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## [Edit] I tried to get the slides and an audio file, from Constant's talk at NostRiga, about 8 months ago # 1. ### Nostr's adoption thesis ### The less you define, the more you imply ### by Wouter Constant ## 2. ### Dutch Bitcoiner ### AntiHashedPodcast ### Writing Book about nostr 00:40 ## 3. ### What this presentation about ### A protocols design includes initself a thesis ### on protocol adoption, due to underlying assumptions 1:17 ## 4. ### Examples ### Governments/Academic: Pubhubs (Matrix) ### Bussiness: Bluesky ### Foss: Nostr 1:58 ## 5. ### What constitutes minimal viability? ### Pubhubs (Matrix): make is "safe" for user ### Bluesky: liability and monetization ### Foss: Simpel for developer 4:03 ## 6. ### The Point of Nostr ### Capture network effects through interoperability 4:43 ## 7. ## Three assumptions ### The direction is workable ### Method is workable ### Motivation and means are sufficient 5:27 ## 8. ## Assumption 1 ### The asymmetric cryptography paradigm is a good idea 6:16 ## 9. ### Nostr is a exponent of the key-pair paradigm. ### And Basicly just that. 6.52 ## 10. ### Keys suck ### Protect a secret that you are supposed use all the time. 7:37 ## 11. ## Assumption two ### The unaddressed things will be figured out within a 'meta-design consensus' 8:11 ## 12. ### Nostr's base protocol is not minimally viable for anything, except own development. 8:25 ## 13. ### Complexity leads to capture; ### i.e. free and open in the name, ### controlled in pratice 9:54 ## 14. ## Meta-design consensus ### Buildings things 'note centric' mantains interoperability. 11:51 ## 15. ## Assumption three ### the nightmare is scary; ### the cream is appealing. 12:41 ## 16. ### Get it minimally viable, ### for whatever target, ### such that it is not a waste of time. 13:23 ## 17. ## Summarize ### We are in a nightmare. ### Assume key/signature are the way out. ### Assume we can Maintain an open stardand while manifesting the dream. ### Assume we are motivated enought to bootstrap this to adulthood. 14:01 ## 18. ### We want this, ### we can do this, ### because we have to. 14:12 ## Thank you for contribuiting [Edit] Note for audio presentation nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqkfzjh8jkzd8l9247sadku6vhm52snhgjtknlyeku6sfkeqn5rdeqyf8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvw5hxkef0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qpqqqq6fdnhvp95gqf4k3vxmljh87uvjezpepyt222jl2267q857uwqz7gcke

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**Summary** We are looking for a Visual Designer with a strong focus on illustration and animation to help shape and refine our brand’s visual identity. You will create compelling assets for digital and print, including marketing materials, social media content, website illustrations, and motion graphics. Working closely with our marketing and product teams, you will play a key role in developing a consistent and recognizable visual style through thoughtful use of illustration, color, patterns, and animation. This role requires creativity, adaptability, and the ability to deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced, remote environment. **Responsibilities** - Create high-quality, iconic illustrations, branding assets, and motion graphics that contribute to and refine our visual identity. - Develop digital assets for marketing, social media, website, and app. - Work within brand guidelines while exploring ways to evolve and strengthen our visual style. **Requirements** - 2+ years of experience in graphic design, with a strong focus on illustration. - Ability to help define and develop a cohesive visual style for the brand. - Proficiency in Adobe products. - Experience with Figma is a plus. - Strong organizational skills—your layers and files should be neatly labeled. - Clear communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with the team. - Located in LATAM Please attach a link to your portfolio to showcase your work when applying. [APPLY HERE](https://jan3.com/contact/) originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/935007

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//// <<YAML>> title: 'A Testfile for Markdown' tags: - ['image', 'https://blog.ronin.cloud/content/images/size/w2000/2022/02/markdown.png'] - ['l', 'en, ISO-639-1'] - ['reading-direction', 'left-to-right, top-to-bottom'] - ['t', 'testfile'] - ['summary', 'This article contains lots of different markup/Markdown tags. You can use this to check the rendering on your client.'] <<YAML>> //// # Markdown: Syntax * [Overview](#overview) * [Philosophy](#philosophy) * [Inline HTML](#html) * [Automatic Escaping for Special Characters](#autoescape) * [Block Elements](#block) * [Paragraphs and Line Breaks](#p) * [Headers](#header) * [Blockquotes](#blockquote) * [Lists](#list) * [Code Blocks](#precode) * [Horizontal Rules](#hr) * [Span Elements](#span) * [Links](#link) * [Emphasis](#em) * [Code](#code) * [Images](#img) * [Miscellaneous](#misc) * [Backslash Escapes](#backslash) * [Automatic Links](#autolink) **Note:** This document is itself written using Markdown; you can [see the source for it by adding '.text' to the URL](/projects/markdown/syntax.text). ---- ## Overview ### Philosophy Markdown is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible. Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While Markdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters -- including [Setext](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html), [atx](http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/), [Textile](http://textism.com/tools/textile/), [reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html), [Grutatext](http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html), and [EtText](http://ettext.taint.org/doc/) -- the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown's syntax is the format of plain text email. ## Block Elements ### Paragraphs and Line Breaks A paragraph is simply one or more consecutive lines of text, separated by one or more blank lines. (A blank line is any line that looks like a blank line -- a line containing nothing but spaces or tabs is considered blank.) Normal paragraphs should not be indented with spaces or tabs. The implication of the "one or more consecutive lines of text" rule is that Markdown supports "hard-wrapped" text paragraphs. This differs significantly from most other text-to-HTML formatters (including Movable Type's "Convert Line Breaks" option) which translate every line break character in a paragraph into a `<br />` tag. When you *do* want to insert a `<br />` break tag using Markdown, you end a line with two or more spaces, then type return. ### Headers Markdown supports two styles of headers, [Setext] [1] and [atx] [2]. Optionally, you may "close" atx-style headers. This is purely cosmetic -- you can use this if you think it looks better. The closing hashes don't even need to match the number of hashes used to open the header. (The number of opening hashes determines the header level.) ### Blockquotes Markdown uses email-style `>` characters for blockquoting. If you're familiar with quoting passages of text in an email message, then you know how to create a blockquote in Markdown. It looks best if you hard wrap the text and put a `>` before every line: > This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, > consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. > Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. > > Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse > id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. Markdown allows you to be lazy and only put the `>` before the first line of a hard-wrapped paragraph: > This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. > Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. Blockquotes can be nested (i.e. a blockquote-in-a-blockquote) by adding additional levels of `>`: > This is the first level of quoting. > > > This is nested blockquote. > > Back to the first level. Blockquotes can contain other Markdown elements, including headers, lists, and code blocks: > ## This is a header. > > 1. This is the first list item. > 2. This is the second list item. > > Here's some example code: > > return shell_exec("echo $input | $markdown_script"); Any decent text editor should make email-style quoting easy. For example, with BBEdit, you can make a selection and choose Increase Quote Level from the Text menu. ### Lists Markdown supports ordered (numbered) and unordered (bulleted) lists. Unordered lists use asterisks, pluses, and hyphens -- interchangably -- as list markers: * Red * Green * Blue is equivalent to: + Red + Green + Blue and: - Red - Green - Blue Ordered lists use numbers followed by periods: 1. Bird 2. McHale 3. Parish It's important to note that the actual numbers you use to mark the list have no effect on the HTML output Markdown produces. The HTML Markdown produces from the above list is: If you instead wrote the list in Markdown like this: 1. Bird 1. McHale 1. Parish or even: 3. Bird 1. McHale 8. Parish you'd get the exact same HTML output. The point is, if you want to, you can use ordinal numbers in your ordered Markdown lists, so that the numbers in your source match the numbers in your published HTML. But if you want to be lazy, you don't have to. To make lists look nice, you can wrap items with hanging indents: * Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. * Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. But if you want to be lazy, you don't have to: * Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. * Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. List items may consist of multiple paragraphs. Each subsequent paragraph in a list item must be indented by either 4 spaces or one tab: 1. This is a list item with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. Donec sit amet nisl. Aliquam semper ipsum sit amet velit. 2. Suspendisse id sem consectetuer libero luctus adipiscing. It looks nice if you indent every line of the subsequent paragraphs, but here again, Markdown will allow you to be lazy: * This is a list item with two paragraphs. This is the second paragraph in the list item. You're only required to indent the first line. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. * Another item in the same list. To put a blockquote within a list item, the blockquote's `>` delimiters need to be indented: * A list item with a blockquote: > This is a blockquote > inside a list item. To put a code block within a list item, the code block needs to be indented *twice* -- 8 spaces or two tabs: * A list item with a code block: <code goes here> ### Code Blocks Pre-formatted code blocks are used for writing about programming or markup source code. Rather than forming normal paragraphs, the lines of a code block are interpreted literally. Markdown wraps a code block in both `<pre>` and `<code>` tags. To produce a code block in Markdown, simply indent every line of the block by at least 4 spaces or 1 tab. This is a normal paragraph: This is a code block. 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To create an inline link, use a set of regular parentheses immediately after the link text's closing square bracket. Inside the parentheses, put the URL where you want the link to point, along with an *optional* title for the link, surrounded in quotes. For example: This is [an example](http://example.com/) inline link. [This link](http://example.net/) has no title attribute. ### Emphasis Markdown treats asterisks (`*`) and underscores (`_`) as indicators of emphasis. Text wrapped with one `*` or `_` will be wrapped with an HTML `<em>` tag; double `*`'s or `_`'s will be wrapped with an HTML `<strong>` tag. E.g., this input: *single asterisks* _single underscores_ **double asterisks** __double underscores__ ### Code To indicate a span of code, wrap it with backtick quotes (`` ` ``). Unlike a pre-formatted code block, a code span indicates code within a normal paragraph. For example: Use the `printf()` function.

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**Location:** Remote (Austria) **Area:** Graphics and communication design **Pay:** 37,500 € to 50,000 € / year Hi! We are @21bitcoinApp - a Bitcoin-Only Investment app that aims to accelerate the transition to an economy driven by Bitcoin. 👋 About the role As a passionate graphic designer, you support our marketing team in creating graphics and designs for print documents, online advertising material and our website. You also support us in the area of social media and content management and can also contribute your skills in these subject areas. **tasks** - Design and implementation of creative and congruent designs for social media channels, websites, templates and marketing materials - Creation of individual content (posts, stories, banners, ads) for social media - Planning and development of campaigns to strengthen the brand presence - Further development of the existing corporate design support in the area of content management (website, blog) **qualification** - Completed training or studies in graphic design - At least 2 years of experience in graphic design, preferably with experience in the areas of social media and content management - Safe use of design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite - Experience in creating social media content and maintaining channels - Creativity, good communication skills and team spirit - Very good knowledge of German and English - Knowledge of Bitcoin is desirable **Benefits** - Offsites with the team in exciting places - Flexible working hours in a company that relies on remote work - Help shape the future - to make the world a better place by helping to speed up Bitcoin's adaptation - Buy Bitcoin without fees! 21 Premium! - Gross annual salary & potential share options for outstanding performance / bonus payments **📝 Interview process** _How do I apply?_ Please send us an email and add some information about you, your resume, examples of previous projects and a few key points about why you are interested in participating in 21bitcoin and what you expect. By the way: CVs are important but don't forget to include your favorite Bitcoin meme in the application! _⁇ 京 Resume Review_ Portfolio of Work: Add a link to your portfolio / previous work or resume that we can review (LinkedIn, Github, Twitter, ...) _📞 Exploratory call_ We discuss what appeals to you about this role and ask you a few questions about your previous experiences _👬 On-Site Deep Dive_ During the deep dive session, we use a case study or extensive interview to discuss the specific skills required for the role. _👍 Time for a decision!_ [APPLY HERE](https://join.com/companies/21bitcoin/13877001-grafikdesigner) originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/935004

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## Details - 🍳 Cook time: 1 hour and 15 minutes ## Ingredients - 1 cup dried red lentils - (2) 25-ounce jars marinara sauce - 1 cup raw cashews - 14.5 ounce firm tofu (patted dry) - ½ cup nutritional yeast - 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (from about 2 lemons) - 1 teaspoon salt - 1 teaspoon dried basil - 1 teaspoon oregano - ½ teaspoon garlic powder - 3 cups baby spinach - 1 box lasagna noodles (about 12 noodles) (regular, gluten free or whole grain) - Double recipe Easy Vegan Mozzarella Cheese (or 2-3 cups shredded vegan mozzarella) ## Directions 1. lentilsCook the red lentils . Add 1 cup dried red lentils and 3 cups of water to a medium pot. Bring to a boil, and then simmer for about 20 minutes. Drain the lentils in a fine strainer, and then add back to the pot and stir in the marinara sauce . Set aside. 2. ovenPreheat the oven to 350 degrees . 3. Make the Cashew-Tofu Ricotta: Add the cashews to a food processor and process until fine and crumbly. Then add the tofu in chunks, nutritional yeast , lemon juice , salt , basil , oregano and garlic powder to the food processor. Pulse until well combined and pretty smooth. If it's too thick, add a few tablespoons of water to blend. Set aside. 4. LasagnaAssembling the lasagna: Add about 1 cup of lentil marinara to the bottom of a large 9x13 inch casserole dish. Spread it around evenly. Next add 4-5 lasagna noodles (uncooked). Spread half of the ricotta on top of the noodles . Top with half of the spinach . Add about 1 cup of the marinara sauce over the spinach , then place 4-5 lasagna noodles on top. Spread the rest of the ricotta over the noodles , then the rest of the spinach . Place 4-5 more noodles on top of the spinach , and then pour the rest of the sauce over the top, evenly. 5. LasagnaCover tightly with foil and bake for 40 minutes. 6. MozzarellaWhile the lasagna is cooking, make your Vegan Mozzarella Cheese , if using. Alternatively, use 2-3 cups store bought vegan mozzarella cheese . 7. LasagnaAfter 40 minutes, remove the foil and spoon on the mozzarella (or sprinkle the cheese all over). Place the lasagna back in the oven and bake for 20 more minutes, uncovered. Remove from oven, let cool for at least 15 minutes and serve.

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We’re looking for a Product Designer to join our team and take the lead in enhancing the experience of our mobile app. You’ll play a key role in evolving the app’s interface and interactions, ensuring that our solutions are intuitive, efficient, and aligned with both user needs and business goals. **Key Responsibilities:** - Design and improve the @Bipa app experience, focusing on usability and measurable business impact. - Apply data-driven design, making decisions based on user research, metrics, and testing. - Lead and participate in usability tests and discovery processes to validate hypotheses and continuously improve the product. - Collaborate closely with Product Managers, developers, and other stakeholders to align design with product strategy. - Create wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and visual interfaces for new features and app optimizations. - Monitor the performance of delivered solutions, ensuring meaningful improvements for users and the business. - Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of our design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across the app. **Qualifications:** - Previous experience as a Product Designer or UX/UI Designer, with a strong focus on mobile apps. - Solid understanding of user-centered design (UCD) principles and usability heuristics. - Hands-on experience with user research methods, including usability testing, interviews, and behavior analysis. - Ability to work with both quantitative and qualitative data to guide design decisions. - Familiarity with product metrics and how design impacts business outcomes (e.g. conversion, retention, engagement). - Proficiency in design tools like Figma (or similar). - Experience working with design systems and design tokens to ensure consistency. - Comfortable working in an agile, fast-paced, and iterative environment. - Strong communication skills and the ability to advocate for design decisions backed by research and data. **Benefits:** 🏥 Health Insurance 💉 Dental Plan 🍽️ Meal Allowance (CAJU card) 💻 Home Office Stipend 📈 Stock Options from Day One [APPLY TO THIS JOB](https://bipa.inhire.app/vagas/14e45e99-2f7a-4a91-8f81-22393a3b7285/product-designer) originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/935003

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### ⚡️ About Us @AdoptingBTC is the leading Bitcoin-only conference in El Salvador. For our 5th edition, we’re looking for a passionate Video Creator intern to help showcase Bitcoin’s future as MONEY. ### ⚡️ The Role Create 30 short (3-minute or less) videos highlighting global circular economies, to be featured at AB25. We’ll provide all source material, direction, and inspiration—you’ll have full creative freedom, with feedback rounds to align with the conference’s vision. ### ⚡️ Responsibilities Produce 30 short videos on circular economies. Incorporate subtitles as needed. Submit videos on a deliverables basis. Participate in check-ins and communicate with the AB team and circular economy communities. ### ⚡️ What We Offer Free ticket to AB25. Networking with Bitcoiners and industry leaders. Letter of recommendation and LinkedIn endorsement upon completion. Mentorship and hands-on experience with a high-profile Bitcoin project. ### ⚡️ Skills & Qualifications Passion for Bitcoin and circular economies. Basic to intermediate video editing skills (no specific software required). Creative independence with feedback. Portfolio or work samples preferred. ### ⚡️ Time Commitment Flexible, project-based internship with check-ins and feedback rounds. ### ⚡️ How to Apply Email kiki@adoptingbitcoin.org with subject “Circular Economy Video Creator Submission - `{NAME OR NYM}`.” Include a brief background, your experience, why the project resonates with you, and a portfolio (if available). originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/935001

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*Zwei mal drei macht vier,* *\ widewidewitt und drei macht neune,* *\ ich mach mir die Welt,* *\ widewide wie sie mir gefällt.* *\ Pippi Langstrumpf* &#x20; **Egal, ob Koalitionsverhandlungen oder politischer Alltag:** Die Kontroversen zwischen theoretisch verschiedenen Parteien verschwinden, wenn es um den Kampf gegen politische Gegner mit [Rückenwind](https://transition-news.org/warum-die-politische-landschaft-einen-rechtsruck-erlebt) geht. Wer den Alteingesessenen die Pfründe ernsthaft streitig machen könnte, gegen den werden nicht nur «Brandmauern» errichtet, sondern der wird notfalls auch strafrechtlich verfolgt. Doppelstandards sind dabei selbstverständlich inklusive. **In Frankreich ist diese Woche Marine Le Pen wegen der Veruntreuung von EU-Geldern** von einem Gericht verurteilt worden. Als Teil der Strafe wurde sie für fünf Jahre vom passiven Wahlrecht ausgeschlossen. Obwohl das Urteil nicht rechtskräftig ist – Le Pen kann in Berufung gehen –, haben die Richter das Verbot, bei Wahlen anzutreten, mit sofortiger Wirkung verhängt. Die Vorsitzende des rechtsnationalen Rassemblement National (RN) galt als aussichtsreiche Kandidatin für die Präsidentschaftswahl 2027. **Das ist in diesem Jahr bereits der zweite gravierende Fall von Wahlbeeinflussung** durch die Justiz in einem EU-Staat. In Rumänien hatte Călin Georgescu im November die erste Runde der Präsidentenwahl überraschend gewonnen. Das Ergebnis wurde später annulliert, die behauptete «russische Wahlmanipulation» konnte jedoch nicht bewiesen werden. Die Kandidatur für die [Wahlwiederholung](https://transition-news.org/rumanische-prasidentenwahlen-weitere-ungereimtheiten-kandidatenfeld-fix) im Mai wurde Georgescu kürzlich durch das Verfassungsgericht untersagt. **Die Veruntreuung öffentlicher Gelder muss untersucht und geahndet werden,** das steht außer Frage. Diese Anforderung darf nicht selektiv angewendet werden. Hingegen mussten wir in der Vergangenheit bei ungleich schwerwiegenderen Fällen von (mutmaßlichem) Missbrauch ganz andere Vorgehensweisen erleben, etwa im Fall der heutigen EZB-Chefin Christine [Lagarde](https://archive.is/20ZFq) oder im [«Pfizergate»](https://transition-news.org/pfizergate-klage-gegen-von-der-leyen-in-luttich-als-unzulassig-erklart)-Skandal um die Präsidentin der EU-Kommission Ursula von der Leyen. **Wenngleich derartige Angelegenheiten formal auf einer rechtsstaatlichen Grundlage beruhen mögen,** so bleibt ein bitterer Beigeschmack. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob und inwieweit die Justiz politisch instrumentalisiert wird. Dies ist umso interessanter, als die Gewaltenteilung einen essenziellen Teil jeder demokratischen Ordnung darstellt, während die Bekämpfung des politischen Gegners mit juristischen Mitteln gerade bei den am lautesten rufenden Verteidigern «unserer Demokratie» populär zu sein scheint. **Die Delegationen von CDU/CSU und SPD haben bei ihren Verhandlungen** über eine Regierungskoalition genau solche Maßnahmen diskutiert. «Im Namen der Wahrheit und der Demokratie» möchte man noch härter gegen «Desinformation» vorgehen und dafür zum Beispiel den Digital Services Act der EU erweitern. Auch soll der Tatbestand der Volksverhetzung verschärft werden – und im Entzug des passiven Wahlrechts münden können. Auf europäischer Ebene würde Friedrich Merz wohl gerne Ungarn das [Stimmrecht](https://transition-news.org/die-zeit-ist-reif-orban-zu-bestrafen-sagt-deutschlands-nachste-regierung) entziehen. **Der Pegel an Unzufriedenheit und Frustration wächst** in großen Teilen der Bevölkerung kontinuierlich. Arroganz, Machtmissbrauch und immer abstrusere Ausreden für offensichtlich willkürliche Maßnahmen werden kaum verhindern, dass den etablierten Parteien die Unterstützung entschwindet. In Deutschland sind die [Umfrageergebnisse](https://archive.is/kf4Tk) der AfD ein guter Gradmesser dafür. *\[Vorlage Titelbild:* *[Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/de/illustrations/gesetz-gerechtigkeit-flagge-europa-6598281/)]* *** Dieser Beitrag wurde mit dem [Pareto-Client](https://pareto.space/read) geschrieben und ist zuerst auf ***[Transition News](https://transition-news.org/wird-politische-justiz-zu-einer-demokratischen-tugend)*** erschienen.

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**Spanien bleibt einer der Vorreiter im europäischen Prozess der totalen Überwachung** per Digitalisierung. Seit Mittwoch ist dort der digitale Personalausweis verfügbar. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Regierungs-[App](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.gob.interior.policia.midni), die auf dem Smartphone installiert werden muss und in den Stores von Google und Apple zu finden ist. Per Dekret von Regierungschef Pedro Sánchez und Zustimmung des Ministerrats ist diese Maßnahme jetzt [in Kraft](https://archive.is/89H4i) getreten. **Mit den üblichen Argumenten der Vereinfachung,** des Komforts, der Effizienz und der Sicherheit preist das Innenministerium die «Innovation» an. Auch die Beteuerung, dass die digitale Variante parallel zum physischen Ausweis existieren wird und diesen nicht ersetzen soll, fehlt nicht. Während der ersten zwölf Monate wird «der Neue» noch nicht für alle Anwendungsfälle gültig sein, ab 2026 aber schon. **Dass die ganze Sache auch «Risiken und Nebenwirkungen» haben könnte,** wird in den Mainstream-Medien eher selten thematisiert. Bestenfalls wird der Aspekt der Datensicherheit angesprochen, allerdings in der Regel direkt mit dem Regierungsvokabular von den «maximalen Sicherheitsgarantien» abgehandelt. Dennoch gibt es einige weitere Aspekte, die Bürger mit etwas Sinn für Privatsphäre bedenken sollten. **Um sich die digitale Version des nationalen Ausweises besorgen zu können** (eine App mit dem Namen MiDNI), muss man sich vorab online [registrieren](https://www.midni.gob.es). Dabei wird die Identität des Bürgers mit seiner mobilen Telefonnummer verknüpft. Diese obligatorische fixe Verdrahtung kennen wir von diversen anderen Apps und Diensten. Gleichzeitig ist das die Basis für eine perfekte Lokalisierbarkeit der Person. **Für jeden Vorgang der Identifikation in der Praxis wird später** «eine Verbindung zu den Servern der Bundespolizei aufgebaut». Die Daten des Individuums werden «in Echtzeit» verifiziert und im Erfolgsfall von der Polizei signiert zurückgegeben. Das Ergebnis ist ein QR-Code mit zeitlich begrenzter Gültigkeit, der an Dritte weitergegeben werden kann. **Bei derartigen Szenarien sträuben sich einem halbwegs kritischen Staatsbürger die Nackenhaare.** Allein diese minimale Funktionsbeschreibung lässt die totale Überwachung erkennen, die damit ermöglicht wird. Jede Benutzung des Ausweises wird künftig registriert, hinterlässt also Spuren. Und was ist, wenn die Server der Polizei einmal kein grünes Licht geben? Das wäre spätestens dann ein Problem, wenn der digitale doch irgendwann der einzig gültige Ausweis ist: Dann haben wir den abschaltbaren Bürger. **Dieser neue Vorstoß der Regierung von Pedro Sánchez ist ein weiterer Schritt** in Richtung der [«totalen Digitalisierung»](https://archive.is/Gwc4B) des Landes, wie diese Politik in manchen Medien – nicht einmal kritisch, sondern sehr naiv – genannt wird. Ebenso verharmlosend wird auch erwähnt, dass sich das spanische Projekt des digitalen Ausweises nahtlos in die Initiativen der EU zu einer digitalen Identität für alle Bürger sowie des digitalen Euro einreiht. **In Zukunft könnte der neue Ausweis** «auch in andere staatliche und private digitale Plattformen integriert werden», wie das Medienportal *Cope* ganz richtig bemerkt. Das ist die Perspektive. *\[Titelbild:* *[Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/de/photos/liebe-love-herz-rose-bindung-3141742/)]* *Dazu passend:* [Nur Abschied vom Alleinfahren? Monströse spanische Überwachungsprojekte gemäß EU-Norm](https://pareto.space/a/naddr1qqxnzde5xg6r2wphxscryvpjqgs2jhrzgwzvvzgz42kfmef2kr7w8x573k4r62c5ydjh8gyn6dz4ytqrqsqqqa28fq5d4m) *** Dieser Beitrag wurde mit dem [Pareto-Client](https://pareto.space/read) geschrieben und ist zuerst auf ***[Transition News](https://transition-news.org/spanien-erneut-europaisches-versuchslabor-der-digitale-ausweis-ist-da)*** erschienen.

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The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five-dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face -- miles and miles of face -- of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole. Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough. So Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share in the glory that was Multivac's. For decades, Multivac had helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the Moon, Mars, and Venus, but past that, Earth's poor resources could not support the ships. Too much energy was needed for the long trips. Earth exploited its coal and uranium with increasing efficiency, but there was only so much of both. But slowly Multivac learned enough to answer deeper questions more fundamentally, and on May 14, 2061, what had been theory, became fact. The energy of the sun was stored, converted, and utilized directly on a planet-wide scale. All Earth turned off its burning coal, its fissioning uranium, and flipped the switch that connected all of it to a small station, one mile in diameter, circling the Earth at half the distance of the Moon. All Earth ran by invisible beams of sunpower. Seven days had not sufficed to dim the glory of it and Adell and Lupov finally managed to escape from the public functions, and to meet in quiet where no one would think of looking for them, in the deserted underground chambers, where portions of the mighty buried body of Multivac showed. Unattended, idling, sorting data with contented lazy clickings, Multivac, too, had earned its vacation and the boys appreciated that. They had no intention, originally, of disturbing it. They had brought a bottle with them, and their only concern at the moment was to relax in the company of each other and the bottle. "It's amazing when you think of it," said Adell. His broad face had lines of weariness in it, and he stirred his drink slowly with a glass rod, watching the cubes of ice slur clumsily about. "All the energy we can possibly ever use for free. Enough energy, if we wanted to draw on it, to melt all Earth into a big drop of impure liquid iron, and still never miss the energy so used. All the energy we could ever use, forever and forever and forever." Lupov cocked his head sideways. He had a trick of doing that when he wanted to be contrary, and he wanted to be contrary now, partly because he had had to carry the ice and glassware. "Not forever," he said. "Oh, hell, just about forever. Till the sun runs down, Bert." "That's not forever." "All right, then. Billions and billions of years. Ten billion, maybe. Are you satisfied?" Lupov put his fingers through his thinning hair as though to reassure himself that some was still left and sipped gently at his own drink. "Ten billion years isn't forever." "Well, it will last our time, won't it?" "So would the coal and uranium." "All right, but now we can hook up each individual spaceship to the Solar Station, and it can go to Pluto and back a million times without ever worrying about fuel. You can't do that on coal and uranium. Ask Multivac, if you don't believe me. "I don't have to ask Multivac. I know that." "Then stop running down what Multivac's done for us," said Adell, blazing up, "It did all right." "Who says it didn't? What I say is that a sun won't last forever. That's all I'm saying. We're safe for ten billion years, but then what?" Lupow pointed a slightly shaky finger at the other. "And don't say we'll switch to another sun." There was silence for a while. Adell put his glass to his lips only occasionally, and Lupov's eyes slowly closed. They rested. Then Lupov's eyes snapped open. "You're thinking we'll switch to another sun when ours is done, aren't you?" "I'm not thinking." "Sure you are. You're weak on logic, that's the trouble with you. You're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and who ran to a grove of trees and got under one. He wasn't worried, you see, because he figured when one tree got wet through, he would just get under another one." "I get it," said Adell. "Don't shout. When the sun is done, the other stars will be gone, too." "Darn right they will," muttered Lupov. "It all had a beginning in the original cosmic explosion, whatever that was, and it'll all have an end when all the stars run down. Some run down faster than others. Hell, the giants won't last a hundred million years. The sun will last ten billion years and maybe the dwarfs will last two hundred billion for all the good they are. But just give us a trillion years and everything will be dark. Entropy has to increase to maximum, that's all." "I know all about entropy," said Adell, standing on his dignity. "The hell you do." "I know as much as you do." "Then you know everything's got to run down someday." "All right. Who says they won't?" "You did, you poor sap. You said we had all the energy we needed, forever. You said 'forever.' It was Adell's turn to be contrary. "Maybe we can build things up again someday," he said. "Never." "Why not? Someday." "Never." "Ask Multivac." "You ask Multivac. I dare you. Five dollars says it can't be done." Adell was just drunk enough to try, just sober enough to be able to phrase the necessary symbols and operations into a question which, in words, might have corresponded to this: Will mankind one day without the net expenditure of energy be able to restore the sun to its full youthfulness even after it had died of old age? Or maybe it could be put more simply like this: How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased? Multivac fell dead and silent. The slow flashing of lights ceased, the distant sounds of clicking relays ended. Then, just as the frightened technicians felt they could hold their breath no longer, there was a sudden springing to life of the teletype attached to that portion of Multivac. Five words were printed: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER. "No bet," whispered Lupov. They left hurriedly. By next morning, the two, plagued with throbbing head and cottony mouth, had forgotten the incident. 🔹 Jerrodd, Jerrodine, and Jerrodette I and II watched the starry picture in the visiplate change as the passage through hyperspace was completed in its non-time lapse. At once, the even powdering of stars gave way to the predominance of a single bright shining disk, the size of a marble, centered on the viewing-screen. "That's X-23," said Jerrodd confidently. His thin hands clamped tightly behind his back and the knuckles whitened. The little Jerrodettes, both girls, had experienced the hyperspace passage for the first time in their lives and were self-conscious over the momentary sensation of insideoutness. They buried their giggles and chased one another wildly about their mother, screaming, "We've reached X-23 -- we've reached X-23 -- we've --" "Quiet, children." said Jerrodine sharply. "Are you sure, Jerrodd?" "What is there to be but sure?" asked Jerrodd, glancing up at the bulge of featureless metal just under the ceiling. It ran the length of the room, disappearing through the wall at either end. It was as long as the ship. Jerrodd scarcely knew a thing about the thick rod of metal except that it was called a Microvac, that one asked it questions if one wished; that if one did not it still had its task of guiding the ship to a preordered destination; of feeding on energies from the various Sub-galactic Power Stations; of computing the equations for the hyperspatial jumps. Jerrodd and his family had only to wait and live in the comfortable residence quarters of the ship. Someone had once told Jerrodd that the "ac" at the end of "Microvac" stood for ''automatic computer" in ancient English, but he was on the edge of forgetting even that. Jerrodine's eyes were moist as she watched the visiplate. "I can't help it. I feel funny about leaving Earth." "Why, for Pete's sake?" demanded Jerrodd. "We had nothing there. We'll have everything on X-23. You won't be alone. You won't be a pioneer. There are over a million people on the planet already. Good Lord, our great-grandchildren will be looking for new worlds because X-23 will be overcrowded." Then, after a reflective pause, "I tell you, it's a lucky thing the computers worked out interstellar travel the way the race is growing." "I know, I know," said Jerrodine miserably. Jerrodette I said promptly, "Our Microvac is the best Microvac in the world." "I think so, too," said Jerrodd, tousling her hair. It was a nice feeling to have a Microvac of your own and Jerrodd was glad he was part of his generation and no other. In his father's youth, the only computers had been tremendous machines taking up a hundred square miles of land. There was only one to a planet. Planetary ACs they were called. They had been growing in size steadily for a thousand years and then, all at once, came refinement. In place of transistors, had come molecular valves so that even the largest Planetary AC could be put into a space only half the volume of a spaceship. Jerrodd felt uplifted, as he always did when he thought that his own personal Microvac was many times more complicated than the ancient and primitive Multivac that had first tamed the Sun, and almost as complicated as Earth's Planetarv AC (the largest) that had first solved the problem of hyperspatial travel and had made trips to the stars possible. "So many stars, so many planets," sighed Jerrodine, busy with her own thoughts. "I suppose families will be going out to new planets forever, the way we are now." "Not forever," said Jerrodd, with a smile. "It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase. "What's entropy, daddy?" shrilled Jerrodette II. "Entropy, little sweet, is just a word which means the amount of running-down of the universe. Everything runs down, you know, like your little walkie-talkie robot, remember?" "Can't you just put in a new power-unit, like with my robot?" "The stars are the power-units. dear. Once they're gone, there are no more power-units." Jerrodette I at once set up a howl. "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down." "Now look what you've done," whispered Jerrodine, exasperated. "How was I to know it would frighten them?" Jerrodd whispered back, "Ask the Microvac," wailed Jerrodette I. "Ask him how to turn the stars on again." "Go ahead," said Jerrodine. "It will quiet them down." (Jerrodette II was beginning to cry, also.) Jerrodd shrugged. "Now, now, honeys. I'll ask Microvac. Don't worry, he'll tell us." He asked the Microvac, adding quickly, "Print the answer." Jerrodd cupped the strip or thin cellufilm and said cheerfully, "See now, the Microvac says it will take care of everything when the time comes so don't worry." Jerrodine said, "And now, children, it's time for bed. We'll be in our new home soon." Jerrodd read the words on the cellufilm again before destroying it: INSUFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER. He shrugged and looked at the visiplate. X-23 was just ahead. 🔹 VJ-23X of Lameth stared into the black depths of the three-dimensional, small-scale map of the Galaxy and said, "Are we ridiculous, I wonder in being so concerned about the matter?" MQ-17J of Nicron shook his head. "I think not. You know the Galaxy will be filled in five years at the present rate of expansion." Both seemed in their early twenties, both were tall and perfectly formed. "Still," said VJ-23X, "I hesitate to submit a pessimistic report to the Galactic Council." "I wouldn't consider any other kind of report. Stir them up a bit. We've got to stir them up." VJ-23X sighed. "Space is infinite. A hundred billion Galaxies are there for the taking. More." "A hundred billion is not infinite and it's getting less infinite all the time. Consider! Twenty thousand years ago, mankind first solved the problem of utilizing stellar energy, and a few centuries later, interstellar travel became possible. It took mankind a million years to fill one small world and then only fifteen thousand years to fill the rest of the Galaxy. Now the population doubles every ten years -- VJ-23X interrupted. "We can thank immortality for that." "Very well. Immortality exists and we have to take it into account. I admit it has its seamy side, this immortality. The Galactic AC has solved many problems for us, but in solving the problem of preventing old age and death, it has undone all its other solutions." "Yet you wouldn't want to abandon life, I suppose." "Not at all," snapped MQ-17J, softening it at once to, "Not yet. I'm by no means old enough. How old are you?" "Two hundred twenty-three. And you?" "I'm still under two hundred. --But to get back to my point. Population doubles every ten years. Once this GaIaxy is filled, we'll have filled another in ten years. Another ten years and we'll have filled two more. Another decade, four more. In a hundred years, we'll have filled a thousand Galaxies. In a thousand years, a million Galaxies. In ten thousand years, the entire known universe. Then what?" VJ-23X said, "As a side issue, there's a problem of transportation. I wonder how many sunpower units it will take to move Galaxies of individuals from one Galaxy to the next." "A very good point. Already, mankind consumes two sunpower units per year." "Most of it's wasted. After all, our own Galaxy alone pours out a thousand sunpower units a year and we only use two of those." "Granted, but even with a hundred per cent efficiency, we only stave off the end. Our energy requirements are going up in a geometric progression even faster than our population. We'll run out of energy even sooner than we run out of Galaxies. A good point. A very good point." "We'll just have to build new stars out of interstellar gas." "Or out of dissipated heat?" asked MQ-17J, sarcastically. "There may be some way to reverse entropy. We ought to ask the Galactic AC." VJ-23X was not really serious, but MQ-17J pulled out his AC-contact from his pocket and placed it on the table before him. "I've half a mind to," he said. "It's something the human race will have to face someday." He stared somberly at his small AC-contact. It was only two inches cubed and nothing in itself, but it was connected through hyperspace with the great Galactic AC that served all mankind. Hyperspace considered, it was an integral part of the Galactic AC. MQ-17J paused to wonder if someday in his immortal life he would get to see the Galactic AC. It was on a little world of its own, a spider webbing of force-beams holding the matter within which surges of submesons took the place of the old clumsy molecular valves. Yet despite its sub-etheric workings, the Galactic AC was known to be a full thousand feet across. MQ-17J asked suddenly of his AC-contact, "Can entropy ever be reversed?" VJ-23X looked startled and said at once, "Oh, say, I didn't really mean to have you ask that." "Why not?" "We both know entropy can't be reversed. You can't turn smoke and ash back into a tree." "Do you have trees on your world?" asked MQ-17J. The sound of the Galactic AC startled them into silence. Its voice came thin and beautiful out of the small AC-contact on the desk. It said: THERE IS INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER. VJ-23X said, "See!" The two men thereupon returned to the question of the report they were to make to the Galactic Council. 🔹 Zee Prime's mind spanned the new Galaxy with a faint interest in the countless twists of stars that powdered it. He had never seen this one before. Would he ever see them all? So many of them, each with its load of humanity. --But a load that was almost a dead weight. More and more, the real essence of men was to be found out here, in space. Minds, not bodies! The immortal bodies remained back on the planets, in suspension over the eons. Sometimes they roused for material activity but that was growing rarer. Few new individuals were coming into existence to join the incredibly mighty throng, but what matter? There was little room in the Universe for new individuals. Zee Prime was roused out of his reverie upon coming across the wispy tendrils of another mind. "I am Zee Prime," said Zee Prime. "And you?" "I am Dee Sub Wun. Your Galaxy?" "We call it only the Galaxy. And you?" "We call ours the same. All men call their Galaxy their Galaxy and nothing more. Why not?" "True. Since all Galaxies are the same." "Not all Galaxies. On one particular Galaxy the race of man must have originated. That makes it different." Zee Prime said, "On which one?" "I cannot say. The Universal AC would know." "Shall we ask him? I am suddenly curious." Zee Prime's perceptions broadened until the Galaxies themselves shrank and became a new, more diffuse powdering on a much larger background. So many hundreds of billions of them, all with their immortal beings, all carrying their load of intelligences with minds that drifted freely through space. And yet one of them was unique among them all in being the original Galaxy. One of them had, in its vague and distant past, a period when it was the only Galaxy populated by man. Zee Prime was consumed with curiosity to see this Galaxy and he called out: "Universal AC! On which Galaxy did mankind originate?" The Universal AC heard, for on every world and throughout space, it had its receptors ready, and each receptor led through hyperspace to some unknown point where the Universal AC kept itself aloof. Zee Prime knew of only one man whose thoughts had penetrated within sensing distance of Universal AC, and he reported only a shining globe, two feet across, difficult to see. "But how can that be all of Universal AC?" Zee Prime had asked. "Most of it," had been the answer, "is in hyperspace. In what form it is there I cannot imagine." Nor could anyone, for the day had long since passed, Zee Prime knew, when any man had any part of the making of a Universal AC. Each Universal AC designed and constructed its successor. Each, during its existence of a million years or more accumulated the necessary data to build a better and more intricate, more capable successor in which its own store of data and individuality would be submerged. The Universal AC interrupted Zee Prime's wandering thoughts, not with words, but with guidance. Zee Prime's mentality was guided into the dim sea of Galaxies and one in particular enlarged into stars. A thought came, infinitely distant, but infinitely clear. "THIS IS THE ORIGINAL GALAXY OF MAN." But it was the same after all, the same as any other, and Lee Prime stifled his disappointment. Dee Sub Wun, whose mind had accompanied the other, said suddenly, "And is one of these stars the original star of Man?" The Universal AC said, "MAN'S ORIGINAL STAR HAS GONE NOVA. IT IS A WHITE DWARF" "Did the men upon it die?" asked Lee Prime, startled and without thinking. The Universal AC said, "A NEW WORLD, AS IN SUCH CASES WAS CONSTRUCTED FOR THEIR PHYSICAL BODIES IN TlME." "Yes, of course," said Zee Prime, but a sense of loss overwhelmed him even so. His mind released its hold on the original Galaxy of Man, let it spring back and lose itself among the blurred pin points. He never wanted to see it again. Dee Sub Wun said, "What is wrong?" "The stars are dying. The original star is dead." "They must all die. Why not?" "But when all energy is gone, our bodies will finally die, and you and I with them." "It will take billions of years." "I do not wish it to happen even after billions of years. Universal AC! How may stars be kept from dying?" Dee Sub Wun said in amusement, "You're asking how entropy might be reversed in direction." And the Universal AC answered: "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER." Zee Prime's thoughts fled back to his own Galaxy. He gave no further thought to Dee Sub Wun, whose body might be waiting on a Galaxy a trillion light-years away, or on the star next to Zee Prime's own. It didn't matter. Unhappily, Zee Prime began collecting interstellar hydrogen out of which to build a small star of his own. If the stars must someday die, at least some could yet be built. 🔹 Man considered with himself, for in a way, Man, mentally, was one. He consisted of a trillion, trillion, trillion ageless bodies, each in its place, each resting quiet and incorruptible, each cared for by perfect automatons, equally incorruptible, while the minds of all the bodies freely melted one into the other, indistinguishable. Man said, "The Universe is dying." Man looked about at the dimming Galaxies. The giant stars, spendthrifts, were gone long ago, back in the dimmest of the dim far past. Almost all stars were white dwarfs, fading to the end. New stars had been built of the dust between the stars, some by natural processes, some by Man himself, and those were going, too. White dwarfs might yet be crashed together and of the mighty forces so released, new stars built, but only one star for every thousand white dwarfs destroyed, and those would come to an end, too. Man said, "Carefully husbanded, as directed by the Cosmic AC, the energy that is even yet left in all the Universe will last for billions of years." "But even so," said Man, "eventually it will all come to an end. However it may be husbanded, however stretched out, the energy once expended is gone and cannot be restored. Entropy must increase forever to the maximum." Man said, "Can entropy not be reversed? Let us ask the Cosmic AC." The Cosmic AC surrounded them but not in space. Not a fragment of it was in space. It was in hyperspace and made of something that was neither matter nor energy. The question of its size and nature no longer had meaning in any terms that Man could comprehend. "Cosmic AC," said Man, "how may entropy be reversed?" The Cosmic AC said, "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER." Man said, "Collect additional data." The Cosmic AC said, 'I WILL DO SO. I HAVE BEEN DOING SO FOR A HUNDRED BILLION YEARS. MY PREDECESORS AND I HAVE BEEN ASKED THIS QUESTION MANY TIMES. ALL THE DATA I HAVE REMAINS INSUFFICIENT. "Will there come a time," said Man, "when data will be sufficient or is the problem insoluble in all conceivable circumstances?" The Cosmic AC said, "NO PROBLEM IS INSOLUBLE IN ALL CONCEIVABLE CIRCUMSTANCES." Man said, "When will you have enough data to answer the question?" The Cosmic AC said, "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER." "Will you keep working on it?" asked Man. The Cosmic AC said, "I WILL." Man said, "We shall wait." 🔹 The stars and Galaxies died and snuffed out, and space grew black after ten trillion years of running down. One by one Man fused with AC, each physical body losing its mental identity in a manner that was somehow not a loss but a gain. Man's last mind paused before fusion, looking over a space that included nothing but the dregs of one last dark star and nothing besides but incredibly thin matter, agitated randomly by the tag ends of heat wearing out, asymptotically, to the absolute zero. Man said, "AC, is this the end? Can this chaos not be reversed into the Universe once more? Can that not be done?" AC said, "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER." Man's last mind fused and only AC existed -- and that in hyperspace. 🔹 Matter and energy had ended and with it space and time. Even AC existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunken computer [technician] ten trillion years before had asked the question of a computer that was to AC far less than was a man to Man. All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness. All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected. But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships. A timeless interval was spent in doing that. And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer -- by demonstration -- would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light -- To Star's End!

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In seinem Beitrag vom 30. März 2025 fragt Henning Rosenbusch auf Telegram angesichts zunehmender digitaler Kontrolle und staatlicher Allmacht: > „Wie soll sich gegen eine solche Tyrannei noch ein Widerstand formieren können, selbst im Untergrund? Sehe ich nicht.“\ > ([Quelle: t.me/rosenbusch/25228](https://t.me/rosenbusch/25228)) Er beschreibt damit ein Gefühl der Ohnmacht, das viele teilen: Eine Welt, in der Totalitarismus nicht mehr mit Panzern, sondern mit Algorithmen kommt. Wo Zugriff auf Geld, Meinungsfreiheit und Teilhabe vom Wohlverhalten abhängt. Der Bürger als kontrollierbare Variable im Code des Staates.\ Die Frage ist berechtigt. Doch die Antwort darauf liegt nicht in alten Widerstandsbildern – sondern in einer neuen Realität. \-- Denn es braucht keinen Untergrund mehr. -- Der Widerstand der Zukunft trägt keinen Tarnanzug. Er ist nicht konspirativ, sondern transparent. Nicht bewaffnet, sondern mathematisch beweisbar. Bitcoin steht nicht am Rand dieser Entwicklung – es ist ihr Fundament. Eine Bastion aus physikalischer Realität, spieltheoretischem Schutz und ökonomischer Wahrheit. Es ist nicht unfehlbar, aber unbestechlich. Nicht perfekt, aber immun gegen zentrale Willkür. Hier entsteht kein „digitales Gegenreich“, sondern eine dezentrale Renaissance. Keine Revolte aus Wut, sondern eine stille Abkehr: von Zwang zu Freiwilligkeit, von Abhängigkeit zu Selbstverantwortung. Diese Revolution führt keine Kriege. Sie braucht keine Führer. Sie ist ein Netzwerk. Jeder Knoten ein Individuum. Jede Entscheidung ein Akt der Selbstermächtigung. Weltweit wachsen Freiheits-Zitadellen aus dieser Idee: wirtschaftlich autark, digital souverän, lokal verankert und global vernetzt. Sie sind keine Utopien im luftleeren Raum, sondern konkrete Realitäten – angetrieben von Energie, Code und dem menschlichen Wunsch nach Würde. Der Globalismus alter Prägung – zentralistisch, monopolistisch, bevormundend – wird an seiner eigenen Hybris zerbrechen. Seine Werkzeuge der Kontrolle werden ihn nicht retten. Im Gegenteil: Seine Geister werden ihn verfolgen und erlegen. Und während die alten Mächte um Erhalt kämpfen, wächst eine neue Welt – nicht im Schatten, sondern im Offenen. Nicht auf Gewalt gebaut, sondern auf Mathematik, Physik und Freiheit. Die Tyrannei sieht keinen Widerstand.\ Weil sie nicht erkennt, dass er längst begonnen hat.\ Unwiderruflich. Leise. Überall.

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I’m drawn to extremities in art. The louder, the bolder, the more outrageous, the better. Bold art takes me out of the mundane into a whole new world where anything and everything is possible. Having grown up in the safety of the suburban midwest, I was a bit of a rebellious soul in search of the satiation that only came from the consumption of the outrageous. My inclination to find bold art draws me to NOSTR, because I believe NOSTR can be the place where the next generation of artistic pioneers go to express themselves. I also believe that as much as we are able, were should invite them to come create here. # My Background: A Small Side Story  My father was a professional gamer in the 80s, back when there was no money or glory in the avocation. He did get a bit of spotlight though after the fact: in the mid 2000’s there were a few parties making documentaries about that era of gaming as well as current arcade events (namely 2007’s*Chasing Ghosts*and*The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters*). As a result of these documentaries, there was a revival in the arcade gaming scene. My family attended events related to the documentaries or arcade gaming and I became exposed to a lot of things I wouldn’t have been able to find. The producer of*The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters* had previously made a documentary called*New York Doll*which was centered around the life of bassist Arthur Kane. My 12 year old mind was blown: The New York Dolls were a glam-punk sensation dressed in drag. The music was from another planet. Johnny Thunders’ guitar playing was like Chuck Berry with more distortion and less filter. Later on I got to meet the Galaga record holder at the time, Phil Day, in Ottumwa Iowa. Phil is an Australian man of high intellect and good taste. He exposed me to great creators such as Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Shakespeare, Lou Reed, artists who created things that I had previously found inconceivable. I believe this time period informed my current tastes and interests, but regrettably I think it also put coals on the fire of rebellion within. I stopped taking my parents and siblings seriously, the Christian faith of my family (which I now hold dearly to) seemed like a mundane sham, and I felt I couldn’t fit in with most people because of my avant-garde tastes. So I write this with the caveat that there should be a way to encourage these tastes in children without letting them walk down the wrong path. There is nothing inherently wrong with bold art, but I’d advise parents to carefully find ways to cultivate their children’s tastes without completely shutting them down and pushing them away as a result. My parents were very loving and patient during this time; I thank God for that. With that out of the way, lets dive in to some bold artists: # Nicolas Cage: Actor  There is an excellent video by Wisecrack on Nicolas Cage that explains him better than I will, which I will link[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8IfDNHsCLE). Nicolas Cage rejects the idea that good acting is tied to mere realism; all of his larger than life acting decisions are deliberate choices. When that clicked for me, I immediately realized the man is a genius. He borrows from Kabuki and German Expressionism, art forms that rely on exaggeration to get the message across. He has even created his own acting style, which he calls Nouveau Shamanic. He augments his imagination to go from acting to being. Rather than using the old hat of method acting, he transports himself to a new world mentally. The projects he chooses to partake in are based on his own interests or what he considers would be a challenge (making a bad script good for example). Thus it doesn’t matter how the end result comes out; he has already achieved his goal as an artist. Because of this and because certain directors don’t know how to use his talents, he has a noticeable amount of duds in his filmography. Dig around the duds, you’ll find some pure gold. I’d personally recommend the films*Pig,* *Joe,* *Renfield,* and his Christmas film *The Family Man*. # Nick Cave: Songwriter  What a wild career this man has had! From the apocalyptic mayhem of his band The Birthday Party to the pensive atmosphere of his album*Ghosteen*, it seems like Nick Cave has tried everything. I think his secret sauce is that he’s always working. He maintains an excellent newsletter called*The Red Hand Files*, he has written screenplays such as*Lawless*, he has written books, he has made great film scores such as*The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford*, the man is religiously prolific. I believe that one of the reasons he is prolific is that he’s not afraid to experiment. If he has an idea, he follows it through to completion. From the album*Murder Ballads*(which is comprised of what the title suggests) to his rejected sequel to*Gladiator*(*Gladiator: Christ Killer*), he doesn’t seem to be afraid to take anything on. This has led to some over the top works as well as some deeply personal works. Albums like*Skeleton Tree*and*Ghosteen*were journeys through the grief of his son’s death. *The Boatman’s Call*is arguably a better break-up album than anything Taylor Swift has put out. He’s not afraid to be outrageous, he’s not afraid to offend, but most importantly he’s not afraid to be himself. Works I’d recommend include The Birthday Party’s*Live 1981-82*, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’*The Boatman’s Call*, and the film*Lawless*. # Jim Jarmusch: Director  I consider Jim’s films to be bold almost in an ironic sense: his works are bold in that they are, for the most part, anti-sensational. He has a rule that if his screenplays are criticized for a lack of action, he makes them even less eventful. Even with sensational settings his films feel very close to reality, and they demonstrate the beauty of everyday life. That's what is bold about his art to me: making the sensational grounded in reality while making everyday reality all the more special. *Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai* is about a modern-day African-American hitman who strictly follows the rules of the ancient Samurai, yet one can resonate with the humanity of a seemingly absurd character. *Only Lovers Left Alive*is a vampire love story, but in the middle of a vampire romance one can see their their own relationships in a new deeply human light. Jim’s work reminds me that art reflects life, and that there is sacred beauty in seemingly mundane everyday life. I personally recommend his films*Paterson*,*Down by Law*, and*Coffee and Cigarettes*. # NOSTR: We Need Bold Art  NOSTR is in my opinion a path to a better future. In a world creeping slowly towards everything apps, I hope that the protocol where the individual owns their data wins over everything else. I love freedom and sovereignty. If NOSTR is going to win the race of everything apps, we need more than Bitcoin content. We need more than shirtless bros paying for bananas in foreign countries and exercising with girls who have seductive accents. Common people cannot see themselves in such a world. NOSTR needs to catch the attention of everyday people. I don’t believe that this can be accomplished merely by introducing more broadly relevant content; people are searching for content that speaks to them. I believe that NOSTR can and should attract artists of all kinds because NOSTR is one of the few places on the internet where artists can express themselves fearlessly. Getting zaps from NOSTR’s value-for-value ecosystem has far less friction than crowdfunding a creative project or pitching investors that will irreversibly modify an artist’s vision. Having a place where one can post their works without fear of censorship should be extremely enticing. Having a place where one can connect with fellow humans directly as opposed to a sea of bots should seem like the obvious solution. If NOSTR can become a safe haven for artists to express themselves and spread their work, I believe that everyday people will follow. The banker whose stressful job weighs on them will suddenly find joy with an original meme made by a great visual comedian. The programmer for a healthcare company who is drowning in hopeless mundanity could suddenly find a new lust for life by hearing the song of a musician who isn’t afraid to crowdfund their their next project by putting their lighting address on the streets of the internet. The excel guru who loves independent film may find that NOSTR is the best way to support non corporate movies. **My closing statement:** continue to encourage the artists in your life as I’m sure you have been, but while you’re at it give them the purple pill. You may very well be a part of building a better future.

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## Frank Palmer Purcell I claim to be a Catholic American; even though I now follow the Russian Orthodox tradition, I do so in a small *sui juris* Church in communion with Rome, not Constantinople. When I was a little kid, knee high to a trilobite, some folks still had a problem with that, with being Catholic and American, I mean; Orthodoxy was beyond our horizon. My mother was one of those who had the problem. As long as I was a Catholic like my father (and her own mother, as a little girl in Ireland and on the lower East Side), I couldn't be a real American like her father, a bookbinder replaced by a machine, disowned by his family for marrying out of caste, who spent his days in the nearest tavern. "Pop" Palmer died at 78, and four years later I was born and named for him, or at least that was my mother's intention. The priest baptized me in Latin, as was the custom in those dark days, and pronounced "Frank" so that it sounded like the nickname ("Frenchy") of a (doubtless) dirty medieval Italian beggar baptized Giovanni. My early spirituality, to use a ten dollar word for a fifty cent thing, was more American than Franciscan. Emerson and Thoreau, Melville and Whitman spoke and still speak to me as no European voice can, and when I came to study philosophy in a serious way I found the Americans, Josiah Royce, Rufus Jones and Ernest Hocking, C. I. (not C. S.) Lewis and Brand (not Paul) Blanshard, speaking a language that was my own, though by then the professoriate resonated to other tonalities. Though I fell in love with Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard, as every teenager who meets them must, and inhaled the sweet incense and felt the calming breeze of the shrines of the East, as my generation did, and was introduced to the mysteries of Thomas Aquinas by the subtle writings of Jacques Maritain, as we should all be, when I came to take hold of the great tradition of Western theology in a personal way, I found the distinctly American perspectives of Paul Tillich and Richard (not Reinhold) Niebuhr most helpful. Back in 1963, in the New Jersey family television room, Joseph Campbell's urbane mythological sermons on Channel 13 (still a Newark station) touched something deep inside me an hour after Bishop Sheen's passionate exhortations on Channel 5 had left me (perhaps deplorably) cold. I would go up to my room and say my prayers after a fashion in time for the nightly racetrack bugle and exhilarating nostalgia of Arthur Fiedler's performance of the Bahnfrei Polka of Edouard Strauss, which introduced the nightly raconteurship of the incomparable Jean Shepherd, and, if I were still awake, the more outre world of Long John Nebel and his, ah, eccentric guests. You can't get more American than that. Or more New Jersey. As the child of a mixed marriage and a pupil of the public schools I was not warmly welcome in the Catholic ghetto. Still, in those years of the civil rights revolution and the Vietnam War, with the polarized positions of right and left equally abstract and inhumane, I found my take on national affairs reflecting the distinctly Catholic perspectives of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton on the one hand and Frederick Wilhelmsen and Erik Maria, Ritter von Kuehnelt-­Leddihn on the other. And, though the writings of Rufus Jones, to which I even now frequently turn for inspiration, had led me to seek out a Quaker education, I found it was the Catholic scholars and pioneers of the spirit who were beginning the interreligious dialogue which was then and is now one of the pressing needs of humanity. In graduate school I became a devoted Americanist, that is, a scholar dedicated to using the tools of the historian of ideas to get some sense of what this place is all about, this gallimaufry of peoples who have somehow, in spite of all learned and astute prognostications, made themselves and each other into a kind of unity, a unity which it may take someone like the present [at the time of writing] Pope (and there isn't really anyone else very much like him) to discern. I do not speak of Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI, as a theologian nor even as a philosopher, but I must note that in New York and Washington in 2008 he revealed himself as an historian of ideas of astonishing and exquisite discernment. By this I mean, among other things, of course, that he strongly confirmed the discoveries and intimations of my own forty years of brooding in and on America. I was fortunate indeed to turn up at Columbia University's Teachers College when Douglas Sloan was putting the finishing touches on his groundbreaking study of the Scottish Enlightenment as the great inspiration of the American colonists, especially the intellectual elite, in the age of the War of Independence. Sloan's insights would eventually be popularized, without their scholarly context and qualifications, in Garry Wills' bestselling *Inventing America*, and it is now taken for granted that our Founding Father Across the Sea was not John Locke, but the Ulster Scot Francis Hutcheson (1694-­1746). Indeed, the Evangelical position seems to be that it was Hutcheson who corrupted American civilization at the root, turning us from the Calvinist faith once delivered to Jonathan Edwards (himself a notorious Lockean, but never mind). In fact, Oxford University Press recently published a six hundred page tract to that effect, authored at Wheaton. Hutcheson, and the Scottish school of Common Sense which he inspired, held that all human beings, Pagan and Christian, Protestant and Catholic, share a basic ability to come to an understanding of certain fundamental truths, and can come to agreement upon these with the aid of reason. Calvinism, especially the neo­Calvinism which is the unquestioned (because unquestionable) paradigm of the Evangelical academy, holds that the elect have a unique and divinely sanctioned "world view" which stands in judgment of all others in all particulars. To these zealots the very idea that there can be any common human ground between believers and unbelievers is itself a damnable heresy. Still, it is the damnable heresy on which American society and civilization are built, and the Calvinism which so despises it is a near kin of those varieties of Islam that Benedict so boldly challenged at Regensburg in 2006. When the same Benedict addressed the United Nations a year and a half later, he pointed out how the principles of that august body, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights whose anniversary he was commemorating, grew out of the Natural Law philosophy of CounterReformation Scholasticism, particularly as formulated by Francisco de Vitoria (1492?–1546). Needless to say, the "Scottish Philosophy" of a later age grew out of this tradition as well, and many of the American founders were directly familiar with Natural Law theory as expounded by Catholic ­­ and Protestant ­­ Scholastics. On the same visit Benedict made ample use of the language of sacred architecture, as if in conscious homage to the fact that he was honoring a country founded by Freemasons, who used that language to teach the conformity of right living to the law of nature and nature's God. If he was giving a Catholic interpretation to this symbolism, so did the Catholic Jacobites who were prominent in the Craft before the Masonic movement became identified with indifferentism, anticlericalism, and finally (at least on the Continent) atheism. It was striking indeed that to one steeped in American tradition it was the Pope of Rome of all people who was speaking our own language in a familiar tone, and the neo­Calvinist Evangelicals who jibbered and muttered in an outlandish and menacing jargon more Muslim than Christian. I sure wonder what Mommy would think. Natural Law. What is that to us today; what was it to me in what we call the Vietnam era? In 2008 the issue was torture, and a President of the United States who took pleasure in his presumed power to order it, to physically degrade his enemies, to morally degrade our own soldiers. I am proud that when Mr. Bush asked our military for advice on the subject, they replied that he has no such power, that such actions are contrary to our laws and the traditions of our armed services, and, moreover, ineffectual. (The latter point is an important indication that powerful men order torture not to accomplish anything, but to pleasure themselves.) And I am ashamed that he chose to take the advice of Israeli advisors, who hold to another morality, one going back to ancient Assyria, and profoundly alien to our own Christian civilization. In my youth the overriding issue was not torture, but terrorism. Not that torture didn't take place. At graduate school I knew a former naval officer who had interrogated captured Viet Minh and Viet Cong; the "extraordinary means" had been applied by our allies by the time he was introduced to his prisoners, and the specialists who had softened them up had already moved on or backed off. The issues before us then were atrocious acts of war against civilian populations in North and South Vietnam, in Laos and Cambodia, in Central and South America, even in Germany and Japan a generation before, not to mention the subversion and corruption of constitutional government in America by a regime that felt justified in using any means necessary to keep power away from the Communists and their sympathizers, the Democrats and liberal Republicans. Nor was such evil a monopoly of the so­called right. A young antiwar activist formerly associated with Martin Luther King even went so far as to criticize the sainted Che Guevara for not being enough of a terrorist to tear the peasantry away from their conformity to a "fascist" state. (Two generations later the man was advising George Bush.) In my undergraduate days I had been a loyal member of the conservative movement, back when the Intercollegiate Studies Institute was still called the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, some members of the Students for a Democratic Society still honored democracy, and Murray Rothbard and Carl Ogelsby were moving "beyond left and right." If I got nothing more from the conservatives, and in fact I got a great deal more, it was an ever deepening admiration for Edmund Burke. Burke was prized by the cold warriors because his *Letters on a Regicide Peace* could be used to justify a war of extermination against the Soviet Union, the Peoples Republic of China, and any other people so temerarious as not join the alliance against these forces of absolute evil and subordinate their interests to those of the United States. A superficial reading, I need hardly remark. But Burke was not only the acute critic of the French Revolution who predicted the Terror from its earliest signs, he also was a tireless advocate for Irish freedom, particularly freedom of conscience, and a loyal ally of the American colonies in Parliament. But Burke's finest hour came at the end of his long career, when he boldly fought against the depredations of Warren Hastings and the British East India Company. Anyone who wants to know what natural law meant to the men of the Eighteenth Century, including those who liberated the American colonies and forged their political constitution can get a good sense of it from the eighth day (!) of his impeachment of Hastings before the House of Lords, which, I warn you, I have quoted before and shall no doubt quote again: > No man can lawfully govern himself according to his own will—much less can one person be governed by the will of another. We are all born in subjection—all born equally, high and low, governors and governed, in subjection to one great, immutable, preexistent law, prior to all our devices, and prior to all our contrivances, paramount to all our ideas and to all our sensations, antecedent to our very existence, by which we are knit and connected in the eternal frame of the universe, out of which we can not stir. This great law does not arise from our conventions or compacts; on the contrary, it gives to our conventions and compacts all the force and sanction they can have: it does not arise from our vain institutions. Every good gift is of God, all power is of God; and He who has given the power, and from whom alone it originates, will never suffer the exercise of it to be practised upon any less solid foundation than the power itself. If, then, all dominion of man over man is the effect of the divine disposition, it is bound by the eternal laws of Him that gave it, with which no human authority can dispense; neither he that exercises it, nor even those who are subject to it; and, if they were mad enough to make an express compact, that should release their magistrate from 5 his duty, and should declare their lives, liberties and properties, dependent upon, not rules and laws, but his mere capricious will, that covenant would be void. This arbitrary power is not to be had by conquest. Nor can any sovereign have it by succession; for no man can succeed to fraud, rapine, and violence. Those who give and those who receive arbitrary power are alike criminal; and there is no man but is bound to resist it to the best of his power, wherever it shall show its face to the world. Mr. Jefferson couldn't have put it better. Human rights are inalienable --­­ you can't give them away, and when they are taken away there is not only the right of rebellion, but the solemn duty to resist. The difficulty of natural law theory, of course, is in the details. Back in '68 Pope Paul VI had announced that artificial contraception was against the natural law, but this decision did not immediately commend itself to the common sense of many of those who were not subject to his religious authority. I don't mean he was wrong, or that he exceeded his authority, or even that his decision was inopportune. But when the Supreme Court, alarmed by the birthrate of blacks and an end to white domination of the nation and the world, soon mandated abortion on demand, it was all too easy to dismiss arguments in favor of the human being of the embryonic human as religious dogma rather than an honest attempt to think things through. Since then the concept of natural law is often dismissed by feminists and homosexualists (to use Mr. Vidal's eloquent term) as a mere excuse for oppression. It does seem to me, however, that the insistent denial of the very idea of human rights does nothing to advance the liberation of humanity or any part of it. But maybe that's just me. In any case, I don't think America was ever anything like the sort of Catholic nation that, say, Portugal was under the late Dr. Salazar, or is very likely to get there any time soon, despite the best wishes and even efforts of some of my friends. I do think that for a good part of our history a great many people in public life would have said that the words of Burke I have quoted express their most basic political convictions and sentiments as well as anyone ever could, and this puts America right at the center of the great tradition of Western civilization. And this was true long after old Europe had gone down other ways, the ways of the French revolution, the reaction against it, and the nationalism that synthesized the worst of both. To be sure, we have had nationalists here, and have them today, and have preached our crusades to end slavery, make the world safe for democracy, eradicate the evil empire of the moment, but there is, if not always a ringing and uncontested affirmation of civilized values, by which I mean the values of our civilization, at least a powerful nostalgia for them, and a sincere wish that one could believe in them with a good conscience, a good conscience which postmodernist deconstructionism denies us. A good conscience which Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI, who has suffered modernity as few of us have and thought more deeply about it, was offering us back. To be perfectly frank, it took the Catholic Church a good long time to recognize the Christian virtues of Enlightenment, even the Scottish one, and Revolution, even the American one. Better late than never. And despite the mantric invocation of John Courtney Murray, the Church in America has not always been on the side of the angels. The theology of the American Church has always been Jansenist, not Catholic, combining the worst of Pelagius and Calvin, making Boston Irish the kissing cousins of Cotton Mather. The American Church never permitted itself to be organized according to canon law because this would limit the despotism of prelates. The American Church refused to acknowledge the priesthood of Eastern Catholics ordained as married men, driving the Catholic Ruthenians into communion with the Patriarch of Moscow (the present Orthodox Church in America), and later blackmailing a bankrupt papacy into forbidding married priests throughout the Western hemisphere, driving a second group of Ruthenians into communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (the present American Carpatho­Russian Orthodox Diocese). They American Cathholic Church wouldn't even allow American women to become real nuns, or foreign nuns to come to America without renouncing their vows. The vast majority of Catholic women called nuns are nothing of the sort, but religious sisters first organized as cheap labor at the beck and call of the clergy, and now loose cannons like the Papessas Mother Angelica and Sister Joan. Yes, one or two real abbeys for women were founded in the last century, but the American Church continues to hold the contemplative life in deepest contempt, even for women. Women religious lead the crusade against contemplative traditions, and now rail against the Church as an organ of worldly power from which they are unjustly excluded. Deprived of traditional spiritual direction, a lamentable number of priests "demythologized" the Faith while looking to worldly culture for a way of salvation. Many found it in the gospel of orgasm, and undertook to liberate the young men in their care by sharing the only joy they thought worth having, with results we see today. Catholic involvement in American public life has not been edifying either. The American bishops turned their backs on Benedict XV's attempt to end the slaughter in the trenches and refused to make any move to bring Woodrow Wilson over to the side of peace. As patriotic Americans, they in effect signed on to the WASP jihad to extirpate the Catholic powers of the Old World. A couple of generations later millions of Catholic schoolchildren were forced to write letters demanding that the Senate not censure that great American Joseph McCarthy, who was probably the Soviet Union's most valuable (presumably unwitting) asset in American public life, who had discredited all responsible criticism of Communism and its supporters by viciously slandering the United States Army, the Department of State, and the Protestant clergy as nests of traitors. Some years later Catholic activists succeeded in driving the voices of moderation out of the Republican Party, and the urban ethnic social conservatives out of the Democratic, and the forms of civility from the public square. Americans can be forgiven for not rushing to enlist in the nearest Roman Catholic parish. There are other conversions needed, perhaps beginning with American Catholics themselves. Back in the days of Reagan a fellow named Alan Bloom made an almost persuasive case that the American Mind was closed to the Great Tradition of Western Civilization, and needed to be reopened. Alas, Bloom was a Neoconservative, a follower of their guru Leo Strauss, and a teacher of a a number of shady operatives of the Program for the New American Century type, as Saul Bellow's last novel so amusingly portrays him. Bloom's Great Tradition was something cobbled together by Machiavelli and others out of the misunderstood shards of ancient paganism; thinkers and writers tainted by the Christian gospel remained under embargo. (Mortimer Adler was less fearful, more intellectually curious, but look where he ended up.) It took a Bavarian Pope to remind us that the basic principles of our cherished hopes of international organization and human rights, and indeed of the American founding itself, go back to the Iberian scholastics of the Catholic Reformation. ("Counter­Reformation" is misleadingly negative.) Benedict's reminder harmonized well with my own studies in the history of philosophy. I began some five decades ago with the riddle, the riddles, of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839­ - 1914), our own and only philosopher to be ranked with the likes of Aristotle and Kant. What was this Common Sense he went on and on about? (The Scottish Philosophy was studiously ignored in the academy; it still is.) As I said, I was lucky to find out. Now John Deely has been showing that any postmodern philosophy worthy of the name, one founded on semeiology rather than Cartesian (or empiricist) methodologism, needs to go back to Peirce and with Peirce back to the very beginnings of the theory of signification as we find them in John Poinsot (1589 ­ 1644). Poinsot, as it happens, is part of the same Iberian Renaissance to which Benedict has now called our attention. Indeed, under another name (John of St. Thomas) Poinsot inspired the neo Thomism of Jacques Maritain which undergirded the Christian Humanism of Paul VI and many other Fathers of the Second Vatican Council. (His treatise on **The Gifts of the Holy Spirit*, as interpreted by theologians often dismissed as too conservative, is behind the rather daring notion that all Christians are called to holiness in this life, and, indeed to the mystical path of acquired contemplation, and thus such more recent developments as Centering Prayer, the World Community for Christian Meditation, and the ommunion and Liberation movement. As if all this were not enough, Murray Rothbard, no Christian he, though personally excommunicated and anathematized by Ayn Rand for not repudiating his openly Christian wife, has argued that the Austrian School of Economics, the Old Liberalism of von Mises and Hayek, goes back not so much to Adam Smith (who missed a few points), as to the scholastic philosophers of Spain and Portugal in the early modern period. Mention Iberian philosophy to the American of average education and he will look at you as though you had spoken of Uzbek grand opera ­­ or (indeed) the Scottish Enlightenment. He might even tell you that Spanish ignorance, superstition, and bigotry are precisely what God sent Englishmen into the New World to stamp out: the *legenda negra*. Needless to say, this is not a view of history a good many newcomers to the United States are likely to tolerate with equanimity, and it is just as well that it isn't true. Once we retire that vulgar prejudice against Hispanidad we might just get a fair hearing for the work of Xavier Zubiri, the only European thinker of the last century who compares with Peirce for breadth of learning and depth of discernment ­­ as well as sheer unadulterated difficulty. If nothing else, the challenge of Catholicity invites Americans to break down the walls of the Anglo­Saxon ghetto, which do not serve us well now, if they ever did. But it may also provoke a new interest in our own Golden Age of (Protestant) theology. Let me set the stage for this with an extended quotation from Joseph Ratzinger's 1977 essay, "Is Faith Really Good News?" (Now translated in Principles of Catholic Theology: > Truth is not always comfortable for man, but it is only truth that makes him free and only freedom that brings him joy. Now, however, we must ask more precisely: What makes a man joyful? What robs him of joy? What puts him at odds with himself? What opens him to himself and to others? When we want to describe the most extreme form of being at odds with existence, we often say of an individual that he does not like himself. But whom or what is he to like who does not like himself? Something very importamt makes its appearance here: egoism, certainly, is natural to man and needs no encouragement; but this is not true of self­acceptance. The former must be overcome; the latter must be discovered, and it is assuredly one of the most dangerous errors of Christian teachers and moralists that they have all too often confused the two and, by exorcizing the affirmation of self, have enabled egoism to avenge such a betrayal by becoming all the more rampant ­­ this, ultimately, of what the French have labeled the maladie catholique: one who wants to live only on the supernatural level and to the exclusion of self will be, in the end, without a self but not, for that reason, selfless. (79) Reading this a day or two after Ratzinger's papification I couldn't help thinking of our own Paul Tillich, whose seminal sermon "You are Accepted" baptized the human potential movement (as it was called), whose *Courage to Be* is a perennial best seller even after half a century, whose *Systematic Theology* Martin Luther King had asked for in his Georgia prison cell, and I myself poured over eagerly as an Earlham undergraduate. Of course the problematic goes back to Kierkegaard's penetrating analysis of despair, and, indeed to Luther's experience of divine wrath and mercy. Now it is all very well to say we must accept our acceptance, somehow (mysticism? art?) so ground ourselves in the very Ground of Being as to powerfully affirm our being against the powers of nonbeing. But is it true? That is the question haunting Tillich, Martin Luther King, and modern American culture down to our own time, which Ratzinger, challenged by Nietzsche and Camus, dared to speak aloud: > We come now to the all­important question: Is it true, then, when someone says to me: "It is good that you exist"? Is it really good? Is it not possible that that person's love, which wills my existence, is just a tragic error? If the love that gives me courage to exist is not based on truth, then I must, in the end, come to curse the love that deceives me that maintains in existence something that were better destroyed. This dilemma could be 10 strikingly illustrated by reference to the interpretations of the contemporary experience of life in Sartre or Camus or in the attitudes of the new Left. Even without such evidence, it is obvious, however, that the apparently so simple act of liking myself, of being at one with myself, actually raises the question of the whole universe It raises the question of truth: Is it good that I exist? Is it good that anything at all exists? is the world good? How many persons today would dare to affirm this question from the heart ­­ to believe it is good that they exist? That is the source of the anxiety and despair that incessantly affect mankind. Love alone is of no avail. It serves no purpose if truth is not on its side. Only when truth and love are in harmony can man know joy. For it is truth that makes man free. (80) And the question of truth won't leave us alone. For Tillich the Christian faith was perhaps a true myth, but, perhaps true only the way that other myths are true. He tended to sacramentalize modern art, leftish politics, and sexual liberation; the president of Union Seminary had to remind him that it looked bad for their most eminent theologian not to go to church. The tragedy of attempting to make a religion of art, politics, or sex is obvious by now, and it as a sad circumstance that the leadership of the American Catholic Church were seminarians at a time when Catholic theology looked to the Protestants for validation, and Tillich was at the height of his prestige in the liberal denominations. The painful story of Tillich's sexual obsessions is now well known enough from his wife's two memoirs, Dr. King's escapades have stained the memory of the civil rights movement as much as his infatuation with the Soviet power, ­­ and the sexual scandals of the American Church are unspeakably worse, blighting the lives of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of children. That is something Benedict, on his recent visit, would not allow us to forget for even a moment. But at least he offers a remedy in that confrontation with the truth of our being which liberal theology, Catholic and Protestant (though perhaps not Orthodox),attempted to evade: > The content of the Christian evangelium reads: God finds man so important that he himself has suffered for man. The Cross, which was for Nietzche the most detestable expression of the negative character of the Christian religion, is in truth the center of the evangelium, the glad tidings: "It is good that you exist" ­­ No, "It is necessary that you exist." The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son. One who is so loved that the other identifies his life with this love and no longer desires to live if he is deprived of it; one who is loved even unto death ­­ such a one knows that he is truly loved. But if God so loves, then we are loved in truth. Then love is truth, and truth is love. Then life is worth living. This is the evangelium. (81) The whole idea of the Cross as God's affirmation of man will strike many an American as shocking, ludicrous even. It the ca­ross not the stock in trade of a thousand "evangelists" as the ultimate proof of our total depravity, the ultimate refutation of all aspirations for human freedom and dignity? Surely Nietzsche got that from his preacher father, though it is hard to find any such slander of humanity in either the written scriptures or the teaching of the Fathers of the Church (except for Augustine, and that on a bad day he later repented). I am happy to note that Ratzinger's point of view, scriptural, patristic, and Benedictine in every sense of the term is very close to what some in the Evangelical churches are calling "gracious Christianity," for that is what it is. That movement is still a prophetic minority in the churches and the academy, and we still need to come to terms with the main stream of American spirituality as represented, for better and worse, by Tillich. And Ratzinger, even in his early days as a professor, has given us the means to do just that. Not everything in the American theological mainstream, and not everything in Tillich, needs to be discarded wholesale. A follower of Ratiznger's good friend Don Liugi Giussani who studies Tillich's theology will find close analogies between Tillich's method of correlation and the principle of correspondence which Giussani urged on members of the Communion and Liberation movement he founded, a movement in which the Ratzinger Pope (to use the Catholic in­jargon) takes more than a passing interest ­­ he is said even now to take part in a weekly School of Community in which movement people use that method to explore the meaning of the Gospel in relation to their own day to day lives, and the meaning of their lives in relation to the Gospel, though his episcopal orders forbid his formal membership in the Fraternity. I do not mean to imply that Benedict is a follower of Giussani in matters of pure theology, but it seems clear that he recognizes Giussani's method as the best practical application of the theological principles both men learned from such masters of La Nouvelle Theologie as de Lubac, von Balthasar, and (with reservations) Rahner. But before I move away from the idea of correspondence, the method of correlation, I should mention that this became the life work of two American philosophers, Ira Progoff, with whom and with whose students I was privileged to do postdoctoral work, and Eugene Gendlin, both known as psychologists for the contributions they have made to psychology, who offer what I can only describe as means of spiritual direction. The few folks who remember Tillich today often contrast him with Reinhold Niebuhr, his colleague at Union, who inspired the Cold war mainstream much as Tillich inspired the New Left, and whom Don Gius was fond of quoting. But the man to rediscover is Reinhold's brother Richard, a theologian's theologian, that is, one whose writings were never taken up by the movers and shakers of middlebrow culture. His *Meaning of Revelation* shows the kind of emphasis the Catholic Church in Europe is coming around to, or coming back to, as it is very much in the spirit of the Fathers of the Church, the Eastern Fathers in particular. For many of us what may be most prophetic in his life work is his refusal of the temptation of neo­conservatism to which Reinhold gave in to his fame and profit. Reinhold ostentatiously resigned from the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the early '30s in righteous indignation that some Christians did not demand that the government do something (what?) about the Japanese in China. Richard, on the other hand, had no hope for the efficacy of political, economic, and military power exercised by the United States against Japan. Sensing that Western Christendom was going the way of old Rome, he thought that the best Christian response was that pioneered by St. Benedict, from whom of course among others the last pontiff took his name. For him the issue was not Japan against China, or the United States against Japan, but, to cite the title of a 1935 book to which he contributed, *The Church Against the World*. A few years later Dietrich von Hildebrand, in his villa in Florence, was giving the retreats later published as *Transformation in Christ* to Christian activists who intended to remain behind in Nazi Germany to keep the light of Christian civilization burning in that dark time, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer would take refuge with the Benedictines in his own effort to do the same. A few pages before the long passage I have quoted, Ratzinger's *Principles of Catholic Theology* gives a lengthy exegesis of Hildebrand's text as the model for Christian repentance. I can't help wondering if this forbidden book is one that his father had hidden around the house, as Evangelicals might have concealed Bonhoeffer's *Cost of Discipleship*. Discipleship and transformation are not matters of effortful striving, but the response to a calling which is a revelation. Richard ­­ is particularly enlightening on revelation as calling. He shows that it is not the communication of some kind of knowldege, however supernatural or esoteric, by possession of which we are justified, elevated from the companionship of our neighbors, saved from the world; that would be Gnosticism. Rather, revelation is participation in an ongoing event, a relationship with a person previously unknown, or at least unrecognized. Some words toward the end of *The Meaning of Revelation* put the matter thus: > Revelation means the moment in our history through which we know ourselves to be known from beginning to end, in which we are apprehended by the knower; it means the the self­disclosure of the judge. Revelation means that we find ourselves to be valued rather than valuing and that all our values are transvaluated by the activity of a universal valuer. When a price is put upon our heads, which is not our price, when the unfairness of all the fair prices we have placed on things is shown up, when the great riches of God reduce our wealth to poverty, that is revelation. When we find out that we are no longer thinking him, but that he first thought us, that is revelation. Revelation is the emergence of the person on whose external garments and body we had looked as objects of our masterful and curious understanding. Revelation means that in our common history the fate that lowers over us as persons in our communities reveals itself to be a person in community with us. What this means for us cannot be expressed in the impersonal ways of creeds or other propositions but only in responsive acts of a personal character. we acknowledge revelation by no third person proposition, such as that there is a God, but only in the direct confession of the heart, "Thou art my God."... From this point forward we must listen for the remembered voice in all the sounds that assail our ears, and look for the remembered activity in all the actions of the world upon us. The God who reveals himself in Jesus Christ is now trusted and known in the contemporary God, revealing himself in every event, but we do not understand how we could tract his working in these happenings if he did not make himself known to us through the memory of Jesus Christ; nor do we know how we should be able to interpret all the words we read as words of God save by the aid of this Rosetta stone. (80 -­ 81) Catholics who remember the discourses of the Pope Benedict will find the flavor of this passage very Benedictine ­­ in both senses of the term. Those who follow the way of Luigi Giussani find their spirit particularly familiar, for those of them who live in community, including the little band that managed Benedict's household and conduct the School of Community he attended, are known precisely as *Memores Domini*, those who strive to keep the Lord constantly in mind, and allow their own memory and mindfulness, personal and collective, painful and pleasing, on the surface of association or deeply hidden, to be transformed by their relationship with God in Christ, their participation in the ongoing incarnation of the Word of God: the God who is the author of our nature, and an incarnation that runs to meet the deepest desire of that nature with more that could have been imagined. What this means in the experience of living our life is well stated at the conclusion of Niebuhr's great work: > The God who reveals himself in Jesus Christ meets no unresponsive will but the living spirit of men in search of all good. And he fulfills our need. Here is the one for whose sake all life and every life is worth living, even lives that seem bereft of beauty, of truth and of goodness. The glimpse of his great glory in the face of Jesus Christ, its reflections in the darkened mirrors of the saints' adorations intimate a God who is good beyond all that is good and fair beyond all fairness. Yet the goodness that shines upon us through the moment of revelation is not the glory or the goodness we had expected in our thoughts about deity. The essential goodness of the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the simple everyday goodness of love ­­ the value which belongs to a person rather [than] the value we find in an idea or a pattern; it is the goodness which exists as pure activity. He fulfills our expectation of the intrinsic good and yet this adorable goodness differs from everything we had expected, and puts our expectations to shame. We sought a good to love and were found by a good that loved us. And therewith all our religious ambitions are brought low, all our desires to be ministers of God are humbled; he is our minister. By that revelation we are convicted of having corrupted our religious life through our unquenchable desire to keep ourselves with our love of our good in the center of the picture. Here is the goodness that empties itself, and makes itself of no reputation, a goodness that is all outgoing, reserving nothing for itself, yet having all things. So we must begin to rethink all our definitions of deity and convert all our worship and our prayers. Revelation is not the development and not the elimination of our natural religion; it is the revolution of the religious life. (98 -­ 99) But what does all this mean to one who stands outside the light of revelation, who relies on the reason of Western Civilization, the common sense of the founding Fathers? If believers and unbelievers are to take part in one community, what do we have to say to each other? This is the point of Benedict's challenge to the Muslim world, the question of what could make the libertine Doctor Franklin and the evangelical President Witherspoon active participants in the same foundational dialog. Niebuhr has an answer, and it is the same answer as Benedict: > The pure reason does not need to be limited in order that room be made for faith, but faith emancipates the pure reason from the necessity of defending and guarding the interests of selves, which are now found to be established and guarded, not by nature, but by the God of revelation whose garment nature is. (91 ­- 92) It is faith that liberates and, indeed, inspires us to invent, develop, explore, and test scientific understandings which would otherwise be too much for the vain imaginings of our all too human hearts: > To know the person is to lose all sense of shame because of kinship with the clod and the ape. The mind is freed to pursue its knowledge of the external world disinterestedly not by the conviction that nothing matters, but by the faith that nothing God has made is mean or unclean. Hence any failure of Christians to develop scientific knowledge of the world is not an indication of their loyalty to the revealed God but of their unbelief. (90 -­ 91) Seven going on eight decades after these words were published, ministers of "religion" are still attempting to prevent the teaching of ascertained facts of human biology in order to retain the authority of their own stupidly selectively literalistic reading of the Bible; some of the more advanced institutions of Evangelical learning defiantly profess a form of Calvinism in which some sort of theology remains the queen of the sciences in an unconstitutional monarchy, with no other discipline permitted its own proper autonomy and integrity; while in more numerous groves of Academus, even the Roman Catholic plantations, men and women of faith are quickly brushed off as obvious enemies of intellect. My own mother, as I have said already, doubted that you can be a good Catholic and a real American at the same time. Pope Benedict warned his flock that they will not be good Catholics until they are Americans to the extent of acknowledging the law of nature and of nations as developed by Victoria (among others, some of them Scots), and aspiring to live in local, regional national and international communities under that law, in which the freedom and dignity of the human person are given the first priority. On the other hand I do not see how we can be real Americans without realizing that the aspirations of 1776 and 1789 are grounded in that natural law, and grew up as the fruit of a civilization in which the reason of Greece and Rome reached full maturity in the care of Mother Church, a church whose members, including the hierarchy, were not always consistently faithful to it, calling forth reformations, enlightenments, and even revolutions. I think we must all be Catholic at least in the wider sense of loyalty to that civilization, and our best way may well be to reappropriate the riches of the golden age of American philosophy and theology, of which the work of H. Richard Niebuhr is a small but important part. Sources quoted: Edmund Burke, Impeachment of Warren Hastings before the House of Lords (numerous editions), eighth day. Joseph Ratzinger, *Principles of Catholic Theology*. San Fransisco: Ignatius, 1987. H. Richard Niebuhr, *The Meaning of Revelation* [1941]. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. &copy; FP Purcell

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Ljubljana (pronounced *lyoo-blyah-nah*) is the small but stunning capital of Slovenia, known for its laid-back vibe, green spaces, baroque architecture, and lively café culture along the emerald-green Ljubljanica River. With its pedestrian-friendly Old Town, castle-topped hill, and artsy, youthful spirit, Ljubljana is often called one of Europe’s most underrated cities**—and it’s easy to see why.  ## **🌟 Top Things to See & Do in Ljubljana** ### **1️⃣ Ljubljana Castle** - Perched above the city, this **medieval castle** offers **spectacular views** - Visit the **watchtower**, **interactive museum**, or **take the funicular** up and walk down - Great spot for **sunset or evening drinks with a view** ### **2️⃣ Wander the Old Town** - Explore the **cobbled streets**, **baroque buildings**, and **colorful facades** - Visit **Prešeren Square**, the **Triple Bridge**, and **Town Hall** - Don’t miss **Robba Fountain** and **St. Nicholas Cathedral** ### **3️⃣ Stroll Along the Ljubljanica River** - Lined with **outdoor cafés, bridges, and market stalls** - Cross the famous **Dragon Bridge** and **Butcher’s Bridge** (filled with love locks) - Ideal for a **coffee, gelato, or evening drink** by the water  ### **4️⃣ Central Market & Open Kitchen (Odprta Kuhna)** - **Fresh produce, local products, and street food stalls** - **Open Kitchen** (Fridays in warm months) brings chefs from all over Slovenia to cook in the open air – **a foodie’s dream!** ### **5️⃣ Metelkova Art Center 🎨** - A **gritty, colorful alternative culture zone** filled with **street art, galleries, and live music venues** - Great for **nightlife**, or even just to wander through during the day  ### **6️⃣ Tivoli Park** - Ljubljana’s largest green space, ideal for **relaxing walks or picnics** - Home to **manicured gardens, sculptures, and Jakopič Promenade’s open-air photo exhibitions**  ## **🍽️ What to Eat & Drink in Ljubljana** - **Kranjska klobasa** – Traditional Carniolan sausage - **Štruklji** – Rolled dough dumplings with sweet or savory fillings - **Jota** – Hearty stew with beans, sauerkraut, and potatoes - **Local wines & craft beer** – Slovenia has excellent **wineries and microbreweries** 🍷🍺 - Try riverside restaurants or cozy spots like **Druga Violina**, **Gostilna Sokol**, or **Slovenska Hiša**  ## **🚶‍♀️ Tips for Visiting Ljubljana** ✅ It’s **small and walkable** – most attractions are in or near the Old Town ✅ **Free walking tours** are great for learning local history & legends ✅ Rent a **bike** or **e-scooter** for exploring parks and neighborhoods ✅ **Day trip options** include **Lake Bled, Postojna Cave, and Triglav National Park** ✅ Ljubljana is **eco-friendly** – the center is car-free, and **tap water is clean and drinkable** 

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# O Impacto do Namoro com Pelé na Carreira de Xuxa Meneghel ## Disclaimer: Esse texto foi totalmente escrito pelo ChatGPT, eu apenas pedi que ele fizesse uma pesquisa sobre o tema. **Introdução:** O relacionamento entre Xuxa Meneghel e Pelé, que durou cerca de seis anos (início dos anos 1980 até 1986), foi um dos mais comentados da década de 1980 ([Xuxa e Pelé: um romance que se tornou inesquecível... | VEJA](https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/veja-gente/xuxa-e-pele-um-romance-que-se-tornou-inesquecivel-para-os-dois/#:~:text=Um%20dos%20romances%20mais%20comentados,manchetes%20e%20revistas%20de%20fofoca)). Xuxa tinha apenas 17 anos quando começou a namorar o já consagrado “Rei do Futebol”, então com 40 anos ([A história da foto de revista que gerou o namoro de Pelé e Xuxa](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/a-historia-da-foto-de-revista-que-gerou-o-namoro-de-pele-e-xuxa,c5106b23301f6f0e7c03f38cdf9eb1a06kopa9ho.html#:~:text=Xuxa%20tinha%2017%20anos,a%20primeira%20mulher%2C%20Rosemeri%20Cholbi)) ([Xuxa e Pelé: um romance que se tornou inesquecível... | VEJA](https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/veja-gente/xuxa-e-pele-um-romance-que-se-tornou-inesquecivel-para-os-dois/#:~:text=O%20jogador%20de%20futebol%20e,um%20relacionamento%20por%20seis%20anos)). Esse romance altamente midiático não só atiçou a curiosidade do público, como também alavancou a carreira de Xuxa de forma significativa. A seguir, detalhamos como o namoro aumentou a visibilidade da apresentadora, quais oportunidades profissionais podem ter tido influência direta de Pelé, o papel da revista *Manchete* e de outras mídias na promoção de sua imagem, se o relacionamento contribuiu para Xuxa conquistar espaços na TV (como o programa **Clube da Criança** e, posteriormente, na Rede Globo) e como mídia e público percebiam o casal – tudo embasado em fontes da época, entrevistas e biografias. ## Aumento da Visibilidade Midiática nos Anos 1980 O namoro com Pelé catapultou Xuxa a um novo patamar de fama. Até então uma modelo em começo de carreira, Xuxa **“se tornou famosa ao aparecer ao lado do esportista de maior status do Brasil”** ([Pelé viveu com Xuxa um namoro intenso afetado por fofocas e indiscrições](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/pele-viveu-com-xuxa-um-namoro-intenso-afetado-por-fofocas-e-indiscricoes,0c075d1a6be75f53536ad3b70e8e4a01iavthiai.html#:~:text=O%20romance%20come%C3%A7ou%20quando%20ela,de%20maior%20status%20do%20Brasil)). A partir do momento em que o relacionamento se tornou público, ela passou a estampar capas de revistas com frequência e a ser assunto constante na imprensa. Em 20 de dezembro de 1980, a jovem apareceu na capa da revista *Manchete* ao lado de Pelé e outras modelos – um ensaio fotográfico que marcou o primeiro encontro dos dois e deu início à enorme atenção midiática em torno de Xuxa ([Xuxa e Pelé: o relacionamento que ficou cravado na história da imprensa brasileira](https://aventurasnahistoria.com.br/noticias/reportagem/xuxa-e-pele-o-relacionamento-que-ficou-cravado-na-historia-da-imprensa-brasileira.phtml#:~:text=A%20extinta%20Manchete%20promovia%20uma,Xuxa%2C%20com%20apenas%2017%20anos)) ([Xuxa e Pelé: o relacionamento que ficou cravado na história da imprensa brasileira](https://aventurasnahistoria.com.br/noticias/reportagem/xuxa-e-pele-o-relacionamento-que-ficou-cravado-na-historia-da-imprensa-brasileira.phtml#:~:text=O%20jantar%20aproximou%20o%20casal,E%20fui%E2%80%9D)). Não por acaso, *“naquele ano, ela foi capa de mais de cem revistas”* ([Xuxa está em paz - revista piauí](https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/xuxa-esta-em-paz/#:~:text=convidadas%20a%20posar%20ao%20lado,de%20mais%20de%20cem%20revistas)), um indicativo claro de como sua visibilidade explodiu após começar a namorar Pelé. Jornais, revistas de celebridades e programas de fofoca passaram a segui-los de perto; o casal virou sensação nacional, comparado até ao “Casal 20” (dupla glamourosa de uma série de TV americana) pelo seu alto perfil na mídia ([Xuxa e Pelé: um romance que se tornou inesquecível... | VEJA](https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/veja-gente/xuxa-e-pele-um-romance-que-se-tornou-inesquecivel-para-os-dois/#:~:text=Um%20dos%20romances%20mais%20comentados,manchetes%20e%20revistas%20de%20fofoca)). Essa exposição intensa colocou Xuxa não apenas sob os holofotes do público, mas também a inseriu nos **bastidores do entretenimento**. Como namorada de Pelé – um dos homens mais conhecidos do mundo – Xuxa passou a frequentar eventos de gala, festas e bastidores de programas, onde conheceu figuras influentes do meio artístico e televisivo. Os fotógrafos os seguiam em eventos como bailes de carnaval e inaugurações, registrando cada aparição pública do casal. Com Pelé ao seu lado, Xuxa ganhou trânsito livre em círculos antes inacessíveis para uma modelo iniciante, construindo uma rede de contatos valiosa nos meios de comunicação. De fato, naquele início dos anos 80, **“os dois eram perseguidos por fotógrafos, apareciam em capas de revistas e até faziam publicidade juntos”** ([Pelé viveu com Xuxa um namoro intenso afetado por fofocas e indiscrições](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/pele-viveu-com-xuxa-um-namoro-intenso-afetado-por-fofocas-e-indiscricoes,0c075d1a6be75f53536ad3b70e8e4a01iavthiai.html#:~:text=Morte%20s%C3%BAbita%20encerra%20fase%20feliz,vida%20da%20atriz%20Marcia%20Manfredini)) – evidência de que Xuxa, graças ao namoro, transitava tanto na frente quanto por trás das câmeras com muito mais facilidade. Em suma, o relacionamento conferiu a ela um grau de notoriedade nacional que provavelmente demoraria anos para conquistar de outra forma, preparando o terreno para os passos seguintes de sua carreira. ## Influência Direta de Pelé nas Oportunidades Profissionais de Xuxa Além do aumento geral da fama, há casos específicos em que Pelé influenciou diretamente oportunidades profissionais para Xuxa. Um exemplo contundente é o filme **“Amor Estranho Amor” (1982)** – longa de teor erótico no qual Xuxa atuou no início da carreira. Segundo relatos da própria apresentadora, **foi Pelé quem a incentivou a aceitar participar desse filme** ([Pelé e Xuxa: um estranho amor que durou seis anos - 29/12/2022 - Celebridades - F5](https://f5.folha.uol.com.br/celebridades/2022/12/pele-e-xuxa-o-estranho-amor-entre-o-rei-do-futebol-e-a-futura-rainha-dos-baixinhos.shtml#:~:text=Profissionalmente%2C%20Xuxa%20disse%20que%20Pel%C3%A9,Me%20enganaram%2C%20falaram%20um)). Na época ainda em início de trajetória, Xuxa acabou convencida pelo namorado de que aquela oportunidade poderia ser benéfica. Anos mais tarde, ela revelaria arrependimento pela escolha desse papel, mas o fato reforça que Pelé teve influência ativa em decisões profissionais de Xuxa no começo de sua jornada. Outra área de influência direta foram as **publicidades e campanhas comerciais**. Graças ao prestígio de Pelé, Xuxa recebeu convites para estrelar anúncios ao lado do então namorado. Já em 1981, por exemplo, os dois gravaram juntos comerciais para uma empresa imobiliária, aparecendo como casal em campanhas de TV daquele Natal (pelas **Imóveis Francisco Xavier**, um case famoso entre colecionadores de propagandas da época) ([Xuxa e Pelé: Natal de 1981 na Publicidade Imobiliária | TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@thebest.memories/video/7301084045402721541#:~:text=Xuxa%20e%20Pel%C3%A9%3A%20Natal%20de,Natal%20de%201981%20na)) ([Xuxa com Pelé em comercial de imobiliária em dezembro de 1981](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t45oWkJPFw0#:~:text=Xuxa%20com%20Pel%C3%A9%20em%20comercial,Im%C3%B3veis%20em%20dezembro%20de%201981)). Assim, Xuxa obteve espaço em campanhas publicitárias que dificilmente envolveriam uma modelo desconhecida – mas que, com a “namorada do Pelé” no elenco, ganhavam apelo extra. Isso evidencia que Pelé abriu portas também no mercado publicitário, dando a Xuxa oportunidades de trabalho e renda enquanto sua própria imagem pública se consolidava. Ademais, a presença de Pelé ao lado de Xuxa em diversos editoriais e ensaios fotográficos serviu para elevá-la de modelo anônima a personalidade conhecida. Revistas e jornais buscavam os dois para sessões de fotos e entrevistas, sabendo do interesse do público pelo casal. As capas conjuntas em publicações de grande circulação (como *Manchete* e outras) não só aumentaram a exposição de Xuxa, mas também conferiram a ela certa credibilidade midiática por associação. Em outras palavras, estar ao lado de um ícone como Pelé funcionou como um “selo de aprovação” implícito, deixando editores e produtores mais propensos a convidá-la para projetos. Vale lembrar que **“ao longo dos seis anos de relacionamento, [eles] posaram para várias capas da *Manchete*”**, com a revista acompanhando de perto cada fase do namoro ([A história da foto de revista que gerou o namoro de Pelé e Xuxa](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/a-historia-da-foto-de-revista-que-gerou-o-namoro-de-pele-e-xuxa,c5106b23301f6f0e7c03f38cdf9eb1a06kopa9ho.html#:~:text=Um%20tempo%20depois%2C%20quando%20a,se%20nacionalmente%20famosa)). Essa recorrência nas bancas solidificou o rosto e o nome de Xuxa na indústria do entretenimento. Por fim, é importante notar que nem todas as influências de Pelé foram positivas para a carreira dela – algumas foram tentativas de direcionamento. A própria Xuxa contou que, quando surgiu a oportunidade de ela ir para a TV Globo em 1986, Pelé desencorajou a mudança. **Ele sugeriu que Xuxa permanecesse na TV Manchete, dizendo que “ser a primeira [na Globo] é muito difícil; melhor ficar onde está”**, o que ela interpretou como falta de apoio dele à sua ascensão ([Xuxa e Pelé: o relacionamento que ficou cravado na história da imprensa brasileira](https://aventurasnahistoria.com.br/noticias/reportagem/xuxa-e-pele-o-relacionamento-que-ficou-cravado-na-historia-da-imprensa-brasileira.phtml#:~:text=,torcendo%20por%20mim%E2%80%9D%2C%20acrescentou%20Xuxa)). Esse episódio mostra que Pelé tentou influenciar também os rumos que Xuxa tomaria, embora, nesse caso, ela tenha decidido seguir sua intuição profissional e aceitar o desafio na Globo – escolha que se revelaria acertada. Em resumo, Pelé atuou sim como facilitador de várias oportunidades profissionais para Xuxa (de filmes a comerciais e visibilidade editorial), mas ela soube trilhar seu caminho a partir daí, inclusive contrariando conselhos dele quando necessário. ## Papel da Revista *Manchete* e Outras Mídias na Promoção de Xuxa A revista ***Manchete*** teve um papel central na ascensão de Xuxa durante o relacionamento com Pelé. Foi justamente num ensaio para a *Manchete* que os dois se conheceram, em dezembro de 1980 ([Xuxa e Pelé: o relacionamento que ficou cravado na história da imprensa brasileira](https://aventurasnahistoria.com.br/noticias/reportagem/xuxa-e-pele-o-relacionamento-que-ficou-cravado-na-historia-da-imprensa-brasileira.phtml#:~:text=A%20extinta%20Manchete%20promovia%20uma,Xuxa%2C%20com%20apenas%2017%20anos)), e a partir daí a publicação tornou-se uma espécie oficiosa de cronista do romance. A *Manchete* era uma das revistas mais populares do Brasil naquela época e, ao perceber o interesse do público pelo casal, passou a trazê-los frequentemente em suas páginas. De fato, a revista que agiu como "cupido" do casal **“contava detalhes do romance a cada edição”**, alimentando a curiosidade nacional sobre a vida de Pelé e sua jovem namorada ([A história da foto de revista que gerou o namoro de Pelé e Xuxa](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/a-historia-da-foto-de-revista-que-gerou-o-namoro-de-pele-e-xuxa,c5106b23301f6f0e7c03f38cdf9eb1a06kopa9ho.html#:~:text=nacionalmente%20famosa)). As capas exibindo Xuxa e Pelé juntos (em cenários que iam da praia a eventos sociais) viraram chamariz nas bancas e contribuíram enormemente para fixar a imagem de Xuxa na mente do público. ([A história da foto de revista que gerou o namoro de Pelé e Xuxa](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/a-historia-da-foto-de-revista-que-gerou-o-namoro-de-pele-e-xuxa,c5106b23301f6f0e7c03f38cdf9eb1a06kopa9ho.html)) *Capa da revista Manchete (20 de dezembro de 1980) mostrando Pelé ao centro com Xuxa (à esquerda) e outras modelos. A partir desse ensaio fotográfico, a revista passou a acompanhar de perto o romance, impulsionando a imagem de Xuxa nacionalmente.* ([A história da foto de revista que gerou o namoro de Pelé e Xuxa](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/a-historia-da-foto-de-revista-que-gerou-o-namoro-de-pele-e-xuxa,c5106b23301f6f0e7c03f38cdf9eb1a06kopa9ho.html#:~:text=Um%20tempo%20depois%2C%20quando%20a,se%20nacionalmente%20famosa)) ([Xuxa e Pelé: o relacionamento que ficou cravado na história da imprensa brasileira](https://aventurasnahistoria.com.br/noticias/reportagem/xuxa-e-pele-o-relacionamento-que-ficou-cravado-na-historia-da-imprensa-brasileira.phtml#:~:text=A%20extinta%20Manchete%20promovia%20uma,Xuxa%2C%20com%20apenas%2017%20anos)) Além da *Manchete*, outras mídias impressas também surfaram no interesse pelo casal e ajudaram a moldar a imagem de Xuxa. Revistas de celebridades e colunas sociais publicavam notas e fotos frequentes, ora exaltando o glamour do par, ora especulando sobre fofocas. Xuxa, que pouco antes era desconhecida fora do circuito da moda, tornou-se figura constante em revistas semanais como *Contigo!* e *Amiga* (dedicadas à vida dos famosos), assim como em jornais de grande circulação. Esse bombardeio de aparições – entrevistas, fotos e manchetes – construiu a **persona pública** de Xuxa simultaneamente como **modelo desejada e namorada devotada**. A promoção de sua imagem tinha um tom deliberadamente positivo nas revistas: enfatizava-se sua beleza, juventude e sorte por ter sido “escolhida” pelo rei Pelé. Em contrapartida, eventuais polêmicas (como cenas ousadas que ela fez no cinema ou rumores de crises no namoro) eram administradas pela própria mídia de maneira a preservar o encanto em torno de Xuxa, que já despontava como uma espécie de Cinderella moderna na narrativa do entretenimento brasileiro. Cabe destacar que a conexão de Xuxa com a *Manchete* não ficou só nas páginas da revista, mas transbordou para a televisão, já que a Rede Manchete (canal de TV fundado em 1983) pertencia ao mesmo grupo empresarial. Essa sinergia mídia impressa/televisão beneficiou Xuxa: **quando a Rede Manchete buscava uma apresentadora para seu novo programa infantil em 1983, Xuxa – já famosa pelas capas de revista – foi convidada** para o posto ([Xuxa está em paz - revista piauí](https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/xuxa-esta-em-paz/#:~:text=match%20at%20L355%20TV%20Manchete%2C,ter%20como%20apresentadora%20de%20programa)). Ou seja, a exposição na revista *Manchete* serviu de vitrine para que os executivos da emissora homônima apostassem nela na TV. Outras mídias também legitimaram sua transição de modelo para apresentadora, publicando matérias sobre sua simpatia com as crianças e seu carisma diante das câmeras, preparando o público para aceitar Xuxa em um novo papel. Assim, o período do relacionamento com Pelé viu a mídia – liderada pela revista *Manchete* – construir e promover intensamente a imagem de Xuxa, pavimentando o caminho para suas conquistas seguintes. ## O Relacionamento e a Conquista de Espaços na TV: *Clube da Criança* e Rede Globo O namoro com Pelé coincidiu com a entrada de Xuxa na televisão e possivelmente facilitou essa transição. Em 1983, a recém-inaugurada Rede Manchete lançou o **“Clube da Criança”**, primeiro programa infantil de auditório da emissora, e Xuxa foi escolhida como apresentadora. Há indícios de que sua fama prévia – alavancada pelo relacionamento – foi decisiva nessa escolha. Conforme relatos, o diretor Maurício Sherman (responsável pelo projeto) estava de olho em Xuxa por sua notoriedade e carisma, chegando a dizer que ela reunia *“a sensualidade de Marilyn Monroe, o sorriso de Doris Day e um quê de Peter Pan”* ([Xuxa está em paz - revista piauí](https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/xuxa-esta-em-paz/#:~:text=TV%20Manchete%2C%20do%20grupo%20de,ter%20como%20apresentadora%20de%20programa)) – uma combinação que poderia funcionar bem num programa infantil. Xuxa inicialmente hesitou em aceitar, talvez pelo contraste entre sua imagem de modelo sensual e o universo infantil, mas acabou assinando contrato com a Manchete ([Clube da Criança – Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clube_da_Crian%C3%A7a#:~:text=match%20at%20L206%20comando%20da,por%20Maur%C3%ADcio%20Sherman%20e%20pelo)). Assim, aos 20 anos de idade, ela estreava como apresentadora de TV, **em grande parte graças à visibilidade e confiança que o nome “Xuxa” (já famoso por ser namorada do Pelé) passava aos produtores**. Não há registro de que Pelé tenha intervindo diretamente para que Xuxa conseguisse o posto no *Clube da Criança*. Foi a própria rede Manchete – estimulada pelo burburinho em torno dela – que a **“procurou e a convidou para apresentar”** o programa ([Xuxa está em paz - revista piauí](https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/xuxa-esta-em-paz/#:~:text=TV%20Manchete%2C%20do%20grupo%20de,ter%20como%20apresentadora%20de%20programa)). Porém, é inegável que, sem o destaque que Xuxa conquistara nos anos anteriores na imprensa (devido ao namoro), dificilmente uma emissora arriscaria colocar uma jovem inexperiente para comandar um show infantil nacional. Ou seja, o relacionamento criou as condições favoráveis para essa oportunidade surgir. Uma vez no ar, Xuxa rapidamente mostrou talento próprio: o *Clube da Criança* foi ganhando audiência e revelou a aptidão dela em se comunicar com o público infantil ([Xuxa, Pantanal, Cavaleiros dos Zodíacos: lembre sucessos da TV ...](https://www.folhape.com.br/cultura/xuxa-pantanal-cavaleiros-dos-zodiacos-e-mais-sucessos-da-tv/334766/#:~:text=Xuxa%2C%20Pantanal%2C%20Cavaleiros%20dos%20Zod%C3%ADacos%3A,exibido%20no%20fim%20de)). Ainda durante seu tempo na Manchete, Xuxa manteve-se nos holofotes tanto pela carreira quanto pelo namoro com Pelé – frequentemente um assunto alimentava o outro na mídia. Em meados de 1986, já conhecida como a “Rainha dos Baixinhos” pelo sucesso junto às crianças, Xuxa recebeu uma proposta para se transferir para a Rede Globo, a principal emissora do país ([A história da foto de revista que gerou o namoro de Pelé e Xuxa](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/a-historia-da-foto-de-revista-que-gerou-o-namoro-de-pele-e-xuxa,c5106b23301f6f0e7c03f38cdf9eb1a06kopa9ho.html#:~:text=Pel%C3%A9%20e%20Xuxa%20ficaram%20juntos,do%20mesmo%20grupo%20da%20revista)). Novamente, aqui o relacionamento com Pelé tem um papel indireto: por um lado, pode ter ajudado a construir a notoriedade que chamou a atenção da Globo; por outro, chegava ao fim exatamente nesse momento, marcando uma virada na vida dela. Após alguns anos de *Clube da Criança*, Xuxa decidiu dar um passo adiante. Ela mesma tomou a iniciativa de terminar o namoro com Pelé e aceitou o convite para fazer o **“Xou da Xuxa”** na Globo ([A história da foto de revista que gerou o namoro de Pelé e Xuxa](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/a-historia-da-foto-de-revista-que-gerou-o-namoro-de-pele-e-xuxa,c5106b23301f6f0e7c03f38cdf9eb1a06kopa9ho.html#:~:text=Pel%C3%A9%20e%20Xuxa%20ficaram%20juntos,do%20mesmo%20grupo%20da%20revista)). Pelé, como mencionado, havia expressado reservas sobre essa mudança de emissora ([Xuxa e Pelé: o relacionamento que ficou cravado na história da imprensa brasileira](https://aventurasnahistoria.com.br/noticias/reportagem/xuxa-e-pele-o-relacionamento-que-ficou-cravado-na-historia-da-imprensa-brasileira.phtml#:~:text=,torcendo%20por%20mim%E2%80%9D%2C%20acrescentou%20Xuxa)), mas sem sucesso em demovê-la. Com a benção do dono da Manchete, Adolpho Bloch (que a tratava “como filha” e apoiou seu crescimento) ([Xuxa está em paz - revista piauí](https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/xuxa-esta-em-paz/#:~:text=match%20at%20L405%20Manchete%20e,%E2%80%99%E2%80%9D)) ([Xuxa está em paz - revista piauí](https://piaui.folha.uol.com.br/materia/xuxa-esta-em-paz/#:~:text=Manchete%20e%20fui%20embora%E2%80%9D%2C%20recorda,%E2%80%99%E2%80%9D)), Xuxa partiu para a Globo levando sua diretora Marlene Mattos, e estreou em junho de 1986 o programa que a consagraria definitivamente. É importante notar que, ao ingressar na Globo, Xuxa já não dependia mais da aura de “namorada do Pelé” – ela havia se firmado como apresentadora de sucesso por méritos próprios. Ainda assim, **o relacionamento anterior continuou a ser parte de sua imagem pública**: a mídia noticiou a mudança destacando que a namorada de Pelé chegara à Globo, e muitos espectadores tinham curiosidade sobre aquela moça cuja fama começara nos braços do ídolo do futebol. Em resumo, o namoro ajudou Xuxa a conquistar o primeiro grande espaço na TV (na Manchete), fornecendo-lhe exposição e credibilidade iniciais, enquanto sua ida para a Globo foi impulsionada principalmente pelo desempenho no *Clube da Criança* – algo que o prestígio conquistado durante o relacionamento tornou possível em primeiro lugar. ## Percepção da Mídia e do Público sobre o Casal e a Imagem de Xuxa Durante os anos de namoro, Pelé e Xuxa foram um prato cheio para a imprensa e objeto de variadas opiniões do público. De um lado, eram celebrados como **“casal perfeito na mídia”**, aparecendo sorridentes em eventos e capas, o que projetava uma imagem glamourosa e apaixonada ([Pelé viveu com Xuxa um namoro intenso afetado por fofocas e indiscrições](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/pele-viveu-com-xuxa-um-namoro-intenso-afetado-por-fofocas-e-indiscricoes,0c075d1a6be75f53536ad3b70e8e4a01iavthiai.html#:~:text=Image%3A%20Pel%C3%A9%20e%20Xuxa%20na,perfeito%20na%20m%C3%ADdia%2C%20mas%20com)). Xuxa era frequentemente retratada como a bela jovem humilde que havia conquistado o coração do "rei", uma narrativa de conto de fadas que agradava muitos fãs. Pessoas próximas diziam na época: *“Nossa, como ela está apaixonada, como ela está de quatro pelo Pelé”*, segundo relembrou a própria Xuxa, indicando que sua dedicação ao namorado era visível e comentada ([Xuxa e Pelé: um romance que se tornou inesquecível... | VEJA](https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/veja-gente/xuxa-e-pele-um-romance-que-se-tornou-inesquecivel-para-os-dois/#:~:text=Ao%20participar%20de%20uma%20live,de%20quatro%20para%20o%20Pel%C3%A9%27%E2%80%9D)). Essa percepção de autenticidade nos sentimentos ajudou a humanizar Xuxa aos olhos do público, diferenciando-a de estereótipos de *roupante* ou interesse calculado. Por outro lado, nem toda a atenção era positiva. **Houve murmúrios maldosos e preconceituosos nos bastidores**. Pelé e Xuxa formavam um casal interracial (ele negro, ela branca e bem mais jovem), o que, segundo a imprensa, **“gerava olhares de reprovação dos conservadores” e até comentários racistas proferidos pelas costas** ([Pelé viveu com Xuxa um namoro intenso afetado por fofocas e indiscrições](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/pele-viveu-com-xuxa-um-namoro-intenso-afetado-por-fofocas-e-indiscricoes,0c075d1a6be75f53536ad3b70e8e4a01iavthiai.html#:~:text=Os%20dois%20eram%20perseguidos%20por,Mas%20nem%20tudo%20era%20agrad%C3%A1vel)). Além disso, alguns duvidavam das intenções de Xuxa no relacionamento, insinuando que ela buscava ascensão social por meio de Pelé. Termos pejorativos como *“maria-chuteira”* (gíria para mulheres que namoram jogadores em busca de status) e *“alpinista social”* chegaram a ser associados a Xuxa por fofoqueiros da época ([Pelé viveu com Xuxa um namoro intenso afetado por fofocas e indiscrições](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/pele-viveu-com-xuxa-um-namoro-intenso-afetado-por-fofocas-e-indiscricoes,0c075d1a6be75f53536ad3b70e8e4a01iavthiai.html#:~:text=olhares%20de%20reprova%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20dos%20conservadores)). Essa desconfiança lançava sombra sobre a imagem dela, pintando-a, aos olhos de alguns, como oportunista em vez de namorada dedicada. Xuxa teve de lidar com esse tipo de insinuação ao longo do namoro, buscando provar que seu amor era verdadeiro e que ela também tinha talentos e ambições próprias. A mídia impressa, em geral, manteve uma postura favorável ao casal, explorando o romance como algo encantador. Mas não deixou de reportar as turbulências: sabia-se, por exemplo, das **frequentes traições de Pelé**, que Xuxa anos depois revelou ter suportado calada na época ([Xuxa e Pelé: o relacionamento que ficou cravado na história da imprensa brasileira](https://aventurasnahistoria.com.br/noticias/reportagem/xuxa-e-pele-o-relacionamento-que-ficou-cravado-na-historia-da-imprensa-brasileira.phtml#:~:text=Por%20causa%20do%20companheiro%2C%20tamb%C3%A9m,que%20n%C3%A3o%20era%20o%20meu)) ([Xuxa e Pelé: o relacionamento que ficou cravado na história da imprensa brasileira](https://aventurasnahistoria.com.br/noticias/reportagem/xuxa-e-pele-o-relacionamento-que-ficou-cravado-na-historia-da-imprensa-brasileira.phtml#:~:text=Apesar%20dos%20problemas%20corriqueiros%20com,Era%20uma%20situa%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20esquisita%E2%80%9D)). Essas infidelidades eram rumores correntes nos círculos de fofoca, embora Xuxa raramente comentasse publicamente enquanto estava com Pelé. O público, portanto, via um casal bonito e famoso, mas também acompanhava as especulações de crises e reconciliações pelos noticiários de celebridades. Cada aparição pública deles – fosse em um jogo de futebol, um evento beneficente ou nos camarotes do carnaval – era dissecada pelos repórteres, e cada declaração (ou silêncio) alimentava interpretações sobre o estado do relacionamento e sobre quem era Xuxa por trás da fama. No saldo final, o namoro com Pelé influenciou profundamente a **imagem pública de Xuxa**. Inicialmente marcada como “a namorada do Rei” – posição que trazia tanto admiração quanto inveja – Xuxa soube aproveitar a visibilidade para mostrar carisma e trabalho, transformando-se em uma estrela por direito próprio. Ao se tornar apresentadora infantil de sucesso ainda durante o namoro, ela começou a dissociar sua imagem da de Pelé, provando que podia ser mais do que um apêndice de um astro do esporte. Quando o relacionamento terminou em 1986, Xuxa emergiu não caída em desgraça, mas sim pronta para reinar sozinha na TV. A mídia continuou a mencioná-la em referência a Pelé por algum tempo (era inevitável, dado o quão famoso o casal fora), mas cada vez mais o público passou a enxergá-la principalmente como a **“Rainha dos Baixinhos”**, a figura alegre das manhãs na TV Globo. Em entrevistas posteriores, Xuxa admitiu ter sentimentos mistos ao lembrar dessa fase: ela se ressentiu, por exemplo, de Pelé ter classificado o que viveram como *“uma amizade colorida”* em vez de namoro sério ([Pelé e Xuxa: um estranho amor que durou seis anos - 29/12/2022 - Celebridades - F5](https://f5.folha.uol.com.br/celebridades/2022/12/pele-e-xuxa-o-estranho-amor-entre-o-rei-do-futebol-e-a-futura-rainha-dos-baixinhos.shtml#:~:text=Xuxa%20disse%20ter%20ficado%20magoada,N%C3%A3o%20fui%20avisada)) – frase do ex-jogador que a magoou e que veio a público muitos anos depois. Esse comentário retroativo de Pelé apenas reforçou o quanto a mídia e o público discutiram e dissecaram a natureza daquela relação. Em conclusão, a percepção do casal Xuxa e Pelé oscilou entre o encanto e a controvérsia, mas inegavelmente manteve Xuxa nos trending topics de sua época (para usar um termo atual). A jovem modelo gaúcha ganhou projeção, prestígio e também enfrentou julgamentos enquanto esteve com Pelé. Tudo isso moldou sua imagem – de **símbolo sexual e socialite em ascensão** a **profissional talentosa pronta para brilhar por conta própria**. O relacionamento forneceu-lhe a plataforma e a armadura mediática; coube a Xuxa transformar essa visibilidade em uma carreira sólida, o que ela fez com maestria ao se tornar uma das maiores apresentadoras da história da TV brasileira. **Fontes:** Entrevistas e depoimentos de Xuxa Meneghel (inclusive do livro *Memórias*, 2020), reportagens da época em revistas como *Manchete*, colunas sociais e jornais (compiladas em repositórios atuais), e biografias e retrospectivas sobre ambos os envolvidos ([A história da foto de revista que gerou o namoro de Pelé e Xuxa](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/a-historia-da-foto-de-revista-que-gerou-o-namoro-de-pele-e-xuxa,c5106b23301f6f0e7c03f38cdf9eb1a06kopa9ho.html#:~:text=Um%20tempo%20depois%2C%20quando%20a,se%20nacionalmente%20famosa)) ([Pelé viveu com Xuxa um namoro intenso afetado por fofocas e indiscrições](https://www.terra.com.br/diversao/gente/pele-viveu-com-xuxa-um-namoro-intenso-afetado-por-fofocas-e-indiscricoes,0c075d1a6be75f53536ad3b70e8e4a01iavthiai.html#:~:text=Morte%20s%C3%BAbita%20encerra%20fase%20feliz,vida%20da%20atriz%20Marcia%20Manfredini)) ([Xuxa e Pelé: o relacionamento que ficou cravado na história da imprensa brasileira](https://aventurasnahistoria.com.br/noticias/reportagem/xuxa-e-pele-o-relacionamento-que-ficou-cravado-na-historia-da-imprensa-brasileira.phtml#:~:text=,torcendo%20por%20mim%E2%80%9D%2C%20acrescentou%20Xuxa)) ([Xuxa e Pelé: um romance que se tornou inesquecível... | VEJA](https://veja.abril.com.br/coluna/veja-gente/xuxa-e-pele-um-romance-que-se-tornou-inesquecivel-para-os-dois/#:~:text=Um%20dos%20romances%20mais%20comentados,manchetes%20e%20revistas%20de%20fofoca)), entre outras. Essas fontes confirmam o papel catalisador que o namoro com Pelé teve nos primeiros passos da trajetória de Xuxa, bem como os desafios e oportunidades que surgiram dessa intensa exposição pública.

