## BudaBit Demo Day application ### Title: BudaBit news Pitch: I will demo the most exciting new features and share the learnings from building them!

With #SatShoot you can now configure and view your nip85 Trusted Providers of useful user-related scores: Why its useful: Certain metrics help you decide if someone is a bad actor, bot or probably human/good actor. These would be hard to priduce client-side so you choose providers you trust. So how do you choose providers? From your client-side verified narrower web of trust! SatShoot will actually gather public provider info from your narrow trusted network of pubkeys and show who is using which provider. You can select multiple providers for a "capability" (metric) and compare them. Capabilities can extend beyond what's defined in nip85 so you can practically gather a bunch of these metrics from WoT preferences and select the ones you find meaningful. You can verify in SatShoot that metrics are not merely preferred by a user but that metric is actually served by the provider as you saw with "Verify providers" feature. Then you can go to profile pages and to Analysis that fetches metrics you configured earlier. This is another one of those features that help extend trust like Vertex does but doesn't actually have an effect on user experience until explicitly following someone. An important philosophy of SatShoot is that a real digital marketplace is one that you verify but that doesn't exclude optional trusted service providers. The configured providers will start showing rank metrics on profile icons in #Amethyst client. This feature was implemented as part of the #wotathon by @nosfabrica . Try it at https://satshoot.com

If you ever wondered why email is broken despite being an open protocol here is a reminder: Of course today you cannot run your own email sending service realistically, you will be banned in no time. So as @hodlbod is using anchor (a push and email notif server for flotilla) I wanted to setup my own for BudaBit. Well, it is not KYC but my account was flagged and suspended immediately after registration. Why? They of course will never tell me the checks they use, completely opaque but my name being causally set to 'John Doe' might be related. Here's the info they actually ask to review my case: " Your account was recently flagged by our automated security system. This occurs when certain patterns are detected that may indicate a risk to our sending reputation. To protect the integrity of our platform, we aren’t able to disclose the specific triggers involved. .... As your website is hosting very limited information, are you able to share more on: 1. The nature/business model of your business?  Could you also tell us what your sites or apps are for, and which industry they belong to? 2. What products or services will you be promoting? Also, If you have a beta site that is accessible and or screenshots of the site content please share those as well. Getting to know sending habits of our customers is one of the ways Postmark protects your sender reputation and our overall deliverability, so thank you for your assistance. " This is the world without decentralized reputation. This is going to be massively worse in the upcoming years. People are not at all prepared for the consequences of this, especially with AI now proliferating. Trust is eroding. The centralized players haven't the faintest idea what to do about other than KYC the hell out of everyone. Only #wot can save us now. Freedom tech or bust.

Thoughts to ponder View article →

The ugly truth (and why I still use nip04 and don't give a damn about the true scotsman arguments) : View quoted note →

LET'S SET #BITCOIN CORE FREE! Yes, you can now migrate any repo to Nostr, with issues, pr-s and comments. A couple of clicks in #BudaBit . This will tag events created by profiles that can be matched to a Nostr account as per NIP39. > They don't just host our code, they mediate our relationships. When your identity, issue history, contributor graph, and CI tooling are bound to a vendor's database, "open-source" becomes a veneer over a captured workflow. This is an IMPORTant step for Freedom tech. #gitvianostr

> A real marketplace would let any operator offer compute and any project buy it, without needing permission from a platform, and still get credible outputs. That's the gap Nostr can fill. View article →

Edit: I now think AI can ship spectacularly well-written code so I was wrong on that part. What I still believe is that on the margin human ingenuity is still necessary, especially to build a successful product. However, AI will be essential to make that happen.

Little taste of what's new in #BudaBit : What's on display: - Browse and bookmark Repos with ease - Create permalink events: these are snippets on steroids. Contains enough metadata to jump to exact lines of code or to a specific diff context. Share these in any room or thread - Browse your previously created Snippet collection MOOAR DEMOS TO COME! I'll keep posting these demos because it's literally impossible to showcase all the awesome features! Check it out live to get a taste of what's already possible with #gitvianostr !

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I love that #SatShoot has a built-in #Cashu wallet. It is so much easier to pay sponsored npubs with nutzaps, and possibly pay for #Vertex later, and other #wot services. However... paying for compute is one of the best use-cases of ecash imo. We will make CI/CD into a nostr-wide marketplace in #BudaBit, paid with ecash, for the exact amount of compute. Marketplaces X Communities. Stay tuned.

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

Vibe coding is a slippery slop. But we dove headfirst into it, and it feels too good to be true. Perhaps it is.

> Uniquely, every user has their own heavily subjective view of the marketplace. One component of this is relay selection. The other component is past user actions used to build a network of minimally trusted Nostr public keys, known as the Web of Trust (WoT). View article →

> Enhancement balanced with just enough friction. This is the power of Nostr. Not a fake global view, not a walled garden, and not a purely P2P mess. View article →