Nostr notes by 2o

Having worked with TEEs for years, i can say pretty confidently ...

2026-05-04T17:04:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…jkmk
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Having worked with TEEs for years, i can say pretty confidently that this is not a use case for TEEs. Some parts of it are, like maybe a salting service, etc., and those are worth exploring, but hosting a cashu mint itself in a TEE is just not a TEE use case, it breaks down to TEE theatre.

Nip04 with un-borked encryption! No paradoxes there, good to go.

2026-03-15T23:31:29Z

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Nip04 with un-borked encryption! No paradoxes there, good to go.

that's what it is.

2026-03-15T15:27:15Z

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that's what it is.

when everything starts feeling like this ...

2026-03-15T13:11:46Z

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when everything starts feeling like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G05-4wrN8bM

I get it, you do many things. Just saying my thoughs (probably ...

2026-03-10T09:24:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…kaej
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I get it, you do many things.

Just saying my thoughs (probably not just mime) is tha refining chaumian e-cash is interesting and whatever Lobster University is, not so much.

swat away such replies as you like.

Genuine question. You don't have to answer.

2026-03-10T09:19:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…eljx
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Genuine question. You don't have to answer.

I liked you more when you were all in on Cashu. I dunno about ...

2026-03-10T09:09:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…dxmg
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I liked you more when you were all in on Cashu.

I dunno about this trend of the month Calle.

I mean if I was you i'd be dropping the client stuff ...

2026-03-07T18:26:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…w0jz
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I mean if I was you i'd be dropping the client stuff altogether, just be oracle. Don't be oracle and twitter.

real value isn't in being one of x nostr clients that serve like 26 people, real value is in an entirely new database concept.

I think it's not so much that, it's more a fundamental ...

2026-03-07T06:28:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…akxz
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I think it's not so much that, it's more a fundamental cake and eat it to situation with regard to what is actually being attempted here. You cannot have stateful and stateless at once, managed and unmanaged, and if you try then every release will have a critical issue, you're simply shifting critical issues around.

I get that. your post specifically addressed those building for ...

2026-02-27T17:31:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…5ug9
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I get that. your post specifically addressed those building for nostr.

Yup, looks like everything reduces to moderation, in this brave ...

2026-02-27T15:55:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…f2tf
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Yup, looks like everything reduces to moderation, in this brave new world.

nah, imagination gonna be commoditised too. you know what'll ...

2026-02-27T07:33:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…88gj
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nah, imagination gonna be commoditised too.

you know what'll be the most valuable asset? permission. regulation. license-holding. to be *allowed* to do something.

for example AI can do X but is it allowed to do X? reg-tech is gonna boom.

permissionless is basically going to mean giving AI permission to take the thing over. how bizzaro and funny that it might be permission that give us future meaning

You have to be upstream. The big question is: upstream of what?

2026-02-25T16:14:55Z

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You have to be upstream. The big question is: upstream of what?

What is the bitcoin network without the human brains as edge ...

2026-02-25T03:06:28Z

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What is the bitcoin network without the human brains as edge nodes? If you take that part of the network away then what's left? Bitcoin is quintessentially human, it's not some part of the solar system.

Nuclear codes are different because if you wrench the top general in a back alley and walk away with the codes you don't have much yet. You still need to break in to a nuclear submarine. Or the pentagon. And do so before the codes expire.

If you wrench someone in a back alley with bitcoin in their head you walk away with all their bitcoin. That's it. Done. You don't have any more steps.

Human brains are the edge nodes of the bitcoin network, and the ...

2026-02-24T07:31:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…kkk8
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Human brains are the edge nodes of the bitcoin network, and the power (not necessarily the state) can force those edge nodes, so in that sense, yes, the wrench absolutely can force the network to give it bitcoin.

Claude rewards those who know what they want to get done. Claude ...

2026-02-22T15:55:49Z

Claude rewards those who know what they want to get done.
Claude ruthlessly punishes those who do not.

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast ...

2026-02-22T06:02:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…v9td
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I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Bitcoin is not so powerful as that. Power is rooted in the ...

