JeffG
JeffG

Secure messaging on Nostr. Creator of Marmot protocol, MDK, and White Noise. Other stuff connoisseur. Also built Listr, Ostrich.work, Ontolo, Nostr.how.

Public Key

npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc

NIP-05 Address

_@jeffg.fyi

NIP-57 Address

jeffg@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqspwwwexlwgcrrnwz4zwkze8rq3ncjug8mvgsd96dxx6wzs8ccndmcpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6n9venxwtnx095sjm7zu2

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purplepag.es

relay.jeffg.fyi

relay.nostr.net

Author Public Key

npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc

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Last Notes

2025-11-05 09:52:23

Can someone explain this to me?
Why would Bulgaria give up it's sovereignty to join the EU? And don't say defense, the EU has no military power.

2025-11-04 14:12:15

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Broader. We'll talk about @nprofile…9puf but it's actually about Marmot, the protocol that White Noise uses for messaging.

2025-10-31 17:32:54

Freedom go up technology. 🇻🇪
#nevent1q…27dp

2025-10-30 14:40:03

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🙏

2025-10-30 13:20:51

https://open.spotify.com/track/6qLEOZvf5gI7kWE63JE7p3

2025-10-30 10:16:37

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and Keychat has lost to @nprofile…9puf 😉

2025-10-30 09:15:35

The next Marmot Dev Call is this upcoming Tuesday (Nov 4) at 1600 UTC.
We'll cover the new specs for encrypted media and our proposal for notifications.
I've also recently talked several people building on Marmot so we'll leave time at the end of the call for demos too! 💪 Who's going to step up??

2025-10-30 06:47:08

Bummer. @nprofile…frdy is launching a shitcoin. 😒
https://x.com/simplexchat/status/1983437418578751944

2025-10-29 12:15:18

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
– Buckminster Fuller

2025-10-29 07:34:25

GM 🌞
https://www.therage.co/ai-passport-kyc-digital-id/
The thing that everyone who pushes for digital ID and "proof of personhood" fails to understand is that IT DOESN'T MATTER if you're a person or an AI agent. What matters is whether or not we can trust you.
Humans have built up very complex internal heuristics for dealing with strangers but we've, so far, done a terrible job of modeling and enabling those mechanisms in a digital world.
Identity and content linked by cryptography can help fix this.
Giving the state unchecked surveillance powers does not fix anything.

2025-10-25 06:59:32

GM #LuganoPlanB 🌞
https://blossom.primal.net/120dc012833f4885de198308b7a558b12b91466daf987f38a96773b368c1aace.jpg

2025-10-24 15:32:06

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😂 some risk reward calculus to do...

2025-10-24 14:33:05

If she’s a 10, you might be the mark.

2025-10-24 14:13:22

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Spotted in Lugano at #planB
We’re glad to have you back among us. 🫂
https://blossom.primal.net/82308d1c6eec0f6f7b345c28bb902caa3b5fffd5fb98a62d4c11ab65afd35e6f.jpg

2025-10-23 13:59:15

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Best thing to do is go to developer settings and delete all your key packages and then publish a new one and try again after restarting the app.

2025-10-23 13:58:27

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Nice! Is that you?

2025-10-23 07:11:18

GM 🌞
Don't worry about getting to the summit of the mountain. Just climb the next hill and see what's on the other side.

2025-10-22 19:25:44

Hey cypherpunks, what's everyone doing in Lugano tomorrow?

2025-10-21 07:02:43

GM humans. GM bots. GM trolls and influencers and podcasters. 🌞

2025-10-20 18:48:48

Watching all the blowback against @npub1n03…h0ky today is making me realize that most people have no idea how end-to-end encryption actually works.
Hint: it’s not the same as peer to peer.

2025-10-20 10:37:56

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Fair, but I'm sure that most people don't read the terms and certainly wouldn't think that the data would be sold off to surveillance firms.
...I mean, most american's still think that the dollar is backed by gold. 😂

2025-10-20 10:22:48

Good to know that your doorbell camera is now a general purpose surveillance device.
They can now use our private property against us without even asking permission.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement/

2025-10-20 08:21:02

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Yeah. Network effects are hard. That’s what is so exciting about Nostr and building the messenger of the future on an open protocol.

2025-10-20 07:59:22

This is why we're working on @nprofile…9puf.
#nevent1q…j9qf

2025-10-20 07:57:56

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OK - good to know. The need for @nprofile…9puf is greater than ever...

