The #nostriga FOMO is killing me!
Is there a livestream? nostr:note1j06jr5mf4lje98zt2r4fxp5l88ch76qqafjcemyj4wk740lmh52sv5jlxr
Doing great work in Madeira. nostr:note1dhr9m3x9hfk0xkhj78wnl75c2d056y26dflmhdyhspqr3dv2y4qstc7en6
I am being a bit facetious (not really). Think about it. If the owner of the platform is also the proprietor of your tools, it’s going to influence you how you talk about them.
I know it sounds silly, but if someone owns the platform you are on, you are going to think twice about what you say.
Today I learned that ‘person’ comes from the Greek word ‘persona’ which means ‘mask’. Masks had a very different function in ancient times than they do now. A mask enabled you to become a different person, whether in real life ceremonies or in theatre.
A mask is the person.
We wear many masks as a parents, workers, friends and rebels in our everyday lives.
Our masks should never be taken away because that’s who we are as persons.
All this recent stuff about ‘proving personhood’ is horribly wrong. It’s about stripping away your person(s) to your naked biological instance, in the aim to fight ‘deep fakes’, ‘inauthentic transactions’, etc. All it does is remove your personhood for the sake of someone else’s utilitarian definition of ‘personhood’
Don’t let this happen.
What I have learned is that it’s all about proof of work. If you put work into your efforts and relationships that is what authentic. And it need not exclude silicon-based entities because over time (not soon) I might trust as authentic an entity that exists exclusively as silicon. The key requirement is not to have these proofs debased or counterfeited. Cryptography protects that.
In the end, don’t ever give up your rights or seek permission to ameliorate a ‘problem’ that was never yours to begin with, or accommodate a ‘solution’ that was never in your interest.
Be free. Be #nost
Uh, oh!
Users are starting to openly rebel against the MS Word format on LinkedIn. I wonder how long they will last before their accounts get shut down?
#centralizedplatforms
Thanks. Part of my motivation is me being uncomfortable for hosting custodial wallets. I think this is a good compromise as I would be only holding the nsec of an ‘independent’ component. If the user has access to this nsec (which I will give them), they can directly access the information or pull the funds at anytime without my permission or using my custodial service.
💯 far too few people get this.
There is no such thing as capitalist system with a central bank.
If you have a central bank, your political structure is at least 50% communist, as half of every transaction is settled in a government-controlled fiat currency. nostr:nprofile1qqsg2zqd8wkhpnxu6lm5c2dyfa2mhpwte57apjae2ldp6g2mmwf3ypqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7v5unzt
Capitalist larping be the thing. 
The code might be shit, but ask me anything about Chaumian blind signatures and comprehension of said blind signatures in complex Python data structures.
Some handy shilling points for upcoming #nostriga
nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 nostr:note10cp79wmxqhv9grhg5r0qkvnlaakt6pnky69mlgh2s5tt42q2pq8ss9y2qe
Not yet. I am more of a happy user than a developer for this. This is my primary way of sharing my posts to the normie world. Thanks! Keep it up!
Nostr Safebox Update
Not yet ready for prime time, but I am a making super progress.
Nostr safebox is a proof of concept to test whether a ‘wallet’ can exist ‘out there’ in the nostr network (encrypted data on redundant relays). So far it is progressing better than expected, I can:
1. Receive a lightning invoice and ‘deposit’ funds as Cashu tokens.
2. Make a payment to a lightning address using those tokens.
3. Receive a Cashu token from another mint, swap funds to home mint.
4. Store and retrieve private encrypted information.
A few next steps,
1. Support holding tokens from multiple mints (right now swapping to a single home mint).
2. Accepting tokens with nostr DMs
3. Continued testing across relays (a relay out of China is my fave to test so far.
4. Continued development, with the goal of replacing the backend component of my Lightning address payment system to remove dependency on a custodial wallet database.
5. Documentation of the functionality so it can be implemented in other languages (currently Python)
Of course, all open source. Repo with the latest below.
Super Blue Moon tonight.
My brain is a relay… nostr:note194eq4vng2u26cc6aw7cc9nlz5sldjgc3ds68xpcmatdu0gf6yzhsmswylg
Me setting up relays in a #nostr client.
npub/event/relay > user/api/db
#nostr
After dinner npug 
Success!!!
#ProofofBrisket 
Cool. That’s where my family origins are.