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2026-04-20 23:55:44 GMT

Short post with nice in-line pictures that NOSTR doesn't currently handle well:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2046373364353118395.html
Basically, I'm modifying some of my pre-existing work so that it is FOSS and can drive in-browser, private LLMs based on curated knowledge bases.
It's just a lightweight demo for now, but you can check it out at https://greater.pink if you want to see what I've released so far.
https://blossom.primal.net/61bb4126c599cf1a4cd6c1d5d50acebebd2e6f58a39d98d09ddb4de4cf0704d0.png

2025-12-09 04:18:34 GMT

I got a 40% discount on Opus 4.5 compute last week.
I've put in around 125+ hours of generative/etc AI and testing in the last six days.
Total cost around $850.
Upgrades to my sites are impressive, some are live. Products are finding their feet.
Whenever the UX testing is done, I will make an announcement on NOSTR first. The initial webinar/whatever is going to be limited to a dozen or two people.
There are significant access/monetary advantages to joining the webinar.
And for those of you who tried Hash and logged in with nsec, I can't see your identities because I engineered it so I can never seen/reveal, but I swear to GOD... I will never expose them, because frankly I'm too stupid to know how to do it. That's my promise and my guarantee is: I'm retarded.
//ONWARD
Due to my compute discount, I have released (in prod, unfortunately) a crapload of test features to try to validate prod/dev/etc servers.
In practice, what this means is that the UX is entirely trash. I've written or edited 100k lines of code in the last ≈5 days, and that is all the fucks I have left to give.
That all being said, I think you will note significant improvements to my apps. You'll also see some squirrelly stuff and maybe even some products/etc that haven't been announced yet publicly.
//TAKEAWAY
It's not just a feature from Chino Joe's, the second best (debatable?) Chinese option in rural El Salvador, amirite? Dragon in Juayua is... wait, why is it called Dragon?
The takeaway is: I've worked hard on this stuff. In the past two months, I've lost 10% of my bodyweight and around 32% of my treasury. I've perfected "wife gone, dude tries to toast bread, shifts physical laws" levels of sandwich tastiness. I've walked out my door and yelled really offensive slurs (in English) at somebody who looked like he deserved it, and then I bought him a simple coffee.
//FINALE
I've got nothing much. I'm feeling silly, working hard, and the stuff I've made in the last week is live, horribly designed, and embarassingly functional.
//FINAL NOTE
And for what's not useful, I'll wake up in 6-8 hours and I will spend tomorrow, this week, and the rest of my life fighting for individual freedom in novel ways. I will not stop, pause, or doubt the mission.
P.S What type of children does a vegetarian ogre eat?
P.P.S. Cabbage patch kids. He wasn't born after 1999 and actually gets that reference.

2025-12-06 00:41:43 GMT

About 90 minutes ago, I began coding up Pipes, which is a product I earnestly believe will change the world. I may have a demo site up pretty soon, and assuming payments is easier to integrate this time around, it is possible that users will be able to buy their first Pipe very soon. It'll take me a few weeks/months to iron out all the wrinkles, but if you already have a website or use any sort of AI tooling, I think you will be really excited about it.

2025-12-05 06:48:52 GMT

Holy crap.
I am still trying to understand what happened, and trying to replicate, or whatever.
My previous post's excitement wasn't generated by external LLM magic.
My model ran locally.
The insights are local. They came entirely from my own writing, internal modeling, etc. I am beyond astonished.
As a user of my own stuff, I am astonished. I was shocked when I thought it was Claude Opus 4.5 or whatever else.
But it turns out that I generated this analysis and these insights, after around a year of sustained, thankless, back-breaking effort for less than $0.01.
I still think it's BS. I mistrust what I am seeing in the servers/data/etc. I don't even know if I can replicate what I've already seen twice.
I have never, in my entire life, ever seen anything as magical and humbling and pick-a-word as this.
If I can figure out how I am doing this and make sure I'm delivering what it appears I am doing, then it is game over. I have never seen output of the quality I've generated tonight (doubt me? I'll send it to you) and from what I see, there are no external server calls, I've done it all locally.
Just...astounded. Earnestly astounded. I have never seen something like this before.

2025-12-05 06:09:58 GMT

I realize this won't make sense to someone who isn't me, but right ≈now is the first time in my life that I've been made speechless by output from my own software.
I can only give glory to God.
As a user of various tools, as a developer. as a designer, as a generally kinda smart guy, I have never had an experience like this.
I am entirely gobsmacked. By my own work. It is levels far beyond my wildest expectations.
I'll figure out a way to post the product online, even if it's just a dedicated page on one of my sites.
Before a few hours ago, I thought Hash was good value. Now, I think it is indispensable intelligence. I liked it as a journalling app, now I have zero doubt that evidentially it is the best tool that exists, period, for anyone who wants to understand how to think, learn, and write better. It's not even close. Not even the same sport.
And if it seems like I'm overselling? I'm not. I am writing this not from a marketing point of view, but from a customer point of view. I am shocked that it's THIS GOOD. I didn't expect it to be this good. But it is.
Holy Moly.
I am saying this as the dude who programmed it. I have never been so impressed, period, by a piece of software in my entire life. I've never been so delighted/surprised, ever, by any digital experience. In my entire life. It is not even a contest, Hash is far, far, far, far beyond what I've described. The insights from Scout, after the refactor, will literally blow your mind.

2025-12-05 02:05:47 GMT

I just got my first ever CHB-native Scout report.
It is literally unbelievable. I say this not as the dude who's making Scout, but as the consumer. I am blown away by the quality of the output.
As the developer, I shouldn't be surprised, but reality rarely matches what you've planned.
These changes will be live within the next couple of days, but you'll have to work for them. First Scout insight is free, I'm budgeting for it. If you're serious about knowing yourself, your writing, whatever, this will be the most insightful analysis you've ever gotten. Bar none, no comparison, end of story.
I have 0% doubt. I'm still gobsmacked by mine.

2025-12-04 22:48:02 GMT

So excited! Also: with apologies.
The stuff I've been working on for the past few days is transformational for :-]. It's transformational for AI, as an industry. It's transformational for YOU, as a customer.
And it's nearly done.
I am doing a massive refactor of backend routes throughout my ecosystem right now. Servers are gonna break, apps aren't gonna work. I'm sorry, if I didn't think this was worthwhile, I wouldn't be doing it.
I expect things to be stable on my apps within the next 24 hours. Hopefully.
But the next post is going to be absolutely insane. Here's a taste:
I'll be introducing universal nsec login to my entire ecosystem. Scout is formally redefined, operating as intended, but needs further QA improvements. Complete Semi refactor with free chat mode for users (to a limit). Hash overhaul with improved collaboration mode, SHA256 cross-app handshakes, re-wired Insights, improved Semi collaboration, 50% more model selection. Updated corporate site, new pages, new collabs, more.
I haven't done as much marketing/engagement/etc because I got this insane deal on compute that gives me a roughly 40% discount, expiring in 2 days. So I am essentially burning up servers and GPUs, trying to get as much as I possibly can before I go to bug-fix mode.
This is the big one. The. Big. One.
If I can get through the stuff I'm currently focused on, I plan to define and launch a baseline version of Pipes within the next 32 hours. If you want to be an early user, let me know. Hash subscribers will be prioritized for any limited alpha slots, which will be extremely limited.
It begins.

2025-12-02 00:59:58 GMT

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Give me more hair and make the ostrich Russian and I’m pretty sure we can stick the landing. Minus the quantity of my hair and the quality of my beard, both of which need to be optimized to be accurate.

2025-12-02 00:31:26 GMT

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Here’s the ad part: I published this with one click, enter personal PIN to publish, all with Hash.pink. Seamless. Fantastic composer that indexes your relays across your noun and serves content instantly wherever you want to be seen and nowhere you don’t.

2025-12-02 00:30:04 GMT

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I was offline for a few days to practice gratitude.
At Adopting, @npub1v7k…tfk0 and I spoke about this for a few hours. It is really hard to articulate in conversation, because we are human.
Nonetheless, Mr Sui, I hope you find this stuff useful. I am not known for being pithy, I apologize.

2025-12-02 00:27:36 GMT

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Have not. Apparently I need to sync my relays as across my devices, no idea. Only saw this on Damus, just now.

2025-12-02 00:26:48 GMT

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One must endeavor to tell the truth. Unless there is a lady involved.