2025-10-20 07:56:02

GM, anyone else having issues with Signal this morning?

2025-10-19 00:35:06

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The safe word is “hodl”.

2025-10-14 08:03:28

GM 🌞
https://blossom.primal.net/2702119c8afca8f1a9193165b296398d195d2924bf8c4e2d51762db0d789ebb6.jpg

2025-10-13 15:39:54

I'm so bullish right now on freedom tech, I feel like my head's going to explode.

2025-10-13 09:05:54

GM 🌞
Working on something very fun right now... you're all going to enjoy it very much when it's ready. The only hint I'll give... it's public infrastructure for nostr.

2025-10-12 15:56:43

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😂🫂

2025-10-11 00:54:35

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I felt the same about meeting you @nprofile…awk6! 😅

2025-10-08 22:55:32

@nprofile…q732 finally getting to sample the product!
👌🙏
https://blossom.primal.net/809e5a9aeb4765e9632c97dc7b37b12a083affd9c8fca2df85f67783d353f45f.jpg

2025-10-07 13:51:49

Marmot Dev Call (Nostr MLS) coming up in a little over 2 hours! 16:00 UTC
Join us if you have questions about Marmot, MDK, or @nprofile…9puf .
https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot

2025-10-06 09:42:37

@npub1spd…npz4 can you give me a list of nostr developers who are interested in cryptography?

2025-10-06 08:58:40

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@npub1jlr…ynqn @npub1l2v…ajft

2025-10-05 06:50:03

There is, however, a very important distinction: Encryption requires no violence to be effective.
The goal is to make attack prohibitively expensive and defensive trivially cheap.
#bitcoin achieves this, #nostr achieves this, and I believe we achieve this with @nprofile…radp.
Unstoppable, open protocols are the ultimate weapon against those who only know how to loot and destroy.
https://blossom.primal.net/5babfba3e524f70a87047ecd776adb5facd018eb02b13da28b27c8d7cb787d2d.jpg

2025-10-03 18:29:26

"I am fascinated by Tim May's crypto-anarchy. Unlike the communities
traditionally associated with the word "anarchy", in a crypto-anarchy the
government is not temporarily destroyed but permanently forbidden and
permanently unnecessary."
– Wei Dai
If you haven't gone down the rabbit hole of the References in the white paper, you really should. There are some gems.

2025-10-03 15:23:05

This should be interesting…
https://overcast.fm/+AAeZyBLTtoE

2025-10-03 11:22:07

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There have been some proposals on MLS but, fundamentally, the base unit is a group. So each thread would likely be a group and there would be some higher level thing like a team or org that would organize access to a list of groups.

2025-10-03 09:50:24

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Kicking off the process of getting both Marmot and MDK audited. I want to be sure that the protocol and the implementation are sound.
Ideally, we'll also include @nprofile…9puf in the audit too.

2025-10-03 09:46:13

This is why protocols win. An entire community of open source maniacs checking each other's work.
@nprofile…dqz4 caught a place where MDK was doing the wrong thing and I was able to fix it this morning. 👏
https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/253#issuecomment-3362106733

2025-10-03 09:42:15

Lots of confusion in the replies so let me clarify:
@nprofile…9puf is an app that uses MDK to be a Marmot compatible client. White Noise isn't going anywhere, we continue to build it out as fast as we can.
MDK is a software developer kit: A library that developers who want to implement interoperable secure messaging will use to create their own apps (like White Noise or for other use cases).
Marmot is a protocol: A plain english description of HOW to implement secure messaging using MLS and Nostr. The protocol spec isn't code, it's just words describing in painful detail how it all works.
#nevent1q…j709

2025-10-02 20:36:17

There’s something in the air that is making me feel like we could teleport way higher any minute…

2025-10-02 19:25:57

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It already is. Marmot is just an expansion of NIP-EE. We outgrew the NIP format.
@nprofile…sp3z is using MDK (the library we wrote that implements marmot).

2025-10-02 19:22:33

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More implementations absolutely. What we don’t want is more (different) specs.

2025-10-02 19:21:23

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Yes. White noise is a client/app that uses MDK to implement Marmot, the protocol.

