Nostr notes by Nuh

What does it say about the internet and society and game theory ...

2026-10-26T09:30:10Z

What does it say about the internet and society and game theory and trust minimization and all that jazz, that the "black october" didnt have any effect on your life whatsoever?

Another zio bites the dust #nevent1q…wyt7

2026-10-26T07:27:06Z

Another zio bites the dust

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nevent1q…wyt7
⚡️🇷🇸 NEW - Serbia celebrates Vučić's defeat all night

After 14 years of Aleksandar Vučić's political dominance, his bloc has lost the snap parliamentary elections. The opposition Student List, which emerged from mass anti-government protests, has claimed victory.

You are right that miners have little to lose if they try to fuck ...

2026-10-26T07:00:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…3xnc
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You are right that miners have little to lose if they try to fuck with Rootstock, but is only true as long they have nothing to gain too, but they also can lose their mining pool reputation, but then again maybe no one cares. I simply am confortable with the fact that getting 50% of miners to agree to coordinate to do anything is impossible. But that is just me.

There is one alternative that i would consider better which is a Metaprotcol on Bitcoin itself. The block space scarcity and high latency doesnt matter when your needs are scarce but consequential, like a registry or a DAO or managing proof of stake for another layer etc.

Brc20 and the like are already doing that, but they depend on a reference binary with centralized development... one can imagine using RiscZero to create a metaprotocol that is entirey minimal and ossified and thus needs no central authority to ship updates.

Pretty happy that Lula won. May the US lackeys never win anywhere ...

2026-10-26T06:51:15Z

Pretty happy that Lula won. May the US lackeys never win anywhere ever.

This is not true, the problem is that the main expenses still ...

2026-10-25T11:41:09Z

This is not true, the problem is that the main expenses still dont accept it, and it has no privacy so even if it does, do you want to let your landlord and local grocery shop know roughly how much you own??

The privacy problem is solvable though, the acceptance is much harder.

But people DO spend it, every time you buy it someone has sold it, most likely to get cash to pay the rent

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nevent1q…46sn
Bitcoin already won. We have a digital, free and apolitical asset that can be used to transact. Problem is that we just do not want to transact with it, but HODL. ✌️

Wont be surprised if this increased their shares price!

2026-10-24T13:07:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…qkl3
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Wont be surprised if this increased their shares price!

No. Miners only merge mine Rootstock because they are getting ...

2026-10-24T13:02:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…e73m
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No. Miners only merge mine Rootstock because they are getting paid more than the marginal cost of the merge mining. This will always be the case, whether the bridge is secure or not. The bridge security only directly matters to the long term holders of RBTC which indirectly affects demand of Rootstock which affects miners profitability.

If merge miners are still mining Rootstock with sufficient ratio, then they must be invested enough in its security, at least enough to incur the cost of merge mining, and competing with anyone merge mining a fork (votes on which chain is valid).

As a user of a name registry, you shouldnt care at all about RBTC price, as long as merge mining participation is large then you are getting the security of the honest majority mining bitcoin, because they chose to run Rskj, and since we already assume it is hard for them to collude on Bitcoin it is alao hard to collude to fake Rootstock history.

Anyways I have nothing more to say about this, and not invested enough in what do you end up choosing. Best of luck.

Who cares? If RBTC is worth 80k or 50 cents, the name system ...

2026-10-23T12:47:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…59m4
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Who cares? If RBTC is worth 80k or 50 cents, the name system works just the same. And if the system is designed well, it should work mostly offchain anyways.

But even for use cases that requires long term holding, i would personally trust RBTC to have more value 10 years from now than ETH.

The bridge has performed perfectly so fat, and it will get better with BitVM and eventually if we have a bitcoin softfork... ETH has nothing going for it as far as i can tell other than liquidity, which is barely relevant to the usecase at hand, and it isnt a moat. If Solana and Hyperliquid can do it, so can Rootstock. But Rootstock will always have the best track record in bridging BTC, simply because history of principled development cant be faked.

OTS is not enough you have to force the attacker to publish the ...

2026-10-22T06:51:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…ys6j
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OTS is not enough you have to force the attacker to publish the fake checkpoint, otherwise there is no cost for the attack and the rational thing to do is to do it just in case the honest chain is not available in the future, in which case you can scam people, for example with network partitioning.

But also none of this actually exists on Ethereum consensus. Some proof of stake chains are built on bitcoin and has these guarantees.

But then the question is why not merge mining, because the proofs of merge mining is actually easier than reading the bitcoin chain and reading checkpoints with all the signatures in them.

Even ethereum people understand that PoW makes light clients much simpler and easier to implement.

Once you are on rootstock, it becomes easier to implement PoS for things that really need it, like high throughput payments, but then the contract state saves you all the work of finding the true checkpoint, as you see in rollups.

Anyways just keep using ethereum if you like. There is nothing at stake here anyways, there is zero demand :)

I mean, even ethereum developers wont make these claims. What you ...

2026-10-20T11:34:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…cuej
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I mean, even ethereum developers wont make these claims. What you explained is just subjectivity, you are guaranteed to agree with everyone who has been online as often as you are. But it is simply impossible to settle this programatically. I can make a software that looks at all suggested bitcoin histories and return the best chain, and the only assumptions are; 1) 51% of miners are honest (they can revert all history if they work hard and waste actual resources for years) and 2) you can hear of the canonical chain (network partitioning)

Ethereum doesnt have this, because 1) as you said people who unstake waste absolutely nothing 2) even if they dont unstake, they can share a fake history with a zk system without making their signatures public so they cant be slashed, while bitcoin requires energy consumption, not just slashing risk and 3) while a checkpointing node can be safe, that is worthless for any programs or onchain script or any stateless functions

Basically we both agree that you are fine on ethereum if you are constantly online, but anything else doesnt work.

But also, why would i accept ethereum limitations when i dont have to? Any proof of stake system anchored to bitcoin inherits bitcoins strong subjectivity guarantees with one assumption ; the network is ready to challenge checkpoints before they are finalized, as in; most stakers are honest at every window W (say 14 days) in the past.

But even if this assumption doesnt hold, you only lose correctness, possibly, but you never have to wonder what would others conclude, the answer is; exactly what you conclude.

