DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT CHOICES
Mar 8, 2023
Block Height: 779,936
Moscow Time: 45:78 ⚡/ $
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🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️
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“The point of Nostr is that different people will make different choices for how to filter things and where to connect to. You want to impose your view on everybody. Instead, you should be supporting initiatives that give the user more control while still keeping everything interoperable and open. That will create an environment in which your desired solution has more chance of being fulfilled.”
fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6)
The point of Nostr is that different people will make different choices for how to filter things and where to connect to. You want to impose your view on everybody. Instead, you should be supporting initiatives that give the user more control while still keeping everything interoperable and open. That will create an environment in which your desired solution has more chance of being fulfilled.
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🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
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🚨BREAKING: Silvergate Bank to shut down operations and liquidate bank. “All deposits will be fully repaid” according to liquidation plan.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/08/silvergate-shutting-down-operations-and-liquidating-bank.html
🔥 willcole (npub1du6…yf3c) posts Capitol Hill hearing where cynthiamlummis (npub15xq…9rv7) brings the 🔥.
Excellent line of questioning and logic from #[0] . Insane marxists who think they can stack rank what should and shouldn’t consume electricity can’t stand up to the most basic scrutiny.
ℹ️ dsbatten (npub13lk…lpsy) says the antidote to Bitcoin ESG FUD is data. Check out this article on the sustainability of the Bitcoin network. https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-mining-green-energy-sustainable-btc-network/amp/
New chart:
This chart says “bitcoin mining is the only major industry with negative scope1 emissions.
Reason: Bitcoin mining like eVs is fully electrified - so the only scope1 emissions are from using flared/vented methane aka emission negative sources.
⚡ QW (npub1tvq…krq4) Zapathon Part 3: #Plebchain is Coming. THURSDAY 3/9/23 5PM EST / 22:00 GMT. Last call for Dev Targets, final list will be posted today.
Zapathon Part 3 : #Plebchain is Coming
TOMORROW 5PM EST / 22:00 GMT
Last call for Dev Targets. I am finalizing a list to post today.
I need - Any and All Bitcoin Devs and Nostr Devs
💻 Amy (npub1f3c…3nu7) #NostrHack week with almost 100 people now signed up to hack away on Nostr design and dev projects.
Did you check out the #NostHack week almost 100 people have now have signed to hack away on Nostr design and dev projects. Pretty cool if you ask me! Some awesome things should come from this 14 days.
https://makers.bolt.fun/tournaments/2/overview
🥳 daniel (npub1aeh…4nwx) c= the LSP from Block joins #Nodestritch Amboss group 🔥
OMG c= just joined #Nodestrich
🔌 jack (npub1sg6…f63m) c= Lightning node begins “charging up” ⚡️
c= charging up ⚡️ https://amboss.space/node/027100442c3b79f606f80f322d98d499eefcb060599efc5d4ecb00209c2cb54190
🔔 Do you want alerts for Nostr DMs? We’ve been testing PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft) new Telegram bot https://t.me/pingstr_bot - Enter your npub and get DM alerts.
tired of missing nostr DMs?
https://t.me/pingstr_bot pings you on tg when you get something new; stopgap solution until we have better way of handling this 😉
#[1]
cc #[0]
💜 Welcome Azteco (npub1yn4…tec0) to Nostr 🤙
Hello nostr, hello world, hello universe!
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🏝️Nostrica Update🏝️
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mcshane (npub16vr…p2va) #Nostrica needs you. Comment your name next to any agenda item (see linked note) you’d like to talk about onstage. Many of the topics are open forum, so the more speakers the merrier 🤙
#Nostrica needs you.
Please feel free to comment your name next to any agenda item you’d like to talk about onstage.
Many of the topics are open forum, so the more speakers the merrier 🤙
More agenda topics are welcome as well. If you’d like to give a solo workshop or presentation leave a comment or DM me 🌞
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2oRA5MMICpqO8Nvu2blO75f5MQeBDZy1WkSVYlUosM/edit#gid=1611143832
mcshane (npub16vr…p2va) posts #Nostrica lunch menu and conference agenda. Breakfast & lunch will be free at the venue for attendees 🤙
#Nostrica lunch menu is live 🥩
Breakfast & lunch will be free at the venue for attendees 🤙
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R2oRA5MMICpqO8Nvu2blO75f5MQeBDZy1WkSVYlUosM/edit#gid=0
Tico 🇨🇷 (npub148u…ty0w) Learn more about Costa Rica before arriving for #Nostrica 🇨🇷
Learn more about Costa Rica before #nostrica
Today I present you our beloved "Isla del Coco" (Coco's -coconuts- Island).
We have our own treasure Island, with real pirates and treasure hunters! 🦜 ⚓ ☠️
Cocos Island is an island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica, approximately 550 km (342 mi; 297 nmi) southwest of the Costa Rican mainland
It was a refuge for pirates and treasure hunters until 1994 when all missions were banned. Even a German lived there 19 years looking for the "treasure of Lima” and declared himself king of the island.
The island is UNESCO World Heritage Site, cradle of 50+ endemic species,and it is a treasure in itself.
