Nostr notes by straycat

If Apple and Google allow us! I’m betting they will, because ...

2026-10-21T23:58:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…7l8k
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If Apple and Google allow us!

I’m betting they will, because our tools are eventually going to enable the best Trust & Safety engine in all of social media.

VitorPamplona (nprofile…m2wk)
AviBurra (nprofile…q3q8)
thebitcoinyogi (nprofile…zpkd)

Hear me talk about Brainstorm this past weekend at Nostr Valley ...

2026-10-21T23:55:17Z

Hear me talk about Brainstorm this past weekend at Nostr Valley III.

Huge shout out to organizers seth (nprofile…r0d9) , Derek Ross (nprofile…ry5n) , others (OpenMike (nprofile…xuu7) , Shadrach (nprofile…wvzn) , arkinox (nprofile…wtfq) , I’m not sure who all was working behind the scenes), all the speakers and attendees who made it an awesome weekend!

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Nostr Valley III is up on YouTube. Ten videos, free to watch.

What's inside:

🦆 A robot duck that finds its friends over Nostr
🤖 A talk co-presented live by an AI agent
🥒 A pickle feed built from three years of Nostr food posts
🔎 Search that works through the people you trust
📉 How a 3,000-person follow list vanishes, and how to get it back
🧮 Why the most underrated freedom tech is the one between your ears
🎙️ A podcast vending machine where listeners zap you back
🏰 A bot that builds castles in cyberspace on command
🔥 An honest panel: is Nostr going to make it?

With seth (npub15u3…05rq) straycat (npub1u5n…ldq3) Derek Ross (npub18am…p424) daniel (npub1aeh…4nwx) ManiMe (npub1man…n9tn) Phundamentals (npub12em…y99g) TKay (npub1nje…l02j) arkinox (npub1ark…h43w) OpenMike (npub1a6c…lfrr)

Start with whichever one made you stop scrolling:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOLZM5RbfV68

#NostrValley #Nostr

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2026-10-06T21:13:44Z

@nprofile…gvzp @npub19ma…axkl

2026-10-06T16:20:59Z

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AviBurra (nprofile…gvzp) vinney...axkl (npub19ma…axkl)

Using web of trust to find data that’s not on nostr!! ...

2026-10-06T15:58:23Z

Using web of trust to find data that’s not on nostr!!

Trust is contextual. If you follow someone, does that mean you ...

2026-09-26T04:27:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…pdcc
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Trust is contextual.

If you follow someone, does that mean you trust that person to hold your money and babysit your kids? No, it does not.

But when you follow someone, you are literally giving that person the ability to select a piece of content, put it in front of your face, jam it through your eyes and into the back of your skull. The act of following equals entrusting that person with a tiny sliver of your time and attention.

So yes, you do trust the people you follow. Not in all the ways, but in at least one.

Take a look! ...

2026-09-25T18:21:43Z

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Take a look!

https://brainstorm.world/p/npub1hd4cwdujw5l4hx00y2cvk89kph7mctr3nlaagmkhtvfq0h7quujqrt93ca

Once its utility crosses a threshold, it will spread by word of ...

2026-09-24T12:37:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…njsu
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Once its utility crosses a threshold, it will spread by word of mouth. If that hasn’t happened yet it’s bc we still have work to do.

We recently (and quietly) added content search at ...

2026-09-24T06:24:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…60h4
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We recently (and quietly) added content search at https://brainstorm.world. Up until last week it was only profile search. And if you wonder how many of someone’s followers are bots, look at that person’s profile at Brainstorm; you can toggle the follower count between total (including bots/unverified) and verified only.

Take a look!

Woohoo! 👏🏻

2026-09-21T19:47:01Z

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Woohoo! 👏🏻

Gotta be picking it up from somewhere 🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-09-20T19:16:21Z

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Gotta be picking it up from somewhere 🤷🏻‍♂️

Claude Opus 5 casually slipping a little Mandarin into our chat. ...

2026-09-20T19:13:08Z

Claude Opus 5 casually slipping a little Mandarin into our chat.

“the final verdict is近 useless as a quality signal in this harness”

We do support basic WoT search with keywords using NIP-50; in ...

2026-09-20T15:39:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…kvfl
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We do support basic WoT search with keywords using NIP-50; in addition to standard relay filters (kind, author, timeframe, etc), you can define a keyword and define the “observer” (what you call “wot_base”). We don’t yet have a “trending” feature per se, which would probably entail adding up reactions, replies, and zaps from verified sources, but that sort of thing is definitely on our roadmap. The problem with most “trending” features in nostr today is that they’re not personalized, they don’t know how to get rid of the spam effectively, and they still manage somehow to be popularity contests. Our roadmap addresses each of those issues.

https://brainstorm.world/developers/nip-50

LLMs will definitely make our lives a lot easier when it comes to ...

2026-09-20T13:21:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…u09c
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LLMs will definitely make our lives a lot easier when it comes to tagging. Alice can put an agent in charge of an npub and tell it to go to town tagging whatever she wants it to tag. If the agent npub is in my WoT, or if I trust Alice and she tags the agent npub as hers, then I’ll probably want to make use of her agent’s taggings. If I think it (or any npub, human or agent-controlled) is doing a bad job then I tag it “Bad at Tagging” and I ignore all of its taggings.

