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That brings back some memories!
Payday is the day after election day for me. Hopefully it's a "sell the news" event and I can pick up some cheap sats.
Before @nprofile…qss4 Hub, I only really used my Start9 for on-chain stuff, so relatively infrequently. Now I use it for everything I do with Bitcoin. On-chain transactions, mempool searches, mining using Datum, and all my Lightning transacting.
It's incredible!
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It's time for the annual reminder:
October 31st, 1517 Martin Luther nailed his "whitepaper," the 95 Theses, to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg Germany, sparking the #Protestant #Reformation.
October 31st, 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto released the #Bitcoin Whitepaper to the Cryptography Mailing List, sparking a movement toward sound, independent money in the digital age.
The first date marks the beginning of the separation of church and state, and the second marks the beginning of the separation of money and state.
Ever thought of doing it as a long-form note instead?
Already following you, by the way. 😉
Lots of great information!
Equation checks out.
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I just learned about wildcards and the remove command, so I'll be putting that advice straight into the round file.
Well, I originally installed Ubuntu and a good friend was like, "WTF man! Install Mint!"
Thanks! Now I am going to knuckle down and finally learn to use CLI.
Running #Linux on my desktop, finally!
Went with #Mint.
No, I am not soliciting opinions on which is the best distro.
Yes, I know you will tell me anyway.
You would need to set this in your Amber settings.
Any client that supports long-form notes.
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Nostr is incredible...
Yes, I have. Very cool server. It's where I first heard @nprofile…3hjy playing on their in-game radio.
No problem. Sent you a request.
Sent. Let me know if not received. I sent it as a NIP-17 DM.
I LOVE this art style you were able to get from Midjourney! Be willing to send some sats your way if you can get something similar for my D&D character's weapon of choice.
Great! No issues so far after initial setup. It definitely makes me feel more involved, since I now go and check to see if it happened to be my miner tjat found the block whenever a new Datum block is found.
Say it again for the people in the back.
The amount of #Bitcoin you own does not give you any corresponding control over the network. The most control anyone ever has is over the code they run on their own node, which will get them forked off the network before it will ever cause Bitcoin to be changed.
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You've lost me here. I am not interested in anything from apocryphal books. I am only interested in what Scripture teaches on the matter, as that is the Word of God we are called to pattern our lives and beliefs after.
I'll have to check that documentary out. I have no doubt that governments often have been and are antagonistic against the church.
1 Samuel 8 cannot be thought of as ending the debate. It is only regarding the dangers of monarchy, not the dangers of civil government at all. In the end, God turned even the monarchy into an expression of his covenant promises, establishing David's throne as an everlasting kingdom, which would ultimately be fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
"At best, a state is minimally harmful, minimally... not zero..."
100% agree! However, the same can be said for EVERY kind of institution where a fallen human being is involved, whether that be the church, the family, the government, or free enterprise. The Devil has ample room to creep in to all of these institutions so long as they are made up of men. This is no argument that the institutions should not exist. Only that they should have checks on any one of them having too much power.
Voluntarism is NOT the standard of morality. It can certainly be a factor, but it is not the end-all/be-all of what is right and wrong. How do we know this? Because in the end, every knee will be made to bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord; even those who hate him. God has the right to impose his will upon us, and Scripture tells us that he has ordained the existence of civil government for the restraint of evil.
So... What is it that then restrains the evil of civil governments? I believe it is sound money. Hence, not long after governments broke their last tenuous ties to sound money via the gold standard, God gave us Bitcoin.
"so, in no case does the authority of God come second to any man made authority, ever"
Again, 100% agree! Paul's framing in Romans 13 clearly puts the civil magistrate under God's authority as his "servant" (verse 4). That means, whenever the governing authorities go against God's authority, we are under zero obligation to obey. We must obey the higher authority and oppose them.
All laws are an expression of morality. The question is whether they are an expression of God's morality or someone else's. The only true morality is God's, and therefore civil laws ought to be based on God's moral law. Insofar as civil laws conform to God's moral law, (such as laws against murder, theft, etc) we ought to obey them. Yes, obey, not meek evasion. But insofar as they do not reflect God's moral law, we are under no such obligation. To that extent, the state is no longer acting as God's servant, and we are therefore compelled to submit to the greater authority rather than the lesser.
I would definitely be a proponent of sphere sovereignty, so you have me pegged there, but only because I believe it is biblical. I also don’t think Kuyper would have denied that the world can be divided between the Kingdom of God/heaven, and the kingdom of Satan/darkness. I think he would have readily embraced those categories and recognized that there are professing members of the church, who are actually part of the kingdom of darkness, and that the civil government is a mixed bag of both members of the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan. It is not possible to say that anyone who is part of the temporal sphere of the civil government is surely a member of the kingdom of darkness any more than it is possible to say that anyone who is part of the visible church is surely a member of the Kingdom of God.
Now, you seem to be assuming a very different definition of ἐκκλησία than Scripture itself, and then stating that Romans 13 is speaking of the leaders of this voluntary assembly that supposedly referred to a “local body that governed cities in Paul’s day.” However, let us take a look at how Scripture actually uses the term ἐκκλησία.
We could look at how the word was used outside of Scripture, and there you might have a point, since it did refer to the governing bodies of Roman cities. However, we are interested in what Scripture means when it uses that term, and Paul is almost certainly using ἐκκλησία in the same sense as the Septuagint, which was commonly in use at the time of Christ and the writing of the New Testament. Many of the places where the New Testament quotes the Old are direct quotations from the Septuagint.
There are 96 times that the Septuagint uses the term ἐκκλησία. This will already be effectively a long-form note, so we will only look at a sampling to get a good handle on how it is being used.
We see it used in Deuteronomy 4:10, where Moses relates how God had instructed him to “Gather the people to me [at Horeb], that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and they may teach their children so.” The word translated to English here as “gather” is ἐκκλησία. To whom is it referring? The leadership of a city or even of the Israelites? No. To the people of God gathered at a particular place; namely Horeb.
Another significant usage we see in Deuteronomy is as part of a phrase, “day of the ἐκκλησία,” which is repeated in Deuteronomy 9:10, 10:4, and 18:16, all of which are referring to when the people of God gathered at Horeb and received the moral law written on tablets of stone.
