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2024-10-27 15:49:08

posting directly to a protocol, rather than a company, is incredible.
it is hand-delivering your words to the world rather than entrusting them to someone whose self-interest is adversarial to your own.

2024-09-19 14:50:28

is it possible to delete posts on Nostr? from what i understand, seems like Nostr is forever 💎

2024-08-27 22:56:23

so much respect for y’all consistently posting on Nostr. it reflects good values and clarity of vision!

2024-04-25 01:41:05

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imagine thinking you’ll have privacy in imperial russia

2023-09-06 00:15:06

every time i come back, damus is better and better

2023-07-08 12:01:52

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most mastodon people have went elsewhere

2023-07-07 04:28:04

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ppl have been talking about celebrities and pop art since forever. not my preferred topics, but some ppl are into it.

2023-07-07 04:15:35

having spent some time on Threads, i actually think it will be successful.
its success though isn’t in anything that Nostr is trying to achieve.
instead, Threads seems to be focused on a conversation around influencers (celebrity and NFT promoters) the same way that twitter (used to) be a conversation around news and the journalists reporting on it.
in fact, this seems to be a secular trend of fracturing of social media platforms generally that probably has been ongoing since the rise of facebook.
where twitter used to be all-purpose, it’s now:
Twitter: laggards and Musk loyalists
Bluesky: journalists and liberals
Nostr: bitcoiners and cypherpunks
Threads: influencers (celebrities, NFTs)
Farcaster: ethereans
Truth social, Gab: qAnon, MAGA, xenophobia
i think this is the new normal for social media. RIP the general purpose platform.

2023-07-05 22:59:48

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BUT- if you’re unwilling to lose it, won’t you capitulate at a local bottom?

2023-07-05 14:18:15

Twitter scrubs a community note on a China-state account that mentioned the Uyghur genocide.
Elon, of course, maintains Tesla showrooms in Xinjiang, huge
manufacturing plants and Tesla sales in China, and limits his usual outspokenness to never offend the Chinese Government.
(before and after) https://nostr.build/i/71ee6d2078416307bec441143d1e9ceed0154c62eb1208aae1461be46b497821.jpg https://nostr.build/i/d5a8915725a0faf5e65b94d7b3cbdd49c34ec4e9a585a559b17a4c7a4a3d3b7a.jpg

2023-07-04 23:57:08

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and it shows a different number each time!
endless thrills

2023-07-04 18:55:05

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jesus too (not technically a founding father)

2023-07-04 00:20:55

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how do you execute it

2023-07-04 00:04:36

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Overall migration data: https://nostr.build/i/46134b4c9a52d9115c3726c5702fde4b19c819bddbd3f01fe9f534016cc0f48a.jpg

2023-07-03 22:34:29

itsHappening.gif https://nostr.build/i/e9503e93c661db7893e9ecda2e604b38e4312d064df397a3e8a185d8dd0e01ef.jpg

2023-07-02 15:50:44

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So was Nara!

2023-07-02 15:16:16

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hate is the lifeblood of social

2023-07-02 15:14:55

no one has ever explained why Tokyo and Kyoto are anagrams

2023-07-02 15:08:45

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yesssss udi is becoming fully nostracized

2023-07-02 00:49:24

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thanks for that helpful answer

2023-07-02 00:08:21

i’m out of the loop, what do the ⭐️ and ⚡️ mean next to names?

2023-07-01 23:53:02

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🪄

2023-07-01 21:54:19

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fyi nostr uses no blockchain or cryptocurrency

2023-07-01 21:47:55

farcaster not working, but nostr still humming along https://nostr.build/i/785ed3cb726b7fc0ce88e4d834762eccb89057e30a269f3fc7d5df013d9ae821.jpg

2023-07-01 20:20:53

doing my RFKs rn https://nostr.build/i/94c42cb84e4981094cf114ded27437785390c014fb6101745483f09196e9a6b0.jpg

2023-07-01 20:10:37

remember when they called nostr a “scam” because it didn’t have…….. DIDs????

2023-07-01 20:07:24

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wen enable lightning?

2023-07-01 19:47:46

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scrolling through my follower list and keep thinking “oh shit, they’re here too??”

2023-07-01 19:47:00

i’m really struck by how high quality the user base is on nostr
truly excellent people here
this is how network effects begin to compound

2023-07-01 19:11:32

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standard Nostr fomo

2023-07-01 18:44:24

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yes absolutely: it’s a moral imperative
https://read.pourteaux.xyz/p/the-moral-imperative-of-a-distributed

2023-07-01 18:40:53

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Some ways it has gotten worse:
- state media no longer labeled
- blue checks meaningless
- elon tweets are prioritized
- lots of weird new censorship (elon plane accounts, turkish election speech and more govt compliance, can’t easily change pfp)
- elon uses his own account to boost nutty people

2023-07-01 18:23:44

WE BACK FAM

2023-04-21 11:40:03

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with no vpn, i have no trouble using and broadcasting via iris.to on domestic chinese wi-fi
damus will not work for me

2023-04-21 10:13:41

testing from mainland China 🇨🇳
do you see this?

