melvincarvalho
Melvin Carvalho

https://melvincarvalho.com/

Mathematician and Web Developer

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npub1melv683fw6n2mvhl5h6dhqd8mqfv3wmxnz4qph83ua4dk4006ezsrt5c24

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melvincarvalho@btip.nl

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relay.damus.io

nostr.mom

relay.nostr.bg

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2024-11-02 05:52:55

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Appreciate the perspective! The strength ratings are meant as a guide to highlight key points in the analysis, but they're not absolute. The goal is simply to give structure to the insights, which anyone can interpret as they see fit.

2024-11-02 05:43:59

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I used an impartial bot to analyze the note above for propagandistic content. See table below.
While there’s a good point about the increase in TLDs, global names clearly have utility, as shown by the fact that people are willing to pay for them. A system that provides a level playing field and avoids large price increases (like those seen with ENS) would be ideal.
One possible approach is to let users choose their short names, with a tie-breaking method if multiple users want the same name. Bitcoin's UTXO model could be well-suited for this purpose, though Namecoin faced challenges with implementation.
https://image.nostr.build/559492aca9aa4e481912909f5996165595499136968630958ed2ab1ae1ea9583.jpg

2024-11-01 20:34:51

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Bitcoin was not built for any one reason. It had a number of different properties, without knowing which, if any would take off.
Of all of them, the SoV use case, was perhaps the most unlikely. But it ended up being the one that caught people's imaginations. Nobody knew at $7 that it would go to $70,000, but that's what happened. Amazingly.
Now, an important thing. Given that is how bitcoin has developed, there is a social contract between those that build it, work on it, maintain it, and the user base. We have to respect the way in which bitcoin is used. And that is primarily as a SoV.
Anyone that is NOT doing that is simply flexing, and putting their own ego before the project. These are the dangerous people, because they will bur the thing to the ground if they dont get what they want, far more than any competitor.
As you rightly state, bitcoin is for everyone, and that gives them the freedom to do what they want with bitcoin. Anyone saying otherwise is an attack on bitcoin.

2024-10-31 23:41:40

A very fortunate thing is that #nostr and #pubkey use exactly the same private keys. With that private key you can recreate the whole of your nostr account. And with the SAME private key you can recreate the whole of your pubkey account. Users in one system get all the features of the other for free. Whether by design or luck, this works out well for the users of both systems.

2024-10-30 13:32:02

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Surely using multiple mints is a *higher* probability of getting rugged. Just you wont lose everything (hopefully!).

2024-10-30 08:17:57

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Click on the settings icon

2024-10-28 15:48:22

Censorship resistant DNS might be the solution we never knew we needed.
TIL: #pubky also does decentralized storage. From chat:
"You can still have your data in 10 redundant homeservers in many jurisdictions. If the one you are pointing to in Pkarr goes down, you update the record to the next one."

2024-10-27 06:34:18

OmniParser is a model that you can run your self and splits the screen into logical elements. You can then use that to create actions that will interact with applications, on behalf of the user. Pay a bill, book a restaurant, create some art. Lots of utility in there. The future is Agentic.
https://microsoft.github.io/OmniParser/
https://image.nostr.build/4b0787d3df783178f29b57d3a1257d42e784739037229b3ee84c3e43ece75e3f.png

2024-10-19 20:12:06

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Yes, I like it. Very much user controlled "small data" setup. 100% contrast to the web giants "big data" approach. Not sure anyone other that me will want it, but Im glad to have it.

2024-10-19 17:06:10

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in this case, but anyone can host videoes and playlists anywhere
and anyone can run a server
#solid doesnt have nodes, just a normal web server with a few modifications or upgrades ... this is completely compatible with the regular web and regular cloud

2024-10-19 16:09:58

#sandymount video with decentralized playlists using #solid and #nostr means anyone, machines and human, can create a playlist, share it, and play videos in a 100% decentralized system. Plus standards compliance via schema.org
https://play-grounds.github.io/sandymount/video.html?uri=https://foaf1.solid.social/public/video.json

2024-10-19 13:56:31

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Good call. Pretty much every sentence in that abstract is propaganda and/or wrong.
However bitcoin is not a single purpose thing. It has a few different properties and functions. And it was designed in that way, not knowing which one(s) would take off. Now we know more.

