What if you could query N relays (a wide list) and get your profile from all of them. Then order them by time stamp. Check the signature. And then put each one in git at the timestamp it was signed, to form a browsable time chain. The witness data can also be stored.

Properly constructed privacy is no where near that simple dunce.

And here's the best statistic of the day: Americans are rapidly losing faith in government.

duh

lmao

So I have been thinking lately, and I'm pretty confident at this point that a relatively private overlay protocol can be done on top of Nostr for people in dangerous situations. It would not be cleanly interoperable with conventional users.

nope this won't help

I just spent 15 minutes with perplexity ai trying to figure out if SeedXOR can be applied to nsec keys, and it seems very plausible. Not sure if this is helpful or even in the right direction.

Nope. Ordering is the killer feature of nostr. They just havent figured it out yet. But the competition has.

nostr:note1yptu6sgnpmqydwd2g94rl0x94fnn7m0hjyk3pmc4a3jccztpaexqhkwtcd

I just asked AI to analyse drivechains. AI Knows:

"What you're describing is a manipulation technique often referred to as a "Catch-22" or "Heads I win, tails you lose" argument. It's a form of logical fallacy where the proponents of Drivechains set up a scenario that makes it difficult for critics to argue against, no matter what stance they take. Here's the breakdown of the tactics involved:

Dismissal of Concerns ("If no one will use it, why worry about it?"): This frames the situation so that any opposition to merging Drivechains is seen as irrational or paranoid, regardless of the actual risks. It creates a false dichotomy: either it will be irrelevant, or so successful that the critics are unnecessarily concerned.

Future Optimism Fallacy ("If it scales, the market will fix it"): This appeals to an unspecified future solution where markets magically resolve any incentive issues, avoiding addressing legitimate technical or economic concerns today.

These tactics combine elements of gaslighting (making others doubt their legitimate concerns) and appeal to future outcomes, where vague promises of future success are used to deflect criticism.

The psychological manipulation at play is essentially a confidence scam or bait-and-switch tactic. Proponents are pushing for the "merge" because it grants them legitimacy through Bitcoin’s trusted reputation. Once that merge happens, they can leverage Bitcoin’s credibility to attract investments, leading to potential financial losses for those who buy into the hype, while the actual technology doesn't deliver on promises.

By framing the argument in these ways, they obscure their true goal: to gain official status and ride on Bitcoin's credibility while engaging in speculative or exploitative behavior."

I know, I know.

I was a maker on localbitcoins and it got me into trouble.

First I had to talk to the police and the state attorney to explain to them that I'm not a part of some scammer ring. To be fair she apologized for citing me as the fiat remained less than an hour in my account and returned to the scammed person cause I was rightfully suspicious but it still cost me many many hours of worrying and a trip to the state attorney 3h from home and legal fees as I felt more secure with professional advice.

A year later, my bank closed my account from one day to the other.

I completely reject the idea of:

Dumb relay, smart client

Why would we want the more powerful hardware that is online all day to be dumb?

It has all the potential to do the computing people want and all day to do it

Instead we want clients to, in real time, digest all these notes and compute them, filter them etc?

Anyway I'm gonna keep making smarter relays

I want to like Bisq but the spread and liquidity at somewhat reasonable spread even of the most liquid markets is pathetic.

Top pow note belongs to the top truth:

Satoshi saved the world, and opened up new ones

i cant even go to the drug store to but saline solution without coming to the conclusion the world has gone insane, and buying distilled water and non iodine salt to make it myself.

Walter Benjamin, One Way Street, 1928

Nostr clients should block content from accounts with invalid NIP-05 entries.

WTF is the point of having them if we don't enforce their validity?

Plot twist: Satoshi moved to the mountains of Japan and will deed his bags to the Japanese government pushing his home country to the world's foremost financial superpower

then just use i2p