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https://nostr.technology

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npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6

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fiatjaf@zbd.gg

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nostr.mom

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2025-03-31 14:17:05

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I think it used to open in Chrome before, but now it doesn't open in Chrome, it opens on a webview inside the Google app, no?

2025-03-30 22:59:18

https://23gmt.nostr.technology/ is open.

2025-03-30 14:31:50

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If what gives the posts authenticity is the fact that they come from someone's homeserver how can that assumption hold when posts are coming from the big indexer?

2025-03-30 14:07:30

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IPFS doesn't work. If it worked we would not need Nostr or relays. We could simply sign notes, publish to IPFS, then publish an updated index of our notes categorized by kind or something like that, then update our IPNS to point to the updated index. People who follow us could just fetch our IPNS record and get our index and download our posts.

2025-03-30 11:43:57

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I see. That is doable, but I think both use cases should exist.
To me it is desirable that people see you replying to something, but can't see what that something is because it is "premium". Makes it so that people want to pay to see, acts as a discovery mechanism both for the person who is publishing premium content and for the mechanism of publishing premium content itself (i.e. the relay).
Otherwise all the content will just be forever stuck inside the restricted relay and no one will ever see it or realize that it exists.
Never.

2025-03-30 00:47:29

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Meanwhile on Nostr, or "private Nostr" as @npub1xts…kk5s once called it, we have a little bit of make-believe technology, but with better incentives, less blast radius and much more reliable and fine-grained implementations that give us actually much better chances of things working -- and yet @npub1jlr…ynqn thinks it's not enough and wants to run pure encryption functions on all the notes and make everybody's lives miserable for no gain because in the end screenshots still exist and are effectful, negating his purism.

2025-03-30 00:37:36

The level of "privacy" provided by these Mastodon things is so ridiculous it's absurd. And yet apparently it works and people like it and use it?
I mean, that seems to be case from what I can infer from horribly-concerned terrible-writer person here: it's a thing they trust to work, everybody trusts to work, and works most of the time. And they get very angry when it doesn't work -- even though it should be obvious to anyone there is basically nothing preventing it from stopping working completely anytime. It's all make-believe magic-wand technology.
#nevent1q…300g

2025-03-29 22:47:34

https://23gmt.nostr.technology/ will open in 13 minutes.

2025-03-29 20:25:14

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In the case of microblogging apps I think the relay concept can be hidden for a long time for new users, actually, as long as outbox works.
But in the case of NIP-29 groups I don't think that should be an option, because you are trusting a server, so you must be forced to at least acknowledge that a server exists somewhere.

2025-03-29 11:39:11

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https://git.fiatjaf.com/23gmt

2025-03-29 11:00:07

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https://nostr-php.dev/ by @npub1qe3…zefe is probably good.

2025-03-29 00:49:59

Who made this? @npub13er…xeey

2025-03-28 13:12:09

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We should have clear and simple a HTML website explaining step-by-step specifically how to set up a Nostr community/forum/chatroom and pointing to Flotilla, Chachi or whatnot. Who can make this?

2025-03-28 12:58:08

It's an attack of all forums. Can we save these people?
#nevent1q…r206

2025-03-27 12:38:29

This is my new opinion on AI:
#nevent1q…ddnd

2025-03-27 12:21:55

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Rename it to Drivechain.

2025-03-26 22:44:21

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Works flawlessly after you fixed it.

2025-03-26 01:38:36

The obvious solution to all this mess is to make libraries ship source code instead of compiled blobs of whatever.
Maybe there is a reason for this absurd choice that they don't even consider changing, but I can't see it.
#nevent1q…3zny

2025-03-26 00:45:29

The social networking dream has finally come true: https://github.com/dpc/rostra
Fully peer-to-peer, very decentralized, uses Iroh and Pkarr, binary payloads, signed messages, merkle trees, advanced synchronization mechanisms, personas mechanism, traverses NAT, DHTs, really good modern and IETF-approved cryptographic algorithms, written in Rust.

