Marco Barulli
_@marco.barulli.it
Progressive bitcoiner. Building and using decentralized tools that matter. Working on Bitcoin-backed loans at Firefish.io. 🐠
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576 Followers
Marco Barulli
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4d ago
In these dire times, the German government is now advising citizens to stock up on cheese and sausages—
to be prepared for a Wurst Käse scenario.

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Marco Barulli
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1w ago
Nessuna area VIP, nessuna separazione tra palco e platea, tante voci, tante conversazioni.
Prezzi da 15 a 60 euro a secondo di quanta fame hai. 😉
https://bitcoinpizzadayrimini.it/
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Marco Barulli
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1w ago
Dopo essere stato parte della prima e variegata comunità di bitcoiner italiani (2011-2015), mi sono trasferito in Germania per diversi anni. Al mio rientro ho cercato gradualmente di scoprire come si fosse evoluto l’ecosistema bitcoin nazionale.
Ho così timidamente partecipato a qualche bitcoin meetup/spritz/beer, mi sono iscritto ai canali Telegram più importanti (Telegram!? Nel 2025!? seguito podcaster e youtuber vari, ecc.
E ora mi chiedo dove sia finita l’apertura al diverso e la ricchezza di idee degli inizi.
Sto infatti incontrando quasi esclusivamente bitcoiner assolutamente conformi allo standard, ovvero bitcoiner che si identificano in qualche aggregato dei seguenti totem: no tax, no vax, pro gun, no immigrati, riscaldamento globale = truffa, UE = dittatura, W Mises, W Milei, W Bukele, W Trump, hodl, bull run, to the moon, dio, famiglia, palestra, bistecca e uova, …
Mai una voce
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Marco Barulli
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2w ago

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Marco Barulli
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2w ago
And even when they do arrive, the lack of notifications is a significant drawback.
On Android, Amethyst works pretty well. However, I still miss a robust web client for Nostr DMs.
Which one would you recommend?
#asknostr

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Marco Barulli
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2w ago
I'm surprised that we have not been able to transition to a more decentralized, distributed, or federated system.
Despite various attempts, nothing has been able to gain significant traction. (I still remember the excitement of using Namecoin to set up a .bit domain that no one visited ...)
Perhaps this is an area where Nostr could play a role?
#asknostr

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Marco Barulli
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3w ago
"Le criptovalute stanno emergendo come una forza economica per certi versi dirompente.
La loro capacità di operare al di fuori dei tradizionali circuiti bancari e di sfidare la centralità delle valute sovrane sta portando a nuove forme di indipendenza economica".
A parte l'uso del termine "criptovalute" anziché "Bitcoin", mi trova sostanzialmente d'accordo.

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Marco Barulli
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3w ago
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Marco Barulli
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3w ago
#asknostr (for a designer friend)
You might ask what is wrong with Dribbble. Well, they recently updated their ToS.
“Designers are no longer permitted to display or share their contact information (like email addresses, phone numbers, social media handles) prior to client payment on Dribbble.”
Dribbble wants to handle payments, and it is just fine. But some designers might prefer a self-hosted, self-sovereign alternative and Nostr might indeed be of help here.

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Marco Barulli
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3w ago
npub1sg6pl
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3w ago
“login with nostr” buttons on every service out there should be a goal.
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Marco Barulli
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3w ago
I’m using a crypto accounting service that claims bitcoins are stored on the blockchain with 16 decimal places, and therefore, it’s perfectly reasonable for their reports to include more than the standard 8 digits after the decimal point.
I’ve searched for evidence to support this claim, but so far, I haven’t found any confirmation of 16 decimals. Additionally, no blockchain explorer I’ve checked displays more than the usual 8 decimals.
#asknostr

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Marco Barulli
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3w ago
I’ve always been told that Bitcoin and subscriptions does not play well together, but apparently Alby managed to solve the conundrum and now I might be able to schedule regular weekly payments to my daughters’ wallets. How cool is that?
I’m wondering if there are elements of centralization in this solution.
I’d love to hear a more detailed explanation of the inner workings.
https://zapplanner.albylabs.com/

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Anthony Accioly
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4w ago
You can now download one of several new variants from the repo of @Marco Barulli at:
https://github.com/mbarulli/nostr-logo

(The ugly grey background in this screenshot is intentional so that all transparent background variants are visible.)
There are transparent, monochrome, duotone, SVG, and PNG versions in all sizes. Pick what works for you. Absolutely no excuse not to have one on your website. Even (and especially) if you're a lazy, mostly backend-oriented dev like me.
Now the question is: where should I link my blog when someone clicks the social icon? Njump? Nosotros? Jumble? Coracle? noStrudel? There are soooo many choices...
#socialicon #nostr #grownostr #artstr #socialmedia #share
Anthony Accioly
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4w ago
🔗 SVG Icon:
https://haven.accioly.social/cfa0d8344c7577bde446d35bb1d61c1c65b07aeb0897169bff6bd44f03f00911.svg
(If your Nostr client doesn’t render SVG, yes, there is an icon above)
Here’s how it looks next to other social icons from Hugo’s PaperMod theme:
🖼 Example with light theme:

🖼 Example with dark theme:

I’ve adapted it from the Nostr icon by Andrea Nicolini, originally shared by @Marco Barulli at GitHub. All credit goes to them, and I’m also “licensing” it under CC0.
#nostr #grownostr #artstr #socialmedia #sharing
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Marco Barulli
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4w ago
Today, the NYM token trades at $0.056 and its price chart closely resembles a classic pump-and-dump shitcoin.
Even worse, NYM allocation scheme reserves only 36% of the token for the mix-mining network, while a staggering 57% goes to founders and investors …
npub1renau
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4w ago
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/nymvpn-officially-launches-and-claims-to-be-the-worlds-most-secure-vpn
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npub1renau
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4w ago
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/nymvpn-officially-launches-and-claims-to-be-the-worlds-most-secure-vpn
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Marco Barulli
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4w ago
Really honored to host it on this Github repo:
https://github.com/mbarulli/nostr-logo
Anthony Accioly
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4w ago
🔗 SVG Icon:
https://haven.accioly.social/cfa0d8344c7577bde446d35bb1d61c1c65b07aeb0897169bff6bd44f03f00911.svg
(If your Nostr client doesn’t render SVG, yes, there is an icon above)
Here’s how it looks next to other social icons from Hugo’s PaperMod theme:
🖼 Example with light theme:

🖼 Example with dark theme:

I’ve adapted it from the Nostr icon by Andrea Nicolini, originally shared by @Marco Barulli at GitHub. All credit goes to them, and I’m also “licensing” it under CC0.
#nostr #grownostr #artstr #socialmedia #sharing
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Marco Barulli
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4w ago
Per chi volesse provarlo, con questo link avrete uno sconto sulle commissioni.
https://firefish.io/?ref=MARCO
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Marco Barulli
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4w ago
Prezzi popolari, un bell’assortimento di relatori, atmosfera rilassata.
E dato che si terrà il 24 maggio a Rimini, ci si può pure abbinare una nuotata ed un po’ di relax in spiaggia.
Compra adesso il tuo biglietto!
https://bitcoinpizzadayrimini.it/
Alcuni dei relatori:
@Federico Rivi, @Leonardo Facco, @Massimo (Max) Musumeci, Valerio Dalla Costa, Francesco Conza, Martina Granatiero, … e tanti altri.

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Marco Barulli
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4w ago
Nella sezione “Innovazione e Competitività” non si trova nessun riferimento a Bitcoin (era sperare troppo), ma in compenso si può leggere questa perla:
“Supportare ed accelerare il progetto della Banca Centrale Europea di introduzione dell’euro digitale, come strumento di semplificazione dei pagamenti (e di lotta all’evasione fiscale) e di contrasto ai pericolosi rischi di utilizzo di monete alternative.”
(https://partitoliberaldemocratico.com/innovazionecompetitiva/)
Quindi questi nuovi liberali auspicano un controllo centralizzato del contante al fine di proteggerci dalle pericolose “monete alternative”. Non ho parole …

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Marco Barulli
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1mo ago
Fai un giro su Firefish.io, il marketplace p2p per prestiti garantiti da Bitcoin dove puoi ottenere la liquidità che ti serve senza vendere i tuoi Bitcoin e senza nemmeno perderne mai la custodia.
(per uno sconto sulle commissioni usa il referral “MARCO” quando crei il tuo account)
npub1ya6ds
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1mo ago
https://bitcoinnews.com/interviews/firefish-igor-neumann-bitcoin-lending/
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Marco Barulli
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1mo ago

While I work for a company (Firefish.io) that has “Never sell your bitcoins” as its major claim, I do believe that spend-and-replace should be a more common practice, especially now that there is a growing number of merchants and service providers that do accept bitcoin as payment.
Easier said than done. Spend-and-replace is still hindered by many obstacles:
- Spending in most countries is a taxable event, meaning that the usual 3-5% discount for using bitcoin is often outweighed by the income taxes liability on the purchase.
- Replacing should be done timely and effortlessly, unfortunately it isn’t. You have to maintain an account on some exchange, actively connected to your source of fiat money (bank, credit card) and then transferring the newly purchased bitcoins to your self-custodial wallet.
While this process might make sense when spending significant amount of
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Marco Barulli
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1mo ago
https://cryptonomist.ch/2025/02/27/firefish-prestiti-p2p-euro-bitcoin/
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Marco Barulli
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1mo ago
You may not be aware, but you can already export most of the content you create and publish today into an RSS feed.
- Most blog platforms allow users to make their content available as an RSS feed.
- Most bookmark services allow users to create an RSS feed from their bookmarks.
- Plenty of third-party services enable the creation of RSS feeds for your Twitter, Instagram, Facebook accounts (think RSS.app, IFTTT, ...).
- Most podcast platforms generate an RSS feed for your show.
- ...
On the other hand, Nostr is poised to become the new web infrastructure. It will dismantle the walled gardens we've been living in for too long
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Marco Barulli
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1mo ago
Discover a new way to buy and sell with Nostr and Sats. ⚡
I'm testing out @Shopstr with two awesome #StarWars plushies, see link below.
(shh, don't tell my kids they're going! 😉)
https://shopstr.store/listing/naddr1qvzqqqrkcgpzq086s94mfzf056lfjwk8920umwcgn002p3weqy0aypx32329lgkeqpqxgepcvyersdpcx5ckgdphxf3ngcfexyck2dfkxsurgdtpxcmrgcnyxu6rgetpxdjxzdmrx3jrvcnxvycnqc35v5urwdesvscnzerpvysqdvwr
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Marco Barulli
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1mo ago
This is the most interesting Nostr-based project I've seen lately.
Still not properly working, and lacking a ton of features, but badly needed! Support it on @Geyser !
Thanks @Jurjen de Vries and @Iftakhar Hasnayen Abir !
npub1u656f
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1mo ago
https://geyser.fund/project/yumyume
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Marco Barulli
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1mo ago
npub1z8zrc
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1mo ago
IL MIO PRIMO NODO🧡

