wolfbearclaw
Counter Narrative

Funny to see that. I while back I thought that Nostr and maybe some p2p via holepunch could recreate decentraland (without the shitcoining and NFT scams).
Def doable.

2025-01-23 04:18:34

Pocket relay tar.gz release just dropped. If anyone wants to participate in the p2p swarm I am messing with on testing check the README.md.
https://github.com/StevenDay83/pocket
Very buggy. It will probably crash.
DM me if you want to play around with this. More documentation to come (writing more now).

2025-01-22 17:38:39

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Yeah @npub1rtl…jtfs mentioned it on Walkers show so I had to drop it in. lol

2025-01-22 17:32:16

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And with this power we exercise it....to say GM!

2025-01-19 20:36:05

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Response test

2025-01-18 20:59:15

Fresh initial code push for light weight relay in Github.
Pocket will be designed for testing, embedded use in applications, with hyperswarm p2p capabilities.
https://github.com/StevenDay83/pocket

2025-01-18 03:35:12

Test repost. #note1t25…ak78

2025-01-18 03:34:27

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Amazing!

2025-01-16 14:52:53

Testing some more event syncing. #note1tyq…yv2r

2025-01-16 13:54:18

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Very cool.

2025-01-16 03:11:51

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Test response (sorry I have to).

2025-01-15 19:40:38

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Test 2

2025-01-15 04:28:49

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Test

2025-01-15 03:26:01

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Another test 2

2025-01-13 22:14:15

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Testing response!

2025-01-11 18:28:47

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I haven’t fully formed out my ultimate thoughts about this but and I think that Nostr’s strength can be in the form of the portable identity.
In terms of end users that’s even too technical or meaningless. It will be “I made a profile for this app or service and I am connecting to the app, my friends are on there. Cool”
I guess what I’m also saying is that it’s probably going to work best behind the scenes and maybe the social media aspect we have presently was a good enough bootstrap for that.
It’s going to be apps that use nostr rather than “nostr apps”.

2025-01-11 18:16:55

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https://yakihonne.com/
Is a good one.

2025-01-11 05:18:02

Almost there with private p2p relay.
Bridging the pear stack and Nostr!
https://i.nostr.build/Aa5C4c2kmK0Es5xJ.png

2025-01-09 03:10:57

Embedded relay almost done finally with the private Nostr mode over hyperswarm nearly done.
For the multiplayer game client this means that a “private” Nostr mode can be realized with a bunch of local clients embedded relays sharing notes with each other p2p.

2025-01-04 20:51:49

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Awesome! Will love to hear it.

2025-01-04 19:15:31

I've been relatively quiet on Nostr for the majority of 2024. A lot of fiat mining and other stuff while silently stacking etc.
I want to come back here to also time stamp some things that I am working on developing.
Nostr has been a great protocol for a lot possibilities with some early personal projects as some cool proof of concepts that others have incorporated into very polished clients (like chat).
Also thanks to discovering Keet and listening to some @npub1h8n…rpev podcasts I have gone down the Pear and Holepunch stack.
My latest project (I may have mentioned a month or so ago) is going to be a Nostr\Hypercore client that allows people to play LAN games across the Internet. I did something like this 20 years ago and I am revamping it in a complete decentralized and client controlled way.
Chat and Identity via Nostr
Game play coordination via Holepunch
I also planned out a private mode, where users didn't have to connect to hosted relays (public mode) keeping things consistent and still using Nostr.
This got me on an adjacent project to build an embedded relay library that will have the ability to peer with other users and still use the client like a regular Nostr experience. Simplified for client code and UX. i.e. A p2p chat room of local nostr relays.
I sort of remember someone doing this with a p2p relay in the earlier days of Nostr and it's been pretty cool to build.
Either way, i'll try to keep more current on developments here as this is going to be slow development (I have maybe 2-3 hours of free time tops). Stay tuned on some long form stuff on how it's going.

2025-01-02 15:24:30

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I’m going to publish a long form note with my thoughts on here including challenges.
I think it could be doable and just may have some limitations to be worked through and/or accepted.
For example, subkeys may have to inherit all the parent key attributes including relays and follows. If a client wants to make those changes it would have to be at the parent key level.
I also thought about “soft revocation” where you revoke a key but still want the previous posts to show as the parent key. Thinking of a company that is allowing an employee to post on behalf then they leave. If you just fully revoke, then all previous posts won’t show anything.
Stay tuned. Could be something or just a random idea that goes nowhere.

