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I like to learn things and build things | bitcoin enthusiast | energy production maximalist | author #NostrTechWeekly

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npub1r3fwhjpx2njy87f9qxmapjn9neutwh7aeww95e03drkfg45cey4qgl7ex2

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gregwhite@nostr.report

NIP-57 Address

gregorygmwhite@strike.me

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nostr.bitcoiner.social

relay.nostr.band

nostr21.com

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2024-09-21 00:59:54

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Totally fair. Would you like your own npub to subscribe to?
That way any future alerts could publish there too. I’ve been thinking of adding weather and ux index as well so people can plan runs or activities with their kids.

2024-09-21 00:09:20

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Oh interest so generate an npub per use and publish to it?
How would you ensure you get alerted and it doesn’t get lost in your feed?

2024-09-20 23:22:46

Just built a little air quality alert tool.
You pick a location, get daily forecast or an alert if the forecast will go above a threshold you set.
It currently sends text and email alerts.
Would anyone want me to add Nostr DMs as a delivery mechanism for their use?

2024-08-30 19:06:02

This is amazing high quality, high signal, low view count podcast about bringing about abundance in the world by leaning into capitalism.
Seems right up this community’s alley!
Love the tagline: “prosperity is energy intensive”
https://youtu.be/N6hLGUW3R90

2024-08-30 15:57:19

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That would make many monetized social interactions much easier 🤔
Nice Sam, hell yeah 🤙

2024-08-30 15:54:34

On the bright side, Bitcoin having a relatively stable price means it’s actually a good store of value…
The best stores of value are stable with upside so I’d say Bitcoin is maturing into that role. Which means more folks with lower risk profiles will eventually pile in.
Just seems like day to day we’re in that old adage of “a watched pot never boils” but progress is being made on all fronts.

2024-08-30 15:49:14

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So is the main goal to create anonymity on the zap sender’s part? Thats pretty cool.

2024-08-30 02:38:38

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Nice can’t wait to dig in

2024-08-29 23:34:33

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That’s cool. Excuse my ignorance: If each event has a lighting address how does the service ensure the event author can receive that money?

2024-08-29 21:12:00

Is there a zap only client? Just find someone by npub and zap any amount?
This is particularly difficult on iOS because of the AppStore I think.

2024-08-29 01:16:01

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This is exactly what I was looking for!

2024-08-29 01:15:21

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LFG this is excellent. Gonna share with the folks I’m talking to about it.

2024-08-28 18:12:38

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Thank you!

2024-08-28 15:53:04

Is there a good explanation of the outbox model somewhere that I can share? @npub1l2v…ajft @npub10np…tl5h maybe?
Having more convos about it as the way Nostr can scale and don’t have a great write up to share.

2024-08-28 06:02:41

Brown noise is such an unlock for helping get into flow state.
Heard about it on the Lex Fridman podcast, tried it out and BAM. Just spent like 12 hours coding today.

2024-08-28 03:31:56

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Does it publish people’s answers as events in the clear? Or is there some privacy built in?

2024-08-27 00:27:46

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Oops sorry

2024-08-27 00:27:31

Was watching this #Nostriga talk on funding Nostr https://youtu.be/qD-Y0fq5KiA?si=4BHtI0tsDDjTwvxL
I think it’s ok that there aren’t a ton of VCs investing yet. It’s not the role of investors to donate money.
It’s also not the role of protocols to be profitable.
One of the great side effects of capitalism is that you get talented, smart people who get wealthy and can afford to donate when a technology is too young to be profitable.
That means a lot of folks are contributing without being supported enough to do it full time. This isn’t ideal but it does force contractors to be ruthless with their time. Only working on what is critical in their estimation.
From my understanding of history we are on the blessed timeline, and things seem to be happening in the right timing to build something truly great.
Once we can build profitable businesses on top of the unique capabilities of Nostr THEN we will see investment rolling in.
I have every faith Nostr will continue its rapid improvement and we will, in time, eat Big Tech’s lunch.

2024-08-26 22:54:36

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People who have replaced religion with politics. They’re looking to see their savior in person

2024-08-25 22:49:57

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Depends on what you truly want from social media.
If your goal is connecting with people then leaving wouldn’t improve your health unless your people aren’t here/responding.
If you find your true motivation is validation from other people responding to you. Then a full detox may actually be healthy.
There are many other motivations too.
But it seems like you are saying you’re not getting what you want out of social media and I hope that changes for you. 🫂

2024-08-25 22:19:26

Anyone know if there’s a VPS provider in El Salvador?
Seems like a jurisdiction that may be safer than Europe for hosting apps.
I can’t find one with a data center actually located in El Salvador.

