BudaBit is coming along nicely, will start more activities for all the freedom tech devs out there! If you want to set up your own community **on any relay** (not like nip29) with just a few clicks, take a look at how BudaBit communities work:

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In the future I will implement optional server side enforcement but I think it should be super easy to start a public moderated group. Why are BudaBit groups unique? - Technical focus (tight nostr-git integration) - Fine-grained moderation enabled by content sections - Community-first web of trust - Curate Repos, Code Snippets and Smart widget extensions into your groups - Run and recommend infrastructure as a group admin: Relay, blossom media, grasp server, ecash mint, email alert service, possibly more in the future - Select your service providers based on your community memberships and community-first #wot Join to learn more or talk about freedom tech:

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Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn

I like nutzaps because: 1. Better verification assuming the mint is widely trusted - > reputation builds up 2. Still some degree of plausible deniability: You could say ecash doesn't equal real money, it's an IOU (not a lawyer) 3. No peel-chain type of privacy leak like with Bitcoin 4. More stable from a developer standpoint because there is no third party involved in the publishing of the zap receipt like with LN zaps 5. Funny name LN zaps: - Less verifiable probably due to random LN nodes posting the zap receipt - Worse stability of receipt structure : it is third party publishing with whatever tags they want. You can just propose the event as a client app - Better deniability due to the above Onchain: - Very strong verifiability - Privacy ramifications most users can't calculate beforehand - Future fees and waiting times if bitcoin succeeds Most use a custodian LN wallet (99.9%) anyway and there's really no way to abstract away the privacy consequences of onchain so ecash is my winner. View quoted note →

"Marxists are unteachable. This is so difficult to eradicate, as you know with my book I've tried to eradicate it for 50 years." - Karl Popper Somehow we see this coming back to bite us again and again. Theft and coercion fueled by envy, camouflaged by the "protection" of "underprivileged". The central planners will try to crack down once more, with terrible consequences. The signs are there. Working on unstoppable speech, communities, and markets for me is not optional. If I want a future for myself and my family I must carry on and do my best to ship the tools for freedom. This is what keeps me going the most.

I'm a daily active user of nostr. Just not on the social media front. I speak to my AI coding agent inside @BudaBit via DMs. Also doing other dev work in BudaBit that 99% replaced GitHub in my workflow. Organizing BudaBit Demo Day events on @Hivetalk Occasionally managing apps with @Zapstore, watching a stream on Zapstream or paying my contributors in sats on @SatShoot. Tipping sponsored freelancers with nostr-native ecash. Shilling @TollGate every now and then on my meetups. Antennapod is still my daily driver rather than fountain, simply the best in this category and open source. Hope I can switch one day though. Ppl trying to measure nostr usage with social media as a proxy is understandable but the whole picture is very far from what you can extract from such a narrow view of a diverse ecosystem. Patience pays off. Gradually then suddenly.

How #Vertex is currently integrated in #SatShoot : - Search bar that filters page content can be used to search profiles with Vertex - Brand new pubkeys or pubkeys without vertex credits are sent to buy credits to vertex pricing page: - My account has by default some credit allowance and can use profile search as well as analyze profiles with Vertex: verifyReputation method: This is done with DVM-based query. It serves not to replace client-side #wot but to complement it. You want to know more about an npub you potentially want to make a deal with, you can use this to get to know better. Result is cached. Then you might include this person to your web of trust by following and making a deal. That is how you expand your network and thus grow the business network of Nostr. Check it out on https://satshoot.com #freelance #grownostr

#Ecash fans alert! We finally shipped NUT13 in SatShoot ecash wallet! What this means: This is the first nostr-based ecash wallet that is backed up by a seed as well. You are double-protected: ecash is saved on relays, encrypted to your nsec, and additionally you have the seed backup. Why big deal? Ecash wallets on nostr have been notoriously unreliable, mostly due to relays and all sorts of state bugs. It is not easy to implement a stateful wallet and if the app loses state (i.e. your money) somehow, you were out of luck. Your seed allows you to recover from state bugs or relay sync issues. But at the end of the day your nsec serves as a backup if you lose your seed. That's the neat part. Try it on https://satshoot.com CAVEATS: 1. Due to an Amber bug the wallet will not work with amber remote signer. Only try with local key or browser extension login 2. Still experimental! Please don't use it for high amounts 3. Feedback welcome! You can try to deposit on a seed and recover from cashu.me or the other way round! Report bugs and such. Bonus for the #wot lovers: Now you can choose a mint based on recommendations from your nostr web of trust! (As shown in the video) Ecash has two hard problems nostr can help with: 1. Discovery and reputation of mints: From explicit mint recommendations AND implicit nutzap info (which mints ppl want their nutzaps to be received) we can show the user mint usage from his own trusted network. This helps selecting mints for newbies or switch if mints get compromised. 2. Wallet portability: Thanks to nostr relays, your ecash should be synced to all devices. All you need is a nip60-capable nostr app. Thanks to @rodant for the implementation of NUT13 on Nostr! cc @calle

@Matt Corallo saw yall takin a look at decentralized git solutions and github replacement on bitcoin core discussion:

#bitcoin-core-dev on 2026-01-16 — searchable irc log

channel #bitcoin-core-dev IRC chat logs

Here's a couple of sources and Nostr-based solutions you could give a try: - NIP34 spec:

NIPs

NIP 34 - `git` stuff — Nostr Implementation Possibilities

This NIP defines all the ways code collaboration using and adjacent to git can be done using Nostr. Repository announcements Git repositories are h...

- GitHub-like client:

gitworkshop - Decentralized Git

Decentralized GitHub alternative over Nostr for browsing repositories, managing issues, and collaborating on pull requests.

- Discord/Slack type of client with Git-integration:

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- ... and some others, so there's quite some effort to make code collab work with Nostr - The grasp spec is also interesting, it is a git server with nostr-native auth, designed to be easy-to-run and to accept code collab oriented nostr events, so a relay is packaged with it:

ngit documentation

GRASP: Git hosting without the gatekeeper | ngit

Discover how GRASP turns signed Nostr state into portable, resilient Git hosting for ngit and other clients.

Grasp is the grug-brain solution to what radicle is trying to do for years but I think this has much better chance to work. Why nostr? Because it is more decentralized yet much simpler than Fediverse / Mastodon and Bluesky. All above solutions lack full functionality compared to github but hopefully you can see where this is going. It is trivial to moderate your relay, be it comments or any other events. Nostr-git is becoming increasingly standardized so your data is portable and signed. Open to any questions! cc @DanConwayDev @fiatjaf

Very cool project, check it out! Home Mining X Nostr zaps ⚡️🤝⛏️ View quoted note →

Am an operator myself and love how nostr is gradually eating the lunch of all rent-seekers of the networking stack: View quoted note →

Are you already planning your next moves as a builder in freedom tech? Tell us about it! The best way to do it is applying with your demo on

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When I found Bitcoin, I was mostly alone with my thoughts and my plans to reorient my life around PoW and decentralization. I've always been fond of doing things in a community though, so when I learned there were no active meetups in Hungary I started one. Now that's officially part of the "twentyone" family of meetups:

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BudaBit Cypherpunk Meetup

BudaBit Cypherpunk Meetup: in partnership with Hus...

. Thanks for the awesome website @El Presidento Ben ! But to me who is working on freedom tech full time, a monthly meetup still wasn't enough: I started #BudaBit for all builders and aspiring devs in freedom tech to connect, share and collaborate like never before. It is an attempt to transcend the platform model for open-source development, and bring it to the next level: Community driven development, powered by Nostr. BudaBit Demo Day is part of that plan: What I've found on my journey is that feedback is essential to the process, and it is not easy to find people who get it and can provide valuable feedback. If you're a builder in freedom tech, this event is for you! Go to

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for details!

📢 ANNOUNCING BUDABIT DEMO DAY Have you got something exciting cooking in Freedom tech? It's time show it off to an audience that truly cares! Early next year I am launching BudaBit Demo Day - a regular event series focused on Builders in Freedom tech! 🤙 Want to get honest feedback on your project from other builders in the space? This is your chance then! Go to

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for details, and **apply with your demo today!** Spoiler alert! Everyone’s invited but only the best are chosen! 🏅 PS: If you got friends in the space, please share! I created BudaBit for all freedom tech builders to find inspiration, get feedback and supercharge their work with the power of Nostr! Haven't got a demo to share just yet? You are still invited to the party! Come, get inspired and provide constructive feedback to the presenters! #budabit #gitvianostr #ngit #community

@Oscar Merry fountain subs are buggy. You say sub from $5 (5.530 sats) which is then converted to $55.30 incorrectly and that amount is calculated in sats (61.162) . This is a serious bug fix it soon.