2025-01-02 03:54:19

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That’s interesting.
I had something similar for email on Nostr and paired contacts for high trust senders. Instead of using kind 0 it was more of using an addressable kind, sort of like an MX.
I have a backlog on the stuff I want to build…lol

2025-01-02 00:29:54

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Also the clients that understood this arrangement would have the subkey inherit the parent keys profile info and overlay it.

2025-01-02 00:26:23

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Thought about this for a second but haven’t worked out the UX.
- You have a main key 1234 and a secondary one generated 5678 separately (non derived from main key)
- your main npub has a kind 0 profile that has information that says that your “subkey” is 5678
- your subkey has a kind 0 profile event that just says “parent” 1234
- you use key 5678 and post a message
- clients that understand this will look up key 5678 kind 0 eventand see that it points to a parent key 1234.
- clients will check kind 0 event for 1234 and also see that it confirms the subkey.
If parent npub is compromised the subkey can disassociate.
If the sub key is compromised the parent key can disassociate.
Not sure of the UX because of having to manage multiple distinct keys to manage.
I might think more about this. Thoughts?

2025-01-01 05:19:03

Let’s keep building and stacking in 2025.
If your code is rough keep building you can fix it.
If your stack is light keep stacking it will get there.
Slow game, let’s look back and see if we built and stacked more in a year.
(Replace build with shitpost if that’s also your thing)

2025-01-01 05:02:13

Happy new year my #nostr frens!

2024-12-28 18:21:57

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People especially in the west are incentivized to trust institutions and color within the lines. I’m sure most people grew up in that frame of mind, I certainly did.
Most people don’t do something until it’s absolutely necessary. This goes for everything. Electricity, cars, internet, etc.
Privacy is a funny one too because most people don’t think they do anything worth spying on. Everyone knows their activity gets spied on.
My point is magic internet money will only be used by people when there is a dire need or the authorities say it’s cool.

2024-12-28 01:55:03

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Question 21 should be “you reject this test and will make your own rules” - instant 20.
I do think that the argument on “multiple sets of right and wrong” does lean toward normie moral relativism. It’s complicated.

2024-12-25 16:21:51

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Wen zap stream playthrough?

2024-12-23 16:13:08

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It’s the shock of actually being able to save. Your mind is probably adjusting and thinking “I have not saved enough. Put that $20 down”.
What worked for me is to continue to buy sats on auto pilot and just compartmentalize that from my fiat purchases. Easier said than done.

2024-12-23 01:41:03

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You’re better off buying the bitcoin back from them. They obviously don’t seem ready and it sounds like it would be kept better by you.
Maybe in the future if they come to the senses or if shit hits the fan you fan be in a position to help.

2024-12-23 01:35:23

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Patagonia futures ngmi

2024-12-23 01:33:53

Let the OGs with many coins fuck around with medium of exchange.
The rest of us need to learn how to save.
If you’ve been in the game for less than 4 years and/or don’t believe you’ve saved enough, you may want to focus more on saving.

2024-12-22 05:27:54

https://fountain.fm/episode/6UIYpCse4O81qj1i4JVw
#nevent1q…twgk

2024-12-21 15:12:58

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Shit, if you ever needed to personify the concept of inflation including the tendency to blame everything else.

2024-12-21 15:08:31

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Sounds like we need a Nostr Claus.
Hear me out. On Christmas Eve everyone posts and tags their best shit post.
Nostr Claus comes and leaves a zap under your shit post.

2024-12-21 14:56:27

I call it “pleb’s law” when the moment you buy sats the price goes down.
When I was new to this I was distressing because a was chasing the price.
Now it’s because I could have gotten cheaper sats.
But remember, don’t time the market. Don’t get cute. I’ll just buy, hold, and shut the fuck up.

2024-12-19 05:14:20

https://fountain.fm/episode/luls7VWIHHPDUffn9i9z
#nevent1q…uuk5

2024-12-17 02:29:53

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Or Dollar Cost Apeing because…fuck it!

2024-12-17 01:57:00

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This was something I was planning on doing last year but kids and other commitments.
One thing I also thought about for a nostr mail protocol was:
- Nostr mail “profile” event that has a separate public key
- layers of trust for receiving mail
- proof of work used to prevent spam with a global minimum and potentially higher pow for “strangers”
I wrote a whole concept on this and best of luck on putting something together.

