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David King

https://www.curiousdk.com

nostr/bitcoin student/storyteller

Public Key

npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8

NIP-05 Address

dk@stacker.news

NIP-57 Address

dk@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqstwz8h8yh43pqxyykr3qh8kw7qmxcg6chet7shp5yezflvufmsuhspzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82csprpmhxue69uhkc6t8dp6xu6twvaex2mrp0yhxxmmdx7ur7u

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offchain.pub

lightningrelay.com

relay.snort.social

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npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8

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2025-04-20 10:03:22

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i’m currently making an ios app using windsurf and got 4.1. i’m extremely impressed by how good it is. i think i’ve read that people have done it with replit agent v2, but i haven’t tried it myself yet

2025-04-15 19:40:07

#defundchaos 🧡

2025-04-11 15:38:54

should I vibe code a farming game with a bitcoin theme? 🤔
https://m.primal.net/QLzV.jpg

2025-04-09 00:21:45

vibe code the nostr way 👀
#nevent1q…0zwf

2025-04-05 01:36:38

if I want to post a video to nostr what’s the best/latest way to do that? nostr.build good for large videos

2025-04-04 23:55:16

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i’ve messed with Replit Agent, Cursor+Claude Sonnet 3.7, Windsurf+Gemini Pro 2.5
diff tradeoffs, will prob stick with Windsurf for near term (next few days lol)
also want to try Cline, Goose/VSCode, and open to others. what have you found so far?

2025-04-03 01:21:30

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@nprofile…fae9 would your groups stuff be part of a solution for this? how do you feel about bridging it to email? could prob collect a fee to help with ESP costs

2025-04-01 21:19:17

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oh yea, i was gonna make a video to show how i got some stuff done. managed a simple nostr publishing app, but still working on my first bitcoin (lightning)
we’re hosting an Vibe Coding Bitcoin hackathon at Presidio Bitcoin in mid-May in SF. lemme know if you’re around and i’ll forward details/applications when they’re published

2025-04-01 15:45:15

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are you using MCP servers?

2025-04-01 15:35:33

I told my wife yesterday that all I feel like doing is building things
#nevent1q…x2p9

2025-03-31 19:16:45

my controversial view:
bitcoin only wins when it serves use-cases you have to pay in bitcoin
not use-cases where you want to pay in bitcoin

2025-03-31 02:06:04

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deployed: https://cursor-nostr-sign-message.vercel.app

2025-03-30 22:45:02

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TIL 🤔

2025-03-30 21:56:14

I successfully “vibe coded” my first nostr app
it’s a very simple app, but it works end to end doing the following:
1. create a new identity (npub/nsec)
2. accept a custom message from the user of the app
3. connect to a dozen or more relays (and show connection status/logging for debugging)
4. sign the message input into the app and publish it to all relays it successfully connects to
the newly created identity and message I wrote with the app is the original note shown below
#note187c…a624

2025-03-30 16:57:51

anyone successfully vibe code nostr relay connections with Replit Agent V2?
it kinda looks like it’s doing the right thing, but it has not been able to successfully make connections. I’ve reprompted it several times, but haven’t gotten it to work yet. if you’ve done this I’d love to hear the prompts that work for you or other hints I might give it to connect properly
https://m.primal.net/PyYe.png

2025-03-30 11:22:29

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did you build a new app for that? 👀

2025-03-29 18:50:36

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🤝

2025-03-29 18:46:17

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the future is hard to interpret while it’s arriving

2025-03-29 18:06:53

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nice to meet you, Boniz!

2025-03-29 17:53:40

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wow, hadn’t seen this before. looks polished. is it good? does it support the scheduling feature Ben was requesting?

2025-03-29 17:23:16

who wants to “vibe code” an app for that? i’m getting signing/publishing working with Replit Agent V2. might be close
#nevent1q…5a73

2025-03-29 15:58:33

nostr
https://m.primal.net/PxQp.jpg

2025-03-29 00:03:46

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come by anytime! 🤙

2025-03-28 18:51:50

@nprofile…097w @nprofile…e6c3 and I are getting started with our Presidio Bitcoin Jam livestream starting in about 10 minutes.
we cover what we’ve learned about bitcoin/nostr/AI this week.. topics to include future value of coding and how it could give rise to a ton of creativity in lighting and nostr
@nprofile…25ak and nostr native stuff coming soon, but for now we’re on YT:
https://youtube.com/@presidiobitcoin

2025-03-28 15:20:04

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everyone’s welcome! 🙇‍♂️

2025-03-27 22:57:47

@npub18lz…ugm3 and I are doing a livestream of NostrTalks/NostrNews coming up in like 5 minutes

2025-03-26 04:05:51

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“Don’t be the best. Be the only.” —Kevin Kelly

2025-03-25 01:42:29

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maybe it’s the “other stuff” we haven’t seen yet

2025-03-24 16:14:56

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yea, we need to test for different things
educators rarely notice the cat and mouse games that institutions create

2025-03-24 16:05:34

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I don’t know the specific techniques being employed here
but having done this a lot, I believe that watching an AI’s chain-of-thought reasoning steps are a rough approximation of one of the best ways to improve your thinking process and your ability to learn

2025-03-24 16:00:25

big, if true
https://m.primal.net/Prbu.jpg

2025-03-24 15:39:31

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yea, I tend to agree — esp with the “unintentionally” characterization. niches often have better overall incentives to find/promote quality.
that being said, I think higher perceived social status/larger audiences can mean people receive new quality information privately that’s not yet widely known so if they are curating/sharing out of personal interest and not for “audience capture” or “growth marketing” reasons there can be quality there

2025-03-24 15:18:30

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yes

2025-03-24 14:37:57

is there a positive correlation between social status and information quality?

2025-03-23 18:43:38

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happy sunday, Shirley! ☀️

2025-03-23 18:41:56

ecosystem 💜
#nevent1q…44qx

2025-03-23 15:48:05

happy sunday 🤙
#nevent1q…wgre

2025-03-22 04:04:21

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this sounds awesome actually

2025-03-22 03:53:00

🤯
#nevent1q…0myr

2025-03-22 01:08:27

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yea, more about the pace of improvement makes it seem inevitable even if it’s quite imperfect in many ways today as you point out

2025-03-21 19:42:18

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have you checked out Cursor Rules? can prob address a lot of your concerns with well crafted rules.
https://ghuntley.com/stdlib/

2025-03-21 16:42:03

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good night, Romuna!

2025-03-21 16:21:03

gm
“other stuff” is the magic 🪄

2025-03-20 20:48:55

has anyone analyzed HolePunch?
https://holepunch.to/

2025-03-19 20:48:25

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go Karnage go! 🙌

2025-03-18 00:07:11

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prob diff degrees/scale for diff relationships/circumstance

2025-03-17 18:04:36

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I’d love to review and give feedback on the spec you’re working on. I haven’t used Urbit names. I had not considered 1) readable/memorable but 2) “unmonetized” as a path and I’d like to learn more about the benefits/tradeoffs here.
My assumptions were that most people would expect to be able to pick a name that feels personal/self-expression-oriented. I also assumed the “land-grab” nature of user-selected/personal/attractive/“monetized” would draw people in to own/speculate which can be a powerful marketing tool for a new system.
I haven’t seen an approach that both 1) admits those assumptions while 2) avoiding a centralized issuer/marketplace/“DAO” entity to receive payment/throttle-the-landgrab of issuance. that’s the particular set of tradeoffs I’ve been exploring, but I’m interested in learning about lots of different approaches
I suspect naming is an important area to innovate to make decentralized technologies simpler for more people to understand/use.

2025-03-15 04:31:04

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what tools were you using? Replit Agent?

2025-03-13 22:10:16

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I’m talking about an alternative to using blockchains for this purpose. stablecoins always have an issuer (e.g., Tether, Circle, etc.) who can issue and revoke stablecoin dollars anyway… so instead of pretending like we have things like security, immutability, and decentralization let’s admit that it doesn’t have those properties and there might be better (simpler/cheaper!) ways to roughly achieve the same thing. I’m thinking signed messages to confirm transfer instead of a blockchain. I don’t have a specific proposal in mind, just feels like something like this should be possible and could simplify/unify how stablecoins work

2025-03-12 22:50:50

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i think more diverse experimentation is valuable to finding the best solutions. i’m specifically taking about a way to manage stablecoin transactions without needing to commingle/depend on bitcoin’s own security model (and the costs and risks that come with that)
in short i like the idea of having infrastructure that can keep stablecoins off bitcoin so issuers wouldn’t have too much influence on bitcoin forks, for example, but where payment happens in bitcoin/lightning
diff design space to consider

2025-03-12 21:27:39

has anyone brainstormed/whiteboarded/designed how a system like nostr relays might be able to be used to confirm stablecoin transactions?
stablecoins have a lot of utility for a lot of people (even if you or I might not use them much ourselves).
I’d like to see a system where nostr-like relay operators get paid bitcoin for storing/publishing stablecoin transactions

2025-03-12 21:03:15

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we’ve got each other and that’s enough

2025-03-12 20:41:31

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is someone working on this? i want to be involved 😅

2025-03-12 20:40:30

don’t do this to yourself
#nevent1q…jv7x

2025-03-12 17:17:54

seek truth
#nevent1q…6mkp

2025-03-10 02:16:52

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link or clip?

2025-03-06 00:38:22

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i guess the Overton Window is also somewhat relevant

2025-03-05 16:48:28

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thanks for sharing your thinking on this — I figured it was something like this.
I read it as whoever frames a conversation/issue has a lot of power in establishing the direction of the conversation and what is considered “reasonable”/in-bounds
so if you “reject the frame” you say, “I’m not playing on your field. we could move to a more neutral field/frame if we want to have a productive conversation”

2025-03-05 03:17:24

@nprofile…qamf I think I get the concept of “reject the frame”, but curious how you decided to use that phrase
it spins through my head a lot once i read it on your profile so now i want to know more

2025-03-03 20:33:15

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yea, stuff like this should help a lot

2025-03-03 19:48:38

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oh cool... I would love to follow along if you share bits of what you're learning

2025-03-03 19:36:09

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everyone’s on a journey.
I’m not at the very beginning and I’m not at the very end yet.
but i’d still like to make stuff and inspire more ideas to get created

2025-03-03 19:33:16

has anyone successfully “vibe coded” their way to a lightning app with Replit Agent, Cursor/Caude/Grok or any other AI coding tools?
i think if we can show how simple it is to get started, we could inspire a ton of new ideas to come to life

2025-03-02 00:17:10

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haha… yea, all generative AI 😭

2025-03-01 18:18:09

gm, my friends!
a new day is dawning 🫡

2025-03-01 01:03:18

Presidio Bitcoin is officially here! 🫡
a home for bitcoin development in San Francisco
thanks to @nprofile…8x32 for driving this vision to reality along with the generous support from Wences Casares and Mark Casey
and @nprofile…tc35 @nprofile…tgpn @nprofile…ynf4 for joining us for a conversation on our launch day 🚀
https://www.presidiobitcoin.org/
https://m.primal.net/PPNG.jpg
https://m.primal.net/PPNW.jpg
https://m.primal.net/PPNX.png

2025-02-27 01:57:52

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the spaces protocol white paper has a section on renewals. Renewals are a big area of concern for me since I think it severely limits self-sovereignty if one has to further engage and potentially pay to continue to use -- how do the rates get set, can they change the rules, who decides? The white paper indicates “renewals ensure active utilization of names.”
I’d bias toward more sovereignty of names even if it comes with the tradeoff that some names fall into disuse.

2025-02-26 23:08:17

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sell it to me if spaces takes off! 🤞

2025-02-26 00:59:53

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lotta chairs popping up for sale today
send it

2025-02-26 00:42:21

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😭

2025-02-25 18:41:48

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listened to the episode and loved it. reminded me I've missed hearing from you lately :)
I think the concept of "there is no global state" is a good one to keep in mind and definitely applies to things such as "likes on YouTube" or more generally "likes on a video".
I would disagree that in the world there can't/shouldn't be a global state. bitcoin is an attempt to create a global state and eventually succeeds as time passes even if not all blocks at the tip are always agreed upon at all times. nostr is not an attempt at global state (quite the opposite!) so things built on nostr will continually fail at attempting global state.
I was imagining a way to anchor the name space on the global state of bitcoin, but where the names could be useful in many contexts including for having unique nostr usernames (kind of a parallel system to nip-05).
my outstanding question is first "would it be valuable to have a common name space if it could be done without centralized issuers, servers and control points?" I suspect it would be valuable since nip-05 is an attempt at such which happens to fall short on the censorship resistant ideal. Seems to indicate there would be demand for such a thing if it could be done.
I understand your position is something like "people should stop trying to create global state where it can't be done" and if we're talking about nostr, I agree it's prob a waste of time. but my question is if it could be done (using bitcoin, for example), would it be valuable to have such a thing?

2025-02-25 18:22:14

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yea, no new token and a new approach to attempting to make distribution fair are worthwhile contributions, imo

2025-02-25 18:20:19

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I've read through the documentation for Spaces Protocol, joined in the discussion on the Telegram channel, and talked with Mike Carson on a live call to learn more about how this project approaches the tradeoffs and to share my feedback.
I appreciate the effort going into the project and I think the goal is a worthy one. There are some aspects that don't really work for my sensibility, but I'm just one perspective. I hope they can crack it!

2025-02-25 13:52:53

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listening now 👂
https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/454ec3ebf261084fe0abbcb6b31409cb29db23ed97784f896b60d7226bfe17ba.mp3

2025-02-25 04:08:13

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are you going to host? i’ll come play!

2025-02-25 04:07:35

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yea, i overall like the approach of running a naming system parallel to NIP-05 versus a replacement. let people choose what they want.
i worry about the HNS airdrop schemes and an alternative proof of work network. i also don’t know how you run auctions without a centralized order book. does this mean a centralized issuers is required?

2025-02-25 03:53:12

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i think it’s a great idea!
another good one is where you can play against a big mob (online) like 1 vs. 100:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_vs._100_(American_game_show)

2025-02-25 02:13:40

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sorry i was not aware of the solutions. is the pubky you’re mentioning this one: https://pubky.app
i dont understand how to use it to issue myself a name.

2025-02-24 22:58:05

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I tried npub.world and searched for a few names/NIP-05s... I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with it. can you tell me more about its purpose?

2025-02-24 22:57:03

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if you want/need censorship resistance nip-05 does not serve the purpose well
though it does make nostr more user-friendly
I'm imagining a way to do both

2025-02-24 22:48:29

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they're all around us :)

2025-02-24 22:42:26

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I haven't tried nos.social onboarding in a long time, but it sounds like it's still all about nip-05? I think nip-05 is great/simple, but doesn't really support censorship resistance very well. so I was thinking about ways to upgrade that property for people who care

2025-02-24 22:23:17

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I love the fact that we don't have a centralized naming system/issuer for NOSTR -- keeps it free/open/flexible/censorship resistant. We've got NIP-05 which helps with more friendly names, but that ultimately outsources the problem back to DNS and the traditional domain system. This means we still inherit the points of control around ICANN and domain owners.
I think we should have a friendly username system on NOSTR which is not dependent on DNS in any way. To do this well you need to come up with a protocol/agreement for how these get issued. I should be able to show up and say "I'll take 'monkey'", for example, and as long as no one else has claimed it yet I should be able to get it.
The obvious problem is "won't all early users of such a system just name-squat on all the good names". That's usually what would happen, unless we could introduce a cost to acquiring a name. But the cost should not be paid to any centralized provider. So the concept I've been writing about I call "name-bonds". You can use the digital scarcity property of bitcoin to limit how many names someone can issue to themselves based on how much bitcoin they will bond to the name. Tie it to digital scarcity and you can make issuance more fair.
Still trying to get feedback/thinking on the high-level idea. Have you seen anything like this? Do you believe such a system could work?

2025-02-24 21:56:37

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share when people are curious, but don’t worry about the incurious. each person has to be ready when the time is right for them to receive a new message

2025-02-24 19:13:52

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thanks 🙏 🙇

2025-02-24 19:09:53

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i don’t have a clear direction in mind yet. been considering trying my hand at making some AI content bots to make aggregation/distillation of what’s new here might be fun, kind of an automated spiritual successor to @nprofile…5rr9
also thought about a new way to do naming without a centralized issuer
i’d also like to find ways to aggregate sources that are not on nostr that would help me read everything via nostr. could spur more conversations here, imo

2025-02-24 18:51:22

i spend a lot of time thinking about how i might help nostr succeed faster

2025-02-24 11:49:56

nostr is for seekers

2025-02-24 11:49:12

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gm, Cameri! 👋

2025-02-24 11:21:40

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everything is nothing

2025-02-24 11:17:44

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