stelios
Stelios

co-founder & cto @ geyser.fund

Spreading Bitcoin is the way to adoption.

Public Key

npub1jknfxfjynyc6mk3juls0vf6mas8rs747ae9m26e7jn6x56kyqt3quttcvj

NIP-57 Address

ocaxe@geyser.fund

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsftf5nyezfjvddmgew0c8kyad7cr3c02lwuja4dvlffar2dtzq9cspr9mhxue69uhkuurjdau8jtntwf5hxarpwpekktnvwcq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7xlshvv

Publishing to

nproxy.kristapsk.lv

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1jknfxfjynyc6mk3juls0vf6mas8rs747ae9m26e7jn6x56kyqt3quttcvj

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Last Notes

2025-06-04 10:39:36

Bitcoin is global money, enabling financial collaboration between regions where it was either impossible or very costly before.
At @nprofile…f2t4 we have first-hand insight into these flows when it comes to crowdfunding. Let's check some stats:
50% of the funding that takes place on the platform is cross-regional.
56% of funding was received by projects launched in countries not served by traditional crowdfunding platforms.
Over 90% of the funding received by projects on the African continent was sent from other regions.
The best part? All of these transactions were received instantly, and at very low fees thanks to Bitcoin and the Lightning network.
Crowdfunding is a very powerful financial tool for change and impact. In 2022, we launched with a thesis that this tool needs to be accessible to everyone, regardless of their access to banking.
Impactful ideas can be born anywhere in the world, and connect with anyone around the globe.
Today that thesis has been validated, and we believe it's just getting started.
Money that flows freely and globally creates collaboration on a scale never possible before, between sovereign individuals, in peer-to-peer and grassroots fashion.
It does not make the headlines like governments and public companies adopting Bitcoin, but there is a silent revolution taking place in financial inclusion, and it is powered by Bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/ee6920ddbb7eea2b6257bfa698c4b130916cf599323003e455b2662835820b07.png

2025-05-13 00:57:21

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So it takes into account anon zaps as well?

2025-05-13 00:39:43

What do you dislike most about buzzbot?
@nprofile…eqlf 5000

2025-04-09 20:03:15

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Are you still getting the issue? I'm looking into it.

2025-03-17 06:29:52

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Bet!

2025-03-17 05:26:35

Projects by country on @nprofile…f2t4
Bitcoin grassroots adoption FTW! Interactive map coming soon 👀
https://m.primal.net/Pife.png

2024-11-04 20:08:44

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It's right there, and you're topping it!
https://m.primal.net/LsiQ.png

2024-10-18 13:43:39

This book is going to be so cool!
Help @npub12hc…rdp4 make it happen.
#note12nn…zhve

2024-09-22 15:14:15

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If I had to pick a next language to learn, it’d be Elixir.
Concurrency and fault-tolerance are built into the language. It is built on top of the Erlang VM which was specifically designed to handle concurrent workloads at scale.

2024-09-20 17:32:45

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Ha you reminded me of this:
https://geyser.fund/project/theorangepillsimulator by https://x.com/realUrbanHacker
Shame the project's website seems down...

2024-09-20 17:27:23

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Do we want 100% reliability?
Having lived both in organised/reliable and disorganised countries, I've come to appreciate a little bit of unreliability in favour of flexibility!

2024-09-20 17:19:11

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What about it being a single point of failure? Hard to prove the default agent is unhackable...
Perhaps if it's smarter than any human hacker :p

2024-09-20 05:27:35

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Another way to see it is that we need randomness.
We are guided by the information we process, and the only limiting factor in someone’s ability to control our thoughts is the interjection of randomness. Privacy means increasing entropy, and thus increasing randomness.
The issue is that humans are really bad randomness generators. If our minds are isolated from sources of randomness, they become pretty deterministic. Mentalists temporarily reduce your experienced randomness and manage to get pretty close to deterministic behaviour.
Luckily we more or less constantly source randomness from our environment. This is only true in so far as a process is random both to an individual and to the actor trying to control it.
Now extrapolate that to virtual realities. True randomness is nullified, every variable can be controlled and thus every thought can be made deterministic.
We should advocate for the injection of true randomness into any virtual reality we create to avoid giving anyone deterministic control over those that experience the virtual reality.

2024-09-14 02:20:58

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This was years ago, I think they changed their lndhub implementation at some point and the link I had stopped working.

2024-09-14 00:56:30

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I know they still have the 20 dollars worth of sats I gifted my little cousin. Never managed to recover them.

2024-09-14 00:03:11

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Would like to model this but need some help with getting the data...
#note1h5e…6jm0

2024-09-13 23:14:40

According to a paper published in 2015, WeChat user growth over time followed a Power Law with an exponent of 2.15
It showed that its growth is more closely followed by a Power Law than an exponential. I thought i'd be cool to see if Nostr's growth can be modelled as a Power Law too.
Taking the 6 month data on daily active users from @npub1sx9…6g8m and fitting a power law on it, we get an exponent of 2.415 and an R2 of 0.569
For the model I assumed the first day being December 15th 2020, around the time of the first Nostr note, and removed outliers.
The R2 is not very high, but the fit is visually promising. Still, it's too little data to really see if it's a good fit.
To do a proper fit, it'd be ideal to get the historical data for Nostr's entire history, assuming the same TrustRank applied by @npub1sx9…6g8m
If anyone has older data (even partial) using the same TrustRank, shoot me a DM!
#NostrPowerLaw
https://m.primal.net/KpHS.png

2024-08-29 15:45:23

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🔥🔥🔥🔥

2024-04-09 02:10:54

Who's the best NIP05 provider?

2024-04-09 02:09:28

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Worked out pretty well for BTC Prague!
https://geyser.fund/project/nostrboothbtcprague

2024-03-15 01:00:57

So TikTokers are coming over, are we going to get more video content on Nostr? 👀

2024-03-03 02:01:53

Rust or Elixir?

2024-03-01 15:25:48

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I heard he can’t afford a second one

2024-02-10 15:04:21

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where can I learn more?

2024-01-26 17:17:46

#note1jt5…m9jt
New reward features dropped on Geyser

2024-01-15 23:51:09

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👀

2024-01-14 14:54:45

Running nsecbunkerd
https://m.primal.net/HXoG.png

2024-01-14 11:25:51

As I reflected on the last few years, I felt inspired to share my Bitcoin journey thus far.
From discarding Bitcoin in 2016, to learning about Lightning and building a Bitcoin company 6 years later.
Enjoy the read :) #note145j…lech

2024-01-01 08:33:57

Happy New Year everyone!
May Nostr become a little more mainstream in 2024.

2023-12-03 18:46:58

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Thanks for sharing Nout!

2023-12-03 01:04:06

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Open to discover, what are your favourites?

2023-12-02 23:19:58

What are the best accounts to follow here? Help me get more life on my feed 🙏
Bonus if it’s someone building on Nostr!

2023-11-29 18:10:14

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Would this apply to profiles too (kind:0)?
We’d want what’s best for profile discovery, so maybe both makes sense

2023-11-29 13:38:16

GM ☀️

2023-11-29 13:08:32

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@npub1zuu…c2uc what would you say is the best way to label profiles/projects with NIP-42 between:
- Adding an L-tag/l-tag on the kind:0 or,
- Creating a separate kind:1985 event with the p tag of the profile

2023-11-29 11:44:30

Hey Nostr client devs, what’s the consensus for tagging content on Nostr?
A. A simple t tag
B. An L tag with the #t namespace (NIP-32)

2023-11-29 03:26:06

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Gm 🤙

2023-11-14 20:24:50

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I had a little something for a translation marketplace NIP but never adapted it to DVM. Maybe someone wants to pick it up:
https://github.com/steliosrammos/nips/blob/nip-115-translation-bounties/115.md

2023-09-30 03:08:38

It only takes a quick glance at web dev history to understand central banks will be re-invented post hyper-bitcoinization.

2023-09-25 02:47:55

Bitcoin can be a tool for empowerment, for a fairer world. Bitcoin can also be a tool for oppression, for control.
Bitcoin has no virtue, put it to use for what you want it to be.

2023-09-15 19:31:42

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Too true 🙃

2023-09-15 19:29:24

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Hey Marcel, thanks for the ping!Following user feedback, we’ve updated the bot to only post on contributions higher than 100k sats. ⚡️

2023-09-10 02:34:24

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🫡 check TG, I think it’s an issue with the node

2023-09-09 18:46:17

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Which wallet are you zapping from?

2023-09-09 04:05:48

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We had some issues with Zap validation that should be resolved now. Did the contributions show on Geyser?

2023-09-09 03:25:37

Time to update to a new Geyser lightning address!
From now on all zaps to my profile or notes will go to Bitcoin's Sranan's Fruits For Sats education project 🍎🍉🥭🥝
https://geyser.fund/project/kindertehuistamara
@npub1h0f…kvcg are they on Nostr? 👀

2023-09-09 00:37:30

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Hey, what type of issue are you getting?

2023-08-11 00:41:51

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Also have Plebstr installed 😂

2023-08-11 00:04:48

Is anyone else using like 5 Nostr clients?
Primal for Notifications
Damus for overall browsing
Snort for zapping with custom amounts
NostrChat for DMs

2023-08-09 06:10:10

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zapped you instead 😁

2023-08-09 06:08:18

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Around 3 weeks I’d say, we don’t know for sure. We rescued her a few days ago!

2023-08-09 03:48:43

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😁 https://nostr.build/av/fbe5049e6294b9167aa944183e2909aa1ea813ba214509f656785eec9671be38.mov

2023-08-09 03:47:07

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About as excited as Sacha https://nostr.build/av/eccfb7f3ab112bfc3b39c5836287563e9fb634abad870c34c83116a44780831b.mov

2023-08-07 04:17:37

It's the right time

2023-08-06 03:12:06

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@npub1y4a…cg7c you take the prize, will zap you 15.1k to your profile 🤙

2023-07-28 19:03:29

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Heavy

2023-07-27 22:09:04

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You bet

2023-07-27 21:44:44

Let’s play a little game to celebrate!
Last person to zap this note will receive the entirety of sats received ⚡️
Zaps will go straight to @npub17cy…4ml3 Geyser project.
Kicking it off with 10k sats #zapathon #note1ttz…xn5s

2023-07-26 20:57:40

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Nice, will check them out

2023-07-26 20:09:17

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Thanks for having that out until now! Is the operation cost the main motivation for shutting it down?
By the way, how does one safely backup? Are you going to re-broadcast the notes stored on the relay?

2023-07-25 17:16:03

I'll say it.
Github UI/UX has improved a ton since they were bought by Microsoft.

2023-07-23 13:14:59

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Would you always consider it an investment that requires a return? What percentage would you be comfortable simply donating away with no direct personal benefit?

2023-07-22 23:51:54

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And can this be decided centrally with an outcome that is different from the present one?

2023-07-22 23:37:35

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Should those be privatised?

2023-07-22 23:27:54

If you didn’t have to pay taxes, but you still had to place that capital somewhere that benefited society (ie: not personal leisure or luxury), where would you place it?

2023-07-19 14:19:19

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2023-07-14 22:43:46

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💯 Roberto! Let’s give more Salvadorans access to this financial tool 🤝

2023-07-14 22:35:27

#note1dmg…saun
Let’s go! Taking down financial and language barriers to make crowdfunding truly global 🌏🌍🌎

2023-07-14 08:57:50

We're hiring!
https://ostrich.work/jobs/naddr1qq0kvun0de6x2mny94jkuemfdejk2u3d95kkwetewdjhyt0sn7xg5q3qjknfxfjynyc6mk3juls0vf6mas8rs747ae9m26e7jn6x56kyqt3qxpqqqpmvya97jyv

2023-06-04 15:21:16

What do you think of eSIMs?

2023-05-31 12:43:02

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He is! He tirelessly shares every contribution made on Geyser! 😄

2023-04-25 20:11:37

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Happy to help with the implementation #[3] !

2023-02-26 01:46:52

Thinking of using a fake invoice and preimage to broadcast a Zap for on-chain funding on Geyser. What say you?
A. too hacky
B. is okey
C. nah, we need a new NIP for that
D. what the hell are you talking about?

2023-02-18 16:14:36

Spending my Saturday explaining the difference between bitcoiners and "crypto bros". How is your weekend going?