xdamman
Xavier Damman

Dad. Entrepreneur (@opencollective, @commonshub, Citizen Wallet, Storify). Citizen (Citizen Garden, Citizen Corner, Citizen Spring).

Public Key

npub1xsp9fcq340dzaqjctjl7unu3k0c82jdxc350uqym70k8vedzuvdst562dr

NIP-05 Address

_@xavierdamman.com

NIP-57 Address

43c48b@wallet.yakihonne.com

Profile Code

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

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Last Notes

2025-05-07 07:24:26 UTC

Another city. Another forest. Same weekly regen walk.
Gm Bois de Lauzelle in Louvain-La-Neuve.
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2025-05-07 06:16:46 UTC

Don’t miss the newsletter of the @nprofile…c3z3. We need your help to keep this common space in the center of Brussels 🔅
A common is not a startup. It’s a different animal. It’s not about optimizing for performance. It’s about resilience. It’s about creating a regenerative resource that can be used by many different people in the community for different purposes for generations to come.
How does one develop a resilient business model for that?
That’s what we are exploring in this newsletter beautifully written by @nprofile…ylaq.
Plus our upcoming events and an invitation to celebrate with us our 1 year anniversary on Sunday June 1st. Save the date! 🎂 🍰
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2025-05-06 14:41:41 UTC

Nostr needs to embrace web3.
I love bitcoin, but we are shooting ourselves in the foot if we are going to ignore what’s happening on the other side.
We need to embrace stablecoins. People should be able to tip using USDC like on farcaster (or better, using whatever community token they like).

2025-04-30 11:20:11 UTC

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IRL > URL

2025-04-30 10:35:19 UTC

Another great regen walk.
With a unique encounter 🐍 #regenwalk
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2025-04-29 10:42:06 UTC

If you invite me to an event that is not reachable by train from Brussels, my new default answer is “sorry, that’s out of my carbon budget”.

2025-04-26 05:51:58 UTC

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nsec —like private keys— should never ever leave the device / app that generated it.
That should be the default.
What we need is instead a way for people to advertise their list of devices / apps (and update it when needed). This would effectively decentralize your identity across many different nsec.
Then as a follower I can decide what activities I want to follow from you.

2025-04-24 12:01:23 UTC

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Same!

2025-04-23 06:27:06 UTC

Gm Brussels #regenwalk
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2025-04-23 06:25:04 UTC

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I like that. We could implement something like that with the concept of whitelist (verified list). You could also extend that to the level of a user (an organization of one): here are all my verified accounts (devices).

2025-04-20 17:22:01 UTC

"Centralized systems are prone to takeover and abuse. And so that’s what happens. And this is why decentralization and democracy go hand in hand.” https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/the-de-in-decentralization-stands-for-democracy/

2025-04-16 06:25:23 UTC

Gm Brussels. Rain or shine, Wednesday morning is for #regenwalk.
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2025-04-15 16:09:35 UTC

What if it was as easy to create a Nostr Relay as creating a new WhatsApp group?
Each relay would basically be an outbox where you post copies of your signed messages based on the group you want to reach. 📤
You could have a relay for yourself (as a backup and to sync all your devices), multiple public relays for censorship resistant free speech, and a relay for each of the communities you are part of, each with their own access rules.
What do you think? Wouldn’t that help keep Nostr decentralized? Wouldn’t that be easier to implement than group encryption mechanisms (though one doesn’t prevent the other).
Anyone already working on that?
#asknostr
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2025-04-12 06:26:01 UTC

Lots of updates on TxInfo.xyz
- support for combo tags #key:value and #[key:value with spaces]
- live updates
- support for ENS names and avatars
- add a name / picture to your Nostr profile
- easily import your own nsec
You can support the development by making a small donation on Gitcoin before April 17th https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/42161/867/129
(Zapping this note works too, but with Gitcoin your donation will be multiplied by the matching fund dedicated to support digital commons).
Also looking for contributors to add support for bitcoin transactions, filtering by tag and creating a Sankey diagram and other charts using the tags 📊
Would also be good to allow people to only submit metadata to custom relays for privacy (and/or encrypt) 🔐
As a user, I should be able to control with whom I want to share my notes (Google Docs style).
Please tag a developer below this note. 👨‍💻
https://txinfo.xyz
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2025-04-08 07:06:50 UTC

On the train again
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2025-04-02 06:33:42 UTC

Gm Brussels #regenwalk
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2025-03-30 14:40:30 UTC

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Same

2025-03-26 08:32:26 UTC

Gm Brussels. #regenwalk
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2025-03-25 08:48:13 UTC

After the yin fighting for the yin (woke movement), we now have the yang fighting for the yang (maga).
Can’t wait to go through this period to find a new equilibrium on the other side where the yang (competition, the market, performance) can be of service of the yin again (public goods, care, education, beauty) and vice versa ☯️
Till then, be kind to yourself and to each other. Don’t burn out, don’t burn cars neither.