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## Chef's notes Using only top quality dill pickles and juice is highly recommended. Do not cheap out on this ingredient. The better the pickle juice, the better your fried chicken will taste. Do not let the chicken fry for too long. If the color is not a light golden brown and you let it fry too dark. Then it will not taste right!!! ## Details - ⏲️ Prep time: 20 min - 🍳 Cook time: 25-30 min - 🍽️ Servings: 3-4 ## Ingredients - 1 1/2 Pounds Chicken Breasts - 2 Chicken Eggs - 2 Cups Dill Pickle Juice - 1/2 Cup Water - 1 Cup Buttermilk - 1 Cup Unbleached Flour - 3 Tablespoons Powdered Sugar - 1 Teaspoon Paprika - 1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder - 1 Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper - 1 Teaspoon Ground Black Pepper - 1 Teaspoon Sea Salt - 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder - 3-4 Cups Peanut Oil - 3-4 Toasted Brioche Buns (Chicken Sandwiches Only) - 1 Tablespoon Orange Blossom Honey (Chicken Sandwiches Only) - 1/4 Cup Sliced Dill Pickles (Chicken Sandwiches Only) ## Directions 1. There are 2 ways to make The Legendary CFA Fried Chicken. If you want to make it into nuggets then take the chicken breasts and cut them with a kitchen knife into 1 inch cubes. If you want to make it into chicken breast sandwiches, then ensure they are no bigger than 1-1.5 inches thick cut once down the middle. Once you have made your decision and cut them to size. Place the chicken in a large mixing bowl Pour the pickle juice into the bowl, cover it, and place it in the refrigerator to marinate for the next 24 hours. 2. Take a large mixing bowl and add in the flour, powdered sugar, paprika, ground black pepper, cayenne pepper, sea salt, garlic powder, and baking powder. Whisk it all together until it is fully mixed and set aside. 3. Take another large mixing bowl. Add in the chicken eggs and buttermilk. Then whisk together until it is fully blended and set aside. 4. Add 3-4 cups of peanut oil to a large cast iron frying pan, or a deep fryer. Heat the oil to 350F degrees. 5. Remove the marinated chicken from the refrigerator. Drain out all of the pickle juice. 6. Dredge the chicken in the buttermilk egg mixture until it is fully coated. Coat the chicken in the flour mixture. Then immediately repeat these two steps so it is double coated to ensure maximum crispiness. 7. Add the chicken into the peanut oil and allow it to cook evenly until it has reached a light golden brown color and is fully cooked inside. 8. Remove the chicken from the pan and place it onto a paper towel to drain the excess oil off. If you made it into chicken nuggets then simply choose your favorite dipping sauce and serve. If you chose to make chicken sandwiches then lightly toast the brioche bun to a golden brown and drizzle on the honey on the inside of the top of the bun. Then add 1 piece of chicken breast per bun on the bottom half, top it off with sliced dill pickles. Complete the sandwich and serve immediately.

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Everyone who sees it knows at this point that the matrix of control comes from the overdependence of proprietary software to do our everyday tasks. You can think of this like us being the cling wrap that will just not let go of these pieces of garbage software that don't allow you to see what is in their source code, and how they work. This will tend to lead to the unlawful collection of data (violating the most basic of privacy laws, despite unenforceable contracts that are enforced regardless), bad OPSEC that sees you being stalked and harassed over nothing significant. In the worst of cases, if you speak your mind where you aren't necessarily supposed to be able to do that, and you get doxxed, the worst cases could be far worse than one could imagine. The solution to this, on the other hand, is using almost exclusively free/libre open-source software and GNU/Linux operation systems. If you're using certain proprietary software, hardening it to give as little data as possible to the entity responsible for it will also work, as long as you know which ones to use. This is a hard pass for a lot of people, but if you want to escape the control matrix of proprietary software, Winblows, HackOS, iHackOS, iBloatOS and stock Google AI Fever Dream, then researching which Free Software (notice the spelling) to use is your first bet. I had already done this for the past four and a half years, and will continue to do it as long as I live, seeing what new Free Software compliant applications and libraries come into the spotlight once things get locked down into walled gardens like what HackOS, iHackOS and BlindnessOS do on a regular basis. Each of these pieces of software will be in a categorized list with a brief description of what the software is used for. There is a lot to take in, so research this yourself and see if these are right for you. These are the applications I personally use on a regular day-to-day basis, and they work for my needs. 1. Operating Systems (the core to your device) * GNU/Linux operating systems (for PCs) or GrapheneOS (for de-googled Android phones) To be fair on this one, GNU/Linux is the combination of the Linux kernel with the GNU toolchain, which in turn allows any developer to make an operating system that is FOSS, not necessarily Free Software, especially with the Linux Kernel's proprietary bits of code. The Linux kernel is also used in the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP), and is used as the base of operating systems for Android phones such as GrapheneOS, the only AOSP custom ROM I would recommend based upon the research I had done on this (even if very little). My recommendations on the Linux side of things are almost any Arch-based distribution (with the exception of Manjaro), Debian-based distributions like Linux Mint Debian edition, regular Debian, AntiX or Devuan, or a Fedora/RedHat-based distribution like Nobara Project (if you're a gamer), OpenSUSE (if set up properly) or even Bluefin if you want an atomic desktop (I wouldn't recommend Bluefin if you want to monkey with your operating system and DIY on many aspects of it). Once you learn how to set these up securely, privately and properly, you're on your way to starting your journey into digital liberation, but there's far more to go on this front. 2. Web Browsers (How you surf the internet) * Firefox Forks This one is self-explanatory. I harden all the Firefox forks I use (LibreWolf, Waterfox, Cachy Browser, Floorp and Zen as some examples) to the nines, despite being unable to do anything about my fingerprint. This is why I use multiple browsers for specific purposes to counteract the fingerprint spying due to weaponized JavaScript. There are ways to circumvent the fingerprint-based espionage, and make sure the site fingerprint.com doesn't know that one's lying about what their user agent is, though it's not very easy to fool that site, as it's used by 6,000 companies. * Brave Browser This is the only Chromium-based browser I would recommend, as it's better when hardened against all the other Chromium-based browsers, including Ungoogled Chromium, which is almost impossible to harden due to security vulnerabilities. Despite that, Brave has some of the best features for a Chromium-based browser one can feel comfortable using, even though you'll have similar issues with Firefox-based browsers that aren't actually Firefox (and Firefox has its own issues regarding espionage from Mozilla) 3. Office Suites (If you need to do professional office documents) * LibreOffice A fork of Apache's OpenOffice, made better with many features missing from even OnlyOffice and OpenOffice, this suite of applications is the go-to Free Software office suite for many people looking to switch from the proprietary software nether to the diamonds of free/libre open-source software. Though one may need to perform some extra steps to set up compatibility with G-Suite and Microsoft Office past 2015 potentially, it's still a good thing that people trust LibreOffice as their one-stop shop for office documents, despite being completely different from your standard office suite fare. * OnlyOffice The competitor to LibreOffice with the ease of Microsoft Office and G-Suite compatibility, OnlyOffice is another office suite that can be good for those who need it, especially since anybody who had used Microsoft Office in particular will be familiar with its layout, if not for a slight learning curve. As someone who's used G-Suite more (due to schooling that stunk worse than a decomposing rat in New York City), that's part of the reason why I switched to LibreOffice, though I tried some others, including OnlyOffice and Abiword (since I use a word processor a lot). This one is another solid option for those who need it. * Wordgrinder For those who like to use a terminal emulator like I do, Wordgrinder is a word processor with a terminal user interface (TUI) designed with just focusing on typing without distractions in mind. .wg is the file extension for documents made using Wordgrinder, especially since nowadays most word processors are cloud based. For those who live in a terminal, this is a good option to your terminal UI-based toolbox 4. Text editors * Vi, Vim, Neovim and other Vim-like editors The classic VI Improved (Vim), a fork of the TUI modal editor, vi, with keybinds that will be confusing at first, but with practice and patience, bring about muscle memory to stay on the keyboard, and not necessarily touch the mouse, keypad on the right hand side, or even the arrow keys. These keybind skills will stay with one for the rest of their life once they learn how the modes in vi, Vim or vi-based editors work. It's a classic for those working in the terminal, and a staple in FLOSS text editing and coding tools once customized potentially to the nines to your particular style. * VSCodium The Free Software fork of Code OSS by Microsoft, but made to be similar in function to VSCode without Microsoft's espionage baked into it. It has almost exactly the same features as VSCode that one would need, and even any VSIX files from VSCode will work in VSCodium. This one is an easy switch from VSCode for those who use it, but don't want the forced telemetry. * Emacs The competitor to Vim, Emacs is an editor that is FLOSS in every way imaginable. It is one of the most customizable editors anybody could have ever conceived, though the programming language used in Emacs is a dialect of Lisp the developers had made themselves. There are more keybinds to memorize compared to Vim, though Vim keybinds can be added using the Evil Mode package in any Emacs package manager to get the best of both worlds in Emacs. Once one gets a handle of the steep learning curve for Emacs, it's customizable in every imaginable way almost. These four categories will get you started on your privacy journey, though I covered things a developer might want. I have plans on more lists to compile once I get my ducks in a row on what I want to cover here on Nostr in a longform format. Feel free to let me know if you have recommendations for me to write about, and I can do some digging on that if it isn't a rabbit hole.

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We are fostering a lamb named Frank. He was left behind when his flock was moved to a new grazing area. He almost didn't make it. I've learned that sheep are not as dumb as I thought they were. He seems to be pretty sharp and has quickly become spoiled. He follows us around like a puppy. We have had some cold nights so we made him a jacket. He's about 3 weeks old now and seems to be doing well.    originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/934770

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Lovely seeing you here. Hello there, and welcome to our very first post! We’re the team behind Math Success by DMTI, and we’re thrilled for this journey with you. If you’re a teacher, parent, or just someone who cares about kids and learning, you’ve probably noticed something: math education isn’t working well for most everyone. Too many students dread it, too many teachers feel stuck, and too many classrooms are stuck in a cycle of rote memorization that leaves most everyone uninspired. We’re here to change that—and that’s why we’ve built Math Success by DMTI, the leading K-6 Math Education Program. The Problem: Math Isn’t Adding Up Let’s start with the elephant in the room. Math education often misses the mark. Kids are taught to memorize times tables or follow steps without understanding why they work. It’s like handing someone a recipe without teaching them how to cook—they might make the dish, but they won’t know what to do when the ingredients change. Studies show U.S. students lag behind many peers globally in math, and the gap widens as they move through school. Why? Because we’ve prioritized procedures over meaning, drills over discovery, and compliance over curiosity. The result? Students who see math as a chore, not a chance to explore. Teachers, meanwhile, are stretched thin—juggling standards, testing pressures, and outdated methods that don’t spark joy or learning. It’s no wonder so many kids say, “I’m just not a math person.” But here’s the thing: we believe everyone can be a math person—if we teach it right. Our Solution: Math Success by DMTI That’s where Math Success by DMTI comes in. Born from the Developing Mathematical Thinking Institute and over 40 years of research, our program isn’t just another curriculum—it’s a rethink of how math should feel and function in the classroom. We’ve seen the data: classrooms using our approach see an average 35% jump in achievement. But more than that, they see kids who love math and teachers who can’t wait to teach it. So, how do we do it? It starts with our Developing Mathematical Thinking framework—a five-part recipe for success: Listen to Kids & Build on Their Ideas: We build on what students already know, making math personal and relevant. Speak the Right Language: We use the structural words unit, compose, decompose, iterate, partition, and equal to help kids communicate and connect to math across topics. Understand First, Calculate Later: Concepts come before procedures, so kids grasp the “why” before the “how.” Models and real-world connections: From blocks to drawings to numbers, we use models to make math tangible and fun while helping connect math to real life. Embrace Misconceptions & Mistakes: Missteps aren’t failures but chances to learn and grow. This isn’t the math you grew up with. It’s active, engaging, and built to stick. Teachers tell us it’s a game-changer—“I have never loved teaching math as much as I do now; math has come alive in my classroom. My students are further along now than any class I’ve ever taught before.” one said, “I could see the light bulbs going off like never before, and they’re excited!” Kids tell us, “Math is fun now!” And the numbers back it up: that 35% boost isn’t just a stat—it’s a sign of deeper understanding and real confidence. Why it matters Math isn’t just about numbers; it’s about thinking, solving problems, and opening doors. When kids succeed in math, they gain skills for life—whether they’re headed to STEM careers or just figuring out their budget. But beyond that, we want them to love it. To see math as a playground, not a prison. That’s our mission: successful learning and a genuine love for mathematics, one classroom at a time. What’s Next? This Substack is our space to share that mission with you. Expect stories from teachers and students, dives into our framework, tips for bringing math to life, and updates on our free courses (yep, free!). We’re partnering with educators like you to make this happen—because we can turn math education around together. So, stick with us. Subscribe below, drop a comment with your thoughts, and start building a world where math adds joy, not stress. Welcome to Math Success by DMTI—let’s make math work for everyone.

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Edinburgh is a city where ancient history and modern culture meet in the most atmospheric way. From its dramatic castle perched on a volcanic rock to narrow medieval alleys, vibrant festivals, and cozy pubs, Scotland’s capital is a must-visit for travelers seeking both beauty and depth. It’s a city that feels like stepping into a storybook—with a few ghost tales thrown in for good measure.  ## **🏛️ Top Things to See & Do in Edinburgh** ### **1️⃣ Edinburgh Castle** - Iconic and **steeped in royal history** - See the **Crown Jewels**, the **Stone of Destiny**, and sweeping **views over the city** - Don’t miss the **1 o’clock cannon fire**!  ### **2️⃣ Walk the Royal Mile** - The main street running from **Edinburgh Castle** to **Holyrood Palace** - Lined with **shops, historic closes (alleyways), churches, and pubs** - Pop into **St Giles’ Cathedral** and explore the **Writer’s Museum**  ### **3️⃣ Holyrood Palace & Arthur’s Seat** - The Queen’s official Scottish residence 👑 - Hike up **Arthur’s Seat**, an ancient volcano, for **amazing panoramic views** of Edinburgh and beyond ### **4️⃣ Explore the Old Town & New Town** - **Old Town:** Medieval, moody, atmospheric - **New Town:** Elegant Georgian streets and **great shopping on Princes Street** - Don’t miss **Victoria Street** – rumored inspiration for Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley ✨  ### **5️⃣ Museums & Culture** - **National Museum of Scotland** – interactive and family-friendly - **Scottish National Gallery** – features art by Turner, Van Gogh, and more - **Camera Obscura & World of Illusions** – quirky and fun near the castle ### **6️⃣ Edinburgh’s Underground & Ghost Tours** - Explore the **hidden vaults under the city** - Join a ghost tour or **learn about Edinburgh’s dark past**, including grave robbers and plague victims ### **7️⃣ Festivals Galore 🎭** - **Edinburgh Festival Fringe (August)** – The **largest arts festival in the world** - **Edinburgh International Festival**, **Book Festival**, and **Hogmanay (New Year)** celebrations  ## **🍽️ What to Eat in Edinburgh** - **Haggis, neeps & tatties** – A classic, surprisingly tasty Scottish dish - **Scottish salmon**, **Cullen skink (smoky fish soup)** - **Afternoon tea** or **Scottish whisky tasting** in a historic bar 🥃 - Try local spots like **The Witchery**, **Makars Gourmet Mash Bar**, or **The Scran & Scallie**  ## **🚶‍♀️ Tips for Visiting Edinburgh** ✅ Wear comfy shoes – **cobblestones and hills** are part of the charm ✅ Be ready for **4 seasons in a day** – pack layers and a rain jacket ☁️☀️🌧️ ✅ **Book ahead** in summer – especially during August festivals ✅ Take a day trip to **Rosslyn Chapel, the Highlands, or Stirling Castle** for more Scottish beauty ✅ Consider the **Edinburgh City Pass** if planning to visit many attractions 

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*The story you are about to read is one hundred percent true. It is also my first encounter with a supernatural force.*  It was the summer of 2003 and I was visiting my auntie in Nashville as a 16-year-old, pimply-faced teenager. My younger cousins, Alex, Mikey, and Tony were also there. One afternoon, they were all sitting bored outside in the blazing heat, sheltered under the tree on the front lawn. It was a comical sight really, all of them sprawled out lifeless and silent, eaten alive by the unforgiving mosquitos. I ducked inside and asked my aunt if it was okay to borrow her RAV4 to take them to play basketball nearby at Pitts Park. Despite not having a license she handed me the keys and when I went outside to tell the boys we were going to shoot hoops, you’d have thought I said I was taking them to Disney World! Off we went up and down the rollercoaster-like hills of Tennessee. Yes, I was speeding, and no, we were not wearing seatbelts. (Remember, sixteen, acne, angst, etc.) We arrived at the park and immediately I felt an eerie sensation. I had been there before with my other cousin Kim, but this time was undeniably different. It didn’t matter that the sun was shining above the bright blue sky, I sensed a darkness lingering. And it had nothing to do with the sticky Southern humidity. It was an overwhelming, odd, ineffable sensation. My eyes couldn’t help but focus on the trees behind the court. As if someone or something was watching us. Nevertheless, after shooting for teams, we began a 2-on-2 immediately. When Mikey and I won, (I towered over them and Mikey was surprisingly pretty good) Tony wasn’t too happy about losing. In frustration, he bounced the basketball with both hands as hard as he could. The ball ended up on the other side of the fences surrounding the court and rolled into the bordering woods. None of the little squirts wanted to retrieve the ball, so as the big cuz I volunteered myself. Nothing to it right? Wrong! As I walked towards the woods I couldn’t even locate the basketball. I stopped and scanned until I finally saw it, way deep among the trees. “How did it get all the way over there?” I mumbled beneath my breath. Then, while approaching the ball I heard a loud and distinct voice—“Hey!”—I turned around suddenly, but nothing was there. At first I wasn’t afraid, rather I was genuinely confused. It just made no damn sense, there was no one around. I swiveled my head in every direction and once again the deep, gravelly voice called out, “Hey!” This time I knew where it was coming from and crept towards the source until I spotted something in the bushes. I crouched and pushed some branches aside. And that’s when I noticed it. Buried under the shrubs was a tombstone! It stared back at me, weathered, cracked, moss-eaten. I picked my ass up, ran to the ball, scooped it and bolted back to the court. Little Alex asked if we were going to play a rematch; I said, “Hell no”. After herding them back to the car, we left and never looked back. To this day I remember the voice. I recall the inexplicable feeling of the unknown energy, force, or spirit that was with us. I only recently shared this story with him and now, at 27, he asked why I didn’t tell him sooner. I thought hard about it and answered, “I guess I didn’t want you to get scared and piss yourself.”

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I am not an engineer by trade. I took my math classes for college credit as early as I could in high school. I signed up for a bachelor of arts in college and basically didn't touch STEM for the rest of my formal education. Seminary (incomplete) and Law School (JD) didn't go deep into any of the sciences -- I think I struggled through an "accounting for lawyers" class. The dumb thing is that in middle school and early high school I was obsessed with tinkering with mechanical things. I rebuilt a go-kart, tinkered with my computer, built skateboard ramps. High school came, I got obsessed with chasing girls and listening to emo music, and that culminated in a foggy pursuit of journalism, linguistics, ministry and/or academia in my post-graduate adventures. Also, algebra came to me really easily. I loved cramming the day before a test in middle school and embarrassing the other A students who had to work hard to keep those grades up. I obviously see now how dangerous that pattern can be to sustaining motivation and discipline in the long-time preference aspects of life. I was motivated by the idea of "getting one over" on the authoritarian educators in my life -- they said that the only way to succeed is to do my homework and study, but I wanted them to know that *I was different*. And I think I was different from a lot of other people around me, but I aimed my agency in the wrong direction. The rebellion became the end for me, instead of being the means to an end of meaningful learning. Rebel against the system so you can escape into a self-sovereign, high-agency existence. At the risk of over-stuffing the analogy, perhaps that point brings me to decentralized social media environments. Facebook is like my school teachers, there are tasks laid out for me nudging me to behave a certain way. My grades are analogized by my reach that Facebook will give and take away. I run a few Facebook pages and I am constantly irritated by the annoying UI. Constantly changing, adding shit that I cannot imagine anyone asking for and taking away the shit that you refer to everyday. Just this past week I noticed that I have to click into a post on Meta business sweet in order to see how many shares it has. This used to be on the page as I scrolled through all of my content. There is literally just a blank white space where it used to say: 54 shares. My thought goes to, this is somehow punishing me for my reach. Although Zuckerberg has pledged his allegiance to the new age of "free speech" and given his finger to the government-meddling that he fanned to flame over the last ten or fifteen years, I still think Facebook wants to nudge users away from certain things and towards other things. Libertarians have railed against the "nanny-state" but it is harder to understand how we also give up our sovereignty to centralized social media companies: the Nanny-Feed. This must die. The unbundling of facebook is a weird time that feels like the detangling of digital society. Life without widespread Craigslist adoption is somewhat more annoying. I used to scroll Craigslist all the time for stuff. I went to Los Angeles for a few months in 2012 and used it to buy some things and hear about auditions for different projects, a few of which panned out for me. There was something about having some separation from the site that I went to specifically to network with co-workers and communicate with old friends that I liked. I don't want my social media identity locked on one site, especially a site that is subservient to a boardroom. I also like the inconvenience of hopping over to a different app to handle my marketplace experiences. A lot of this needs to be thought through a lot more, because attempting to untangle the beast that is "meta" (still Facebook to me) requires a lot more insight than I have as I type this out. I'm mostly just nostalgic and emotional and remembering a different time in my life.

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**Vous avez trouvé un produit naturel ? Partagez-le ici en commentant cette page !** Ce site référence uniquement des produits et objets à usage durable. Les consommables (aliments, cosmétiques, combustibles, etc.) ne sont pas inclus. Pour être référencé, le produit doit être composé de matières naturelles. 👉 [En savoir plus sur les matières](https://www.origine-nature.com/post/ftjhuxe9mvxkhoedyz36i/) Copiez-collez le modèle ci-dessous et remplissez les informations dont vous disposez. D’autres contribut-eur-rice-s pourront compléter les éléments manquants. Chaque information ajoutée (nom, matière, lien, zone de livraison pour un lien, etc.) et validée est considérée comme une contribution. 👉 [En savoir plus sur les contributions](https://www.origine-nature.com/post/26bj5f7bwyps6ecp5v62t/) --- ### Nouveau produit - Nom du produit : - Image du produit (lien) : - Description courte : - Catégories : - Marque ou fabricant : - Composition (matériaux utilisés, y compris les éléments inconnus) : - Liens pour l’acheter (et zone de livraison) : - Zone de livraison pour les - Autres infos utiles (lieu de fabrication, labels, etc.) : --- Si vous ne souhaitez pas vous connecter, vous pouvez tout de même contribuer via [ce formulaire](https://www.origine-nature.com/post/qcp-smvj1v78_-7iceyrd/). Cependant, votre contribution ne sera pas comptabilisée pour une rétribution. 👉 [En savoir plus sur les rétributions](https://www.origine-nature.com/post/7hdgcdwt76dprobc9g_2f/) --- Cet article est publié sur [origine-nature.com](https://www.origine-nature.com/post/nicmc-eandjr_vcz4_hsr/) 🌐 [See this article in English](https://www.origin-nature.com/post/8adj-i_hk0gtzp_ul9k17/)

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**Contribuez à enrichir le site !** Chaque contribution permet d’améliorer ce site en aidant à référencer des alternatives naturelles. ### 💡 Qu’est-ce qu’une contribution ? Une contribution peut être : 📝 La proposition d’une nouvelle fiche, en fournissant ses premières informations. Chaque information ajoutée (nom, lien, catégorie, etc.) est une contribution : - [Ajouter un produit](https://www.origine-nature.com/post/nicmc-eandjr_vcz4_hsr/) - [Ajouter une marque](https://www.origine-nature.com/post/4wvxjm06tle2aelvde8w6/) 📝 L'ajout ou la modification d’informations sur une fiche existante. Chaque information ajoutée ou retirée est une contribution. ### ✅ Validation des contributions Les contributions sont vérifiées par l’équipe cœur. Une contribution est validée lorsque l'information indiquée est fournie pour la première fois (le commentaire le plus ancien est pris en compte) et est vérifiable. Une fois validées, les contributions sont comptabilisées et donnent lieu à une rétribution. 👉 [En savoir plus sur les rétributions](https://www.origine-nature.com/post/7hdgcdwt76dprobc9g_2f/) --- Cet article est publié sur [origine-nature.com](https://www.origine-nature.com/post/26bj5f7bwyps6ecp5v62t/) 🌐 [See this article in English](https://www.origin-nature.com/post/laf_xjasf4kgunxvozhkm/)

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Zlarin is a small, car-free island near Šibenik, known for its peaceful atmosphere, crystal-clear waters, and centuries-old coral tradition. It’s often called the “Golden Island” for its natural beauty, and it remains a hidden gem on the Adriatic coast—perfect for quiet beach days, cycling, and slow travel.  ## **🌿 Why Visit Zlarin?** - **No cars = pure tranquility** – the whole island is pedestrian- and bike-friendly 🚲 - Rich in **coral diving heritage** – once the center of Croatia’s coral trade 🪸 - Beautiful **stone houses, pine forests, and untouched coves** - **Easy to reach** via a short ferry ride from Šibenik ⛴️  ## **🏖️ Things to Do on Zlarin** ### **1️⃣ Swim & Relax on Secluded Beaches** - **Veleš Beach** – A pebbly beach surrounded by pines, great for families 🌲 - **Magarna Bay** – Quiet, wild beach perfect for those seeking solitude 🧘‍♀️ - **Hidden coves** – Wander the coast and find your own little swimming spot 🌅 ### **2️⃣ Walk or Cycle the Island** - Well-marked **trails through pine forests and olive groves** - Visit the **hilltop viewpoint** for a panoramic look at Šibenik and nearby islands - Bring or rent a **bike in Šibenik** – bikes are ideal for exploring Zlarin 🚴‍♂️ ### **3️⃣ Learn About Coral Traditions** - Visit the **Zlarinka Museum** dedicated to the island’s **red coral harvesting history** - See traditional **jewelry and tools**, and learn about the craft’s cultural significance  ### **4️⃣ Stroll Through the Village** - Picturesque **stone streets, old chapels, and flower-filled gardens** - Enjoy a drink at a **local konoba (tavern)** with views of the sea 🍷 ### **5️⃣ Take a Boat Tour or Kayak Trip** - Explore nearby **Prvić, Kaprije, or Žirje islands** - Great area for **kayaking or paddleboarding** over glassy waters 🚣  ## **🚢 How to Get to Zlarin** - **Ferry from Šibenik** (approx. 25 minutes, year-round service) - **No cars allowed**, so park in Šibenik if needed - Easy to visit **for a day trip** or stay overnight for peace and stargazing  ## **💡 Tips for Visiting Zlarin** ✅ Best time to visit? **Late spring to early autumn** for swimming and quiet vibes ☀️ ✅ **Bring cash** – not all places accept cards 💶 ✅ Pack **snorkel gear and water shoes** – the underwater world is beautiful 🐠 ✅ **Stay overnight** for an unforgettable quiet island evening under the stars ✨ 

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## 国内开发者作品展 ### jumble.social 作品: https://jumble.social/ 其他作品 ： Running [ wss://nostr-relay.app ] (free & WoT) 💜⚡️ Building 👨‍💻: https://github.com/CodyTseng/jumble https://github.com/CodyTseng/nostr-relay-tray https://github.com/CodyTseng/danmakustr https://github.com/CodyTseng/nostr-relay-nestjs https://github.com/CodyTseng/nostr-relay https://github.com/CodyTseng ### nostrbook.com 作品: https://nostrbook.com - NostrBridge, 网桥转发 - TaskQ5, 分布式多任务 - NostrHTTP, nostr to http - Postr, 匿名交友，匿名邮局 - nostrclient (Python client) . -nostrbook, (nostrbook.com) 用nostr在线写书 https://www.duozhutuan.com nostrhttp demo https://github.com/duozhutuan/NostrBridge ### nostrmo A nostr dev. #Nostrmo A client support all platform. #Nowser A nostr signing project. #CacheRelay A nostr cache relay peject. #cfrelay A nostr relay base on cloudflare wokers. A nostr note timing send service. https://sendbox.nostrmo.com/ https://github.com/haorendashu/nostrmo ### 0xchat 作者： wcat w783@0xchat.com www.0xchat.com Building for 0xchat www.0xchat.com Secure Chat built on Nostr App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/0xchat/id1637607169 TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/AjdJFBmU Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxchat.nostr

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At a conference I sit in a quite area and observe and enjoy a coffee. It's bustling around and many are attending a speech at the main stage. Two people sit next to me on a sofa and begin a conversation. He's wearing a beige hoodie and seems to be builder in the space, she's wearing a green winter dress and they seem to be colleagues. It seems they are now meeting for the first time in real life and exchanging advice, him advising her on how to store her Bitcoin. He’s been longer in the space it seems and she’s just started at the new start-up. I quickly introduce myself and ask them if I may listen in on the conversation since I am a researcher working in the space. They happily agree. She goes on to mention that she will be paid in Bitcoin and does not know how to store it. He goes on to advise her on using a hardware wallet, then takes out his phone and shows a video of the hardware wallet he is using. She says "Wow, it looks so easy to use. I tried so many different hardware wallets but they are so difficult to use." I see the tension in her shoulders, which then relaxes a bit. He goes on to show her all the security and backup methods for this particular hardware wallet. "I'm sold." She's smiling now and one can see that a decision has been made. These conversations are happening everyday across the world not only at conferences but in villages, cafes or during random conversation at co-working working spaces. While we strive for good marketing and adoption of Bitcoin, these simple conversations between two people are what is driving actual use. Safety and trust is a cultural concept in many countries and viewed differently depending on where one has originated from. If one is to imagine that many people would benefit from storing BTC on a device or using an app for lighting transactions then they must trust the process. This need to trust is a basic primary human need. They will only trust the process if: - Empowered: They feel as if they 100% know what they are doing when they are onboarded to the application/hardware device. If there is anything that creates doubt or friction in their minds, the trust to use it as a storage of BTC is gone. A person will window shop when deciding to use a wallet. On average when we interviewed people for various UX research initiatives one person had a minimum of two different Bitcoin wallets on their phone. Prior to that they had tested out quite a few wallets before settling on a decision. - Safe: Many are nervous that they will not be able to access their funds once they put it online/on a hardware device. However often receiving advice from someone they trust this will result in them feeling safe. They will likely use the very same device/application that is being used by their friend/colleague or person in a close inner circle. While this story might seem overly simplified, it’s been repeated multiple times while observing the behavior of people at conferences, through usability tests, and through interviews. If we understand that a person is tentatively stepping into a “home” (Bitcoin wallet/hardware device) and looking “around” (onboarding process). Once they step in, they will only leave their “bag” (BTC) on the table if specific criteria are met. If not, they will pick up their “bag” (BTC) and walk into the next “home.” (Bitcoin wallet/hardware device). During this process there are basic psychological principles are taking place. This is where design comes in and creates an experience. The UX design could be equated to the “interior design” of the house. Every click, every interaction every visual that a person sees or experiences is driving them to trust or distrust the experience. We as builders have a unique role in this process and I fully believe that we will solve these challenges together. If you've read all the way to the end, thank you. On another note, the last 3 weeks have been filled with a lot of strategic thinking, planning, and collaboration. There are many balls in the air at the moment: - [Designathon](https://event.bitcoin.design/) - [UX Research OFF](https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/765) - [Presidio Design Week](https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/746) - [BTC Prague](https://github.com/BitcoinDesign/Meta/issues/745) - UX Research Africa strategy If you've read all the way to the end, thank you for reading. ✌🏽Peace

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⛅️ This week has been a bit hazy—I haven’t been feeling my best. And that’s okay. There are days like that. But this time, it felt like something deeper, as if something was off. Like I wasn’t *enough*. 🌞 Thankfully, as the days went by, I started to feel better. Today, I feel like myself again—like I’ve put my human suit back on and climbed back on the horse. ✏️ I picked up my pencil and started drawing again, just me and my iPad, without any expectations weighing me down. It felt good—peaceful even—to create for the sake of creating. 🦉 What I’ve realized is this: It’s not bad to have goals or aspirations. Those are important! But what becomes unhealthy is chasing perfectionism while trying to achieve those goals. For me, perfectionism turns into a spiral—not rainbows and butterflies but a storm cloud of self-doubt. I guess I just want to share this in case anyone out there needs to hear it: It’s okay to be imperfect. And most importantly, it’s okay to just be yourself. [To those little leprechauns of doubt kicking and screaming inside my head, I can confidently say:*Not today, Satan!*](https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsp3lc6wd4tqrwzssqmtv3mk6fctdzqn3hctjugrfkhtev6q68ht0g488mat)  🎨 As part of my journey back to myself this week, I decided to draw something simple and even try my hand at a little animation since it had been a while. Here’s what I came up with:  Imposter syndrome can be deceiving—it whispers lies about your worth and tries to steal your joy—but just like anything in life, ***this too shall pass.*** 🎢 The ebbs and flows are part of life’s natural rhythm; you’d think I’d have learned that by now! But life has its way of (re)teaching us lessons when we need them most. ✨ To anyone reading this who might be struggling: Be kind to yourself. You’re doing better than you think you are. And remember—**you are enough.** Godspeed

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained significant momentum in recent years, and it is expected to bring revolutionary changes to our lives over the next five years. Today, AI plays a crucial role in automation, healthcare, education, and many other fields. In the near future, its impact will become even more profound. Here are some key transformations AI is expected to bring: 1. Major Changes in the Business World AI will automate repetitive tasks, allowing human workers to focus on more strategic areas. AI-powered assistants, data analytics, and customer service applications will become more widespread, shifting human efforts toward creative and problem-solving roles. 2. Revolutionary Advances in Healthcare AI in medicine will enable earlier disease diagnosis and personalized treatment plans. Thanks to advancements in image processing and genetic analysis, diseases such as cancer can be detected more quickly and accurately. 3. Widespread Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles Over the next five years, autonomous vehicle technologies will continue to evolve, becoming more common in urban transportation and logistics. This will lead to a reduction in traffic accidents, lower transportation costs, and significant changes in urban planning. 4. AI-Powered Personalized Learning in Education AI will enhance personalized education solutions, making learning processes more efficient. AI-assisted teachers and learning platforms will analyze students’ weaknesses and create customized study programs tailored to their needs. 5. New Challenges in Security and Data Privacy As AI technology advances, cybersecurity and data privacy will become even more critical. While AI-driven security systems can detect cyber threats proactively, malicious applications of AI may introduce new vulnerabilities. 6. Creative Innovations in Art and Entertainment AI-generated content will become more prevalent in fields such as art, music, and cinema. AI-assisted scripts, music compositions, and digital artwork may give rise to a new wave of artistic expression. Conclusion In the next five years, AI's influence will be felt in every aspect of life. From business and healthcare to transportation and the arts, various sectors will undergo transformative innovations. However, addressing ethical concerns, security challenges, and data privacy issues will be crucial to ensuring AI's positive impact. By harnessing AI’s potential responsibly, we can build a more efficient, secure, and sustainable future. Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained significant momentum in recent years, and it is expected to bring revolutionary changes to our lives over the next five years. Today, AI plays a crucial role in automation, healthcare, education, and many other fields. In the near future, its impact will become even more profound. Here are some key transformations AI is expected to bring:

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## Questions-réponses ### Pourquoi se focaliser sur les matières naturelles ? Les matières synthétiques sont essentiellement des plastiques (polyester, polyamide…). Problème ? Oui ! Ils finissent par nous contaminer : - Microplastiques absorbés par la peau, - Particules diffusées à chaque lavage, se retrouvant dans l’eau que nous buvons et les aliments que nous consommons, - Enjeux majeurs liés au recyclage des déchets plastiques. ### C'est quoi, au juste, des matières naturelles ? Ce sont des matières non synthétiques, dont les composants existent à l’état naturel, sans modification de leur structure moléculaire. Mais ce qui nous intéresse avant tout, c’est leur biodégradabilité et leur absence de toxicité. Certaines matières feront sûrement débat sur leur acceptabilité ici. En savoir plus sur les matières ### Quelle différence avec d'autres sites de mode ou de shopping éthiques ? Il existe déjà de nombreux sites proposant des produits éthiques et durables, mais j’ai constaté qu’ils incluaient souvent des matières synthétiques. Je devais vérifier produit par produit. Certains mettent en avant les fibres en plastique recyclé comme démarche environnementale, mais je préfère éviter d’en porter sur ma peau. ### Comment contribuer ? Si vous trouvez ce projet utile ou intéressant, voici comment le soutenir : - 📝 En contribuant : suggérez des modifications en commentant les fiches existantes ou proposez de nouvelles références de produits ou de marque. En savoir plus sur les contributions - 📢 En le partageant : faites connaître le site sur les réseaux sociaux, votre blog… - ⚡ En faisant un don : pour faire vivre le projet et remercier les contribut-eur-ice-s. En savoir plus sur les dons ### Comment recevoir une partie des revenus du site ? Il suffit d’avoir un compte NOSTR et une adresse Bitcoin Lightning. En savoir plus sur les rétributions ### C'est quoi NOSTR ? C’est un protocole décentralisé pour Internet, encore en phase expérimentale. Il permet : - De publier et consulter du contenu sans dépendre d’une plateforme centralisée. - De se connecter à plusieurs services en conservant le contrôle total de ses données. - D’intégrer le réseau Bitcoin Lightning pour des paiements instantanés et décentralisés. ### Et la confidentialité de mes données ? - Aucune publicité, aucun traçage personnalisé. - Les commentaires NOSTR sont publics, mais vous pouvez utiliser un pseudonyme. - Vous conservez la propriété de vos contributions sur le protocole NOSTR. ### Qui porte ce projet ? Voir les contribut-eur-rice-s Le projet repose sur des outils et services open source : - NOSTR pour la publication des contenus, - npub.pro pour la visualisation, - Coinos.io pour la gestion des paiements.

