Ben Arc

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

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2025-04-05 22:30:46

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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

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

2025-04-05 22:21:06

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

2025-04-05 22:17:55

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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

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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

2025-03-17 22:41:32

The Americans are an odd bunch.

2025-02-26 23:00:29

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

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

2025-02-23 22:57:42

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

2025-02-23 17:23:11

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

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 01:03:35

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

2025-02-19 09:29:46

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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

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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.

2025-02-17 08:48:43

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Nice! More Rabble interviews needed everywhere 🙌

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

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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

2025-01-25 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.

2024-12-20 21:39:56

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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 09:18:57

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

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

2024-12-18 19:45:45

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(and they can control it)

2024-12-18 19:45:30

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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

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

2024-12-18 11:10:23

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Ah okay 😂

2024-12-18 11:05:51

Has anyone predicted digital USD will just use tether yet?

2024-12-12 21:41:51

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

2024-12-12 21:41:29

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Diffie-Hellman key exchange will never be "out"

2024-12-12 21:39:50

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

2024-12-12 14:01:36

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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

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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

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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

2024-11-26 18:13:11

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Why? It's his domain. He's been involved in cashu since the beginning, has built cashu things. Whats the bar for "contributor"? as excluding him excludes 95% of the Cashu community. Trying to bully him out of his domain is lame.
https://github.com/nostrapps/cashu

2024-11-26 13:23:31

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He has also been active in the Cashu group for a good while.
I'd apologise then help him do something good with it, or negotiate a price.

2024-11-26 13:16:30

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I both hate and respect them.
They made easy money on that one 😂😭

2024-11-26 13:15:22

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You can't expect all cashu domains to be gifted to you, and public shaming/witch hunting doesn't help your cause.
@nprofile…r794 is a good dude, and I'm sure will use it for good one day.
Offer some money for it.
"give me this"... "no"... "okay, I will shame you", isn't the way.

2024-11-24 19:34:12

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Shit cars, rockets you can attach warheads to and fire at other countries.

2024-11-24 13:49:26

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Thought of this when copilot predicted (with sinister accuracy) a password I was inputting into a variable in vscode 😬

2024-11-24 13:37:36

Human thought entropy is very low.
In 90s film The Game, Michael Douglas answers bunch of questions, which later some software uses to get crack all his passwords.
AI tools can easily do this now by profiling users on posts etc, and will only get better.
Public-key crypto is the clear and simplest solution, which the world will soon use. R&D on key management tools we build in nostr and bitcoin will be very important and utilised everywhere.
https://image.nostr.build/6973eea3e04a1e41e91f1c82038e6d4acabd398e2e8b815996e3152396a495f6.gif

2024-11-22 08:49:46

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Based in feedback here. Thanks all was getting tagine fatigue.
#nevent1q…5qpq

2024-11-22 08:48:01

Thanks for feedback, going with this tagine I think.
https://image.nostr.build/ca625590332a157ffb86eac098cb231f0f5b6257712049a877e96f4cce9d26d6.jpg
#nevent1q…nfrt

2024-11-22 00:23:42

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"Social media and other stuff" it is 🤝

2024-11-22 00:19:17

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Yes, although it's clanky. Will stick with just commons

2024-11-22 00:18:02

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It's politically apolitical

2024-11-22 00:00:38

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You're right, as tempting as it is.

2024-11-21 23:59:13

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We get a lot of newb traffic, so having references to services they use seems to make sense.
I think I'm too tired to crack it tonight. Suggestions are very welcome 🙏

2024-11-21 23:51:04

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Maybe it's time for bed 😴
Try again tomorrow

2024-11-21 23:49:01

Was doing some updates to nostr.com. Is it okay to put Bluesky here? https://image.nostr.build/1100833cc102a53dc5526443226e4c5a6f0b9745b1fb4b960b11728be9b59a6e.jpg

2024-11-21 23:40:55

Does Satlantis use Where39 @nprofile…p2gy?
https://github.com/arcbtc/where39

2024-11-20 19:47:37

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Saving what few sats are left getting LNbits to v1 of course!

2024-11-20 19:42:46

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Last time I bumped into Adam was in the economy queue at an airport.
Yet another reason why I love the dude.

