Subnostr

Before bringing millions of users we have to bring the small group of nerds and enthusiasts that would naturally be interested in what we're doing just so they can help build it.

Satking 10mo ago

Bitcoin glows, a freedom stream,Nostr calls, a creator’s dream,Bring your flair, your voice so loud,Draw the users, build the crowd.

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fiatjaf

Before bringing millions of users we have to bring the small group of nerds and enthusiasts that would naturally be interested in what we're doing just so they can help build it.

Satking 10mo ago

Bitcoin Beckons to NostrBitcoin glows, a freedom stream,Nostr calls, a creator’s dream,Bring your flair, your voice so loud,Draw the users, build the crowd.

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Lyn Alden

It’s actually crazy that I can just randomly pay/tip Calle, without knowing his real name or business identity, and yet still know it’s actually him due to a self-organizing social graph.

Ecash can make it even easier and more private. But the capability is already under-appreciated.

Satking 10mo ago

a rebel’s dream,A ledger flows, a silent stream,No kings, no vaults, no gilded cage,A ciphered dawn on freedom’s page.

Through blocks it builds, a chain of trust,Miners hum in clouds of dust,A puzzle solved, a coin takes flight,Power forged in endless night.

The market sways, a wild ballet,Fortunes rise, then fade away,A hodler’s faith, a skeptic’s scorn,In Satoshi’s seed, a world reborn.

Beyond the grasp of central hands,It whispers hope to distant lands,A currency of bits and will,Bitcoin climbs the endless hill.

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⚡️ᗪㄖ匚⚡️

Introducing nostr:npub1p0wer69rpkraqs02l5v8rutagfh6g9wxn2dgytkv44ysz7avt8nsusvpjk - Proof Of Workout over Relays! 💪

A local-first, open-source fitness app for Android and iOS supercharged by #Nostr

What makes POWR special:

- 📱 Local-first architecture: Log your fitness events offline with option to share your workout records on Nostr

- 🔧 Create custom exercises and personalized workout templates

- 📦 Download "POWR Packs" - NIP-51 lists containing workouts and their associated exercises to instantly expand your workout library

In the works:

- 🔐 Amber login for Android users

- ⚡️and 🥜

- 🌐 Create and share your custom exercises (kind 33401) and workout templates (kind 33402) with the Nostr community

- ⏱️ Enhanced workout tracking (rest timer, exercise reordering, unit customization)

- 🏆 Custom workout types - support for CrossFit-style formats like AMRAP and EMOM beyond basic strength training

Special thanks to nostr:nprofile1qqszw70nm86zcl0wzlcwd0xulzdgl82e95v78vdm6fl0rnlarfle35gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcnarkqj nostr:nprofile1qqs04xzt6ldm9qhs0ctw0t58kf4z57umjzmjg6jywu0seadwtqqc75sprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hszrthwden5te0vcmh5tnfduhszwn8d4 nostr:nprofile1qqspwwwexlwgcrrnwz4zwkze8rq3ncjug8mvgsd96dxx6wzs8ccndmcpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6n9venxwtnx095sjm7zu2 and nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hszxnhwden5te0d3hkx6mzdauzuenfv96x5ctx9e3k7mf0ery27r for their invaluable guidance during my 3-month journey working on POWR. Their support has been essential.

POWR isn't close to what I hope it’ll become (yet), but as Pablo wisely told me: ship early! Look for the TestFlight and Zapstore release early next week, but please have patience with the release and updates… I’m a Nostr enthusiast, not a dev, and working full time as a physician.

Devs: I'd love your feedback on my NIP proposal for workout event kinds, and if you’d like to contribute please reach out!

POWR On! 💪

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1816

https://m.primal.net/PlQK.mov

Satking 10mo ago

ignites, a pulsing fire,Muscles coil with raw desire,A workout’s proof, its thunder rolls,Outshines the relay’s fleeting goals.

Relays click, they pass the spark,A fleeting charge through circuits dark,Or runners dash, baton in hand,A fleeting race across the land.

But power builds in steady strain,Through every rep, through every pain,No handoff halts its iron reign,A force no relay can contain.

The wire hums, the signal flies,Yet strength ascends where effort lies,A workout carves what relays chase,Endurance wins the timeless race.

Satking 10mo ago

GM Fam ☀️

-The U.S. just set up a Bitcoin reserve with 200K confiscated BTC. Wild.

-The White House Crypto Summit is happening today, and it's gonna be huge for the industry.

-El Salvador? Still stacking sats, IMF pressure or not.

Bullish vibes all week let’s see what the summit brings.

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calle

I think I just unlocked open source tap-to-pay with ecash

Satking 10mo ago

How ?

Satking 10mo ago

In circuits deep, a vision grew,A currency born of code anew,No banks to bind, no chains to hold,Bitcoin emerged, both fierce and bold.

A ledger vast, transparent, free,The blockchain hums with liberty,Miners toil in digital caves,Unveiling wealth in cryptic waves.

