dk
David King

https://www.curiousdk.com

don’t you worry ‘bout a thing

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npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8

NIP-05 Address

dk@stacker.news

NIP-57 Address

dk@primal.net

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relay.current.fyi

nos.lol

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Last Notes

2024-08-30 22:00:07

freedom tech will win
https://m.primal.net/KVwd.jpg

2024-08-30 21:03:44

who’s going to build the Orkut-themed nostr client for all the Brazilians arriving on Nostr?
NostrOrkut
#brazil #brazillian
https://m.primal.net/KVsa.jpg

2024-08-29 15:07:48

been thinking about this. would love to know the podcaster stack on nostr
#note1qqq…dl4z

2024-08-28 23:15:51

such cognitive dissonance every time I click publish on a Substack where I’m writing about Nostr
we need better long-form writing tools here ✍️

2024-08-28 20:10:49

with every note I write on nostr I feel a sense that I am making a slight improvement toward righting what’s wrong in the world

2024-08-28 03:41:07

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which app/service?

2024-08-28 03:33:53

🧘‍♂️
https://m.primal.net/KQxc.jpg

2024-08-28 03:12:47

if you’re new here step up and say hi! 👋

2024-08-26 04:10:55

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Welcome! What are you hoping to find here? How did you hear about it?

2024-08-22 16:05:54

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what’s the easiest/best way to generate a nsec/npub and perform basic signing operations from a CLI?

2024-08-21 20:16:20

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Runes does seem like a promising direction at a high level, but I’m not very informed about the implementation details of the project.
Is there any easy way to review all the Runes names that are already issued? If someone built an extension to the indexer software or an API to make it easy to find Runes names (and their mappings?) do you think nostr client developers would be interested in including them like we have with NIP-05 names? Do runes exist as bearer assets like inscribed sats (so they are transferrable)?

2024-08-20 21:35:46

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I don’t believe it’s unsolvable, though I haven’t seen a solution yet which I would consider good enough.
I would think of names as a socially agreed upon convention that can live entirely in digital space with no knowledge of meatspace.
I don’t see any reason that Apple Inc should necessarily own the name “Apple”, but in an open market they might be able to pay more than “Farmer John’s Apple Orchard, Inc.” to purchase that scarce digital asset from a previous owner.

2024-08-20 20:03:03

I don’t think good US presidential candidates can emerge within the structure of our current system. We need more fundamental reinvention.

2024-08-19 22:59:12

Nostr’s super-power is interoperability, yet most nostr services tend to build complete experiences rather than “the best micro-app to achieve X”
Is this due to a belief that each app should be a complete end-to-end experience in itself? a lack of coordination among devs? something else?
excerpted from a phone call today with @npub18lz…ugm3

2024-08-19 20:16:03

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yes, I’d love to learn about what you’re building! please do share for comment

2024-08-19 16:11:37

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I agree with the principles you listed, except I don’t think we can expect a wide eco system to begin with. Something genuinely new here probably doesn’t have a wide-ecosystem of support from day one (i.e. wallets, browsers, nostr-clients, etc.)
independently I wrote up these core principles which I think a winning solution will probably need to uphold:
+ No central issuer
+ Fair distribution (open to everyone from day 1, scarcity in issuance, verifiable)
+ Market cost to create/issue
+ Market cost to update
+ No ongoing cost to own/hold
+ Proactive name issuance (not a side-effect of some other protocol function)

2024-08-19 15:32:21

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agreed, annual renewal seems like it decreases self-sovereignty
do you understand why a hierarchical namespace is chosen? is it to reduce impact to on-chain blockspace?
I haven’t fully digested the details of what kind of control the owners of the “spaces” might have over the owners of the “subspaces”. After the auction are these held/mapped/updated in a trust-minimized way?

2024-08-19 15:24:33

“Not your keys, not your name?”
Just saw this article about a new approach to self-sovereign names called “Spaces”. Any opinions on this approach or suggestions of others to consider?
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/not-your-keys-not-your-name-heres-why-naming-is-the-next-killer-app-for-bitcoin

2024-08-19 01:03:32

i don’t know if explicit suppression of trolls would work since the identification of such might be just as hard as it is for today’s providers. but there may be an answer somewhere in an open network
https://m.primal.net/KDri.jpg

2024-08-18 15:12:24

real problems, but we’re not giving up
#note1nem…5kyz

2024-08-16 23:00:10

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what would you change?

2024-08-16 22:14:46

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try @npub12vk…pugg and use the “Trending 24h” filter accessible from the upper right box… it’s a good start to find some good notes/people, but not yet part of the obvious/default experience for a n00b

2024-08-16 22:13:12

we need open, user-switchable, transparent algorithms
new people come on and can’t find the good stuff. this needs to be easy for a casual user who is curious to try it out
@npub1gcx…nj5z and @npub16c0…6nvr are already building toward this future, but we can do so much more.
simpler onboarding, easier to discover the good stuff, no engagement-bait shenanigans. the future is bright (but not evenly distributed) #note1ec5…562l

2024-08-16 19:19:04

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I’ve got swarms of purple cyberhornets carrying my notes 💁‍♀️

2024-08-16 19:17:37

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sorry, man, I’ll mellow the feedback 😝

2024-08-16 18:19:55

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You deposit bitcoin, you get stablecoin (e.g. USDC/USDT) that you can off ramp to bank dollars. You pay the right amount of stable coin back at the end of the loan term (all encoded programmatically) and you get your bitcoin back.

2024-08-16 18:13:26

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hmmm.. this is using DLCs to setup a non-custodial smart contract between a borrower and lender so the loan is just programmatic and shouldn’t care much about who the parties are. Not sure if individual reputations will add more signal, but maybe there are cases?

2024-08-16 17:57:32

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⛰️⛰️⛰️ 👀

2024-08-16 17:46:03

Bitcoin is pristine collateral
Lava makes that utility accessible to everyone — all non-custodial, of course
https://github.com/lava-xyz/loans-paper/blob/main/loans_v2.pdf
cc @npub1xww…x7pr https://image.nostr.build/fb29e419b0410db7d815d560976853d7b84e56dfe848afc8278bde69f556b518.jpg

2024-08-16 16:54:57

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🙏

2024-08-16 16:45:39

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🔥💡

2024-08-16 16:42:15

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@npub1ug8…d9ry
@npub18lz…ugm3
@npub1qny…95gx
@npub14mc…frlx
@npub1a2c…w83a
@npub1l2v…ajft
@npub16c0…6nvr
@npub1xww…x7pr

2024-08-16 16:29:01

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🙏💜

2024-08-16 15:38:38

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Is there any FOSS I can setup locally to handle most of this?

2024-08-16 15:37:09

I’m going to try publishing my first long-form note (I think). Wish me luck! 🤞

2024-08-16 15:21:15

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the_more_you_know.gif

2024-08-16 00:09:25

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love how this pulls the web pages from the archives in their original 90s glory days

2024-08-15 23:58:47

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wouldn’t be interested any other way

2024-08-15 22:56:18

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🫡

2024-08-15 21:30:23

I agree with Shehzan’s conclusion, but it opens up a bunch of weird follow-up questions for me
https://m.primal.net/KAre.jpg

2024-08-15 21:00:59

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ha... I still know my Prodigy username despite not having logged in for over 30 years 😝

2024-08-15 19:48:15

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assets with more substance (what I might call utility?) have a higher likelihood of sustaining their social consensus over a longer duration
but all pricing is relative to all other options, nothing has an intrinsic price

2024-08-15 19:16:55

I grew up on the Internet starting over 30 years ago
digital is real to me

2024-08-15 19:05:21

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no heroes

2024-08-15 18:52:46

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why $? sats the standard

2024-08-15 18:18:05

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I hedged my language cuz @npub1qkf…ertp kind of invented the zap pre-nostr on @npub1jfu…m0gx
j/k Silk Road was a good, but early use-case, tho it had nowhere near the frequency of a media-use-case

2024-08-15 16:56:54

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it’s one of the first great use-cases for bitcoin payments

2024-08-15 16:19:15

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let’s help educate more. it can take a lot of study -- it’s a big change to understand.

2024-08-15 15:20:22

Every time a rug is pulled somewhere — be it money or speech — it’s marketing for sovereignty and freedom

2024-08-15 01:39:37

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thanks for writing this. I had not considered how expressing hate speech can lead to a reduction in continued hate speech.

2024-08-15 01:36:53

free speech and neutral money are technically very different, but they’re both foundational to how we organize society

2024-08-15 01:34:07

Daily reminder: if you’re iterating quickly on building the best nostr-native long-form composer I will give you tons of feedback

2024-08-15 00:19:23

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🙌
From my upcoming post:
"They may be more open to trying a new approach — publishing in a place that is uncrowded and niche even if it doesn’t provide amazing growth and monetization opportunities yet. It’s an investment in the future. Being early before the masses arrive will prove to be a gift to your future self.”

2024-08-15 00:17:24

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whoa! is this getting integrated into a lot of dev workflows?

2024-08-15 00:00:58

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Hbd!

2024-08-14 23:41:51

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✌️

2024-08-14 23:41:26

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anyone making progress on a nostr based github alternative yet?

2024-08-14 23:40:51

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the way

2024-08-14 16:56:56

Today, you are the algorithm. ReNote the ideas you want to spread.

2024-08-14 16:53:54

Nostr needs more UX/design help
Karnage has done a lot to help nostr UX/design, so you should listen to what he expresses as the challenges 👇 #note1h9t…5ma2

2024-08-13 22:32:49

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Are you thinking about this to improve the video experience on existing clients like Damus or to open up new experiences that can’t be done without it (e.g., something TikTok-like)?

2024-08-13 21:43:04

What’s the simplest way to use a CLI on Mac/Linux to generate an nsec/npub and sign/verify a message?
NDK? @npub1l2v…ajft @npub1zuu…c2uc

2024-08-13 20:37:22

I’m looking forward to long-form writing being a thing on Nostr

2024-08-13 20:30:53

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good advice
but also: focus your time on stuff you care about and tune out the noise

2024-08-13 20:27:18

I know of an OG bitcoiner who is vegan
ignore conformity

2024-08-13 19:51:05

fix the money and the media and you’ll fix politics

2024-08-13 19:10:08

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nobody can tell me that i can’t say nothing

2024-08-13 17:10:11

Bitcoin node status:
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

2024-08-13 17:08:18

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i could also see a create:consume ratio if it’s a client i use as a composer

2024-08-13 12:44:41

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it is a good one ☝️

2024-08-13 04:42:45

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i used to have a very active private investing life. tho nothing looks as good by comparison anymore

2024-08-13 00:31:41

an algorithm is just a process which makes a computer do a bunch of work toward achieving a goal
Just make sure when you use algorithms they are IN SERVICE OF YOUR GOALS AND NOT SOME CORPORATION’S GOALS
"let’s make computers do things for us” should not be a controversial statement

2024-08-13 00:13:41

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This is pretty new, but looks promising:
https://noogle.lol/discover

2024-08-13 00:06:05

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have you ever tasted an open source one?

2024-08-12 21:47:57

some day we will look back and think it insane that we ever accepted algorithms choosing our media that are not open source

2024-08-12 20:57:20

If I mute an account does it cause their replies to my note not to show up when people open a thread they discovered based on my note?
seems a little complicated… just curious if anyone has done something like this or if it’s just a thing to placate App Store policy

2024-08-12 20:47:15

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oh, hadn’t seen this before, thanks for sharing. Obsidian looks very polished. So this nostr-writer is just nostr-focused adaptation stuff for Obsidian?

2024-08-12 20:41:11

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ha… most writers don’t have VS Code installed… even very technical writers

2024-08-12 20:37:19

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also, I can both appreciate all the work these teams are putting into these tools, but also recognize that “normie-writers” are not going to go nostr-native until the tools reach a minimum bar which I don’t think anyone has achieved yet

2024-08-12 20:14:24

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So the KBs are primarily aimed at helping devs find/reuse code? Seems useful. Anyone building an gen-AI model on top of this KB?