2025-03-25 22:38:39

"Choose your own algorithm" will NEVER work on Nostr the way it works on Bluesky.
Smart platform-provided algorithmic feeds like those from X, TikTok or Instagram will NEVER work on Nostr.
Anything that requires filtering from a "global feed" of all notes and delivering that to specific users will never work on Nostr because there isn't and there cannot ever be a global feed on Nostr.
If that is what you think Nostr needs to be good and popular then you'll first have to destroy Nostr by turning it into something else, and then you can implement it.
The alternative is to create something new, a new way of doing discovery, something that actually works nicely within the Nostr constraints, something that actually only works on Nostr because only Nostr has these distributed independent servers with specific owners, specific rules, different users, personalities and preferences.

2025-03-25 19:14:50

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When I talk about the idealistic vision I'm not talking about just censorship resistance.
In fact I wasn't even considering censorship-resistance at all, because I was talking about things that could be used without a huge network-effect, and censorship-resistance is only meaningful with a big network-effect. It was more the openness and interoperability and all the modular parts being combined as well as the identity system and so on.
If you consider that as the idealistic vision I'd say we don't have even 0.001% of all the people that should be very interested in it. So I don't see you can think this is limiting Nostr's growth, this is like thinking that the Wall of China is preventing you from ever leaving your bedroom to go to the bathroom.

2025-03-25 16:15:54

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Agreed.

2025-03-25 01:31:21

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I feel the same. I think we've all finally realized Nostr sucks and no one is coming, really.
We built all this giant piece of something that turns out no one really understands or cares, not even most Nostr developers.

2025-03-25 01:27:57

What prevents LLM data from being poisoned by sheer quantity of garbage?
If they're crawling the internet for data to be fed into the LLMs doesn't that mean that data that appears _more_ will have more importance, instead of data that is "better"?
In other words, what is the "pagerank" of LLMs?

2025-03-24 18:48:39

"Anyone can run it" (as long as they have 4 million dollars).
#nevent1q…9kv9

2025-03-19 22:28:54

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NostrReport was too frequent, and talked too much about what people were doing and saying on Nostr. We need a thing that is just about the technology and open possibilities, another, completely unrelated, about the gossip and stuff like that.

2025-03-19 14:08:18

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I ask for a service where people can throw money and the thing will be stored, you suggest me that people buy desktop computers, store all the things on their hard disks, tweak their router firewalls and leave their computers online all day to seed the content?

2025-03-19 14:04:53

Is there a service somewhere on the internet for pooling funds for storage?
Suppose I have this huge amount of valuable digital material that a group of people may be interested in preserving (for example, backups of the TGFN podcast episodes). I could try to save that myself on some storage provider and then make it available for interested parties, but that is too cumbersome and the cost will all be on me and eventually I will lose everything.
But at the same time there may be dozens, even hundreds of people that would also want to help pay for that and more people would join the pool going forward, they could all just contribute and keep the thing alive forever.
There should be a service that abstracted over storage providers and provided an interface for this. Is there such a thing already?

2025-03-19 13:49:57

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The same NIP-29 group can be forked into multiple relays and each go through a completely different direction.

2025-03-18 23:20:55

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Someone can listen to the podcast and digest the information. But I'm pretty sure every builder is very eager to share all possible information if asked questions here in public.

2025-03-18 19:36:50

Outside our little group here no one knows and no one has any chance to know all the things being created on Nostr, and I'm sure there are many folks that would be very interested if they knew.
We need more people writing about specific Nostr initiatives, such as the groups subprotocol, the git subprotocol, the community relays, the bunkers, the decentralized app store, the multisig signers, the highlighting, the photo sharing, the very private secure messaging subprotocols, the outbox model, the bluetooth offline inter-device protocol, the decentralized wiki and other stuff.
If you know how to write 3 words without asking an AI to generate text for you please do it.

2025-03-15 11:26:10

You can now use nak fs to publish random notes and also to edit carefully-thought articles.
#nevent1q…dktk

2025-03-15 02:15:57

A person who reads is a reader.
A person who drinks is a drinker.
A person who walks is a walker.
What is a person who pees?

2025-03-14 23:16:27

OK, let's try this: https://23gmt.nostr.technology/
A relay that only accepts kind:1 root notes only between 23GMT and 24GMT (also known as: right now) every day and deletes everything one hour after closing every day.
Also only "protected" notes are accepted so they don't leak.

2025-03-13 20:14:58

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Parsing on input keeps the network sane and helps everybody. You do it or not do it, it's your client's decision, self-contained and virtuous.
Parsing on on display is Postel's law and trying to fix people's mess while incentivizing them to do more and more mess until you can't fix it all. If you do it you create work for everybody else and protocol bloat.