2024-10-19 04:50:33

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Nostr is like a car radio.
People go to sit in a car and listen to music.
They dont even know (yet) that the car can turn move or drive.
Because they are happy listening to the music.

2024-10-19 04:37:15

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They are just web servers. you have to run a web server first, to run a websocket server.
There are millions more web server that can pop up on clearnet or onion because its easier, and harder to track

2024-10-19 04:28:32

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relays are just web servers

2024-10-17 19:14:53

The very best coding models and workflows, right now are roughly Satoshi level intelligence. Imagine what could be built with a new Satoshi, or 2, or 5!

2024-10-17 13:04:50

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As Assange said, we are lied into almost every war by the media.

2024-10-17 12:58:03

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We like purple
https://image.nostr.build/0040404dda30af550e6e12cc3d7c653e1e15a0ee24cb09903de05c8c6acd8c54.jpg

2024-10-17 11:14:10

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It's pretty hard to measure temperature. Even with the most modern readings, because most of the earth is water, and we cant measure the deep ocean. The Argo network is under funded. Satellite data from the polls can vary. That's even with modern space technology. Before that we had proxy methods such as tree rings and ice cores which are even more sketcy.
But you can safely say that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, that traps heat. And since energy cant be created of destroyed acc. to the well-tested 2nd law of thermodynamics, you can assume that the heat goes somewhere. And that C02 has a log effect on temperature, with possible feedback mechanisms, mainly water vapour.
Figuring out temperature involves a lot more detective work that people realize. And scientists dont want to admit that, because it's red meat for the skeptics. Then there is the sensationalism in the media which doesnt help.
We probably have warmed about 1.5C in 150 years and c02 probably is a greenhouse gas that traps heat, on land, but in also some strange cycles in the ocean. There is an awful lot of detective work that is needed to come to that conclusion, but it's prolly just about right.
Whether this is catestrophic is anyone's guess. Probably not, but those wanting to be cautious have a point. Using it as a tax strategy is non-sensical, tho. If humans were able to solve simple problems, climate change might be a good one to tackle. But we are barely able to stop ourselves nuking each other, in which case we'll need all the heat we can get. Maybe we'll get smarter when the machines help us think for ourselves...

2024-10-17 10:57:06

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Once you realize that relays are web servers then you realize it's all fundamentally one space.

2024-10-17 08:53:49

Electrum support for #testnet4 ... this is huge
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/electrum-v4-5-6/

2024-10-17 08:05:58

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This is gentlemen

2024-10-16 23:46:56

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The opposite is true, isnt it? Nostr has a disproporitiately high attack surface of the web, compared to the rest of it, in terms of utility and scale.

2024-10-16 20:14:47

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Munich is probably nicer than Berlin this time of year, but expensive. Berlin is big. They say FFM is a bit boring, but there's some allright bits. Bayern is quite nice. Lived there 10 years...

2024-10-16 20:11:37

A relay is a web server with 90% of the useful bits of a web server turned off. And 10% useful bits of a web server turned on. The obvious thing to do is turn the whole server on, and you get a relay, you get nostr, and something 10x more useful.

2024-10-16 18:01:05

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yes, that's a bug ... so maybe ill just fix that then ...

2024-10-16 16:35:25

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I'm working on nostr authentication using schnorr signatures too
https://nostrcg.github.io/http-schnorr-auth/

2024-10-15 13:52:43

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, grew up surrounded by ideas about computing. His father, Conway Berners-Lee, worked on one of the first commercial computers, the Ferranti Mark 1, and was fascinated by how the brain works—often imagining what computers could eventually do.
Fast forward to today: Solid, a project led by Tim, is a platform that gives people control over their own data, like neurons that securely store information. Meanwhile, Nostr is a decentralized protocol that transmits messages across the web, acting like synapses between systems.
By combining Solid’s secure storage with Nostr’s decentralized messaging, we could create a more interconnected system—one where data flows in a way that mirrors the brain, offering a more flexible and user-controlled web.

