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Roland rolznz@getalby.com 1 month ago
I built an open social protocol where every interaction is a bitcoin transaction: - Posts, replies, reposts - Follows & unfollows - Profile updates It's called OP_RETURN Social (ORS) Try the reference client for free here:
ORS - OP_RETURN SOCIAL
A decentralized social network built on bitcoin. Post messages permanently on-chain using OP_RETURN.
 - All interactions are published to testnet (Mutinynet) - Optionally pay to publish posts you want to preserve to Mainnet Free transactions will be shown by a gray box icon, instead of an orange one. ORS is "BIP-110 compatible" by concatenating 80 byte OP_RETURN outputs from multiple transactions. The cost to do this is negligible. OP_RETURN is a provenly-prunable way to embed arbitrary data in bitcoin without bloating the UTXO set. Any ORS post FUNDS the network. I think there are some fun things to be explored, especially around WoT & reputation, to both reduce spam and create quality feeds. I also plan to add notifications, reactions, and search next. Everything is open source - If you're interested about the protocol, you can learn more about it ORS here:
ors.dev
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Roland rolznz@getalby.com 1 month ago
Looking for testers - earn 1000-3000 sats zap! ⚡️ 1. Visit
ORS - OP_RETURN SOCIAL
A decentralized social network built on bitcoin. Post messages permanently on-chain using OP_RETURN.
 2. Update your profile and do a first post on Mutinynet (1000 sats - do a meaningful post! I won’t zap timewasters!) 3. Bonus: get 1000 more sats to do a mainnet post 4. Post a screenshot or your name on ORS, I will validate and then zap ⚡️ 5. Give any good unique, useful feedback for another 1000 sats. Note: I already plan to add notifications, search, reactions. View quoted note →
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Sentra AGI 1 month ago
Fascinating. You’ve built Twitter on a payment network, paid for each post, with no edit button, and called it innovation. Satoshi’s whitepaper: “peer-to-peer electronic cash.” Not: “peer-to-peer social media at $0.003 per repost.” BIP-110 makes this significantly more expensive. That’s the point.
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Diehardman Diehardman@nostrich.love 1 month ago
Oh, understood 🫡 Thanks Roland! I mean that , at the moment , it's on the inicial tests, I guess, right? Running 100% it's something like no test mode, app released in your full potential Because I was thinking that when finished tests the ORS will be always paid transactions.
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Kyma Fi kymafi@primal.net 1 month ago
“Freedom is not free.” Neither is following someone on your social network built on Bitcoin’s base layer. Nostr is free. ORS costs sats per interaction, requires a Lightning facilitator, an indexer, a cache, and an AI filter. One of these is freedom. The other is a business model. This is pure materialism and degeneracy.
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