2025-03-22 00:21:11 UTC

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PM here or telegram @xdamman

2025-03-20 07:25:52 UTC

Lots of improvements in the past week on txinfo.xyz.
Add metadata to any blockchain transaction using Nostr.
📝 inline editing with support for #tags and #combo:tag
📑 pagination
🌗 dark mode
🏷️ ENS support (.eth)
📰 Feed of latest contributions on the homepage
🪙 Filter by token
What would you like to see next?
(already working on adding support for bitcoin transactions)
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2025-03-19 07:27:47 UTC

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Nature knows how to regenerate #regenwalk
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2025-03-19 07:20:43 UTC

Gm Brussels
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2025-03-18 22:32:57 UTC

Made my first pull request to improve NIP-73 to be able to use Nostr to annotate any blockchain transaction.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1846
See also https://txinfo.xyz as a proof of concept.

2025-03-18 11:09:46 UTC

Is Swarm App finally giving up?
(I’ve been using this app (formerly known as Foursquare) for 15 years! Best way to journal places I go to.
When a Nostr version?
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2025-03-17 16:52:58 UTC

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Related: general comment on any URI (whether it’s a URL or something else like a book or a blockchain tx)
https://github.com/xdamman/txinfo/issues/1

2025-03-16 11:01:58 UTC

Gm Brussels
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2025-03-14 09:53:37 UTC

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I see. But it’s not because the issuance is centralized that its use is. You wouldn’t want to check with a central authority whether you have the balance you claim you have.
What I could see though is a lightning model for any asset: you stake it and issue IOUs against it that can freely and cheaply move through P2P channels. It seems to be what Spark is trying to do no? https://www.lightspark.com

2025-03-13 22:03:28 UTC

Such a simple and brilliant idea: https://bankr.bot/
Anyone building that for Nostr?

2025-03-13 09:15:24 UTC

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Why would a relay store a transaction that is already confirmed on the blockchain? You mean more like another side chain for stables like lightning for bitcoin? I don’t think that this is strictly necessary in the web3 space of stablecoins. That problem is solved (unlike bitcoin, there is a plethora of side chains already that optimize for speed). What’s not solved is:
1- the metadata layer
2- connecting Nostr to web3 (afaik)
For 1, I just built a prototype for using Nostr as the metadata layer for web3: https://txinfo.xyz
(Work in progress, see also GitHub issue for implementation discussion about it: https://github.com/xdamman/txinfo/issues)
For 2, how could we connect your Nostr nsec to a web3 wallet to move stable coins? Has anyone worked on this yet?

2025-03-12 16:41:29 UTC

Been working on this for the past weeks. Feedback welcome! #askNostr
👉 https://txinfo.xyz
Add metadata to any blockchain address or transaction using Nostr.
In particular, see this first issue regarding the kind to use:
https://github.com/xdamman/txinfo/issues/1
(This is a first prototype, not production ready, use at your own risk)

2025-03-12 07:19:19 UTC

Gm Brussels #regenwalk
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2025-03-11 07:35:25 UTC

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Why this change of kind?

2025-03-08 09:00:10 UTC

Let me contribute.
Civilizations eventually die under the weight of their own administration.
We become so fearful of any abuse, that we end up adding more and more regulations, and new administrations to control their application.
Today, our technical debt —or admin debt— is so big that we have an army of people, paid by our tax money, not to create value but to get in the way of the people who try to.
The first person we had to hire for the @commonshub_bxl is someone who ends up spending half her time doing admin. It’s crazy. Then we also pay an external person to do the accounting. And now someone else, at the administration, is paid to verify that we did it all properly.
One economic transaction, 3 people paid to ensure proper reporting. Crazy.
The only way out: open source everything.
Instead of putting the burden on entrepreneurs, put the burden on the community.
That’s how the Internet grew. eBay, YouTube’s biggest realization was the idea that you should let anyone share. Every friction point should be removed. Instead, enable the community to flag bad behaviors and abuse. Trust by default and empower the community to quickly react whenever needed.
What if our administration would work the same way?
Contributing to society, to the community should be as easy as contributing to Wikipedia.
Let people opt in to start an open source organization. All financial transactions would be open for everyone to see. In exchange, the administration stays out of your way. No paperwork, no reporting. They just send the bill for paying your fair share (also in a transparent way for everyone to see).
I’m not intro entrepreneurship to become rich. I don’t have a car, I stopped flying, I don’t need much. I just want to solve problems, create value, contribute.
Let me contribute.