We also see ἐκκλησία used at the dedication of the temple by Solomon in 1 Kings 8:14, where it says the king “turned around and blessed all the ἐκκλησία of Israel, while all the ἐκκλησία of Israel stood.” Again, we don’t see this term referring to the voluntary leadership of a city, but to the people of God gathered together.
We see the term used by the psalmist in Psalm 22:22, where he says, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the ἐκκλησία I will praise you.” Here ἐκκλησία is referring, as a parallelism, to the psalmist’s brothers, those “who fear the Lord,” who are “the offspring of Jacob,” the “offspring of Israel” (verse23). So again, not referring to the leadership of a city.
When looking at other uses of ἐκκλησία in the Old Testament, it becomes clear that it can refer to any gathering of people together, for good or ill, whether they be people in any kind of authority or not.
With this background in mind, let’s look at the usage of ἐκκλησία in the New Testament and see if any of them support this idea that the voluntary leadership of a city is what is in mind.
We see Jesus himself use the term in Matthew 16:18, when Peter confesses “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus responds saying, “...and I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my ἐκκλησία, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Now, is Jesus speaking merely of a group of leaders, or is he speaking of his people as a whole here? Given how his disciples would have understood the usage of the term ἐκκλησία in the Old Testament, I would wager it is the latter.
We see ἐκκλησία again in Acts 2:47, speaking of the results of Peter’s sermon at Pentecost. Remember, about 3,000 souls were saved as a result of that sermon, and then we see that they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking bread, and prayer (verse 42), and other evidences of vibrant faith and love of the brethren (verses 43-47a). The chapter wraps up saying, “And the Lord added to the ἐκκλησία daily such as should be saved.” Who is ἐκκλησία referring to, here? To the 3,000 who came to faith through Peter’s preaching. It is to their number that God was adding daily those who were saved afterward.
In Acts 8:1, it speaks of “great persecution against the ἐκκλησία which was at Jerusalem,” which resulted many early believers scattering “throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria.” This is most certainly not talking about the leadership of the city of Jerusalem, but rather of the persecution against all of the Christians gathered in Jerusalem.
Again, in Acts 16:5, we see that after Paul and Timothy delivered the decision of the council at Jerusalem (chapter 15) to those in Derbe and Lystra and other cities, “...the ἐκκλησίαι were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.” This is speaking of the Christians gathered in those cities, not the voluntary leadership of those cities, who were often at odds with Paul and his preaching.
How about we get out of Acts and look at how Paul himself used the term ἐκκλησία?
Paul addressed his first letter to the Corinthians saying, “To the ἐκκλησία of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ…” Was Paul writing to the leadership of this city? No. He specifies that he is writing to all believers in that city, and who are united through their faith to all believers in “every place.”
A particularly interesting usage is in 1 Corinthians 11:18, where Paul says, “In the first place, when you come together as a ἐκκλησία, I hear that there are divisions among you.” Then he goes on to describe how they were dividing by socio-economic class when taking the Lord’s Supper, and treating it as a regular meal, such that some went hungry while others got drunk. This is clearly speaking of coming together for worship when Paul says “when you come together as a ἐκκλησία.”
In Galatians 1:13, Paul confesses that he “persecuted the ἐκκλησία of God.” In Ephesians 5 we see Paul speak of the parallel between husbands and wives and Christ and his ἐκκλησία. In Colossians 4, he encourages the Colossians have the epistle read also in the ἐκκλησία of the Laodiceans. In 1 Thessalonians 2:14 he tells them that they have become “imatators of the ἐκκλησίαι of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea” by way of their persecution from their own countrymen. In 1 Timothy 3 Paul asks, “if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s ἐκκλησία?”
In none of these passages is there any indication that Paul is referring to any kind of voluntary leadership of a city, or even just to the leadership of the Christians in a particular place. It always refers to a group of believers who gather together for worship.
Now, let’s see if this definition fits with applying Romans 13 to this group, or even the leaders of this group.
First, Paul refers to those to whom the reader is to submit as “governing authorities” or “higher powers.” The words here are not used anywhere to speak of ecclesiastical leaders. Indeed, one of the only other places we see the word governing/higher (ὑπερέχω) is expressly referring to civil authority, rather than ecclesiastical. 1 Peter 2:13 and 14 says, “Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.” This sounds very similar to what Paul is saying in Romans 13, does it not?
The next word Paul uses to refer to those he has in mind is found in verse 3, where he says, “For rulers (ἄρχοντες) are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad.” This term is never used to refer to ecclesiastical leadership, either, but is most commonly translated as ruler, prince, or magistrate.
By contrast, the New Testament uses a couple of terms to refer to ecclesiastical leadership: elder (πρεσβύτερος) and overseer (ἐπίσκοπος). Neither of these terms is anywhere to be found in Romans 13.
Finally, Paul speaks of these higher powers and rulers as “not bearing the sword in vain.” It is assumed by the Apostle that the rulers he speaks of have the authority to use violent force as they carry out their duty. Is the sword something God has given to ecclesiastical leaders? Should the pastor and elders be performing capital punishment? Either we must conclude this is the case, or we must conclude that it is some other form of authority Paul is referring to, and all evidence points to civil authority.
Now, your article rightly points out that civil governments often fail to uphold the purpose for which God ordained them. You have erred in believing this is proof Paul must not be talking about civil authorities, though. It is simply a matter that we only have a duty to obey them in so far as they do uphold this purpose, and we should do what we can to influence them toward that goal, including voting, or even running for office ourselves.
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The Tandy 1000. I still remember playing Battle Chess on this thing.
To apply this to all governing authorities seems like a blanket statement that is not supported by Scripture. The Apostle Paul clearly taught in Romans 13 that God has ordained the existence of civil authorities of some form, and explicitly given them the sword "who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer."
Paul was not speaking of some idealized government when he said this, either. He was speaking of the corrupt Roman empire.
That being the case, I would much rather have a government structure that involves the people voting for their leaders than one that doesn't.
Jesus rules over his church, throughout the world, and he rules over all else, including civil authorities, via his sovereign providence. Ruling over all things through his church is something we look forward to when he returns and we can finally beat our swords into plowshares. That day is not today.
The installation service for our new pastor at @nprofile…25qt is live now.
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Fair, but you have yet to establish that voting, or taking time to make an informed vote can be accurately defined as being "distracted by the devil."
