basantagoswami
Basanta Goswami

bitcoin maximalist • অসমীয়া

○ working on bitcoin stuff @ bullbitcoin.com
○ building other freedom tech stuff @ unsigned.in
○ teaching bitcoin @ xonghoti.com
○ helping with the tech side @ mim.inc

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Public Key

npub1gmm2ehusvs35zgh6pq84m8hkj4ea0ygy3c9j2e3slzhjjce3kmns5tdaz2

NIP-05 Address

basantagoswami@unsigned.in

NIP-57 Address

basantagoswami@blink.sv

Profile Code

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nos.lol

relay.snort.social

relay.mostr.pub

Author Public Key

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2025-11-12 14:40:38

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Also, Justin has his own company that's building its own chstodial system using nostr, that's the only reason he shits on Ark, Spark, Cashu and everything else. You shit on everything else *except* cashu because Zeus integrated it
That's very dishonest

2025-11-12 14:36:07

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I use Phoenix and Zeus for self custodial lightning. No matter how many docs you write to make yourself feel important, this still still terrible UX first of all, and doesn't scale to more than a few million people at most. You can't just look at what works now if you want more and more people to use Bitcoin via lightning

2025-11-06 13:43:55

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Another question, as I understand, the ledger that operators maintain should be transparent so that the channel partners can see fraud (fractional reserve, stealing of funds etc). Is this ledger a "blockchain" or something else? If it's going to be publicly available, could we do Monero style privacy stuff on it so that the balances of individual users stay private, but auditable. Or is that not needed at all?

2025-11-03 19:50:41

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I wonder how they generate the Ark private key(s). Ark doesn't have a standard derivation path yet

2025-10-30 17:05:57

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A lot of the "utility" of these shitcoin projects is just having a timestamping system. That allows these systems to have ordering of transactions, transfer of ownership of something etc. OpenTimestamps should suffice for anything needed in nostr. For example, Pablo's key rotation proposal uses OTS for it. Nostr already has a merged NIP for events to be OTSed soo there is no reason why we can't use native nostr events (with ZKPs or whatever) and just OTS them, the downside of that is that now nostr clients have a dependency on lookup services that work with Bitcoin and OTS

2025-10-27 18:26:04

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They should try creating a spec instead of relying on a reference implementation

2025-10-27 09:14:33

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Fedi's biggest disadvantage is that they are just one implementation - one app, one server etc all maintained by one team/company. There's no specification that anyone can follow to create SDKs or implementations on their own. Fedi is more of a product than a protocol

2025-10-26 07:04:25

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Have you seen nstart.me
It's not a nostr client but a tool for onboarding

2025-10-25 07:02:47

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I stole a slipper from a friend's boyfriend and wore it for more than a year. Had to use superglue like 5 times because it was broken everywhere

2025-10-24 09:47:21

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I think the biggest complain people had about Umbrel that they called it open source but open source apparently has a very specific meaning related to the licence of the software and Umbrel should have called it source available instead

2025-10-24 07:33:13

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Leftists just oppose whatever social structure exists in any society. In the west they reject Christianity, in India it's Hinduism, in both places they support Islam just to spite the majority

2025-10-23 13:21:25

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Integrated blossom file manager. Upload files without having to post it necessarily. Also the option to select from an already uploaded file when making a post

2025-10-23 12:16:45

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https://blossom.primal.net/6fbfe01b6cd64e9f51f4267c855e36d16072840171d2caa710e063667b3701cb.mp4
I am playing around with the idea of having two key pairs for new users, one for your daily usage, the other to be kept private till you need to rotate the daily npub/nsec
Will release details soon, built a client and everything to validate the idea, need to do some more work before I am confident this works

2025-10-21 23:28:47

Another aspect where we can have a decentralized bunch of indexers is location specific data. Findings cars for ridesharing, restaurants, events and meetups, maps data, or even general posts about a location can all be indexed by indexers (or micro search engines if you want to call them that) without them knowing anything about data related to other locations
#nevent1q…h4lq

2025-10-21 22:06:33

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One thing I wish we did is call Bitcoin a cybercurrency instead of cryptocurrency from the beginning, sounds cooler and the term was already coined in The Sovereign Individual

2025-10-21 18:12:04

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What are those?

2025-10-21 09:55:23

Made an instant payment today from an Ark wallet to a Spark wallet to a self custodial lightning wallet on mainnet

2025-10-20 16:40:15

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I meant some app that let's you post on nostr but also cross posts the same article to medium or substack etc

2025-10-20 16:33:39

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What is this and how do I get started?

