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I always had a hard time believing this parable. Surely someone coming back from the dead would be enough to convince any one of the truth. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized it’s never been about evidence. It’s a decision to believe. I really believe the parable. ““The rich man replied, ‘No, Father Abraham! But if someone is sent to them from the dead, then they will repent of their sins and turn to God.’ “But Abraham said, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they won’t be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭16‬:‭30‬-‭31‬

Want to know a based take on any topic? Ask whatever AI agent you’re using “what do conspiracy theorist think about [topic]”.

A real professional use case for nostr that I've been implementing over and over: setting up nostr accounts for communication for processes. This is with real businesses. The redundant communication, that's easy to set up, is unique enough to default to.

Gemma4:27b runs great on my MacBook Pro M3 Max 36gb.

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Introducing Europa: A monetarily incentivized VPN marketplace Why is this going to work? View quoted note → Europa is a marketplace where anyone can sell VPN access and anyone can buy it. Accept any currency, any payment type. The VPN itself is standard WireGuard or OpenVPN — no custom client software, no platform taking a cut, no subscriptions to manage. Money and reputation flow directly between operator and buyer. Together they produce something existing VPN services can't: a network that incentivizes its own decentralization. 1. For VPN node operators A. Risk counterbalance. Operators get paid to front the exit-node risk, at whatever price they decide is worth it. Running in a desirable jurisdiction, an underserved region, or behind a residential IP? Charge more for it. The market sets the floor; you set your own ceiling. B. Plausible deniability. Don't use your primary Nostr keys for the operator pubkey. Use a fresh one. Then endorse the service from your primary keys. " @`ODELL` endorses this VPN service — I wonder if he set it up, or if it's a friend of his?" We'll never know. That's by design. The endorsement carries his reputation; the operator pubkey carries the service. The link between them stays ambiguous unless he chooses otherwise. C. Incentivized decentralization. When a Europa node gets too big, it might garner legal attention. The operator might decide to take down their own service because they're nervous, or be forced to. Either way, demand doesn't disappear — it moves. Other operators see a chance to make money and fill the need. The market routes around concentration the same way it routes around censorship: automatically, because the incentives are aligned with it. 2. For buyers A. No accounts, no commitment. Browse the directory, pick a VPN, pay in Lightning or Cashu, get a config file. No email. No subscription. No data retention you have to take someone's word on. When time or data runs out, the connection drops and you decide what to do next. B. Small bets first. A new operator's reputation may be thin. Test them with a small purchase — an hour, a few cents — before committing more. The architecture bounds how much you can lose on any single bad bet. C. Real choice. Operators compete on price, reliability, location, and policy. Reputation flows through the Nostr social graph — endorsements from accounts you follow, reports from accounts you trust. You filter the signal yourself. 3. For endorsers A. Endorse carefully. Vouching for an operator is more than recommending a coffee shop. When you endorse a VPN, you're sending people's traffic through someone else's server. If that operator logs, leaks, or turns hostile, the people who trusted your endorsement are the ones exposed. Endorse operators you've actually used. Endorse based on observed reliability, not just personal connection. Endorse with the understanding that you're staking part of your reputation on their behavior. B. Report when warranted. The same way endorsements carry weight, reports do too. An operator who fails to deliver, logs against their stated policy, or behaves badly should get reported — that's how the network's signal stays useful. Don't report frivolously, but don't stay silent when something's wrong. C. Your reputation compounds either way. Accurate endorsements and accurate reports build durable reputation that helps the people who trust you. Careless ones erode it. The system is symmetric: there's no shortcut to being a trusted voice, just the slow accumulation of being right about what you signal.

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New release of the Titan nsite browser. Better UI overall.

GitHub

Release v0.1.8 · btcjt/titan

Install macOS (Apple Silicon) — download Titan_0.1.8_aarch64.dmg. ⚠ Unsigned build — strip quarantine before opening. macOS Gatekeeper will ...

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New weekly Brundle puzzle available in 8 hours! 👀 👇 https://brundle.westernbtc.com/weekly

"No one is going to run their own server". With enough network effect, they will. Enter OpenClaw. Most may only be getting Mac Mini's, but that's a great start. Self sovereignty got closer for those who decided against a vps.

Everyone should own an RV. There’s something powerful about being able to pack up a home and leave in a night if you needed to.

I would love to have some discussion on the Book of Enoch. Biblically, the idea of hell changed drastically from the Old Testament to the New Testament. While there were some vague ideas of a punishment of the angels (Isaiah 24:21), and a mention of a resurrection of the dead to ever lasting life or everlasting disgrace (Daniel 12:2), most concepts of Hell -- The Lake of Fire, The Pit, Outer Darkness -- weren't described in detail until Jesus's time and after. This is where the Book of Enoch is strange to me. It talks about many of these "new" concepts in depth and is dated at least 100 years before Jesus. Many of the teachings of Hell and punishment of the angels in the New Testament (Jude 1:6, 2 Peter 2:4, Revelation 9:1–2; 19:20, 20:1–3, 20:10, 20:14–15) are paralleled in Enoch. How do you all think about this stuff?

Made my first PR into the nips repo

GitHub

NIP-41: Add places -- geohash ladder addressable locations (kind - 33000) by btcjt · Pull Request #2074 · nostr-protocol/nips

Nostr Implementation Possibilities. Contribute to nostr-protocol/nips development by creating an account on GitHub.

What happens if a cemetery company goes bankrupt? Breaking my brain 😂.

Why is it important to run your relay behind a hidden tor service? It’s hard to take down. Domain names — not so much. Bypasses most geo/IP blocks. If Tor itself is filtered, you’ll probably have luck if you connect with a Snowflake/bridge. Reach out to @0xtr if your relay has a hidden tor service in front of it.

@Marakesh 𓅦 follower of Jesus here.

I want to send a random transaction to each of these EU addresses. View quoted note →