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Basanta Goswami
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bitcoin maximalist • অসমীয়া ○ working on bitcoin stuff @ bullbitcoin.com ○ building other freedom tech stuff @ unsigned.in ○ teaching bitcoin @ xonghoti.com ○ helping with the tech side @ mim.inc कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन | मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ||

We are going to be hosting Unfuck the Internet as a monthly event in Bengaluru. Not strictly a nostr event but it'll be mostly nostr and other similar stuff

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My phone's default file manager has ads BTW

"Nobody uses iPhones to be flashy and proud of them… only an android user would say this 🤣"

Everyone buys iPhones just to show off in most other countries other than the US. I have a friend, who was begging everywhere for 30k INR to settle some loan, makes 50k INR a month, but bought an iPhone for 85k just to show off.

Apple products are luxury items in most parts of the world

2024 was horrible. 2025 is going great so far. Never felt more alive.

Other than ZBD Social (which shut down already?), anyone else making a custodial social network using nostr?

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https://ppq.ai/ is awesome! If you use Bitcoin and want to use any of the many LLM tools, don't pay a monthly subscription. Just use ppq.ai and pay as little as $0.1 to get started. And you have all the tools at your finger tips for actually less than any one of them!

How much do you end up paying after a month? You are probably using it to generate code right?

anyone working on any social nsec recovery mechanism?

I need to figure out how many hours of effort went into developing Zen, Arc and Brave's initial releases. Also I am just a web developer, don't have much experience messing with CPP code, but I think I have to do it. Don't see anyone else doing it because it's too hard

My thought is that because there's already a group of people willing to manage keys to access things - a group that's growing due to Bitcoin adoption - we might as well give them a single app that incrementally provides more and more features

While normies will primarily interact with these technologies through existing websites and apps (that adopt them), this key-managing group can start using a single app that makes all the needed technology available to them, whether for generating public social data or private data for work and communication

The app (browser) would decide whether to use Nostr, PubKey, Web5, or whatever protocol underneath. While power users will make these decisions explicitly - choosing to use Nostr or changing their DNS server to something that uses PKDNS - there seems to be a middle group that wants to use self-sovereign tech but doesn't want to invest time in learning about the underlying technologies

we have a bunch of new browsers that niche groups use anyway. brave, librefox, zen, arc, etc

also developing on top of the chromium embedded framework, or tauri which provides an interface over the system's webview, shouldn't be too hard... right? 🧐