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David King

Codegen/AI are enabling a peak at this future, but it’s not fully here yet. Instead of downloading or building an app imagine you can just will it into existence to do the one workflow you need right now (and importantly it’s not built in a general way to do anything else so no extra features/learning/cruft).

2024-09-09 02:10:43

software is going to become disposable and that’s a good thing

2024-09-03 05:54:31

boa noite 🇧🇷

2024-09-01 03:52:58

if you’re new here on nostr make sure to setup your lightning wallet (also, welcome to nostr! 👋)
if you don’t know what that means or how to do it hit me up right here and we can discuss

2024-08-31 23:24:29

follow along to see @norkut become a thing 👇
#note1c7q…7ua3

2024-08-31 00:00:07

freedom tech will win
https://m.primal.net/KVwd.jpg

2024-08-30 23:03:44

who’s going to build the Orkut-themed nostr client for all the Brazilians arriving on Nostr?
NostrOrkut
#brazil #brazillian
https://m.primal.net/KVsa.jpg

2024-08-29 17:07:48

been thinking about this. would love to know the podcaster stack on nostr
#note1qqq…dl4z

2024-08-29 01:40:31

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wait, does this imply there could be a second best?

2024-08-29 01:15:51

such cognitive dissonance every time I click publish on a Substack where I’m writing about Nostr
we need better long-form writing tools here ✍️

2024-08-29 00:22:38

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i want to hear more about their position on this

2024-08-28 22:10:49

with every note I write on nostr I feel a sense that I am making a slight improvement toward righting what’s wrong in the world

2024-08-28 18:06:50

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agreed, search is pretty broken across nostr. @npub1xdt…ntxy has done some early work here, but i don’t think it’s currently his focus. maybe he can tell us what he has seen that’s interesting and the state of search?

2024-08-28 18:03:07

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i haven’t seen any nips around reporting view count. it’s probably possible in a somewhat privacy preserving way, but could certainly get complicated depending on the approach. do you think view counts would contribute to a lot more creation?

2024-08-28 05:41:07

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which app/service?

2024-08-28 05:33:53

🧘‍♂️
https://m.primal.net/KQxc.jpg

2024-08-28 05:23:11

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hello, Henden! thanks for joining. it’s better with you here 🫂

2024-08-28 05:22:30

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looks like you’ve got this thing down already! 🤙

2024-08-28 05:12:47

if you’re new here step up and say hi! 👋

2024-08-28 04:48:28

the continued rug pulls will prove to be the best marketing for nostr
https://m.primal.net/KQvG.jpg

2024-08-28 02:25:42

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get your wallet setup so i can zap you some btc already!

2024-08-28 02:25:06

Karpathy understands the principles of zaps/V4V, but doesn’t seem to be aware of the tools yet.
https://m.primal.net/KQnQ.jpg

2024-08-27 22:28:00

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1) great writer/speaker
2) you’ll find the vibe on nostr is low stress… esp compared to centralized algorithmic controlled engagement baiting media networks :P
3) best thing right now is to just participate in conversations with people you’d like to exchange ideas with. You could also consider writing about your hobbies/passions/interests/views and see who shows up to agree/disagree. in my experience people are pretty cordial here

2024-08-27 22:25:39

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1. Sounds wise… keep them close!
2. What are you looking to access?
3. It’s a little tricky to find good accounts to follow. I might suggest looking at the accounts of some people who seem reasonable to you, check their profile and see who they follow. Then follow some of the people they follow quite liberally to populate your feed with interesting/active stuff. I hope we can make this easier for new users at some point

2024-08-27 22:24:19

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We’ve got the tools now!

2024-08-27 22:19:37

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Welcome, Xavier! nice to bump into you here! 🫂

2024-08-27 19:31:24

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ah, the typical pinecone formation — usually followed by a strong rebound

2024-08-27 19:10:31

is there a “laser eyes” equivalent for nostr avatars?
maybe something like @npub16c0…6nvr has

2024-08-27 15:52:02

open books 💜
#note1eqj…rtgg

2024-08-26 06:10:55

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Welcome! What are you hoping to find here? How did you hear about it?

2024-08-23 20:40:32

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Ah, I think I get it better now. So you’re relying on the satoshi names from Ordinals? There’s a bunch to like about that naming system, but I also have concerns with the fact that it’s going to be a long time before we can get short names which presumably would entice a lot of people to participate/promote such a system early-on. The proposal I’ve read that attempts to mitigate this problem reduces the self-sovereignty of ownership.
Do you agree that the sat names from Ordinals have not gotten substantial adoption? Are you assuming that will change soon for some reason?

2024-08-23 19:17:03

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I’ve read a few times, but still not sure if I’ve digested the purpose. Is it mostly to help existing PKI be published/shared somewhere?
the specific problem I’m interested in is around establishing a global namespace e.g. so you could own the handle “nusa” and we could use that to find this nostr-account or a website or whatever else you’d want to point it to. does your protocol touch on a solution to that problem?

2024-08-22 18:05:54

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what’s the easiest/best way to generate a nsec/npub and perform basic signing operations from a CLI?