There is definitely an opportunity cost to taking that time, as you mentioned, but the same can be said of ANYTHING we do with our time. The time we are thinking about what we will eat for dinner is also time we aren't thinking about how to keep those in civil office from influencing our lives, too. Doesn't mean it's not time we either need or ought to spend.
Sincerely, someone with neither a shiny car or a fancy house.
There is certainly a case to be made for voting being a participation in tyranny, but I am not sure I would use that verse to support the claim. I also think it depends very heavily on who you are voting for, and why. Not even a red vs blue, thing. I would not say that there is one objectively clear answer for who would be more tyrannical such that someone could have any leg to stand on by saying, "If you don't vote for Trump, you're voting for more tyranny!" Fact is, you may have just as much tyranny, just of a different brand.
Rather, it depends on the individual perception of the particular voter. If they BELIEVE that a particular candidate will not be tyrannical, or will even be less tyrannical than the others, voting for that candidate is not morally wrong, even if they are 100% incorrect in their perception. Much better for them to actually be informed and have an accurate expectation of what that candidate would actually do in office, though.
Circling back to that particular verse; the "unfruitful works of darkness" mentioned in Ephesians 5:11 is almost certainly referring to the specific examples Paul gave in verses 3-5. That is, sexual immorality, impurity, covetousness, filthiness, foolish talk, and crude joking. I don't see voting, or anything at all to do with our relation to the civil magistrate, mentioned. As always, a text without its context is a pretext for a proof-text.
Live now, streaming #FinalFantasy I for #ThrowbackThursday!
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30 minutes until #ThrowbackThursday streaming #FinalFantasy!
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Tonight is my weekly #ThrowbackThursday stream, continuing with #FinalFantasy at 6:30pm Pacific Daylight Time.
Come hang out as I make my way to the Earth Cave and hopefully get the first of the four crystals lit back up!
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Live for another bonus #Minecraft stream. Just hanging for a couple hours before I have to head out for the evening. Trying to get more iron and DIAMONDS!
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Going live for another 2 hour #Minecraft bonus stream in 15 minutes!
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Hey, glad you dropped in! Looking forward to seeing you stream, too!
I am using a webcam and OBS. Pretty straightforward setup. Just need to add the webcam and game as a media source in OBS, then plug in your stream key from zap.stream and you are off to the races.
Not today. Usually on Mondays I stream on the Sovereign Craft server, which is a Bitcoin Minecraft server.
Today was on a single player world.
I'm live! Streaming early game #Minecraft on a new world!
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Bonus #Minecraft stream in 10 minutes!
Tatum got me nostalgic for the early game watching his stream yesterday, and I haven't gotten to see many of the latest features added in recent updates.
Come hang out while I explore and do all the early game survival stuff.
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Datum is software recently released by the guys at @nprofile…ckyu that allows you to construct your own block templates from the transactions in your own node's mempool, but still receive pool rewards. It helps mining be MUCH more decentralized if more pools implement it.
I figured that's what happened. I am always paranoid that people have been chatting and I am just missing it because it stopped refreshing, so I manually refresh from time to time, only to find out that no, everyone's just lurking.
Mmmmm, sourdough @nprofile…0qjn.
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Resolve the differences about whether we should ask Mary or various saints to pray for us, about which both sides have adamant convictions. Resolve the differences about whether only professing believers should be baptized or also their children. Resolve the differences about whether Scripture alone is the standard of truth, or also tradition. Add to that the vast number of other theological convictions that prevent organizational unity.
And make sure your resolution is not coming from a centralized human authority structure. Would you take away the right of these Christians to hold a wide variety of convictions, all based on their belief that their view is what God commands of them? Only Christ has that right to set things straight when he returns, not any organizational structure made by man, which can and has often been corrupted.
Until then, freedom of conscience and denominationalism is the way forward.
Multiple denominations is a feature, not a bug. It is the only way freedom of conscience can be maintained.
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Maybe the guys at @nprofile…0pev can get you sorted? They are usually pretty responsive.
Christianity is not like Bitcoin, though. It does not need to maintain a single, uninterrupted chain (denomination) that everyone agrees with and is a member of.
It only needs to maintain consensus around one fundamental truth that all Christian denominations agree with and can therefore continue to call each other "brother" despite other differences of lesser importance that prevent them from maintaining organizational unity.
Namely the gospel of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord to all those who have faith in him as the Son of God and in his atoning work on the cross for forgiveness of sin.
That's the only consensus I need to consider someone my brother in the faith, even if our other theological differences would prevent us from realistically worshipping together until Christ's return, when he will correct all of our errors and misinterpretations of his Word.
Of course, the caveat is to stay away from the mainline denomination (PCUSA) which has fully bought into the woke BS.
OPC, BPC, URC and a few others out there are the way to go.
Check out Presbyterianism. All of the historical roots and reverent worship, but none of the top-down, centralized BS of the RCC. There is no higher office than Minister/Teaching Elder.
The entire church government is based on the premise of decentralization with organic unity.
Yeah, some of the big corps around here tried to get compliance, but Idahoans are an independent thinking lot, for the most part.
We should have you out for a meetup some time. We have a decent amount of Bitcoiners out this way.
Not all Christianity is modern or woke. Some of us still hold to the ecumenical creeds and reformed confessions and are based AF.
Check out @nprofile…25qt if you have a chance. We stream to zap.stream for Sunday worship.
I'll hang for a couple hours, before I have to go wrangle a bunch of teenagers.
Live! Streaming Sovereign Craft SMP server for #MinecraftMonday!
Probably not as crazy antics as @npub1hte…sw3d got up to with his cow farm, but come hang out anyway!
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Speaking of #Minecraft, I'll be going live for #MinecraftMonday on the Sovereign Craft server in just under an hour.
Come hang out while I clear some land and maybe get around to some Terra forming.
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Watching @npub1hte…sw3d try to get cows to cooperate in Minecraft is the content we needed.
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Sheer number of nodes running forked code doesn't matter. What matters is the number of nodes actually being used to facilitate transactions.
For instance, if I have 1000 nodes, but only use one of them for broadcasting transactions, then it doesn't really matter what code my other 999 nodes are running, the only node I am actually using is the one that counts.
