swordinthestone
sword in the stone

Long time Bitcoiner, new to Nostr!

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2024-11-17 10:15:47

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17/24, I think I could've done better.

2024-11-17 10:08:38

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I'm going through the same at the moment, and we're going to the Netherlands for a month. So I'm preparing for maximum darkness, rain, and downsizing 😬

2024-11-17 10:03:11

#gm #nostr from
Jessie (who is nearly 15!)
https://image.nostr.build/1f3083c66b4de60239aacfb5a810507c8c0d59386b7f5c3a7d895d8e4e0d7c54.jpg
and Blue (11 but thinks he's a puppy)
https://image.nostr.build/ed2203cce5cafa1b5277cb1c3ef1524361ff9c567f6141cda15426e7348888c0.jpg

2024-11-16 21:13:52

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Wow thanks! I had been meaning to start a Youtube channel for years, but I just couldn't work up the motivation. Now that I know there's these alternatives I'm much more excited to actually do it.

2024-11-16 20:37:10

What the world desperately needs is a Nostr based alternative to YouTube!

2024-11-15 20:28:29

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The BBC publish an alternative version of everything in Pidgin English, it's for people in the Caribbean, e.g Jamaica

2024-11-13 15:37:21

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Exactly, it didn't all work perfectly, it wasn't all instant, but all the people were real. And it felt like there was a real link between what happened online and what happened in the real world. You could actually meet a girl online *gasp*. And that's exactly what Nostr feels like, a link to the real world through the internet. Which is ironic because the accounts on here are just cryptographic keys, whereas fiat social media (sorry I know it's cringe to call everything fiat, but it really is fiat social media) feels so disconnected from the real world, even when people have their real identities on there!

2024-11-12 21:11:09

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Faulty data though. How do the makers of those lists know how much people in China or the Middle East have?

2024-11-11 20:07:30

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That is insane. Can other similar planes do similar maneuvers?

2024-11-10 03:41:56

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I'm thinking we never left!

2024-11-09 09:41:10

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Yes, and really easy as well, takes seconds to make new addresses for your domain.

2024-11-09 02:16:55

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I use Tuta for email and generating aliases. Unlike Proton they actually have a reliable way of paying with crypto and no kyc.

2024-11-07 16:49:01

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Padme meme: right...?

2024-11-03 08:40:43

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I agree with this. But you're also doing it here,and I've replied. So we've fallen into the trap

2024-11-01 10:32:25

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Thanks I hate it

2024-10-29 20:14:12

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Bro not funny that's a real person getting seriously hurt.

2024-10-29 18:28:00

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9olaIio3l8

2024-10-29 18:24:52

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How does this compare to 0x chat?

2024-10-23 18:18:37

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Interested to know, right now if someone spends laundered money in a legitimate business, does that business no longer get to keep the money?
And if someone personally gives you money that was laundered etc to buy a car from you for example, do you have to forfeit the money?
If not, why should it be any different with Bitcoin? But if so, why are people not more wary of the money they're accepting? Should we have insurance for this sort of thing?

2024-10-23 18:11:07

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Good luck!

2024-10-15 14:34:11

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Not a very relevant xy comparison though. It would be more informafive to see the top 2/3rds of countries by population size vs birthrate.
So the headline would end up being 'the top 2/3rds of the biggest countries in the world by population have a birthrate below replacement levels' for example. I suspect that's not the case as global pop is going up, but it would certaknly be more relevant.

2024-10-11 07:51:59

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Facts.
IP is also a fiat scam.

2024-10-10 08:17:10

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Beautiful, I hope you have lots of success!

2024-10-09 08:51:56

#GM
https://file.nostrmedia.com/f/b22cf0863e8e72d2ab802f3542618b4f52cc7d51d1387f3bd4e9e5a6442f0200/dea88a4862bbba189575e1693cc73092e4dec549f99ab9e8cae9a3b2a65dba5d.gif
Art by @npub1gwa…a2sz

2024-10-07 08:51:23

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Woah, I guess that's a real 'there but for the grace of god go I' situations. I've had my share of those too.

2024-10-06 21:46:15

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That must be the safest car crash to have ever occurred!

2024-10-06 21:45:21

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That's fascinating. Presumably you escaped that fate?

2024-10-05 18:46:38

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The same goes for bitcoin. People must actually use it to make transactions if they want to see it succeed.