2023-04-21 10:08:11

testing from mainland china 🇨🇳
do you see this?

2023-04-05 21:46:16

remember when elon thought he discovered big blocks and short block times?

2023-03-11 18:29:40

It’s 2023 and the Libertarians want book bans, bank bailouts, and an unconditional surrender to Russia.

2023-03-02 12:38:58

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^things i believed in high school

2023-02-28 04:47:27

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there will be many high value inscriptions and high value financial tx.
there will be many priced out inscriptions and priced out financial tx.

2023-02-28 03:38:30

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it will price out low value inscriptions just like it prices out low value financial tx (eg, coffee). it’s a good thing.

2023-02-25 21:02:45

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CRISPR, vaccines, neural networks, fission/fusion

2023-02-25 20:54:48

few technologies in the world have as much positive potential for humanity as bitcoin.

2023-02-18 15:48:43

will the mempool clear in 2023?

2023-02-04 23:08:59

i love that nostr is getting used in china to thwart ccp censorship
i love even more that hugely talented ppl in china might develop on nostr

2023-02-04 17:36:41

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godammit

2023-02-03 23:32:29

Guess the location for 5000 sats. https://i.nostrimg.com/3f3743c6a4449032f01d9cad8d8fc822a597fd3721c84c7d6352b82a1a42aaab/file.jpeg

2023-02-03 04:39:22

First to name the location gets 1000 sats. https://i.nostrimg.com/7c006ad612e3136f92e6ec7bab92f5f177289571e0c7800cb04b358e68d92dfa/file.jpeg

2023-02-03 04:37:52

name the location and win 1000 sats (first winner only).
https://i.nostrimg.com/7c006ad612e3136f92e6ec7bab92f5f177289571e0c7800cb04b358e68d92dfa/file.jpeg

2023-01-25 23:07:01

Illegitimate bitcoin transactions: the longstanding compromise on transaction sizes, how Taproot accidentally blew it up, and the nascent NFT protocol emerging in its wake
(new from me) https://read.pourteaux.xyz/p/illegitimate-bitcoin-transactions

2023-01-15 18:40:37

someone just held the door for me in nyc, like a maniac

2023-01-12 15:11:59

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is this a question for me or the bot

2023-01-12 14:55:29

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Thx bro, u a real one

2023-01-12 03:49:31

i used to think that nostr had nothing to do with bitcoin.
turns out, they overlap in a couple areas:
- nostr uses sep256k1: bitcoin’s elliptic curve cryptography
- nostr uses OpenTimeStamps, which relies on bitcoin’s block headers (NIP-03)
any others i’m missing?

2023-01-12 02:16:41

nostr conference wen?
let’s do it at PubKey in nyc

2023-01-11 22:16:33

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alcohol is such a waste of time, money, and health. happy for you both!

2023-01-09 03:50:26

this mirrors my experience with Twitter. I used to find it enormously valuable- i learned a lot and met amazing people.
now it is almost all shitposting and extreme politics.
https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1611981593387864067?s=46&t=HkFDhJwoZupMFn6OTrOoGQ

2023-01-08 13:48:52

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it’s a way to make NFTs work on bitcoin by assigning a “serial number” to every satoshi.

2023-01-08 03:59:31

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i need to know whether i have any rare satoshis

2023-01-08 03:35:40

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it’s a mix of my favorite things: bitcoin, nfts, and esoterica

2023-01-08 02:44:42

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how have i never heard of Ordinals?

2023-01-07 12:59:58

gm 🌄

2023-01-06 00:17:55

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out after a16z

2023-01-04 23:35:49

do you see my pfp as animated?

2023-01-04 13:29:42

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lol i just outed myself as not following nostr plebs 😅

2023-01-04 13:27:18

so yellow check is for nostrplebs?

2023-01-04 13:18:18

somehow my nip-05 stopped working 😔

2023-01-03 23:36:10

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The real competitor to Twitter isn’t Nostr…
It’s Damus.

2023-01-02 17:48:14

i keep coming back to this idea about how nostr and bitcoin can somehow interact via OP_RETURN but can’t think of the best use case…

2023-01-02 17:37:57

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2023-01-01 23:27:56

Last year, you probably learned a lot about Ukraine, Taiwan, and Iran.
Those countries remain important, but it’s imperative that you learn about these flashpoints too: Serbia-Kosovo, Armenia-Azerbaijan, the Solomon Islands, and Haiti.
I introduce each here: https://read.pourteaux.xyz/p/flashpoints

2023-01-01 20:17:48

surprised a lot in 2022?
follow different kinds of people in 2023 and get surprised less!

