⚡️💻 NEW - You can now design directly in your codebase.
Select elements, modify them visually, and Cursor writes the code.
https://blossom.primal.net/2bc3c74db9e01291d5f812ef3657ab9d82fd701344128f526e13324e3216855d.mp4
⚡️📉 NEW - Oracle stock drops amid AI bubble fears
Oracle’s stock fell 11% as data center spending surged and sales missed expectations, signaling growing concerns over AI investments.
I'm playing it right now. I wanted to see if my PC could run it before buying it or not.
⚡️🎮 GAMING - Path of Exile 2 is free to play this weekend with The Last of the Druids update!
The free weekend will be available on all platforms, including PC, Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X.
⚡️🗣️ NEW - 0.1 BTC is NOT "enough."
Anybody saying this is either coping or lying for clicks.
Bitcoin could capture half of all the value in the world and 0.1 BTC would still not be "generational wealth."
Work hard.
Aim high.
Stack relentlessly.
https://blossom.primal.net/34080a30fbe6f2489bc811c592a11d95f0542e5e1f2680ef6f0bed8bb000efbe.mp4
Mitchell Askew
⚡️🗣️ NEW - 0.1 BTC is NOT "enough."
Anybody saying this is either coping or lying for clicks.
Bitcoin could capture half of all the value in the world and 0.1 BTC would still not be "generational wealth."
Work hard.
Aim high.
Stack relentlessly.
https://blossom.primal.net/34080a30fbe6f2489bc811c592a11d95f0542e5e1f2680ef6f0bed8bb000efbe.mp4
⚡️🇺🇸 ICYMI - Trump admin's new de-banking report, designed to "Guarantee Fair Banking For All Americans," indicates porn companies were inappropriately discriminated against.
⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signs "Medical Aid in Dying" bill into law, legalizing assisted suicide — CBS
⚡️🚨 NEW - Europol releases 48-page report detailing how AI and robots may brainwash humans, trigger a Human-Machine war around 2035, and lead to a human uprising with "populist calls to 'put people first.'"
⚡️🚨 NEW - Newly released photos of Jeffrey Epstein show him meeting with Steve Bannon, with what appears to be a trafficking victim’s photo sitting on Epstein’s desk.
Jeffrey Epstein did take photographs of victims, and these were viewed by many as “trophies” or a form of leverage.
Bannon had been advising Epstein on how to rehabilitate his public image.
⚡️🎮 GAMING - First trailer for the 'Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis' remake
Coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S in 2026
https://blossom.primal.net/83ef389d398d2cac88ed5b037206f3c7aa7abf16419d3533a374be7f9b217b35.mp4
⚡️🇩🇪🇮🇱 NEW - Today in Stuttgart, Germany, Maccabi Tel Aviv fans light up smoke bombs while singing their infamous song titled "THE RAPE SONG"
https://blossom.primal.net/6b07bca501345b3d8f6389beced2f05fc560c6f002470249b6ebfe85547cc602.mp4
⚡️👀 NEW - Phantom partners with Kalshi to directly integrate prediction markets into the crypto wallet.
Users can discover trending events, track odds in real time, and participate in live community discussions without leaving the wallet.
The integration offers tokenized positions referencing Kalshi's CFTC-regulated prediction markets covering politics, crypto, sports, and culture.
https://blossom.primal.net/5939a710c934610629a5372289e9c3bea9c4f30e3c269ac75a306ebe4a708775.mp4
⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Multiple giant Bitcoin advertisements spotted in Times Square, New York
"It might make sense to get some in case it catches on."
https://blossom.primal.net/da053d4d1c199b29b12225c9aeff2d8e24b26b60e82bd33e082d9a6d62d3cd6d.mp4
⚡️📢 STATEMENT - I would like to share with you my new challenge for the year 2026.
The year 2025 was a milestone for me: becoming one of Nostr's major information relays was an ambitious goal, and today I consider this challenge accomplished. But I don't want to stop there. I would like to go further, much further.
2026 will be a special year. Some of you already know that I will no longer be working. This means I will have the time, energy, and a unique opportunity to launch a major project.