2024-10-05 16:52:30

I'm so confused about #lightning. Can anyone help me with this question please: If I opened a channel with say 500k sats, and I've just been spending spending spending, and now I have almost no sats left, and I want to top up that balance, e.g. add more sats to the same channel to fill it back up again, how do I do that?
I've got Thunderhub running, and I can see that channel, and I've even transferred more on chain #btc to my lightning node, so it's just sat there in the on chain balance. How do I get it into the existing channel? Or do I have to open a new channel? Thank you so much!
#asknostr

2024-09-26 09:08:13

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Not sure about the technical answer to your question, but I do think there's a 'if you build it they will come' element to Nostr for sure.

2024-09-25 11:38:20

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As a 'European' I've never seen a carjacking in my life or ever even heard of one happening. So yes, you're right, I could never understand what it's like to live somewhere so dangerous. And if I lived there, I'm sure I'd want a gun too.

2024-09-13 07:27:40

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Personally I'd go with Snatch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jar2XkBboo

2024-09-12 21:58:30

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Fair point! I'm a bit torn between my worries about spam especially as a node runner and as you say the fact that fees are so low right now.
That's also a worrying sign in itself though, not much meaningful onchain activity.

2024-09-12 17:19:08

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#bitcoin
https://blockdyor.com/bitcoin-knots/

2024-09-12 17:09:17

One of the most important videos about Bitcoin I've ever seen. This is a real emergency, and I've not seen anyone talking about it, really worrying, and I'm not just trying to be sensationalist.
I'll be looking into Bitcoin Knots at the very least for my mode, but it's worrying that people aren't talking about Bitcoin being ruined by mining issues and spam issues.
https://youtu.be/h-CA2wEFWPE

2024-09-10 09:12:09

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That's worrying. And I agree I have seen far less talk of just plain old Bitcoin adoption lately!

2024-09-09 14:40:06

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I think it's inevitable that as Bitcoin's reach expands, different groups with different values will enter the space. And some of those people will certainly be elitists.
Or do you mean that there are specific examples of people who were once humble not being humble any more?

2024-09-09 11:16:50

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Also on a 6a on the latest version. It's good, not sure about any improvements, but it's really not as good as my Samsung S22+.
Part of me wishes I would've gone for a more expensive Pixel, and I think within the next year or so I'll get the Pixel 9 (although looking at the comparison that is surprisingly only a very slight upgrade in all areas), or even a Pixel 9 Pro.
Check out the comparison, they're also almost exactly the same dimensions:
https://store.google.com/us/magazine/compare_pixel?hl=en-US&toggler0=Pixel%206a&toggler1=Pixel%209&toggler2=Pixel%209%20Pro

2024-09-09 09:50:47

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I think a lot of people are scared to say anything bad about Alby because they are one of the most important, active and helpful players in this space. So we all just have to pretend it's perfect until one day hopefully it will be perfect 😆

2024-09-09 09:04:04

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Failed here too.

2024-09-09 08:44:39

GM #dogstr #animals
https://image.nostr.build/70dd9fe99cca2a3d8e23c7ca5f16fff8233961aa96100d8f2b5babd4f001ea0e.jpg

2024-09-08 21:02:21

Just got back from seeing Aladdin at the #theatre. I have to say it was actually pretty good. Worth it just for the songs from the original film, and some of the performances were pretty good, particularly the genie.
But they had some terrible new songs that they decided to add in, really cringe. And a pointlessly added tragic backstory for Aladdin himself that didn't pay off. And some of it dragged on unnecessarily long, they should've cut out all the new songs, all the new story elements, and about 30 minutes out of the whole production.
But it was worth it just for the OG songs and some of the performances, and actually the general vibe which was positive.
Also about the genie, I thought it was an homage to Robin Williams without simply trying to copy his style completely, and without trying to pretend he didn't exist or doing something different just for the sake of it. So they struck a good happy medium there which was nice to see.
Overall I'd give it a meh out of 10, but nothing offensive, and it was a nice night out.

2024-09-08 13:46:59

Busy day in the forest today
https://image.nostr.build/692bbf94e467ef9b655444a5da1baaa114ce485bf4be8b9707bbe3ce54711e9b.jpg
#nature #forest #horses #SilentSunday

2024-09-07 18:31:08

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Very cool.

2024-09-07 15:51:56

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I know the feeling. But that does also highlight the beautiful simplicity of the Bitcoin base layer. It just works.

2024-09-07 09:21:00

GM from my border collies. https://image.nostr.build/ef6e51692a2968fbfa29692a5cd862ef168798b255578f1376a64be5f9593830.jpg

2024-09-05 19:22:16

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I was actually hoping you'd post that! And Dickens is my favourite author.

2024-09-05 15:18:47

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Scary stuff. As you say there's a glimmer of hope with relays on phones and other innovative solutions.
But on the whole people it's a pretty bleak time for the way people understand and use computing. But also the best time because now we've got Nostr, it's strange how there's always a paradox between it being the best time and the worst time and the same time.

2024-09-05 14:46:22

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So how do we make sure that we can control meat space too? How do we bridge that gap?
What I mean is, yes we can opt out and that's good and useful, but what about when we want to achieve things irl? Even you're using your real identity here as an example.
Or do you just mean that being able to selectively keep certain things private such as transactions and private messages is enough of a shield? Just asking for clarification.

2024-09-05 14:40:34

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Woah that's bad. Thanks for the heads up.

2024-09-05 14:08:39

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What were the shadow ban incidents? I hadn't heard about that. Thanks

2024-09-05 12:32:08

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It goes to show that we've still got a long way to go before the user experience of LLMs is good enough to just be seamless and totally integrated.

2024-09-05 12:29:21

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I don't think people even realise any more that they own their computer, and they can do whatever they want with it.
I think people have been totally brainwashed by 'the cloud'.

2024-09-05 12:18:43

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I'm not sure that Nostr will have any reach if people look at it that way though.
If it's just an afterthought, and it's not where the audience has to go in order to interact with people, where's the incentive?
Surely enough people have to do decide to go Nostr only to actually get the snowball rolling?

2024-09-05 12:15:54

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Exactly, people don't even realise how conditioned they are. It's your computer, you can do whatever you like with it!

2024-09-05 12:10:04

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Exactly, and this is why they can't just ban Bitcoin or Nostr. It would make the government illegitimate over night. Same thing Bangladesh where they just turned off the entire internet (literally) for days for quell protests. Yes it worked, but at a huge cost to the economy, and it cost the government any last shred of legitimacy they might have had in the eyes of the people.

2024-09-05 12:08:09

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I think you've answered your own question below when you said about unplugging from the matrix. That means you are in the real world. Bitcoin is technically illegal now in the sense that it's not legal tender, and yet that doesn't prevent you and another person from agreeing to transact in Bitcoin. Same thing with Nostr, if it's illegal, it will be up to people to just decide to use it anyway, but for ethically sound reasons that don't break anything morally enforceable laws. If enough people do that, an illegitimate government which had made that protocol illegal would crumble in days. And that's why they won't ban it, because they know the ban would weaken them.
They can ban X in Brazil because they know it doesn't weaken them. X isn't a protocol, it's a platform, so it's not morally neutral. Banning Bitcoin and Nostr wouldn't be like banning X.

2024-09-05 10:51:25

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What happened. Did it say something embarrassingly incorrect about building?

2024-09-04 21:11:13

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I think that was the issue thank you. Specifically though I think I just wasn't getting on with the relay settings in Primal on desktop. Using other clients like Amethyst on Android or noStrudel on desktop makes it much clearer what the relays are used for and whether they're all working properly.

2024-09-03 19:44:47

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Wow, I hate to say it but I'm surprised how economically illiterate of a thing that is for them to do. Surely people won't be fooled by that. They'll just try to spend that currency as fast as possible and as you say prices will go up. Shocking.

2024-09-03 15:45:27

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I don't understand. So they're just trying to give themselves free money? Am I missing something?

2024-09-01 13:47:24

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Would be good to have import options for subscriptions. Selecting the opml import option actually does nothing, because it just tells you to export from another app, and if that function just doesn't work for whatever reason, or if your other app just wants to export to a file, then the practical effect is that Fountain has no import options. Would be better to support several file import options, or even other sync services.

2024-09-01 10:19:39

Does anyone know why some of my #nostr direct messages don't show up in some apps but they show up in others? I've got lots of relays, and I've also paid for a few including nostr.wine, but I guess I'm missing something. Just as an example, one of my direct messages shows up in Amethyst on mobile, but not on any of the desktop apps that I've tried. #asknostr
Thanks

2024-08-28 18:36:45

How does one join a Nostr paid relay?
I've found a list of them, but I can't find any good information on how to join/pay the fee.
Thanks #asknostr

2024-08-27 17:48:10

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IMO, all that matters, especially where ordinals are involved, is does this hurt or help Bitcoin?
Politicians and grifters may think they're using Bitcoin to get 'rich' but all that matters is whether this is increasing adoption and whether it could harm the network.