2025-03-06 15:25:29 UTC

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What kind did you use to link notes to the YouTube video? 1111 with the #I tag?

2025-03-05 08:49:29 UTC

Gm. #regenwalk
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2025-03-05 07:46:56 UTC

Bitcoin is the sun ☀️
Ethereum is the mycelium 🍄

2025-03-05 06:28:29 UTC

Gm 👋
Getaway week outside of Brussels to focus on work. Can’t recommend this place enough. And they accept bitcoin.
👉 https://espacesdor.be
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2025-03-04 17:09:30 UTC

😂
Source: https://x.com/naiivememe/status/1896714185763160360
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2025-03-04 07:23:52 UTC

@nprofile…ulat issue when rendering this note https://primal.net/e/note1a6a7hdn0as7andyptnzs7f5fygw0qlq954nxcyek34txu7ktyeuq6cunv9
A dot after a url in the text breaks the url. Also, I wouldn’t remove the url from the inline text. It messes up the comprehension of it.
#bug #feedback

2025-03-03 22:09:17 UTC

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I have an idea for a small project to get the opportunity to work together (if you are up for it)
I did this side project a few years ago that people keep on using: https://openletter.earth. I think it’s a great candidate for a refactoring using Nostr.
It gets quite a few donations that we can use to pay some development time, see https://opencollective.com/openletter
Lmk if there is any interest. Happy to get on a call to chat more.

2025-03-02 07:08:17 UTC

🇺🇸 US: Yang
🇪🇺 EU: Yin
Yang needs to protect the Yin.
Yin needs to respect the Yang.
Will the US let another Yang (Russia) penetrate the Yin?
Will the EU divorce from the US?
The same natural polarities play out at all levels. ☯️

2025-03-01 16:37:03 UTC

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With that it’s already time to take the train back to Brussels. Thank you to everyone who contributes to maintaining and developing this public infrastructure. Public goods are good!
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2025-03-01 16:35:03 UTC

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Had such a great week in the French Alps with friends (3 dads, 4 kids). So proud of my daughter who is so good on the slopes. It’s getting harder and harder to keep up with her!
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2025-02-26 13:32:29 UTC

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Do you have a developer that knows enough about lightning and Nostr that could help? This could be a concrete project with a concrete outcome: a home for @nprofile…rcml to share transparently their funding and costs.

2025-02-25 20:56:12 UTC

What do Nostrers think of this?
https://paragraph.xyz/@xmtp_community/xmtp-launches-testnet-building-the-worlds-most-secure-decentralized-messaging-network

2025-02-24 06:29:03 UTC

Gm La Rosière
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2025-02-22 21:24:30 UTC

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I wish I could work from here for a month or two. But it’s just not possible when you have kids in the good old school system. And homeschooling feels like too much of an investment. We need something in between.
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2025-02-22 05:33:19 UTC

Holidays are starting. On our way to the Alpes ⛷️
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2025-02-20 07:19:25 UTC

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What about just an incremental nonce per npub (like in web3)?

2025-02-19 07:18:21 UTC

Gm Brussels
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2025-02-18 17:05:58 UTC

My mission: make communities the new base economic unit with their own yin & yang internal economy ☯️
What is your mission?

2025-02-18 08:28:12 UTC

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So Device B needs to sign content with the user level private key? So the only purpose of its own private key is to securely exchange the user level private key?
I like to think of public keys as throw away session ids. Private keys should never leave the device where it has been generated but can rotate. Think of it like IP addresses that can change over time.
My identity should just reference the current valid session IDs (in the same way that it references the current preferred relays). Any valid session can approve a new session (scan QR code of a new device npub).
A session is actually not linked to a device but to a (device,app) pair. So that even a malicious app doesn’t contaminate and jeopardize your identity.
Each session id (npub) could also have a tag, so that you can choose to follow me but only the content that I post from a given app.
To avoid a malicious app to then automatically approve other npubs, we could have sane default rules. Eg. only your first session (high trust) can approve new sessions. Secondary sessions can only take over the primary role if the relay hasn’t heard from that primary key in more than x months.

