Nostr Web Client

I waited too long to buy into the Red Rising hype. Great series so far.

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Jiriki

Thanks for sharing! I am a musician with Distro to all major platforms. Which app would you suggest I get to share my music?

nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg is probably the best music-focused UX for more decentralized distribution/payment.

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Ken Berry, MD

I just bought some BTC at $100,000 !!!

Please tell me again how this is not crazy!

My wife is giving me that look...

Watch this video together: https://youtu.be/YtFOxNbmD38?feature=shared

I appreciate that @RabbitHoleRecap + No Agenda cover all the news I need to care about.

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Phil

What does everyone do moving BTC to Lightning? Is there a wallet that accepts BTC and then can send out Lightning? Or a way to send BTC directly to a node? #asknostr

I know Coinbase can accept BTC and send Lightning but I’d prefer a different solution.

For custodial, River or Strike can serve this purpose better than Coinbase. You don't have to leave funds with the custodian for long but can instead use them as a pretty seamless "swap" service to get in/out of Lightning.

For non-custodial, Aqua is probably the simplest. Requires a couple steps because you have to peg in or out between Liquid <> on-chain BTC. Funds at rest are L-BTC, but you can pay Lightning invoices, which happen via a Boltz swap under the hood.

Blockstream's Green wallet also makes it pretty easy to receive on-chain BTC to automatically open new channels and enable LN payments.

The squirrel shifted the timeline back.

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Eugenius

banana chips in coconut oil 🔥

raw cheese

macadamia nuts

Banana chips in coconut oil sound bomb. Will have to try that. Maybe with a little cinnamon sprinkled on top

https://youtu.be/47BxsqDrLkw #music

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Brad Mills

My old highschool buddy wants to organize a meetup for me to come talk to our mutual friends about Bitcoin.

Shes asking if I have any info ad graphics or bullet points she could use to generate interest.

Anyone ever made anything like this up before or gave any resources?

https://anilsaidso.gumroad.com/

I don't have any ad/marketing graphics on hand for a meetup like that, but if you're trying to build a presentation of some sort, I think these resources are pretty good. Might be able to pull some useful stuff.

nostr:npub14hn6p34vegy4ckeklz8jq93mendym9asw8z2ej87x2wuwf8werasc6a32x has some of the best graphics, so check these out:

There are also some good graphics, points, and charts in this Fidelity report:

https://fwc.widen.net/s/fkvbv7ph9k/fidelity-digital-assets---revisiting-persisting-bitcoin-criticisms

If you're looking for quick bullet points refuting various FUD lines, this website is pretty good:

https://safehodl.github.io/failure/

Learn Me A Bitcoin also has some nice beginner graphics/diagrams:

https://learnmeabitcoin.com/beginners/

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D E C E N T M O N E Y

I enjoyed Project Hail Mary audiobook, if you like hard sci-fi like The Martian (same author)

I was going to suggest this too! Very interesting book in audio.

I'm organizing a bitcoin-focused panel discussion at the Honolulu Tech Week conference in mid-September (https://www.honolulutechweek.com) and am looking for 2-3 more bitcoiners to participate.

This will be a great opportunity to expose people to the #bitcoin rabbit hole and inspire them to start adopting it in their daily lives.

If you or someone you know might be interested, please shoot me a DM!

RawBTC 1y ago 💬 3

After listening to nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m and nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy on TFTC, I can't wait for a copy of nostr:npub1zf8p8cdg67hhx46wvdm96yd2jc9z3hen5nf606edwhv26ummf4vssf7888.

We need more second-order #bitcoin content like this. Yes, bitcoin is going to make us all rich, but then what? Today's hodlers have a massive responsibility to reshape the future and be stewards of the virtues we want to see in the world.

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gandlaf21

you can make your own bro!

brrr.gandlaf.com

This is dope

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Jeff Swann

Bought a weight sled, first use, already exhausted 🥴

I'd love to get one of these or some battle ropes, but I need the space for it first.

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CappyNate🍁

She worked! Is Mutiny easy? I stick to the ol' faithful centralized WoS. Ease of use trumps the 6 speed manual transmission these days.🤣

I've honestly had a lot of issues with it. I want to like it because I like the roadmap and ethos, but I have payments fail all the time, the fedimint integration hasn't worked once for me, routes constantly fail for the LN Address, etc. I pay for Mutiny+ to support development, but Zeus is my daily driver to self-custodial LN right now. Just works more reliably for me.

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CappyNate🍁

Won't let me zap you. Giving me error with your lightning address or something. Double check. Ping me when fixed.

I was trying to test out Mutiny's LN address, but I guess it's not working. Swapped to a different one, so I think it'll work now.

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CappyNate🍁

250 sats to every comment on this post.

Limit: 1 zap per user.

Cap: 10,000 sats total. May extend.

Nostr seems broken, abandoned, woke, or it's turning into a big account echo chamber. I'm shaking shit up to understand why.

😁

Or maybe https://swiss-bitcoin-pay.ch/

meat sweats🫃

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RawBTC

BTCPay is incredible if you put in the work, but there are simpler options. @Zaprite might be worth checking out.

