Nostr notes by Bullsaw

Herdr? I don't even know her! Yeah, looking into a lot of ...

2026-10-22T16:56:30Z

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Herdr? I don't even know her!

Yeah, looking into a lot of different ones. Idk, I just want to make one myself haha. You know the drill...

Cool. Wild guess is the investment takes 2,5 years go mine the ...

2026-10-22T16:53:57Z

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Cool. Wild guess is the investment takes 2,5 years go mine the btc back with it.

That's alright

Hey i am currently vibing something like this up for myself as ...

2026-10-22T11:17:44Z

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Hey i am currently vibing something like this up for myself as well! I challenged the thought that "prompt are not the best way here" and work towards a way for me to write 1 document which produce different views of an expected output/dry run thing. Then the LLM and I can communicate via annotations in any view until I am satisied with the outcomes.

Idea is to iterate upon one input document in different views to basically produce a one shot spec.

Idk if that is a good approach or what but I am trying it out.

I just moved to try out https://pi.dev i like the approach of ...

2026-10-22T01:33:15Z

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I just moved to try out https://pi.dev i like the approach of having total control.

Sometimes, poetry sneaks up on you. Thanks.

2026-10-10T01:45:21Z

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Sometimes, poetry sneaks up on you. Thanks.

Oh you cheeky little problem solver you. Why cannot you just ...

2026-10-06T23:08:26Z

Oh you cheeky little problem solver you. Why cannot you just listen instead. Stop trying to solve it. Listen!

quoting
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"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

Usch a simple but very very interesring idea, local mesh first ...

2026-10-01T04:48:43Z

Usch a simple but very very interesring idea, local mesh first 🫘

quoting
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Table Mesh lets a group of friends play a board game together at a real table,
each on their own phone. The phones find each other over Bluetooth (and Wi-Fi
when there is one) and form a small mesh: no internet, no server, no sign-up,
and no phone is the host. Every phone runs the game's rules itself and only the
moves travel, so a game keeps going when a phone sleeps, drops out or restarts —
it catches up from the others when it comes back. A tablet in the middle can
show the whole board.

**Included: Mensch ärgere Dich nicht** — the German family classic for 2–4
players, with the full rules, table dice or your own real dice, a referee
override, bots to play against on your own, an in-game rulebook and tour, and
a full-screen table view for the tablet.

**More games from Nostr.** Games are small sandboxed modules, and every game
is a signed Nostr event (kind 7529) naming one archive of its files.
*Discover* shows the games of the Table Mesh publisher and, with your Nostr
key, those of the people you follow — looked up on the relays each publisher
names — and downloads them from Blossom servers, checking every byte against
the signed release before it is installed. Updates come only from the
publisher who made the game. A game module has no network access and no
storage: it can only receive moves and propose moves.

**Who is around, and their tables.** While the app is open, *Play* shows the
people nearby with Table Mesh — over Bluetooth and on the same Wi-Fi — who is
free and who is at a table, and the tables you can join with one tap: you sit
at a free seat, or a tablet shows the board. It also lists the games the
phones around you have: ask for one, the other person taps *Share*, and it
comes over the Wi-Fi network or over Bluetooth, checked against its
publisher's signature. Game files can also be sent by hand, over e-mail or a
chat.

**A Bluetooth engine made for the table.** On Android 12 and later the phones
at a table form one group: a phone is the hub and relays for the others, a
tablet shows the board as a spoke, and a new hub takes over when the hub
leaves.

**Your Nostr key, if you want one.** No key is needed to play, or to read the
Table Mesh community on Nostr — one public group with a forum and a chat.
With your key — created in the app and backed up as an encrypted ncryptsec,
imported, or kept in Amber or a remote signer — you can talk there and edit
your Nostr profile; with it, or just your npub, *Discover* shows games from
the people you follow. The app holds your key for itself only and never signs
for other apps.

**No Google, no tracking.** Nothing to sign up for, no ads, no analytics, no
Google Play Services.

**When something goes wrong, you see it.** Every phone keeps the whole game
history, hash-chained. If two phones ever disagree, the table turns red and a
person decides which history to keep — nothing is merged behind your back.

This is an early release. The Bluetooth engine has been tested on seven
devices at one table — six phones of one model and a tablet; reports from
real tables with other phones are very welcome.

This is what I keep telling people now in these discussions. Yes, ...

2026-09-30T12:48:40Z

This is what I keep telling people now in these discussions.

Yes, we should fight back with our voice. And at the same time we must also move towards using tools and software which won't be able to be controlled, stopped or in any other way is owned by some sole entity be that a company or a person.

Open source all the things in your life. Decentralize all the things in your life. By the people, for the people on a voluntary basis.

quoting
nevent1q…rkwl
Instead of begging politicans to not use tyranny on you, build things in a way so that they can't.

nevent1q…tm0t

If I use @nprofile…gs7e, how do I mimic Claude Code ...

2026-09-30T12:43:01Z

If I use routstr (nprofile…gs7e), how do I mimic Claude Code "Code"? Where my agent is running in a remote session on my server, with the chat reachable via Claude Code app?

I am missing some vital information here. Can I use #nostr here? Like, I mean it should be as easy as having a nostr chat with it? But how? Or is there some android app which is best practice here?

How do I... I mean I can probably vibe some PWA for this but, if I have nostr I guess I wouldn't need to - could just use a nostr chat.

White Noise (nprofile…radp) is enough maybe? But then I use something specialized and not some generic thing I can log in to from wherever and whichever device.

Should I just host some #armada thing/server/community so my agents can have internal discussions?

Ahh, my head is not focused right now, some one please steer my old #AI we call "The brain"

#asknostr #LLM #harness #dev #idk #man #just #do #things

Where do ppl get their #NIP05 these days? Or do you just ...

2026-09-30T08:57:59Z

Where do ppl get their #NIP05 these days? Or do you just #selfhost it? Does it matter? #asknostr

Your LLM. Ask it. This is the new mindset I believe you need to ...

2026-09-28T20:15:25Z

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Your LLM.

Ask it.

This is the new mindset I believe you need to embrace and explore. It is very eye opening when it clicks...

I genuinely love that. Smart use of its characteristic really.

2026-09-26T17:16:09Z

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I genuinely love that. Smart use of its characteristic really.

Yo @nprofile…afdc got any "This is how I work with ...

2026-09-25T19:35:48Z

Yo calle (nprofile…afdc) got any "This is how I work with LLMs" resources or?

I am trying to figure out how to make it less shitty when creating tests, and other verifications of how the code should behave.

Moving towards "verifying flows" and mutation testing - so I break the tests themselves as well to verify the tests tests the correct test.

IDK, some days I feel like AI is the shit, and some days AI is the shit. Schrödingers shit.

The other day I spent 4 hours debating an agent which were adamant that there was a bug in the code, which I tried to force it to verify in a million ways before trusting it, and after a while I asked it "Is it even possible to test this in our framework?" and then, finally, it looked into one of my simulators - which it had assumed simulated the latest code - and then it realized that the simulator only supported the happy case which wasn't what I was testing.

I feel... Something must be done better here. Either via my shitty prompts or some skill or some other AI quirk shit I haven't tested yet.

Ehhhhh, so... You got some fun ideas/patterns in your tool box?

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2026-09-22T22:22:23Z

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Yeah this one has the vibe!

2026-09-21T21:03:03Z

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Yeah this one has the vibe!

lol, where? That's not true in my experience. Plus nowadays ...

2026-09-19T13:29:13Z

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lol, where? That's not true in my experience.

Plus nowadays whenever one needs to do any of these things - kids simply look it up. JIT knowledge 🔥

This is encouraging. You can just build things. #naddr1qq…uyvt

2026-09-19T08:29:57Z

This is encouraging. You can just build things.

quoting
naddr1qq…uyvt

The last week of every cohort we take a ride on the Pirate Ship off Madeira, to see whales, swim in the Atlantic and talk about the pirating we did the past six weeks and the pirating beyond. We pass the mic around asking each participant for highlights of the cohort which is encapsulated in the No Solutions episode "Drinking from the Firehose".

The first response set the pattern for the ride, "Napplets, FIPS, runtimes, shells. More FIPS, more napplets, more shells. FIPS over audio. Zazafication. Better friendships, jams, walks, barbecues."

balas (nprofile…znag) , who was at SEC-01, had one word; "pain", and said this cohort felt closer to the first one than any since, everyone figuring it out from scratch again.

hzrd149 (nprofile…tfpf) commented:

A year ago we were talking about where we want to be and what tech we want to have, and there were always missing gaps. Now there don't seem to be many..

Totem is a case in point. Totem is a modular hardware platform running napplets on devices that connect in a mesh. We first imagined it at SEC-03, then shelved it for two years, not because people lost interest but because you could not build it right yet. Gzuuus, who has spent more time at Sovereign Engineering than any human alive said, "Totem never died, it was waiting for FIPS and napplets and runtimes to exist." This summer Totem got built, it had a friend and the two talked to each other.

SEC-08 ran 20 July to 28 August. Six weeks of pure unadulterated YOLO++ with half alumni and half new faces. After the focused sprints of SEC-06 and SEC-07 we went back to open exploration: mesh networking, maps, merchant payments, package distribution, a desktop pet, and a multiplayer game stuffed into one HTML file.

Do you even FIPS yet?

Native FIPS, public-key-addressed application traffic with no IP stack in the way, was reserved for FIPS v2. By the end of this year at the earliest. Then you put jcorgan (nprofile…sjfc) and jeffg (nprofile…n0n6) in the same room and it is a one-week problem.

The native datagram API eliminates HTTP, TLS, TCP and IPv6 out of the equation. No more npub.fips hostnames. The npub is the endpoint, and it looks close enough to a Berkeley socket. JeffG benchmarked it while wiring it into Wok and the relay got 8 to 58% faster depending on message size. By demo day Wok spoke native FIPS and White Noise was FIPS only. Encrypted group chat with no IPs, and no DNS.

FIPS was in the air again;

sandwich (nprofile…jml3) sent FIPS over sound. FipWave modulates packets into audio and two laptops hold a conversation across a room with nothing but chirps. Somebody on the pirate ship proposed dolphins next.

fips-exit-gate, fips-shield, fips2go and a FreeBSD port ( fr34aky (nprofile…vwwj) ) - reaching the legacy internet, filtering application-level abuse, putting Android and FreeBSD on the mesh.

JeffG's fips-mac installs and runs a FIPS node on a Mac and shows the mesh from the menu bar. Johnathan's fipsctl gives you the command-line view.

hzrd149 added FIPS support to nostr-relay-tray, putting your desktop relay on the mesh.

Arjen (nprofile…8d6t) demonstrated LUKS over FIPS, remotely unlocking an encrypted NixOS drive.

hzrd149's FIPS Pong bridged a game across three machines through a browser tab. His own review: "completely useless, but it worked."

