I love #Amethyst, but it seems really bad at completing usernames. Eg. When I type "@Kag..." it doesn't find Kagi, but #Damus does. Likewise in the search box. What am I doing wrong? Cc @Vitor Pamplona

@Kagi How is support for accepting #Monero coming along? #privacy

So many ways to contribute to #freedomtech without writing code: File a bug report. Zap a creator you like. That cool app you heard about on that freedom tech podcast? Install and run it. You add value by participating. Send feedback to the builders: What confused you? What's missing? What feature would make it more useful to you? Help others by documenting your experience (in a note, blog post, video, whatever). Answer questions. Accept freedom money for your product or service. Contact a merchant you like and ask if they'll do the same. Pick one proprietary thing you currently use and migrate to an open source alternative instead. Code is only one tiny piece of the puzzle. It's often just a crystallisation of the knowledge gained from one or more of the above. The question is not if you can be helpful, but how soon you'll get started. #privacy #permissionless #v4v #freedom

Ready and waiting to switch to @Fountain as soon as @Oscar Merry open sources it. Who's with me? 😎 #v4v #valueforvalue #asknostr #podcasts

@Zapstore Posting feedback here because I got an error trying to submit it as me in the app: It's not clear to me when it says "Gigi picked this app". What does it mean to "pick" an app? Is that why it's on the Zapstore? How is Gigi connected to my network? I often see only single messages like this, when surely others in my Nostr network recommend the app, etc. Might be worth figuring out how to better capture and surface that. Also, I'd like everywhere that I see Nostr usernames in the app, I can click through to their profile, otherwise these types of messages are even more opaque, IMHO. #zapstore

“Don’t worry, we won’t share your phone number with anyone.” Don’t worry, I won’t share my phone number with you. #grownostr #privacy

Another argument against #cashu for me used to be "ugh, it's just like reimplementing the banking system on #Bitcoin!" It's not. First, cashu offers extreme privacy guarantees. Possibly even better than #Monero. (Side note: I love Monero.) Second, it's #permissionless. Third, cashu bearer tokens can be passed as data, allowing all sorts of programmable money use cases. Banking will never be any of this.

I'm more impressed by #cashu than I expected. I used to be really turned off by the tradeoff of relying on custodial mints, but: I value the high speed, low fees, and privacy benefits. (The custodian themselves has zero visibility into your activity.) Offline-capable lightning addresses is absolutely killer. As is the ease with which you can make lightning payments from a cashu wallet like Minibits. The speed with which you can start accepting lightning payments through Nostr using npub.cash is insane. It makes a lot more sense when you think of cashu as a spending wallet. Indeed it should probably warn on larger amounts (maybe it already does.) Sure, you can get rugged and lose some pocket change. But as webs of trust grow - and surface - around mints, I don't see this being a major issue. So, we'll see how this goes. 😎 #bitcoin

@vexl 😎 I'm not convinced by your reasoning for requiring phone numbers. It seems to wholly undermine the no-KYC claim, regardless of what promises you make about who can and can't see it. (And requiring an anonymous SIM to preserve privacy is a hassle.) Have you considered, eg charging 5-10k sats or something, as an alternative to providing a phone number? #bitcoin #privacy

Any #NanoGPT users out there? Can I ask a favour? They're not yet on Nostr AFAICS. Please consider using their "Suggestions and bugs" to request that they join Nostr. I've run into an issue where not having them accessible here is making me consider @Maple AI or @PayPerQ. #ssknostr #grownostr #ai