2024-12-16 01:31:01

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This is all with the caveat that you should definitely sell your bitcoin to me.
All lettuce and paper hands welcome. No judgements (prior to sale)!

2024-12-14 18:53:11

Since ideas are cheap and I don’t possess the skills or the time to pull it off…
If anyone here is familiar with Decentraland, it’s kind of like a Second Life for shitcoiners.
I believe it uses a client server set up coupled with IPFS for pulling textures and other data, and the Ethereum network for their shitcoin, MANA, and setting their 3D world state (land ownership etc)
I think this could be recreated without the shitcoinery using a fusion of nostr and the pear stack. Lightning could be the “coin”.
I think the mixture of those two technologies are really going to create impressive apps in the future.

2024-12-05 03:47:31

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We were doing laser eyes until 100k per sat right?

2024-12-05 03:46:20

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LFG!

2024-12-03 01:29:47

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My mind read “California” and nodded that it made perfect sense.

2024-12-01 12:12:47

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1 MB in a 386 running DOS. We upgraded it to 4 to run Windows 3.11.

2024-11-30 18:46:44

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https://image.nostr.build/c9a8c0ad83f0b15b5e545d28a87348aae359906672d6e2c700ce16b9afa562a7.jpg

2024-11-27 16:31:11

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Everyone has their own economic calculation going on. Frankly virtually no one knows how to save money and stacking is a good exercise
I fully agree at some level you should enjoy it and those who decide to keep saving/hodling shouldn’t judge.

2024-11-24 22:40:54

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Only because they aren’t bullish enough. NGMI.

2024-11-24 22:37:28

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Are people still trying to push bits? 😂

2024-11-24 22:33:20

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For people asking more questions I think this helps sum up the issues with it.
https://youtu.be/VozE9n3vge0?si=zs_Ycwy8x-w8Vqjm

2024-11-24 22:28:28

Finally got around to listening to the first episode of “The Pear Report” even though I’ve been using Keet for a while and am a big fan of holesail.
One funny thing that I heard from the first episode was using the Pear stack to play older games that are either LAN only or have had their game servers long shuttered.
Back in 2006 I wrote game match making software to allow users to interact and play older games (that used directplay) like the original GTA and Age of Empires. The last piece I was looking to solve was firewall punching before other obligations forced me to stop the project.
I say all this because Pear and Nostr provide a great opportunity to recreate this project without the server piece.
I may have found my next hobby project (trying to maintain my “top 3”)
Appreciate the inspiration @npub1h8n…rpev

2024-11-10 17:51:31

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The secret is to forest gump your way into continual stacking.
ATH? Fuck it, Buy
30% drawdown? Fuck it, Buy
Back down to $16k? Fuck it, Buy (also hyperventilate into a bag maybe)

2024-11-04 02:12:49

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Yep. The New York struggle is still real for us. I just kick those sats to boltz.

2024-11-04 01:21:21

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Same!
Not going back to Coinbase and swan is a non-starter after being grandfathered in.
I also like that sending sats to self-custody can only take a few hours using the “free 24-hour” option.

2024-06-29 00:57:59

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If the federal government wasn’t to big and involved in all levels of governance it wouldn’t matter so much.

2024-06-16 00:27:45

GE Nostr frens https://i.nostr.build/ml3RK.jpg

2024-06-15 23:37:19

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I actually forgot about that movie. I will take these comments as an endorsement and will check it out.

2024-06-14 17:15:58

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No one is forcing anyone to buy any of this.
This “free” mentality stems from being the product of Google, Microsoft, and countless other marketing campaigns.
You can still use Damus without purple
You can opt to not buy a hat or shirt
You can make the economic decision to not pay and even say it’s too much but this “everything should be free” shit is dumb.

2024-06-14 17:07:04

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90s action movie music was playing in my head while reading this through. 😂

2024-06-14 01:20:57

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I understand what you’re saying and I think the problem really is the size and scope of the federal government.
You can observe that a New York democrat is actually different than a Kentucky democrat, especially on the local level.
I feel the problem is partially because we focus on a body of government to represent 320 million people in a single party ideology.
State, county, and city politics are different even though you will have some overlap and some of the concession voting.
I could be wrong in some aspects though I maintain that if you look more locally it’s a little less party line.

2024-06-03 00:45:26

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Downvoted by who? I think if downvotes are “free” I can spin up a million bots to cause some trouble or counter balance downvotes. Maybe I missed some additional context earlier in that thread.

