Martti Malmi
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🚨 NEW EPISODE DROPPED on the ALL IN BITCOIN Pod! 🎙️
I sat down with @Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin’s earliest builders, who opens up about growing up in Finland, metal music, and the libertarian values that shaped his view on freedom, money, and tech.
He reflects on building with Satoshi, shares his thoughts on decentralization, censorship, and how Nostr could help fix the internet. From decentralized social media to serverless hosting, spam resistance through social graphs, and the future of Lightning and open-source funding. We also dive into privacy, the dangers of KYC, Europe’s regulatory direction, and the difference between rules and rulers.
👉 At this early stage of the podcast, every follow and repost helps grow the signal. Deeply appreciate your support. ⚡
Links to full episode...
https://linktr.ee/allinbitcoin
#AllinBitcoin #Bitcoin #MarttiMalmi #FreedomTech #Nostr #BitcoinPodcast #Privacy #HODL
I sat down with @Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin’s earliest builders, who opens up about growing up in Finland, metal music, and the libertarian values that shaped his view on freedom, money, and tech.
He reflects on building with Satoshi, shares his thoughts on decentralization, censorship, and how Nostr could help fix the internet. From decentralized social media to serverless hosting, spam resistance through social graphs, and the future of Lightning and open-source funding. We also dive into privacy, the dangers of KYC, Europe’s regulatory direction, and the difference between rules and rulers.
👉 At this early stage of the podcast, every follow and repost helps grow the signal. Deeply appreciate your support. ⚡
Links to full episode...
https://linktr.ee/allinbitcoin
#AllinBitcoin #Bitcoin #MarttiMalmi #FreedomTech #Nostr #BitcoinPodcast #Privacy #HODL
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1d ago
Tuesday night in HEL with Behemoth
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2d ago
Couldn’t do much bouldering at the rainy Åland islands, but the nature was beautiful.
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Ok. Tonight Behemoth in HEL btw.
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6d ago
GM.
Feeling reflective today.
It’s wild that this is my life.
I make wine on the property I grew up on and sell it by shitposting alongside My People on the internet.
None of this was planned.
At 25, I was floundering. I knew I needed to start something and bet on myself, but had no idea what.
My dad made wine as a hobby. One day he suggested I start a winery. I’d never made wine before, but I said fuck it and started Peony Lane.
That first year, I had no product to sell and hated the job I had. My dad wanted to build a house, so now I live in one that he and I built together.
When I moved home to do that, I lived with a friend who
Feeling reflective today.
It’s wild that this is my life.
I make wine on the property I grew up on and sell it by shitposting alongside My People on the internet.
None of this was planned.
At 25, I was floundering. I knew I needed to start something and bet on myself, but had no idea what.
My dad made wine as a hobby. One day he suggested I start a winery. I’d never made wine before, but I said fuck it and started Peony Lane.
That first year, I had no product to sell and hated the job I had. My dad wanted to build a house, so now I live in one that he and I built together.
When I moved home to do that, I lived with a friend who
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Martti Malmi
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1w ago
Welcome! https://iris.to/ross is yours 😄
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1w ago
@jack showed me nostr recently. Reminds me of a writeup I did back in 2021 on decentralized social media:
https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99
I'll be mirroring my X account here and hopefully finding some good conversations.
https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99
I'll be mirroring my X account here and hopefully finding some good conversations.
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@jack showed me nostr recently. Reminds me of a writeup I did back in 2021 on decentralized social media:
https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99
I'll be mirroring my X account here and hopefully finding some good conversations.
https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99
I'll be mirroring my X account here and hopefully finding some good conversations.
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1w ago
Thanks to @OpenSats funders and volunteers for supporting my artisanal coding again! 😄 がんばります 🙏
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New wave of nostr grants: Swae, HAMSTR, Vertex, Nostr Double Ratchet, and Nostr Game Engine. More to come.
https://opensats.org/blog/eleventh-wave-of-nostr-grants
https://opensats.org/blog/eleventh-wave-of-nostr-grants
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1w ago
Why nostr.build signup requires a password?
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1w ago
I've been using ChatGPT with Grok-generated instruction to sound like Grok. Still amused after 6 months.
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2w ago
What format are clients using for public chat ids? bech32 note / nevent?
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2w ago
I wonder if I butchery would be a good side hustle for an introverted carnivore coder.
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2w ago
No biggie, but NIP-28 channel metadata event should have been a tag-replaceable event instead of kind 41? Only latest is to be stored. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/28.md#kind-41-set-channel-metadata
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2w ago
Vibe coding. Cursor agent nailed blurhashes on 1st try. 
