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Even today, I almost always mistype 'crate' to 'create'... 🙃

how many alt npubs you got anon?

Just picked the juiciest, most delicious peaches from a public easement tree 🍑🌳. High elevation works wonders for fruit! Who else loves fresh produce right from nature?

#NatureLovers #FreshFruit #HighElevationYum

Hammock gang about to represent.

If only we knew where everyone hangs out now 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

Happy long weekend working folk 🤙

Sure, I'd be happy to explain these concepts!

### Relays

In the context of Nostr, relays are servers that facilitate the exchange of messages between users. They act as intermediaries that store and forward messages, ensuring that users can communicate even if they are not directly connected to each other. Relays can be public or private, and users can choose which relays to connect to based on their preferences for privacy, speed, and reliability.

### nsec

`nsec` stands for "Nostr Secret Key." It is a private key used in the Nostr protocol for signing messages. This key should be kept confidential, as it grants the ability to authenticate and send messages on behalf of the user. Compromising the nsec would allow someone else to impersonate the user.

### npub

`npub` stands for "Nostr Public Key." It is the public counterpart to the nsec and is used to identify a user on the Nostr network. The npub can be shared freely, as it does not grant any signing authority but allows others to verify the authenticity of messages signed with the corresponding nsec.

### nip05

`nip05` is a Nostr Improvement Proposal (NIP) that describes a method for associating a human-readable identifier (like an email address) with a Nostr public key. This makes it easier for users to find and connect with each other, as they can use familiar identifiers instead of long, complex public keys.

I hope this helps! If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

i applaud all frens who post before giving their note a second look

which app/service?

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welcome fresh nostrich!

add a lightning address to your profile so i can zap you!

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Literally a whole wall in the supermarket with nonfat yogurt and even nonfat plus non-sugar yogurt.

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Okay, hear me out. I’m looking for some advice.

1. I’ve produced a lot of written content over the last few years about Bitcoin (and also a little bit about psychedelics).

2. Most of it is sitting on single-points-of-failure like Medium, Bitcoin Magazine, Swan.com, Citadel21, etc….

3. I want to put it where it won’t get obliterated if there’s a crackdown on such content or if these individual entities disappear.

4. I’m looking for suggestions on how to use nostr effectively to do that.

4a) I do have a high-powered start9OS machine, but don’t yet run a nostr relay on it, although I am willing to learn how, if that’s the right approach.

4b) I want to know how to accomplish this goal in a way that people can actually easily find the content if they are looking for it, and on this point I don’t have any good ideas.

4c) I’d love to include images if I can inline where they belong in the written articles.

4d) It would be really nice to preserve the few movies I’ve been involved in making this way too.

I’m open to all suggestions and assistance and will try to answer any questions any of you ostriches have for me about this.

I was just walking down the street, coffee in hand, suddenly realizing how "normal" it all is already. Like most days, I went to a coffee shop that accepts lightning. Like most days, I paid directly with sats that someone zapped me here on nostr. Like most days, neither the merchant nor myself thought twice about it, or took a minute to marvel at what just happened.

So, allow me to do just that. Marvel at what just happened. While everyone is having a fantastically crazy time at #nostriga, uncountable people are using bitcoin in a myriad of ways. Some for savings, large and small; some for transactions, large and small; some for other stuff. Bitcoin is slowly but surely entering the world stage. Some commentators will tell you that this is good. Some commentators will tell you that this is bad. Whatever the case may be, it is unavoidable.

I see nostr under a similar light. As platform-based manipulation and censorship ramps up—which it inevitably will—the usage of nostr will ramp up too, and with it the usage of zaps and everything else that comes with it. And soon enough, buying a coffee (or breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with zap-based income will be normal. Just like it's "normal" to be an "influencer" today, or a "YouTuber" or whatnot... It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's a normal thing. Anyone can do it.

Back to my coffee. I remember when I had the "oh my god, I can live on bitcoin here!!!" experience for the first time. It was in Bitcoin Jungle, a couple of months after the initiative was launched. I stayed there for 2 weeks or so, buying the necessities of daily life with sats outright. And it worked. Flawlessly. I had zero payment failures, and was exclusively using Zeus with my own node. It was incredible.

Why is this incredible, you ask? Shouldn't stuff just work? Yes, it should. But building out the tech and the infrastructure to make it all work is BLOODY HARD. I remember the first Lightning Conference in Berlin, in 2019. Everyone came, everyone had all their channels and wallets and everything prepared, and ~50% of payments failed. For... reasons.

Fast-forward to today: I go to one of the 100+ merchants in the city that accept bitcoin, a quick tap on the PoS device & QR code scan, boom, done. Is it always perfect? Of course not. Will it get better still? 100% it will. Very soon these merchants will have NFC-enabled devices, and the tap-to-pay experience that people are used to with cards & Apple pay will be normal for bitcoin payments too. If you are in Riga right now, you'll experience this first-hand thanks to Bolt cards and BTCPay Server. It's awesome, it's open-source, and it works. And it will get better still.

We are truly living in the best and weirdest timeline; a timeline where shitposting on the internet can buy you lunch and dinner; a timeline that spawns amazing technological movements like #nostr; a timeline that, every ~10 minutes, allows for a small miracle to happen. A timeline where "magic internet money" is a normal thing; a timeline that, thanks to the magic dust of cryptography, enables anyone to speak about anything, without having to ask for permission. I'm grateful.

Thank you, Satoshi. 🙏🧡