So my question is, why would anyone bother with ethereum for what you are doing? It is not like you need ethereum liquidity or defi

You are wasting your time. Instead you should find users who ...

2026-10-19T10:55:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…xz84
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You are wasting your time. Instead you should find users who actually care and give them the service. You cant create demand. Nostr is struggling from much deeper apathy. It is a solution that most people simply dont want.

The real answer is that the current PoWPeg (federated multisig in ...

2026-10-19T10:52:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…mt0l
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The real answer is that the current PoWPeg (federated multisig in HSM verifying the merge mining) provides the finalitt, because the software refuses any reorgs deeper than roughly a day.

Theoretically any BitVM or GSR or other trustless bridge mechanism, will also require some delay to consider a block safe to withdraw from, so that would also be an obvious way to measure finality, exactly like Bitcoin is assumed impossible to reorg furthet than 100 blocks back.

So a mining pool of course can reorg anything, but they can only do that for grieving, they wont get any value from it, because whatever bridge you design will provide finality or otherwise be totally insecure.

I explained this repeatedly, sidechains are ephemeral, you cant design a sidechain that doesnt have checkpoints.

The question is, are the checkpoints subjective or objective?

Finality in Rootstock can be objective because everyone going through the history can achieve the same conclusion, at least theoritically with minimal changes to consensus. But also if we just all agree that anything buried under two weeks of bitcoin blocks is final. This is the beauty, bitcoin provides an objective clock.

Ethereum doesnt have this, which is why it is called weak subjective guarantees. Meaning that you cant actually make objective decision that matches what everyone agrees on, not without going online and making some human judgement on which checkpoints are actually valid. Becauase creating checkpoints costs nothing whatsoever. Someone staking eth a decade ago can create whole decade worth of alternative chain and checkpoints, and it is indistinguishable from the canonical chain.

Bitcoin is basically an oracle, it tells you what did majority of people "saw" in the past. Ethereum doesnt have that.

Happy Oct 7th everyone, and may more death to zionists be in our ...

2026-10-07T02:25:50Z

Happy Oct 7th everyone, and may more death to zionists be in our near future.

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2026-10-04T10:57:54Z

If you think BTC is scarce, wait till you hear about PMF!

Facebook has a strong network of real people, all know each other ...

2026-09-29T06:41:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…gvjl
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Facebook has a strong network of real people, all know each other and trust each other... And share countless lies every day.

Trying to build the "decentralised digital marketplace of ...

2026-09-27T13:54:16Z

Trying to build the "decentralised digital marketplace of ideas" have always been futile, but now it is not even worthwhile even if possible. It is back to direct messaging and private groups and tightly moderated forums. None of which requires relays or indexers, and would be better served with good old email, with slight marginal optional upgrades, like sovereign identity.

Make sure you take your existing internet friends contacts now before it is too late. Mine will always be listed on Nuh.dev, and eventually on an MNS domain too.

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nevent1q…s99d
I think we are in the middle of a great reset in the idea of internet friends.

Why would you write a LinkedIn post if only AI is reading it? Why would post a TikTok, but AI is taking your idea and making it more appealing and steal all your credit? Why would you spread your knowledge nobody but AI will read it? Why would you write a book, if nobody but AI reads it?

I don't know most of you personally. I only know you are human because our connection predates AI.

New users, though, don't have that certainty. For them anyone can be an AI. And that drives them away.

We need to recalibrate the point of having internet friends.

And, with so much junk throw at us for the past 20 years, I don't know what the point is anymore. 🤔

If they were not genocidal scum, I would have focused more on ...

2026-09-26T17:35:41Z

If they were not genocidal scum, I would have focused more on them being the most cringe and immature scum in history, sovereignty and power doesn't suit them and they can't handle it. They hate responsibility and accountability, they only want power, power to kill children with impunity.

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nevent1q…u5xh
⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇳 NEW - The Israeli ambassador to the UN was expelled from the General Assembly after walking up the central aisle for disruption and harassment against the Iranian speaker.

As good opportunity to share how MNS names and avatars look as ...

2026-09-26T15:34:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…dllt
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As good opportunity to share how MNS names and avatars look as any; https://testnet.mns.mlkut.org/owner/0x3586e7fd54ec38e737c6d18fec4f7617910523d7 (excuse it if it is slow, I have some bugs I am too lazy to fix)

*256

2026-09-26T15:32:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…dllt
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*256

True Entropy is impossible to reduce ... The reason MNS names are ...

2026-09-26T15:32:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…8a6k
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True Entropy is impossible to reduce ... The reason MNS names are easy to encode, is because they have 40 bits of entropy, not 265.

The real question is why do we invent push notifications schemes ...

2026-09-22T08:45:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…ks93
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The real question is why do we invent push notifications schemes when we already have SMTP? What is a notification if it is not a small ephemeral mail?

You literally get notifications mail in the physical mail box... And you get notifications and alerts in your email too, like payments reminders, calendar reminders, and all sorts of ephemeral notifications and reminders.

Not sure why do you think you need something other than SMTP to solve this problem once and for all.

Everything is mail. SMS should be mail, notifications should be ...

2026-09-22T08:42:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…8cu6
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Everything is mail. SMS should be mail, notifications should be mail... It is literally the same function.

Mail doesn't mean you need to read it, it can be your machine is going to handle it.

There is no filling up, that is like saying your phone is filled up with YouTube videos you watch... Sufficiently smart email client can always clean up ephemeral notifications.

The whole concept of "fill up your inbox" is just a ...

2026-09-22T05:48:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…v8u8
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The whole concept of "fill up your inbox" is just a failure of UX. We are in the age of smart fuzzy filters, emails should be perfectly capable of garbage collection and not showing you emails that don't need your attention in the first place. It is crazy that email clients still have the UI of a pile of emails with absolutely no organisation. Even chat apps do the basics decency of grouping messagea by contact.

That's the point, almost all notifications (other than ...

2026-09-21T11:26:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…fpaf
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That's the point, almost all notifications (other than emergency calls and SMS and whitelisted email contacts like your boss or spouse) should be asynchronous and batched.

The reason I say email, is because we shouldn't reinvent the wheel. Signal should be an email client, WhatsApp should be an email client etc...

Apps like twitter and facebook and discord etc shouldn't have notifications at all, except through emails.

My point is, pushing data to others has been already solved; email. And notifications already exist for email clients and can be customized there... So why do we keep inventing push notifications again with other weird solutions that aren't email??

By clock I mean when you set alarms ... I guess the calendar ...

2026-09-21T10:31:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…5m75
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By clock I mean when you set alarms ... I guess the calendar belongs to the same category.

I can refine this by saying;
1. Phone and SMS from external sources and strangers.
2. Clock, Calendar, etc for local personally chosen alarms.
3. Email for everything else coming from apps and services etc.

A calendar can belong to #3, but you don't need a backend for the calendar app, as you said it is similar to a clock on your device.

The only apps that should make notifications are; Phone, SMS, ...

2026-09-21T08:15:03Z

The only apps that should make notifications are; Phone, SMS, Clock, and Email. And even the Email notifications are better batched once an hour or more, unless you whitelist contacts for instant notifications.

I am constantly surprised how well Mastodon works actually. It ...

2026-09-16T19:28:48Z

I am constantly surprised how well Mastodon works actually. It needed absolutely nothing more than a fix for identity.

All I want from these networks is being able to follow the feeds I want without mediators. It is what I would have reinvented if I wanted to build a social media based on emails.

I think I will invest more time in it going forward.

Centralized exchanges shutting down in bear markets, LSPs are ...

2026-09-15T12:04:18Z

Centralized exchanges shutting down in bear markets, LSPs are going to do the same. Blockchains will remain the only viable and sustainable system.

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2026-09-13T20:25:30Z

Letting another man tell you your intelligence score is gaaaay

Best tweet in history ...

2026-09-12T15:56:53Z

Best tweet in history https://xcancel.com/Yampeleg/status/1737109887627436243?sort=Recency#r

I think it is crazy that people don't manage distributing ...

2026-09-12T14:01:56Z

I think it is crazy that people don't manage distributing software on a blockchain like Rootstock, it should be the most obvious place for registeries... Yes MNS is one registry, but many registries don't need short names and could be identified by a contract address, allowing teams to manage access to the release rights in more sophisticated ways than any bare keys can including any tricks you can make with advanced multisig constructions, and the cost is irrelevant, you don't release new versions every day.

They can't IPO on merit alone given the Chinese ...

2026-09-11T14:13:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…5r0c
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They can't IPO on merit alone given the Chinese competition... So they are trying to pretend they are the new military industrial complex.

The problem is simply lack of demand. If there is indeed a demand ...

2026-09-09T14:23:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…7uhl
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The problem is simply lack of demand. If there is indeed a demand for payments, we could build L3 over Rootstock and it would be glorious. But there is so little demand that people would brush it off as federation, as if they don't use custodial LNs or custodial ecash mints.

If you woke up and wondering: "did the jews kill any children ...

2026-09-09T06:37:11Z

If you woke up and wondering: "did the jews kill any children today?" The answer yes the did.. the answer is yes every fucking day. They fucking live for that shit, it is their entire purpose in life apparently.

Where? Can't see anything, and even their Comms is garbage ...

2026-09-09T06:35:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…259r
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Where? Can't see anything, and even their Comms is garbage and they don't engage developers with public roadmaps as they should. They keep focusing on institutions or whatever and the bridge keeps bleeding.

I would love to see some hopium

It is more complicated than "federation bad".. it seems ...

2026-09-06T20:58:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…29hm
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It is more complicated than "federation bad".. it seems like an inflation bug that would have worked even if the bridge is trustless

Unless of course the trustless bridge has a decent delay, and sidechain miners decided to revert the chain, which would be the correct thing to do

An engineer should also note that any L2 that behaves like a BFT ...

2026-09-02T18:42:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…0u25
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An engineer should also note that any L2 that behaves like a BFT of dozens of operators is fundamentally more reliable than a P2P network trying to do to money what ISPs did to internet packets, ignoring that isps don't need a balanced egress and ingress.

A Drivechain where miners hire and fire 50 something operators to act as a decentralised permissioned BFT, could have worked almost as well as Visa and MasterCard if not better.

But Bitcoin not only refusef to enable bip300/1 it refused any opcode that could possibly emulated the same effect...

If we ever get GSR it might be too late too.

I don't think that is the only backing, it is true that these ...

2026-08-31T09:33:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…87vw
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I don't think that is the only backing, it is true that these powers established the backing, but even if the US is entirely a benign empire or just an isolationist republic it would have achieved the same effect given two things;
1. US was very safe and wealthy after the entire planet was wrecked in WWII (which wasn't the US fault)
2. The US is very happy to take debt (provide liquidity, in fact countries were scared once that if the US paid all it's debts the liquidity will disappear) AND be hyper capitalist that will honour its debts and property rights.

Both these aspects basically made the US the biggest most liquid and most reliable market.

Note that London lost its empire but is still a significant market mainly because it insisted on honouring property rights and pay their debts despite the painful price their industries had to pay.

So if the US gave up the empire and only acted as a reliable liquid market, ironically their market hegemony will thrive longer.

The only reason it is not sustainable is because they are using it as a financial weapon and bullying countries with it, so increasingly everyone will try to find an alternative even if not as liquid.

But Bitcoin isn't ready and not big enough to be that thing... Not yet.

Still is treasury bonds and us dollar... Unmatched liquidity

2026-08-31T03:26:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…w5u7
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Still is treasury bonds and us dollar... Unmatched liquidity

Good for you for trying something you care about even if not many ...

2026-08-29T09:47:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…hncy
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Good for you for trying something you care about even if not many understand or want to use it. I feel the same about MNS name system, but what can you do other than play once you have your basic needs met?

US wants to blow up the global financial system if the world ...

2026-08-25T20:04:53Z

US wants to blow up the global financial system if the world doesn't fight Iran on their behalf, and Bitcoin is entirely irrelevant almost two decades once inception. Not happy about that at all.

Full nodes by default are just a free redundancy for the data ...

2026-08-22T18:58:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…fgfl
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Full nodes by default are just a free redundancy for the data availability of Bitcoin, very nice help for SPV clients. But they have no power on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is defined as the heaviest valid chain, the weight part is defined by miners, but the validity part is defined by people providing the purchasing power to Bitcoin both today but indirectly future buyers who may be running older nodes including someone running a 10 years old node.

