https://walletscrutiny.com https://nostr.info Working on Bitcoin, Nostr and being a good dad.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 2d
Let me know when it's better than nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h I'm currently using them every day and top up $20 at a time as I use it a lot via API but without API, topping up $2 is the default with LN. As I wouldn't want to connect a wallet, I find topping up very convenient. It's a backstop in case my bots run out of control. They appear to be ramping up their dev team and already provide a huge variety of LLMs and promise pretty good privacy, too. But as they are not open source, you could bait me with an open source stack ;)
Can you elaborate? nostr:npub16g4umvwj2pduqc8kt2rv6heq2vhvtulyrsr2a20d4suldwnkl4hquekv4h is not "Bitcoin only" but what's the problem in opening to a broader market? You can pay with LN and even get a discount when you do. And it's very private, too, which is the main reason why I want to stick with them. Before re-inventing the wheel, try them out. They just fixed API use which was terribly expensive until three days ago but now it work's like a charm.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 3d
Sure, for some McDonalds app it won't be worth the trouble implementing unless they also engage on nostr with the users.
I love nostr login if done right. They can use my npub as my account identifier and store related data in their database but I don't have to verify an email address or remember a password. Nobody can steal my password from them neither.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 4d
I had been tracking kinds back in the old days of nostr. https://npub1gm7tuvr9atc6u7q3gevjfeyfyvmrlul4y67k7u7hcxztz67ceexs078rf6.blossom.band/6ccfc8b154bfe842825c834b74d33c0d8d2512c5df375ce64389605876fc528c.png You can watch the events scroll by and learn about their types but it's not very accessible yet. https://nostr.info/relays/
Public data leaked? Seriously? No email addresses, no passwords? Doesn't sound big news worthy.
Thanks for checking. If it is gone indeed, there was much noise about nothing and I got Mullvad and Nord for nothing concrete. Anyway, I'm not planning to install this app for myself. I'm tracking this and thousands of other apps for https://walletscrutiny.com. We have scripts to detect delisting and that script triggered for that app and things looked inconsistent but the team member that reported it not gone, had it installed before, which is why google still shows it to him. Logged out, it's gone for him, too.
I don't get why VPN providers all want me to run their software? Aren't they just "glorified relays" as nostr:npub17fnzd22p3xu5tg8sz343d38c5m8dxxe4npyyx0akxphc6mhvxessuw5ksh put it?
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 5d
So with Nord, my speed was 10Mbps up and 5 down. With Mullvad it's 30% slower. But now the IPv6 also resolves to the VPN location. What I actually want is to find out if https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitgo.mobile is gone only for Chileans or for everybody and either Google is good at recognizing me even behind a VPN and with an "private" browser window or it's really gone for the US, too, despite https://app.sensortower.com/overview/com.bitgo.mobile?country=US&tab=ratings claiming otherwise. I'm regularly freaking out over apps disappearing as I monitor thousands for WalletScrutiny and we list thousands as "removed" but ... how would I know for sure if Google tries everything to sabotage people from getting a complete picture?
Will try it out. Nord did put me off when they needed me to verify my email address but I needed a very concrete detail - app availability in other countries - and didn't want to experiment too long. Why do so many in the Bitcoin space recommend Nord then? They also accept bitcoin and of course I can put in an ephemeral email but still, for $12 I did at least expect it to shield my Chile IP from Google.
Will you replace npm, too? You got some high goals!
That's very acceptable execution times I would guess. Are the ts execution times much higher?
I'm just now getting into VPN usage and I'm surprised how not straight forward it is. So I paid NordVPN and downloaded these ovpn files and set my network manager to use these but to my surprise, IPv6 leaks my real location/country even if I disable IPv6 in the network manager for both the wired and the vpn connection? How can it be that easy to screw up VPN usage in 2025?
The warning they added upon my initiative. I suggested to keep the repository up for posterity. Who knows who's using the library and with the repo disappearing, they might just wonder why it's gone.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 6d
If this isn't a thing yet, I assume there will be a market for blossom servers where providers offer me to copy over all my media from other blossom servers.
Well, content addressability and the nips around blossom allow me to delete a39f24d2c4372c2d6654f1a0272b8ef6a8f4042718051b68cc65b08ef0d2fd45 from your blossom server and put it on mine and my followers will find it. This is not true when my events reference nostr.build urls. So ... for the very practical purpose of switching hosting provider they are not at all the same.
It's happening! Please, please, wallet devs make a universal standard to have multi-vendor-multi-signature as easy as bitpay's CoPay back then.
I know and I love you took on this challenge! I find it a bit pricey but I was happy to pay it to get this going. By over-paying for a service, others get the signal that there is demand and hopefully competition will drive the price down. Long term, I just realized that I was putting my media files on an irreplaceable server while relays are replaceable as they should be. I like the integration with noStrudel. Just take a screenshot and paste it in the new note but it should be blossom such that once my media files are deleted from your servers, clients can find them on my new blossom server(s). Now I'm confused as to why you don't push me to use your blossom.band server as nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc pointed out. Isn't that exactly what I was asking for?
I like the style and love the movies. And had not known about them before somebody recommended them for my daughter. I could have seen many of those movies in my own childhood, so ... I hope, many kids discover Ghibli Studio from this.
Leo Wandersleb @LeoWandersleb - 7d
Ephemeral keys without group membership. Hmm ... then it will be free for all and spammy. Verifying the non-spam might be possible but drown in low effort accusations maybe? Also I want nut zaps to be possible. With ephemeral keys, who will store those?