2024-06-03 00:29:47

GN https://i.nostr.build/WG7Pj.jpg

2024-05-25 18:21:40

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The microblogging is kind of a segue to the other stuff. Identity and the social graph people refer to will need to be the basis that brings some of the other things together.
It seems that we’re in the “replace with nostr equivalent” phase before we get to that unique killer app. Or maybe the greater ecosystem of apps connected loosely through identity and web of trust will be “it”.

2024-05-25 18:16:16

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Wonder how many people have scheduled a reply calling you out. If it goes to 80k plus it just looks out of place. 😂

2024-05-25 18:13:55

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They used to be used more widely for jobs too. Never understood the jobs that didn’t require access to sensitive data required stellar (the justification that bad credit people will do bad things to get out of debt). I think that went away after everyone’s credit tanked a bit or i just haven’t seen it much more.
Also I’ve come to accept that credit scores for loans are for people who have no collateral to issue debt against.

2024-05-22 04:34:25

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Is this how the letter agencies conduct customer service surveys? 😂

2024-05-22 02:38:02

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I think that’s twitters static image hosting server. Like profile pictures and image uploads.

2024-05-22 00:43:21

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Here me and the brain trust buying all the way down to $15k.
https://image.nostr.build/212c6309b93f502e621b2a14fea0f7ef94c85a47f3162a5d1d39fa5574ffb9c4.gif

2024-05-20 00:30:08

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“Because true communism hasn’t been tried. True communism is when I’m allowed to play video games all day or make art. Not toil and the fields in between coal mining seasons. Stalin was a capitalist!”

2024-05-19 00:40:34

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This hits on multiple levels here.
I used to think that this was just normal shit given my upbringing.

2024-05-16 17:10:07

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Light prism?

2024-05-15 06:15:06

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Not me. I don’t have anywhere else to go though!

2024-05-15 00:31:41

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Technically they have multiple copies of the data.
There’s “your copy” and their copy
You just deleted your copy. Their exclusive world wide perpetual copyright to your data still probably stands. Etc and so on.

2024-05-14 22:02:59

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Haha. The other day watching a Bitcoin podcast it hit me that some of this probably sounds like cult militia in the woods shit to the average person.
I agree and before you can get to the “fuck the state” stage you have to ease into it.

2024-05-14 21:55:13

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Back in my day when we wanted to send the sats we had to post an invoice. And we liked it! Uphill both ways in the snow!

2024-05-12 22:28:58

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- Heat
- Goodfellas
- Matrix
- Dark Knight
- American Psycho
- Training Day
- Fight club

2024-05-12 14:35:53

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Methallica
My chemical addiction

2024-05-07 23:52:11

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Yeah I think maybe you’re being confused for the other purple cats on this platform who do use multiple clients. 😂

2024-05-07 00:21:02

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Haha that is one fucking impressive NPC mesh network.

2024-05-05 21:05:24

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https://zap.cooking/

2024-05-05 16:25:58

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Price predictions are an automatic ignore in my book at this point. The “moon boys” are probably more annoying.

2024-05-05 00:57:05

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17 LLM algorithms have viewed your profile. Upgrade to pro so we can extract more info from you while pretending to network.

2024-05-05 00:01:42

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Meh they already do. At least it will lower things to the marginal cost quicker since they can all do it…maybe.

2024-05-03 04:28:13

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On my way to bed and fountain just alerted me. I guess I’ll be up for a little longer!

2024-05-02 00:40:25

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I haven’t checked out zap cooking in a while. This is great!

2024-05-01 22:44:08

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It ain’t the fiat capital of the world for nothing.

2024-05-01 22:38:19

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There’s a way.
#note1980…ejtd

2024-05-01 22:25:06

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I actually didn’t know they still made little golden book stuff. What a shame.

2024-04-29 00:35:59

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I mean if you’re not a professional coder you might just go with what you know too. Maybe he was more comfortable in that environment.

2024-04-28 16:29:55

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Bitcoin is not competing with visa. There is no final settlement with a vending machine and that’s probably fine.

2024-04-28 16:20:13

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I’m talking less about the asset similarities and more about the participants.

2024-04-27 22:54:21

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And would somehow cost 15 billion dollars.

2024-04-27 22:48:23

I’m more convinced that goldbugs and Monero(ers?) have more in common with each other than with Bitcoiners.