2025-03-13 19:25:03

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What clients could do is recognize these URLs at the time they're typed/pasted and prepend the "nostr:" prefix instead of forcing everybody to recognize them at render time.
Even the big platforms do it with URLs when you type just the domain name: they prepend the "https://" prefix (Twitter would famously add an "http://" prefix until recently and that would break some websites that didn't have an autoredirect).
It's common knowledge that we should try to put most of the work on the write flow, because it happens only once, while the read flow happens dozens, thousands, millions of times. That's what most scalable software end up doing.

2025-03-11 13:52:56

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But strfry and khatru support both of these out of the box.
Well, strfry for now just rejects protected events, but https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/pull/137 introduces asking for AUTH and then accepting them.

2025-03-10 22:05:44

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I'm already tired of it myself.

2025-03-10 20:48:08

Since no one asked we've finally delivered: a full-blown FUSE filesystem for all Nostr events and metadata.
nak fs /mnt
cd /mnt/hodlbod@coracle.social
I was going to make a shiny video of this but the result was too bad, so please someone make one and post it here.
In the meantime I have these amazing screenshots of the most beautiful file explorer I could find on my computer:
https://aegis.utxo.one/b163939e99ad206b2523790fd985a3a2f024edfb75d32745f11809b96ce63800.png
https://cdn.azzamo.net/5015c1ddd259c6b1f44b57c59cc126e7b1176f22ef7043ebf17463ff4a50597d.png
https://cdn.azzamo.net/a6e08f782a735aa57579c39ae49305cc5a28b75fbc6ec49637ad49d1e39139f8.png

2025-03-09 01:42:07

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There are no new users, Derek. It's all bots.

2025-03-08 21:13:46

The correct framing here is not that Nostr has evil content, but that _some relays_ do.
These relays are not Nostr, Nostr is only the language your client uses to download the content from the relay, and your device only downloads what it asks for and from the servers it chooses to.
#nevent1q…58pj

2025-03-08 19:45:23

So apparently X only allows edits to the text of root posts, not replies, not media, not private posts.
And it only allows edits for one hour after the post is sent, and only up to 5 edits total.
https://help.x.com/en/using-x/edit-tweet
I think X must have zero users now because they insist in not implementing full-blown unrestricted capabilities for such a crucial unnegotiable feature.

2025-03-06 22:45:34

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It's also possible to do this with Musig2. I believe it is even simpler, each signer just needs to generate an nsec and they don't even have to do any dances to generate the combined npub, it's stateless and deterministic (they do have to do a dance potentially with the help of a coordinator for creating a signature), but it can't be m-of-n, has to be m-of-m.
#nevent1q…ev0h

2025-03-05 10:32:19

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I defer to this post I wrote in 2015 about CouchDB: #naddr1qq…67ph
But I don't think CouchDB is good for anything anymore since they got rid of the concept of couchapps instead of fixing it, then turned it into a boring and slow MongoDB copy.

2025-03-02 21:52:52

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It's hard.

2025-03-01 20:55:45

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Why fork it? Why? What are you going to change in it?

2025-03-01 20:53:10

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And people thought 2 or 3 hours were a lot. I'm already imagining 8-hour podcasts becoming the new trend.

2025-02-27 21:55:43

In what circumstance should I be getting a SIGBUS? https://github.com/PowerDNS/lmdb-go/issues/40

2025-02-25 18:49:09

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What do you mean by finally? It's been an almost an year or more.

2025-02-25 16:50:15

I've deleted my Twitter account. Some days after my username was made available for anyone to grab (contrary to what used to happen traditionally). Some unfunny imbecile grabbed it and is now running free there making retarded posts while still trying to put out a facade of legitimacy. This is all fine, I don't mind, it's ok.
What really bothers me is that all the old tweets from people who had mentioned "@fiatjaf" in all past discussions now link to this new fake profile. How can they not index the mentions by any form of unique account id, but only by username? And then they allow people to freely change usernames and cause all links to break -- and someone else takes the old username and now all the links point to the wrong place.
Is this @npub1sg6…f63m's broken code that no one had the time to fix in 20 years or what?