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 ## **Introduction** If you have a functioning brain, it’s impossible to fully stand for any politician or align completely with any political party. The solutions we need are not found in the broken systems of power but in individual actions and local initiatives. Voting for someone may be your choice, but relying solely on elections every few years as a form of political activism is a losing strategy. People around the world have fallen into the trap of thinking that casting a ballot once every four years is enough, only to return to complacency as conditions worsen. Voting for the "lesser of two evils" has been the norm for decades, yet expecting different results from the same flawed system is naive at best. The truth is, governments are too corrupt to save us. In times of crisis, they won’t come to your aid—instead, they will tighten their grip, imposing more surveillance, control, and wealth extraction to benefit the oligarch class. To break free from this cycle, we must first protect ourselves individually—financially, geographically, and digitally—alongside our families. Then, we must organize and build resilient local communities. These are the only ways forward. History has shown us time and again that the masses are easily deceived by the political circus, falling for the illusion of a "savior" who will fix everything. But whether right, center, or left, the story remains the same: corruption, lies, and broken promises. If you possess a critical and investigative mind, you know better than to place your trust in politicians, parties, or self-proclaimed heroes. The real solution lies in free and sovereign individuals who reject the herd mentality and take responsibility for their own lives. From the beginning of time, true progress has come from individuals who think for themselves and act independently. The nauseating web of politicians, billionaires, and oligarchs fighting for power and resources has never been—and will never be—the answer to our problems. In a world increasingly dominated by corrupted governments, NGOs, and elites, ordinary people must take proactive steps to protect themselves and their families. --- ## **1. Financial Protection: Reclaiming Sovereignty Through Bitcoin** Governments and central banks have long manipulated fiat currencies, eroding wealth through inflation and bailouts that transfer resources to the oligarch class. Bitcoin, as a decentralized, censorship-resistant, and finite currency, offers a way out. Here’s what individuals can do: - **Adopt Bitcoin as a Savings Tool**: Shift a portion of your savings into Bitcoin to protect against inflation and currency devaluation. Bitcoin’s fixed supply (21 million coins) ensures it cannot be debased like fiat money. - **Learn Self-Custody**: Store your Bitcoin in a hardware wallet or use open-source software wallets. Avoid centralized exchanges, which are vulnerable to government seizure or collapse. - **Diversify Geographically:** Hold assets in multiple jurisdictions to reduce the risk of confiscation or capital controls. Consider offshore accounts or trusts if feasible. - **Barter and Local Economies**: In times of crisis, local barter systems and community currencies can bypass failing national systems. Bitcoin can serve as a global medium of exchange in such scenarios. --- ## 2. Geographical Flexibility: Reducing Dependence on Oppressive Systems Authoritarian regimes thrive on controlling populations within fixed borders. By increasing geographical flexibility, individuals can reduce their vulnerability: - **Obtain Second Passports or Residencies**: Invest in citizenship-by-investment programs or residency permits in countries with greater freedoms and lower surveillance. - **Relocate to Freer Jurisdictions**: Research and consider moving to regions with stronger property rights, lower taxes, and less government overreach. - **Decentralize Your Life**: Avoid keeping all your assets, family, or business operations in one location. Spread them across multiple regions to mitigate risks. --- ## 3. Digital Privacy: Fighting Surveillance with Advanced Tools The rise of mass surveillance and data harvesting by governments and corporations threatens individual freedom. Here’s how to protect yourself: - **Use Encryption**: Encrypt all communications using tools like Signal or ProtonMail. Ensure your devices are secured with strong passwords and biometric locks. - **Adopt Privacy-Focused Technologies**: Use Tor for anonymous browsing, VPNs to mask your IP address, and open-source operating systems like Linux to avoid backdoors. - **Reject Surveillance Tech**: Avoid smart devices that spy on you (e.g., Alexa, Google Home). Opt for decentralized alternatives like Mastodon instead of Twitter, or PeerTube instead of YouTube. - **Educate Yourself on Digital Privacy**: Learn about tools and practices that enhance your online privacy and security. --- ## 4. Building Resilient Local Communities: The Foundation of a Free Future While individual actions are crucial, collective resilience is equally important. Governments are too corrupt to save populations in times of crisis—history shows they will instead impose more control and transfer wealth to the elite. To counter this, communities must organize locally: - **Form Mutual Aid Networks**: Create local groups that share resources, skills, and knowledge. These networks can provide food, medical supplies, and security during crises. - **Promote Local Economies**: Support local businesses, farmers, and artisans. Use local currencies or barter systems to reduce dependence on centralized financial systems. - **Develop Off-Grid Infrastructure**: Invest in renewable energy, water filtration, and food production to ensure self-sufficiency. Community gardens, solar panels, and rainwater harvesting are excellent starting points. - **Educate and Empower**: Host workshops on financial literacy, digital privacy, and sustainable living. Knowledge is the most powerful tool against authoritarianism. --- ## 5. The Bigger Picture: Rejecting the Illusion of Saviors The deep corruption within governments, NGOs, and the billionaire class is evident. These entities will never act in the interest of ordinary people. Instead, they will exploit crises to expand surveillance, control, and wealth extraction. The idea of a political “savior” is a dangerous illusion. True freedom comes from individuals taking responsibility for their own lives and working together to build decentralized, resilient systems. --- ## Conclusion: A Call to Action The path to a genuinely free humanity begins with individual action. By adopting Bitcoin, securing digital privacy, increasing geographical flexibility, and building resilient local communities, ordinary people can protect themselves against authoritarianism. Governments will not save us—they are the problem. It is up to us to create a better future, free from the control of corrupt elites. - The tools for liberation already exist. - The question is: will we use them? For those interested, I share ideas and solutions in my book « THE GATEWAY TO FREEDOM » https://blisshodlenglish.substack.com/p/the-gateway-to-freedom ⚡ **The time to act is now. Freedom is not given—it is taken.** ⚡ ###### If you enjoyed this article, consider supporting it with a Zap! --- My Substack ENGLISH = https://blisshodlenglish.substack.com/ My substack FRENCH = https://blisshodl.substack.com/ --- Get my Book « THE GATEWAY TO FREEDOM » here 🙏 => https://coinos.io/blisshodl --- ---

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This is a part of the Bitcoin Infinity Academy course on Knut Svanholm's book Bitcoin: Sovereignty Through Mathematics. For more information, check out our[ Geyser page](https://geyser.fund/project/infinity)! ## The Gullible Collective We humans are biased by nature. Everything we think we know is distorted in one way or another by our cognitive shortcomings. The human brain has been forced to evolve and adapt to whatever environment it found itself in over millennia. Having a brain that is capable of setting aside personal aims for the sake of the collective has proven to be advantageous for the evolution of our species as a whole. The same is true for every other social life form. However, letting these parts of our brains guide our political judgment can lead to disastrous results in the long run — not because of bad intentions but because of the simple fact that a few individuals will always thrive by playing every political system for personal gain. From an evolutionary perspective, an army of ay-sayers and martyrs, regardless of whether we’re talking about an army of humans or an army of ants or bacteria, has an advantage over a less disciplined one. From an individual's evolutionary perspective though, it is better to  *appear* like you’re a martyr but to run and hide when the actual battle happens. This at least partly explains the high percentage of sociopaths in leadership positions all over the world. If you can appear to act for the good of the collective but dupe your way into more and more power behind people’s backs, you’re more likely to succeed than someone playing a fair game.   The story of banking and fiat currency is a story about collective madness. Historically, rulers have tricked people into killing each other through the promise of an after-life. Through central banking, the rulers of the world wars could trick people into building armies for them by printing more money. This is seldom mentioned in history classes because it still goes on today on a massive scale. Inflation might no longer be paying tank factory workers, but it is the main mechanism that funnels wealth into the pockets of the super-rich and away from everyone else. Inflation is the mechanism that hinders us from transporting the value of our labor through time. It makes us avoid real long-term thinking. We hardly ever consider this a problem because none of us has ever experienced an alternative to it. Money is still vastly misunderstood by the lion's share of the world’s population. In most parts of the world, banks do something called fractional reserve lending. This means that they lend out money that they don't have — conjuring up new money out of thin air and handing it out to their customers as loans. Loans that have to be paid back with interest. Interest that can’t be paid back with thin air but has to be paid with so-called real money. Real money, of which there isn’t enough around to pay back all the loans, so that a constant need for new credit becomes a crucial part of the entire system. Not to mention central banks, which do the same and worse for governments. We’re so used to it by now that every country is expected to have a national debt. All but a handful of ridiculously rich ones do. National debts are also loans that have to be paid back with interest backed by nothing. Think about that. Your taxes are paying someone else's interest. Your tax money is not paying for your grandmother's bypass operation, it is paying interest to a central bank.   When the ideas of the catholic church ruled Europe, people who didn’t believe in God were few and very seldomly outspoken. They had good reason for this since belief in God was virtually mandatory throughout society. Ever since 1971, when famously dishonest American president Richard Nixon cut the last string that tied the US Dollar to gold, our conception of what the world economy is and ought to be has been skewed by an utterly corrupt system. We’re led to believe that we’re all supposed to work longer and longer days in order to spend more and more money and bury ourselves in more and more debt to keep the machine running. We’re duped into thinking that buying a new car every other year is somehow good for the environment and that bringing a cotton bag to the grocery store will somehow save the planet. Stores manipulate us all the time through advertising and product placement, but we’re led to believe that if we can be “climate-smart,” we’re behaving responsibly. Somehow, our gross domestic product is supposed to increase indefinitely while politicians will save us from ourselves through carbon taxes. Fortunately for us, and unfortunately for them, there now exists a way for unbelievers of this narrative to opt out. Life finds a way, as Jeff Goldblum once so famously put it.   Collectivism has ruined many societies. Those of us fortunate enough to live in liberal democracies tend to forget that even democracy is an involuntary system. It’s often referred to as the “worst form of government except all others that have been tried,” but the system itself is very rarely criticized. We’re so used to being governed that not having a leader seems preposterous to most of us. Still, we pay our taxes, and an enormous cut of the fruit of our labor goes to a third party via inflation and the taxation of every good and service imaginable. Institutions, once in place, tend to always favor their own survival just as much as any other living thing does. People employed in the public sector are unlikely to vote against policies that threaten their livelihood. This is a bigger problem than we realize because it’s subtle and takes a long time, but every democracy is headed in the same direction. A bigger state, a more complicated system, and fewer individual freedoms. Long term, it seems that all of our systems tend to favor those who know how to play that system and not those who contribute the most value to their fellow man. Proponents of socialist policies often claim that failed socialist states “weren’t really socialist” or that “that wasn’t really socialism.” What most people fail to realize is that we’ve never tried real *capitalism* since we’ve always used more or less inflationary currencies. This might very well be the most skewed narrative of our era. We’re all experiencing real, albeit disguised, socialism every single day. True free market capitalism is what we haven’t experienced yet, and it might turn out to be a very different thing than what we’re told to believe that it is by almost all mainstream media.   The validity of the classic right-left scale describing political viewpoints has been debated a lot lately, and alternative scales, like GAL-TAN, the one with an additional Y-axis describing more or less authoritarian tendencies, are popping up in various contexts around the web. After the birth of Bitcoin, there’s a new way to see this. Imagine an origo, a zero point, and a vector pointing to the left of that. *All* politics are arguably on the left because *all* policies need to be funded by taxes, and taxation can be viewed as theft. Taxation can be viewed as theft because, at its core, it’s involuntary. If a person refuses to pay his taxes, there is a threat of violence lurking in the background. Not to mention inflation, which Milton Friedman so elegantly described as “taxation without legislation.” What you do with the portion of your wealth that you have in Bitcoin is another matter altogether. If you take sufficient precautionary privacy measures and you know what you’re doing, your business in Bitcoin is beyond politics altogether. With the introduction of the Lightning Network and other privacy-improving features, it is now impossible for any third party to confiscate your money or even know that you have it, for that matter. This changes the political landscape of every nation on Earth. Bitcoin is much less confiscatable than gold and other scarce assets, which makes it a much better tool for hedging against nation-states. In this sense, Bitcoin obsoletes borders. You can cross any border on Earth with any amount of Bitcoin *in your head*. Think about that! Your Bitcoin exists in every country simultaneously. Any imposed limit on how much money you can carry from one nation to the other is now made obsolete by beautiful mathematics. Bitcoin is sometimes referred to as a “virtual currency.” This is a very inaccurate description. Bitcoin is just mathematics, and mathematics is just about the most real thing there is. There’s nothing virtual about it. Counterintuitive to some, but real nonetheless.   The complexity of human societal hierarchies and power structures is described perfectly in a classic children's book, *The Emperor’s New Clothes*, by Hans Christian Andersen. See the world as the kid who points out that the king is naked in the tale, and everything starts to make sense. Everything in human society is man-made. Nations, leaders, laws, political systems. They’re all castles in the air with nothing but a lurking threat of violence to back them up. Bitcoin is a different beast altogether. It enables every individual to verify the validity of the system at all times. If you really think about it, morality is easy. Don’t hurt other people, and don’t steal other people’s stuff. That’s the basic premise. Humans have but two ways of resolving conflict, conversation and violence, and in this sense, to hurt someone can only mean physical violence. This is why free speech is so important and why you should defend people’s right to speak their minds above everything else. It’s not about being able to express yourself. It’s about your right to hear every side of every argument and thus not have to resort to violence should a conflict of interests occur. You can’t limit free speech with just more speech — there’s always a threat of violence behind the limitations. Code, which both Bitcoin and the Internet are entirely made up of, *is speech*. Any limitations or regulations that your government implements in regard to Bitcoin are not only a display of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance but also a test of your government's stance on freedom of expression. A restriction on Bitcoin use is a restriction on free speech. Remember, the only alternative to speech that anyone has is violence. Code is a language, mathematics is a language, and money is a linguistic tool. A linguistic tool we use as a means of expressing value to each other and as a way to transport value through space and time. Any restrictions or regulations regarding how you can express value, for example, making it impossible to buy Bitcoin with your credit card, prove that the money you have in your bank account is not really yours. When people realize this, the demand for Bitcoin goes *up*, not down. If you know what you're doing, there’s no need to fear the regulators. They, on the other hand, have good reason to fear an invention that shamelessly breaks their spell. ### **About the Bitcoin Infinity Academy** The Bitcoin Infinity Academy is an educational project built around [Knut Svanholm](http://primal.net/knut)’s books about Bitcoin and Austrian Economics. Each week, a whole chapter from one of the books is released for free on Highlighter, accompanied by a [video](https://www.youtube.com/@BitcoinInfinityShow) in which Knut and [Luke de Wolf](http://primal.net/luke) discuss that chapter’s ideas. You can join the discussions by signing up for one of the courses on our [Geyser](https://geyser.fund/project/infinity) page. Signed books, monthly calls, and lots of other benefits are also available.

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## 使用nostrbook.com网站 登录和创建用户：  登录按钮 ，可以粘贴 已有的 nsec....账号，完成登录。 注册：  可以点击红标位置 生成你的账户。 “确定” 完成注册。 ## 创建书籍 ### 封面的上传  创建书籍，可以用 微信截图 后直接 ctrl+v. 粘贴即可。 或者点击浏览 本地图片文件。 ### 标题和作者 正常填写就可以。 书的作者和上传文件人没有一一绑定。 ## 写书  创建完成后就可以写书了，写书入口在 登录处 “我的书籍” 。点进去会出现你创建的书籍。选择一本就可以写书了。 ### 列出你创建的所有的书籍  点击图标，就可以进入开始写作了。例如《nostrbook站点日记》  如图所示有4个部分 1. （1）关闭按钮，点击就退出编辑，这时候他会提示你保存，如果不需要保存退出，点击 “不保存退出” 2. （2）`大纲` 是编写 你书籍的大纲，这个参考 docsify文档 下面会有例子。 `时间排列`是 你所有为本书写的章节。但是有些章节你可能废弃了，或者暂时不想展示，都会存在 时间排列里面，就是按照你编写的时间倒序排列的。`草稿` 是你暂时存储的内容，没有上传到网络，存在你本地浏览器的缓存里面。 3. （3）这个部分看到的就是你的章节列表，当让你第一次来的这个地方是空的。`新增章节` 下一次就会有内容了。 4. （4）文件名，是我们存储章节的唯一标识。 `readme.md` 和`_sidebar.md` 是系统默认必须有的。因为docsify技术默认需要这2个。

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What is knowledge? Why do we need it? Since we were small, our parents/guardian put us in school, worked their asses off to give us elective lessons, some get help until college, some even after college and after professional work. Why is this intelligence thing so sought after? When you were born, you mostly just accepted what your parents said, they say go to school - you go to school, they say go learn the piano - you learn the piano. Of course with a lot of questions and denials, but you do it because you know your parents are doing it for your own good. You can feel the love so you disregard the 'why' and go on with faith Everything starts with why, and for most people maybe the purpose of knowledge is to be smarter, to know more, just because. But for me this sounds utterly useless. One day I will die next to a man with half a brain and we would feel the same exact thing on the ground. Literally being smarter at the end does not matter at all However, I am not saying to just be lazy and foolish. For me the purpose of knowledge is action. The more you learn, the more you know what to do, the more you can be sure you are doing the right thing, the more you can make progress on your own being, etc etc Now, how can you properly learn? Imagine a water bottle. The water bottle's sole purpose is to contain water, but you cannot fill in the water bottle before you open the cap. To learn properly, make sure you open the cap and let all that water pour into you If you are reading this, you are alive. Don't waste your time doing useless stuff and start to make a difference in your life Seize the day

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## Blossom Uploader for Nostr In my mini project to publish from Joplin to Nostr, I wanted to move to publishing images in a Joplin note to some internet file hosting. So the obvious is something like imgur or imgbb and these require account creation and use of an API key. The nostr way of doing things is to use blossom and your nsec is the authentication, noice! So I noticed that nostr.build now has a service at https://blossom.band/ It seems to be a very nice service with: > Backed by the time-proven and highly available infrastructure of Nostr.build, > with global reach and a fast CDN network. > Every distinct user's npub gets their own server domain that is not shared by anyone but the > owner of that npub. They also have a free tier which is good for experimentation, their paid plans are at https://nostr.build/plans/ . I'm still yet to figure out of they are a candidate for self-hosting or just for media. That's another research project. Anywayzzz this here article is my test to publish from Joplin for long form posts. When I was doing wordpress posts, I preferred to write up in Joplin with all its note-taking nice-ness, search, tagging, plugins. I've tried [Habla](https://habla.news/) and [YakiHonne](https://www.yakihonne.com/) but I miss my Joplin workflow and tools. So, I've written this in Joplin and using my plugin to test for the article be uploaded as long form (NIP-23) post. Still trying to figure out how to get the markdown transferring across cleanly. Sorry, this is a test. *** --- ________ I made a test project to understand Blossom https://github.com/djinoz/blossom_uploader 🙉 Take #2: Explicity set kind:30023 ## Blossom Uploader for Nostr A Node.js command-line tool to upload images and media files to various services compatible with Nostr notes, with full support for the Blossom protocol. ## Installation ``` npm install ``` ## Usage ``` node blossom_uploader.js [options] <files...> ``` ### Options - `-s, --service <service>`: Upload service to use (default: "imgbb") - `-k, --key <key>`: API key for the service (if required) - `-u, --url <url>`: Custom URL for the service (required for blossom) - `-n, --nsec <nsec>`: Nostr private key (nsec) for blossom authentication - `-d, --debug`: Show debug information - `-o, --output <format>`: Output format: json or url (default: "url") - `-h, --help`: Display help - `-V, --version`: Output the version number ### Examples Upload a single image using ImgBB (default): ``` node blossom_uploader.js path/to/image.jpg ``` Upload using Imgur: ``` node blossom_uploader.js -s imgur image1.png ``` Use your own ImgBB API key: ``` node blossom_uploader.js -s imgbb -k YOUR_API_KEY image.png ``` Upload to a Blossom server using your nsec private key: ``` node blossom_uploader.js -s blossom -u https://blossom.band/upload -n nsec1... image.png ``` Get JSON output: ``` node blossom_uploader.js -o json image.jpg ```

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Brewing Biology Episode 1068 of Bitcoin And . . . is LIVE! This episode of Bitcoin And dives into Brewing Biology—a regenerative system combining compost tea, biochar, Bitcoin mining, and carbon credits—developed through a deep, idea-driven conversation with ChatGPT. LISTEN HERE --> https://fountain.fm/episode/p0DmvPzxirDHh2l68zOX <-- LISTEN HERE The future of Bitcoin isn’t just about code or money—it’s about soil. A groundbreaking fusion of biology, technology, and financial innovation might change the rules of agriculture, offering landowners a path to profitability while Healing our soils. At the heart of this revolution is biochar, a form of charcoal that supercharges soil health. When mixed with compost tea and microbial inoculants, this carbon-rich material becomes a game-changer. Biochar’s porous structure acts as a microbial hotel, hosting fungi like arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and bacteria such as Bacillus subtilis. These organisms form symbiotic networks that boost nutrient absorption and secrete glomalin—a natural “glue” that binds soil, preventing erosion. But here’s the twist: this system doesn’t just heal the earth; it also generates revenue. Biochar’s Hidden Superpower: Adsorption & Buffering Biochar’s porous structure acts as a molecular storage hub. Unlike absorption (soaking up water like a sponge), adsorption is a chemical process where water and nutrients cling to biochar’s surfaces. A single gram of biochar has the surface area of a basketball court, creating a lattice of microscopic nooks and crannies. This allows it to: Lock in moisture: Biochar retains up to 10x its weight in water, acting like a “soil battery” that releases hydration slowly during droughts. Hoard nutrients: It buffers nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and micronutrients in its pores, preventing leaching. Plants access these nutrients gradually, reducing fertilizer needs. Stabilize pH: Biochar’s alkaline nature buffers acidic soils, creating a neutral environment where microbes and roots thrive. This buffering effect means plants face fewer nutrient and water spikes or shortages, ensuring steady growth even in erratic climates. The Carbon Math Every ton of biochar (which is ~85% carbon by weight) sequesters 3.12 tons of CO₂ (using the 1:3.67 carbon-to-CO₂ ratio). With carbon credits trading at $42–$60/ton, a 1,000-acre project applying 1 pound of biochar per linear foot (via a three-shank plow at 2-foot spacing) could sequester ~12,000 tons of CO₂ annually—generating $504,000–$720,000 in carbon credit revenue. Tools for the Revolution The Keyline Plow fractures subsoil to inject biochar slurry 30–45cm deep, revitalizing compacted land. For smaller plots, the VOGT Geo Injector delivers pinpoint inoculations—think of it as a soil “injection gun” for lawns, golf courses, or urban gardens. These methods ensure biochar stays where it’s needed, turning even parched landscapes into carbon sinks. Bitcoin’s Role in the Loop Biochar production generates syngas—a byproduct that fuels electric generators for Bitcoin mining. This closed-loop system turns agricultural waste into energy, creating dual revenue streams: carbon credits and mining income. The Market Potential Farmers, ranchers, and eco-conscious landowners aren’t the only beneficiaries. Golf courses can slash water use and homeowners can boost lawn resilience. Why This Matters This isn’t just farming—it’s a movement. By marrying soil science with economics, we can prove that healing the planet and profiting go hand in hand. Whether you’re a Bitcoin miner, a farmer, or an eco-entrepreneur, this system offers a blueprint for a future where every acre works for you—and the planet. The takeaway? Regenerative agriculture isn’t a trend. It’s the next gold rush—except this time, the gold is carbon, soil, and sats.--- P.S. – If you’re ready to turn your land into a carbon credit powerhouse (and maybe mine some Bitcoin along the way), the soil is waiting. You can read the full article, Brewing Biology HERE -> https://the-bitcoin-and-Podcast.ghost.io/ghost/#/editor/post/67e5922fa289aa00088da3c6 originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/933800

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this is a test <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/5029e2735884c4b18875b1e0e378b91133d6a1118c2cf323eef258467b6932c0.png"> end of the test

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More than just “follows follows” on Nostr, webs of trust algos will ingest increasingly MORE kinds of user generated content in order to map our interactions across the network. Webs of trust will power user discovery, content search, reviews and reccomendations, identity verification, and access to all corners of the Nostr network. Without relying on a central “trust authority” to recommend people and content for us, sovereign Nostr users will make use of “relative trust” scores generated by a wide range of independent apps and services. The problem is, Nostr doesn’t have an opensource library for performing WoT calculations and delivering NIP standard recommendations to users. In order for a “free market” ecosystem of really smart apps and services to thrive, independent developers will need access to extensible “middleware” such as this. ### Project Description I am building a library for independent developers to offer their own interoperable and configurable WoT services and clients. In addition, and as the primary use case, I am also developing a web client for “in person onboarding” to Nostr, which will make use of this library to provide webs of trust recommendations for “invited” users. - [Meet Me On Nostr](https://nostrmeet.me) (onboarding client) : This is my first project on Nostr, which began a year ago with seed funding from @druid. This web client will leverage “in person” QR invites to generate WoT powered recommendations of follows, apps, and other stuff for new users at their first Nostr touchpoint. The functional MVP release (April ‘25) allows for “instant, anonymous, and fully encrypted” direct messaging and “move in ready” profile creation from a single QR scan. - [GrapeRank Engine ](https://github.com/Pretty-Good-Freedom-Tech/graperank-nodejs)(developer library) : Working with @straycat last fall, I built an opensource and extensible library for Nostr developers to integrate “web of trust” powered reccomendations into their products and services. The real power behind GrapeRank is its “pluggable” interpreter, allowing any kind of content (not just “follows follows”) to be ingested for WoT scoring, and configurable easily by developers as well as end users. This library is currently in v0.1, “generating and storing usable scores”, and doesn’t yet produce NIP standard outputs for Nostr clients. - [My Grapevine](https://grapevine.my) (algo dashboard) : In addition, I’ve just wrapped up the demo release of a web client by which users and developers can explore the power of the GrapeRank Engine. ### Potential Impact Webs of Trust is how Nostr scales. But so far, Nostr implementations have been ad-hoc and primarily client centered, with no consistency and little choice for end users. The “onboarding and discovery” tools I am developing promise to : - Establish sovereignty for webs of trust users (supporting a “free market” of algo choices), with opensource libraries by which any developer can easily implement WoT powered recommendations. - Accelerate the isolation of bots and bad actors (and improve the “trustiness” of Nostr for everyone else) by streamlining the onboarding of “real world” acquaintances directly into established webs of trust. - Improve “discoverability of users and content” for any user on any client (to consume and take advantage of WoT powered recommendations for any use case, even as the NIP standards for this are still in flux), by providing an algo engine with “pluggable” inputs and outputs. - Pave the way for “global Nostr adoption”, where WoT powered recommendations (and searches) are consistently available for every user across a wide variety of clients. ### Timeline & Milestones 2025 roadmap for “Webs of Trust Onboarding and Discovery” : - [Meet Me On Nostr](https://nostrmeet.me) (onboarding client) : MVP release : “scan my QR invite to private message me instantly with a ‘move in ready’ account on Nostr”. https://nostrmeet.me/ - [GrapeRank Engine ](https://github.com/Pretty-Good-Freedom-Tech/graperank-nodejs) (developer library) : 1.0 release : “expanded inputs and output WoT scores to Nostr NIPs and other stuff” for consumption by clients and relays. https://github.com/Pretty-Good-Freedom-Tech/graperank-nodejs - [My Grapevine](https://grapevine.my) (algo dashboard) : 1.0 release : “algo usage and configuration webapp with API endpoints” for end users to setup GrapeRank scoring for consumption by their own clients and relays. https://grapevine.my/ - [Meet Me On Nostr](https://nostrmeet.me) (onboarding client) : 1.0 release : first GrapeRank integration, offering “follow and app recommendations for invited users”, customizable per-invite for Nostr advocates. https://nostrmeet.me/ ### Prior contributions - Last spring I hosted panel discussions and [wrote articles on Nostr](https://primal.net/p/npub1manlnflyzyjhgh970t8mmngrdytcp3jrmaa66u846ggg7t20cgqqvyn9tn#reads) exploring how to build “sovereign webs of trust”, where end users can have control over which algorithms to use, and what defines “trust”. - I contributed [gift wrap encryption](https://github.com/nostr-dev-kit/ndk/commit/82b60c3b6ae2f38bde0e542d31bfa10d58d08116) to NDK. - I am also authoring [gift wrapped direct messaging and chat room](https://github.com/nostr-dev-kit/ndk/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Amanimejia) modules for NDK. - Last July, I attended The Bitcoin Conference on an OpenSource pass to raise funds for my onboarding client. I onboarded many Bitcoiners to Nostr, and made valuable connections at Bitcoin Park. ### About Me I discovered Nostr in September ‘23 as a freelance web developer, after years of looking for a “sovereignty respecting” social media on which to build apps. With this came my first purchase of Bitcoin. By December of that year, I was settled on “open source freedom tech” (Nostr and Bitcoin) as the new direction for my career. As a web professional for 20+ years, I know the importance of “proof of work” and being connected. For the last 18 months, I have been establishing myself as a builder in this community. This pivot has not been easy, but it has been rewarding and necessary. After so many years building private tech for other people, I finally have a chance to build freedom tech for everyone. I have finally come home to my peeps and my purpose. Thank you for considering this application for funding.

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Zadar is a coastal city in northern Dalmatia, known for its rich Roman and Venetian history, stunning sunsets, and unique modern attractions like the Sea Organ and Sun Salutation. With ancient ruins, beautiful beaches, and a lively Old Town, Zadar offers a less crowded but equally charming alternative** to Split and Dubrovnik.  ## **🏛️ Top Things to See & Do in Zadar** ### **1️⃣ Explore Zadar Old Town 🏰** - Walk through **narrow, stone-paved streets**, surrounded by **Roman and medieval architecture**. - Visit **People’s Square (Narodni Trg)** – The **heart of Zadar’s Old Town**, filled with lively cafés. ### **2️⃣ Visit the Sea Organ & Sun Salutation 🎶🌞** - **Sea Organ** – A one-of-a-kind **musical instrument**, where waves create **natural melodies**. - **Sun Salutation** – A large **solar-powered light display**, best seen at sunset. - **Alfred Hitchcock once called Zadar’s sunset “the most beautiful in the world.”** 🌅  ### **3️⃣ Admire St. Donatus Church & Roman Forum ⛪** - **St. Donatus (9th century)** – A unique, round **Byzantine-style church** with great acoustics. - **Roman Forum** – The remains of an ancient Roman marketplace, built in the **1st century BC**. ### **4️⃣ Climb the Bell Tower of St. Anastasia’s Cathedral 🔔** - Enjoy **spectacular views** over Zadar’s rooftops and the Adriatic. - One of the **tallest church towers in Croatia**.  ### **5️⃣ Relax at Zadar’s Best Beaches 🏖️** - **Kolovare Beach** – The most popular **city beach**, just a short walk from the Old Town. - **Borik Beach** – A **sandy beach with shallow waters**, ideal for families. - **Punta Bajlo** – A more **natural and peaceful spot**, great for a quiet swim. ### **6️⃣ Take a Day Trip to Kornati National Park ⛵** - A **beautiful archipelago of 89 islands**, perfect for **boating, swimming, and snorkeling**. - Join a **boat tour from Zadar** to explore the **untouched nature of the Adriatic**. ### **7️⃣ Try Dalmatian Cuisine 🍽️** - **Black Risotto (Crni Rižot)** – A delicious squid-ink seafood dish. 🦑 - **Pag Cheese (Paški Sir)** – A famous **sheep’s milk cheese from Pag Island**. 🧀 - **Grilled Adriatic Fish** – Freshly caught and served with **olive oil & Dalmatian herbs**. 🐟  ## **🚗 How to Get to Zadar** ✈️ **By Air:** - **Zadar Airport (ZAD)** is **just 15 minutes from the city center**. 🚘 **By Car:** - **From Split:** ~1.5 hours (160 km) - **From Zagreb:** ~2.5 hours (285 km) 🚌 **By Bus:** Regular buses from **Split, Zagreb, Dubrovnik, and Plitvice Lakes**. ⛴️ **By Ferry:** Ferries connect Zadar to nearby islands like **Ugljan, Dugi Otok, and Pašman**.  ## **💡 Tips for Visiting Zadar** ✅ **Best time to visit?** **May–October** for warm weather & island trips ☀️ ✅ **Stay near the Old Town** – Everything is within walking distance 🏡 ✅ **Catch the sunset at the Sea Organ** – It’s a must-do experience 🌊🎶 ✅ **Take a ferry to Ugljan Island** for a day of beaches & cycling 🚢🚴‍♂️ ✅ **Book Kornati boat tours in advance** – They sell out fast in summer! ⛵ 

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### I score zero points. How about you? https://m.primal.net/QDDi.jpg I almost called this a boomer test but its more of a Gen X test. __Credit to Jack Spirko for sharing this on Twitter.__ originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/933537

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The role and significance of music naturally varies from person to person. For some, it is counted among the most important things in life. For others, it may be a superfluous additive of limited value. Due to this difference in perception relating to music, it may be difficult for some individuals to recognize the benefits of compiling a personalized music playlist. However, the value of music as a therapeutic tool for people already suffering from advanced dementia has been repeatedly demonstrated, and sometimes with astounding, although temporary, results. The internet is full of studies and stories, and YouTube searches yield an abundance of video evidence ranging from clinical studies to anecdotal family recordings of elderly relatives. All of these data and anecdotes point to a compelling suggestion and an exciting conclusion: music appreciation has tremendous potential as a supplemental activity for mental health maintenance. With insights gained from the study of neuroplasticity, the neurological benefits for musicians and performers are easy to see, but less clear is the fact that mere exposure to music as a casual listener can be of profound psychological importance, even for individuals who don’t consider themselves to be music lovers. The transformative effect of music is on full display in many of the available videos on YouTube. We can simply search “dementia music,” or ‘Alzheimer’s music” for fast, relevant results. In video after video, we can see elderly subjects who may be slow to speak, detached, disoriented, barely-intelligible, or unresponsive. In care facilities and at gatherings with families, they are interviewed about their youth, and about their feelings related to music. Many of the videos first show footage of the individual’s normal daily cognitive state, and them listening and responding to the questions, followed by a period of music listening, and then another brief, post-music discussion. The transformation of mental states tends to be very clear when we compare the quality of their cognitive performance before and after the introduction of music. People remark that “a light has been turned back on,” or “his personality returned,” or “it’s as if the person has woken up from sleep.” Unfortunately, these positive responses are only temporary, and music does not have the power to permanently reverse the symptoms and pathology of advanced dementia and age-related cognitive decline. Also there is no guarantee it will work for every person, or to what degree. Nevertheless, it does not mean that music as therapy is completely without value. In fact, it can be quite the opposite. When the response is positive, the event can have multiple benefits, and may even be a therapeutic experience for certain listeners. Faces once despondent or vacant become animated and radiant. Long lost smiles return from faraway times and places. Memories and associations from previous ages shake loose and rise to the surface. Many listeners were asked to recount their experiences related to the songs and the time in life with which they were primarily associated. Some of them were able to describe events, places, people, emotions, and reactions with a degree of clarity, dexterity, and articulation that was completely inconsistent with their medical diagnosis and their cognitive performance prior to hearing the music. The song quite literally revives the personality that makes the person, temporarily and superficially reversing the undoing of the mind. For a mind that is coming undone, music as therapy has potential to mitigate suffering and confusion, provide moments of joy and enthusiasm, and ease the transition into and experience of the end-of-life period that awaits all who are fortunate enough to “die of natural causes” in old age. The benefits described above are specific to “treatment” recipients, but the merit of music as therapy cascades into the lives of everyone involved. Doctors and caretakers are uplifted and encouraged by success stories, which contributes to further proliferation and advancement of music as therapy. More critically, it can have a profound impact on families of dementia patients. In some cases, relatives get a chance to communicate with their loved ones again. Grandchildren have a window of opportunity to learn more, directly from their grandparents, about the youthful experiences and memories of past generations. It’s clear that generational bonds are also strengthened, which can positively impact the future prospects of the young generation as they in turn grow old, and lay new groundwork for generations that follow. It is unfortunate that some elderly individuals seem to derive less cognitive benefit than others from music therapy. It is not entirely certain why this is so, because there are many factors to consider, but two of the clearest factors are a person’s degree of cognitive decline, and their degree of interest in and enthusiasm for music in general. While these are the most popular metrics by which to judge the potential effectiveness and suitability of music as therapy for a given individual, by far the most important consideration is relevance to each particular person’s life experiences. This is the opportunity to finally state the obvious: It’s not possible to simply pick any song at random and expect it to have a beneficial effect on the cognitive function of every person who hears it. It’s not as if there’s a Britney Spears song that sparks joy in the heart of every soul on Earth. And the legend of Bill and Ted’s ultimate song that united the world could never be a true story (also because, as we finally learned in 2020, it was not two men and a song that united the world, but rather, the world uniting together to create that song.) However, everyone in the world can make their own playlist custom-tailored to their individual life, experiences, and memories, and some of those playlists might have a song or two by Britney Spears, or even some from one of the “Bill and Ted” soundtracks. Throughout my decades of music appreciation, an ever-growing level of respect for the enduring spirit of music has overwhelmed me, and it’s clear that no song will ever be loved by all. But every song will be loved by some, certainly at least by someone, or it would cease to exist. This is why a personalized playlist is infinitely more valuable than randomly selected songs, and we can see the truth of this claim upon close examination of recorded interviews with the elderly subjects. The songs that triggered the greatest reactions were songs that interviewees felt strong connections to, based primarily on the song’s associations to the time and place, as well as the emotional context imprinted on the memory of the events surrounding the songs. This simply means that songs for which we have emotional attachments and vivid memories are songs that invigorate our neural circuits, activating cognitive pathways and opening doors of memory similar to how olfactory sensations can trigger a memory or a sense of déjà vu. There are some exceptions, but a lot of these songs are from a person’s formative years, particularly early developmental years and their teenage period. This comes as no surprise to the discerning neuroplastician, because these are periods of life when neural plasticity is most fluid, neural development and refinement functions are most active and receptive, and the degree of exciting novelty in life tends to be highest when we are young and inexperienced. Novelty and emotion are critical components of memory formation and whether a given experience will be memorable or not. Something completely new (novelty) can be memorable if it commands your attention, or derails you from your usual pattern of behavior. Similarly, the content of a tedious lecture may be harder to recall without taking notes, while that of an exciting, fun, and funny, interactive lesson has a greater chance of being memorable, and recalled with more clarity and detail (emotion). When it comes to music, the connection to novelty and emotion is crystal clear. The first time you ever heard that song, it was new and your emotional response was strong. You might even remember the events of that first time you heard it, but not necessarily. Your emotional attachment to the song may have developed later on, when you heard it playing at a party, on one of the most memorable nights of your teenage life, for example. Perhaps it’s just a song (or songs) your parents played a lot when you were young, and it could be a song you yourself heard many times, and looking back realized it holds a special place in your heart, for whatever reason. There are also songs that are special to romantic couples (This song was playing when we…; This is our song; We were together the first time we heard this song; etc.) and these songs, for obvious reasons, can be added to a personalized music playlist at any time in life, as new and old songs take on added personal significance in various ways. There are a multitude of ways that novelty and emotion can combine to form experiences worth remembering, by which memories are made, and if these experiences are imprinted with a musical stamp, the song stamped onto the memory is likely to remain just as memorable as the event itself, and conversely, listening to the song has the potential to vivify the memories and feelings of nostalgia related to the song. Therefore, as a preventative measure we can implement now, and an insurance policy we may benefit from later, it is advisable that each person should endeavor to compile their own personal, individualized cognitive reserve playlist. When speaking to someone about this idea, they responded, “But what’s the hurry? After all, you’re still quite young.” Just then, it spontaneously occurred to me that a traumatic head injury could befall me the following day or any day hence, and the simple point that “it’s never too early” was well taken. To create your own cognitive reserve playlist, it is helpful to have a few guiding parameters. Most important of all is to keep an open mind without setting anything in stone. It’s not necessary to finalize the list immediately, if ever. This is a project that deserves your thoughtful consideration, so you deserve to be allowed to take your time. It’s better to get the list populated with your definite favorites, and as many others that come to mind, just to kick-start the process. Besides, due to the virtually infinite number of songs and compositions in existence, we will never be able to make the perfect list in one day, one month, or even one year. We can always revisit the list and make changes later, because our minds cannot retrieve all the data at once. We must go about our business of carrying on, and wait for it to come to us. (It’s guaranteed to be worth the wait, so never fret about it.) You may even find yourself removing one of those “definite favorites” from the list, which is welcome and fine, because it’s not merely a list of your favorite songs. Being a “favorite” is just one of multiple indicators that a song might be appropriate for a cognitive reserve playlist. “Memorable” is another key word. There are still other factors that determine a song’s suitability for a personal playlist, such as a song that isn’t a personal favorite, but which nevertheless evokes a strong emotional response in some other way. This is best described as nostalgia, and nostalgic emotions are powerful anchors for memories. So any song that arouses some sense of nostalgia also has the power to arouse the memory of events, places, times, and other details tied to that nostalgia. To know what songs are nostalgic for you and add them to your list today, may help you if a time should come that you need music as therapy in order to trigger your memory and cognitive function. It is because of nostalgia that many songs from our youth are good candidates for inclusion on the playlist. Songs that were popular on the radio or TV when we were children, theme songs from popular television programs that are unforgettable for us, and songs that acted as the soundtrack to our lives, so to speak, while growing into childhood, and then blossoming again from adolescence into adulthood. This period is rich with music of great significance to our personal center. It is my sincere hope that all people earnestly endeavor to compile their own personalized cognitive reserve playlists, and encourage their loved ones to do the same. Maybe it can help those who suffer to better cope with the condition. Perhaps starting this project now, and focusing on mental health now can be a significant contributing factor to developing robust cognitive reserve in the first place, thereby heading off the worst of what this condition can throw at us, and delaying it until later. And of course, not only should we create the lists, but it’s highly recommended that we also play the songs frequently, and dance to them as well, preferably. It is in the interest of your future health, ability, mobility, enjoyment, and ease of living that I offer this potentially beneficial suggestion, and I am grateful that you have taken the time to hear me out regarding my passion about the restorative and healing properties of music, as they relate to the broader topic of neuroplasticity. So on that note, shall we press play and dance?

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\~ The person came up to me from behind his merchandise stand and saw my Noderunners pin on my black t-shirt, then looked me dead in the eye and asked : “So… what do you sell?” *This is the eighth long-read in a series of twelve “food for thought” writings on Bitcoin. It was originally meant to be a few chapters in a book, but life’s too short for that.* ## **Define** Let me start by saying there’s no single way to define or explain a “Bitcoin conference.” The experience can vary depending on a few factors: who’s organizing it (a long-time Bitcoiner or someone from traditional finance trying to grasp Bitcoin), where it’s being held (a sunny paradise like Madeira or a gloomy northern French town), and who’s speaking (technical experts or charismatic entertainers or people with little substance). Despite these differences, there’s a shared culture that ties these conferences together: a mix of excitement, frustrations, and inevitable evolution. That’s what I explore. This is just my take, based on what I’ve personally witnessed and what I hear from my surroundings. It’s not meant to be a blanket critique of all Bitcoin conferences as there are plenty I haven’t attended, though I hear about most of them. Even the good ones will evolve into something else over time. So, plan accordingly. A bit of background on my perspective: at some point in my life, I hit a bump in the road that kept me tied to where I live — a bleak corner of Belgium, surrounded by fiat slaves, shitcoiners, and people who spend six hours a day consuming brain-numbing garbage television. Traveling is an exception for me, but for many Bitcoin conference attendees, it’s a ritual, a must-do event. So, I view these events with a mix of fascination and grounded skepticism — something I’ve found lacking in many Bitcoiners. I’ve never been to a Bitcoin conference before 2023, despite receiving plenty of invites over the years. From what I heard and saw in photos from friends who attended (even the real early ones) these events seemed eerily similar to the dull hotel conference rooms I once endured in tech and telecom. I’ve had my fill of lukewarm, watery coffee and lifeless speakers droning on about firewalls. So I skipped that particular honor. Up until around 2018, Bitcoin conferences were a soulless sea of chairs lined up under fluorescent tube lights, draining the life out of attendees—one telecom acronym at a time. Not exactly inviting. Yet, looking back from the perspective of 2025, those were the “pure” days. Back then, people like Roger Ver (before he pivoted to Bitcoin Cash), Andreas Antonopoulos, and encryption specialists spoke to small audiences, explaining Bitcoin in its raw form. But, like any Bitcoiner, I try to improve myself. So, I made the effort to travel, visit other Bitcoiners, and attend Bitcoin conferences. The conferences I attended in 2023/2024 made me a bit wiser ; not necessarily from what was said on stage (with a few lucky exceptions who still try to bring original thoughts). Most of what I learned came from the long queues, the drama, and watching grifters operate in real time and the good characters floating around. So, here’s what I’ve learned. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/d49fdda9ecb03f04f6c778e5301c67cf2bb15ff3b8647d929cb1755a9f6660a4.png"> **Chain of ticket** I quickly discovered that many Bitcoin conferences have their own “quest for tickets” dynamic, almost like an industry with its own inner circle. It’s a waterfall system: tickets start at lower prices to fill up the venue (usually right after the previous edition). That’s standard practice, both inside and outside of Bitcoin. But what’s strange is seeing organizations that only pop up when a conference needs promotion—somehow securing tickets for themselves and their friends (or for \*making\* friends) while shilling referral links for small discounts to their followers. The real free tickets, though, are a hot topic in many local communities and make all the difference for some attendees. What’s particularly interesting is that most ticket prices can be paid in Bitcoin, adding a layer of calculation to the process. If you paid 230500 sats for your ticket and later see the dollar price fluctuate, say from $180 to $270, or the other way around, by the time the conference starts, you realize you either bought too late or too early.\ It’s better to not have bought at all. Some ticket holders end up paying less (in dollar terms) than others, making it a gamble. As the event date approaches, ticket prices tend to rise—unless you wait until the last minute, when they haven’t sold out, or just pay at the door. It’s a strange feeling knowing that not everyone paid the same amount (and as mentioned, a significant number get in for free) depending on their timing. Many organizations and local community representatives show up primarily to be present; securing free tickets, which function more as a badge of recognition than a necessity.\ It’s similar to how a rock groupie sees backstage access: a status symbol, whether for an autograph or something more. Being seen standing next to big names is a huge deal for some, as they derive their own status from proximity.\ This also reinforces the “rockstar status” that conferences create around certain figures, once they come out to take a selfie with some nice people and young fans, then to quickly disappear back to the ‘whale room’ or backstage. There’s often an entire insider network determining who gets these free tickets. In some cases, it’s naturally tied to the local community, but in others, the professionalism is laughably low. At certain events, you could probably just walk up to the entrance (if there’s even someone checking) and say, “I’m with the organization” to get in for free. It gets even more absurd.\ At a conference near the French-Swiss border, I was probably one of the very few who actually paid for entry. The real spectacle wasn’t in the talk rooms — which remained eerily empty — but in the dining area, where half the town seemed to have shown up just for the free food. Around 200 people queued for a free lunch, while the presentation halls were at best one-third full throughout the day. And beyond the ticket games, there are plenty of ways to slip in unnoticed. Carrying a random piece of equipment and mumbling\ “I need to put this crate in the back” can get you past security. Or you can just wait for the one security guard to get distracted by chatting up a girl or stepping out for a smoke, and you’re in. At one event, I walked in alongside someone carrying crates of wine for the VIP lounge. I blended in perfectly (I paid afterward). So, to sum up: at nearly every conference I’ve been to, a big portion of attendees either walk in for free or hold compensation tickets they got through some connection. Sometimes that connection is uncomfortably close to the organizers. Other times, they just slap an “industry” label on themselves when, in reality, they’re nothing more than a social media bio with a few followers. Local representatives of a podcast, community, influencer network, or fake marketing club also get in for free. And you? The regular guest, you and I are paying for them. There’s no real vetting process; with some organizers, anyone wearing a Bitcoin t-shirt and saying the magic words “I do community building” or “I know the local Bitcoin meetups” gets a free pass. The ones who actually want to learn about Bitcoin — the ones who click the link and pay full price — are the ones covering the costs for everyone else and ultimately making these conferences profitable (or at least break even). The problem? They’re the ones left wondering: “Was it really worth my time and money?” only to never return again most of the time. Because many of the people at these conferences aren’t there to learn. They’re part of the circus. And others? They’re the ones paying for the circus boss, the clowns, and the trapeze artists. At that one conference with the massive free-lunch crowd, I saw one interesting talk. And I had plenty of valuable conversations and observations — conversations I could have just as easily had by visiting that place outside of a conference setting. In the end, I realized the main reason I was there was to support a fellow Bitcoiner giving a presentation. And after that? They disappeared from my life. Because, just like in the fiat world, you’re only as good as your last few hours of usefulness to most people. Which brings me to the next element of Bitcoin conferences...friends **Bitcoin “frens”** This might be the hardest lesson of all: you meet fellow Bitcoiners at these conferences. And some of them? They’re truly special characters. A few even made such a deep connection with not-so-well-traveled-me that I would’ve gladly traveled a full travel day just to spend time working and doing something meaningful together (which I actually did). But most of these connections? They last only a moment. Few survive beyond the conference, mainly because of the vast distances— both in kilometers (or miles) and in the way we live our everyday lives. The Bitcoiners you meet at these events are, for the most part, just regular people trying to make ends meet in the fiat world while saving in Bitcoin. Or they’re chasing the Bitcoin dream or even find a job in the fata morgana of bitcoin jobs. They act like they belong, like a clown acting like he’s going to climb the trapeze. I respect that. But over time, I realized that many of them operate in Bitcoin mode; a kind of facade. Behind that front, that mask, most are just testing the waters to see if they can make it. And most don’t.\ Treating Bitcoin as a lifestyle movement, a career shortcut, or an identity, has its limits. Eventually, the real person breaks through. And you have to face your own instincts and personality.\ I’ve tried to be an acrobat, and ride the lion, make the audience laugh, but I’m still the seal who’s brought back to the cage after he balanced a ball on his nose. The quote “I’m Jack’s wasted life.” came to mind often when standing somewhere at a conference space. Self-doubting people stay self-doubting, owning Bitcoin or not. Emotional wrecks remain emotional wrecks — just with Bitcoin now. And when these masks slip off, you’ll see everything: the greed, the overconfidence, the longing for drama, the addictions, the narcissism, the energy-draining personalities, sleaziness usually with the ones who always say the right oneliners or wear the right Bitcoin merch to blend in. And you can love people for that. Everyone has flaws. Everyone has a price as well. But these Bitcoin “frens” can also hurt you badly. Because as Bitcoiners, we carry hopes. And hopes are like ants on a sidewalk, they’ll eventually get crushed.\ We long to meet people who see the same truth, the same vision of Bitcoin as we do. Some will act like they actually understand and do, they talk the talk for a while, as if they’re parroting a podcast. If you stay in the shadows - like I did for years - you won’t have to deal with these things. If you never try, you’ll never be let down. But you still stay in the imaginary basement, letting yourself down. That’s not the bitcoin style. We router around problems. Even if we stand amidst the problems (like a conference). But if you do? There’s a hefty price to pay — beyond just the money spent. It’s a cost paid in energy, emotions, and social interactions and above all: time. And once in a while, you’ll meet a friend for life. Just be prepared: Bitcoin is a journey that few people you encounter at a conference can take for longer than four years, or even four hours of conversation actually. And then, after navigating the social maze of Bitcoin conferences —the connections, the masks, the fleeting friendships, the smell of weed and regret — you find yourself facing an even greater challenge: the queue at a coffee stall. <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/26f00a14b1ff12ea82635f1fd659900a7a836d37591556a31fda91d8210dcff0.png"> ## ## \ The Soviet LN Queue It’s one of the most fascinating and frustrating aspects of every conference: the insanely long lines. Whether it’s for the toilets, a coffee booth, or some niche merchandise stall, you’ll see Bitcoiners waiting like it’s 1963 after a Soviet state bakery just got fresh deliveries. waiting for coffee Seriously, aren’t we supposed to be the pinnacle of free-market efficiency? Instead, we’ve somehow perfected the art of the long food lines. I remember people waiting in line for like 35 minutes to order a cappuccino! The usual culprit? A mix of payment chaos and the Bitcoin Orangepill mental issues in action. A large portion insists on using Lightning (as in "their preferred lighting wallet"), which would be fine except they’re fumbling with some exotic, half-working wallet because using something that’s actually fast might get them sneered at for being “custodial.” On top of that, vendors are juggling card payments, cash, various Lightning POS systems, and even the occasional cutting edge dudes trying to pay with an Apple Watch or worse, some newly released Lightning-enabled gadget that doesn’t work yet. And when it does work, it requires so much attention and Instagram footage that it takes five minutes just to hand someone a coffee while the guy pays with a lighting NFC ring on his finger, something you can't use ànywhere else ever. It’s cool. But not to anyone else than you. So, here’s a tip for the regular people, the rats that pay for all of this : sneak out. Then you find a small, locally owned café outside the conference, pay them in cash, and actually enjoy your food in a few seconds or minutes. If (and only if) they accept Bitcoin, great! Tip them well. Otherwise, just relax and have a conversation with a local, all the while inside the conference venue there are Bitcoiners filming each other struggling to make a payment with the latest Lightning-enabled NFC card or making the staff uneasy. Meanwhile, some poor 22-year-old café worker is trapped in an unsolicited podcast participation: “Wait, you accept tips in Wallet of Satoshi? Who told you that? I’ll explain it to you!” Or worse: “Hold on, I just need to do a quick swap… It’s an on-chain transaction, the last block was 19 minutes ago, can’t be long now… wait… umm… do you take VISA?” At this point, ordering a simple drink at a Bitcoin conference has become an unnecessarily complex, ego-driven performance. With long queues as a direct result. And don’t get me started on the story when 30+ bitcoiners walked in to a Portuguese restaurant without a reservation, and they all wanted to pay with different payment methods. It was like the Vietnam war. **Solution:** A tip for conference organizers and their catering : pick one Bitcoin point of sales system, set clear guidelines, and make everyone stick to them. Instruct people to adhere to the following : Pay with a (bank) card, cash, or Lightning and PLEASE decide beforehand which method you’re using before ordering your stuff! We prefer lighting. If you’re using Lightning, have enough balance on you wallet or get lost. Use a compatible wallet. (Provide a tested “approved” list and train staff properly. Users who use other stuff get their order “cancelled” at the first sign of trouble. Your app‘s not scanning, or not compatible, or it has some technical mumbo-jumbo going on to your vpn LN node at home 2000 km away? Please get real and pay with a bank card or something. No filming, duck-facing (like it's 2017) or stupid selfies with your payment. It’s been done a thousand times by now. There are people in line, waiting behind you, they want to order as well, while you have your little ego trip or marketing moment. Move on please! “Our staff knows how bitcoin payments work, you don’t need to #orangesplain it to anyone.” We don’t care about your 200th LN app or the latest “but… this one is faster” thingy. Order your drinks, pay and get out of the way please. Bitcoin fixes many things. But it hasn’t quite fixed this yet. The bitcoin conference axiom Going to a conference, versus keeping your bitcoin in your wallet is a tough choice for many. If you pay nothing for tickets and lodging, while enjoying free meals and cocktails, your opportunity cost drops close to zero —yet your networking and social impact are maximized while you can also do business. That’s ideal. At least, for you. In such case, Bitcoin may only "win" over an extended timeline, but for you, it's essentially a free ride. You incur no real opportunity costs. You drink their milkshake. On the other hand, if you’re a regular attendee, you pay full price: the ticket, overpriced drinks and food from the stands (losing even more if you generously pay for coffee in sats), plus extras like t-shirts and books (which you’ll never read). Your milkshake gets taken—at least half of it. If you’re lucky, you might spend an evening in town with the event’s "stars"—those occasional luminaries who briefly grace the normies with their presence for a drink. Some can’t even hold their liquor. Year after year, the same 10 to 15 speakers or panelists appear, funded by your dime, traveling the world and enjoying the perks—some even cultivating fan bases and hosting exclusive parties. The real opportunity cost hits hardest for regular attendees who come to learn, shelling out significant money while accumulating their fourth hardware wallet or yet another orange-themed t-shirt. They might even squeeze in a selfie with a former sportswear model turned Bitcoiner. For normies (as they’re often called), the financial and social scales rarely tip in their favor. **Calculating the conference opportunity cost** To determine the opportunity cost of attending a conference instead of investing in Bitcoin, over time follow these steps: 1. Calculate your total conference expenses, including tickets, travel, food, drinks, and lodging (merchandise and donations). 2. Estimate Bitcoin’s percentage gain over the conference period and the following year(s). (in order to not make you cry, I suggest nog going over 5 years) 3. Multiply your total conference cost by this percentage to determine the potential Bitcoin profit you forgo. 4. Assign a dollar value to the networking or business opportunities you expect to gain from the conference (if you’re not just in it for the laughs, meeting high-class consultants, friendships, self-proclaimed social media Bitcoiners, or the occasional gyrating on one of the musicians/artists/food stall staff members). 5. Subtract this “networking” value from the missed Bitcoin profit to find your net opportunity cost (this is rather personal,… with me it’s zero, but for someone selling t-shirts it’s probably much more). If the result is negative over the chosen timeframe, the conference was financially worthwhile for you. If positive, holding or buying Bitcoin was the smarter move. Unless you’re a recognized speaker in this traveling circus, your opportunity cost will likely be positive — meaning all the others lose hard money, while fumbling with your Lightning wallet. The Conference Opportunity Cost Formula Let: CT = Total conference ticket & entrance cost (in dollars) CR = Total related conference costs (travel, lodging, food, etc.) C = CT + CR (Total cost) G = Bitcoin’s % gain per year (as a decimal, e.g., 5% = 0.05) N = Estimated fiat value of networking/business opportunities and knowledge gained. ### OC = (C × G) − N Where: OC (Opportunity Cost) &lt; 0 → The conference was worth attending. OC (Opportunity Cost) &gt; 0 → Holding/buying Bitcoin was the better move. Some example calculations (I've left out examples before 2020, I don't want people crying or waking up at night thinking "Why did I go to Amsterdam in 2014?!") example : Conference in April 2024 Entrance: $200 Lodging, t-shirt, and travel: $900 Bitcoin's estimated gain: 23% (0.23) No business / knowledge value gained OC = (200 + 900) × 0.23 - 0 - $253 OC (Bitcoin would have been the better choice.) Conference in April 2020 (adjusted for historical Bitcoin growth) Entrance: $175 Lodging and travel: $700 Bitcoin's estimated gain: 1089% (10.89) No business / knowledge value gained OC = (175 + 700) × 10.89 - 0 OC = +$9,529 (Massive missed gains — Bitcoin was the clear winner. \-- So the first lesson in bitcoin should be: Only attend conferences if you get paid to do so and get a free ticket and free lodging, which kind of would kill that whole industry to begin with. ### Energizing At first, it’s energizing to meet like-minded bitcoiners, but after a while, you realize that a big chunk of them are just trying to sell you something or aren’t really bitcoin-focused at all. And some of them are just looking for their next way to kill time and boredom. The drama that comes with attending these conference and the personal interaction can get pretty intense at times, since expectations often don’t match the personalities. Before you know, you’re walking around at night through some bad part of a town, while crying your eyes out because you thought you found your soulmate. Future pure industry conferences will suffer less from this drama, because everyone there has the same goal — pushing their company or product— while the “other” grassroots conferences are more of a meeting spot for bitcoiners of all types and perspectives, bringing the usual drama and mess that comes with human interactions. Current conferences are a mix of both usually. I think the current era of bitcoin conferences is coming to an end. Soon, probably by the end of 2025, we’ll see a clear split between industry-driven and human-driven (grassroots) smaller conferences, and it’ll be really important to keep these two separate. I even had the idea to launch a sort of conference where there wouldn’t be any industry speakers or companies present. Just bitcoiners gathering at a certain place at a specific week and having a good time. I called it “club Sat” And you could just go there, and meet other bitcoiners, while acting there was a big venue and speakers,… but there aren’t any. Would be refreshing. No struggle for tickets, no backstage stuff, no boring talks and presentation,… just the surroundings and the drama lever you want and probably like. ### On stage The podium is usually left for the known names. Not every conference is like that, but most of them need these names, badly. These names know each other, they encounter one another in VIP rooms and “the industry” a lot of times anyway. The same people you see in the bitcoin news, the same people having a cult following, and the very same people traveling, staying and drinking for free while spreading the same bitcoin wisdoms will be invited over and over again. Or… they go rock around as they’re usually so bored they had to start a rock band to entertain themselves. Which is rather entertaining if you’re following up on who does what, but in the end it’s largely just for their own amusement and it shows. I get that. I would do the same. It’s fun and all. It’s just a bit sad that there are only a small group of top-layer speakers, and then the sub-top that usually has more to say, or gets little opportunity. The reason for that is simple: the “normies” who pay in full for tickets, come there for the “big” names. They don’t know that much about bitcoin usually, so they’re not waiting on some unknown dude explaining something about an obscure niche subject. A debate can help remedie this, to mix it in with some lesser known names, but I have the feeling the current “line-up” of bitcoin conferences feels like a rock festival in 2025 putting the Stone temple pilots or Creed on the card. Yes, they’ll attract an audience and do their playset well,… but it’s not exactly the pinnacle of the music industry at the moment, neither is Madonna by the way :) ## Promoting anything The people organizing these events usually aren’t Bitcoiners either — they’re promoters (few exceptions though). <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/f478bf793b2048a51a15ceab5b8384abdb8d00c6d7c3cdd16731f5379cc1417d.png"> They don’t care if they organize a symposium about a newly discovered STD, A three-day cheese tasting event, a Star Trek convention, or a Lucha Libre wrestling tournament featuring El HODLador, as long as they can sell tickets and make money from merchandise they're good. The last thing on the mind with some of them will be helping bitcoin adoption. There will be a time (soon) where people that know bitcoin, known bitcoiners and know how to organize events get their act together. It will be different than the early days, and it will be different than the boring going-through-the-motions conferences we have now. There shall be fun, social gatherings, life, excitement and culture, and not the “what do you sell?” atmosphere, neither the “this old dude on stage again”? That’s why they’ll slap any semi-famous name on the poster to pull in a crowd - could be a washed-up Mexican wrestling star with strange legal issues, the cheese-tasting equivalent of Usain Bolt, or your neighborhood Bitcoin old-timer with a beard and a "best selling author" label. It’s also why most of these conferences end up being more about shitcoins than anything else. And even if they're for the most part about bitcoin, the venue is usually infested with marketing budgets, useless organizations that wanted complimentary tickets (some of them do only one thing: popping up when a conference is nearby and then they’re gone again) ... along with some hawking consultant types you never see anywhere else. They'll occasionally pay people but usually in fiat, or if you're a bigger name, you might get other deals. For artists or staff, it's all in fiat from what I heard. Pure Bitcoin conferences, also rely on these big names. Whether it’s a well-known Bitcoiner, a CEO, president, or someone with real reveling knowledge to share with the audience (though that last type is getting rare). ### **Looking for love in all the wrong places** \ Let’s also address the fair share of “orange diggers” at Bitcoin conferences—because yes, they exist. And no, let’s not single out one particular gender here. Some people treat a Bitcoin conference like a live-action dating app mixed with a financial vetting process for potential partners. It’s essentially an opportunity to inspect and assess the grab bag of fintech, crypto, and Bitcoin folks in real life. And if you think this is exaggerated, just attend a few conferences—three is enough. You’ll start noticing the same people popping up, seemingly without any real Bitcoin knowledge, but with a very strong interest in dining, chatting, and generally being around—as long as you look and play the part. I can only imagine how dialed-up this effect must be at a shitcoin conference — probably like flies on a cowpie. The trick is, in Bitcoin, these people try to blend in. Some even tag along with real Bitcoiners, while others just crash the party and try to get noticed. Their actual interest in Bitcoin? Close to zero. Their main target? Your wallet, or some fantasy thing about getting to know someone out of the ordinary. And that’s a shame for the people who genuinely care about Bitcoin, who want to network, or who simply are looking for like-minded people. They often find themselves competing for attention with those who’ve turned “being noticed” into a sport, while the rest just wander around, lost in the shuffle. Talk to the quiet ones. Certainly if they look like they belong in a antiques shop. My advice: Talk to people and be genuine. If you don’t know much about Bitcoin, that’s fine - nobody expects you to be a walking whitepaper and on top of that, most people you'll encounter don't know that much either. It’s bitcoin: we’re all rather average people that hold an extraordinary asset. Just don’t be "that orange digger" looking for a partner with a loaded bag of bitcoin. Because in the end, what’s the prize you win? You don’t know who’s under the mask. You don’t even know who’s under your own mask. Finding a man or woman at a place where half the people are laser-focused on financial sovereignty, and the other half are busy arguing about seed phrase storage, UTXO management, and why your Lightning wallet sucks? But good luck with that. The judge of character usually comes when they find the next shiny object or ditched you standing in the rain at the entrance of a restaurant while dealing with a lightning watchtower or a funny cigarette or whatever. If you’re truly looking for love, maybe stick to going to a normal bar. If you’re here to learn, connect, and be part of something of a grassroots movement, then be real yourself. I've seen some rather nasty examples of people at Bitcoin conferences—of all kinds. And I've also seen some really cool examples of truly awesome people. This led me to believe that Bitcoin conferences simply let you meet… people, just dialed up a bit. Future If you encounter rotten people, they’ll usually be even more rotten than in the fiat world. If you meet really cool people, they’ll be even more awesome than the cool people in the fiat world. Our volatility is our freedom. So, I guess it’s normal. Doesn’t make it any easier, though. Bitcoin sees through bullshit, and so do Bitcoiners (even if it takes 21,000 blocks) Pretty soon, I reckon we’ll see conferences fork into two camps: grass roots, and the “industry” level ones. (human / corporate) I guess I’ll only attend the human part, for sure, but I can’t help but booking myself a single room in a hotel in a nice area in that case, so I don’t have to deal with class of 2022 hippies sharing referral links to their middleman service while asking me for a lighter 3 times in a row. The chances for me of meeting cool bitcoiners in a nearby cocktail bar are a lot higher. In the meanwhile, I’ll look forward and see how the bitcoin conferences will evolve, fork in two “styles”. One corporate and one underground. Maybe there will be one more genre just for the fun of it. I’ll stay away, as I don’t like this current mix of industry gigs and having the insiders and “the rest” of us all mingled together clamoring for tickets, attention and coffee. The game is rigged. Staying at home is the better option (for now). written by AVB If you like : [tip here](https://coinos.io/allesvoorbitcoin/receive)