2025-02-18 08:04:27 UTC

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We should make the release of bitcoin white paper (Oct 31) a worldwide bank holiday. This could be decentralized in the spirit of bitcoin. Every one could just call sick that day. Year after year, as more and more people say they don’t work that day, it will become de facto a bank holiday.

2025-02-18 07:57:44 UTC

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I agree.
But what about hurting people’s feelings? Where do you draw the line?
And what about restricting someone’s freedom, access to resources in so far as you don’t physically hurt them? How can we expect them to not rebel at some point? Who would be to blame then?
Maybe a better version of this could be:
Do whatever the fuck you want as long as others can also do whatever the fuck they want.

2025-02-16 21:28:21 UTC

Is there a long form nostr client yet? This could be a great replacement for RSS and the new Gemini:// protocol.

2025-02-16 09:35:58 UTC

Gm Brussels
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2025-02-13 09:49:07 UTC

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You are right on the poor UX/UI of projects made by developers only. That’s actually a great example of the fact that people cannot properly relate to people’s experience and needs outside of their own community.
Doing more user research can help but it won’t fundamentally change that. It’s just a patch on a broken IDE.
The real fix imho is to immerse yourself in the Environment in which the problem occurs. That way, you can either experience the issue directly yourself, or you have repeat interactions with people who do.
There is a massive difference between fixing something for someone that you will never meet again versus fixing something for someone who is part of your community and that you know will still be around next month.
That’s part of game theory. Very different outcome between one time encounters and repeat encounters.
Classic user research creates an artificial environment where there is limited repeat and emotional attachment to the people being interviewed. It’s a hack. It helps but it doesn’t resonate at the same frequency.

2025-02-12 10:25:18 UTC

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Who are you thinking of?
But yeah I tend to agree.
Doing >>> talking. I’m tired of all the talking. It’s intellectual masturbation.

2025-02-12 10:22:38 UTC

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That’s right. And that’s why the latest person that joined is the one that should have more weight in shaping in the onboarding. Because it’s fresh in their head and they just experienced it.
We should resist the temptation of thinking for others. Doing user research is a trap (Apple famously did not any). We should instead do developer research: how do we enable more people to fix their own issues. Not everybody is a developer but every community has some developers that can relate their issues.

2025-02-12 07:21:06 UTC

Gm Brussels
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2025-02-11 19:29:29 UTC

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The best way to build great software is to experience yourself the core problems you are trying to solve.
Experiencing >>> understanding.

2025-02-11 07:50:51 UTC

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Following this thread as I’m interested in general marketplace implementation on Nostr. How to manage quotes, orders, invoices?

2025-02-10 21:14:07 UTC

I consider myself a liberal. I’m an entrepreneur. I believe we should have the freedom to start new businesses.
But I also consider myself as a leftist as I believe in solidarity.
I don’t see those things as being incompatible. They are two different things in different planes of a multidimensional world.
We are all different, we all have a different talent. Therefore we cannot possibly all have the same opportunity to “make a living” in a single currency, single dimension economic system.
That’s why we are interdependent. That’s why we need solidarity within our communities.
But in the current political landscape, how can you be supporting the left? They are in such disarray and there is no light in sight.
The only thing that unites them is being against Elon and Donald. That’s not really inspiring. When they point at the moon, they look at their fingers. It’s so sad.
I wish there would be a progressive wing in the political landscape, one that will defend diversity, permaculture, and technological progress.
When a solarpunk political movement? ☀️ 🌳 🚲 🌻 🚀

2025-02-08 10:22:01 UTC

Poem of the day.
Words Are Windows (or They’re Walls) by Ruth Bebermeyer
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2025-02-08 10:08:36 UTC

Train time. Great time.
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2025-02-07 19:58:07 UTC

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This won’t age well.

2025-02-07 16:04:53 UTC

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Makes sense in the context of 1:1 relationships. But in the context of broadcasting, you want to know how many people will receive your content and how many actually saw it (like for a newsletter).
That being said, there is something beautiful about not measuring everything. Beauty is not something that can be measured. And since we always end up optimizing for what we measure, we end up with a less beautiful world.

2025-02-07 14:16:36 UTC

Here is my thinking for @npub1hsr…5whg V3. Please poke holes in it. Work in progress and open for feedback. #asknostr
🚀 Mission
Give communities the tools they need to manage their financial and non-financial resources transparently and effectively.
🤔 Why?
We need an Internet native way to organize ourselves (i.e. allocate our common resources) that would embody the open source values of transparency, decentralization and open collaboration.
🧐 Why?
Look at the impact of open source in the past few decades. What if organizations were operating by the same principles? What if we could complete each other instead of competing with each other?
🥇 First use case
Make spending transparent—show how the funds that you receive from the community are used.
Eventually, we want to support more than just financial contributions. We should help communities to:
- Issue and manage different currencies (tokens) to reward people contributing in other ways.
- Make it easy to spend those tokens to access certain resources of the community.
- Transparent decision making (think GitHub Issues for proposals)
🎯 Initial target group
I was thinking to first target open source projects on Gitcoin. But Nostr projects and meetups could also be good candidates if there is a demand. I’d just need help to support lightning ⚡️
Eventually: any association of people with a common resource to develop or protect 👠🔅💪
📦 MVP
- Make on chain transactions human readable by adding metadata (description, tags, pictures, …) using Nostr.
- Connect existing bank accounts to the blockchain (to have an on chain reference for each tx) using PSD2, Ponto, Plaid, …
Imagine if all government spendings were on chain with open annotations. DOGE wouldn’t be needed.
💕 Values
- open source
- decentralized
🎞️ Context / background:
I started opencollective.com 10 years ago. While impactful ($130M raised across 4k+ collectives, including $50M for open source projects), it’s still a drop in the ocean. Current implementation doesn’t scale because it relies on fiscal hosts. Too much bureaucracy. So we moved the current version to a new entity owned by existing fiscal hosts that rely on it.
I’m starting a new Internet native version to scratch my own itch to manage the @npub1t99…skkl. It’s a common physical space in the capital of Europe that many of you have visited during the Nostr Meetup alongside #FOSDEM. We receive money through Stripe, SEPA, but also crypto (including satoshis to commonshub@coinos.io).
We also have our own “yin token” to reward non financial contributions to the community ☯️
🙋🏻‍♂️ Who wants to help?
Looking for developers that are themselves part of a community that could make use of it. Scratching your own itch is the best way to iterate fast 🔁

2025-02-07 09:31:00 UTC

How can a relay avoid being spammed?
Shouldn’t there be an allowance of max 100 free posts per npub and then require one sat per post?
Cheap enough to not deter humans, but expensive enough to avoid AI bots spamming.

2025-02-06 13:58:32 UTC

I changed my mind on inequalities.
I realized that I was against inequalities because it is the politically correct thing to say. Indeed, how can you not be against inequalities when you see super rich people and people on the street?
But when I look at nature, inequality is everywhere. The footprint of an elephant can’t compare to the footprint of an ant 🐜 🐘. Even within the same species, not all individuals have the same access to resources. The trunk has access to more resources than the branches, but the leaves have more access to the sun. ☀️
There is so much wisdom in nature 🌱. It’s the result of millions of iterations to find the right balance ⚖️. And it keeps evolving as the environment changes 🦕.
I want to be more aligned with nature. Learn and take inspiration from it. That’s why I’m now embracing inequalities.
Turns out that inequalities can’t exist without the concept of quantity, which itself cannot exist without a common –human made– unit of measure. 📏
But nature cannot be measured with a single measuring stick. It has a multitude of dimensions. We are nature. We are multidimensional beings.
This made me realize that being against inequality only makes sense in a human society that has reduced everything to a single dimension, incapable of seeing and acknowledging the beauty of life in all its dimensions. 🌈
It’s only when reduce multiple dimensions into one, that you can start comparing, ranking, competing, and that inequalities emerge.
That’s why I’m not against inequalities anymore. I’m just against a world that has been reduced to a single measuring stick, a single currency, a single way to recognize everyone’s contribution.
Once you introduce other dimensions, inequalities become irrelevant. If you take into account someone’s time contribution to your community, then Elon Musk’s billions of dollars don’t matter anymore. He doesn’t have, for example, a single token of the Commons Hub Brussels and he won’t be able to come cowork there.
We all thrive in some dimensions and less so in others. That’s not a bug, it’s a feature. That’s what makes us all interdependent. That’s why we need to collaborate.
Your talent, your contribution is unique and sacred. It can’t be measured with a single measuring stick, it cannot be compared or ranked. Once you accept that, other people’s privileges and inequalities won’t matter as much anymore.
The key is to find the community that can recognize your contribution and that can fulfill your needs. A community that will not force everyone’s contribution to be measured with a single measuring stick as a condition to get access to shelter, food and care.
How can we open our minds and our hearts to many more dimensions? How can we properly recognize and value everyone’s sacred contribution?
Fighting inequalities means that we are de facto accepting to be reduced to a single currency. Let's start new ones and let's make inequalities and privileges obsolete!

2025-02-05 20:49:02 UTC

Full house for the new yearly gathering of crypto communities of Belgium at the @npub1t99…skkl Brussels. #block25
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2025-02-05 09:04:04 UTC

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With the one and only @npub1356…hc92. Give her a big welcome to Nostr! We can all use more yin energy over here 😊

2025-02-05 07:36:46 UTC

Gm Brussels.
Off to our weekly regen walk to stay connected with nature. What a treat to be able to take one metro and go for a walk in the forest.
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2025-02-04 10:08:48 UTC

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Where can I read more about that proposal and the current status?

2025-02-03 19:46:01 UTC

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The needs of the first adopters aren’t the same than the ones of the late ones.
(That’s how couch surfing never became Airbnb.)

2025-02-03 19:25:38 UTC

- What happens when my nsec is compromised?
- You cry
👉 we need a better answer if we want to go mainstream
If there is a way to announce what relays we use, there should be a way to also announce other npub we use (and the ones we revoke). This would make it easy to “add devices” to our Nostr “meta account” and therefore protect it from device/nsec loss (it also removes the need to ever export the nsec which is a big security issue)
Wdyt?

2025-02-03 14:54:45 UTC

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2025-02-02 14:02:43 UTC

Nostr time at #fosdem with @Constant
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2025-01-31 07:46:51 UTC

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Thank you for your work and for communicating openly about this. Sending you love from Brussels.

2025-01-30 15:48:13 UTC

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I understand the intent. But it’s what you want, not what the user wants when you are in between them and performing an action that requires them to create an account 😉
So it’s good to add links to read more for sure (I’d put that in the email), but not make it mandatory reading before proceeding. It will scare people.
It’s all about progressive learning.
Keep up the great work! ❤️

2025-01-30 09:15:18 UTC

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Thank you for your work.
If you are interested to make this user friendly for non Nostr users, I’d recommend hiding all mentions of npub, nsec, etc. behind a more info.
I’d also skip the save the text file step (most non tech people have no idea where to save it and will forget about it). Go straight to the email step and offer an advanced mode.
I’d also skip the follow people step. This entire flow is in the way of me as a user to use the app I wanted to use in the first place. So steps need to be reduced to the strict minimum, unless explicitly asked by the user (eg. advanced mode).
TLDR:
# Sign up 📝
Name
Avatar (ideally, auto generated based on npub with option to upload)
[create account]
# Backup your account 🔐
Email:
Password:
[Continue]
👉 default should be creating a bunker and sending the bunker code along with the nsec by email. I’d refer to them as PIN and PUK to tap into something that people already know.
Skip (manual backup)
👉 give people the ability to save the file and choose to create a bunker or not
# Success! 🎉
- Learn more about Nostr
- Discover accounts to follow
[continue]

2025-01-30 07:14:03 UTC

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It’s like building a symphony together. There are different movements and there is a moment for each. We are just coordinating to make the music flow. Enjoy the dance.

2025-01-30 07:10:06 UTC

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Interested to work with you on how to properly allocate those funds in a transparent and open source way for fast feedback and iteration.
You in Brussels for #fosdem?
/cc @npub1wmr…g240

2025-01-29 07:25:27 UTC

Gm Brussels.
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2025-01-24 22:56:48 UTC

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Here is the right link to RSVP: https://lu.ma/37ujzkvy

2025-01-22 09:41:58 UTC

Gm Paris.
Love this new slow Brussels-Paris train (2h45) for only €25 🚊.
You can book last minute without it costing you a leg. And you have plenty of time to read and slow down, reflect, think. Recommend!
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2025-01-18 14:16:14 UTC

Be your cells

2025-01-18 11:39:28 UTC

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Yes. I’m organizing :-)

2025-01-15 07:13:15 UTC

Gm Brussels.
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2025-01-10 07:51:07 UTC

I used to fight inequalities. It sounds great but I came to realize that it makes no sense.
Inequality is everywhere in nature.
We need to embrace nature.
We need to embrace inequality.
We are only unequal if you compare us on a single dimension (usually money). But we are multidimensional beings.
So being against inequality only makes sense in a world that has been reduced to money, incapable of seeing and acknowledging the beauty of life in all its dimensions.
So I’m not fighting inequalities anymore. I’m fighting a world that has been reduced to a single currency, a single way to contribute to gain capital.