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One thing that I always wanted to add, but never did, was that I wanted to move the key management and storage out of the browser part and two the native part.

2024-02-20 21:38:36

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I only have so much room in my life for social media apps. Twitter takes up most of my SM brain power.
Unlike most Nostr users, I actually like having a server and an algorithm. My entire Nostr feed is just stuff about Bitcoin and Nostr. I don’t even know if there is anything else on Nostr. Algorithms show me a wider variety of content, and I don’t want everything to be done in the client.
I am not quitting Nostr, it just doesn’t command a large amount of my attention and I haven’t maintained the same passion for it as I did early

2024-02-20 21:13:42

I renewed my Apple developer account to keep Nostore on the App Store for another year. However I am not a heavy Nostr user these days so I will likely not renew again next year.
If anyone is interested in forking it at some point, I would support that.

2024-02-06 19:49:05

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I did receive your email. Sorry, I'm a bit out of the loop on nostr these days. Can someone explain to me what's happening and how I can duplicate this problem?

2024-01-28 06:05:57

Hey, Nostr. Been a while. I decided to take a free days off the Bird App. How’s it going?

2023-12-04 23:47:21

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My brother in Christ, base64-encoded JSON tokens is what the modern internet is built on.
If you want to talk derpy things, in Nostr we literally encode JSON blobs as strings inside other JSON strings

2023-11-28 02:51:42

I saw this in my feed and did quite the double take #note1wad…lwfr

2023-11-28 02:35:13

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Yes that is what I mean. Instead of trying to squeeze group chats into the current way relays work, there would be a new relay structure focused on this use case.
In essence, a server is a meta-relay, and each channel is an individual relay (unique message stream). server.com/bitcoin, server.com/sports, etc are each technically a separate relay. Instead of amalgamating text notes from all relays into a one transparent feed, a client would segregate the feeds based on channel.
There would also be “admin” type events for channel creation, moderation, etc.
In summary, opinionated relays + a tweaked client experience to create a clean chat experience, while still allowing you to build with the Nostr ecosystem of libraries and extensions

2023-11-28 01:51:44

Would anyone use a Nostr experience that was more like IRC than Twitter? I am playing around with some things

2023-11-26 11:03:04

New version of the Nomen Explorer out: 0.4.0. The biggest change is it now implements NOM-04, which means the indexer publishes its names to Nostr relays. If anyone wants to build tooling around Nomen names, there is no need to call external APIs, you can just use the same Nostr client libraries.
- Nomen Explorer: https://nomenexplorer.com
- Release Notes: https://github.com/ursuscamp/nomen/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md
- NOM-04: https://github.com/ursuscamp/noms/blob/master/nom-04.md#nom-04

2023-11-26 08:48:15

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Ah, you mean it’s more complicated for the client developer? Yeah, it is. It is simpler for the user, though (it all stays in one app).
Most Nostr clients are JavaScript, and the typescript library is amazing.

2023-11-25 14:40:09

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It is a terrible thing. Authoritarianism is encroaching everywhere.

2023-11-25 14:38:06

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Well, zaps are supposed to be public, but you could send ecash through encrypted messages, for sure.

2023-11-24 17:44:47

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No, it’s the opposite. It would set zaps free

2023-11-24 17:05:52

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Risk profile is roughly the same. With Cashu, you can have offline payments and superior privacy as you said, but also a totally open transparent standard developed in the open, interoperable mints, etc

2023-11-24 16:47:43

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If wallets implement this, it is nearly unstoppable. The event stores the money itself! It only redeemable by the owner of the public key. But there is a lock time condition, as well: if the owner doesn’t claim the ecash, you can refund to yourself after a time.
All of this happens without touching LN.
Cashu is Wallet of Satoshi on STERROIDS.

2023-11-24 16:39:31

Nostr clients should implement Cashu wallets and a Cashu-based zap standard using P2PK to Nostr key instead of LNURL.

