Gurunkul

Public Key

npub1g4tsz7uyz3gjc03nms636w2evkz6qu8ya64m0d9l8528yyjt0jtq4ejvf4

NIP-05 Address

gurunkul@getalby.com

NIP-57 Address

gurunkul@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsy24cp0wzpg5fv8ceacdga89vktpdqwrjwa2ahkjln69rjzf9he9s6zwlvx

Author Public Key

npub1g4tsz7uyz3gjc03nms636w2evkz6qu8ya64m0d9l8528yyjt0jtq4ejvf4

Show more details

Last Notes

2024-04-27 22:07:16

Does my ISP need a money transmitter license?

2023-08-15 22:32:34

- reply

I constantly do this, and it extends between projects not just issues 🤦‍♂️

2023-07-23 09:38:45

Really random but I've been learning a little bit of Hebrew and it's a beautiful language. They have a transcendent-oriented fractal and meaningful structure all the way down to the letters themselves.
Wisdom embedded in the language itself. Nice!
Must hard to violently change the meaning of words when the very arrangment of letters by itself has meaning and each letter has a story behind it, like calling water H2O instead of water. Just beautiful

2023-07-20 15:00:15

- reply

How to kill a forked child without making a zombie?

2023-07-18 04:46:19

- reply

Not pretty here, slow painful drift into totalitarian state. Most people completely desensitized to slavery through legislation. Not bad enough to be a slap in the face but way beyond any degree of normalcy

2023-07-18 00:30:35

- reply

The Japanese sign papers with elaborate personal seals. On Nostr instead of having an account you have a digital sealing stamp that can’t be forged and you use it to sign arbitrary data and publish it in a decentralized network, the stamp is defined by a secret that you need to safekeep since it now represents your identity. Most obvious use case is you sign short text messages, voilà you have a decentralized twitter

2023-07-18 00:29:00

- reply

To me that sounds like the best possible reason to promote something

2023-07-17 19:55:56

- reply

2023-07-17 02:44:20

Am I insane for thinking this is the sanest scale-adjusted community on earth right now?
I’m yet to see an unhinged note from any of the almost 500 people I follow, how is that even possible in this day and age? It goes beyond “positivity”, you’re all not just positive, you have your own brains

2023-07-16 19:31:09

In the meanwhile I’m trying to build a generic and fair way to boost notes, where reposters can automatically earn sats by reposting a boosted note.
Should be transparent and also easy to simply hide all promoted content, but incentives might line up so that everyone benefits and earns some sats, maybe this could even dip into relay operator monetization.
I actually don’t care if someone else implements this first, good luck to us!

2023-07-16 19:25:27

I think eventually we will need a way to attest a note was issued by a human, maybe a captcha-like sub protocol where trusted humanity attestation providers can publish a note that says “ I attest that PubKey-A has just passed a captcha” with a reference to what note this was done for.

2023-07-14 20:23:44

Just had a potentially cool idea for a nostr project.
The ostriches are moving so fast I bet someone else will randomly think of the same and fully implement it in the few days it will take me to have an MVP

2023-07-14 13:17:51

Nostr is antifragile

2023-07-12 21:38:08

- reply

This is beautiful

2023-07-12 17:08:57

I’m re-reading The Phenomenology of the Spirit after many years and it’s even more clear to me now how absolutely crazy this whole branch of philosophy is.
Contradiction is a feature - not a bug - and results don’t matter?
Not surprising this branch birthed many crazy, narcissistic and revolutionary people and ideas.

2023-07-11 21:33:30

- reply

Butter smooth, congrats

2023-07-11 20:22:50

The Primal client UX is better than all other clients on iOS IMO. Butter smooth all around

2023-07-02 20:22:47

Wtf is this true? Is France gonna try to restrict internet access? https://nostr.build/i/2ca9f2ed8c0c794f364e6ce8d59d947c54f1b57e997402bc353aa4e3c46fd5f3.jpg

2023-07-02 02:35:54

I just watched Mario’s Twitter spaces on the french riots, where he hosted people from both sides and it might sound weird but my takeaway is it’s scary how correct the majority of vocal bitcoin maxis are about western civilization. Just wow, I we are at an inflection point.

2023-07-01 23:10:41

If there's ever a way to *somehow* remote signing from a PWA, that's how the nostr ecosystem could bloom even on iOS.
Imagine an open source "appstore" on top of nostr, with comments and ratings/zaps for each pwa. I think it has potential, I'm more in line with @npub1sg6…f63m than @npub180c…h6w6 on that.

2023-07-01 22:51:31

- reply

I agree completely, once you witness on a personal level the madness that the world has descended into and how far it still can fall, decentralization is a very easy choice to make. You can't unsee hell.