Same thing goes for mining. Say those two pools both agree they think the forked code is what they want Bitcoin to be, and so they move ALL their hashrate to the fork. Doesn't mean jack if there aren't enough actual users broadcasting transactions from nodes running that code. It would make blocks come in slower on the non-forked nodes, but that's about it. And I doubt these pools would be so rash as to move all of their hashrate. Rather, they would hedge their bets. And since the miners on each of those pools may not agree with their decision, they may lose a significant amount of hashrate to pools that aren't supporting the fork, unless they provide an option to continue mining on the non-forked chain.
Bottom line is, whoever is behind the fork will have to convince a majority of actual users to run the forked code and consider it to be the real #Bitcoin for their transactions. Additional nodes that don't have real users attached to them are meaningless.
I think the danger of this statement is in extending "childhood" into adolescence, and then exiting adolescence into adulthood.
We put a relatively arbitrary number of 18 years as the age of adulthood, and treat everyone under that age as effectively a child. However, the transition from child to adult, when we as parents should be guiding them to take on more responsibility and real consequences for foolish actions, should have begun at least by age 10, in my opinion.
They should already BE adults by the time they are legally declared so, not just starting to learn what that means.
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Back from the woods.
Took my daughter out deer hunting the last few days. Didn't get anything, but the time with her was well spent.
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Can't go wrong with either, if you want a full-size, hammer-fired.
I am just partial to the compact and striker-fired handguns.
Glock 19 - Tried and true. No end to available accessories. Some folks don't like the blocky grip, grip angle, or stock sights.
Sig P320 - Similar size to the Glock 19, but a bit more natural grip angle and less blocky.
Smith & Wesson M&P Compact 2.0. Another option in the same vein.
All of these are striker-fire, compact 9mm handguns that are very reliable.
The compact size is ideal, in my opinion. Small enough it can still be carried concealed, but large enough to be comfortable to shoot.
If you need something a bit more concealable, I would recommend the Sig P365.
Meat for freezer acquired and still have a few days left in the woods.
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GM #Nostr. My contribution to #Coffeechain this morning.
This is my backyard for the week.
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IMO, it is the best ecash mobile wallet out there right now, with built in lightning address, nostr contact list, and Nostr Wallet Connect support. The new theme also makes for a much cleaner and more attractive UI.
Live! Streaming Final Fantasy I, Pixel Remaster. The game that made me fall in love with fantasy RPGs.
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I was unaware there was a difference between FFO and the pixel remasters for FFI and FFII. It is the pixel remaster version.
OG Final Fantasy from the NES, but with slightly updated graphics. It was re-released several years ago with FFII and packaged as Final Fantasy Origins.
Throwback Thursday stream this week will be a bit earlier this week. Stream starting at 5:30pm PDT.
We left off in Final Fantasy at the elven city, ready to embark and confront Astos.
Hope to see you in the chat!
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This is interesting, and a great tool for finding reliable mints!
I would hesitate to call it an auditor, though, since it isn't really confirming that the mint has enough sats to back all the tokens it has issued. It's only really confirming that the mint is online and honoring Lightning invoices, right? It's more like nostr.watch, but for eCash mints, if I understand it correctly.
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📷: Samsung S22
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OK, I see I can extract it from the njump.me link. Thanks!
Where can I get my nprofile on #Amethyst?
I have, but it is agonizingly slow compared with other NWC enabled applications.
I think this is due to the fact that when you zap someone, the invoice is being sent first to your mint, who then has to reach out to your phone, wake it up, get the approval to burn your ecash to send the payment, and only then send it out to whoever you paid. But I could be entirely wrong. All I know is, my Alby Hub on my Start 9 pays invoices via NWC in just a couple seconds, while Minibits takes 10-20 seconds at least via NWC.
This is great! I am also guilty of using the passive voice more frequently than I ought.
That said, it should be used intentionally at times. When the subject is unknown or less important than the object, the passive voice can be appropriate. Just use it sparingly.
Interacting with others goes much farther than posting your own notes, in my experience. It's a value-for-value sort of thing. If you want engagement, you first have to be the engagement others are looking for.
This is actually a documentable phenomenon, even in how polarized voting patterns for actual bills in state legislatures have become. All of one party lines up for a bill, and all of the other party lines up against it, with very few exceptions.
Not only this, but we also happily kill chickens to eat them AFTER they hatch. You know... Because they're animals, rather than humans made in God's image.
Live! Streaming the Sovereign Craft server for #MinecraftMonday!
Come hang out and see what it's like to have #Bitcoin via #Lightning integrated into #Minecraft as a #V4V circular economy.
@npub18t3…9756 stream on zap.stream! https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjxgcfcvf3nzvnr94snzd35956x2den94skvcf3943rwvekxenrjcnyvejrwqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09upzpn6956apxcad0mfp8grcuugdysg44eepex68h50t73zcathmfs49qvzqqqrkvujwmymw
#Minecraftstr #Gamestr #Gaming
Ran into technical hiccups streaming morning service today, but got the kinks worked out for the evening.
Here is the recording on zap.stream:
@npub1qe5…t4sp stream on zap.stream! https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrydnr8y6k2wfe94nrqefe956rsvpn95urwvrr943nyve38q6nqcmpvc6x2qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7q3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxwt7rv3q
#church #biblestr #reformed #presbyterian #christian
Greetings to all the saints of Christ's church!
https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrjv3cv9skxvnx95erwepc956xxdr9943rxden95ekxvpnxyexze34vd3nqqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09upzpn6956apxcad0mfp8grcuugdysg44eepex68h50t73zcathmfs49qvzqqqrkvuf28wur
I think there is some validity to both of these points.
It is often not terribly difficult to get around paywalls. However, some folks have moral issues with not supporting creators for their work. Those are the ones who actually pay the creators in V4V, even when it isn't required.
That said, paywalls that have less friction and less cost than trying to find a way around them can work. A paywalls of 1,000 sats for a piece of content is easier than hunting for somewhere it can be found for free, and it results in more than just the generous souls supporting the content creator.
#nevent1q…nnal
The Lord's Day is here! Let us celebrate the life and forgiveness found through faith in our resurrected Lord!
Coracle is a web client at coracle.social, but there is also a recently released native Android app. You can find it on zap.store.
Just gonna throw this out there.
Satoshi dropped the #Bitcoin whitepaper on 10/31/2008.
Martin Luther dropped the 95 Theses on 10/31/1517, which led to the Protestant Reformation.
The Protestant Reformation resulted in the separation of church and state.
