Thank you Nostrians for your support! I really enjoyed talking to #[6] , especially when we stopped the dry talk and started being ourselves 😉

Truly amazing. Do you know what relay code out there has NIP-23 integration out of the box (for people like me interested in learning by creating a relay)?

Hey. You have? Any branches? I'm definitely gonna get stuck if I venture that way. Can I bug you then to grab what you know once there

Every time I don’t trust my gut shit goes terribly wrong.

Always trust your gut.

Kevin Mitnick attacked Tsutomu Shimomura's lab in San Diego with blind TCP connections with spoofed source addresses. Linux was just coming on the scene, written for the 386, distributed on CD-ROM as slackware, as an alternative to many Unix-like clones such as Acorn, DEC, SGI, and Sun. NFS v3 was in it's hay day inside corporations and educational facilities. Commercial activity was forbidden on the Internet, .COM was not yet in use. People were still using UUCP, NNTP, finger, FTP and gopher. HTTP was starting to become a big thing. /usr/bin/sendmail by Eric Allman was how everybody received email on their own computer.

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

Eric Hughes

March 9, 1993

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Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.

The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

Onward.

Great podcast to listen to. I've added this to my weekly listen playlist.. thanks for doing this...!

Thanks for the shoutout #[0] ! Hopefully I did #[1] #[2] & #[3] right with the transcription.

I’ll have the #[4] episode transcribed and up to the GitHub by Friday.

does this mean i should switch to WoS instead of finishing integration in LNBits? 😂

yes, trying to zap you 18 failed in Amethyst, returned an error string of "failed in fetching invoice from ..."

support! Unfortunately, I am not able to zap your post, failed in getting an invoice. Maybe you have set a threshold?

everything about the last "pandemic" was fiat.

Nice psyop. Even I got fooled at the beginning. Problem was I had way too much free time at the start thanks to the "pandemic".

I did. It's LISP in the Scheme dialect. I just started reading it, but it's not like any other programing books I've read.

They quote John Locke and sprinkle in similes about violin's and scorcerers conjuring spirits. I feel like I'm reading Hemmingway. 😂

#[0] has by far been the easiest and fastest way to get people feeling nostr and bitcoin.

it goes from install to receive fastest I’ve seen, especially for outside the US friends

Ironically, NOSTR is shaping up to be a centralizing force for lightning.

I hope that I can be proved wrong on this.

Why would an individual set up a node to serve NOSTR use cases?

Graham Krizek from Voltage hinted that he might be able to help with this. Looking forward to seeing what he comes out with!

Almost exclusively custodial lightning wallets being used. I don't think Plebnet will be routing these zaps.

What did he do to piss of the leftist virtue-signalling cancel culture this time? Did he say all people should have the right to think what they want or something terrible like that!?🤣 Thank F for nostr.

Goodnight, Nostr.

The NIP-57 races are upon us. Which wallet will add support next? Wallet of Satoshi? Alby? BTCPay server? ZBD? CoinCorner? LNTXBot? Hopefully they all do. Contact the developers of your favorite LN Address provider and ask them to add support. 🤙

PV!

What does deleting a note do on nostr?

Get your profile populated with LN Address, NIP57 compatible, use page.vida to get yours and paste in both fields. Look at my profile how there are Zap stats.

I couldn't Zap your post 😔