dk
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

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eden.nostr.land

offchain.pub

ditto.pub/relay

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npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8

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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?

2025-03-30 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 18:06:53

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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 15:58:33

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

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

2025-03-23 15:48:05

happy sunday 🤙
#nevent1q…wgre

2025-03-12 17:17:54

seek truth
#nevent1q…6mkp

2025-03-02 00:17:10

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haha… yea, all generative AI 😭

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/
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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

2025-02-25 04:08:13

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

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 19:13:52

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thanks 🙏 🙇

2025-02-22 23:33:30

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i dunno why they don’t tell more people this simple truth

2025-02-22 04:26:11

nostr marketing department working overtime for us here
https://m.primal.net/PGRF.jpg

2025-02-16 14:34:21

gm
who are you helping today?

2025-02-07 17:28:52

If pet rocks were verifiable limited supply, I would probably buy some just in case

2025-02-04 00:04:35

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love this approach, passively community curated

2025-01-29 18:58:51

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and if listeners/readers want to hear/see what you’re saying, but your speech doesn’t show up for them, you will choose to stop speaking. technically upstream of censorship

2025-01-14 23:03:29

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how do we follow?

2025-01-14 04:22:18

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check for pros/cons balanced perspectives on notes, generate detailed ideas/examples to fill in under broad topics

2025-01-13 19:07:21

who’s building AI tools into/adjacent to nostr?
grok+twitter is a great example at what could be

2025-01-06 23:15:09

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12,776 daily average for the past year.
generally higher in the summer, too, cuz we do epic hikes in the backcountry

2025-01-06 23:13:00

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Tungsten Hills in the Eastern Sierra near Bishop, CA
https://m.primal.net/NVXC.jpg

2025-01-06 05:19:25

we walked a bit today
https://m.primal.net/NUOk.jpg

2025-01-04 23:37:31

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it’s the simplest/most effective one i’ve used so far, but there is a lot of change underway here. i expected continue to be surprised by new offerings

2024-12-10 10:29:17

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they send you USDC. you can off ramp to bank dollars if you want and that may require KYC, but you can send USDC somewhere else if you want

2024-12-10 04:39:31

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DLCs noncustodial, so they don’t control the assets. no KYC

2024-12-09 18:15:21

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🫡 so good

2024-12-09 18:13:11

your “pet rock rat poison” can now also be used as pristine collateral to borrow USD
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-comes-roaring-back-khosla-123000446.html

2024-12-03 16:54:28

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What if there were dozens or hundreds of centralized apps which were all in fierce competition with each other (since they were all on a common protocol) so they couldn’t do self-serving things the way the monopoly apps do today? I think you get a very different result

2024-12-03 12:22:01

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linux is foundational to just about everything on the internet, no?
would nostr be successful if everything ran on it even if people didn’t usually know it was there? i’d think so

2024-12-02 22:59:08

guessing nostr’s first mainstream client will involve a novel combination of zaps and gen AI
who’s experimenting with apps like this?

2024-11-28 04:41:42

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I was just listening to Rogan/Andreessen episode where MA is talking about cryptographically signing public messages on a blockchain (e.g. “what did a politician say?”)… and while I don’t think a blockchain is a good solution for that, it did make me wonder what’s missing from nostr to solve what he’s getting at. And I think timestamps are the primary thing missing for the politician use-case. Enough people would mirror/host any message of importance, but we would need to say “X said Y at time/interval Z”
We don’t need global state since we’re not trying to solve double-spend in public messaging.

2024-11-28 02:25:13

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thanks, i know i could proactively. but i’d like it to happen more passively and hopefully become a standard so other people’s notes can be verified in this way even if they aren’t intentionally stamping them

2024-11-28 02:23:16

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thanks, this is the kind of thing i was thinking about. cool that we could anchor nostr messages on a timestamp/interval.

2024-11-28 00:39:31

has any client explored signing nostr messages with a hash involving the current bitcoin block height at the time of publish?
i’m just thinking about how we can verify when a message was signed/published. maybe there’s an alternative way to achieve this?

2024-11-22 21:23:02

nothing better than watching entrepreneurs do it for love of the game @npub16c0…6nvr
https://m.primal.net/MeZR.jpg

2024-11-22 21:20:06

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What’s that?

2024-11-22 21:13:04

“Legendary on Primal” feels better than $100k btc...
just sayin’

2024-11-22 20:21:32

me: “my kingdom for a good longform nostr editor”

2024-11-18 21:56:55

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bitcoin is for everyone 😅

2024-11-14 00:45:59

we need simple, decentralized names
who’s working on this?

2024-11-11 17:31:36

keep zapping hard, folks
the notes above and below this one look like exceptionally good targets! 😜

2024-11-10 19:58:02

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you contribute so much, Will!
we couldn’t see it any other way 🤙

2024-11-10 19:39:05

stay humble, frens

2024-11-09 16:38:50

Ellie knows the importance of self-custody
https://m.primal.net/LxsC.jpg

2024-11-09 02:55:44

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what kind of business are you in?

2024-11-09 02:46:05

💡
#note1qu3…9j7v

2024-11-09 02:31:55

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can you equip your current happy customers with stories? can you write them up and share their stories about how your product/services help them?

2024-11-08 19:47:53

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You should try Replit Agent. You don’t have to be a coder. You just have to have ideas

2024-11-08 19:47:21

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You can learn about good companies/services from word-of-mouth and friends. Certainly a better system if there is more organic sharing and trickier to game/optimize. Ask out loud if you need something. Notice what people love so much they can’t stop talking about to learn about things you didn’t know you need.

2024-11-06 23:41:49

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yup, this seems like a useful service. have you tried making it? the new replit Agent tools are amazing

2024-11-06 23:32:02

One of the best ways to grow nostr is to invent a new behavior instead of just cloning existing behaviors. What can we do with nostr that can’t be done without it?
+ bring-your-own-algo
+ bitcoin/ln payments
+ interop experiences
I, for one, am using AI to build a new social app behavior (centralized cuz it’s easier to start), but if it turns out to be useful we should quickly clone it for nostr.

2024-11-05 00:06:47

Nostr needs more “number go up” technology and I don’t mean shitcoins

2024-11-04 23:23:10

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checkmate! folks, it’s over 😝

2024-11-01 02:40:00

yes, it’s worth it
#note1k89…6e27

2024-10-30 17:11:42

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radical, possible vision!

2024-10-29 03:12:31

so fun! 💜 💜
#note160l…acg6

2024-10-23 15:24:00

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software is infinitely scalable and costless for the marginal user/beneficiary. I think that’s why it’s the first place we see this.
Would be nice to do it with open source organizations… and I do think we’ll get there… including open source organization of society (what today we call “government”). But people’s time is not scalable/“costless” like software so I suspect it’ll take success in very specific categories to show us the way to do this with organizations.

2024-10-21 21:18:37

the hippies were right
just early
https://m.primal.net/Ldjd.jpg

2024-10-21 17:16:09

gm
https://m.primal.net/LdWu.jpg

2024-10-20 18:30:49

more algorithms please
(and open, of course)
#note1mqq…3pqr

2024-10-20 18:28:50

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😍

2024-10-20 18:27:25

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nostr could be the glue for all public messaging

2024-10-19 20:54:44

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🙏 😊

2024-10-19 20:54:25

‘Murica
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2024-10-19 03:21:35

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🫡

2024-10-17 16:19:52

nobody’s in charge
it can either scare you or inspire you

2024-10-14 19:17:20

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@nvk kept it fun for us!

2024-10-13 17:08:10

you can create a great podcast today just by asking better questions
see what Dwarkesh is doing
https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com

2024-10-12 18:42:08

what it’s actually all about
tune out the noise, find the signal
https://m.primal.net/LTqc.jpg

2024-10-11 03:46:02

💡
I hadn’t thought of it this way before, but now that he said this I find it very logical
#note17gg…yyup

2024-10-11 03:34:03

nostr is nostr
make it better
#note1qqq…dm24

2024-10-08 22:34:40

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more bad stuff is visible than was the case 50 years ago. i’m not sure if more bad stuff is happening or not

2024-10-08 22:33:38

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what’s an argument you feel quite certain about, but are willing to steelman the opposition anyway to see what you might discover?
i’ve done some private writing about “Steelmanning Ethereum”, but haven’t shared it publicly yet

2024-10-08 19:24:48

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🤷‍♂️ you can do it however you’d like
this morning i did it solo 🧘‍♂️

2024-10-08 19:23:36

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looking forward to the update. i’d like to read more detail on something like a “buyers guide”. what to look for in a kit, are certain brands to be considered or avoided, etc.

2024-10-08 18:48:21

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💡 might be even better than walking podcasts

2024-10-08 18:43:48

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max has been hosting me at his sauna spot lately and i’ve fallen hard for it
we also interrupt our sessions with brief plunges in the cold water of the San Francisco bay

2024-10-08 18:41:52

the ability to steelman your opponent’s point of view is an uncomfortable cheat code for finding truth

2024-10-08 18:30:48

what’s your reason to nostr?
#note19yj…xtzu

2024-10-08 16:23:56

“everybody wants to censor something”
-Shane Smith, VICE Media
on Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

2024-10-08 01:59:47

Today I learned about a life changing blog from @npub1trf…zepx
https://banya.lol
@npub18lz…ugm3 👀

2024-10-07 16:31:29

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🙋‍♂️

2024-10-07 16:04:45