Bitcoin is in the process of separating money and state.
On the Irish flag 🇮🇪, green represents Roman Catholicism and orange represents Protestantism. Bitcoin's color is orange. The centralized shitcoin BCH is green.
The parallels man!
White paper was released on Reformation Day (Halloween) 2008, but Bitcoin genesis block wasn't until January 3rd of the following year, so that's what I would consider Bitcoin's actual birthday.
Hymns for Lord's Day worship this Sunday morning, October 5th:
403 - Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
134 - Come, Bless the Lord with One Accord
405 - I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord
406 - Jesus, with Thy Church Abide
380 - Crown Him with Many Crowns.
These can be found in the Trinity Psalter Hymnal under the above numbers, or in various other hymnals.
Service will be streamed for the first time on zap.stream at about 10:30am PDT. It will also be our new Pastor, Todd Smith's, first week in our pulpit full time.
Help us welcome him if you have a chance to stop in!
Anecdotally, I use Nostr every day in various ways.
As best as can be estimated, about 32k-40k active weekly "trusted" users, per stats.nostr.band.
In that case, it's even easier. Get Tor Browser for desktop here: https://www.torproject.org/download/
I enjoyed watching it spam the folks who add a bunch of random unrelated hashtags to their notes.
"Open Wallet" doesn't appear to be reaching out to Alby extension on Firefox or Chrome.
Is there a way to have the LNURL QR disappear and turn into a green check when payment is received? On lower resolution screen and it was not immediately apparent that both my wallet and your service confirmed successful payment.
Steps:
Install FDroid via their Github here: https://github.com/f-droid/fdroidclient/releases
Open FDroid and go to Settings>Repositories, then tap the + in the bottom right to add a repository.
Navigate to the Guardian Project repository info on another device here: https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/
In FDroid, choose the option to Scan QR Code and scan the code on the left on the Guardian Project site.
Navigate back to the Categories tab in FDroid and search for Tor using the search icon in the lower right.
Install and browse privately.
Can get it via FDroid, if you add the Guardian Project repository.
Well, I am on Android, so I primarily use #Amethyst and #Coracle, both of which work very well with Amber.
Again, it would be better to use Amber to store your nsec, if you are on Android. Amber does not send your nsec anywhere. It just signs events for you locally for whatever Nostr client you are using, and the client sends the signed events to your relays.
I can't speak to all local apps and how they handle your nsec. However, if they are keeping your nsec local to your device, and not sending it anywhere, then being connected to a VPN is not going to allow that VPN to see your nsec.
Proof that throwing money at the problems of society through a third-party payer like the government will NEVER work.
Is this something that has happened to you before? I have not heard of any VPN even having the ability to steal your nsec, let alone actually doing so. However, I would assume they could see any unencrypted data sent through their servers.
You will always be safest using a signing app that is local on your device, so that your nsec itself is not being sent anywhere, only the signed events you are posting.
For masking your public IP address from the relays you are connecting to, and any servers your Nostr client may be running, such as Primal's caching server.
Maybe they aren't logging your IP, but you can't know that. Moreover, there is no reason why the relay needs to know where you live and what ISP you use, which is trivial for them to find out if they can see your public IP.
On iOS I am not sure. Take a look at Nostur client.
Not everyone runs Android, but if you do, that's a fantastic option. Overkill if you just don't want your IP exposed to the relays you are connecting to, though, and with some noticeable performance hit if you are trying to load anything more than text notes.
I am using the internal Tor feature on Amethyst, and it's fantastic! That said, my feed, and especially my notifications, take several seconds longer to load.
Speaking as someone who has met some fantastic Bitcoiners through OPA, and now have meetups to go to on a regular basis, I think it's worth it.
This is like having to pick a favorite child...
For significance in shaping the types of games I would be drawn to for the rest of my life: Final Fantasy on NES.
Played almost all FF titles released in the US after that. It made me love all things swords and sorcery, so I am also a major fan of the Elder Scrolls series, the Witcher series, the Dragon Age series, and the Baldur's Gate series, among many others.
Check out NIP-51. This is already a thing.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/51.md
@nprofile…4xa4 or Mullvad would be my recommendation. I use IVPN personally. Can pay via Lightning.
Depends on whether you are on Android or iOS. I think there is a signer extension for iOS, but I don't keep up with Nostr development on Apple devices, since I don't own any.
If you are on Android, you should be able to get Alby or Nos2X signing extensions for Kiwi Browser and be able to log in that way, without having to put in your nsec.
We need NIP-46 login on zap.stream, though. Then you could use Amber.
I'm live and streaming the original Final Fantasy (with slightly updated graphics) on zap.stream!
Come hang out and see why this game made me fall in love with the fantasy RPG genre.
Come check out my stream on zap.stream! https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjx2ep4xenxzvtz95mx2vpe956xxc3s95uxxdfj94sngce3xcurgefsxvcnwq3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxwkz6nsj
#Gamestr #zapstream #streamstr #retrogaming #FinalFantasy
This is a proposal for a consistent profile system, not for anything to do with follower counts. Profiles are kind 0, which this proposal is talking about. Follow lists are kind 3. There is no way that YOUR profile, which requires your private key's signature to be updated, can be modified to list that someone else is now following you when THEY add you to their kind 3. Not, at least, without some mechanism to ask you to sign for the update.
I believe zap.stream only currently supports NIP-07 (browser extension) login, rather than NIP-46 or NIP-55, which Amber uses for remote signing.
Not that I am aware of, and for a very simple reason.
Where do you think your follower count is stored on Nostr?
It's not.
Who YOU follow is stored in a kind 3 event on whatever relays you happened to post it to. But your kind 3 has zero information about who is following you. That information is stored in the kind 3 events of each and every one of your followers, on whatever relays they happened to publish it to.
Therefore, your client, when trying to display how many npubs are following you, has to ask the relays for any kind 3 events that include your npub in order to display a count to you. Which relays? Well... Whichever ones you told the client to read from, or in some cases, whichever relays the client reads from by default. What if people who are following you aren't posting their kind 3 to those relays? Well then, they won't show up in your follower count.
For this reason, follower counts will NEVER be accurate or the same across all clients.
I ask because the only thing Alby Hub provides for an isolated wallet is n order to differentiate it from your full lightning balance on the node is a separate NWC connection string.
Re-quotes are definitely the way.
