dk
David King

https://www.curiousdk.com

nostr/bitcoin student/storyteller

Public Key

npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8

NIP-05 Address

dk@stacker.news

NIP-57 Address

dk@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqstwz8h8yh43pqxyykr3qh8kw7qmxcg6chet7shp5yezflvufmsuhspz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzynhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43qyfuv6y

Publishing to

eden.nostr.land

offchain.pub

relay.nostr.band

Author Public Key

npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8

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2025-04-25 21:53:30

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@npub1cxy…hz6x is a spot

2025-04-20 10:03:22

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i’m currently making an ios app using windsurf and got 4.1. i’m extremely impressed by how good it is. i think i’ve read that people have done it with replit agent v2, but i haven’t tried it myself yet

2025-04-17 23:36:10

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🙏

2025-04-16 13:55:54

gm
https://m.primal.net/QSBM.jpg

2025-04-15 19:48:21

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yea, creative chaos is the good kind 🤙

2025-04-15 19:40:07

#defundchaos 🧡

2025-04-15 16:03:05

paid a visit to @nprofile…pkk2 yesterday
(big inspiration for @npub1cxy…hz6x)
https://m.primal.net/QQWz.jpg

2025-04-14 20:58:50

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it should!

2025-04-11 15:38:54

should I vibe code a farming game with a bitcoin theme? 🤔
https://m.primal.net/QLzV.jpg

2025-04-09 00:50:26

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computer not included. just vibing

2025-04-09 00:21:45

vibe code the nostr way 👀
#nevent1q…0zwf

2025-04-05 04:09:41

vibe coding a simple nostr web app using cursor
(this video is a birthday gift I made for @nprofile…3ec2 🎂🎉)
https://m.primal.net/QElf.mp4

2025-04-05 01:36:38

if I want to post a video to nostr what’s the best/latest way to do that? nostr.build good for large videos

2025-04-04 23:55:16

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i’ve messed with Replit Agent, Cursor+Claude Sonnet 3.7, Windsurf+Gemini Pro 2.5
diff tradeoffs, will prob stick with Windsurf for near term (next few days lol)
also want to try Cline, Goose/VSCode, and open to others. what have you found so far?

2025-04-03 16:20:11

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no, they each have a diff purpose and they serve their respective purposes well

2025-04-03 16:18:04

in nostr there is no global
in bitcoin there is global

2025-04-03 01:21:30

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@nprofile…fae9 would your groups stuff be part of a solution for this? how do you feel about bridging it to email? could prob collect a fee to help with ESP costs

2025-04-01 21:19:17

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oh yea, i was gonna make a video to show how i got some stuff done. managed a simple nostr publishing app, but still working on my first bitcoin (lightning)
we’re hosting an Vibe Coding Bitcoin hackathon at Presidio Bitcoin in mid-May in SF. lemme know if you’re around and i’ll forward details/applications when they’re published

2025-04-01 21:06:51

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tru tho!

2025-04-01 15:45:15

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are you using MCP servers?

2025-04-01 15:35:33

I told my wife yesterday that all I feel like doing is building things
#nevent1q…x2p9

2025-03-31 19:16:45

my controversial view:
bitcoin only wins when it serves use-cases you have to pay in bitcoin
not use-cases where you want to pay in bitcoin

2025-03-31 15:59:46

got similar working with windsurf this morning using Gemini Pro 2.5 as the underlying LLM
it failed in a few different ways, but debugging was quite easy. mostly involved copy/pasting console logs from the browser
#nevent1q…wkur

2025-03-31 03:52:27

I just vibe coded this little game… anyone remember subspace? you can play a little prototype I made with an AI opponent (intentionally moderately skilled so it doesn’t totally crush your spirit 😅)
I want to make this lightning powered. maybe tomorrow if things go well?
https://g.co/gemini/share/e06597252101

2025-03-31 02:06:04

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deployed: https://cursor-nostr-sign-message.vercel.app

2025-03-30 22:49:25

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good point. i will ask cursor chat when i’m back at my computer

2025-03-30 22:45:02

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TIL 🤔

2025-03-30 22:44:05

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thanks, yup, gotta get it live. any recs on best simplest way to deploy something like this from cursor? i’m assuming vercel or something similar, but haven’t tried it yet

2025-03-30 21:56:14

I successfully “vibe coded” my first nostr app
it’s a very simple app, but it works end to end doing the following:
1. create a new identity (npub/nsec)
2. accept a custom message from the user of the app
3. connect to a dozen or more relays (and show connection status/logging for debugging)
4. sign the message input into the app and publish it to all relays it successfully connects to
the newly created identity and message I wrote with the app is the original note shown below
#note187c…a624

2025-03-30 16:57:51

anyone successfully vibe code nostr relay connections with Replit Agent V2?
it kinda looks like it’s doing the right thing, but it has not been able to successfully make connections. I’ve reprompted it several times, but haven’t gotten it to work yet. if you’ve done this I’d love to hear the prompts that work for you or other hints I might give it to connect properly
https://m.primal.net/PyYe.png

2025-03-30 11:22:29

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did you build a new app for that? 👀

2025-03-29 18:50:36

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🤝

2025-03-29 18:46:17

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the future is hard to interpret while it’s arriving

2025-03-29 18:19:27

let’s go! 🚀
#nevent1q…k4sj

2025-03-29 18:06:53

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nice to meet you, Boniz!

2025-03-29 17:53:40

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wow, hadn’t seen this before. looks polished. is it good? does it support the scheduling feature Ben was requesting?

2025-03-29 17:52:52

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the nerve!!

2025-03-29 17:23:16

who wants to “vibe code” an app for that? i’m getting signing/publishing working with Replit Agent V2. might be close
#nevent1q…5a73

2025-03-29 15:58:33

nostr
https://m.primal.net/PxQp.jpg

2025-03-29 00:03:46

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come by anytime! 🤙

2025-03-28 23:24:21

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welcome! let us know if anything from the episode grabs ya for more discussion

2025-03-28 18:54:59

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what kind of integration are you thinking?

2025-03-28 18:51:50

@nprofile…097w @nprofile…e6c3 and I are getting started with our Presidio Bitcoin Jam livestream starting in about 10 minutes.
we cover what we’ve learned about bitcoin/nostr/AI this week.. topics to include future value of coding and how it could give rise to a ton of creativity in lighting and nostr
@nprofile…25ak and nostr native stuff coming soon, but for now we’re on YT:
https://youtube.com/@presidiobitcoin

2025-03-28 15:20:04

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everyone’s welcome! 🙇‍♂️

2025-03-28 04:09:08

we need vibe coding for nostr apps. unleash creativity!
#nevent1q…yk7s

2025-03-27 23:02:13

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gonna be youtube for now

2025-03-27 22:57:47

@npub18lz…ugm3 and I are doing a livestream of NostrTalks/NostrNews coming up in like 5 minutes

2025-03-26 04:05:51

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“Don’t be the best. Be the only.” —Kevin Kelly

2025-03-25 01:42:29

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maybe it’s the “other stuff” we haven’t seen yet

2025-03-24 16:14:56

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yea, we need to test for different things
educators rarely notice the cat and mouse games that institutions create

2025-03-24 16:05:34

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I don’t know the specific techniques being employed here
but having done this a lot, I believe that watching an AI’s chain-of-thought reasoning steps are a rough approximation of one of the best ways to improve your thinking process and your ability to learn

2025-03-24 16:00:25

big, if true
https://m.primal.net/Prbu.jpg

2025-03-24 15:39:31

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yea, I tend to agree — esp with the “unintentionally” characterization. niches often have better overall incentives to find/promote quality.
that being said, I think higher perceived social status/larger audiences can mean people receive new quality information privately that’s not yet widely known so if they are curating/sharing out of personal interest and not for “audience capture” or “growth marketing” reasons there can be quality there

2025-03-24 15:18:30

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yes

2025-03-24 14:37:57

is there a positive correlation between social status and information quality?

2025-03-23 18:44:06

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forever and ever, amen, John!

