Sometimes the best way to get a community to adopt a technology like cashu and lightning is to never mention the technology or ideology of bitcoin at all. This is what Blacksky.cash is doing.

A year ago when we started And Other Stuff, @jack asked me how to take Nostr mainstream, how do we get normies on here, an open protocol. Today I'm really excited to announce that @Divine HQ has a brand partnership with npub1e025j750al9jxy2agnmp337vy6nn9frfc2jgd79zvt9v0wm4h2pshdmxz4 They're posting on Nostr, videos, and they're sending out 40 million invite codes to the divine app, plus running tv and streaming ads for the app when we drop invite codes on the 20th. Divine is part of Nostr and you've always been able to do use the app and our relays with any Nostr nsec and app, but we're building something which makes it accessible to people who never have heard of the idea of open source or protocols.

@Joe Nakamoto 's video essay on Bitcoin and El Salvador is a good strong critique of the way El Salvador is a authoritarian state.

I keep hitting subscription limits on Codex and Claude, so I'm going to try adding GLM 5.2 (z.ai) to the rotation. Cheapest approach I've found: one Max plan on each, then rotate through them as their 5-hour, daily, and weekly usage windows reset. Going per-token instead is hundreds of times more expensive. Curious what others are doing to manage cost with heavy agentic coding. Rotating plans? Cheaper models for the routine work? Something smarter?

I’m in Berlin, Germany but Bluesky has decided I need to do KYC to comply with Texas laws. This social media future is both Kafkaesque and Orwellian.

Interesting there’s a programming language for composable zero knowledge proofs.

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I'm at the LocalFirst Conference in Berlin this week after having attended the DWeb camp over the weekend. One thing i think is interesting is there were more Nostr folks, including a number of folks i didn't know well at dweb, but at dweb there was mostly conversations of some new protocols like willow/p2panda/others plus activitypub and atprotocol. A few nostr talks too. Lots of diversity, it was good. But at LocalFirst i'm mostly hearing folks talk about and excited about ATprotocol, which is interesting because of all the decentralized social protocols, ATprotocol is less local first than the rest. It's a bit disappointing because i think Nostr is a better protocol for what they want to do than ATprotocol, but we've not been reaching out to different communities enough.

There's a kind of interesting collaboration tool for dev in the atrpoto ecosystem:

Tangled

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Kind of reminds me of github.com/block/buzz but a different take. It'd be cool if we had a tangled but for nostr. ;-D

Vamos Cabo Verde!

“We have problems (in the world), but we are also on the cusp of breakthroughs that solve these problems. An optimistic view would help explain the complex future and give everyone hope.” - Om Malik 1966-2026

Anybody know about this nostr for agents project?

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This Spark NZ advertisement is pretty messed up. Ostensibly it's about stopping fraud and spam, but they present the 'bad guys' as a crowd of protesters marching down the street, that Spark makes disappear in to a magical sink hole.

Reflecting on vine.

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In January there was a splashy announcement of a new European social media app, wsocial.eu, which seems to be promising to be an EU like Twitter app which satisfies the dreams of EU elites. Turns out it’s a ATprotocol app/instance with verified credentials and lots of weird marketing. I don’t think anyone on here would be interested is using W Social but you might find this read about the project interesting.

The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting Signals

Video manifesto! Why I built divine.video

It rains a lot in New Zealand, but i'm not sure folks really understand how much. 739mm of rain just fell on the Tasman region in a weekend. London gets ~600mm in an entire YEAR. That's London's whole annual rainfall — plus an extra 140mm — dropped on one NZ hillside in about two days. Needless to say, there was flooding. New Zealand's main changes it'll see due to climate change is even more rain. So this is just a start.

Divine 1.0.14 is live on iOS. Three weeks of work since 1.0.12 — more control, cleaner loops, fewer weird edges. This one’s for the people who notice the details. Creator tools got a serious upgrade. The editor now has clip speed controls, timeline volume editing, local audio imports, audio extraction from your own clips, sharper exported layers, better split/edit state handling, and fewer ways to lose your publish flow when bouncing between recorder and editor. Clip trash also gives you a 30-day safety net before deleted clips are really gone. Feeds should feel more alive and less haunted. For You routes through recommendations, Popular has better source and time controls, Explore does a better job surfacing fresh diVines, and counts for likes, loops, views, reposts, and reused videos stay steadier. Playback got smoother too — better first-frame behavior, cleaner overlays, stronger cache handling, and more graceful recovery when a video gets fussy. DMs got a little more human. Emoji reactions landed, markdown-style formatting works, the composer grows as you write, the full emoji picker is wired up, send buttons are more accessible, and message recovery is tougher when delivery only half-succeeds. Notifications got a big cleanup pass. Taps now land in the right place more often, comment replies are classified more clearly, foreground and local notifications behave more consistently, unread badges stop getting wiped just because you left the page, and iOS alert pushes should no longer double-buzz you. Less noise. More signal. Profiles, search, and safety got sharper. Profile text and lists linkify better, profile reporting is easier to find, banner/avatar flows are smoother, verified account chips are clearer, search sorting is stronger, blocked users stay out of category feeds, adult-content settings behave more consistently after verification, and our “do not train” C2PA assertion is now always included. There’s a lot under the hood too: stronger account recovery, safer session refresh, better invite and collaborator recovery, sturdier upload retries, more reliable view tracking, cleaner notification settings, improved reset-password flow, and a bunch of crash and race-condition fixes that should make the app feel calmer even when the network is not. Short version: better making, better messaging, better feeds, better notifications, and fewer tiny betrayals from your phone. Welcome Home. Install Divine 1.0.14 iOS:

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Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.openvine.app&hl=en Zapstore:

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