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2w ago
Can we do lightning or cashu based multi-hop physical packet routing where couriers are only paid on confirmed delivery?
Same could work for network routing, but multiple paths can be tried simultaneously, and fastest wins.
Same could work for network routing, but multiple paths can be tried simultaneously, and fastest wins.
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3w ago
@Alby is it possible to use https://github.com/getAlby/bitcoin-connect without having to show this popup every time you open the app 
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Is anyone working on AI agents that can order stuff from any online store that takes credit cards, and you would pay the agent in Bitcoin? I think there was some company in Poland that does this manually.
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I was thinking of doing this in Finland, but then you'd be a money transmitter and probably have to do KYC, which trashes the UX and defeats the purpose.
Setting up BTCPay Server or https://opennode.com for my favorite online stores might be a better way to make them accept bitcoin. Help them with bitcoin storage, exchange and accounting. The EU kindly doesn't yet require KYC from them.
What would be even more rad? Crawl online stores onto Shopstr, let users send orders that are paid in Cashu. Notify merchant of pending orders and let them redeem the nuts. User can reclaim the payment if merchant did not respond.
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Is anyone working on AI agents that can order stuff from any online store that takes credit cards, and you would pay the agent in Bitcoin? I think there was some company in Poland that does this manually.
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3w ago
Briar: "Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in." https://briarproject.org/
Would be cool to have bluetooth & wifi sync on native Nostr apps. Would be useful in offline situations and countries where the internet is censored.
Would be cool to have bluetooth & wifi sync on native Nostr apps. Would be useful in offline situations and countries where the internet is censored.
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4w ago
We've tried rate-limiting Cashu mints with PoW but turns out if you want mobile phones with javascript to compete against DoS servers, the server always wins...
I'm convinced now that the only practical use of PoW is Bitcoin and it's better to use sats to slow things down.
I'm convinced now that the only practical use of PoW is Bitcoin and it's better to use sats to slow things down.
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4w ago
My @Mullvad VPN ran out of time. Topping up with Lightning literally took me 2 seconds and payment was processed instantly. Why can't all online payments look like this?
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npub12rv5l
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4w ago
Tap-to-pay with CashuBTC ecash — for bitcoin.
Fiat credit cards nailed the UX: fast, offline, works anywhere.
I always wanted that for Bitcoin.
Now it’s open-source. Private. Instant. Beep, done.
In the video: two Cashu wallets for bitcoin.
Left: @Minibits (PoS)
Right: cashu.me (payer)
Ecash is sent directly via NFC — no internet, no delay. Beep, boop.
Ecash is a bearer token — the money lives on your device, not on a server. That’s why it pairs so well with NFC. Pick an amount, tap to send. No talking to servers. No syncing. Just push it over. The payment is pretty much instant. A PoS can accept ecash from any mint and receive payments via Lightning.
Still early days, but we’re experimenting. Card-to-phone works, but phone-to-phone? That’s the real killer use case.
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Fiat credit cards nailed the UX: fast, offline, works anywhere.
I always wanted that for Bitcoin.
Now it’s open-source. Private. Instant. Beep, done.
In the video: two Cashu wallets for bitcoin.
Left: @Minibits (PoS)
Right: cashu.me (payer)
Ecash is sent directly via NFC — no internet, no delay. Beep, boop.
Ecash is a bearer token — the money lives on your device, not on a server. That’s why it pairs so well with NFC. Pick an amount, tap to send. No talking to servers. No syncing. Just push it over. The payment is pretty much instant. A PoS can accept ecash from any mint and receive payments via Lightning.
Still early days, but we’re experimenting. Card-to-phone works, but phone-to-phone? That’s the real killer use case.
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1mo ago
Eivør & Heilung in Helsinki last week 
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Everytime I zap someone vie Lightning from my wallet, it takes 5-10 seconds for the zap to settle and for everyone to see it happen on nostr.
Everytime, I think "this could've been an instant nutzap". "Tap, boom. Tap, boom. Zap zap zap. I would be zapping so much more."
The reason a nutzap is instant is obvious. At this point, I hope that everyone knows that a Cashu nutzap is just an instant transfer of an IOU from one user to another.