2025-10-19 18:45:36

is there any tool that lets you cross-post long-form content (articles) to nostr and other legacy platforms like substack and medium?
#asknostr

2025-10-19 11:45:50

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Sell them for sats

2025-10-18 07:37:37

Many tings in nostr would have been simpler if we had started off with seed phrases instead of nsecs from the beginning

2025-10-18 04:16:00

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Coming next release 🤞

2025-10-16 19:19:24

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https://keyboard.unsigned.in
Use it all the time to write Assamese when on my laptop

2025-10-14 15:41:21

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it's a nextjs thing to define client components

2025-10-13 09:14:52

https://blossom.primal.net/68c99ba8878671291e4af3c10bb802144ad25eb6cddb595cef609f171dc86818.jpg

2025-10-10 17:28:59

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update README.me

2025-10-09 09:00:15

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Adopting nostr-markdown also won't break any existing markdown based content right?

2025-10-07 15:44:24

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schrodinger's reminders

2025-09-30 10:01:20

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Whoever can "block" your UTXO because it was coinjoined can simply block you from using Monero completely

2025-09-23 07:06:46

i have been on nostr since the end of 2021 but never heard about reticulum.network or docs.hackerfab.org
we talk about freedom tech here, but it's mostly limited to bitcoin and nostr itself
what other great projects or communities have i never heard about?

2025-09-17 18:42:20

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Has to be. I need to investigate it more

2025-09-17 18:18:16

Can't believe chip manufacturing is such a centralized process that the entire world is reliant on Taiwan
The FOSS spirit is pretty much non existent in the semiconductor world

2025-09-17 15:37:42

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looks great. i am assuming this is a completely new codebase? maybe add a link that says something like missing the old habla, use it at legacy.habla.news somewhere in the homepage and keep the old version running there. i still use it to write stuff sometimes, and would like to keep using it till this new one catches up

2025-09-10 08:53:17

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Any of these?
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvxf1TpXqCAJwvIs082KgRwDUqOxZphc6

2025-09-05 16:40:28

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You won't need to integrate with Geyser, we already have Zap Goals as a NIP. heya.fund was a client that supports this NIP but the site is currently down

2025-09-03 10:18:55

nostr was dead for a week because i had this bot hosted on render.com as a cron job, and there was a pending payment of $0.90 that I couldn’t make even after trying with six different cards
stripe wouldn’t let me make the payment, and there was no way to ask them why the payments failed. render kept telling me that all they could see were the logs from stripe
fantastic experience. how will bitcoin ever catch up bro
#nevent1q…guvx

2025-09-03 07:40:37

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What client did you use to upload the image? It's got a .bin.heic extension

2025-09-02 16:17:30

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I think Maple additionally encrypts the data sent to their server using a pubkey owned by the CC hardware, we'll have to add that to the routstr spec. Also, verifying the attestations that Maple does would also need to be a part of the spec I think

2025-09-02 15:37:46

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Can the routstr spec be extended to add support for confidential computing? Would be nice to have a MapleAI alternative that uses a decentralized list of providers

2025-08-15 17:46:20

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How do you give the reviewer credentials for using the app? Did you just mark the app as login not required, or did you give them some specific nsec to use the app with, or something else?
I got an app passed by adding a hardcoded check in the frontend to hide certain features from the reviewer by checking the phone number of the logged in user

2025-08-09 15:51:36

Fun fact: In certain schools of thought within Hinduism, you aren't allowed to marry up to your 7th cousin from your father's side and up to your 5th cousin from your mother's side. To facilitate this, socio-religious institutions meticulously maintained records of family and ancestry. It was strictly followed until my parents' time, and that's the reason why I can trace my ancestry back to the early 1400s

2025-08-09 10:38:24

this is so cool. i finally get hypernotes now. i really didn't understand what it was when I saw it last year
#nevent1q…628l

2025-08-08 12:12:08

Setting up a Bitcoin node here in Bitspace Bengaluru, with proper hardware this time instead of using refurbished laptops
#nevent1q…wam6