I do see value in having more expressiveness in reactions that is not available with just zaps. However, if the client doesn't allow a variety of reactions, just "like" or nothing at all, then zaps are definitely the higher signal.
#nevent1q…ceyk
Wow! I had no idea NIP-55 signing was possible from a web-app!
I would really like to see more clients implementing NIP-46. Both native apps and web-apps.
Reason: This has a lot of flexibility for giving someone the ability to post to an npub from a completely different device without giving them the nsec.
Is this something that could be used to allow @npub1get…0nfm Hub wallets to have custom lightning addresses that fetch invoices using something like #NostrWalletConnect?
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1460
#AskNostr @npub1xvt…64sa
Yeah, the irony wasn't lost on me when I played either.
I'd love to join. The last couple times I tried, I had no audio. It was probably the browser I was using.
Is there a mobile browser on Android that is confirmed to work?
So, uh... As a Fountain user who logged in with Amber, how do I get me one of these Fountain wallets?
Look to denominations that actually practice, not just talk about, church discipline. The ones who depose leadership when they abuse their flock, and have mechanisms for reporting, investigating, and adjudicating such matters.
For reference:
https://opc.org/BCO/BD.html
#Minecraft Monday anyone?
Streaming Minecraft on the last standing #Bitcoin Minecraft server: Sovereign Craft.
Just a chill time clearing an area for a massive build I've been planning for a while.
https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrwvecvycrwwpj95urje35956xxvr995ukxv3495mrydt98pjxgvp4vsenxqg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsygx0gknt5ymr44ldyyaq0rn3p5jpzkh8y8ymg773a06ytr4wldxz55psgqqqwensdar6z8
#Minecraftstr #Gamstr #Gaming #Lightning #v4v
Ok. Figured it out. Had to be using HiveTalk from Chrome to share with audio. Firefox didn't have the option.
Is it possible to share your screen with sound in HiveTalk? Say you have a presentation that has a short video in it, is there a way for the others in the room to hear?
@npub18pu…a699 #asknostr
Depends on how technically inclined you are and what you plan to use the node for. If you want to use it with Nostr for sending and receiving zaps, then a LND implementation, such as Alby Hub, is preferable, since I don't believe Core Lightning uses Lightning Addresses, and Nostr clients haven't integrated the ability to receive via a BOLT-12 offer.
In that case, take a peek at the list of relays they are aggregating from, and broadcasting to. You do not need to have those relays in your relay list.
It is at the bottom of this page: https://docs.nostr.wine/filter/readme
Nostr is currently quite data intensive, since clients are reaching out to multiple relays to get data all the time.
One of the benefits of some paid relays, such as nostr.wine, is that they do this for you, aggregating notes from various public relays, so your client doesn't have to reach out to all of them separately.
As much as I am looking forward to that release (whenever we may get it) @npub1get…0nfm Hub has made my Start9 node actually usable as a daily driver for me and my family, since everything is done over Nostr Wallet Connect, which is WAY faster and more reliable than connecting through Tor.
I'm still eager for the update in order to be able to manage my node remotely without needing to do so through Tor, but I am no longer relying upon that update for my node to be useful, so I can be patient for it to arrive whenever they are ready to release it.
Make sure Sparrow is using the same address type as BlueWallet.
This is the default:
https://i.nostr.build/C7uevEMKKt2mbp5v.jpg
I don't believe you can change the type of address and n BlueWallet, unfortunately.
I believe njump.me should have what you need. Just snag the note ID and paste it like so:
"njump.me/NoteID"
See the results for your note:
https://i.nostr.build/nJ2z5mI8qcvGzVo7.jpg
Very handy. Thank you sir!
Yes, and Amber is dead simple to use for any Android client supporting NIP-55. It's only slightly more complicated for clients supporting NIP-46. And it's a great way to get your keys generated locally on your device. Amber also gives you a mnemonic backup seed phrase by default.
I still haven't figured out how to get it to work with Spring Browser, though...
If there is any integrated means of purchasing sats, there will be KYC. They are using Strike on the back-end, and since Strike allows for buying sats, you WILL need to deal with KYC if you want to use Primal's integrated wallet.
A NIP-05 address provides a minimal level of verification, because it ties your npub to a particular domain, usually that you need to register with in order to have them associate your npub with their domain. Some of them have a cost involved, which naturally discourages spammers and bots from using them, but there are also plenty of free NIP-05 services out there, too.
There is also nothing stopping anyone who owns a domain from setting up their own NIP-05 registry, so it is not terribly useful for verifying who is a legitimate person and who is an impostor, unless the impostor is being REALLY stupid and trying to use the exact same NIP-05 address as the person they are impersonating.
NIP-05 addresses are therefore far more useful for giving to your friends so that it is easier for them to find you on Nostr, rather than having to give them your npub. Your NIP-05 can also contain relay hints so your friends will know what relays to look for your notes on.
Coracle.social in particular has great web of trust filtering built into it.
Web of trust.
For instance, if more people I follow and people they follow are already following @nprofile…p7e2 instead of @nprofile…acus, then I can be reasonably certain the first is legit and the second is an impersonator.
Start building your web of trust from people you know outside of Nostr and it won't take long to distinguish between most folks that anyone would try impersonating.
As in disappeared from where you had it hosted, too? That, thankfully, did not happen, but it would not have taken much to re-upload to nostr.build if it had.
My recommendation for anyone on Android would be:
Download Amber and generate a key pair.
Download Spring Browser and plug in the new nsec.
Download Amethyst and login using Amber. Set up profile in Amethyst.
Go explore all the web apps on Spring and marvel at the fact the profile made on Amethyst is the same profile displayed on all of the web apps.
Coracle is very close in my estimation, though. Just less feature rich, but I am really loving the custom feeds there, and it's just a better looking client overall.
Probably the best web client, IMO.
Seems odd. I thought zap.store pulled latest release straight from the repo, but currently showing v0.91.0 while the repo has v0.92.1. Maybe because zap.store has been signing the releases, the new version won't populate until it's signed.
It's cool... I am not impatient at all... NEED ME THE NEW TOR FEATURES! 😂
Gotcha!