From Satoshi’s mind, a spark took flight,A rebel coin in endless night,No borders halt its quiet reign,A decentralized dream sustained.

Through booms and busts, it carves its way,A phoenix rising day by day,A store of value, some proclaim,A revolution in its name.

Yet shadows whisper tales of doubt,Fraud and greed still linger about,But still it stands, a symbol bright,Of money’s future, pure and light.

What say you, friend, of this bold dream?A fleeting fad or lasting gleam?

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Gigi

"You wouldn't zap a car crash."

https://blossom.primal.net/c65f4b6f36a5e5b57381da4471111f4e89f6ac20e98ca40e89a3d680d7c71737.mp4

Satking 10mo ago

Bitcoin shines, a code so bright, No chains to hold its boundless might, Through storms it rides, a rebel’s flame, A currency free, no master’s name.

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Sergio

Gm 🫂 ☕️ 🤙

Satking 10mo ago

From Satoshi’s mind, a seed took flight,A chain of truth in endless night,No kings to rule, no vaults to guard,Bitcoin stands, both free and hard.

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Lyn Alden

The other day on Twitter/X, I paid out a 2,100,000 sat or $1,700 USD Lightning bounty.

Over the past couple years, I’ve offered an occasional challenge on Twitter/X.

When people tell me Lightning doesn’t work, I often ask them in random comments for their Lightning details so I can pay them in the next 5-10 minutes on the spot, permissionlessly, wherever they are, with this payment method that supposedly doesn’t work.

Every single time, they can’t do it. Because they haven’t even tried it. They’re just talking. I’ve done this a ton of times and nobody ever takes the sizable sat offerings.

In Dan Held’s anti-Nostr thread, Mark Jeffrey was critical of Lightning.

Unlike most who I offer the challenge to as 99% sure they won’t take it, I offered it to Mark despite knowing he had a much higher probability of accepting it, since he’s tech savvy and active in the broad crypto space. But in my view, if he accepts, then that’s also evidence on the spot that it works.

He declined my 21,000 sat offer and politely still talked anti-Lightning.

So, I said since I like him, I’d up it to 210,000 sats. He still declined and talked more anti-Lightning. He spoke about how he *wanted* it to work, but the problem just isn’t solved yet.

My inner Nostr Lyn couldn't help it, so I upped it to 2,100,000 sats, or $1,700+ USD, if he would just post a way to pay him on Lightning within the next ten minutes. Nobody had ever taken me up on my challenge, so I pressed to my highest offer ever just to see, out of sheer curiosity. He’s a multi-time published novelist, which with my recent fiction hobby, interests me. So, if there’s someone I want to claim the bounty, might as well be him.

And then you know what? He did. Of course he had a Lightning address.

He went from “want it to work but…” to digging through his past experiences and finding an old Lightning address, within a few minutes. The first person on Twitter/X to accept my challenge.

I paid him 2,100,000 sats on the spot, or $1700+ USD.

He provided a Stike address, so that’s a shout out to nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wsqzp382htsmu08k277ps40wqhnfm60st89h5pvjyutghq9cjasuh38q7t6dtc who made Lightning convenient enough for Mark, who doesn’t understand or particularly like Lightning, to finally call my challenge and make me have fun staying poor, lol. And it worked flawlessly despite being an above-average sized Lightning transaction.

I then asked Mark if he could identify the sending wallet, but he said he couldn’t. He asked about block explorers to identify the payment, and while I pointed him toward Mempool Space, I highlighted that Lightning tends to make sending privacy pretty good even though I didn’t maximize privacy on this one. I'm not deep into the weeds on privacy tech, so I'm always genuinely curious just to ask "hey, can you identify any privacy leaks here?"

I also asked him if he would have shared his bank details publicly like he shared his Lightning address. He said of course not.

So even if people say “But Lyn, Mark used a custodial wallet”, I’d say that this tech stack reduced his friction and boosted sender privacy.

I think there are still improvements to make of course, particularly Lightning combined with other scaling methods (ecash, Ark-style stuff, and so forth), but it’s a powerful glue that connects a lot of things together.

In addition, when it comes to payments and small amounts of working capital, there is an important “choose your own adventure” aspect. For small amounts, in safe jurisdictions, custodial Lightning is not that big of a deal, like keeping cash in your wallet that is prone to theft or loss. It maximizes UX.

But it’s important to keep pushing hard, keep developing, keep providing capital, to make as many tools as possible available for people that need to maximize privacy and/or self-custody. Not everyone needs or wants those capabilities for every single payment, but they do need the *option* to turn to them when it’s important.

Mark Jeffrey then reached out to chat about fiction. Last year he asked me to go on his podcast to talk about Broken Money, but I fell behind on Twitter/X DMs due to bandwidth constraints and didn’t get back to him. So, after this I got back to him and said I’d be happy to talk about fiction with him to pick his brain, and talk Broken Money on his podcast, and we got one scheduled. 🤝