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CTO Fanfares.io Creator of #cyberspace meta-protocol, https://onosendai.tech OpenSats grantee Cyberspace community https://straylight.cafe Gamedev community https://t.me/Nostrgamedev

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 💭

Aliens: the new boating accident 💯

Replying to Avatar The Nostr Report

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. ☂️☂️☂️☂️

#[9]

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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

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.

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Zap Collections

A gamified content monetization concept.

TL;DR

You "collect" notes by being the highest zapper. A beautiful view of your shiny zap collection is on display at your profile. Author's can attach special privileges to their notes for zap collectors to enjoy. Collected notes are transferable.

Bidding Process

Every new note becomes available for collection. Users zap a note to try to collect it. After some time limit has ended, the user that zapped the most sats collects the note, and a shiny collectible version shows up in their profile.

Clicking on a note shows:

- the amount time remaining for bidding

- total sats zapped

- leaderboard of top 3 zappers

Bidding Time

A 24 hour countdown bidding timer begins once the first zap is made on a note. The timer resets every time the leaderboard of the top 3 zappers changes. After 24 hours of the leaderboard not changing, the bidding ends. Zaps can continue after the bidding time has ended, but those zaps don’t count towards collecting the note. That note is already collected, and so must be purchased from the current collector.

Programmability

Content creators can grant special VIP access, discounts, or privileges to the collectors of their notes. For example, notes could grant the collector:

- backstage access at the musician’s concerts

- a free daily meal at the owner's restaurants

- the ability to schedule a 20 minute video call with the content creator

- a claim to the first prints of the author’s new books

Transferability

Collected notes and the special privileges associated with them can be transferred to a different collector. Content creators can specify a transfer limit for a specific note, as well as a transfer fee (i.e. 0% to 90%) that the author collects every time the note is transferred between collectors.

Clients

Zap Collections is a powerful monetization concept for clients. Not only could the client developers become desirable collectibles themselves, but users will flock to whatever clients curate the best content and user experience. Zaps are a powerful content filtering mechanism to leverage. I suspect client developers will produce desirable collectibles themselves not only because there is prestige for collectors to claim a bit of history that marks a particular bug fix, feature upgrade, or nation state censorship event, but developers could grant VIP privileges and premium features to their collectors.

Relays

Relay operator notes could become desirable collectibles by granting access and features to collectors.

Content Creators

Content creators are rewarded for creating content that is

- higher quality

- more evergreen

- loaded with cool VIP access privileges and features

Curators

Users are rewarded for being early to discover great content creators.

Hopefully this post helps get some creative juices flowing for how Nostr can do collectibles the right way.

cc

@#[0] @#[1] @#[2] @#[3] @#[4] @#[5] @#[6] @#[7]

This is a cool concept. I love gamification. I need to read up on zaps but if zaps are public then this could all happen within a client. I don't think the protocol needs to necessarily support it.

PV 🤙 #purevida

What's the second best social protocol?

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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

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.

https://qoiformat.org/qoi-specification.pdf