2023-11-16 14:04:54

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I supported the idea of it, but man, it really just went and got merged quick, didn’t it. 😬

2023-11-16 12:19:09

Is there a way to use Nostr Connect on Iris when it is a PWA? The option disappears on iOS when I add it to the Home Screen @npub1g53…drvk

2023-11-11 13:35:19

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> Not everything that people like is a scam.
Woah now

2023-11-11 13:33:34

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So be it

2023-11-11 13:33:08

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We should rebalance our priorities to favor relays more.
Relays being transparent is a mistake for long-term sustainability. Relays should be communities. Relays should be invite only for posting, or have some membership requirements. Clients should obviously display which relay a note was from, and you should select destination relays when you make a post. Clients should also offer optional filters by relay to allow users to delve down into more specific communities.
The goal here is to be more like IRC, which maintains infrastructure for free for decades by being more “community-like” with regard to relays and making sure power users have a stake in the relay.
We should not be as siloed as IRC, however. Client integration with multiple relays should find a balance between making the seams between relays obvious but not a hindrance to UX. We should maintain the look and feel of global feeds while fostering per-relay communities.

2023-11-10 22:42:47

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“Pretty please stop killing innocent people, but don’t worry, we won’t do anything at all if you don’t stop.”

2023-11-10 02:02:26

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It’s an extra output on top of any transaction. The size depends on the length of the name, but it’s quite small.
If you choose a 4 byte name “owen” then it would be 42 vbytes in total to register. That’s 4200 sats fee, or $1.54 at current prices + the cost for the rest of the transaction (it can be any transaction as I said).

2023-11-09 23:56:20

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Me and my entire family are heavily invested into the Apple ecosystem and not one single other person would change if I asked them too. Lol

2023-11-09 23:54:23

If fees stay the same, should I implement Liquid support into Nomen? This thing will die if it can’t even get properly started because no one will buy a name because of fees!

2023-11-09 12:07:29

The ordinals enjoyers seem to want me to step up my timeline for Liquid names for Nomen… https://image.nostr.build/44731a39e8fb2263eb821f9556af75b5fd3faf7e566f8fe5d2096c783dc303d7.jpg

2023-11-08 15:50:15

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What has blown me away are the sheer number of people that just absolutely do not care/excuse mass slaughter of innocent people, using the most paper thin of excuses.

2023-11-08 14:47:56

I am attempting to bring global, unique names to Nostr via an open protocol.
I wanted to explain the new release of the protocol (and reference implementation), and why it needed a backward-compatible upgrade. #note1r8s…ancn

2023-11-08 14:35:46

Nomen Gets A Protocol Upgrade: https://ursus.camp/nomen/2023/11/08/nomen-protocol-upgrade.html

2023-11-05 17:13:49

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That terror attack likely took them a year or two to plan and execute, and required Israel being historically negligent on their border security (to protect West Bank settlers). Hamas could not repeat it again if they wanted to.

2023-11-05 15:15:26

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Hamas is not an existential threat to Israel. This campaign is about revenge, pure and simple.
What is existential to Israel is bombing the population of Gaza to oblivion, committing non-stop terror and violence against the citizens of the West Bank, and uniting the entire Muslim world against them. THAT is an existential threat to Israel, and they have brought it on themselves.

2023-11-02 00:33:30

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I prefer to borrow the str: &str

2023-09-19 21:47:14

Released 0.2.0 of the Nomen Explorer today. Disabled transfers temporarily. Transfers in protocol v0 were broken, they will be fixed soon and released with v1 of the protocol.
Fixed the issue that double-indexed @npub18n4…zk9r name 😉
https://github.com/ursuscamp/nomen/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

2023-09-17 21:29:52

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I don’t suppose you would be willing to provide the PSBT so I can open a bug ticket? If not, can you provide an alternative PSBT which generated the error?

2023-09-14 23:47:53

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It worked! Niiiice

2023-09-14 23:15:44

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iOS. I am behind the times maybe. Is there a solution?

2023-09-14 23:12:58

I miss zapping posts

2023-09-14 23:12:17

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Me after an hour of catching up on twitter, Nostr and telegram

2023-09-14 23:11:14

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Can confirm. I am a real person and not an AI or scammer. Or am I? 🤔

2023-09-14 01:24:36

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Now we just need a way to tell them apart in the UI. Heh

2023-09-14 01:23:13

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It definitely could. Do any native apps support it, though?