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7ctww35hqunfd4skctnwv46z7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyrn45xzuqxwsjpyatl9su2dzejdl6qtwcrmd3yhunrm0lcqcrfyq6hetmjk (nprofile…tmjk) and julien (nprofile…xyae) worked on CruxCoach, which syncs a group's climbing playlist over a local BLE/FIPS mesh without internet access. The app itself can be shared over the same mesh. J also used Android's accessibility features to extract the user's MoonBoard logbook, because the MoonBoard needs to be liberated from its enshittification.

Napplets, runtimes and shells

Nostr is easy to use badly and hard to use well. Key handling, signing, relay selection, caching, encryption, expiry, and on and on. Every client implements all of it, and most implement some of it wrong.

Sandwich spent the past year working on NIP-5D, the napplet protocol. A napplet is a sandboxed, single-purpose app that asks a host shell to handle signing, relay access and storage. It never holds your key, never picks your relays, and doesn't know anything about storage. The hard, security-critical work is handled by the shell.

So to write a Nostr app, you don't have to be a Nostr developer i.e. you. Nostr already hands you self-signed structured data and a client was only ever the presentation layer, but until now, we kept making people rebuild the whole Nostr protocol to build clients. Now, a napplet can be shared over Bluetooth via FIPS, or fit inside a link along with its state which can be run on any of the napplet shells.

gsovereignty (nprofile…r7e4) 's RocketShell is a web runtime for NostrRocket.

yo (nprofile…nyzf) 's Uzel is a native Debian napplet runtime. PABLOF7z (nprofile…fg8w) 's nampplets provides a native Rust runtime for macOS.

hzrd149's Napplet Portal provides a server-backed host you can reach from your phone.

Rage of Empires (Gsovereignty and Yo) - decompiled AoE from the Windows binary and packed into a single 83 MB HTML file, multiplayer running once as a napplet and once as an nsite. As put by a participant, "I thought it was dumb. After a few days I got it. We can reverse engineer so many of the applications from the last generation."

Arjen's Myco is a meta sneakernet app over FIPS mesh to share apps and communications. Sherry (nprofile…ulqg) and Arjen worked on file sharing, think AirDrop over the mesh, and André brought it to the desktop with myco-desktop.

Nostrocket (Gsovereignty and Jeroen ✅ (nprofile…zddk) ) - G started this years ago around an absurdly ambitious question: how do you build a system resilient to psychopaths? Jeroen revived it this cohort, rebuilt as composable napplets. If you are curious, and you should be, go egg them on.

Nappagochi (Sherry) turns your Nostr activity into the changing life of your Nostr pet.

Anon&Mato (Balas) generates a playable world from your npub. It is beautifully created.

XR napplets (Sandwich) - remember Google Glasses? This is napplets on AR glasses! Think HUDs.

Blossoming Hashtrees

We didn't just FIPS, we Nix'd over Blossom(ing) Hashtrees. This one came off a walk, which is the least surprising sentence in this report. A Nix guy and a Blossom dude went up the hill, and came down with Nix packages over Blossom.

Nix addresses everything by hash. Blossom stores blobs by hash. Do you see it now? It was obvious, but the left foot, right foot rhythm was required for left brain, right brain juices to flow and synchronise. By Friday we had Nix packages distributed with no registry.

nixstr-cache (hzrd149) and Narwal with its publisher (Julien)- resolve Nix packages over Nostr and Hashtree, blobs pulled from Blossom, served to an ordinary Nix client. The packages arrive through a standard Nix binary cache interface, so you can keep using nix build. Nostr announcements identify the publisher, and Nix checks the cache signatures against the keys you trust. It barely worked by Friday - very promising, the correct state for a Friday before the BBQ.

Hashtree explainer (hzrd149) - if you always wanted to know what a hashtree is, it's IPFS without the rest of IPFS.

During the Hashtree talk, someone asked whether a map of the Earth could use one root, with smaller areas fetched as you zoomed in. nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdshsqgzg49auy5v8dvk7t2cz4lm0gxzqnzfpz0x9kt9e3mcc0955z39nvgmqn6s8 (nprofile…n6s8) and Franchovy (nprofile…f5yf) went and built Mapplets. They used a modified hashtree for the map and Nostr events for the map data, including Madeira's bus routes. Map tiles load as you zoom, and private overlays are shared with the people you choose.

Just works

Our favourite Poncha bar in Funchal knows us as the Bitcoin people. Its payment terminal had been broken for weeks, so we kept paying in euros. One week a bunch of participants decided to team up and fix the UX.

Just Works ( Thomas (nprofile…3mq9) , Yo and Zaza (nprofile…4fq8) ) was built. Just Works just creates beautiful nsites that just work. It has info, menu, schedules, reviews, news, PoS, payments, etc. and keys.justworks ( Gzuuus (nprofile…h9pq) ) handles the keys underneath.

Just Works takes every establishment in the area. Scrapes their site and their socials, generates a pretty nsite from it, links back to the legacy profiles so their customers still recognise them, gives them an npub, a QR code and a point of sale, and then it puts all of them on the just works map. And you can just start tipping them because you love your local dive bar so much. The owner ends up with a profile, a site, key management and a pile of sats waiting to be claimed.

It also looks good - which is not a sentence we get to write often. Work this far down the stack and you tell yourself beautiful is somebody else's job, right after the protocol is right. Zaza sat down with people one project at a time and showed them otherwise, ran a workshop and by the last demo day almost everything had been Zazafied.