2025-02-25 15:08:29

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I get the impression that Hoyte is not interested in being part of all this drama and that he has a simpler life making cheese.

2025-02-25 02:10:47

Have you used https://github.com/haorendashu/nowser?

2025-02-25 00:14:35

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I don't know if it was sent, but nos2x prompted me to encrypt and sign things a million times.

2025-02-24 17:21:08

The CLI is social.
Share nak scripts.
#nevent1q…77zp

2025-02-24 17:15:37

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That shouldn't be possible unless the note is available in some other relay already. What note was it?

2025-02-24 14:08:28

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Good question.

2025-02-24 12:56:14

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Ask it to compare TCP/IP against an orange and it will generate the same tables with pros and cons, it's meaningless.

2025-02-23 20:42:55

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Does nchat even work? This looks correct to me, yes, but I can't say for sure.

2025-02-23 15:10:45

The frost bunker is the key rotation.
#nevent1q…y8n6

2025-02-23 14:35:53

https://corecursive.com/building-powershell-with-jeffrey-snover/
"The mouse is antisocial, The GUI is antisocial, So what’s that mean? you have a problem to solve and you solve it with the GUI. What do you have? A problem solved. But when you solve it with a command line interface in a scripting environment, you have an artifact. And all of a sudden that artifact can be shared with someone."

2025-02-21 02:56:22

KYC otherwise your links won't be clickable? https://cdn.azzamo.net/cd9293e20275dda4f46c472b7628db198d50a4d3a53d69929c549cd393dac9f9.png

2025-02-20 19:50:13

Where is the Nostr testnet?

2025-02-18 16:46:26

If you invert WIP vertically you get MIB.

2025-02-17 17:13:14

Every time someone shares a podcast it's a link to either YouTube, Fountain or Spotify.
For whatever reason I don't see anyone sharing RSS URLs.

2025-02-17 02:56:22

https://cdn.azzamo.net/89c543d261ad0d665c1dea78f91e527c2e39e7fe503b440265a3c47e63c9139f.png

2025-02-16 13:59:21

Wouldn't it be great if @npub1der…xzpc's and @npub1l2v…ajft's new podcast could be referenced directly inside Nostr? That way I wouldn't have to just allude to its existence and could make clear what I'm talking about instead of hoping the reader of this tweet will search for some vague name in a centralized canonical index of all podcasts.

2025-02-15 01:56:08

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2025-02-15 01:22:46

Relays specialized in being "inbox" relays, please start blocking hellthreads.

2025-02-14 23:11:16

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If we get BIP-300 we'll have a Nostr sidechain where edits are possible.

2025-02-14 23:10:20

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Did you try the wss://algo.utxo.one/ feed? It kinda sucks to me but apparently that's because I don't like or zap anyone, other people have said it is great.

2025-02-14 00:18:32

https://mmalmi.github.io/learning-to-trust-strangers

2025-02-13 21:04:24

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This makes sense, @npub1zfs…w445.

2025-02-12 18:20:12

Except for Substack, what is the simplest way to make a mailing list that can also be browsed on the web?
No one is doing the Nostr Weekly Report, so maybe I'll start it.

2025-02-11 21:51:28

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SimplePool is the only thing you should use if using go-nostr.
On the next version I'll probably remove everything else and just leave SimplePool.
https://git.fiatjaf.com/nchat kinda works, at least serves as an example.

2025-02-11 20:03:11

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The beautiful solution would be to add AUTH support and then accept these events after the client automatically authenticates.
I'm not sure how you would do that, I think instead of forwarding the websocket messages to strfry you could just call "strfry import" and it would accept anything.

2025-02-11 19:58:14

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If you want strictly group chat that's kind of the the vision of https://flotilla.social/, but also works on https://chachi.chat/ today I think.
I would like something like that to also work in whatever app they already use too (i.e. relays that only some people write to and potentially only this same people read from), but it wouldn't be exactly like a closed group, more like a shared restricted feed, which is slightly different I think, such that it would fit better the microblogging model. Zapbox and Lockbox are some experiments to move us slightly closer to a world of weird custom relays that fit in automatically.
In any case most clients of today are not very close to enabling that. The exception is https://jumble.social/, but https://nostur.com/ and https://coracle.social/ are going there I think, and I heard https://damus.io/notedeck shares some of this vision and Amethyst is planning on joining the bandwagon too.

