I've recently found a small store that accepts Bitcoin close to my house. (And it's not even on that BTCMap thing.) Hyperbitcoinization is happening, finally!

Using

Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos and More

and blocking the YouTube frontpage is a great thing. The "subscriptions" page I'm redirected to has a reverse chronological order of videos from channels I'm explicitly subscribed to, and I didn't know but that it is actually what I want 99% of the times.

Flotilla Social

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is pairing well together with #pyramid, finally.

If Bitcoin isn't directly used by most normal people in daily commerce then it is very easy to capture.

The new #pyramid v1.0.18 includes: A way to customize the kinds the relay accepts: SFTP access for full control over events and blossom blobs (dangerous): NIP-86 support in all sub-relays (should work on https://landlubber.coracle.social and on https://nostrapps.com/relay-tools): And also: - a way to pin events to the top of the feed of any of the relays. - bug fixes. View quoted note →

Some #pyramid relays I know of that are up and running very profitably: -

Spatia-Arcana

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wss://inner.sebastix.social

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Basspistol Relay

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NEstr

- https://garden.zap.cooking -

the fiatjaf pyramid

Please let me know if you're running one and how it's going. And send me your most adventurous feature requests such that they can be slowly worked on. View quoted note →

vnak v0.2.0 is now widely available:

GitHub

Release v0.2.0 · fiatjaf/vnak

new build and bunker tabs. improvements everywhere.

new features in the latest last #pyramid release: - primitive blossom support with a simple dashboard and upload button - if you just publish an event with a date in the future it will be scheduled and automatically released at that date - an option to automatically opentimestamp every note published to the relay - an option to set the maximum size of events allowed - many fixes View quoted note →

This new Yakihonne version fixes DMs completely apparently. NIP-17 is working pretty well now on Amethyst, 0xchat, https://yakihonne.com/, https://chachi.chat/dm? Also Coop, Nostur and Damus Notedeck if I'm not mistaken. View quoted note →

Real Nostr clients don't require any servers, they can work completely on the client side. The fact that we have apps that still work perfectly well but are now inaccessible because a domain name has expired (or whatever) is some bullshit we inherited from the "web" world that we should try to circumvent, not embrace. There are multiple ways to circumvent these flaws and build true Nostr clients that can't be controlled by anyone, not even by their original author. View quoted note →

SQRL invented the anti-phishing public key cryptography based approach to website authentication many years ago. It was a beautiful spec of one page with multiple grassroots implementations. Then they decided that the simple "I sign something with a key" approach wasn't good enough, they also had to cover a bazillion other key management things in the protocol so they brought a team of academics that turned the thing into a 300-page unreadable spec that no one ever implemented fully. LNURL-auth basically reinvented the original simple SQRL version in 2019 and got many implementations and some traction within the bitcoiner realm. But at the same time another team of academics probably by paid by some evil people were creating Webauthn, i.e. "passkeys", which solves the exact same problem and works in the exact same way, although this time the spec is much bigger than even the worst version of SQRL and apparently designed to create centralization. It took them at least 6 years to get browsers and phones and some websites to start adopting this behemoth, but so far there are no answers to what is their real purpose or to the question: "what if I lose my phone?".

Added a "spell" command to

GitHub

GitHub - fiatjaf/nak: a command line tool for doing all things nostr

a command line tool for doing all things nostr. Contribute to fiatjaf/nak development by creating an account on GitHub.

- `nak req -k 777 -a verbiricha@habla.news --outbox | jq` to see all @verbiricha spells - pick one and run `nak req -i c1214b196b3664bc7fc8c8dfaa082a24ed09b25028773bcae60fef8dfe6646fa -a verbiricha@habla.news --outbox | nak spell --pub fiatjaf.com` to run it in the context of your user (replace 'fiatjaf.com' with your npub or nip05) - `nak spell` will list your previously used spells with ids that you can use to invoke them again: `nak spell spellcgk4u9c --pub fiatjaf.com` It's not super useful, but it is something. View quoted note →

#grimoire might make all the other clients obsolete. View quoted note →

Nostr Devtools: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nostr-devtools/ogoaodeklpfbboeopebgdggammkcndcp Get clear insight of what relays are serving what subscriptions and what events came from where. Everything is filterable by arbitrary strings, groupable by relay, event, subscription or by any arbitrary Nostr filter elements (click on them, or Ctrl+click to add to existing). It only captures stuff while the devtools is open, so open it first then refresh the page to use, otherwise you'll get incomplete data.

Fevela

A Nostr social client that give you back full control of your attention and time with an innovative interface

now supports https://github.com/dtonon/fevela/pull/40, which is better than blurhash.

ThumbHash: A very compact representation of an image placeholder

You can see it in action on @npub1e49n...sm0m if your eyes are faster than your internet. (Or throttle the connection speed in your browser devtools network panel, this was a good idea.) Actually after browsing through a feed of blurhashes (on Jumble) and a feed of thumbhashes I've changed my mind, I think the difference is absurd and thumbhash is not only slightly better, it's astronomically better. @Cody would you add it to Jumble? @jb55 please jump in the bandwagon too! @Fabian? @Vitor Pamplona? @npub1cesr...t37c? @YakiHonne?