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maybe its more like a spell since we're zapping magic internet money
https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/elemental-magic-spell-impact-outgoing-228342/
#note17nn…u4rc

2025-04-20 14:33:53

In video games there is an audible coin noise when you pay for things. I want to do something similar when you pay for tokens in dave, or when you zap someone. Maybe electricity/static sound?
what’s the sound of a zap?

2025-04-20 05:08:21

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That’s usually how it happens

2025-04-20 04:53:02

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I think my favourite thing to do is ask it to do a daily summary. Should make that a prebuilt action

2025-04-20 04:40:02

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I eat them out of the pack

2025-04-20 04:38:08

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is it actually true though

2025-04-20 04:10:45

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Wouldn’t *

2025-04-20 04:10:36

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apple would allow us since its powered by nwc payments

2025-04-20 03:53:44

still improving dave's note rendering. you can ask for any number of notes and it will show them.
next I want to add a button to every post that you can click for analysis, similar to how grok works. this is useful if you don't understand the post and want it to explain the context.
I'm pretty happy with the UI so far. now I just need to finish the lightning backend so anyone can use it anonymously + NWC pay per token.
If all goes will this should be in our initial damus android release!
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/dd68213235d95af2.png

2025-04-20 03:07:03

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2025-04-20 02:21:25

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great paper. I've been thinking along similar lines lately
note:note1l7awtculrlz472c9j8lvz7grmj9yx8fefpmq9ydjaq96gulsrx8snmcfhx

2025-04-20 02:05:16

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this is like saying "the web won't work because web servers won't be sustainable without business models". yet tons of people run webservers for fun at a loss.

2025-04-20 02:03:23

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running relays are pretty cheap, and with the outbox model each individual node doesn't have to be that beefy

2025-04-19 17:46:42

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i really just want to see the answer, could you share it?

2025-04-19 17:38:54

o3 seems more censored than ever. many of my physics based queries are returning this. https://i.nostr.build/rwwgHBxQq8SAwQQA.png

2025-04-18 21:11:18

not even grok can do this. social ai agent built on open protocols will be built different
https://i.nostr.build/sPnGSpaAn6ksu1pt.jpg
#note1thc…xdep

2025-04-18 20:26:22

dave can render notes now
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/7684523bd959b888.png

2025-04-18 18:32:45

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the approach I'm still going for is dumb relays + smart embedded client relay

2025-04-18 14:35:52

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Why do you need a special relay for receiving?

2025-04-18 00:05:03

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👌

2025-04-17 21:51:11

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i always found those videos fascinating but never knew if they were legit or just the result of many recordings and chance

2025-04-17 21:44:15

i had this thought the other day. there is obviously some pattern of activity in your pets brain that you could in theory decode to understand what they are thinking/saying. things like "i'm hungry", "i'm bored", etc.
its only a matter of time before someone builds a pet brain-computer-interface + app that allows you to communicate with your cat
#note1r02…j2mu

2025-04-17 21:39:17

i was talking to a banker at mit bitcoin expo and he was geniunely shocked when I told him that he doesn't own any bitcoin. people still think bitcoin in coinbase is bitcoin. we're so early.
#note17kx…d7mu

2025-04-17 14:28:23

#SwiftSync is a neat idea. parallelizable bitcoin validation using a hash aggregate. 5.28x speedup (that's a lot!)
https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/a61a37d14182ccd78760e477c78133cd#regarding-the-hash-aggregate
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/swiftsync-speeding-up-ibd-with-pre-generated-hints-poc/1562/12

2025-04-17 03:43:17

"Bitcoin Is An Unique Threat To Apple And Google’s Business Model"
another banger by @npub12qx…q8u9 !
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/04/14/bitcoin-is-an-unique-threat-to-apple-and-googles-business-model/

2025-04-16 22:06:06

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it can

2025-04-16 21:46:26

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greatest bug of all time

2025-04-16 21:44:54

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love dwarf fortress, on the days I have the patience to figure out its systems

2025-04-16 21:43:47

was hooked by balatro, now slightly addicted to slay the spire. trying monster train next. deckbuilder roguelites 🤌
losing is fun!

2025-04-16 21:41:20

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sticky tho

2025-04-16 21:40:50

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thats what I do. maybe we need to put big warning sign in the app when the user gets in the 1000+ range

2025-04-16 20:41:33

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What happened ? You lost your contact list?

2025-04-16 20:35:11

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I always break mine

2025-04-16 20:29:17

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we’re at gen12 already!? my gen5 is still kickin.
https://image.nostr.build/885de0ecd3853599220ba6bdca7947d5f9b2fb3a11321e79c4f137d1ddc4c0f2.jpg

2025-04-16 15:59:15

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the learning curve is quite high, it assumes you know your way around linux distros. But if you can follow the install tutorial and get over that hump it gets better

2025-04-16 15:57:58

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its like a one line change in your nixos config

2025-04-16 15:54:59

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I use a layered config for this. I have a “is_desktop = true” flag that turns on x11 and all the desktop tools i use. I share the same config on my servers, laptop, and desktop, with this flag turned on or off. Also per machine configs if further customization is needed

2025-04-16 15:49:10

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definitely not overkill, I can’t imagine using anything else. Its sucks way too bad to get into a broken system state, something that basically can’t happen on nixos

2025-04-16 15:44:53

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when i git pull new versions of nixpkgs i am always blown away

2025-04-16 15:42:03

#nixos is truly amazing. I've never had to "reinstall" nixos. I've had the same fresh install since 2016. in fact, everytime you switch to a new system state, its effectively a "fresh install".
kernel panic? no problem, nixos installs previous system states as boot menu entries. just rollback. something I've done many times.
using any other linux distro is literally just a waste of your time, unless you like reinstalling your system all the time when it gets in a bad state.
"just use macos" you might say. well macos updates and breaks shit all the time. my desktop never changes, because I have no desktop. just xmonad and custom app launcher I wrote (https://github.com/jb55/cmdtree ).
nixos is the bitcoin of linux distros. no surprises, a bedrock of reliability.

2025-04-15 21:58:29

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we actually have this planned!

2025-04-15 21:32:51

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Was thinking about using notes for things in the world for sure

2025-04-15 20:59:52

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how did you determine that

2025-04-15 20:59:10

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damn that sounds like the ideal combo

2025-04-15 20:41:57

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I was thinking of trying creatine + hydrogen water

2025-04-15 19:26:10

before working on damus I was working on a metaverse protocol called protoverse. I got as far as building a complete webassembly interpreter from scratch in C. The idea is that it would be like the web but for virtual worlds.
In this video it is executing my C game engine I wrote from scratch, compiled to wasm. The protoverse VM is interpreting the game's wasm bytecode in realtime!
The wasm blob is only 500kb, and the game runs at max fps. This is by far the craziest thing I've ever done in code. Good times!
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/protoverse-wasm.mp4

2025-04-15 17:07:09

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yeah, but i will likely have my own ppq thing for better privacy, real pay-per-token instead if top-up, automatic account creation, nwc integration, anonymous, etc

2025-04-15 15:13:13

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when its ready

2025-04-15 13:33:34

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ours will be easier and more private

2025-04-15 13:05:46

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master is a dev branch

2025-04-14 20:44:18

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This is incorrect. When people mean push they mean the server is pushing the payload to the phone. The connection is an implementation detail and is for hole-punching.

2025-04-14 20:26:26

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what? We push to apple and apple pushes to the phone. Polling would be inefficient

2025-04-14 20:23:08

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damus notifications are not pull

2025-04-14 18:48:28

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nothing has really changed when I went over it, if anything it was smoother. but its anecdotal on either side

2025-04-14 18:25:07

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"They repackage fiat fragility in crypto form"
it's so obvious... it's bizarre to me that people are pushing this.

2025-04-14 17:28:57

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its literally the spec
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/72.md

2025-04-14 17:25:54

tell me again why moderated reddit-style communities are a good thing? we're building our own reddit-style community spec, with blackjack and hookers.
#note1h42…79zw

2025-04-14 14:58:51

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thx boss

2025-04-14 14:54:30

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so many possibilities now that i’m not handcuffed

2025-04-14 14:46:01

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Nowhere near is ok! I like to use it even today because I can think of 10,000 bits as $10k some time in the future. Helps me make better spending decisions 😅
Maybe sats makes more sense at $10 mil per coin (at least for me personally)

2025-04-14 14:41:43

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I’ve only tested on ollama/qwen-coder-tools and openai models, but should work with any openai-api compatible model (pretty much all of them).

2025-04-14 14:36:39

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bits are great. At 1 million usd per bitcoin, 1 bit is $1, and 1 sat is one cent. People are already wired to think this way

2025-04-14 14:34:52

we just added an nwc wallet to our nostr browser (notedeck), you will be able to use this for automatically paying for queries to any LLM backend via our ai assistant frontend #dave .
You can write some shitposts, get some zaps, and use those zaps immediately to query chatgpt/claude/gemini . Completely anonymous (not even we can see the npub who is querying).
We can even make it 1:1 sats to token, so you only ever pay exactly how much each token costs. No more large claude/openai subscription fees.

2025-04-13 18:05:33

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Covenants enable you to specify “how” coins can be spent vs traditionally just“who” can spend. This is done onchain at the bitcoin script level. bitcoin itself can enforce this, unlike needing to run nodes to monitor and create strike transactions, which we need to do now on lightning, ark, etc.
@npub148j…xhgp did a good talk on this at the mit bitcoin expo if you want to understand the tradeoffs and why so many L2 devs want it for building better non-custodial protocols:
https://youtu.be/XT-B9k9t5B8?t=18838

2025-04-13 16:26:45

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Covenants are pretty important for making many of these protocols non-interactive, so you don’t need to run a node to have self custody. Most people will not run nodes.
Sure you can *do it*, but if it’s too cumbersome and requires you to have a server running, this is not really solving anything.

2025-04-13 15:10:25

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What if US loses WRC status and noone wants their dollars, what then? Just collapse? Seems like a risky proposition to be a nation of just importing everything and just pressing a button on a money printer.
Not being totally dependent on foreign adversaries doesn’t seem like a bad precautionary step, even if it’s less efficient than a pure free market.