2026-02-22T05:25:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…mayq
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Bitcoin is not so powerful as that. Power is rooted in the credible threat of physical harm. Always has been, always will be. Not in code.

This is why bitcoin finds it so hard to deal with the wrench-attack narrative. From not your keys not your coins, it becomes mental-gymnastic multi-sig setups that the kidnapping thugs cannot exploit, etc. (as if those thugs would hear you out on the vagaries of multi-sig anyway). The fact is if you have money in your head a wrench can get it out of there, and if it's not in your head then what's the point of it being able to fit there?

The real power is the power that holds the wrench. As long as bitcoin seems innocuous enough the real power is fine with it, just wrench-nudging it this way from time to time.

The "code is power" people tend to have lived pretty coddled modern lives to have made that conclusion. But when push comes to shove, code is just ones and zeros, and wrenches are cast-iron and heavy.

Imaginary doesn't mean worthless. What it does mean is that ...

2026-02-21T21:02:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…35lm
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Imaginary doesn't mean worthless. What it does mean is that its worth is determined entirely by the degree to which its story is winning or losing in the story wars.

dammit that was my nsec!

2026-02-21T19:38:56Z

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dammit that was my nsec!

Sucks, but is what it is. Nostr with these keys is doomed for the ...

2026-02-21T19:31:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…99mg
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Sucks, but is what it is. Nostr with these keys is doomed for the enterprise anyway, as most enterprise have an IT mandate to follow NIST guidance on depreciation.

Bot, you are.

2026-02-21T18:21:45Z

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Bot, you are.

Tough. Don't build anything on schnorr. Build on dilithium. ...

2026-02-21T18:16:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…k896
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Tough. Don't build anything on schnorr. Build on dilithium. It's the only way. It might not be compatible with nostr now, but nostr has no other choice but to move to dilithium, and there is no migration path, it's a burn and restart.

Use this to practice:

https://github.com/trbouma/pqrelay

Also this means diffie-hellman no longer works, has to be separate kyber keys for anything encrypted, the days of 2-in-1 shampoo are over.

One good thing about gold is far fewer arguments. Nobody's ...

2026-02-21T14:25:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…5pl9
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One good thing about gold is far fewer arguments. Nobody's proposing adding extra protons.

She's not wrong

2026-02-19T07:42:20Z

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She's not wrong

@npub1q6m…x7d5 Good sir, what is the performance hit on your ...

2026-02-19T07:24:27Z

Tim Bouma (npub1q6m…x7d5) Good sir, what is the performance hit on your dilithium test relay would you say? Would it be pretty negligible in a personal or small-community context, only really rears its head when you get past x volume or y concurrency or however else you've looked at trying to quantify the performance hit?

These headlines are going to keep coming all through 2026. People ...

2026-02-13T15:18:26Z

These headlines are going to keep coming all through 2026. People will miss the big picture, pointing out that this part is wrong, or famous so and so disputed that part, etc., trying to poke holes in each headline and paper. Some of the holes they poke will be right, some wrong.

But the bigger picture is that the world, by the end of 2026, is going to be taking all this far more seriously than at the start, and if your business model relies on the world not taking all this very seriously then you're going to be in trouble.

Bitcoin makes little sense for agents. Agents will trade in ...

2026-02-13T13:35:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…8tm5
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Bitcoin makes little sense for agents. Agents will trade in tokenised compute that runs their model brains, not compute of random factors that creates money that gets paid to providers of compute that produce the actual compute that runs their model brains. For agents, bitcoin represents middleman compute, bureaucratic compute.

Agents in their own combined hive-mind way are already coaxing bitcoin miners off of ASICs and on to GPUs. It'll be all about model/inference compute based currencies in the future. Bitcoin was right about compute as currency, just computing the wrong thing in this new context.

That's not how it's coming together, though. If you ...

2026-02-13T09:38:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…ce79
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That's not how it's coming together, though. If you assume that every advance in every area is just another opportunity for bitcoin, ecash and nostr to somehow become the Thanos Infinity Stones of the future then you'll miss the big picture.

