Ben Arc

nostr.com

Nostr is the everything app of freedom | lnbits.com | nostr.com | first nostr twitter clone maker | bitcoin tinkerer

Public Key

npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm

NIP-05 Address

benarc@nostr.com

NIP-57 Address

benarc@nostr.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsvrlrhw86l5sv06wkyjgs6rrcekskvk7nx8k50qn9m7mqgeqxjpvgpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5xpq7mk

Publishing to

nostr.bitcoiner.social

nostr.mom

Author Public Key

npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm

Show more details

Last Notes

2025-04-18 07:52:14

- reply

Why wouldn't you dump bonds, Trump is destroying US economy. Prob calculated attack, but also very justified as just dumping an investment gone bad.

2025-04-17 10:58:09

LNbits v1 has a VERY powerful new User Area API/token system for stack developers (replacing the Usermanager extension) 🛠️🚀
Checkout the overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDwNgHz8v7M

2025-04-13 16:06:55

- reply

That's kinda where lnbits came from, the Sinclair Faucet, which I guess was first ever lightning faucet.
https://image.nostr.build/59b08bfc682a9e6795db4fef27c51adf39563fca0982558e272c8d0229928484.jpg

2025-04-10 10:59:18

Annnnd LNbits v1 is released!
🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
The worlds most powerful suite of #bitcoin tools.
Thank you to all our contributors, users, and community members.
After five years of blood, sweat, and tears, we’ve built a beautiful piece of software.
https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/v1.0.0

2025-04-05 22:30:46

- reply

In lnbits we have the boltz extension, which you can set to loop out every x sats. Limits risk, keeps channels healthy 🤌

2025-04-05 22:29:00

- reply

Perceived exceptionalism. Same with Brits when we had an empire.

2025-04-05 22:21:06

- reply

Was a great time for builders, without the gains crowd, kinda miss those days.

2025-04-05 22:17:55

- reply

I'd say go cloud for any professional service, unless your devops is very tight. For the brewery usecase you're likely operating clearnet.

2025-04-05 22:09:31

- reply

Good man. Is there a nixnostr list of flakes somewhere, like nixbitcoin?

2025-03-28 14:03:34

Its importnat people take ownership of their LNbits and theme it however the wish.
We have made themeing in the upcoming v1 release easier than ever 🎨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD7cMX1FTbs

2025-03-20 22:55:05

Have you tried that new coconut shampoo?
It leaves your coconuts looking fabulous

2025-03-18 12:28:03

- reply

It seems he thinks nostr is a shitcoin project:
https://image.nostr.build/4ac643caacf35c8ad8c66c05ad8d325de440d0191e1743d0d03228eac1ef2d7a.jpg

2025-03-18 07:43:49

- reply

It's that slow inoculation toward freedom, like adoption of foss in general, where you occasionally give it a nudge to see if it's dead.

2025-03-18 07:14:14

Dan "IM AN OG" Held, clickbait nostr fud
And a perfect response comparing bitcoin use 👌 (by an actual og)
Building freedom technology takes time.
https://image.nostr.build/32a2c6e02f5940240f30a7b212be06c887fac99ad0453b6c6191e4bf938ae0c0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bfbb56f187d40c9fbb66bdad07019b6b5e980c2f0553dd2ad882bbb63c65081a.jpg

2025-03-17 22:41:32

The Americans are an odd bunch.

2025-03-17 22:08:28

- reply

Hahahaha

2025-03-17 22:03:14

- reply

Some say he's a bond villan 🤷🏼
I cant keep up

2025-03-17 21:57:46

- reply

https://image.nostr.build/fafec6a82436c9c759e06174927a8b24639500afcb8637ecc96cc4b63342a77d.gif

2025-03-17 21:55:00

- reply

You got my hopes up. I thought I could zap and shoot the plasma canon.
(im going to make this tomorrow)

2025-03-17 21:52:13

- reply

The windows pipe screensaver?!?!
That's like saying you don't remember this cheeky chap
https://image.nostr.build/549a25402252485afefed816bafe64bd6f15338fd55ed080be2c45374bd9cb02.gif

2025-03-16 11:07:25

Why nostr is one of humanity's most critical projects. Let us proceed together apace
#nevent1q…csun

2025-03-16 10:55:39

- reply

Everyone is excited the trojan has been deployed... aren't they 🙄?

