THE NOSTR REPORT MOMENTUM May 09, 2023 Block Height: 789,001 Moscow Time: 35:99 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- “#Nostr now has its own momentum. Nobody is in control. Nobody can stop it. All we can do is ride along and enjoy the freedom and the scenery.” #[1] View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- Join #[2] and #[3] for the next episode of #Plebchain Radio this Friday at 6:30pm ET (UTC -4). This week they welcome off-the-grid miner #[5] and will be discussing a miner’s perspective on the shitcoin-led high #Bitcoin transaction fees. View quoted note → #[7] Schedule Value-4-Value payments to a lightning address with ZapPlanner. Support your favorite content creator, send payments on your behalf that you have control to cancel whenever you wish. 🐝 FTW. View quoted note → Read all about ZapPlanner, the new periodic payment service from GetAlby ⚡️🗓
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 #[8] says all #Nostrasia shirts have shipped, and they have added a limited run of a white/highlighter yellow version.👕 View quoted note → #[10] explains how a limit on the amount of data in #bitcoin blocks and a robust dynamic fee market work as mechanisms to keep node operation costs low, which in turn allows for greater decentralization. View quoted note → #[12] BRC-20 users discover the hard way that they should have learned about RBF. 🤡 View quoted note → #[13] "Nostr fixes this." Reports emerge that Twitter and other social media have been restricted in parts of Pakistan following the arrest of former PM Imran Khan. 🇵🇰🐦
Al Jazeera
Pakistan blocks social media platforms, restricts internet
The move comes as violence erupts in several cities after the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
 View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[14] New features on Nostr.build, including drag and drop! 📸 View quoted note → #[15] Check out the Milou App, a #Bitcoin & #Nostr companion, now available on iOS TestFlight! 🐶 📱 View quoted note → #[18] Amethyst follow lists are now available in the Play Store version. 👫 View quoted note → #[19] Damus v1.4.3 update now available in the App Store. 🙌 View quoted note → #[20] Snort.social now parses Cashu tokens so you can redeem them instantly to your Lightning address! 🐿 View quoted note → #[21] Foundation Passport now supports #Nostr keys. 🗝 View quoted note → #[23] hints at push notifications coming to Amethyst with a screenshot. View quoted note → #[24] will host a debate/discussion about the proposed AI "pause" with Robin Hanson and Jaan Tallin of Skype/Kazaa fame this Thursday at 1pm ET. Event details in the linked note. View quoted note → #[25] List item removal added to listr.lol. View quoted note → —---------------------------- ⚡nostr Business⚡ —---------------------------- #[26] HRF gifts 16.5 BTC (~$455,000) via its Bitcoin Development Fund to support 12 projects worldwide. See full details in the linked note.🤗 View quoted note → #[27] Bull Bitcoin launches no-KYC #bitcoin purchases with cash or debit. https://www.bullbitcoin.com/blog/bull-bitcoin-launches-no-kyc-bitcoin-purchases-with-cash-or-debit View quoted note → #[29] Nostr will soon surpass 700,000 #zaps sent. View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- #[31] #Bitcoin protec View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr
THE NOSTR REPORT SKEET SKEET SKEET May 08, 2023 Block Height: 788,850 Moscow Time: 36:10 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- #[0] “Today I feel thankful for nostr. It’s not perfect, but it’s a small life raft in a sea of people who want to control what you say and think.” View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- “Bluesky advertises itself as an open network, they say people won’t lose followers or their identity, they advertise themselves as a protocol (“atproto”) ... These three claims are lies.” #[1] publishes his criticisms of Bluesky in a new blog post, “Bluesky is a scam.” 🔥
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 #[2] shares his thoughts in response to fiatjaf’s blog post about Bluesky, and Paul Frazee’s (Bluesky dev) “skeet stream” reply to fiatjaf. “As the world of decentralized protocols continues to grow, I remain hopeful for a future that embraces collaboration and openness.” 🫂 View quoted note → #[3] says they are looking for feedback and ideas from local Hong Kong #nostr power users, devs & designers as they plan for the coming #nostrasia meetup. 