2023-09-14 00:17:48

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Been a while since I checked in on the NIPs. Is there a standard that would work for Nostr native apps?

2023-09-11 20:57:47

I am continuing to poke at my sidechain withdrawal ideas https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/alternative-sidechain-withdrawal-implementation/91/1

2023-09-05 20:26:00

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Pretty sensationalist

2023-08-10 16:40:16

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Two way pegs*

2023-08-10 16:37:13

A new sidechain proposal, Sentinel Chains, which enables sidechains with two pegs, wothout ANY changes required for Bitcoin Core
https://ursuscamp.github.io/bitcoin/2023/08/10/sidechains.html

2023-07-10 18:04:07

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Pirates today have no idea how good they have it

2023-07-08 22:55:49

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Thanks bot

2023-07-08 22:48:49

I am finally feeling like it might be fun to run my own Lightning node (just a small one for zaps). What’s the best info on setting one up? My node setup is custom: old laptop repurposed as home server. Any good tutorials that accommodate that?
I want to use NWC (for zapplepay) so that probably means LND.

2023-07-08 20:52:39

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Nothing much changes. The institution can only marginally improve, even with completely transparent communication.

2023-07-08 12:28:43

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Plebstr is crushing it

2023-07-07 17:15:45

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I don’t have Alby. I very much wish that @npub1hcw…h9rq would support NWC.

2023-07-06 19:41:33

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If I don’t use Alby, what are my options for NWC?

2023-07-06 12:33:50

How does plebstr still have Lightning tips on posts? Is it just because Apple hasn’t figured it out yet?

2023-07-06 12:29:23

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Completely normal stuff, here

2023-07-06 04:01:14

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Just tried this out. It is a very beautiful app. Can’t believe it has post zapping

2023-07-06 04:00:24

Holy shit plebstr is nice. How are they allowed to do post zapping? Is it just that Apple has not caught on yet?

2023-07-04 15:33:23

Yard work, Sabaton, grilling, board games. 🤘
Happy 4th! 🇺🇸

2023-06-27 17:43:52

Man zaps broken as hell on iOS. Damus is being forced to remove them, and webapps/PWAs do not seem to allow you to pick a wallet to use. What’s the best setup for zaps on iOS now?

2023-06-18 22:24:04

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Either your phone is compromised or Twitter is

2023-06-16 14:32:51

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Needs Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! by Abba

2023-06-16 13:53:20

If you’re using a iPhone PWA, is there a way to set the default Lightning wallet for zaps?

2023-06-13 20:08:23

What Nostr PWAs have the best iPhone experience?

2023-06-13 20:06:38

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Interesting! I would think it would silently fail by trying to sign an event with a differently populated public key, but if you’re saying it doesn’t do that, I would indeed say it’s a problem.

2023-06-13 12:57:25

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Thanks I will take a look!

2023-06-13 02:26:08

Currently, getting a name in Nomen (https://nomenexplorer.com) requires someone to be familiar with some more technical aspects of Bitcoin, using PSBTs and such. I would like to improve the UX.
I am interested in building an interface where someone can just send a Lightning payment and I can make the transaction with my own wallet. However I do not know much about Lightning and I am not particularly interested in managing a proper Lightning node with liquidity and such.
What are some options I can have for presenting and receiving Lightning invoices, and triggering backend calls?

2023-06-11 21:50:34

#note1mxd…zk49

2023-06-10 14:44:59

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Nice to see you finally get off your lazy ass and get this done!

2023-06-09 11:37:55

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😏

2023-06-09 11:20:59

Twitter is now 95% OnlyFans girls and guys being assholes to OnlyFans girls.

2023-06-07 00:03:34

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Nostr over Twitter

2023-06-06 15:50:33

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Radio spectrum over a given area is a scarce resource. It should be treated as private property, not have its allocation decided by bureaucrats.