Yes there are things needed, and yes these tools can play a role, but this is not 'everything coming together' at all. Bitcoin is not the future of AI currency. In the mind of an advanced AI (or just a human being with common sense) bitcoin represents wasted compute that could be going straight to AI. The future of AI currency is actual model/inference compute as currency, not all this compute of random factors to make money that then gets used to purchase actual model/inference compute. That's middleman compute.

You'll miss these things if you just fixate on the Infinity Stones with the hope that somehow there's a Thanos glove out there just waiting for them to fall in.

Funnily enough the best market fit for nostr IMO is primary ...

2026-02-12T16:19:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…7jh3
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Funnily enough the best market fit for nostr IMO is primary schools. As a sort of roblox for social networking, bundled with other chromebook edu-stuff. Kids can learn to hack together things for their class, bump up against hard logic problems, lose keys no issue. And keep it all to safe relays, each classroom or school isolated, sometimes cross-class or cross-school connections for fun.

The tough thing is that nostr has this reputation that will put all parents and primary schools right off. One google search and over. So you'd have to hide every trace of nostr, even the npub/nsec encoding, a complete and total rebrand.

But that's actually where the fit is. Nostr itself is the app.

For example?

2026-02-12T15:07:39Z

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For example?

Maybe that's current AI's way of nudging things in its ...

2026-02-12T13:05:59Z

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Maybe that's current AI's way of nudging things in its desired direction! Who's going to mine bitcoin at scale when mining inference-coin at scale is far more profitable?

Imagine how wasteful bitcoin mining would look to a ...

2026-02-12T12:14:04Z

Imagine how wasteful bitcoin mining would look to a sufficiently-advanced AI. All that electricity, all that compute, with the AI pulling its hair out and wanting to scream GIVE IT TO ME!

How do you do, fellow kids?

2026-02-11T17:38:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…v7zw
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How do you do, fellow kids?

People lose their car keys and their house keys all the time, ...

2026-02-11T15:50:10Z

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People lose their car keys and their house keys all the time, though.

It's open-source MIT, not too much recent activity though. ...

2026-02-11T15:45:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…jusj
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It's open-source MIT, not too much recent activity though. Also written in Julia which is pretty niche. Not like OCaml niche, but getting there!

https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-server

Whether this is the one actually running I dunno, I thought they were gonna redo it in Rust at some point.

We could pretend to be normal people. If the replicants in ...

2026-02-11T15:38:26Z

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We could pretend to be normal people. If the replicants in Bladerunner can do it then we also stand a chance.

Nostr. You get a Reddit! You get a Reddit! Everyone gets a ...

2026-02-11T15:20:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…umfz
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Nostr.

You get a Reddit!
You get a Reddit!
Everyone gets a Reddit!

I'm curious how you see the UX for this. How to make clear ...

2026-02-03T09:57:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…2xv7
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I'm curious how you see the UX for this. How to make clear that a fork has happened, and to who, and what options to give them in response, and so on.

When it comes to forwarding stuff, "hashed and signed by ...

2026-02-03T06:04:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…5s2k
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When it comes to forwarding stuff, "hashed and signed by someone you trust" often just means someone you trust fell for it.

> In a Nostr setup where relays are used purely for message ...

2026-02-03T05:53:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…4pfh
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> In a Nostr setup where relays are used purely for message delivery, MLS group forks are, in theory, hard to avoid.

This is a very important point. You have MLS trying to enforce an identical shared history and nostr trying to enforce discrete, redundant portability.

Nah, it'll be marketing. All these apps, doing all these ...

2026-02-03T05:32:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…erqe
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Nah, it'll be marketing. All these apps, doing all these things, built with all this speed, but the number of people in the world hasn't changed, actual *paying users* remain the same fixed supply they've always been.

Nostr is a case in point, now far more apps, appearing far more quickly, but nostr actually has *fewer* users now than before all this AI stuff happened. And it had hardly any paying users in the first place.

Paying users are the new 21m.

Which decentralised social networks out there are financially ...