2024-08-25 04:17:57

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Forgive my ignorance. What’s a relay hub?

2024-08-25 03:25:43

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Helping people cultivate hope when things are hard. Wish I could do it more

2024-08-25 03:24:04

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Totally but we have to share relays in order to see each others’ content. Are there any safe jurisdictions that we can host in?
Even then is a VPN or access via Tor the only way to access it if our native country starts trying to block access to relays to take them down?

2024-08-24 22:27:32

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If there are heads to the hydra it’s the relay operators right? How healthy is that ecosystem at this point in history?

2024-08-24 00:32:31

Wow integrating with Telegram is so easy.
Just built a system to alert myself to new user signups and errors and it took me 5 minutes.
I can’t believe it took me so long 😂

2024-08-23 03:28:25

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Sounds awesome thanks for connecting

2024-08-23 03:24:12

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That makes sense. I keep forgetting we are on Nostr where folks actually do the thing instead of just build knowledge about the thing.

2024-08-22 22:21:53

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Thank you!
What do you mean yours isn’t ready yet?

2024-08-22 22:21:00

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Oh damn I wanna meet @npub16ux…lra7 based on their profile even if they don’t have answer. I am a huge regenerative agriculture nerd

2024-08-22 22:19:37

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That’s what I’m wondering. If farmers want it and it doesn’t exist I’m also happy to build a directory 😂
“Solve problems you have” and all that

2024-08-22 17:49:01

I’m looking to buy a half a cow to put in a chest freezer so I can buy direct from a farmer. Any advice on how to find someone?

2024-08-02 18:50:39

1. Commercial real estate losses mounting
2. Housing prices declining
3. Unemployment up
4. Deficit spending still high
5. Interest rates still high
Is this finally it?
I think this will be the beginning of the next printer round if the losses are bad enough banks have to finally realize all those unrealised losses they’ve been hiding since the collapse of SVB.
I’ll be it’s gonna be a wild few months

2024-07-24 19:10:33

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Who wants to pave the streets with gold? Seems like that wouldn’t be crazy with what we can find in asteroids.

2024-07-24 18:24:09

If countries start using Bitcoin as a reserve asset, do yall think that’ll be positive? Or is it too centralizing a force at this point?

2024-06-26 19:23:53

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Sure but can it be built so arresting people wouldn’t stop it.

2024-06-26 17:16:44

I wonder if there’s a way to build wikileaks on Nostr as a protocol instead of a company. So there’s no one to arrest and no central server to shut down

2024-06-21 23:47:15

Thinking about spending a few months in El Salvador. Anyone form there or lived there for a while? Hoping to plug into a local community.

2024-06-20 15:08:04

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I’ll have to check it out 💪 thanks 🙏

2024-06-19 21:54:35

Anyone aware of any books or essays on abundance generated by technology? Been doing my research but it seems not much thought has gone into the possibility of a radically abundant future (and how it may not be far off)

2024-06-07 16:39:35

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https://media.tenor.com/UFXpodC9gLUAAAAC/this-is-the-way-this-is-the-way-mandalorian.gif

2024-06-04 19:09:17

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Been thinking of spending a few months there. Any advice for an American looking to get the most of of time there?

2024-06-04 19:08:24

Finally coming up for air after a while heads down. How yall doing?
What’s new in the nostr-verse?

2024-04-10 15:58:59

lol I gave up social media for lent and come back to Nostr today.
It’s glorious 😂

2024-01-29 01:51:26

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That’s very kind. Thanks for your support ❤️

2024-01-28 19:21:50

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Yall have been very kind and delightful partners ❤️

2024-01-28 19:01:48

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Thanks for being a great reader ❤️

2024-01-28 18:42:44

Hey Folks, I’m going to pause contributing to the Nostr Tech Weekly.
I have too many commitments at this point to give it the time it deserves. I still fully believe in Nostr and the community and the wonderful devs 💪.
I’ve had a lot of fun working with @npub19md…6vzk and look forward to seeing how to support the community going forward.
Love yall ❤️

2024-01-17 15:51:03

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I haven’t seen that yet but I’m totally with you. Almost requires nsecbunker to work though 🤔

2024-01-17 04:30:18

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Are you thinking like a presigned event? Or something that is a more abstract interface that also takes your private key to sign it?

