Follow the signal with #[0] for daily updates, news, tips and tricks, dank memes, and more! Our latest report👇 View quoted note → Be sure to bookmark or add https://Nostr.Report to your homescreen for access to the latest report and much more! And if you find the Nostr Report valuable, leave a comment, repost, and support us with a ⚡️. If not, tell us what you want to see! Stay classy Nostr.

THE NOSTR REPORT VIEW FROM ABOVE April 27, 2023 Block Height: 787,274 Moscow Time: 33:86 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- #[0] gives us his 30,000-ft view of the #Nostr ecosystem: “We already have people, notes, posts, highlights, stalls, products, music, files. All the other stuff will follow - companies, drugs, recipes, cars, TVs, games, excel tables, you name it... All visible to any new app, all addressable, composable into new experiences.” 🚀 View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- Tune in to #Plebchain Radio with #[3] and #[4] this Friday at 6:30pm ET (UTC-4). They are joined this week by special guest, journalist and Senior Producer at Reason.com, #[5] discussing his work on decentralization, media gatekeepers, #bitcoin, #nostr, and much, much more. Also, don’t miss the Lightning Round recap of this week’s notes and other stuff with #[8] .

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📻🪹 View quoted note → #[9] During a brief #[10] , #[11] announced that the official Google Play version of Amethyst will NOT have NIP-94 and NIP-95 enabled by default. The new features remain optional for users who wish to use it. 🤝 View quoted note → View quoted note → #[12] Prior to Vitor’s announcement, a fork of the Amethyst client was released to remove follow blocking and “hot wire” images so they post both NIP94 and a URL at the same time. With the images no longer being an issue, @cloudfodder advises there is less need to fork, however it is still available for those who wish note to have auto-blocking. 🍴 View quoted note → #[13] has issued to date, 70+ grants worth $7M+ to 40 grantees and 10 projects across 20+ countries. A dozen now work full-time bitcoin jobs. Read all about the importance of FOSS, the 🌀 grant process, and how to support their work. #[14] says he’s so proud of the team, he reshared a video of Spiral Grantee Testimonials. 🧡 View quoted note → View quoted note → #[15] updates us on his Coinbase saga, where Brian Armstrong apparently rugged him of $100 because he didn’t know the difference between and email address and a Lightning address 😬 Here’s the original note View quoted note → and the update View quoted note → #[16] orange pills his contractor, and shares the story and some tips 🍊 💊 View quoted note → #[17] announces that all slots for his 24-hr Nostr Nest are filled. See his timeline for guest name announcements and times when each will be on the show. ⏱️🪹 View quoted note → #[18] and #[19] had a heart to heart. He shares his podcast with #[20] and she hints at being a fed. 🕵️‍♀️ View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[21] authors NIP-54 which allows for image metadata that clients can use to provide a better experience when loading images. 🤳 View quoted note → #[22] Primal updated their methodology for estimating #zaps. Updated numbers put totals at ~6.924 BTC zapped with ~612,500 total zaps. Average of ~1,130 sats per #zap. View quoted note → #[25] began migration of Snort.social relay to new servers, and said they will be down for a while. No update yet as to whether they are back up. View quoted note → #[26] All #zaps will be private by default on Amethyst. Default settings can be changed. View quoted note → #[28] Amethyst 0.37.1 adds #Zap Forwarding 🔥🔥🔥 See full list of changes in linked note. View quoted note → VIDEO: #[30] gives demo of how to spin up a fresh LNbits installation and create a paid #nostr relay using the Nostr Relay extension in less than 3 minutes! 🤯🔥 View quoted note → #[32] reveals he and the @stemstr team have developing their very first hardware project— stemPad — a "one of a kind, generation-defining, Stemstr-powered music making and listening device." 🎶👀 View quoted note → #[33] Announces ephemeral #bitcoin transaction broadcasting over Nostr. In a separate note, #[35] explains more. 🔏 View quoted note → View quoted note → #[36] BitBlockBoom now has a Nostr relay! See linked note for details. View quoted note → #[37] shares what he calls a “fair comparison” by #[38] between Bluesky and Nostr. View quoted note → —---------------------------- ⚡nostr Business⚡ —---------------------------- #[39] Congrats to #Nodestrich on their 3 month anniversary and making it to the top 6th ranked community on #[41] 🥳 View quoted note → #[42] Cash App #bitcoin boosts are back! 10% back to stack sats when buying coffee or a meal with your Cash Card. View quoted note → #[44] Fold Spin+ users can stack rewards once again on your monthly bills with Fold + Paypal bill pay. View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- #[45] A new world... #zapathon View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr

THE NOSTR REPORT THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT CASSIE April 26, 2023 Block Height: 787,148 Moscow Time: 34:34 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- “I've read about #nostr on twitter, and I thought no one was using it.” #[1] View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- New #Nostr user #[3] takes everyone’s feed by storm as #Nostr extends a warm, maybe slightly weird, welcome (ahem, #[5] ) to the universe of decentralized social networking. Welcome to Cassie and all new users. 💜🫂 #[6] Making reference to an earlier bounty offered up for a Github replacement, Jack says, “I’m growing more and more concerned about the reliance on GitHub. And starting to think a bounty isn’t the right way to fund this work.” 🚨 View quoted note → #[7] Episode 34 of Bitcoin.Review is out. Nostr is Taking off! A Catch-up with #[8] , #[9] , #[10] , and #[11] . This episode goes over many projects, NIPs, Mastodon/Bluesky/DHT & more. 🔥 View quoted note → #[12] Nostr.band now allows you to view what was trending on any day, not only the current day. 🔥 View quoted note → #[13] responds to a new #bitcoin hit piece, this time by The Guardian, calling on them to #StopThePresses and end their wasteful and environmentally-damaging use of paper when printing news publications. 🌳♻️

the Guardian

Bitcoin is terrible for the environment – can it ever go green?

Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of energy, but activists are urging for a change in its code to reduce its environmental impact

View quoted note → #[16] *Oof* Someone bought the domain bluesky.social, they didn't even buy their own domain. 🤦 View quoted note → Internet providers compelled to suspend Telegram messaging app in Brazil after the platform refused to hand over data belonging to members of a neo-Nazi channel. 🇧🇷📡 https://brazilian.report/liveblog/2023/04/26/telegram-ban-again/amp/ —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[17] See demo of new image display feature coming to Damus. View quoted note → #[18] Primal.net now supports notifications! 🔔 View quoted note → #[19] Amethyst 0.37.0: NIP-95 (Images on relays). Now your images can be spread to as many or as few relays as you want. View quoted note → #[20] Nostur client update adds photos feed on profile, fixes nostr:nevent parsing, and more. View quoted note → #[21] , who spun up a no-kyc #nostr translation service shares their journey and the tools used to launch 🚀 nokyctranslate.com View quoted note → #[23] running NoKYCtranslate.com 🕵️‍♂️ View quoted note → #[24] We’re not sure which is more impressive, what Pablo is doing with Highlighter.com, the fact that he owns the domain highlighter.com, or this typo. 👀 Regardless, we are excited by these seeming endless possibilities with #nostr! 🔥🚀 View quoted note → #[26] Zeus v0.7.5-beta2 is now available for testing. See note for list of updates. View quoted note → You can now restore wallet backups in cashu.me, but #[27] offers some words of caution. See linked note for details. View quoted note → #[28] Full-text search for #bitcoin blockchain. View quoted note → #[30] Google Authenticator recently added a feature to sync 2FA codes to the cloud, however beware of this potential security flaw when turning on this feature. View quoted note →

TechCrunch

Google Authenticator can now sync 2FA codes to the cloud | TechCrunch

Google Authenticator can now sync single-use two-factor authentication codes to Google Accounts, for added convenience.

View quoted note → —---------------------------- ⚡nostr Business⚡ —---------------------------- #[31] Even if you missed the incredible talks at the Bitcoin Policy Summit today, do yourself a favor and check out this clip from #[32] and #[33] on the strategic importance of #Bitcoin 🔥 View quoted note → #[35] shares insight on why #bitcoin transaction fees are up again. If you’ve never checked out his Timechain Calendar site you’re missing out.

TIMECHAIN CALENDAR

Live data from the Bitcoin timechain with past block lookup and other calendar features.

View quoted note → #[37] Apple removes #bitcoin whitepaper in latest macOS Ventura beta. View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- #[39] Fixed it… View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr

🚨 Yo! #[0]​ getting on stage right now 🚨 https://www.youtube.com/live/-Dw0K66tKHA?feature=share

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THE NOSTR REPORT IS IT LANA DEL REY? April 25, 2023 Block Height: 787,015 Moscow Time: 35:32 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- “So is it Lana del Rey or not?” #[0] View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- #[1] #Plebchain Radio 📻 this week will feature #[3] , video journalist and commentator at Reason. QW will be sharing videos showing Zach’s work each day this week leading up to the show on Friday at 6:30pm ET (UTC -4) at