So let's recap; Miners decide what is the heaviest chain, but miners have costs so they need to make sure they are mining a chain that is not worthless، which means the exit liquidity (from BTC to whatever fiat they need or even if their electricity provider accept Bitcoin) dictates which chain they will build on top.

So let's recap AGAIN, who decides what bitcoin is? The people who buy bitcoin every day or every week or every month or whatever... Of course sellers matter too, so if you start selling all your "Core Coins" and start buying "Bip110 coins" you are voting on the chain you want ... And if you are the majority, monetary wise (ironic right) then you will win.

What frustrates both puritans who hate opreturn, and the covenants enthusiasts who want bitcoin to be trustlessly bridged everywhere, is that most people who buy and hold bitcoin aren't actually as invested in either direction unfortunately.

Every DAO should have an uncofiscatable domain, and people should ...

2026-08-20T13:50:37Z

Every DAO should have an uncofiscatable domain, and people should fork Brave browser to add support for that. As shown in MNS it is not hard to encode smart contract IDs as human readable names, even if you don't use MNS, in the same way Ordinals work.

quoting
nevent1q…hav2
⚡️⚠️ NEW - He clicked on the former official Tornado Cash domain… and lost 1,010 ETH.

The victim had saved tornadocash in his bookmarks. The domain, which had not been renewed following OFAC sanctions, had since been taken over by hackers and turned into a phishing site.

1,010 ETH drained in just 12 hours

The group is reported to have already stolen nearly 4,000 ETH using similar methods over the past year.

They call not signalling for a soft fork a hard fork... ...

2026-08-16T13:30:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…u8g8
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They call not signalling for a soft fork a hard fork... Impossible to be this ignorant, they just decided that they personally are the definition of consensus. Mental.

The bip110 leaders that are calling their failure a coordinated ...

2026-08-15T20:42:52Z

The bip110 leaders that are calling their failure a coordinated attack can't be this stupid, they simply can't , this is easier malice or psychological breakdown ... Weird as hell.

If you say you are the chosen people over the goyim ... You ...

2026-08-05T12:33:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…cwuv
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If you say you are the chosen people over the goyim ... You clearly decided that you are different than humans. When that difference goes against your delusional ambitions, then no crying in the casino

Killing the rabid dog before it bites your child doesn't make ...

2026-08-05T12:03:24Z

Killing the rabid dog before it bites your child doesn't make you rabid. It makes you a normal human. Equating rabid dogs with the people who kill them is not even a genuine bleeding heart liberalism, it is just dehumanising the victims and actually agreeing and supporting the rabid dogs.

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nevent1q…h3jc
Whether I like it or not is irrelevant.

Defending genocide against genocide is legitimating the general idea of genocide and reinforcing the reasons for the current one.

It doesn't mean I am opposed to fighting for freedom and against all kinds of supremacists.

You should support and celebrate killing zionists ...

2026-08-05T11:27:41Z

You should support and celebrate killing zionists

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nevent1q…ugmn
Maybe it's because they see those children as animals...

Just checked... Literally just a central server ...

2026-07-16T18:50:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…qx69
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Just checked... Literally just a central server https://letterboxd.com/?register=true

So what actually works is crowd sourcing of info, but that is fine, not what I am talking about... It is still a server with API though... You can't do this without a central server, at best you can do the AtProto thing of multiple aggregators and Indexers

I don't know it's architecture but I am willing to bet ...

2026-07-16T18:43:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…00ay
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I don't know it's architecture but I am willing to bet there is a fat ass server somewhere that does most of the work ... Listen if all you need is the vibe I can do that, but if we are going to discuss architecture it is not going to be any different than a big server with API, just multiple servers with the same API, basically AppViews or whatever you want to call it, but it is just big things that need to make money somehow because it can't be made cheap.. yes. You can donate to it... But it is a big server somewhere and it needs to be compliant and at least sustainable financially.

Except that is worthless... Next time you notice something and ...

2026-07-16T18:25:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…2z9h
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Except that is worthless... Next time you notice something and you need to see reviews for it, ask yourself if ANYONE in your social graph ever encountered that shit and possibly gave it a review... I won't even talk about the privacy aspect of it and will assume there is a magical ZK solution.

Sure all people leaving reviews might be 3-4 degrees from you, but that is worthless, because you are still going to do a breadth first search, and still end up querying millions of other people's public data repositories.

At some point people need to understand these are problems that can't be solved without centralization, the scalability limits are baked in.

https://testnet.mns.mlkut.org get rate limited names by ...

2026-07-16T15:25:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…gg93
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https://testnet.mns.mlkut.org get rate limited names by Blockchain, someone can register in bulk and transfer to users later, every update (other than ownership transfer) is offchain, and you get two extra goodies; 1) shorter IDs 2) key rotation with arbitrary smart contract, so instead of a bunker you can use any logic for someone to help you with custody, and you can change to any level of self custody as you feel more comfortable... Any innovation on key management on any Blockchain can be back ported to MNS.

Now that I mentioned this, Rootstock addresses are derived from secp256k1 so theoretically you can search for the names owned by an npub.

I am taking about something like Celestia, basically the ...

2026-07-16T15:21:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…j0xa
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I am taking about something like Celestia, basically the Blockchain (in this case Rootstock) doesn't verify anything, all transactions are pure data carrying, the only difference between OP_RETURN or Eth Blobs and what Celestia does, is that in Celestia you can add something equivalent to Nostr "kind"... This way people can query only transactions they are interested in.

A simpler way to do this on Rootstock is just contracts and associated Events they emit.

So let's say you want to make a Monero on Rootstock, you create a new contract, every time you make a transaction to that contract, it is only data carrying, thus miners don't validate anything except transaction fees.

On the client side, you can see all these data, and you can run them as transactions against the smart contract state, deriving the new state, at the client side.

But then when you want to take money outside of that contract to move it to another contract that says mimics ZCash instead, or if you have multiple Monero contracts each contain a shard, to keep things manageable on client side validation, then when you want to exit from one shard to the other, you need to provide a ZK proof to Rootstock that you did all the computation over that data carrying committed to that contract, and that the state after that computation contains a withdrawal request, not from one sidechain to another but from one contract to another...

Does that make sense?

This basically allows you to do 2/3 of what Drivechains does;
1. Freedom of innovation.
2. Sharding to limit the cost of validation

As for #3; DA scaling, we keep it on Rootstock with Blobs and data availability sampling, not only because we can, but because the synchronicity between all these shards is super valuable for interop and atomic swaps, because you remove a major risk in cross chain transactions which is that some chains may reorg independently from others... But if you do DA on the same chain, then reorg is atomic, every shard is reorged at the same time. Also you don't have to keep bootstrapping merge mining (a new BMM has higher risk of reorgs, but in DAS, there is no reorg independently from Rootstock).

I guess you can call that hashrate escrow... But a merge mined ...

2026-07-16T13:21:19Z

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I guess you can call that hashrate escrow... But a merge mined sidechain with BitVM bridge is very much a hashrate escrow already.
The difference here is that if you don't want faster blocks than Rootstock, you don't create Sidechains and worry about the consequences of that, instead you just accept transactions as they come without any computations, and update the state later... Separating DA from Compute.

The obvious upside is synchronicity which makes the entire system safer and easier to reason about. Things all happen at the same time including their side effects in parallel contexts, and as long as majority of miners are honest (or ZK verifier is valid) you reach the same conclusion globally as you calculated locally.

I mean it depends on what are you trying to achieve, humans seem ...

2026-07-16T13:12:40Z

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I mean it depends on what are you trying to achieve, humans seem to be ok with few seconds latency for anything except very hectic metro lines, in which case you are better off with prepaid cards. But for everything else, if Rootstock has 15s blocks, I believe that is enough, and requires no centralized block producers, just publish your transaction, and IF you want to move from one context to another then you have to generate the ZK proof, but that is just the cost of business, you can obviously atomic swap with someone who generates these proofs and provide the liquidity... But note all of that is no different from paying a miner to include a transaction, that is to say it is so open and so competitive you can hardly do any better.

Now when you need instant payments, as in subsecond confirmations, then your options are;
1. Proof of stake sidechains (Stakechain) on top of Rootstock, which is not actually a single company. But while one confirmation is super fast, the more decentralised these get the longer it takes for finality ... But if you want such fast txns, you might be more happy to risk losing some with reorgs. But you still get more confidence than zeroconf.
2. Centralized payment pools, this one gives you the fastest finality possible, but you have the risk of withholding proofs that are necessary to withdraw or the business going down.. here I believe the absolute best you can do is just use small amounts that you are willing to lose, just like your pocket money, and maybe use many providers at once... That basically boils down to something like Ark, but with more programmability of the contract with the server.

So in conclusion, I think we can scale and indeed solve DA, AND have synchronicity which makes interop between contexts much safer than sidechains that go out of sync, but as soon as you require faster confirmations and faster finality, you must start accepting tradeoffs for different amounts ... But worst case scenario (waiting until Rootstock can't be reorged practically) is still orders of magnitudes faster than finality in any fiat system that merchants are used to, hell even cash notes are only finalised when you take them to a bank and see if they are counterfeit or not.

You don't think that is insanely good outcome? I personally played enough with Rootstock and I think their latency is acceptable, and I don't think that LN or Ark give me much better latency for payments I need to be careful about anyways, and for payments that I don't need to be careful about, I am ok just risking it with a temporary cosigner just like I am ok losing the money in my pocket once or twice in my lifetime

I don't think anyone is wrong using Monero, or even ...

2026-07-11T12:30:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…qwjz
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I don't think anyone is wrong using Monero, or even centralized services, if it is working for you it is working for you. I demand however that anyone complaining about something to do something about it. Monero people complaining about Bitcoin, then pretending to be satisfied with Monero when I say go build on Rootstock... That is absurd.

I like to see miners get paid more, so I encourage people to use Rootstock and I personally use it for my needs, I don't go to Ethereum and say you guys should use Rootstock... If they don't value what I value why would I bother them?

I am happy for Monero users to be content where they are, but every time they bitch about Bitcoin I will tell them to miss me with their bitching until they go build on Rootstock, then I might use that when I need it, until then their bitching is not welcome if there is no code being written, and I will simply never use another token, unless I am forced to, and only to swap it with btc/RBTC immediately.

I very much regret engaging tho. It is clear that the correct ...

2026-07-08T16:16:53Z

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I very much regret engaging tho. It is clear that the correct behaviour is to assume that Monero enthusiasts are satisfied as is and whenever they are bitching about Bitcoin, they are actually not and I am just imagining things.

I am tired of this conversation but I am happy that Monero people ...

2026-07-08T16:14:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…p02z
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I am tired of this conversation but I am happy that Monero people are very satisfied and will never talk about bitcoin again because they already have what they need.

Demand is always measured by the literal payment for the ...

2026-07-08T15:05:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…3c3w
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Demand is always measured by the literal payment for the privilege of using the system. As I explained the daily transactions fees for Monero is 100x less than that of Ethereum, so if the whole argument for Monero is that it is going to bring more demand for bitcoin miners, then focusing on Rootstock reaching as much as possible of the Ethereum addressable market makes around 100x more sense from ROI pov.

Also not that the obnoxious Monero folks aren't actually going to stop nagging once there is Monero on Rootstock, because they could have build that already, no they demand that Bitcoin L1 itself adds this massive complexity, despite Bitcoin refusing even OPCAT, for the promise of the negligible extra daily fees... It is absurd

I will grant you that maybe if Bitcoin added FCMP or whatever we ...

2026-07-07T21:25:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…ej36
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I will grant you that maybe if Bitcoin added FCMP or whatever we get more fees because people trust Bitcoin more than Monero ... But then we are in the hypothetical world, and I can hypothetically claim that Bitcoin is trusted because it is simpler and transparent and easier to understand and conservative etc, and that making any more changes than OPCAT might really change that trust.

Either way, if Monero was so great and Bitcoiners are missing out on great demand, at the very least we need to see some of that demand on Monero itself... No?

If I am not wrong, if you take 20% of miners rewards, and you ...

2026-07-07T21:22:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…nua0
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If I am not wrong, if you take 20% of miners rewards, and you take ALL Monero transactions and transactions fees (not block rewards), then you make $20k a month, so not bad if you are achieving that entirely alone, but definitely isn't worth it if you are a medium size team, let alone if you take VC funding... Sorry, Monero folks aren't paying any amount of fees to make people horny.

