Shocked? Yes, definitely.

But would they change their behavior? No, definitely not.

Some dude leading his tribe through trials and tribulations to some milk and honey distribution center

they contacted me two years ago and showed me an attack where if you connected to a rogue relay it could send forged notes.

at the time I was busy with all the nostr hype and it was an obscure attack and I felt like the threat wasn't realistic for most people at the time and I had more important things to work on.

this eventually convinced me I need a more robust engine that de-duped and checked everything as it came off a subscription, which lead me to build nostrdb.

this combined with apple censorship sent me off on a quest to build a new client from the ground up that was hardened from day one, the client I am now writing this note from on my android phone.

Daniel has a few more patches that fixes a few of these remaining issues when connecting to rogue relays, but we can't even release them because apple has officially blocked us from releasing new updates without removing zaps again.

Daniel is also working on migrating damus to androids's local relay model (only talking to the embedded relay) which should make everything a lot faster and secure like damus android

Did you watch the video?

It's an experiment, that actually also exposes some bias of AIs.

I have no idea, Axiom

I am not good with computers, Axiom. It is built with Thinkific

Replacing my Play store versions of nostr clients.

This is the right one right?

Everything else I found redirected me to the Google Play store.

why does your website block vpn users and forces them to do a cloudflare captcha? that's outrageous to honest

Nostr is failing because by far the most; tweets are send on a couple of platforms;

Articles are published eslewhere;

Receipes are shared elsewhere;

Private communications is done elsewhere;

Photos are shown elsewhere;

Git stuff is on Github, and its just barely a thing on Nostr;

Podcast run via RSS and has anyone bothered yet to do it on Nostr?;

Calender events are managed elsewhere.

I could go on and on. If i would take the time i could show depressing graphs where Nostr would not even register for all of these things.

Most of the stuff Nostr does, already exists and has had years if not decades at this point to mature.

Yes Nostr is failing to be THE tweet system, THE photo sharing system, THE you name it.

But am i crazy? What is the git functionality of instagram? By the looks of it, Nostr is succeeding at being an open protocol for all these things.

Better use VPN and use less big corp services together. But everyone does what is within the convenience and needs.

Life tip: Don't take life tips from people that don't have admirable lives.

So the European Central Bank is dead set on introducing this "digital Euro" (CBDC) this fall. They're going to force merchants by law to install the necessary equipment. Nobody even asked for this. Sure, existing payment methods, including cash, will still be around, but it's pretty obvious they're going to make using them harder over the next 5 years. They'll do this by targeting merchants. Carbon taxes, whatever it takes.

For me, this means years of cutting back. I'm especially thinking about buying things like computers and phones while I still can, and then nothing for a while.

But I've got a counter-strategy too. We can push back.

I'm thinking about going into stores, looking at something for a long time, and then saying, "Hmm, I like this. Do you accept Bitcoin? No? That's too bad, I would've bought it right away." And just keep doing this over and over.

No idea if it'll make a noticeable impact on sales, but psychologically, it stings the merchant every time. That expensive item could have been sold immediately if only... It's the least I can do.

Is there some Nostr client offering an experience similar to Facebook groups? Not chat rooms and not just querying a hashtag, but topic-based groups with moderators that you have to apply to join and post in? #asknostr

Every single app built on Nostr has rotten UX. It’s laughably byzantine. Just awful experience to try to figure it all out.

What is the Bit Chat use case?

Probably for web apps that have simple state like forms and so on. but for nostr apps that connect to relays and get streams of events its well worth the extra 70kB

So finally went to my first BTC meetup. (In Raleigh) and got to hear a presentation that will happen at honey badger. The presentation had elements of utxo oracle and was really enjoying it. It was nostr:nprofile1qqsqlk5pjxkwgjh4x9gxj990vm5ewrqw0qmrwyst05wh5hexduvvt4cpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuargv4ekzmt9vdshgtnfduq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7vw9ycu as heard on nostr:nprofile1qqstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqhlp2wq podcast. Damn that was cool. And for a sneak peak for honey badger think Ozymandias by Shelley. Cool as hell.

If only we had polls. But nooo. What if someone sabotaged the polls to vote for pyjamas multiple times? Oh no it would be so disastrous

Who's keen to record a podcast in the next 10 days?

#asknostr

This has been a challenging week... but I remain optimistic. Its hard not to be.

How much bitcoin do you need to retire in 2035?

The answer obviously depends on many factors...

This model assumes:

- 7% annual M2 Expansion

- Expenses are based on each countries average annual income in USD

- Taxes are not accounted for

- Everyone lives until 100 and dies with 0 bitcoin

w/ Sminston With

I can make a SQLite db that is perfectly reliable and claim i am better than lightning. I would also be missing the point of lightning.

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the p2p app above is all about embracing javascript. iroh is rust.

there is a dat implementation im rust too but it is javascript by choice. what needs to be fast can and is implemented in C and can be rust too, but this is about building apps and making it easy - the example above is just the start

im general, p2p wont work if its not a thing the masses can use and program in just lile they coupd build html/css websites in school.

p2p is something we all need to be able to participate in