I thought you were talking about the tamper evident bag that the ColdCard comes in. 😂
Not sure that ENTIRELY solves the issue, though. Assuming you intend to occasionally access the device to transact, you will likely be keeping a supply of new tamper-evident bags somewhere to place the device into again after opening the previous bag to use it. If the "evil maid" knows where you keep these bags, they can simply put the device into a fresh bag after swapping the firmware. Would need some control on your supply of replacement bags.
There's a whole book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Blocksize-War-controls-Bitcoins-protocol/dp/B08YQMC2WM
Definitely worth the read.
That's more of a protection against in-transit manipulation of the device.
The evil maid attack is just referring to anyone who has trusted access to your home or wherever you store your device, and who would therefore have opportunity to maliciously flash firmware that could leak your private key, such as the dark skippy attack. It could also be done by someone breaking into your home and gaining physical access to your device, but it's still called the evil maid attack regardless.
With a ColdCard, the indicator light turning red on boot-up is a dead giveaway that firmware that hasn't been signed by the manufacturer is currently running. There is no such safeguard on a SeedSigner.
So, yes. Verifying the signature on firmware you download and install yourself is a great protection when you can be absolutely certain that the firmware running is what you personally installed. But if that device is ever out of your sight, how can you be certain that the firmware is still what you installed?
Yeah, the block-size war really proved who is in charge of what "upgrades" get implemented on Bitcoin; namely the folks who run full-nodes and actually use them for transacting.
It is a story of how the plebs who run the nodes successfully defended the network from having a block-size increase forced on them by the big miners and exchanges. An increase that would have had a centralizing effect, since it would have meant running a node would require beefier and more expensive hardware that maybe the average pleb could no longer afford.
This and the block-size war proved just how incredibly resilient Bitcoin is to attacks from both without and within.
Feel free to send some my way at dikaios1517@minibits.cash. Happy to reciprocate.
Not really though. Evil maid attack.
They really have! Nostr Wallet Connect is an incredible tool for the entire Lightning ecosystem, whether you use any of Alby's other services or not. Then they come out with Alby Hub, which is an incredibly versatile tool for self-custody lightning, whether you have your own node hardware or not. And now a native mobile wallet that connects WAY faster than most LNDHub wallets, because it leverages NWC.
Excited to see what they come up with next!
#introductions
#nevent1q…u9wl
Welcome to the party!
Set up a lightning address so we can zap you!
Some risk? Sir, you have approaching 15 Bitcoin in total capacity. Even assuming only ~1/2 of that is on your side of any given channel, that is far more money in a hot wallet than most plebs even own, let alone would be willing to have in a hot wallet.
So it's not just time and effort and decent hardware that is needed to run a profitable routing node. It's also a decent amount of capital outside of cold storage.
Zapped from my in-the-red non-routing node.
Could not agree more!
https://media.tenor.com/MizsJXaR4fMAAAAC/tipping-the-hat-tyler-owens.gif
NIP-46 and/or NIP-55, please sir.
Wen NIP-46 and/or NIP-55 login support so we can use our regular npub without giving the app our nsec or being forced to use a random nsec/npub?
Still no support for NIP-46 or NIP-55 login, though. @nprofile…nrls
noStrudel is probably the most full featured of all the web apps, but yeah, some of the UI elements are annoying.
Coracle is probably my favorite for how it looks and how much control I have over my feed, but I miss being able to have a variety of reactions.
Another one to try out is satellite.earth
What web app are you currently using? I have really been liking ditto.pub and noStrudel.ninja
Nostr devs: Please remember that we want to protect our nsec, and requiring us to enter it into your client will result in many of us simply not using your app at all. There are multiple ways to allow for login and signing of events without requiring an nsec. Please support at least one of them when you release your client and want people to start trying it out. Ideally, support more than one.
NIP-07 for web app login using a browser extension.
NIP-46 for remote signing over relays, which is OS agnostic.
NIP-55 for native Android apps.
Right. While using nos2x as your signer, correct?
The above allow you to use Amber on your phone as your signer for a couple web apps on desktop.
It may also have to do with what wallet you are using for zapping, rather than anything to do with signer permissions.
Call me when mempools clear and none of the blocks are full.
The amount of transactions in blocks is still plenty high. Blocks are full, just of low fee rate transactions. This just means there there aren't a lot of folks trying to get their transactions prioritized. My mempool still shows 74 block's worth of transactions waiting to clear, and mempool.space shows 97 blocks worth.
So, the amount of activity actually hitting the chain is the same, because mempools still haven't cleared. We're not seeing any partially full blocks at all. It's just that most of the transactions waiting in the mempools are in no rush to make it into a block.
Values based largely on the summarization of the moral law of God in the 10 commandments, which both Jews and Christians share, last I checked, further summarized in the two greatest commandments: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might, (Deuteronomy 6:5, summarizing commandments 1-4) and you shall love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:18, summarizing the last 6).
So, while the two faiths may not be theologically compatible, they are largely compatible when it comes to ethics/values.
Controversial take of the night: We all knew that spam was going to be a major issue to resolve eventually. We hoped we wouldn't see massive levels of spam for some time, and we could deal with it then.
Yet, some things just never get attention until the problem is painful. There's always more exciting things to work on in the moment. New features to implement, new interoperability opportunities, and new ideas for "other stuff" clients to build. No one will find the time to deal with the things we KNOW need to be dealt with in the midst of that. Not unless they are pushed to it by pain.
As the saying goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention."
Keep an eye on what @nprofile…r4lw is up to. Not sure how close he is to any kind of public alpha or beta build, though.
A couple web apps that allow you to use nsec bunker to remote login from Amber on your phone are noStrudel.ninja and Coracle.social
Here's some basic instructions:
Open Amber and go to your Permissions tab, then tap the + button.
https://i.nostr.build/Uvs29HGOcXoYzsPV.jpg
Choose "New App" and on the next page tap the clipboard to copy your bunker string.
https://i.nostr.build/h36kRUll9ZceNzka.jpg
Now, you need to get this string over to your PC somehow. It doesn't have anything too sensitive. Just a version of your public key (the one you share with others) and the relay to use for signing requests. You can email it to yourself or any other method you want to use.
Now, go to coracle.social and select Login in the bottom left, then select the Bunker URL option.
https://i.nostr.build/BszDrOVCcdUYuypy.jpg
Paste that bunker string you got from Amber and when it tries to log in, you should get a notification on your phone. You can give it as much or as little permission as you like. The more you give it, the less often it will ask you to confirm permission manually on your phone.