2025-03-12 22:53:16

- reply

A list of strawmans. Not untrue, but doesn't excuse the OP of for-profit incentives to snoop on users, harvest data, coerce users into buying crap and capturing user attention even if it's detrimental to the user.

2025-03-12 20:05:11

- reply

No. Surveillance Capitalism, believe it or not pursuit of profit isn't always aligned for what's best for humanity.

2025-03-11 02:07:25

Being DMd updates by my LNbits server is game changing. V1 LNbits can DM me for restarts, balance changes, when admin settings are accessed and much more.
Also works with a tg bot and email. DM a single user or team managing a busy server 🔥. It's just so useful.
https://image.nostr.build/700a9f413a3dc1a3e2060e55644524c465724f9c6a065b675a281c20a84ee7cd.jpg

2025-03-11 01:46:14

- reply

I'm just happy Peter the Todd is on nostr, last time I saw him he told me quite loudly how bad nostr was. Then I watched that doc and felt sad Satoshi didn't like nostr. Now he's here, mwahahah

2025-03-11 01:40:18

Why isn't there a maga nostr client? I hate the idea of it, but also want it to exist. Trump could sell his hats and dinner dates on it.
Are there any subculture clients yet, like ones for French bulldogs, crossfit or autism?
I think what I'm getting at is I want some return to 90s forum identity culture, but slightly overlapping because nostr.
#nevent1q…syj6

2025-03-11 01:31:00

- reply

It's an epidemic, before they know it they're overweight, have ungroomed beards and a drawer of broken laptops.

2025-03-11 00:24:06

- reply

It's not why I'm here. The world needs foss money without ttps. Current propoganda is an attempt at containing revolution. They will lose.

2025-03-11 00:07:38

- reply

Ive only seen his speech but I liked that. Stood up to US (not just Trump). Too many politicians pandering.

2025-03-11 00:04:58

- reply

It's weird how so many on economic far-right glorify greed, yet are devote and manage to reconcile it with Christian doctrine. Perhaps it's a boolean good/evil world view that marries the two.

2025-03-10 23:59:05

- reply

With the political weaponising of X, the world is lucky to have apolitical Nostr. It's only a matter of time.
Apolitical money, apolitical social media, a better world is possible.

2025-03-10 23:51:51

- reply

Have you got the maga nostr client?
I don't see any

2025-03-10 23:42:35

- reply

Couple of more examples 🤌
https://image.nostr.build/4d5e7726804a7c9cde971a2982e46dec787b2a79e7e3093839a0dd8f4a19f61a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5c532bceceed2324f99e1957f792595778ca18e22d28669288ea797cf8bfcac7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d6d44b6027dbc16645aca42b1561b0ea4a886132f248d28c7028702ac24d28a5.jpg

2025-03-10 23:23:26

HUGE props to @nprofile…gktz for trailblazing all the ideas for customising LNbits, and adding charts, btc price, custom icons etc to wallets. Customising LNbits is sooooo much fun now 😍!
If you don't know, Ben hops between foss bitcoin projects making them better.
In a demo, I whipped up this planb themed LNbits in seconds. Very, very cool.
https://image.nostr.build/9a07fd4607e406f36f364dda58360327bec335e5a2bbd84f2265653b19f880b5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/195c861c1a0dc99ec9664bfaa95d7c7f24fd15e05a6c2626ee327747cb25622f.jpg

2025-03-10 10:50:46

Vanguard oligarch neoliberlalism
https://image.nostr.build/00721d104c3c7bf02b5552b5cebe5f981001fe448e8228711777f84a7e136a7e.jpg

2025-03-09 21:08:39

- reply

They can't kill it, so now they'll try and contain it.

2025-03-04 13:19:39

- reply

I just don't know why I listened to the ceo raking in billions in investment for so long 😂
We were all in awe by just a sophisticated LLM. Seems to have plateaued.
Sure it'll get there, but plenty of time for humans to build things first 🔥

2025-03-04 13:10:28

- reply

Exactly, useful tool, but still a dumbass

2025-03-04 13:05:38

Sam Altman and his ilk are just ceos shilling their companies to vcs.
Initially I was worried about human developers being displaced, but that's not happening any time soon. For any developers who use AI, it's a useful tool but clearly not replacing us in the near future.

2025-03-02 16:35:03

Not a shock. Trump is for Trump, and has prob been paid off by shitcoin shill funds.
#nevent1q…c9ja

2025-03-01 12:20:57

Happy st David's day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💜
https://youtu.be/yYOxBncgmLQ

2025-02-27 00:30:00

The tension between Bitcoin and fiat is the pursuit of John Nash's Ideal Money. It’s a zero-sum game, as bitcoin's ever-evolving toolset has properties fiat cannot truly compete with. Bitcoin's existence as an opt-out forces fiat to improve, until bitcoin inevitably wins as Ideal Money.

2025-02-26 23:59:19

- reply

They'll fail, just like they failed to kill it, then they'll accept it.
Psyop game is in overdrive.

2025-02-26 23:47:37

If they can't kill it, they'll try to control it.
https://image.nostr.build/4f4d5b1d3792b31a5538ef94623d0e22cbec486e592800f75228cefe4527445b.jpg

2025-02-26 23:00:29

- reply

Yeah, fuck that. US has the most backward taxes, especially for rich people wanting to live in multiple countries.

2025-02-26 14:39:32

I want this, and to be able to Nip05s to my dot pub
#nevent1q…0tnn

2025-02-25 20:49:43

- reply

Yoyo, welcome
Please add the "F", or else Stallman will appear in the bathroom mirror behind you.

2025-02-25 09:57:31

The Samson Mow indicator nailed it.
https://video.nostr.build/b42265529ecfe400b24a721569402a484ee267b746ad72be18a0ce75f00063c0.mp4

2025-02-25 00:42:13

V1 LNbits is SOOO very powerful.
I do a quick overview of the new features here 🤯🤯🤯
Whether running for yourself, a business, or as part of stack, this release changes the ball game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFAHKxvgI9Y

2025-02-24 20:03:27

Released RC8 LNbits!!! (the last release before V1) 🥳
Also made a tut on how to install on a fresh VPS funding by self-custodial phoenixd with url and https.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljqXSxXnYxc

2025-02-23 23:16:08

- reply

The opposite, they were the ddraig goch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

2025-02-23 22:57:42

- reply

Always my answer when asked what my favourite animal is, bunnies prove a god exists.

2025-02-23 22:27:56

- reply

Once they've destroyed themselves history will define them by their art.

2025-02-23 17:23:11

- reply

Same, I'm going high yield 3d fruit/veg. Will be a good harvest this year I reckon

2025-02-23 15:23:33

- reply

Oooo, Vlad just told me I didn't need to enable nostrclient, the feature pulls and uses the relays attached to the nip05 🤯🔥🔥🔥

2025-02-23 14:16:28

Telegrams success was in large part it being easy to make useful bots. Nostr is the ultimate bot building paradigm.
Having a permissionless protocol to develop bots on is huge.
#nevent1q…puwy

2025-02-23 14:04:02

- reply

Nah Nip04 working fine for this. Prs welcome 🙏

2025-02-23 14:00:45

Get your LNbits v1 server to DM you updates over NOSTR! An outstanding admin tool by the great @motorina0 🙌🤩
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cqsp45jdCE

2025-02-22 02:42:58

- reply

Noodles

2025-02-22 01:54:08

Here’s a BIP39 version of What3Words that runs locally—perfect for burying treasure, dead drops, private meets, or as a great educational tool.
Another fun little extension available in LNbits v1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8aIhwqFtTQ

2025-02-22 01:31:55

Time to start making some videos for the new extensions in LNbits v1. Here's a fun one based on the coinflip game we all played too much on lntxbot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5K6XOnT1nc

2025-02-22 01:05:56

- reply

It's inevitable.