2025-08-06 18:40:41

Sci-fi always shows future space suits as either bulky pressure tanks or mech suits
Former NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman developed the BioSuit, which uses mechanical (textile-based) counterpressure instead of the traditional gas-pressurized mini-spacecraft approach
Humans live at 1 atm on Earth, but in a pure oxygen environment like a space suit or station, ~0.3 atm is enough. The BioSuit has reached ~0.25 atm in lower body prototypes, close to 0.3 atm in areas like the calves and thighs, although joints are still well below target
We are more likely to see something like this with advanced AR and AI integrated helmets in the future IMO
https://blossom.primal.net/73fa1340054c0105ed74c0e657e203d22e0826cf0adfab34204bc6b9aa715050.jpg

2025-08-05 15:38:12

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Nostr web clients with a browser extension is still the best UX out there. If a browser like Brave integrates NIP-07 support that would be the greatest thing

2025-08-04 10:23:32

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Hodlbod's book can be a great start IMO
But people also have the tendency to over prepare. They want links to articles, videos and specific documentations BEFORE they get started, but in reality, just reading NIP-01 and using Amethyst/Damus for a while to understand the UX should be enough. LLMs, even without MPC servers and whatnot have enough info about nostr to build you small functional clients already

2025-07-31 16:29:04

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You mentioned nostr could have been built using a binary format and CRDTs in your book. Have you thought about how CRDTs could have been implemented instead of events for things like follow lists or was it just an example?

2025-07-30 09:58:07

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Hodlbod's book reffers to this as the routing problem. Great read if anyone wants to understand the different ways clients can read data from relays

2025-07-17 17:36:36

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Code available anywhere? Gotta be a privacy nightmare with your approximate or precise location leaking to everyone on nostr, unless that was handled in some clever way

2025-07-09 09:07:35

https://blossom.primal.net/650f9736a22ebbd48d5aa787d1d6dced50a894e0112e94a789bc24a2af6fc77a.png
the absolute state of that other app right now. first thing i saw when i opened it

2025-06-28 19:09:47

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Typo?

2025-06-25 06:21:04

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"Long after Jack gets bored and all NIP-65 relays federation run out of funding and shut down, there will still be 8 million wildly distributed (geographically and organizationally) DHT nodes"
You just made a lot of assumpitons here:
- Jack will get bored of nostr
- NIP-65 relays are costly to run and devs (who are Bitcoiners BTW) don't have enough money to keep running them
- Regular users will let them be shut down instead of sending donations to keep them running in case of monetary issues
- There will always be 8 million mainline nodes, they won't ever get bored or run out of funding
I don't believe any of these are true
BitTorrent itself might slowly disappear or become irrelevant, and with it the DHT nodes. A solution for nostr should be native to nostr, not dependent on another completely unrelated network
Also, if ICANN wants, they can start fucking with the entire mainline DHT network starting tomorrow, because the DHT network itself relies on IPv4 (addresses ultimately controlled by ICANN) for Sybil resistance

2025-06-24 10:33:11

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Using a DHT to find content like in IPFS doesn't work because there's no point in trying to host your data in multiple places whose locations are decided algorithmically. The user needs to have direct control over which relays/servers they read/write to. However, I like the idea of using a DHT to host just the data about where someone posts their data, similar to what's done with PKDNS.
My only issue with the system is that it still feels over complicated to me. If the DHT network is truly decentralized, then anyone can spin up nodes and potentially perform a sybil attack. This isn't possible in PKARR (BitTorrent Mainline) only because the node's identifier is based on its IPv4 address, which is a centralized identifier. So, in the end, it's essentially a centralized group of servers.
So why not just have a federation of relays that host only NIP-65 (kind 10002) events

2025-06-15 13:03:04

Got a haircut after almost 3 years
https://blossom.primal.net/d896dffdbfd26efc8fa7157d3b214fd45cf13b01b8d7b9d0685f0e8141b75087.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/74b8e085f2a2e1bce87cb42a4ccdd4d409867e58f71ce2ed273c9aafc57efb46.jpg

2025-06-06 15:12:04

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claude messed up some of the text extraction but looks good overall as a tshirt

2025-06-06 15:11:17

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https://blossom.primal.net/5f3215472dc489d0c3cee796d40a2d689766f2ccc05358df76644fb7e3585886.png

2025-06-01 23:47:36

a gem from polyd on twitter a year ago
https://blossom.primal.net/7a5ae334bb604e8bb68209b1840d6d4f684071125716f9442f9c164cb1b4ceda.png

2025-05-29 16:42:47

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Make it say something like broken or malicious file detected, contact ${developer_name}
Maybe add a button to contact the dev directly or some kinda contact info of the developer there as well
That makes it clear to users that it's the app update thta is broken, not Zapstore

2025-05-28 22:30:39

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what's an event cannon?