2023-07-01 20:51:17

- reply

A trial run on what would happen to to Bitcoin after CDBCs.
Forced max exodus into the promised land

2023-07-01 20:29:47

- reply

I’m having trouble having other people find me. 🤝

2023-07-01 20:13:25

- reply

Interesting that Reddit died on the same day. Dark times, we’re definitely at war for freedom and it’s a global phenomenon

2023-07-01 19:56:25

- reply

Also can someone please link me some independent French people doing reporting on the ground? Anyone here on Nostr? It’s hard getting info, or too easy getting too much info I guess

2023-07-01 19:52:36

- reply

I actually believe in move fast and break things. But that needs to happen *on top of* a solid conservative foundation.
We need many options on top of a substrate. On a tangent note, it reminds of a quote from John Adams
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
Freedom + morality created prosperity for a long time. After the collapse of universal ethics and morals, cryptography and sound protocols will do the same for money, communication and freedom itself IMO

2023-07-01 19:33:54

- reply

I literally saw cars flying off of buildings and a whole drugstore/supermarket collapsing in ruins after being burned down.
From the outside it looks like there’s a lot of background to this and the only facts I see posted are the sparks, like one police killing. Is there any independent journalist from France that speaks English that you recommend I follow?

2023-07-01 19:19:18

- reply

By the way this happened less than 24h apart from the current president declaring he is proud to be called a communist. Things are fucked

2023-07-01 19:16:14

- reply

Both Twitter and Reddit died today.

2023-07-01 19:14:35

What’s happening in France?

2023-07-01 18:01:14

Why does it feel like in just a few years every single source of centralization and tyranny accross all walks of life started moving against Freedom in unison? Am I going insane?

2023-07-01 17:41:25

- reply

By being an open platform. Stable order can *only* come from chaos. It's how humans evolved from soup, why central banking is evil, why true decentralization is necessary, why good companies always pop up in a free market.
We might choose many different and creative client-side or self hosted filtering algorithms and the best *for you* is bound to exist, you just have to find it.

2023-07-01 17:36:54

- reply

Dark times.

2023-07-01 17:35:06

Twitter has fallen quicker than I personally expected.

2023-07-01 14:43:22

- reply

Same here

2023-05-27 20:35:52

- reply

The tyrannical spirit is the most corrupting force in the universe, because even the good people have it so they end up fighting *for* tyrants.

2023-05-27 11:56:18

- reply

Why not go full Conventional commit and do <feat|chore|fix etc>(<module>): <message>?

2023-05-26 18:41:59

- reply

VJLF9D4kmX6HdmK2HYWEKJ6aMHbZgmKjY4y6iUakH6taPJRTqHxeGBBif9fpoYTqpwqjzNNbL8wdKnpb

2023-05-26 18:09:20

- reply

VJLF9D4kmX6HdmK2HYWEKJ6aMHbZgmKjY4y6iUakH6taPJRTqHxeGBBif9fpoYTqpwqjzNNbL8wdKnpb

2023-05-10 22:07:57

Some people are slowly realizing there's something wrong with Brazillian "democracy". Watching these things unroll in real time is pretty interesting

2023-05-10 01:27:15

- reply

#[1]

2023-05-10 01:25:24

- reply

Anybody know if people are already discussing this? I think it would be an alternative monetization strategy for relay operators and the incentives seem to line up.

2023-05-10 01:23:55

I think there will eventually be a way that advertizers will be able to promote their content and pay users through relays for their likes. The users choose to join the promotion-enabled relays out of self interest and everybody should take a cut, including relays. “Mining” attention but now entirely conscentful and fair, unlike traditional social media!

2023-05-08 20:50:54

It just dawned on me that its very likely we will *never* see 1sat/vB again. The economic incentive to grab the free blockspace and inscribe BRC-20 tokens and .sats namds is too high. In fact you’d be stuppid not to do so whenever you see blockspace is really cheap.

2023-05-08 18:37:51

- reply

Beyond resilience, antifragility. It doesn’t just survive, it gets stronger.

2023-05-08 13:55:13

I find that the more I move away from fiat the more peace of mind I have. Maybe in a few months I will no longer stress over how everything is slowly going to shit and people are not so slowly losing their minds.

2023-05-06 19:18:39

2008 led to Bitcoin, growing totalitarianism and censorship let to Nostr.
Folks I think freedom might be antifragile, there are enough smart people around to make it so that any large scale attack on freedom is met by stronger resistance with tech that's entirely based on math and physics. This is beautiful.

2023-05-05 19:45:15

- reply

This is big

2023-05-05 17:18:20

- reply

Apparently Ordinals minting

2023-05-03 16:04:56

Mempool is pretty cramped

2023-05-03 03:29:07

Test