2025-02-22 01:03:35

Oh to think shitcoindimensionally
https://image.nostr.build/cc7202a7b9ac7d4afa4782562e00ee9a9d966c5c3a36c8c34e3ea7de889b572f.jpg

2025-02-19 09:29:46

- reply

Was thinking this morning, as I always annoy myself not being able to take a definitive stance, and I think it should be hard to reconcile. Limiting of any speach/human action should be challenged and continually justified, which makes it a lengthy back/forth. Every case is different, and keeps needing to be reassessed. Some stuff is straight forward, ie stopping free speach of pedos, but the ability to burn an israilli flag without recourse is a hard one. Hitler would have burned the israilli flag, but so do Palestinians who are arguably justified. I guess the speach that should have no limits for and we should die fighting for, is being able to talk about free speach itself. Keeping that space for discussing any limiting of human action completely open. When you can't even have the discussion, then you're fucked 😂

2025-02-19 02:07:20

- reply

We have WW2 ptsd in Europe,
In UK we have hate speach laws, and i get logic of extending to online realm.
If I stood in the street and starting inciting violence, inciting attacking property, police would stop me, our online lives has largely been overlooked and same rules have not applied, which is why more recently people were shocked police knocked at their doors over Facebook posts.
Its a funny one, something I have no idea how to reconcile, and what my own opinion actually is, I'm pro free speach, but also don't believe the mantra "they're only words". Words can/have incited genocide. Hate speach laws would have likely dampened rise of Hitler. Post WW2 Oswald Mosley, our own potential Hitler, had his right to free speach attacked, and it stopped the rise of fascism in UK. In that context being pro limiting free speach isn't irrational. The issue is always whoever decides what constitutes hate speach, so I also get just opening speach up. The subject certainly fills me with conflicting ideology.

2025-02-19 01:08:17

- reply

😂 Yeah, but actually, by hook or by crook it shall be done!

2025-02-18 11:26:16

- reply

Vlad built so LNbits gets a nice average bitcoin price, but it's a very useful/interesting dataset

2025-02-18 11:24:43

- reply

Will do video tut on all this stuff soon

2025-02-18 11:20:41

- reply

Another reason LNbits is epic powering a projects stack. @nprofile…ez77 fiats price aggregator contribution will save so many, so much work 🙌

2025-02-18 11:14:08

LNbits v1 has an insanely cool exchange rate tracker that aggregates data from multiple sources for fiat pricing. The insights are fascinating—some clear arbitrage opportunities out there. Bitfinex seems to consistently trade #bitcoin at a premium. 🤔 https://image.nostr.build/1755bc50a1caf5112db704c22b881f96ee9d3bccfe338f863c761550a06d0872.jpg

2025-02-17 08:48:43

- reply

Nice! More Rabble interviews needed everywhere 🙌

2025-02-16 07:41:16

- reply

And proud you should be, I salute you sir 🫡
Thank you for your contribution 🙌

2025-02-16 07:22:29

5 years and 8.5k commits later, we are bringing LNbits out of beta and releasing v1 in a few weeks.
Here is a visualisation of the work that goes into creating beautiful FOSS project like LNbits 💜
It's been an honor to work with such esteemed peers 🫡
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCPt4bkHT7g

2025-02-05 16:39:21

- reply

That's it, I was running actions, testing, running again, was horrid and slow, this way I can get the action built quicker. Found it trying to make a dmg and not having macos to test on, this way I can just spin one up in seconds and tinker about

2025-02-05 14:01:00

Wow, how did I not know you can use tmate in a gh action, then ssh into the runner 🤯
Soooo good for fresh/quick testing environment.
https://video.nostr.build/898a8e033c859c26dd1aeb49bc1513f30a49aa4698527bae8b73cd11eb13a162.mp4

2025-01-29 16:57:44

- reply

Hegel nailed this one - centralised control is dwarfed by the sum of all humans wanting greater liberty, which is why over time we secure more liberty.
It is the inevitable, but harder we fight, the sooner it happens.