Then we had Granola ( Breno Brito (nprofile…52y5) ), an idea since 2024. At SEC-08 he found people to build it with. It coordinates Cashu atomic swaps over Nostr. Other work explored escrow and dispute resolution in anonymous marketplaces.

Meza ( Gigi (nprofile…tf6v) )- lets you zap a highlighted passage and split the payment between its author, the person who highlighted it, and Boris, the reading app.

600 Billion Timelock TCG ( FLX (nprofile…w87z) and Breno) on Nappelin makes every card in a booster pack a Cashu token, with NUT-22 blinded tokens keeping your hand private. Coloured coins on Cashu, for a card game.

Clankers, data, and the strange stuff

Agents got treated as ordinary users of the network this time. They discover things, pay for things, remember things, and generally make great teammates.

whisperhash (nprofile…773h) 's Nostrology exposes Nostr ecosystem metrics over MCP, maps marketplace growth by geography, and accepts Cashu payments for Nutzap data queries. An agent finds a dataset, pays for a query and gets its answer.

Nectar explores structured, attestable datasets on Nostr.

si-eval explores auditable model evaluation for tasks such as key handling and privacy.

MDK and White Noise agents (JeffG)- used agents to generate thousands of test scenarios for MDK and built White Noise/Marmot connectors for the major agent tools. Other experiments involved shared memory in White Noise groups and short “mantras” intended to improve small models' tool calls.

Rahul explored agents helping with real-life tasks through Mappy, then put an agent inside a napplet with Kipina.

fips.email (Thomas) - accepts email addressed to your npub and forwards it as an encrypted NIP-17 message to your DM relays. He built it for agents, though people can use it too. No FIPS involved. People just love FIPS.

Mist (Julien) lets you explore Nostr conversations in clusters.

We worked on hardware too. Totems running napplets in shells connected in a self-healing mesh of other Totems over FIPS. Participants had flown in with cases of tools and equipment to build. Even so, they could not build the things they really wanted, because Madeira has no makerspace. This inspired two of the participants to start one, ready to fund it themselves. Nodesignal_Podcast (nprofile…6t7h) and other donors piled in behind them, now Nostr Office is giving the lab a home.

People came here to build things and left behind a place for building things.

Talks and workshops

Everyone's AI setup - a fixture now. Every participant shows how they actually work: harnesses, prompts, tools, learnings, etc. No two setups match. You steal two things on day three, then have six weeks to refine and upgrade.

In the spirit of Bitcoin (Gigi) - What does it mean to build it in the spirit of Bitcoin? What is the spirit of Bitcoin? Nobody can define the spirit of Bitcoin in a sentence, but you know it when someone violates it.

Nostr anti-patterns (Gigi) - the old internet is a habit, and habits follow you. The talk was about habits of the old internet and anti-patterns in Nostr, when deliberately avoided, allow us to be liberated from.

Other talks: A primer on Marmot (JeffG), Construction on Nostr (Felix), Everything is a Stream (hzrd149), TEEs (Gzuuus), History of Maps (FLX), and Messaging Protocols (JeffG and Gzuuus)

Cohort Experiments

We skipped the break week this time. By week four everyone was feeling it. SEC-05 had a detox week at that point, and we will probably bring it back.

In week five, Johnathan paired everyone up and asked them to announce their demos three days ahead. Participants appreciated this and took on more complex problems together. We have tried this before and want to keep refining it.

For one week, demos lasted just a minute. You had to decide what people needed to see and get straight to it. The discussions afterwards were better too, because the demos left more questions unanswered. Someone suggested shortening them throughout the cohort, from six minutes in week one to one minute in week six. We want to try that. G also built the Demo Day Command Center to keep us within our allotted time, which provided plenty of entertainment.

The final week was deliberately quieter. After five weeks of building, Gzuuus suggested leaving more time to take it all in and talk to each other. We rarely get six weeks in the same room with these people, and wanted to make the most of the time left.

Walks and barbecues are still the highest leverage R&D we do. Solvitur ambulando.

Paths forward

We didn't know what Sovereign Engineering really was when we started. We set out with a direction, an unshakable belief to "fix the internet". We didn't know how, and most of the tools did not exist. Eight cohorts on, ideas like Totem can finally be built. There is still plenty to figure out, but we can now build things we could only talk about only a year back.

Cohort after cohort of experimenting taught us what works, what doesn't, and how to run the loop that keeps producing ideas like these. Nix and Blossom happened on a walk. Spending six weeks together gives people time to understand each other's work, try something unlikely, abandon it and try again.

But six weeks is a lot to ask. People have jobs they cannot leave and children in school. Some have spent twenty years finding out how systems fail in practice, and we would love to have them here. Wanting to come does not make it possible.

So alongside the six-week cohorts, we are exploring shorter formats. Maybe a week in a mountain hut, working on one question and building towards a demo.

People have also asked about cohorts in other parts of the world. We want to explore that and work with people building local-first hardware/software and mesh networks who might never have considered coming to SEC.

If six weeks is why you have never applied, tell us what you could make time for. If you want to help organise something where you live, come talk to us.

Closing notes

SEC-08 ran on participants going full tilt for six weeks with no breather, and on the captains: Arjen, Gsovereignty, Thomas, Sandwich, Johnathan and Gzuuus, who each steered the ship for a week and took it seriously. Thank you to Zaza for showing us that our work could look beautiful, to SuperPopLimon (nprofile…haqa) for the BBQs and Ponchas, to the ladies at the Cowork for hosting us, to andreloja (nprofile…kxan) for the space and dealing with the unglamorous parts of running Sovereign Engineering, and to Gigi (nprofile…tf6v) for the heart he keeps putting into this.

Head over to the projects page, pick something off this list. Try it, break it, go tell the person who made it. Then come build with us.

The pieces be scattered, laddies, but they be ours. Lash 'em together an' sail.

More: sovereignengineering.io | No Solutions

Yeah, I almost use nostr trough you Calle. Feels like the most ...

2026-09-06T06:35:22Z

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Yeah, I almost use nostr trough you Calle. Feels like the most interesting user by far.

Then I mostly read and just not yet have anything I feel I want to share and blurt out into the void.

I want to connect, not scream from the rooftop.

On other platforms, it feels like it's the rooftop screaming that is the point. To peacock and have verbal dumb fights.

Not here, just.. Connect.

And that drives less interactions I guess.

The kndest win! #nevent1q…qklz

2026-09-03T18:37:19Z

The kndest win!

quoting
nevent1q…qklz

Some participants come to Soveng carrying more than their laptops. They arrive with large backpacks and cases full of equipment to build. We saw this again at SEC-08, which just ended, with hardware projects such as Totem and Tollgate. Without a shared workshop or access to the right tools on the island, some builders could not do everything they had hoped to do.

A couple of participants decided to change that and began planning a small, shared fab lab for the community and were prepared to fund it themselves. Then Nodesignal_Podcast (nprofile…6t7h) generously offered to fund part of it, and other donors came forward too. What began with a couple of participants choosing to solve a problem has become a shared effort, with 3 million sats raised so far. 🫶

We are starting small. Those sats will buy a 3D printer, workbench, storage, tools, chips, devices and other materials the community can use. The lab will be set up at https://nostroffice.nobios.ai/ . A big shoutout to them for giving it a home. They have built something special and have been great friends to Soveng. We are grateful to be building this next piece together.

This is exactly the kind of initiative we love to see and want to encourage more of. Someone sees a need and takes the first step, then a community gathers around them and helps make it real. We want the workshop to grow in that same spirit.

If you'd like to help us put it together, you can contribute here:

`bc1qwatxa4ftrxnnfmx8epr8zqj05gkxsxtrmzq9x4`

If you have something you want to build, come build with us.

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2026-09-03T00:20:53Z

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Ah ok so it isn't revolutionary quicker. And since it's ...

2026-08-06T11:39:56Z

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Ah ok so it isn't revolutionary quicker. And since it's mainly meant for my cold storage I'd be fine with that. I figure I will get both anyway...

Thanks!

Yeah i figured. Just felt like dropping something modestly ...

2026-07-15T22:28:04Z

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Yeah i figured. Just felt like dropping something modestly substantial onto few locals.

I guess a few times can be fun as well. 🤷

This was honestly a really good read. Nothing crazy technical or ...

2026-07-15T21:37:49Z

This was honestly a really good read. Nothing crazy technical or so, just a nice insight into groups, communities and privacy here on nostr. Really good work! it is really exciting yeah?

quoting
nevent1q…xwt4
We've been chasing private messaging on Nostr for years. NIP-04. NIP-17. NIP-29. Our own Universes. Marmot. Every one taught us something, none of them was the whole answer.

Now it is. Encrypted communities, no company in the middle, and we run our entire team on it.

It's built on the Concord Protocol by the Vector team, JSKitty (npub16ye…g4wn) and YuurinBee (npub12w7…ktz3), who pivoted from Marmot to their own protocol.

Alex Gleason (npub1q3s…d26p) worked with them on v2, and we ran with it.

A tip of the hat to Flotilla hodlbod (npub1jlr…ynqn) for leading the NIP-29 charge, too.

I wrote the whole messy, honest story, including the dead ends.

https://soapbox.pub/blog/building-an-armada-voyage-to-encrypted-communities

I am late but i like to party, is this made yet? I love the idea ...

2026-07-15T21:07:03Z

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I am late but i like to party, is this made yet?

I love the idea for a relay to be paid, after expenses the total amount gets zapped back to users.

Kind of like how stacker.news worked, the weekly pool got distributed according to some algo which was weighted towards more active users.

It caps me at 9999 sats per bitcoiner.

2026-07-15T20:56:30Z

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It caps me at 9999 sats per bitcoiner.

Sometimes I forget that you actually exist, and now I see ...

2026-07-15T19:26:46Z

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Sometimes I forget that you actually exist, and now I see you're in my proximity; bam - you're real again.

Weird how that is. But leave the calskrove alone.

@nprofile…9ccm the link in "Even the stupid shit you bought ...

2026-07-15T11:41:53Z

Gigi (nprofile…9ccm) the link in "Even the stupid shit you bought a couple of years ago." in https://dergigi.com/2022/11/19/dear-crypto-fiat-bros/ is pointing to some shit now.

Find a profile you enjoy, subscribe to those relays. Repeat. Stop ...

2026-07-14T11:44:02Z

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Find a profile you enjoy, subscribe to those relays. Repeat. Stop if too many relays and/or your shits all broken.

Then I'll have a listen on your rambling! I'm intrigued ...

2026-07-14T11:42:59Z

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Then I'll have a listen on your rambling! I'm intrigued hehe

Feels like... clients not following NIPs would attract a specific ...

2026-07-14T11:16:21Z

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Feels like... clients not following NIPs would attract a specific crowd or simply die out. And both are ok for me since I use those who follow NIPs...

What about https://molly.im/?

2026-07-08T10:44:42Z

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What about https://molly.im/?

There is. There's several. But they're always shit.

2026-07-08T10:42:04Z

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There is. There's several. But they're always shit.

Cool, but no thank you.

2026-07-01T06:48:11Z

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Cool, but no thank you.

So I have been away for some time. Found myself back. There has ...

2026-06-30T19:25:04Z

So I have been away for some time. Found myself back. There has been much development I have missed so... How do I even know what to set now? Honestly, I feel like all my shits misconfigured or just broken. Where do I even start now? Any new "hey, welcome to nostr! Set yourself up like so" sources?#asknostr please help.

AC is a state of mind.

2026-06-30T19:21:21Z

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AC is a state of mind.

Far better, how so?

2026-06-30T19:18:43Z

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Far better, how so?

Yeah it's nice!

2026-06-29T18:51:28Z

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Yeah it's nice!

Intriguing, where's the data pulled from? Or rather, did You ...

2026-06-28T13:39:09Z

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Intriguing, where's the data pulled from? Or rather, did You make this 😅?

https://bip110.org/

2026-06-27T07:42:16Z

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https://bip110.org/

Honestly, this is something I do by default. And it is weird. ...

2026-06-26T10:47:47Z

Honestly, this is something I do by default. And it is weird. Often I do not get closer to what I want to achieve, however... Sometimes it becomes such a good idea that it moves me closer to where I want to be in a giant leap.

Sadly, it's often not possible to repeat that gain, it's more like a boost onto the next platform from where I can continue as usual.

Yeah, it is a really neat thing to try. Go ahead. Do.

quoting
nevent1q…tema
955451 -- Try The Opposite

Viktor Frankl, the brilliant psychologist, cured patients suffering from phobias or neurotic habits using a method he called "paradoxical intention." Let's say a patient couldn't sleep. The standard therapy would have been something obvious, like relaxation techniques. Frankl instead encouraged the patient to try not to fall asleep. He found that shifting focus off the problem deflected the patient's obsessive attention away from it and allowed them to eventually sleep normally.

Fans of the TV show Seinfeld might remember an episode called "The Opposite" where George Costanza magically improves his life by doing the opposite of whatever he'd normally do. "If every instinct you have is wrong," Jerry says to him, "then the opposite would have to be right." The larger point is that sometimes our instincts or habits get stuck in a bad pattern that pushes us further from our natural, healthy selves.

Now you shouldn't immediately toss out everything in your life--some stuff is working. But what if you explored opposites today? What if you broke the pattern?

"What assistance can we find in the fight against habit? Try the opposite!" -- Epictetus, Discourses, 1.27.4

This is so cool but I also do not know why it is, but here it is. ...

2026-06-25T08:54:53Z

This is so cool but I also do not know why it is, but here it is. And it is so cool. Love it!

quoting
nevent1q…zq6n
I am going to make the best PWA experience you guys have ever seen. Here, Ditto is running (pre-loaded) as a tab on Amethyst, but you can also pop it out and use Ditto (still from inside Amethyst, but in a different activity) and Amethyst at the same time. Full NIP-07 service, via Amethyst's Tor, in full screen without the browser buttons. It will look native.

Insane. I still read it now and then - and really the other words ...

2026-06-11T13:26:31Z

Insane. I still read it now and then - and really the other words from Gigi. They're good words. Mostly.
Yeah. Gigi is someone I think I look up to when writing stuff. Pleasant and enjoyable.

quoting
nevent1q…kqrw
8 years ago. https://dergigi.com/2018/06/10/bitcoin-s-energy-consumption/

How? Please do tell. I am planning to try out creating a chatops ...

2026-04-06T10:22:59Z

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How? Please do tell. I am planning to try out creating a chatops or so via nostr

And/or set up event based triggers for agents so my agents can run by themselves for longer periods of time

Paid relays it is?

2026-03-01T12:03:33Z

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Paid relays it is?

... What would a #homeassistant integration with #cashu look ...

2026-02-09T00:05:15Z

... What would a #homeassistant integration with #cashu look like? What entities could it expose?

Oh wait, just create a #nostr integration. We have #NWC and shit yeah?

Nostr event nevent1qqsys2kahu6w8d3x6hvyg3vhwwztfweu3l2lq5fmex9mqhjsv357lhqzyp2xp8ujfwtx6yusyp735yestktxmp2ulfdx6tzq2j02wpjd56h2shu4p4m

2025-12-31T23:42:43Z

What does a new year really mean? #asknostr

This is really cool. I am not sold on nutella, please do not ...

2025-10-21T11:19:12Z

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This is really cool. I am not sold on nutella, please do not cement it 😅.

Nutella is a shit brand. Please don't name it after a brand.

Hazel nut spread - > hazel?

sending cashu between nutbuddies, via a NutTube or keeping nuts in a nutshell.. I mean the two parties become shellmates. Shellchannel... Cashu, shell, nutella - > cashella?

I don't know man.

I'm sorry what? Yo dawg...

2025-10-14T15:01:09Z

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I'm sorry what? Yo dawg...

Hah At least my domains just cost a fortune on a yearly basis and ...

2025-09-29T08:06:50Z

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Hah

At least my domains just cost a fortune on a yearly basis and most are never used.

Wait..

lol, I look forward to this. Could be neat! #nevent1q…muy5

2025-09-24T14:29:30Z

lol, I look forward to this. Could be neat!

quoting
nevent1q…muy5
SOON… #QuestOfKeys

TatumTurnUp (nprofile…d352) CARLA (nprofile…5dsq) LynAlden (nprofile…xy3a) Mags (nprofile…ec5t) Steven Lubka (nprofile…6mcd) walker (nprofile…sk2p)

https://youtube.com/@questofkeys

Hur långt är ett snöre?

