Tim Bouma

Technically yes, but those smart card are looking for some extra stuff before they return anything.
As I stated earlier, it's easy to layer this stuff on later, when warranted.

2025-06-10 14:31:17

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Which is perfectly fine. I can layer that all back in when the time is right. The goal is accessibility first - enable someone's crappy Android phone to send and receive payments, first.
And by the way, $1USD is about a day's wage in most parts of the world. The tags, I can get as low as $0.10 and whi h can be provisioned and used without a phone.
Don't get me wrong, I take security very seriously, but in certain parts of the world, you can't even carry a phone with you, much less have the updated gear to read a smart card.

2025-06-10 14:20:15

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But it's cheap!

2025-06-10 14:02:41

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Yep, you can read the tag. Layered security my friend.
Encrypted tag, needs to be read by the acquiring server that signs any requested that are forwarded. The wallet service is accessed via a NWC secret (encrypted on card) that can be rotated at will. The wallet nsec is not exposed. Only the NWC service has the full security context to do anything on behalf of the user. The encrypted tag , if spoofed, can only be submitted by a 'trusted' server - an npub on a white-list otherwise the call won't be honored. Can easily graft on real-time fraud detection at the NWC server, if I want. Just another layer.
Still implementing all the pieces, but a layered approach.

2025-06-10 13:31:41

Hey old Android phone (Samsung A5 c. 2017) - meet #whitedot.
Instant wallet with funds!
If you don’t have a phone (or don’t want it stolen while shopping in the market) you can send and receive payments with your white dot.
#nostr #safebox - it’s more than just a wallet - it’s an entire f***king decentralized private payment network that works on old stuff.
https://video.nostr.build/b19d6c65aebb86371a2357508d28c06d996eba3edc373afbeb3e8e2ef53e456d.mp4

2025-06-08 09:39:52

It’s like the so-called experts have a log in their eye. They are so focused on CBDCs and stablecoins. They have zero-awareness of what going on with Bitcoin/Lightning/Cashu.
#note1kag…36zn

2025-06-08 09:36:17

https://www.economicsadvisory.com/comments/O-Mandeng-2025-Currency-Wars-in-the-Digital-Age.pdf

2025-06-07 19:03:17

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Yup. Why pay with Bitcoin at same price when you can pay with a devaluing currency in 30 days?

2025-06-07 12:54:18

GM
https://image.nostr.build/a671b949999f6b13b35db63d2ba6f6580ec69187689a77aad6be68cf17718c6c.jpg

2025-06-07 12:03:37

Worrying legislative developments in Canada
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/privacy-at-risk-government-buries-lawful-access-provisions-in-new-border-bill/

2025-06-07 11:47:53

funds + data > apps

2025-06-06 22:03:59

@npub1qkt…9qas A big thanks!

2025-06-06 21:21:14

It was a good week. I figured out NWC, NFC, plus got 2nd prize with #nosfabrica
#nostr #safebox
https://image.nostr.build/c7a6a91dcde6d742b3c61361f64a4838952dba52baec646d2af035c77ba44d1d.jpg

2025-06-06 21:07:15

Thanks for the 50k zap whoever you are!
#nostr #safebox

2025-06-06 18:24:12

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Here is my NFC zap wallet shown alongside #Damus where it is connected via Nostr Wallet Connect.
https://image.nostr.build/b5421435aa5492f153b7afba8381c16a13923cbbe3ae96125601335390863a74.jpg

2025-06-06 18:21:56

My zap wallet is now also a NFC tag which I can bring along to the beach with me to make offline payments.
#nostr #safebox
https://video.nostr.build/7981f75ca0eb9bb49a9467d7bdb1a3f7b86914823ce5bff67a77a76d3164f3ca.mp4

2025-06-06 17:38:33

Note to self as I start seriously relay shopping.
#note1e23…dk9m

2025-06-06 13:40:55

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I have encrypted data on the card. I’m not worried about that. I just need to know it’s being read from an authorized reader/app

2025-06-06 13:32:32

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I know and screw that.

2025-06-06 13:29:07

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Well then, I won’t use it.

2025-06-06 13:27:36

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I'm looking into that format, too.