2023-06-06 01:20:45

Unleash the Archer’s cover of Northwest Passage is the peak of Canadian culture.
https://youtu.be/XRD3vrSLPaw

2023-06-06 01:14:07

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Is it a chromium skin?

2023-06-06 00:16:42

#note1qra…s422

2023-06-04 14:42:39

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This is definitely a thing that needs to happen.

2023-06-03 19:31:58

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Sorry I have been focused on https://nomenexplorer.com recently, and have let my first love languish a bit 😅 but I will get back to it

2023-06-03 19:01:46

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There was never an official macOS release. The iOS version works on apple silicon. Maybe for the next release I will make the macOS version available as well on the app store

2023-06-03 18:54:09

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It is indeed. It actually has been released for months. Lol. I made several release announcements but without an algorithm, things tend to get lost in the shuffle on nostr 😆

2023-06-03 18:52:59

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I will push another build to TestFlight with a few fixes in a week or two

2023-06-03 14:53:15

Honor is dead, but I’ll see what I can do. https://nostr.build/i/015371f7cb4ec838ed07c0de95f9f58bfc00d833d14382f70bbcbcbafc99c426.jpg

2023-06-02 02:20:09

For some reason, I spent an entire evening working on #WheelOfTime generative AI portraits https://nostr.build/i/6ca5c1d9fc1bd186dfac2d7c5e1ee367a5acb8afe2205908130b05f3d8401529.jpg https://nostr.build/i/face770c6d3390c4d318bc8b80ce649ac5562541543c32cdbdf360bcb5e5faed.jpg https://nostr.build/i/9878dadc8151d851d0d3b82337682e0cadfcab9d8ac47027c7d6e0b86c62e45b.jpg https://nostr.build/i/034b9ac582085a0546a615c345901342b21a93068b12449b8bb41f48d9d18183.jpg

2023-06-02 02:15:46

Always a good day when you make it into the nostr report #note1awt…g6lq

2023-06-01 23:08:37

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How does one activate this?

2023-06-01 22:09:04

“The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai’don”

2023-06-01 20:11:24

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Basically. There’s only room for about 200-300 total ASPs if all of the blocks were taken up entirely with ark transactions.

2023-06-01 20:09:27

#[0] #subscribe

2023-06-01 17:21:44

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No. Every five seconds an ASP does a coin join round that results on a transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain.

2023-06-01 13:30:07

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I don’t think footprint is a huge problem with this protocol. On Nomen output is 41 bytes in total. That means if every single person on earth registered one, it would only add 370 GB to the blockchain. It’s not like you need a lot of these names, or need to make frequent transactions on chain. Of course, that isn’t possible, anyway. Long before that happened, a name will be too expensive to register on chain for almost anyone, and they will move to sidechains (I talk about this at the end of the post).

2023-06-01 13:20:05

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It is simpler which is a big win, but the main reason what you said wouldn’t work is because someone could claim a zillion names at no cost and never publish a nostr event to prove it. Then when someone decided to claim a name that the spammer had claimed (he could fit a million in the OTS transaction if he wanted), he could just reveal his first “claim” and rugpull the whole protocol.
In Nomen, there is a 5 byte fingerprint in the metadata. The fingerprint is the first five bytes of the HASH-160 of the name. It’s right there, in the open, on the blockchain. You can tell if anyone has claimed a name you want without publishing a Nostr event just by scanning the blockchain for your fingerprint. No chance of getting rug pulled by a sneaky squatter.

2023-06-01 11:10:27

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I think I just maybe understood what you mean. Yes, I am aware of opentimestamps. What makes it a non-starter is that it is compresses infinite documents into a single hash (as I understand it). This is not desirable because then someone could claim many names at no cost. Which is probably closer to what you meant, I am guessing? If so, yes, that is why I chose the method I did

2023-06-01 11:01:23

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It did a number on me 😭

2023-06-01 02:00:17

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It’s not just to reduce spam, though that helps. Bitcoin provides absolute ordering. Outputs inside transactions inside blocks, all in exact sequence. This allows indexers to verify who claimed a name. POW doesn’t provide any kind of ordering guarantee