2024-08-22 17:49:36

I’m trying to use fiatjaf’s nak CLI to generate a new nsec/npub pair.
when I used the “nak key encrypt” command successfully the output shows a string that begins with “ncryptsec…”
what is the relationship between “ncryptsec” and “nsec”?

2024-08-21 22:06:02

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I’m interested in thinking about ways of using digital scarcity (that we already have present in bitcoin) to prevent bots from taking all available names, while allowing Farmer John Apple to express their interest/demand for that specific name because of its relevance to their business.

2024-08-21 22:03:06

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the 11-12 characters thing sounds like a limitation I heard about in the current ordinals approach to a decentralized namespace… is that what you’re referring to or is there an 11-12 character thing in Spaces?

2024-08-20 22:03:03

I don’t think good US presidential candidates can emerge within the structure of our current system. We need more fundamental reinvention.

2024-08-20 00:59:12

Nostr’s super-power is interoperability, yet most nostr services tend to build complete experiences rather than “the best micro-app to achieve X”
Is this due to a belief that each app should be a complete end-to-end experience in itself? a lack of coordination among devs? something else?
excerpted from a phone call today with @npub18lz…ugm3

2024-08-19 22:16:03

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yes, I’d love to learn about what you’re building! please do share for comment

2024-08-19 19:43:02

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Do your real estate clients generally know about and understand bitcoin?

2024-08-19 18:48:39

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cool... I’ve found there’s plenty of room for nuance here. Much less dunking/“scoring points”… more open discussion. def more discussion on freedom related topics so an overall diff type of content so far.
I notice you’re involved in bitcoin and real estate. How do you see those interests as related/different to each other?

2024-08-19 18:12:12

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Welcome! How did you hear about nostr? What are you hoping to find here?

2024-08-19 17:24:33

“Not your keys, not your name?”
Just saw this article about a new approach to self-sovereign names called “Spaces”. Any opinions on this approach or suggestions of others to consider?
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/not-your-keys-not-your-name-heres-why-naming-is-the-next-killer-app-for-bitcoin

2024-08-19 06:53:19

HARD AGREE 🤜 🤛
#note17f0…cpav

2024-08-19 03:03:32

i don’t know if explicit suppression of trolls would work since the identification of such might be just as hard as it is for today’s providers. but there may be an answer somewhere in an open network
https://m.primal.net/KDri.jpg

2024-08-18 03:09:35

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peter knows

2024-08-17 00:14:46

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try @npub12vk…pugg and use the “Trending 24h” filter accessible from the upper right box… it’s a good start to find some good notes/people, but not yet part of the obvious/default experience for a n00b

2024-08-17 00:13:12

we need open, user-switchable, transparent algorithms
new people come on and can’t find the good stuff. this needs to be easy for a casual user who is curious to try it out
@npub1gcx…nj5z and @npub16c0…6nvr are already building toward this future, but we can do so much more.
simpler onboarding, easier to discover the good stuff, no engagement-bait shenanigans. the future is bright (but not evenly distributed) #note1ec5…562l

2024-08-16 20:19:55

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You deposit bitcoin, you get stablecoin (e.g. USDC/USDT) that you can off ramp to bank dollars. You pay the right amount of stable coin back at the end of the loan term (all encoded programmatically) and you get your bitcoin back.

2024-08-16 20:13:26

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hmmm.. this is using DLCs to setup a non-custodial smart contract between a borrower and lender so the loan is just programmatic and shouldn’t care much about who the parties are. Not sure if individual reputations will add more signal, but maybe there are cases?

2024-08-16 19:57:32

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⛰️⛰️⛰️ 👀

2024-08-16 19:46:03

Bitcoin is pristine collateral
Lava makes that utility accessible to everyone — all non-custodial, of course
https://github.com/lava-xyz/loans-paper/blob/main/loans_v2.pdf
cc @npub1xww…x7pr https://image.nostr.build/fb29e419b0410db7d815d560976853d7b84e56dfe848afc8278bde69f556b518.jpg

2024-08-16 18:54:57

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🙏

2024-08-16 18:42:15

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@npub1ug8…d9ry
@npub18lz…ugm3
@npub1qny…95gx
@npub14mc…frlx
@npub1a2c…w83a
@npub1l2v…ajft
@npub16c0…6nvr
@npub1xww…x7pr

2024-08-16 17:49:52

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🙏

2024-08-16 17:38:38

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Is there any FOSS I can setup locally to handle most of this?

2024-08-16 17:37:09

I’m going to try publishing my first long-form note (I think). Wish me luck! 🤞

2024-08-16 17:21:15

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the_more_you_know.gif

2024-08-16 01:58:47

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wouldn’t be interested any other way

2024-08-16 00:56:18

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🫡

2024-08-16 00:03:50

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oh yeah, I’d be all for giving people whatever they want
despite being a US citizen I’m not a lover of the dollar and all the corruption/war it perpetuates. but there is quite a bit of global demand at the moment

2024-08-15 23:57:17

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yeah, the only digital-dollar to bank-dollar stablecoins I know of at scale are USDT and USDC. And they have a mess of inteop issues due to all the competing L1s they issue them on.
I’m not sure how to do stablecoins outside of having someone hold bank dollars and issue digital dollars — esp if you need to use those dollars in the tradfi system at any point. I wouldn’t use them, but there is massive global appetite. So I think Shehzan is suggesting keep the bank<->digital dollar issuers away from bitcoin, because ultimately they’re captured
I’m not sure if owning some sort of synthetic dollar has a credible use-case/sovereign technology solution yet.