2024-10-15 03:34:00

A myth in nostr is that if one relay goes down 3 spring up. This is an irrational myth. Observation is closer to the opposite. If 3 relays go down, one new one starts. Continuing that trend leads to a small set of centralized relays, which most people will use.

2024-10-14 17:53:49

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All relgions rougly equate God with energy. Even within a religion some take more literally, and others take it more metaphorically. The more literally you take, the more room there is for disagreement. Words. Tricky things!

2024-10-14 17:37:35

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💯 I think it was Rabbit that introduced the term Large Action Models. But I fully agree. Is the best way for agents to help humans. Agents are the new apps.

2024-10-14 13:08:29

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signatures + time chain to the rescue?

2024-10-14 10:03:53

I see it as being much simpler, really. From the beginning, Ubuntu recognized the importance of transparency to bring in a broad set of developers, and they put in the effort to make that happen. It wasn’t easy, but they invested in it. Nostr, on the other hand, hasn't put in that same level of work. That's why Ubuntu has managed to attract and support a wide range of developers, while Nostr tends to appeal to a smaller group.
I think part of the reason is that Ubuntu brought in a world-class community manager, Jono Bacon, to focus on developer experience. In Nostr, developers often get responses like 'this is dumb' or 'we don’t need this,' which can be pretty discouraging, especially when it comes from influential, often anonymous voices. So, while Ubuntu’s approach works for a diverse group, Nostr’s current dynamic is serving a smaller circle.
#nevent1q…85zg

2024-10-13 17:28:53

Decentralized social networking was supposed to be built into the browser. Mainly Web 2.0 VCs stripped it out. I think we should just put it back in.

2024-10-13 17:24:19

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Well, he has an advantage until others figure it out. He could leave and sell his bitcoin, but sell it for what? You have to find something better than bitcoin. And that is hard.

2024-10-13 15:53:30

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The most important thing you can learn in investing is called the "margin of safety". When you invest in something, sometimes you will have an edge. But there is always risk. The margin of safety is when your edge is greater than your risk. This is the simple technique that made Warren Buffett the richest man in the world. When your edge is smaller than your margin of safety you are gambling, and will eventually fail. When your investment beats the margin of safety you are on to a winner. That is exactly what Saylor is doing. It's pure genius. What's more he stated this strategy from the start and it has played out exactly as he said. So, if he took on TOO MUCH leverage there would be a problem because he's outside his margin of safety. That's the tight rope you have to walk if you are MSTR CEO and also if you invest in them. There's a little bit more around bit sizing, but that essentially is the name of the game in investing.

2024-10-13 15:30:58

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I had to put it on ice because of scaling issues. We've still not solved them yet. I will revisit this in the next year.
https://nostr.chat/

2024-10-13 15:06:55

A small step closer to nostr integration with the very cool activitypods project. That would bring another personal storage solution to nostr, and a large set of users potentially in the wider ecosystem.
https://github.com/activitypods/activitypods/discussions/199#discussioncomment-10928940

2024-10-12 22:29:13

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Been doing it for about 6 months, on and off. It gets easier with time. Sort of like a habit. What's nice is that you lose weight without trying too hard. I very often cave in and have a stack in the evening, but that's still OK. You dont have to be too disciplined, and it still works.