About the "treasure of Lima treasure chest": it is said it contains the riches they (conquerors) had amassed since their conquest of the Inca Empire in the 16th century. They entrusted the British sea captain William Thompson to hide the treasure aboard his ship, the Mary Dear, and sail around until it was safe to return to Lima.
Instead, Thompson and his crew killed the Spanish viceroy’s guards and took off with the loot. When a Spanish ship captured the Mary Dear, the entire crew was executed except for Thompson and his first mate, who promised to reveal where they had buried the treasure. But when they reached Cocos Island, Thompson and his mate escaped into the jungle, and were never heard from again. Since then, more than 300 expeditions have tried—and failed—to find the Treasure of Lima. The lost haul, which reportedly included a life-size solid-gold image of the Virgin Mary encrusted in gems, is thought to be worth around $200 million today💎🔆🌀
It's said Satoshi himself lives in the Island, feeding on coconuts and wild animals. He is holding his keys engraved on a hidden stone inside a cave ...
Let's sail to the Island #[0] #[1] ?
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💻nostr Tech💻
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arkinox (npub1ark…h43w) Nostr metaverse client ONOSENDAI visualizes objects on the Nostr protocol in an interactive 3D 'cyberspace'
NEW NOSTR CLIENT ANNOUNCEMENT:
ONOSENDAI オノセンダイ
a cyberspace client for the one true metaverse: nostr
🌌 https://onosendai.tech 🌌 (hint: in alpha. desktop/android works best right now)
ONOSENDAI visualizes objects on the nostr protocol in an interactive 3D world referred to as 'cyberspace'.
⚡ Semantic Coordinate System (✅)
Each nostr note (kind 1) is assigned a 3D point in cyberspace based on the _meaning_ of its content using a 256-bit simhash. This unbiased algorithm maps all notes to a 3D universe you can explore.
⚡ Proof of Work for Localization of Constructs (wip🛠️)
Placing 3D objects in Cyberspace is a self-evident necessity. Kind 10333 notes may be published with content set to a common 3D format to create public 3D visualizations. Proof of work can be utilized to mine the event ID hash which determines the coordinate location. Proof of work is the only way to claim cyberspace real estate.
⚡ Presence (wip🛠️)
Ephemeral events could be used to *optionally* share your current position in cyberspace so that other users can visualize your movement and interact with you.
💡 Rationale
Cyberspace (in this context) is an early-internet trope from the 80s. It's an enthusiastic and naive speculation on the future of network-connected computers and how humans might use them. Ultimately, instead of interacting in 3D virtual spaces, humans ended up interacting via documents in web browsers which is much more practical and efficient than 3D visualizations.
Besides the problem of visualizing content, there are several more critical problems with the concept of cyberspace that are rarely (if ever) addressed in fiction:
- Who hosts it?
- Who decides how it looks?
- Who owns the content?
- Who makes the rules?
- Who assigns the space?
- Who controls it?
These questions are answered satisfactorily in the era of bitcoin and nostr:
- Who hosts it? nostr relays
- Who decides how it looks? nostr clients like ONOSENDAI
- Who owns the content? users cryptographically own their content
- Who makes the rules? open source consensus
- Who assigns the space? an impartial algorithm + proof of work
- Who controls it? 🖕NOBODY🖕
In my opinion, it is only in the context of bitcoin and nostr that something like cyberspace could make sense. Without the decentralized properties of nostr and bitcoin, cyberspace is just another 3D game owned by a company. However, when cyberspace is decentralized, enforces property rights, responds to proof of work, and enables instant value transfer, it becomes something entirely different.
Because cyberspace inherits all of these unique properties from nostr and because value transfer can be executed in cyberspace through bitcoin lightning, I argue that it is time for humanity to take another look at this dusty old concept and start exploring it with renewed interest.
I, unlike many metaverse enthusiasts, have a strong moral preference for reality over illusion. The idealized metaverse or cyberspace worlds that Meta and the like want to build are nothing more than a drug used to extract resources from miserable VR-goggled souls. That is the fiat version of cyberspace and it sucks. I am not interested in building clever simulations that seek to replace reality. I want to build tools that enable people to connect and be more productive. I want to open up new channels for communication, innovation, and human flourishing in reality.
Cyberspace is a new way to visualize the new paradigm for digital communication and property. It is wholly based around cryptography and digital ownership. If not for these things, cyberspace would be irrelevant.
A cyberspace built on decentralized protocols and sound money — nostr and bitcoin — has the potential to be something innovative, healthy, and ultimately productive for humanity. Cyberspace can be something where wealth is not extracted but rather generated by work and free markets. Cyberspace could be a new medium of connection built on sound principles that can enable humanity to do new things not previously dreamed of.
If it were not for the profound inventions of bitcoin and nostr, these aspirations would be nothing but ludicrous and delusional. In fact, any metaverse or cyberspace built outside of the context of bitcoin and nostr are delusional at best and Machiavellian at worst. Spoiler: it's the latter in most cases. But we have the opportunity to build something better. We have the winning hand. Let's make it happen.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Let's build. Read lots more and contribute at https://github.com/arkin0x/ONOSENDAI
Made with love posthaste,
arkinox
PS - I'd rather have reposts than zaps! Tell your friends! Thank you! 💜
jleger2023 (npub1t9a…h4uw) updated NostrGram's auto-scroll. Now when you click on a note while auto-scrolling it pauses automatically.