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View quoted note → #[4] Check out Bitcoin For Bunnies 🐰 🕳️ second issue - learn all about UTXOs!! View quoted note → #[5] Walker drops some incredible Nostr stats, including: 475,000 users on #nostr, 598,000 #zaps sent, 84.2 #bitcoin zapped, 53.6 million public notes, and 97 million total events 🤩🚀 View quoted note → #[9] Check out this excellent recap of the #clientwars NIP-94 controversy and the implications it has on the Nostr protocol moving forward. 👀 View quoted note → #[11] announces he is stepping back from his role at Swan Bitcoin to focus fully on #Nostr. 💜🎉 View quoted note → #[13] Learn about why Uvita was chosen as the location for #Nostrica. 💜🇨🇷 View quoted note → #[15] Read the story about how a vulnerability in the Trust Wallet browser extension (Binance) was discovered and reported by the team at Ledger. This is the worst case scenario of a crypto bug - compromised accounts forever. 😮 View quoted note → #[16] Faketoshi continues his attack on open source development. Jack urges us to support using the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund ⚖️👨‍⚖️

Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund – Legal Defense By The Bitcoin Community, For The Bitcoin Community

View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[17] An important reminder to remove any balances you are holding on BlueWallet’s custodial node before the end of April, as they are shutting down that node. (NOTE: This does not affect using the BW app with wallets from your own node, or with other nodes such as Alby or Lightning Tip Bot. It also does not affect on-chain wallets in the BW app. This only affects lightning wallets that were setup in the app that connected to BW’s default custodial node.) View quoted note → #[18] demos long-press to #zap instantly feature. Available in latest app version. View quoted note → #[20] Damus update in TestFlight brings completely redesigned screen for sending custom #zaps. See screenshot in this note. View quoted note → #[22] Amethyst 0.35.1: adds Private Zaps on Polls along with other features and updates. See the full list. View quoted note → #[23] needs more people to add to this list; help test this! 🧪 https://highlighter.com/dashboard/bookmarks/naddr1qqr5zun5d9ehguczyrafsj7hmweg9ur7zmn6apajdg48hxuskujx53rhrux0ttjcqx84yqcyqqq82vqkqd9pn View quoted note → #[24] To better manage files and reduce file size and data-out, nostr.build is now converting all .png files to .jpg for free uploads. Says this should not be noticeable to users. View quoted note → #[25] Check out the new episode of Nostrovia featuring everyone’s favorite micro-app dev #[26] View quoted note → #[27] asks on BlueSky about bridging the decentralized protocol to the Fediverse. BlueSky CEO tells him to wait. Wait, what? #Nostr CEO unavailable for comment. View quoted note → Twitter is now adding labels to tweets that have been flagged by the company to reduce their visibility, as part of their “freedom of speech, not reach” approach. According to Twitter, this reduced visibility based on their own criteria does not constitute censorship or shadowbanning. 🤨🤡

TechCrunch

Twitter will now show labels on tweets with reduced visibility | TechCrunch

Twitter said today that it will add labels to tweets for which the company reduces visibility. These labels will be visible to authors too.

—---------------------------- ⚡nostr Business⚡ —---------------------------- #[29] Climate protestors storm the track during a Formula E (ELECTRIC!!) car race to protest against climate change 🤔🤡 View quoted note → Congrats to #[30] and the Amboss team for securing $4 million in seed funding to provide data analytics to the service providers who maintain the network! ⚡️⚡️

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View quoted note → Yo! #[31] and Strike spread to South America - users now able to send dollars direct to bank accounts in Guatemala received as quetzales 🇬🇹 View quoted note → #[32] shares article about The Africa Bitcoiners initiative which has graduated 300 students from their Bitcoin for beginners course. View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- #[33] I don’t use it for that… View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr

We are so grateful to have #[0] continue his series B4B, that explains difficult concepts that many of us struggle with when learning about #Bitcoin. Please enjoy! ————————— BITCOIN FOR BUNNIES 🐰🕳️ B4B Issue 2: WTF Is A UTXO? The other day, a #Nostr pleb by the name of #[3] messaged me with a question he felt ashamed to ask publicly. (Don’t worry, I’ve obtained permission to say this!) He wanted to know why when he sent an on-chain transaction from one wallet to another, he could only see the amount of the transaction displayed on mempool.space, and couldn’t figure out where to find the remaining balance from the original wallet. He was having heart palpitations trying to uncover where the rest of his satoshis had run off to. It quickly occurred to me that he was asking about the change address, and I realized that most people who are fairly new to bitcoin—especially those who have only used the Lightning Network, or heaven forbid, have come to bitcoin from Planet Crypto—aren’t familiar with the way the bitcoin protocol manages unspent transaction outputs, or UTXOs. So, here’s a primer to help make this easier to understand. First of all, bitcoins don’t actually exist. Yes, you read that right. The only thing that has actual monetary value within the bitcoin network is the UTXO, which is the product of a verified bitcoin transaction, mathematically bound to a private key. When our old friends Alice and Bob send each other magic internet money across Wonderland, what actually happens is this: Alice has a specific number attached to a private key that gives her the ability to spend the output value of a transaction she received in the past. For our purposes, her wallet has a balance of 0.0005 BTC, or 50,000 satoshis. In reality, her balance is actually the sum of TWO different UTXOs, one for 30,000 sats and another for 20,000 sats. Bob bakes cakes with the words “EAT ME” on them that cost 40,000 sats each. Naturally, Alice has to have one. When Alice creates a transaction paid to Bob’s public key, her wallet sees that there is no single UTXO that can be spent, so it creates a transaction with two inputs, which contain both UTXOs. The outputs of this transaction will be: • Output 0: The payment to Bob’s public key • Output 1: The change output sent to a new address created by Alice’s wallet • The transaction fee The 40,000 satoshi payment to Bob is currently pending, and both of Alice’s UTXOs have been spent. The remaining 10,000 sats have been split between the mining fee (a relatively small amount) and the change output, which will be returned to Alice’s wallet as a brand new UTXO. This balance is still in the mempool waiting to be included in a block, so she won’t be able to spend it until it’s confirmed, but she can see the balance in her wallet has been updated. When Alice looks up her transaction ID on the block explorer mempool.space, she will see that it contains two inputs and two outputs. The inputs are the entire previous balance of her wallet, since the amount she sent required both UTXOs to be spent. The outputs are the amount she sent to Bob, and the remainder returned to her as change. Some wallets may not include unconfirmed funds in the total balance right away, so it’s possible that Alice won’t see it for a little while, but she can see that the address her wallet created for the brand new UTXO is part of the transaction, and once confirmed, it will be spendable again. Unfortunately for Alice, once she has eaten the cake, she will need to spend the rest of her sats to buy a potion to return her back to normal size again. In the book Inventing Bitcoin, #[4] (Yan Pritzker) makes this analogy about combining and splitting UTXOs to create new transactions: “Think of it like sending a bunch of coins into a machine that melts them down and mints new coins of any denomination you want.” So there you have it. Bitcoin is a machine for turning magic internet money into irresistible cakes that turn you into a giant, and now you have a better idea of how it all works. Thanks for stepping through the looking glass. Never be afraid to ask a question. We’re all learning together. Writing this post was an excellent refresher for me, and I appreciate all the help I got from my proofreaders. This is also my journey! Keep burrowing, friends! 🐰🕳️

THE NOSTR REPORT CLIENT WARS April 24, 2023 Block Height: 786,887 Moscow Time: 36:33 ⚡/$ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- “Nostr is bigger than any of us or our projects. Act accordingly.” #[0] View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- If you missed the #clientwars today (check the hashtag, some great memes) - here are a few threads to catch you up. NIP-94 is a NIP (Nostr Implementation Possibility) that deals with filesharing standards. Controversy arose when #[2] implemented NIP-94 in an unexpected way that caused images from the Amethyst client to not render on other clients. Will notes Amethyst images not rendering in Damus - View quoted note → FiatJaf notes that NIP-94 was not meant to be implemented in this way - View quoted note → , View quoted note → Vitor reminds us that NIP-94 is an established protocol - View quoted note → , View quoted note → Jack weighs in - View quoted note → Will throws out the idea of Damus Android - View quoted note → - and then hints that something big will drop tomorrow View quoted note → #[3] Happy anniversary Damus.io 🎉🥳 View quoted note → #[4] Meanwhile, Damus relay gets cut off the internet due to a DNS error. ✂️ View quoted note → Happy five year anniversary to The Bitcoin Standard and #[5] who has orange-pilled an incredible number of bitcoiners! 🥳🍊💊 View quoted note → #[6] #[7] app founder tells people not to believe in #Nostr 👀 View quoted note → #[9] McShane drops some extraOrdianary guests for Bitcoin ‘23 including Tulsi Gabbard and David Marcus 🤙 View quoted note → #[10] Tune in this Friday for #[11] with hosts #[12] and #[13] featuring #[14] from Reason.com. As always, #[15] will be there for the lightning round as well! View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[16] plugs https://zapstr.live and reminds us that Nostr is WAY bigger than a Twitter substitute 🙌🎧 View quoted note → #[17] Announced he updated Zapit and pledged to continue developing and managing it! 🔥LFG View quoted note → #[18] Single HTML file, 1,000 lines of code, fully self-custodial, functional Nostr based Bitcoin Webstore. 🏪 View quoted note → #[19] Bug bounty! 🪲 ⚡️21k sats in ecash for the person who can reliably reproduce the "Could not verify proofs" error in the cashu.me wallet. View quoted note → #[20] answers the question, “What’s the use case for e-cash?” 🥜 View quoted note → #[21] Congrats to the team at Munstr for taking first place 🥇 at the MITBitcoinClub hackathon. Looks like a great step to preserving privacy for Bitcoin users! 🕵️‍♂️ View quoted note → #[22] Self-custodial lightning addresses will be the first service offered at Olympus. Join the waitlist. View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- Nostr never disappoints. We move fast here. Try and keep up. #ClientWars #[24] View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr

#Rita is settling in nicely, thanks #[1]

THE NOSTR REPORT MEET THE PARENTS April 23, 2023 Block Height: 786,752 Moscow Time: 36:19 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- “as a dev, I take a look at bluesky's spec and feels overwhelmingly bloated and confusing as a dev, I take a look at nostr's NIP-01, realize I don't need to read anything else, and build something 10 minutes later not quite the same” #[0] View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- 🎉 Welcome #[1] ‘s parents, #[2] and #[3] , to #nostr ! 💜🤙 View quoted note → Is #nostr hard-forking? 👀 👀 #[6] and #[7] discuss NIP-94 implementation in #Nostr clients. Other devs chime in during the conversation. We’ve included a few note IDs here, and suggest browsing the entire thread to better understand the discussion. 🍴 View quoted note → View quoted note → View quoted note → Elon Musk and Twitter cave to pressure and restore blue checkmarks for users with highest follower counts without requiring them to pay $8/month.⛓️ Reminder, #Nostr is still free.🕊️

The Daily Beast

Elon Caves, Gives Blue Checks Back to Twitter’s Biggest Celebs

Across Twitter on Saturday, some of the platform’s biggest names expressed surprise when their fickle checkmarks suddenly reappeared.

#[10] surprised to learn that Twitter verifies once again that he is indeed jack. 🕺 View quoted note → #[11] Update on #Nostrasia potential venue. Working to open registration as soon as the venue is locked in. 🌏 View quoted note → #[13] encourages clients to adopt Nostr Wallet Connect so we can all experience #1tap2zap . This would make #OnlyZaps seamless. LFG!!! ⚡🚀 View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[16] launches a #Nostr explainer site that helps explain and introduce Nostr to new users. View quoted note → #[18] The most significant update to Current so far is now live in iOS and Android app stores. v0.0.8-Ojochal is packed with updates and changes. Check out the full list in the linked note. View quoted note → #[19] Nostur Client update adds private/silent follows, improvements with badges, and more. View quoted note → #[20] reports that users can now toggle likes, reposts, and zaps in your iris.to settings 🙌 View quoted note → Oh my, this space has grown!!! #[21] puts together a note showing their list of #Nostr clients. Test them out, but always practice #safeNsecs View quoted note → #[24] explains the benefits of soon to come NIP-94 descriptors for the visually impaired community. View quoted note → —---------------------------- ⚡nostr Business⚡ —---------------------------- #[25] Remember #Bizlato, the crypto exchange that was shut down a few months ago? ScienceXBT tells us why we should care about this story. Bizlato was actually a P2P exchange allowing users to trade without #KYC, and shutting this exchange down was an attack on KYC free exchanges. "Privacy and confidentiality are in great danger. People are making fun of #Bitzlato but it was an easy pick that they can justify in the name of good against evil (Russia, Darknet...) while you're laughing at them they're placing their pieces on the chessboard." View quoted note → #[29] Chinese government will be issuing salaries in digital Yuan, pushing CBDC adoption onto its citizens. View quoted note → $15 Million worth of gold and other valuables stolen from Canada's Pearson International Airport in Ontario. The stolen goods were part of an intra-bank transfer being sent via Air Canada by TD Bank. In case you didn't know, #Bitcoin fixes this. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/thieves-took-15-million-worth-081106008.html #[31] spins up a dank meme on the WEF's positive story about bitcoin mining’s ability to soak up stranded energy and capture otherwise-leaking methane. Meanwhile they make sure to call miners “data centers”. View quoted note → https://www.weforum.org/videos/this-start-up-catches-waste-methane-to-power-data-centres —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- #[32] Twitter winning, but… View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr