This is a good point. I’ll have to think about this.
You get one because your pubkey will be in a database of pubkeys whose trial period has expired.
The WesternBTC is now a trial relay (https://westernbtc.com).
How it works:
When a pubkey is first seen, it's given a trial whitelisting of n days (30 in my case). After the trial period has elapsed, any notes created by the pubkey are deleted. If the pubkey is officially whitelisted at any point before the expiration of the trial period, the pubkey is promoted to full whitelisting and removed from the trial whitelisting.
What this enables:
- sign ups without users having to pay first (terrible UX previously)
- gift wraps now work (NIP-17)
- clean up relay space automatically
PSA: the WesternBTC relay will be down for about an hour while I do some work on it
A positive side effect: now gift-wraps work (NIP-17)
No. I just thought of it. I'm going to start working on it now though.
Smoother on boarding experience for a new user. Pay to post seems to be the only reliable spam prevention, but asking a user to pay upfront doesn't work well.
Trial period relay: notes have a time-to-live unless the npub is whitelisted. If an npub gets whitelisted by the relay, we remove the ttl on any existing notes.
It's humbling to admit, but almost everything I used to code myself is done better and faster when I use AI. What used to take me around 4 hours of planning and coding I can do in less than 5 minutes with Opus 4.5 + Claude extension in VSC. Instead of being bitter, I'm grateful for the opportunity to get ahead of it.
Ironically, I have job security because existing processes aren't intuitive and there are too many exceptions.
To be clear, I mean to say:
*It could get* as high as: $700,000
AND
*It could get* as low as: $50,000
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I am NOT predicting that it will visit either of these levels... but that either/both are on the periphery of my probable price range for 2026.
nostr:nevent1qqsr5v9uf6q479c0d6vv7rtytflmedccz8wq3kcdhv5qjamgk33hvzsnvc734
Watch it stay at $89k all year 😭
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You might be racist for shedding light on this Marty.
As soon as I hard Luke Gromen capitulated, I flipped bullish.
What kind of animal gets this at 10am
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/29b942da6875759ca09c1822b400583950513b568e4952a665df31ec45acb303.webp
Anyone selling healthy candles?
My niche nostr project: an rv park management system
Why? Because I want buy and manage and RV park soon and will use this.
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/b96f1f6c6d9cce6c36d93961b623875f60caab31d84cbcfaa5677db890cd3d54.webp
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/61c6ff5988e0b3bd2a2270b0462d8da23ee3b22c5b745f7284a4a0b1467ea533.webp
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/9477a04a95f823878ea4e0d63b5aade7e9f69ba45343ca6d3dd6853f29da0616.webp
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/18a7004440f30eac576d7a71a3d2f789a26b2a604ae09c6af27cf20b2df625b7.webp
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/64e983847a2fad83e295ba0e719d289cb5327925447f925397807494195fefd1.webp
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/767dca964e4804e05e286a6a181e5e4aeea0955c9eada208ef15c99c3e41bbff.webp
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/b4fb3fc8034737e6676b1968a1bf5e81ea5c9ec60811476241a97409f02b7f68.webp
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/7b2ef03b1cc0f7365621448e6d0d8dbbde2ffe530846337ac1b3e082feadbaa2.webp
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/a8ad76de4ffd224448d87d863e9eafbc3ab7e7ba2805b6c540610b7a9ed22e90.webp
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/cb61d7111f070c9e9427ce358263f7209e50f701dad6dd72e9855bd4e62835a0.webp
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/6e429133128c49e68819a8e1629908db87d327b597eaf3ab3c3127fa1f935639.webp
https://blossom.westernbtc.com/93395ec936a3e6fefcd92eee23e770bc640fb147f7aa2e1dfaa49155d3e3cb1f.webp
.jpgnostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqjay3h5 is the is real? 😂 Sorry to make you relieve if real.
Everyone should own an RV. There’s something powerful about being able to pack up a home and leave in a night if you needed to.
Also couldn’t zap you “User not found on destination server”
Sorry m8 that sucks.
I want to transition away. It feels daunting. The walled garden has high walls 😅.
“primal will add video streaming” — what’s the real everything app?
Depends where. It’s absolutely as bad, cars broken into guaranteed in some places. I’m sure you’ll be fine wherever you’re staying. Especially if it’s further away from the bigger cities like Portland, Salem, and Eugene.
Not by design. Ecash in general can represent many different underlying assets. Stablecoins for example. On-chain payments are on the roadmap. Managing the UTXO’s sounds like the difficult part.
"Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time" - Stewart Brand
Well I guess this is happening soon. Whether induced or otherwise.
It's impressive the deep liquidity in this market. 80k bitcoin being sold, and we haven't even seen a 10% draw down from the ATH.