Just updated NostrGram's auto-scroll so when you click on a note while it's auto-scrolling it pauses automatically. When you close the thread it starts back up again.
hodlbod (npub1jlr…ynqn) Coracle.social 0.2.16 released with new onboarding workflow to help new users get up and running.
coracle.social 0.2.16 is out! Mostly small improvements this time around, but I did add a new onboarding workflow that should help newbies get going. Also, thanks to #[0] @morkowski
- [x] Add search by nip05 (@fiatjaf)
- [x] Fix feed to show more variety
- [x] Beautify notes, modals, reaction buttons
- [x] Add uploads to replies
- [x] Sort replies descending
- [x] Add prettier for formatting
- [x] Refine feed loading to prevent hanging or missing content
- [x] Add new onboarding workflow
- [x] Fix various bugs related to zaps (@fiatjaf)
- [x] Fix horizontal scrolling on profile page (@morkowski)
- [x] Update README with instructions for running manually (@gourcetools)
- [x] Add profile info modal to profile view (@igmaat)
- [x] Optimize event deduplication (@fiatjaf)
- [x] Clean up QR codes
- [x] Give cards a slight border
- [x] Tweak background for image mat
- [x] Set route name to document title
ryzizub (npub1eqm…hexk) New Plebstr release adds support for mentioned notes with previews. Support for DMs and zapping coming soon.
Uploading a new version of plebstr 0.1.0 🔥
Lots of fixes, optimizations and also new support for mentioned posts, which will have a preview now (if there is more than 1 mentioned, the stack of them will be shown, so it will not make posts super large on load)
We are also working hard to add DM’s and zapping really soon 💪
PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft) Somehow, some way, a Nostr dev kit is coming.
damn, did we all built the same thing? I also already built an NDK that I've been using for my projects 😂
PABLOF7z (npub1l2v…ajft) creates new tool to make it easier to find user npubs.
this morning I wanted to tag #[0] on a note and found it annoying to get his npub
this bugged me a bunch of times on many clients so I made this 👇
https://github.com/pablof7z/nostr-npub
cc #[1]
nostr.build (npub1nxy…avr7) shares new tool from finch ☦️ (npub1u5t…du5e) that instantly copies the the nostr.build image link to your iOS clipboard upon upload.
All, #[0] created a really cool iOS shortcut that allows you to instantly upload to nostr.build from your image library, and receive the link to your iOS clipboard , more details below🤯🤯🤯
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dcs (npub1cld…rps5) Big release for python nostr-relay.
Big release for #python nostr-relay today!
* Added full-text index, compatible with NIP-50
* Added the purple server – the fastest way to serve nostr websockets...
* Added validator to limit "hellthreads"
* Enabled NIP-05 identity provider for LMDB backend
* Made many micro-optimizations to the LMDB backend and json handling.
* Improved compatibility with python < 3.11
* Consolidated and improved query validation
Changelog: https://code.pobblelabs.org/fossil/nostr_relay/doc/tip/docs/CHANGELOG.md
And a new document on performance tuning tips: https://code.pobblelabs.org/fossil/nostr_relay/doc/tip/docs/performance.md
LightningNetwork+ (npub17tl…zsxj) New Mining Dev Kit from Block
📣 Block announced yet another dev kit for the #bitcoin ecosystem:
⛏️ Mining Dev Kit:
https://www.mining.build/the-mining-development-kit-unlocking-innovation-in-bitcoin-mining/
This is in addition to the two other kits already announced earlier:
⚡️ Lightning Dev Kit:
https://lightningdevkit.org
🌽 Bitcoin Dev Kit:
https://bitcoindevkit.org
djmeistro✝️ 🍊💊⚡️ (npub1rcr…cfuz) #Nodestrich is an Amboss headliner now.
Oh snap #nodestriches, we're officially on amboss's front page
#[0]
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⚡nostr Business⚡
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BitBox (npub1tg7…cxmt) announces partnership with Pocket Bitcoin to allow users to buy bitcoin without extensive KYC.
🎉 We are happy to announce our partnership with Pocket Bitcoin (@#[0] ). 🎉
BitBox users can now safely buy Bitcoin without extensive KYC directly in the BitBoxApp.
Try the implementation within the next week and earn 10,000 sats on top! 💰
[Announcement](https://shiftcrypto.ch/blog/announcing-a-new-partnership-bitbox-pocket-bitcoin/)
bryan (npub1dld…fd8s) reminds everyone that “Retirement accounts are confiscatable shit coins” and shares article about violence in Paris after the French Govt. raises retirement age.
Violence erupts in Paris after the French Govt raised the retirement age.
Retirement accounts are confiscatable shit coins.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11830039/France-strikes-Trains-grind-halt-schools-shut-refineries-blockaded-pensions.html
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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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BTCsessions (npub1rxy…hnp8)
Mmmm feels good
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Stay Classy Nostr.