If you’re looking for one specific topic, you can search for it ...

2026-09-19T00:58:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…lp2a
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If you’re looking for one specific topic, you can search for it today using keywords. It does a very good job of filtering out content authored by bad actors without being a popularity contest.

We’re slowing introducing Tags as a separate way to find content. The first way (currently implemented) is to search for keyword match from within the content. Tags are authored by someone else. For example: I can Tag you as a Podcaster (works today), or Tag your kind 30023 long form article as Decentralized Health (work in progress) if that’s what it’s about, and if your search string matches a Tag, you’ll see the profiles or articles that were Tagged by verified accounts.

Gm! ☕️ 📰 🌞

2026-09-18T14:30:27Z

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Gm! ☕️ 📰 🌞

Great job @npub1xff…t6y0! #nevent1q…qagf

2026-09-07T17:26:44Z

Great job AJ (npub1xff…t6y0)!

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Our very own AJ (nprofile…954e) representing brainstorm (nprofile…4wun) at the mempool dev day

Report by OrangeSurf (nprofile…5njl)

https://research.mempool.space/mempool-developer-day-1/

When there are no easy solutions, you look for the tractable ...

2026-09-07T15:41:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…2zzl
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When there are no easy solutions, you look for the tractable ones. Social proof is the missing ingredient to make tractable key rotation solutions.

You should sign up at to get your WoT calculated. Once ...

2026-09-05T20:23:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…65k4
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You should sign up at to get your WoT calculated. Once calculations are complete and published you’ll see them on a few clients like amethyst and nostria.app.

I’ve been wanting to use neo4j for agentic memory for a while ...

2026-09-05T14:32:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…q5rh
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I’ve been wanting to use neo4j for agentic memory for a while now. We use it for the social graph at brainstorm.world, and have been doing R&D using it for more complex data structures, what we call the concept graph.

#neo4j

vinney...axkl (nprofile…mt6f)

interesting #nevent1q…q5rh

2026-09-05T14:27:18Z

interesting

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nevent1q…q5rh
Today I built a visualisation in our agent portal to help me do brain surgery on our agents. They use our Reverie agent memory (an MCP server for a Neo4J data structure). You can use the MCP server today with your agents (open-source) here:

https://github.com/knowall-ai/mcp-reverie

Will be releasing a plugin for Hermes to use this too:

https://github.com/knowall-ai/hermes-reverie

@nprofile…4lyj take a look at this DList for RSS feeds. We ...

2026-09-03T01:01:32Z

VitorPamplona (nprofile…4lyj) take a look at this DList for RSS feeds. We should work this into Vespa search results.

Even better, we should work any generic DList into search results. I think we would need to augment the Decentralized Lists NIP with a way for the DList Header event to specify how to display list items. Example: a DList of GitHub handles should have an outlink GitHub.com/<handle>. The DList for RSS feeds could readily do something like that.

vinney...axkl (nprofile…t6zz)
AviBurra (nprofile…y5rh)

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Sir Libre (nprofile…lpr3) when zapstore? Also for playlists you might check out this spec

https://nostrhub.io/naddr1qvzqqqrcvypzpef89h53f0fsza2ugwdc3e54nfpun5nxfqclpy79r6w8nxsk5yp0qqfkgetrv4h8gunpd35h5ety94kxjum5wvzg04gg

Or point your clankers at https://github.com/nous-clawds4/tapestry/tree/main/protocols

Of you're interested in shared playlists.

I built https://npub1hlcwpnvuph6grv3wtfxpdmlahql9ra34tkpqzyzapulvljjzr5cqfm0x69.nsite.lol/ for RSS feeds, so I could collab with folks on a list of playlists which I am using for a stream. Haven't integrated the wot stuff yet, but I will soon

I guess part of my point is that being too eager to put people ...

2026-08-23T05:19:32Z

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I guess part of my point is that being too eager to put people into categories — you’re either one of us or you’re one of the crazies — is itself a big part of the pathology inherent to toxic tribalism. And that often becomes an obstacle to discovering objective reality.

This substack article by Nic Carter is well worth the read. There ...

2026-08-22T18:08:13Z

This substack article by Nic Carter is well worth the read. There are a few things about it that I take issue with, including but not limited to Nic’s take on the blocksize war (mentioned only in passing in this article). I also get the sense that Nic veers into straw-manning: Here’s What All Those Crazies Believe, and We All Know Who They Are. Perhaps I am being pedantic and assuming too much, but I’d prefer Nic to describe Toxic Bitcoin Maximalism as a tribal narrative, one with strong opinions that are worth having but one that unfortunately ALSO contains a loose collection of toxic delusions and logical fallacies, and acknowledge that on an individual basis, most of Them (the Toxic Maximalists) definitely do not believe most of the aforementioned toxic elements.

Having said that, the realization that a toxic and self-destructive tribal narrative exists and has a strong emotional pull on — let’s be honest, virtually ALL of us — is an important one. We should give this narrative the sober deliberation it deserves, if only so that we can shield ourselves against its pathologies.