2024-08-12 19:50:54

I don’t need more money
I need more FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Y’all building this stuff are true heroes

2024-08-12 18:37:54

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ha... yeah, I think the answer is “it’s designed totally decoupled from bitcoin”, but also, “it could never work long term without bitcoin”

2024-08-12 15:17:18

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i would have to research what that means to even know 😝

2024-08-12 15:02:59

Bitcoin as explained by GenZ
https://bitcoinforgenz.org
H/t @npub1ug8…d9ry https://image.nostr.build/8e61dc1e83422b994e305de5c524a60027b370f334d4df59e9aa71fdcdd3b065.jpg

2024-08-12 12:39:09

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agreed. fully decoupled, but impossible to scale without some way to mediate the economics

2024-08-12 02:47:04

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hey fotoart 👋

2024-08-12 01:47:09

i’m just a guy writing a note to say hi

2024-08-11 18:53:58

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write/share more about what you care about and the right people will show up

2024-08-09 23:42:29

I had not seen this thread from almost 2 years ago comparing the tradeoffs between Nostr and Farcaster. Well written/well-considered, imo:
https://x.com/macieklaskus/status/1580888608822525954

2024-08-08 19:10:42

challenge yourself today!
https://m.primal.net/Jsjb.png

2024-08-08 04:23:42

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which corporation?

2024-08-06 21:29:51

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new stuff always takes guts. good job, Tony!

2024-08-06 19:07:07

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ah, i see. i didn’t listen to the pod but your theory makes sense given that info. tho i’d expect musk angles to make it X exclusive. why not?

2024-08-06 18:55:44

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twitter seems like a more obvious place to converge. incentives all line up.

2024-08-06 18:16:17

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valuing ETH reveals your endgame: USD

2024-08-06 18:07:39

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freedom is the whole thing 🤙

2024-08-05 21:37:54

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Thanks for contributing this history.
I didn’t realize fiatjaf was so liberal with his cryptocurrency endeavors :)
I agree Jack brought a lot of social consensus to galvanize early visibility (and contributed a lot of funding over time)!
I’ve heard the Taproot/identity point mentioned before, but I don’t know much about the relationship. Can you tell more about this? Are npubs/nsec specs inherited from something in Taproot?

2024-08-05 18:05:03

Is Nostr dependent on bitcoin?
nope. it's a totally independent idea to support free speech. though it does tickle some similar instincts in people
If you drop by Nostr even casually, it can often feel like you’re crashing a bitcoiner dinner party. The memes, the FOSS devs, the topics of conversation often seem to overlap with bitcoin culture. Is this just a case of “birds-of-a-feather” or is there more to it?
Nostr is an open protocol. It’s independent of the use or existence of any cryptocurrency. It uses cryptography, but nothing super fancy there. It’s actually kinda basic, tbh.
So why did so many bitcoiners show up? A simple explanation might be that fiatjaf, the creator of Nostr, was a bitcoiner and brought like-minded people along. But I think there’s more to it than just the initial seed.
The critical feature which Nostr gets right is that you can create an account just by doing math on your own. Of course, you can use a little program on your own computer to help do this math (i.e., creating public-private key pairs). This is cryptography at its best — a tool that empowers the individual.
You don’t have to go to a 3rd-party-issuer to create an account for you. You don’t have to subscribe to a particular cryptocurrency or political ideology. You could identify as a libertarian, anarchist, democrat, republican, labor party, or you may not accept any political labels at all.
On Nostr, you’re welcome to even dislike the concept of bitcoin/cryptocurrencies altogether. As long as you have a curiosity about, or interest in freedom of speech you may find Nostr to be a good place for you to share your thoughts. On Nostr, your ideas and your words are published without being subject to anyone’s permission. The separation of power between clients and data stores is what enforces your rights. It’s baked into the architecture. Not promised and granted to you by a demagogue. That’s the whole idea. https://image.nostr.build/5d23e5dcec75918ff08a8a382bb380c580c65b7511fc3df35e7f404b4f6b716e.jpg

2024-08-03 01:58:00

summertime dinner in the mountains
https://m.primal.net/JmTE.jpg

2024-08-02 21:54:02

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🤷‍♂️