2025-04-13 14:48:07

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It seems like what you are trying to do @npub1r0r…q9ac is a quote repost of a blossom note? I still think a mp3 link would be simpler. The is the same argument i got into Vitor a long time ago when he changed images to use embedded notes and then images stopped working in every client.
Its easy for clients to turn a mp3 link into an embedded player, damus already does that

2025-04-13 14:42:19

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Oh nm i was going to do this for alt/unknown events anyway

2025-04-13 14:33:13

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Why do people make specs so hostile to kind1 clients. There could just be an mp3 link here. Why do kind1 to begin with otherwise?

2025-04-13 14:19:29

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Also more incentive for people to actually manufacture stuff locally, so there is more variety other than just chinese slop, and an opportunity to show that NA products are superior. Also having sovereign manufacturing bases for tech (although this seems less likely and trump already exempted those)
If its simply too expensive to import than there is an economic opportunity to take a stab at doing it locally. If there is no incentive because you can never beat the cheap labour in China then noone will even bother to try.

2025-04-13 13:43:00

This seems to be the number one response to my question about tariffs:
“If it was made in America the quality would be just as bad as the chinese slop”
Didn’t realize america produces such terrible quality stuff with no hope of improvement 😬
#note1ls8…j04u

2025-04-13 04:33:29

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thats what she said

2025-04-13 03:29:18

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ios has always been ok with this, as long as its not note zaps. profile zaps are ok

2025-04-13 01:51:38

new damus wallet view is dope
https://image.nostr.build/f28c4db7600fb7c6e731805d9c6310fa2c0576894aba37f2b2b370e0404a0a2c.jpg

2025-04-13 01:26:29

nostr is the last social network i will ever join
#note19pa…a0jt

2025-04-12 23:27:13

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Damus has been tested with many nwc configurations, it’s likely an issue with their implementation.

2025-04-12 22:51:32

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how do you know this is a bug in damus and not cashu.me ?

2025-04-12 22:50:19

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oh yeah we haven’t figured out why it’s not working there yet. I’ll need to spin up a windows amd64 vm

2025-04-12 22:43:54

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Its hardcoded to 10 sats atm though

2025-04-12 22:43:23

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its on master

2025-04-12 22:37:42

notedeck zaps working! thanks @npub1fgz…jeck!
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/notedeck-zaps.mp4
tested with @npub1h2q…w8ch NWC.

2025-04-12 16:18:24

gm nostr
https://image.nostr.build/fcf46ddb16339f3f76141a3305b1800e65c49177486bd9d4118467b860e2ea89.jpg

2025-04-12 09:51:00

I’ve heard a lot that normies don’t care about censorship resistance, which is true, but only because they haven’t experienced the problem yet.
How do we get people to care about a problem that they won’t experience until they do?
#note16yu…ndht

2025-04-12 09:32:29

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People aren’t even making stuff locally anymore. It feels like everything is imported. I mean, i’m sure it exists, but i don’t even know where to go to find it. Almost everything is chinese made.

2025-04-12 09:03:02

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I generally try to think of the positives and negatives of certain ideas from first principles at a give time, not just blanket join some idea because i’m supposed to. Freer trade has gotten us to the point where the US depends on a foreign adversary for their weapons and defense tech. How is that a good thing? Wouldn’t you at least want a motivator to get people to build a manufacturing base here instead? Build up expertise so that you are more self sovereign?

2025-04-12 08:42:29

Tired of cheap chinese crap everywhere. Maybe people will start saving their money and actually buy good quality stuff locally— not made with Foxconn-style labour. Low time preference.
How are tariffs on china a bad thing in this sense? I get that it’s a lot more complicated, with iphones being assembled by foxconn and the complexities of the supply chain… but still, isn’t this directionally ok? Even if we have to pay a higher price?

2025-04-12 02:32:25

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they can try!

2025-04-12 02:01:21

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yeah listening to that now

2025-04-12 01:40:20

“People who die on their feet live a lot longer than those who die on their knees”

2025-04-12 01:37:29

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🫡

2025-04-12 01:02:11

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👀👀👀

2025-04-12 00:56:31

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she’s awesome!

2025-04-12 00:53:48

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nostraisia 2024 was great!
https://image.nostr.build/87e030c53e46c6c647327804ed9e53828d23e83e6939101da2538b5ce1e77ead.jpg

2025-04-12 00:48:09

i miss japan
https://image.nostr.build/03309e0daa92f9fcc5c82f1f594f00c794d36cf66291bf5a47e8bb4f7d345c93.jpg

2025-04-12 00:15:55

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“Most people don’t know or care about protocols”. Some interesting points here
https://image.nostr.build/9c3a5d02fc44c6159c6d724ede2eec48d5901c4cd923a2a9a822f6cd5a008933.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/017e2932896b4c31d8055eb010bee9ef1996fc7fe9900913c7f2636518d906b9.jpg

2025-04-12 00:10:46

how do we make freedom tech a household phrase

2025-04-11 23:58:59

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I don’t know what that is

2025-04-11 23:38:31

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why not