GOOD MORNING & GOOD NIGHT!
30 January, 2023
Bitcoin Block Height:
774,397
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🎙Quote of the Day🎙️
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- Our quote of the day comes from phil (npub1upm…g8fq) - “One thing I really appreciate about Nostr is the constant flow of good mornings and good nights as people in different time zones come and go. Without algorithms artificially manipulating the feed, we see these in real time and I think that is one thing that helps make Nostr feel like a living community. 💜”
One thing I really appreciate about Nostr is the constant flow of good mornings and good nights as people in different time zones come and go. Without algorithms artificially manipulating the feed, we see these in real time and I think that is one thing that helps make Nostr feel like a living community. 💜
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🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
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- Mandrik (npub1qex…82qk) received donations totaling 2.9 million sats from plebs for Amethyst support, all of which he has matched! He is looking for more projects to support. Let him know which ones!
Thanks to all the plebs who donated a combined 2.9 million sats towards Amethyst development! All donations have been matched. ⚡- stacksatsio (npub10jn…vcrd) sends note linking version 1.0 of nodestritch connecting nostriches who want to open lightning channels with each other.
I want to do something similar next weekend in support of Nostr development. Let me know which project we should rain sats on next! 🤙
This is version 1.0 of nodes on nostr #[0]- Infamous “Damus+” client fork renamed “SixT9” after larz.sats (npub132w…2j8n) agreed to change it.
https://amboss.space/community/6d41c0bd-6e39-40a2-a062-a809c2e8c2b5
quotingRemoved the Damus name and logo from the NIP-69 feature branch as requested. For testers, it will be called SixT9.
nevent1q…g6sx
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fnozi2iaYAAD_Ri?format=jpg&name=medium
- Twitter applies for regulatory license for payments across the platform.
Danny (npub1wpk…9pxa)
BREAKING: Twitter begins applying for regulatory licenses to introduce payments across the platform, which will "potentially" include #Bitcoin and crypto - FT 👀
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🏝️Nostrica Update🏝️
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mcshane (npub16vr…p2va) gives updates on upcoming Nostrica event:
- Nostrica ‘23 surpasses 250 virtual attendees.
just crossed 250 virtual #Nostrica attendees 🤙- Sign up for #Nostrica open mic. Bring your instruments 🤙
Join us:
https://forms.gle/qQAKNM5i7WR8fPze7
time to add some open jam sessions to the #Nostrica agenda 💜- Updated Nostrica agenda items
bring your instruments 🤙
some of my favorite #nostrica agenda items so far:
-Nostr & Music
-Index Scalability
-Nostr & Lightning: The Future of The Protocols
-How to Contribute to Nostr as a Non-dev
-Reputation & Spam
Comment your ideas on the agenda doc or shoot me DM 🤙
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2oRA5MMICpqO8Nvu2blO75f5MQeBDZy1WkSVYlUosM/edit#gid=1750259713
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🖥️nostr Tech🖥️
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- fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6) thinks it “would be nice if some relays automatically sent you a "curated" global feed if you sent a filter specifying nothing” sparking conversation on what filters a client should dictate vs what filters a user builds on their own.
Would be nice if some relays automatically sent you a "curated" global feed if you sent a filter specifying nothing.- jack (npub1sg6…f63m) sends note declaring he is on Keet by inviting everyone to his chat. Yegorpetrov does the same.
Curated could mean only posts from friends of friends, for example.
punch://jc38t9nr7fasay4nqfxwfaawywfd3y14krnsitj67ymoubiezqdy/ymkfg5fqrxa1ctyfc6rmdh4fwrnfwnxzosxe4h9osthwwz3kyccm9nwhmmxgettpmmyip33cpttpx6znfdpbaj4yp8bypwywz13gjrznyry99yctmwgacyeyybyrrwzknb6xxo8f1ru8m5y6wwa7mqeqirqmq7fe9pftd8z7nxorcsms6nzdt94s6exkqjzqmteij77apzoq7fqabbi6yebhmftqkiq1yo- Upcoming Damus update will add support for account deletion, seemingly in response to Apple’s latest rejection of its App Store submission.
