#gm nostr
This is dope. nostr:note13qq5agtar2d52tfwtakh4z2acwle6nxlgcx82qvc67ksjhqt89uqeg7w8p
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! 💪
Dude!!! This is amazing. Would love to try on iOS once available.
Such a good use case.
#TIL that you swipe to the side in Spotify on the minimized song title to change the song.
Life changing 🤣
#strongstr not #douchestr
😁
Trying some different things this afternoon
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. 🤝
This is awesome.
I really appreciate this take. Thanks anon.
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You make a good point.
There still is the face part, but if the face is not “Matthieu” then there for sure is that degree of separation.
Nostr has made me so much more aware of the value of not doxxing unless very sure 😂
What are yalls thoughts on being anon/face obfuscating in non nostr circles? Is it just weird? Or is there a “good” way to do it?
Theres a platform where I don’t want to be forced to be 100% anon but I will be if there’s not a decent way to do it.
#asknostr
On #twitter, I was entirely irrelevant.
On #nostr, I’m a very small percentage less irrelevant.
But:
I choose how irrelevant I want to be.
I don’t receive a social penalty for seldom posting.
When I have interactions, a much higher percentage are real and authentic.
And when trolls/bot creep in, I can self-manage rather than expect some overarching system to manage it and maybe take action against me too.
Pull day #strongstr