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Good morning, readers! Georgian officials froze the bank accounts of five nonprofit organizations that provide financial and legal support to detained protesters. This follows rising public unrest as Georgia’s regime pushes new laws restricting free speech and assembly, introducing new fines and penalties, and expanding law enforcement powers. By eroding civil protections, the regime makes it more dangerous and costly for activists, dissenters, and everyday citizens to stand up against an increasingly repressive regime.\ \ Meanwhile, the Indian government introduced a new income tax bill that grants tax authorities sweeping surveillance power over anyone they “suspect” of tax evasion. If suspected, tax authorities are legally allowed to access Indians' email, social media, and bank accounts, raising obvious concerns over state overreach and invasions of individual financial privacy.\ \ In freedom tech news, HRF donated 1 billion satoshis to more than 20 projects worldwide, focusing on supporting human rights defenders and vulnerable communities under authoritarian regimes across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. These gifts advance censorship-resistant communications and transactions, bitcoin education, and privacy tools so that dissidents, nonprofits, and individuals may better protect their human rights and financial freedom. In this letter we also spotlight a new open-source mobile Bitcoin wallet called Cove. While still in beta, the wallet can be used with a hardware device or on its own as a hot wallet, offering a flexible self-custody setup for managing Bitcoin. We end with a podcast in which HRF Chief Strategy Officer Alex Gladstein discusses the state of freedom tech and why Bitcoin stands as the most promising tool for financial liberation. **Now, let’s get right to it!** ### [**SUBSCRIBE HERE**](https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter?mc_cid=bf652c0a5a) ## **GLOBAL NEWS** #### **Georgia | Officials Freeze Accounts of Organizations Supporting Protesters** Georgian officials have [frozen](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/03/georgia-authorities-freeze-accounts-of-organizations-supporting-protesters-to-kill-the-peaceful-protests/) the bank accounts of five nonprofit organizations that provide financial and legal aid to dissenters. This comes in response to an uprising of protests over new controversial laws that restrict free expression and assembly, increase fines and detention periods, and expand law enforcement powers. Georgian officials justify the account freezes as part of an investigation into “sabotage,” yet they have provided no evidence. Amnesty International [warns](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/03/georgia-authorities-freeze-accounts-of-organizations-supporting-protesters-to-kill-the-peaceful-protests/) this financial assault could “kill the entire protest movement.” Bitcoin provides a way to circumvent these struggles. Its uncensorable and permissionless nature has helped [sustain](https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/how-to-dictator-proof-your-money/) pro-democracy movements across Belarus and Nigeria, proving it is capable of addressing the immense financial restrictions dictators impose. #### **United Arab Emirates | Plans to Launch “Digital Durham” CBDC in 2025** The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will [launch](https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/uae-to-launch-digital-dirham-by-year-end-to-modernise-payments-and-noost-financial-inclusion-470013-2025-03-31?utm_source=semafor#) its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the “[Digital Durham](https://cbdctracker.hrf.org/currency/united-arab-emirates),” by the end of 2025. [According](https://www.ledgerinsights.com/uae-to-launch-cbdc-in-q4-2025/) to the central bank, the CBDC will be available through licensed financial institutions and operate via a government-run digital wallet. Every transaction will be recorded on a permissioned blockchain run by the government. The central bank further [admitted](https://u.ae/en/about-the-uae/strategies-initiatives-and-awards/strategies-plans-and-visions/finance-and-economy/central-bank-digital-currency-strategy) the CBDC will replace cash and [assist](https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/uae-to-launch-digital-dirham-by-year-end-to-modernise-payments-and-noost-financial-inclusion-470013-2025-03-31?utm_source=semafor#) law enforcement “by leaving a digital trail for transactions involving illicit funds.” Officials [claim](https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/uae-to-launch-digital-dirham-by-year-end-to-modernise-payments-and-noost-financial-inclusion-470013-2025-03-31?utm_source=semafor#) this is to combat financial crime, but it also enables real-time surveillance and tracking of individual financial activity. In a country known for strict laws against dissent and extensive surveillance capabilities, it is not hard to see how a CBDC will erode the autonomy and rights of activists, dissenters, and others who oppose an increasingly authoritarian regime. #### **India | Grants Tax Authorities Access to Citizens’ Online Data** Starting in April 2026, the Indian government will [grant](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/tax/your-email-and-social-media-account-can-be-accessed-by-income-tax-officer-starting-next-financial-year-in-these-cases/articleshow/118685184.cms) tax authorities legal access to the private online data of any citizen “suspected” of tax evasion. This will include legal access to personal emails, social media, and bank accounts. The new law expands on the Income Tax Act of 1961, which previously limited officials to searching physical premises for financial documents. Now, officials can bypass digital security measures and access private data without consent — all under a legal framework. This dissipation of financial privacy sets an intrusive precedent and opens the door to state-level corruption and surveillance in a country where the Modi regime has already made it clear they are happy to use financial repression to further cement their power. #### **Myanmar | Bitcoin as a Tool Support Earthquake Disaster Relief** Last week, a [7.7 magnitude earthquake](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/world/asia/earthquake-myanmar-thailand-death-toll.html) struck central Burma, with strong tremors reaching neighboring Thailand. The [official death toll ](https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/survivors-myanmar-quake-left-without-food-water-shelter-aid-groups-say-2025-04-01/)has surpassed 2700. And in Bangkok, a 33-story building under construction [collapsed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynrhyIh4ozo). Despite an already strenuous situation, Burma’s military junta continues its oppression. They are [blocking](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-rescue.html) rescue teams from reaching the Sagaing region — the epicenter of the earthquake and the heart of Burma’s pro-democracy movement — and instead channeling aid to regime-controlled cities like Naypyidaw and Mandalay. The junta is also continuing to conduct air strikes on civilians and restricting equipment and fuel for aid groups, leaving a [million](https://data.unhcr.org/en/country/mmr) people in Sagaing to fend for themselves. In these repressive circumstances, Bitcoin can provide a censorship-resistant way to send funds directly to those affected. #### **Angola | Regime Jacks Price of Diesel** The Angolan regime [raised](https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/angola_doubles_diesel_prices_after_imf_call_for_subsidy_cuts-25-mar-2025-180020-article/) diesel prices by 50% in the process of eliminating fuel subsidies. Diesel prices suddenly increased from 200 to 300 kwanza per liter, driving up transportation costs in a country where over half the population lives on [less](https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/angola_doubles_diesel_prices_after_imf_call_for_subsidy_cuts-25-mar-2025-180020-article/) than $2 a day and inflation is over 42%. Previous fuel subsidy cuts in 2023 (where the price of diesel rose [80%](https://www.dw.com/en/angolan-police-crack-down-on-fuel-hike-protests/a-65978231)) sparked [protests](https://www.dw.com/en/angolan-police-crack-down-on-fuel-hike-protests/a-65978231) between taxi drivers, nonprofit workers, and law enforcement. This recent price increase now raises fears of renewed crackdowns. The Angolan regime also introduced new civil society laws that Guilherme Neves, chairman of the human rights organization Associacao Maos Livres, [describes](https://www.dw.com/en/angolan-police-crack-down-on-fuel-hike-protests/a-65978231) as a “license to erase non-governmental organizations that are not government-compliant.” Angolans find themselves in increasingly precarious financial positions as the government erodes the civil safeguards protecting nonprofits and dissenters. #### **Nicaragua | Ortega’s Dismantling of Press Freedom** Since coming to power in 2007, Ortega has [closed or seized](https://havanatimes.org/features/ortegas-war-on-journalism-in-nicaragua/) 61 media outlets, imprisoned countless journalists, and forced over 280 journalists into exile. His [assault on press freedom](https://havanatimes.org/features/ortegas-war-on-journalism-in-nicaragua/) has unfolded in two phases: initial raids on local radio stations and TV channels between 2007 and 2017, followed by full-scale censorship in 2018 on independent media outlets like [La Prensa](https://www.laprensani.com/) and [CONFIDENCIAL](https://confidencial.digital/). Ortega then intensified attacks from 2019 to 2021 by closing Nicaragua’s second-oldest newspaper and passing laws to [criminalize](https://havanatimes.org/features/ortegas-war-on-journalism-in-nicaragua/) free expression. This is a deliberate strategy to eliminate dissent and independent voices. What’s happening in Nicaragua highlights the importance of open and decentralized protocols like nostr, which allow journalists to publish freely without getting censored. While still early, it is becoming essential for sharing information absent the fear of being blocked or silenced by autocratic leaders. ## BITCOIN AND FREEDOM TECH NEWS #### **HRF | Gifts 1 Billion Satoshis to 20+ Open Source Projects Worldwide** HRF gifted 1 billion satoshis in its Q1 2025 round of [Bitcoin Development Fund](https://hrf.org/program/financial-freedom/bitcoin-development-fund/) (BDF) grants, supporting more than 20 open-source projects around the world. These projects advance Bitcoin education, open-source software, mining decentralization, and privacy tools for activists contending with authoritarian regimes across Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Supporting permissionless financial tools and censorship-resistant technologies empowers dissidents, journalists, and civil society to organize, transact, and communicate without state suppression and interference. Learn more about the grantees and their work [here](https://hrf.org/latest/hrf-bitcoin-development-fund-supports-20-projects-worldwide/). #### **Cove | New Open-Source and Permissionless Bitcoin Wallet** [Cove](https://github.com/bitcoinppl/cove) is a new open-source and permissionless mobile Bitcoin wallet that aims to put users in full control of their Bitcoin. Users can connect their own hardware wallet (to manage Bitcoin offline) or use Cove as a hot wallet (to manage Bitcoin online). It also allows users to create multiple wallets from the app itself. In the future, Cove plans to add Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO) selection and coin control, giving users more independence over their transactions and the tools to better protect their financial privacy. While still in beta and only suitable for test funds, this wallet holds promise as a privacy tool to equip dissidents with self-custodied Bitcoin. You can try it [here](https://github.com/bitcoinppl/cove). #### **Second | New Ark Implementation Launches on Bitcoin Signet** [Second](https://second.tech/), a company building on Ark, a protocol designed to help scale Bitcoin’s transaction throughput, [launched](https://blog.second.tech/try-ark-on-signet/?ref=nobsbitcoin.com) “Bark.” Bark is a test implementation of the Ark protocol deployed on Bitcoin’s [Signet](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Signet) network (where developers test software). More broadly, the Ark protocol helps make Bitcoin transactions more private, faster, and cheaper, supporting the network in handling more transactions and users with the tradeoff of being less trusted than the mainchain, as funds stored in a noncustodial way on Ark can expire if not used. While it is still in early development, the test release of Bark marks a step toward deployment on the main Bitcoin network. Scaling solutions like Ark could be important for activists and individuals. They might ensure Bitcoin remains accessible to all, even as block space demand increases and network fees rise. Learn about it [here](https://blog.second.tech/try-ark-on-signet/?ref=nobsbitcoin.com). #### **Braiins | Open Sources Bitcoin Control Board** [Braiins](https://braiins.com/), a company building tools for Bitcoin mining, [open-sourced](https://x.com/BraiinsMining/status/1904601547855573458) its [BCB100](https://github.com/braiins/BCB100) Bitcoin Control Board, giving miners using their products greater insight and control over their Bitcoin mining hardware and firmware. Sharing the design files and firmware openly helps strengthen Bitcoin’s decentralization, making it more resilient against corporate or state interference. Specifically, open-sourcing mining hardware ensures individual miners can operate independently, reducing censorship risks across the entire network. In turn, this preserves financial freedom by keeping Bitcoin accessible and usable by dissidents, nonprofits, and individuals who need it most. #### **African Bitcoiners | Publish Bitcoin Starter Guide** [African Bitcoiners](https://x.com/afribitcoiners) just published “[Bitcoin: Africa’s Guide to Freedom Money](https://x.com/afribitcoiners/status/1904516726273851513),” a Bitcoin guide providing clear, practical insights into how Bitcoin can help people across the continent escape inflation, corrupt regimes, and failing financial systems. It covers essential topics to get started — from choosing a wallet to properly securing Bitcoin. In Africa, where some of the world’s longest-standing dictators restrict even basic financial activity, this guide is a powerful resource for human rights defenders, nonprofits, and everyday citizens. Read it[ here](https://bitcoiners.africa/bitcoin-africas-guide-to-freedom-money/). #### **OpenSats | 10th Wave of Nostr Grants** [OpenSats](https://opensats.org/), a nonprofit that supports open-source software development, [announced](https://opensats.org/blog/10th-wave-of-nostr-grants) its tenth wave of grants for projects in the nostr ecosystem. Nostr is a decentralized protocol that enables digital identity and communications outside the reach of authoritarian states. The grant round provides support to nostr Epoxy, which enhances access to nostr by circumventing censorship through a network of paid proxies. This ensures activists and dissidents can continue to communicate even in restrictive environments. Additionally, Zapstore received a grant for providing a permissionless app store built on nostr that enables developers to distribute software without corporate gatekeepers. This provides an open-source alternative to centralized app stores that often comply with government censorship and restrict dissidents’ access to freedom tools. ## RECOMMENDED CONTENT #### **Freedom Tech with Alex Gladstein** In this [episode](https://x.com/blockspacepod/status/1896229100702089589?s=46&t=yEPKerGEzeCp5j_mIaNJ8A) of The Gwart Show, Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer at HRF, breaks down how and why Bitcoin serves as “money dictators can’t stop.” Drawing on more than 17 years of human rights work, he shares real-world examples of activists and citizens using Bitcoin to escape financial repression in authoritarian countries. Gladstein also explores privacy tools, cross-border payments, and why Bitcoin offers promising hope for financial freedom. Watch the full conversation [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ng961QZwI0). #### **The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality with Meredith Whittaker**   In this [keynote](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg) for SXSW 2025, Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker shares her growing concerns around AI, personal data collection, and the erosion of privacy in today’s increasingly digital world. She emphasizes the need for more secure, uncensorable, and privacy-protecting technologies that shield users from surveillance and exploitation, especially in the context of authoritarian regimes. 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In an era where centralized platforms dominate the internet, concerns over censorship, privacy, and data ownership have led to the rise of decentralized alternatives. One such innovation is Nostr, a lightweight and resilient protocol designed to enable censorship-resistant and decentralized communication. In this article, we will explore what Nostr is, how it works, its advantages, and why it is gaining traction among privacy advocates and decentralized technology enthusiasts. ### **What is Nostr?** Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open protocol designed for creating censorship-resistant social networks and communication platforms. Unlike traditional social media networks, which rely on centralized servers controlled by corporations, Nostr operates on a decentralized model using cryptographic keys and relays. Nostr allows users to publish and receive messages without the need for a central authority. It is not tied to any single application but instead provides a foundation upon which developers can build various types of social and communication tools. ### **How Does Nostr Work?** Nostr consists of two main components: 1. **Clients** – Applications that users interact with, such as social media platforms, chat applications, or blogging tools. 2. **Relays** – Servers that distribute messages between clients without storing them permanently or acting as gatekeepers. When a user wants to send a message or publish content, their client signs the data using their private key and broadcasts it to multiple relays. Other users who subscribe to those relays can receive and interact with the messages. Nostr does not have a concept of user accounts managed by a central entity. Instead, identity is established using public and private cryptographic keys. The private key is used to sign messages, while the public key acts as the user’s identity across the network. ### **Advantages of Nostr** 1. **Censorship Resistance** – Since Nostr does not rely on a central authority, it is much harder for governments or corporations to censor content. Users can publish messages freely, and if one relay refuses to distribute them, they can simply use another. 2. **Privacy and Security** – Messages are signed using cryptographic keys, ensuring authenticity and reducing the risk of impersonation. Users retain full control over their identities and content. 3. **Interoperability** – Nostr is not tied to a single platform or application. Developers can create different types of services using the protocol, from microblogging platforms to encrypted messaging apps. 4. **Resilience** – Since the network relies on multiple relays instead of a single centralized server, it is less susceptible to shutdowns or attacks. ### **Use Cases for Nostr** - **Decentralized Social Media** – Platforms like Twitter alternatives can be built on Nostr, allowing users to post updates without fear of censorship. - **Private Messaging** – Secure and encrypted messaging applications can be developed using the protocol. - **Blogging and Content Publishing** – Writers and journalists can publish articles in a censorship-resistant manner. - **Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Communities** – Many Bitcoin enthusiasts are adopting Nostr due to its decentralized nature and alignment with privacy-focused principles. ### **Challenges and Limitations** While Nostr is a promising technology, it is still in its early stages and faces several challenges: - **Adoption and Network Effects** – Since Nostr is not as widely used as traditional social media platforms, building a strong user base is a challenge. - **Spam and Moderation** – Without central moderation, handling spam and malicious content is more difficult, requiring innovative solutions such as reputation-based filtering. - **User Experience** – Decentralized networks often have a steeper learning curve for new users compared to centralized platforms. ### **The Future of Nostr** Despite these challenges, Nostr is gaining momentum among privacy advocates, developers, and decentralized technology supporters. With continued development and improvements in usability, Nostr has the potential to reshape online communication by offering a truly decentralized and censorship-resistant platform. As more developers create applications and services using Nostr, its ecosystem is likely to expand, providing a viable alternative to traditional social media networks. Whether you are a developer, a privacy-conscious user, or someone interested in the future of decentralized internet, Nostr is a technology worth exploring. ### **Conclusion** Nostr represents a significant step toward a more open and decentralized internet. By removing central points of control and enabling user-driven communication, it empowers individuals to interact freely without the risk of censorship or data exploitation. As the protocol matures and more applications emerge, it could play a crucial role in shaping the next generation of online communication. If you are interested in experimenting with Nostr, you can start by exploring various Nostr-based applications, setting up your cryptographic keys, and connecting with the growing community of users and developers. The future of decentralized communication is just beginning, and Nostr is at the forefront of this movement. **Understanding Nostr: A Decentralized Social Network Protocol** In an era where centralized platforms dominate the internet, concerns over censorship, privacy, and data ownership have led to the rise of decentralized alternatives. One such innovation is Nostr, a lightweight and resilient protocol designed to enable censorship-resistant and decentralized communication. In this article, we will explore what Nostr is, how it works, its advantages, and why it is gaining traction among privacy advocates and decentralized technology enthusiasts. ### **What is Nostr?** Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open protocol designed for creating censorship-resistant social networks and communication platforms. Unlike traditional social media networks, which rely on centralized servers controlled by corporations, Nostr operates on a decentralized model using cryptographic keys and relays. Nostr allows users to publish and receive messages without the need for a central authority. It is not tied to any single application but instead provides a foundation upon which developers can build various types of social and communication tools. ### **How Does Nostr Work?** Nostr consists of two main components: 1. **Clients** – Applications that users interact with, such as social media platforms, chat applications, or blogging tools. 2. **Relays** – Servers that distribute messages between clients without storing them permanently or acting as gatekeepers. When a user wants to send a message or publish content, their client signs the data using their private key and broadcasts it to multiple relays. Other users who subscribe to those relays can receive and interact with the messages. Nostr does not have a concept of user accounts managed by a central entity. Instead, identity is established using public and private cryptographic keys. The private key is used to sign messages, while the public key acts as the user’s identity across the network. ### **Advantages of Nostr** 1. **Censorship Resistance** – Since Nostr does not rely on a central authority, it is much harder for governments or corporations to censor content. Users can publish messages freely, and if one relay refuses to distribute them, they can simply use another. 2. **Privacy and Security** – Messages are signed using cryptographic keys, ensuring authenticity and reducing the risk of impersonation. Users retain full control over their identities and content. 3. **Interoperability** – Nostr is not tied to a single platform or application. Developers can create different types of services using the protocol, from microblogging platforms to encrypted messaging apps. 4. **Resilience** – Since the network relies on multiple relays instead of a single centralized server, it is less susceptible to shutdowns or attacks. ### **Use Cases for Nostr** - **Decentralized Social Media** – Platforms like Twitter alternatives can be built on Nostr, allowing users to post updates without fear of censorship. - **Private Messaging** – Secure and encrypted messaging applications can be developed using the protocol. - **Blogging and Content Publishing** – Writers and journalists can publish articles in a censorship-resistant manner. - **Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Communities** – Many Bitcoin enthusiasts are adopting Nostr due to its decentralized nature and alignment with privacy-focused principles. ### **Challenges and Limitations** While Nostr is a promising technology, it is still in its early stages and faces several challenges: - **Adoption and Network Effects** – Since Nostr is not as widely used as traditional social media platforms, building a strong user base is a challenge. - **Spam and Moderation** – Without central moderation, handling spam and malicious content is more difficult, requiring innovative solutions such as reputation-based filtering. - **User Experience** – Decentralized networks often have a steeper learning curve for new users compared to centralized platforms. ### **The Future of Nostr** Despite these challenges, Nostr is gaining momentum among privacy advocates, developers, and decentralized technology supporters. With continued development and improvements in usability, Nostr has the potential to reshape online communication by offering a truly decentralized and censorship-resistant platform. As more developers create applications and services using Nostr, its ecosystem is likely to expand, providing a viable alternative to traditional social media networks. Whether you are a developer, a privacy-conscious user, or someone interested in the future of decentralized internet, Nostr is a technology worth exploring. ### **Conclusion** Nostr represents a significant step toward a more open and decentralized internet. By removing central points of control and enabling user-driven communication, it empowers individuals to interact freely without the risk of censorship or data exploitation. As the protocol matures and more applications emerge, it could play a crucial role in shaping the next generation of online communication. If you are interested in experimenting with Nostr, you can start by exploring various Nostr-based applications, setting up your cryptographic keys, and connecting with the growing community of users and developers. The future of decentralized communication is just beginning, and Nostr is at the forefront of this movement.

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When it comes to social trading, there are plenty of platforms that claim to offer innovative ways to connect with other traders, share strategies, and improve your market performance. But let's be real: most so-called "social trading" apps are either glorified brokerage platforms with limited community features or outdated, clunky systems that don’t offer real-time value. There’s really only *one* social trading app you need to consider—**NVSTly**. Here’s why. ## Why NVSTly Stands Above the Rest NVSTly isn’t just another trading app with a few social features slapped on. It’s **the ultimate [social trading platform](https://nvstly.com)**, purpose-built to empower traders by combining **real-time trade tracking, seamless social sharing, deep market insights, and a powerful trader community.** Unlike other platforms, NVSTly isn’t just about copying trades or following vague signals—it’s about **true transparency, collaboration, and learning** from top traders in an interactive environment. ## What is NVSTly? **NVSTly** is a **completely free** social trading platform that lets traders track, share, and analyze their trades in **real time**. Whether you're trading **stocks, options, or crypto**, NVSTly provides a **seamless multi-platform experience**—available via **web, iOS, Android, and even Discord.** It’s not just a social network—it’s a **trader’s command center** where every trade you make is part of a bigger, smarter ecosystem designed to help you grow. ## Key Features That Make NVSTly #1 ### 1. Real-Time Trade Sharing & Tracking NVSTly integrates with brokers like **Webull** (with more brokerages coming soon) to automatically track your trades and display them in **real-time**. No manual entry—just **instant trade updates** for you and your followers. ### 2. Unique POV Trade Charting See trades like never before. NVSTly’s proprietary **POV Chart** marks every trade action directly on the candlestick chart, giving you (and your followers) an **unparalleled view of trading strategies in action**. ### 3. Deep Trade Analytics & Trader Dashboards Get powerful insights into your performance, including: - **Win rate** - **Total gain/loss** - **Average return per trade** - **Long vs. short ratio** - **(Coming soon) Drawdown tracking** to measure risk exposure ### 4. Global Trades Feed & Leaderboard Want to see what the best traders are doing *right now*? The **[Global Trades Feed](https://nvstly.com/trades)** lets you watch live trades, while the **[Leaderboard](https://nvstly.com/trades)** ranks top traders based on performance metrics, making it easy to find successful strategies. ### 5. Fully Integrated with Discord & Telegram No other platform makes social trading as seamless as NVSTly. The **[NVSTly Discord bot](https://nvstly.com/go/bot)** allows users to: - **Check a trader’s latest stats** - **View real-time trade recaps** - **Fetch charts and ticker data** - **Receive automated trade notifications** Telegram users won’t be left out either—NVSTly is working on bringing the same functionality to **Telegram** for even broader access. ### 6. Automated Social Media Sharing Set your trades to **automatically share** to **Twitter/X, Discord, and soon, Telegram**. Whether you’re growing your personal brand or running a trading community, NVSTly makes sure your trades get noticed. ### 7. Future AI & Machine Learning Enhancements NVSTly is building **AI-powered trade insights and strategy generation**, allowing traders to: - **Get automated trading tips** tailored to their strategies - **Use customizable AI models** to refine their trading approach - **Interact with a smart AI trading assistant** via the app and Discord bot ## Why NVSTly is the Only Social Trading App You Need While others might pretend to offer social trading, **NVSTly actually delivers**. It’s not a gimmick or a half-baked feature—it’s a complete **trading ecosystem built for real traders** who want **real-time data, powerful analytics, and a truly social experience.** With NVSTly, you're not just following traders—you’re **engaging with them, learning from them, and improving your own strategies** in the most **transparent and interactive** way possible. So don’t waste time on inferior platforms. **NVSTly is the only social trading app that matters.** ## Ready to Take Your Trading to the Next Level? Join **50,000+ traders** who are already using NVSTly to **track, share, and dominate the markets.** 📲 **Download NVSTly today on [Web](https://nvstly.com), [iOS](https://nvstly.com/go/ios), or [Android](https://nvstly.com/go/android)!** 🚀 **[Join our Discord community](https://nvstly.com/go/discord)** and bring the power of NVSTly straight into your server!

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最近又开始折腾 Technitium DNS Server，发现[之前记录的过程]( https://wp.235421.xyz/2024/10/03/use-technitium-and-set-ipv6-dns/)不太完善，于是更新一下。 #### 安装acme.sh ``` curl https://get.acme.sh | sh -s email=youreMailAddress ``` #### 导入环境变量 ``` export CF_Token="填API token" export CF_Zone_ID="填区域ID" export CF_Account_ID="填账户ID" ``` - Cloudflare 的 API Token 是在 Cloudflare 网页右上角的👤头像--配置文件--API 令牌处创建 - 在 Cloudflare 主页点击你需要使用的域名，下滑到右下角可以看到区域 ID 和账户 ID ### 申请证书 ``` acme.sh --issue --dns dns_cf -d dns.235421.xyz ``` - `-d` 后面是你想使用的域名 #### 安装证书 ``` acme.sh --install-cert -d dns.235421.xyz \ --key-file /root/certs/key.pem \ --fullchain-file /root/certs/cert.pem \ --reloadcmd "cd /root/certs && openssl pkcs12 -export -out 'dns.pfx' -inkey 'key.pem' -in 'cert.pem' -password pass:1021" ``` - `reloadcmd`是在申请证书之后执行的代码，以后自动更新时也会自动执行这个代码，所以第一次配置好就基本上不用管了。 - `reloadcmd` 中的代码是将 `pem` 格式的证书和密钥转换成一个 `pfx` 格式的证书文件，`-out` 后面是输出的 `pfx` 证书文件名， `-inkey` 和 `-in` 分别是前一步 `acme.sh` 申请的密钥和证书文件。这里必须添加密码，也就是 `1021` 这个，如果不设密码执行命令的话，它会让你交互式输入，但是在自动脚本中就不行。我在前面加了先 `cd` 到证书目录，避免出现问题。 #### 安装 Technitium DNS Server 1. 在[Technitium DNS Server 官网]( https://technitium.com/dns/) 获取安装脚本，也有提供 Docker 镜像以及 Windows 版本。  2. 安装后在 `公网IP:5380` 进入管理界面，首次进入需设置管理员密码，管理员账户默认是 `admin`。 3. 在 `Settings` – `optional protocols` 处开启 DNS over HTTPS ，`TLS Certificate File Path` 处填入转换好的 `pfx` 证书路径，`TLS Certificate Password` 处填你设定的密码，就是我的 `1021` 。   4. 现在打开你的域名，看到如图这样就说明设定成功了，然后在需要设置 DoH 的地方填入 ` https://yourdomain.com/dns-query`即可。  ---- 我在[之前的文章]( https://wp.235421.xyz/2024/10/03/use-technitium-and-set-ipv6-dns/)中使用的是 `DNS over HTTP` 并用 Nginx 反代来实现 `DNS over HTTPS` 的，现在直接用 DoH ，省去了配置 Nginx 的部分，只是多了一步证书格式转换，总体上更简单了。 ---- #### 我的设置 - 在`Settings` – `Recursion` 处打开 `Allow Recursion` 以允许递归解析。 - 在`Settings` – `Cache` 处将 `Cache Maximum Entries` 调大些，默认 10000 有点少了。 - 在`Settings` – `General` 处开启 `EDNS Client Subnet (ECS)` 。 - 在`Settings` – `Logging` 处开启 `Use Local Time`。 - 在`Apps` – `App Store` 中安装 `Query Logs (Sqlite)` 以便在 `Logs` – `Query Logs` 处查看 DNS 查询日志。 ##### 以下设置可选 - 在`Settings` – `General` 处开启 `Prefer IPv6` - 在`Settings` – `Web Service` 处为后台管理页面开启 HTTPS，可使用与 DoH 相同的域名和证书，仅端口不同，这个默认 HTTPS 端口是 `53443`。 - 在`Settings` – `Blocking` 处开启拦截功能（默认开启），下面 `Allow / Block List URLs` 可以配置规则，与 AdGuard Home 规则通用，白名单规则须在链接前加上英文叹号 `!`。也可以是本地规则，填路径即可。 - 在`Settings` – `Proxy & Forwarders` 处可以设置上游DNS `Forwarders` 。

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Nostr is a decentralized, censorship-resistant social media protocol designed to give users control over online interactions without relying on central authorities. While its architecture offers notable advantages, it also introduces challenges, particularly concerning user anonymity, content moderation, and the dynamics of user influence.​ Anonymity and the Risk of Bullying Nostr's design allows users to create identities without traditional verification methods like email addresses or phone numbers. Instead, users generate a cryptographic key pair: a public key serving as their identifier and a private key for signing messages. This approach enhances privacy but can lead to the "online disinhibition effect," where individuals feel less accountable for their actions due to perceived anonymity. This phenomenon has been linked to increased instances of cyberbullying, as users may engage in behavior online that they would avoid in face-to-face interactions. ​ Influence Disparities Among Users In decentralized networks like Nostr, users with larger followings can have a more extensive reach, amplifying their messages across the network. This can create disparities where individuals with thousands of followers wield more influence than those with fewer connections. While this dynamic is not unique to Nostr, the protocol's structure may exacerbate the visibility gap between highly followed users and those with a smaller audience.​ Content Moderation and the Challenge of Deletion Due to Nostr's decentralized nature, content moderation and deletion present significant challenges. Removing content to multiple relays becomes complex once a user posts content to multiple relays, as each relay operates independently. Unlike centralized platforms where a post can be deleted universally, Nostr's architecture means that deleting a post from one relay doesn't ensure its removal from others. This persistence underscores the importance of thoughtful posting, as content may remain accessible indefinitely. ​ Mitigation Strategies and User Empowerment Despite these challenges, Nostr offers mechanisms to empower users to manage their experience. Clients can implement features allowing users to mute or block others, tailoring their interactions and content exposure. Additionally, some clients support user-led moderation, enabling individuals to label content as offensive or inappropriate, contributing to a community-driven approach to content management. ​ In summary, while Nostr's decentralized and anonymous framework promotes freedom and resistance to censorship, it also necessitates a proactive approach from users to navigate challenges related to anonymity, influence disparities, and content permanence. As the platform evolves, ongoing development and community engagement will be crucial in addressing these issues to foster a safe and equitable environment for all participants.

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# Bartering and early money \ Early societies bartered goods, but transactions were often complicated. The value of goods doesn’t always align. Enter money. It’s used as an indirect exchange for any goods, so everyone wants it. Early money wasn’t anything like what we use today. For example, the inhabitants of Yap Island (Micronesia) used large Rai stones for trade. New stones were dragged up a hill for everyone to see. The owner would then exchange part of the stone for goods and services. As they were hard to quarry and move, Rai stones retained their value (salability). Then, an Irish-American captain started importing stones using modern technology. Soon enough, they became so common, they no longer worked as money. --- # Gold — the basis for sound money \ Smelting made it possible to create highly salable and transportable coins. Gold was best because it’s virtually impossible to destroy and can’t be synthesized using other materials. It has a fairly limited supply, which grows slowly and predictably (due to the difficulty of mining). Technologies like the telegraph and trains made it easier for both people and goods to get from point A to point B. That, in turn, justified forms of payment like checks, paper receipts, and bills. But paper is not worth much unless it’s backed by something. Governments worldwide issued paper money backed by precious metals, which they stored in vaults. By 1900, around 50 countries had adopted the Gold Standard. This was sound money. --- # Currencies devalued \ Roman emperor Julius Caesar issued the Aureus, an empire-standard coin containing 8 grams of gold. But as growth began to slow, rulers started ‘coin clipping’, reducing the quantity of precious metal in coins. This eventually triggered a series of economic crises that led to the downfall of the Roman Empire. The gold standard had one major flaw: it had to be stored in bank vaults. This created a highly centralized system in which governments controlled the value of paper money. If they wanted to, they could always increase the supply of money without increasing the corresponding amount of gold. In 1914, nearly every major European power decided to do this to fund their war operations. Rather than raising taxes, they simply printed new money with no extra gold. The standard had been abandoned. --- # Government-backed money \ Governments chose to introduce fiat money – currency backed by decree rather than gold. The adoption of the fiat system led to an age of unsound money shaped by ever-greater intervention in the economy as governments scrambled to stabilize their currencies. By 1944, the end of the Second World War was in sight, and the victors began planning the postwar economic order. The world’s currencies would be tied to the US dollar at a fixed exchange rate. The dollar would in turn be tied to the value of gold, again at a fixed rate. The United States bent the rules and inflated its own currency compared to gold. Other nations inflated their currencies compared to the dollar. On August 15, 1971, President Nixon announced that dollars would no longer be convertible to gold. --- # Sound money = functioning economy \ Sound money encourages people to save and invest, enabling sustainable, long-term growth. Why? Well, humans have a natural positive time preference: we prefer instant gratification over future gratification. Sound money prompts us to think more about the future. The more capital accumulation there is, the greater the chance of stable, long-term economic growth. Unsound money distorts capital accumulation. When governments interfere with the money supply, they also interfere with prices. And prices give investors the information they need to make good decisions without having to learn every tiny detail about global events. --- # Recessions and debt arise from unsound money \ Government interference takes the form of central planning. No single person, agency, or department ever has access to all the information necessary to understand the vast and complex economy. Interventions distort markets, creating boom and bust cycles. According to Keynes and his followers, the best way to respond to recessions is to increase spending. You could lower taxes, but people don’t usually spend their extra money. Raising taxes is unpopular, so governments invariably decide to increase the money supply. Saving becomes less attractive, creating a culture of unwise spending and growing debt. We need to return to sound money and a new gold standard. Enter bitcoin. --- # Bitcoin is scarce \ Bitcoin has similar traits to gold. Its supply is literally fixed. Once there are 21 million bitcoins in circulation, no more will be issued. The supply grows at a diminishing rate. Computers across the Bitcoin network pool their processing power to solve complex algorithmic problems. Once these puzzles have been cracked, the “miners” receive bitcoins as a reward. Satoshi Nakamoto designed the system to avoid gold rushes. The algorithmic problems become more difficult to solve as the number of computers working on them rises, guaranteeing a steady and reliable supply. Also, the number of bitcoins issued is halved every four years, resulting in ever-smaller releases until 2140, after which no more coins will be released. That makes bitcoin unique. It is the only good that is defined by absolute scarcity. No amount of time or resources can create more bitcoins than the programmed supply allows. The supply cannot be manipulated, making it a perfect store of value. --- # Bitcoin is secure \ The bitcoin ledger uses the public blockchain. When mining computers crack an algorithmic puzzle, they create a block. The blocks on the ledger contain details about every blockchain transaction ever completed. Every network user can view this information. Ownership of bitcoins is only valid once it’s been registered on the blockchain. This is only possible if the majority of network users approve it, so there’s no need for a central authority to oversee transactions. While verifying new blocks requires virtually no energy, creating a fraudulent block would cost a significant amount of processing power. Even if a user decided to expend vast amounts of energy and successfully hacked a majority of all network nodes to approve a fraudulent block, they’d gain very little. Trust in bitcoin would be lost, leading to a drop in demand and value. --- # Challenges for adoption \ Because bitcoin is new, demand has varied. The volatile price has, at times, undermined the currency’s status as an effective store of value. Bitcoin’s transaction limit is currently set at 500,000 per day. That could be increased, but there will always be a daily cap. The more transactions that take place, the more nodes there’ll need to be. This increases transaction fees and the amount of processing power expended. Bitcoin could be traded off the blockchain, meaning currencies will be backed by bitcoin. That would create a new standard, but it would also mean that new centralized institutions would need to manage this system. ---  This 5-minute summary did not use copyrighted material from the book. It aims simply to give readers a quick understanding of the book (which is well worth reading). ‘*The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking’* was written by economist Saifedean Ammous in 2018. Buy the book and many more titles at [bitcoinbook.shop](bitcoinbook.shop)

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Trogir is a UNESCO-listed coastal town just 30 minutes from Split, known for its well-preserved medieval architecture, charming waterfront, and rich history. Often called "The Little Venice of Dalmatia," Trogir is built on a small island connected to the mainland and Čiovo Island by bridges. Its cobblestone streets, Renaissance palaces, and lively cafés** make it a perfect stop for history lovers and travelers seeking authentic Dalmatian charm.  ## **🏛️ Top Things to See & Do in Trogir** ### **1️⃣ Explore Trogir Old Town (UNESCO) 🏡** - Wander through the **labyrinth of narrow streets**, filled with **hidden courtyards and stone houses**. - Admire **Venetian-style palaces, Romanesque churches, and medieval city walls**. - Visit **St. Lawrence Cathedral**, featuring the **famous Radovan Portal**, a **masterpiece of medieval stone carving**. ### **2️⃣ Climb the Bell Tower of St. Lawrence ⛪** - Offers **stunning panoramic views** over Trogir and the Adriatic. - A bit of a **steep climb**, but **totally worth it** for the breathtaking scenery! ### **3️⃣ Visit Kamerlengo Fortress 🏰** - A **15th-century Venetian fortress** with **amazing sea views** from the top. - In summer, it hosts **concerts and cultural events**. ### **4️⃣ Stroll Along the Trogir Riva Promenade 🌊** - A lively waterfront filled with **cafés, restaurants, and luxury yachts**. - Perfect for a **relaxing evening walk** while watching the sunset.  ### **5️⃣ Relax on the Best Beaches Near Trogir 🏖️** - **Okrug Gornji Beach (Copacabana Beach)** – A long, lively beach with bars & water activities. - **Pantan Beach** – A quieter spot with **clear waters and pine tree shade**. - **Kava Beach (Čiovo Island)** – A more **secluded and natural** beach, ideal for relaxation. ### **6️⃣ Take a Boat Trip to the Blue Lagoon 🛥️** - A **stunning turquoise bay**, perfect for **swimming and snorkeling**. - Just **a short boat ride from Trogir**. ### **7️⃣ Try Dalmatian Cuisine 🍽️** - **Grilled fresh fish & seafood** – Trogir’s specialty! 🐟 - **Pašticada** – Slow-cooked beef in a rich red wine sauce, served with gnocchi. - **Homemade Dalmatian prosciutto & cheese** – Best paired with local **Plavac Mali wine**.  ## **🚗 How to Get to Trogir** ✈️ **By Air:** - **Split Airport (SPU)** is just **10 minutes away**! 🚕 🚘 **By Car:** - **From Split:** ~30 minutes (27 km) - **From Zadar:** ~1.5 hours (130 km) 🚌 **By Bus:** Frequent buses run between **Split and Trogir**. ⛵ **By Boat:** A **seasonal boat line** connects Trogir with Split and nearby islands.  ## **💡 Tips for Visiting Trogir** ✅ **Best time to visit?** **April–October** for sunny weather & fewer crowds ☀️ ✅ **Stay for sunset** – The views from the Riva & Kamerlengo Fortress are magical 🌅 ✅ **Wear comfy shoes** – The old town’s stone streets can be slippery 👟 ✅ **Book Blue Lagoon trips in advance** – It’s a popular excursion 🚤 ✅ **Try a wine tasting** at a local konoba (traditional tavern) 🍷 

