I've been using an excel spreadsheet to track my personal finances for the last 5-6years and thanks to Cursor and nostr that is going by the wayside. This weekend I built the baseline for a personal finances tracking application that puts all my data into replaceable event kinds and stores them on a self hosted NIP42 auth with npub whitelisted relay. All data encrypted with NIP44. I built an android app and a Linux .deb app that both retrieve the data from the relay and present it to me and let me edit and add to it on either platform. Excel is great but you're trapped by Microsoft and stuck to a computer (also microsoft office tools are now another fucking subscription) and the Mint type tools don't handle bitcoin transactions and tracking. Im sick of having 80 fucking apps just to track my finances and I'm sick of letting companies mine my financial data to sell me ads. Nostr, AI, and self hosting is the future and the future is now. This shit is magical.

I've been working on an application that uses nostr at its core called Cypher Log. It's not another social media site but rather a re-envisioned way to help manage all the complexities and tasks associated with running a home and storing information about your life. The goal of the site is to help track the more innocuous things that always get forgotten or lost. It stores info of when you bought furniture/applianaces/things and the documents associated with them, car maintenance and information, companies and services you use but put the contact details on sticky note you can't find, pet information and vet visit info, tracking warranties on products you bought, and planning/tracking small home DIY projects. I'm looking for feedback if anyone is interested in trying it out.

Cypher Log

Cypher Log

Manage your home appliances, vehicles, and maintenance schedules with Nostr.

Everything is open source and its encouraged to run your own relay and blossom server to host the data for privacy reasons but if you choose to host the data on public relays everything is NIP44 encrypted so no one can read your intimate details. Pdf/image uploads require a blossom server and do not guarantee privacy unless the server is personal. Access all your information on any device through a browser or a PWA that works pretty well (atleast on android, I dont have an iphone). I think it may even be possible to connect an open claw agent via a NIP26 delegatee key that can manage and add new data to the site without having to do it yourself. Which is batshit crazy and awesome and an avenue i may pursue.

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There's a bunch of people who sold bitty to try and buy back at 60k. Let's see if that works out for them. Hint: it usually doesn't.

Its easy to be a doomer pessimist. Visualize a future worth getting to and attack each day to get to that future. Fuck blackpill doomerism.

Experts saying that banning Blackstone won't help the housing crisis really makes me think that banning Blackstone will help the housing crisis.

Defense contractors should not be able produce shitty products that are over budget and way behind schedule with taxpayer money, then turn around and buy back their shares and push out huge dividends, all while compensating their executives with 10's of millions of dollars. Any moron complaining that reigning in that tomfoolery is somehow aGaiNsT cApiTaLisM doesn't understand capitalism. If these companies were held to the same standard as most companies in the non governemental/private sector were they would have gone out of business many moons ago.

I know the libs will find some way to freak out about this new food pyramid, and it ain't perfect, but it's way better than that lobbyist produced peice of shit that we've been using for the last 50+ years.

Eat Real Food

America's New Dietary Guidelines

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Every high school senior in the United States of America should be required to read The Gulag Archipelago. This communist bullshit has to stop. Macarthyism 2.0.

The US should remove all military personnel and hardware from Europe. Those ungreatful pricks can fend for themselves.

Leftists are so deranged that they would gladly welcome a Chinese invasion of the United States to "save" them from Trump.

One thing I never see from the youtube "prepper" community is an emphasis on having your own tools. Being able to build and fix things yourself is one of the most important life skills to have. Basic power, woodworking, plumbing and electrical tools along with books and general knowledge on those subjects will pay unbelievable dividends. After growing up on a working farm that made barely enough money to get by most years, it's hard to emphasize how important basic DIY/fix-it skills are.

All the gold and silver bugs should be wary of dancing on bitcoins grave, celebrating too early has been known to lead to disappointment.

Merry Christmas!

This is a joke of a bill. Hopefully entities like BPI will come out and strongly oppose it. No capital gains tax on the best money. Period.

US Lawmakers Propose PARITY Act to Overhaul Crypto Tax Regulations

I actually really like the Claude by Anthropic TV commercial.

All this quantum nonsense has picked up since big players have started to accumulate BTC in size. CRQC are a decade or more away, if it ever happens at all. This narrative is being used to scare the plebs out of holding BTC. People like Luke Grommen, who many "bitcoiners" trust, are spreading this fear for literally no reason.