2025-10-02 12:40:17

What do you get when you cross Messaging Layer Security with Nostr's decentralized network? A Marmot. 🦫
Introducing Marmot: Marmot is an evolution of NIP-EE into a full protocol with modular specs for optional features. Built for the future of secure messaging!
We're also excited to announce MDK (Marmot Development Kit) - a standalone Rust library following the BDK/LDK model.
Check out the blog post for more details! ⚡
📄 Protocol: github.com/parres-hq/marmot
🦀 MDK: github.com/parres-hq/mdk
#naddr1qv…cvnl

2025-10-02 07:22:15

Anyone know of a NIP (or proposal) for pinning content in communities or chats? #askNostr

2025-10-02 04:58:24

GM 🌞
https://blossom.primal.net/f24ae05db8bfd327d6ce2a30eb92efe4de935b01c575f8b573449b8b9ee6d4b7.jpg

2025-10-01 10:54:26

I'm so grateful I found Nostr. It's honestly so heartwarming to know I'm not alone in this...
#nevent1q…8q7h

2025-09-29 06:37:24

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Millions of pre-rendered HTML pages... yes. 😉

2025-09-28 15:57:43

@nprofile…f5tq why is njump so slow. I thought it was static pages and should be super fast?

2025-09-26 14:45:01

I'm so glad I'm too busy writing software to have any time to participate in the shit show that is Luke and Knots.
And, notwithstanding all the FUD and panic, my transactions are still being confirmed without anyone's permission at the sweet sweet rate of 1 sat/vbyte.

2025-09-24 19:04:08

Yes... the Italian Ministry of the Interior's website has operating hours. 🙄
https://blossom.primal.net/8473cba4959b5cfe377a2c6243dd1c1aec61a49f979e79bf7c36e3d3f0a1a836.png

2025-09-24 16:36:44

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I know!! I was in the gym squatting today and dreaming of powder... soon!

2025-09-24 11:31:19

Put on headphones, close your eyes, and zone out for the next 20 minutes listening to this absolute masterpiece.
https://open.spotify.com/track/7c5jtxhYT13kUepkDL9nTv?si=7d975b364a6a4040

2025-09-24 10:32:21

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Legends.

2025-09-24 07:02:14

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😂 why so salty?

2025-09-23 18:59:18

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"joined user"? what's that mean? is this when you're trying to start new chats with folks?

2025-09-23 15:17:35

@nprofile…9puf v 0.1.4 is out on iOS and Android.
This was a big one, with a huge backend refactor all a lot of core components of the app. The result? Way more reliable group creation and messaging.
As always, thanks to everyone who's using it and sending us feedback. 🙏
Get it now on @nprofile…uvay, on Github, and on iOS TestFlight.
#nevent1q…0spp

2025-09-23 09:14:33

If this is you, you haven’t understood bitcoin well enough.
#nevent1q…szze

2025-09-21 08:57:49

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BCN has the best street art.

2025-09-20 11:39:55

Honestly? This sounds pretty amazing.
https://blossom.primal.net/469930c760ae0c189269bfc07ad89825fee67d6c4b414404e128fdefa28b8028.jpg

2025-09-16 09:44:40

Good art makes you uncomfortable.
Massive Attack are legends.
https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment

2025-09-16 00:15:14

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Podcasting. It’s about podcasting.

2025-09-12 13:04:02

GM 🌞
I had a great (and wide-ranging) chat with @nprofile…7985 on the Free Cities Podcast recently. Check it out!
#nevent1q…py2a

2025-09-11 13:09:05

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Yeah, you'll see all the members of the group in the group details screen. This is just a list of all the leaf nodes of the ratchet tree.

2025-09-09 09:58:12

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You need to have MLS storage involved somehow. It's a requirement of the OpenMLS implementation of the MLS protocol. So instead of having many different storage implementations out there that do things differently, I went the direction of putting more into the nostr-mls library and being more opinionated about how it should be done.
The reason for this is that if any NIP-EE implementation gets any part of the spec wrong, it can ruin the security guarantees of the groups the person participates in. It also means that we can standardize things like E2EE media storage and other features that all messengers are going to need to do.
Two options I can see.
1. We can create a separate crate that is an extremely limited and lightweight implementation of NIP-EE (plus other things) that uses OpenMLS (so uses their storage adapters) but doesn't try and have an opinion about how your app should store data and would probably be lower level about how it processes commits, messages, etc.
2. We might be able to use features in the current nostr-mls crates so that devs could turn on or off functionality based on what they want. This would make the crates A LOT more complicated but might be worth it long-term.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on those (and if you can think of other options, happy to hear those too). It would be great to make sure that we end up with lots of interoperable clients.

2025-09-09 08:23:08

@nprofile…w70s Just had a look at the new XChat app. Looks cool, but it sucks that it's running your own fork of the nostr-mls crate and you've made a bunch of changes that break interoperability between different MLS clients.
I would have loved to have you contributing and working more closely with us on changes so our apps would have remained interoperable.

