Just released version 0.8.0 of MDK (@marmot development kit). It includes lots of improvements and a few important changes.

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Release v0.8.0 · marmot-protocol/mdk

Summary MDK 0.8.0 is a protocol, security, and mobile-bindings release. This release adds the first MIP-05 notification building blocks, moves MIP-...

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Just got Sparrow Wallet phishing email from support@sparrow-update.com (definitely not the right URL, asking about definitely not real things). Stay safe out there folks.

@OpenSats continues to absolutely crush it. I always love reading their updates.

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GM 🌞 Happy to be back at my desk after 2 weeks on the road.

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The best places are the ones that seem utterly contradictory but somehow manage to hold that tension in perfect elegance.

Just use OTR... Just use Signal protocol... Just use a server... The problem of unstoppable, private group messaging is SO much bigger and SO much harder than anyone gives it credit for (including me). There are many shortcuts. There are many half-baked solutions that might get short-term adoption. Building the thing right has pushed me to the limit many times over the last few years. And yet, I'm still here. Still learning, still building. I'm not going to give up, and I'm not going to cut corners.

GM 🌞 Who is looking at post-quantum strategies for nostr? I want to talk.

LOL 😂 The internet remains undefeated. They’ve already found serious privacy flaws with the EUs digital bullshit.

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.@vonderleyen "The European #AgeVerification app is technically ready. It respects the highest privacy standards in the world. It's open-source, so...

Exactly! So let us raise them and stop interfering! 🤬

Double aurora. Wow.

GM 🌞 Feels heavy out there today fam.

As only Asimov could deliver... https://astronomy.org/moravian/C00-Last%20Question.pdf

Hey @Start9 - Is StartOS a dead product?

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11 months since the last commit...

GM 🌞 So pumped. There are so many amazing things coming up in the next few months...