2025-05-27 20:15:05

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I used my laptop to flash it into the phone following this guide carefully https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/a21s/
Got stuck a couple of times thinking I was doing something wrong but then asked ChatGPT and realized everything was working
The guide itself is pretty much idiot proof, but you can ask any LLM if you get stuck

2025-05-27 18:53:59

Installed LineageOS on the phone. Installed Zapstore by downloading the APK from the site and installed the other apps via Zapstore. All in on nostr, let's see how far I can take this
#nevent1q…verc
https://blossom.primal.net/cd6ee64998d0e860bf71e87627639275159806d3d1a4c490466ad6e0d9d2c75f.png

2025-05-27 12:12:33

I have a Samsung Galaxy A21s, and I know GrapheneOS doesn't support this device. Is there anything else I can do?
Should I install LineageOS on it? Will I be able to install Zapstore on LineageOS?
#asknostr

2025-05-26 14:12:43

Analyzing Chat Encryption in Group Messaging - Real World Crypto (RWC) 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghtMAmQCa5E&ab_channel=IACR

2025-05-22 12:40:58

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I DMed you using Primal (which still uses NIP-04 I think), not sure if you can see it

2025-05-21 20:53:59

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Hey 👋
Let's have a private chat? I'm about to go to bed so I can talk to you tomorrow, but let me know whatever medium you prefer for DMs, I'll text you there

2025-05-21 20:20:15

If you run a web development agency or are a freelancer in the US, EU, or UAE, ping me here or on Signal at basantagoswami.33
I run my own small agency here in India and looking for collabs on projects with other Bitcoiners
Fellow nostriches, any help in getting us connected will be appreciated 💜

2025-05-20 12:54:38

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What do you have in mind? We can upload any docs to blossom and sign a note with the URL

2025-05-19 12:10:34

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we should rename it to sex

2025-05-19 10:57:38

https://blossom.primal.net/39b53b28aee42fa3d69ae8fe883294b8bf49804023e67ab05b3ab2991731131c.jpg
Came back to @nprofile…50as to a fun little surprise today. Ecash in the wild. Cool designs @nprofile…vj4f
CC: @nprofile…h36r

2025-05-17 18:53:24

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https://unsigned.in/presentations/freedom-vs-surveillance/

2025-05-17 17:34:32

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Nostr apps distributed via Zapstore are the real dApps (or nApps?

2025-05-17 12:43:49

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT3oo6qGPyU&ab_channel=MaheshRaghvan

2025-05-14 14:17:07

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lay off the acid gigi

2025-05-14 10:22:56

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Relays should have npubs too. Gets rid of reliance on DNS and TLS

2025-05-13 19:11:45

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when I first read the nostr NIP-01 I remember immediately going - wait, this is it? why didn't we have this already?

2025-05-13 13:49:39

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Won't you like to finance the rent payments using their DeFi dApp too?

2025-05-13 13:36:35

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Primarily I use these tools for private communication:
1. Mail
For talking about a single topic at a time, threads in Discord server messages also kinda work for this thing. Different messages from the same user are treated as different matters. I need to be able to always have access to old conversations done in this way. NIP-17 seems ideal for this
2. Private DMs
I use WhatsApp and Signal etc for talking to people that I know. WhatsApp "feels" ideal in this case, because your identifier (phone number) is also a private matter. Here, I would like as much privacy as I can get, so NIP-EE (MLS) stuff seems ideal. I don't even necessarily want a single identifier for an app like this. I would much rather have a different identifier (I think SimpleX does that) for each person that I am talking to
3. Public Inbox
My Instagram, Twitter, Telegram and Nostr DMs are open for people to reach out to me, where I don't have to reply if I don't want to. Here my identifier is not a private matter. Most people also maintain two private/public mail IDs for the same reason. I would like to be able to go back and read all old messages here, so I think NIP-17 works better. A mail like UX won't feel right here.
4. Timely groups
I create or join a lot of groups on WhatsApp and Signal, for small timely topics like a discussion about a coming field trip with friends, or negotiation related to a freelancing project with the client. This can be better maintained via mail threads, but the only reason I prefer WhatsApp groups is because my mail accounts are full of spam, and conversations done in this way can be taken to a DM very quickly. Can't easily switch to a messaging mode in Gmail, and might miss something important. These also work as NIP-17 mails
5. Persistent groups
I join groups of Bitcoin communities etc, where I might not know or trust all the other participants. I wouldn't want to be directly reachable by other community members from these groups. I think I would prefer NIP-EE groups for this
The question is, how do you design all the UI/UX around all this stuff

