⚡️🔔 A YEAR PASSES TOGETHER - One year is a complete revolution of the Earth around the Sun.

Today, nostr:nprofile1qqsy67zzq5tc9cxnl6crf52s4hptdwhyaca5j7r8jwll535tdadedvcprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsat8e57 closes its challenge and honors its promise: to inform you for a full year, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day — weekends and public holidays included.

At first, I wanted to end on a high note. I had countless ideas: making a video edited by myself, coding a website for the occasion, doing a live stream… Then I remembered the best advice I received here: “Stay humble.”

So I’ll keep it simple.

First and foremost, please know that I am proud to have kept you informed for an entire year, with transparency, consistency, and objectivity. Believe it or not, all my notes have only one intention: to convey the truth. If some of them have upset you, that's not my problem; it's just that reality is sometimes harsh.

Here is my latest POW, the complete summary:

➥ 11,500 + 19,100 = 30,600 activity traces

➥ 30,600 / 365 = 83.83 activity traces per day

➥ 19,100 / 365 = 52.33 notes per day

➥ 8 × 365 = 2,920 hours of work

Result:

➥ 0 → 16,500 followers

➥ 0 → 5 million sats

I gave myself the means to achieve this. If you follow me, you know that I was present in your feed at any time of the day, without any automation. I swear. Everything was done by hand. The Flash touch is visible on each of my notes—that's what defines my work.

I didn't meet all my goals, but I exceeded some of them. For example, I didn't expect to reach 16,500 followers; I was aiming for 5,000.

On the other hand, where I failed was on the stack. I expected to reach at least 0.1 BTC. In the end, I barely managed to reach half that — until yesterday, I was still at 0.04 BTC.

But there is also something that was not planned for, and which far exceeds all the numerical targets mentioned above: your trust.

My greatest achievement is having managed to earn it. Honestly, it was not something I had included in my forecasts. Trust cannot be planned or forced—it is built, day after day, note after note.

Beyond the numbers, that's what really matters. Everything can be measured except trust. And yet, today on Nostr, that's my most valuable asset.

Not to mention the wonderful people I have met here. For fear of forgetting anyone, I won't mention any names, but know this: I know your usernames, your photos, your writing style, your way of zapping. I have observed everything, taken everything into consideration, with the utmost respect. Thank you all, you have been the fuel for Flash, because without you I would have stopped a long time ago.

Before I leave you, I would sincerely like your feedback:

➥ What did you think of Flash’s work throughout 2025?

➥ What do you expect from me for the coming year?

As they say, it’s at the end of the dance that the musicians get paid. Here are the two ways to support my work ⤵︎

➥ Lightning address: flash@primal.net

➥ Bitcoin address: bc1qwn8ralumqgar7vqfhftr264a7dxp0akstwx9fq

the act of creation is the only thing that justifies existence

This will be my first note with a category.

Chain Lightning: zap a note, and the zap passes through the note to adjacent note in random distance and ever lower zap amounts.

That’s wild that I wrote that more than 6 years ago now.

wake up, code, sleep, repeat

Just wrote a reads article: "Bitcoin and the Rebirth of Free Community:

Why the 1960s vision of intentional community needed sound money to succeed

Currently we're using a fixed set of relays in bitchat which is only a temporary solution. We could let users edit their own relays but 1) users don't know what relays are and 2) if users have no overlapping relays they can't talk to each other.

Here's a solution that we came up with. I'd like to know your thoughts. We're going to crawl a long list of relay URLs every 24 hours. This list will also include their estimated geo locations, also updated every 24 hours. This could be done in an automated GitHub runner.

That list of URLs plus their geo locations will be embedded and shipped with the bitchat app. Users who join a geohash channel will use the five closest relays based on the geohash location of interest.

This solves multiple problems at once:

1) relay centralization

2) privacy

3) speed

4) maybe censorship resistance?

What do you think?

Can you navigate the power that Bitcoin gives you without becoming the system that you escaped?