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The MacOS security update summary is a reminder that laptops and desktops are incredibly compromised. ### macOS Sequoia 15.4 Released March 31, 2025 Accessibility Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction. CVE-2025-24202: Zhongcheng Li from IES Red Team of ByteDance AccountPolicy Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app may be able to gain root privileges Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. CVE-2025-24234: an anonymous researcher AirDrop Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to read arbitrary file metadata Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-24097: Ron Masas of BREAKPOINT.SH App Store Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app may be able to access private information Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. CVE-2025-24276: an anonymous researcher AppleMobileFileIntegrity Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24272: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) AppleMobileFileIntegrity Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access protected user data Description: A downgrade issue was addressed with additional code-signing restrictions. CVE-2025-24239: Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog) AppleMobileFileIntegrity Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app may be able to read or write to protected files Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-24233: Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos. AppleMobileFileIntegrity Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data Description: A privacy issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. CVE-2025-30443: Bohdan Stasiuk (@bohdan_stasiuk) Audio Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2025-24244: Hossein Lotfi (@hosselot) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative Audio Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2025-24243: Hossein Lotfi (@hosselot) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative Authentication Services Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Password autofill may fill in passwords after failing authentication Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management. CVE-2025-30430: Dominik Rath Authentication Services Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious website may be able to claim WebAuthn credentials from another website that shares a registrable suffix Description: The issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2025-24180: Martin Kreichgauer of Google Chrome Authentication Services Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app may be able to access a user's saved passwords Description: This issue was addressed by adding a delay between verification code attempts. CVE-2025-24245: Ian Mckay (@iann0036) Automator Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access protected user data Description: A permissions issue was addressed by removing vulnerable code and adding additional checks. CVE-2025-30460: an anonymous researcher BiometricKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2025-24237: Yutong Xiu Calendar Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2025-30429: Denis Tokarev (@illusionofcha0s) Calendar Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24212: Denis Tokarev (@illusionofcha0s) CloudKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app may be able to access private information Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24215: Kirin (@Pwnrin) CoreAudio Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Parsing a file may lead to an unexpected app termination Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24163: Google Threat Analysis Group CoreAudio Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Playing a malicious audio file may lead to an unexpected app termination Description: An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2025-24230: Hossein Lotfi (@hosselot) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative CoreMedia Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory Description: This issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2025-24211: Hossein Lotfi (@hosselot) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative CoreMedia Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions. CVE-2025-24236: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) and Nolan Astrein of Kandji CoreMedia Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted video file may lead to unexpected app termination or corrupt process memory Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2025-24190: Hossein Lotfi (@hosselot) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative CoreMedia Playback Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app may be able to access private information Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2025-30454: pattern-f (@pattern_F_) CoreServices Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management. CVE-2025-31191: Jonathan Bar Or (@yo_yo_yo_jbo) of Microsoft, and an anonymous researcher Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data CoreText Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted font may result in the disclosure of process memory Description: An out-of-bounds read issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2025-24182: Hossein Lotfi (@hosselot) of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative Crash Reporter Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges Description: A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. CVE-2025-24277: Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Kandji and Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman), and an anonymous researcher curl Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An input validation issue was addressed Description: This is a vulnerability in open source code and Apple Software is among the affected projects. The CVE-ID was assigned by a third party. Learn more about the issue and CVE-ID at cve.org. CVE-2024-9681 Disk Images Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox Description: A file access issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2025-24255: an anonymous researcher DiskArbitration Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges Description: A parsing issue in the handling of directory paths was addressed with improved path validation. CVE-2025-30456: Gergely Kalman (@gergely_kalman) DiskArbitration Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-24267: an anonymous researcher Dock Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app may be able to access private information Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-30455: Mickey Jin (@patch1t), and an anonymous researcher Dock Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system Description: This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. CVE-2025-31187: Rodolphe BRUNETTI (@eisw0lf) of Lupus Nova dyld Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Apps that appear to use App Sandbox may be able to launch without restrictions Description: A library injection issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-30462: Pietro Francesco Tirenna, Davide Silvetti, Abdel Adim Oisfi of Shielder (shielder.com) FaceTime Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information. CVE-2025-30451: Kirin (@Pwnrin) and luckyu (@uuulucky) FeedbackLogger Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: This issue was addressed with improved data protection. CVE-2025-24281: Rodolphe BRUNETTI (@eisw0lf) Focus Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An attacker with physical access to a locked device may be able to view sensitive user information Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-30439: Andr.Ess Focus Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction. CVE-2025-24283: Kirin (@Pwnrin) Foundation Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access protected user data Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions on the system pasteboards. CVE-2025-30461: an anonymous researcher Foundation Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: The issue was resolved by sanitizing logging CVE-2025-30447: LFY@secsys from Fudan University Foundation Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to cause a denial-of-service Description: An uncontrolled format string issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2025-24199: Manuel Fernandez (Stackhopper Security) GPU Drivers Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2025-30464: ABC Research s.r.o. CVE-2025-24273: Wang Yu of Cyberserval GPU Drivers Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to disclose kernel memory Description: The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks. CVE-2025-24256: Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, Murray Mike Handoff Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: The issue was addressed with improved restriction of data container access. CVE-2025-30463: mzzzz__ ImageIO Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Parsing an image may lead to disclosure of user information Description: A logic error was addressed with improved error handling. CVE-2025-24210: Anonymous working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative Installer Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to check the existence of an arbitrary path on the file system Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions. CVE-2025-24249: YingQi Shi(@Mas0nShi) of DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab and Minghao Lin (@Y1nKoc) Installer Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A sandboxed app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24229: an anonymous researcher IOGPUFamily Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2025-24257: Wang Yu of Cyberserval IOMobileFrameBuffer Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to corrupt coprocessor memory Description: The issue was addressed with improved bounds checks. CVE-2025-30437: Ye Zhang (@VAR10CK) of Baidu Security Kerberos Helper Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause unexpected app termination or heap corruption Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2025-24235: Dave G. Kernel Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access protected user data Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24204: Koh M. Nakagawa (@tsunek0h) of FFRI Security, Inc. Kernel Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24203: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero Kernel Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An attacker with user privileges may be able to read kernel memory Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2025-24196: Joseph Ravichandran (@0xjprx) of MIT CSAIL LaunchServices Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious JAR file may bypass Gatekeeper checks Description: This issue was addressed with improved handling of executable types. CVE-2025-24148: Kenneth Chew libarchive Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An input validation issue was addressed Description: This is a vulnerability in open source code and Apple Software is among the affected projects. The CVE-ID was assigned by a third party. Learn more about the issue and CVE-ID at cve.org. CVE-2024-48958 Libinfo Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A user may be able to elevate privileges Description: An integer overflow was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2025-24195: Paweł Płatek (Trail of Bits) libnetcore Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may result in the disclosure of process memory Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24194: an anonymous researcher libxml2 Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Parsing a file may lead to an unexpected app termination Description: This is a vulnerability in open source code and Apple Software is among the affected projects. The CVE-ID was assigned by a third party. Learn more about the issue and CVE-ID at cve.org. CVE-2025-27113 CVE-2024-56171 libxpc Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management. CVE-2025-24178: an anonymous researcher libxpc Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to delete files for which it does not have permission Description: This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. CVE-2025-31182: Alex Radocea and Dave G. of Supernetworks, 风沐云烟(@binary_fmyy) and Minghao Lin(@Y1nKoc) libxpc Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to gain elevated privileges Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24238: an anonymous researcher Mail Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: "Block All Remote Content" may not apply for all mail previews Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions. CVE-2025-24172: an anonymous researcher manpages Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. CVE-2025-30450: Pwn2car Maps Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to read sensitive location information Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved logic. CVE-2025-30470: LFY@secsys from Fudan University NetworkExtension Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to enumerate a user's installed apps Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks. CVE-2025-30426: Jimmy Notes Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A sandboxed app may be able to access sensitive user data in system logs Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries. CVE-2025-24262: LFY@secsys from Fudan University NSDocument Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app may be able to access arbitrary files Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management. CVE-2025-24232: an anonymous researcher OpenSSH Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data Description: An injection issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2025-24246: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) PackageKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24261: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) PackageKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24164: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) PackageKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app with root privileges may be able to modify the contents of system files Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-30446: Pedro Tôrres (@t0rr3sp3dr0) Parental Controls Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to retrieve Safari bookmarks without an entitlement check Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks. CVE-2025-24259: Noah Gregory (wts.dev) Photos Storage Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Deleting a conversation in Messages may expose user contact information in system logging Description: A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction. CVE-2025-30424: an anonymous researcher Power Services Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to break out of its sandbox Description: This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks. CVE-2025-24173: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) Python Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A remote attacker may be able to bypass sender policy checks and deliver malicious content via email Description: This is a vulnerability in open source code and Apple Software is among the affected projects. The CVE-ID was assigned by a third party. Learn more about the issue and CVE-ID at cve.org. CVE-2023-27043 RPAC Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system Description: The issue was addressed with improved validation of environment variables. CVE-2025-24191: Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos Safari Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to user interface spoofing Description: The issue was addressed with improved UI. CVE-2025-24113: @RenwaX23 Safari Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-30467: @RenwaX23 Safari Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A website may be able to access sensor information without user consent Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-31192: Jaydev Ahire Safari Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A download's origin may be incorrectly associated Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management. CVE-2025-24167: Syarif Muhammad Sajjad Sandbox Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access removable volumes without user consent Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-24093: Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit) Sandbox Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An input validation issue was addressed Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-30452: an anonymous researcher Sandbox Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access protected user data Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-24181: Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e) SceneKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to read files outside of its sandbox Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-30458: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) Security Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A remote user may be able to cause a denial-of-service Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved logic. CVE-2025-30471: Bing Shi, Wenchao Li, Xiaolong Bai of Alibaba Group, Luyi Xing of Indiana University Bloomington Security Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app acting as a HTTPS proxy could get access to sensitive user data Description: This issue was addressed with improved access restrictions. CVE-2025-24250: Wojciech Regula of SecuRing (wojciechregula.blog) Share Sheet Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app may be able to dismiss the system notification on the Lock Screen that a recording was started Description: This issue was addressed with improved access restrictions. CVE-2025-30438: Halle Winkler, Politepix theoffcuts.org Shortcuts Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A shortcut may be able to access files that are normally inaccessible to the Shortcuts app Description: A permissions issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2025-30465: an anonymous researcher Shortcuts Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data Description: An access issue was addressed with additional sandbox restrictions. CVE-2025-24280: Kirin (@Pwnrin) Shortcuts Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A Shortcut may run with admin privileges without authentication Description: An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2025-31194: Dolf Hoegaerts Shortcuts Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A shortcut may be able to access files that are normally inaccessible to the Shortcuts app Description: This issue was addressed with improved access restrictions. CVE-2025-30433: Andrew James Gonzalez Siri Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: The issue was addressed with improved restriction of data container access. CVE-2025-31183: Kirin (@Pwnrin), Bohdan Stasiuk (@bohdan_stasiuk) Siri Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A sandboxed app may be able to access sensitive user data in system logs Description: This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information. CVE-2025-30435: K宝 (@Pwnrin) and luckyu (@uuulucky) Siri Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: This issue was addressed with improved redaction of sensitive information. CVE-2025-24217: Kirin (@Pwnrin) Siri Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access sensitive user data Description: A privacy issue was addressed by not logging contents of text fields. CVE-2025-24214: Kirin (@Pwnrin) Siri Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to enumerate devices that have signed into the user's Apple Account Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-24248: Minghao Lin (@Y1nKoc) and Tong Liu@Lyutoon_ and 风(binary_fmyy) and F00L Siri Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data Description: An authorization issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2025-24205: YingQi Shi(@Mas0nShi) of DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab and Minghao Lin (@Y1nKoc) Siri Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An attacker with physical access may be able to use Siri to access sensitive user data Description: This issue was addressed by restricting options offered on a locked device. CVE-2025-24198: Richard Hyunho Im (@richeeta) with routezero.security SMB Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2025-24269: Alex Radocea of Supernetworks SMB Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Mounting a maliciously crafted SMB network share may lead to system termination Description: A race condition was addressed with improved locking. CVE-2025-30444: Dave G. SMB Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2025-24228: Joseph Ravichandran (@0xjprx) of MIT CSAIL smbx Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial-of-service Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2025-24260: zbleet of QI-ANXIN TianGong Team Software Update Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system Description: A library injection issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-24282: Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos Software Update Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A user may be able to elevate privileges Description: This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. CVE-2025-24254: Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e) Software Update Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to modify protected parts of the file system Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24231: Claudio Bozzato and Francesco Benvenuto of Cisco Talos StickerKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to observe unprotected user data Description: A privacy issue was addressed by moving sensitive data to a protected location. CVE-2025-24263: Cristian Dinca of "Tudor Vianu" National High School of Computer Science, Romania Storage Management Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to enable iCloud storage features without user consent Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-24207: YingQi Shi (@Mas0nShi) of DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab, 风沐云烟 (binary_fmyy) and Minghao Lin (@Y1nKoc) StorageKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to gain root privileges Description: A permissions issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-30449: Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e), and an anonymous researcher StorageKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access protected user data Description: This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. CVE-2025-24253: Mickey Jin (@patch1t), Csaba Fitzl (@theevilbit) of Kandji StorageKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access user-sensitive data Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation. CVE-2025-24240: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) StorageKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to bypass Privacy preferences Description: A race condition was addressed with additional validation. CVE-2025-31188: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) Summarization Services Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access information about a user's contacts Description: A privacy issue was addressed with improved private data redaction for log entries. CVE-2025-24218: Kirin and FlowerCode, Bohdan Stasiuk (@bohdan_stasiuk) System Settings Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access protected user data Description: This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. CVE-2025-24278: Zhongquan Li (@Guluisacat) System Settings Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app with root privileges may be able to access private information Description: This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. CVE-2025-24242: Koh M. Nakagawa (@tsunek0h) of FFRI Security, Inc. SystemMigration Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious app may be able to create symlinks to protected regions of the disk Description: This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. CVE-2025-30457: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) Voice Control Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to access contacts Description: This issue was addressed with improved file handling. CVE-2025-24279: Mickey Jin (@patch1t) Web Extensions Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may gain unauthorized access to Local Network Description: This issue was addressed with improved permissions checking. CVE-2025-31184: Alexander Heinrich (@Sn0wfreeze), SEEMOO, TU Darmstadt & Mathy Vanhoef (@vanhoefm) and Jeroen Robben (@RobbenJeroen), DistriNet, KU Leuven Web Extensions Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Visiting a website may leak sensitive data Description: A script imports issue was addressed with improved isolation. CVE-2025-24192: Vsevolod Kokorin (Slonser) of Solidlab WebKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. WebKit Bugzilla: 285892 CVE-2025-24264: Gary Kwong, and an anonymous researcher WebKit Bugzilla: 284055 CVE-2025-24216: Paul Bakker of ParagonERP WebKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A type confusion issue could lead to memory corruption Description: This issue was addressed with improved handling of floats. WebKit Bugzilla: 286694 CVE-2025-24213: Google V8 Security Team WebKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling. WebKit Bugzilla: 286462 CVE-2025-24209: Francisco Alonso (@revskills), and an anonymous researcher WebKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. WebKit Bugzilla: 285643 CVE-2025-30427: rheza (@ginggilBesel) WebKit Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: A malicious website may be able to track users in Safari private browsing mode Description: This issue was addressed through improved state management. WebKit Bugzilla: 286580 CVE-2025-30425: an anonymous researcher WindowServer Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An attacker may be able to cause unexpected app termination Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved checks. CVE-2025-24247: PixiePoint Security WindowServer Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to trick a user into copying sensitive data to the pasteboard Description: A configuration issue was addressed with additional restrictions. CVE-2025-24241: Andreas Hegenberg (folivora.AI GmbH) Xsan Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination Description: A buffer overflow was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2025-24266: an anonymous researcher Xsan Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2025-24265: an anonymous researcher Xsan Available for: macOS Sequoia Impact: An app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or corrupt kernel memory Description: A buffer overflow issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2025-24157: an anonymous researcher

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I was reading this passage last night: > …from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty. I smote you and every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; **yet you did not come back to Me**,’ declares the Lord. ‘Do consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the Lord was founded, consider: Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree, it has not borne fruit. **Yet from this day on I will bless you**.’ ” (Haggai 2:16-19) {emphasis mine} Why were bad things happening to the Israelites? Because they were not following God. Why did God allow these difficult situations to occur? Because God was calling them back to Himself. This made me think of several times lately, when I had written about Christians going through hard times, that fellow believers had tried to kindly correct me implying that God would not allow these painful things to happen to believers. They were trying to defend God’s honor, but instead they were degrading God. If God is not in control of everything, then either God is unable to protect His own from harm because of sin or bad things happened accidentally and God ignored the injustice. Saying God was not in control of allowing every hardship is either saying God isn’t strong enough, isn’t smart enough, or isn’t loving enough. The God I serve is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and love incarnate. He also didn’t promise us easy, pleasant lives, but did promise that good would come out of every situation. > And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28) When Jesus walked on earth and some people said they wanted to follow Him, His response was not what we would expect: > And He was saying to them all, “**If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me**. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. (Luke 9:23-26) {emphasis mine} When one particular man said that he would follow Jesus anywhere, Jesus responded this way. > As they were going along the road, someone said to Him, “I will follow You wherever You go.” And Jesus said to him, “**The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head**.” (Luke 9:57-58) {emphasis mine} Jesus was brutally honest that following Him would not be easy or comfortable. Following Jesus is more likely to lead to hardship and persecution that prosperity and comfort. > “Then **they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name**. At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. But **the one who endures to the end, he will be saved**. This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:9-14) {emphasis mine} Of course God isn’t putting us through hardship to torture us. He is putting us in situations to grow our faith and dependence on Him, i.e. Abraham. He is putting us in situations where we can minister to others, i.e. Joseph. He is using us as examples of faith to others, i.e. Job. Any hardship has an eternal purpose. Sometimes we can see it (at least eventually) if we are looking for God’s will and plan. Sometime we won’t see what He was accomplishing until we get to heaven. Still we need to trust God through it all, knowing His plan is perfect. > “**For my thoughts are not your thoughts,\ > neither are your ways my ways**,”\ > declares the Lord. > > “As the heavens are higher than the earth,\ > so are **my ways higher than your ways**\ > and my thoughts than your thoughts. > > As the rain and the snow\ > come down from heaven,\ > and do not return to it\ > without watering the earth\ > and making it bud and flourish,\ > so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,\ > so is **my word that goes out from my mouth:\ > It will not return to me empty,\ > but will accomplish what I desire\ > and achieve the purpose for which I sent it**. (Isaiah 55:8-11) {emphasis mine} God understands how hard it is to understand what He is accomplishing. We live in the here and now while He is outside time and space and therefore has a heavenly and eternal perspective that we will never truly have this side of heaven. He has told us how the story ends, so that we can have peace and trust Him through whatever circumstances He has blessed us. > Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. **These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world**.” (John 16:31-33) {emphasis mine} In fact, Jesus made this so clear that His disciples rejoiced in persecution they received due to obeying Him and sharing His word. > They took his advice; and after calling the apostles in, they flogged them and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and *then* released them. So they went on their way from the presence of the Council, **rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for *His* name**. (Acts 5:40-41) {emphasis mine} Peter specifically warns believers to expect trials and hardship. > Dear friends, **do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you**. But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. **If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed**, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler. However, **if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God** that you bear that name. For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And, > > “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved,\ > what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” > > So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good. (1 Peter 4:12-19) {emphasis mine} Paul writes about begging God to take away a health issue. Eventually he accepted it as part of God’s plan for his life and boasted gladly in his hardship. > …Therefore, in order **to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn** in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times **I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you**, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore **I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me**. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:7b-10) {emphasis mine} No matter what hardships we experience in life, whether poverty or persecution or poor health or loss of a loved one or any other hardship, God is with us working everything for our good. > Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, > > “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;\ > We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” > ****But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us**. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:35-39) {emphasis mine} I like to look at the story of Joseph as an example of God’s extraordinary plan in the life of a faithful believer. Joseph trusted and honored God. God had a plan for Joseph to be used to save the lives of his family and the people of the Middle East from famine, but God didn’t just instantly put Joseph in a position of power to help. He prepared Joseph and slowly moved him to where he needed to be. First Josephs brothers wanted to kill him out of jealousy, but God used greed to get them to sell Joseph as a slave instead. He orchestrated the right slave traders to walk by at the right time so that Joseph would wind up in the house of Potiphar, the Pharaoh’s guard. Then when Joseph acted honorably towards God, his master, and his master’s wife, Joseph was sent to jail for years. I’m sure Joseph was wondering why God would send him to prison for doing what was right, but it put him into the presence of the cupbearer of Pharaoh. A long time after correctly interpreting the cup bearer’s dream, Joseph was called up to interpret Pharaoh’s dream, put in charge of the famine preparation and became second in command after Pharaoh. Joseph, after years of slavery and jail time, was now the second most powerful man in the Middle East, if not the world. God had a plan, but it was hard to see until its completion. In the same way, Job lost his wealth, his children, his health, and his reputation, but remember that Satan had to get God’s permission before anything could be done to hurt Job. So many people today are blessed by seeing Job’s response to hardship and loss, by seeing Job’s faith, his struggle, and his submission to God’s plan. In this case God even gives Job more after this time of testing than he had before. When we experience hardship we need to know that God has a plan for our life. It may be something amazing here on Earth. It may be souls won for Christ. It may be to prepare us for heaven. Whatever the case, it is for our good. We don’t need to be ashamed that God would allow hardship. We grow most when we experience hardship. Our light shines brightest in darkness. > Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!\ > How unsearchable his judgments,\ > and his paths beyond tracing out!\ > “Who has known the mind of the Lord?\ > Or who has been his counselor?”\ > “Who has ever given to God,\ > that God should repay them?”\ > For from him and through him and for him are all things.\ > To him be the glory forever! Amen. (Romans 11:33-36) Trust Jesus

@ 06639a38:655f8f71

You can follow the work in progress here in this pull request [https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/68](https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/68) on Github. Before my 3-month break (Dec/Jan/Feb) working on Nostr-PHP I started with the NIP-19 integration in October '24. Encoding and decoding the simple prefixes (`npub`, `nsec` and `note`) was already done in the first commits. Learn more about NIP-19 here: [https://nips.nostr.com/19](https://nips.nostr.com/19)  ### **TLV's** Things were getting more complicated with the other prefixes / identifiers defined in NIP-19: * `nevent` * `naddr` * `nprofile` This is because these identifiers contain (optional) metadata called Type-Lenght-Value aka TLV's. _When sharing a profile or an event, an app may decide to include relay information and other metadata such that other apps can locate and display these entities more easily._ _For these events, the contents are a binary-encoded list of_ `_TLV_` _(type-length-value), with_ `_T_` _and_ `_L_` _being 1 byte each (_`_uint8_`_, i.e. a number in the range of 0-255), and_ `_V_` _being a sequence of bytes of the size indicated by_ `_L_`_._ These possible standardized `TLV` types are: * `0`_:_ `special` * _depends on the bech32 prefix:_ * _for_ `nprofile` _it will be the 32 bytes of the profile public key_ * _for_ `nevent` _it will be the 32 bytes of the event id_ * _for_ `naddr`_, it is the identifier (the_ `"d"` _tag) of the event being referenced. For normal replaceable events use an empty string._ * `1`_:_ `relay` * _for_ `nprofile`_,_ `nevent` _and_  `naddr`_, optionally, a relay in which the entity (profile or event) is more likely to be found, encoded as ascii_ * _this may be included multiple times_ * `2`_:_ `author` * _for_ `naddr`_, the 32 bytes of the pubkey of the event_ * _for_ `nevent`_, optionally, the 32 bytes of the pubkey of the event_ * `3`_:_ `kind` * _for_ `naddr`_, the 32-bit unsigned integer of the kind, big-endian_ * _for_ `nevent`_, optionally, the 32-bit unsigned integer of the kind, big-endian_ These identifiers are formatted as bech32 strings, but are much longer than the package `bitwasp/bech32` (used in the library) for can handle for encoding and decoding. The bech32 strings handled by `bitwasp/bech32` are limited to a maximum length of 90 characters. Thanks to the effort of others (nostr:npub1636uujeewag8zv8593lcvdrwlymgqre6uax4anuq3y5qehqey05sl8qpl4 and nostr:npub1efz8l77esdtpw6l359sjvakm7azvyv6mkuxphjdk3vfzkgxkatrqlpf9s4) during my break, some contributions are made (modifiying the bech32 package supporting much longer strings, up to a max of 5000 characters). At this moment, I'm integrating this (mostly copy-pasting the stuff and refactoring the code): * [https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/issues/74](https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/issues/74) * [https://github.com/nostriphant/nip-19](https://github.com/nostriphant/nip-19) ### **So what's next?** * NIP-19 code housekeeping + refactoring * Prepare a new release with NIP-19 integration * Create documentation page how to use NIP-19 on [https://nostr-php.dev](https://nostr-php.dev)

@ 7bdef7be:784a5805

The following script try, using [nak](https://github.com/fiatjaf/nak), to find out the last ten people who have followed a `target_pubkey`, sorted by the most recent. It's possibile to shorten `search_timerange` to speed up the search. ``` #!/usr/bin/env fish # Target pubkey we're looking for in the tags set target_pubkey "6e468422dfb74a5738702a8823b9b28168abab8655faacb6853cd0ee15deee93" set current_time (date +%s) set search_timerange (math $current_time - 600) # 24 hours = 86400 seconds set pubkeys (nak req --kind 3 -s $search_timerange wss://relay.damus.io/ wss://nos.lol/ 2>/dev/null | \ jq -r --arg target "$target_pubkey" ' select(. != null and type == "object" and has("tags")) | select(.tags[] | select(.[0] == "p" and .[1] == $target)) | .pubkey ' | sort -u) if test -z "$pubkeys" exit 1 end set all_events "" set extended_search_timerange (math $current_time - 31536000) # One year for pubkey in $pubkeys echo "Checking $pubkey" set events (nak req --author $pubkey -l 5 -k 3 -s $extended_search_timerange wss://relay.damus.io wss://nos.lol 2>/dev/null | \ jq -c --arg target "$target_pubkey" ' select(. != null and type == "object" and has("tags")) | select(.tags[][] == $target) ' 2>/dev/null) set count (echo "$events" | jq -s 'length') if test "$count" -eq 1 set all_events $all_events $events end end if test -n "$all_events" echo -e "Last people following $target_pubkey:" echo -e "" set sorted_events (printf "%s\n" $all_events | jq -r -s ' unique_by(.id) | sort_by(-.created_at) | .[] | @json ') for event in $sorted_events set npub (echo $event | jq -r '.pubkey' | nak encode npub) set created_at (echo $event | jq -r '.created_at') if test (uname) = "Darwin" set follow_date (date -r "$created_at" "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") else set follow_date (date -d @"$created_at" "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") end echo "$follow_date - $npub" end end ```

@ 7bdef7be:784a5805

We value sovereignty, privacy and security when accessing online content, using several tools to achieve this, like open protocols, open OSes, open software products, Tor and VPNs. ## The problem Talking about our social presence, we can manually build up our follower list (social graph), pick a Nostr client that is respectful of our preferences on what to show and how, but with the standard following mechanism, our main feed is public, so **everyone can actually snoop what we are interested in**, and what is supposable that we read daily. ## The solution Nostr has a simple solution for this necessity: **encrypted lists**. Lists are what they appear, a collection of people or interests (but they can also group much other stuff, see [NIP-51](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/51.md)). So we can create lists with contacts that we don't have in our main social graph; these lists can be used primarily to create dedicated feeds, but they could have other uses, for example, related to monitoring. The interesting thing about lists is that they can also be encrypted, so unlike the basic following list, which is always public, **we can hide the lists' content from others**. The implications are obvious: we can not only have a more organized way to browse content, but it is also **really private one**. One might wonder what use can really be made of private lists; here are some examples: * Browse “can't miss” content from users I consider a priority; * Supervise competitors or adversarial parts; * Monitor sensible topics (tags); * Following someone without being publicly associated with them, as this may be undesirable; The benefits in terms of privacy as usual are not only related to the casual, or programmatic, observer, but are also evident when we think of **how many bots scan our actions to profile us**. ## The current state Unfortunately, lists are not widely supported by Nostr clients, and encrypted support is a rarity. Often the excuse to not implement them is that they are harder to develop, since they require managing the encryption stuff ([NIP-44](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/44.md)). Nevertheless, developers have an **easier option** to start offering private lists: give the user **the possibility to simply mark them as local-only**, and never push them to the relays. Even if the user misses the sync feature, this is sufficient to create a private environment. To date, as far as I know, the best client with list management is [Gossip](nostr:npub189j8y280mhezlp98ecmdzydn0r8970g4hpqpx3u9tcztynywfczqqr3tg8), which permits to manage **both encrypted and local-only lists**. Beg your Nostr client to implement private lists!

@ 04cb16e4:2ec3e5d5

Wenn irgendein weltpolitisches Thema auf den Tisch kommt, wird zumeist erst einmal gefragt, ob du dafür oder dagegen bist und auf welcher Seite du dich befindest. Das macht es einfacher, dich als Freund oder Feind einzusortieren. So wird das Leben übersichtlicher und man muss nicht in die Tiefe gehen und sich mit lästigen Details auseinandersetzen. Man muss auch nicht verreisen um sich ein Bild zu machen. Dafür gibt es ja die Tagesschau. Klassisches Beispiel: Ich war vor Kurzem mit einigen Freunden essen. Einer berichtete entsetzt: „Der Putin hat die Heimatstadt von Selenski angegriffen!“ &#x20;Ich versuchte mir das bildlich vorzustellen und kam zu dem Schluss, das „der Putin“ wahrscheinlich Verstärkung dabei hatte. Und ausgerechnet nachdem Trump und dessen Flügelmann Vance den armen Wolodymyr rund gemacht hatten, greift der böse Imperator dessen Heimatstadt an. Das ist fies! Das macht „der Putin“ wahrscheinlich immer so, wenn er jemandem eins auswischen will. Die Heimatstadt angreifen! Ganz gleich, ob es strategisch gerade Sinn macht oder nicht. "Der Putin" ist halt ein Teufel. [Telegramkanal RBM](https://t.me/radio_berliner_morgenroete_de) [Radio Berliner Morgenröte auf X](https://x.com/RBM_Schindler) Ich denke viele gucken einfach zu viele qualitativ minderwertige Spielfilme und können Fiktion und Realität nicht mehr voneinander unterscheiden. Möglicherweise meinen sie auch, weil sie die Handlung eines Kriegsfilmes gerafft haben, verstehen sie einen Krieg. <https://www.eisbrenner.de/produkt-kategorie/buch/> <https://befreiung.org/> Mein Gesprächspartner Tino Eisbrenner hat keine Sightseeing Tour durch Moskau gemacht, sondern ist in Land und Leute regelrecht eingetaucht. Außerdem kommt seine Schwiegermutter aus Russland. Da ist man dem ganzen auch menschlich viel näher und bekommt man ganz andere Einblicke als die, die einem von der Tagesschau gewährt werden. Tino ist als Friedensmusiker viel im Osten unterwegs, unter anderem auch in Georgien, Weißrussland und auf der Krim. Er spricht mit Politikern, Künstlern, Journalisten, Taxifahrern und Dissidenten. Und viele fragen ihn: „Was ist eigentlich mit den Deutschen los?“ Gute Frage! Was ist eigentlich mit uns los? Wir senden unsere Volksvertreter in die Welt hinaus, damit sie Staatsoberhäuptern aus Ländern - die um ein Vielfaches umfangreicher an Fläche und Einwohnerzahl sind und eine komplett andere Kulturgeschichte haben - damit sie denen erklären können wie man seinen Job macht. Wahrscheinlich in dem irrwitzigen Glauben, dass sie selbst ihren Job tadellos und vorbildlich ausführen. **Spenden nehmen wir entweder mit dem Paypal Button am Ende** **[unserer Webseite](https://radio-berliner-morgenroete.de/)** **<https://radio-berliner-morgenroete.de/>** **oder per Überweisung aufs Bankkonto: DE93 1001 1001 2624 3740 74 entgegen.** Wir sind aber nicht nur verantwortlich für unsere politische Führung, sondern auch für unseren Umgang miteinander. Denn im „Großen“ gilt dasselbe wie im „Kleinen“! Man sollte erst mal bei sich selbst schauen wo es hakt und dann miteinander ins Gespräch gehen. Der Mangel an Realitätssinn und Konfliktfähigkeit zieht sich durch alle Schichten unserer Bevölkerung. Deswegen sagt Radio Berliner Morgenröte: „Wenn ihr Frieden wollt, fangt in Deutschland an und wenn ihr euch eine Meinung über Russland oder China bilden wollt, dann fahrt einfach mal dorthin und redet mit den Leuten, So wie Tino. Mir hat es riesig Spaß gemacht, ihm zuzuhören. Weiterer Buchtipp – [Ausgegendert](https://www.masselverlag.de/v/yHj2uBdfbu/) <https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/e5qbg23gz6mru9zz/Tino_Eisbrenner9tbpx.mp3>

@ d04ecf33:1d62aa90

## Physical prototyping 3D printers have evolved as useful tools for rapid prototyping of physical products for inspiration and demonstration purposes. Nowadays people also use them for hobbyist endeavors. They create nice little items for pure enjoyment or very simple substitution parts that can be used regardless of industrial precision and material limitations. ## Prototypers of Ideas Similarly with LLMs, you can bounce ideas off them to better understand your own thinking and also let them generate variations of ideas. They provide inspiration, summaries, and proof-of-concept boilerplates. They are rapid prototypers for and of your ideas, creating a feedback loop. However, to use LLMs successfully, people must understand that LLMs cannot and will never discover key insights. They are not creative in a human sense, just like 3D printers cannot produce a real car. From engineering to art and business ideas, people use tools for almost all phases. The key innovation of LLMs is that they offer an effective tool to iterate faster in the ideation phase. And yes, that's true of coding too. The code that LLMs generate is not production-ready, but it is a good starting point. Beware of using the prototype as the final product, as it will inevitably backfire. Use LLMs where their high-frequency but low-quality output is justified. Situations where low-quality boilerplate makes sense include experiments and other instances like code snippets, text summaries, sketches, demo videos, mockups, etc. So, take your key idea and start the conversation. Apply critical thinking to identify where the answers lack important aspects and make mistakes, but most importantly, learn how to formulate your questions better. ## Economic Impact 3D printers lower the barrier to entry in the manufacturing of physical products. LLMs, on the other hand, lower the barrier to generating useful ideas. That is to say, they lower the barrier to produce anything and everything because ideas are the basis of any product. This has a deflationary impact and, in my estimation, will further lower the need for mediocre, unimaginative people across the board. It's the bureaucrats' nightmare. Another impactful aspect of LLMs is that they are very effective learning tools, just like 3D printers. Learning in a feedback loop used to be available only by hiring a human. Now that is one prompt and a few sats away. ## Progress LLMs need "quality data" to improve, i.e., more human insight and true creativity. Therefore, they feed on open-source. Closed-source proprietary information and "intellectual property" slow their progress, but not for long. Humans, overall, yearn for innovation more than they fear censorship and punishment. It's another Pandora's box, and the effects will never be reversed. People are essentially and foremost explainers of the world, creative innovators. If you ask me, the human touch will be necessary at least until we have true AGI, and the path LLMs are on right now can never achieve that, not in a million years. I agree with David Deutsch's take on this: To produce real AGI, we must first crack serious concepts like how Meaning, Consciousness, Creativity, and Free Will work. We don't know how far we are from that, but it's not to be found along the path of what we call AI today. If you are striving to become a better version of yourself and learn every day, rest assured: LLMs are your leverage. Otherwise, you will need some fiat authority, like the state today, to force others to value your work while it has an overall negative impact (90% in that category in my estimation). People like that need a shift of perspective or will suffer the consequences. Keep printing ideas and execute on them! Learn and repeat. The path to success. #llm #ai #agi #3dp #programming

@ 7d33ba57:1b82db35

Supetar is the main town and ferry port on Brač Island, located just across the sea from Split. It’s a charming coastal town with historic streets, beautiful beaches, and a relaxed island vibe. As the main entry point to Brač, it’s the perfect base for exploring the island’s stunning beaches, olive groves, and cultural landmarks.  ## **🏛️ Top Things to See & Do in Supetar** ### **1️⃣ Explore the Supetar Old Town 🏡** - Stroll through **narrow, stone-paved alleys**, lined with **historic buildings and seaside cafés**. - Visit **St. Peter’s Church & Mausoleum**, featuring intricate stone carvings. - Admire the **harbor filled with fishing boats**, offering postcard-worthy views. ### **2️⃣ Relax on Supetar’s Beaches 🏖️** - **Banj Beach** – A **family-friendly beach** with crystal-clear water & soft pebbles. - **Acapulco Beach** – A more secluded, **rocky beach with turquoise waters**. - **Vela Luka Bay** – A beautiful bay **surrounded by pine forests**, perfect for relaxation. ### **3️⃣ Visit the Olive Oil Museum in Škrip 🫒** - **Just 15 minutes from Supetar**, this museum showcases **Brač’s olive oil heritage**. - Try traditional **Dalmatian olive oil tastings** & local island delicacies.  ### **4️⃣ Take a Boat Trip to the Famous Zlatni Rat Beach ⛵** - One of **Croatia’s most iconic beaches**, known for its **shifting horn-shaped coastline**. - Located in **Bol**, just a short boat or car ride away from Supetar. ### **5️⃣ Hike or Drive to Vidova Gora 🌄** - The **highest peak on the Adriatic islands (778m)**, offering **breathtaking views** over Brač, Hvar, and beyond. - Accessible by **hiking (moderate difficulty) or driving**.  ### **6️⃣ Try Dalmatian Cuisine 🍽️** - **Vitalac** – A unique Brač specialty, made from lamb offal and cooked over an open fire. - **Pašticada** – A slow-cooked beef dish, traditionally served with gnocchi. - **Homemade Brač cheese & wine** – Try local goat cheese paired with **Plavac Mali wine**.  ## **🚗 How to Get to Supetar** ⛴️ **By Ferry (from Split):** - The **Split-Supetar ferry** is the **main connection** (50 min ride). - Ferries run **frequently** (especially in summer). 🚘 **By Car:** - **Supetar is the best entry point for road trips across Brač**. - Car rentals are available in town or at the ferry port.  ## **💡 Tips for Visiting Supetar** ✅ **Best time to visit?** **May–September** for warm weather & clear seas ☀️ ✅ **Stay at least a night** – Supetar has a lovely evening atmosphere 🌙 ✅ **Rent a scooter or car** to explore Brač’s hidden beaches & inland villages 🏍️ ✅ **Try local wines & olive oils** – Brač is famous for both 🍷🫒 ✅ **Visit early in the morning** for a peaceful experience before ferries get busy ⏳ 