2024-10-12 21:42:23

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Very similar. I do D3 + Vit C liposomal + Zinc + K2 + salt water + Kalmegh. Kalmegh aka androphraphis is a chinese miracle drug that cures just about anything. It is alkaline and keeps your body ph in check. Plus of course grass fed beef liver. Didnt try E yet. 😀

2024-10-12 12:18:19

🚀 Excited to introduce the SAND stack, the first open decentralized stack built for both humans and machines! 🌍
Integrating 4 amazing technologies—Solid, ActivityPub, Nostr, and Ditto—this stack offers more features for users and an open, permissionless platform for developers to build on. 💻✨
#sandymount #SAND #Decentralization
https://image.nostr.build/616609a54de70c30cb72506e96b0ba0189b5667ac8ccb61c2faa1af325d2d906.jpg

2024-10-11 23:36:20

#ditto innovates in a very practical user-centric way. Nobody is doing more to grow nostr than Alex and his wonderful team. I hope it grows.
#nevent1q…nx5u

2024-10-11 23:08:11

Today I learnt that Netflix is one of the biggest 30 companies in the world. It's a pretty good service to be fair. But I think an open version could provide decent competition on both features and content.

2024-10-11 22:52:58

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Congrats. Though relays themselves are not a great solution for privacy. There will be other solutions that can be used, however. Lots of work going on in this space. I was talking last week to a startup that is trying to do exactly this with decentralized tech in the Solid Project, which has some privacy controls (WebACL) built in to the system. Good luck!
https://solidproject.org/

2024-10-11 22:12:49

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search: people like coldplay meme

2024-10-11 21:32:50

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Yes, that could work very well! Im not really an expert in these techs. But a way to bundle stuff together is going to be the next very valuable thing on the journey to creating a decentralized web. Would love to learn more and explore this idea.

2024-10-11 18:43:46

Open AGI will win

2024-10-11 18:07:27

It's weird to see external people that are aligned with Lightning goals and even the overall design to complain about petty bugs or small details -- well, even big issues.
"Oh, I like the idea of LIghtning, but it's so bad because I tried a random client and the search button doesn't work, therefore I will assert that Lightning is retarded and will never succeed."
Also fiatjaf: "The Lightning network is a scam"
https://www.theblockbeats.info/en/news/46987
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2024-10-11 17:03:12

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Yes, the original web 3.0 when used correctly, and with nostr is actually the web done right.

2024-10-11 17:01:16

No no no. "Web3" is an affinity scam, which has nothing to do with the web. Web 3.0 was literally already created by the inventor of the web, and yes, it powers solid. It works.
"The Semantic Web, sometimes known as Web 3.0 (not to be confused with Web3), is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards[1] set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
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2024-10-11 15:38:58

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💯

2024-10-11 15:38:29

Failure to understand the basics. Nostr is a RELAY system. The clue is in the name. Notes and other stuff transmitted by relays. You could take 100 databases and nostr would be the worst-in-class. It's not a database. Realizing this is incredibly empowirng, because you can let nostr be nostr, and let it do one thing well, and then you have almost unlimited flexibility to build a system.
#nevent1q…waqv

2024-10-10 15:26:19

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Not really. Nostr DBs are a string or stringified json with some meta data, and a limited query language.
Solid is massively scalable, blazingly fast data storage, that is compatible with the existing web.
Both project bring something to the other. For nostr you get at least 1000x scalability. For Solid you get payments, portable identity, single sign-on and realtime updates.
It's a big win for the end user who doesnt need to know what is behind the scenes.

2024-10-10 11:37:52

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Of course. I orange pilled its inventor. Ted Nelson is great. So, if you read Tim's book, he want to visit Ted Nelson. Ted wrote a book called "Literary Machines" and Tim got a signed copy. Then when he got home he sent Ted a check for the book, but Ted could never cash it because it was in swiss franks. Years later I paid for the book in bitcoin which cost 0.25 bitcoin at the time (I wish I had that today!). And proved to Ted that we could do transactions on the internet that worked. Probably the most expensive demo I've ever done. But Ted is now a bitcoin fan, and he loves satoshi, I had some good chats with him about it. Ted makes some great content still. Xanadu is great, but I think the web project won because it was closest to the status quo as possible, html was like sgml which browsers already used, and http was like smtp which email already used. Xanadu was more a shift in paradigm with transcusion and other cool stuff. I think it's still going, I like it.