2024-01-12 04:39:14

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How can it be evergreen if it’s not in all caps? 😂

2024-01-12 01:37:50

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Logos for decentralized tech seem to be emergent phenomena from memes more than direct effort by a small group.
Each of your mentioned examples have small organizations who are responsible for development so it’s natural for them to form a logo.
I’d argue the ostrich is the meme that underpins any logo. We just haven’t found the style and form factor of the ostrich that is iconic enough to have everyone converge on one logo.

2024-01-11 23:01:34

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🤔 what I do is use a custom GPT that I just add the link to the NIPs GitHub repo as part of the system prompt. Works well for me. Just gotta say “please search the Nostr NIPs repo before answering”
Downloading and fine tuning may be overkill

2024-01-08 20:12:24

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I went with Strike for now. Until I learn enough to do self custody, that is

2024-01-08 19:29:47

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Sounds like @npub1ex7…vyt9 but with a relationship with one Swiss bank instead of banks all over the world.
That said, Strike’s API is young and this could encourage more B2B payment rails that cross the Bitcoin / fiat divide.

2024-01-07 23:44:37

Nsecbunker is highly featured this week 😊 #note1rcj…33e9

2024-01-03 00:34:11

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LFG!

2024-01-02 23:20:47

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Habla.news is where @npub19md…6vzk does long form content. It works well! And some clients are able to sense the markdown format and display it well.
But monetization isn’t something I’ve seen much yet in this context (just zaps I think)

2024-01-02 21:05:09

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Nice yeah I wanted to get a sense of how scalable it could be (not that there’s a ton of demand at this moment)
I can imagine an ecosystem of providers that all use different Lightning providers but provide the service to bootstrap a nostr account (keys, profile, address, wallet). I’m stoked to play with it

2024-01-02 20:49:40

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Oh damn didn’t know it was already that robust. Wow
Where can I read up on the LN wallet stuff? Is it something where the bunker is the node and comes with all the attendant maintenance? Or is it offloaded to some other trusted provider?

2024-01-02 19:08:47

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Can’t wait 💪
This definitely pairs well with being an “address provider” (NIP 05) too. It’s a natural bundle for those that want an easy button for Nostr login / ID management.
Exciting stuff!

2024-01-02 19:00:29

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Sweet! In this regime could there be nsecbunker providers that provide this as a service?

2024-01-02 04:15:27

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That could be the case! But if Bitcoin value increases as denominated in fiat then I’d imagine people will zap smaller amounts. People with Bitcoin will see the value of their current stacks grow but it’s hard for me to imagine folks zapping large amounts after the surge in value.

2024-01-01 19:23:59

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That’s a great idea. Are there any ideas what they need that isn’t well met? Maybe Nostr already solves that for them?
I think activists, whistleblowers or journalists will need truly private and secure comms (their adversaries are governments). Maybe a wikileaks type website as well for stuff to be published on.
For computer nerds I wonder if it’s just a Reddit clone that’s got enough people on it to have interesting conversations?

2024-01-01 00:33:34

Let’s discuss how to sustainably fund Nostr development 💪 #note1tqj…7dx8

2023-12-27 06:22:33

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If you mean: store files on relays, there’s been interest but not any great solutions yet that’s I’ve seen
If you mean something like Nostr.build where it is compatible with Nostr but not stored on relays, then yes.
Trouble with storing on relays is they’ll get bloated and expensive to operate and possibly make Nostr more centralized (harder for people to run small relays at home)

2023-12-25 23:50:22

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There we go, now I’m in familiar territory 😂

2023-12-25 21:47:53

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Should have known. I’m so conditioned for closed or complicated APIs 😂

2023-12-25 16:54:51

Thanks to all the Nostr devs this year ❤️ #note12fz…dd7w

2023-12-21 06:42:04

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And he’s the author of the NIP 😂 I should just assume so at this point

2023-12-21 00:29:38

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Is this using NIP 71? https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

2023-12-21 00:28:13

LFG! #note12hq…j90j

2023-12-17 19:53:48

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Makes me think I gotta find a credit union as a bank account I do all my Bitcoin based stuff so it’s less likely to get cut off but is separate from my main accounts so I can always pay for food and utilities even if this happens

2023-12-17 19:50:05

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My wife and I had an issue with Square that was similar. She had just opened a small business checking account with them and they just nuked it for no reason and they intentionally made it so you can’t reach out to them to get a human on the line.