2023-01-01 19:43:00

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i suppose you’re right, and it would good to make it clear that Nostr is their best choice when considering alternatives

2023-01-01 15:58:12

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To really move to nostr fully, I would want more non-bitcoiners (journalists etc) here. Nostr already beat bitcoin twitter, but that’s not the only reason I use twitter.

2023-01-01 15:13:02

wondering the difficulty of creating a nostr client that also pulls in your twitter timeline 🧐

2022-12-31 23:15:25

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🤷‍♂️ i’d opt into a client where there are some norms of engagement that i agree with

2022-12-31 22:58:42

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hmm so maybe the trick is finding the right balance of distance and access…

2022-12-31 22:55:28

if fragmentation is good for social, will we not be able to recapture the magic of twitter where anyone is accessible?
still deciding how i think about all of this…

2022-12-31 20:59:38

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balkanization is inevitable and good on L2 (clients, apps, aggregators, etc). i don’t think it is necessarily required on L1, where something like nostr could be the open standard.

2022-12-31 04:53:30

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couldn’t buy them all :)
was tempted to get nostr.xxx too

2022-12-31 04:25:39

Twitter was never a public square.
Companies can’t be public goods.
But protocols can!
And building companies on top of protocols may be how we break free from twitter’s gamified outrage machine.

2022-12-30 21:33:26

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This is brilliant

2022-12-29 17:21:59

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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2e6b0b06-d5d0-4783-9212-c9252ed74b89_3922x1806.png

2022-12-29 17:16:56

**Current stats on Nostr vs Farcaster: **
Users: 46,688 vs 7,621
Cumulative posts: 364,000 vs 354,000
Posts/day: 12,500 vs 1,649
Most followed: ( damusapp, jack, jb55 ) vs ( dwr, lesgreys, frozenfire42 )

2022-12-29 13:46:15

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i thought he was uber smart for like two weeks until i realized he just chases the spotlight and sells outrage.

2022-12-29 05:03:44

running nostr https://i.nostrimg.com/ef5d9d63.jpeg

2022-12-29 04:38:35

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i kinda want some non-tech/bitcoin people here too tho

2022-12-29 01:07:38

nostr working *much* better than twitter rn

2022-12-28 22:44:53

testing Nostrimage with some new art https://i.nostrimg.com/d54bd664.jpeg

2022-12-28 02:17:50

since I can’t tell who likes my posts, I just assume you all like them to give you benefit of the doubt

2022-12-27 15:32:39

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L1: Base layer (nostr)
- nothing matters more than credible neutrality here. Follow cypherpunk ethos.
L2: App layer (clients, apps, games, communities, etc)
- this is where VCs and companies belong and are valuable
One reason Web 2.0 is failing is bc companies can’t do L1.
One reason why “Web 3.0” social has failed is bc VC can’t finance L1.
One reason why Nostr is succeeding is bc it follows the correct ethos of an L1: anon founder, no company, no investors, no token.

2022-12-27 15:19:55

VCs investing into a base layer network is *literally* a kiss of death, for a lot of reasons. Some of them are:
1. Forces monetization of the network
2. Network must be legalized into a company
3. Company must have known founders and team
4. #1, #2, #3 allow external actors to pressure the company to abandon neutrality
5. A VC-bought community never has the engagement of a grassroots community
These *especially* apply to base layer *social* networks.
Nothing against companies, VC, equity investing, etc… but these things are better suited for apps **on top of** a credibly neutral L1.

2022-12-27 03:57:25

Bitcoiners flying the "Nostr is a Scam" flag are a parody of themselves.

2022-12-26 20:19:15

me contemplating fatherhood: am i sure i just don’t want someone to watch Studio Ghibli with?

2022-12-26 19:21:30

when you first open Damus, the pfps are zoomed in on everyone’s nose. #nosetr

2022-12-26 03:35:31

what are Nostr daily post #s looking like?

2022-12-26 02:23:42

inability to delete posts makes me more polite 😆

2022-12-26 01:27:10

We urgently need a native social layer for the internet.
It must be a protocol, it can't be a company.
I wrote about the different ways that Nostr and Farcaster are trying to achieve this.
h/t to @fiatjaf @macieklaskus
https://pourteaux.substack.com/p/the-moral-imperative-of-a-distributed

2022-12-22 02:36:53

tweeted about nostr and got 110k impressions!

2022-12-21 21:06:24

what if the killer app for bitcoin is paying nostr relays to maintain the information layer of the internet?