The thing that excited me most about nostr was the market.

I tried to set up a nice market on lnbits several months ago, but there were too many bugs and too few people.

Can anybody recommend a NOSTR market that is actually working and supporting some level of commerce?

It depends...

Generally speaking yes, but for example if all those 10 coins were created on the exact same day 10 years ago, and all 10 coins are in the same coinjoin transaction, even with 300 other inputs, it is quite unlikely that two or more different users created coins on the same day back then, and are online at the same time now to spend them.

In this case the coinjoin at least adds some plausible deniabiliy, but the most obvious guess is the correct one, so any serious adversary will likely figure it out that those 10 coins belong to one person.

If you're really paranoid, it's best to not even consolidate non-private coins in a coinjoin, Wasabi does this with the "red coin isolation" setting, on by default in the optimize for privacy profile.

Así es, un regalo 🎁

DVMs have multiple kinds, could start with things like scheduling notes. Could create algorithmic feeds (on demand with multiple algos, not "the algo"), search, image generation, image editing, image processing, llms like unleashed chat, TTS, etc etc. possibilities are endless. Imagine hundreds of Microservices from thousands of providers you can choose from.

“Social Onboarding” is Coming to Nostr.

Because “friends inviting friends” is Nostr’s super power AND it’s the easiest way keep bots and bad actors at bay (as Nostr grows), I’m developing a new kind of Nostr client (right now) to support “social onboarding”.

“Meet Me On Nostr” will allow you to share nostr with friends. By scanning your custom “follow me” QR code, your friends will be able to instantly create a new account, follow you, open a DM chat with you, and connect with your recommend relays, clients, groups, and other accounts on Nostr. Each QR scan also logs the new account as “invited” by you and will qualify you to win “Top Nostr Advocate” each month (awarded by new account retention.)

Coming soon …

ln.tips it's a bot lightning wallet made on telegram by Calle, you can connect it easily to zeus for zap. if course is custodial

I think that not enough people care about the non-KYC principle to make offering it an attractive strategy for companies/jurisdictions. Sadly. I think the slow boil strategy of gradually tightening KYC is highly effective whether it's conscious or not.

"I would never join a platform like Nostr if there's no way notes can be deleted"

"Why is that?"

"Depending what kind of platform it wants to be, if you have content creators like on tiktok or Instagram and someone disagrees with what they say, on these platforms people go as far as finding out addresses and phone numbers and post them in the comments. Mods remove such things. If notes can't be deleted, such information stands there forever. It's dangerous and a no go"

Had a talk this morning following yesterday's discussions about safety on Nostr. This reply is hard to argue with. If you're a nym it doesn't concern you much. If you create "social media content" like videos or images and people even know or recognize you, they might do the worst things for the worst reasons and there currently is no way to prevent or stop that.

Thinking about this a lot today. It's a fine line between censorship resistance and people feeling safe to use the protocol in a way they see fit.

If we want to always have a couple of Bitcoin anons, ignore what I said. If we want mass adoption it's a topic we need to address.

Can it be addressed tho? Yes, but we would need to shift from absolute censorship resistance to something compromised. Maybe some community based reporting mechanism that relays comply with in terms of deleting said notes. We would still not have a central instance but the community guiding such things.

Should it be done? Up for discussion. Especially now that we have a main focus on the outbox model and blastr, it would make it way harder to implement something like that as notes get spread out on many relays that all would need to comply to some mechanism like that. Almost impossible if it's not a standard part of the protocol.

I know this is not a popular topic. I'm interested what people think about it tho.

The U.S. government used #Bitcoin to transfer $2 BILLION and it cost them $1.47.

The best part? They didn’t have to ask the Federal Reserve for permission.

The worst part? This Bitcoin is from Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht is still in prison serving a double life sentence plus 40 years without parole for building an open marketplace website.

Cashu was a long con all along that leads up to this one single joke. My work is done here, I shall retreat to my chamber now.

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I hate slack more every day.

email only.

Well, sure but the pressure to KYC has never been greater and will probably get considerably worse. The recent EU legislation is a case in point. Using the tools is only part of a solution. You also need to think long-term geopolitical arbitrage to not get fucked.

Is Tuur hara on nostr?

There seems to be a few places in the world where you can truly live on bitcoin right now (El Salvador, Lugano in Switzerland). It seems companies are using services like Bitfinex pay to process bitcoin payments. I'm worried about shotgun-KYC becoming the norm for all payments (you can pay but then you must ID yourself to get the purchased goods/services). Terms and conditions will include full KYC/AML compliance and there's nothing you can do about it as a customer. Taking your business elsewhere won't be possible either if every merchant follows those same rules.

Did the US bank that received the $5m bribe Burisma sent Biden have proper KYC/AML compliance in place?