2023-12-17 19:15:03

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Agreed 😂 so I got creative

2023-12-17 07:51:47

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I use a small cupcake tin and put it in a large pan with a small amount of water in it. Boil the water and crack an egg into each oiled cupcake spot.
The steam cooks the egg 😊
Much easier and cheaper than getting a purpose built poacher or trying to just drop an egg in boiling water 😂

2023-12-11 23:39:43

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I think it’s a question of what is Nostr for. And the protocol is designed for uncensorable speech. Unstoppable broadcasting in the face of totalitarian governments or social platforms.
Delete-able notes are a bug in this context.
That’s game changing for journalists, human rights advocates, and political dissidents.
Nostr is just soooo close to perfect for many other social media use cases that sometimes it’s tempting to want comfortable features.

2023-12-11 17:57:19

Got to talk to my team about nostr this morning. Brought me joy.
Hopefully our community will make them feel welcome if they join!
#grownostr

2023-12-10 19:24:02

This week is focused on nsecbunker and some improvements to relays! #note1g7u…8qve

2023-12-10 06:33:53

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I’m not sure I understand. I didn’t try to self host, I wanted to try out the hosted version at nsecbunker.com

2023-12-10 05:36:57

@npub1l2v…ajft you manage nsecbunker.com right?
just tried to subscribe to get a naecbunker. Paid the invoice and then it hung while deploying a bunker.
Can’t get back there even though payment was sent 😬
The url where it got hung up had “undefined” in it so I think there was a bug. That or I’m just not patient enough (waited a couple minutes)
Can you help me recover it? Or did I just get rugged 😂

2023-12-09 16:47:39

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Agreed! 😂

2023-12-08 19:46:51

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I’m talking about Grok having access to Twitter DMs or drafted tweets

2023-12-08 17:49:59

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Really?! I couldn’t get it to do it for mine. And I’m too nice to do it for anyone else 😂

2023-12-08 17:45:57

Yooooooooo Grok (twitter’s AI) has access to everyone draft tweets 😂
Not DMs though, thank goodness 😅
https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1733155136279572850?s=46

2023-12-08 01:59:00

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😂 true true. I guess they call that marketing

2023-12-08 00:12:54

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The idea is you pay for hosting but only the cost of hosting. I’d imagine you pay for upgrades too but only if you want it.
But the proof will be in the pudding, gotta see if they can sustain themselves on this model

2023-12-08 00:03:30

I love the ethos of https://once.com I hope the products are viable.
It honestly feels very Nostr-like in its reasoning.
https://x.com/twistartups/status/1731372487093493881?s=46

2023-12-05 23:00:32

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Same difference in my book. Anything that’s censored is always said to be “unsafe”

2023-12-05 22:56:38

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I wonder if DHS mandates blocking certain sites on airport WiFi 😂
If so I think we made some waves.

2023-12-05 18:52:04

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Ah well as long as people read it that’s all I care about 😂

2023-12-05 05:22:25

🤨 https://image.nostr.build/b8298ecc6a45dfa0e3c62320cc0bbbfa8d60a4fd6b637560b1c58b424f299713.jpg

2023-12-04 00:21:45

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Cool 💪 does nsecbunker inherently store the keysin plaintext somewhere? Or are there end to end encrypted versions?

2023-12-04 00:19:27

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Thanks! 🙏

2023-12-03 18:58:24

This week is about Nostr for Normies! #note1d2d…tvcy

2023-12-02 20:24:41

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@npub1l2v…ajft do you have any resources on how recovery would work in case they need to via email? I’m not quite able to understand that interaction with nsecbunker

2023-11-28 22:55:05

@npub180c…h6w6 is it possible to programmatically create njump links? Or is it just as simple as creating the irk as a string directly with the note id or npub

2023-11-27 19:00:01

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Yeah I think it’s an open ticket in Damus. Other clients handle it better.
The best is habla.news where it was written but Nostur and Nostrudel do a great job too

2023-11-27 18:59:09

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Happy to help! Thanks for reading 💪 lemme know if you have any feedback!

2023-11-27 00:47:17

Hormones are essentially biological pub-sub style communication and the message bus is your blood stream.
🤯