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it's funny, i actually compete with #[0]'s Square product in the fiat space. All the years I spent strategizing how we could outcompete Square with far more limited resources than they had. It's exciting to be on the same team building a better future of payments.

2023-02-01 14:18:41

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check this out ... https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/nostr.build

2023-02-01 14:17:16

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the domain nostr.build isn't resolving DNS for me....

2023-02-01 14:15:45

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paid!

2023-01-26 16:41:46

If you are attending #nostrica in person this year, please fill out the form below so we can start organizing group transport from SJO airport to Uvita. #[1]

2023-01-23 21:24:22

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YOU CAN RUN A TOR NODE AND HELP THE NETWORK!
Don't even have to run an exit node, just a middle node if you worry about liability.
https://buyvm.net is friendly to tor nodes, one of many options. BTC accepted.

2023-01-23 21:01:16

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Wow, you have a lightning tip button. <3

2023-01-14 22:32:26

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Amazing. Nostr rocks.

2023-01-14 22:30:57

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probably bitrefill.com

2023-01-14 22:27:55

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This looks like BTCPayServer. Assuming the merchant properly implemented this, then keeping your browser open doesn't matter. Could actually help to refresh the page.

2023-01-14 21:15:44

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once you do have it set up with alby, then try out astral.ninja's 1-click tip experience (opt-in option in settings screen).

2023-01-14 21:08:51

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sats sent using 1-click experience on astral.ninja with Alby wallet connected to my Bitcoin Jungle wallet. what kind of future am I living in?

2023-01-14 21:07:52

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sats sent ser

2023-01-14 16:08:47

#[1]

2023-01-13 23:06:39

#[1]

2023-01-12 22:09:26

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Of course, the code is public domain! It's just an early proof of concept. If nobody else does, I'll spend more time on it as able. Whatever I do will be FOSS of course. Hopefully there can be a handful of cooperating nostr media host providers to give users choice and decentralization.
I spend my days orange pilling farmers & street vendors and getting them to accept sats for their goods & services. I accept the challenge of peer-pilling them and getting them to understand that torrents in and of itself are not illegal.

2023-01-12 22:02:05

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You can take an input file and generate the magnet URI without having to seed it on the network to do so. They can be split out in code to 2 separate commands.
There is no such a thing as an "illegal torrent". It's illegal to transmit certain types of media over the internet. Torrent or not, you can choose to transmit those bytes whenever you want/don't want to. Adding torrents to the mix does not decrease your level of control as a nostr media host service provider.

2023-01-12 21:36:11

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Every social media company today does #2. They remove content async. The law seems happy with that.
If you wanted more assurances you could do something fancy where you save the file locally for those 14 seconds. If the file is requested while CV is running, return a placeholder loading image. Then after CV completes, you start seeding the file as a torrent (if passes checks) or delete it from local disk (if fails checks).
It's not materially different than hosting images and scanning them with CV in a traditional way without torrenting involved.
At the end of the day, it's your code controlling the ingress/egress of bytes from your machine. Torrents or not. You can control the flow of that however you'd like.

2023-01-12 21:31:24

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New URL: `https://nostr.house/proxy.jpg?magnetUri=be93f25f1b9f8facd81d0feafd1ce79b02278fa9`
or
https://nostr.house/proxy.jpg?magnetUri=be93f25f1b9f8facd81d0feafd1ce79b02278fa9

2023-01-12 21:31:11

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No, i put the url there in markup quotations to force it to not render :). All good, it renders in Damus when desired.

2023-01-12 21:12:50

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I don't see how this is any different from a legal perspective than how nostrimg.com works today. You're still hosting images uploaded by users either way. You can still run the Computer Vision stuff on both whatever you proxy/whatever you store. Torrents don't add (or remove) any legal complexity of that.

2023-01-12 20:43:47

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Correct.
Also handles the case where clients don't want to upload (seed) torrents directly. The code demo also takes HTTP POSTed files and seeds them on the torrent net.

2023-01-12 20:06:52

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basically, allows for better interoperability between nostr media hosting providers.

2023-01-12 20:06:15

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Check out fiatjaf's thread from earlier today discussing (@#[3]).
It gives user maximum choice.
Some ideas that would be interesting to explore:
- A file provider like https://nostr.build but offering torrent seeding instead of direct downloads
- A platform for turning torrent magnet links into images (caching them briefly)
- Nostr clients uploading stuff (small images) to these torrent providers and inserting the magnet links in the notes
- Nostr clients that download render magnet links as images (if file size and content-type are applicable)
- Nostr clients that don't want to download torrents directly can turn the magnet links into normal image links from the aforementioned platform
I think this enables somewhat decentralized image-hosting:
- The torrent metainfo/magnet is derived from the file content for each image doesn't change, so even if one provider (or yourself) goes offline it can be in multiple others
- Since the magnet link doesn't change even if the provider that turns magnet links into HTTP images dies, the clients can just replace it with a different one, the notes do not lose their content
- Each of these steps can be done by different people, with different degrees with redundancy, cost and pricing

2023-01-12 19:15:13

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The URL is `https://webtorrent-proxy.fly.dev/proxy.jpg?magnetUri=magnet:?xt=urn:btih:be93f25f1b9f8facd81d0feafd1ce79b02278fa9&dn=test.jpeg&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.btorrent.xyz&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openwebtorrent.com&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.empire-js.us%3A1337`

2023-01-12 19:14:42

This image is pretty neat. I HTTP POSTed it to an endpoint that receives the file and starts seeding it as a torrent. I get the magnet URI back in return.
I can then pass that magnet URI into a HTTP proxy that will download the file over torrent and then return it back with the appropriate content type etc.
Whatchu think?
https://webtorrent-proxy.fly.dev/proxy.jpg?magnetUri=magnet:?xt=urn:btih:be93f25f1b9f8facd81d0feafd1ce79b02278fa9&dn=test.jpeg&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.btorrent.xyz&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openwebtorrent.com&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.empire-js.us%3A1337

2023-01-11 23:56:30

https://i.nostrimg.com/8758a161.jpeg

2023-01-11 23:55:56

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmI4D-qaEAADzQH?format=jpg&name=medium

2023-01-11 23:15:14

just dropping in to say hi

2023-01-09 22:51:34

https://i.nostrimg.com/739c09cb.jpeg #[0]

2023-01-09 22:42:35

Bitcoin Meetup!
Saturday January 14 2023 - 5 PM - Uvita, Costa Rica
PLEASE RSVP AT LINK BELOW
See you there!
https://www.awake.cr/event-details/bitcoin-meetup

2023-01-09 15:43:09

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it used to be here: https://damus.io/web/ ... but it was pulled down. I believe https://yosup.app is the spiritual successor

2023-01-09 15:20:21

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AFAIK it does not, and Apple translate does suck a lot anyway.

2023-01-09 14:49:45

looking for ideas on this... #[1]

2023-01-09 14:48:32

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We've got a discussion going about handling media uploads in a standardized way. Join us here: https://github.com/damus-io/damus/discussions/272

2023-01-09 14:47:53

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not a couldflare outage it's a fiatjaf server outage

2023-01-09 14:47:34

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use https://archive.is/9IC7y

2023-01-09 14:38:48

#[0] fiatjaf.com is down. also y cloudflare ser?

2023-01-09 14:37:34

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use https://archive.is/9IC7y

2023-01-09 14:35:58

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fiatjaf hosting through cloudflare currently returning HTTP 521 Web Server is Down. Eek.

2023-01-09 14:35:01

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Possible, yes? Good idea, definitely no.
base64 encoding a .jpg leads to like 30% growth in size.
relays are not going to be happy with this. way too much storage ask.

2023-01-09 14:32:41

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So just a IPFS pinner/gateway as-a-service with a shitcoin flavor? Kind of like pinata.cloud?

2023-01-09 14:19:13

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wtf is a nftstorage.link?

2023-01-09 14:18:33

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I'm not saying that was a good idea...I definitely think it would not be a good idea. Aggression begets aggression. You are correct though, people shouldn't hate the players, they should hate the game.

2023-01-09 14:17:16

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works here... tldr though- what's the point of using IPFS at the storage layer if the access layer is centralized through HTTP gateways? From a nostr perspective, a user would still have to POST the image to a HTTP server, which would then have to process it and save it on disk. Users would then later access the media through another HTTP gateway.

2023-01-09 14:13:40

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From what service provider? I know that Google charges $$$ for API access to translate.

2023-01-09 14:11:03

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when that pension fund fails, the people will be screaming for their managers to get a "haircut"

2023-01-09 14:08:59

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todo pura vida mae

2023-01-09 13:22:15

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hhahahahahah nice
so what's stopping you from building out the community?
are there meetups near you? could start by getting them to use the p2p group.

2023-01-09 13:19:25

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I've spent the past 18 months meeting Bitcoiners from all around the world. They are consistently the most thoughtful group I've ever met. High signal, low noise.

2023-01-09 13:18:01

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you need a Lightning Address (looks like an email address) or a LNURL (starts with lnurl).

2023-01-09 13:17:26

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No, right now your LUD06 is set to `bitcoin:bc1qs69c8j7nv4nrxwnl9ceqv75l64g0zgcr4mh9az`. this is an onchain address.

2023-01-09 13:15:32

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neither have been used in last 24 hours

2023-01-09 13:15:23

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@japanp2pbtcgroup and @japanp2pbtc seem to exist...

2023-01-09 13:14:30

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Could start a LNP2P Bot on telegram ... https://t.me/lnp2pBot

2023-01-09 12:49:13

hey #[0] ... still WIP but wanted to get your eyes on to make sure I'm on the right track here.
https://github.com/monlovesmango/astral/pull/93

2023-01-09 12:28:06

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This is great news, thanks!

2023-01-09 12:19:15

test private note

2023-01-09 11:58:32

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what would a default relay group do?
You would post to that group by default (currently posts to all relays by default if no groups selected)?
Or your feed would default to just that group?

2023-01-09 11:28:25

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would be dope for these groups to move across clients like their relay list.

2023-01-08 22:20:06

cr only

2023-01-08 21:55:44

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https://i.nostrimg.com/deb64c3f.png

2023-01-08 21:55:35

hey #[0] and #[1] check this out:
https://i.nostrimg.com/deb64c3f.png
https://i.nostrimg.com/6e2c9f7d.png

2023-01-08 21:54:03

private cr only post

2023-01-08 21:53:33

this time only to costa rica

2023-01-08 21:51:25

this post going out to plebnet only

2023-01-08 21:50:54

is this private tho for real

2023-01-08 21:48:44

is this privado?

2023-01-08 21:16:55

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They sure do.

2023-01-08 20:42:05

private post

2023-01-08 18:20:04

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then in the Feed, along the top "Follow" "Global" "Bots" tabs we could add tabs for each user-defined relay group to see just a feed from those relays.

2023-01-08 18:19:22

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another one
https://i.nostrimg.com/c8ab18ae.png

2023-01-08 18:18:02

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https://i.nostrimg.com/edfe0a70.png
nothing fancy yet, thinking we need to let users set up "relay groups" in their client preferences and then give let users pick 1/more relay groups to publish to.

2023-01-08 18:13:51

publish to 2 relays ... i'm picking what relays to publish events to now in astral.

publish to 1 relay

hiadsf

asdf

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My wife hates the Pros 2... can't hear her at all if I have them in.