this is not windows sir. This is nixos + xmonad and a custom desktop environment I’ve built for myself.

what’s everyone up to today. I’m at the office hacking on a zero-copy nostr content parser in rust. 🍷🤓

The open internet is just starting

Hi , I just came from twitter, can anyone explain how’s things work here?

While mountaineers from around the world ascend one peak after another, eventually reaching the majestic Himalayas, I have the unique privilege of being born amidst this breathtaking mountain range.

Now, I am ready to embark on my own personal conquest of the Sinthan Top.

It did happen or I wouldn’t be here 😂

Don’t know if I’ve ever done an #introductions post 🤔 may as well share again if I did.

“Karnage” is just a stupid temporary name I carried over from a mobile game I used to play. People followed me so it didn’t make sense to change. Will be awkward to use in person at Nostrasia, this fall 😆 😬

I came with the initial “Jack Wave” back in December I think? Maybe late November of last year. What got me intrigued is the inter-operability of this protocol and the network effects potential. I think it is unmatched in what it offers and there’s a HUGE opportunity to work in this space. I fully expect Nostr to win (just a matter of time)

In my late 30’s, wife, 2 kids, live in Japan.🇺🇸 (expat from US) but I don’t have a handle on the language. I joke that I may just live here forever without learning 😂

I don’t care for rules. Kind of stubborn and opinionated. Most times my opinions suck. I don’t know anything.

Broad background in all the nerdy fields nobody likes (SEO, marketing, ecommerce, digital products, affiliate marketing, startups). I’ve started a few things but not really successful. My day gig is freelance design work. Before that it was … get ready for it, it’s a mouthful …. “Conversion optimization” consulting. Basically teaching startups how to get you to pay up.

I like designing the most. Can do it all day. Already do it all day. Mac user. Windows user. iOS user, past android user. Reject all labels. No left, no right, no attachment to any nation or identity. I’m human first, purple cat second. Passionate about fairness and openness. Intrigued about most things. Embrace chaos, reject status quo, question everything, be kind to others.

Wanted to see some clients looking nicer, so I started helping Snort without being asked. Somehow the awesome devs didn’t mind the intrusion. 🙏

I love bitcoin but I think life is so much more than that. It’s only to make something your obsession but consider why you’re obsessing over it in the first place - big picture stuff.

Biggest topics of interest: startups, AI, tech, Nostr (obviously).

Will follow anyone as long as you don’t spam, or talk exclusively about bitcoin / share quotes only — all the boring things that are probably fine with people who are new to these concepts, but I’ve seen way too much of it. Everyone is welcome here, a start of something beautiful 😻

Thanks for reading 🙏 Look forward to your intro!

Good day to check out nostr again. The primary reason I'm not here more often is I connect through a very jank VM. Elon is working hard to incentivize me to fix it.

My wife: “With that extra money, we should buy some Bitcoin.”

Me: “🫂”

Exactly. I don’t trust closed source client anymore after once my whole contact lists and profile were ruined ….

Not sure what you mean

this was a joke

Being your own qualified #bitcoin custodian feels exceptionally good

Initially I thought that’s how it should work, similar to how bitcoin nodes propagate blocks to other nodes. But with Nostr there is no need for every relay to have a copy of every single event on Nostr all the time, and doing so would make it harder to run a relay.

It would be nice to negotiate the premium on an order before proceeding to the P2P chat stage! Keep in mind with the following response that I'm just a humble social media volunteer and am speaking from my understanding of previous discussions with Reckless_Satoshi:

I think an overarching concern when considering how peers communicate is protecting the end-users from fraud. By allowing P2P communications before the escrow is provided, it could (in worst case scenario) lead to attempted scams. A clever scammer might convince or persuade their peer to exchange fiat in an unsafe manner during this pre-escrow negotiation process. It could be as simple as persuading the peer to make the BTC<->FIAT trade off platform for whatever scammy reason, which makes the RoboSats dispute resolution process impossible when comms move off RoboSats. All trade comms with your peer should be kept within RoboSats' E2E encrypted P2P chat because you can export these logs and send to RoboSats staff for a dispute mediatior to review in case of attempted fraud. We want to keep the order flow such that peers only communicate after the seller provides the escrow.

Now, with that in mind, it might be possible that the "negotiation" process before exchanging fiat consists of submitting a new, proposed premium number without any additional context (peers ONLY exchange a number, no words or sentences for scammers to try and explain their tricks to a naive user). For example, you see a premium of 6% on a bitcoin sell order and you submit a negotiation number of "5%" and your peer can accept, decline, or counter offer with another number, like eBay kind of. In that way, end-users are protected and comms prior to submitting escrow are minimized.

Regardless, its a fun idea and worth discussing in more detail in the RoboSats public dev chat group on Matrix! Do you mind posting the idea there too, so others (like devs smarter than me) can see and comment? Thanks for taking time to think about how RoboSats could be made even better!!

P.S. there is a nostr-based exchange in the works, one such notable example is "Mostro" by the same developer who made lnp2pbot! Which RoboSats is heavily inspired by lnp2pbot!

Relays don’t propagate posts to other relays. Nostr’s design is that relays receive and send information to the users connected to that relay. However there are some relays that have been designed to blast notes out to multiple other relays, and some people have also created aggregators that gather info from multiple relays. But automatic propagation of data from relay to relay is not part of the network protocol.

I’m still confused. How do I send from my btc wallet to lightning?

What two words should never go together?