Ethereum makes 100x that in fees ... And Rootstock is trying to attract that.

So imagine putting some of that decades long effort that Rootstock put, for 1% of the potential.

The same applies to telling Bitcoiners to add FCMP or whatever... The promise is tinnnny for insane complexity, and yet people are happily making their demands and not at all addressing this imbalance of risk reward

Transaction volumes are irrelevant, the question is how much fees ...

2026-07-07T21:11:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…w32z
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Transaction volumes are irrelevant, the question is how much fees do Monero miners collect, because if I am a developer and I plan to take say 20% of that income, I need that 20% to be worth it, especially when I subtract all the resources I will pour into building, auditing, marketing etc..

If you think this is worth it, maybe you should build it, not for NGU, but to get that 20%

No it is not in anyone's interest to spend years doing unpaid ...

2026-07-06T17:03:27Z

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No it is not in anyone's interest to spend years doing unpaid work because someone promises that this is the one thing that will significantly increase the demand... People simply don't believe you. So it is on you to build the thing and bring the demand, and if you believe in it take developers rewards from the fees if you want. But you don't actually believe in the thing.

Some people believe in Ark so they build Ark, some believe in Rollups with privacy so they build it on Citrea or whatever, some think there is a demand for tornado cash, so they port it on Rootstock.

Evidently no one believes that Monero on Rootstock is worth their time, not even Monero people who can't shut up about how is Bitcoin going to die because it is not fungible... Ok.

Just utter bullshit... Just make the damn thing on a sidechain ...

2026-07-06T11:30:58Z

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Just utter bullshit... Just make the damn thing on a sidechain and make it impossible to "use wrong"... When people exit the anonymity set, that is indistinguishable from depositing Monero on an exchange or wrapped Monero... When they get back to the private rollup, it is indistinguishable from going back to Monero from exchanges.

You guys just want to be sad for fun apparently

All three of you are lying because none of you are actually doing ...

2026-07-06T11:28:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…aw8t
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All three of you are lying because none of you are actually doing any work towards that goal.
It is not Impossible to use Monero wrong, you can use Monero in Custodial services for scale, cheap transactions, safe custody and other reasons, so it is not impossible to have the ratio of Monero siphoned out of the anonymity set approach the ratio of BTC to private RBTC on Rootstock if someone builds that...

You all are asserting a nonsensical notion that you can have privacy without caveats, and that Monero is that promised land... That is bullshit, the economy will always have private and auditable moneys and the absolute best you can wish for is:
1. Large enough anonymity set.
2. Option to anonymize your coins when necessary
3. Bonus; merchants accept the private money directly without forcing you to exit the private pools

But #3 is not that important.

Moreover, almost ANY scalability solutions ends up adding to privacy because by definition you can't have perfect data availability at scale, so things like privacy pools, or private Rollups, or eCash mints with insurance smart contracts or just a proof of stake sidechains that only shares data between anonymous validators, or Intmax2 and other client side validated solutions... It all makes auditability and trackability much harder.

All I see here is people too lazy to build things on Bitcoin sidechains, but also are not satisfied with Monero to shut up! Like what are we doing here? Is this therapy? Write some code and bootstrap the thing the hard way like we all have to.

Who do you think will win? Tornado cash and the like, where ...

2026-07-05T13:54:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…xxnv
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Who do you think will win? Tornado cash and the like, where people get paid to insert their money to increase the anonymity set? Or Monero folks begging for attention every day demanding that we all increase their anonymity set for free?

We watched millions of stolen USDT repeatedly get laundered through tornado cash, and no one can do anything about it... And they didn't bitch and whine, it just works.

Dude it is ALLL opt in privacy what the fuck are you on about? If ...

2026-07-05T13:50:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…x03a
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Dude it is ALLL opt in privacy what the fuck are you on about? If you use Monero you opted in and the entire universe keeps using banks, in fact even Monero is used transparently on CEXs... Man you are so childish.

Can't imagine never being happy until the entire world behave as I demand, what a miserable situation

I enjoy watching you calling everyone social justice whatever ...

2026-07-05T12:12:46Z

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I enjoy watching you calling everyone social justice whatever while complaining that the universe is not behaving as you think you are entitled to. My favourite account on Nostr for sure.

A reasonable person would have realized that there is no ...

2026-07-05T11:17:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…lsy2
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A reasonable person would have realized that there is no difference between anonymity set in Monero and anonymity set in the sidechain, except that Monero doesn't pay the same miners and doesn't get as much hash rate.

But you prefer to complain about other people's choices. Which is why you won't sell your BTC, and even if you did you will still complain about other people's choices. Because from multiple conversations with you, on multiple topics, you will never be satisfied as long as human beings have the right to disagree with you and ignore you without any violence against you, you somehow perceive people choices as an injustice to you.

Either associate with Monero, or recognise that a private sidechain is just as good as a private mainchain, as long as it is used by enough people and has enough liquidity, or reject all that and continue complaining, that last one is easiest for you evidently.

Fungible isn't an all or nothing, again you can have a subset ...

2026-07-05T02:44:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…dzfq
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Fungible isn't an all or nothing, again you can have a subset of the supply private and the rest public, just like you can have Monero moved to exchanges and public sidechains or wrapped tokens that are auditable and public.

So unless you want everyone on earth to make the same choices as you do, with their own money, their will never be 100% of the supply in perfect privacy that satisfies you

Anyways, you should sell all your bitcoin.

Says who? Who says that I need fungibility on L1? If the bridge ...

2026-07-05T00:50:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…ta9n
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Says who? Who says that I need fungibility on L1? If the bridge to Rootstock is made as secure as humanly possible without soft forks (with BitVM), then I have most of my money in RBTC on Rootstock, inside a perfectly private rollup or yet another sidechain to Rootstock... How is that not good enough for me?

No matter what you do you can have some coins that aren't fungible, people can literally move Monero to a centralized exchange or a sidechain with wrapped tokens and make it super public ... So what are you complaining about, that not every single human being obey your dictates?

Even if you don't trust BitVM bridge, just make a new token on Rootstock, make if super private, and monetize it from scratch... I simply don't understand what is the point of Monero as a separate Blockchain that doesn't pay fees to the same miners .. other than historical doubts about merge mining maybe.

Except there is no need for that whatsoever. 1. If you only want ...

2026-06-30T07:06:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…nnzm
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Except there is no need for that whatsoever.

1. If you only want email relays to make onboarding easy, check how DeltaChat works.
2. If you want email to not depend on ICANN then the solution is fixing DNS not fixing SMTP, SMTP is fine. Nostr can't replace ICANN because there is no way to lookup a key to get MX records. I am working on this if you care at https://github.com/Nuhvi/mns

Of course if the purpose is to get funding from Nostr focused foundations, then it is pointless to argue about technology.

Email remains undefeated even in the niche of niches that wanted ...

2026-06-28T12:43:43Z

Email remains undefeated even in the niche of niches that wanted to replace it.

quoting
nevent1q…kd4w
Email for nostr.build!

We have extended our platform to support email addresses. This means;
- Anyone can create an account with nostr.build, npub NOT required!
- You can add your email to your existing nostr.build account for easier acct access, password changes, npub changes, support tickets, etc.

https://nostr.build/plans

nevent1q…8x4x

No, OP_CAT would let sidechains start permissionlessly with blind ...

2026-06-28T11:38:51Z

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No, OP_CAT would let sidechains start permissionlessly with blind merge mining and optimistic bridge. But even string concatenation is too hard to do on Bitcoin, which is insane given that everyone wants post quantum now, which is orders of magnitudes harder.

Play censorship resistant broadcast games win censorship ...

2026-06-27T07:39:08Z

Play censorship resistant broadcast games win censorship resistant broadcast prizes.

quoting
nevent1q…474y
Marmot depends on reliable message ordering/completeness, which nostr doesn't provide. So it's not only more complicated, it's unsolved so far.

Filtering by tags is worthless for anything but broadcasting, but ...

2026-06-26T22:05:37Z

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Filtering by tags is worthless for anything but broadcasting, but we established that even Nostr apps are mostly going in direct mailing direction with communities and the like.

To that extent Chatmail relays are doing way better job than Nostr, probably more relays too.

You are under the impression that only Nostr relays do that. That ...

2026-06-26T21:14:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…4wgw
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You are under the impression that only Nostr relays do that. That is false, and they aren't even the best at it. But I am also not interested much to prove this so use whatever is working for you

1. Nostr doesn't magically solve anything here it just ...

2026-06-26T19:51:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…fq8u
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1. Nostr doesn't magically solve anything here it just abandons the very minimal expectations that your data doesn't get deleted.
2. You can and people do run their own SMTP servers
3. Many people pay for paid email especially privacy orientated
4. Many competitors offer 15GB for free, to attract users that upgrade to premium.

Email is the most competitive service out there in the modern age... And it can only get more competitive if you add sovereign domains so you an exit from one service to another without losing your id.

If I know that I only ever want to do small communities, and ...

2026-06-26T17:15:15Z

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If I know that I only ever want to do small communities, and private communities, or at least communities that don't care about broadcasting as widely as possible, I wouldn't care about Nostr at all, I would just focus on adding sovereign domains, ones that are easy to provision to users, to what we already have; emails, mailing lists, and some work on Drives, encrypted or just WebDav/S3-like API.

That is basically using Email to do what Nostr relays do, but the difference is that you don't add anything more than you absolutely must; usuable sovereign domains. The rest is good enough.

You can argue that you can repurpose Nostr relays to do what Email servers already can do, but then the same applies to S3 providers, and it is not clear why would I bet on Nostr relays and query language, Vs betting on S3 API and SDKs or Emails and their countless tools.

As if what I would do if I absolutely insist on using Nostr, then I would probably go all in on inboxes and outboxes and relays with serious data retention and storage quotas and access control and the whole thing, until they are indistinguishable from Email... Except for all the redundant effort for no reason.

Nostr pivoting to forums and group chats, Bluesky pivoting to ...

2026-06-25T08:22:27Z

Nostr pivoting to forums and group chats, Bluesky pivoting to Communities, and nature is healing, but all the technical debt and bad choices made to support a Twitter clone remains, spoiling everything for no reason.

quoting
nevent1q…96ek
Announcing #Squalk

Personally, I’m not a fan of real-time communication at all costs; I believe that an asynchronous approach based on more in-depth content is often more effective and healthy. So why not breathe new life into good old-fashioned forums? They seem like the perfect solution and I really don’t understand why something like this didn’t already exist on Nostr, so I created it!

The basic idea behind Squalk is to offer a tool through which anyone can build their own community, where the main focus is on thoughtful discussion.
Each forum includes a chat feature in the right-hand sidebar, which is useful for quickly interacting with other users in spontaneous and temporary discussions, thus combining the best of both worlds.

Squalk supports both single-room and multi-room setups.
It’s also possible to add resources in the form of articles and customize specific pages (homepage, contact page) to offer a unique and distinctive experience to your users.

You can format and tag your posts, and there’s full support for quoting.

Squalk is based on NIP-29 and NIP-7D, with some minor implementations that are fully backward-compatible. I’m also exploring how to extend NIP-29 for better permission management, so that various types of groups can be created.
After refining these parts, I will add an admin interface for the admins.

You can play it here: https://squalk-test.dtonon.com

Source code and setup details are available at https://github.com/dtonon/squalk

Have fun and let me know what you think! :)

Of course I say this for losers, I will celebrate every dead ...

2026-06-16T07:33:55Z

Of course I say this for losers, I will celebrate every dead zionist with glee and elation like I did on Oct 7th and will do the next time as well.

quoting
nevent1q…w5rs
Good morning, and ready your stomach to a future where death to zionists is daily news not a chant.

Good morning, and ready your stomach to a future where death to ...

2026-06-16T07:30:09Z

Good morning, and ready your stomach to a future where death to zionists is daily news not a chant.

We will kill all these genocidal scum in our lifetime ...

2026-06-15T19:00:53Z

We will kill all these genocidal scum in our lifetime

quoting
nevent1q…9v06
⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧 NEW - Israeli Minister of National Security Ben-Gvir demands: "We must continue to destroy homes in southern Lebanon. We must continue to drive residents out of southern Lebanon. We must continue to eliminate Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon."

Don't forget to mock and humiliate the zionist warmongering ...

2026-06-15T11:40:56Z

Don't forget to mock and humiliate the zionist warmongering genocidal Bitcoiners today.

Good morning, enjoy and celebrate the zios tears ... They are ...

2026-06-15T08:46:37Z

Good morning, enjoy and celebrate the zios tears ... They are still killing children every single day, not an exaggeration literally they bombed a child and his family yesterday. But soon we will get rid of all that filth and scum.

Botanix "Spiderchain" shutting down with 1 month notice ...

2026-06-11T09:29:41Z

Botanix "Spiderchain" shutting down with 1 month notice is a clear demonstration of why merge mined sidechains, especially with a BitVM bridge is the only long term bet that makes sense. There will always be Bitcoin miners, and mining sidechains is marginal cost for them, and a BitVM bridge may make the N in the 1-of-N multisig large enough that you don't have to worry that one company going out of business kills the entire chain

But even if the 2WP collapses, a merge mined sidechain will continue to have value just like shitcoins continue to have value, but the merge mining answer the question of block production in a sustainable long-term manner.

Nostr event nevent1qqs9ux4c7qr4pg8kqs0fh0c038v33rgvep2je3x42vteu3c9kxfdv2qzyzfsenh3yded6tckq470c48sm0v5xdwck5d5ufehyd4spj4hrr7dj0u06df

2026-06-08T10:22:41Z

Death to zionists, all of them, in our lifetime.

It is easy to say you don't need key rotation... I did for ...

2026-06-08T08:15:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…efz2
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It is easy to say you don't need key rotation... I did for long time.. I want people that make that claim try to provision keys to even experienced developers and see how often they lose it when they don't really care about it enough initially.

Except it never worked neither did any Nostr DMs... The only ...

2026-06-06T13:51:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…kyum
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Except it never worked neither did any Nostr DMs... The only reason I use Keychat is exactly to browse Nostr apps.

Experimenting with a new way to visualise MNS names as default ...

2026-06-06T12:15:12Z

Experimenting with a new way to visualise MNS names as default avatars, this time inspired from Lifehash https://gist.githack.com/Nuhvi/15105f2ce378d1aa1b2d2807824b40b5/raw/mns-visualize-lifehash.html

The general idea that suddenly the world won't need well ...

2026-06-04T10:46:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…3nct
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The general idea that suddenly the world won't need well crafted UIs and APIs is retarded. People had 3rd printers and before that power tools, yet they didn't suddenly started creating furniture on demand on a whim. This disregard for craft is annoying. Also isn't Nostr a big ass experiment in how useless and worthless quickly developed and thoughtless apps are?

People are going to have to learn the hard way that UI is ...

2026-06-04T10:07:58Z

People are going to have to learn the hard way that UI is designed on the backend first, unless you don't care about latency or bandwidth or IF you download all the data first and your AI has a local indexer.

Please talk to people who worked on any functional application and see how much back and forth goes into optimizing the API to fit the UI as much as possible without over fitting so as to keep the API as useful as possible to as many UI needs as possible.

AI agents can make your local data maximally useful, but it can't magically make usuable UIs to remote data that isn't already indexed with the UI in mind.

quoting
nevent1q…55hj
You don't need it tbh, modern day interfaces could just be an AI prompt that can get you to wherever you need.

I am 100% on the valuations skeptics side, but I stopped betting ...

2026-06-03T12:00:01Z

I am 100% on the valuations skeptics side, but I stopped betting against hype long time ago, the economy is fundamentally fake and has been for some time, there are no tethers to reality, no gravity, no truth, all a belief system. So don't short anything, just buy more of what you need while you have liquidity.

quoting
nevent1q…26yp
Get out of AI stocks / SP500 asap, this is the end

I have signal and Matrix but I don't like it much. I can ...

2026-06-01T19:24:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…l6l8
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I have signal and Matrix but I don't like it much. I can download Delta Chat again, last time I had no one to talk to so removed it.

Soon we should have our own app to be honest with Mlkut and Peergos or an approximation of it :)

Let me know if you have a preference.

I love talking about history and how I came to make choices I ...

2026-06-01T19:06:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…0xfa
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I love talking about history and how I came to make choices I made... But if you want to ask me about these, I will have to insist you ask me in generic ways.

For the record, I am not ignoring this thread I just don't ...

2026-06-01T19:02:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…xk79
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For the record, I am not ignoring this thread I just don't want any drama, and I don't trust people to respect my emotionless comments without considering me a shill or a bitter ex employee... So I have to just pretend I don't know what are you talking about and live in peace 😅

If so then that must be in a Peergos-like system, and definitely ...

2026-06-01T18:15:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…t4py
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If so then that must be in a Peergos-like system, and definitely not in DNS records

If Bluesky is any guide, ain't no body is even going to take ...

2026-06-01T17:38:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…eehc
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If Bluesky is any guide, ain't no body is even going to take the step to take custody of their names so it is barely a concern, but yes I will do my best to make it as convenient as possible for fee sponsorship, but at the end of the day, if the user is retarded they can always transfer the ID to a Rootstock address that contains all their money, what the fuck can you do about that.
On the other hand I can only wish that people actually use Rootstock at all so that is a champagne problem

Yeah well, unfortunately I think this must require a hosting ...

2026-06-01T17:27:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…0u63
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Yeah well, unfortunately I think this must require a hosting provider. At best like if you push Nameservers to their extreme you can add a TXT record with Bio and a TXT record with a link to your photo, or use data URL to encode the entire image
.. and the Nameserver does the profile job. But if your Nameserver is so generous with storage, I suspect it can double as a Peergos server as well. The main difference is that if you put the profile in Nameservers, you can use it without having to use Peergos SDK.

I often tell myself the reason people tried WebFingers and Gravatar but never the same in DNS, is because no body has domains.

I think the genius of Willow is that it starts from communities ...

2026-06-01T16:31:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…q53s
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I think the genius of Willow is that it starts from communities already, literally the whole protocol revolves around a shared space with access control, and an implicit relay.

It is hard to argue against this or insist that you still need identity system or database per user in that scenario.

Maybe still need an identity system for the community itself, and definitely I want to have websites and personal blogs and message passing like ActivityPub etc... but if you just start from chat groups and communities, the participants identities are as simple as users in a forum.

So who knows, maybe we will end up using Mlkut + Peergos + Willow... All of it.