Does anyone have a good sat/international currency converter?

Every time I want to pay somebody back I need to convert local currency to USD and then to sats.

Dear nostr,

Gm Christmas has come & gone I hope you grabbed enough cheer to carry you for another 10 months

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

I believe Nostr can grow stronger and faster if small businesses here actively support one another-especially those that introduce real products and accept Bitcoin and sats. When we build an ecosystem where people can truly buy with Bitcoin, not just talk about it, Nostr becomes more than a protocol-it becomes a working system.

If we support each other, Nostr can evolve into the place where people come specifically to discover and purchase unique goods with Bitcoin-something they won’t easily find on other platforms.

Don’t take Nostr for granted.

The internet is really starting to break.

PSA: This SCAM AIRDROP has nothing to do with Primal.

Primal will never do a token airdrop.

GM node!

Life before scissors were invented must have really sucked.

While I agree with the sentiment of nostr services being down due to CF outage (i'm also guilty of that for some nostr.net services) the fact is infrastructure costs money and if you are not paying for it someone else is.

So complaining that the free infrastructure you consume all the time and never once blink to think its costing someone else to run that is not gonna bring much change.

I've only recently put some of the web gateways behind CF because they are getting hammered by traffic. Could I've solved it differently? Sure, but I'm losing money on it already, spending more time and using more resources for it was just not the top choice.

CF gets used this much because it has disproportionate benefits compared to evrything else, even om a free tier. And its gonna stay that way until the individuals start figuring out that everything you click, consume or post on the internet has intrinsic cost. Its small on per unit basis, but it stacks up with even the amount of users nostr has, let alone when things really hit scale.

So either start rethinking your spending habits for everything you consume online or stfu:)

WTF is going on with RAM prices?

12 months ago I paid $250 for 2 x 32GB DDR5. Today, that same RAM is $545.

How is it that Cloudflare's actual website is working, but all sites that it supports are down?

#asknostr

What are people using for easy-self-hosting GitHub alternatives?

Is it finally usable?

UmbrelOS, CasaOS and Yunohost worked on the first try on generic hw but I gave up on trying Start9 after the 3rd machine at the beginning of the year.

Any tips on how to run a Bitcoin node? And maybe I'll run other things too (Lightning, a personal Nostr relay, maybe an ecash mint for fun)

I've been using Linux as my primary OS for 25 years, so happy to do deal with that

But I have zero experience with hardware such as the Raspberry Pi

So I guess I just need to buy some Pi that's powerful enough for all that, but still quiet so that I can run it 24/7 in my apartment

(I won't be debating Core versus Knots here; I'm mostly asking about hardware and similar practical matters)

#Bitcoin #Linux #RaspberryPi

Les than 0.0000027 people in the world run a bitcoin node.

Thats 1 in 350.000 people.

To the ones that do… hats off!⚡️

Ugh.. I have neglected my bitcoin node for a few months now. I have been focusing on other projects. Now I feel a huge amount of technical (and blockchain) debt towards it. 😢