2024-10-10 11:26:22

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Yes, I know Tim pretty well, been working with him 15 years. We made solid together. And there was a little piece of Solid that transmits notifications over websockets via pub/sub. Which is exactly what nostr does. But that broke. And instead of fixing it, it was easier to build up nostr instead :D. Now I'm putting nostr back into solid (hopefully). It's all one big jigsaw.
We were literally talking about fax machines yesterday. The young dude scribing said (did you say "facts machine") lol. Tim was saying we need to scan it, but there could be smudge in the data and so on. It's a real pain.
I've found dealilng with the NHS a real pain too. My sister has health problems, and I wanted premission to talk to her doctor. She gave permission, but surgery said she has to fill out a bunch of forms. That's just too much for her. So whole thing is taking years. Things will improve very slowly. I think at one people there was this whole drive to "gamify" the NHS. But it just added more layers of bureaucracy.

2024-10-10 11:07:59

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Was literally talking about this idea yesterday. Gonna take quite a while to get data in the hands of the users.

2024-10-09 19:40:06

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passkey, you send in a userHandle, string, anything which is associated by the passkey storage with the passkey id
so in sys you just need to store the passkey id against the user id
you dont need to send userhandle though, can be private, cleaner if you jist assoc in data yourself passkey to nostr id

2024-10-09 17:51:37

Do it!
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2024-10-09 17:00:53

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Still learning but you can use, for example a fingerprint, or a hardware device

2024-10-09 13:18:04

Peter Todd is not Satoshi. But his idea of "Single-Use Seals", is a Satoshi-level insight. It enables many things, such as verifiable audit, but one thing which is often overlooked, is that it allows the creation of a fair decentralized digital free-market, built on top of bitcoin. If someone combines that with nostr it would be the first of its kind. A fair digital free-market on a non-rigged base layer. That is potentially as big as bitcoin itself.
https://petertodd.org/2016/commitments-and-single-use-seals

2024-10-09 07:35:20

Never bring a towel to a knife fight.
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2024-10-08 21:40:57

One nice thing about integrating Solid and Nostr, is that now I can log in with EITHER my npub OR with username/password. Whichever methods I want to use. This is very similar to SSH where you can use either method, or transition from one to another. This is great for normies that are used to a certain workflow, and can "upgrade" to full PKI. The learning curve is not so steep, and can be introduced gently, as they become ready.

2024-10-08 21:38:08

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Nostr just relays notes from one user to another. It has no guarantees of storing events. It is short-lived ephemeral storage. Solid is long-term storage that can last a very long time, and with certain tweaks permanently. Also scales about 1000x minimum.

2024-10-08 20:14:28

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Did you ever watch Bill Still?

2024-10-08 17:15:03

Relays running on webockets have an in bulit ping/pong protocol. To test if a relay is running, and send it a ping / pong, you can use this command:
websocat -k -v wss://relay.damus.io/ --ping-interval 5

2024-10-08 16:53:28

It's perfectly fine to have a "I dont't care about growth" mindset. The challenge that’s come up, though, is that clients focused on growth can sometimes be held back by those that aren't.
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2024-10-08 15:37:14

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Primal was my favourite until I tried #ditto
https://ditto.pub/

2024-10-08 14:38:18

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mongo

2024-10-08 08:17:30

Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the web, or at least a key part of it, lines up quite a bit with nostr. The idea is to have different kinds of things that can be transmitted over a communication protocol—notes, profiles, relays, and more.
But there's a key difference. Tim wanted those "kinds" to be called what they are: Note, Profile, Relay, etc. The point was that anyone could create decentralized data exchanges and work together in an open way.
With nostr, it's different. Fiatjaf opted for a centralized set of numbers, which are essentially controlled by the NIPs. This approach makes things scarce by design.
The first way lets a thousand flowers bloom—developers build and innovate freely. The second approach has led to centralization that works for a small set of devs, but leaves the rest frustrated, contributing to an exodus because only a few can really get things done.
The takeaway? If you want developers to build on your system, make it permissionless from the start. Let them work in a truly decentralized way.

2024-10-07 16:36:39

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its not even genarlized json (that would be powerful), it's a string with meta data

2024-10-07 11:52:57

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I dont know in that case. But fiatjaf can change anything he wants, including the core protcol. With or without community consensus. Like when he nixed Paramaterized Replacable Events from the core. One example of many.

2024-10-07 09:04:35

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Relays are designed to relay notes from one user to another. They are not designed to store things, and have no guarantees of storage. Using a relay for anything more than temp storage, or micro storage (e.g. profiles) is a terrible idea. For communities what's needed is a storage solution and a relaying solution. Ditto is probably the best answer we have to that, right now.

2024-10-07 08:03:48

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That's great feedback & welcome to nostr! Which client do you use?

2024-10-07 07:34:43

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I dont know. The attacks obviously didnt help. But I think something has changed in the last month. Maybe switch to outbox model, or adding WOT, or some other changes. It's very tough for new users right now. Especially hard to follow your first person, due to a bug that was introduced when they changed how following works. But Im guessing.

2024-10-07 07:31:36

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I remember when we had only 2 active users! I think there's a sweet spot. Id personally like to see it at around 50k-100k users. Maybe wishful thinking.

2024-10-07 07:15:29

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At this point bitcoin cannot be said to have ONE use. Because look at all the different uses of it. We didnt know how people would use bitcoin at the start, or even IF people would use it. But it has become used by 10s of millions of people as a store of value. So there is an implicit social contract between the devs, the community and so on to protect those users.

2024-10-07 07:04:56

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Good to know, maybe the stats are wrong.

2024-10-07 07:02:46

Nostr daily active users. From:
https://stats.nostr.band/
https://image.nostr.build/69a766f49eee1f53a44e4ac86d203d6901168d37f7090d31495cc0176a8ab4e2.jpg

2024-10-07 06:51:34

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Yes that would be a plus. I think we might need a lighter version that is easier to get started with and do useful things.
Also I see it going in the direction of cashu integration, is my guess. And cashu want to charge on every tx. That's going to make workflows complex.
I see DVMs getting more complex, not less, and they are already very complex. Perhaps it's a good time to examine the most useful parts of it, and make a simple version. After all, nostr took off when the protocol was a simple 2 page spec. Even nostr core is a beast of complexity now which changes too frequently.
Getting back to simplicity I think is the path to success.

2024-10-06 19:46:20

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Apples and oranges. I'd compare nostr to IPFS, Farcaster, bluesky or mastodon —IPFS being a good benchmark.
Nostr and Bitcoin have taproot in common, but are otherwise quite different.
Main issues: dev exodus, and devX is lagging behind peers. IPFS, for instance, has a dedicated community manager. The relay network is neglected; I hope new companies step in or Ditto takes off. Damus is still a great public asset, while it lasts.
User numbers are falling, retention is low (per nostr.band). Vertical growth seems unlikely without a major shift. Despite significant funding, nostr's sideways movement, says something’s wrong. Nobody wants to acknowledge that, though, let alone fix it. So I see that continuing.
Even if there’s a surge, nostr lacks the capacity to match competitors, who are steadily growing. I'd love to see Jack, Tidal, Ditto, or others make a client, or better infrastructure, or a popular new app (maybe AI-driven). For now, nostr relies on goodwill—hopefully that keeps it afloat as a space of freedom for a while yet.

