THE NOSTR REPORT
THE BUTCHER, THE BAKER, THE BITCOIN TAKER
Mar 27, 2023
Block Height: 782,808
Moscow Time: 36:83 ⚡️/$
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🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️
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“Just got back from the butcher. Lot of people waiting. He clearly announced for everyone: ‘I just got a new pin terminal and the machine is down, the new terminals are down throughout the Netherlands. You can either pay in cash or in bitcoin, what Bert is going to do now.’ Bitcoin is never down, people didn’t know what happened. Unintentionally planting more seeds, coincidently being at the right place at the right time…”
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🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
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#[2] after facing an outage yesterday announces, “In an effort to track extremely high data-out usage, nostr.build will be temporarily blocking access to images older than 3/19/23.” Says this may affect banner pics. Account holders unaffected. See linked posts for full details on the issue. 🔓🔓
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CFTC sues Binance and CZ (CEO) for violations.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/binance-and-cz-sued-by-cftc-over-regulatory-violations ⚖️⚖️ Now would be a great time to self-custody that 🌽 if you haven’t done so already.
#[5] Don't miss #Plebchain Radio this Thursday at 8:30PM (EDT) featuring special guest #[7] , and also members from #[8] team.
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#[10] Happy Birthday BTCsessions!!! 🎂🎁
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#[12] hints at the next Nostr conference somewhere in Asia in October.
#[13] mentions Zapan. 🎎🏯🇯🇵
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#[15] tells Nostr that web app push notifications now available in iOS 16.4 This could be a game changer for clients using the Web App approach as opposed to iOS app store. 🎉🚨
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#[17] Will is offering 35 million sats per month to find a design engineer to help build a cohesive user experience in Damus. See post for more info. The client wars are heating up… 🥷🔫
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💻nostr Tech💻
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#[19] interviews #[20] about Snort client, Nostr, markets on Nostr, and more. 🛠🏗
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#[22] says “Zaps with Wallet Connect on Amethyst are working well.” That’s an understatement. Check out a demo of the zap speed here https://i.imgur.com/jRZ3HiY.mp4 ⚡️⚡️
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#[24] announces "The Cashu dot Me web wallet is moving! This is a slow-rolling announcement that I'll make only on nostr for now 💜. No need to act fast." See linked post for more information. 🥜
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Great news for our fellow content creators, or just those who love to flood the world with all of their ideas, #[26] announced today that habla.news now allows long-format posts to have more details about the author and interactions between previous content from the writer. Allowing us easy and quick access to all the valuable content all these Nostr geniuses keep creating for us! ✒️✒️
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#[28] See a prototype of Lotes - "phyiscal lightning cash" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cQutic0CX0 ⚡️⚡️
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⚡nostr Business⚡
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“[Bitcoin] can also serve a tangible social good, offering an onramp to the financial system for people who would otherwise be left out. In countries where the vast majority of the population is unbanked, national currencies are no longer a safe store of value, remittances comprise a hefty portion of GDP, and international sanctions complicate connections to the global economy, a virtual currency that doesn't require an intermediary to approve transactions can be a vital lifeline for survival.“ 🤩🤩
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/03/26/bitcoin-is-poised-to-blow-up-africas-86-billion-banking-system.html
Are you attending #Bitcoin2023 ?? Join your fellow Nostriches #[31] #[32] #[33] #[34] on May 19th for Nostrich Karaoke Night 🎤🎶
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First Citizens Bank to purchase Silicon Valley Bank — "The 17 former branches of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, National Association, will open as First–Citizens Bank & Trust Company on Monday, March 27, 2023," the FDIC said in a statement. 🤡🌎
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/fdic-first-citizens-bank-reached-deal-purchase-silicon-valley-bank
MicroStrategy pays off $205-million loan it had with Silvergate Bank, and also purchases an additional $150-million worth of Bitcoin. 💰💰
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microstrategy-pays-off-silvergate-loan-122542696.html
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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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Good job Billy!
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Stay Classy Nostr.
I’ve been involved with Bluesky in some way since before it was announced. I’m a big fan of Jay and Paul and the work that’s happening there. I’m excited about what they’re doing.
I’ve been frustrated at the pace and form of working that bluesky is doing. This is honestly the same critique I’d give for farcaster and lens… and dnsp although the latter’s tech is less interesting.
I think big systems should be created with small pieces loosely joined. That’s how we got the web, open source, linux, etc… I’m not such a big fan of a few folks going off and figuring things out on their own in a closed way.
I pushed for and hoped that bluesky would have more public participation, and work more in the open. And that they'd build a less monolithic system, solving a BIG problem rather than small problem solutions built up.
That said, I think there are aspects of bluesky's at_protocol which are better designed and built than nostr. I hope that we can learn from each other. I think bluesky got distracted by thinking they had to make a protocol FOR twitter, rather than just for something useful and twitter like apps but many others too.
Central to how twitter grew was because development could happen permissionless at the edges. It's what drives growth of nostr. At the moment, you can't really do that with farcaster, bluesky, or similar more closed open protocols.