2025-06-06 13:16:08

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*could

2025-06-06 13:15:46

Rightly, or wrongly, one thing that I admire from Amazon is how they tackled scale at both ends.
I can order from a global marketplace and have a single can of tuna arrive at my doorstep (yes, this has happened)
I have also seen how Amazon has personally empowered the older generation, where they no longer need go rely on someone to purchase doodads.
Like it or not, this is the ultra-wide spectrum model we need to embrace, if we are to win in the long run.

2025-06-06 13:09:02

This could be the key to my hotel room or to my #nostr #safebox zap wallet.
Or both!
https://image.nostr.build/22ea16a0c96d3057708a090f626eac41927cd723a77373d43bcf9d1fb337a4c3.jpg

2025-06-06 13:01:14

Honestly, this is completely nuts in terms of potential. I have set up a dedicated #nostr #safebox zap wallet which I have linked to Damus (shown below).
I have also issued a NFC payment card from this same wallet.
As you can see from the transactions below, I can do zaps AND nfc tap payments. From the same wallet.
It’s all Cashu under the hood for storing and redeeming funds encrypted on relays.
Nuts!
https://image.nostr.build/a584904612743141d038fe2209fdff3fcc90bd35cb544358bc4774fac0485c16.jpg

2025-06-06 12:41:54

I’ve seen this movie before… When you are building something brand new, this is what happens:
UX people tell you it’s not inclusive.
Security people tell you it’s insecure.
Bean counters tell you it’s too expensive.
Investors tell you there is no business model.
Incumbents tell you they’ve already built it.
Governments tell you it’s illegal.
If you dig deep into the motivations of all these parties, what they are really saying is that they want control and you should be seeking their permission to build something new. Most innovators capitulate to one or more of these parties because there is a point of control (gatekeeping) that they cannot overcome.
For the first time in my storied career, with #nostr I don’t have to ask anyone’s permission to build what I am building. No turning back.
This is #nostr #safebox
#note1ysg…fnzy

2025-06-06 12:20:43

"These AI tools are already smarter than us, I want to build my own thinking. The limiting factor for me won't be the tools - it'll be the questions I’m smart enough to ask."
~ adhd anon

2025-06-06 12:00:45

Pay by NFC
The phone on the right has issued its own payment card in the middle.
The phone on the left requests a payment of 21 sats and scans the issued card.
Payment goes through. Payment received and sending wallet sees final transaction.
#nostr #safebox
https://video.nostr.build/5e8a61e8ddf0ba006e738623f29e00fd5518dfc2a0145272b409e235013e5954.mp4

2025-06-06 11:18:47

Weaponization is not the problem. Unfair weaponization is.

2025-06-06 10:34:42

This should be the official board game of bitcoin
#crokinole
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/crokinole-country

2025-06-06 08:50:31

https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/history.html

2025-06-06 01:18:27

Pay by NFC now making its way into #nostr #safebox.
Each wallet can issue its own payment card which can be presented to any other #safebox wallet. It just looks like one big network like Visa or Mastercard, but everyone has the power of a bank to issue their own cards.
https://video.nostr.build/89c7f386858bab2c94defee34d679a5524b3569967f602a595d5e03ae173561d.mp4

2025-06-05 17:51:07

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Yeah, I actually built that in with #nostr #safebox cli tool.

2025-06-05 08:12:50

Trust isn’t just a protocol problem. It’s a power problem.
If your system can be gamed, exploited, or weaponized — people won’t trust it, no matter how “decentralized” it claims to be.

2025-06-04 18:47:28

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Thanks! I’ll be gearing up for this in the coming weeks.

2025-06-04 17:47:58

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Silly question - could NIP44 be used for encrypted media? I haven’t really dug into media yet. I expect to use blossom but only if I can encrypt.
For #nostr #safebox I am thinking of defining an encrypted blob type for storing docs, imaging data etc. Just starting so keen to go down the right path on this one.

2025-06-04 14:02:57

As an engineer, I was used to calculating everything in BTUs, so the shift to BTC wasn’t that hard…

2025-06-04 14:02:02

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I see sats being (if not already) a neutral reserve denomination. But thinking that a banana is a good deal, costing 189 sats is too damn hard, even for me!

2025-06-04 13:00:30

Still in the danger zone but you can issue your own payment card.
#nostr #safebox
https://video.nostr.build/c73fcdaeb796629b583965825bbd4cb78d54cb9a954c7ce30ab056a992f12d39.mp4

2025-06-04 12:48:55

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Price is a relative measure. Go to another country, give yourself three or four days and you’ll be thinking in their currency denomination. Most users never get out of their local currency environment and can’t even think in another currency.