2024-10-06 11:59:59

New mempool space stats are really great. I stream myself sats on #testnet4 on an hourly basis. I can now see the monthly progress, and locate hourly utxos where I put in a good amount of work. mempool space is an awesome part of the bitcoin and testnet ecosystem. I sponosored wiz for a cup of coffee, consider doing the same.
https://image.nostr.build/c16bd86f0ecf78191db3f3e027307561e69a18b25079e7edfb6db3ac0e09535f.jpg

2024-10-06 11:39:37

I believe the way we do paywalls can be improved if you consider how the web was designed.
401 = forbidden
402 = payment required
403 = not allowed
Consider that public html is only one form of the web. Think in terms of a unix style permissions system.
The 401 case is that you dont have access.
The 402 case tells you that if you pay you can get access.
The 403 case tells you that your user does not (yet) have access
Can you see what's going on here? It's a progression. It's a workflow.
First you pay. Then the server adds you to the access control, after the payment is verified.
This allows you to send your nostr id over the wire, e.g. with NIP-98. And on the server, there is a small glue file (like an inode in unix) that tells the server who has access. New payee, and new access.
This was built into the web, and I designed it into nostr from day 1. Same system can do much more than paywalls, it's a whole web operating system, that scales massively.
https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebAccessControl
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2024-10-06 09:58:02

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Two slight issues with this. First, you have to trust the mint. Second, calle wants the mints to charge for every transaction. So, if that happens, you will get a more complex workflow for an API. It would be great if we had nostr native ecash, using npubs and schnorr sigs. I can see that working well with pay walls. But, good to try different things, loving the innovation here.

2024-10-06 09:06:16

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So far accuracy has been very high. But I will give that a try. Expression detection will improve with time too. I'd love to zap with a smile. I could code it, but it would be a bit clunky. It doesnt always know what post im reading without eye tracking, or making my own client.

2024-10-06 09:01:55

Today I wrote an electron desktop app, which notices when I smile. When it detects a smile, it streams me 500 sats (for good job!) over nostr and #gamestr, and plays a happy sound. Streaming sats over layer 2/3, w/ nostr, and gamestr in realtime. There is so much more that this technology can do when applying some imagination and creativity.

2024-10-06 07:07:05

Playing around with the face api. This is just a personal experiment. I want to code this, so that if a post makes me laugh, it automatically triggers a 1000 sat zap. Take back the algorithm!
https://pages.npub.info/test/face/

2024-10-05 21:59:03

💯
#nevent1q…pnmc

2024-10-05 21:57:29

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Yes, that might help.

2024-10-05 21:55:32

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There's no way to do that right now. I made to tool as a debugger. Hopefully the clients will get smarter.

2024-10-05 19:16:09

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Polls should not have been removed. There wasnt consensus for that.

2024-10-05 18:22:39

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Truth!

2024-10-05 15:49:27

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Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other.
https://lawsofux.com/doherty-threshold/

2024-10-05 15:28:11

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Great insight! In fact many of the relays that I pinged didnt work at all.

2024-10-05 15:16:50

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It is true. Because we dont (yet) have CDNs.

2024-10-05 12:25:31

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Always has been. John Perkins and Preston did a great podcust on this. But terms like "International" and "World" and "Foundation" fool enough people to think they are legit and insulated from the deep state. It's a clever psy-op that works. Unfortunately.

2024-10-05 12:10:45

67 active relays found (ordered by speed)
https://pages.npub.info/test/relay/?uri=active.json
https://image.nostr.build/b5d141efecbc0f834a77c40d49393782e7641dbcbbede73fb4189ef116bdc522.jpg

2024-10-05 11:28:47

Nostr has lost 78% of the relays that were running a year ago. Running tests.

2024-10-05 11:13:20

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This is true. That's because nostr doesnt have content delivery (yet). 400ms is considered unacceptably slow in most circles. And most relays dont pass that test.

2024-10-05 10:46:34

In search of the fastest relay
https://pages.npub.info/test/relay/
https://image.nostr.build/a0e9a8686eca33b33f84a7c756fa500970af6efc867713a7bc466e87e0443997.jpg

2024-10-04 23:06:08

#todostr
https://image.nostr.build/2db9f5e8382e21feb7d5a204f935e0f97c0dff3d04b524346c706a84d1131676.jpg