2025-03-23 18:43:38

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happy sunday, Shirley! ☀️

2025-03-23 18:41:56

ecosystem 💜
#nevent1q…44qx

2025-03-23 15:48:05

happy sunday 🤙
#nevent1q…wgre

2025-03-22 04:04:21

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this sounds awesome actually

2025-03-22 03:53:00

🤯
#nevent1q…0myr

2025-03-22 01:08:27

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yea, more about the pace of improvement makes it seem inevitable even if it’s quite imperfect in many ways today as you point out

2025-03-21 19:42:18

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have you checked out Cursor Rules? can prob address a lot of your concerns with well crafted rules.
https://ghuntley.com/stdlib/

2025-03-21 16:42:03

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good night, Romuna!

2025-03-21 16:21:03

gm
“other stuff” is the magic 🪄

2025-03-20 21:09:13

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thanks. listening now!

2025-03-20 20:48:55

has anyone analyzed HolePunch?
https://holepunch.to/

2025-03-19 22:39:00

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thanks for building this! I hope it's the first example of a whole series of vibe coding apps that can inspire a new type of builder/creative to build lightning experiences. Can you tell us more about how you made it?
did you run your own lightning node or use an LSP?
did you use any MCPs?
Replit Agent? Cursor? something else?

2025-03-19 20:48:25

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go Karnage go! 🙌

2025-03-18 00:07:11

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prob diff degrees/scale for diff relationships/circumstance

2025-03-17 18:04:36

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I’d love to review and give feedback on the spec you’re working on. I haven’t used Urbit names. I had not considered 1) readable/memorable but 2) “unmonetized” as a path and I’d like to learn more about the benefits/tradeoffs here.
My assumptions were that most people would expect to be able to pick a name that feels personal/self-expression-oriented. I also assumed the “land-grab” nature of user-selected/personal/attractive/“monetized” would draw people in to own/speculate which can be a powerful marketing tool for a new system.
I haven’t seen an approach that both 1) admits those assumptions while 2) avoiding a centralized issuer/marketplace/“DAO” entity to receive payment/throttle-the-landgrab of issuance. that’s the particular set of tradeoffs I’ve been exploring, but I’m interested in learning about lots of different approaches
I suspect naming is an important area to innovate to make decentralized technologies simpler for more people to understand/use.

2025-03-15 04:31:04

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what tools were you using? Replit Agent?

2025-03-13 22:10:16

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I’m talking about an alternative to using blockchains for this purpose. stablecoins always have an issuer (e.g., Tether, Circle, etc.) who can issue and revoke stablecoin dollars anyway… so instead of pretending like we have things like security, immutability, and decentralization let’s admit that it doesn’t have those properties and there might be better (simpler/cheaper!) ways to roughly achieve the same thing. I’m thinking signed messages to confirm transfer instead of a blockchain. I don’t have a specific proposal in mind, just feels like something like this should be possible and could simplify/unify how stablecoins work

2025-03-12 22:50:50

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i think more diverse experimentation is valuable to finding the best solutions. i’m specifically taking about a way to manage stablecoin transactions without needing to commingle/depend on bitcoin’s own security model (and the costs and risks that come with that)
in short i like the idea of having infrastructure that can keep stablecoins off bitcoin so issuers wouldn’t have too much influence on bitcoin forks, for example, but where payment happens in bitcoin/lightning
diff design space to consider

2025-03-12 21:30:18

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my interest in this is to remove the unnecessary layer of random blockchains/tokens like SOL/ETH/TRON and build a high volume/high demand use-case for bitcoin payments. all while potentially helping the nostr relay ecosystem become more sustainable (possibly encouraging more relay operators)

2025-03-12 21:27:39

has anyone brainstormed/whiteboarded/designed how a system like nostr relays might be able to be used to confirm stablecoin transactions?
stablecoins have a lot of utility for a lot of people (even if you or I might not use them much ourselves).
I’d like to see a system where nostr-like relay operators get paid bitcoin for storing/publishing stablecoin transactions

2025-03-12 21:06:51

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fixed that! 🤙

2025-03-12 21:03:15

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we’ve got each other and that’s enough

2025-03-12 20:41:31

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is someone working on this? i want to be involved 😅

2025-03-12 20:40:30

don’t do this to yourself
#nevent1q…jv7x

2025-03-12 17:17:54

seek truth
#nevent1q…6mkp

2025-03-10 02:16:52

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link or clip?

