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"It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it. […] No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves."
-- Karl Popper, On Freedom

2023-11-13 00:55:34

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https://payjoin.org/

2023-11-03 12:57:44

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If you want to learn more in depth: https://brandonlucas.net/articles/bitcoin/payjoin

2023-11-01 03:51:11

Wrote an article on the benefits of payjoin for Bitcoin:
https://brandonlucas.net/articles/bitcoin/payjoin

2023-05-14 16:36:15

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Ah, so using nostr wallet connect! But based on this PR implementing is definitely non-trivial 😅
Awesome job though, this ux improvement is a game changer

2023-05-14 15:22:47

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Woah, would love to see how this works under the hood

2023-05-04 16:43:49

Where is the startup working on lightning micropayments for AI-based requests?

2023-04-21 05:42:17

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Also note that you can do this with your own self-hosted node if you’d like to as well (doesn’t necessarily have to be a Voltage node)

2023-03-16 15:36:37

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You could also charge flexible subscriptions for usage of advanced features through the use of something like LSAT

2023-02-26 16:20:28

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Same here

2023-02-25 05:02:04

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Working on the beginnings of this idea here, where people can visualize their data by pubkey: https://nostrlytics.netlify.app
Planning on adding a lot more stuff to it, maybe eventually if we build out enough graphs this could be something clients could just import and use like an npm package

2023-02-25 04:52:23

I've starting working on a way to visualize nostr events by npub: nostrlytics.netlify.app. Intention is to eventually have it show charts/stats for whatever people want to see for their own npub's events. Right now there's a bar chart showing number of events by kind for a given relay and npub/nip05, but I plan on adding a lot more. Try it out and let me know what you'd like to see built!

2023-02-25 00:50:53

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I don’t understand the push for PoW on nostr. Seems like a waste if we can just use lightning paywalls? Plus this way the relays get rewarded
Maybe I’m missing something though?

2023-02-25 00:10:55

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This site also does it and a few other things: toolkit.nostring.stream

2023-02-15 23:45:06

- they’re selling your data because of your desire to view someone else’s content
-> therefore your data/content has value
-> therefore you could make money from your data/content directly, even as a regular user.
instead of platforms simply using the content of one user to attract the attention of another user so they can sell to advertisers, you could cut out the middleman and have creators and viewers have a direct financial relationship. Creator provides something valuable, user pays them in return
This is a strange idea for most people still I think, the idea that their post on social media has value that they could get paid for. That they don’t need to be an “influencer” to get some value back from the content they create, however much of it they do create. That they don’t need to wait on some platform to hand them the money it decided they deserve.
But lightning is making all this possible and it’s so exciting to see

2023-02-15 23:03:19

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informative read!

2023-01-29 23:15:12

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I’d be happy to work on this if enough people are interested.
Agreed! I’ve gotten so much value from Stack Overflow but there’s no way I know of to give back small amounts directly to the poster, on a per question basis. There’s also so many people who I feel like would post solutions but don’t since there’s no real incentive for them to once they’ve solved their own problems.
At its most basic we could have people pay a small amount to post for spam reduction then have people pay back via a value4value tip button, stacker.news style. Giving ideally could be as simple as hitting a like button.

2023-01-29 22:43:41

Has anyone built a stackoverflow equivalent powered by lightning yet?
Pay a little bit to post to reduce spam, which would be easily recovered if you have a valuable answer?
Imagine how many more people might post answers to solutions they’ve found online if they were getting paid for good ones, instead of essentially doing it as charity like on stackoverflow now

2023-01-06 00:21:23

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Thanks for the link! As I understand it, it is a model in which a content creator basically has to ask their users to donate in proportion to the value they feel they were provided, correct? I think lightning micropayments are a perfect use case for this, but I still think a lot of people will want to be able to just set a price and charge for content. I can imagine a situation where relays can get overloaded and not enough v4v payments are coming in to cover the cost, for example, since v4v doesn’t rely on proof of payment, and potentially only a small subset of people are paying to publish. I guess all I’m saying is a relay that allows predetermined pricing as opposed to v4v seems more realistic when things start to scale, but I could be wrong

2023-01-06 00:03:56

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I thought value 4 value is basically a donation model?

2022-12-28 13:47:58

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Do you have a @getalby lightning address/account? I think this’ll only work if you have an alby account, so you’ll have to login to that first

2022-12-28 13:46:13

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How can I verify my Nip-05 works on Damus after adding my pubkey to the alby profile page?

2022-12-28 13:43:44

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This one got me too, you have to go to the actual alby website getalby.com, then click dashboard -> settings -> profile settings

2022-12-28 05:00:02

testing video url:
https://i.imgur.com/ej4y2KD.mp4

2022-12-28 03:11:49

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Err, meant are you paying for hosting out of pocket. Looking forward to an edit feature haha

2022-12-28 03:11:00

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Are you paying for uploads out of pocket? Do you plan on keeping it free as it scales or requiring some form of payment as more and more people post?

2022-12-25 14:54:26

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2022-12-22 23:13:15

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Yep, same with video and audio

2022-12-22 17:10:57

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I think, technically, you could even do audio/video now, right? You could just encode the information as a string (I.e. base64) and then just have the client interpret that string as audio/video in using something like <video src=“data:video/mp4;base64,{base64_encoded_video}” /> and it would work. Obviously for that amount of data we’d need to work on some sort of payment/incentive structure for relays, but this can be done now to my understanding

2022-12-19 03:51:37

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Yep

2022-12-19 03:44:12

Test