* nostr:npub1cwneqlnjgs3rdtk97c2ffy2df9dm5zycgj3dsg8c3z00hchxjmfqtvraju

If you go the BTCPay route, I'd probably do it through nostr:npub15klkdfx9sh3y096a5jf895rcvkmkzvly2fm9dgxq6huqhp9576jsav4m73 to reduce a lot of the friction.

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boston wine

Time to push some new Bitcoin adoption, if all goes well 🙏👀

I need a plug-and-play checkout add-on, for a retail eCommerce website to accept Bitcoin/lightning payments.

Ideally it’s as simple as copy-paste this CSS or JS (if that’s technically possible to accomplish something this complex).

It would need to complete the transaction and “inform” the website’s back-end that payment was captured but not by a credit card.

Is nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg the right tool? What about what you’ve been working on, nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 ? Or nostr:npub1a8jzweysxa9qmtmht874736aalm0lwdsl306nrys9d05ktlrhw3qcr5pj4 ? Does nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 now offer a solution?

If I can make it work one time, scaling it would be the EASY part.

#asknostr

RawBTC 1y ago 💬 3

BTCPay is incredible if you put in the work, but there are simpler options. @Zaprite might be worth checking out.

Or maybe https://swiss-bitcoin-pay.ch/

The Feds don't want you to know this, but you can just add scrambled eggs to whatever meal you want. It doesn't have to belong.

Japan was beautiful

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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

Do you ever drop something like a spaz then catch it with inhuman reflex and just think to yourself, damn I'm amazing

Arc Search https://apps.apple.com/us/app/arc-search-find-it-faster/id6472513080

Still chasing that high

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Mal Gifson

Pinch in on any page to generate a summary like that

nostr:nevent1qqs9pgpsdel6ejqrh4nrlj6p8j0d09w0frlhhuyajfy3wn8ugzzfjfgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygpxdq27pjfppharynrvhg6h8v2taeya5ssf49zkl9yyu5gxe4qg55psgqqqqqqst9390z

+1 on Arc. Mobile and desktop are great. The summarize and "browse for me" features are actually really useful.

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Gigi

I'm really excited about this. Blossom is deceivingly simple, which is why it is powerful and why it has a chance of working.

What #nostr got right (and Bitcoin, for that matter) is that duplication is a feature, not a bug. "It takes advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but hard to stifle," to quote Satoshi. De-duplication is a fools' errand, as it assumes a God's-eye-view. A global state is required to properly understand what to delete and what to keep. The second problem is of course indexing and discovery, which is indeed a hard problem if a global state is to be avoided. It's hard, but solvable. Especially if you already know what you're looking for, and especially especially if you have a common and purple-coloured discoverability layer.

Blossom is basically copying what nostr did for notes and applies it to arbitrary files. Instead of relays handling events, there's simple HTTP servers handling files. Like relays, servers are interchangeable as they share the same interface, encouraging duplication and redundancy. Instead of uploading something to a single server, you might upload it to five different servers. Popular and/or important files will be on many servers, which is how the online world works today already. Files that you need often might even be served by a #blossom server that is geographically close to you, just like we now have local cache relays packaged with some clients (or that you can self-host on your home server).

In the best case, Blossom will organically mirror what YouTube et al's content delivery networks already do well today, which is to provide file hosting that is high in availability and proximity. The neat thing about it all is that you can provide monetary incentives as it is nostr-native, and you get web-of-trust characteristics for free, as you can use only your servers, or those who are trusted by your friends, etc. And in the future, we'll probably have paid servers that whitelist npubs, just like we have paid relays now.

So why is all of that awesome? Well, here's the thing: as the user, you actually don't care where a file is hosted; you just care about the file itself. The current iteration of image (and other) hosts is incredibly stupid. Images are uploaded, downloaded, and re-uploaded without end, often with massive loss-of-quality as the same image is compressed and re-compressed a hundred times. It's always the same image, or at least it *should* be. With Blossom, it actually is.

Gone are the days of finding a thing and uploading again. You just need the hash, and the thing will appear. You could even insert images directly in notes with something like a blossom:ef1c26172f55017c9d9d6afa7cf22605b237b0fe92425e81e3b5e24d46c95448 and each client can choose how (HTTP, torrent, I2P, etc.) and where (public servers, private servers, etc.) to retrieve it from.

But wait, there's more. Remember the monetary incentives we talked about? It is what allows for the emergence of a proverbial "assassination market" for files: you provide the hash, along with a bounty of 21k sats to anyone who can provide the file most readily. Servers could provide cryptographic proof that they have the file, and you could escrow the money until delivery is done and you verify the file on your side. The building blocks are already there, we just need to put them together in the right way.

Blossom is one of the most exciting projects that came out of the first nostr:npub1s0veng2gvfwr62acrxhnqexq76sj6ldg3a5t935jy8e6w3shr5vsnwrmq5 cohort, aka #SEC-01. I'll have more to say about all the other amazing #SovEng projects that came out of the discussions and collaborations we had, but now I'll have to go and upload some files.