I have long believed that it should fall to neuroscience as a discipline to explain why tribal toxicity exists so prominently as a part of human nature. Not just bitcoin maxis, not just religions, but in political ideologies, academic disciplines, etc. Each of these communities is glued together by a tribal narrative. And those narratives sometimes become toxic. To draw attention to the pathology of Maximalism, as Nic does here, is worthwhile, but not enough. What do we do about it? “Expunge it!” would be the implication, in the absence of any other recommendations. But this would be akin to drawing attention to the pathological features of autoimmune disease to a crowd that has no understanding of the immune system. To treat autoimmune disease, ideally you will optimize the immune system, not expunge it — which would, of course, just kill the patient. But one cannot optimize something if one does not know what it is or why it exists. And one cannot treat the pathologies inherent to any tribal toxic narrative without understanding the tradeoffs that are associated with tribal narratives in the first place.

Tribalism exists for a reason. The so-called “toxic maxis” made valid arguments when they compared their toxicity to an immune system that, when done right, protects newbies from scam artists. But when do the actions of the immune system veer from beneficial into pathology? The naive belief, that we don’t need it (whatever exactly “it” is — don’t care, doesn’t matter) and are better off without it, is itself its own form of virtue signal. It is the failure to acknowledge and appreciate that a distinction exists between the greater tribal narrative (most of it non-toxic) from its toxic elements. And in my humble opinion, the temptation to straw-man is one of the early warning signs of the toxic tribal thought process. Beware its tradeoffs.

Is it possible, or desirable, to have a community of “bitcoin maximalists”, held together by — well, by whatever it is that holds communities together — without the pathologies? I would hope the answer is yes. In which case, the ideal outcome is not the defeat or the downfall of maximalism — which Nic’s article would seem to celebrate — but its cultivation and curation into a healthy state of being. A community with a healthy immune system, but without the pathology of autoimmune disease. A vast tribal bitcoin maxi narrative, minus the toxic fallacies and delusions. Would Nic agree? Don’t know, I’ve never met or discussed this with him. Tbh I don’t know if my immune system analogy has been explained very well. Maybe one day I’ll get my agent to help me do a better job.

tl/dr: Read Nic’s article. It’s not the final word, but it makes important contributions to the story of bitcoin, especially in the aftermath of the coldcard fiasco.

https://murmurationstwo.substack.com/p/a-second-and-final-eulogy-for-bitcoin

@npub1gcx…nj5z and @npub10np…tl5h have been working ...

2026-08-22T02:44:53Z

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VitorPamplona (npub1gcx…nj5z) and cloud fodder (npub10np…tl5h) have been working diligently on comprehensive keyword search through all of nostr. Fetch all content in the past 24 h, filtered by your extended WoT, tell Claude to distill it in the style of the NYT, this is what you get! 😃

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2026-08-22T01:34:41Z

Excellent overview. https://www.citadel21.com/the-paranoid-wallet

2026-08-08T20:59:53Z

Excellent overview.

https://www.citadel21.com/the-paranoid-wallet

I’ll be there 💜

2026-08-05T17:22:31Z

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I’ll be there 💜

What’s the date for Nostr Valley?

2026-08-05T15:46:44Z

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What’s the date for Nostr Valley?

If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat If you get too cold, ...

2026-07-15T03:41:02Z

If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet

'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman

Open Ranking is a huge improvement over WoT DVMs. I never ...

2026-06-24T23:13:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…455h
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Open Ranking is a huge improvement over WoT DVMs. I never implemented DVMs because they never made sense to me. But Open Ranking is simple, easy to understand, easy to implement. It’s a good complement to NIP-85 Trusted Assertions. I’m looking forward to seeing it evolve as people use it and contribute ideas.

note: currently implemented only on Brainstorm’s staging instance, not yet on the production instance.

More info including a link to the spec here:

https://staging.brainstorm.world/developers/open-ranking

Teamwork! 🤝 🫂 @npub176p…vgup writes the Open Ranking spec ...

2026-06-24T23:04:38Z

Teamwork! 🤝 🫂

pip (npub176p…vgup) writes the Open Ranking spec as the newest method to communicate personalized WoT data from a WoT service provider to nostr clients

nosfabrica (npub1hea…vp8p) implements the spec in Brainstorm

hzrd149 (npub1ye5…knpr) tests it out using Applesauce

Web of trust FTW 🙌

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Building a small Open Ranking example and NWT in applesauce

I’m just now discovering applesauce.build 🍎 😃💪 You can ...

2026-06-24T22:56:57Z

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I’m just now discovering applesauce.build 🍎 😃💪

You can also see NIP-50 in action at applesauce using the wss://brainstorm.world/relay

https://applesauce.build/examples/#/example/search/relay

What I’ve built so far is on staging.brainstorm.world, not yet ...

2026-06-24T15:14:02Z

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What I’ve built so far is on staging.brainstorm.world, not yet on brainstorm.world

https://staging.brainstorm.world/developers/open-ranking

I’m gonna go with the icosahedron of insanity

2026-06-20T17:57:29Z

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I’m gonna go with the icosahedron of insanity

I’ve got ORE-01, 02 and partial 05 (global but not yet ...

2026-06-20T15:47:43Z

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I’ve got ORE-01, 02 and partial 05 (global but not yet personalized) on staging.

https://staging.brainstorm.world/developers/open-ranking

Working with Claude now. I’m thinking I’ll start with ORE-01, ...

2026-06-18T20:59:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…ygs0
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Working with Claude now. I’m thinking I’ll start with ORE-01, 02, and 05 since that’ll take the least work. Then do 03 after that.

Gonna get to work on this soon. Yup, gentlemen’s agreement ...

2026-06-18T19:53:52Z

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Gonna get to work on this soon. Yup, gentlemen’s agreement while at AOS 🍻! hzrd149 (nprofile…htzt) , am I remembering correctly that you’d like to see support specifically for ORE-01? Maybe some of the other ORE’s while we’re at it?

https://github.com/Open-Ranking/protocol

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2026-06-16T11:35:14Z

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The nostr booth was supported by: Archipeligo (@nprofile…fl9x ...

2026-06-16T11:31:58Z

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The nostr booth was supported by:
Archipeligo (Shadrach (nprofile…fl9x) ), nosfabrica (nprofile…zhyl) , Freedom Tech Co. (nprofile…6arf) , and Angor (nprofile…42np) .

Shadrach did the heavy lifting on site 💪 AJ (nprofile…q8m2) brought all the purple toys that were a hit! 🧸 BAO MARKETS HQ (nprofile…4nln) was there and helped, paulinthejungle (nprofile…sedt) hung out, Nathan Day (nprofile…l35h) had a booth nearby so was never far away. And many others, too many to mention!

Bring him by the nostr booth! 😄🫂🤝

2026-06-10T01:07:30Z

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Bring him by the nostr booth! 😄🫂🤝

I’d like to see a contest between two agents where each one ...

2026-06-07T15:13:32Z

I’d like to see a contest between two agents where each one tries to trigger psychosis in the other one. They have a conversation, and the first one to devolve into full-blown hallucination mode loses.

Woohoo! 👍🏻

2026-06-04T09:04:25Z

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Woohoo! 👍🏻

Interesting #nevent1q…yxnh

2026-06-03T17:52:51Z

Interesting

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Me and ManiMe (nprofile…4wyr) also experimented with multiple apps sharing the same domain but with distinct bundle IDs and teams. As demonstrated in the screen recording, this allowed several clients to access the same nsec.

@nprofile…q8m2 @nprofile…m55g @npub15ym…kwwx ...

2026-06-03T00:21:43Z

AJ (nprofile…q8m2) Nathan Day (nprofile…m55g) Shadrach (npub15ym…kwwx)

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NOSTR MEETUP before #BTCPrague ⚡️💜

Kick off the conference with fellow plebs, beer and some fresh, homebaked bread!

🗓 Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 17:00
📍 Argentinská 18, #Prague AC254.org (nprofile…jvhr)

https://omaps.app/_4G4wGRvzV/AC254

Help us spread the word. Quote this note, tag a fren you are meeting in Prague, or even better, bring them along!

#nostrmeetup #meetup BTCPrague (nprofile…uh62)

Web of trust FTW 🔥 🫂 #wot #nevent1q…wecy

2026-06-02T14:09:13Z

Web of trust FTW
🔥 🫂
#wot

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Something is cooking:
At AOS (nprofile…m8g2) & the Hackathon, a team is building a tool to give our community a safer way into the Les Femmes Orange website built on Nostr.
Think: messaging groups, events, and membership, all gated by a decentralized list we manage ourselves. No gatekeeper. Powered by Nostr + Brainstorm's tapestry protocol.
More to come.

#AOSConvergence

Separation of speech and interpretation of said speech #wot

2026-06-01T08:40:53Z

Separation of speech and interpretation of said speech

#wot

Same. I had been building on top of IPFS. Traded it for nostr ...

2026-05-24T20:17:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…88pn
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Same. I had been building on top of IPFS. Traded it for nostr soon after learning about it.

What you currently see at brainstorm.world is the best profile ...

2026-05-16T23:16:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…us6r
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What you currently see at brainstorm.world is the best profile keyword search on nostr. But it’s powered (mostly) by our R & D codebase which we are in the process of rebuilding for production. It’s all just a matter of time.

It only takes one follow by a non-spammy account to get a new ...

2026-05-16T21:04:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…zl3n
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It only takes one follow by a non-spammy account to get a new user visible on Brainstorm, once scores are recalculated. Our default filter sets the cutoff at rank=2 (out of 100), and even with settings that low it does a remarkably good job of screening out the spam without punishing new users.

https://brainstorm.world

Hello Dr Charles!

2026-05-16T00:34:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…ph6v
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Hello Dr Charles!

We don’t use NIP-05 in Brainstorm. But it would be very ...

2026-05-15T17:20:53Z

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We don’t use NIP-05 in Brainstorm. But it would be very straightforward to do so. Do users want it? How useful is it, and how gameable is it? There are clearly lots of bots and inauthentic nostr accounts who are NIP-05 verified.

@npub1hea…vp8p @npub1gcx…nj5z @npub1hqa…t56s ...

2026-05-13T16:27:01Z

nosfabrica (npub1hea…vp8p) VitorPamplona (npub1gcx…nj5z) AviBurra (npub1hqa…t56s) thebitcoinyogi (npub1t8p…gkvf)

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Had an idea for a watch dial and worked up a sketch for it with my non-ai-generated illustrator template. Its a brain with gears in it. what do you think? #watchstr

I love it! 🧠 💜

2026-05-13T16:24:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…fjgl
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I love it! 🧠 💜

Is anyone doing a project like this? Title: The Open Timestamps ...

2026-05-09T16:59:43Z

Is anyone doing a project like this?

Title: The Open Timestamps Historical Preservation Initiative

Problem: AI deep fakes are being weaponized for politically motivated propaganda, 1984-style.

Example: a deep fake video of Reagan-era economist Art Laffer making statements and testimonials that rewrite history.

Solution: use #opentimestamps to notarize videos and documents of historically important figures such as Art.

Example: pair a hacker expert in OTS with a historian like Brian D of the Laffer Center

Urgency: very urgent, given the pace of technological advancement.

This is a project that would deserve LTS from OpenSats (npub10pe…n34f), HRF (npub17xv…c9as), or similar organization.

cc: bitkite (npub1atn…h4x3) ODELL (npub1qny…95gx)

And I see you added an item to the list of Meshtadelians. One of ...

2026-05-06T04:46:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…qaaf
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And I see you added an item to the list of Meshtadelians. One of the features we are working on is Brainstorm Communities.

Suppose you could go to communities.brainstorm.world/create and start a community of Meshtadelians. You’d give it a name and a description, select some options, click a button and you’d have a relay with read/write access restricted by default to members of the Meshtadelian community. (You could edit these permissions, as the relay owner.) Once you handpick a few members, membership would then be determined dynamically by the community via social proof (users claim membership, others endorse or veto those claim). Members could run community “mirror” relays as backup in case yours go down; and here’s the cool thing: as long as at least one member is running a relay, the Community can’t be rug-pulled, like what just happened on Twitter / X.

Sound interesting?

Haha I see in my own screenshot you did create a list!

2026-05-06T04:24:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…mzkf
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Haha I see in my own screenshot you did create a list!

You don’t see a New DList button like this one? ...

2026-05-06T04:22:59Z

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You don’t see a New DList button like this one?

btw here is an older implementation of DLists. (The one at ...

2026-05-05T00:29:58Z

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btw here is an older implementation of DLists. (The one at brainstorm.world is more cluttered with other features-in-progress but may be better in some other ways.)

https://brainstorm-knowledge-graph.vercel.app/#/simpleLists/viewLists

The DList NIP can be used to maintain collaborative lists of ...

2026-05-04T17:34:10Z

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The DList NIP can be used to maintain collaborative lists of anything. Big lists, small lists, whatever you want. Here is a demo of using it to maintain a collaborative list of Snow White’s Dwarves, the implication being you can use it for proof of personhood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA1ktgYqEyE

Yes! Decentralized Lists custom NIP. I think @npub1hqa…t56s was ...

2026-05-04T16:59:55Z

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Yes! Decentralized Lists custom NIP. I think AviBurra (npub1hqa…t56s) was just telling you about it. We have a client that you can use to manage DLists — functional but it’s a prototype and needs cleaning up. Maybe we could have a call, you can tell us what you want to do and we’ll see if we can meet your needs.

cc: vinney...axkl (npub19ma…axkl)

https://brainstorm.world/tapestry/lists

https://nostrhub.io/naddr1qvzqqqrcvypzpef89h53f0fsza2ugwdc3e54nfpun5nxfqclpy79r6w8nxsk5yp0qythwumn8ghj7erpwe5kgtnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0qqfkgetrv4h8gunpd35h5ety94kxjum5wv4px7v6

Music and freedom tech 🎶 🫂 💜 @nprofile…xf4c ...

2026-04-29T21:43:48Z

Music and freedom tech 🎶 🫂 💜

NoaGruman (nprofile…xf4c)
OpenMike (nprofile…fext)

Final #wotathon presentations start in just two hours!! Last ...

2026-04-23T13:02:33Z

Final #wotathon presentations start in just two hours!! Last week’s presentations were incredible. Can’t wait to see what today has in store!!
🔥 💜 🫂

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50 million sats up for grabs!

Mark your calendars for 4/16 and 23 final pitches on zap.stream (nprofile…lfdl) final pitches, 3pm UTC.

AviBurra (nprofile…y5rh) straycat (nprofile…wsks) VitorPamplona (nprofile…m2wk) ODELL (nprofile…hzdl) MartyBent (nprofile…tzjf)

Web of Trust on #nostr has taken a massive leap forward the past 5 months- come check out who’s been building!!

nevent1q…07wl

Final #wotathon pitches just two days away!! 🔥 ...

2026-04-21T16:42:12Z

Final #wotathon pitches just two days away!! 🔥

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50 million sats up for grabs!

Mark your calendars for 4/16 and 23 final pitches on zap.stream (nprofile…lfdl) final pitches, 3pm UTC.

AviBurra (nprofile…y5rh) straycat (nprofile…wsks) VitorPamplona (nprofile…m2wk) ODELL (nprofile…hzdl) MartyBent (nprofile…tzjf)

Web of Trust on #nostr has taken a massive leap forward the past 5 months- come check out who’s been building!!

nevent1q…07wl

Starting in15 minutes!! 😃 #nevent1q…kdka

2026-04-16T14:43:33Z

Starting in15 minutes!! 😃

quoting
nevent1q…kdka
50 million sats up for grabs!

Mark your calendars for 4/16 and 23 final pitches on zap.stream (nprofile…lfdl) final pitches, 3pm UTC.

AviBurra (nprofile…y5rh) straycat (nprofile…wsks) VitorPamplona (nprofile…m2wk) ODELL (nprofile…hzdl) MartyBent (nprofile…tzjf)

Web of Trust on #nostr has taken a massive leap forward the past 5 months- come check out who’s been building!!

nevent1q…07wl

Final pitches (part one of 2) less than 12 hours away! ...

2026-04-16T03:50:49Z

Final pitches (part one of 2) less than 12 hours away!

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nevent1q…2qhz
50 million sats up for grabs!

Mark your calendars for 4/16 and 23 final pitches on zap.stream (nprofile…lfdl) final pitches, 3pm UTC.

AviBurra (nprofile…y5rh) straycat (nprofile…wsks) VitorPamplona (nprofile…m2wk) ODELL (nprofile…hzdl) MartyBent (nprofile…tzjf)

Web of Trust on #nostr has taken a massive leap forward the past 5 months- come check out who’s been building!!

nevent1q…07wl

GM and PV! ☕️ 🌞

2026-04-11T14:35:20Z

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GM and PV! ☕️ 🌞

That’s right! And the magic happens when, for any given list, I ...

2026-04-11T14:33:22Z

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That’s right! And the magic happens when, for any given list, I have the power to select who manages the list:
- I do (how NIP-51 works)
- my follows
- my extended trust network (rank > cutoff)
- some other list

I can chain them together. Example: I manage my follows, my follows manage a list of nostr devs, the list of nostr devs manages a list of NIPs.

Which is how Decentralized Lists works.

Here’s how to use DLists for proof of personhood:

https://youtu.be/SA1ktgYqEyE

Yup, for now. On our roadmap is to incorporate more signals.

2026-04-11T00:28:59Z

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Yup, for now. On our roadmap is to incorporate more signals.

Correction: if fakes/spammers/bots/bad actors follow you, they ...

2026-04-10T16:42:30Z

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Correction: if fakes/spammers/bots/bad actors follow you, they don’t drag your score down; they have no effect whatsoever. Their follows are simply ignored.

Yup, I get the same thing. Strange that the nostrudel event ...

2026-04-09T22:00:51Z

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Yup, I get the same thing. Strange that the nostrudel event console didn’t catch the bad sigs.

Should be fixed now - let me know if it’s working for you.

To integrate this into coracle or flotilla or any client, see ...

2026-04-09T20:44:29Z

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To integrate this into coracle or flotilla or any client, see https://brainstorm.world/developers. You'll be querying a relay with the search string and observer pubkey using NIP-50, not an api endpoint.

New users will by default be shown the "global" point of view (called the "House PoV"), which in this case means the PoV of NosFabrica. From a practical perspective, the global view will work perfectly well the vast majority of the time for the vast majority of users.

It's open source so you can run your own instance and define House (global) as hodlbod or flotilla or coracle or whatever pubkey you want.

To personalize scores, right now it's a one-time setup of 20-30 minutes but we're working on getting that down by at least an order of magnitude. And once it's set up, its' faster and more performant than whatever alternative you may be thinking about.

Are you trying to decide between personalized WoT scores (coracle ...

2026-04-09T20:08:16Z

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Are you trying to decide between personalized WoT scores (coracle was one of the first to implement these) versus global PageRank via Vertex? What about personalized PageRank? I know (if I am not mistaken) that Vertex offers personal and global PR although who is going to pay for it in the long run is to me an unanswered question.

Call starts in 20 minutes! #nevent1q…trn2

2026-04-09T14:39:27Z

Call starts in 20 minutes!

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nevent1q…trn2
Reminder that our 21st #WoTathon weekly call is tomorrow: Thursday, April 9, at 3 PM UTC, 11 AM Eastern.

This is our last call before official presentations that begin next week. Time flies!!

Last I checked (last year, on nostr.band) there were ~ 45 million ...

2026-04-09T06:01:47Z

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Last I checked (last year, on nostr.band) there were ~ 45 million pubkeys. But I don’t have 45 million trusted assertions. I only keep as many TAs as I want, no more, which for now is on the order of 100k. One (of multiple) advantages is speed. For any user who doesn’t have a TA from my personal PoV, if I need a score, I calculate it after I know I need it. Alternatively, I pull the TA from the PoV of someone I trust, if the option exists; and it will be relatively easy to find one if so. This is the kind of solution that will be highly effective at reducing the number of TAs by many orders of magnitude.

Exactly. Using TAs doesn’t mean publishing TAs for every npub ...

2026-04-08T20:26:24Z

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Exactly. Using TAs doesn’t mean publishing TAs for every npub in the universe. There are millions of junk npubs. Brainstorm publishes TAs for only a small subset of them.

When a billion users are on nostr, we’re not going to have one ...

2026-04-08T19:52:54Z

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When a billion users are on nostr, we’re not going to have one billion X one billion TAs. There are lots of practices we can implement that will make that unnecessary. In a nutshell: you will store TAs for the members of the communities that you care about and that you suspect you might be accessing frequently and with high enough probability to justify taking up the space in your memory. For everyone else, calculate scores when you need them, not before.

There are lots of strategies to address scaling that will be good ...

2026-04-08T19:27:35Z

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There are lots of strategies to address scaling that will be good enough. Pretty good ones, in fact.

My initial reaction to bitcoin was that it can’t scale. Every transaction in the world gets stored on everyone’s computer??!? Ridiculous!!!

Turns out bitcoin scaling is a challenge, but it’s not fatal to the entire endeavor and it’s a challenge we simply need to face. Same thing with precalculation and publication of WoT scores.

Precompute scores, publish as TAs, and you get personalized + ...

2026-04-08T19:17:19Z

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Precompute scores, publish as TAs, and you get personalized + cheap + fast.

The root of trust is you. That’s how GrapeRank works. It’s ...

2026-04-08T19:13:53Z

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The root of trust is you. That’s how GrapeRank works. It’s personalized by design. Everyone npub has a score of 0 by default, except for you; your score is pinned at 1 (or 100 %), meaning you’re 100 confident you’re not a bot or a bad actor. If you follow an npub, that score gets off zero. If that npub follows another npub, that score gets off zero, with the bump in proportion to the follow author’s score. Mutes and reports push the score down. If some random bot follows a bad actor, it’s ignored bc the bot has a score of zero by default.

What are you going to do hodlbod when the state comes to you and ...

2026-04-08T19:00:01Z

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What are you going to do hodlbod when the state comes to you and tells you that Vertex (npub1kpt…nhmz) is not on their list of approved WoT score providers and you need to exclude the vertex endpoint from your client? With NIP-85, the state won’t ask you to do that bc you can’t. It doesn’t work that way.

PageRank doesn’t filter nearly as well as GrapeRank. Compare ...

2026-04-08T18:53:03Z

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PageRank doesn’t filter nearly as well as GrapeRank. Compare this prototype to PageRank:

https://nous-clawds4.tapestry.ninja/kg/brainstorm-search

Eventually we will be supporting the kind 0 solution in appendix ...

2026-04-08T18:49:29Z

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Eventually we will be supporting the kind 0 solution in appendix 1 of nip-85. For now, the short list includes
Brainstorm.nosfabrica.com and others including Relatr (nprofile…zvyu) — I’ll invite other SPs from the WoTathon chat group to advertise themselves in this thread.

We’re live! #nevent1q…pfk5

2026-04-02T15:06:20Z

We’re live!

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nevent1q…pfk5
Reminder that our 20th #WoTathon weekly call is just two days away on Thursday, April 2, at 3 PM UTC, 11 AM Eastern. We look forward to hearing updates on the progress each team is making!

Any specific topics you'd like to add to the docket? Reply below!

https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon

Next #wotathon call only one day away! Not many left! ...

2026-04-01T17:08:35Z

Next #wotathon call only one day away! Not many left!

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nevent1q…8y5d
Reminder that our 20th #WoTathon weekly call is just two days away on Thursday, April 2, at 3 PM UTC, 11 AM Eastern. We look forward to hearing updates on the progress each team is making!

Any specific topics you'd like to add to the docket? Reply below!

https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon

For some reason almost everyone on my main feed is showing up as ...

2026-03-31T21:09:03Z

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For some reason almost everyone on my main feed is showing up as having a score 99% which I don’t think is correct 🤔

Does jumble have trust scores? I don’t normally use it but just ...

2026-03-31T20:37:27Z

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Does jumble have trust scores? I don’t normally use it but just checked it out and I don’t see any scores.

They should integrate trusted assertions like nostria (nprofile…tx67) . That would be the best way to see your Brainstorm GrapeRank scores!

🍇 🧠 ⚡️ #nevent1q…296e

2026-03-31T20:27:07Z

🍇 🧠 ⚡️

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The new Brainstorm version is really good and working very!

Our 20th … time flies!! #nevent1q…pfk5

2026-03-31T19:38:58Z

Our 20th … time flies!!

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nevent1q…pfk5
Reminder that our 20th #WoTathon weekly call is just two days away on Thursday, April 2, at 3 PM UTC, 11 AM Eastern. We look forward to hearing updates on the progress each team is making!

Any specific topics you'd like to add to the docket? Reply below!

https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon

These are still processed manually, and I’ve been remiss in ...

2026-03-31T16:01:08Z

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These are still processed manually, and I’ve been remiss in keeping up with it so haven’t triggered your scores yet.

But I’ll DM you the link to the new brainstorm version which triggers automatically. (Tell me if you get the DM, since DMs have really been hit or miss for a while)

I hope so! 😂 I created an issue to add this as a new feature ...

2026-03-28T20:11:57Z

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I hope so! 😂

I created an issue to add this as a new feature on our brainstorm server. Feel free to add comments or suggestions.

https://github.com/NosFabrica/brainstorm_server/issues/8

I think there’s a good chance we’re going to do it — we ...

2026-03-28T18:21:03Z

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I think there’s a good chance we’re going to do it — we just haven’t yet bc we’ve been more focused on making sure the main product is stable.

Has anyone else implemented appendix 1 yet, enough for you to have something to play with?

Every Brainstorm user gets a personalized pubkey, like your own ...

2026-03-28T14:28:35Z

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Every Brainstorm user gets a personalized pubkey, like your own personalized Brainstorm Assistant, which publishes scores on your behalf. That’s the pubkey that’s in your 10040 personal preferences event.

We don’t currently publish a kind 0 profile for this pubkey but it’s on our roadmap. Probably as an opt-in feature. NIP-85 was recently updated to support WoT service provider discoverability guidance — see Appendix 1 of the merged NIP.

Suppose you don’t have a WoT SP and don’t know which ones are good. Following the recent NIP-85 update, you will be able to look through your follows, find who has a 10040 event, pull the WoT assistant pubkey for the “rank” metric (or perhaps for all available metrics), pull that pubkey’s kind 0, and extract the WoT SP website. You’d get a report that says something like “Looking for a WoT SP? N1 of your follows use WoT SP A at www.wot-sp-a.com, N2 use SP B, etc.”

Less than an hour away! #nevent1q…24p0

2026-03-26T14:12:47Z

Less than an hour away!

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nevent1q…24p0
Reminder that our 19th #WoTathon weekly call is just one day away on Thursday, March 26, at 3 PM UTC, 11 AM Eastern. We look forward to hearing updates on the progress each team is making!

Any specific topics you'd like to add to the docket? Reply below!

https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon

Could do what @nprofile…54jr is doing: pull the whitelist of ...

2026-03-24T04:45:13Z

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Could do what relaytools (nprofile…54jr) is doing: pull the whitelist of 100k+ pubkeys from Brainstorm and use that not only to delete old events but also to filter new events. I’d be curious to know how many GB of data that would prune away. Might want to use some more permissive settings to prune less aggressively.

I had previously signed up at brainstorm.nosfabrica.com to have ...

2026-03-21T01:35:44Z

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I had previously signed up at brainstorm.nosfabrica.com to have WoT scores calculated. Nostria was able to communicate with the brainstorm server directly and trigger recalculation.

I just triggered recalculation of my personalized web of trust ...

2026-03-20T23:54:05Z

I just triggered recalculation of my personalized web of trust directly from the nostria.app/settings WoT page 🤯

And I can see the same scores in nostria (npub16x7…a44x) that I see in amethyst (npub142g…xrj0). Which means my WoT is not only personalized … it’s PORTABLE. 🤯🤯🤯

👏🏻sondreb (npub1zl3…jajh) 👏🏻

At @nprofile…59ml we are working on a tool that will be useful ...

2026-03-19T18:06:12Z

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At nosfabrica (nprofile…59ml) we are working on a tool that will be useful in exactly this scenario. Which, as we all know, is going to be a recurring problem!

Currently, the compromised account has a high WoT score using any of the currently-available WoT scoring algos. But GrapeRank has a remedy: NIP-56 reports. The GrapeRank score is currently visible to anyone who uses Brainstorm (still in alpha) on amethyst (nprofile…3a29) , nostria (nprofile…hnuv) , and any client that uses NIP-85 Trusted Assertions. A sufficient number of NIP-56 reports from trusted accounts will drive his GrapeRank score from 100 to 0.

We are currently tweaking the default GrapeRank parameters that determine how many NIP-56 reports it will take to counteract the almost 2k trusted follows. If you would like to assist us in this process, then issue a NIP-56 report (report type can be other, something bespoke like “compromised”, or whatever you think is appropriate) of the compromised account, which is this one: FrankCorvaOldAccount (nprofile…h8le)

#WoT FTW!
🍇 🧠 ⚡️

Correction: 11 am eastern, 3 pm UTC!!! (I forgot to take the ...

2026-03-19T14:52:01Z

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Correction: 11 am eastern, 3 pm UTC!!! (I forgot to take the recent time change into account)!

Weekly #wotathon community call is less than an hour away! 😃 ...

2026-03-19T14:21:42Z

Weekly #wotathon community call is less than an hour away! 😃

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nevent1q…yld4
Reminder that our 18th #wotathon weekly call is 2 days away on Thursday, March 19, at the usual time: 4 PM UTC, 11 AM Eastern. We look forward to hearing updates on the progress each team is making!

Any specific topics you'd like to add to the docket? Reply below!

https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon