ZAPITAL GAINS
Jul 19, 2023
Block Height: 799,386
Moscow Time: 33:30 ⚡/
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🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️
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“Can't wait for Nixon's grandchildren to rugpull that Bitcoin peg.”
BTCsessions (npub1rxy…hnp8)
Can't wait for Nixon's grandchildren to rugpull that Bitcoin peg.—--------------------------
🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
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Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces plan to back the USD and debt obligations with hard assets including gold, silver, platinum and #bitcoin. He also stated plans to “exempt the conversion of bitcoin to the U.S. dollar from capital gains taxes.”
🚨 RFK Jr. Announces Plan to Back USD with #Bitcoin
"Backing dollars and U.S. debt obligations with hard assets could help restore strength back to the dollar, rein in inflation and usher in a new era of American financial stability, peace and prosperity," he declared.
In addition, Kennedy announced his administration “will exempt the conversion of bitcoin to the U.S. dollar from capital gains taxes.”
https://www.thestreet.com/cryptocurrency/rfk-jr-announces-plan-to-back-dollar-with-bitcoin-end-bitcoin-taxes
Alex Gleason (npub108p…yev6) was one of the few activitypub devs I interacted with on the fediverse who actually seemed to care about censorship resistance…nostr is sucking up all the builders of the decentralized social web 👀🛠️” jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s)
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/dito-bringing-best-parts-of-mastodon-to-nostr/
Take two minutes and read this 🔥 note by gsovereignty (npub1myg…sn5p)
Explaining nostr to traditional folks:—--------------------------
Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.
And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.
It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.
There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.
It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.
There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.
Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.
Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.
If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).
The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.
At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.
Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.
💻nostr Tech💻
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Fabian (npub1n0s…lahe) from the Nostur app shares his thoughts on their direction 🗺️
Enable the freedom to communicate.
Reach should be the result of how many people want or don’t want to listen to your message, there is no reason for a third party or algorithm to be required in this equation.
You should be in control of what you can or cannot see. Who you block should be up to you.
Ideally Nostur tries to reduce the need to require or trust any third party in order to communicate, unless there is no other way.
BUT
Nostur is built for iPhone, iPad and Mac users. In one way this is a limitation, (e.g., zap restrictions by Apple) but if we are using the Apple ecosystem already, we might as well use it to our advantage.
Nostur’s target audience already trusts Apple with their data, their messages, photos, calendar, reminders, security cameras, etc.
We don’t need to store our data on random relays, and hope our contact list doesn’t get lost, or leak metadata to the public. We can store everything on our device, and sync using iCloud, it is reliable, and we already use it for far more important data anyway. Converting Apple users to Android or GrapheneOS is an uphill battle, I applaud people who take that route, but it’s not for Nostur users, we have people saying don’t trust the media, don’t use twitter, don’t use iPhone, if we keep going, we end up sending smoke signals in a circle. As for interoperability, we can still publish or export using nostr native formats so you can use your data in another nostr app.
Nostur will publish to relays, but our data is on our device first, iCloud second, and third-party relays third. And you can still use a personal private relay for yourself if you want.
With this in mind, Nostur tries to let relays just be relays, not personal storage. Using relays for storage might end up centralising nostr, in the same way email, which used to be decentralised, is now mostly hosted by google and microsoft.
If you disagree with this mission or direction, Nostur’s source is released under GPL-3.0 license, so feel free to fork and create a different version.
Ultimately, the goal of Nostur is not to get more people to use Nostur, but to get more people to use nostr.
Check out this new lightning backed stateless and serverless lightning payment links by
jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s)
All data is collected and stored in the lightning invoice descriptions which are fetched from your node. You can do this without having to run any server code except a lightning node!
https://lnlink.org
I’m so lazy I’m thinking of running the damus merch store via stateless and serverless lightning payment links. All data is collected and stored in the lightning invoice descriptions which are fetched from your node. You can do this without having to run any server code except a lightning node!
This is the same tech we used when selling merch as at bitcoin Miami. It was extremely reliable. I love these things, they are so easy. Integrating with the legacy fiat system is such a pita, It may just be a lightning-only store for now because of how simple this is. Here’s what a lightning payment link looks like:
How it works
The entire product page is stored as data in the url. When a customer click the link, the product info is decoded and rendered as a webpage. The data in the url includes
- The product name
- Description
- Price in sats
- Product image url
- Fields to collect data from the user
- Lightning node address
- Lightning node rune for fetching and waiting for invoice payments
This works thanks to a javascript library I created called “lnsocket”. It allows you to connect to your CLN node over websockets. Once the user fills out all of the info, a new lightning invoice is fetched with this information in the description, by connecting directly to your node. This connection is end-to-end encrypted thanks to the lightning protocol itself.