Let's step back and look at a pure Lightning zap on nostr for a second. We all know that the vast majority of Lightning zaps is effectively an exchange of one custodial IOU against another one as well. Most people use custodial wallets. So why is it still so slow? It's the Lightning settlement between the two custodians that often takes
Everytime, I think "this could've been an instant nutzap". "Tap, boom. Tap, boom. Zap zap zap. I would be zapping so much more."
The reason a nutzap is instant is obvious. At this point, I hope that everyone knows that a Cashu nutzap is just an instant transfer of an IOU from one user to another.
Let's step back and look at a pure Lightning zap on nostr for a second. We all know that the vast majority of Lightning zaps is effectively an exchange of one custodial IOU against another one as well. Most people use custodial wallets. So why is it still so slow? It's the Lightning settlement between the two custodians that often takes
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1mo ago
I enabled zap receipts from pubkeys outside your social graph (like many zap receipt issuers are) and now most zaps are visible again on iris.to.
I'm terrified of the possibility of fake zap receipts, but for some reason no one has spammed them yet 😄 Maybe at least nip05 should be checked for zap receipt issuers, although that's not a long term solution.
I'm terrified of the possibility of fake zap receipts, but for some reason no one has spammed them yet 😄 Maybe at least nip05 should be checked for zap receipt issuers, although that's not a long term solution.
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1mo ago
Also added a bunch of zapping & wallet improvements. If you're using the Iris cashu wallet, it's now in the background and you can manually wallet-connect it and one-click-zap with it. Working on auto.
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1mo ago
iris.to replies and quotes might be targeting correctly now, finally
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iris.to replies and quotes might be targeting correctly now, finally
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Routing it through a CDN or nginx might be the easiest way to add it
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@brugeman can we get brotli / gzip to nostr.band apis? 🙏
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‼️ Speaker announcement ‼️
Co-founder and CEO of @Blockstream , @Adam Back , invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work algorithm cited by Satoshi Nakamoto in the Bitcoin whitepaper, as the future basis for its mining function.
Follow BTCHEL to stay updated on more! 🙏🏼
Co-founder and CEO of @Blockstream , @Adam Back , invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work algorithm cited by Satoshi Nakamoto in the Bitcoin whitepaper, as the future basis for its mining function.
Follow BTCHEL to stay updated on more! 🙏🏼
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It would provide an alternative to centralized push services as well
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Mar 18, 2023
400g steak in San Jose
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@calle 👁️⚡👁️ thinking about how to best do Cashu zapping in iris.to. Maybe keep Cashu open in the bg in iframe, nostr wallet connect to it, but send events over postMessage channel (in addition to relays?)
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Aika hyvä / ganska bra
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Creation of Bitcoin with all its mystery makes for a very good story. Many autofiction artists have embraced it.
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Unfortunately that story is fiction
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...str@iris.to spam bots are not visible on iris.to 😆
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Social graph filtering reduces new user visibility, but at least you don't see reply bots on iris.to
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Mid-answer, Cursor started spitting out a 10-page Kubernetes config in Chinese, with username and all. LLM glitch or Cursor security issue?
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I guess reaction custom emojis are more popular than custom emojis in kind 1 note
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Added nip-30 support for kind 1. I don’t see them used much though. Mostly some mostr.pub enthusiasts.
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Added emoji reactions via long press
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post custom emojis for testing
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This is easy and we can do it today. If MLS becomes available at some point (for web also) and works better, we should use it instead. MLS is more complicated and I see a risk there, but I'm happy to be proven wrong.
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Sounds unnecessary but fun, I'll add it!
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Double ratchet tests passing in my Damus fork. Yet to properly hook it into Damus UI and event system. https://github.com/mmalmi/damus/tree/doubleratchet/damus/Models/DoubleRatchet
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That would be great! NIP:
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Double ratchet NIP — Signal style DM encryption on Nostr. Deployed on https://iris.to
@naddr1qvzq
Double ratchet invites:
@naddr1qvzq
Github PR https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1813
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Double ratchet invites:
@naddr1qvzq
Github PR https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1813
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For example, double ratchet is easy and lightweight to add to a chat widget on a web page. Less than 100KB bundle, including dependencies from nostr-tools. Actually, it could perhaps be included as a nip library in nostr-tools.
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Replying to @USER
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I agree with this. It's better to use MLS if it works reliably and is not overly complicated to use as a library. Double ratchet's advantage is simplicity: it's fairly easy to implement on all platforms. I think it makes sense to try both and see how it goes. Maybe both have different use cases.
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1mo ago
Shared nostr private key sending DMs to self is one goofy way of group chatting. Backward compatibility (works on most clients), plausible deniability, can post anonymously, scales to infinite number of users. Just need to coordinate creating a new group each time members change or want to rotate the key.
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I haven't done groups yet, but we can do it like signal: Group members send their group-specific Nostr public key & symmetric decryption key to all other users in the group. Rotate key now and then, at least when users leave the group.
Also for multi-device use we can do like Signal: have multiple double ratchet sessions with your own devices and devices of others, send to all of them. https://signal.org/docs/specifications/sesame/
Also for multi-device use we can do like Signal: have multiple double ratchet sessions with your own devices and devices of others, send to all of them. https://signal.org/docs/specifications/sesame/
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Kek, I didn't know how Nostr works and used 30078, without "d" tag, and wondered why my double ratchet DM events were not properly stored or relayed. Works much better now with kind 1060.
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Added content settings option to disable autoplay
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1mo ago
Are master keys needed? What if we had just multiple keys of yours that sign each other.
That of course increases the client-side hassle of identity management: clients would have to decide what keys have enough verifications to belong to the same identity (or revocations). Possible social verifications / revocations on top of that.
That of course increases the client-side hassle of identity management: clients would have to decide what keys have enough verifications to belong to the same identity (or revocations). Possible social verifications / revocations on top of that.
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Good luck regulating encrypted messaging on Nostr web apps and relays
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Signal's CEO: "We're leaving Sweden"
Sweden's government is pushing through new legislation that forces Signal, WhatsApp, and all other messengers to SAVE all messages for the government to gather. Signal is pushing back. [1]
Once again, I encourage you to check out our recent podcast on Mullvad, whose home is in Sweden, and this exact criticism was laid out (predicting this news story based on the past votes). And that was the least of the criticisms. [2]
Simplified Privacy has no bank accounts and no registration with any country for this exact reason. And that's why encryption as identity tools, such as Nostr and PGP-arbitration-registration, are our true home.
Podcast:
[2] https://podcast.simplifiedprivacy.com/mullvad/index.html
New Story on Sweden:
[1] https://swedenherald.com/article/signals-ceo-then-were-leaving-sweden
Sweden's government is pushing through new legislation that forces Signal, WhatsApp, and all other messengers to SAVE all messages for the government to gather. Signal is pushing back. [1]
Once again, I encourage you to check out our recent podcast on Mullvad, whose home is in Sweden, and this exact criticism was laid out (predicting this news story based on the past votes). And that was the least of the criticisms. [2]
Simplified Privacy has no bank accounts and no registration with any country for this exact reason. And that's why encryption as identity tools, such as Nostr and PGP-arbitration-registration, are our true home.
Podcast:
[2] https://podcast.simplifiedprivacy.com/mullvad/index.html
New Story on Sweden:
[1] https://swedenherald.com/article/signals-ceo-then-were-leaving-sweden
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True. Iris alleviates it by showing a checkmark based on social graph distance and hiding users that are not in your social graph at all.
However, that doesn't prevent someone in your social graph from changing their name and avatar to impersonate someone else.
Nip05 doesn't prevent that either, unless you notice the discrepancy between their nip05 and other details.
One solution would be that users publicly record the name and other details of other users at the time of follow. The details recorded by yourself and people you trust would be shown, even if the user changed it to something else.
However, that doesn't prevent someone in your social graph from changing their name and avatar to impersonate someone else.
Nip05 doesn't prevent that either, unless you notice the discrepancy between their nip05 and other details.
One solution would be that users publicly record the name and other details of other users at the time of follow. The details recorded by yourself and people you trust would be shown, even if the user changed it to something else.
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(from same author)
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MLS also rotates keys after every message?
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Personally I'm not much into nip05. It's based on the centralized DNS. It's useful for manually checking the account is related to site like like petertodd.org, but I don't think it makes sense to show a checkmark for every account that has some random nip05.
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Iris shows a purple checkmark for users you follow, orange for users followed by at least 10 users you follow, and gray checkmark for 1-9 followers you follow. Peter's nip05 doesn't work in browsers because CORS is not configured.
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"Initial message to public invite is from anonymous sender, but publicly visible": to clarify, existence of the message is publicly visible but content is encrypted of course.
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Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave
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Thank you, that would be great!
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Thanks for the PR! Is NIP-96 going to be continued, or are we converging on blossom? Are the hash formats compatible? Sorry for noob questions.
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Double ratchet rotates message keys after each message, so previous consecutive messages from the same author become undecryptable, when the previous message key is discarded after decryption. It's a small difference, but it's good for disappearing messages.
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It's separate: MLS and Double ratchet are different solutions to the same problem. MLS is more complicated, but better suited for large groups.
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Sometimes you might need to refresh to see the first reply from someone 🤷♂️
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Locally generated follow & mute stats
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Dec 13, 2024
I want all apps like Mullvad VPN: paid with bitcoin. Account is just a random number: no email, phone number, street address, credit card etc. required.
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Oct 14, 2024
Fug... now that I'm home, I woke up last night to reflect on past cringes. On the main stage panel in Amsterdam I forgot what I was about to say (how to make money with Nostr) after already starting my answer and ended with "and umm yeah [awkward silence]". Should have re-asked the question.
I'm quite sensitive to cringe, but fortunately those moments have been mostly off stage since Slush 2014 which was pretty bad (or maybe I just haven't noticed). I'm not the best speaker, but I'll try 😄 Come see me in Lugano next week!
I'm quite sensitive to cringe, but fortunately those moments have been mostly off stage since Slush 2014 which was pretty bad (or maybe I just haven't noticed). I'm not the best speaker, but I'll try 😄 Come see me in Lugano next week!
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Oct 11, 2024
Secure DMs and groups might be how Nostr wins. Like Signal, but better: no phone number or centralized service provider needed. Actually there are no publicly visible user IDs involved, so in that regard it's similar to simplex.chat.
Unlike public messaging, DMs do not depend on the network effect. Great for onboarding people and keeping them returning with push notifications. They get a bitcoin wallet, zaps and all the other Nostr greatness on the side.
Many people don't want to let go of their existing follower base on X, but "Nostr DMs only" is easier to do. I could imagine that becoming a thing in the Bitcoin scene at first.
Unlike public messaging, DMs do not depend on the network effect. Great for onboarding people and keeping them returning with push notifications. They get a bitcoin wallet, zaps and all the other Nostr greatness on the side.
Many people don't want to let go of their existing follower base on X, but "Nostr DMs only" is easier to do. I could imagine that becoming a thing in the Bitcoin scene at first.
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Sep 10, 2024
Some people in my network are following bots so it can be a bit annoying at times. Need to add mute lists to the feed & social graph.
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Sep 6, 2024
Now it's replicating the original post. Still wanna filter by regex, or maybe consider WoT? 😄
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Sep 6, 2024
Replying to @npub1wnlu2
Spam everywhere today on here.
Anyone wanna pretend this is all "valid use of the protocol" and not abuse or we only do that with spam on Bitcoin? wss://relay.wellorder.net
Anyone wanna pretend this is all "valid use of the protocol" and not abuse or we only do that with spam on Bitcoin? wss://relay.wellorder.net
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Aug 3, 2024
I wrote this in junior high school. The teacher didn't appreciate it, and I had to write a new one. 
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Jun 12, 2024
Is Damus using Negentropy yet?
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Jun 6, 2024
Follow distance indicator (checkmark) helps, but maybe we should save the followed user's name at the time of follow into our own follow list.
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May 23, 2024
For custom apps on nostr, instead of random event kinds like 33442, let's use descriptive and human-readable "f" tags (for "folder") such as "apps/market/item" and corresponding "d" tag "apps/market/item/[uuid]".
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May 22, 2024
Celebrated Bitcoin Pizza Day at the cryptoanarchist haven Paralelní Polis, Prague. Privacy and scaling were the hot topics of discussion. Prague, a former capital of the Holy Roman Empire, is the most beautiful city I have seen. Vast areas of centuries-old architecture just go on and on. ‘Awesome’ is the proper term here. It makes you feel connected to the generations before us and part of something bigger than yourself, something that is worth preserving. I will be back soon for BTC Prague.
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May 11, 2024
Iris & Snort users: how do you find the "For you" feed? Do you use "for you" or "follows"?
Personally I'm finding "for you" more interesting. It's not great, but it brings up new posts every time and it's not dominated by chat messages in Japanese.
Personally I'm finding "for you" more interesting. It's not great, but it brings up new posts every time and it's not dominated by chat messages in Japanese.
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May 10, 2024
IrisDB uses tag-replaceable events of kind 30078.
"d" tag is the "file path", for example "groups/follows/somePublicKey" or "user/profile/name". You can update the content of the "file" with a new event that has the same tag.
"f" tag is the "directory path". "groups/follows" in this case. You can list all the "files" in the directory by querying relays with the "#f" tag filter. Strfry doesn't index this field, but some relays do.
Content field is the file content, can be any JSON serialized data.
If we did profile fields and follow lists this way, there would be no overwrite problem when you sign in to a new device that doesn't have your previous profile or follow list. If we did likes that way, unliking would be trivial.
When we create new Nostr apps or features, we don't need to come up
"d" tag is the "file path", for example "groups/follows/somePublicKey" or "user/profile/name". You can update the content of the "file" with a new event that has the same tag.
"f" tag is the "directory path". "groups/follows" in this case. You can list all the "files" in the directory by querying relays with the "#f" tag filter. Strfry doesn't index this field, but some relays do.
Content field is the file content, can be any JSON serialized data.
If we did profile fields and follow lists this way, there would be no overwrite problem when you sign in to a new device that doesn't have your previous profile or follow list. If we did likes that way, unliking would be trivial.
When we create new Nostr apps or features, we don't need to come up
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Feb 26, 2024
Do you have experience quitting caffeine? How long did it take to get back to baseline?
I've been without caffeine for 2 weeks. Mood and motivation are not back yet.
Wanted to sleep better and have a regular heartbeat. Feeling more calm now, but I'm not sure if this is worth it 😄 I've developed a deep association between coffee and coding over the years.
I've been without caffeine for 2 weeks. Mood and motivation are not back yet.
Wanted to sleep better and have a regular heartbeat. Feeling more calm now, but I'm not sure if this is worth it 😄 I've developed a deep association between coffee and coding over the years.
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Feb 26, 2024
Where can I find that Nostrasia Maguro song?
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Feb 6, 2024
Local sqlite db by @Kieran is great. So much better than IndexedDB. Iris & Snort can now store a lot of data locally, sync only what they don't already have (negentropy & nip-114) and eventually do p2p over webrtc. Works offline.
Iris now features a "for you" feed which uses the local database. It scores events by recentness, author favoriteness (top authors reacted by you) and amount of reactions from users who often react to the same notes as you.
Recentness is randomly weighted to occasionally show older events as well. Recent notes from all followed users are also mixed in.
Events are marked "seen" when they've been in the viewport for 1 second and not shown again in the "for you" feed. I've found it actually pleasant and interesting to use now. New feed every time.
It's not extensively tested yet,
Iris now features a "for you" feed which uses the local database. It scores events by recentness, author favoriteness (top authors reacted by you) and amount of reactions from users who often react to the same notes as you.
Recentness is randomly weighted to occasionally show older events as well. Recent notes from all followed users are also mixed in.
Events are marked "seen" when they've been in the viewport for 1 second and not shown again in the "for you" feed. I've found it actually pleasant and interesting to use now. New feed every time.
It's not extensively tested yet,
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Jan 29, 2024
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Jan 6, 2024
What are your favorite steak knives?
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Dec 18, 2023
If you don't have Nostr push notifications yet, you can get them from Iris and Snort web versions.
You can subscribe to notifications by going to the Notifications page, or Settings / Notifications on Iris, where you can also check the subscription status.
On iOS, you need to save Iris / Snort to the home screen in order to enable notifications.
Notifications are currently sent from all mentions, replies, DMs and zaps.
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Dec 15, 2023
When Nostr gets reasonable DM privacy and groups, even normies can use it as one of their many messaging apps, no problem. Push notifications keep them returning. Great way to onboard people onto Nostr and Bitcoin.
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Dec 14, 2023
"Followed by friends" feed. Probably needs more filtering, like minimum number of friends following, or shared block lists.
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Dec 14, 2023
Web push notifications from Iris. It's a bit chatty.
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Dec 14, 2023
It's a bit of a turnoff that many people who advocate for carnivore diet and healthy lifestyle are selling or marketing dietary supplements. Joe Rogan, Mikhaila Peterson and Paul Saladino come to mind.
Apparently it's a scalable money-making machine for famous people. Supplements are also not natural, necessary or good for your stack of sats. They should just sell t-shirts or join Nostr for zaps instead.
Apparently it's a scalable money-making machine for famous people. Supplements are also not natural, necessary or good for your stack of sats. They should just sell t-shirts or join Nostr for zaps instead.
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Dec 13, 2023
Do you prefer full size or height-limited images in the feed?
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Sep 1, 2023
Riga Old Town
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Feb 20, 2023
I don't think zaps are going to replace likes, unless you're also going to filter zaps by your web of trust. Otherwise it's easy to boost your content with fake zaps.
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