2024-11-19 09:53:22

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2024-11-18 19:37:17

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😂

2024-11-17 09:44:26

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Bluesky did nothing for years, we had plenty of a headstart. We don't need to make excuses up for ourselves, improving the onboarding journey is such low hanging fruit, and aiming to onboard normal folk is a good thing.

2024-11-17 09:11:23

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"normal people are lazy" isn't productive.

2024-11-17 09:07:52

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Bluesky is younger than nostr

2024-11-17 08:10:31

Tell a normal person to sign up to Bluesky, then tell them to sign up to nostr.
Don't help them, just observe them. They'll join Bluesky with ease then become confused wrecks trying to sign up to nostr.
Running nostr.com we're as guilty as anyone for not providing the handholding needed. I am sorry.
LNbits Inc is trying to raise a small seed so we can dedicate resources to low hanging fruit like this, but it's moving slow. Organising the raise itself is a massive time suck. We are also on the last sprint to get LNbits to V1, so lots on, and very little resources.
For such a small raise and with so much on offer its crazy to me that raising money for LNbits Inc/nostr.com is hard, but hey-ho, I'll keep slugging at it. Stressful times.

2024-11-17 07:17:04

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Yes. You're right.
That and it's one simple client, with a traditional sign up and interest based initial discovery.
Once big accounts move their it'll be hard to get them off.

2024-11-16 21:52:44

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Yerp, also one that doesn't shove bitcoin/bitcoiners in your face. Nice simple interest based discovery/omboard.
(Then when they least expect it we creampie them with bitcoin)

2024-11-16 21:36:20

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People like a self righteous witch hunt. It was nvks baby and I get his frustration, btcclock was too similiar to not cause issues. It's better to build something new. I also love Druji, and look forward to him making something original and great.

2024-11-15 21:23:52

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Yes we often are building on shoulders of giants, for which props should be made as much as possible. But there is plenty to build. I had 3 great new ideas today, with these new tools it's fertile ground for great ideas to blossom. We needn't be treading on each other's toes.

2024-11-14 23:06:21

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I think it just comes down to simple norm user onboard, and it looks a lot like twitter did, and when they get there the users are more diverse.
We need nostr clients onboarding on interest rather than just recommending bitcoin/nostr folks

2024-11-14 21:58:15

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Haha, love the passion 🙌
I'll be honest, I know f all about Bluesky beyond the ui looking nice and simple and onboarding looking easy

2024-11-14 21:52:20

On the whole btcclock/blockclock drama. I totally get how NVK feels, it was his baby. I imagine he agonised over taking action.
I also deeply respect Djuri and his building skills, and understand it must be horrible having a repo taken down.
Personally I avoid treading on other projects toes when building. I get in foss you can, but it doesn't sit right with me. There is plenty to build without replicating,
What I'm really looking forward to is Djuri building something completely unique and brilliant (which he is more than capable of doing).

2024-11-14 21:41:56

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😂

2024-11-14 21:31:34

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Guardian has some excellent journalism. I was made aware of the story when my father in law joined Bluesky following their lead. All should be using nostr

2024-11-14 15:41:34

The Guardian left X.
The institutional account exodus from X is ramping up, and they're all exploring alternatives 👀
Bluesky is doing well, with its 1min sign up, clean design and diverse userbase.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/the-guardian-no-longer-post-on-x-twitter-elon-musk

2024-11-11 15:42:06

Bitcoin Escape Velocity: when the appreciating FIAT value of your stack far outpaces outgoings.
Some words of wisdom for my newly enriched giddy peers.
* Big purchases will flatten the hockey stick, avoid them.
* Do not quit work/earning - your outgoings will increase significantly.
Sounds obvious I know, but over the years we have lost plenty of good/bright people who took BEV for granted.
Stay safe/spend conservatively

2024-11-10 11:10:21

Lest we forget
https://image.nostr.build/8d879ea315d90d188812c2028e14306580abcd7e4c4b56826edada6485c3ba81.jpg

2024-11-05 12:03:50

Watched The Apprentice last night, a film about Roy Cohn/Trump connection. Its a great movie. I've been weirdly fascinated by Roy Cohn for years, something about him seems important. Glad they made a film about him. He was the precursor epstien NYC kompromat lizard, I always imagined that gig was somehow passed down to epstein from Cohn.
Very dark human obsessed with power.
70s/80s NYC power elites were sketchy mofos
https://image.nostr.build/5cbab195947b3f1b3bb2d428f3944734f37d936c50a323981fde439fb4930117.jpg

2024-11-04 15:19:40

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What would you actually rather have, $1000 cash, or $1000 sketchy ecash you can only use between a few people you really really trust, then have to onboard all outside recipients (soldiers, officials, someone from next town, etc)?