2025-09-24T08:16:20Z

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Hur långt är ett snöre?

Nah mate, the one with the most started unfinished projects when ...

2025-09-23T20:20:06Z

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Nah mate, the one with the most started unfinished projects when one dies, wins.

The trick is to write an OK readme, write an OK plan and post it as open source. Then you can send it to people and hope they'll bite so you can pass the torch.

Wow. I love this. #nevent1q…95em

2025-09-23T19:40:24Z

Wow. I love this.

quoting
nevent1q…95em
Yeah, I have slowly been putting my ideas down about this. I guess I have time to ramble...

Calle and Laan are software. We code, and we are code.

While we are software and abstract, for us to run ourselves and our code we need computers, and computers are physical things. We are bits; our computers are atoms. Unfortunately, our computers, bodies, and communication networks are made of atoms, and they are subject to physical attack.

I believe as a cypherpunk, our main concern is defending against physical attack. We tend to think we exist and work in cyberspace, but we really have to concern ourselves with meat-space.

We have a couple of tricks up our sleeves. One is obviously cryptography, and I think 90% of the heavy lifting of NOSTR and Bitcoin is getting everyone to physically secure a private key. An emphasis on PHYSICAL. Securing a private key is a physical process, not a software process. It is instantiating the key into atoms, defending those atoms, and keeping them private.

NOSTR is good here because as a protocol it remains loose enough to innovate on. Once everyone has a private key, you can go a long way without having to define the networking. Relays, snail-mail or carrier pigeon: you know that this event is from me to you, because we use keys.

I think that the cryptography part is pretty well understood, but we have another trick up our sleeves: the commodification of hardware, or maybe even better: the "roachification" of hardware.

It happens to turn out that in our universe, once a computer can do some very basic functions, it becomes "Turing Complete" meaning the computer can run ANY software in our universe. Some Turing computers have more memory and some are faster, but they can all run any software program to some arbitrary number of steps.

If/when the aliens land, they will be able to run Microsoft Windows on their computers (god help them), and we will be able to run their software. It's an amazing fact about the universe we live in.

This means that you, I, and our code are SUBSTRATE INDEPENDENT. It doesn't matter what the computer is made of: silicon, carbon, DNA—it's all the same. It doesn't matter where the computer is. As long as it can compute.

So while we live on/in computers, and depend on them, they are interchangeable, and fundamentally a commodity on a physics level. Our code is special; our computers are a commodity.

If we recognize this underlying fact about our universe, we can utilize it in our code to give us a great advantage.

Bitcoin's strength is not that it defends its computers; it's that it treats those computers (the nodes, the mining ASICs) as the commodities that they are: redundant and expendable. There is no special computer in Bitcoin.

In my estimation, NOSTR comes the closest of the communication protocols in understanding this. A core tenet of NOSTR is that relays are dumb. Expendable. Commodities. We want the world to be awash with them such that they are like roaches. You stomp on one, and two more appear. They need to be easy and cheap to run.

So I would say that the two key ingredients of NOSTR are:

1. Keys
2. Commodification of hardware.

There are things about NOSTR that I think could "use improvement," but I love it.

Once I discovered NOSTR and saw that I could take my overly important home computer, separate the software from the hardware, turn the hardware into a commodity, and spread my software globally across the internet such that it is everywhere and nowhere, I was hooked.

One of my goals is to be able to walk up to any standard computer, enter my key, and have the entire world that I built in cyberspace available to me. My code, my communications, all there.

My money is controlled by me. It is everywhere, and nowhere.

My code and my network can now be controlled by me. It will be everywhere and nowhere.

Now if I could only upload all of myself from my brain, and save it from this slowly dying computer I am running on.... that would be something. It's actually a good thought experiment, and way to critique a protocol. Imagine you upload your brain to the internet, and you don't want to die. How would you design the network that you live on? The physical infrastructure as well as the protocol?

We should think about this question because it is ultimately what we are doing.

Fucking hell. #cashu and shit

2025-09-23T09:11:02Z

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Fucking hell. #cashu and shit

I'm just thinking a simple ack/nack from a notification in ...

2025-09-23T08:50:40Z

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I'm just thinking a simple ack/nack from a notification in one's phone will suffice

@nprofile…xnfk would it be possible to create a join cashu ...

2025-09-23T08:49:37Z

calle (nprofile…xnfk) would it be possible to create a join cashu account? Let's say a mint is created with n actors. All actors put in the same amount of sats and therefore agree to the mints terms. The terms and rules for how the money is spent is enforced by the mint(?) and rules like "a transaction has to have n-x approvals from the n actors "

My end goal is to create a joint account for friends/family where the joint money only is able to be spent like the group intends, eliminating the need for splitwise/cowbolt and keeping count and manually handling who paid what when for travels et.c. and removing the risk of someone abusing/running away with the full treasury.

Ideas? Input? Does it exist?

Once more don't hurt #nevent1q…nx0e

2025-09-08T08:53:48Z

Once more don't hurt

quoting
nevent1q…nx0e
GM y'all, can you pls send me some of your favorite non-bitcoin focused npubs that don't have as many followers as you'd expect? Maybe keep it less than a few hundred follows.. #asknostr

I keep seeing posts about recruiting more people from other social media to post about things other than bitcoin on nostr.
The problem with that is there are already so many on here doing that but posting into the void at times.
It reminds me of the company that only hires externally and doesn't promote from within. Or the sales department that only goes after the glengarry leads instead of nurturing the sale that was already made..