code (npub1fjt…fnas)
quotingAdd support for account deletion (William Casarin)
nevent1q…4jgh
Fix some more context menu bugs (William Casarin)
pushed to refs/heads/master
http://git.jb55.com/damus/commit/e1578c0337c22e38cb70859af8f337c42005286e.html
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⚡nostr Business⚡
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- #Nodestrich, an Amboss community for Nostr Lightning node runners crossed the 21 user mark within 24 hours of its creation on Saturday. Created by DMNYC and djmeistro we are inviting all node operators of all levels to join, open channels, share knowledge, and build the Nostr circular economy. https://amboss.space/community/6d41c0bd-6e39-40a2-a062-a809c2e8c2b5
djmeistro✝️ 🍊💊⚡️ (npub1rcr…cfuz)
CALLING ALL NODERUNNERS
Join the Nodestrich amboss group h/t #[0] for the great idea
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🎩nostr Lifestyle🎩
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- jack (npub1sg6…f63m) posts a sobering check on the effects of coffee ☕ in the body, inspiring plebs to give it up. Will you go coffee free in ‘23?
gm! ☕️ http://cottageremedies.com/the-caffeine-conspiracy/- Nostr users face off to see who’s used the most mobile data while using Nostr. isabella (npub1x2f…7cje) says she’s used 80GB this month 🤯 and it only gets better in the replies! Have you seen an increase in your data usage?
I went through 80GB of mobile data this month hahahahaha 😬
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🩺Network Health🩺
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Pubkeys: 366,585
Events: 1,599,453
Relays: 267
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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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- We’ve seen an explosion 💥of new clients in the last few weeks. Our meme of the day comes from Susiebdds (npub1jt0…6q3n) and sums it up perfectly.
GM!
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Weekly Oped Special
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Be sure to check out our weekly oped special. This week MainStreetChungus (npub1pvu…d7a5) took a deeper look into what it means to be a pleb and the #plebchain.
🚨NostReports Sunday Oped Special🚨
Many new Nostrich hatchlings know the feeling. You open up whatever client you hear about (astral.ninja, snort.social, nostrgram, etc), you figure out that you have to hit the “Generate Key” button, you somehow save your private keys in a way that would make Satoshi cry, and you stare at a constantly updating global feed from a bunch of usernames you have never heard of. Now what?? That was me, the week before Christmas 2022, what the hell do I do now? That’s when I noticed a guy named @ npub1tvqc82mv8cezhax5r34n4muc2c4pgjz8kaye2smj032nngg52clq0rkrq4 on the global feed who kept using the hashtag #plebchain.
Now, we all bring some Twitter baggage with us to Nostr, and for me, that baggage was not feeling good enough to follow people randomly. Why should I? I’m a nobody, and it’s not like they will ever follow me back. But this was a new platform and a new paradigm, so I put that behind me and I followed Quiet Warrior. To my surprise, he responded to me in the simplest of words - “Followed. #plebchain.” Quiet Warrior FOLLOWED ME BACK! Why would he do that? I have Chungus in my name? Pleb after pleb, I started seeing “Followed. #plebchain.” Over and over again. It was magic.
In one of Quiet Warrior’s first posts, he explained that #plebchain was about the concept of value for value, you follow me, I follow you, and let’s do it before all the big accounts and bots get here. Little did we all know that this simple concept would blossom into a movement.
I reached out to Quiet Warrior to get his take on how this has grown, and here is what he said:
“I was really one of the forgotten plebs on twitter. Our first week on Nostr was like a birds first flight, absolutely liberating. I have never talked to so many like-minded, beautiful people. There is tremendous power in the community. I wanted to secure that. Hence #Plebchain. As it progressed my mind continued absorbing the power that the chain really can provide. Satoshi writes about a peer-to-peer network. What are the peers? Plebchain. In essence the Bitcoin network is built on the plebchain layer 0.”
“I also wanted anyone coming in fresh to Nostr to have a simple way to connect and secure the same experience I was having. Follow for Follow is powerful because when you gain followers you gain a voice. The algos kill our voice.”
As I think about Quiet Warrior’s words, I can’t help think about what #plebchain means to me. It is all about breaking the top down communication network of Twitter, where massive influencers tell you how to think. The plebchain is a hive mind for good ideas to propagate.
Why does Nostr and this plebchain concept resonate so well with Bitcoin? As Robert Breedlove says in his “What is Money” podcast – “In a central bank economy, if prices go up, you don’t know if it’s Jerome Powell’s monetary policy, or real people, expending real resources, to obtain a real asset that cause the price increase. #Bitcoin disentangles signal from noise.”
In a centrally controlled communications protocol, if a message propagates, you don’t know if it’s the twitter algorithm, or its real people, expending real attention, to express a real fact. #Nostr, and specifically the #plebchain, secured with #lightning, disentangles signal from noise.
That is what #plebchain means to me. What does the #plebchain mean to you my fellow plebs?
Written by:
@ npub1pvuugp6fyj6t6yeq9ajzv28p54w07sg6jpxvzuu5yc7qmu9edpkqm2d7a5
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Stay Classy Nostr.