I’ll give you to noon EST.

The reason I’ve become super hot on zaps is because it’s a great abstraction for generalize payment.

I’m currently implementing an improvement to #nostr #safebox where the zap command detects whether the destination is a note or a npub and handles the transaction accordingly. The user need only know the destination and everything happens magically under the hood. I see zaps being the base payment abstraction for everything.

I have also implemented a ‘safebox send’ which is similar- this sends ecash directly to another npub holder. This is not really a transaction, but more like a ‘giving’ event so it needs to be totally private. Similar to a zap, but not quite the same.

For example, I might want to zap an event, remain anonymous, but retain proof that I actually paid. For a send/give, I want it to be completely private.

All of these insights are coming from my implementation of #safebox. Not quite ready for broader testing, but soon!

https://github.com/trbouma/safebox

Posting on #nostr sometimes feels like yelling outside because that is exactly the case. You’re not in anyone’s house following someone else’s rules.

No need to use your ‘inside voice’. Use your ‘outside voice’.

Saying that your solution is the root of the problem without saying your solution is the root of the problem. nostr:note1uj5v0p9jm3rzrpusscx4y0a5gpat8d62mgklr4gptu6wxj7tmj7shmj3gp

I’m all in on the mutant ninja turtle on the left and hoping all the successes for the other turtles, too! nostr:note1d0r96a7grlpu7dxwwvkawsvsnshpwv8uxxsfla576jcvja8qudkqj973u7

The internet extends your speech to the world.

Nostr extends your self to the world.

Find your DID on BlueSky

https://rmdes.github.io/

Attention requires time + energy.

Using #nostr feels like being outdoors on the internet. The other social media platforms, indoors, following someone else’s house rules.

For me, it was the Commodore Pet. My fondness for the green screen has never diminished.

Glad to hear that style of parenting is coming back int vogue.

There’s a great book about octopus intelligence called “Other Minds”. Totally worth the read.

Ottawa is a real paradise for cycling. It’s the main reason I moved here and likely will never move away. Here’s a covered bridge on one of my routes.

BASIC just died.

https://hackaday.com/2024/11/15/basic-co-inventor-thomas-kurtz-has-passed-away/

If you see pugs and bikes, that’s me. I might have created another one a few years back that I totally forgot about. This is mine below.

https://bsky.app/profile/trbouma.bsky.social

The guy with the bike. trbouma

Likely wouldn’t get past his spam filter.

Yeah, that’s my sense too. I figure we just keep doing what we’re doing and things will become obvious.

Someone needs to talk to Cory Doctorow…

“Bluesky lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to talk to the people I've entered into community with there. While there are many independently maintained servers that provide services to Bluesky and its users, there is only one Bluesky server. A federation of multiple servers, each a peer to the other, has been on Bluesky's roadmap for as long as I've been following it, but they haven't (yet) delivered it.” nostr:note1lzt23788zwr5hy82j8yxp43dcz8859gym6mfrrwt3w3xgvpcwzuqydh8zy

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast