Welcome aboard 🫡

The internet has turned into a panopticon.

Fight back.

Use:

• VPNs you can pay for with Bitcoin

• Tor

• FOSS software

• Nostr

• MLS-based messaging

• Pi-hole

• P2P networks

• buy bitcoin with P2P

• No KYC

• Start building your own identity bank

• Circular economy principles

Orange-pill everyone you can.

If each of us orange-pills four or five people, we don’t grow linearly — we go exponential.

No permission. No intermediaries. No surrender.

#disobey

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I don't think people realize the point. I did a podcast with fiatjaf about open time stamps, when he was busy writing the implementation, and it was only during that conversation when i explained that he realized why its important, lol. I just re-listened it to see if it was worth sharing it with you, but i think you are better off with my wall of text haha.

Anyway the point was context; some old book, is physically an old book; but data is just data, it has no smell etc. So, especially in the age of A.I., you can not only conjure up data, but also a whole bunch of fake context surrounding that data. So something pretending to be very old, might as well be created mere minutes ago, including its surrounding conversation; and when over time a large quantity of keys get compromized and public knowledge the mess only becomes greater. We are better off just structurally timestamping all the things, future historians will thank us for adding some smell to the data.

Oh let me explain.

Tldr: you can proof something happened before a certain moment in time by anchoring it to bitcoin. Nip03 is just putting those proofs in an event.

Nostr events have a time/publish date field, where it is written when the creation supposedly took place. But thats just a number, and the author is totally free to lie about that number, nothing is really preventing that.

But we do have something else, called 'Open Time Stamps' (OTS). It provides a method to proof that something is ATLEAST a particular age old; i.e. it proofs something existed at that moment in time, but could be older.

It does that by putting a cryptographic hash via a bitcoin transaction into the Bitcoin blockchain; given the nature of Bitcoin's proof of work chain, an outside observer can be very certain as to the approximate date/time associated with the block that particular transaction/hash resides in.

Now all that is in the blockchain is this simple hash; but that hash is the product of a process where a (potentially large, say millions) collection of files/things are condensed into said hash, and for each of those files/things there exist a proof that allows an outside observer to verify that that file/thing indeed was part of the creation of the hash; ergo the file/thing must have existed at the time the hash ended up in the blockchain. (Hope im still making sense here).

In short: its a method to tie countless of things to the bitcoin blockchain in a very cheap/efficient/scalable manner to say something verfiable about time about those things. I.e. you can't produce nostr events after the fact, pretending that they are old (well you can, but you can't and also provide such an OTS proof, because you are not powerfull enough to rewrite the blockchain).

NIP-03 is a simple standard where you put the timestamp proof of an event in a seperate event. This for example could help you defend yourself in situations where your keys are stolen; assuming you consistently timestamped all your stuff, and people expect such OTS proofs, the key-thief cant create legitemate events pretending to be statements made in the past.

We've packed the white board for the cruise as well 😂

Eat an egg or two

After the Internet Archive will burn down, just like the library of Alexandria did in times passed, historians of the future will be forced to perceive the early internet as digital pre-history, and will frame things in terms of Before- and After-Nostr.

Don't forget to timestamp your notes kids, signatures are not enough; NIP-03 omnibus esse utendum.

Building a good reputation is very difficult.

Destroying it is very easy.

Recovering it is almost impossible.

Help please

#asknostr #privacy #graphene

I'm in the process of increasing my privacy and security and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to achieve the following. Or I might have to vibe code it.

Keep a 'normie' phone at home connected to wifi.

Have a graphene phone as my everyday phone with a data-only esim.

When people call or text my normal phone, it will automatically forward the call or text via an app to my graphene phone.

I'm sick of having a phone number (and an identity attached to it), but whilst I communicate with the normie world, I need to be contactable via legacy channels.

This solution will save me carrying two phones.

Zaps for the best solution.

Out and about #textures

People > Algorithms

Still new here and figuring out how to curate my feed.

I’m following pretty much everyone, because I’d rather have more voices and more content to engage with.

My theory is simple: if someone posts things I don’t like, or just spams, I’ll unfollow.

But in the meantime:

more content = more community.

Is this the right move? What have you tried?

Months on Instagram with low engagement.

Two days on #nostr, silly little intro video, and already more engagement than ever.

Decentralized > algorithms ⚡

Y’all are gonna make me pack up my digital suitcase and move here permanently. 🧳