2025-06-04 12:45:59

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Yep.

2025-06-04 12:44:10

This applies to most HODLERs too.
#note14wf…83ly

2025-06-04 12:42:47

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fiat denomination like USD

2025-06-04 12:40:06

The more and more I work on this payment stuff, the more and more I realize that most users don’t care about bitcoin/lightning/nostr/ecash.
They only care about having funds in their own denomination.

2025-06-04 12:23:59

Here is a close-up demo of the nfc payment. Still lots of dev cruft in the UI but bear with me.
The wallet holder presses Pay with NFC, the payer taps their card (not shown). The payment amount and card data is sent for processing. The wallet returns to home screen and the payment comes in 3-4 seconds later.
Behind the scenes, the wallet generates the invoice and forwards this to the card vault, along with the payment card data. The vault decrypts the card data, and issues the payment instruction via NWC.
The NWC listens for incoming payment instructions and handles them, like paying an invoice.
Meanwhile the receiving wallet is listening for the paid invoice and once paid, stores the resulting cashu tokens, updates its balance and indicates payment.
All this and final settlement of tap to pay payment in about 3 seconds.
#nostr #safebox
https://video.nostr.build/50dcce5816b3b6ef9733b3044577ce1d19d99b495741f1433e0da6c391edc465.mp4

2025-06-04 10:16:12

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Yup, but without the EMV

2025-06-04 10:10:23

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There needs to be a way to determine if the payment terminal is legit. As with the current payment card schemes, you’re trusting those payment terminals not to skim your card. You look at the fancy sticker to determine that the terminal is legit.

2025-06-04 03:54:01

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I am using NFC Web.

2025-06-04 03:52:54

Proof of work.
Payment of 21 sats using NFC card on Android with #nostr #safebox on left.
Updated balance and transaction are shown in Nostr Wallet Connect in #damus iOS client on right.
Instantaneous.
https://video.nostr.build/8cae0012419058a3739579f3f0eb38ddbc7b94f229a9379bf512104fc006f9a4.mp4

2025-06-04 03:25:26

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Let me phone Apple…

2025-06-04 03:17:17

I just created my own fucking payment card network. #nostr #safebox
GN
https://image.nostr.build/b33db1e132d1077e7486322f4e7fd7a6546e40372b11feb6414bcd4a847b0ddc.jpg

2025-06-04 03:00:05

Well, holy shit I got nfc payment working end to end with Nostr Wallet Connect!
The #nostr #safebox issues a payment card - an encrypted payment token that is written to a nfc card.
When that card is read by another wallet, it generates the lighting invoice, extracts the vault url, the encrypted token and sends the details to the vault
The vault decrypts the token, figures about what nwc wallet to send the invoice to via nwc.
The nwc receives the payment instructions, decrypts it containing the invoice and pays it.
Voila! It all works! That means I can issue my own nwc payment card and use it like a debit card on another #safebox that accepts nfc payments.
This replicates how the payment card networks and how banks provision a card you can carry and add to your digital wallet. With no banks!
#nevent1q…ftv2

2025-06-03 18:57:50

@npub1sux…krst I got your DM!

2025-06-03 18:53:44

Payment by NFC with #nostr #safebox
I have the secure plumbing figured out. Still more to implement but here is the gist:
1. Reader acquires encrypted token from card and amount
2. Generates lightning invoice.
3. Acquited sends encrypted token and invoice to token vault endpoint
4. Vault decrypts token and issues nwc command to pay invoice
5. Wallet pays invoice
6. Poll invoice and notify user invoice is paid.
https://image.nostr.build/2ed14fab88d993a1c92c7514617333dd60437cc10ecb89fff511c4b641f5cedb.jpg