2025-05-13 10:41:55

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You should return it, also helps to keep things simple. Instead of having to keep track of which ws client sent the event and then omitting it, just return it to all ws clients with subscriptions that match the filter

2025-05-12 15:15:49

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Nostr

2025-05-09 10:54:54

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https://blossom.primal.net/09efb8f7dda9c12f70d8b1ac20aa09ce58a67b35bead9e4efaa4bcda93a3a599.mp4

2025-05-08 22:44:11

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https://nostr-friends-app.vercel.app/ kinda getting there

2025-05-08 14:56:42

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And most of the times they turn out to be into "crypto"

2025-05-08 14:37:58

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2025-05-08 09:14:06

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Are their claims regarding their L2 Spark legit at least?
https://docs.spark.money/spark/spark-tldr
These claims seem way too good to be true, but if they managed to build what they claim, that would be at least one good thing coming out of this company

2025-05-07 21:17:23

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we need some kinda rate limiting algo feeds on nostr. i think damus notebook recently added a last post per person feed, so something like that

2025-05-05 16:58:30

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this is what LSD feels like

2025-05-04 10:02:29

Unfuck the Internet is strictly not a Bitcoin meetup. We intentionally avoid talking about Bitcoin directly. Instead, we offer a framework for evaluating everyday tech — to help people judge whether it’s built for freedom or not.
Most people who show up are privacy enthusiasts. And I’ve noticed something interesting: after hanging out with Bitcoiners at Unfuck, they often become more open to Bitcoin — not as "crypto," but as freedom tech.
I've been refining this framework for a while, and I think it's finally coming together.
The Freedom Tech Checklist
✓ Self-Generated Identity: No permission needed to participate
✓ End-to-End Encryption: Only you can read your private data
✓ Data Integrity: Authentic, and tamper-proof public data
✓ Open Source: Code is public and verifiable
✓ Self-Hostable: You control where your data lives or goes through
✓ Protocols > Platforms/Products: Freedom to choose different interoperable apps
#nevent1q…yafw

2025-05-02 22:04:00

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https://blossom.primal.net/67a02992af9419d0da32653499c46f394d668d78571ad309e8af021dfcaff570.jpg

2025-04-29 11:01:19

See you all there!
This event is specifically for the nocoiner privacy enthusiasts.
Bengaluru has plenty of folks skeptical of "crypto" — but very open to conversations around privacy, digital well-being, and freedom tech.
Let the cross pollination begin
#nevent1q…zvxr

2025-04-28 19:54:51

There aren't many updates from @nprofile…50as on nostr but we have been doing a lot of things here form this FOSS hackerspace
This weeks updates:
- Azure support for Galoy infra
- Stratum mining role analysis
- Hengdang R&D
- Cooking up new Bitspace strategies
- Shaping the Bitplebs Summit landing page
- Experimenting with bitcoin core txn malleations
https://x.com/bitshala/status/1916913785237082424

2025-04-21 08:48:09

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https://chatgpt.com/share/68060636-e7c0-8003-8cd5-68671ed993c4

2025-04-12 04:16:26

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Check this out
https://bitcoin.design/guide/how-it-works/human-readable-addresses/
It uses DNS TXT records to add your silent payments and BOLT12 address which is then accessible via a lighting address like identifier. I don't entirely like the idea for some reasons but found it interesting

2025-04-04 21:53:23

Life hasn't been any more difficult than this, but I can't believe how much I am enjoying it.

2025-04-04 21:48:14

https://m.primal.net/QEXR.png

2025-04-04 21:47:10

https://m.primal.net/QEXN.png

2025-03-23 11:42:49

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I got depressed after watching the first season sometimes in 2020, took me like a week to get out of it

2025-03-22 22:16:38

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+ Interoperability. the reason i found nostr much more interesting over other systems like hypercore and web5 is that data generated by one app works with all the other apps as well (at least in an ideal scenario)

2025-03-22 22:10:25

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calm down socrates

2025-03-21 07:48:05

https://m.primal.net/PnZq.png