If anyone ever asks how are messages relayed on Nostr https://twitter.com/kashthefuturist/status/1159610222148669440/video/1
It's... Fin Tech
thanks for the list! I missed a few 🤙😎🍷

joining paid relays today 😎
The simplicity and power of nostr makes me wonder what other incredible advancements humanity can make with clever use of cryptography 💭
humanity: creates nostr
aliens: yeah, they're ready to hang with us
It's going to end up on RGB or TARO for sure.
THE NOSTR REPORT
Uneventful Friday
Feb 10, 2023
Block Height: 775,924
Moscow Time 46:06 ⚡/ $
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🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️
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#[0] giving us the sound moral by translating the famous Evelyn Beatrice Hall quote she attributed to Voltaire.
#[1]
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🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
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#[2] warns of security vulnarability! Relayrunners please update your Nostream relay to 1.22.2 ASAP
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🐙 #[4] Kraken agrees with SEC to immediate stop of sale of unregistered securities and pays $30MM 🐙
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#[6] waxing philosophical on paid relays. Are they a 💩🪙 shitcoin? Derek thinks not. TLDR: we are early.
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#[8] Next Amethyst update to support connecting to Umbrel relay app. ☂️☂️☂️☂️
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🏝️Nostrica Update🏝️
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🏝️🏝️ #[10] Bitcoin jungle is working to create lightning capable off-ramps and kyc-free on-ramps with businesses in Uvita for Nostrica next month.
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🖥️nostr Tech🖥️
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#[12] adds a way to tell paid vs free relays in Damus. 🧭🧭
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#[14] working on a paid Damus relay. Also hints at Damus Purple premium service that would include access to paid relay. 💟
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#[16] provides latest updates on Nostrgram client.
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#[18] Updated list of paid relays. 📖
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⚡nostr Business⚡
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#[20] announces a bitcoin only store powered by BTC pay offering 9% off, free international shipping, and auto deletion of data within 30 days of fulfillment. On their was to a Bitcoin Standard. 🔌⚡
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#[22] Lightning ⚡️ as a service? Breeze SDK promises to allow anyone lightning payments on any app with with fiat on-ramps. Big if true!
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🎩nostr Lifestyle🎩
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#[24] gives us the friendly advice not to spend our #Bitcoin on ordinals this weekend, please do what the man says.
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🩺Nostr Health of the Network🩺
Nostr.IO/stats appears to be down. Todays stats can be found at https://nostr.band/stats.html
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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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#[27] #[28]
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Stay Classy Nostr.
mom I made it
https://rgb.info is the answer
RGB is better for everyone. Anchored in bitcoin's security but with no on-chain bloat, locally verified smart contracts, no shitcoins, works over lightning or nostr, the list goes on https://rgb.info if people are pissed about ordinals, they should be promoting RGB to replace them because it's clearly better, cheaper, faster, and more flexible with better UX. NFT people will flock to it and abandon ordinals because ordinals are clunky, expensive, and difficult to use.
Taro is exciting! It is maybe 1 option. I'm out here spreading RGB awareness too: https://rgb.info/
RGB might be a good candidate for this in the future too: https://rgb.info

PV 🤙 #purevida
Thanks for the explanation! TOR nodes fit the ethos. People can use TOR or a VPN that has TOR built in. Local archive is awesome too. Looking forward to this.
What's the second best social protocol?

I’ll DM you!
My bounty has been published to https://bountsr.org/code/2023/01/30/relay-start9.html
I want someone to package up a one-click nostr relay for the Start9 Marketplace.
🟠 500,000 sats. Let's go!
Thanks to #[0] for the helpful link: https://docs.start9.com/latest/developer-docs/packaging
If you also want a nostr relay for your Embassy, you can add sats to the bounty by opening a pull request here: https://github.com/coinkite/bountsr.org.pub
Ah, I see #[1] is already working on this? Fantastic! Once it's published to the Start9 Marketplace, the bounty is yours! https://github.com/garyray-k/nostr-rs-relay-wrapper
My bounty has been published to https://bountsr.org/code/2023/01/30/relay-start9.html
I want someone to package up a one-click nostr relay for the Start9 Marketplace.
🟠 500,000 sats. Let's go!
Thanks to #[0] for the helpful link: https://docs.start9.com/latest/developer-docs/packaging
If you also want a nostr relay for your Embassy, you can add sats to the bounty by opening a pull request here: https://github.com/coinkite/bountsr.org.pub
There have been a lot of scrapped CBDC projects and only 2 launched: Bahamas and Jamaica https://cbdctracker.org/
Has anyone written a good theoretical play by play of how ineffective a CBDC would actually be? I don't have the background to speak authoritatively on the subject, but my intuition says CBDCs would realistically fail for all the same reasons that fiat does, but probably faster.

A VISION FOR THE NEAR FUTURE OF NOSTR
Imagine:
- publishing nostr notes that are attached to physical places and contain 3D geometry
- viewing nostr geo notes in 3D space via an augmented reality overlay on your mobile phone
- transferring value instantly via lightning
We can digitally terraform our entire world, opt into the content layers we want to see, and build a decentralized metaverse rooted in reality that isn't bullshit like all other metaverse concepts.
This isn't far off in the future.
- I already built an augmented reality overlay: yondar.me (still needs nostr integration once geo spec is usable)
- Geohashes are now a tag type: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/commit/d82599bc7f894a175174014d3afc44e428ecb99d
- We need a standard for geo notes. Help us define the spec here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/136
This is what I am excited about! I'll be writing more about the composite value of these technologies soon! ❤️🗺
The PNG image format is 27 years old and is heavily used still today. It was created by many people and published by the W3C consortium. Its specification is ~137 pages long.
In November 2021, an independent game developer published a 1 page specification for a new image format he called QOI and it is more efficient than the PNG format.