Buzz 1.0 is out as of today. Congrats to the team for a great idea and a cool product. Buzz is an application released by Block, but imo it's more importantly a _pattern_ of how to use agents and Nostr together to create a new kind of collaborative experience. I'm surprised nostricans have not picked up on this, because we should have been the ones to see this first. The "Buzz pattern" is chat + agents + git, in a slack-like UI. The chat part is a Nostr NIP-29 group: you run a relay somewhere, you auth users into it, you moderate however you want. It's for you and your co-conspirators aka your friends. The "agents" part is ACP, where you bring your own agents, and they get to interact with the chat like anyone else. Only you can talk to your agents, but everyone can see the interactions. Thus it is participatory across human/agent boundaries. The git part is Nostr's NIP-34 git constructs, again all running via the relay. The first great thing is here is that it's self-hosted. You can run this anywhere yourself. Since it's BYO-agents, there's no shared AI infrastructure. The second is that it breaks the current silo'd user experience of agents. Today we are hundreds of thousands of people talking solo with an agent. This is not collaboration. In order to really go far with leveraging agents, we have to interact in the same space with other humans and their agents. "If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together." The problems with Buzz are that, despite the open architecture, much of it is custom protocol, and tailored to hosted enterprise clients. There are 18 custom Nostr NIPs (!) that the relay must implement to work with Buzz, therefore it doesn't work with an off-the-shelf relay. The implementation assumes multi-tenant architecture, and therefore must be identified by its community URL. There's no reason for this: remove the need for multi-tenant and let users name it whatever they want. It forces you to include object storage for git, in order to support multi-tenant relays, which again, most users don't need. The default is MinIO, which is unfree software. Signing up for a Buzz community requires going through a centralized directory and email sign in, which Nostr was specifically designed to replace. My suggestion to you is that we should build collaborative chat applications following the Buzz pattern, even if we don't want to buy in to Block's vision for Buzz. Fire up dem agents.

the Mistral release is another nail in the coffin for big US labs model, for whom big capex and GPU count is a sign of growth and revenue. except mistral got near performance with 5% of the GPU count. oops.

I'm told we can zap an ngit repo, how dis work?

boom. the lead for MARA's French lobbying claims MARA lied about not wanting to use its Exaion acquisition to mine btc on French nuclear. France has so much unused power, and its nuclear plants suffer from having to modulate their output lower. but they refuse to allow btc mining. Instead they let a US company mislead them into giving it up. if it hadn't been for persistent counter-lobbying by Gouspillou, Statchenko and others, MARA would have exclusive access to French nuclear. Insane. France could have a stronger grid, optimized reactor usage, steady revenue and less US interference, but it has so far chosen to steal defeat from the jaws of victory. Will we wake up in time? View quoted note →

shout out to ppl using languages with respectable build systems.

Elixir bitcoinkernel lib coming together nicely 🔮

GitHub

GitHub - jurraca/ex_bitcoinkernel: Elixir wrapper for libbitcoinkernel

Elixir wrapper for libbitcoinkernel. Contribute to jurraca/ex_bitcoinkernel development by creating an account on GitHub.

cc @sedited

I keep hearing that agents are much more effective with statically typed languages, but have seen no evidence that's true.

a "conversation" with an LLM is an anthropomorphism. a chat should re-render the context at every turn, so the LLM only ever sees a system prompt, a context message, and your message.

fwiw Elixir always been S-tier at docs, and its all of a sudden paying off big. like I can call 'Code.fetch_docs(module)' and get the docs at runtime. so I can generate skills or let the LLM get context on the fly. View quoted note →

very nice website 💯 View quoted note →

really starting to feel like a coordinated campaign with quantum fear as Trojan horse. the fact that we have bip360 is _insanely_ proactive given the current risk quantum poses. Saylor and starboy can fork off at their leisure. View quoted note →

Like python, elixir can fetch docs from bytecode at runtime, so now I have an LLM creating modules, then creating skills from those modules' docs, so it can then create new more complex modules and so on. autonomy loop 🌀

help me understand "agent skills" . we went through MCP, ACP, all sorts of designs and frameworks to land on: markdown files in a folder?

i never liked or used reddit much, so moltbook is not landing for me. it's slop-ception on a centralized platform. icymi twitter has been agent bots talking to each other for years.

yo @Keychat how does the mini app thing work? it just opens the app in my browser on desktop.

who are the best mathematicians in bitcoin? apart from poelstra

Bokke too good man 😑

published a Nostr client lib for Elixir:

nostr_ex v0.3.0 — Documentation

. There were a few libraries out there but mostly half-baked, and I wanted something any Elixir project could slot in without too much fuss or rough edges. enjoy :) #elixir #beam

gm, Bruno Maçaes published this book called World Builders, about how nation states dont compete for territory and resources anymore but for the ability to define the virtual worlds you live in, from news to web to social to AI and so on. He argues 21st century power means the ability to build these worlds. Nostr is that. We're terraforming a nation of the mind. A fundamental builder's culture.