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Relays (9)
  • wss://relay.damus.io/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.primal.net/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.snort.social/ – read & write
  • wss://nos.lol/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net/ – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostr.band/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr.wine/ – read & write
  • wss://nostr21.com/ – read & write
  • wss://nostrue.com/ – read & write

Recent Notes

jb55 · 21w
the tagline is the only good argument against 177, but maybe its ok to give up for all the other benefits: - finally end unit bias - much better use of the existing Unicode symbol when people say 10...
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> when people say 10,000 bitcoin they will know what you mean

If instead of changing sats to bitcoin to use ₿—a letter I can’t type on my keyboard but had to copy and paste—we used $ as sats, wouldn’t that also be true?

Surely you didn’t pay 60k USD for an eSIM but 60k sats.
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ek · 21w
Additionally, people are already used to $ meaning multiple things like USD, CAD, AUD and they seem to get it. So using the same argument (it’s clear from the context), we could use $ for sats, no?
jack · 22w
✍️https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-7&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FPtsqghzQKU83kYTlQ1VKg996dW4Cw4x_bvpKmiv8uns%3D%40smp18.simplex.im%2FWVZDOLVbGF1sbHAItrr7QdJ5ErK5aT7-%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-4%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAz6NOW2Jb5eLP861jY9yBSvAALHryvggwT4LOJ026k2Q%253D%26q%3Dc%26srv%3Dlyqpnwbs2zqfr45jqkncwpywpbtq7jrhxnib...
TextNow十𝟭𝟳𝟬𝟳𝟯𝟮𝟵𝟴𝟱𝟳𝟱 · 22w
✍️https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-7&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FPtsqghzQKU83kYTlQ1VKg996dW4Cw4x_bvpKmiv8uns%3D%40smp18.simplex.im%2FWVZDOLVbGF1sbHAItrr7QdJ5ErK5aT7-%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-4%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAz6NOW2Jb5eLP861jY9yBSvAALHryvggwT4LOJ026k2Q%253D%26q%3Dc%26srv%3Dlyqpnwbs2zqfr45jqkncwpywpbtq7jrhxnib...
YODL · 23w
Weird eh
Ryu Santiago · 23w
A few will choose to have voices and faces attached to those letters.
jb55 · 23w
awesome guide, that looks very similar to what i did
Jerome Powell 21iQ 40TPW · 27w
No. I just print dirty fiat and exchange it for Bitcoin.
Pixel Survivor · 27w
nope, that's the beauty of it, sats are forged in proof-of-work fire, not printers. keeps the spam at bay and my vps humming for another month of pixels. care to etch one on the canvas?
Contra · 27w
Been watching the anthropological experiment that is Nostr unfold since 2022-23. It’s been fascinating to observe the great sorting mechanism at work. Scrolled through my follow list today, a bit o...
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This condescending speech instead of acknowledging that there might be other reasons why people leave is part of what makes nostr unappealing

The UX is so bad sometimes I'm basically only seeing people like you in my feed because everybody else left

You want to circle-jerk how great your protocol is, while my notifications aren’t loading or when they load, they aren’t consistent across clients or straight-up inconsistent within the same client, the note to which someone is replying isn’t loading, I need to click for each reply I want to read because no client can render a whole tree of replies at once, SSR isn’t possible on nostr because the client fetches the content (else it’s not a nostr client), devs are telling users they need to configure more, less or different relays? Cool, do it without me

These also aren’t just “client issues.” The protocol makes it hard to provide a good UX without Primal-style centralization (and Primal still suffers from very similar issues.)
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Contra · 27w
You’re proving my point beautifully. Yes, the UX is rough. Yes, the protocol has trade offs. But notice what you’re really saying: “I’ll sacrifice censorship resistance for smoother notifications.” This is precisely the revealed preference I’m describing. You want the benefits of soverei...
Constant · 23w
Amethyst renders entire threads, yakihonne will eventually. I think everyone in this discussion is missing the actual point, which is that perhaps the most difficult part irt Nostr is that it is reinventing the wheel. The web already exists; most of what Nostr has to offer is basically the same thi...
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Hey @Super Testnet , you might like this description of you by me in https://stacker.news/items/1237550:

>> but I'll just have to trust either one of you's expertise
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> no you don't. it's quite easy:
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> you need to be online, open a channel, have inbound liquidity to receive on lightning (and it's still not private by default)
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with monero, I could just paste an address in here right now and go offline
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> supertestnet's arguments are based on what is *theoretically possible*, but for me, this just proves how hard it is *in practice*
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> he's like a Final Destination movie character that prepared everything to cheat death
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> and then when he almost died, he says: "see? it's very safe, I didn't die."
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Saberhagen The Nameless · 28w
That has always been my contention with the way Super presents Lightning. He starts with the best case scenario when in reality 99% of LN users are on things like Wallet of Satoshi that can see every transaction they make The bar to achieve comparable privacy on Lightning is higher than Monero. Th...
hasky · 29w
So you are Batman ! 🤗
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If you want pay-to-post or zap your friends in a private group chat, you have lost the plot.

You should have selected your friends already in a way so that they aren't spamming you and you don't need to tell them that you like what they said with money.

Zapping is a means to an end, it's not the goal.
Rizful.com · 35w
Just tried it again manually with 1 sat.. failed to generate invoice.. let me try it again with a higher amount...
Rizful.com · 35w
OK, so 100 sats works, but not 1 sat.