I think we need to be learning from lots of projects and collaborating. I also strongly suspect that one protocol will win, and it won't win because it's better designed or has better tech. This is social software folks, it's made of people. People and communities of use are what will decide things in the end. Let's just hope that the communities and tech are structured in the way that help us build a better future and don't repeat the mistakes of the past.
THE NOSTR REPORT
MASTODON’T
Mar 29, 2023
Block Height: 783,092
Moscow Time: 35:18 ⚡/ $
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"Mastodon’t have micro transactions ⚡️"
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🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
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#[2] shares an interview from The Verge with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko, discussing Mastodon as the leading decentralized social network. Check out this excerpt here: https://nostr.build/p/nb4174.mp4 (credit to #[3] )
#[4] responds with "Mastodon’t have micro transactions ⚡️" 🐘💩
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#[6] launches https://www.nostrapps.com/ a collection of Nostr clients and tools ⚒️⚒️
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#[8] #Zapathon 11/12 begins tomorrow. This week's target: Plebs and #Zapan ⚡️🇯🇵
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#[12] Set your reminders for #PlebchainRadio tomorrow night at 8:30PM EDT. 📻🫡
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#[15] shares a great article about “The Age of Average”. Is everything reaching a design Schelling point? Let’s hope not… don’t forget to “Keep Nostr Weird”! 💃🏻🦜
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💻nostr Tech💻
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#[17] Damus 1.4.0 approved and available now in the iOS App Store. Includes image & video uploads, new timeline view, and more. 🪩
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#[19] weighs in during thoughtful discussion thread about the potential futures of Nostr, Bluesky, and other new social protocols. 🧐🤝
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#[21] Statically rendered blog backed by Nostr. All content pre-rendered with nice URLs, SEO-friendly. ✍️
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#[23] Zeus v0.7.4 now available in F-Droid, Google Play, and Apple App Store. Brings fee bumping, channel sorting, and more. 🧜🏻♂️🔱
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#[25] 🔱 Zeus app + Nostrich Theme = 🔥
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⚡nostr Business⚡
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#[27] Check out this YouTube Short from #[28] (Swan Bitcoin) who gives a quick rundown of the Luna scam following Do Kwon's arrest.
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#[30] Is Substack the next domino of social media to fall? https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/substack-asks-writers-money-vc-funding-collapses
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#[32] Jack Mallers and Michael Saylor to speak in fireside chat at MicroStrategy's #Bitcoin for Corporations conference.
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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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#[35] Terminator AI writes email
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Stay Classy Nostr.
THE NOSTR REPORT
RESTRICT THIS
Mar 30, 2023
Block Height: 783,245
Moscow Time: 35:77 ⚡/ $
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🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️
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“Not being in the present is a waste of the present. Suddenly it’ll be the past and you’ll wonder where time went, and still won’t be in the present.”
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Coin Center examines the RESTRICT Act, proposed by Senators Warner and Thune, and explains how it could have broad implications for Bitcoin and open source software in the US if it were to become law, even though it would likely face legal challenges. 🇺🇸
https://www.coincenter.org/the-restrict-act-creates-blanket-authority-with-few-checks-to-ban-just-about-anything-linked-to-a-foreign-adversary/
#[2] 📻 #PlebchainRadio is TONIGHT at 8:30PM EDT. Don’t miss this episode with featured guest, #[4] , and the Lightning Round with Nostr Report as #[5] makes his debut appearance. https://nostrnests.com/plebchainradio
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#[7] MercadoLibre has enabled bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading on its MercadoPago wallet for Chilean users 🇨🇱allowing Chilean users to buy, sell and save bitcoin through the company’s MercadoPago wallet app.
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#[9] shares that ⚡️⚡️⚡️ zaps are live 🚀 on https://nostri.chat - the embeddable Nostr client for your website.
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#[11] and #[12] discuss building nostr apps, open networks, nostr economics, and more. ⛳
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💻nostr Tech💻
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#[14] adds nip05 search functionality to Damus. Additional updates coming include gif uploads, and recording photos and videos directly from your camera into a post. 🎥
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#[18] Coracle 0.2.20 released, bringing up to 90% reduction in bandwidth usage! 📉
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#[20] Next Nostur update will show what people are replying to instead of only the reply itself. See an example in this post. 📺
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#[22] Snort v0.1.5 release notes. 🐽
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#[24] Looking for a new web client?Here is a nice rundown of several options. 💻
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#[26] LND users: If you updated to lnd 0.16 don't forget to change the routerrpc settings in the conf file, they changed the settings names and lnd won't start unless you do. ⏳
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⚡nostr Business⚡
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#[28] Fold announces global partnership with Visa. 📁 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/fold-announces-exclusive-global-partnership-with-visa
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#[30] offers some great advice on the balance between custodial and non-custodial lightning wallets and how to use them. 👛
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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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#[32] Zap mining ain't easy
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Stay Classy Nostr.
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