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THE NOSTR REPORT

NIP-57 or Bust
Feb 15, 2023

Block Height 776,711
Moscow Time 41:51⚡/ $
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🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️
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📡 Derek Ross (npub18am…p424) “ The signal is strongest with the plebs.” 📡

quoting nevent1q…wyck

The signal is strongest with the plebs.

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🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
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BitcoinJungle (npub14f2…v7lu) Bitcoin Jungle wallet now supports ⚡️zaps⚡️

quoting nevent1q…nkrf

Bitcoin Jungle wallet now supports NIP-57 zaps!

broadmode (npub1x45…armt) laments that Zion, a walled garden social network app for creators using bitcoin, is not tapping into nostr, ignoring the network effect that’s already been built. 🤯

quoting nevent1q…a007

Not impressed with Zion 2.0; they need to plug into #Nostr's userverse instead of trying to bootstrap their own network effect.

Users in the #Bitcoin space are being spoiled; we're done registering for every app. We're done letting companies hold our keys.

We demand 'Log in with #Nostr'.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/154

Derek Ross (npub18am…p424) Ordinal inscribers are now securing back door deals with large mining pools, minimizing transaction fees and ensuring they get their inscriptions in sequential order. 🖕

quoting nevent1q…nmc5

Ordinal Inscribers are now paying Bitcoin mining pools to construct blocks for them with zero or minimal financial transactions, so that all of their images get inscribed in sequential order. They are not using the normal block construction methods. They are including these in the next block over the counter or behind closed doors. This has happened 3 times so far with 3 different pools. Luxor, Foundry, and the latest one was from Terra Pool. These out of band blocks are creating a secondary marketplace outside of Bitcoin's normal block construction methods. Miners are now talking about selling blocks before they are found. Thoughts?

🎳 jack mallers (npub1cn4…3vle) Strike sending API documentation is now public, allowing anyone to utilize their infrastructure to make Lightning ⚡️ payments with USD.

quoting nevent1q…xea0

Strike Sending API Documentation is now public ⚡️

Now anyone can use our infrastructure to make Lightning payments with US Dollars (just like people make Visa, ACH, SWIFT, etc. payments with US Dollars)

Customer doesn't have to own bitcoin to make a Lightning payment, no volatility concerns, no taxable events, no additional accounting requirements, no added legal/compliance burden. Strike handles it all. Just pay Lightning invoices with USD.

Hopeful to announce some banks and bigger financial institutions that are using Lightning as opposed to networks like SWIFT soon.

An open value transfer protocol for the world!

https://docs.strike.me/walkthrough/sending-payments/

calle 👁️⚡👁️ (npub12rv…85vg) Support for ⚡️Zaps⚡️ coming soon to LN.tips wallet

quoting nevent1q…azxc

Soon Zap NIP57 receipts

lylepratt (npub1yle…xgy8) Vida.page wallets now support
⚡️zaps⚡️

quoting nevent1q…d52q

If you have a vida.page profile with your Nostr pub key verified your Lightning address now supports NIP-57. Example: mine is lylepratt@vida.page

KeithMukai (npub1tv8…7wn2) Cool raspberry pi project

quoting nevent1q…gezc

Don't tell Netflix, but I configured a Raspi to route my mom's Roku traffic through my home IP via a Tailscale exit node.

Took a couple hours over the weekend to figure it all out but it seems to be working! And I did my best to document the steps (though good luck getting your hands on a spare Raspi!).



https://gist.github.com/kdmukai/ab7b2b1de898c6c3e64ffbe1e0316bbe

🥧

Our own Doc reports that Elon created a special system for showing you all his tweets first.

quoting nevent1q…ht6k

PV Nostriches!

Some reading for your day 🤙

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets-algorithm-changes-twitter

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🏝️Nostrica Update🏝️
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Susiebdds (npub1jt0…6q3n) our favorite dentist in the coolest #Nostrica merch.

quoting nevent1q…0mvk

I always feel more comfortable when I am appropriately attired. Can’t wait! #Nostrica

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🖥️nostr Clients🖥️
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mikedilger (npub1acg…p35c) gives a rundown of what makes Gossip a unique desktop client. 🤩

quoting nevent1q…fgnw

I'm the author of gossip, a desktop client not a mobile app, but I have someting to say on this. Gossip downloads only about 4MB when I start it in the morning and run it for an hour. Since that is several orders of magnitude less than some other clients, I thought I'd make a list as to why:

1. Duplicate Events - many clients subscribe to the same filters on all of the "read" relays. So if a person has 10 read relays, they get each event 10 times. They could subscribe in a way that only gets N copies, where N is set in some setting somewhere (gossip defaults to 2 or 3).

2. Not Dynamically Connecting to Relays - when clients don't dynamically connect to the 'write' relays of whoever you follow, users are incentivized to add lots and lots of relays as a hack to try to get that content, aggrevating issue 1. If clients smartly went to the write relays (based on relay lists), all of the content a user has subscribed to would arrive (in best case scenario) and users would no longer feel the need to add massive numbers of read relays.

3. Counting how many followers you have is expensive. Kind-3 contact lists are long, and you need to pull one for each follower to make such a count. Especially if done across many relays (where the same ones are pulled multiple times, once per relay), this could be 10-20 MB on it's own. Then how often is the client triggered to recount?

4. Downloading of avatars: gossip caches these so it doesn't have to re-download them. Any client that uses an IMG tag and doesn't have a browser caching is probably downloading these over and over, at worst case every time a post scrolls into view.

5. Content images and content web page pre-rendering: This can be very expensive, but is probably unavoidable on rich UI clients. Gossip is a "poor" UI client, without any images or prerendered links (it just shows links that you can click on to open your browser). But with caching, repeated downloading of the same thing can be avoided.

6. Re-checking of NIP-05 could be done periodically, perhaps daily if it failed or every 2 weeks if it passed, probably the worst strategy is every time a post scrolls into view.

There are probably others.

andre (npub1rvg…xrck) Lightning addresses and Nostr go hand in hand like lovers on an evening stroll. Learn more about how lightning addresses began. 🌆

quoting nevent1q…qvud

With the significant surge in usage of Bitcoin through Lightning Addresses and Nostr zaps and payments, it’s important that we understand how things started and how far we’ve come.

I have a talk at MIT about the Lightning Address protocol soon after I released it. Posting it here for those who may have seen it before.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pNfvWHWhuMg

swiftobjc (npub1hzx…jhe7) Preview of upcoming in-app media attachments feature in Damus. 📺

quoting nevent1q…l2h8

Hi #[0] -
I made this much progress on the Attachment feature today. Please let me know your view



fyi #[1]

stacksatsio (npub10jn…vcrd) stacksats reviews Vida’s excellent onboarding process, which allows users to obtain a username, NIP-05, PFP, ⚡️ wallet, paid relay, and follow list all in one place.

quoting nevent1q…lkt3

Following Vida with great interest!

Imo for new users to enjoy nostr they need a username, NIP05, profile pic, Lightning wallet and paid relays as well as a list of people to follow.

They can get this from 6 places ie client username + NostrPlebs NIP05 + Nostr.Build pfp + WoS wallet + Paid Relay providers + Nostr.directory follow list - or they can get it all from Vida page and then connect to a client.

If I could invite a friend by email/text/telegram/discord message to vida page and have all that setup for them as a service so that they can join nostr with a useable account, it would help accelerate onboarding.

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🏃nostr Relays🏃
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BitcoinJungle (npub14f2…v7lu) BitcoinJungle notes that Damus relay is showing 244 kind=9735 notes (⚡️zap⚡️ notes) since midnight UTC.

quoting nevent1q…u24h

relay.damus.io showing 244 kind=9735 notes since midnight today UTC. Keep going!

npub1vj0wlergmkcs0sz7hfks2ywj555c2s87f40squ4sqcmqpr7897fqn6mfew (npub1vj0…mfew) Nostrich.land paid relay will now broadcast published events it receives in real time to public relays.

quoting nevent1q…rf02

我们的中继已开启广播模式。从现在开始，发布到我们付费中继的事件将被实时广播给世界各地的公开的中继。
Our relay has turned on broadcast mode. From now on, events published to our paid relay will be broadcast in real time to public relays around the world.
https://nostrich.land

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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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awayslice (npub1ejv…6q8x)

quoting nevent1q…y0c8

this is the best thing i have ever made.

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Stay Classy Nostr.