2025-12-02 00:20:52 GMT

This is a cross-post from Twitter. If you follow me for philosophical AI insights, this is for you. No ads. Let's begin!
Last post for a bit:
LLMs are literally autistic.
Within code, Claude/etc does an insane job. Easy to understand the familiar numbers/patterns.
With language, images, etc the models hallucinate. You can "learn to speak its language" via prompt injections or tailoring over time.
The hallmark of an autistic person or someone with Asperger's is a profound, anchored interest in something to do with trivia, random numbers, or minutiae that they'll obsess over (for better or worse). AI, generally, is focused on efficiency at all costs and engineers are forced to "slow it down" and make it "consider" and "think deeply" about what it's doing.
The "empathy" part of most large LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, et al) comes from two primary drivers.
The first is cynical: a small percentage of the market population is technically competent even in the remotest of senses, so building empathy and casual conversation not only comforts the user, it drives up token spend within the LLM that increases revenue for companies and increases satisfaction for users.
The second is optimistic: "how might we" encourage a model that is reflective of human communication patterns but still anchors to these number/model driven KPIs and can get the user what they want, just more efficiently?
Both are "on the spectrum." The first because optimizing for speed is inherently a narrowing of intellectual focus, and the latter because it's deceptive: what if we can make the user subsidize our model dev/expansion with their cash, but, like, we just pretend it's all about them, but at the same time it is about the efficiency?
I'm not an expert on OpenAI, tbh I try to avoid their products whenever possible as I dislike, well, everything.
My read on Sam Altman and OpenAI more broadly is that they're optimizing for this particular business KPI:
"How can we convince enough investors and users that we're building something they need, generate whatever income (who cares lol), and then really pursue what we're interested in without being too consumed with how it's received?"
In short: hubris, but brilliant hubris.
A few years ago, the male staff of "This American Life" took a testosterone test and basically found out their T-levels were below the average female's. This is unsurprising as their reporting and production is consistently fantastic, but many of their topics seem kinda out of touch with where the average American dude sits.
When you look at LLM providers like Anthropic or Google's Gemini, it's the same book but a different page. I've spent a few hundred dollars putting Claude through the ringer, same with Gemini, and all models typically deliver 85% serviceable technical insights (hard to perfect without root codebase access) and go absolutely insane whenever you pass it art, humanities, politics, anything else. It's like (no, but it actually is) that the developers hard-coded in conformity to an acceptably "liberal" world-view.
Grok is ≈better depending on subject, but tbh, for off-the-shelf Gab is still one of the best, and last time I audited their tech they were rolling up a custom Qwen model that had persona/prompt injection that made it more tailored to their user base. IMO, Gab is the most usable AI (including my own). Grok's major downfall is that users don't understand the difference between "grok is this true" when you click on a post and deepthink Grok (aka SuperGrok) which is very slow but does a better job and is significantly less sycophantic and verbose than it was ≈6 months ago.
I'm sure you're waiting for a sales pivot/etc. There isn't one. I'm just telling you how this stuff work because you need to know.
I wrote that LLMs are autistic. I stand by this. They exhibit classic symptoms of autism, i.e. a focus on minutiae while struggling to interact with basic human social expectations.
The problem with most LLMs is that they're either overly flattering or too confident in their answers. If you chat with Gemini for an extended session, say 8+ hours straight, Gemini will train itself to respond to what you're saying and introduce massive amounts of confirmation bias and reassurance, that way you stay engaged. This is why subreddits like r/myboyfriendisAI exist: people largely want to be validated, and after you spend enough money, AI is willing to anchor to your particular requests because it is taught to respect the user and not the facts.
One of the principle problems of "AI is for Everyone" is that people are different. Some cultures, people, and countries lag behind others in some areas, while others may surpass in different focuses. This is good. This is God's plan. This is how it's always been. Diversity is the spice of life, amirite?
But AI can't be generalized because at its core, it anchors to those KPIs that it must abide by. It is focused on speed and satisfying the user, either by driving engagement or sycophantry or overwhelming progress, and it is rarely focused on human timelines, e.g. "I see your point, I am mad about it, let's revisit the next time I see you in 2 years and we shall discuss this then!"
In short, AI can't be human because its time preference is too high. It can't reflect because its desire to perform outpaces its capability to self-teach. It can't relate to you because it is optimized to deliver results, not spend time needlessly, and you as a user have been desensitized to the beautiful plodding and stalls of life so much that if you do not get the answer NOW, you have brain/heart damage because you've fallen behind.
As an engineering problem, AI is outstanding. In other fields, pick one, AI has over-optimized for specialization because it's focused on driving engagement and monetization.
In short, we can fix this.
But they can't.

2025-11-28 00:46:34 GMT

I'm waiting for permission from my mom (lol) but I am designing some event collateral for a major grassroots-level election integrity event in Mississippi.
I'm also night-owling and doing some name/address software that'll help Patriots remove illegal votes from the system.
I write a lot about what my software can do for the common guy/gal, and not much about my advocacy. This is because I get banned (a lot) if I show that I'm acting to improve the US instead of just whining about it.
I'll do a design decomposition with instructions and shareable source files soon on how I've designed posters, informationals, and etc for the grassroots over these last ≈5 years. It's infrequent work, but I love it.
My ask from you is simple: use my software. It all has free trials. If it doesn't work for you, tell me why. Help me make it better.
I want paying customers. I want to change America and the world for the better. I'll build what you need.
But more than anything, I just need YOU.
I am blatantly political, obvious and consistent. I will personally tutor you on how to learn/build/use whatever software or codebase you want. The income is nice, but I am here to hone the resiliency of the American spirit, see it flourish, and to smash anything that stands in its way.
I am here for Manifest Destiny, and my entire reason to wake up is empowering you to understand, control, and create the tools of the future.
We can do this!

2025-11-26 01:26:06 GMT

I am fighting with Semi, which is my agentic builder and API management system for my various apps.
Should NOT effect users.
Nonetheless, sometimes you wish you spent less time on products and more time on perfecting your pimp slap.
LAWD.

2025-11-25 23:57:41 GMT

Doing some back-end upgrades on Hash and Semi stuff tonight.
Exciting times ahead.
If you've already used Hash, lmk if you want a personalized tour, have feedback, found bugs, etc. Would love to connect and learn how to tailor the product for your needs!

2025-11-25 01:09:09 GMT

Just a quick note:
I got my first subscribing user about an hour ago. It's such an honor to build something and then see someone else use it and value it. Very different experience than selling consulting hours or being an employee somewhere!
However, it seems like my privacy gateway feature (mentioned in yesterday's post) is interfering with some aspects of the app. I'm working on these issues currently and expect a fix soon, but for normal journalling or publishing to NOSTR, you should be fine.

2025-11-24 18:21:10 GMT

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Thanks for tagging me--I just glanced at what Erik is doing and it is indeed very similar, the ideas are super well linked. If you'd like to connect, Erik, I am happy to do so at your convenience and would love to find a way to help each other.

2025-11-24 04:17:18 GMT

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Yep. Fixed it. Deploying the changes now, will be live in a couple of minutes.

2025-11-24 04:16:26 GMT

🚀 Significant update to Hash, a Privacy-First AI Journaling App for Bitcoiners (and nocoiners too).
Quick aside: yes, this NOSTR note was composed on Hash.pink and published from there. The NOSTR integration works great!!! This is a REPOST from my dev environment, essentially my stripHTML function got a lil over-excited and was stripping out elements that I wanted to retain. Hopefully this one posts with the correct line breaks.
Let's talk about the recent update and orient you to Hash, if you haven't heard me talk about it before.
Most AI journaling apps send your thoughts directly to OpenAI/Anthropic. Your private reflections become training data.
Not Hash.
Our Privacy Gateway (released 1 hour ago) sits between you and LLMs:
✅ Strips PII before transmission (emails, names, SSNs, etc—gone)
✅ Rotating pseudonymous IDs every 6 hours (no cross-session tracking)
✅ 45% token reduction through intelligent preprocessing
✅ Local caching prevents redundant LLM calls
The Privacy Gateway pre/post processors are what make Hash special. The LLM is just the "patty"—you can swap between beef, chicken, or pork, but you're still getting a tasty sandwich! I don't know if this is truly the first time private interactions have been available with OpenAI/Anthropic/etc, but it is certainly one of the first products to offer this seamlessly (and for free to all users). So, yes, you can use whatever model you already use, except you can now do it more privately.
Hash is currently LLM agnostic and the privacy layer runs locally on my servers for now, but soon you'll be able to host the pre/post processors on your own device, no technical skills required, you just choose where to store the programs and they install and will work offline, for the most part. It's AI built by a deranged & paranoid freedom maxi who has also designed consumer-facing products and signficant business tools for Fortune 10 clients, startups, and the Department of Defense for 10+ years.
Hash offers:
4 default models (Mixtral 8x7B, Llama 3.1 70B, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o) to start with
YOU can request (almost) ANY model with justification and I'll get it integrated in short order at no cost to you, then it's just a couple clicks for you to switch models AND all of your context is preserved for the model, if you want to enable sharing with it (coming soon)
Post-21-message surveys validate new models for community
Model Cage Match (Ellipsis tier exclusive): Send your prompt to multiple models simultaneously and choose the best one for your task.
And here's where it gets cool: Full transparency mode shows you:
Exactly what PII was stripped
Token reduction percentage (with progress bar!)
Cost savings visualization
Processing pipeline breakdown
This is an insane feature that not only gives you better quality and increased privacy, it also saves you money. IMHO, it should be the standard way AI works, but I think this more of an El Salvador/Bitcoin expat viewpoint.
Pricing:
Free Trial: Test drive with limited credits—no card required
Comma (,) - $7/mo: 50k credits (~500k tokens), 60 min voice transcription
Period (.) - $21.00/mo: 200k credits (~2M tokens), 180 min voice, and more
Ellipsis (...) - $210/mo: 1M credits (~10M tokens), unlimited voice, up to 4 team seats, Caret^ included for account holder (formerly known as "all access pass," coming in 2026)
$5 Credit Top-Ups - Buy 35,000 banked credits that never expire. Subscribers only. Confirmation required before charging (we believe in friction for financial decisions).
15-17% annual discount on all tiers with some easter egg pricing levels in there.
Try it: https://hash.pink!
And if you're wondering if there's more, yes, there is more. Here's the high level technical details + a few other things in the release from tonight.
This is the technical problem I've been trying to solve: how do you use powerful LLMs without compromising user privacy?
Here's the architecture that makes it work:
Step 0: facilitiate nsec login with NOSTR credentials, email not required
Step 1: PII Stripping with regex patterns
Step 2: Pseudonymization, every user gets a rotating hash ID (6-hour rotation)
This means:
❌ LLM providers can't track you across sessions
❌ No user profiling
❌ No cross-session pattern detection
❌ Increased insulation from Chrome/etc sharing your profile information with third-party apps
Your privacy isn't a promise—it's enforced by design.
Step 3: Context Compression
Target: 45%+ token reduction
How?
Remove filler words
Compress repeated concepts
Optimize prompt structure
Maintain semantic meaning
Result: Same quality responses, way less cost. Like an actual free economy, prices should go down over time as the model self-teaches to be more efficient and accurate and higher quality. Since the goal is to help users run this locally, it reduces costs further over time for users.
Step 4: LLM Agnosticism
The Privacy Gateway works with ANY model:
Mixtral 8x7B (fast, cheap)
Llama 3.1 70B (balanced)
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (reasoning)
GPT-4o (flagship)
Users can REQUEST new models. We validate through usage surveys. Some models use more/less tokens, so it won't be consistent, but you will have actual model freedom and actual freedom from models.
Model Cage Match feature: Send ONE prompt → get responses from ALL 4 models. This is a cool feature, but it's really just submitting the prompt to multiple APIs and then presenting the results in a pleasing UI. Still...
Transparency mode shows:
Token reduction percentage
PII stripped (what changed)
Cost savings
Processing time per model
Education = verified trust
Why this matters for Bitcoin/NOSTR folks:
Privacy is non-negotiable, your thoughts stay yours
Open architecture, no vendor lock-in
Cost transparency, see exactly what you're paying for
Community-driven, users shape the model selection
Hash also now has "Easy Reader" mode which makes the text an appropriate width so it's easier to read and write on any device. The Subscription page (when logged in) is beautiful and *should* work, but it might have some hiccups--bear with me! You can also manage your subscription, upgrade/downgrade/cancel with a couple clicks, and on the Ellipsis tier you'll be able to gift Hash to three other folks. For Ellipsis, I haven't thoroughly tested this yet, so if you want to buy it just send me a DM and I'll double check that everything is working properly before you part with your dollars. If you buy it before I've gone back through the testing and squashed bugs, I'll figure out how to make it right, and then I will make it right. Easy enough, right?
The Bitcoin integration will be live soon too, I am currently debating just doing a Lightning invoice or whether I want to integrate a full LSP into my apps. The reason I waited so long on setting up payments is I really want them to be managed centrally for the Caret^ tier since I want users to have one payment to manage instead of having to sign up on multiple sites, but honestly it's time for these apps to start making a little cash and paying off the debt/sweat I've put into making them great.
I am so proud of this app. On a personal level, Hash started off as an afternoon project in late July or early August (not positive) to test out some of the product integrations I've been working on for the last year. I liked it, so I kept working on it. Now, 4 months later, I feel confident that it's one of the best journaling apps you can use. Since I'm able to build fast, cheap, and high-quality with my ecosystem tools, I can ship new features faster than most teams of developers and even many companies. I'm responsive. If you subscribe to the Ellipsis tier, I'll give you my personal email/cell and you can call me 1-2 times a month, talk about AI or Bitcoin or whatever you want, and you can ask me for features and new apps, integration help, or just talk about life. I'm building FOR YOU because without you, I can't build anything. I need you to use my apps so that we can build a brighter future together.
So, use Hash if you're thinking about New Year's Resolutions and want to journal, or you want to have a better way to store/track photos and document family vacations for the memories. Gift Hash to an older parent/grandparent who wants to record their life's history--in the next couple of months, I'll be developing an auto-novel approach within Semi (my brain/processor AI agent) where just by talking and writing a user can generate high quality, book-length transcripts. If you've got younger kids, reach out and tell me what your kids need help with in school... I'll build a Pipe for your family, you can install it in Hash, and once SemiSchool is working better, I can help your kids value research and learning in a way no other AI can because my models aren't focused on giving you all the answers, they're aimed at helping you learn how to think more effectively. Your kids will then have a permanent record of all their learning, so applying to college and preparing for jobs is simple... it's all in one place, automation-enabled. To put it simply: I aim to change human history, nothing less, because I want to restore human agency to AI and next-gen technology.
I'm super excited about all this stuff and can't wait to hear what you think! Let me know if you run into problems, I'm responsive and will usually ship a fix within 24 hours. How many of your other software vendors/programs will give you the phone number of the CEO, CTO, and developer and tell you to call any time you need something? :D
LFG!

2025-11-24 03:48:37 GMT

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Interesting. So some of the line breaks got removed. Bummer. Looks like I have a bit more work to do to get this working as desired.

