I took a small hiatus after Nostriga to deal with personal stuff and burn out, but I’m back at it.

For the sake of transparency, here’s a summary of what I’ve been up to with Nostr development since ~August 2024 with the grants provided graciously from OpenSats and the Human Rights Foundation.

Comingle iOS:

- Launched v0.1.0 with support for reading and creating NIP-52 calendar events and RSVPs

- Ran trial at Nostriga 2024 conference

Nostr SDK for Apple Platforms (v0.2.0):

- Added NostrEventBuilding protocol to enable code reuse for event kinds that share common tags

- Added support for missing bot, lud06, and lud16 fields in kind 0 profile

- Added support for NIP-17 (Private Direct Messages)

- Added support for NIP-19 (bech32-encoded entities)

- Added support for NIP-65 (Relay List Metadata)

- Updated RelayDelegate to support receiving any type of response

- Added Swift 6.0 tests in CI

- Fixed GitHub actions workflows to resolve deprecation warnings and to be runnable on PRs from forked repositories

- Fixed incorrect tests and lint errors

Damus iOS:

- Added Apple-powered translation popovers for kind-1 notes for iOS 17.4+ and macOS 14.4+

- Fixed broken QR code scanner

- Fixed localization issues

TODO in the coming months (not comprehensive and may change as priorities change):

- Comingle iOS: Fix relay connection and performance issues

- Comingle iOS: Add retries to event publishing

- Comingle iOS: Expand search capabilities to support nevent and naddr on relays that aren’t in the relay list

- Comingle: Explore developing for Android

- Damus iOS: Add support for automatic Apple translations iOS 18.0+ and macOS 15.0+

- Damus iOS: Add NIP-17 gift-wrapped direct message support

- Damus Notedeck: Figure out internationalization and localization plan

- Nostr SDK for Apple Platforms: Add NIP-32 (Labeling), NIP-36 (Sensitive Content), and NIP-57 (Lightning Zaps)

- Nostr SDK for Apple Platforms: Explore outbox model

Gov’t & Central Banks: "DO NOT STACK"

Bitcoiners:

Are there any Instagram style Nostr clients in the works?

GM ☀️ PV 🤙

Time to stack the pancakes. 🥞

The US national debt per Bitcoin:

$36T

————- = $1.7M per BTC

21M BTC

What clients are you all using?

💥 Simple Success Formula:

1. Provide Value 💯

2. Be Kind 🤗

3. Spend Less Than You Earn

4. Save in #Bitcoin 🧡

5. Be Grateful 🙏 #Nostr

I would never sell my bitcoin for fiat. Anyone else?

It always makes me cringe when I see a bitcoiner backing one side of a fiat war or being heavily weighed on one side of fiat politics. Zoom out. It’s not “us vs them” it’s just us and we gotta learn to live together. The only reason we have these divisive social structures is by design to make us weak, confused and fearful. We would be so much stronger if we learned to love those who are different than us.

#Bitcoin will bring a social structure that puts us all on the same plane and end the need for an “us vs them” mentality.

It’s my first birthday today on nostr.

Cheers to another trip around the sun.

#nostr #bitcoin #sats #btc #love #birthday #foodstr

Name a better beer… I’ll wait.

Name a better beer… I’ll wait.

When Bitcoin was $68k in 2021 the hash rate was 160M TH/s.

Now it’s 661M TH/s. The network is 4x more secure. Large players are suppressing the price to stack at low prices, but they can’t fake the electricity numbers. It’s obvious that something will happen soon to the price!👀