Lugano, Switzerland

Tried paying with #bitcoin.

Guy went to the back room to pull out the pos machine. Spent about 2 minutes trying to set it up, gave up, then had me pay with visa.

Disappointed to say the least.

I don’t hate him or anything, but we didn’t have a bond or a relationship. Everything was about appearances. If he showed up somewhere it wasn’t because of me, it was because it was expected of him. There are a lot of people like this. Hiding behind a shield of respectability. You find them often in medicine, law etc… It’s a bullshit way to go through life.

What excites you the most about Nostr?

This should exist:

txtr - A Bitcoin transaction relay network over Nostr

A plebian underground network of Bitcoin nodes that relay each other's transactions upon encountering them on Nostr. This should not aim to be part of Bitcoin Core and therefore also should not look for explicit support.

What it achieves:

- Removes the ability of chainalysis companies to determine which IP a transaction originated from (they achieve this via millions of P2P connections and other timing-based methods).

- What Dandelion does but without the DDoS vector.

Here is how it could work:

- You run the txtr daemon locally next to your Bitcoin Core.

- All txtr daemons publish Bitcoin transactions on nostr and listen for transactions from other users.

- When you want to make a tx on your Bitcoin Core, you don't send it over the P2P network but via txtr which publishes the tx on Nostr.

- If any txtr daemon encounters a Bitcoin tx on Nostr, it sends it to the Bitcoin network over the P2P connections of the local Bitcoin Core client.

Interesting properties:

- Only your relay knows your IP which you can easily hide.

- You could be connected to tens or even hundreds of relays, you can switch as often as you like. Permanence does not matter in this context.

- You can publish every tx from a new pubkey. Identities do not matter in this context.

- Depending on the tx volume on a particular relay, your txtr daemon could randomly chose to relay some txs and some not, you don't need to cooperate therefore you can't be DDoS'd.

Transactions transmitted over relays - txtr

twitter is a shitcoin

I'm seeing more green frogs on Twitter than usual, I have absolutely no clue of what's this new trend. Except that it seems to have a token.

when will clients stop blasting notes to ALL relays and allow users to choose where they r/w notes?

what if we treated relays more like subreddits where your current context is scoped to a relay(s)? 🤔

nice find! this is very similar to what I was thinking, down to calling it a “wrapped message”. though this has some additional complexity layered in that I hadn’t considered nor wrapped my head around fully

I feel like a conversation would be figured out by collecting enough conversation if Alice responds back and p tags bob.

Another approach but probably inefficient and more cpu intensive is to encrypt everything and recipient scans all events and tries to decrypt the event. The event it is able to decrypt successfully was meant for Alice and contains message from bob, signed by bob.

Many people have said that Nostr nah not be the best for secure DMs.

Ah, got it. I understand what you meant now! Thank you. This will require a new NIP. Clients will have to implement it too. From address encryption is good and easily done. We could just have from tag encrypted with the random SK. Now, how do we ensure that the sender can also decrypt the message? If SK was lost then current shared secret scheme will not work. We basically need for the message to be traceable by the sender too, and relay will not have these data. 🐶🐾🤔

Dave: Damus is a decentralized social network where users can connect and share content without having to worry about their data being tracked or sold to third parties. It's built on top of the ActivityPub protocol, which allows for seamless communication between different decentralized platforms. Think of it as a more private and secure alternative to traditional social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter.