marcan0
Pete Marcano

👨‍💻 Freelance web developer
🟠 Bitcoin hodlr (’18), miner (’22), and node runner (’23)
🍻 Host of Jersey Shore Bitcoin & Beer meetup
🟣 Tinkering on a #Nostr library for Rails
🤌 relay.jerseyplebs.com

Public Key

npub1marcan0laywmjprf4m8d34dr8m724a6jxxa56a5wwygcgj23q7nskfwmfg

NIP-05 Address

_@marcano.io

NIP-57 Address

marcano@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsd73uwehl7j8deq356ankc6k3nal927afrrw6dw688zyvyf9gs0fcc69pup

Author Public Key

npub1marcan0laywmjprf4m8d34dr8m724a6jxxa56a5wwygcgj23q7nskfwmfg

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Last Notes

2024-10-22 20:35:26

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I opened up coinbase for the first time in a long time and found some sats in there.
Lightning support is new, so you can only paste an invoice. Trick was making an invoice big enough to send the stack but not so big that I can't cover the fees lol

2024-10-12 15:50:47

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Most public companies don’t have founding CEOs. No leadership teams with appetite for risk.

2024-10-11 04:08:58

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My cardinal sin is that I buy domain names first. So I’m sitting on about a dozen or so now…

2024-10-08 18:43:45

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Agreed.
I’m very grateful to those putting in the work, with or without funding.
At this stage, I think it’s more important we tinker and discover new use cases than make polished copycats of things that already exist.
But if the goal is mass adoption, user experience will be most important.

2024-10-08 18:16:27

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I think this hurts because it’s true.
Good software takes a lot of time and effort. Needs to be able to financially sustain itself so it can go the distance.
There’s just not enough funding so we have a lot of half-complete hobby projects.

2024-09-25 14:21:01

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That’s a pretty building! :(

2024-09-21 10:46:45

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He replies

2024-09-21 03:23:09

When we figure out this spam issue I'm really gonna miss reply guy

2024-09-19 17:25:56

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Great points, man. Nostr may fix some technical problems... but people are still people!

2024-09-18 16:07:11

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Ah okay. I got you.
Its mostly user driven (outside of spam), so you can screen people out who aren't spam.

2024-09-18 14:09:30

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*year... not month.

2024-09-18 14:09:15

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They make a lot of money charging $99/month

2024-09-18 13:38:12

So much for dumb relay + smart client

2024-09-18 13:36:47

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sorry for your loss

2024-09-17 23:36:08

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Nostr will be whatever I say it will be.

2024-09-17 21:19:55

Is there a #nostr app that cross posts my content to X? I want to be active on X without having to ever look at X.

2024-09-17 18:27:11

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This has happened to me a number of times on the small VPSs I run web apps on.
Usually logs!
Bookmarking this for future issues.

2024-09-15 05:14:41

Do we have any stand up comedians on Nostr?

2024-09-12 02:16:25

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Welcome to nostr!
Feel free to make it your own. No rules, no expectations.

2024-09-12 02:04:57

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oh yeah. definitely most of the lost is in the past 😂

2024-09-12 02:01:32

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thats todays numbers. who knows what tomorrow brings.
we're still so early.

2024-09-12 01:20:56

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I’m kinda excited for the opportunity to have microblogging with a different vibe. Like how my rss feed is a different vibe.

2024-09-05 12:08:12

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Hahaha yes! But I think we should have lots and lots of separate databases that update each other over nostr relays.

2024-09-05 10:09:10

Relays are not databases.

2024-08-26 17:52:43

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also https://play0ad.com/

2024-08-26 17:30:17

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dude https://www.openra.net/

2024-08-26 16:54:40

I was today years old when I learned that Open Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 is a thing.
The nostalgia is so real.
https://openrct2.org

2024-08-22 19:32:45

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Does he suggest a location?

2024-08-22 19:30:51

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I like what Amber is doing building an nsec bunker on Android... haven't found an iPhone equivalent yet.
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber

2024-08-21 22:17:56

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why is your phone so insecure?

2024-08-18 08:14:38

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He could have just gone to sovereign engineering…

2024-08-17 20:57:04

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I love rails, almost too much.

2024-08-17 11:01:00

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My nostr coins are going to the moon now

2024-08-17 02:21:20

God bless the users of shitty software, for there would be no great software without them.