Like my first challenge, this one will be designed to serve the community. With one difference: I want to go beyond the boundaries of Nostr.
After a year of daily work, one thing is clear: Nostr is still too closed off. Even crappy platforms like Bluesky and Farcaster attract more people. What we lack is not quality, but visibility. We need to open our doors, break out of the small circle of passionate developers in their forties (with all due respect to them, because without them we would still be on Facebook…) and reach an audience that we are not reaching today.
I waited a long time for someone else to do it for me, then I spent a long time thinking about how I could do it myself, until I came up with a clear plan.
Today, I am revealing my plan to you.
In 2026, I will become, if you agree, Nostr's PROPAGANDA agent. My target audience: young people (aged 18-21).
They are the ones who pick up on trends, create codes, and decide what goes viral. They are the ones we need to reach. The rest will follow naturally.
In practical terms, I've picked up an effective username on Twitch and Kick. At first, I thought about creating a “Flash+,” but then I realized I needed to choose something that would immediately catch people's attention and encourage them to discover Nostr. I'll send you the links in due course.
The goal is simple: stream popular games like Fortnite, League of Legends, or WoW, and establish an identifiable, attractive, regular presence. I've also created TikTok and YouTube accounts to post short, dynamic clips and launch a series called “Nostrclass,” which will feature my best weekly plays. Of course, I'll also be able to highlight clips from other Nostr members.
The concept must be subtle. Intriguing. It must encourage young people to ask questions.
What is an npub?
What is Nostr?
Why does he say Nostrclass and not Masterclass?
The goal is to create an expression that becomes commonplace and goes viral.
➥ Masterclass = impressive moment, remarkable performance.
➥ Nostrclass = total mastery. Excellence.
Another strategy is to appeal to young people's egos. For example, someone asks me what my username means. I tell them it's related to Nostr, and that if they don't know what that is, they're a clown. Their curiosity will inevitably be piqued, so they'll look it up and open Pandora's box. And after taking this little humiliation as a jab, they'll do exactly the same thing to those around them: “You don't know Nostr? You're a clown.” The snowball effect. The trickle-down effect. All I did was light the spark.
To succeed, I will have to transform myself. Learn video editing seriously. Master Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Produce short content that surpasses what is being done today. I want people to be impressed by the editing first, then discover where it all comes from: Nostr.
Once again, if you'll allow me, I commit to posting regularly, with a stable, almost institutional presence. But for this project to really take shape, I'll need your support. This mission represents a real investment, and without your help, it simply won't happen.
For now, this project is still in its embryonic stage. Usually, when I have an idea, I keep it secret, work behind the scenes, and then launch it once I'm ready, as I did with Flash. But this time it's different: without sufficient and solid support, I can't even get started. That's why I'm telling you about it today, a little ahead of schedule. There's one month left before the project is launched or abandoned. The idea is to start on January 1, 2026 (my first day of unemployment). I'm also open to sponsorship and partnerships, with, for example, advertising space available on my stream. (ideally related to nostr)
Why streaming video games and not something else? Because gaming brings people together. It unites virtually all young people, regardless of background: men, women, rich, poor, black, white, religious or atheist. And also because, to be resilient, I have to love what I do. Otherwise, I won't last long.
Please understand that all of this represents a real risk for me. I could have been content to do my usual job, stay comfortably seated at Nostr, and simply grow, grow, grow like a good old-fashioned family capitalist. I could have been satisfied with what I have already built.
But that's not what I want.
I need to set myself new challenges, to push my own limits, even if it means putting what I've built so far at risk. Because if I don't take risks anymore, if I don't step outside my comfort zone, then I stagnate. And stagnating, for me, is already losing. And I'm tired of Nostr stagnating too.
I hope that over the past few months, I have shown you that I work hard, that I am truly committed, and that I am in it for the long haul. I am not asking for your support without having proven my worth. I am proposing a project that could profoundly transform Nostr, and I would like you to be a part of it.
I can't guarantee the success of this operation. Failure is possible. But so is success. And we won't have either if we don't try.
I'm ready. Are you?
I'm excited to introduce Nostr Social Duck, or just NSD, a library I've been crafting over the last two weekends that brings sophisticated social graph analysis, even to hardware that doesn't have the luxury of abundant memory. This library leverages DuckDB to perform graph operations over Nostr social graphs built from Contact List events (kind 3), and it's designed to run on all sorts of hardware, from low-end devices to powerful servers.
The inspiration came from limitations I encountered with nostr:npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk excellent nostr-social-graph library. While powerful, loading entire social graphs into memory becomes challenging, specially on resource constrained devices like older computers, mobile devices, Raspberry Pis, and similar environments. Once the graph grows, memory constraints can cause performance issues or outright failures.
The recent launch of Relatr and its inclusion in the Umbrel community store (thanks to nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr ) got us thinking: how could we enable anyone to run this without being constrained by their hardware? Since disk storage is cheaper than memory, how we can balance the tradeoffs 🤔... That's when DuckDB emerged as the perfect solution
DuckDB is quite a cool piece of software that's been around for some time with an amazing team committed to open source. It's an embedded, in-process database designed to run on all sorts of hardware. What makes DuckDB particularly compelling for our use case are its advanced memory management capabilities. When complex queries require more memory than available, DuckDB automatically spills to disk, ensuring queries complete even if there is not enough memory, rather than crash. No memory, no problem.
This feature alone makes DuckDB a strong choice, but there's more. Its advanced analytic SQL capabilities make graph analysis operations possible and performant. NSD already provides methods to get the shortest distance between pubkeys, along with a complementary method to find the shortest path that returns both the path and distance. You can define a root pubkey which creates a temporary table with all distances precomputed, making subsequent queries much faster.
The library also includes methods for social graph analysis, like, get the degree of a pubkey, how many inbound and outbound connections it has, which helps determine the weight of a pubkey in the graph. There are convenient methods to check if one pubkey follows another or if two pubkeys are mutual follows. As well thanks to DuckDB in the future we could use parquet files to distribute social graph data. You can find all the details in the repo.
We're currently refactoring Relatr to use NSD, and the results are impressive. By replacing the previous combination of nostr-social-graph library and SQLite database with DuckDB and NSD, we've eliminated the inefficiencies of having separate data sources. Complex queries like profile search now benefit from analytical SQL directly in the search algorithm, reducing data transfer between the program and database and returning more relevant results efficiently.
I did some naive benchmarking to understand how it performs compared to the nostr-social-graph library, and it behaves pretty well. Both libraries are pretty close in performance when there's a root pubkey set in NSD.
This effort aligns with the ongoing #WoTathon organized by nostr:npub1healthsx3swcgtknff7zwpg8aj2q7h49zecul5rz490f6z2zp59qnfvp8p , as we believe NSD provides fundamental primitives for performing graph operations on everyone's hardware without sacrificing simplicity of use and deployment.
The library is available now and can be integrated into any js project:
```bash
bun add nostr-social-duck
# or
npm install nostr-social-duck
```
As we finalize the Relatr refactor, we'll share detailed insights about the improvements and performance gains. The combination of Nostr's decentralized social protocol with DuckDB's efficient analytics creates a powerful foundation for the next generation of social applications.
The library's repository: https://github.com/gzuuus/nostr-social-duck
Related DuckDD's blog posts:
- https://duckdb.org/2025/01/17/raspberryi-pi-tpch
- https://duckdb.org/2024/03/29/external-aggregation
- https://duckdb.org/2024/12/06/duckdb-tpch-sf100-on-mobile
If you like the project please consider supporting our work by zapping, or contribute to it's development
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⚡️👀 NEW - Bloomberg Intelligence: "I think Bitcoin can go back to $10k."
https://blossom.primal.net/c701bf700ac68412e7809972fbbaf7dbf3f3341c5949f63e533a9bfa798e7cd8.mov
⚡️🎮 GAMING - Totally Legit Wheeler Seller is a new game where you run your own shady car lot
You can buy cheap cars, fix them up and flip for profit
https://blossom.primal.net/0493d2a3aa146c8b93f2e45db2c2a7b0d93ca846e82f9f6a8dabbc649fef079f.mp4
⚡️🔎 NEW - On-chain data shows that whales continue to accumulate while small holders panic and sell.
Wallets with more than 1,000 BTC are on the rise. Small holders, meanwhile, are offloading amid volatility.
Fear for some, opportunity for others...
⚡️🗣️ NEW - “World's highest IQ holder“ says Bitcoin will reach $220,000 "in the next 45 days."
https://blossom.primal.net/5d13ba143189ab4ee2c48c14162f242a02881420d18d387e897b7abd08dbf885.mp4
If you are not Trader then… it does not matter at all. Does it?
Are you Trader nostr:npub1f4uyypghstsd8l4sxng4ptwzk6awfm3mf9ux0yallfrgkm6mj6es50r407
No I’m holder 🫡
⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 NEW - The President of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, is calling for new censorship laws in schools across the United States to combat antisemitism.
He says antisemitism often stems from the false idea spread by big names claiming “lies” that “Jews control the government, the media, our nation’s foreign policy.”
“We must retake our schools.”
https://video.nostr.build/82cbfa211a807591aac0fcc988052249e7e9f0b074facad3ac1395d6cb4e2453.mp4
⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Tim Tebow shows horrific map of New York showing every location a person has downloaded CP over the past month, calls for more funding for law enforcement.
"This year, somewhere between 300k to a million people will be trafficked in the US."
"When you defund [the police], you're not actually caring for these boys and girls."
"We are the number one buyer of [CP] for boys and girls around the world. America is."
"In peer-to-peer sharing of this information, we're third worst in the world."
"On our hearts is to get this message out to be able to make a change and support our law enforcement and task forces that are working on this."
"There are some freaking heroes that are fighting us every single day."
https://blossom.primal.net/301a583fa2b690e0f8e182cabfd85096df6f97108ef0e750da82219c080d6ec2.mp4
⚡️🇺🇸🎶🤠 NEW - In the United States, an AI-generated country singer has risen to the top of the charts. Walk My Walk, by the group Breaking Rust, has generated millions of plays. According to Spotify, the song has been one of the most "viral" tracks worldwide since November 2.
⚡️🪞 NEW - A museum volunteer accidentally destroyed an art piece after mistaking it for a dirty mirror and cleaning it
The work, by Chen Sung-chi, is said to symbolize the "distorted self-awareness of the middle class"
⚡️📉 NEW - Roomba robot vacuums could lose (almost) all features as iRobot faces imminent bankruptcy
The company now has only $24.8 million in financial reserves
I validate
⚡️🗣️ DEBATE - Which AI do you use most on a daily basis?
⚡️💰 ICYMI - Warren Buffett has just sold another $6.1 billion worth of shares...
We're talking about $184 billion liquidated over three years.
He now has record cash reserves: $382 billion, or 57% of his total portfolio!
He hasn't bought back any shares for five consecutive quarters...
If Berkshire's stock is down 12% since the announcement of his retirement, while the S&P 500 is up 20%, it is also and above all because he has all this uninvested cash.
⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - While digging in his garden, he DISCOVERS GOLD BARS!
A resident of Neuville-sur-Saône, near Lyon, made an incredible discovery: while digging his swimming pool, he stumbled upon gold bars and coins worth an estimated €700,000!
After notifying the town hall and the DRAC (Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs), the courts confirmed that he could keep everything.
What about you? Would you have declared everything... or kept it a secret?
⚡️🎙️ NEW - Candace Owens says a whistleblower has revealed that just days before Charlie Kirk’s assassination, an Egyptian military plane landed in Provo, Utah, dropped off military subcontractors, and departed the same day Kirk was taken out.
The whistleblower, who fears for their life, claims the aircraft was there for a “top secret mission” rather than “routine servicing.”
Owens is now daring Kash Patel to dispute the claim.
https://blossom.primal.net/d7a31dcc5ee3252cd8981faa9797a722d0fab5e46196855bd5aa94f12b692176.mp4