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Haven’t done this in a bit, so:

If you’re not yet on my paid relay at wss://nostr.uselessshit.co and you’d like to try it, I’m giving away free admissions 🤙

Just comment with ⚡️ for a chance to get one.

I’ll pick 5 people at random in about an hour 😉

Test

For those on testflight, update to build 2 to fix zaps if you’re not seeing them when sending to WoS users.

gm nostr 🌞

Watching people on the timeline having long discussions with useless trolls

You just bought attention for the night for 15$. You bought male prostitutes to pretend you are interesting for 10 seconds. That is pathetic. You are miserable.

>Why else are you doing it?

Utterly inconceivable to you that I just honestly actually disagree with you lmao.

Must be some ulterior motive.

"They just want attention" is what people say to cope with cognitive dissonance.

You’re a weird guy. Have a nice day.

I hope one day soon being an internet whore is illegal where you live.

Great question! You lost me at anarchist internet but I’m sure #[2]​ would be happy to field that one once he’s done fixing a bug somewhere ? Lol.

Darn! I love your questions! Can I ask one? What do you enjoy most about the app and/or protocol?

As we will continue to see, every company can be controlled. Being a company is a single point of failure. You can fight that truth, but you’ll never win.

Yes…and I’ve got a spreadsheet of all the ideas ya’ll have suggested. That I’ve seen :) so they are in the queue….if he listens to his PM 😛

Haha all good we’ve been together for a long time so same thing. And yes mr e has been promoting bitcoin since he learned to talk.

can't read the article with this bs

We’re not 😉

Ok Nostr, me and #[0]​ are bored while packing (yes again), ask us anything or suggest songs for Sats 😍

>Why are you always trying to get everyone’s attention?

Am I doing that?

>By your own standards, this is kind of pathetic, right?

No, I don't think calling a spade a spade is pathetic, and I think you're a faggot for arguing in this way. "Ummm, don't you think what you're doing is baaaad? why are you doing baaaad thing." No, no I don't think it's bad, I think it's good, that's why I'm doing it. Faggot.

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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.

Will cut a new release soon, will try to get it done before I fly out tomorrow

A marketplace on Nostr, especially one that's built in clients, would skyrocket our circular economy. There's now a bounty to build one.

#[0]

can you share the URL of this bounty?

GM ☕️🧡⚡️

What exactly does this entail? My goodbye post was Christmas Day.

Can anyone see this? Or do I post gifs like I’m a hundred years old?! 😂

“Zappin’ Even Nappin’”

Verse 1:

I'm making moves while I'm snoozin'

Sending payments without losin'

My precious sleep, I'm stayin ahead

With Bitcoin lightning, I'll always shred

Chorus:

Zappin' even nappin'

With lightning speed, I'm never slacking

My nostr game is never lacking

Zappin' even nappin'

Verse 2:

While others count sheep, I count my stacks

With Bitcoin lightning, I never look back

I can pay my peeps without even waking

My nostr game is always making

Chorus:

Zappin' even nappin'

With lightning speed, I'm never slacking

My nostr game is never lacking

Zappin' even nappin'

Verse 3:

I'm the king of the nostr scene

With lightning payments, I reign supreme

My skills are sharp, my timing is right

I'm sending payments day and night

Chorus:

Zappin' even nappin'

With lightning speed, I'm never slacking

My nostr game is never lacking

Zappin' even nappin'

Verse 4:

My friends call me the nostr king

I can pay for anything with a quick zing

While others sleep, I'm making moves

With Bitcoin lightning, I can never lose

Chorus:

Zappin' even nappin'

With lightning speed, I'm never slacking

My nostr game is never lacking

Zappin' even nappin'

Outro:

So if you're looking to make some cash

And you want to do it in a flash

Just use Bitcoin lightning and you'll see

Zappin' even nappin' is the key

I mean, we might as well all hug while we’re here 🥹🫂🥹

I'm blocking every person that shares this shit.

Oh so this is the hellthread