Welcome!

Thank you William :) Looks like you are doing some pretty awesome work.

thanks for the sats :D

Mr. Wrecking havoc has arrived, I see.

Awweeee shucks. Have been reading the protocol, it's simple and elegant, refreshing. Solid project. Should have checked it out earlier when you first mentioned it.

I love the private and public key way of registration too

Welcome! lmao, the Github PR in your bio 😂

Yeah, it's the correct approach, nothing more complicated is required. Protocols should take minutes to explain, hours to design, days to write, weeks to prove, months to become mature, and years to replace. This project gets it right.

Thank you lol

This is a great quote I need to remember

So much has happened, this feels like it was decades ago! I'm at Nostrica, would be amazing to have a chat for the Nostrovia podcast if you get a chance 🤟

It took me a month to actually start using it after you told me: #[1]

Welcome to Nostr. Here from the future.

What's happening there? I've been hearing some crazy stories

Exactly one year ago I made my first post on Nostr using #[2]'s branle client. It was horrible, but good enough to demonstrate it. Back then, most of the discussion happened in the telegram group because nostr was painful to use. The group was already big (500+ IIRC) but only like 20 people were active and all were developers, from memory I think #[3] #[4] #[5] and a few others. The protocol was very simple and solved a real problem for real people. There was no funding, no "team", no leadership, just people having fun - the opposite of a cult. It felt like the Linux community in my small town when I was a kid. It also kind of felt like the very experimental early days on Bitcointalk. A year ago, these things made me feel like nostr was where I needed to be and what I needed to be working on, but what's happened over the past 12 months has been mind blowing to experience, and more than validates everything I thought back then. I've been using my free time to work on nostr stuff for a while now (Nostrovia, nostrocket, nostr HK, etc), but now I've decided to drop everything else so I can focus **all** of my productive time on nostr development. Many people are fearful of the problems that we are rapidly approaching as civilizations and as a species, but there's nothing to worry about if you understand the potential of open source, Bitcoin, nostr, and the human spirit. Let's f*cking go! #[0]

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Last year today⁉️😳💯

eep. and will that dev include how to make all that content moveable off nostr? chuckle.

It’s about Ostriches 😁they have the ability to run at 70 KM/ H

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If you understand the potential of open source, Bitcoin, nostr, and the human spirit. Let's f*cking go !!!

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Glad you’re already there! I’m setting myself up to be in your spot, all-in on nostr. When you see it you can’t unsee it.

Keeping it a thousand!

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Epic. New here but I love the energy, and I’m hopeful to eventually contribute.

Today marks exactly 1.5 years since my first nostr post, perfectly timed at the end of Nostrasia! I want to post some observations. The way humanity organizes and communicates is fundamental to what kind of world it creates. This is why those who want to control the outcome for their own benefit usually seek to mediate and manipulate the connections between individuals. What makes THE NOSTR so powerful is that it provides resistance against this type of manipulation. Where Bitcoin gives us money that can be used without a third party, nostr gives us a social graph that can be used without a third party. But with this power comes responsibility, of course. By using nostr, we are able to take full responsibility for our words in a way that isn't possible when our connection to the rest of humanity is mediated by a third party. We alone are responsible for the impact our words have on the world as they propagate through humanity and impact the words and actions of others. Being untruthful to ourselves and others introduces our own form of manipulation that legacy social networks introduced through central control. As the world is pushed towards an avalanche of confusion and uncertainty, truth and humility is solid ground that we can grab onto as everything else falls away. But being true is hard work, it doesn't just mean being true to yourself and others, but also not believing and propagating the lies of others. This is becoming increasingly critical as powerful interests push the world towards lethal conflict and the truth becomes incredibly difficult to find. Your actions as an individual within nostr determine what nostr actually is, and THE NOSTR can only reach its full potential if YOU reach your full potential as an individual. This is why we all have a responsibility to do the best we can with the gifts we've been given. Being able to gather together in Costa Rica and Tokyo have been some of the most powerful experiences of my life. It allows us to make our human network stronger and more resilient to attack, but more importantly it reminds us that we ARE human. We have all the building blocks we need to create a nostr that enables humanity live up to its full potential. Let's fucking go!

LFG! 🤙

Bullish on sovereign individual 🚀

Bullish on your bullishness and perspective 🫡 Also honored to share these tools with someone like you.

Really awesome to finally meet you in person!

Likewise! 🫂

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Still going strong

It's been three years since I first published a note: nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpkg3j83suqzyfw2zcr5zet28pve279chvnpzwklwp0vexal06sr4qqsgewdg50ys3swt2wnlp5n8lq2fhylq4l2w046r93q9apyvxyg5zfcs5vpvq At the time, nostr was barely more than an idea. Very few were using it. Fewer still understood what it could become. And yet, there was something unmistakable in it—something honest. Something necessary. Fiatjaf’s design struck me as elegant in the way that only true protocols can be. The best systems do not need to be sold. They are not invented so much as uncovered—like mathematical truths. Good protocols take minutes to explain, hours to design, days to write, weeks to prove, months to mature, and years to replace. In 2008, faced with institutional failure and monetary abuse, someone with a poor choice of OS, limited programming ability, and a basic grasp of cryptographic primitives carved out a narrow escape route—one governed not by authority, but by thermodynamics and consensus. It wasn’t genius that gave Bitcoin its strength. It was the refusal to ask permission. It worked because it could not be stopped. Nostr shares the same impulse. It is raw, principled, decentralised, and unowned. Its power does not come solely from its technical design, but from the ethic of those who use it—those who build without permission and speak without fear. The need for such tools became inescapably clear during the pandemic, when a once-free civilisation chose compliance over conscience. Dissenting voices—many of them scientific, rational, and well-informed—were erased from public discourse. Had nostr existed at scale, the outcome might have been different. Many believe Bitcoin’s progress means the danger has passed. I believe the opposite is true and that it's not time to let our guard down. If Bitcoin is the way out of monetary tyranny, nostr is the exit from informational control and the foundation of networked resistance. But we must remember: protocols are inert. It is not the tools that will save us. It is the will to build—and the courage to resist. I’ve been quiet these past months, for a reason. But after a period of reflection, something new is taking shape. More to follow, soon.