2024-08-25 19:59:55

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Yes thank you, I ended up with a Lightning node on Voltage and also BTC Pay Server, mostly just to play around. But that's also given me a lightning address to receive sats. I also made a nostrplebs.com address to use for Nostr. And then I've got the getalby extension to make payments from my lightning node using LND connect.
Not going so smoothly on mobile though because I don't know how to link my own lightning node/wallet to send zaps on Amethyst Nostr client. So I'm just using Phoenix wallet where I still have some sats to send zaps. So I've ended up with two wallets, one for desktop to use from my own Lightning node, and then a completely separate wallet to send zaps from mobile. Still I can also receive zaps to my node so that's good.
How are you getting on?

2024-08-21 06:47:25

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Looks to be offline? (07.45am uk time)

2024-08-21 06:44:13

The only way to beat the statists is to become richer than them using #bitcoin.
It's invaluable that we can opt out using #nostr, and encryption in general. But we must become wealthier than them to truly win in the long run.
We must become the new elite, and use our wealth to do good in the world.

2024-08-20 10:36:09

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Nobody seems to have answered your question. As far as I'm aware, your notes are broadcast to all the relays that you have selected (in the settings of your nostr client).
You can find more relays to add here: https://nostr.watch/relays/find
The more you have the more likely your notes are to be seen by others. Some relays are of course only for specific things or require payment to join.
I'm also new here, but I hope this helps!

2024-08-19 19:46:26

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Wow great point. I love the innovation and competition aspects of that. As you say, if you bring your own algo, that sounds great.

2024-08-19 19:43:21

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Tell me about it. Just got setup the other day, even just on Voltage it's much more involved than running your own regular full node. All the stuff to do with channels, a lot to learn.

2024-08-19 15:26:28

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I think the problem is algos is the question of who decides what the algo favours. It's quite difficult to do that in a neutral way that both makes everyone happy and does what an algo is usually meant to do.

2024-08-18 19:15:17

Just setup a #lightning node, a bit cheating because I did it on Voltage. But I thought it'd be a gentler introduction because there's so much to learn about lightning nodes compared to regular #bitcoin.
In fact now that I've actually been using Lightning it makes me realise that if you want non-custodial and the ability to receive payments, it's way harder than on chain with learning about channels and adding liquidity, and all the server requirements.
But still I got there in the end, and now I've got the lightning node and BTC Pay Server on Voltage, the getalby extension, phoenix wallet on mobile, and hopefully now the ability to receive #zaps as well as send on both desktop and mobile, and a nostr address, LN URL and hopefully everything I need to get started.

2024-08-16 21:26:56

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Oh damn is it!? Just seen, thanks for the heads up!
I guess now I have to figure out somewhere to move my funds and then reconnect it all. What lightning wallet do you use? The built in Primal wallet?

2024-08-16 21:14:37

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Me too, still trying to figure it all out. I'm on the web, just setup Mutiny wallet and the Alby extension with Nostr Wallet Connect and that's all working nicely, but now I need to figure out how to set a lightning address in my profile. All very exciting though.

2024-08-16 19:56:14

I'm trying to link a lightning wallet to Nostr to do zaps. Is Alby the best way of doing that?
And if I need an Alby account, does anyone have an invite code? It seems you need one. Or is there a better option altogether.
I don't currently have a lightning node but that's my next step.
Thanks!
#asknostr

2024-08-16 19:55:18

2024-08-16 19:49:32

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That's pretty good going on a rib! 🤣
Beautiful part of the world in summer.

2024-08-16 19:46:16

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Thanks so much. Definitely interested in the London event by the way! I'm an IT consultant by trade, so pretty educated on cyber security, privacy etc, and very into the philosophy of Bitcoin. So I'm not sure, maybe I'd have something to add!

2024-08-16 19:41:01

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Thank you! Wow you've got some great posts 👍
Next thing I have to figure out a wallet and how to do zaps!

2024-08-16 19:38:00

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Thanks so much. I'm also quite into music production, just checking out your music now on Bandcamp 👍

2024-08-16 19:35:25

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Thanks and me too, such a classic 😎

2024-08-16 19:27:01

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Thanks so much I really appreciate that!
I actually saw your profile because I'm just across the water from Yarmouth and saw your boat video 👍

2024-08-16 11:54:41

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Lovely, I had no idea it was like that in summer.

2024-08-16 07:43:26

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Wow that looks incredible! Where is that, south of France?

2024-08-16 07:42:20

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I don't know much about how it works, but I'm guessing it's for people who don't want to/can't do any self-hosting at all. And maybe for people who don't know what opening a channel is at all.

2024-07-27 14:28:42

Hello all, just discovered Nostr. I'm a long time Bitcoiner, running my own node and all the good stuff, but just starting to get into Nostr, Lightning and more. Just wanted to say hi.