2025-03-06 17:03:56

ride on! 🤙
#nevent1q…2k6e

2025-03-06 00:38:22

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i guess the Overton Window is also somewhat relevant

2025-03-05 16:48:28

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thanks for sharing your thinking on this — I figured it was something like this.
I read it as whoever frames a conversation/issue has a lot of power in establishing the direction of the conversation and what is considered “reasonable”/in-bounds
so if you “reject the frame” you say, “I’m not playing on your field. we could move to a more neutral field/frame if we want to have a productive conversation”

2025-03-05 03:17:24

@nprofile…qamf I think I get the concept of “reject the frame”, but curious how you decided to use that phrase
it spins through my head a lot once i read it on your profile so now i want to know more

2025-03-03 20:33:15

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yea, stuff like this should help a lot

2025-03-03 19:48:38

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oh cool... I would love to follow along if you share bits of what you're learning

2025-03-03 19:36:09

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everyone’s on a journey.
I’m not at the very beginning and I’m not at the very end yet.
but i’d still like to make stuff and inspire more ideas to get created

2025-03-03 19:33:16

has anyone successfully “vibe coded” their way to a lightning app with Replit Agent, Cursor/Caude/Grok or any other AI coding tools?
i think if we can show how simple it is to get started, we could inspire a ton of new ideas to come to life

2025-03-02 00:17:10

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haha… yea, all generative AI 😭

2025-03-01 22:15:51

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never heard of that, but just checked out the webpage. seems to be SF related but not in the Presidio AFAICT

2025-03-01 18:18:09

gm, my friends!
a new day is dawning 🫡

2025-03-01 01:13:40

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coming up soon!

2025-03-01 01:03:18

Presidio Bitcoin is officially here! 🫡
a home for bitcoin development in San Francisco
thanks to @nprofile…8x32 for driving this vision to reality along with the generous support from Wences Casares and Mark Casey
and @nprofile…tc35 @nprofile…tgpn @nprofile…ynf4 for joining us for a conversation on our launch day 🚀
https://www.presidiobitcoin.org/
https://m.primal.net/PPNG.jpg
https://m.primal.net/PPNW.jpg
https://m.primal.net/PPNX.png

2025-02-27 01:57:52

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the spaces protocol white paper has a section on renewals. Renewals are a big area of concern for me since I think it severely limits self-sovereignty if one has to further engage and potentially pay to continue to use -- how do the rates get set, can they change the rules, who decides? The white paper indicates “renewals ensure active utilization of names.”
I’d bias toward more sovereignty of names even if it comes with the tradeoff that some names fall into disuse.

2025-02-26 23:08:17

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sell it to me if spaces takes off! 🤞

2025-02-26 00:59:53

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lotta chairs popping up for sale today
send it

2025-02-26 00:42:21

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😭

2025-02-25 18:41:48

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listened to the episode and loved it. reminded me I've missed hearing from you lately :)
I think the concept of "there is no global state" is a good one to keep in mind and definitely applies to things such as "likes on YouTube" or more generally "likes on a video".
I would disagree that in the world there can't/shouldn't be a global state. bitcoin is an attempt to create a global state and eventually succeeds as time passes even if not all blocks at the tip are always agreed upon at all times. nostr is not an attempt at global state (quite the opposite!) so things built on nostr will continually fail at attempting global state.
I was imagining a way to anchor the name space on the global state of bitcoin, but where the names could be useful in many contexts including for having unique nostr usernames (kind of a parallel system to nip-05).
my outstanding question is first "would it be valuable to have a common name space if it could be done without centralized issuers, servers and control points?" I suspect it would be valuable since nip-05 is an attempt at such which happens to fall short on the censorship resistant ideal. Seems to indicate there would be demand for such a thing if it could be done.
I understand your position is something like "people should stop trying to create global state where it can't be done" and if we're talking about nostr, I agree it's prob a waste of time. but my question is if it could be done (using bitcoin, for example), would it be valuable to have such a thing?