Some beautiful person was the first one besides me to register a #Nomen earlier today. To whomever that was, don’t forget to send a record event! The blockchain only has a hash of the data, which mean the Nostr event is required to complete the circle! You can broadcast an event here using your NIP-07 extension, if you want: https://nomenexplorer.com/newrecords

The Nomen protocol and indexer are new software, but getting your nomen is simple and low risk. Using your Bitcoin wallet, create an unsigned transaction paying a UTXO back to yourself. Make sure to slightly overestimate your fees, since we will be adding a bit of extra data to it. Copy the transaction to your clipboard as a base64-encoded PSBT (this is just a menu option in Sparrow, for example). On the Explorer, click “New Name” and paste the PSBT into the form, along with the name and public key. The public key is just an X-only schnorr key. You can even use your Nostr npub. When you submit the form, it will return a new PSBT with the extra output for Nomen. Copy and import it back into your wallet (again, this is just a simple menu option in Sparrow). Verify that nothing has changed except for the new 0sat output and you can see that no one is stealing your funds. Then sign it and broadcast it! That simple, really. Low risk. You can then publish a records Nostr event View quoted note →

My newest project, which I have been working on for a few months. It's called Nomen, and it's a decentralized protocol for registering globally unique names using Bitcoin and Nostr. I've written an indexer, called Nomen Explorer, which uses published Nostr events anchored to Bitcoin blockchain ordering in order to provide a view of the registered names. https://nomenexplorer.com

RIP Robert Jordan #Bitcoin #WheelofTime

The Passport is awesome #[0]

It’s over boys and girls

"I am going to try my project on signet because I heard it has standard 10 minute block times" Signet:

A tiny preview of what I have been working on the past few months.

Can’t believe Tucker didn’t take his show to Nostr.

For the past few months I have been working on a protocol and indexer for a permissionless DNS-type system using Bitcoin (timestamps) and Nostr (data). Just as I am tidying things up to deploy an alpha version of the indexer, the BRC-20 hellscape emerged 🫠 It will now cost like $20 to “register a domain”, so to speak. Who will experiment with me now? 😬😅

Bluesky is a scam

#[0]​ takes no prisoners 😂

Happy Cuatro de Mayo

Environmental regulations have ruined toilets

I am definitely a Bitcoin maxi, but the Tether+Liquid industrial complex present among bitcoin power brokers makes me queasy.

Freaking love Rust View quoted note →

Damn, but I really hate Ruby

Get hyped, this is a revolution