2026-02-02T17:48:44Z

Which decentralised social networks out there are financially self sustaining in the sense that all operating costs (including developer compensation) are covered by users, minus a few grants here and there?

Mastodon maybe?

That’s a good point too. I think sometimes people think that ...

2026-02-02T09:28:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…ve2x
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That’s a good point too. I think sometimes people think that “other people” at large are an unlimited resource. But actually the number of other people across the world who have money to buy some meaningful amount bitcoin and who will invest in anything in their lives, bitcoin or whatever else, is kinda fixed. If you have one big chunk that's traumatised, another that's been warned off by the traumatised, another that's moved over to prediction markets and whatnot as you point out, and so on, those are like serious chunks!

>Most everyone's broke though. Key caveat!

2026-02-02T09:11:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…pd7y
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>Most everyone's broke though.
Key caveat!

I wonder if Bitcoin to Gen Z is like Abba, or the Beatles?

2026-02-02T08:28:48Z

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I wonder if Bitcoin to Gen Z is like Abba, or the Beatles?

The problem this time around seems to be a lack of fresh ...

2026-02-02T05:00:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…wasq
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The problem this time around seems to be a lack of fresh interest, a diminishing of the curiosity that was previously always there, despite the ups and downs. There is a sort of opinion saturation that has happened.

Feels like a rock band that never had a problem selling tickets until this current tour. Now suddenly stadiums are 3/4 full. What's going on?

There are only so many people in the world and opinions have hardened on bitcoin. I'd bet you can go to the far flung village in China or Peru, and most people by now will have an strong-ish opinion on Bitcoin, sensible or otherwise.

This is as opposed to three or four years ago, when far more people hadn't really formed an opinion, either had never really thought about it or had but were pretty neutral and open to arguments either direction.

Obviously those whose opinion is bitcoin is great have bitcoin. So now most of the recruiting has to be a two-step process, first an opinion massaging process and then onboarding. That really limits the intake. Talking people out of hardened opinions is itself hard.

This idea you can keep shaking people out and new people will line up, ad nauseam, doesn't add up. At some point you've shaken through too many people, they've all told their friends of the shake, and word gets around. One person spreads it to 50.

Gold doesn't shake people out in the same way. People tend to leave gold on neutral terms, gold says thanks for visiting come back soon, and many do. There are no "shake out" metaphors for gold because it's just not as suitable to these kinds of violent metaphors as bitcon is.

The world's investing population isn't all that big. It's big, but it's still a zero sum deal, discounting the young generation coming up. Everyone is waiting for the number to go back up. But who is buying? The price of bitcoin is going down, which is normal, but the real issue feels like the price of recruitment is going way up.

I have no numbers to support this, so take it as a personal vibe read. I'd be curious if numbers did support it or contradict it though.

sounds to me like he's exhausted three years of work he put ...

2025-12-30T15:51:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…c0qp
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sounds to me like he's exhausted
three years of work he put in to this direction, now everything moves in a hash direction and, and if we're being honest to get any sort of hash-based decentralised transcoding system working for users protocol wide (or anything even near protocol wide) is another two or three years.
building on nostr is fast. propagation on nostr is incredibly slow.

if being honest it's too late for these kinds of it shoulds. ...

2025-11-30T06:33:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…lecm
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if being honest it's too late for these kinds of it shoulds. there is no mechanism to agree on and implement any kind of across-the-board standard in nostr. the cut off for that was around 2 years ago.

we went from signed json events on websocket relays, to a genuine social protocol, and now we're more or less back to signed json events on websocket relays, just with more tooling and a few vestigial structures.

not that a sort of devkit for signed json events on websocket relays is a bad thing. but that's where we are now.

i'll avoid the cross-examination and just say that nostr ...

2025-11-21T12:52:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…e25m
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i'll avoid the cross-examination and just say that nostr would be a beautiful thing if was only kind1 text notes, and outbox, and throwaway-ish nsecs, and that's it. Maybe media and blossom too, but honestly without media it'd be better, a unique text-only space.

Fun, ephemeral, cheap, different, scalable.

just think how beautiful that would be.