🌏 View quoted note → #[6] #Nostr is about to surpass 100M events 👀🔥 View quoted note → #[8] Binance announces upcoming support for #bitcoin #lightning on the heels of a similar promise by Coinbase ceo due to “surge in #bitcoin network gas fees”👏 View quoted note → View quoted note → #[12] goes to Forbes to shine some light on the recent mess that bitcoin mempools have become; “Bitcoin NFT Hype Creates High Fees As Unconfirmed Transactions Skyrocket” 🚀 https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/05/08/bitcoin-nft-hype-creates-high-fees-as-unconfirmed-transactions-skyrocket #[13] breaks down the absurdity of BRC-20 💩 View quoted note → #[14] It’s just the tip of the dickberg 🫢 View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[15] shares an incredible “what is nostr” video from #[16] . View quoted note → #[17] Damus v1.4.3 submitted to the App Store! 🎉 View quoted note → #[18] Amethyst 0.44.0 (alpha): Notifications per List. View quoted note → #[19] Learn how to use Lightning Node Connect (LNC) on your @Voltage dashboard. ⚡️ View quoted note → #[20] Added Nostr Wallet Connect to Snort.social. Give it a try and let him know if you find any issues. 🔌 View quoted note → #[21] NIP-47 Wallet Connect is coming to Current App tomorrow. View quoted note → #[22] shows demo of wallet connect feature coming soon to Damus. View quoted note → #[23] Check out this timechain explorer. ⏱️ View quoted note → #[24] Muun Wallet Is Experiencing Issues As High Fees Continue View quoted note → #[25] Mostro: Lightning Network P2P Exchange Platform on Nostr View quoted note → —---------------------------- ⚡nostr Business⚡ —---------------------------- #[26] Follow the Clark Moody dashboard account for regular mempool updates. View quoted note → #[27] And it all starts with a little market research. View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- #[28] Uno... View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr
THE NOSTR REPORT THE FLIPPENING May 07, 2023 Block Height: 788,716 Moscow Time: 34:86 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- “Great day to plug in a miner…or learn about the lightning network. ⚡️” #[0] View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- #[1] Many have dubbed today as “The Flippening,” as Block 788695 saw the transaction fees surpass the block subsidy (6.25 btc). However, other users pointed out that it’s not the first time this has occurred, as block 470189 in 2017 also experienced a similar flippening of the fees being greater than the block reward. 🔀 View quoted note → #[2] points out the importance of opening large lightning channels during low on chain fee periods in order to be prepared for increased fees and activity when it happens again, regardless of the reason for it. ⛓️⚡️ View quoted note → Binance suspends #Bitcoin withdrawals citing “congestion issues.” They later announced on Twitter that they had resumed withdrawals. Remember, not your keys, not your #bitcoin. 🔑🌽
Cointelegraph
Binance closes BTC withdrawals amid congestion on the Bitcoin network
Crypto exchange Binance closed Bitcoin (BTC) withdrawals on May 7 due to an alleged overflow of transactions on the Bitcoin network.
 #[5] Nostr.build notices a 30% drop in uploads compared to previous day, despite not having any major outages with the service. 📸 View quoted note → #[6] Zapit.live has surpassed 5 million sats in transactions today! 🎉 View quoted note → #[7] last Friday’s episode of #Plebchain Radio featuring #[9] is now available online. Link to episode in note. View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[10] Amethyst 0.43.0 (alpha): Performance improvements. This build includes performance tweaks in every corner of the app. View quoted note → #[11] drops #Damus Build 21, with fixes for app crashing and improved DMs and mentions. Build 22 and 23 were subsequently released to address other issues. 🙌 View quoted note → #[13] Have no fear, the future is here. Run a relay on your phone with Termux and Fonstr. ☎️🤳 View quoted note → #[14] Paxful is going to build a non-kyc p2p #bitcoin exchange. 💱💹 View quoted note → #[16] Interesting perspective from Colin on what #bitcoin miners might be working for in the n LLP ot so distant future. ⛏️ View quoted note → #[18] reminds us of his project https://kind3.xyz that allows you to make “checkpoints” of follow lists. But more interesting, it would allow you to make different versions of your follow list so you can test out different nostr experiences! 🧐 View quoted note → #[19] Update on Nostr.Band allows you to manage profile lists! View quoted note → —---------------------------- ⚡nostr Business⚡ —---------------------------- President Biden considers whether to invoke powers under the 14th Amendment to bypass Congress and avoid defaulting on the nation’s debt. Sec. Yellen says this would create a Constitutional crisis, and if Congress doesn’t act, “we will have an economic and financial catastrophe that will be of our own making, and there is no action that President Biden and the U.S. Treasury can take to prevent that catastrophe.”
The Hill
14th Amendment emerges as last-ditch fix to ward off default
Top political figures are considering the possibility that President Biden could utilize a clause in the 14th Amendment as a last-ditch effort to w...
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THE NOSTR REPORT RULES, NOT RULERS May 06, 2023 Block Height: 788,570 Moscow Time: 34:59 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- “Bitcoin has no king. Bitcoin needs no king.” #[0] View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- #[1] “One can truly know the measure of a society by how it treats its prisoners.” On King Charles, III, Coronation Day, he receives a letter from his “most devoted subject,” Julian Assange. A Kingly Proposal: Letter From Julian Assange to King Charles, III. (Link to letter in note.) View quoted note → #[2] gives a reminder of the bigger picture, saying, “We’re using this to build the foundations of a free society in meat & cyber-space. Incredible. What a time to be alive.” View quoted note → #[3] For the upcoming #Nostrasia conference, the organizers want to know who you’d like to see on stage and giving talks about what they’re building. Respond to Derek’s note with your favorite Japanese content creators and developers. 🇯🇵 View quoted note → #[5] announces that in the coming weeks they will start onboarding Creators to their new patreon style relay, with the ability to create tiered access to content. See note for more details and how to contact him if you are a Creator interested in joining. 🧡💜 View quoted note → #[6] Not your keys, not your #bitcoin. Popular custodial lightning service Tippin.me may be exit scamming. Users report that Tippin.me’s lightning node is down, they are unable to withdraw funds or even contact support. 🪤 View quoted note → #[8] explains that #Bitcoin transaction fees limit network abuse because there is a cost to every transaction, set by a dynamic free market based on demand, free from control of any centralized entity. View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[10] celebrates 4 months of Amethyst. Congratulations! 🎉 View quoted note → #[11] creates a bot that notifies him when someone submits new code for Damus, replacing his need for GitHub and email, and turning #Nostr into more of a productivity tool. View quoted note → #[13] pushed a PR for lnproxy that enables support for a service provider to add a fee to an atomic invoice where both the service provider and a content creator can get paid upon successful payment/settlement. View quoted note → #[14] Reminds users to update their LNbits installations today. View quoted note → #[15] performs some A/B testing of posts between Bluesky and Nostr. Reports that results were “amazingly predictable.” View quoted note → #[16] shares Bluesky Federation Overview View quoted note → #[17] shares their upcoming schedule for next week with links to RSVP if you plan to attend. View quoted note → —---------------------------- ⚡nostr Business⚡ —---------------------------- #[18] VIDEO: US Sen. John Kennedy describes banks as “sophisticated Ponzi schemes” during interview on CNBC. View quoted note → #[19] Very good summary and historical perspective to keep you out of the noise and chaos that is coming. #Bitcoin 💥🎧🚨 View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- #[21] Mempools… View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr
THE NOSTR REPORT ALL IN May 05, 2023 Block Height: 788,421 Moscow Time: 33:77 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- “If I could, I would go MORE all-in on nostr” #[0] View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- #[1] Take a moment to read what RFK had to say, it's brave and genuine. 🕊️ View quoted note → Read this 🔥 note from #[2] - Remember kids, you can’t taper a Ponzi! 🧨 View quoted note → #[3] Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI 🧑🏽‍💻 View quoted note → And #[4] reminds us that prices always fall to the marginal cost of production (measured in SOUND money of course)! View quoted note → #[5] shares weekly recap of what’s happening on #nostr by the numbers. 2️⃣1️⃣ View quoted note → #[7] Bisq to integrate Lightning ⚡️💜 View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[8] Amethyst 0.42.1 (alpha): Private/Public Follow Lists released 🤙 Now you can assemble your lists on
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 and use them on Amethyst. View quoted note → #[9] issues warning to update your LNbits installations immediately. Says more info will be released soon. ⚠️ View quoted note → #[10] Amethyst 0.42.2 (alpha). BugFix: Missing private bookmarks. 🪳 View quoted note → #[11] Introducing Zapit Portable Marketplaces 💼 View quoted note → #[12] The Nostrica.nostrnotes.com relay will be shutting down on May 30, 2023. See note for more details. View quoted note → #[13] realizes he’s made a #Nostr replacement for Pinterest with Atlas Notes. Currently available as an older version on Highlighter.com. New updates expected to be deployed this weekend. View quoted note → #[15] publishes a project he’s been working on called “Hyper-Nostr: Bringing P2P to relays” View quoted note → #[16] working on a “recommendation engine” with #[17] - is this the first Nostr algorithm? View quoted note → —---------------------------- ⚡nostr Business⚡ —---------------------------- #[18] Check out Marty’s latest rip with Whitney Webb as they go over the sequence of events that has led to the current state of bank failures 🏦💩 View quoted note → #[19] More large #bitcoin Twitter accounts like Niko are starting to beat the nostr drum. 