wss://wot.utxo.one

wss://nostrelites.org

wss://relay.lexingtonbitcoin.org

wss://zap.watch

wss://wot.swarmstr.com

Probably a bit of both. I know people in politics so I wouldn’t be surprised if my number was acquired that way too. Interestingly the one campaign that got my number this year has never messaged me.

I say I’m averaging about 7 a day right now. I keep reporting them as junk.

You lucky SOB. Can we trade numbers?

It’s almost over 🥲

Which pixel?

Comment below if you want me to review your relay lists. I have a couple hours to spare.

I have one complete DIY Rev. B kit available, are you interested in a complete kit or just the Main PCB? (and how many?)

Standing near the entrance of Plan B forum in case you’re interested in the #BTClock nostr:note17xe7gu5vppw7w4w8hdlhtpfxcmuek0tfup70ffqpf0khpgk5jffs934uuj

I can barely keep Android up to speed. But If somebody wants to lead the desktop version, we can work in the same codebase.

Would users be too annoyed if Amethyst removed the "Create Account"/"Log in with nsec" and added a button to download Amber instead?

Do it, you need to bid 50k sats/hour tho

Interesting. nostr:note1nlh0l5c6hw0gmnrmjsvmawqhmk06qg6cz36zjtda983r0dsrwa4sku8a0v

in the end this boils down to the issue of naming and trust, isn’t it?

who says plugin xyz is the one I want and is not confused with another one that is called xyz?

we still did not solve this in a usable and scalable way, did we?

I had ChatGPT read the transcript from my last episode of Bitcoin And. I asked it to write a news letter of no more that 250 words that summarizes that content.

I'm not at all convinced that this is something people should release but it's coming. What say you? Does this have any amount of utility?

Start "Newsletter" 👇 👇

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Which should we develop next on Amethyst?

- a Jobs board where you can offer your services and find people to hire, fiverr style.

- local feeds, where the app will present a feed based on locations and allow you to post only to people in your location.

- integration with nostrnests, with voice participation, like on Nostur/Twitter spaces.

- realtime voice and video calls that integrate with 0xchat.

I'm half convinced that the actions that WordPress have taken are in violation of the GPLv2 which the WordPress source is licensed under.

I’m not sure if Nostr is aware of what’s going on in the #WordPress community right now, but it’s headed toward a civil war and has effects that are rippling through the entire open source internet.

If someone is capable of developing a decentralized plugin repository built on Nostr, you’d have a million developers turning their heads to look this way. This is a much larger opportunity for nostr to attract talent than any possible exodus from Twitter.

0xChat uses WebRTC for audio/video calls. One difference from Signal/Telegram solution is that we use NIP-100 for signaling and also support custom ICE servers.