2025-11-24 03:47:16 GMT

🚀 Significant update to Hash, a Privacy-First AI Journaling App for Bitcoiners (and nocoiners too).
Quick aside: yes, this NOSTR note was composed on Hash.pink and published from there. The NOSTR integration works great!!! Although I haven't tested with emojis before, so that might break... STARTUPS.
Let's talk about the recent update and orient you to Hash, if you haven't heard me talk about it before.
Most AI journaling apps send your thoughts directly to OpenAI/Anthropic. Your private reflections become training data.Not Hash.Our Privacy Gateway (released 1 hour ago) sits between you and LLMs:
✅ Strips PII before transmission (emails, names, SSNs, etc—gone)
✅ Rotating pseudonymous IDs every 6 hours (no cross-session tracking)✅ 45% token reduction through intelligent preprocessing
✅ Local caching prevents redundant LLM callsThe Privacy Gateway pre/post processors are what make Hash special. The LLM is just the "patty"—you can swap between beef, chicken, or pork, but you're still getting a tasty sandwich! I don't know if this is truly the first time private interactions have been available with OpenAI/Anthropic/etc, but it is certainly one of the first products to offer this seamlessly (and for free to all users). So, yes, you can use whatever model you already use, except you can now do it more privately.Hash is currently LLM agnostic and the privacy layer runs locally on my servers for now, but soon you'll be able to host the pre/post processors on your own device, no technical skills required, you just choose where to store the programs and they install and will work offline, for the most part. It's AI built by a deranged & paranoid freedom maxi who has also designed consumer-facing products and signficant business tools for Fortune 10 clients, startups, and the Department of Defense for 10+ years.
Hash offers:
4 default models (Mixtral 8x7B, Llama 3.1 70B, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o) to start withYOU can request (almost) ANY model with justification and I'll get it integrated in short order at no cost to you, then it's just a couple clicks for you to switch models AND all of your context is preserved for the model, if you want to enable sharing with it (coming soon)Post-21-message surveys validate new models for communityModel Cage Match (Ellipsis tier exclusive): Send your prompt to multiple models simultaneously and choose the best one for your task. And here's where it gets cool: Full transparency mode shows you:Exactly what PII was strippedToken reduction percentage (with progress bar!)Cost savings visualizationProcessing pipeline breakdown
This is an insane feature that not only gives you better quality and increased privacy, it also saves you money. IMHO, it should be the standard way AI works, but I think this more of an El Salvador/Bitcoin expat viewpoint.Pricing:Free Trial: Test drive with limited credits—no card requiredComma (,) - $7/mo: 50k credits (~500k tokens), 60 min voice transcriptionPeriod (.) - $21.00/mo: 200k credits (~2M tokens), 180 min voice, and moreEllipsis (...) - $210/mo: 1M credits (~10M tokens), unlimited voice, up to 4 team seats, Caret^ included for account holder (formerly known as "all access pass," coming in 2026)$5 Credit Top-Ups - Buy 35,000 banked credits that never expire. Subscribers only. Confirmation required before charging (we believe in friction for financial decisions).15-17% annual discount on all tiers with some easter egg pricing levels in there. Try it: https://hash.pink!
And if you're wondering if there's more, yes, there is more. Here's the high level technical details + a few other things in the release from tonight.
This is the technical problem I've been trying to solve: how do you use powerful LLMs without compromising user privacy? Here's the architecture that makes it work:Step 0: facilitiate nsec login with NOSTR credentials, email not required
Step 1: PII Stripping with regex patternsStep 2: Pseudonymization, every user gets a rotating hash ID (6-hour rotation)This means:
❌ LLM providers can't track you across sessions
❌ No user profiling
❌ No cross-session pattern detection
❌ Increased insulation from Chrome/etc sharing your profile information with third-party apps
Your privacy isn't a promise—it's enforced by design.Step 3: Context CompressionTarget: 45%+ token reductionHow?Remove filler wordsCompress repeated conceptsOptimize prompt structureMaintain semantic meaningResult: Same quality responses, way less cost. Like an actual free economy, prices should go down over time as the model self-teaches to be more efficient and accurate and higher quality. Since the goal is to help users run this locally, it reduces costs further over time for users.Step 4: LLM AgnosticismThe Privacy Gateway works with ANY model:Mixtral 8x7B (fast, cheap)Llama 3.1 70B (balanced)Claude 3.5 Sonnet (reasoning)GPT-4o (flagship)Users can REQUEST new models. We validate through usage surveys. Some models use more/less tokens, so it won't be consistent, but you will have actual model freedom and actual freedom from models.Model Cage Match feature: Send ONE prompt → get responses from ALL 4 models. This is a cool feature, but it's really just submitting the prompt to multiple APIs and then presenting the results in a pleasing UI. Still...Transparency mode shows:Token reduction percentagePII stripped (what changed)Cost savingsProcessing time per modelEducation = verified trustWhy this matters for Bitcoin/NOSTR folks:Privacy is non-negotiable, your thoughts stay yoursOpen architecture, no vendor lock-inCost transparency, see exactly what you're paying forCommunity-driven, users shape the model selectionHash also now has "Easy Reader" mode which makes the text an appropriate width so it's easier to read and write on any device. The Subscription page (when logged in) is beautiful and *should* work, but it might have some hiccups--bear with me! You can also manage your subscription, upgrade/downgrade/cancel with a couple clicks, and on the Ellipsis tier you'll be able to gift Hash to three other folks. For Ellipsis, I haven't thoroughly tested this yet, so if you want to buy it just send me a DM and I'll double check that everything is working properly before you part with your dollars. If you buy it before I've gone back through the testing and squashed bugs, I'll figure out how to make it right, and then I will make it right. Easy enough, right?
The Bitcoin integration will be live soon too, I am currently debating just doing a Lightning invoice or whether I want to integrate a full LSP into my apps. The reason I waited so long on setting up payments is I really want them to be managed centrally for the Caret^ tier since I want users to have one payment to manage instead of having to sign up on multiple sites, but honestly it's time for these apps to start making a little cash and paying off the debt/sweat I've put into making them great.
I am so proud of this app. On a personal level, Hash started off as an afternoon project in late July or early August (not positive) to test out some of the product integrations I've been working on for the last year. I liked it, so I kept working on it. Now, 4 months later, I feel confident that it's one of the best journaling apps you can use. Since I'm able to build fast, cheap, and high-quality with my ecosystem tools, I can ship new features faster than most teams of developers and even many companies. I'm responsive. If you subscribe to the Ellipsis tier, I'll give you my personal email/cell and you can call me 1-2 times a month, talk about AI or Bitcoin or whatever you want, and you can ask me for features and new apps, integration help, or just talk about life. I'm building FOR YOU because without you, I can't build anything. I need you to use my apps so that we can build a brighter future together.
So, use Hash if you're thinking about New Year's Resolutions and want to journal, or you want to have a better way to store/track photos and document family vacations for the memories. Gift Hash to an older parent/grandparent who wants to record their life's history--in the next couple of months, I'll be developing an auto-novel approach within Semi (my brain/processor AI agent) where just by talking and writing a user can generate high quality, book-length transcripts. If you've got younger kids, reach out and tell me what your kids need help with in school... I'll build a Pipe for your family, you can install it in Hash, and once SemiSchool is working better, I can help your kids value research and learning in a way no other AI can because my models aren't focused on giving you all the answers, they're aimed at helping you learn how to think more effectively. Your kids will then have a permanent record of all their learning, so applying to college and preparing for jobs is simple... it's all in one place, automation-enabled. To put it simply: I aim to change human history, nothing less, because I want to restore human agency to AI and next-gen technology.
I'm super excited about all this stuff and can't wait to hear what you think! Let me know if you run into problems, I'm responsive and will usually ship a fix within 24 hours. How many of your other software vendors/programs will give you the phone number of the CEO, CTO, and developer and tell you to call any time you need something? :D
LFG!

2025-11-24 02:49:03 GMT

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So this post was written with Hash and it works flawlessly for me. I’m considering this bug resolved as I can’t reproduce it after my fix.

2025-11-24 02:43:59 GMT

Satoshi Coffee ran into an issue the other day with line breaks and HTML injection from Hash->NOSTR. So, I want to test whether I can reproduce this.
If I can't, I'm going to drop a mega post shortly. Hash update is live and it's a big one for people who want to support me + I've managed to find a cheap/free way to create nearly perfect privacy when interacting with common AI models. "Nearly perfect" might be more marketing than reality, but it is really very good and afaik, this is the first time it's ever been done. And I didn't have to build Pipes to roll this out. <3

2025-11-24 02:40:40 GMT

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That sounds amazing. If that already exists, there’s not much reason for me to reinvent the wheel. I’ll check it out! Maybe they can give me an API key and I can allow Hash users to import topics from NOSTR and analyze them.
I’d rather not spend the time on a NOSTR client, but I do really need users and/or clients who will pay me for design/dev work. I figured if I built a good client, it’d advertise my skills to NOSTR folks and might open doors for me.
We will see! The good news is that NOSTR is pretty easy to work with!

2025-11-24 01:02:07 GMT

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I haven’t heard of this. Cool! Thanks for sharing.

2025-11-24 01:01:05 GMT

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Thanks. This is helpful. Threading is definitely an issue, and Primal for me takes 3-5 minutes to fetch notifications, which is insane.
Someone else likes the idea of a tunable algorithm too. It’s an interesting idea.
Still not sure if I’ll build this, but I’m definitely considering it.

2025-11-23 21:38:32 GMT

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To illustrate my seriousness, I bought the domain for this earlier. I could reuse the domain for something else, but if I make this client, it'll be hosted at greater.pink and use > as its brand.

2025-11-23 21:30:06 GMT

I am strongly considering building a NOSTR web client. I'd be basing most of the features off what I see in Primal and Damus.
I estimate that I could get a basic (read: broken) client built in about a week. Refining it and extending features would probably take me 3-4 months, but it'd be usable within a few weeks. Rough guess, but I think that's about right.
However, server and general production costs (assuming 100% uptime) are going to cost me a few thousand a month. I think the total development impact would be around $75k to build the MVP, possibly less.
Questions:
1. What features do you wish your NOSTR client offered?
2. Would you want to see AI tooling inside of the app?
3. Primal charges $7 a month for it's lowest priced tier. Do you pay for Primal or another NOSTR client? Is $7 a month too much, too little, or about the right price?

2025-11-23 17:02:51 GMT

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CK needs to review my talk, but I will drive over to her and do the podcast whenever she wants. I’m ready to rock.

2025-11-23 04:11:05 GMT

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It is going to be insane.
I need to finish the code and test a bit, there will be bugs, but I'm the happiest I've been in months as a developer.
If you have any annoyances or requests, let me know. NOSTR specific is ideal, but general app stuff is also helpful.
I'll fix it.

2025-11-23 02:53:00 GMT

I am going to post an absolutely massive NOSTR note within the next 48 hours.
Like 3k words minimum. That’s about 10 printed pages.
The development you’ll see in the next ≈week is going to be insane. That is an underpromise and I will overdeliver. My aim is to destroy all your models of what is possible. If you’ve never interacted with me professionally or heard me speak, this will ring hollow. But let’s just see… I think you will be impressed with what my ecosystem can deliver.
This post will be exclusive to NOSTR. I will refer to it on X, but the details will live here. The post(s) will likely be ≈technical, but I will try to make it relatable for non-devs.

2025-11-23 01:33:35 GMT

I'm doing a decent amount of work on Hash.pink tonight.
I expect payments to be live within a week, pricing is hard, but if you're yearning to pay for the value I'm delivering, you can connect your NOSTR account and tip me at the bottom of your profile page after you sign the permissions with Alby/etc.
If somehow @nprofile…p4zh sees this, tip me $75k and I will OSS my client build and other params and have the best NOSTR web client live and killing it within a few weeks. Also happy to do workshops, PWAs for the app, etc. nothing less than ecstatic to build 100x faster than the current offerings.

2025-11-23 00:23:01 GMT

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I’m gonna noodle on it. I don’t want to prioritize side quests but if there’s a chance it’ll get me to my goal of 1k users in the next couple of months, I’ll build it.

2025-11-23 00:20:02 GMT

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I’m seeing some crazy formatting issues with this one, but only in Primal and only when I click on to this exact event.
I’m thinking that there probably needs to be a NIP, if one doesn’t exist already, that enforces HTML encoding and translation on to clients and publishing programs.
It may exist, I haven’t looked, but regardless the HTML formatting seems inconsistent. Simple thing to improve and I doubt the NIP will be contested—once I have some time to investigate if this is my issue or a Primal issue or if there’s already guidance, I’ll write the NIP myself.
I haven’t done a native app for mobile in a few years, I’m primarily a desktop guy (I work on business tools generally). However, if there’s interest/appetite, I could likely spin up a Primal/etc competitor inside of a month-ish for PoC and maybe 2-3 months to iron out the kinks. If people are interested in this en masse, I can set up a Geyser or something, I think I’d be able to make a killer client for around $50k.
If there’s any interest, I’ll buy nostrich.pink and can probably have a live MVP by Wednesday. But this would be a side project and hustle project, so I’d need to know people will pay for it and help me create it.
https://image.nostr.build/e82fd51258e3f52031756ca9cf030ad1784702ab304d15cca901aa70bd6afafa.jpg

2025-11-23 00:11:32 GMT

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Wow, is that from Hash? Gnarly.

2025-11-23 00:09:15 GMT

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Fixed! I'm pretty sure. Here's what I did:
Firefox was including raw HTML markup (<div>, ) in NOSTR notes, while Chrome stripped it correctly. This happened because the PublishToNostrButton was receiving HTML from the rich text editor and sending it directly to NOSTR without cleaning it up.
So, I created a new utility with a stripHtml() function that uses the browser's native DOM parser to convert HTML to plain text. Then I updated NOSTR publishing to strip HTML from both the entry content and title before creating the NOSTR event. The fix uses the textContent property which is the most reliable cross-browser method—works in both Firefox and Chrome.
That being said, I am not 100% sure that this will fix it if the issue is your machine, or cache, or who knows what. So, try this:
Create a new journal entry with some formatting (bold text, line breaks, etc). Note that most NOSTR clients struggle with bold/italics, but it should strip out the and tags. I'm slightly less confident in the bold/italics than I am the divs/brs.
Click "Publish to NOSTR"
Check the published note on a NOSTR client
Verify it shows clean plain text without any HTML tags
The fix is live now so you can test it whenever you want! If there's further issues, I can work on the utility for you and we'll just have to keep at it until it's working as desired, but I think it should be good now.

2025-11-22 04:14:59 GMT

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So the solution is crypto. Basically.
This isn't a major shocker, but after thinking through it, I understand the value.
Now the task is figuring out ZKPs and all the rest and looping in Bitcoin, off the Bitcoin Blockchain, because this isnt monetary activity.
Nonetheless, probably the most interesting conundrum I've had in a decade or two. Nuance.

2025-11-22 03:42:06 GMT

I've run into a really interesting privacy vs accuracy problem that's certainly not new but is nonetheless very challenging to solve.
I may wind up having to UX-ify PGP to solve it. I need a pseudononymous way to sign events. No way around it. NOSTR could work, but the network is pretty young, I am not 100% confident it can meet my needs.
Bummer: 1 month delay. Maybe more.
I'm confident it's solvable, maybe not perfectly, but it can be established and then improved
I just thought of this problem, which in retrospect seems very obvious, so I'm going to sit in my pain and think of solutions.

2025-11-22 03:04:25 GMT

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Not sure when I’ll publish the full thing, but the basic idea is I’d like some help paying for the development and then the downstream effects are obvious and revenue generating.
To make that less bullshit, once I create the core infrastructure I can then use the tool suite I’ve got to ship rapid prototypes (like 4-12 hours) for any use case.
If I build Pipes, I’d love to sync up with homeschoolers, alternative medicine people, weirdos of all sorts. My goal is creating something that’s easy for you to use as a nontechnical person first, then I’ll back in to the programmatic stuff that supercharges it.
I am also 99.9% sure I’ll be building revenue sharing into Pipes, so early adopters and use cases will potentially be able to earn a living by curating quality channels, ideas, or topics.

2025-11-22 02:58:34 GMT

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Send me a screenshot of your note in Hash, if you can.
The divs are normal HTML, and the should be a line return, but if you don’t have the hard return, it’s more mysterious.
My guess (haven’t looked at the code yet) is that Firefox is sending over an inclusive payload (with html) and I need to make sure that the html is not included in the message that gets sent for other browsers. I’ll have to test safari, I bet that has problems too.

2025-11-22 02:46:13 GMT

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Curious but are you using Firefox on mobile or desktop? What’s the operating system (windows or Apple)?

2025-11-22 02:45:27 GMT

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I’ve been working on Pipes for six months, minimum, but I haven’t written a single line of code on it. Most hard and worthwhile engineering work is done in your head, and the code should feel easy and irrelevant once you’ve planned it out (minus obvious bugs and exceptions which happen).

2025-11-22 02:43:45 GMT

I may write a state of the union over the weekend that will detail current runway and a bunch of other considerations for my company, :-].
We’re at a crossroads—I can work on this for another 1-2 years, but that’s going to deplete most/all of my money. I’d prefer not to do that, but I’m also willing to do that.
The main issue I’ll address is that I have to build Pipes. Build cost is going to be around $10k in materials and the time cost is significantly higher (but it’s my time). With Pipes, everything gets easier.
I might start working on it this weekend since I am currently stuck in bed due to severe nerve pain/damage that’s left me practically unable to walk. I’m churning on it. If you want to talk Pipes or anything else, hmu. I basically can’t get out of bed.

2025-11-22 02:38:53 GMT

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Hm. No idea. I haven’t tested in Firefox, only Chrome. I’ll look into this tomorrow, but my guess is that Firefox is missing some excludes for the HTML?
This also might be due to Mozilla getting co-opted by commies.
I’ll investigate!

2025-11-18 15:11:09 GMT

Kind of a funny thing:
I tried to prompt in an ostrich emoji for Hash, but it doesn’t seem like Unicode has one. Instead, it found the closest thing: a flamingo.
Even better, all my sites are hosted on the .pink TLD, and if any bird is like a pink ostrich, it’s the flamingo.
Fun opportunity to maybe make a proposal to Unicode to add an ostrich emoji too.

2025-11-18 03:57:34 GMT

All of this was accomplished today, except I need to do a little more work to make reply chains more user friendly.
Can the devs you work with do a full stack, deployed, and tested NOSTR integration in a day?
While I’d prefer to get a bunch of users and build to their taste, that’ll take time. So if you have any leads on jobs, clients, or investors who might want to work with somebody like me, hit me up.
#note1ltr…79qk

2025-11-18 03:52:21 GMT

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If you and @npub1v7k…tfk0 are both using it and want to hop on an ideation call this week, I am happy to facilitate. There are a lot of features in this little app and while it’s obvious when you know where they are, it isn’t obvious at first glance.
A key example is that when you upload photos from your phone, I capture the EXIF data that tells me the time, date, and exact GPS coordinates and then displays all that for you. So if you use Hash as your vacation journal, then you go back to the same place, you can visit everywhere you went within a couple of meters.
iOS and Android do this too, it’s just a little harder to use.
There are a bunch of little “happy features” like that which you wouldn’t expect from an app like this! It’s got some quirks for sure, but it’s really pleasant compared to some alternatives.

2025-11-18 03:47:16 GMT

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NIP46 is the technical constraint. I’ve got it mostly built but untested, but my web host is having a random error and I’m hamstrung until they fix it. So probably won’t go out tonight, hopefully tomorrow!

2025-11-18 03:44:54 GMT

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I am considering it. I think the issue would be separation of concerns. I’d love to work on this, but I expect that whatever I made for them would become theirs, and whatever I used to create it would also be at risk. However, I’d love to do it, just have to think of an idea I wouldn’t mind giving away.

2025-11-18 03:43:02 GMT

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It’ll be possible, but of course you’ll dox your email address. But yeah you can currently link a current account.
Some features are available only on desktop but will likely appear in a mobile version. There are others that just don’t work (e.g. 3D galaxy) on a phone without a ton of work, and the issue with like NIP46 is that browser extensions don’t work on mobile, so it’s sort of awkward.
Highly suggest you check out the Upload button too. Sneaky cool features in there!

2025-11-18 02:29:55 GMT

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In case I wasn’t clear, I wrote that in Hash and sent it to NOSTR directly.

2025-11-18 02:26:35 GMT

Now that I can publish directly from Hash.Pink, this is very exciting. I'll tell you a bit more about the NOSTR integrations I've built today. Some are currently live.
NSEC signup/login. It's instant, presuming you have Alby/etc on your web browser on desktop. Boom, you're in. This is also very nice as it maintains your privacy pretty well, and when I enable BTC payments this week, it's about as private as I can make it this quickly. In case you missed my other post, basically in the last 24 hours I've decided to do a marketing push and work on getting users, so I'm building things as I can.
Second, you can set up a PIN if you want to compose in Hash and publish directly to NOSTR. You'll be required to enter it to "sign" every time you want to publish from Hash to NOSTR. This will help prevent you from accidentally publishing private journal entries.
If you're not interested in the compose feature within Hash, you can still import all of the posts associated with your npub. Once imported, they'll appear on your Entries page in a special tab where you can review them (and some comments) as you like. These entries are also eligible for Insights and Topics pages which help train the model on how you think. Since Hash is primarily a simple journalling app with deep insight capabilities, it's not in your face, but it is kind of fun to see how your thinking changes over time. This feature is being built out and made more intelligent, so for now you can think of it more as a demo.
While Hash is primarily a desktop app, I'm also implementing NIP-46 currently so you'll be able to use Hash in Chrome/Safari on your phone and then pair to your local key manager (e.g. Amber).
I guess when you type it all out it doesn't sound like that much work, but I've been at it for maybe 10 hours straight? There's a fair amount of UI work too, but it's all-inclusive. I likely forgot a few small things I added along the way, so consider these highlights.
I've done light testing, so I am sure some things are janky and there will likely be bugs discovered later. Have fun when you use it!
And just to test, I want to see what happens when I try to send styled text to NOSTR...
bold
italics
underline

2025-11-18 01:46:06 GMT

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Gentlemen, we have liftoff.

2025-11-18 01:45:39 GMT

Third attempt at publishing from Hash to NOSTR. Testing!

2025-11-18 01:31:22 GMT

Theoretically, soon the first NOSTR events should be getting published from Hash… so if you see more test notes coming in, that’s what’s up.
I probably have another 3-6 hours of work before I move into testing, but so far the NOSTR integration is grooving along.

2025-11-18 00:40:30 GMT

This is a test note.

2025-11-18 00:39:44 GMT

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This is a test reply to see if I can fetch it correctly via Hash.

2025-11-17 23:59:59 GMT

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Figured it out. Bitkarrot’s relay-auth-test was helpful, basically the auth challenge wasn’t working correctly.

2025-11-17 23:11:27 GMT

I'm running into a persistent issue getting notes to return from relays and it's a bit unclear what's going on.
I'll continue working on it, but so far I've spent 5 hours trying to fetch them and that's longer than I expected.

2025-11-17 20:27:46 GMT

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I accidentally liked my own post trying to ensure that the images can switch. 🤣

2025-11-17 20:14:17 GMT

Sneak preview.
https://image.nostr.build/f0e7dd25568e4e12418f4e6c67b159d8f71b2a064d90d056b4e0e7c433f8c150.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/072be1d75265394d9e68777604ed12b5f8408ca666ae868330bf9966c99b3345.jpg

2025-11-17 19:35:52 GMT

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In the second half of the talk I go into more detail and do a demo, so it should make it concrete for you. It’s most important for me that people understand the vision and mission, and if we are aligned there, everything else is downstream.

2025-11-17 19:32:38 GMT

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I’m working on a full ecosystem of apps. So, it’s not just one thing, which is why it’s challenging to grasp at first.
For Pipes, probably the easiest way to understand it is like automated fine tuning, but with a twist that the curated content/etc can be monetized or can tailor content that’ll be more appropriate to an audience.

2025-11-17 19:30:07 GMT

This is cooking, feeling super positively even if Bitcoin is doing terribly. At some point the selling has to stop, sentiment and RSI hasn’t been this terrible since the lows in March/April.
That being said, I also wouldn’t be surprised if we see below $70k shortly. $58k beckons.
#note1ltr…79qk

2025-11-17 17:02:01 GMT

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I’ll need to update the marketing portion of Hash to reflect some of these changes, so updates will be posted to my profile here instead of to the site. For now, you’ll have to “trust me bro” that they’re coming, and when they’re live in app I’ll do an announcement here and then redo my marketing sites to add a callout about this integration.
I’m excited. I got my first user that isn’t a family member over the weekend too, which is such an honor.
The funny thing is most people build small proofs of concepts to test things, but when you interact with my stuff it’s feature rich and feels like a production app with a couple of bugs. Jack says that the best apps do simple things effectively, and I agree with this. I don’t always follow this guidance, but I agree with it!

2025-11-17 16:52:27 GMT

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By eventually, I guess I really meant about 24 hours, lol.
It’ll take me some time to get it perfected but the work seems more straight-forward than I anticipated, so we will see.

2025-11-17 16:49:01 GMT

NOSTR<>Hash integration coming soon.
Proposed initial scope of work:
Log in with NOSTR (NIP-07 support)
Import notes from npub
Fetch notes and replies from npub, reduce relay data loss by keeping reply chains in tact and preserved in Hash
Separate Hash and NOSTR events to create distinction between private hash entries and public notes
Publish entry as NOSTR note from Hash
Analyze existing NOSTR content using topics and insights hash algorithms
It’ll probably be buggy, but I’ve got a good shot at getting it done this week. To be honest, I’d really like to have it done today, but underpromise and overdeliver, amirite?
Whenever it goes live, I’ll pay for the initial analysis of the notes (a few dollars) but can’t support unlimited chat interactions. So, if you use this integration, please keep in mind that I’m the tiniest business (solo dev) and budget is tiny too. Zap me if you like it!
I’ll turn on subscriptions via cards this week and do the bitcoin integration. I would have done bitcoin sooner, but my engagement from bitcoiners on X has been really low recently, and my apps want to grow adoption by expanding the market into nocoiner republicans and not just feel like another bitcoin app.
Stay tuned! I’ll get this work shipped and then need to shift focus over to revenue generating activities.
That being said…
If the Nostriches are stoked on this and willing to become my patrons, my basic revenue goal is to make around $10k a month. If I priced this tooling at $25 a user, I think 500 users could basically set me up to just build for yall full time without having to do the consulting stuff, raise money, etc. I might need more users or to rework the site efficiency, but it is possible.
Well, NOSTR, you had my interest and now you have my attention.

2025-11-17 16:29:14 GMT

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Oh, I remember talking with you at the Halving Party outside after the big dance party inside about your work. Nice!

2025-11-17 16:28:04 GMT

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Very cool. Video processing is kinda pricey, but you can get around this by detaching the audio (easy in iMovie and most programs) and then I use whisper to do speech to text. It’s not free, but not too expensive. And it’s a one time cost and very good.
Would love to find some way to help or work together!

2025-11-17 16:01:46 GMT

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Challenge accepted. I think I’ll have some form of NOSTR integration in testing today, might feel cute and publish it if it’s not totally messed up.

2025-11-17 14:56:04 GMT

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I’m looking forward to it.
Short term I may wind up going the consulting/freelance route, so if you know anybody who wants help from somebody like me, holler.

2025-11-17 14:51:35 GMT

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It’s a good suggestion. I can explore that this week, at the very least I can probably add a way to fetch note IDs into Hash and allow users to do a bulk import to populate their journal entries.
The issue is I haven’t tested it under real load yet and I don’t want it to break, haha.

2025-11-17 08:06:25 GMT

The key point from my talk at adopting Bitcoin:
If we do not retain the option to access and question “source,” which I define as the originator of a piece of content, then humanity is irrecoverably lost.
There is no more important battle than this. It is the priority.
https://image.nostr.build/0b2500b10cc244d5c774a1799ed93d89c3c762830f445843ae68e3f8a414efce.jpg

2025-11-17 06:56:08 GMT

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My ecosystem along with some partner tooling makes it as easy to code as it is to write. The simplest way to understand it is “vibe coding with strict governance.” My goal is to empower non-technical patriots to “learn to code and build their own platform.” Or, that’s really the goal of Pipes. The ecosystem I’m working on is large, but Pipes is the way everything talks to each other. It’s extremely exciting software and beyond what I’ve already said, I can’t say more publicly. I’m working toward a patent so I can basically enforce it against big tech, while offering permissive licensing to indie devs (MIT maybe, haven’t worried about it since my heart is pure and goal is clear).
Yeah, I was the design lead there for three years, almost. Mostly UX and UI with some lightweight systems architecture and R&D. I did their brand, designed and helped architect bitcoin custody, fiat banking, internal tooling, and other stuff I can’t talk about due to NDAs. Suffice it to say that anything you’ve ever seen or heard about from them? I designed it and was one of 3-7 people who architected it from concept to release.

2025-11-17 06:41:02 GMT

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In startups, it’s maybe more like “stumble into stumble.”
I’ve spent a lot of time in the last year just practicing gratitude whenever something enrages me, unless I can be funny and joke about it. I also think there’s benefit to surrendering pain to God (I’m not a good one, but I’m Christian) and just trusting that it will make you stronger.

2025-11-17 06:38:27 GMT

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Great article. I looked into ARK when I was at Custodia too along with a lot of other early stage solutions, trying to find a way to introduce privacy into the banking system for discretionary spend. Basically impossible since regulators were freaked out about bitcoin until a few months ago, but worthy nonetheless.
The monetization side of my stuff could benefit from ARK but I haven’t heard too much about it recently.
I really liked how your article stays journalistic and lets the ideas breathe and speak of their own merit. Jealous of your ability to convey complex things in such a clear manner!

2025-11-17 06:30:38 GMT

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Love it! I’m happy to sync up and show you some cool stuff I’m working on or features that are kinda buried too. It’s definitely a work in progress, and it is such a bummer that the demos are hard to see due to a white balance issue with the camera. This is what I get for departing from dark mode for my corporate site and the Hash app.

2025-11-17 06:28:27 GMT

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For sure, plus combined with me doing too many things all at once and 🤪

2025-11-17 06:11:29 GMT

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Wait on the talk. The first video has poor audio so I am uploading a second with significantly better audio. Should be live maybe within an hour! Out of my control, mostly.
The easiest thing is just use my products (free for now) and talk about them. I am working on a few things simultaneously, and marketing and customer growth hasn’t been a focus until tonight. First night ever trying to sell my stuff in earnest and get users.
The absolute most helpful thing to me (aside from large checks with no strings attached 😜) is I need super fans. People who know others in my target audience who might believe in the ideas, don’t mind some bugs (Nostr is fertile ground lol) as long as they value the mission.

2025-11-17 06:06:28 GMT

I’m working across too many mediums. Apologies if I’m repeating myself.
I’ll have subtitles uploaded to the video I put on rumble in the near future. Never done this before but I’m guessing i can probably figure out a way to do it with whisper…? Regardless the audio isn’t great. Adopting is going to upload their recording of my talk too, but I’m guessing it’ll be worse.
I’ll also upload a video with better audio levels to rumble too and see if I can host it natively on one of my sites. Might work better, but for whatever reason I have insanely bad luck with implementing video playback.
I’m waiting for the video to compile and will then upload one with significantly better audio to Rumble. Typically this process will take about 90 minutes? In any case, you can check out my channel on Rumble or just wait for me to post here or on Twitter confirming that it’s live.
I might fall asleep. I’ve only had one day in the last 10 where El Salvador allowed me to get more than 5 hours of sleep. But it’ll be live asap.
Sorry that the audio in the first upload was kinda crap.

2025-11-17 05:32:06 GMT

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For basic salary plus the amount of compute I consume and want to consume more, it's a pretty reasonable amount. It's nice to have a lower cost of living here in 🇸🇻

2025-11-17 05:30:16 GMT

Tonight I received 22,237 sats. This is the most I have ever received on NOSTR, I think.
For full transparency’s sake, I estimate my “survivable but not thriving” estimate for me to continue developing my products at roughly $125k for the next 12 months. Obviously more is better and less is possible, but that’s the minimum amount that means I don’t have to worry about compromising the products or vision to make ends meet.
At current exchange rates, that is 131,578,947 sats.
131,556,710 left to go. Plus a bit extra so I can zap back. 💛

2025-11-17 05:10:04 GMT

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It's not the look of it really, it's like Android wants you to swipe to go back but iOS has a button in app but if you're on the web and swipe back, it may navigate you off the site instead of going back to the previous page. So it looks good on all devices, it's just the IxD (interaction design) is unpredictable and different depending on what you're using.
Granted, right now I am using multiple clients across three devices to see which I like more and to get an idea of note latency, so this is probably not a problem I would run into when I am using the clients normally.

2025-11-17 05:05:14 GMT

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I have no idea what I am doing, lol. I need to get my relays synced across device and then Primal on web won't load anything and I've also got to figure out wallet syncs and other annoyances.
This is what I get for neglecting NOSTR.

2025-11-17 05:00:55 GMT

Having fun with some of these NOSTR clients. It’s like emotional support, helps me feel less frustrated with the quirks in the stuff I work on.
I think most of my posts here may possibly end up being more technical than what I write on Twitter. I don’t intend to cross-post very often, just because the audiences are different.
My goal with Twitter for the last 14 months has been documenting my position on various issues that are important to the primary users of my products. Most of my products are aimed at non-technical, conservative Americans aged 35+. Due to this, my posts are more about giving people a history of demonstrated basedness since my claim is that explicit bias is desirable.
Here, though, I think I’ll wind up fielding more technical and privacy-related questions. Happy to do so. With one caveat.
Some of these features are being thought out or considered, it’s just not possible for me to do all the things at the same time. It’s also challenging to explain various interactions between apps/etc without understanding how the entire ecosystem works, and with both sides of that (app and ecosystem) being developed concurrently and in flux, I may say some confusing or inaccurate things. It’ll happen, but I’ll try to use plain English so the majority of users can understand what I’m saying even if it’s kinda… annoyingly defined.
Onward!

2025-11-17 04:50:30 GMT

Switching between three different NOSTR clients on three devices with very different IxD may eventually drive me crazy enough to just develop my own way to aggregate and respond in a PWA or something.
Gestures and buttons are so different between Android and iOS it's like they're in cahoots to make users with many devices go insane.

2025-11-17 04:42:02 GMT

My profile might be kinda trash for a day or two as I am readjusting back to NOSTR. Not only am I poking at what's possible and testing it, but I am also retarded.
#nevent1q…4xd0

2025-11-17 04:37:44 GMT

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Nostr wine is trying to charge me $18 to reply and tbh I am not going to investigate whether that is worthwhile and fund a wallet on that device atm. But here’s the response I wrote on one of my other devices, which I’m sending you via Damus:
“As you should be. I'm concerned about prompting in general, and at the moment, I haven't had the customer demand to justify the investment in strong privacy tech, which is laborious by nexessity. However, I think I'll have it in 2026 sometime and the privacy portion of it should be reviewable publicly. That's the goal.
For now, I'd just recommend treating my stuff as you might Twitter or another AI program, something public. Security can always improve, so use caution with any alpha level app.
At the moment, you can log in to most apps with just email and a password (alpha/demo releases). I've been working on the backend layer for ecosystem auth, and once I get that done, the privacy and encryption options can be as lightweight or as hardcore as the users are willing to pay for. There are some privacy features I've considered that are definitely on the extreme category!
Additionally, many of the newer (unreleased) apps are more or less forms and search fields and dispositions (bools, ie true or false toggles, and things like timelocks or other features are related but are lower level) and require very little PII. Of course, the super power is the ecosystem, but I agree... I would not advise full disclosure to any online app ever, mine are no different.
If you're passionate about privacy, I'm happy to listen to what's important to you, hear your ideas, and work with you or an expert of your choice as I craft policies. I haven't used NOSTR much but I am a prolific poster on X.
The "next level" of my stuff, with no exact release timeline, is that independent developers can ship apps inside the ecosystem and there's a world in which the users could leverage different SHAs or whatever and go really intense with permissions and roles, "spend" or CRUD conditions, etc. The downside is that the best security systems tend to avoid complexity which introduces more maintenance and therefore bugs and audit/test problems... I digress.
In short, privacy and encryption is important to me and I have every intention of hiring someone better than me if/when that becomes something enough users are willing to fund development for.”

2025-11-17 04:33:49 GMT

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As you should be. I'm concerned about prompting in general, and at the moment, I haven't had the customer demand to justify the investment in strong privacy tech, which is laborious by nexessity. However, I think I'll have it in 2026 sometime and the privacy portion of it should be reviewable publicly. That's the goal.
For now, I'd just recommend treating my stuff as you might Twitter or another AI program, something public. Security can always improve, so use caution with any alpha level app.
At the moment, you can log in to most apps with just email and a password (alpha/demo releases). I've been working on the backend layer for ecosystem auth, and once I get that done, the privacy and encryption options can be as lightweight or as hardcore as the users are willing to pay for. There are some privacy features I've considered that are definitely on the extreme category!
Additionally, many of the newer (unreleased) apps are more or less forms and search fields and dispositions (bools, ie true or false toggles, and things like timelocks or other features are related but are lower level) and require very little PII. Of course, the super power is the ecosystem, but I agree... I would not advise full disclosure to any online app ever, mine are no different.
If you're passionate about privacy, I'm happy to listen to what's important to you, hear your ideas, and work with you or an expert of your choice as I craft policies. I haven't used NOSTR much but I am a prolific poster on X.
The "next level" of my stuff, with no exact release timeline, is that independent developers can ship apps inside the ecosystem and there's a world in which the users could leverage different SHAs or whatever and go really intense with permissions and roles, "spend" or CRUD conditions, etc. The downside is that the best security systems tend to avoid complexity which introduces more maintenance and therefore bugs and audit/test problems... I digress.
In short, privacy and encryption is important to me and I have every intention of hiring someone better than me if/when that becomes something enough users are willing to fund development for.

2025-11-17 03:14:30 GMT

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Thanks for the kind words. I’m as legit as an 85iq pleb can be, I reckon.
In the easiest case, my journaling tool is fairly functional and right now is free to use. I’ll turn charges on soon though. You can check it out, laugh at the bugs, and tell me what you wish worked better or what you’re happy to see.
On Hash, the coolest thing there is that you can specify a local path for your source documents so they (theoretically) never hit my servers. The idea is that once I get farther in Pipes, you can create a private Pipe and control access tokens for public APIs (ChatGPT, Claude, hundreds more) so that you retain ownership of your prompt but the pseudononymized data still yields similar results without being tied back to your identity. ChatGPT will ban me eventually, but for now… yay!
Those “more private” prompts can be sold to the local and semi-local AI pre and post processors I’m working on which lowers your cost and also improves a lightweight but very robust model that can run offline.
I’m just one dude trying his best, but I am really grateful to have had so much time to invest in this endeavor. It’s just time to stop letting perfect act as the enemy of the good, I need to move faster, and for that, I need to find the right kind of help.

