mossy
Mossy Flanagan

Software engineer, generative artist, bitcoin enthusiast

Public Key

npub1mmwcn367jw2g8c48y70975grw6jrhet2pshukxe872yzh3wmt7tq4qaum2

NIP-05 Address

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsdahvfca0f89yru2nj08jl2yphdfpmu44qct7trvnl9zptchd4l9spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsnruppa

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1mmwcn367jw2g8c48y70975grw6jrhet2pshukxe872yzh3wmt7tq4qaum2

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2025-10-15 16:36:51 GMT

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What I mean is that typically users send out little bits of data (which are each individually signed) and then the clients aggregate them into different views (for example, the list of people I follow, or the list of people following me or the list of replies to a post). In most cases, the user just sends out the granular action (zap, heart, reply) and it's up to the clients to query the relay and build up the aggregate list. But with the list of follows, it works different, the user keeps republishing the FULL list and the relay treats it as replaceable, it just seems inconsistent with how nostr typically works.

2025-10-15 15:57:57 GMT

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I think "Sending little bits of data and hoping they will somehow be reassembled correctly on the other side" is actually EXACTLY how Nostr works and that's a good thing!

2025-10-15 15:56:22 GMT

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Yeah I was thinking something like https://github.com/vitorpamplona/nips/blob/relationship-status/81.md I'm definitely new and still learning the protocol in's and outs!

2025-10-15 15:55:22 GMT

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I get that, seems like the whole system is moving fast and evolving organically which to me is promising. I guess there is something like https://github.com/vitorpamplona/nips/blob/relationship-status/81.md which seems like it could supersede a simple flat follow list.
How do these things kind of move into widespread use? Is it a matter of enough popular clients adopting the new protocol?

2025-10-15 15:39:39 GMT

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I think just publishing the individual follow / un-follow (delete follow) is consistent with how most things work in Nostr. If I want to see all the replies to a post, I have to query relays to assemble that list, same to see followers (as you mentioned) or reactions to a post. It is a mess in some sense but I think it's a good model.

2025-10-14 17:31:05 GMT

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This approach seems a little odd, why not post discrete events to follow and unfollow instead of editing and republishing a list? Just curious why we settled on that approach at the protocol level?

2025-10-09 18:06:50 GMT

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I don’t know yet but let’s figure this out! Maybe as a first experiment do a live stream free and get some zaps? I have a close friend who is going to start doing live audio streams soon, getting him setup with keys next week

2025-10-09 17:00:13 GMT

Working on a little query / debug tool as I learn the nostr protocols check it out
https://motherbrain.net

2025-10-08 14:36:24 GMT

If it’s not built on nostr, it’s a legacy platform.

2025-10-04 22:19:44 GMT

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https://stats.nostr.band says around 15k dau so early., so good!

2025-10-04 22:17:15 GMT

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Found this https://stats.nostr.band claims around 15k dau

2025-10-04 20:08:43 GMT

#asknostr How many active daily users are there on Nostr, ballpark? Is it 1k, 10k, 100k?

2025-10-03 19:57:16 GMT

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Love all this, will be going through the list and will report back! I’m curious how the flow works, I’m really interested in making it more seamless, like an apple checkout / stripe like experience, imagine that well supported in different clients, and easy to setup online stores

2025-10-03 19:02:44 GMT

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Why would you not be able to trust the other keys, particularly if they are keys that you know / follow / interact with?

2025-10-03 18:49:03 GMT

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You could also use nip 51 and create a pinned list?

2025-10-03 14:49:22 GMT

Who is actively selling things on nostr via zaps? It doesn’t matter to me how much you are making or what you are selling I’m just looking for examples of the buying and selling of things via nostr

2025-10-03 14:33:26 GMT

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I agree, claude code has been incredible, I’m chewing through NIPs, I think we are going to rewrite the social internet around nostr and micropayments in the next 1-2 years

2025-10-03 11:28:28 GMT

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Yas thank you!!

2025-10-03 09:51:55 GMT

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Only one I came across is pinned in nip-53

2025-10-02 12:51:25 GMT

I watched 60 minutes with Utah Gov Cox
“I do believe that social media is a cancer, and it is taking all of our worst impulses and putting them on steroids. It is driving us to division. It is driving us to hate.”
I agree with him and I think Nostr is the only approach I’ve seen that has a chance of changing this.

2025-10-02 00:44:29 GMT

Added some color to my homepage mossy.xyz - bitcoin-orange and nostr-purple :)

2025-09-29 23:47:26 GMT

My home page on mossy.xyz is now my nostr feed! Lots left to do, lots of nips to explore, getting an art marketplace integrating, enabling zaps reactions and comments, providing some type of onboarding for non nostr users. But it was relatively easy to get this up and running, nostr is a very simple, beautiful protocol, it’s so satisfying compared to legacy social media, where I’m forced to either link to my content on their site or just replicate it.

2025-09-22 19:43:02 GMT

Some new prints soon to be delivered to their new homes!
https://blossom.primal.net/3e0c94801a77e6992326c7675d30e25192abccf50e93b49ad7099eced949d3d6.mov

2025-09-20 19:05:59 GMT

polo and pan last night at brooklyn storage house, really inspiring visuals, loved the minimal, clean, bright, simple - squares, circles, smooth transition, really inspiring and validating for me to see a big act align with this style that feels really natural to me 😍😍

2025-09-18 15:16:56 GMT

https://blossom.primal.net/ebf14b8baf08ca8b508aa23061a2d3ee4904896bc8fd7b8f865dae0cebdb70d7.jpg

2025-09-17 19:02:49 GMT

Video test! From glacier national park 🥰
https://v.nostr.build/COe7Qdji9RdVLRWA.mov

2025-09-16 20:03:44 GMT

Nostr is to social graph what bitcoin is to money

2025-09-15 20:55:57 GMT

I feel bad for charlie kirk and his family, and I feel sad for the guy who killed him and his family, this is just pain all around.

2025-09-14 17:28:30 GMT

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Can you say more about other standards that don’t take off in this context? I think you are right, there is something very novel about public keys becoming a networked graph to build trust. Is blue sky an example of an alternative approach to this ?

2025-09-01 23:58:08 GMT

I was hanging with so close friends this weekend and showed them nostr via primal, showed them zaps and described how you can just send money and that you own all the content you produce. It’s the first time I felt that excitement being the nerd friend in a long time, #nostr is something new

2025-08-28 21:18:49 GMT

Another test post 🎉

2025-08-28 17:44:09 GMT

My website nostr feed is live! @nprofile…sula

2025-08-28 14:33:00 GMT

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Hey! I kind of want it to be a nostr thing, in the sense that i want it to use nostr as the mechanism for identifying and sending money through the zap layer, instead of interacting with lightning directly, like layer 1 is bitcoin, layer 2 is lightning, layer 3 is nostr and I build my app on top of the nostr layer

2025-08-24 18:20:48 GMT

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🙏Have you seen any examples of this out there? Like embedded “zap to pay” buttons?

2025-08-24 10:27:44 GMT

GM! I have been experimenting with interactive visuals, I really am excited about the idea of having a web integration where people can send zaps to interact, like they are “feeding” the simulation zaps to power it, just for fun. Im so curious from an engineering standpoint what it would take to wire the together. Basically, how could I create a web page that people can easily send zaps from and have the backend detect that in realtime and interact once it sees the zap. 🤔

2025-08-24 10:24:31 GMT

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Just as a follow up @alby took care of this right away and I’m zappin again ⚡️

2025-08-24 10:22:23 GMT

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That’s a healthy lifestyle ✨

2025-08-23 20:36:45 GMT

For those heading to the desert, fuck your burn ☀️☀️☀️

2025-08-20 19:29:04 GMT

I think one of the most shocking facts I have learned as I’ve educated myself on how money works is that banks create new money out of thin air. I knew that the government could do this but I didn’t know private banks could do this. When you buy a home with a mortgage and the bank pays the seller, that money is created out of nothing - it isn’t a matter of the bank taking other peoples deposits and using that to fund the mortgage. Think about that, private banks can just print money and then profit off the interest. And if they get in trouble because the mortgage payments start failing, they just transfer that debt to the public through a government bail out.

2025-08-18 23:05:32 GMT

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It works!

2025-08-18 15:00:37 GMT

Working on an explorable shared game-of-life simulated world, I dream of it being zap powered ⚡️ ⚡️
https://blossom.primal.net/399d09d5f8f0f1bc38406fe351b661bc6e574a90c6a490f2f5d5dfa1c0984798.mov

2025-08-09 17:55:11 GMT

Could someone zap me, I want to see if I fixed my wallet, and also comment that you zapped me so I know in the event that it didn’t work! Just one little sat will do please and thank you!

2025-08-09 15:32:22 GMT

I like the idea of using nostr as a blogging platform for my website, so on the blog page I would just show my posts and replies to my posts, and people how visit the site in a normal browser can view this but if you have a nostr id you can interact with/ reply. I don’t see anything out there to enable this but maybe i’ll start a little project around it

2025-08-08 20:32:06 GMT

Having some trouble with my @nprofile…qnc2 wallet and can’t send zaps, I miss it! So much more satisfying than “likes”. Alby support has been fantastic so far, made it much easier to get setup with a LN wallet. I just ordered “Mastering The Lightning Network” very curious how this magic works ⚡️⚡️

2025-08-07 15:12:19 GMT

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Wow, I did not know that was AI, that’s the first time (that I’m aware of) that I have been fooled.

2025-08-07 13:17:32 GMT

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Every message you send is signed, that’s the beauty of nostr protocol, every message is signed at birth, and your nostr client verifies it when you read a message!

2025-08-07 13:14:27 GMT

Good morning ☀️ testing out video sharing from nostr.build, some game of life art ☯️
https://v.nostr.build/weINJrW4X4xue5Qh.mp4

2025-08-07 13:11:25 GMT

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I think that’s the heart of it. Bitcoin Cash seems to test this though, it is much faster partially because of large block size, which has its own trade offs but it does seem to indicate that you can do fast commits with PoW if you are willing to trade off some other qualities of the network.

2025-08-06 17:17:43 GMT

I wanted to share some thoughts about the lightning network. but before I write anything, I just want to admit I’m coming from a place of ignorance here. i’m a software engineer and I’ve had a lot of experience building distributed systems, particularly event processing systems so I do understand the space broadly and I worked in finance for many years. that said I have a lot to do before I can claim to really understand the lightning protocol and infrastructure.
One of the things I think @nprofile…dg4z got just right in her book is her description of how the bitcoin network has a real simplicity to it because it can rely on proof of work. On the other hand, proof of stake networks are much more complex both in code and in their written description and their operation because they cannot rely on proof of work so they need to come up with other mechanisms of enforcement.
i’m having a similar feeling about lightning. It feels very complex and I do wonder if it’s because it cannot rely on proof of work so it has to twist itself into all sorts of loops to enforce good behavior.
Again, this is just my low information take on this so far. I’m going to spend time over the next few weeks trying to really understand the lightning network at a technical level.
I know there is a lot of interesting history here including the block size wars, I guess the engineer in me wishes that l2 could just be built using the same core PoW infrastructure as l1

2025-08-06 13:32:39 GMT

Good morning ☀️ starting today with some gratitude for my family and my health ❤️

2025-08-06 00:32:22 GMT

Im so impressed and excited by Nostr, I only heard of it because I read @nprofile…ad8w s book and then found her @nprofile…695r link. I’m 45, I remember in the late nineties early aughts when xml and web services were coming out, there was this feeling that the web was going to be this messy organic system of services communicating, but what we got was more and more centralization.
I think the key is to start with signed messages, that’s the core, then figure everything else out, that’s the antidote to centralizing (and also the antidote to generative deep fakes). Nostr community really got this right. “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly” I love the mess, we will figure it out as we go!

2025-08-06 00:23:55 GMT

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Insane!

2025-08-06 00:23:23 GMT

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Thank you ❤️❤️

2025-08-05 18:46:39 GMT

My recent trip to Glacier natl park, testing this nostr thing out ❤️
https://blossom.primal.net/f96d3e838699b462c16e84f0305d46f92f7579c058f3a4cd4a3ac72f34957fc8.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/ec01cc82415faa535b6c4e32b6aa804b3d4eda1bf200712602f7d7bcdf336f7b.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/982570259238846193945612ec83905177b19a58aedd783ec618873f58db3627.jpg

2025-08-05 17:25:31 GMT

First note! Getting started on Nostr / Bitcoin lightning feels like the old days of finding Doom bbs’s, I love it!