2024-11-04 15:12:06

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Yes. It is in no way a useful replacement for physical cash in this scenario.

2024-11-04 15:10:04

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Gosh you're interesting! Thanks for chiming in on the thread with irl experience 🙏

2024-11-04 15:07:08

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With that level of trust just write and sign some ious. It's in no way a valid replacement to physical cash

2024-11-03 10:13:51

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You can't, unless you have an exorbitant amount of trust in the people you're buying from. Weird how this misconception seems to be so widespread.

2024-11-02 20:53:29

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Certainly worth keeping some on hand just in case, but for the grace of God go I (and you good folks ofc 🙏)

2024-11-02 20:45:04

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That of course, but we are talking whether it's useful to have MoE you can use aka some cash

2024-11-02 20:41:38

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Ecash needs Internet

2024-11-02 20:39:42

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Mass attack happens on your country and it's suddenly at war, internet is down for vast periods, what would you rather have to hand?
$1000 cash
$1000 bitcoin
$1000 gold

2024-11-02 20:19:54

Just how useful digital payments (including bitcoin) are in a war scenario with limited Internet access breaks my maxiness.
Sure keep little bottles of liqueur and cigarettes for bartering, but having stash of cash is prob a good play. In an unstable world can we afford to not have physical currency?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/30/sweden-and-norway-rethink-cashless-society-plans-over-russia-security-fears

2024-10-30 16:16:04

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It's all tooling. Just as democracy was made possible by printing press, public key crypto makes possible the transition of "evil" privately owned modes of production to international commons/coops. Democratising capital is very hard, all the tools we are building make it way easier.
The multinational monopolistic Corp is only 300 years old after all, and is a temp inefficient blip ripe for being replaced.
The crazy part is everyone wins! Monopolistic multinational Corps becoming commons, means ancaps also get their free/fair markets of competing private capital/industrialists.
I call it the Adam Smith Invisible Bitch-slap Economic Theory, as its actually in-line with Smiths original definition of the "Invisible Hand".

2024-10-22 21:27:43

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🔥🔥🔥

2024-10-22 21:22:21

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Not reason we couldn't add a hopper and do that tho. It's pretty simple, and could be offline adding the lnpos workflow

2024-10-22 11:13:44

MAJOR #Inbits #FOSSA update:
✅ Onchain & Liquid withdraws via trustless swaps 🤯 (first for #bitcoin atm).
✅ ALL FOSSA forks can add swaps.
✅ Easy web-installer. 🚀
✅ LNaddress, invoices supported.
Tut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQYonKtYek
Buy prebuilt from: shop.Inbits.com

2024-10-21 12:46:52

Gday securists and spooks 👋 https://image.nostr.build/70dbd72c966a845631294c296de85471c5203dbebad3668a82ff8f9b1fd82595.jpg

2024-10-18 17:08:09

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You pay for the nip05 in bitcoin, if you had used rather than being quick to condemn you would know this.
Nostr login will be added soon.

2024-10-18 16:29:05

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"free beer"?

2024-10-18 16:21:50

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What is the ethos of nostr?

2024-10-18 16:16:22

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We will have nostr login soon enough, we are but a small team, so takes time.

2024-10-18 16:14:47

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It's not in fiat.
Before being a naysayer cunt actually use the service, and understand its a mechanism to support development of free and open source software, which we have been building for many years.

2024-10-18 16:12:46

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Use/don't use 🤷🏼
It's just a Nip05 service.
We use the nip05 LNbits extension, which is completely foss (making this service gave us time to work on it), so you can also use it to sell Nip05s 👍

2024-10-18 16:10:42

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Payments are in bitcoin

2024-10-15 08:50:57

I need some quotes that pop for a nostr talk. Names known outside of bitcoin/nostr circles, the Dorsey, Snowden types. "nostr is etc etc"
Anyone have anything juicy?

2024-10-13 22:45:21

https://image.nostr.build/3af7bb38a1d16d8311f92ceae98d34c3b107c9ab5b291fad1c59bb44dcdd61bd.jpg