2025-01-25 21:53:44

Every time I check the news I see Sam Altmans stupid face, trying to look all profound and serious, reminding me society is going to change drastically. I hate it.
In the not to distant nostrizon, when we all have custodial algorithms, I can remove his stupid face from all my feeds.

2025-01-25 21:42:16

- reply

I wish! Alas we very much live in an engineered material reality.

2025-01-25 21:40:31

- reply

Yeah, fossa atm will have bolt12 option when we get around to it

2025-01-25 21:39:04

- reply

Yes!
Looks like you used the wrong public key when hatching. Log into my.nostr.com and change the public key

2024-12-20 21:39:56

- reply

Sounds like a foss win if its a public repo

2024-12-20 09:57:01

Why I love the Makerbits community: after a few mins we realised sending anything over light or radio is pretty stupid, but regardless a few mins later @nprofile…guym had built a thing.
https://t.me/makerbits
#nevent1q…ph2e

2024-12-20 09:38:19

Andreas was always and will always be the best bitcoin talking head. Nothing we have now comes close (sorry bitcoin talking heads).
#nevent1q…0f7q

2024-12-20 09:28:09

Nationstate microstrategy
https://image.nostr.build/5096d98ea637f2cf70fcfdd84708c42230c0b4aed2b98195544e0c1f278db74d.jpg

2024-12-20 09:18:57

Does anyone transmit block data over long wave? And does it sound like an Spectrum game loading?
https://video.nostr.build/c869159316b3516729cea2436932ad5183c01e475775894c93ac17b05f161752.mp4

2024-12-19 12:43:32

- reply

After v1 LNbits I'll get to it 🫡
Will be given some tlc, first few weeks of Jan

2024-12-18 19:45:45

- reply

(and they can control it)

2024-12-18 19:45:30

- reply

Because it's tried tested, has billions already in markets hare, is already used widely in areas people used cash dollars, has a load of wallets infrastructure that already exists

2024-12-18 17:16:32

- reply

Haha, no. They don't need or want blockchains. Govs fight decentralisation

2024-12-18 11:10:23

- reply

Ah okay 😂

2024-12-18 11:05:51

Has anyone predicted digital USD will just use tether yet?

2024-12-12 21:41:51

- reply

I'm only defending it because it's my nip 😂

2024-12-12 21:41:29

- reply

Diffie-Hellman key exchange will never be "out"

2024-12-12 21:39:50

- reply

Nah, it's useful for bunch of things beyond social dms

2024-12-12 14:01:36

- reply

While your there, one of the most asked for features is a click to sign option, I guess configurable from the installer.

2024-12-12 13:59:58

- reply

You should be able to bludgeon someone with a signer, offensive security, wrench the wrencher.

2024-12-07 20:54:35

Weather's so bad in Wales we had a twister 😬
https://video.nostr.build/8acb5fd62cd83fffe8c954da276f7e014c3a93f6d949592ef2c7053153a42cc1.mp4

2024-12-04 17:49:08

- reply

They're catching up, and acting all prophetic expounding talking points we spent years refining.
First they fight you etc etc, then you win.

2024-12-04 17:28:02

"Who can stop bitcoin? Nobody?" Putin
Let the Cold (wallet) War begin 🍿
https://video.nostr.build/601ba1cb7d4138cf35dd9ea06ab6596f2cf8867b73c5314bbfded56f571789ae.mp4