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https://nearhood.co.uk

nostr projects:
https://agentlist.com
https://nearhood.co.uk

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2026-10-14 07:55:15 GMT

Build something today that wasn’t possible to build 3 years ago. Not impossible to you, impossible for anyone.

2026-10-14 07:55:02 GMT

for decades we have trained ourselves and spent most of our waking time to do things that are artificial anyway. Now we have artificial intelligence who can take on the artificial work.

2026-08-15 07:41:41 GMT

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Spot on! 👏

2026-07-08 06:08:36 GMT

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Thumbs up all around ⚡️ ⚡️

2026-07-03 09:50:54 GMT

When models are hitting new highs on benchmarks, are they good in general or good at getting good results on benchmarks? Björn Mattsson and Pat Walter's preprint on data leakage is available on biorxiv:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.29.735309v1
#bio #ai

2026-06-30 10:19:19 GMT

Soon the question won't be a model's cost or "accuracy", it'll be who made it. The lab behind a model shapes how it nudges and persuades. We already see that people have "a high tendency to follow the potentially harmful medical advice" from model output (1) - imagine the power these providers can have, not just in intelligence but in persuasion.
1: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/NEJM-AI-people-overtrust-ai-generated-medical-advice-despite-low-accuracy/

2026-06-29 15:45:23 GMT

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Followed and will sign up!! If I find a way to burn CDs I’ll participate 😄 one thing though I tried to remote sign in via primal but get a 404 page on https://summerburn.shakespeare.wtf/remoteloginsuccess

2026-06-29 10:52:50 GMT

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The app is actually just the Nearhood website I saved to my iOS Home Screen 😄 notifications there are (unfortunately) not pure nostr nips or DMs as I wanted them to be locally requested and not encrypted (the DMs on nearhood are encrypted and gift wrapped).
You’d get notifications for events you have bookmarked, messages people send you (those are encrypted) and events you RSVP to, but it’s using a layer on top of nostr to handle those notifications

2026-06-28 07:34:51 GMT

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Fun!!

2026-06-27 22:53:11 GMT

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Me too - I really love how nostr gives you all these tools and if you use them the system is interoperable! I use NIP-52 for RSVPs, but I don’t think DMs are that clunky? Useful for sharing location details etc?

2026-06-27 20:48:22 GMT

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Haha exactly! How do we get the normies to join?!

2026-06-12 15:31:19 GMT

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Go Belgium!! 🇧🇪

2026-06-09 10:14:33 GMT

nostr is an amazing platform to build on!
#nevent1q…7a0r

2026-06-08 10:11:29 GMT

The greatest things to come from the AI boom is that people will meet each other more and, ironically, since we have an explosion in new apps and websites being built these days, will spend less time using them.
https://mibo.nostria.app/94c58f25b45eabbc1729d7dcfbc197ca9bfb588b290f8a9285d6754c43306771.jpeg

2026-06-05 10:22:15 GMT

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(The source is an event from CMHs event page posted onto eventbrite, club orange and the nearhood nostr page)

2026-06-05 10:16:27 GMT

Event reminders working as intended 😀
https://mibo.nostria.app/0c0a5664b9ddb1982ca3a0a1d9ff4a2766b9fd5a772a04b216f9fffa29a59b28.jpeg

2026-06-04 10:24:05 GMT

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What do you think about the security vs convenience aspect?
I have a little nostr project for people who live in London who want to connect to their local communities (nearhood.co.uk), there I just generate nostr keys in a deterministic way using their device passkeys (so you’ll get the same account on your phone and desktop if you sync passkeys - or use a yubikey or something). Users don’t need to know what nostr is and they won’t forget their keys.
Downside of course is that they need to trust the website company not to steal their account by submitting the key to the server.. so there is a “trust” there..
but in theory this could perhaps be seen in the web console if one wanted to investigate it?
I definitely think we need to spread nostr by other means than just advertising the protocol itself. Even better if it’s being used without people having to know what it is!

2026-05-25 10:16:46 GMT

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Really love your work on here!
Nostr the protocol is so much more than a chat room of bitcoiners. We should make different things for different people (and tbh stop telling people nostr is underneath it - most people don’t care)

2026-05-11 06:20:14 GMT

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Suspect it’s mostly because it’s hard to get 😂 it’s really great meat!

2026-04-30 00:58:35 GMT

Hello

2026-04-30 00:58:04 GMT

Hello @npub1l2c…macd

2026-04-28 13:58:20 GMT

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Makes it less of a toy and more of a tool that actual businesses can use without giving staff members a manual on which terminal to give customers depending on their preferred mode of payment.

2026-04-28 13:57:34 GMT

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Makes it less of a toy and more of a tool that actual businesses can use without giving staff members a manual on which terminal to give customers depending on their preferred mode of payment.

2026-04-28 08:41:57 GMT

More: Slack has a hidden always-opt-in policy for their "global model" - opting out can only be done via email: https://againstdata.com/guides/opt-out-slack-ai
#nevent1q…kzhq

2026-04-27 11:42:20 GMT

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Well done, this is really cool!

2026-04-26 11:57:32 GMT

Testing new relays

2026-04-24 21:51:36 GMT

Playing around with fetching skills and executing them locally on a phone. Limited use cases now but I think at some point you could fetch a whole “business setup” instruction and have an offline thing help you start something!
Here I fetched a WiFi QR maker skill from https://agentlist.com/listing/809df5a1-ea09-4ec6-9e2d-ac401103691c and it executed the JavaScript in it based on the text. Fully offline running the model on my phone. Quite fun. Now looking for more use cases!
https://mibo.nostria.app/f9f8579d129369c4c9168147ec492554f958e239cc056289486d5190e6ed2862.png

2026-04-21 11:40:49 GMT

Data really becoming the new gold, no longer hidden by a layer of software pretending to be the gold.
Now-defunct companies selling their internal data for training: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-training-data-your-old-work-slacks-and-emails/

2026-04-21 07:36:53 GMT

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Signed up for a slack business+ trial, and there too a sign of data gatekeeping - time to try and own your data 🙏
https://mibo.nostria.app/75259834d69499fb0d3c9adab8def5fc298bafa32b498c139553ae2236514c7f.png
#nevent1q…fhth

2026-04-21 07:34:21 GMT

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Spot on! I tried to say that with my post the other day but couldn’t do it as eloquently 🤣
#naddr1qq…r98z

2026-04-20 11:09:31 GMT

I recently noticed Slack has restricted access to data downloads to a higher tier of subscription, not the first paid tier but the second one. Only public channel messages are downloadable. The same will happen for other apps, the moat will be your data, and the aim to make accessing data harder - complicated structures, training in a very custom solution that is so specialised you cannot leave.
Before: Big companies tried to harvest as much data as possible
Now: They need to protect it
Time to be aware of the data your organisation has, and the optionality you currently have in regards to the software you use and the licenses you have with the stewards of the information!

2026-04-16 07:34:02 GMT

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Well done - this is really cool!

2026-04-13 08:27:40 GMT

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[ x ] not rendered very well in @nprofile…wsar 😄
https://blossom.primal.net/14404f964f87a12f5eec438de6f8ae1d87eed9e45d6bcb5b11cac60de49c2d4d.jpg

2026-04-11 16:30:22 GMT

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Still didn’t work. Ok lol

2026-04-11 16:30:05 GMT

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https://primal.net/e/naddr1qqfk6mn4v9mx2wr4ve6kzcnsx36h2etyvypzqyy8plpxtnxseftyhh78047xlx59kwe7jzwr5swdymy7vt6u3nwdqvzqqqr4guwju8xf link didn’t work?

2026-04-11 16:28:56 GMT

Really amazing that nostr came at a time when anyone can build apps at speed - suddenly we have a defined way to do all sorts of things properly, anchored in this amazing protocol. Let’s use it.
https://primal.net/e/naddr1qqfk6mn4v9mx2wr4ve6kzcnsx36h2etyvypzqyy8plpxtnxseftyhh78047xlx59kwe7jzwr5swdymy7vt6u3nwdqvzqqqr4guwju8xf

2026-04-02 16:25:10 GMT

Here’s a basic agent definition I recommend teams use as a basis for their work to increase the quality and reduce human frustration: https://agentlist.com/listing/dc2ea5f9-437d-4fb2-8759-920ef98654f4 #agents #opencode

2026-03-28 13:27:32 GMT

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I think I’d say no - it shows effort in making a great agent however it raises concerns about how much the candidate is really into _that_ company. It’s hard to know if you’ve applied to 1000 positions or just this one, and if you applied to 1000 responding to you (or continuing the process) is a waste of time 😬

2026-03-26 18:33:36 GMT

Ok hear me out. Passkeys on your phone / google / apple sync. It seems to already provide quite a good deal of security for a seed. It works quite well to deterministically create NOSTR keys from those. No server hosting your keys, no bunker, no plugin that doesn’t work on iOS anyway, no background audio to enable remote signing, and cross browser capability. Don’t send the key - recreate it!
Maybe a security issue? But it doesn’t look like! What am I missing?

2026-03-24 11:11:46 GMT

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Really an incredible event - thanks a lot for organising and running this.

2026-03-19 06:45:21 GMT

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Interesting - I even use Sonnet over codex, seems to be much better at sticking to the plan and grounding the work in other code I already have. Maybe my prompting works better with Claude than it does with codex?

2026-03-08 08:14:29 GMT

Agents are now fully linked to software repositories and on their own, typically on a schedule, will look at the code and suggest improvements based on an operators request. What’s missing now (and it’s a tiny one) is a sense of memory on how the agent has acted in the past, and a sense of acting only when it makes sense. At the moment many of these systems will make a change no matter how useful, and if it’s only marginally useful it might find that undoing the same change the next day is also an improvement!

2026-02-25 08:02:43 GMT

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It can be - however the results are really not that great unless you have some serious computing power in my experience!

2026-01-29 08:07:14 GMT

Reading content produced for a person is interesting not because of the content itself but because of the ideas it transmits from one person to the other.
Do everyone a favour and don’t waste their time by emailing them AI generated texts. Send them your thoughts instead 💡
#Gemini #ChatGPT #Claude #Clawd

2026-01-04 15:04:25 GMT

Fallow Deer in London 🦌
https://blossom.primal.net/e7113f03aa0ef3e8899ac12ff0b941ac467cdc9a78e86c79c7437e9cd8b823b2.jpg

2026-01-04 14:58:57 GMT

#coldstr
https://blossom.primal.net/e0d25c9c980db6d9d3e44a2d3c8674717e67520b6ee8ab4c8cde64377b2bb040.jpg

2026-01-03 12:26:26 GMT

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2025-12-31 09:12:18 GMT

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Can you share pictures on bitchat now?

2025-12-30 09:33:29 GMT

As software engineers we will likely soon work more with guardrails for software rather than software itself

2025-12-25 11:46:31 GMT

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So cool, let’s go! 😀

2025-12-25 07:54:26 GMT

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Yeah!

2025-12-25 07:53:13 GMT

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I’m actually not sure if it’s going in and out, but I assume so. It is only in the “click and collect” part of duty free though so had to pre book the order online at least 2 hours before going there

2025-12-23 22:45:57 GMT

Great work @nprofile…2hng First time the staff member had accepted btc at Oslo Airport, but still went very smoothly
https://blossom.primal.net/989bfc359a317d9aa8a032a2a1b70fb989b2fbbc8ad3e7f82f08f10eb03e14ed.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/2cab47f3cc92f7592fe74d46781606213befd4216da761b4bda8eea979ee9dc8.png

2025-12-23 09:35:19 GMT

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Zip zap!

2025-12-20 12:06:23 GMT

#ProofOfWalk #Battersea @npub1jr8…wwnw
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2025-12-13 12:16:29 GMT

#ProofOfWalk #London @npub1jr8…wwnw
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2025-12-06 04:56:59 GMT

#ProofOfWalk in Kamakura 😍 🇯🇵
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https://blossom.primal.net/3bef58f1e3e0674737036f40fd42901e5885ab327a3b00fff6f1344ff3012d2b.jpg

2025-11-25 09:12:53 GMT

Negative people say it’s all an uphill battle, but when everything goes downhill that’s also not good!

2025-11-23 00:23:26 GMT

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Excellent! Will follow! I have liked how some of the shitcoin implementations do this - you can use coinbase’s implementation to make a “base” wallet without knowing what base is, and it’s synced across all your (iOS) devices

2025-11-20 20:40:52 GMT

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Is it tied to your on device biometrics somehow? That would be cool

2025-10-26 17:36:54 GMT

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True!

2025-10-25 11:44:03 GMT

Proof of walk in London!
@nprofile…npr7
@npub1jr8…wwnw
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https://blossom.primal.net/d07f4fa771453079f7ba835d155a54f449826e943c28d4515b394b9778da77f2.jpg

2025-10-25 09:30:08 GMT

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🤪

2025-10-25 09:29:28 GMT

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😳

2025-10-25 09:28:42 GMT

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😵‍💫

2025-10-25 09:24:53 GMT

After visiting a Generative AI conference in London last week I genuinely think there is misallocation of funds in big corps. There was a presentation on how to ensure AI agents stick to protocol and don’t hallucinate or come up with creative responses that are unexpected. To solve for this one had to build incredible amounts of test data, heuristic quality gates, non LLM based judge criteria etc. at every step of an agent pipeline.
Listening to the presentation, I was convinced their whole pipeline could have been built and run successfully just using those heuristic tests alone, and that sometime inside BigCorp, a few million was earmarked: “How can we do this with AI?” and not “Should we do this with AI?”
It felt a bit like listening to a session on how to ensure a genius multi disciplinary artist would excel at accounting.
https://blossom.primal.net/0d05915cb1107d05bae0257ef3813128913cc9e58a9fce21eecae0177c5683cf.jpg

2025-10-18 12:26:31 GMT

#Proofofwalk @npub1jr8…wwnw
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2025-10-04 13:56:43 GMT

Saturday walk. Park closed, lots of wind! Visited Orwell! @npub1zzw…w9l9 @npub1mtu…vxl7 @npub1jr8…wwnw #proofofwalk #proofofwind
https://video.nostr.build/193f4fe78ea0f5685aa830de3afc2923bda949c3eed9bc9ed2e03a80ae2a21b9.mp4
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2025-09-27 13:11:32 GMT

Great turnout today in London!
#Proofofwalk
@nprofile…4mwr @nprofile…xpls @nprofile…v5vz
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2025-09-26 19:45:42 GMT

It’ll be a blast! 🚶
#note1gaz…szxw

2025-09-09 11:53:32 GMT

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Inspiration for this post came from Nan Yu's excellent short post "Skip to the end": https://thenanyu.com/skip-to-the-end.html

2025-09-09 10:21:53 GMT

User interfaces are going away
I think the end of interfaces is coming faster than most people expect. Not the gradual evolution we've seen before, from desktop websites only to two versions to dynamically resizing websites working on every screen size, but a complete removal of the interface altogether.
We're creatures of habit, returning to the same digital spaces - Netflix for this, Spotify for that, each with its own login, its own subscription, its own carefully designed experience.
We expect a certain experience from within all of these apps - but soon we will expect a certain experience one level above the apps.
Soon we won't browse Netflix or manage Hulu subscriptions. We'll simply ask for what we want and receive it, or even have it recommended to us based on various interactions we've had. The content finds us, not the other way around.
The technical shift is profound but the business model shift is even bigger. Today's walled gardens exist because companies need to own the customer relationship. Tomorrow, that relationship disappears - I get my content, whoever owns the rights to it gets paid, and I never need to care about who they are.
What enables this isn't just AI that understands our intent. It's payment infrastructure that can move money frictionlessly, instantly, to the right party without us managing accounts or subscriptions or even knowing where our content comes from.
Every streaming service, every media company, every platform betting on exclusive content and beautiful interfaces - they're all building for a world that's about to disappear.
The pieces are converging. Frictionless, vendor less, payments, AI that truly understands context, and a generation that values access over ownership.
I think now is the time to work with these things in mind, and create a decentralised, democratised system, based on solid foundations and open source
Curious to hear what others think!
#grownostr
#future
#payments
#systems
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2025-09-02 07:36:39 GMT

This is the way - job postings on nostr 👏
#note1y54…wqj4

2025-08-27 12:09:21 GMT

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Perhaps this is more or less done already: https://synthflow.ai/ai-booking-bot

2025-08-26 06:41:32 GMT

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A companion "profile" could keep your payment details, and forward that onto the service when authorised. You're "logged in" simply by using your phone number.

2025-08-26 05:53:06 GMT

A restaurant/vet/service booking tool that can pick up the phone when an operator is busy and schedule people in based on needs and availability. I’m sure something exists but it would be fun to build and could be cheap to implement for the services. Text to voice and voice to text models are really great these days. #GrowNostr #Build #AI

2025-08-26 05:30:00 GMT

I would love to build a EA system that can answer calls from unknown callers and get back to them or dismiss them properly. Give them overall guidelines, access to my calendar and some common sense.

2025-08-25 12:20:57 GMT

Wondering if the field of cybersecurity will grow to encompass protecting systems from vibe coded solutions. Will we deploy things we don’t know, only to box it in a framework we do, in order to keep it from doing unintended things?

2025-08-21 16:41:55 GMT

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npub1zzrslsn9engv54jtmlrh6lr0n2zm8vlfp8p6g8xjdj0x9awgehxsts9jem

2025-08-18 07:22:34 GMT

I wonder when, and I think it is soon, humans will start preferring to read, or will simply spend most of our time reading, AI generated pieces of text over human written ones. What’s maybe more interesting is perhaps what pieces of content will be the last to go, or will never go, and why?
We are inherently social creatures so the mere fact of knowing that some content was written by someone we trust, often trumps everything else - even the truth itself.
Content comes of all sorts - from news/information, entertainment (and the two are getting dangerously close these days) to pure propaganda. Now though, they can have two sources - a person or a system.
We need to prepare for a future where two categories of content live side by side and being able to distinguish them easily will be crucial.
Bringing public/private key cryptography together with an incredibly simple to understand UX will be a big part of this.
Would love to hear from others who are thinking about this too.
#grownostr #verifiedcontent #society

2025-08-14 10:49:05 GMT

A bit late to the party here, but wow - nsec bunker logins are such an amazing way to login to nostr. Massive faff otherwise especially if you have multiple accounts!

2025-08-14 07:54:10 GMT

Doing a lot of recruitment these days and have made some reflections - one is: New grads getting into programming these days need to take care not to let language models ruin their experience learning. We are not yet there that we can autonomously build and run *quality* software purely by prompting, so everyone building software currently do need to understand and learn the basics. Too easy to auto-complete our way from understanding at the moment.
#grownostr #ai

2025-06-20 13:46:08 GMT

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Well done Primal team 👏 looks great!

2025-06-17 20:22:39 GMT

A wise man once said: if you vibe the code, you honour the upkeep

2025-06-16 11:28:33 GMT

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Yes! 🙌

2025-06-14 12:07:11 GMT

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Short video demo of the MCP integration, here we use an @npub1get…0nfm MCP together with markdown2pdf to perform the payment automatically: https://youtu.be/XfvVHCr7Jdg?si=M3JlDtefpofvb3RM
Other integrations exist too like Fewsats @npub15n6…zkh6

2025-06-14 12:01:21 GMT

A project I’ve really enjoyed working on with a few of my colleagues at Serendipity - a demonstration of agent tooling and lightning integrations. Think it’s looking quite polished now, but very happy for feedback if anyone has any! Maybe especially around bitcoin integrations..
https://markdown2pdf.ai/
#grownostr #bitcoin #lightning #agents #mcp #asknostr

2025-06-12 11:54:00 GMT

Using @nprofile…fy4z to link my Claude to the lightning network was such an eye opener - bitcoin clearly the payment mode for agents. Now, with human-in-the-loop, but shortly not!
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2025-05-20 15:44:14 GMT

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Signed up - Good luck! 👏

2025-05-07 12:43:51 GMT

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Big vision, love it. Will follow you for updates. Best of luck!

2025-05-06 16:06:22 GMT

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Interesting! Are the apps (or app configs) hosted on nostr relays? Curious how this works, will follow closely! 👏

2025-05-06 08:44:44 GMT

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Really cool stuff - looks solid! On the nostr apps, I’m currently working on a web app that uses nostr for login and interactivity (essentially a listing of software agents where users can vote, submit, discuss clients and implementations etc) - is that something you would consider an “app” that could be found and loaded from within notedeck, or are all apps essentially built _for_ notedeck? Right now I depend on the user having a plugin like Alby or nos2x to log in, seems more easy to do if it’s found from within something like notedeck!

2025-05-06 07:21:44 GMT

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Think you can get them mined if you go directly to a miner and ask them to include it, if I understood it right? It’s just a lot more hassle than submitting it to any node and let the network bring the spam out for you.

2025-05-06 07:14:52 GMT

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Love it, really well done 👏

2025-05-05 08:33:12 GMT

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Nice! And yes my thoughts exactly - drove up from the south and you can see everything getting prettier, friendlier and nicer every hour

2025-05-03 13:32:59 GMT

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Capitalising on bitcoin core becoming ape jpeg friendly, smart move 😆

2025-05-01 06:06:47 GMT

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Oh, thanks a lot for sharing - that’s a great set of tools! I actually got something basic up and running using nostr extensions but really having a second thought now I saw that.

2025-04-25 07:09:37 GMT

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Works if I pasted the code only, not clicking the link. Thanks for hosting!

2025-04-25 07:04:58 GMT

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Not sure all the google meet links work? I tried connecting to the 8am one

2025-04-08 15:32:36 GMT

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Here’s another one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFFsX97HzEk