THE NOSTR REPORT ROCK-A-BYE FROGGIES April 29, 2023 Block Height: 787,560 Moscow Time: 34:25 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- “Value is the algorithm.“ ⚡️⚡️ #[0] View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- #[1] and #[2] successfully wrap up a 24-hour Nostr Nests marathon, to support the further development of #[3] ! Check the note for the impressive list of participants. Looking forward to more future #FrogTalk and congrats on the incredible accomplishment! 🎙️🐸 View quoted note → Check out the latest episode of #[5] featuring #[6] - most recent episodes available at https://Nostr.Report and at Soundcloud #[7] shares an update on Block's venture into Bitcoin mining. The company recently bought a large number of bitcoin mining chips from Intel which will accelerate its plans to enter the mining hardware market just as the chipmaker winds down production. 👾 View quoted note → #[8] #Damus Build 15 is out for testflight users (https://damus.io/testflight) fixing a major thread incompatibility between damus and amethyst/plebstr.🤝 View quoted note → #[10] releases Amethyst 0.40.0 (alpha): TikTok is Here! - Adds a new global feed in stories style utilizing controversial NIP-94 and NIP-95 pictures and videos. 🎞 View quoted note → It seems like users told #[11] they would like to have the option of sharing their location on Amethyst 🤨Are we so used to giving out all of our data for free we can’t stop, even when we don’t have to? 🤷🏽‍♀️ What are your thoughts on data sharing and privacy across #nostr clients? View quoted note → #[13] Sorry #damus users, images are broken until the next AppStore release. Should be in the next couple days. In the meantime you can go to and upload there. Also consider signing up for a paid nostr.build account to support image uploads on #nostr ! 🥕🧀 View quoted note → #[16] Nostr has just passed over 7 zapped #bitcoin! 🤯 View quoted note → #[18] #Bitcoin reaches block 787,500. Progress to next halving: 75% 🔥 View quoted note → #[20] Twitter is complying with more government demands under Musk 🐦👮‍♂️ View quoted note → #[21] If you were an open source contributor to Nostr, don’t forget to claim your free ticket to Bitcoin 2023 Miami. The deadline for applications is tomorrow 🎟️ View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[22] GOSSIP 0.6 🗣 has been released on github: Packages are provided for Windows, MacOS (arm64) and Debian (x86_64) View quoted note → #[23] LND v0.16.2: Fixes For Some Performance Regressions ⚡️ View quoted note → #[24] offers 1M sats bounty to make a browser app to show only poll events in a global view and let people to vote. 🗳 View quoted note → #[25] VIDEO: Vitor demos a NIP94 and NIP95 global feed in Amethyst. Photos and videos only. View quoted note → Meanwhile, the #clientwars saga continues View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- #[27] Add value View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr
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THE NOSTR REPORT REAL AF April 28, 2023 Block Height: 787,422 Moscow Time: 34:09 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- “Find yourself a place that can convert sats to beer and suddenly it all becomes real af.” #[0] View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- #[1] See the full line up and schedule for the 24-hr Frog Talk, already in progress! All times listed are ET. View quoted note → #[2] shares some impressive updates to Nostr.Band including the ability to create, like and #zap follow lists 🤩 View quoted note → #[4] El podcaster Lunaticoin hoy cumple 1 año desde que envió su primera nota y cosas por relés 🤯 increíble todo lo que ha pasado en tan poco tiempo 💜 View quoted note → Is #[5] teasing us with some more cool #nostr toys? 🍿can’t wait to see what surprises he has for us next week! 👀 View quoted note → #[7] Canada Senate passed bill C-11, it will be law. NVK calls it, “the most draconian internet content legislation ever seen in the developed world.” 🪤 View quoted note → #[8] announces “NOSTR vs. Everything” with Will Casarin, Vlad Stan and Pablo Fernandez, moderated by Rockstar, at #Bitcoin 2023! 💫 View quoted note → #[10] tells us his ideas for the future of advertising on the Nostr protocol #Zapvertising ⚡️ Read about it here: View quoted note → #[12] and #[13] discuss Highlighter/Zapworthy. 🟠🟣 View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[14] Amethyst 0.38.0: Highligher Support. Your follows’ highlights will appear in your feed. Everyone else's highlights will appear in the global feed. You can interact with them as if they are regular posts. View quoted note → #[15] announces big Plebstr update, and says even bigger updates are coming soon. 🔥💎 View quoted note → Damus now at over 1000 pull requests from contributors. #[16] says thanks to those who help make Damus awesome. 🔥💜 View quoted note → #[17] Check out all the updates to the coracle.social client! 🤳 View quoted note → #[18] Updates to Nostr Nests policies coming soon. See what’s changing in the linked note.🪺📻 View quoted note → #[19] (nostr.wine dev) shares some thoughts on NIP-95. 📁 View quoted note → #[20] Notes that Blastr’s relay is currently blocking NIP-95 messages. 🙅‍♂️ View quoted note → #[21] Coldcard MK4 now comes in Nostr purple 👀💜 View quoted note → —---------------------------- ⚡nostr Business⚡ —---------------------------- #[22] Fed Admits Its Own Failures contributed to SVB Collapse, Not "Russian Conspiracy Theories" 🏦💣 View quoted note → “The U.S. FDIC is preparing to place First Republic Bank under receivership imminently, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday, sending shares of the lender down nearly 50% in extended trading. The U.S. banking regulator decided the troubled regional lender's position has deteriorated and there is no more time to pursue a rescue through the private sector, the source told Reuters, requesting anonymity because the matter is confidential.” https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/first-republic-shares-gain-hopes-rescue-deal-2023-04-28/ #[23] Facebook and Instagram will soon force their checkout experience on Shops. #Nostr and Lightning are the solution. ⚡️💜 View quoted note → #[25] If you’re attending BTC Prague, be sure to meet up with your fellow Nostriches! Check out the event details here: View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- #[26] Your money… View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr
THE NOSTR REPORT WEEKLY ROUNDUP April 21 - 28 April 21, 2023 #ZAPGATE View quoted note → Following the launch of #OnlyZaps feature for Damus beta testers, Will shares his thoughts on the goals that drive decisions about Damus features. “Damus’ goal from day one has always been to give individuals complete control over the types of interactions they want to have. Algorithms, users, and advertisers do not have authority over individual preferences.” Meanwhile Amethyst v0.34.0 is launched with NIP-94 support which will create a Kind 1063 event with a hash of the content of videos, images, and GIFs, on the regular feed and on chats/DMs. This was the beginning of the #clientwars due to image incompatibility issues which developed further during the week. Twitter continued its slow implosion by removing most of the blue check marks from the hundreds of thousands of accounts belonging to celebrities, journalists, and other public figures who had been verified by Twitter before Musk changed the rules. April 22, 2023 NOSTR + BITCOIN = FREEDOM View quoted note → The timechain finally made it back to 1 sat/vB despite a plethora of monke JPEGs and Bitcoin Magazine inscriptions. Argentina's central bank hiked the benchmark interest rate a sharper-than-expected 300 basis points after inflation soared past expectations in March to hit 104% on an annual basis. 🤯🤯 Bitcoin magazine releases *super rare inscription* of their new magazine cover on a totally special “uncommon” 2010 satoshi 🙄Such wow! April 23, 2023 MEET THE PARENTS View quoted note → Jack welcomes his parents Marcia and Tim to Nostr! View quoted note → The #clientwars saga continues with Will and Vitor discussing NIP-94 implementation on Nostr Nests, failing to reach a definitive compromise. 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.🕊️ Jack surprised to learn that Twitter verifies once again that he is indeed jack. 🕺 Lyn Alden 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”. April 24, 2023 CLIENT WARS View quoted note → “Nostr is bigger than any of us or our projects. Act accordingly.” Verbicha The #clientwars again dominated the timeline with images posted by Amethyst users failing to render on other clients. Vitor reminds us that NIP-94 is an established protocol, however, FiatJaf notes that NIP-94 was not meant to be implemented in this way. Jack weighs in and says “Can’t we hash this one out? Everything has been so collaborative thus far.” Meanwhile, Will throws out the idea of Damus Android. The Damus relay gets cut off from the internet due to a DNS error due to domain registration ✂️, and Will realizes that it was actually Damus.io’s 1-year anniversary 🎉🥳 Happy five year anniversary to The Bitcoin Standard! 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 → April 25, 2023 IS IT LANA DEL REY? View quoted note → “So is it Lana del Rey or not?” FiatJaf Bitcoin For Bunnies 🐰 🕳️ second issue - learn all about UTXOs Pablo announces he is stepping back from his role at Swan Bitcoin to focus fully on #Nostr, and was also featured on Nostrovia this week. 💜🎉 Faketoshi continues his attack on open source development. Jack urges us to support using the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund ⚖️👨‍⚖️ 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. 🤨🤡 April 26, 2023 THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT CASSIE View quoted note → “I've read about #nostr on twitter, and I thought no one was using it.” - New user Cassie takes Nostr by storm. But what are her intentions? Her quick grasp of the nostr protocol sounded off alarms for certain users, while others defended her wonderful sense of curiosity and wonderment with the new protocol. Either way, it was a welcomed distraction from the #clientwars. “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.” 🚨 Episode 34 of Bitcoin.Review is out. Nostr is Taking off! A Catch-up with NVK, FiatJaf, JB55, Pablo and Odell. This episode goes over many projects, NIPs, Mastodon/Bluesky/DHT & more. 🔥 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. 📡 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. 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 quote “I am so fucking bullshit”. 👀 Regardless, we are excited by these seeming endless possibilities with #nostr! 🔥🚀 Bitcoin Policy Summit launched with some incredible talks, especially the keynote by @npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vl Apple removes #bitcoin whitepaper in latest macOS Ventura beta. April 27, 2023 VIEW FROM ABOVE View quoted note → Vitor 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. 🤝 Spiral has issued to date, 70+ grants worth $7M+ to 40 grantees and 10 projects across 20+ countries. Earlier in the week, Walker dropped some impressive numbers from Primal that may not have been entirely accurate including: 475,000 users on #nostr, 598,000 #zaps sent, 84.2 #bitcoin zapped, 53.6 million public notes, and 97 million total events. 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. BenArc gives demo of how to spin up a fresh LNbits installation and create a paid #nostr relay —--------------------- Stay Classy Nostr.