PSA: Nostr is much more resilient than Bitcoin. Many people find this hard to believe but it's really simple to reason about: Bitcoin must come to a global consensus on the state of its ledger. Simply put, money must be universal. Nostr does not have this requirement of a consolidated 'global'. Stuff can be distributed anywhere and people still have their own microcosm of Nostr, even when others don't know about you at all.

Nip17 only works if ecash stamps proliferate. Otherwise it is trivial to spam relays into oblivion with giftwraps. As I said before: you pay (ecash, or by self hosting) or trust (eg web of trust relay, uncle jim, group relay). No other way I see around this. Also it is worth putting DMs in context: - Is it for a p2p marketplace? - A dissident / freedom-fighter group? - A developer community? - A group for random cat-memes? - One-to-one, few-to-few or many-to-many? Don't think black and white, and don't think that one spec rules all. It almost never is the case.

The 3 P-s of the new internet: - Portable - Provable - Personal With time everything will vanish that doesn't have these properties

I'm a daily active user of nostr. Just not on the social media front. I speak to my AI coding agent inside @BudaBit via DMs. Also doing other dev work in BudaBit that 99% replaced GitHub in my workflow. Organizing BudaBit Demo Day events on @HiveTalk Occasionally managing apps with @Zapstore, watching a stream on Zapstream or paying my contributors in sats on @SatShoot. Tipping sponsored freelancers with nostr-native ecash. Shilling @TollGate every now and then on my meetups. Antennapod is still my daily driver rather than fountain, simply the best in this category and open source. Hope I can switch one day though. Ppl trying to measure nostr usage with social media as a proxy is understandable but the whole picture is very far from what you can extract from such a narrow view of a diverse ecosystem. Patience pays off. Gradually then suddenly.

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.

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

@Matt Corallo saw yall takin a look at decentralized git solutions and github replacement on bitcoin core discussion:

#bitcoin-core-dev on 2026-01-16 — searchable irc log

channel #bitcoin-core-dev IRC chat logs

Here's a couple of sources and Nostr-based solutions you could give a try: - NIP34 spec:

NIP34 - NIP-34 - git stuff

Read more about the NIP34 on {{appUrl}} - NIP-34 - git stuff

- GitHub-like client:

gitworkshop - Decentralized Git

Decentralized GitHub alternative over Nostr

- Discord/Slack type of client with Git-integration:

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- ... and some others, so there's quite some effort to make code collab work with Nostr - The grasp spec is also interesting, it is a git server with nostr-native auth, designed to be easy-to-run and to accept code collab oriented nostr events, so a relay is packaged with it:

Grasp • Git Repositories Authorized via Signed-Nostr Proofs

Grasp is the grug-brain solution to what radicle is trying to do for years but I think this has much better chance to work. Why nostr? Because it is more decentralized yet much simpler than Fediverse / Mastodon and Bluesky. All above solutions lack full functionality compared to github but hopefully you can see where this is going. It is trivial to moderate your relay, be it comments or any other events. Nostr-git is becoming increasingly standardized so your data is portable and signed. Open to any questions! cc @DanConwayDev @fiatjaf

Very cool project, check it out! Home Mining X Nostr zaps ⚡️🤝⛏️ View quoted note →

Am an operator myself and love how nostr is gradually eating the lunch of all rent-seekers of the networking stack: View quoted note →

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