Yeah... I would love a Nostr browser for desktop... It'll happen eventually. We're still early.
https://media.tenor.com/lLuTOOcOeS8AAAAC/kto-lbow.gif
Yes, it's useless for anything else, but for Nostr web apps it can't be beat.
Some web apps will allow you to sign in using nsec bunker, and Amber supports that too, but setting it up can be a little tricky. Zap.cooking does not support bunker sign in that I am aware of.
Amber is not a browser extension. It is primarily used for native applications, such as Amethyst, that will automatically reach out to it for login, if they support it.
For browser login for web apps like zap.cooking, you would need to install a browser extension such as Alby or nos2x, depending on what is available for your web browser of choice.
Since you are using Amber,I assume you are on Android. I would recommend either Firefox web browser or Kiwi browser, and pair them with nos2x, which will store your private key/nsec.
Alternatively you can install Spring browser from zap.store, which is a web browser designed specifically for nostr web apps, and it has a signer extension built into it, along with the ability to connect any Nostr Wallet Connect enabled wallet.
Y'all need a Lightning address on this npub! I want to zap this!
Love seeing local #Bitcoin education in action!
#nevent1q…k6kl
You can also get it on zap.store
Voyage.
https://github.com/dluvian/voyage
In a way, any #Nostr client that has zaps can be used for crowd funding. For instance, I created this post with a zap goal on #Amethyst
#nevent1q…wktq
Testing something, I take it?
Caught @npub1gcx…nj5z zapsturbating.
https://cdn.satellite.earth/9d2d6d2a84cd5a51f07b1878a8fb755276e90a75b74f5d624deb2f31686e87e8.png
No Android clients with it built in, yet?
Yep! She's a noisy girl, whistling along on the highway.
They can't make your battery blow up if your HWW doesn't have a battery.
https://media.tenor.com/7HUogy7rXs4AAAAC/feel-me-think-about-it.gif
1999 F-250 with the 7.3 turbo diesel is my old rig of choice these days.
Why no tag for the legend himself, @npub1sfh…ymqt ?
GM from my home office, #coffeechain.
Well used tumbler from my favorite coffee shop back in my old home town.
https://i.nostr.build/KdDhFYPJNxaOpHpx.jpg
Nostur
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nostur-nostr-client/id1672780508
Audiobooks require much more production than simply making the digital file available for the text version. Unless you are buying it as a package with the book, and therefore paying more than for the book by itself, this would not make sense.
Yeah, it's not just about your channel partners having a beefy channels, though. The liquidity in their channels has to be available in the direction you need it.
1m sats is a pretty large amount to be moving on Lightning. Bear in mind that if Bitcoin even just overtakes gold's market-cap, that would be the equivalent of moving over $8,000, even though it's currently only a bit over $600.
That mystery has been bugging me for a while, thank you sir!
How do I add recommendations such as this one for highlighter.com to my profile?
https://i.nostr.build/G8W2yGTsEoDeIJcr.jpg
#Amethyst #AskNostr @nprofile…pyug
That makes a lot of sense. Still very fast when zapping a non-coinos wallet (Strike), so all good now!
Absolutely! Took barely a second to register the zap on Amethyst!
Probably a liquidity bottleneck between your channel partners and the sending wallet, would be my guess.
Grace toward your spouse as a fellow sinner forgiven by God is absolutely paramount in marriage.
Sure, anything that automatically adjusts based on the prime rate+margin.
Those locked into fixed rates may want to wait for more reductions before refinancing and it will take some time for FIs to adjust their rates accordingly.
Looks like Amethyst is working intermittently, now. I can zap, and the funds come out of my coinos wallet, but it's spotty on whether it shows up as a zap or not.
What about Alby Go? That just isn't connecting at all. Or is that functionality via NWC part of what isn't yet enabled?
Alright, Amethyst seems to have interpreted the string correctly, but zaps just hang and never go through.
NIP-46 defines how to do remote signing using Nostr relays as the infrastructure for sending pre-signed and signed information back and forth between the signer and the client.
NIP-50 defines how clients should perform search queries from relays.
And @nprofile…m5c4 covered what a NIP is. 😊
*So I guess we are done with 58K for now...
ftfy
We should never expect that relay owners won't censor content they don't like or that they consider spam.
We should expect that not all relay operators will agree and use multiple relays in order to post and to see the content we want.
Relays MUST find a way to block spammers or they will simply be unable to survive.
Call it censorship, if you want to, but #Nostr 's censorship resistance always has been and always will be that you can use multiple relays and even run your own where you get to decide what will stay on or get booted off your relay.
GN frens. Until tomorrow.
@npub12ct…c5ky and PSA. Quite the combo.
Fantastic news! Congratulations!
Can't let @nprofile…tcfs be the only one reigniting his inner gamer.
@nprofile…u76s
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Each user is responsible for taking their own measures to filter spam from their feed.
Looking forward to release notes that include "Added Nostr Wallet Connect."
It's killing me that I have no way to stream sats to podcasts or boost right now.
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I must say, #Mastodon is a very sharp looking #Nostr client on Android.
Why not just let Amber on your phone handle signing for the web apps you use on your laptop?
Yes and no. As I understand it, not just anyone can see your IP. Only those you are intentionally connecting with. So it's not like kind4 DMs, where anyone can see exactly who is talking to who. And even your peer doesn't get your actual IP if you are connecting via a VPN according to @npub1h5t…45z5 who is much more familiar with the protocol than I could ever hope to be.
Not something I would use, at least not with public relays. And have your nsec as the master key with access to all other passwords? Yeah, I'm out.
Not everything needs to be built on Nostr to be useful to those who use Nostr, though.
For instance, I still think it would be great to have a fork of Bitwarden that had a built-in NIP-46 signer.
I don't think privacy and censorship resistance are necessarily inversely related like this, such that something being more private must be less censorship resistant, and things that are more censorship resistant must be less private.
You can have things that are neither very private at all or censorship resistant, such as Twitter and Facebook.
You can have things that are very censorship resistant, but not very private, such as #Nostr.
You can have things that are both censorship resistant and private, such as Keet.
And I would assume you can have things that are very private, but maybe struggle to be censorship resistant, which the founder of SimpleX seems to say applies in that case.
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"God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering." Gen. 22:8
Happy Lord's day, Nostriches.
#Biblestr