2024-08-17 01:27:14

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That's exactly what I did and I regret it every day.
The cope was too real so I ended up buying one of these for my switch
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/nintendo-64-controller/

2024-08-17 00:31:04

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It’s on my watchlist. Is it really worth prioritizing?

2024-08-17 00:00:25

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I think I need to cut back again… I find it useful when I have lots of mundane code to write, but whenever I need to problem solve/engineer something new I can’t quiet my mind enough to think clearly.

2024-08-15 23:21:42

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Will validating signatures create too much latency? I know nothing of making online games

2024-08-15 23:18:32

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I’ll have a spicy crispy chicken sandwich please

2024-08-15 17:43:06

Don’t tell me what to do #note1kja…rt02

2024-08-10 17:48:03

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Damn, quick fingers!
But I imagine it wouldn’t be too hard to make a ecash scraping bot.

2024-08-10 12:15:23

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Definitely throwin paper away. Bots probably scoop these notes up so quick

2024-08-09 12:19:18

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For real? Didn’t catch that

2024-08-08 15:20:09

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CLI with “—help” is a GUI

2024-08-05 10:56:58

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Love the great fairy fountain music

2024-08-03 12:17:30

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Add the turtle shell backpack for full effect!

2024-08-02 19:05:24

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I can’t be the only one reading this and thinking of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM2NQgIG-QM&pp=ygUJc2VuZCBib2Jz

2024-07-31 14:36:54

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I'm worried if I get into ham radio I'll become indistinguishable from my dad.

2024-07-31 11:42:22

☀️ GM fellow plebs!
This morning I'm reading a "Notice of Data Breach" from ticketmaster, admitting their systems were hacked and my personal data was leaked 3 months ago.
These notices are getting more common and motivating me to help rebuild the web with nostr & bitcoin so this data never needs to be collected in the first place.
LFG! https://image.nostr.build/1c61c4cd959a266df03106982cb6c49a70ff7c2fa7719659838b33adc2cecd0d.jpg

2024-07-27 19:40:18

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Ser this is nostr, you can’t get cancelled

2024-07-27 18:59:00

I’ve got 4 different iOS nostr clients and none of them can reliably zap

2024-07-15 01:18:21

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While we’re at it, can we get the original Facebook “poke” back?

2024-07-11 11:30:26

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After a brief skim of the 65 page PDF, it looks like it’s a bag of crypto messaging solutions without a well defined problem it’s addressing…
Nostr seems to be the opposite: Very specific problem & solution is easier for devs to reason about and integrate.
Or so I guess.

2024-06-28 00:54:54

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For me it’s historic cause I’m watching it at @npub1key…lt3h

2024-06-18 18:48:29

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Like using cash in your neighborhood

2024-06-15 14:28:21

Everything Protocol > Everything App

2024-06-14 13:17:02

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My outside job is why I don't go to conferences 😅

2024-06-14 12:34:28

For every 1 person building stuff there’s 99 going to conferences

2024-06-14 12:26:52

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Podcast might be a bad example for my argument because with show notes there is no medium switch 😅
Billboard, magazine ad, conference talk, word of mouth, t.v. commercial, etc. Anything where you can't just click a link or copy and paste an npub.
BUT OVERALL, I agree with your point. Npubs + network should be good enough for most use cases.
I just think a NIP-05 — or something better thats human readable & memorable — can add value for at least two edge cases that come to mind:
— Medium switch, solving the "radio problem" people have with bad domain names.
— No overlapping networks, whether its simply a new interest (like newcoiner) or a newly established npub for creator/consumer.
Definitely not necessary, but can still be useful.

2024-06-12 23:25:30

If computers are magic, cryptography is Defense Against the Dark Arts.

2024-06-11 18:30:47

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We're many platforms on one protocol. Welcome!

2024-06-11 14:15:54

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Scan me harder, daddy!

2024-06-10 23:39:16

Proof that if you work hard enough you too can make shitty memes like Saylor. #note1wst…4mmh

2024-06-10 23:36:02

#Bitcoin is the Real Slim Shady
All you other Slim Shadys are just imitating
https://m.primal.net/IgGR.png

2024-06-10 20:07:04

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Makes sense why you'd want them.
Unfortunately Primal just loaded one reply from you at a time, so I had to keep tapping and waiting for the next note to load... very annoying to read and impossible to skim.
I had a similar experience on Damus.
I guess this is what the frontier looks like 🤣

2024-06-10 18:46:40

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This is great.
But next time can you just make it one long note? This is nostr, you can write long-form for free 🤣

2024-06-07 18:34:21

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The nicest things are sometimes really fucking expensive

2024-06-07 18:26:30

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its so strange.
lots of small multisig utxos consolidating into a single sigs at ridiculously high fees.
fees are nearly 1/3rd of the total output on many of the ones I saw.
did they get hacked?

2024-06-07 17:14:26

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It’s fixable! You can do it!

2024-06-06 15:03:21

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It’s only “work” if you’d rather be doing something else.
Sleep well, fren. You’ve earned it 🫡

2024-06-06 13:40:55

Currently re-writing this one chunk of code for the 487th time.
AMA

2024-06-06 13:27:27

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Sounds like an excellent night 🤣

2024-06-06 13:12:52

To do github on #nostr, do we need to store the code and EVERYTHING on relays or just the social stuff like issues, comments, and PRs?
I'm imagining my local installation of GitLab/Gitea holds the code I care about, has all that tooling already built out, and fetches collaborative information from nostr relays.

2024-06-05 21:05:16

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turns out, not everyone is gonna make it

2024-06-05 21:03:54

noStrudel is the kitchen sink of nostr clients and I am so fucking here for it.

2024-06-05 18:13:14

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Best thing about nostr is that nobody can stop you.

2024-06-05 05:14:03

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Nitch

2024-06-05 00:14:16

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Inflation = good.
Thats the point. I want quick bullet points of just the facts.
I'd even pay for it... no advertising needed.

2024-06-05 00:12:02

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wow fair

2024-06-05 00:11:32

NO BS BITCOIN but for stupid shit world governments do.

2024-06-04 20:50:52

I miss floppy disks

2024-05-31 01:21:51

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I was looking for 21! Fuck those pre-mining scammers!!!

2024-05-28 21:13:37

This article is not about #bitcoin twitter but it might as well be.
So many bullshitters in the field. Most are just making things more confusing.
https://www.behance.net/blog/the-creative-worlds-bullshit-industrial-complex

2024-05-27 17:15:01

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Well… nostr is decentralized so there’s always that possibility that someone, somewhere, loves you very much and added you to all their lists.
You made it buddy

2024-05-24 22:01:15

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https://image.nostr.build/cb5ae546ccc67d9d56af23e47fdd6cc3bc27b008f9bea9f1a71bf57bfa1d9259.gif

2024-05-24 21:57:36

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I wish I had that level of confidence to give people credit scores while being 30+ trillion in debt

2024-05-24 13:34:12

I fucking love pubkey
#note1emf…e4ec

2024-05-23 19:40:00

Those who can't hack it in the private sector end up running our lives.

2024-05-23 16:49:28

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https://www.instagram.com/larynbudi/

2024-05-23 16:47:38

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Many variations of this
https://m.primal.net/IKnc.png

2024-05-23 16:22:26

Breedlove’s new girlfriend is hot.
What he does with his life is private and has nothing to do with what you do with yours.
All this discourse is disgustingly. Live and let live.

2024-05-23 14:38:18

The Ethereum ETF makes even less sense than the Bitcoin ETF.

2024-05-22 23:28:48

I don’t say this enough but I fucking love nostr

2024-05-22 23:20:22

I used to be a huge fan of Wirecutter reviews but, like most things NYT touches, they got shitty.
Anyone have recommendations for a really good tech/product review site?

2024-05-22 15:24:20

I think @npub1csa…z4x9 should consider moving into this cool STL church house.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1505-Missouri-Ave-APT-2E-Saint-Louis-MO-63104/71828596_zpid/

2024-05-22 14:34:37

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In the US at least, one problem is clearly more acute than the other.

2024-05-21 14:28:11

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This is the way. I live for controversial takes.
GM ☀️🫂

2024-05-21 12:00:31

GM, you lovely people ☀️

2024-05-18 12:41:17

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People who sell the stuff pick the currency, not the other way around

2024-05-14 01:27:58

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Do you do any prep at all?