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Marco Barulli
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1mo ago
(Disponibile anche in Italia, con interfaccia e materiale di supporto in italiano)
npub1yv72w
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1mo ago
But keep an eye on the liquidation, so it might be better to deposit more BTC than required anyway (50% LTV)

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Marco Barulli
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1mo ago
npub104fpz
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1mo ago
Sales on #teepublic
Hurry up it's time limited and there's a #bitcoin collection waiting for you
http://tee.pub/lic/b3mbur3d4
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Marco Barulli
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1mo ago
I use a bookmark service that generates an RSS feed of the bookmarked items.
The RSS feed is fairly rich (title, link, description, categories, image).
I would like to convert each item in the RSS feed into a Nostr note and publish it to a specific Nostr profile. The description element should become the text of the note, images should be included in the note, categories should become hashtags, and the link should be added at the bottom of the post.
Is there any service (paid options are fine) capable of polling the RSS feed and producing new notes when new items are detected in the feed?

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1mo ago

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1mo ago
(they also picked the right Nostr logo 😛)
npub1tt77c
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1mo ago
Now you can securely message your lender/borrower directly from the contract page!
Using #nostr , all communications are fully encrypted with NIP-17.
No Nostr account? No problem—your key is derived from your Lendasat account!

Lendasat: Peer-to-peer loans secured by #Bitcoin with communications secured by #nostr !
Wanna try our BETA? Join our discord now!
https://discord.gg/a5MP7yZDpQ
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Marco Barulli
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2mo ago
I firmly believe that if we do not bring Nostr to the web, and the web to Nostr (thanks @Npub.pro , @Form* , … for covering this part), Nostr will never succeed.
Nostr web clients might not be as snappy as native apps, but are those milliseconds so important?
/cc @PABLOF7z @fiatjaf @Vitor Pamplona
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2mo ago
Replying to @Marco Barulli
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Marco Barulli
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2mo ago
Se ciò non accadesse sarà chiaro a tutti che c'è un complotto per tenere Nostr e i Jalisse fuori dal Festival!
#nostr #sanremo
npub1rpfds
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2mo ago
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My goal is to educate my community, I hope with music they will finally understand 😍
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https://wavlake.com/album/e8c24492-a376-4484-9495-2f779f1c14ba
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Marco Barulli
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2mo ago
However, during this time, I've noticed that Proton Mail has suffered at least 3 significant outages.
While privacy is indeed important, reliability is also important too.
/cc @Proton Wallet @Proton Mail

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Marco Barulli
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2mo ago

La mia mappatura degli utilizzatori italiani di Nostr prosegue implacabile. Finora ne ho raccolti 153 in questa lista. 😄
Dovresti esserci anche tu, ma ancora non ci sei? Rispondi qui e ti aggiungerò.
Conosci altri che dovrebbero essere inseriti in questo elenco? Taggali e riposta questa nota, grazie!
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I'm relentlessly chasing Italian-speaking users on Nostr. So far I've collected 153 of them in this list. 😄
Should you too be in the list? Reply here and I'll add you.
Do you know of others who should be included? Tag them and repost this note, thank you!
@naddr1qvzq
#nostritalia #grownostr #asknostr #Italia #Italy
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Marco Barulli
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Dec 18, 2024
How do you manage fiat payments, especially large ones?
- selling on exchanges
- getting loans using bitcoin as collateral
- using a debit card linked to your btc stack,
- ...
(mostly interested in options available to EU residents, thanks!)

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Marco Barulli
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Oct 4, 2024
Diversify your feed, follow them!
@Pegah: rug designer from Iran, amazing patterns and more
@Stoic Teacher your daily dose of stoic quotes
@noco|Flower Photographer: just beautiful pictures of flowers
@Peter Alexander: economic commentary and insights from a China-based business advisor
=> Reply with your non-Bitcoin, non-Nostr favorite accounts, thanks!
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Marco Barulli
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Jun 9, 2024
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May 20, 2023
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