2025-02-11 18:22:31

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That argument applies to any paywall on the internet today, and yet they work reasonably well in most cases.
Even super encrypted private messages can be leaked and screenshots exist, that doesn't mean we should just give up and write everything in public.
Pirated music and movies can be easily found on the internet by anyone, and yet people continue to pay for these things.
In the case of Nostr, NIP-70 together with the conscience of the reader prevent the content from being easily leaked, but nothing is guaranteed, of course.

2025-02-11 18:07:20

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Can you explain what you think about it?

2025-02-11 15:02:03

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Then I went to pay using BTCPay and saw they supported payjoin, so I installed @npub1t28…nkzs's BullBitcoin wallet because I wanted to be part of the payjoin club, but when I tried to pay using payjoin there was an HTTP error somewhere somehow and I ended up paying normal. The payment appeared as confirmed immediately on the BTCPayServer screen, but Namecheap took many minutes, perhaps a block confirmation?, to actually top-up my balance, it was confusing.

2025-02-11 14:57:55

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Fixing your link: #nevent1q…fdwg

2025-02-11 14:56:44

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Whenever I see that absurd screen for selecting wallets I remember Sergej from Bitrefill saying it was the best UX he had ever seen and that he would copy it.

2025-02-11 14:16:50

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It's by @npub1t6j…ksrw.

2025-02-11 14:16:23

I had bought domains on Namecheap in the past and paid with Lightning using their Bitpay integration. They also have a BTCPayServer but I never used that because it didn't support Lightning.
Today I went there to pay and Bitpay required me to do full KYC just to pay a small Lightning invoice.

2025-02-11 09:50:23

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I was expecting a trollish answer.

2025-02-11 02:39:15

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Why do you think that?

2025-02-11 01:23:52

posting this same note to both https://zapbox.fiatjaf.com/ and https://lockbox.fiatjaf.com/ from https://jumble.social/

2025-02-11 01:18:51

A friend of mine is trying to sell satoshis in exchange for Mexican pesos on Robosats, but there is no liquidity. Can you Mexicans please step up and fill the book there? Or at least take his order.
http://ngdk7ocdzmz5kzsysa3om6du7ycj2evxp2f2olfkyq37htx3gllwp2yd.onion/

2025-02-11 01:10:26

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Yes it is.

2025-02-11 00:53:53

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Most relays already honor it, we're getting there.

2025-02-10 23:20:26

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This is a complete non-solution.

2025-02-10 23:09:41

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There is a link to source code on the page, it's https://git.fiatjaf.com/zapbox
`go build && ./zapbox`

2025-02-10 23:07:01

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Well, that's kind of Barry's job to tell their subscribers, at least that's how it works in the current world.

2025-02-10 22:58:30

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I am not trolling.
I do think it would be good to have a system for identifying harmful stuff. It would be a nice workaround that would work today and I would definitely adopt it at https://njump.me/ because we keep getting reports from Cloudflare. I tried some things but they didn't work very well, so if you know how to do it I'm interested.
However the long-term solution is paid relays, community relays, relays that only give access to friends of friends of friends, that kind of stuff.

2025-02-10 22:27:13

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Relays have to become more whitelisted and less open, and clients have to implement outbox model and stop relying on 2 or 3 big relays, then we can just stop worrying about this.

2025-02-10 20:20:37

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Exactly, that is the idea.

2025-02-10 16:27:15

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Imagine if we had a protocol that allowed multiple clients to connect to multiple servers and get signed offers from people trying to buy or sell satoshis and then if one of these clients or servers was taken down everything else could still keep working?

2025-02-10 16:06:48

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Please find the bugs for me. I'm very new to this zap stuff.
Also it works with NIP-61 nutzaps, but that part is very untested.

2025-02-10 15:43:57

I've made this other relay now: https://zapbox.fiatjaf.com/
First you have to set up a zap threshold, afterwards anything you publish there will only be shown to people who have zapped you at least that threshold in the past 3 months.
All the rest is the same as a Lockbox:
#nevent1q…dewy

2025-02-10 13:34:46

YouTube link for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbt3jL1Ms0w
#nevent1q…ept7

2025-02-08 19:05:15

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Em 1977 as propagandas do governo tocavam Pink Floyd.