2025-06-03 10:25:00

Fascinating strategic developments regarding the ability to project power.
Ukraine’s Assault Scrambles Kremlin Strategy
BY DANIEL MICHAELS AND JANE LYTVYNENKO
The Wall Street Journal
Jun 03, 2025
Surprise drone strike on warplanes hurts ability to attack U.S., other distant rivals
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine’s unprecedented drone strikes on Russian air force bases weaken Moscow’s ability to wage war on its smaller neighbor and undermine its capacity to threaten more-distant rivals such as the U.S.—a shift with potentially far-reaching geostrategic implications.
A sizable portion of the fleet Moscow uses to launch guidedmissile attacks on Ukraine—and would rely on to strike adversaries in the event of a nuclear war—was damaged or destroyed in the attacks Sunday.
The strikes cast a cloud over peace talks in Istanbul on Monday, where the two sides met for just more than an hour with little progress toward an agreement. Ukrainian officials said the two sides agreed on further exchanges of prisoners of war. Both sides sent low-level delegations, reflecting slim hopes of any breakthrough.
Russia no longer produces the decades-old Tupolev planes that were targeted in the attacks, meaning it has lost a cornerstone of its ability to project military power beyond its borders. Newer Russian planes are more modern and agile but lack vital characteristics of the destroyed bombers, most significantly their range and the quantity of munitions they can carry. Ukraine and open-source intelligence analysts said the attack also destroyed a rare Antonov plane Russia uses for airborne command-and-con
trol, another capability vital to modern warfare.
Of more than 100 Tupolev bombers that Russia is known to have, Ukraine said it had damaged or destroyed more than 40. Open-source intelligence analysts counted at least 14 damaged aircraft using satellite images and video posted online. It is unclear how many of the Tu-22s and Tu-95s were operational before the strikes.
Russia confirmed some losses, saying it repelled part of what it called a terrorist attack. It offered no evidence of repelling the strikes.
Lt. Gen. Vasyl Maliuk, head of Ukraine’s main security and intelligence agency, the SBU, said on Monday the order to destroy the warplanes had come directly from President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“The enemy bombed our country from these planes almost every night, and today actually felt that ‘payback is inevitable,’ ” Maliuk said.
After the drone strikes, Russia will be forced to rethink how it operates, stores and defends its remaining strategic-bomber fleet. Russia, like the U.S., often leaves long-range bombers parked outside and easily visible, both for operational reasons and as part of nuclear-disarmament agreements with Washington around the end of the Cold War.
Moscow has been compelled by Kyiv’s steady drone strikes inside Russia to relocate most of the planes to bases far from Ukraine. Indeed, the remoteness of the bases hit on Sunday is part of what made the carefully planned strikes so unexpected. The most distant is about 3,000 miles from Kyiv.
Keeping planes far from Ukraine has meant Russian bombers must take long flights to reach targets, giving Ukraine and Western intelligence agencies chances to observe and prepare for their movement, also adding complexity to Moscow’s attack plans.
Russia now will need to devote more resources to protecting bombers and other valuable military assets. The country has a vast air-defense system, but it lacks sufficient equipment to cover the entire country and protect against all dangers, from long-range missiles to small, slow drones like those used on Sunday.
Zelensky said on Sunday that the attacks on four bases had been prepared and launched inside Russia. The intelligence feat will sow fear within the country and likely prompt Moscow to tighten internal controls and repression.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia, who is seen by many Western intelligence analysts as deeply paranoid, is likely to grow more concerned about internal enemies and take harsh measures in response to the public humiliation.
Russia has used the warplanes to bombard Ukraine with bombs, missiles and drones, hitting a range of civilian targets and killing or wounding thousands of civilians.
The planes Ukraine hit fill a role in Russia’s air-force fleet roughly comparable to the U.S.’s B-52 and B-1 bombers. The U.S. also has stealthy B-2 flyingwing bombers and is developing a successor, the B-21. In total, the U.S. has about 140 operational long-range bombers.
Tu-95s, which first flew in the 1950s as the Soviet Union was developing long-range jet engines, instead use four turbine engines, each with a pair of external propellers that rotate in opposite directions for speed and thrust.
But Russia faces a bigger problem than the age of its planes, which isn’t an inherent flaw. B-52s were designed in 1949, and the U.S. plans to keep around 76 of them flying until at least 2050 because of modernizations.
The deeper issue for Moscow is that its aviation industry shows no sign of being able to design and produce a plane that fills the role of the Tupolevs. If Ukraine destroyed nearly as many as it has claimed, the loss would represent a deep blow to Russia’s status as a global superpower.
bombers represent vital parts of Russian and U.S. ability to deliver nuclear weapons in a war. The other two legs of the nuclear triad are submarines and land-based missiles. Russia’s navy has struggled in recent years to maintain and modernize its equipment. The readiness of its land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles and their launch silos is difficult to gauge.
The damage to Russia’s nuclear deterrent comes as countries in Europe have been stepping up spending on nuclear weapons. On Monday, the U.K. said it would build up to 12 new nuclear-powered submarines by the late 2030s and spend 15 billion pounds, or $20.3 billion, upgrading its nuclear-warhead arsenal. The investment is aimed primarily at deterring aggression from Russia and putting its long underfunded military back in shape.
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2025-06-03 10:02:15

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Yeah, Nostr DMs suck for reliability.

2025-06-02 19:59:01

Now that I've tackled a critical bug, I'm starting to take the training wheels off.
I am now keeping amounts of cash that I would typically have in my day wallet.
#nostr #safebox
https://image.nostr.build/7a112c1da4d57f994b8306040857005f06f8140278cdf6b68c43eefec31cbe84.jpg

2025-06-02 17:16:15

Thinking through a NFC solution with NWC. Can easily store a secret on a NFC card that can be read by a device. But you have to trust that device to use the right amount and not keep the secret. Ok for a first iteration for feasibility, but needs to be more secure than that.

2025-06-02 15:39:29

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Yup.

2025-06-02 15:38:21

Looking at closely to see what I don't have to implement for #nostr #safebox
https://github.com/EWC-consortium/eudi-wallet-rfcs/releases

2025-06-02 15:36:03

Interoperability is the #nostr context just means agreeing on the kinds you want to use.

2025-06-02 14:05:47

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I still vividly remember that vibrating pager and being paged on vibrate mode for the very first time…

2025-06-02 13:36:51

Once you realize what you can do with #nostr protocol you literally pass the event horizon where the shitcoiners, stablecoin bois and crypto bros can no longer see you what you are building, but you can still see them and the pointless things they are building.
Onward!

2025-06-02 12:48:48

Yup. And the two really boring things I am implementing behind the scenes for #nostr #safebox that users won’t care about until they need to care about.
1. A constrained custodial option, that not even the service provider can access or see the user data, if they get tapped on the shoulder.
2. Super private payment - a safebox can detect if another Lightning address has a safebox, and instead of sending fundings via the Lightning network, it is sent by private transport (#nauth)
The last couple of weeks were dedicated to implementing NWC as per NIP-47 (it’s working!!!) and tracking down a critical bug (solved!!!), now I can get to work on the above capabilities.
Onward!
#note1zc3…9ydk

2025-06-02 12:39:57

ssh has the simplest UX imaginable.

2025-06-02 12:28:25

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Subscriptions might be another form of delegated access. There are ways to implement this that is completely invisible to the subscription provider and which you can unilaterally cancel. Dang, another cool project!

2025-06-02 12:02:03

Nostr Wallet Connect is like putting your payment card into a social media app but without the card networks, banks, or the government surveillance apparatus.

2025-06-02 11:51:01

If you are a ‘subject matter expert’ you might actually be someone’s useful idiot.

2025-06-02 10:50:43

Don’t trust verifiers.
https://kimdhamilton.com/latent_surveillance/

2025-06-02 10:38:07

People just take for granted that their emails go to their inbox.
People should also take for granted that their emergency funds and important records should be stored in their safebox.
This is what I am trying to build with #nostr #safebox
https://image.nostr.build/d3439749e5767d0c1fb884f293253239805e9b26ca77dc3fbd887759e633318c.jpg

2025-06-02 01:36:23

GN from the #npug
https://image.nostr.build/9a3be921fb8178e4b79b78a0b255b24758cbf3aded45c1fa6fb932f31d2812de.jpg

2025-06-01 19:49:17

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Cool!

2025-06-01 18:03:08

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Yeah. It didn’t really work out, though.

2025-06-01 17:59:05

Money is supposed to stop cheating.

2025-06-01 17:46:05

It’s June. Time to take the winter tires off.

2025-06-01 17:07:23

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Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ELDmutHrXAy8wAzcKoJ3u

2025-06-01 12:39:23

This is me behind the curtain, anticipating that I fixed a critical bug, once and for all.
https://media.giphy.com/media/SWovhw1Nua7Ay5XFCb/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47xa5elcwcu6x65p04iw8yxxujf01i5wz7xn3hgvb6&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

2025-06-01 12:06:36

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Honestly, I don't care about the dev drama. I just followed the NIP. The only FUD I care about is the normie-PQC-resistance FUD.
I just want a NIP44 PQC (if feasible) so I can say duck off to the normie FUDsters

2025-06-01 11:55:11

Here is the @nprofile…3xgh link the @nprofile…zks0 with @nprofile…gptt
A comprehensive interview about what I am building with #nostr #safebox
https://fountain.fm/episode/JyrNMsWFZN4izs6jCexe

2025-06-01 11:47:34

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For the geeks; One direct cause and another potential cause.
Exceeding maximum padding size for NIP44Encrypt and exceeding maximum event size for relay. Now detects and handles appropriately.
This bug had vexed me for months. Proof size can grow unpredictably due to the power of 2 summand. Now I check and split the proof list if the stringification gets past a certain size.

2025-06-01 11:36:59

Finally replicated, tracked down the root cause and fixed a critical, intermittent bug.
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNjVwd3Q2YmFhOTF1OWRvcmc2OTI3dHQ4N2lmOGJhbTloazU4eDNlOSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/uTuLngvL9p0Xe/giphy.gif

2025-05-31 17:39:55

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Thanks!

2025-05-31 17:37:09

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Yeah, I gotta do a relay cull.

2025-05-31 15:13:11

@npub18am…p424 Hey, Derek did you DM me? Just checking…

2025-05-31 14:55:12

Nostr is where payment and authenticity come together.

2025-05-31 03:42:10

NWC for #nostr #safebox coming together quickly!
As shown in #damus
https://image.nostr.build/ef41abc78dfdfadc214e45010c4b794890ee9ba77f7ff8f1d50f51941df407a1.jpg

2025-05-30 23:28:25

Dang.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/mash-star-loretta-swit-obituary-1.7548622

2025-05-30 22:44:49

Oh wow. Maybe it’s luck or fate, but you gotta like this randomly generated lightning address.
#teampoverty21
https://image.nostr.build/6eaf149712c0d67be8fce7ae357584650b5220b211b9496418375aed9024c89c.jpg

2025-05-30 22:30:51

This girl is having none of the bad weather outside.
#npug
https://image.nostr.build/3980689b5e9cdf4d10f577a3e10ad72e14dbdd1dc6674d3428be45fb325f3677.jpg

2025-05-30 22:20:10

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I still get confused with the numbering scheme in lighting invoices. Goes as small as picoBTC

2025-05-30 21:48:24

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Is a new reply bot on the loose? I am getting replies.

2025-05-30 17:20:46

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The Great Technology Reversal. McLuhan predicted this.

2025-05-30 14:50:18

And another point, I don't want anyone, even the merchant, to know I am paying in Bitcoin.
From a reply I just made:
Yeah, great point. 'Right to pay privately' - even the merchant may not need to know that you are paying in Bitcoin.
I've been there- you ask to pay in Bitcoin - and you can see the value judgment in the eyes of the clerk, even though they are trying to hide it. And since you've outed yourself- they look at you differently, every time you go into the shop.
#nevent1q…eymf

2025-05-30 14:42:08

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All I want is a 32-byte accumulator.

2025-05-30 13:53:37

The good ole days…
#note1pdn…7reh

2025-05-30 13:33:04

The biggest thing I learned when field testing my own stuff. Merchants just see it as another form of payment. They’ll price their products in their local currency. You’ll make a decision whether to buy based on the price in the local currency.
And another thing…
The merchants don’t give a crap what app you use, they just want to see the green checkmark on their end.
If we want broad adoption, let’s keep it simple, folks.
#lightning
#note1l08…zex2

2025-05-30 13:24:30

Full page ad for Wall Street Journal inspired by @npub1l2v…ajft ‘s talk at @npub17xv…c9as
https://image.nostr.build/b3f1ff29f6ddaea4cbc125529a17c8fb62c4379d2a5137cce1c8c95effed73b0.jpg

2025-05-30 13:19:01

Honestly, I think we can encourage wide scale adoption, if we can slightly adjust the question to:
“Will that be Visa, Mastercard, or Lightning?”

2025-05-30 13:13:11

1. Private keys stored in a signing device.
2. Personal Data accessed from relays.
3. Open Source Code executed on any host.
All can be separate, but bring these three together and you have trustless (non-ruggable) apps and services.
This is what I am trying to build with #nostr #safebox