To your lightning node, it looks like another lightning node is connecting to it, but in reality it’s just a dumb client asking for things.
At this point, custom lightning packets called “commando” packets are sent to your node which asks your node to run certain commands. CLN authenticates these packets using the rune and then returns a response. This is pretty much the same as calling these commands directly on your lightning node, except now someone is doing it from a browser in a secure way!
Why not just run btcpayserver?
btcpayserver is cool and is more powerful, but I like exploring simpler ways to do things that don’t require running lots of software which can be challenging for many non-technical people. You shouldn’t have to become a server administrator to start accepting payments. It should be as simple as running a bitcoin and lightning node, pushing all of the application logic to the clients.
This is a similar philosophy to what we have in the nostr space. Let’s make it easier for people to use self-sovereign tools. Everyone deserves freedom tech.
Anyways, I’m still working on https://lnlink.org. I just added images and nostr address support! You can make your own payment links here! Try it out:
Pablo Xannybar (npub17rl…jtgg) shares a FOSS end-to-end encrypted location sharing app for Android and iOS that allows you to share your location live. It stores the location decentralized on multiple servers of your choice using Nostr relays with authentication required.
End-to-end encrypted location sharing app backed by Nostr 👀
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/app.myzel394.locus
craigraw (npub1hea…g9v2) Sparrow wallet v1.7.8 released with Taproot message signing (BIP322), and more.
Sparrow v1.7.8 released with:
Taproot message signing (BIP322)
Improved QR scan performance
Rename wallet support
RBF with initial minimum fee set
More: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.7.8
https://sparrowwallet.com/download/
Blockstream (npub1jg5…6n8n) shares a short clip about BTCRecover an open-source tool that helps users who have forgotten a small part of their #Bitcoin recovery seed 🔐
Learn about BTCRecover an open-source tool maintained by Crypto Guide that’s beneficial when users have forgotten a small part of their #Bitcoin recovery seed, mnemonic, passphrase, or wallet password.
#SovereignStories
https://youtube.com/shorts/mgSJyJ4Y48Y
jingles (npub1alp…6dsn) nostr.kiwi major release 🐦
https://nostr.kiwi/ 🥝
nostr.kiwi major release 🐦
https://nostr.kiwi/
- browse by communities and user groups
- progressive web app, just add to home screen and get started
- communities feed, communities long form, and communities chats
- 3 modes of sign in - nsecbunker, browser extension, your nsec
- #zaps - one tap zap on all devices, customize your list of zap amounts in settings
- #zaps with NWC and Alby NWC
- #zaps with wallet (browser and mobile)
- spam filters
- create user groups and browse feed by user groups
coming soon:
- simple client-side recommendation engine - might be taxing on the device, we shall see
- notifications
- DMs
No Bullshit Bitcoin (npub1hxj…agw3) Bitkit v1.0.0-beta.60: New Languages, Smoother Payments & More.
Bitkit v1.0.0-beta.60: New Languages, Smoother Payments & More
- "We’re thrilled to announce the latest update for Bitkit, which resolves several bugs and crashes flagged by our users."
- "In addition to fixing numerous bugs and crashes reported by our users, this release brings support for additional languages, enhances the experience of paying invoices from other apps, and strengthens PIN security."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitkit-v1-0-0-beta-60/
JeffG (npub1zuu…c2uc) NIP-99 for classified listings has been merged.
🎉 They grow up so fast...—--------------------------
⚡nostr Business⚡
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shawn (npub1clk…pup9) Block sues Visa and MasterCard over interchange fees.
One to watch. I know who I’m rooting for.
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/42653/block-sues-visa-and-mastercard-over-interchange-fees
Blockstream (npub1jg5…6n8n) The new Blockstream Jade is available for preorder 🌈
It’s time! ⏰—--------------------------
Reserve you next #BlockstreamJade hardware wallet today to:
🪖 Add FOSS redundancy to your #Bitcoin self-custody
🥩 Beef up your #BitcoinMining set up!
🤝 Get a loved one off an exchange
Reserve your Jade with the link below & it will automatically ship once our stock drops in October ⬇️
https://store.blockstream.com/product/preorder-blockstream-jade-hardware-wallet/
🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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Never go full Greenpiss
bitcoinaz (npub18x5…tv0k)
Gm.—--------------------------
I believe Greenpiss might be retarded.
They think that Bitcoin lives in New York and it belongs to Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink.
Never go full Greenpiss.
Stay Classy Nostr.
#NostReport