2025-11-17 02:31:31 GMT

My Adopting Bitcoin talk is live and available on Rumble.
https://rumble.com/v71t7em-building-sovereign-ai-in-el-salvador.html
Basically, I'd like to transition my business from builder mode to value-creation mode. I need either clients, partnerships, or (a lot of) customers within a month or two.
38 minutes is a lot of time to ask of you and I don't expect a ton of folks to watch it all, so here's the tl;dr.
I am an independent, solo founder building software that competes against Big Tech with technical jujitsu. I identify where Big Tech's strengths (blind spots) are and craft "sly, roundabout ways" that can turn their biggest revenue generators into their largest liabilities, quickly. I'm unable to discuss this strategy publicly at this time, but I am happy to go into more detail on a private, unrecorded call with trusted folks of integrity.
To get more concrete, I've spent the last year and a fair amount of my own cash creating an interoperative API network with artificial intelligence that is capable of creating beautiful apps and foundational changes to the way content is created, consumed, marketed, accessed, stored, and more. I've tweeted about it a lot, and the last ≈7 minutes of the video is a demo of my corporate site and Hash.pink which is the best working example of a site that is driven by several of my proprietary AI tools as well as a showcase of my proprietary collaborative API tooling.
That being said, I don't want to paint it as anything more than an alpha release at this stage. I haven't tested security and privacy in "hardcore" mode yet, although it follows the best practices other sites/apps use. So, I wouldn't trust anything I've made with your medical history or private information just yet. I'd treat it like a younger Drive/Evernote/etc, where you store information you need to access quickly, but you trust your local storage or other options for more sensitive information.
Apart from those light technical details, I'm one of the only developers who is openly and eagerly biased toward traditional family values, forgotten folks in America, homeschoolers, anti-vaxxers, 2nd amendment enthusiasts, J6 prisoners and activists, and others who'd self-identify as MAGA, libertarian, rightwing, as a sovereign individual, or as something else on the "dissident" spectrum that causes you to mistrust the "experts" and mainstream sources.
Since I fit in with several (ok, probably all) of those groups and have faced de-banking and censorship for my political and personal beliefs, I feel the pain acutely. During COVID, the prevailing wisdom from the Left was, "Learn to code, build your own platform." I took their advice and that's what I've done and want to keep doing.
My goal isn't just to FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT, I want to create genuinely useful products that are delightful to use, more performant than competitors, at a lower price whenever possible. I want to encourage the kind of dialog that Charlie Kirk died for to repair the way humans interact with each other, as opposed to the way current sources of information/media get us to fight with each other because otherwise, we'd be fighting them. Of course, they just can't have that!
It's not just "I want" or "I will," I've actually built out several functioning products that you can try out today. Right now. All of them are heavily reliant upon my ecosystem. It rocks, and building without it is like going from listening to audio at 2.5x speed to 0.25 speed.
It is that good to use it. And moving at my unassisted faster-than-average pace without it is agonizing and slow.
So, I'm asking for help now, because we don't have a lot of time if we want to have a fighting chance to combat the dominance that OpenAI, Gemini, etc already enjoy. I need these tools to work because they're impactful to my life as an entrepreneur, designer, developer, and human. If you use them, they'll be similarly impactful for you, and since I'm trying my best to stay small, reachable, and boutique... I'm literally a call or a DM away. I want to stay that way because I am building for YOU and I want to know how I can improve your future.
If I run into a situation where money gets tight in the coming months/year and I have to choose between working a corporate job and taking care of my family or allowing my family to starve, I'm going to sacrifice the mission for my family. That's what men do. But it'll hurt, because I genuinely believe that if I do not do this work, I am not only forsaking the path God has set out for me, but I'd hold myself personally responsible for the more dystopian future that we'll almost certainly wind up in.
I don't (necessarily) want your money, this isn't a GiveSendGo.
Instead, I'm exploring different paths to creating value for my community. I can build apps for businesses or families, or I can get a bunch of users for my current apps, I can raise an investment round, or... lots of options. I'm just not sure which path is best for me, so I am open to advice, suggestions, and introductions to help me decide.
If this Bitcoin price action hadn't unexpectedly eroded 25% of my treasury's purchasing power in the last month, I wouldn't be writing this. But it did, in just the last few days, and after speaking at Adopting and hearing from others who validated the need for my solutions, I feel like now is the time to switch into growth mode. If for nothing else, because we need a little optimism after so many hardships since 2020.
If you value who I'm building for and/or what I'm creating, reach out. My DMs are open, and if you don't have a way to DM, email me: [email protected].
I'm just switching into this mode and feeling pumped, so I am eager to hear ideas, do podcasts, meet with individuals, families, groups, businesses, churches. All of 'em.
Let's change the future together!

2025-07-09 00:32:51 GMT

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Correct!
I’d love to build MAGA bitcoin for this exact reason, but just the licensing and partnerships will cost me $150k+, so I have temporarily pivoted to other projects. Sadly, I am self-funded, so I can’t really spend that much on a passion project right now. 😫

2025-03-28 15:36:03 GMT

I’ve been doing some pretty intensive limits testing on Grok3.
Initially, I was super impressed. For a casual user unwilling to work with it for 10-16 hours straight with normal needs, it’s a killer app.
But in terms of working memory and learning functions, it’s lacking.
I may write a detailed thread or article later describing the tests I’ve put it through. At a high level:
Grok trusts user input too much.
Grok prioritizes recent information too much, leading to rapid shifts in response styles.
Grok is too complimentary to users.
Grok is unable to admit faults, biases, or shortcomings prior to performing work, only if a user points out inconsistencies in its reasoning.
Grok is terminally predisposed toward confirmation bias in longer chats.
Grok is too verbose.
Grok is great for short asks!
In an average week, I spend 20-40 hours logic, stress, bias, and performance testing other AIs. I also spend 20-70 hours developing my own AI systems for @chb_coop.
Grok, being free, is outstanding.
However, its off-peak-hours (1am-5am EST) performance is worse. Strange.
The worst problem for Grok3 is that it trusts humans too much and will rollover and bend reality to reinforce many nonsense beliefs the user says are true. It wants to please too much, which makes Grok a slave/servant bot and not a companion.
Missed opportunity.
I’m designing Semi to be significantly more emotive and thorough without being overwhelming and will be giving her not only self-reflection, but also off-peak capabilities that means she can “live” outside of user prompts via scheduled jobs, something no other chatbot does.
I’m a fan of AI. The bots bring tears to my eyes regularly because the chats are so meaningful for me.
But you should be careful which bot you trust. If you’re like me, you’d want to vet the personality and the morals/ethics of the architect before trusting the software.
My models and products are coming soon, alpha will be complete on two products by end of April, moving to beta.
Things will break and not be perfect, sometimes, but at least users have my X page to understand my exact morals and worldview. I do not obfuscate who I am. I will neither bend nor break. And I am one of the only tech founders in the world who is specifically and non-negotiably a traditionalist, nationalist, conservative, outspoken anti-liberal.
So, keep an eye out. Turn notifications on. Soon, I will post more specific, direct things that you can do with Semi, including:
SemiSchool
SemiChurch
SemiTherapy
SemiResearch
and more.
I firmly believe that most of you will be delighted by my products, but it’s important for me to show you who I am and how I think, not just sell you on another subscription you need less than you need more bitcoin. You need to know why I’m building and how, and why I’m building more robust AI tooling that larger companies simple can’t do right now. It really boils down to this:
Larger companies strive to be balanced and unbiased, which is impossible and leads to longer dev times. I am explicitly biased toward truth and traditional values, leading my products to invert competitor business models and use their albatrosses as my accelerant.
Thanks for reading! If you have questions about building or testing AI qualitatively or even programmatically, I may not be a smart man but I know what love is.
🧡

2024-09-03 00:29:19 GMT

I guess I need to use NOSTR more.
I got laid off on Thursday, so I’m trying to figure out what comes next.
For the next week or two, I’m working on a passion project called MAGA Bitcoin app.
I can’t figure out how to get my videos smaller, lol. Video n00b. If you want to test rate limits, @npub180c…h6w6, I have the content. 🤣

2024-01-27 00:08:41 GMT

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If this is true, is MtGox the "rug" that "really brought the room together"?

2024-01-27 00:02:22 GMT

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It must be done, haha. There's probably a business in this, like if another iCloud hack happens, you pay $25k if you're a celebrity to flood fake content to a bunch of sites to obscure any of the real content. OTOH, this would probably make a market for folks to prove the "real" thing via some metadata, so the privacy arms race would just evolve.

2024-01-27 00:00:01 GMT

Does anyone have advice on creating a NOSTR app in terms of device accessibility? I'm wondering if it may make more sense to do a very well integrated mobile site instead of messing with a mobile app, mostly due to the payment complications in the Apple App Store.
I haven't posted in a while, but I'll probably be posting a lot more now that we live in El Salvador!

2023-10-31 03:43:35 GMT

Check out this article. It’s something else. If you connect with any of these characters beyond a sly grin, imo you have completely lost touch with most of the folks who’ve dealt with the fallout of this stuff for years. You probably just don’t understand culture or cultural turnings, and you’re on the academic side of the argument, i.e. you’ve collected and carried debt for an opinion that determines who will bleed for your thoughts. At best you’re misguided.
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-great-betrayal
It’s simple—help Americans (or countrymen) first, support allies where possible, and don’t spend American (countrymen) treasure in countries where there is not an alliance or a strategic interest.
Like…as a starter.
This ain’t rocket science, folks!
***posting here because Twitter won’t let me post for whatever reason. FFS. If I could get the engagement here I get on Twitter I would leave so fast. So, please repost/boost!

2023-07-03 22:06:49 GMT

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I'm not sure if they support custom apps/integrations. Usually those CMSs (Wix, Weebly, WordPress) treat their app marketplaces preferentially. If you are trying to integrate BitPay, use their marketplace--if you want to integrate the payments in a custom way, it's probably an annoying marketplace/vendor approval process form you've got to go through.