2025-09-05 09:47:26

Turtles, all the way down.
https://blossom.primal.net/34c11561bf5b62ab3eadbc02e88463f1a9bdbc6d0136d2f96fd6b9db430a649d.jpg

2025-09-05 07:01:03

Erosion. That’s how they win.
Don’t give them an inch.
Stack bitcoin by offering goods and services. Spend bitcoin on things you need. Their points of control can be meaningless.
It’s your choice.
#nevent1q…9f3r

2025-09-05 06:57:33

GM #spxm 🌞
https://blossom.primal.net/523c1bac0e5cf92a041245a4b2361518433fd70886ac347b5a5f1e7dcb2f7073.jpg

2025-09-03 20:30:38

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I think the byte size limit was mostly removed? The rest of these are quite limited, more than I’ve seen in testing but I feel like you have a lot of data…

2025-09-03 13:37:12

@nprofile…8d3u @nprofile…6jvy @nprofile…x4fv
Do you guys know of any upward limit on the size of filters? E.g. how many pub keys can I reference in one filter? I’ve never hit any limits before just curious if you all have see anything.

2025-09-02 20:06:08

“The civility of individual officers doesn't alter the fundamental reality of what happened. I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online—all because I made jokes”
Sounds like some dictatorship, but it’s the UK.

2025-09-02 15:02:09

T-minus one hour until the monthly nostr MLS dev call!
#nevent1q…uz72

2025-09-02 09:37:29

GM 🌞
Touch sand.
https://blossom.primal.net/cbd809d4245ab395234435a09e192ba1b8333135a79d8c121b4518dd2c03a7e2.jpg

2025-08-31 14:11:41

I find it tremendously ironic that the invention of the welfare state, ostensibly to help those in need, has effectively destroyed our sense of community duty and care for our neighbors.
It’s allowed us to convince ourselves that it’s “not our job” to look after each other like we used to.
People love to argue that without the state those in need would be left behind. I staunchly believe this to be untrue and downright patronizing. Most people, most of the time, are fundamentally good and generous.

2025-08-31 12:47:53

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For what? Context?

2025-08-31 12:43:55

@nprofile…8gtd I'm interested in getting a rug. What's the process?

2025-08-30 10:57:49

The trains even have hot desks now too.
https://blossom.primal.net/9be15a9ad55695abab72f82b2d44386e6a660c2563820a3a5959cd10322af2f9.jpg
#nevent1q…wl83

2025-08-30 10:25:04

If you haven’t read @nprofile…n3f8 ‘s book Building Nostr yet, you should. It’s very well written and does a great job of giving new builders (of all types, not just devs) the base they need to “build it right”.
https://building-nostr.coracle.social/

2025-08-30 09:29:50

“Building software is hard”. It’s doubly hard when you’re building in a decentralized context and inventing new protocols at the same time.
I feel so much gratitude and respect for all our early users (that’s you all!) and all the feedback and understanding they’ve given us.
As they say; if you aren’t embarrassed, you launched too late. Well, we didn’t launch too late. 😅
I’m looking forward to the next release. It’s going to be lit. 🔥
#nevent1q…jq3g

2025-08-30 09:28:39

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Optimism and (comparatively) getting out of the way of small business

2025-08-30 09:27:52

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Don’t be a commuter and this isn’t an issue. 😅

2025-08-30 09:27:33

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You just have to pick the right train for what you want. Intercity trains hardly stop at all.

2025-08-30 08:31:27

GM 🌞
Train travel is exceptionally underrated. Air travel, by comparison, is barbaric.

2025-08-30 07:13:29

I am Jack’s distinct lack of surprise.
#nevent1q…tz47

2025-08-28 08:18:31

GM 🌞
Sad to say, but I turned off Lockdown mode on my mac simply because it broke emoji rendering in code editors, and many other apps.
@nprofile…v6xs can you talk to Tim and get that sorted? 😅

2025-08-27 19:39:12

NIP-EE is official. 🤝
#nevent1q…l5wd

2025-08-27 08:34:46

GM 🌞
You generally know you're on the right track when you find yourself removing params from methods.

2025-08-26 08:43:27

GM 🌞
I’m paying tribute to the gods of bureaucracy this morning by giving them too much of my time for something exceptionally unnecessary.

2025-08-25 22:03:23

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No! Gulag for you!

2025-08-25 22:01:26

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😂 wat?