I'll go first..
Matt (nprofile…nsxe)
Lunapilot (nprofile…8gqd)
PlatoPlato (nprofile…axjq)
jordan (nprofile…kdem)
SebastianFrank (nprofile…49qx)
Katie (nprofile…pgny)
MrAnderson (nprofile…hxr9)
StrikeMissions (nprofile…958t)
islewelleloin (nprofile…rmak)
1776 (nprofile…tyrw)
ShaneHazel (nprofile…vqys)
DEFAUXKING (nprofile…5cyr)

Shill me a few of yours please and thankyou!

Hey @nprofile…xuyp is there an RFC level doc for #nostr? Seems ...

2025-08-05T18:55:26Z

Hey fiatjaf (nprofile…xuyp) is there an RFC level doc for #nostr? Seems hard to dev properly if there's none. I'm shit at searching for it online now.

Now this. This is what we want! #nevent1q…cwza

2025-07-26T18:24:36Z

Now this. This is what we want!

quoting
nevent1q…cwza
🚨SOLO BLOCK FOUND!!

Someone with 48.3 TH/s just mined a Bitcoin block and took home 3.09098963 BTC. 🔥

The kindest person wins #nevent1q…qm9n

2025-07-25T07:56:03Z

The kindest person wins

quoting
nevent1q…qm9n
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

https://sharetext.io/abec0b5b Like this, but with cashu stuff ...

2025-05-16T10:56:19Z

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https://sharetext.io/abec0b5b

Like this, but with cashu stuff added

Yeah that's really really sweet But you do know that ...

2025-05-16T10:52:14Z

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Yeah that's really really sweet

But you do know that doesn't work in all clients, and all other media 😅?

I'd be OK with some middle man service so I can give uninitiated people a neat link you know?

@nprofile…xnfk or #cashu people. Is there any shortener service ...

2025-05-16T10:24:53Z

calle (nprofile…xnfk) or #cashu people. Is there any shortener service or something for an ecash token?
This:
cashuBo2FteB9odHRwczovL3N0YWJsZW51dC5jYXNodS5uZXR3b3JrYXVjc2F0YXSBomFpSABBRr30qa-rYXCDpGFhAmFzeEA3N2ViNzQyNjM2YTIwMWIxYjMyOTVlZjMzMzI2ZjY0NDEyNDFhMmZjMjg1ZTQwMGUwYzFiODc5YzY2MGFmYjQwYWNYIQL4o98xj_clJlRggjNHSMeJViV5WPCHKzg2DBiyJuCJ5WFko2FlWCAareITH8qp-X57TyIiIUmzfoNR63Tk_frjP50cSBdyI2FzWCCCV5ONz3-zQ_YGnO0R8weDpYvkgc2qYKPsgiWILBs8GmFyWCAMBIZnqHOsKvOmxSkAlXqCRFi3yuEHobE4bkOsP_iJ3KRhYQJhc3hAZmQ0NzczNzFjNGQyMDhkNDk1NjcyNmM4NTA2YjMzMzhlMzAzMzNlNTgxZjIyM2NmOTk2NjdlMmFhOTgyNGJiNmFjWCECgVioCuHaVCDfF22HQUuy7eQ5LxdeEL6OSc_3ddRHg9RhZKNhZVggFbjYpSCvvjHjUsq-LjgHPfbY_nYNtJ3THRBLdVOnVyVhc1ggNYlN_UV8Rif9T2gOJRkklwYdTEiY_jwIYhikvTVHfvthclggyTClG8SgIlCYboKRTll1EgcrqWxBFQO0C-_sibrzCg2kYWEBYXN4QDEwYjU4ZGJjZjRkNWE2OGQ5N2Y3NjlhNGU5MjhjMmNhNWIwZWE0N2NhZmVlNmU3YmVlM2ViOTU3NTRkYmFhYmNhY1ghA6e3FwjjIX4yRJgq8gSji2rCdGcxskvZrpnv6SEgaqCaYWSjYWVYIFcv1ElUIcV30ryn2M6HUhBw37xul60OV0I8UCzzUB6eYXNYIAX7nLxb1bYJBO-2tVyoY9YnRaFRMWw7u6S7Pmp0fYD0YXJYIEeWyOi0GgjkogbojdiASWxkEMhuslVqXGqCCQpBE9R3

takes up so much space and looks like shit in a conversation or similar...

Do you hide your external IP when serving #selfhost sites et.c. ...

2025-05-01T22:13:21Z

Do you hide your external IP when serving #selfhost sites et.c. from your #homelab? I'm pondering to get a vps and use that as a proxy...

Finns det några vettiga #svenska eller #nordiska nostr relays? ...

2025-04-28T08:48:19Z

Finns det några vettiga #svenska eller #nordiska nostr relays? Eller kanske någon #nostr grupp? #swe #sweden #nordic #nordics

Why? What is it?

2024-09-09T14:40:42Z

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Why? What is it?

... Wen cashu merch? @nprofile…82wz @nprofile…pluv

2024-09-09T10:18:31Z

... Wen cashu merch? calle (nprofile…82wz) nprofile1qqsvuswpdx9gcppzrz79smctnmydt0l68h9uagym6kwmn5xe9slupdqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd46hg6tw09mkzmrvv46zucm0d5q3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvd6hyun9de6zuenedy7vpluv (nprofile…pluv)

They updated their readme, removed lightning and coinjoin. so ...

2024-07-24T14:53:16Z

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They updated their readme, removed lightning and coinjoin. so idk, maybe never.