2024-08-15 23:48:21

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how do I play with this or what are the best resources to learn more about the best stuff so far?

2024-08-15 23:47:33

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I agree that people on subsistence wages should be able to use bitcoin payment rails. I’m not sure I see so directly how stablecoins fit into that. I recently heard something about USDT issued as a Taproot asset. Is that part of the story you’re talking about?
So far the at-scale stablecoins are not interoperable across the L1 chains where they do the most volume.

2024-08-15 23:30:23

I agree with Shehzan’s conclusion, but it opens up a bunch of weird follow-up questions for me
https://m.primal.net/KAre.jpg

2024-08-15 23:00:59

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ha... I still know my Prodigy username despite not having logged in for over 30 years 😝

2024-08-15 21:48:15

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assets with more substance (what I might call utility?) have a higher likelihood of sustaining their social consensus over a longer duration
but all pricing is relative to all other options, nothing has an intrinsic price

2024-08-15 21:19:54

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listen to @npub17u5…t4tp on @npub14mc…frlx’s recent episode and you’ll change your mind :)

2024-08-15 21:16:55

I grew up on the Internet starting over 30 years ago
digital is real to me

2024-08-15 21:05:21

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no heroes

2024-08-15 20:52:46

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why $? sats the standard

2024-08-15 20:18:05

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I hedged my language cuz @npub1qkf…ertp kind of invented the zap pre-nostr on @npub1jfu…m0gx
j/k Silk Road was a good, but early use-case, tho it had nowhere near the frequency of a media-use-case

2024-08-15 18:56:54

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it’s one of the first great use-cases for bitcoin payments

2024-08-15 18:42:40

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🎯

2024-08-15 18:19:15

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let’s help educate more. it can take a lot of study -- it’s a big change to understand.

2024-08-15 18:18:14

the concept of “intrinsic value” is a scam
it’s all just social consensus

2024-08-15 17:20:22

Every time a rug is pulled somewhere — be it money or speech — it’s marketing for sovereignty and freedom

2024-08-15 03:39:37

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thanks for writing this. I had not considered how expressing hate speech can lead to a reduction in continued hate speech.

2024-08-15 03:36:53

free speech and neutral money are technically very different, but they’re both foundational to how we organize society

2024-08-15 03:34:07

Daily reminder: if you’re iterating quickly on building the best nostr-native long-form composer I will give you tons of feedback

2024-08-15 02:27:14

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legit!

2024-08-15 02:19:23

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🙌
From my upcoming post:
"They may be more open to trying a new approach — publishing in a place that is uncrowded and niche even if it doesn’t provide amazing growth and monetization opportunities yet. It’s an investment in the future. Being early before the masses arrive will prove to be a gift to your future self.”

2024-08-15 02:17:24

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whoa! is this getting integrated into a lot of dev workflows?

2024-08-15 01:41:26

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anyone making progress on a nostr based github alternative yet?

2024-08-14 18:56:56

Today, you are the algorithm. ReNote the ideas you want to spread.

2024-08-14 01:51:26

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I did as a kid. don’t go any more

2024-08-13 23:54:35

I’m open to considering any conspiracy theories, but…
the more a theory requires more people, orchestrated in secret, required to pull it off, the more skeptical I become
for example, I did a thought experiment with a friend… “how do you know that computer science actually works as believed?”

2024-08-13 23:47:59

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ty! 🙏

2024-08-13 23:43:04

What’s the simplest way to use a CLI on Mac/Linux to generate an nsec/npub and sign/verify a message?
NDK? @npub1l2v…ajft @npub1zuu…c2uc

2024-08-13 22:49:10

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I’m rooting for everyone contributing to this
would there be any value from more cross-collab among these projects or do you think they each take a different enough perspective? e.g. are there opportunities for isolated components that could be contributed/improved/reused across projects?

2024-08-13 22:45:28

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oh yeah, I’m really passionate about better writing tools here and trying to contribute feedback from my writing experiences using various tools.

2024-08-13 22:44:46

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the importance of being weird, supporting weird, encouraging weird

2024-08-13 22:43:31

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I’m a beef eater myself, but we still lack a lot of knowledge about how food impacts various bodies. I don’t believe I have the right answer.

2024-08-13 22:41:07

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Yup, I’m actually writing something on it right now!
but, it’s still pretty challenging to use. I’m involved enough in nostr that I’m quite patient, but it’s not ready for an average substack writer yet.

2024-08-13 22:37:22

I’m looking forward to long-form writing being a thing on Nostr

2024-08-13 22:32:41

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I won’t say anything else about it, sorry

2024-08-13 22:30:53

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good advice
but also: focus your time on stuff you care about and tune out the noise