Why #Nostr Matters (by lopp)
Nostr is a new protocol for censorship resistant speech and social sharing. It has great potential but has plenty of challenges to overcome.
👋 Follow your fellow #bitcoin #lightning node runners on #nostr who are supporting the LN ecosystem and enabling zaps ⚡️ to go through:
⚡️ Xapo Bank, a leading #Bitcoin custodian and licensed private bank, is now using Lightspark to offer #Lightning based Bitcoin payments
https://www.lightspark.com/news/lightspark-partners-with-xapo-bank
📢 #[0] Dorsey’s digital payment company Block Inc. will be using its own #Bitcoin reserves to provide liquidity to Bitcoin’s #LightningNetwork. Meet the new LSP: C=
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🏦 Xapo Bank partners with Lightspark, becoming the 1st fully licensed private bank to offer #Bitcoin payments through #Lightning integration ⚡️
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqOyjekXoBk30lM?format=jpg&name=medium
Bitcoin belongs to no-one. Bitcoin belongs to everyone.
#Bitcoin's unique decentralized nature allows it to transcend traditional financial systems controlled by governments, corporations, or individuals, making it a truly decentralized currency. By eliminating the need for government-issued fiat money, Bitcoin offers an alternative that mitigates some of the ills associated with centralized currency, such as inflation, government manipulation, and the funding of unnecessary, immoral, and destructive activities, such as wars. At the same time, Bitcoin retains the essential practical functions of money, enabling the voluntary exchange of goods and services, which facilitates prosperity and societal progress.
📊 My most used #bitcoin #lightning⚡️ channels have routed appr. 10-30x of their capacity both ways in a year. On the low end: 2-3x. The traffic is made up of a huge number of mostly micro: up to 1K sat ($0.2), and lots of small: up to 1M sat ($200) transactions. 🙌
🎙️ Vitor Pamplona on building the android #nostr app Amethyst on the Kevin Rooke show
here are a couple good links:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md
https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/nostr-account-nip-05-verified/
in the case of LN+, I could see each node runners profile having a field where you can enter your npub. This would automatically setup the Nip-05 verification on lightningnetwork.plus. Then node runners could communicate over nostr and have verification the node runner they are interacting with on LN+ is the same person they are interacting to over nostr
Thank you! The field for npub is already done and being filled. Will get the rest done soon.
Gracias por el zap! 🧡
Descarga el Libro de Trabajo para Estudiantes del Diplomado Mi Primer Bitcoin aquí: https://miprimerbitcoin.io
📣 My First Bitcoin (Mi Primer Bitcoin), a #Bitcoin education program based in El Salvador 🇸🇻, has announced a new and improved diploma program in English. Download the student workbook here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xioqC2FNtrKLs7iIfTKbgGrzPlN9vanP/view
Founder and project lead of the hugely popular open source CMS Drupal 💧 #[0] on #nostr: “love at first sight...” 💜
A head-to-head comparison of Nostr and Mastodon/ActivityPub, and how #Bitcoin #Lightning Zaps ⚡️ could revolutionize social media.
Why #Nostr is better than other popular social media services?
🤗 Permissionless: Anyone can create an account
🥷 Private: No phone or email necessary
🚫 Unbannable: You can’t be blocked
🟢 Unlimited: No follow limits
🔑 Ownable: You own your keys to your account
🐍 Long-form: Wordy notes are OK
⚡️ Financed: Integrated #Bitcoin #Lightning payments
✅ Verifiable: Attestation is freely available
📶 Quality: High signal, low noise
🍺 Free: No monthly payments for new features
🕊️ Free: Can change clients without losing account
💪 Robust: Multiple relays serve users
🍒 Customisable: Can choose your own set of relays
😇 Sovereign: Can run your own private relay
⚒️ Open Source: Simple and extendable protocol
What did I miss?
🔥 On zaplife.lol you can track zaps across #nostr in real time. You can also see the top donors, top recipients, top notes, and even see zapraisers (fund raising system using nostr zaps) 😎
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#Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement… The ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value… Lot’s of people will build businesses on top of that.
~ Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google
I wonder what he thinks of #Nostr. 🤔
🟧🟪 #Bitcoin and #Nostr can’t be stopped
THE NOSTR REPORT
LIGHTNING STRIKES AGAIN
Feb 28, 2023
Block Height: 778,709
Moscow Time: 43:25⚡/ $
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🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️
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The lightning is drowning out the noise.
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🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
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#[2] Damus iOS update APPROVED by app store bringing ⚡️Zaps⚡️ to Damus iOS users, as well as other improvements in the notifications tab, highlight/copy/paste text, and a bookmark tab.
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#[4] After Damus iOS approval, Zaps reach new ATH 📈
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#[6] tells us that nostr users have reached a new milestone of >10,000 zaps in a single day! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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#[8] Wallet of Satoshi alone has processed 150K #bitcoin #lightning⚡️ transactions/week. That’s ~10% of what bitcoin does on-chain. 🔥
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#[12] Easily find your fellow #Nodestrich lightning node runners. Amboss adds nostr pubkeys to Amboss pages so you can easily follow your lightning peers. http://amboss.space 📡🏃♀️
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#[16] NVK announces the end of bitcoinhackers.org, a popular Mastadon instance amongst bitcoiners. “Long live Nostr” he says as he makes the announcement 🫡 💜
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#[18] What’s Cashu ecash? BTCsessions breaks it down for you in his brand new tutorial video. 📽️
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🏝️Nostrica Update🏝️
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#[20] 20 days until #Nostrica and Angela is looking for playlist recommendations that evoke a Nostrica vibe. Send her your best ideas! 🎶🎵🎶
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💻nostr Tech💻
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#[23] Alby shares tips on how to setup one-click zaps ⚡️ with their extension while keeping control of how much you’re spending. 👩💻👨💻
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#[25] Cameri urges developers of native Nostr apps to stop asking users to type/paste their private key to login. Utilizing the device keychain or a nos2x-type solution would be more secure. 🔐
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#[27] Full support for NIP-19 in https://habla.news You can link a npub, nprofile, note, nevent, naddr and nrelay. 🤙
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#[29] offers an amazing nostr.build hack: paste the URL into the info of the image on your phone 🤯
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#[31] offers tip for increasing ⚡️zap speed on blue wallet. 💙
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#[33] Update to the Iris global feed for better curation. 🪷
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#[35] Wallet of Satoshi raises speed limit for consecutive zaps per person after seeing how much Nostr loves zaps ⚡️
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#[37] Giga-ZAPs⚡️⚡️(1-million Sats) to #[38] Vitor Pamplona on this note:
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⚡nostr Business⚡
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#[41] Zeus shares new information on their new point of sale system. ⚡🌩️⚡
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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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Stay Classy Nostr.
Since you tagged me, you can find nostr users running lighting nodes here: https://lightningnetwork.plus/nostr_nodes
The capacity to learn is a gift. Use it wisely! #bitcoin
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Oh yeah. I forgot to mention how cool it is that you can get verified (on my todos) and post long format notes without paying the $8/m. 🤩
🤩 #[0] doesn’t kid around on #nostr. He’s stress testing the #bitcoin #lightningnetwork⚡️ with hundreds of millions of sats. 👏👏👏
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqGggJnaUAE0LXz?format=jpg&name=medium