🌊 View quoted note → REUTERS: Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/fed-up-with-shrinking-savings-europeans-drain-billions-banks-2023-05-04/ #[21] shares link to the slide deck outlining MicroStrategy’s Lightning rewards program. View quoted note → #[22] gives brief overview after having attended the MicroStrategy Bitcoin and Lightning for Corporations event this week. View quoted note → #[23] - #[24] sold $2.16 Billion Worth of BTC in Q1, Up By 25% Year Over Year 🔥 View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- #[25] Collapse of the dollar View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr
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THE NOSTR REPORT MAY THE 4th BE WITH YOU May 04, 2023 Block Height: 788,304 Moscow Time: 34:61 ⚡/ $ —---------------------------- 🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️ —---------------------------- “We all have the same 24 hrs as #[0] . How will you use them?” #[1] View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🚨Headline nostr News🚨 —---------------------------- This is the 100th report from #[2] !!! Thank you to all the supporters, devs, and most importantly plebs that make #Nostr the best community there is! Follow #100DaysofNR as we continue to recap our favorite moments since we started NR 🤙 🎉 View quoted note → Join #[5] and #[6] for the next episode of #Plebchain Radio 📻 tomorrow at 6:45pm ET (UTC -4). This week’s featured guest is #[8] , host of the “Bitcoin And …” podcast. As always, the #[9] team will be there to help break down the week’s events with the Lightning Round.
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 View quoted note → #[10] adds new app based on Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) to the ☂️ Umbrel ☂️ App Store. Connect your node to all apps that support NWC and enjoy one-click ⚡️zaps! View quoted note → #[11] VIDEO: Will shows demo of one-tap-zaps coming soon to Damus 🤯⚡️ View quoted note → #[12] announces that they have received a $10mm donation from Jack Dorsey’s philanthropic initiative, #startsmall, which will be used to support the development of free and open-source software and projects focusing on bitcoin, nostr, and related technologies. #[14] and #[15] will also be joining the board. If you are working on Nostr and looking for funding, apply at
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 💜🧡 View quoted note → #[16] And it keeps tumbling down… 🏦 View quoted note → #[17] Hedgefunds are losing big 📉 View quoted note → #[18] “I think I'm the first (but not the last) to mention nostr on an earnings call...” 🔥💜 View quoted note → #[19] shares a beautiful note about Hal Finney today, on Hal’s birthday: “Happy Birthday Hal! Hal contributed so much in cryptography outside of Bitcoin. I recommend anyone who hasn’t done so to read ‘Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)’ to see how lucid he was even as he battled with ALS.” (link to article in note) 🎂🧡 View quoted note → #[20] #Gorillawarfare heats up as a tool for increasing the off-by-one bug in ordinal explorers is released on GitHub. 🦍 View quoted note → —---------------------------- 💻nostr Tech💻 —---------------------------- #[22] Damus build 20 fixes several bugs and adds webp image support. View quoted note → #[23] Gameboy #bitcoin signing device?! 🎮 View quoted note → #[25] If you’ve been wanting to set up your own self-hosted NIP-05, email and lightning address, check out https://nostrsovrn.com for a complete free guide. And if you’d like help they offer a paid service for hassle free setup as well! 🤙 View quoted note → #[26] Ephemeralay: #Nostr relay that doesn’t care about the past. View quoted note → #[28] adds full screen image previews to Snort.social. View quoted note → #[29] A command-line tool for decoding nostr entities, generating events, and request filters. See note for GitHub link. View quoted note → —---------------------------- 🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥 —---------------------------- #[30] Hyperspace accident… View quoted note → Stay Classy Nostr
Thanks for reading along as we’ve been sharing some of our favorite #nostr moments from the first 100 days of The Nostr Report. We’re only 30 days in, and there’s so much more we could share. #Zapathon starts soon so we’ll pause for a bit and pick things back up later. 💜🤙 #100DaysofNR
On February 25, #[0] announced that “Nostr Plebs Spaces” was officially rebranding to “Nostr Nests.” The site offers #Nostr users a browser-based replacement for Twitter Spaces that works on both desktop and mobile devices, and allows users to link their npub or use the service anonymously. #100DaysofNR View quoted note →