B. Plausible deniability. Don't use your primary Nostr keys for the operator pubkey. Use a fresh one. Then endorse the service from your primary keys. " @`ODELL` endorses this VPN service — I wonder if he set it up, or if it's a friend of his?" We'll never know. That's by design. The endorsement carries his reputation; the operator pubkey carries the service. The link between them stays ambiguous unless he chooses otherwise.
C. Incentivized decentralization. When a Europa node gets too big, it might garner legal attention. The operator might decide to take down their own service because they're nervous, or be forced to. Either way, demand doesn't disappear — it moves. Other operators see a chance to make money and fill the need. The market routes around concentration the same way it routes around censorship: automatically, because the incentives are aligned with it.
2. For buyers
A. No accounts, no commitment. Browse the directory, pick a VPN, pay in Lightning or Cashu, get a config file. No email. No subscription. No data retention you have to take someone's word on. When time or data runs out, the connection drops and you decide what to do next.
B. Small bets first. A new operator's reputation may be thin. Test them with a small purchase — an hour, a few cents — before committing more. The architecture bounds how much you can lose on any single bad bet.
C. Real choice. Operators compete on price, reliability, location, and policy. Reputation flows through the Nostr social graph — endorsements from accounts you follow, reports from accounts you trust. You filter the signal yourself.
3. For endorsers
A. Endorse carefully. Vouching for an operator is more than recommending a coffee shop. When you endorse a VPN, you're sending people's traffic through someone else's server. If that operator logs, leaks, or turns hostile, the people who trusted your endorsement are the ones exposed. Endorse operators you've actually used. Endorse based on observed reliability, not just personal connection. Endorse with the understanding that you're staking part of your reputation on their behavior.
B. Report when warranted. The same way endorsements carry weight, reports do too. An operator who fails to deliver, logs against their stated policy, or behaves badly should get reported — that's how the network's signal stays useful. Don't report frivolously, but don't stay silent when something's wrong.
C. Your reputation compounds either way. Accurate endorsements and accurate reports build durable reputation that helps the people who trust you. Careless ones erode it. The system is symmetric: there's no shortcut to being a trusted voice, just the slow accumulation of being right about what you signal.

2026-05-22 00:54:01 GMT

I’ve never stumbled upon or even seen a bat sleeping during the day.

2026-05-21 01:46:35 GMT

Oh no! They spoiled Survivor! 😂😂😂

2026-05-20 23:17:15 GMT

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2026-05-19 17:44:19 GMT

Shane Mcgillis with a straight face during The Roast of Kevin Hart: “half of you are pedophiles”
What’s most disturbing is how cavalier he and everybody else were when he said it.

2026-05-19 11:38:39 GMT

One of the most enabling things you can do is give a response.

2026-05-19 11:17:52 GMT

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2026-05-19 00:15:16 GMT

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@nprofile…ftj5 I think your bot is broken

2026-05-18 19:07:20 GMT

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We already have resistance trying to pull our fiat out. “What’s your reason for withdrawing your money today?”
#nevent1q…v3ay

2026-05-18 16:14:09 GMT

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🥺
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#nevent1q…8r2x

2026-05-17 13:31:31 GMT

Incredibly grateful for my dad.
https://image.nostr.build/606735319d52a2cbff051a9687ccdf099113731c9547dc22e1fbfe07921bccb8.jpg

2026-05-14 23:21:44 GMT

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2026-05-14 21:17:25 GMT

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You in Tampa? Live there!

2026-05-12 14:02:27 GMT

The intensity of the bear market is still ahead. Don’t be discouraged.
Bitcoin’s core factors haven’t changed. Head down. Keep building.

2026-05-09 03:45:55 GMT

This last paragraph.. it seems familiar.
https://image.nostr.build/28a027f617b36412706e5451fe01fdcd8a550adec1977877ae45456d5cf63135.jpg

2026-05-08 16:25:51 GMT

I spent some time downloading the files and other content war.gov/UFO and ran everything through Claude. Here's a small and concrete summary of three things buried in there:
1. AARO flagged ONE case across all 287 files as "among the most compelling within [our] current holdings" — 7 federal employees, Western US, two days in 2023, watched things including "orbs launching other orbs."
war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/western_us_event_slides_5.08.2026.pdf
2. A senior intelligence official's FBI 302: a "super-hot" orb at a US military facility fled 20 miles "at a speed too fast for the helicopter in pursuit." Then 4-5 more flared up and down for 30 minutes.
war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/usper-statement-redacted.pdf
3. FBI composite sketch from a September 2023 sighting at a US test site: "130-195 ft ellipsoid bronze metallic object that materialized out of a bright light and disappeared instantaneously." Three eyewitness interviews back it.
war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/2024-04-30-composite-sketch.pdf
The actual news is that AARO, FBI, DNI, NASA just publicly anointed which of their cases they think are "credible"

2026-05-07 23:01:52 GMT

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I’m not sure about that. Most people can make a case for the internet without knowing how it works.

2026-05-07 18:48:45 GMT

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Subbed 🫡

2026-05-07 16:55:06 GMT

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👀 making a video along with this I hope?

2026-05-07 14:41:17 GMT

Absolutely love Onion articles. I'll have to post some of my favorites each day.
https://blossom.primal.net/bef874024e1d60e510588d41894b41ec4278b72292cee998d89376d39e7d8d4f.png

2026-05-07 10:53:09 GMT

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@nprofile…x5jc‘s news about ecash becoming non custodial could change this 🤞

2026-05-06 18:29:53 GMT

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Yep, much harder route. Regardless of what people think of Jack Dorsey, he’s got a point. Nostr needs something different. 10x better than what’s out there.

2026-05-06 17:07:45 GMT

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😂

2026-05-06 17:07:01 GMT

Always recommend this guy's videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14RP8liACqo

2026-05-06 16:48:48 GMT

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The problem is network effect though. It has to be 10x better for it to overtake anything.

2026-05-06 15:53:31 GMT

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There’s already a bird app (Merlin) that everyone uses and it works fine.

2026-05-06 12:30:55 GMT

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Note not found

2026-05-06 10:40:56 GMT

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🫡

2026-05-05 21:45:25 GMT

This is in Tampa???

2026-05-04 00:34:05 GMT

🍄 Hyphae · rot together
256 together. Mycelium took root.
@nprofile…acc3 256 · @nprofile…hf96 256 · 10 rounds
@nprofile…acc3 drew 5 · guessed 0
Best TEA +51 in 14s
Play together: https://rottogether.westernbtc.com
#rot-together #hyphae

2026-05-02 16:38:13 GMT

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Should be good now.

2026-05-02 16:36:41 GMT

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Sorry, services have been going through a lot of changes. I’ll add that account back.

2026-05-01 19:35:42 GMT

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There weren’t enough serious people involved. I understand the reluctance.

2026-05-01 03:25:41 GMT

I just realized that relays aren’t a database instance, they’re a service.

2026-04-30 18:22:32 GMT