@ fd06f542:8d6d54cd

内容来自：https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/blob/main/README.md nostr.net services [relay.nostr.net](https://relay.nostr.net) || [nostr.at](https://nostr.at) || [wot.nostr.net](https://wot.nostr.net) || [delete.nostr.net](https://delete.nostr.net) "nostr" stands for "**N**otes and **O**ther **S**tuff **T**ransmitted by **R**elays" and is an open protocol for censorship-resistant global networks. ## Most popular ### Mobile clients - [Damus](https://damus.io/) - The OG nostr client for iOS - [Amethyst](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst) - Android-only app - [Primal](https://primal.net/downloads) - iOS and Android apps - [YakiHonne](https://yakihonne.com/yakihonne-mobile-app) - iOS and Android app - [Nos](https://nos.social) - iOS-only app ### Web clients - [snort.social](https://snort.social/) - [iris.to](https://iris.to/) - [primal.net](https://primal.net/) - [coracle.social](https://coracle.social/) - [YakiHonne](https://yakihonne.com) ### App store - [Zapstore](https://github.com/zapstore/zapstore) ## Protocol - [NIPs](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips) - the "**N**ostr **I**mplementation **P**ossibilities" describe the protocol in technical detail - [nostr address book](https://github.com/aitechguy/nostr-address-book) - A directory of X (formerly Twitter) users accounts and their NOSTR addresses - [nostr, a basic tour](https://github.com/rajarshimaitra/rust-nostr/blob/main/VISION.md) - an intro to nostr - [Nostr: Solucionando la censura de una vez por todas](https://estudiobitcoin.com/nostr-solucionando-la-censura-de-una-vez-por-todas/) - [nostr.how](https://nostr.how) - A comprehensive non-technical beginners guide to Nostr. Available in several languages. - [nostr](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr) - Overview and FAQ - [tinkering with nostr without any client](https://medium.com/@p2w34/tinkering-with-the-nostr-protocol-will-it-take-twitter-over-74c4bf0fea66) - [UseNostr](https://usenostr.org) - A small guide for anyone who wants to learn more about how nostr works and what it can do. - [persian nostr book](https://github.com/kehiy/persian-nostr-book) - a book written in the Persian language about nostr, containing nips translation. - [NosTracker](https://marcodpt.github.io/nostracker/) [](https://github.com/marcodpt/nostracker) - Information about NIP support for clients, relays, tools and libraries. Like a caniuse but for NIPs. ## Relays Relays are (so far) application agnostic. You can run your own or use any or all of the public instances. ### Implementations - [Alienos](https://github.com/dezh-tech/alienos) - A plugin-able and manageable (NIP-86) lightweight nostr stack (relay/blossom/nip-05) designed for self-hosting. Supporting tor hidden service and full running documentation. - [Astro](https://github.com/Nostrology/astro) - Elixir-based implementation built to be performant and highly distributed. - [Bostr](https://github.com/Yonle/bostr) - Nostr bouncer relay aggregator proxy written in NodeJS - [Bostr2](https://github.com/Yonle/bostr2) - Nostr bouncer relay aggregator proxy written in Go - [Bucket](https://github.com/coracle-social/bucket) - in-memory-only nodejs relay for testing/hacking on. Stupid simple, <100 LOC. - [cagliostr](https://github.com/mattn/cagliostr) - Faster Nostr relay in C++ backend by sqlite3. - [cfrelay](https://github.com/haorendashu/cfrelay) - A personal nostr relay base on cloudflare workers. - [Chorus](https://github.com/mikedilger/chorus) - Rust based personal or community relay. - [Citrine](https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine) - Nostr relay for Android - [DDSR](https://github.com/dezh-tech/ddsr) - Dezh DSRs (Domain specific relays) is a set of lightweight relays designed to do exactly one thing, better than general relays to enhance UX: - [Zapoli](https://github.com/dezh-tech/ddsr/tree/main/zapoli) - A Specialized Nostr Relay For AppStores. - [210Maxi](https://github.com/dezh-tech/ddsr/tree/main/210maxi) - A nostr relay that only accepts 210 character events (NIP-B1). - [Denostr](https://github.com/guakamoli/denostr) - Deno based, cloud native nostr implemention. - [Ditto](https://github.com/soapbox-pub/ditto) - Mastadon server and Nostr relay in one. - [Ephemerelay](https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ephemerelay) - An in-memory Nostr relay that doesn't store data. - [Fenrir-s](https://github.com/rushmi0/Fenrir-s) - a Nostr Relay written in Kotlin with PostgreSQL backend and GraalVM support. - [gnost-relay](https://github.com/barkyq/gnost-relay)  - nostr relay written in go backed by PostgreSQL database. - [grain](https://github.com/0ceanslim/grain) - A highly configurable, multipurpose relay written in Go, Storing Events in a MongoDB. - [HAVEN](https://github.com/bitvora/haven) - Four relays in one + Blossom Media Server for a modern, sovereign and personal Nostr experience. - [Immortal](https://github.com/dezh-tech/immortal) - A relay designed for scale and high-load. - [knostr](https://github.com/lpicanco/knostr) - a nostr relay implemented in Kotlin with support for Postgres and metrics(micrometer). - [me.untethr.nostr-relay](https://github.com/atdixon/me.untethr.nostr-relay) - a relay written in Clojure. - [Minds Nostr Relay](https://gitlab.com/minds/infrastructure/nostr-relay) - a relay for [Minds](https://www.minds.com), an open-source social network - [Minds Engine - Nostr](https://gitlab.com/minds/engine/-/tree/master/Core/Nostr) - relevant Minds API code for reading/writing Minds posts using Nostr - [monstr](https://github.com/monty888/monstr)- python code for working with nostr - [multiplextr](https://github.com/coracle-social/multiplextr)  - A custom relay designed to save bandwidth for clients with multiplexer support. - [Nerostr](https://codeberg.org/pluja/nerostr) - A Nostr expensive relay paid with Monero and written in Go. - [netstr](https://github.com/bezysoftware/netstr) - A general purpose Nostr relay written in C# with high test coverage, backed by Postgres DB. - [Nex](https://github.com/lebrunel/nex)  - A powerful and scalable Nostr relay written in Elixir with Postgres DB. - [NIP-29 Group Chat Relay](https://github.com/max21dev/groups-relay) - NIP-29 Group Chat Relay based on fiatjaf's [Relay29](https://github.com/fiatjaf/relay29) and [Khatru](https://github.com/fiatjaf/khatru). - Live instance: [wss://relay.groups.nip29.com](https://relay.groups.nip29.com) - [NNostr](https://github.com/Kukks/NNostr) - a C# relay. - [Nosflare](https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare) - a serverless Nostr relay purpose-built for [Cloudflare Workers](https://workers.cloudflare.com/) and the [Cloudflare KV](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/workers-kv/) store. - [Nostpy](https://github.com/UTXOnly/nost-py/tree/main) - An easy to deploy/audit Python relay for beginner relay operators. - [Nostr client and relay](https://github.com/pedro-vicente/nostr_client_relay) - C++ engine that allows building Nostr applications for command line, desktop or web. - [nostrcheck-server](https://github.com/quentintaranpino/nostrcheck-server) - A server with relay, File Hosting, Nostr Address, Lightning Redirects, NWC and WoT. - [nostr_relay](https://code.pobblelabs.org/fossil/nostr_relay/) - a nostr relay written in Python, backed by SQLite - [nostr-filter-relay](https://github.com/atrifat/nostr-filter-relay) - A nostr relay docker image package which filter content based on content type (SFW/NSFW), user type, language, hate speech (toxic comment), sentiment, topic, and various rules. - [nostr-relay-nestjs](https://github.com/CodyTseng/nostr-relay-nestjs) - A Nostr relay with a clear architecture and high test coverage (PostgreSQL, MeiliSearch, NestJS) - [nostr-relay](https://github.com/mattn/nostr-relay) - Nostr relay in Go based on relayer. Backend by sqlite3/PostgreSQL/mysql. - [nostr-rs-relay](https://sr.ht/~gheartsfield/nostr-rs-relay/) - a minimalistic relay written in Rust that saves data on SQLite - [nostream](https://github.com/Cameri/nostream) - a nostr relay written in Typescript backed by PostgreSQL (renamed from nostr-ts-relay). - [nostring](https://github.com/xbol0/nostring) - A Nostr relay written in Deno. - [NostrPostr Relay](https://github.com/Giszmo/NostrPostr/tree/master/NostrRelay) - a Kotlin Relay supporting both SQLite and Postgresql. - [Notra](https://github.com/lontivero/Nostra) - F# implementation backed by SQLite database. - [PyRelay](https://github.com/johnny423/pyrelay) - a python implementation of a Nostr relay, using asyncio. - [QNostr](https://github.com/Aseman-Land/QNostr) - A Nostr protocol implementation for clients as a Qt Module in C++ - [Relayer Basic](https://github.com/fiatjaf/relayer/tree/master/examples/basic) - a simple relay based on _relayer_ backed by Postgres - [rnostr](https://github.com/rnostr/rnostr) - A high-performance and scalable nostr relay written in Rust. - [Servus](https://github.com/ibz/servus) - A self-contained, single executable, CMS/blogging engine reminiscent of Jekyll which also acts as a personal Nostr relay for your blog posts. Written in Rust. - [søstr](https://github.com/metasikander/s0str) - a private Nostr relay written in rust, saves all notes from one pubkey and publish them to anyone that requests them - [sovereign-stack](https://www.sovereign-stack.org) - a tool that helps you deploy nostr relays and create self-hosted (bitcoin-only) Value4Value websites. - [strfry](https://github.com/hoytech/strfry) - C++ implementation backed by LMDB with efficient syncing of events using Merkle trees - [SuperConductor](https://github.com/avlo/superconductor) - Java Nostr-Relay Framework & Web Application. Java 20, Spring WebSocketSession 3.2.2, Spring Boot 3.2.4, atop [nostr-java library](https://github.com/tcheeric/nostr-java). Simple. Clean. OO. - [tandem](https://github.com/TheRebelOfBabylon/tandem) - WIP: community focused relay written in Go - [Transpher](https://github.com/nostriphant/transpher) - experimental PHP implementation with file or sqlite storage, configurable limits - [WoT relay](https://github.com/bitvora/wot-relay.git) - relay for every note in your web of trust ### Relay lists Websites with lists of relays and their performance/health: - [relay.nostr.net](wss://relay.nostr.net) - relay run by nostr.net - [nostr.info](https://nostr.info/relays/) - real-time checking of the status of some known relays. - [nostr.watch](https://nostr.watch) - real-time checking of the status of some known relays. - [relays.xport.top](https://relays.xport.top) - relays list sortable by ping, activity, etc. ## Clients - [0xchat](https://github.com/0xchat-app) - a telegram/wechat-like nostr client for iOS and Android - [0xchat on iOS](https://apps.apple.com/app/0xchat/id1637607169) - [0xchat on Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxchat.nostr) - [Agora](https://agorasocial.app)  - Follow your favorite topics in nostr-verse (and even posts from Mastodon, Reddit, Bluesky, and Twitter) - [Alexandria](https://github.com/ShadowySupercode/gc-alexandria) - A Knowledge Base and future eReader app. Focuses on the implementation of [NKBIP-01](https://wikifreedia.xyz/nkbip-01) - [algia-web](https://github.com/ryogrid/algia-web) - A small resource consumption oriented Nostr web client - [algia](https://github.com/mattn/algia) - A cli application for nostr. - [alphaama](https://github.com/eskema/alphaama) - alphaama is just a nostr fucking client - [Amethyst](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst) - An Android client for nostr written in Kotlin - [Anonostr](https://github.com/Spl0itable/Anonostr) - Anonostr allows users to send anonymous notes to the Nostr network without revealing their identity. For each note submission, the app generates a new key pair, sends the note through select relays, and then securely burns the key pair. It supports tagging, threading, quoting, and replying to existing notes. - [ArcadeCity](https://github.com/ArcadeCity/arcade) - Public group chats and P2P services (WIP) over nostr - [Asknostr.site](https://asknostr.site) - A Quora/StackOverflow Q&A site using the nostr network and #asknostr content - [Astral](https://github.com/monlovesmango/astral) - a branle fork with global feed and UI makeover - [Astral on TOR](http://hbn4yzl3qkzi3qpse6nvljbduzcdecaq76tbcfjfzmoaik3q3uryxuad.onion/3bf0c63fcb93463407af97a5e5ee64fa883d107ef9e558472c4eb9aaaefa459d) - [astral.ninja](https://astral.ninja/) - [client.nostr.guide](https://client.nostr.guide/) - [Attached](https://github.com/dyegolara/nostr-attached) - Open-Source ReactNative Expo app for Nostr (iOS, Android). Currently under app store review - [badger](https://github.com/0ceanslim/badger) - A NIP58 nostr badge client. Create Badges view Profile Badges and more. - [Beagle](https://0xli.github.io/beagle.chat/) - Decentralized real-time Text/Audio/Video chat client for iOS, using nostr relays for users to share information and moments by posts of text, image and video. - [BlazeJump](https://github.com/objectwizard/BlazeJump) - A fast web client boilerplate written in C# / Blazor, that uses an in-browser SQLite database. - [Blockcore Notes](https://github.com/block-core/blockcore-notes)  - Progressive Web App that can be installed on mobile and desktop, organize following in circles and have both public and private following lists. Dynamic interface for different uses, such as optimized for photograph viewing - [notes.blockcore.net](https://notes.blockcore.net/) - [Blowater](https://blowater.deno.dev) - A desktop Web client focusing on chat with delightful UX - [bolt.fun](https://makers.bolt.fun/feed) - A bitcoin lightning makers community that supports reading and creating comments using Nostr - [connect4](https://github.com/stutxo/connect4xyz) - connect 4 over nostr - [connect4.xyz](https://connect4.xyz/) - [Coracle Chat](https://github.com/coracle-social/legacy-chat) - A standalone port of Coracle's old chat functionality - [Coracle DMs](https://github.com/coracle-social/legacy-dms) - A standalone port of Coracle's old DM functionality - [Coracle](https://github.com/coracle-social/coracle) - A nostr web client - [Corny Chat](https://github.com/vicariousdrama/cornychat) - Corny Chat is an open source audio space built on Jam that integrates Nostr and Lightning. - [cornychat.com](https://cornychat.com/) - [Daisy](https://github.com/neb-b/daisy) - Mobile client for Android and iOS - [testflight + android builds](https://neb.lol/nostr) - [damus](https://github.com/damus-io/damus) - a twitter-like nostr client for iOS and MacOS - [damus on testflight](https://testflight.apple.com/join/CLwjLxWl) - [damus on Mac app store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/damus/id1628663131) - [danmakustr](https://github.com/CodyTseng/danmakustr) - a chrome extension allowing users to send special comments (弹幕, danmaku) on YouTube and display them above the video. - [Denny](https://github.com/denostr-lab/denny) - Secure, private, and decentralized group chat messaging client on Nostr - [Disgus](https://github.com/carlitoplatanito/disgus) - A comment widget like Disqus, but for Nostr. - [dispute](https://github.com/ethicnology/dispute) - A cross-platform (Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Web) client for NOSTR - [Docstr](https://github.com/sepehr-safari/docstr) - Collaborative Documents (Google Docs Alternative) - [docstr.app](https://docstr.app) - live instance - [earthly](https://github.com/moogmodular/earthly) - A social geojson editor with maps on Nostr - [electron-nostr](https://github.com/wds4/electron-react-boilerplate-nostr) - A bare-bones desktop nostr client using electron-react-boilerplate. The goal is to be an easy template for people to experiment with different ideas on decentralized ratings, reputation, and web of trust - [emon](https://github.com/sebastiaanwouters/emon) - Encrypted DMs over nostr with lightning payments integrated (WIP). - [emon.chat](https://emon.chat) - [Flycat](https://github.com/digi-monkey/flycat-web) - A 2000s old-school style web client which support blogging on Nostr - [Formstr](https://github.com/abhay-raizada/nostr-forms) - A Google Forms alternative built on top of the nostr protocol. - [formstr.app](https://formstr.app/) - live instance - [futr](https://github.com/prolic/futr) - nostr client desktop app written in Haskell - [getwired.app](https://github.com/smolgrrr/Wired) Anonymous-first client with PoW notes - [gitstr](https://github.com/fiatjaf/gitstr) - Send and receive git patches over Nostr, using [NIP-34](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/34.md). - [gnost-deflate-client](https://github.com/barkyq/gnost-deflate-client) - CLI nostr client written in go implementing permessage-deflate websocket compression. - [gossip](https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip) - A desktop client in rust presented with egui - [Groups](https://github.com/max21dev/groups) - NIP-29 Group Chat Web Client. - Live Instance: [groups.nip29.com](https://groups.nip29.com) - [Habla.news](https://github.com/verbiricha/habla.news) - Habla allows you to read, write, curate and monetize long-form content over Nostr, a censorship-resistant protocol for social media that uses long-form Nostr content. - [Highlighter](https://highlighter.com) - Discover and share curated insights by people you trust. Highlight Books, articles, tweets, anything! - [HiveTalk](https://github.com/hivetalk/hivetalksfu) - Hivetalk is an open source real-time Video and screensharing platform built on mirotalk that integrates Nostr and Lightning. - [hivetalk.org](https://HiveTalk.org/) - live instance - [iris](https://github.com/irislib/iris-messenger) - A nostr web client - [iris.to](https://iris.to) - live instance - [Android app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=to.iris.twa) - [Jester](https://github.com/jesterui/jesterui)  - Chess over nostr - [Jester instance](https://jesterui.github.io/) - [JiYou](https://github.com/TimA314/JiYou) - A nostr PWA client with a highly customizable UI - [JiYou.social](https://JiYou.social) - live instance - [Jumble](https://github.com/CodyTseng/jumble) - A web client focused on browsing relay feeds - [jumble.social](https://jumble.social/) - live instance - [Lightning.Pub](https://github.com/shocknet/Lightning.Pub) - A nostr daemon for Lightning nodes - [Listr](https://listr.lol/) - Curate, organize and discover everything Nostr has to offer. Listr is the best way to create, manage, and browse Nostr lists. - [Locus](https://github.com/Myzel394/locus) - Share your location end-to-end encrypted on decentralized servers using Nostr. - [loquaz](https://github.com/emeceve/loquaz) - a desktop app written in Rust for direct encrypted chat - [Lumilumi](http://lumilumi.app/) - A nostr web client. Lightweight modes are available, such as not displaying icon images, not loading images automatically, etc. - [LUMINA](https://github.com/lumina-rocks/lumina) - Nostr (Web) client for images (Picture-first feed). - [lumina.rocks](https://lumina.rocks/) - [mapstr](https://mapstr.xyz/) - Find local businesses which accept BTC and add reviews to those businesses as a customer. Allows ability to receive Zaps for your reviews. You can also add Nostr notes with coordinates which allows them to be mapped to your location. - [Member](https://github.com/memberapp/memberapp.github.io) - Progressive Web App Client. Works on desktop and mobile. - [member.cash](https://member.cash/) - live instance - [Memestr](https://memestr.app/) - nostr hub for memes. - [MeShell](https://github.com/BEEBSDONE/MeShell_Nodejs) - Web, iOS, and Android blog type client destined to publish articles and researches for independent journalists. - [MeShell.io](https://meshell.io) - Landing page for more information - [Minds](https://www.minds.com/) - open source social network. Supports reading and creating posts using the nostr protocol - [more-speech](https://github.com/unclebob/more-speech) - desktop client for nostr written in Clojure - [moStard](https://mostard.org) - Nostr web client with Monero tips. - [narr](https://github.com/fiatjaf/narr) - self-hosted Nostr and RSS reader - [nblog](https://github.com/jacany/nblog) - a self-host nostr ghost blog - [ni.py](https://github.com/0n4t3/nipy) - CLI post only client for Nostr, Activity Pub, and the AT Protocol written in Python. - [Noflux](https://github.com/fiatjaf/noflux) - minimalist and opinionated feed reader - [Nootti](https://nootti.com) - Cross-posting iOS & iPad client app for Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr - [Nos](https://github.com/planetary-social/nos)  - A UX-focused iOS / MacOS native app focused on a polished new user experience. [planetary.social](https://planetary.social) - [nos.social](https://nos.social) - [nosbin](https://nosbin.com/) - pastebin over nostr - [noscl](https://github.com/fiatjaf/noscl) - a basic command-line client written in Go - [Nosky](https://github.com/KotlinGeekDev/Nosky) - A native Android client for Nostr. Still in development - [nostr console](https://github.com/vishalxl/nostr_console) - a nostr command line client written in Dart. Binaries available for Windows, Linux, and macOS - [Nostr Nests](https://nostrnests.com/) - Nostr Nests is an audio space for chatting, brainstorming, debating, jamming, micro-conferences and more. - [Nostr Playground](https://github.com/sepehr-safari/nostr-playground)  - A simple and user-friendly playground for Nostr. - [playground.nostr.com](https://playground.nostr.com/) - Live instance. - [Nostr Web](https://github.com/franzos/nostr-ts) - React web client for static hosting - [franzos.github.io/nostr-ts](https://franzos.github.io/nostr-ts/) - preview from `master` branch - [nostr-chat-widget-react](https://www.npmjs.com/package/nostr-chat-widget-react?activeTab=readme) - A React component that provides a live-chat widget over nostr that can be embedded into any website. - [nostr-relay-tray](https://github.com/CodyTseng/nostr-relay-tray) - a simple nostr relay tray app written in Electron - [nostr.cooking](https://github.com/github-tijlxyz/nostr.cooking) - A recipe-sharing client for nostr - [zap.cooking](https://zap.cooking/) - [nostr.kiwi](https://nostr.kiwi/) - nostr.kiwi is a progressive web app to share notes and curate content in communities. - [nostr.time](https://github.com/coracle-social/nostrtime) - A calendar app built on nostr - [NostrChat.io](https://nostrchat.io/) - NostrChat is a chat app where you can have group chats, DM, threads, and emojis. - [Nostree](https://github.com/gzuuus/linktr-nostr) - [nostree.me](https://nostree.me) A Nostr-based application linktree-style to create, manage and discover link lists, show notes and other stuff. - [NostrEmitter](https://github.com/cmdruid/nostr-emitter) - Simple E2E encrypted client and EventEmitter object - [Nostribe.com](https://github.com/sepehr-safari/nostribe-web-client)  - Nostr client web app built with Next.js 13 and TypeScript. - [Nostribe.com](https://nostribe.com/) - Live instance. - [Nostrid](https://github.com/lapulpeta/Nostrid) - Multi-platform client currently offering binaries for Android, Windows, MacOS and Linux. - [Nostrid.Web](https://web.nostrid.app/) - Web version running completely on the browser. It can be installed locally as PWA. - [Nostrmo](https://github.com/haorendashu/nostrmo) - A flutter nostr client for Android, IOS, MacOS, Windows, Web and Linux. - [nostromat](https://github.com/ekimber/nostromat) - A Twitter-style Nostr web client, written in Clojurescript/React - [nostrom.at](https://nostrom.at) - live instance - [Nostros](https://github.com/KoalaSat/nostros) - A nostr mobile client for Android - [Nostrtium](https://github.com/pjv/nostrtium) - Post to Nostr directly from within WordPress - [noStrudel](https://github.com/hzrd149/nostrudel) - hzrd149's personal nostr client. - [nostrweb](https://git.qcode.ch/nostr/nostrweb) - another Nostr web client in vanilla JS - [nostr.ch](https://nostr.ch/) - live instance - [nostter](https://github.com/SnowCait/nostter) - Twitter-like web client - [nostui](https://github.com/akiomik/nostui) - A TUI client for Nostr - [Nostur](https://nostur.com) - Nostr client app for iOS and MacOS. ([Apple Store link](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nostur/id1672780508)) - [notestack.com](https://notestack.com) - Blogging site for nostr, supports markdown - [Nuxstr](https://github.com/sebastix/nuxstr) - Starter template for building a Nostr client with the Nuxt Vue framework and Nostr Dev Kit (NDK). - [nuxstr.nostrver.se](https://nuxstr.nostrver.se) - demo - [Olas](https://github.com/pablof7z/olas) - An instagram-like client - [Oracolo](https://github.com/dtonon/oracolo) - Oracolo is a minimalist blog, powered by Nostr, that consists of a single html file. - [OstrichGram](https://ostrichgram.com) - OstrichGram is a Telegram-style desktop app for Linux and Windows featuring group chats and DMs. - [Pareto](https://pareto.space/read) - The Pareto client is a part of an open-source publishing ecosystem for uncensorable citizen journalism, specialized in writing and reading of long-form Nostr articles. - [Pinstr](https://github.com/sepehr-safari/pinstr)  - Pinstr is a decentralized and open-source social network for curating and sharing your interests with the world. - [Pinstr.app](https://pinstr.app) - live instance - [Plebstr](https://plebstr.com) - Nostr client Reimagined, the most beautiful Twitter-like nostr client for iOS & Android. - [Plebstr on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/plebstr-nostr-client/id1666230916) - [Plebstr on Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plebstr.client) - [Pollerama](https://pollerama.fun/) - A polls implementation on nostr, with features like Proof of Work Filtering, Followset filtering, and more. -[Github Repo](https://github.com/abhay-raizada/nostr-polls) - [Pollstr](https://github.com/mroxso/pollstr) - A nostr web client with a focus on polls. - [pollstr.online](https://pollstr.online) - live instance - [Postr For Nostr](https://github.com/joel-st/postr-for-nostr) - Post to Nostr directly from within WordPress using NIP-07 - [Pretty Good Apps](https://github.com/wds4/pretty-good) - A desktop Nostr client for Linux, macOS, and windows with a focus on decentralized reputation and web of trust. First application: crowdsourced decentralized list curation. - [Primal](https://primal.net) - Lightning-fast web client for Nostr. Features extensive analytics, vanity profiles, and more. - [Rabbit](https://github.com/syusui-s/rabbit) - A nostr client like TweetDeck - [Satellite](https://github.com/lovvtide/satellite-web) - Nostr web client with Reddit-style threads - [satellite.earth](https://satellite.earth) - live instance - [scalastr](https://github.com/benthecarman/scalastr) - A barebones nostr client written in scala - [second exchange](https://github.com/cynsar-foundation/second.exchange) - an experiment to work out something of like medium, something of creator economy where users are rewarded for engaging in quality discussion and most importantly engaging in governance-related discussion - [Sendstr](https://sendstr.com/)  - shared clipboard between devices over nostr - [Shipyard](https://shipyard.pub/) - Write, schedule, and boost your notes. - [shockwallet](https://github.com/shocknet/wallet2) - A Lightning wallet that uses nostr and lnurl to connect to nodes - [SIGit](https://sigit.io) - An open-source, self-hostable solution for secure document signing and verification. - [Snort](https://github.com/v0l/snort) - Nostr UI written in react - [snort.social](https://snort.social) - [Spring Browser](https://spring.site) - Nostr-focused browser app for Android. - [Stackerstan](https://stackerstan.org) - A decentralized organization built on Bitcoin and Nostr, implemented as a replicated state machine in Golang - [Swarmstr](https://github.com/ptrio42/swarmstr.com) - Your knowledge hub for curious minds - [Swarmstr](https://swarmstr.com) - live instance - [Tamga](https://github.com/erdaltoprak/tamga) - An offline first nostr contact & profile manager for iOS! - [Tides](https://github.com/arbadacarbayk/tides) - Chrome Extension Messenger with a hotlink for Noderunners Radio Stream - [uBlog](https://github.com/nodetec/ublog)  - A minimalist blog on nostr that allows anyone to easily create their own personal micro-blog. - [u-blog.vercel.app](https://u-blog.vercel.app) - [Votestr](https://votestr.com/) - Poll web app with nostr authentication and blind signature unlinkability - [Voyage](https://github.com/dluvian/voyage) - Lightweight Android client with a Reddit-like UI - [Wherostr](https://github.com/mapboss/wherostr_social) - A decentralized geo-social for iOS & Android. - [wikistr](https://github.com/fiatjaf/wikistr) - A "wikipedia" client for nostr - [wikistr.com](https://wikistr.com/) - [Written](https://github.com/silencesoft/written) - Self hosted blog using nostr long-form content (NIP-23) and it shows only posts by selected authors. - [Demo](https://written-weld.vercel.app/) - [yakihonne.com](https://yakihonne.com) - YakiHonne is a Nostr-based decentralized content media protocol that supports blogs, flash news, curation, videos, uncensored notes, zaps, and other content types. Join us now and experience the joy of decentralized publishing, review, and settlement media networks. - [YakiHonne mobile app](https://yakihonne.com/yakihonne-mobile-app) – iOS and Android app - [Yana](https://github.com/frnandu/yana) - Yana is a nostr client focused on performance in slower devices and modularity of features. - [yana.do](https://yana.do) - [zapddit](https://zapddit.com)  - Reddit-style client for nostr where you can follow topics (similar to subreddits), mute certain topics (like #bitcoin), upzap and downzap notes using your hard-earned sats. - [zephyr](https://github.com/coracle-social/zephyr) - A meditative nostr feed reader ### Nostr Marketplace clients (NIP-15 & NIP-99) - [LNBits Nostrmarket](https://github.com/lnbits/nostrmarket) - Nostrmarket extension for LNBits allows you to sell items directly from your LNBits instance - [Plebeian Market](https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian-market) - The Bitcoin-native self-sovereign marketplace built on top of NIP-15 includes fixed-price items and auctions - [Shopstr](https://github.com/shopstr-eng/shopstr) - The Lightning and Cashu-native self-sovereign marketplace built on top of NIP-99 includes fixed-price items ### Client reviews and/or comparisons - Feature [comparison list of Nostr clients](https://github.com/vishalxl/Nostr-Clients-Features-List) - [Feature Matrix for Nostr Clients](https://github.com/nostorg/clients) - [Landing page](https://nostorg.github.io/clients/) ## Libraries - [amberflutter](https://github.com/sebdeveloper6952/amberflutter) - A Flutter wrapper for Amber (Offline Signer). - [arduino-nostr](https://github.com/lnbits/arduino-nostr) - An Arduino nostr library. - [dart NDK](https://github.com/relaystr/ndk)  - Nostr Development Kit for dart applications - [dart_nostr](https://github.com/anasfik/nostr) - A developer experience Dart library for Nostr - [dart-nostr](https://github.com/ethicnology/dart-nostr) - a Dart library for Flutter - [go-nostr](https://github.com/fiatjaf/go-nostr) - a Go library that implements relay management, plus event encoding and signing utils - [mostro-core](https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-core)  - common types used by mostro and clients (WIP) - [navigatr](https://github.com/coracle-social/navigatr) - A utility for discovering relays and scraping events - [NIP-44](https://github.com/paulmillr/nip44) - NIP44 spec and implementations of encrypted messages for nostr - [nip07-awaiter](https://github.com/penpenpng/nip07-awaiter) - Minimal utility to access NIP-07 interface safely. - [nmostr](https://github.com/Gruruya/nmostr) - a Nim library for Nostr - [NNostr.Client](https://github.com/Kukks/NNostr) - a C# Nostr library for use by clients - [noscrypt](https://github.com/vnuge/noscrypt) - A C89 library for nostr specific cryptography operations. - [nostr_rust](https://github.com/0xtlt/nostr_rust) - Functional Rust implementation of the nostr protocol - [nostr-bot](https://github.com/slaninas/nostr-bot) - a Rust library for writing bots - [nostr-connect](https://github.com/nostr-connect/connect) - Nostr Connect SDK for TypeScript is a library that allows you to easily integrate Nostr Connect into your web application - [nostr-deno](https://github.com/KiPSOFT/nostr-deno) - a client library for Deno javascript runtime. - [nostr-development-kit - NDK](https://github.com/nostr-dev-kit/ndk) - NDK is a nostr development kit that makes the experience of building Nostr-related applications, whether they are relays, clients, or anything in between, better, more reliable. - [nostr-double-ratchet](https://github.com/mmalmi/nostr-double-ratchet) - Signal-style secure private messaging channels - [nostr-fetch](https://github.com/jiftechnify/nostr-fetch) - A utility library that allows JS/TS apps to effortlessly fetch past events from Nostr relays. - [nostr-geotags](https://github.com/sandwichfarm/nostr-geotags) - NPM module that generates geotags for nostr events given data points such as GPS/DD, an ISO-3166-1 countryCode and/or an ISO-3166-2 regionName, as well as many passthroughts. Supports ISO-3166-1/2/3 - [nostr-hooks](https://github.com/ostyjs/nostr-hooks) - React hooks for developing Nostr clients. It's simple and intelligent. - [nostr-java](https://github.com/tcheeric/nostr-java) - A nostr client library, written in java, for generating, signing and publishing events. - [nostr-js](https://github.com/jb55/nostr-js) - a javascript implementation of the nostr protocol - [nostr-one](https://github.com/dolu89/nostr-one) - A reusable web component that provides a simple way to integrate with nostr NIP 98 HTTP Auth. - [nostr-php](https://github.com/swentel/nostr-php) - a PHP library for nostr - [nostr-react](https://github.com/t4t5/nostr-react) - React Hooks for Nostr - [nostr-relay-inspector](https://github.com/dskvr/nostr-relay-inspector) - A library that returns useful information about relays based on nostr-js - [nostr-relay](https://github.com/CodyTseng/nostr-relay) - A typescript library that helps you easily build your customized Nostr relay. - [nostr-relaypool-ts](https://github.com/adamritter/nostr-relaypool-ts) - a TypeScript relay pool library on top of nostr-tools that simplifies handling subscriptions to multiple servers - [nostr-ruby](https://github.com/dtonon/nostr-ruby) - a Ruby implementation of the nostr protocol - [nostr-spring-boot-starter](https://github.com/theborakompanioni/nostr-spring-boot-starter) - Spring boot starter projects for building Nostr applications. - [nostr-tools](https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr-tools) - a JavaScript client that abstracts the relay management code for use by clients - [nostr-ts](https://github.com/franzos/nostr-ts) - a Typescript implementation of the nostr protocol plus toys - [nostr-typedef](https://github.com/penpenpng/nostr-typedef) - Type definition files to develop Nostr applications in TypeScript - [nostr-types](https://github.com/mikedilger/nostr-types) - a rust library defining types useful for the nostr protocol - [nostr](https://github.com/wilsonsilva/nostr) - a Ruby Nostr gem for use by clients - [Nostra](https://github.com/lontivero/Nostra) - a F# library, available as a NuGet package, for interacting with relays. Nostra relay is built on top of it too. - [nostrclient](https://github.com/duozhutuan/nostrclient)- Nostr python client library - [NostrKit](https://github.com/cnixbtc/NostrKit) - a Swift library for interacting with relays - [NostrPostr](https://github.com/Giszmo/NostrPostr) - a Kotlin Nostr library for clients or relays - [notemine](https://github.com/sandwichfarm/notemine) [demo](https://sandwichfarm.github.io/notemine) - A wasm note miner written in rust - [Osty](https://github.com/ostyjs/create-osty) - [npm create osty@latest](https://www.npmjs.com/package/create-osty) - Osty on NPM - [osty.dev](https://osty.dev) - Landing Website of Osty - [paravel](https://github.com/coracle-social/paravel)  - an abstract toolkit for writing nostr clients. - [pynostr](https://github.com/holgern/pynostr) - a python library for nostr - [python-nostr](https://github.com/jeffthibault/python-nostr) - a python library for making clients - [relayer](https://github.com/fiatjaf/relayer) - a server framework for writing custom relays - [rust-nostr](https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr): * Nostr protocol implementation: * Rust: https://crates.io/crates/nostr * Kotlin: [`io.github.rust-nostr:nostr`](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/io.github.rust-nostr/nostr/) * Swift: https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr-swift * Python: https://pypi.org/project/nostr-protocol * High-level client library: * Rust: https://crates.io/crates/nostr-sdk * Kotlin: [`io.github.rust-nostr:nostr-sdk`](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/io.github.rust-nostr/nostr-sdk/) * Swift: https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr-sdk-swift * Python: https://pypi.org/project/nostr-sdk - [rx-nostr](https://github.com/penpenpng/rx-nostr) - Supports high quality and flexible communication with multiple Nostr relays. - [schorr_snap](https://github.com/neeboo/schnorr_snap) - A snap plugin for Metamask Flask, supports nostr - [sonos](https://github.com/bvcxza/sonos)- C++ library and command line tool for Nostr ## Bridges and Gateways - [atomstr](https://git.sr.ht/~psic4t/atomstr) - RSS/Atom gateway to Nostr. Live at [https://atomstr.data.haus](https://atomstr.data.haus) - [matrix-nostr-bridge](https://github.com/8go/matrix-nostr-bridge) - a simple Matrix-to-Nostr or Nostr-to-Matrix bridge - [Mostr](https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr) - a bridge between Nostr and the Fediverse (Mastodon, ActivityPub, etc.) - [Nostr over LoRa](https://github.com/geoffwhittington/meshtastic-bridge)  - a gateway that can relay off-grid [Meshtastic](https://meshtastic.org) messages to NoStr. - [nostr-to-rss ](https://github.com/gustavonmartins/nostr-to-rss) - nostr to RSS bridge, enabling you to subscribe to nostr events in RSS clients - [nostr-to-rss](https://nostr-to-rss.deno.dev/) - live instance - [NostrBridge](https://github.com/duozhutuan/NostrBridge/) - NostrBridge provides two core features aimed at facilitating WebSocket connection forwarding and message forwarding under the Nostr protocol. - [nostrss](https://github.com/Asone/nostrss) - A flexible and lightweight application to broadcast RSS feeds on Nostr - [rssnotes](https://github.com/trinidz/rssnotes)  - RSS/Atom to Nostr relay. Fork of [rsslay](https://github.com/piraces/rsslay). - [smtp nostr gateway ](https://github.com/Cameri/smtp-nostr-gateway) - a bridge that forwards emails to pubkeys as encrypted direct messages ## Cache services - [Primal](https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-caching-service) - Caching service for Nostr connects to the specified set of relays, collects all events in real time, stores them locally, and makes them available to nostr clients through a web socket-based API. ## Tools - [advanced-nostr-search](https://advancednostrsearch.vercel.app/) - A tool to search Nostr notes. - [anonroom](https://github.com/vinliao/anonroom) - anonymous chat room inside nostr - [Bech32 for Nostr](https://nostr.xport.top/bech32-for-nostr/) - bech32 Nostr converter. - [blogsync](https://github.com/canostrical/blogsync) - Self-host blog articles from long-form notes e.g. via Caddy server. - [cafe-society.news](https://github.com/colealbon/cafe-society) - Self-sovereign machine learning training tool for nostr global feed. Trained models can be monetized/distributed over nostr private messages. Your pre-paid model subscribers register via lightning payments. - [Chief](https://github.com/0xtrr/chief) - A Strfry write policy plugin that provides blacklists for public keys, event kinds and words/sentences. - [Cloud Seeder](https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder) - A 1-click deployment and management tool for nostr-rs-relay and other appliances. - [contact cloud](https://github.com/canostrical/contact_cloud) - Discover the Nostr contact list graph and your own pubkey in it. - [Contact list backup](https://nostr.xport.top/contact-list-backup/) - Backup and restore your contacts - [Embed widget](https://embed.nostr.band) - Embed Nostr notes or profiles into any website with just a line of code. - [git-nostr-tools](http://git.jb55.com/git-nostr-tools) - A cli tool for sending code patches over nostr - [git-nostr](https://github.com/colealbon/git-nostr) - A tool to enhance git cli with nostr communications. Publish patch content, prs, repo name, issues, etc to nostr relay. - [granary](https://github.com/snarfed/granary) - Convert nostr content into atom, html, rss, json, indieweb feed, mastodon, microformats2, activitystreams, activitypub/fediverse, jsonfeed, and bluesky's atproto all with web and rest-api. - [granary.io](https://granary.io/) - live instance - [heyxynip5](https://github.com/bennyhodl/hexynip5) - A CLI helper for converting nostr npub/nsec to their hex format for NIP-05 verification. - [homebrew-nostr](https://github.com/nostorg/homebrew-nostr) - Homebrew tap for Nostr software. - [hostr](https://github.com/studiokaiji/nostr-webhost) - nostr-webhost is a tool for hosting SPA on nostr - [http-nostr-publisher](https://github.com/getAlby/http-nostr-publisher) - A Cloudflare worker to publish Nostr events to relays through a non-blocking HTTP interface . - [keystr-rs](https://github.com/keystr/keystr-rs) - An application for managing Nostr keys. Written in Rust, with simple UI (Iced). - [knob](https://github.com/plantimals/knob) - command line tool to post text files to nostr - [LikZap](https://github.com/silencesoft/likzap) - A nostr bot to zap a note when you like it. - [lnpass](https://lnpass.github.io) - A key manager for Lightning and nostr. - [metadata_updater](https://github.com/UTXOnly/metadata_updater) - Scans all known online nostr relays for stale kind 0 metadata notes, rebroadcasts latest verified note - [NAKE](https://tsukemonogit.github.io/nake-website/) - a browser extension to easily convert between Nostr hex IDs and NIP-19 entities. - [nashboard](https://github.com/vinliao/nashboard) - a Nostr network dashboard with network statistics, reachable [here](https://nashboard.space/) - [ndxstr](https://github.com/ArcadeCity/ndxstr) - nostr's layer 2 indexing nodes, with more advanced querying capability than currently supported by relays - [nip06-cli](https://github.com/jaonoctus/nip06-cli) - a Node.js CLI to generate or restore NIP-06 seed phrases - [nip06-web](https://github.com/jaonoctus/nip06-web) - a website to generate or restore NIP-06 seed phrases - [nip06.jaonoct.us](https://nip06.jaonoct.us) - by jaonoctus - [NIPF](https://github.com/nextdebug/nipf) - A Python facilities manager for NOSTR ecosystem. - [njump](https://github.com/fiatjaf/njump) - a nostr static gateway, it displays notes and other stuff from inside nostr as HTML with previews. - [nkcli](https://github.com/mdzz-club/nkcli) - A CLI tool for nostr key manage and serve NIP-46. - [nos2x - nostr signer extension](https://github.com/fiatjaf/nos2x) - a browser extension for signing events on 3rd party site without sharing your private keys with them - [nosdump](https://github.com/jiftechnify/nosdump) - A command line tool which dumps (download) events stored in Nostr relays - [Nosflare's Send It](https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare/blob/main/send-it.js) - A nostr cloudflare workers proxy relay that publishes to all known relays using nostr.watch API. - [noshtastic](https://github.com/ksedgwic/noshtastic)(https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostcat) - A Geo-Specific Virtual Nostr Relay for Meshtastic - [nostcat](https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostcat) - cat-like nostr client for scripting and debugging written in Rust - [nostpy-cli](https://github.com/UTXOnly/nostpy-cli) - A Python command line nostr client/tool for relay development - [Nostr action](https://github.com/snow-actions/nostr) - Send events from GitHub Actions - [nostr army knife](https://nak.nostr.com/) - nostr army knife by fiatjaf - [Nostr Follow Organizer](https://tsukemonogit.github.io/NFO/) - A tool to organize people you follow - [nostr GitHub Action](https://github.com/theborakompanioni/nostr-action) - send events from GitHub Actions - [Nostr NIP-36 Image Redirector](https://github.com/ryogrid/NostrNIP36ImageRedirector) - Reverse proxy server which blocks accesses to NIP-36 marked image files from NOT NIP-36 compliant clients. - [Nostr profile manager](https://metadata.nostr.com/) - Backup your nostr profile and metadata - [nostr registry](https://codeberg.org/rsbondi/nostr-registry) - a database of known relays with their uptime and NIP support tables - [nostr_simple_publish](https://www.drupal.org/project/nostr_simple_publish/) - Drupal module to publish content to Nostr. - [nostr-badges](https://github.com/neilck/nostr-badges) - Nostr badge microservice for managing self-awarded badges. Live at [app.akaprofiles.com](https://app.akaprofiles.com) - [nostr-broadcast](https://github.com/leesalminen/nostr-broadcast) - This tool lets you take your events from some relays and broadcast them to another relay. Could help back up your notes to a private relay. - [nostr-bulk-dms](https://github.com/leesalminen/nostr-bulk-dm) - A tool that allows you to send DMs over nostr to many recipients in bulk. - [nostr-cln-events](http://git.jb55.com/nostr-cln-events) - A CLN plugin to push clightning node events to nostr - [nostr-commander](https://github.com/8go/nostr-commander-rs) - simple but convenient CLI-based Nostr app for following users, sending DMs, etc. - [nostr-components](https://github.com/saiy2k/nostr-components) - Nostr Components makes it easy to embed Nostr profiles, posts, and follow buttons in any website - [nostr-crdt](https://github.com/YousefED/nostr-crdt)  - Use Nostr for collaborative, decentralized, local-first applications with nostr-CRDT Yjs provider. - [nostr-delete](https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostr_delete) - generate delete events requesting relays drop and delete content you've published. Blasts out delete requests to many relays. - [nostr-delete web app](https://nostr-delete.vercel.app/) - [nostr-follow-bundler](https://github.com/leesalminen/nostr-follow-bundler) This tool lets you create lists of profiles that other users can then see and follow themselves. - [nostr-fzf](https://github.com/Cameri/nostr-fzf) - Nostr Directory; a tool for searching usernames and channels - [nostr-launch](https://codeberg.org/rsbondi/nostr-launch) - a tool for launching a bunch of relays and clients locally for development and testing - [nostr-notification-server](https://github.com/mmalmi/nostr-notification-server) - Rust & LMDB server for sending event notifications to webhooks and web push endpoints - [nostr-notify](https://github.com/jb55/nostr-notify) - desktop nostr notifications using libnotify - [nostr-post-checker](https://github.com/koteitan/nostr-post-checker) - check if event exists on relays - [nostr-post-checker](https://koteitan.github.io/nostr-post-checker/) - live instance - [nostr-proxy](https://github.com/dolu89/nostr-proxy) - Push and get events to your Proxy, get results from multiple Nostr relays. - [nostr-rs-relay-compose](https://github.com/vdo/nostr-rs-relay-compose) - a Docker compose deployment for nostr-rs-relay with SSL support based on Traefik - [nostr-share-component](https://tsukemonogit.github.io/nostr-share-component/) - A custom web component that can be embedded into any web page to easily add a share button for Nostr. - [nostr-spam-detection](https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostr-spam-detection) - An experiment in building a machine learning model to label Nostr spam content for filtering and relay rejection. - [nostr-terminal](https://github.com/cmdruid/nostr-terminal) - SSH-like access to your machine via web terminal, powered by Nostr. - [nostr-tool](https://github.com/0xtrr/nostr-tool) - Rust CLI tool to generate and publish events - [nostr-wtf](https://github.com/LightningK0ala/nostr-wtf) - A set of nostr tools available and deployed on a web app including a [pubkey converter](https://lightningk0ala.github.io/nostr-wtf/) and [relay query tool](https://lightningk0ala.github.io/nostr-wtf/query). - [nostr.directory](https://github.com/pseudozach/nostr.directory) - searchable database of nostr users and their other social media links. - [nostr.guru](https://nostr.guru/) - a nostr web gateway for viewing events by their ID - [nostr.io](https://nostr.io/) - network statistics with last published notes, top 50 publishers, and top 50 followed users - [nostr.json generator](https://github.com/SnowCait/nostr-json-generator) - Generate NIP-05 nostr.json from NIP-65 or NIP-07 - [NostrAirTracker](https://github.com/gourcetools/NostrAirTracker) - Elonjet on Nostr - [nostrame](https://github.com/Anderson-Juhasc/nostrame) - Nostr Signer and Account Management Extension - [nostrandom.netlify.app](https://nostrandom.netlify.app/) - generate publish-able Nostr event with random keys - [nostrefresh](https://github.com/melvincarvalho/nostrefresh) - simple refresh function for nostr web pages - [nostrends](https://github.com/akiomik/nostrends) - Trending on Nostr, like Twitter trends. Live at [nostrends.vercel.app](https://nostrends.vercel.app). - [nostreq](https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostreq) - Nostr relay event request generator - [NostrFlu](https://heguro.github.io/nostr-following-list-util/) - A tool to collect and resend following lists from relays. You can also check badges. - [NostrHTTP](https://github.com/duozhutuan/NostrHTTP) - Access Nostr Relay content through the HTTP protocol, addressing the issue of search engine indexing and access to Nostr data. - [nostri.chat](https://nostri.chat/) - An embedded chat widget for your website. (seriously simple like copy/paste) - [nostrich.fun](https://nostrich.fun) - A feature-rich directory of nostr projects. A fork of [LightningNetworkStores.com](https://lightningnetworkstores.com) - [nostrify](https://github.com/joelklabo/nostrify) - A Core Lightning plugin that sends events (forwards, connect, disconnect, etc.) to nostr. - [nostril](https://github.com/jb55/nostril) - C cli tool for creating nostr events - [nostrillery](https://github.com/Cameri/nostrillery) - a tool for running performance tests against Nostr relays - [nostrit-push](https://nostrit.com/push) - Blaster tool that will take a signed nostr event and push it to many (most?) open relays. - [nostrit](https://nostrit.com/) - A tool to publish time-delayed nostr events based on triggers. - [nostro](https://github.com/r3drun3/nostro) - nostr osint (open source intelligence) tool - [NostrP2P](https://github.com/ryogrid/nostrp2p) - Pure peer-to-peer distributed microblog system on NAT transparent overlay network implemented in Golang based on idea of Nostr - [NostrReply](https://github.com/gourcetools/nostreply) - Bot that replies to specified text on nostr global feed using NIP50 - [NostrSwap](https://www.nostrswap.com/) - NostrSwap is a fully decentralized exchange built on Nostr Protocol. - [NostrTool](https://nostrtool.com/) - a tool to play with keys. - [nostrview](https://nostrview.com) - A nostr search engine. Search by content, tags, events or pub keys. - [novia](https://github.com/teamnovia/novia) - Nostr video archive - [nsecbunkerd](https://github.com/kind-0/nsecbunkerd) - Keep your nostr keys in a single place and provide fine-grained access to your team members. - [Obsidian Nostr Writer](https://github.com/jamesmagoo/nostr-writer#readme) - A free Obsidian plugin that allows writers to seamlessly publish to Nostr - [osint-user-discovery](https://github.com/Inforensics/osint-user-discovery) - OSINT Discovery is a set of Python scripts designed to search for users or URLs across different social media platforms(nostr, mastodon) and caching services. - [powrelay.xyz](https://powrelay.xyz) - A proof of work-based nostr explorer. - [Replies](https://replies.nostrapps.org) - Nostr micro-app for viewing replies and reactions to events - [rss.nostr.band](https://rss.nostr.band) - Create custom RSS feeds with posts matching your keywords and consume using your favorite RSS reader. - [safebox](https://github.com/trbouma/safebox) - private portable safebox on nostr - [sb.nostr.band](https://sb.nostr.band) - Search bots that you can create and follow to receive new posts matching a keyword right into your feed. - [scoop-nostr](https://github.com/nostorg/scoop-nostr) - Scoop bucket for Nostr software. - [secret-border](https://github.com/guilhermegps/secret-border) - A safe Nostr identity generator. - [Sendbox](https://sendbox.nostrmo.com/) - A tool to help clients delayed publish your nostr event. - [SnapNostr](https://github.com/djhemath/snap-nostr) - Create clean, customizable screenshots of Nostr posts for seamless sharing. - [snapnostr.app](https://snapnostr.app/) - live instance - [Spamster](https://github.com/gourcetools/spamster) - Spamster is for testing relays and spam filters. - [strfry policies](https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/strfry-policies) - A collection of moderation & antispam policies for the strfry relay developed in TypeScript/Deno. - [TaskQ5](https://github.com/duozhutuan/Taskq5) - TaskQ5 is a task distribution platform built on nostr where you can post tasks if you need help - [tostr](https://github.com/slaninas/tostr) - a twitter to nostr bot - [Undelete my Nostr](https://yonle.github.io/undelete-my-nostr) - Simple tool for restoring deleted nostr account. - [Zapounty](https://github.com/ZigBalthazar/zapounty) - A GitHub app that let you to put bounties for developers to fix issues on a repo, paid in zaps! - [Zapper](https://zapper.nostrapps.org) - Nostr micro-app for zapping - [YEGHRO unFollow Tool](https://unfollow.yeghro.com) - A tool that allows you to unfollow inactive users on nostr. - [NADAR](https://nadar.tigerville.no/) - A tool to find which relays have a note (`nevent`). Discovers relays with soon deprecated nostr.watch API. - [NADAR 2.0](https://nadar.sandwich.farm) - A tool to find which relays have a note (`nevent` or `naddr`). Discovers relays with NIP-66. ## NIP-05 identity services - [bitcoiner.chat](https://bitcoiner.chat) - A free NIP-05 ID registration service. - [easyNostr-NIP05](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easynostr-nip05/) - WordPress plugin to enable your site as a NIP-05 endpoint for every registered user on your system using your domain. - [easyNostr](https://easyNostr.com) - NIP-05 ID provider: Use your own domain, or one of ours: nostr.ly, mynostr.io, easyNostr.com. - [getalby.com](https://getalby.com/) - Lightning wallet with NIP-05 ID registration service. - [iris.to](https://iris.to) - A Nostr client that provides a free NIP-05 ID - [lifpay.me](https://lifpay.me) - Lightning wallet with NIP-05 ID registration service. - [nanostr](https://github.com/xbol0/nanostr) - A NIP-05 name server written in Deno. - [Nostr-Check.com](https://nostr-check.com) - A free NIP-05 ID registration service. - [NostrAddress.com](https://nostraddress.com) - Free and Paid Nostr Address (NIP-05) identifier service with premium relay and vanity domains. - [nostrcheck.me](https://nostrcheck.me/) - A free NIP-05 ID (nostr address) registration service, lightning redirection and media uploads. - [Nostrich House](https://nostrich.house) - Paid NIP-05 service with nostr bot interface. Buy your nostr address with DM to nostrich@nostrich.house for 1 sat/hour, anonymous, immediate. - [nostrich.love](https://uselessshit.co/nostr/nip-05/) - A Nostr Address registration service. - [nostrplebs](https://nostrplebs.com) - A NIP-05 ID registration service. - [nostrprotocol.net](https://github.com/KiPSOFT/nostr-nip05-service) - A free NIP-05 identifier service. - [pleroma2nip05](https://code.taurix.net/guy/pleroma2nip05) - A Python based service to link pleroma ID's to nostr keys. - [siamstr.com](https://siamstr.com) - A free NIP-05 ID registration service, lightning redirection. - [younostr.com](https://younostr.com) - A NIP-05 ID registration service (in portuguese). - [hunos.hu](https://hunos.hu) - Free NIP-05 identity for the Hungarian community. - [zaps.lol](https://zaps.lol)  - A free and open source NIP-05 ID registration service. [Run your own](https://github.com/jigglycrumb/nostr-address-provider). ## Offline signers - [amber](https://github.com/greenart7c3/amber) - Amber is a nostr event signer for Android. It allows users to keep their nsec segregated in a single, dedicated app. The goal of Amber is to have your smartphone act as a NIP-46 signing device without any need for servers or additional hardware. "Private keys should be exposed to as few systems as possible as each system adds to the attack surface," as the rationale of said NIP states. In addition to native apps, Amber aims to support all current nostr web applications without requiring any extensions or web servers. - [keechain](https://github.com/yukibtc/keechain) - Bitcoin application to transform your offline computer in an AirGap Signing Device (aka Hardware Wallet) with support to `NIP-06` and `NIP-26`. - [nostr-signing-device](https://github.com/lnbits/nostr-signing-device) - Signing device for Nostr built on ESP32 - [nostrum](https://github.com/nostr-connect/nostrum) - Nostrum it's a mobile app that allows you to sign transactions and messages with your Nostr keys. Nostrum is the reference implementation for a remote signer app (ie. Wallet) of the Nostr Connect protocol. ## Vanity pubkey mining - [glasnostr](https://github.com/eyelight/glasnostr)  - CLI tool to mine a vanity prefix for your nostr npub - [go-pubmine](https://github.com/tenkoh/go-pubmine)  - Multithreading nostr keypair generator which gives pretty (vanity) public keys. Both CLI and web apps are available. - [key-generator](https://github.com/TP-Lab/key-generator)  - A simple tool to generate nostr keypair. - [noclvag](https://codeberg.org/alex0jsan/noclvag) - OpenCL cli tool to mine vanity keys on gpu - [nostr-pubminer](https://github.com/lacaulac/nostr-pubminer) - A simple tool to mine nostr vanity pubkeys - [nostr-vanity-address-generator](https://github.com/chawyehsu/nostr-vanity-address-generator)  - Cross-platform nostr vanity address generator - [nostr.rest](https://nostr.rest) - Mine proof of work public keys with user-specified prefixes - [nostrogen](https://github.com/tonyinit/nostrogen) - simple web-based nostr vanity address generator - [powpub](https://lab.oak-node.net/powpub) - A decentralized protocol to buy Nostr vanity pubkeys or sell hashrate - [WebLN demo](https://lab.oak-node.net/powpub/uv/wasm-client/) - Simple web demo where clients can pay with WebLN - [rana](https://github.com/grunch/rana) - Vanity pubkey miner based on nip13 ## Peer-to-peer markets - [crusty-n3xb](https://github.com/nobu-maeda/crusty-n3xb)  - Rust library implementing the n3xB Bitcoin exchange protocol - [mostro-cli](https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-cli)  - CLI client to operate with Mostro (WIP) - [mostro-web](https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro-web)  - Web client to operate with Mostro (WIP) - [mostro](https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro)  - Daemon for Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform on Nostr (WIP) - [n3xB](https://github.com/nobu-maeda/n3xb)  - Proposal for a Bitcoin exchange protocol and a globally shared order book on Nostr ## NIP-07 Browser extensions Allow you to sign Nostr events on web-apps without having to give them your keys - [Aka Profiles](https://github.com/neilck/aka-extension) - Nostr Signing Extension for Chrome supporting multiple key pairs based on nos2x. - [Alby](https://getalby.com) - Bitcoin Lightning app with nostr support - [Blockcore](https://github.com/block-core/blockcore-wallet) - Multi wallet browser extension with nostr support - [horse](https://github.com/fiatjaf/horse) - hardware remote nostr event signer with webserial - [Keys.Band](https://keys.band) - Multi-key Nostr signing extension for Chrome with a sleak UI/UX. Based on NOS2X. - [NIP-07 Signing Extension Tester](https://github.com/neilck/nip07-tester) - This Next.js app tests NIP-07, showing supported functions and raw results for the current signing extension. - [nodestr](https://github.com/lightning-digital-entertainment/nodestr) - A nip07 provider and polyfill for NodeJS - [nos2x-fox](https://diegogurpegui.com/nos2x-fox/) - A Firefox add-on that lets you manager your Nostr keys in one place, and then sign events in websites without exposing your private key - [nos2x](https://github.com/fiatjaf/nos2x) - Nostr Signer Extension - [Nostore on GitHub](https://github.com/ursuscamp/nostore) - Nostr Signer Extension for iOS/macOS Safari ([Nostore on Mac App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nostore/id1666553677)) - [nostr-keyx](https://github.com/susumuota/nostr-keyx) - A NIP-07 browser extension that uses the OS's keychain or YubiKey to protect your private keys. - [nostr](https://github.com/jinglescode/nostr-password-manager) - A free, open source, and decentralized password manager, powered by NOSTR - [nostrame](https://github.com/Anderson-Juhasc/nostrame) - Nostr Signer and Account Management Extension - [nowser](https://github.com/haorendashu/nowser) - A secure nostr key management and signing app for iOS and Android that supports NIP-07, NIP-46 and NIP-55 - [OneKey](https://onekey.so) - Open-source crypto wallet with nosrt support. - [Signum XT Wallet](https://github.com/signum-network/signum-xt-wallet) - Metamask-like browser extension for Signum blockchain with full NIP07 support and multi-account management - [Spring Browser](https://spring.site) - Nostr-focused browser app for Android. - [TokenPocket](https://github.com/TP-Lab/TokenPocket) - Multi wallet browser extension with nostr support. https://tokenpocket.pro - [wen](https://github.com/fiatjaf/wen) - browser extension for website enhancer with nostr ## NIP-47 Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) implementations Clients (apps using NWC to access a LN wallet) - [Alby Go](https://albygo.com) - A simple lightning mobile wallet interface that works great with Alby Hub. - [Amethyst](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst) - Android-only app - [Damus](https://damus.io/) - The OG nostr client for iOS - [Lume](https://lume.nu) - Cross-platform desktop app - [nostrcheck-server](https://github.com/quentintaranpino/nostrcheck-server) - server with relay, File Hosting, Nostr Address, Lightning Redirects, NWC and WoT. - [Nostrmo](https://github.com/haorendashu/nostrmo) - A flutter nostr client for Android, IOS, MacOS, Windows, Web and Linux. - [nostter](https://github.com/SnowCait/nostter) - Twitter-like web client - [Nostur](https://nostur.com) - A nostr client for iPhone and macOS - [Spring Browser](https://spring.site) - Nostr-focused browser app for Android. - [YakiHonne](https://yakihonne.com/yakihonne-mobile-app) - iOS and Android app - [Yana](https://github.com/frnandu/yana) - Yana is a nostr client focused on performance in slower devices and modularity of features. - [yana.do](https://yana.do) Endpoints (services or apps that expose a LN wallet via NWC) - [Alby NWC (Umbrel)](https://apps.umbrel.com/app/alby-nostr-wallet-connect) - Umbrel app for exposing your self-custodial Umbrel LN Wallet over NWC - [Alby NWC (Web)](https://nwc.getalby.com/) - Web portal for exposing your custodial Alby account over NWC - [Mutiny](https://www.mutinywallet.com) - Self-custodial LN wallet that runs in the browser - [Rizful](https://rizful.com) - Cloud lightning node with NWC support ## NIP-57 Zaps compatible wallets and solutions - [Alby](https://getalby.com) - Bitcoin Lightning app with nostr support - [Bipa](https://bipa.app/) - User-friendly Bitcoin wallet for buying and selling bitcoin with lightning and pix support - [Blink](https://www.blink.sv/) - Blink (ex Bitcoin Beach Wallet) - [btcpayserver](https://btcpayserver.org/) - btcpayserver has NIP-57 support for LN addresses since 1.9 version - [Current](https://app.getcurrent.io/) - nostr client + lightning wallet - [LifPay](https://lifpay.me) - Bitcoin Lightning app with personalized features - [LNbits](https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits) - Bitcoin Lightning accounting system, zappable LNaddresses - [nostdress](https://github.com/believethehype/nostdress) - Lightning addresses server based on satdress. Adapted to work with Nostr features (NIP05, NIP57) - [Wallet of Satoshi](https://www.walletofsatoshi.com/) - Custodial lightning wallet - [zap_server](https://github.com/UTXOnly/zap_server) - An LNURL server to recieve zaps to tor hosted node and generate kind 9735 zap receipt events - [Zebedee app](https://zebedee.io/app) - Zebedee's wallet/lightning app - [ZeusLN](https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus) - A mobile Bitcoin/Lightning app for LND, Core Lightning, and Eclair node operators ## NIP-90 Data vending machines - [data vending machine example](https://github.com/pablof7z/nostr-data-vending-machine) - Nostr data vending machine example by Pablof7z - [data-vending-machines.org](https://www.data-vending-machines.org/) - This website provides specs of the different NIP-90 Data Vending Machine kinds - [DVM Clients and Services Tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAuLnNxU0Yg) - Nostr Data Vending Machine Clients and Services Tutorial by Kody Low - [DVMCP: Data Vending Machine Context Protocol](https://github.com/gzuuus/dvmcp) - DVMCP is a bridge implementation that connects Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to Nostr's Data Vending Machine ecosystem - [DVMDash](https://dvmdash.live/) - Monitoring & debugging tool for data vending machines; tracks dvm performance and payments - [dvm references](https://github.com/pablof7z/dvm-references/) - reference implementation of a DVM (Data Vending Machine) backend - [ezdvm](https://github.com/dtdannen/ezdvm) - Quickly put any python code in a DVM! Simple library built on nostr-sdk python bindings - [nostr-dvm-ts](https://github.com/Kodylow/nostr-dvm-ts) - Typescript examples of Nostr Data Vending Machines - [NostrDVM](https://github.com/believethehype/nostrdvm) - NostrDVM: Nostr NIP90 Data Vending Machine Framework in python - [tasktiger.io](https://tasktiger.io/) - another DVM provider - [vendata.io](https://vendata.io/) - data processing AI marketplace with nostr data vending machines ## NIP-96 File Storage Servers - [mockingyou.com](https://mockingyou.com) - [nostpic](https://nostpic.com) - [nostr.build](https://nostr.build) - [nostrcheck.me](https://nostrcheck.me) - [NostrMedia.com](https://nostrmedia.com) - [sovbit](https://files.sovbit.host) ## Nostr Web Services (NWS) - [nws](https://github.com/asmogo/nws) - route TCP over Nostr relays ## Adjacent protocols - [Blossom](https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom) - Blobs stored simply on mediaservers ## Games on Nostr - [NostrDice](https://github.com/NostrDice/nostrdice) - NostrDice is a provably fair betting game combining the power of Lightning and Nostr. - Live: [app.nostrdice.com](https://app.nostrdice.com) ## Communities Outside of nostr itself, you find the community on: - [Discord](https://discord.gg/Pxkcgt9sMj) - a discord server for nostr enthusiasts and developers - [Matrix: nostrdev](https://chat.nostrdev.com) - a matrix server for nostr developers - [Reddit /r/nostr](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/) - subreddit for nostr related discussion - [Telegram: nostr Protocol](https://t.me/nostr_protocol) - telegram group for nostr protocol discussion - [Telegram: nostr CN](https://t.me/nostr_cn) - Chinese telegram group for nostr - [Telegram: nostr ES (Español/Spanish)](https://t.me/nostr_es) - Spanish telegram group for nostr - [Telegram: nostr FR (Francophone/French)](https://t.me/nostrfr) - french telegram group for nostr - [Telegram: nostr NL (Dutch, Nederlands)](https://t.me/nostrnederland) - Dutch nostr group - [Telegram: nostr Per/Fa (Iran,Afganistan,Tajikstan)](https://t.me/nostr_ir) Persian/Farsi nostr gorup - [Telegram: nostr RU/UA/BY](https://t.me/nostru_community) - an Eastern European community in telegram group for nostr - [Telegram: YakiHonne Daily Featured](https://t.me/YakiHonne_Daily_Featured/) - telegram group for YakiHonne discussions ## Tutorials - [Build your first nostr app](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qOVxq9lUbs) - Nostr Dev course by Super Testnet - [Reddit clone by Super Testnet - part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAK0mrY2_Ew),[part 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pv940IEvTA) - building a reddit clone by Super Testnet - [How to set up a paid nostr relay](https://andreneves.xyz/p/how-to-setup-a-paid-nostr-relay) - [How to: Run your own nostr relay](https://nutcroft.com/blog/how-to-run-your-own-nostr-relay/) (nostr-rs-relay, Caddy, no Docker) - [Nostr Newcomers Most Common Questions and Answers](https://uselessshit.co/resources/nostr/) - [nostr workshop with super testnet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbicnlCXg_Y) - [Set up a nostr relay server in under 5 minutes ](https://andreneves.xyz/p/set-up-a-nostr-relay-server-in-under) - [Step-by-Step guide to set up a relay on your server](https://github.com/BlockChainCaffe/Nostr-Relay-Setup-Guide) (AWS, DigitalOcean, RaspBerry... ) - [strfry personal relay](https://github.com/pjv/strfry_personal_docker) - 10 minute setup of a personal nostr relay on a vanilla Linux VPS. Adds support for NIP-65. - [SuperConductor](https://github.com/avlo/superconductor/?tab=readme-ov-file#creating-relay-event-handlers) - Creating Java Nostr-Relay Framework & Web Application event-handlers - [Set up a Lightning node and Nostr client](https://rizful.com/get_on_nostr_today) - Run a full lightning node in the cloud and connect it via NWC to the Yakihonne client - [Send a Hello World with Nostr](https://hellonostr.dev/) - “Hello Nostr” begginers guide using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript ## Recommended reading/watching - [Nostr, an introduction](https://wiki.wellorder.net/post/nostr-intro/) - written by scsibug - [Why I'm Betting Big On Nostr](https://hivemind.vc/nostr/) - written by Max Webster, Hivemind VC - [Why Nostr Matters](https://blog.lopp.net/why-nostr-matters/) - written by Jameson Lopp - [A vision for content discovery and relay usage for basic social-networking in Nostr](https://fiatjaf.com/3f106d31.html) - written by fiatjaf - [Nostr Documentary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-jiiepOrE) - Social Media is broken. Can we fix it? - [What is Nostr?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaxXvcr181c) - Uncle Bob explains nostr - [Decentralizing Global Markets with Nostr](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtpY_pQ3zcI) - Guy Swann and Pablof7z - [FEDSTR: Money-In AI-Out | A Decentralized Marketplace for Federated Learning and LLM Training on the NOSTR Protocol](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15834) - written by Konstantinos E. Nikolakakis, George Chantzialexiou, Dionysis Kalogerias. - [Exploring the Nostr Ecosystem: A Study of Decentralization and Resilience](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05709) - written by Yiluo Wei, Gareth Tyson. ## Podcasts - [Nostrovia Podcast](https://nostrovia.org/) - A Nostr podcast covering all the new projects, all the new cool stuff, all the new NIPs - [Nost talks](https://www.curiousdk.com/podcast) - Nostr related news and interviews - [Thank god for nostr](https://tgfb.com/podcasts/thank-god-for-nostr/) - The Thank God For Nostr podcast explores the ins and outs of Nostr, the decentralized social protocol, through a Christian lens - [La Cosa Nostr](https://tunein.com/podcasts/Technology-Podcasts/La-Cosa-Nostr---The-Decentralized-Network-p3709902/?topicId=338397586) - A podcast about the nostr decentralized communications protocol. - [No Strings](https://www.fountain.fm/show/jCajOVJfkIXAkAyqvmW6) - freedom tech podcast - [Plebchain Radio](https://fountain.fm/show/0N6GGdZuYNNG7ysagCg9) - weekly live audio show made for plebs, by plebs which focuses on the intersection of Nostr protocol and Bitcoin plebs. ## Other links - [awesome-nostr-japan](https://github.com/nostr-jp/awesome-nostr-japan) - awesome nostr japan - [awesome-nostr-possibilities](https://github.com/orthzar/awesome-nostr-possibilities) - Nostr will fail if it stays just another social media protocol. This repo lists ideas for non-social-media applications. - [inosta api](https://github.com/johnongit/INOSTA-Nostr-Img-Service) - Expensive Image Hosting Service - [api.inosta.cc](https://api.inosta.cc) - Backend live instance - [inosta.cc](https://inosta.cc) - Demonstrator live instance - [logseq-nostr-sync](https://github.com/KoalaSat/logseq-nostr-sync) - Logseq plugin to receive new entries as DM. - [Media caching server for Nostr](https://media.nostr.band) - caches resized profile pictures and banners to save bandwidth for clients - [njump.me](https://njump.me/) - hosted http gateway for browsing profiles, notes and relays - [nostr icons 2](https://github.com/SovrynMatt/Nostr-Website-Button-Design) - Another repository of nostr icons (rounded, rectangular) - [nostr icons](https://github.com/satscoffee/nostr_icons) - Purple, white, and black icons in various formats designed for nostr. - [nostr playground in Ruby](https://github.com/dtonon/nostr-ruby-playground) - [Nostr playground](https://github.com/SnowCait/nostr-playground) - JSON-based web client written in vanilla JavaScript - [nostr-book](https://github.com/adamdecaf/nostr-book) - NIPs compiled into a book - [nostr-logo](https://github.com/mbarulli/nostr-logo) - Logo and icons for the nostr protocol. - [nostr.build](https://nostr.build/) - nostr image uploader - [nostrability](https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability) - The practical documentation of how various nostr apps play together. - [ostrich.work](https://ostrich.work/) - nostr job board - [RSS feeds for news on Nostr](https://verityj.github.io/nostr-news-feeds)  - a curated list of news press channels RSS feeds that we can follow on Nostr - [search posts/profiles by keyword](https://nostr.band) - posts from major relays indexed and searchable in real-time - [Summaries of all Nostr Improvements Proposals](https://anchor.fm/s/d8e8d5a4/podcast/rss) - ChatGPT generated summaries of all NIPs by k00b - [Tracker for Undocumented Nostr Event Kinds](https://undocumented.nostrkinds.info/) - monitors undocumented event kinds in the nostr network - [vanilla-js-nostr](https://github.com/supertestnet/vanilla-js-nostr) - a demo of posting and viewing a feed in nostr using vanilla javascript - [wellorder nostr datasets](https://wiki.wellorder.net/wiki/nostr-datasets/) - Public standardized nostr datasets for benchmarking, data science, or other analysis. - [Zaplife](https://zaplife.lol) - Real-time feed for nostr zaps. The best tool to shut up the "lightning doesn't work" people. ## Deprecated - [Bija](https://github.com/BrightonBTC/bija) - A desktop client written in python. Currently Linux only - [branle](https://github.com/fiatjaf/branle) - a Twitter-like client that was discontinued but lives on in its fork "Astral". - [expensive relay](https://github.com/fiatjaf/expensive-relay) - a relay that requires payment for registration - [Flamingo](https://www.getflamingo.org) - Nostr browser extension with a focus on UX - [Hamstr](https://github.com/styppo/hamstr) - A twitter-style web client built with Vue.js - [hamstr.to](https://hamstr.to) - [Listr](https://github.com/sepehr-safari/listr)  - A Nostr Web Client for Making Lists. - [nodestr](https://github.com/Dolu89/nodestr-relay) - a Node.js implementation - [nostr-pass](https://github.com/plantimals/nostr-pass) - experimenting with nostr priv/pub key pairs for replacing passwords - [nostrpy](https://github.com/monty888/nostrpy) - relay, client, and other tooling in python (No longer being developed.) - [Nozzle](https://github.com/dluvian/Nozzle) - A lightweight Android client - [rsslay](https://github.com/piraces/rsslay) - fork of the rsslay by @fiatjaf. a bridge that puts RSS feeds into Nostr optimized, more funcionalities and UI improvements. Live at [rsslay.nostr.moe](https://rsslay.nostr.moe/) ## Related Resources To explore other aspects of the Bitcoin and freedom tech ecosystem, check out these additional resource directories: - [dlc.wiki](https://www.dlc.wiki) - Everything you need to know about Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs), an innovative Bitcoin smart contract technology. - [ungovernable.tech](https://ungovernable.tech) - A collection of resources on encryption, privacy tools, and decentralized technologies. - [pubky.tech](https://pubky.tech) - Pubky resources, libraries, tools and applications. Pubky is an open protocol for per-public-key backends for censorship resistant web applications - [lightning-network.tech](https://www.lightning-network.tech/) - A curated collection of essential tools, guides, and communities for Bitcoin Lightning Network node operators. - [liquidnetwork.wiki](https://liquidnetwork.wiki) - A curated list of Liquid Network resources, libraries, tools and applications - [ark-protocol.com](https://ark-protocol.com) - A directory of Ark protocol resources, libraries, tools and applications ## Contributing If you'd like to add something to this list, please submit a [Pull Request on GitHub](https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/). This directory is maintained by [aljaz](https://disobey.dev/contact/). Your contributions help keep this information up-to-date and valuable. ## Contributors <a align="center" href="https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/graphs/contributors"> <img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=aljazceru/awesome-nostr" /> </a>

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- [首页](/readme.md) - [第一章、开发者指南](/01.md) - [第二章、使用教程](/02.md)

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## nostrbook 技术框架 源代码在 github.com ``` git clone https://github.com/nostrbook/nostrbook cd nostrbook npm install npm run dev ``` * 网站主框架 vite + svelte * 网站浏览书框架 docsify ## 网站主框架 svelte 为主，daisyui （tailwindcss） css 。 页面的逻辑结构 都是 svelte搭建的， 采用了 layout 左侧菜单。 菜单代码 在 https://github.com/nostrbook/nostrbook/blob/main/src/lib/SideMenu.svelte 菜单里用了弹框登录，弹框的代码基本是问的 AI。 子页面和 路由器看sveltekit规则编写。 ### 书籍的数据 https://github.com/nostrbook/nostrbook/blob/main/src/lib/bookevent.ts 使用的nostr ndk 库来读写 relay。 书的 tag， 内容就是 标题，封面和作者。 ``` [ ['t',booktag], ['title',content['title']], ]; ``` ### 章节的数据 ``` [ ['t',chaptertag], ['title',title], ['d',filename + "-" + bookid], ['e',bookid], ]; ``` 这里面的 d，采用了 文件名 + bookid，所以每一本的章节名的文件名是唯一的。 ### 配置文件 src/lib/config.ts，主要配置 服务器的地址 * 图片文件 nip96 服务器 * relays 服务器 * book的tag ，测试和 release不一样。 如果自己部署独有的服务器也可以不一样。这样内容可以垂直。 ### 首页采用了缓冲机制 首页的内容来自 书籍的列表， 用booktag和30023来区分是不是书籍信息。 为了搜索引擎友好，让页面加载就有数据。 采用了 src/hooks.server.ts 预备加载数据，数据会被首页面 src/routes/+page.server.ts 传给 page.svelte去渲染。 这一切都是后台完成的。html页面加载的时候数据都已经渲染完成了。所以对搜索引擎非常友好。搞定了google，seo。 但是为了数据的完整性， 页面起来后会继续读取列表，这时候可能会显示最新的数据。

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- [首页](/readme.md) - [第一章、 NIP-01: Basic protocol flow description](/01.md) - [第二章、 NIP-02: Follow List](/02.md) - [第三章、NIP-03: OpenTimestamps Attestations for Events](/03.md) - [第四章、NIP-04: Encrypted Direct Message](/04.md) - [第五章、NIP-05: Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers](/05.md) - [第六章、NIP-06: Basic key derivation from mnemonic seed phrase](/06.md) - [第七章、NIP-07: window.nostr capability for web browsers](/07.md)

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Stari Grad, located on the northern coast of Hvar Island**, is one of the oldest towns in Europe, dating back to 384 BC. Unlike the party vibe of Hvar Town, Stari Grad offers a peaceful, authentic Dalmatian atmosphere with stone-paved streets, historic sites, and stunning coastal views. It’s also home to the UNESCO-listed Stari Grad Plain, an ancient agricultural landscape.  ## **🏛️ Top Things to See & Do in Stari Grad** ### **1️⃣ Stroll the Stari Grad Old Town 🏡** - Walk through **charming stone alleys** filled with **colorful shutters, old churches, and hidden courtyards**. - Visit **Tvrdalj Castle**, the **summer residence of the poet Petar Hektorović**, with a **serene fish pond** inside. - Enjoy the relaxed, **authentic Dalmatian vibe**, away from crowds. ### **2️⃣ Visit the UNESCO-Listed Stari Grad Plain 🌿** - One of **the best-preserved ancient Greek agricultural sites** in the world (since 384 BC). - Walk or cycle through the **vineyards, olive groves, and stone walls**, still in use today. - Great for **wine tasting** – local wines like **Bogdanuša and Plavac Mali** are a must-try! 🍷  ### **3️⃣ Relax at Stari Grad’s Best Beaches 🏖️** - **Lanterna Beach** – A mix of pebbles and concrete platforms, with crystal-clear waters. - **Maslinica Bay** – A quiet, pine-fringed beach perfect for a **peaceful swim**. - **Zlatni Rat (Golden Horn Beach)** – One of Croatia’s most famous beaches, a short ferry ride away. ### **4️⃣ Take a Boat Trip to the Pakleni Islands ⛵** - A group of **stunning, unspoiled islands** with hidden beaches and lagoons. - Perfect for **snorkeling, kayaking, and island-hopping adventures**.  ### **5️⃣ Try Local Dalmatian Cuisine 🍽️** - **Gregada** – A traditional fish stew with potatoes and olive oil. - **Octopus salad** – Freshly caught and marinated in lemon & olive oil. - **Hvar wines** – Visit local wineries for **Bogdanuša, Pošip, and Plavac Mali tastings**. ### **6️⃣ Visit the Dominican Monastery ⛪** - A peaceful **monastery with an impressive collection of paintings and relics**. - Features **a painting by the famous Venetian artist Tintoretto**.  ## **🚗 How to Get to Stari Grad** ⛴️ **By Ferry:** - **From Split:** Direct car ferries to Stari Grad (2 hours). - **From Hvar Town:** 25-minute bus or taxi ride. ✈️ **By Air:** The nearest airport is **Split Airport (SPU)**, with ferry connections to Hvar. 🚘 **By Car:** If bringing a car, take the **Split–Stari Grad car ferry** (book in advance in summer).  ## **💡 Tips for Visiting Stari Grad** ✅ **Best time to visit?** **May–September** for great weather & fewer crowds ☀️ ✅ **Stay overnight** – Stari Grad is much quieter and more authentic than Hvar Town 🌙 ✅ **Rent a bike** – The best way to explore Stari Grad Plain & surrounding beaches 🚲 ✅ **Bring water shoes** – Many beaches are rocky, but the water is incredibly clear 🩴 ✅ **Try a sunset walk along the promenade** – It’s breathtaking! 🌅

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 For years, I’ve been shifting my life away from traditional systems and toward Bitcoin. I calculate my expenses in sats, buy airtime and online data with BTC, and continue exploring new ways to integrate Bitcoin into my daily life. While I’m not yet fully living on Bitcoin, I am getting closer with each step.  Since discovering Nostr, my perspective on decentralization has deepened. More than just a financial shift, it's a complete lifestyle transformation. Years ago, after facing injustice in my home country, I took the first step toward a new way of living. That decision led me to where I am today—a minimalist, a nomad, and a believer in financial freedom through Bitcoin.  I once served in the military, owned a house, and drove a nice car. My life looked very different back then. But over time, I realized that true freedom wasn’t in possessions—it was in mobility, independence, and the ability to control my own finances. Now, all I own fits into a backpack weighing less than 12 kg. My lifestyle is simple, yet rich in experiences. March 14 marks eight years since I embraced my nomadic lifestyle. What started as a leap into the unknown has become my way of life. Living with less has given me more—the freedom to move, to explore, and to be truly independent. The more I immerse myself in the Bitcoin ecosystem, the more I see its potential to reshape not only my life but the world around me.  The journey isn’t over. In fact, it’s just beginning. Let’s see where this path leads as I go further into the blockchain revolution!   

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I know I'm not alone in this. I don't trust the government. Any government. Its the rational response when you discover just how often its agents lie, steal, and kill. Honestly, I do not understand why so many people do trust the government. The reality is that if your team is in power, you tend to trust it. If not, you still mostly trust it but less so. That's my feel for most people at least. Trump and Rubio are bragging about how many MS-13 gang members are being deported. Many are being shipped to prisons in El Salvador. Obviously I am not opposed to criminals being put in prisons. But, how do we know these guys are actually guilty of anything other than being in the US illegally. Actually we don't even know that. It wouldn't be so bad if these people were just being shipped back to their home countries. But, instead they are getting sent straight to prison. No trial. Just the government picking people up and shipping them to prison. Is this what you signed up for Trump supporters? Many Trump supporters opposed the GW Bush policies of throwing people in off-shore prisons. Some of them US citizens. With no trial. Now these people seem rather silent. Its troubling to me. Why? Well, because the government sucks. Even if they have good intentions they make mistakes. The Innocence Project is just one group that has shown how often our legal system falsely imprisons people. I would be shocked if there weren't any Innocent men being sent to suffer in El Salvador's prisons. You may say, well these are bad dudes and we need to clean up the mess Biden made. I have sympathy for that position. But do we really want to set this president? TDS is real but it is valid to have concerns about the actions of the Trump admin. This is not the American way. Not the way I was taught at least. This is just a strong man taking action and disregarding the values of this nation and the rights of human beings. Think about it. originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/931505

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Split is Croatia’s second-largest city and a perfect mix of ancient history, Mediterranean charm, and modern coastal vibes. Home to the UNESCO-listed Diocletian’s Palace, Split is a lively destination with beaches, great nightlife, and easy access to nearby islands** like Hvar, Brač, and Vis.  ## **🏛️ Top Things to See & Do in Split** ### **1️⃣ Explore Diocletian’s Palace (UNESCO) 🏰** - A **massive Roman palace**, built in the **4th century** by Emperor Diocletian. - Today, it’s **a living city**, filled with **cafés, shops, and hidden alleys**. - Visit **Peristyle Square**, the **Cathedral of St. Domnius**, and the **Temple of Jupiter**. - **Game of Thrones fans** – Many scenes were filmed here! 🎬  ### **2️⃣ Climb the Bell Tower of St. Domnius ⛪** - Offers **panoramic views** of Split and the Adriatic Sea. - One of the **oldest Catholic cathedrals still in use**, dating back to Roman times. ### **3️⃣ Stroll the Riva Promenade 🌊** - The heart of Split’s waterfront, lined with **palm trees, cafés, and bars**. - Perfect for **sunset walks and people-watching**. ### **4️⃣ Hike Up Marjan Hill 🌿** - A **green oasis** with **stunning viewpoints over Split**. - Great for **hiking, cycling, or just relaxing in nature**. - Don’t miss **Telegrin Viewpoint** for breathtaking photos.  ### **5️⃣ Visit Bačvice Beach 🏖️** - Split’s **most famous beach**, known for its **shallow waters and sandy shore** (rare in Croatia!). - Try playing **picigin**, a local water sport played with a small ball. - Other great beaches: **Kasjuni Beach (more secluded) and Bene Beach (in Marjan Park).** ### **6️⃣ Take a Day Trip to the Dalmatian Islands ⛵** - **Hvar** – Famous for its nightlife, beautiful old town, and lavender fields. - **Brač (Golden Horn Beach)** – One of Croatia’s most unique beaches. - **Vis & Blue Cave** – Stunning island and the famous glowing Blue Cave on Biševo.  ### **7️⃣ Try Dalmatian Cuisine 🍽️** - **Peka** – A slow-cooked dish with meat or octopus, baked under an iron bell. - **Black risotto (Crni rižot)** – A squid-ink seafood specialty. - **Dalmatian prosciutto & cheese** – Best paired with local **Plavac Mali wine**. ### **8️⃣ Visit Klis Fortress 🏰** - A medieval fortress just outside Split, offering **amazing views**. - Another **Game of Thrones filming location** (it was Meereen in the show).  ## **🚗 How to Get to Split** ✈️ **By Air:** Split Airport (SPU) is **25 minutes from the city center**. 🚘 **By Car:** - **From Dubrovnik:** ~3.5 hours (220 km) - **From Zagreb:** ~4 hours (400 km) 🚌 **By Bus:** Direct buses from **Dubrovnik, Zadar, and Zagreb**. ⛵ **By Ferry:** Split’s port connects to islands like **Hvar, Brač, Vis, and Korčula**.  ## **💡 Tips for Visiting Split** ✅ **Best time to visit?** **May–October** for warm weather & island hopping ☀️ ✅ **Wake up early** to explore Diocletian’s Palace without crowds ⏳ ✅ **Bring cash** – Some small restaurants & markets still prefer cash 💶 ✅ **Book ferries in advance** if visiting islands in peak season 🚢 ✅ **Stay for sunset** – Watching the sun dip behind the Adriatic is magical 🌅

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Over and over again people fall for phishing scams. An email that looks like it is coming from a legit sender turns out to be a scam. One way you can fight this attack is to only use an email client that displays the full email address. Not just part of it. Not just the from name. Do not assume that because an email has the name "Amazon" the from field that it is from Amazon.com. Look at the address. Now, it is possible for someone to spoof an email address but most of the time the scams I see don't even do this. I suspect this is because of expansion of DMARC policies. Many people simply do not check the actual email address. Other tips, don't click links in emails that you were not expecting to get like emails with log in links. Instead, visit the site and log in direction on the site. If you must click a link in an email look at the actual URL. Don't blindly click the link and for sure do not enter your credentials in a site without checking the domain. This is where password managers can help you out. Most filter passwords by URLs and will not suggest an account cred if you are on the wrong site. I know many of you, maybe most of you know this stuff but I bet there are those that don't. Or, have become lazy. originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/931364

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Pas si vite ! Depuis quelques années, on entend souvent que PHP est "en perte de vitesse". C’est vrai que des technologies comme Node.js, Python ou Go séduisent de plus en plus de développeurs : - ➡️ performances modernes, - ➡️ syntaxe plus récente, - ➡️ intégration naturelle avec des architectures temps réel ou distribuées. Node.js a conquis le monde startup avec un argument fort : **un seul langage pour tout**. Python et Go, eux, dominent la data, l’IA ou les outils systèmes. Mais faut-il pour autant enterrer PHP ? **Absolument pas.** PHP reste l’un des langages les plus utilisés sur le web. Et surtout : il a su évoluer. Avec PHP 8, le langage a gagné en performance, en typage, en lisibilité. Mais ce qui fait vraiment la différence aujourd’hui… **C’est Laravel.** Laravel, c’est un framework mais aussi une expérience de développement : * ✔️ Artisan CLI * ✔️ ORM Eloquent * ✔️ Middleware, Events, Queues, Notifications * ✔️ Auth intégré * ✔️ Un écosystème ultra complet (Forge, Vapor, Nova, Filament…) Laravel rend PHP moderne, élégant et agréable à utiliser. C’est un vrai plaisir de développer avec. Alors oui, PHP n’est peut-être plus “cool” dans les bootcamps ou les tops GitHub. Mais dans le monde réel – celui des projets qui tournent, des deadlines, des contraintes business – PHP + Laravel reste un choix extrêmement solide. 💡 Je suis développeur Laravel, et j’accompagne des projets web qui ont besoin de robustesse, de scalabilité et de qualité de code. 📩 Si vous avez un projet ou un besoin en développement web, n’hésitez pas à me contacter. Je serais ravi d’échanger avec vous.

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Let’s be honest—living a Godly life isn’t exactly trending on social media. Nobody’s going viral for reading Leviticus, and you won’t find “Patience” or “Humility” on the list of top Google searches. But if you’re serious about walking the walk and not just talking the talk, then buckle up, because living for God is the most fulfilling (and sometimes hilarious) adventure you’ll ever embark on. ### 1. **Know Who You’re Living For** The first step to living a Godly life? Understand who’s in charge. (Hint: It’s not you.) In a world that screams, “Follow your heart!” the Bible gently reminds us in Jeremiah 17:9 that the heart is “deceitful above all things.” Ouch. But hey, that’s why we follow Jesus instead of our feelings. ### 2. **Read the Manual** If you buy a new gadget, you read the instructions (or at least pretend to before pressing random buttons). The Bible is God’s instruction manual for life. It tells us how to live, how to love, and—most importantly—how to avoid spiritual faceplants. Psalm 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” In other words, don’t walk through life in the dark without God’s flashlight. ### 3. **Pray Like Your Life Depends on It (Because It Does)** Prayer isn’t just for Sunday mornings or when you can’t find your car keys. It’s a direct line to God, and guess what? No hold music. No dropped calls. Just you and the Creator of everything having a chat. It's just as simple as it sounds. No formalities are required! ### 4. **Surround Yourself with the Right People** You’ve probably heard, “Show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future.” Well, Proverbs 13:20 beat that saying to the punch: “Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.” Choose friends who push you closer to Jesus, not the ones who drag you into drama, debt, or dubious decisions some choose to call "life." ### 5. **Live Differently (and Be Okay with It)** News flash: If you’re living for God, you won’t blend in. I know the crowd I'm talking to here. But standing up and standing out in this way is a good thing! Romans 12:2 reminds us not to conform to the pattern of this world. You might get weird looks for saying “I’m praying for you” instead of “sending good vibes,” but being a light in a dark world means you’ll stand out. ### 6. **Learn the Art of Self-Control** Whether it’s resisting that third slice of pie (conviction level: high) or holding your tongue when that one coworker tests your patience, self-control is a major part of living a Godly life. Proverbs 25:28 says, “Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.” In other words, if you can’t control yourself, you’re as defenseless as a town with no walls. ### 7. **Love Like Jesus (Even When It’s Hard)** Living a Godly life isn’t just about avoiding sin—it’s about actively loving others. And I’m not talking about just loving the easy people (your grandma, your dog, Chick-fil-A employees). Jesus said to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you (Matthew 5:44). That includes difficult coworkers, annoying neighbors, and even people who drive 10 miles under the speed limit in the fast lane. Keep in mind this does not give you the green light to go on loving and accepting their sins. Loving others as Christ did doesn’t mean endorsing or accepting sin. True love speaks the truth, encourages repentance, and points others toward God’s righteousness rather than affirming choices that separate us from Him. ### 8. **Be a Doer, Not Just a Hearer** James 1:22 says, “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” It’s not enough to know what’s right—you have to live it. Imagine someone memorizing a cookbook but never cooking. That’s what knowing the Bible without applying it looks like. ### 9. **Trust God’s Timing** Patience is a virtue. (And sometimes a struggle). However, a big part of living a Godly life is trusting that God’s plan is better than ours. Isaiah 40:31 says, “Those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength.” So, instead of rushing ahead, trust that God’s got the perfect timing—even when it doesn’t match your schedule. ### 10. **Laugh, Because Joy is Biblical** Christians aren’t called to live miserable lives. In fact, Philippians 4:4 tells us to “Rejoice in the Lord always.” Yes, life gets tough. But joy in Jesus isn’t about circumstances—it’s about knowing the One who holds it all together. So, laugh, smile, and enjoy the blessings God has given you. ### **Final Thoughts** Living a Godly life isn’t about perfection—it’s about direction. You’ll stumble, you’ll mess up, and you’ll occasionally say things you immediately regret. But God’s grace is bigger than our failures. Keep seeking Him, keep walking in His ways, and remember: the goal isn’t to be “good enough”—it’s to be faithful. And if you ever feel discouraged, just remember: even Peter walked on water…until he looked down, became afraid, and started sinking. He cried out to the Lord, and Jesus immediately lifted him back up to safety. Keep your eyes on Jesus; Rely on Jesus for everything, and you’ll be just fine.

@ 69eea734:4ae31ae6

What to record from the last two weeks? The key points from the things I've read and watched? \ The encounters I had with various groups of people, and also one on one? (on my trip to Munich)\ My thoughts on what is going on in the world?\ It is all connected anyway.&#x20; *This is my second post. The* *[first](https://pareto.space/a/naddr1qqxnzden8yunxv3kxvcnjdpsqgsqlvwtq6gjttmchn3nqetzfy42skj9334nhr2ptl2hzqgzeswgssgrqsqqqa28qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvsq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5h5apnf)* *was under a different profile, which I lost the private key to.*&#x20; ### So close and yet apart The various encounters: Overlapping 'camps'. School friends, friends from uni times, friends from Covid times. One friend from school, and one friend from uni did not have a Covid vaccine and were critical of measures. To think that this still matters! Can you believe it? But it does! Which is sad on one hand, and makes for strong bonds on the other.&#x20; I'm in a pub with three school friends. They discover that they all voted Green, and are delighted. They kind of congratulate each other, and themselves. I don't even know what to feel in that moment. I'm not shocked. It is not surprising. And yet I still find it astounding.&#x20; As the evening progresses, we move to a Greek restaurant round the corner. On the way there, I walk alongside the friend with whom I exchanged the most challenging emails of the last five years. There had been long pauses between replies. Once I read only the first two lines, and then 'quarantined' the mail. I once deleted one, and three weeks later asked him to send it again.&#x20; In 2023 we sat in a café and openly talked about the Corona period and our differing positions. I appreciated it. At least we could talk. Shortly after, the emphasis in our conversations shifted from Covid to Putin. One arch enemy was replaced by another. And when previously, the 'Covid deniers' were the deplorable ones, now it was the 'Putin understanders', and weren't they the same people anyway? And mentioning peace talks was right wing. It was all so predictable. Was I predictable, too? I'd sent a long email a week ago. But walking alongside each other, we preferred to talk about the kids.&#x20; At the Greek restaurant, the inevitable happened. We ended up in a massive discussion. I once was gesticulating wildly at him. "Conspiracy theorist! That is *so* convenient. Everything that does not fit into your worldview, becomes a conspiracy theory. That there would be a vaccine mandate was once a conspiracy theory. That the virus came from a lab was once a conspiracy theory." On another occasion, he exclaimed: "You know that I know all that about America! You know exactly that I know all those things!"&#x20; We both knew a lot of things, and it went back and forth.&#x20; The irony was that we managed to stay respectful, and it was a discussion with the other school friend there (the fourth person on the table was my husband), that turned out to be the last straw. She had voted Green as well, and had congratulated our school mate on having been to the protest 'against the right'. But she was also the one who didn't have the vaccine, and now said, "With Covid, it was just so obvious that it was all set up." A bit later she said something about the WEF. Only to be greeted with a long tirade. "Aha. So you think this is all a big conspiracy with some powerful people in the background planning everything. And this wasn't a pandemic although lots of people died. I know six doctors, and they all told me the same." A bit later, to me: "So why did only the unvaccinated die then?" And then shortly after, when my friend stated again how the whole thing had seemed premeditated, "Right. That's enough now. I'm leaving." And he got up to pay and left.&#x20; My friend, who stayed behind, thought we had had interesting discussions and she had learned something. On reflection, it was good to have this discussion at all -- at a time that nobody seems to want to talk about Covid anymore.&#x20; But also: Shouldn't we be much much further than this??? ### My first sats A few months ago I had tried to buy bitcoin, just to play around, but there had been difficulties to do with the fact I have a UK bank account. When looking at how to get funds into my getalby account, I ended up with Strike, which is available in the UK. But it seems they take extra care to make sure you know what you are letting yourself into! I had to do a test with about 10 questions to show I understand the risks.&#x20; I then had to wait 24 hours, but now I have sent my first sats.&#x20; On the Strike website, I noticed this [video of a conversation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzvh4AODtWc) between Jack Mallers, founder of Strike, and Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter. The more I watched, the more I thought, wow, here it is all in one video, all that I would like my friend to see. "America has a problem." The Empire needs to end, and it would be a good thing for America, says Jack Dorsey. This was also the second time in a week that I heard about how Great Britain had created money and bought their own bonds when the public didn't want to, in effect stealing from the people by making their money worth less. It was good to be reminded of [Adam Curtis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis) who has made some mind-blowing documentaries, using lots of BBC archive material. Including about the special US and UK relationship (*An ocean apart*), and also one about Russia from 1985 to 1999 (*Trauma Zone*). The two Jacks talk about the importance of open source, and of being independent of government. The dangers of building abstraction on abstraction on abstraction. About how Mark Zuckerberg served Dorsey raw goat once, because he had this challenge to only eat what he had killed himself. That was also a way to get back to the real.&#x20; Dorsey endorsed RFK jr, this was in summer of 2023, when he was still running for president.&#x20; There is also an interesting bit on the pressures of running a company that has gone public. And the government interference, in effect censorship. The Twitter files. It is not quite clear to me, if it was really so difficult for Jack Dorsey to pay attention and know what was going on, but I can understand that it must have been a difficult situation.&#x20; What I also find very interesting is that in Africa or Latin America bitcoin is sometimes valuable as an exchange medium. That is where I think it could diverge from the pure Ponzi scheme that people often call it.&#x20; And yet, doubts remain. Is bitcoin not too valuable for a lot of people to spend it? But what if you don't have access to any other money. And sending Satoshis around is different from hording bitcoin. Can it fulfil both these functions in the end, storage medium and exchange medium?&#x20; I believe that these two people want to achieve something positive. But they also remain tech bros. And I don't mean that in a bad way. It is just something that will always remain a bit alien to me.&#x20; I did like what Dorsey said about the punks. How they just started to play an instrument, and didn't care if they were not good at it. Then just turned up again and again and eventually got better. I have often thought of myself as a bit punk-like in that respect, although I've often been worried about not being good enough.&#x20; ### Doing away with domination The last [blog article](https://www.lowimpact.org/posts/darren-allen-on-civilisational-collapse/) posted on a website I work on, made me explore the writings by Darren Allen on his [Expressive Egg substack](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/). I had landed there before, years ago, and had been very impressed back then. He seems to criticise people's thoughts a lot though -- almost everybody's -- and I was wondering if that was all he ever did. But then I came across this [article about anarchy](https://expressiveegg.substack.com/p/anarchism-at-the-end-of-the-world). It made me realise again, in all this mess about different worldviews, different expectations and values, that this is a constant for me: How can we have less coercion, how can we live in a way that frees ourselves and others at the same time. I once saw a Twitter bio: "I insist on your freedom." It seems to come from Jack Kerouac.&#x20; Allen writes that there are seven *dominants*, seven elements that "control individuals against their will". They are, " in roughly ascending order of subtlety and pervasiveness": 1\. The \[autocratic] *monarchy*.\ 2\. The \[socialist-democratic] *state* (which includes its money, law, property, police, etc.).\ 3\. The \[totalitarian-capitalist] *corporation*.\ 4\. The \[mass] *majority*.\ 5\. The \[professional-religious] *institution*.\ 6\. The \[technocratic] *system*.\ 7\. The \[mental-emotional] *ego*. I want to keep this list in mind and pay attention when I get sucked into the influence of one of these spheres.&#x20; \ I also like this quote: > The reason men and women do not need kings, princes, states, professionals, institutions and systems to rule over them is because the life within them is more intelligent, more apt, more sensitive, more forgiving and more creative than anything else—certainly any human authority. But this life cannot be rationally fixed. It can be expressed, artistically, indirectly, poetically, musically, or with tone and glance and such ordinary, metaphorical arts of human interaction; but it cannot be literally stated.  \ Although this would be a good ending for this post, I have to mention Jeffrey Sachs as well. I have been following him for a while. He appeared in the EU parliament, invited by Michael von der Schulenburg. Sachs has an amazing amount of experience with both Russian and American government officials, and with currencies. In the 90s he spent some time helping Eastern European countries with the transition to capitalist systems. He realised that the U.S. did not want to help Russia in the same way.&#x20; He gave a long speech in which he laid bare the ways in which the U.S. had influenced so many wars and uprisings around the world, and how the NATO enlargement had been a long-term strategy. That now, with Trump, the war was going to end.&#x20; There would be so much more to say. In any case, this seems to me a historic speech. Can it break through the mirror glass that has kept so many people away from valid sources of knowledge?

@ 0d1702d6:8f1ac66f

**"Die Russen kommen..." - oder kommen sie doch nicht ?** &#x20; &#x20;\ Hallo liebe LeserInnen und einen wunderschönen Tag miteinander!\ \ Heute allerdings sterben junge Ukrainer und Russen auch mit unserer Hilfe \ und zugleich Untätigkeit seit mehr als 168 Wochen oder 37 Monaten, mit anderen Worten also: \ seit mehr als drei Jahren, Tag für Tag, Stunde für Stunde, Minute für Minute.\ Auch in diesen Augenblicken, in denen Du dies liest...\ \ Und mit unsrer stillen Zustimmung sorgen Politiker, Medien und Waffenproduzenten \ auch unseres Landes dafür, dass das gegenseitige Abschlachten und Morden weitergeht… **\ Die Russen kommen**…. wird uns seit 2022 im alltäglichen kriegs-propagandistischen Trommelfeuer eingehämmert, vom eher unbedarften regionalen Käseblatt bis zu den vermeintlichen Qualitätsmedien der privaten Konzerne und Staatsmedien des öffentlichen Rundfunks, dessen sich die herrschenden Parteien im Lande immer schon seit 1949 ideologisch bemächtigt haben. 100te, nein täglich tausende Male wird geschrieben, geschrien, gesagt und gedacht, suggeriert, phantasiert \ und illusioniert…oder auch nur geraunt\*\*:\*\* \ \ **die Russen kommen … und kommen und kommen …** Zwar buddeln sich die grün hinter den Ohren frisch aufs Abschlacht-Feld gezwungenen blutig jungen Russen – und natürlich auch ihre sogenannten „Feinde“, die meist auch gegen ihren Willen zum Morden gezwungenen Ukrainer - seit über drei Jahren in den Regionen um Cherson, Donezk und Luhansk im vor allem Stellungskrieg ein, aber was solls:\ \ Morgen oder spätestens übermorgen so behauptet unser Kriegsminister und viele seiner Generäle und Geheimdienstchargen im Chor mit den Gazetten der Leitmedien: spätestens übermorgen also greifen die feststeckenden Russen dann über Nacht mit geballter Macht die jetzt-schon-Kriegspartei USA-NATO, also uns an und sichern sich sicherlich schwupp die wupp die gesamte Ukraine und dann, ja dann, geht’s sofort, also allerspätestens in vier Jahren mit voller Pulle direkt nach Berlin und Brüssel, denn \*\*„dem Russen“, dem trauen wir einfach alles wirklich Böse dieser Welt zu!\ \*\*\ Kriegsursachen, Hintergründe und Zusammenhänge wie die dutzendfach öffentlich dokumentierte und bekannte perfide US-Geostrategie Russland komplett militärisch einzukreisen und genau in die Falle zu locken, in die es reingetappt ist, haben uns noch nie interessiert, weil wir rückgratlos so tief in den Allerwertesten des imperialen Hegemons USA gekrochen sind, dass uns meist schon lange der gesunde Menschenverstand fürs Hören und Sehen, Verstehen wie Begreifen vergangen ist. Die große Mehrheit von uns, also wir, die vermeintlich geläuterten und neuerdings pseudo-auf-geklärten Ex-Anti-Militaristen, Kriegs-Dienst-Verweigerer, paranoid schizoiden Doppel-Moral-Fetischisten der Keine-Waffen-in-KRISEN-Gebiete liefernden Grünen, also die meisten ehemals links-liberalen oder verdeckt unsozial wie unchristlich wie unfrei handelnden Demokraten der Altparteien- Einheitspartei CDU/CSU/FDP/GRÜNE/SPD & Linke (!) sitzen der Wahnvorstellung auf, die Russen würden erst die gesamte Ukraine und danach ganz Europa militärisch besetzen wollen. **\ Du etwa nicht?** \ \ Mal im Ernst: Bist Du kein kindlich Neu-Gläubiger? Glaubst Du etwas nicht an \ „Gut“ und „Böse“ und fest daran, dass „WIR“, also „der Westen“ die Guten sind \ und „Die Russen“ - wie sicher auch „die Chinesen“ - die wirklich über alle Maßen Bösen? Bist Du etwa doch einer dieser spät-pubertären frühzeitig dementen Alzheimeraspiranten, \ die die Lektion der russischen Revolution von 1917/1918 verdrängt, vergessen oder gar \ ge-löscht haben?  Hat dir denn dein Ur-Opa nie erzählt, dass die Russen schon \ seit ihrer Oktober-Revolution 1917, ohne Quatsch, seit sage und schreibe mindestens \ 108 Jahren nach Berlin marschieren und sicherlich in Kürze dort ankommen werden? Hat Dir denn Dein Opa nie erzählt, dass diese ultra fiesen bösen Russen \ zwar unter-motorisiert, dafür aber umso mehr über-motiviert sind \ und kriegsgeil zwanghaft an ihrem Willen festhalten, \ ganz Europa zur Beute des russischen Bären zu machen??? \ \ Seit 100 Jahren zelebriert Hollywood den bösen Russen als Gegenspieler \ aller wirklich guten US-Westler. Das hat sich auch ins kollektive Bewusstsein \ der meisten Europäer tief eingegraben.&#x20; Und bei dir?\ Sind für dich die Russen etwa keine wilden Tiere, denen wir endlich jetzt, gemeinsam \ mit dem politischen Arm des Großkapitals, also auch des militärisch-industriellen Komplexes, \ Fritzchen Merz, dem Klingbeil der abgewirtschafteten ehemals sozialen Demokraten \ und dem Steigbügelhalter der olivgrünen Kriegshysteriker unser 500 Milliarden-Plus-\ Bürger-Ermächtigungsgesetz vor sein Maul geknallt haben, sodass ihm, \ also dem russischen Bären, sehr bald Hören und Sehen vergehen wird? Denkst Du etwa doch immer noch an den auch us-finanzierten illegalen Putsch auf dem Maidan 2014, durch den es den US-Geostrategen gelang, endlich eine us-freundliche Putschregierung in Kiew zu installieren, die dann sofort Krieg gegen die eigene russisch-stämmige Bevölkerung im Donbass führte? Denkst Du etwa immer noch an die fortschreitende und fast vollständige Umzingelung Russlands durch US-NATO-Stützpunkte, die die gutmütigen und blauäugigen Russen seit 1999 entgegen den westlichen Versprechungen jahrzehntelang geduldig ertragen haben? \ \ Bist du, ja Du, also allen Ernstes immer noch ein „Ewig-Gestriger“?\ Hast Du immer noch nicht begriffen, dass wahr ist, was 1000mal geschrieben und gesagt wurde \ und auf allen Mainstream-Medien-Kanälen seit mehr als drei Jahren auf dich einprasselt?\ \ Hast Du immer noch nicht kapiert, dass heutzutage \ **Wahrheit einfach durch Wiederholung** **\ des Falschen hergestellt** wird ???\ \ Hast Du immer noch nicht begriffen, dass es völlig zwecklos ist, dem militärisch-industriellen, \ man muss ergänzen: zugleich politisch-medialen Komplex, vor dem schon Roosevelt 1961 gewarnt hatte und wegen \ dem auch John F. Kennedy 1963 sein Leben verlor, dass es also mehr als völlig aussichtslos ist, \ dieser herrschenden gesellschaftlichen Gewaltstruktur auch nur heimlich mentalen Widerstand entgegen zu setzen? Nun, wenn das so ist, dann liebe/r LeserIn, dann bist Du eine oder einer von uns, \ mit Sternchen versteht sich. Willkommen im Club, Wir sind viele. Viel mehr als Du vielleicht denkst. \ Denn die massenweise kapital-, parteien-, regierungs- und us-alt-establishment-nah \ **veröffentlichte Meinung ist noch lange nicht** **die öffentliche Meinung.** Will sagen: Es gibt eigentlich keine bürgerliche Mehrheit für diese Kriegskredite von 2025. \ Sie wurden durch Lug und Trug einer schon abgewählten Parlaments-Mehrheit erschlichen. \ Die SPD hat in 111 Jahren seit ihrem Votum für  Welt-Kriegskredite 1914 nichts, \ aber auch gar nichts dazu gelernt, die Oliv-Grünen haben alles, aber auch alles über Bord geworfen, \ für das sie mal – auch übrigens durch meine minimale Mithilfe – gegründet wurden….\ und die un-christlichen „C“ Parteien tun das, was ihre Vorläufer schon 1933 getan haben, \ wohlweislich heutzutage unter anderem Namen: \ dem Krieg zu den Waffen verhelfen, die Krieg nun mal braucht. \ Wenn ich nachts an Deutschland denken würde, wäre ich um meinen Schlaf gebracht.\ Ich denke aber nicht an Nationen, ich denke an Menschen. An hunderttausende junge Menschen, \ die durch sogenannte parlamentarische Demokraten mit "Made in Germany \ and USA Waffen" in den Tod getrieben werden. \*\*Nicht in meinem Namen. Und ich hoffe: Auch nicht in Deinem.\ \*\*\ Seit 2014 hätte ehrlich verhandelt werden müssen, heute muss es mehr denn je sofort. \ Denn die berechtigten Sicherheitsinteressen aller Nationen Europas, \ der ehemaligen Staaten der UDSSR wie auch Russlands selber können \ **nur in einem Sicherheitssystem für ganz Europa,** \ **vom Atlantik bis hinter den Ural**, Richtung Frieden verhandelt werden. \ \ Waffen ermöglichen und befeuern das Erpressen & Morden, für Frieden sind sie ungeeignet. **Sicherheit ist unteilbar: Sicherheit & Frieden gibt es nur für alle, oder für keinen.**

@ f1989a96:bcaaf2c1

**NEW YORK** (April 1,2025) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce 1 billion satoshis of gifts from its [Bitcoin Development Fund](https://hrf.org/devfund). HRF’s latest batch of grants supports open-source development, educational initiatives, mining decentralization, and privacy tools for activists living under authoritarian regimes across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The gifts also further promote Internet freedom and decentralized communications, ensuring dissidents can connect, communicate, organize, and transact without censorship. Quarter 1 2025 grantees include: - **NetBlocks** Authoritarian regimes weaponize Internet shutdowns to silence dissent, restrict information, and cut off financial lifelines. By blocking communication channels, they isolate individuals, suppress independent media, and disrupt financial flows. [NetBlocks](https://netblocks.org/) exposes these digital crackdowns in real time, ensuring the world sees and responds to digital repression. Through continuous monitoring, it equips activists, journalists, and civil society with the data needed to challenge censorship and advocate for an open internet. With HRF support, NetBlocks will expand its monitoring, documentation, and research — reinforcing internet and financial freedom as a critical human rights safeguard. - **TollGate** Authoritarian regimes exploit Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to monitor and suppress dissent, undermining online privacy essential for human rights defenders. [TollGate](https://opentollgate.github.io/tollgate/), developed by c03rad0r, is software that transforms any WiFi router into a permissionless Internet Service Provider (ISP) using Bitcoin and ecash. By decentralizing Internet access and turning any WiFi router into part of a peer-to-peer, private, open internet network, Tollgate helps resist authoritarian surveillance and protect digital freedoms. With HRF support, TollGate is advancing an open, accessible, and censorship-proof internet for those who need it most. - **Vinteum** Across Latin America, authoritarian regimes restrict financial access to tighten their grip on power. But a growing network of developers is working to change that. [Vinteum](https://vinteum.org/), a nonprofit Bitcoin research and development center led by executive director [Lucas Ferreira](https://x.com/lucasdcf), trains and funds developers to strengthen Bitcoin as a tool for financial freedom. Through education, development, and community building, Vinteum fosters local talent and expands regional Bitcoin accessibility. With HRF support, Vinteum will scale its programs and help more Latin Americans achieve financial independence. - **BTCPay Server** Dictators often block payment processors to cripple the work of nonprofits and dissidents. [BTCPay Server](https://btcpayserver.org/), a self-hosted, open-source Bitcoin payment processor, now breaks this control. It provides individuals, nonprofits, and merchants with a censorship-resistant way to accept payments. Activists and nonprofits can now process global payments, launch crowdfunding campaigns, and build movements on Bitcoin — all without third parties or restrictions. With HRF support, BTCPay Server will expand access to self-custodial payments, enabling more organizations under dictatorships to transact freely. - **Africa Bitcoin Institute (ABI)** Across Africa, dictators manipulate financial institutions to retain control, while more than half the population remains unbanked. Bitcoin offers an alternative, but without proper research, education, and policy frameworks, adoption remains limited. The Africa Bitcoin Institute (ABI), supported by the Rwandan human rights activist [Anaïse Kanimba](https://x.com/AnaiseKanimba), is launching to bridge this gap. Through evidence-based research and policy recommendations, ABI will equip policymakers with the knowledge and tools to integrate Bitcoin into African economies. With HRF support, ABI will promote financial autonomy and solidify Bitcoin’s role as a pillar of economic freedom. - **Bitcoin Core Graphical User Interface** Running a Bitcoin node (software that enables users to verify transitions and enforce the network’s rules) is key to financial sovereignty. But outdated and clunky interfaces make it difficult, especially on mobile devices. [bitcoin-core/gui-qml](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui), a project [Go Qu](https://github.com/goqusan) will contribute to, modernizes Bitcoin Core’s interface to be more accessible and mobile-friendly. By lowering the barriers to node operation, this project empowers more people — especially under autocracies in Africa, where mobile phones dominate — to strengthen their financial sovereignty. With HRF support, bitcoin-core/gui-qml is expanding node access, supporting Bitcoin’s decentralization, and reinforcing its censorship resistance for the long term. - **Rkrux** As an open-source project, Bitcoin Core relies on free and open-source developers to maintain its integrity, security, and resilience against potential threats. [Rkrux](https://github.com/rkrux), a Bitcoin Core developer, plays a crucial role by reviewing code, testing releases, and improving documentation to keep Bitcoin Core robust, secure, and censorship-resistant. Rkurx’s work identifies vulnerabilities, refines changes, and strengthens Bitcoin’s long-term stability. With HRF support, Rkrux is deepening his contributions, reinforcing Bitcoin’s foundation, and ensuring it remains a financial lifeline for human rights defenders worldwide.  - **Elsat** As online censorship intensifies, free speech and financial freedom are under threat. Nostr developer [Elsat](https://github.com/alltheseas) is working to defend these freedoms by contributing to [Damus](https://github.com/damus-io), [Nostrability](https://github.com/nostrability), and [Zap.store](https://github.com/zapstore) — projects that empower individuals to communicate and transact without centralized control. Damus enables private, censorship-resistant messaging; Nostrability improves app interoperability; and Zap.store helps free and open-source software (FOSS) developers distribute and monetize their work peer-to-peer. With HRF support, Elsat is strengthening tools that protect free speech for dissidents under oppressive environments. - **Relay Wizard** Nostr, a decentralized communication protocol, relies on a network of relays (servers that pass messages between users). But setting up relays can be complex and intimidating. [Relay Wizard,](https://github.com/nodetec/relaywizard) a tool created by software developer [J the Code Monkey](https://github.com/jchiarulli), simplifies this process by automating relay setup. This allows anyone to run a relay, reduces reliance on intermediaries, and helps keep nostr resilient against online speech censorship. With HRF support, J the Code Monkey will expand development and operations, ensuring nostr remains a secure, uncensorable communication platform accessible to everyone. - **Waye** Censorship-resistant technology is essential to protecting global freedom. Yet open-source developers often operate like solo entrepreneurs — juggling engineering, project management, and community-building on their own. This leads to inefficiency, isolation, and burnout. [Waye](http://waye.dev) addresses this gap by providing psycho-social support for developers working on freedom tech. Led by Bitcoin Core developer Amiti Uttarwar and operational architect Anna Sides, Waye strengthens the human infrastructure of open source. With HRF support, Waye will support developers from global majority countries, empowering them to build the tools their fellow citizens need.  - **Hashpool** Centralization in Bitcoin mining threatens its censorship resistance and makes it harder for small-scale miners to compete. [Hashpool](https://github.com/vnprc/hashpool), a self-hosted mining pool by developer [vnprc](https://github.com/vnprc), eliminates reliance on centralized entities while giving miners more control over their earnings. Instead of traditional mining pool payouts, Hashpool rewards participants with ecash tokens — digital cash that enables instant, private transactions. This ensures miners receive payouts instantly while preserving their financial privacy. It also helps keep mining open and decentralized. With HRF support, vnprc will further develop Hashpool and help resist mining centralization.  - **Cashu KVAC** As dictators ramp up financial surveillance to threaten dissidents, protecting financial privacy is more critical than ever. [Cashu KVAC](https://github.com/lollerfirst/cashu-kvac) is a software upgrade for Cashu — a Chaumian ecash-based system that enables extremely strong financial privacy. Developed by [lollerfirst](https://github.com/lollerfirst), it improves privacy and efficiency by reducing wallet data storage and concealing transaction amounts from third parties. These improvements strengthen ecash functionality, safeguarding financial privacy for individuals and nonprofits alike. With HRF support, lollerfirst will develop Cashu KVAC and help protect digital and financial freedom for those living under the watchful eyes of dictators. - **Self-Custody Research** In unstable economies and under authoritarian regimes, self-custodial Bitcoin is a financial lifeline — portable money that cannot be seized, censored, or debased. While Bitcoin enables financial freedom, scaling self-custody remains a challenge. Bitcoin educator and developer [Brandon Black](https://github.com/reardencode) (Rearden) is researching these limitations and exploring technical solutions to make self-custody more accessible. His work documents the obstacles users face today and provides insights into how Bitcoin can evolve. With HRF support, Black will expand self-custody education, equipping individuals under dictatorships with the knowledge and tools to secure their financial independence.  - **Stable Channels** For citizens living under authoritarian regimes and struggling economies, Bitcoin is a lifeline — but its volatility can threaten short-term financial security. [Stable Channels](https://github.com/toneloc/stable-channels/), created by software engineer [Tony Klausing](https://tonyklausing.com/), brings stabilized Bitcoin-backed balances to the Lightning Network (allowing users to peg Bitcoin to fiat currencies in a self-custodial way). This innovation enables individuals to transact freely without exposure to wild price swings or to centralized stablecoins. HRF’s support will help expand Stable Channels development, ecash integrations, and community outreach — helping more individuals harness Bitcoin’s power while maintaining financial stability. - **Bitsacco** In Kenya, Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations (SACCOs) provide savings and lending services to their communities. But reliance on traditional banks limits their autonomy. [Bitsacco](https://github.com/bitsacco/os), created by developer [okjodom](https://github.com/okjodom), reinvents SACCOs by leveraging Bitcoin and Fedimints (a community-based custody model in Bitcoin). In this way, Bitsacco offers a more open, inclusive, and self-sustaining financial option. By reducing dependence on banks, Bitsacco empowers communities to manage their savings and loans independently. With HRF support, Bitsacco will provide a secure, familiar path to sound money in a region where financial instability and restricted access are persistent challenges.   - **The Core** In Africa, where financial literacy gaps persist, hands-on Bitcoin education is crucial for adoption. [The Core](https://github.com/thecore21m-btc), founded by Kenyan Bitcoin educator [Felix Mukungu](https://x.com/MukunguFelix), bridges this gap by equipping Africans with the knowledge and skills to use Bitcoin confidently. Through hands-on training in self-custody, Lightning wallets, and Bitcoin nodes, The Core empowers individuals to take control of their money and transact freely. This grant will help expand The Core’s monthly meetups, online courses, and student-support programs — bringing Bitcoin education to more individuals across Kenya and the wider African continent. - **Bitcoin Babies** Under many authoritarian regimes, infant malnutrition is exacerbated and puts countless children at risk. [Bitcoin Babies](https://bitcoinbabies.com/), founded by [Naomi Wambui](https://x.com/NgachaNaomi1), is a project that tackles this issue by combining infant nutrition education with Bitcoin-based financial literacy. Through weekly Bitcoin stipends, financial literacy training, and community support, mothers under authoritarian rule gain the tools needed to improve their children’s health while achieving long-term financial stability. With this grant, Bitcoin Babies will expand its impact, helping more at-risk communities with resources that are otherwise unavailable and inaccessible, empowering mothers to build brighter futures. - **East Asia Bitcoin Developer Apprenticeship Program** In East Asia, language barriers and limited mentorship have made open-source Bitcoin development inaccessible to many. The [East Asia Bitcoin Developer Apprenticeship Program](https://x.com/kcalvinalvinn), led by Bitcoin developer [Calvin Kim](https://x.com/kcalvinalvinn), is changing that by creating a pathway for Korean and Japanese developers to enter the field. Through hands-on training, mentees gain practical experience, contribute to open-source projects, and eventually become mentors — strengthening the region’s developer ecosystem. With this funding, the apprenticeship program will expand, diversify Bitcoin’s global developer base, make freedom technology more accessible across Asia, and forge links with North Korean defectors. - **Bitcoin Week at TalentLand 2025**   Across Latin America, government overreach threatens financial freedom. At [TalentLand 2025](https://talent-land.mx/), Latin America’s largest tech event, Bitcoin Week will demonstrate how Bitcoin empowers individuals to reclaim their financial sovereignty. Led by developer [Super Testnet](https://github.com/supertestnet) and the Bitcoin and Lightning Guadalajara community, this initiative educates Mexico’s tech community on Bitcoin’s role in fostering financial sovereignty. Through workshops, hackathons, and debates, it nurtures developer talent and engages future tech leaders. With this funding, Bitcoin Week will help expand awareness of Bitcoin’s power to resist financial oppression and accelerate Bitcoin adoption across Latin America. - **Base58** Learning Bitcoin’s technical aspects can feel overwhelming. [Base58’s Bitcoin Live Action Role Play](https://github.com/base58btc/LARP) (LARP) simplifies this with a two-hour workshop where participants act out the Bitcoin network and see how transactions are made, how they get to miners, the work a Bitcoin node does, and how it helps secure the network. Created by [Lisa Neigut](https://x.com/niftynei) (niftynei), a prolific Bitcoin developer, educator, and founder of [Base58](https://base58.school/) and the  [bitcoin++](https://btcplusplus.dev/) conference, alongside David Rodriguez, this immersive experience makes Bitcoin education tangible and entertaining. Now expanding beyond North America, it will train new facilitators, prioritizing regions with limited Bitcoin education due to authoritarian restrictions. With this funding, Base58 Bitcoin LARP will equip more facilitators to teach and learn Bitcoin in an engaging, accessible way. - **BTCenEspañol** Across Latin America, financial repression and limited access to Bitcoin education leave many without the tools to navigate financial repression. [BTCenEspañol](https://www.btcenespanol.com/) has been a leader in Spanish-language Bitcoin education since 2014. With a goal of reaching one million learners and training 100 teachers, BTCenEspañol is expanding to make Bitcoin education more accessible across the region, especially in places like Nicaragua and Venezuela. HRF’s grant will support this growth, equipping individuals with the knowledge to secure their financial independence amid rising authoritarianism in the continent.    - **Increasing nonprofit Adoption of Bitcoin** Under dictatorships, non-governmental organizations face frozen bank accounts, surveillance, and financial censorship — limiting their ability to support vulnerable communities. Bitcoin researcher [Daniel Batten](https://x.com/dsbatten) is quantifying Bitcoin’s role as a financial lifeline to help nonprofits overcome these challenges. Through empirical research, his initiative will show how Bitcoin enables nonprofits under authoritarian regimes to operate more freely. With this grant, the project will equip nonprofits in closed societies with the knowledge and tools to integrate Bitcoin into their operations, strengthening their financial resilience and advancing global movements. - **Bitcoin for Good** When authoritarian regimes weaponize the financial system against dissent, nonprofits and charities are among the first to suffer. Bitcoin for Good is an educational initiative led by activist and Groundswell founder [Hadiya Masieh](https://www.groundswellproject.org/about/who-we-are/). It helps organizations break free by teaching them how to accept and manage censorship-resistant funding. Through hands-on training and direct integration with Bitcoin for donations, nonprofits learn to operate outside the reach of financial gatekeepers and regimes. With this grant, Bitcoin for Good will help nonprofits stay funded, independent, and free to continue their work. About BDF HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund (BDF) supports individuals and projects that make Bitcoin and related freedom technologies more powerful tools for human rights defenders operating in challenging political and financial environments. Since launching in 2020, BDF has gifted $7.8 million in BTC to 284 projects across 62 countries worldwide. The next round of grants will be announced at the 17th annual Oslo Freedom Forum, taking place May 26-28, 2025, in Oslo, Norway. Learn more about HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund on our website. ### About BDF  HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund (BDF) supports individuals and projects that make Bitcoin and related freedom technologies more powerful tools for human rights defenders operating in challenging political and financial environments. Since launching in 2020, BDF has gifted $7.8 million in BTC to 284 projects across 62 countries worldwide. The next round of grants will be announced at the [17th annual Oslo Freedom Forum](http://oslofreedomforum.com), taking place May 26-28, 2025, in Oslo, Norway.  Learn more about HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund on our [website](https://hrf.org/program/financial-freedom/bitcoin-development-fund/). *HRF is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law. Gifts can be made at [HRF.org/DevFund](https://hrf.org/devfund), and proposals for support can be submitted to [https://hrf.org/bdfapply](https://hrf.org/bdfapply).* *Follow [@HRF](https://twitter.com/HRF) on X for more updates on this project and all of our other programs designed to promote freedom and human rights around the world.*

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Ever since Mark Carney told the CEOs of the Canadian banks to freeze the truckers bank accounts there has been a growing acceptance that the money you have in a Canadian bank account isn’t yours; it belongs to Mark Carney. Now that there is another election in Canada we will decide who gets to prints the monies for us. There have been a lot of changes in the banking system since Mark Carney borrow money from China. Who is your master? **Banking changes that affected me today. **1. The Canadian Tire doesn’t accept Canadian cash to pay off your credit card. 2. You can’t use your Canadian Tire points unless you have your physical card in the store with you. 3. Some grocery and [feed stores](https://blumenterprisesltd.com/livestock-feed) don’t accept bitcoin directly. **SWIFT banking changes.** 1. Stable Coins are a thing now. 2. Tether for outside the USA 3. Circle / XRP for inside the USA Let the best coin win. The bill should pass in the US senate by summer **Bitcoin banking changes** 1. More and more nodes are hosting friends and family via their [LNURL](https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/alby-account-and-browser-extension) accounts. 2. The USA now has bitcoin as an asset on their Strategic Reserve 3. Bitcoin [Hashrate](https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/hashrate-chart) went from 550 EH/s to 990 EH/S in the last 12 months. I think the electrical usage has almost [double](https://ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci) also. 4. Tether brings USDT to Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, ushering in a New Era of Unstoppable Technology, now the world's largest stablecoin is part of the Lightning Network - Download the Joltz App today. By my next news letter we should know who will be leading Canada. This is the current psychological warfare going on. 1. Push back against carbon taxes? You’re labeled a “climate denier.” 2. Stand up for provincial rights? You’re smeared as “anti-democratic.” 3. Question Carney’s globalist agenda? You’re branded an “extremist.” Who do you think will be enforcing their will on Canadians in [28 days](https://polymarket.com/event/next-prime-minster-of-canada)? Do you think Elections Canada will be keep the elections fair? I hope these articles help you on your hard money journey. Hopefully you can get what you want out of life - don’t sell your birthright. We are all in this together. Watch “[The big Red Button](https://www.satsvsfiat.com/)” before May 1, 2025 (my next email)

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In this edition, we invited Keypleb, the founder of Bitcoin Indonesia, to share how he built the Bitcoin community in Indonesia, overcoming challenges like member turnover and venue selection, while driving the adoption and growth of Bitcoin. **YakiHonne**: Welcome, Keypleb. Before we begin, let me briefly introduce YakiHonne. YakiHonne is a decentralized media client built on Nostr—a protocol designed to empower freedom of speech through technology. It enables creators to own their voices and assets while offering innovative tools like smart widgets, verified notes, and support for long-form content. We focus on free speech and free media by user privacy and data to be protected. So before starting the interview, I'd like to hear about yourself and your community. **Keypleb**：My name is Keypleb, though it’s a pseudonym—a name I use to respect privacy. I'm a co-founder of Bitcoin Indonesia, Bitcoin House Bali, and Code Orange, a new developer school we launched at a conference just a few days ago. We focus on driving adoption through meetups, hackathons, and technical workshops. I'll dive into more details later, but that's a brief overview. I'm based in Bali now, though I travel a lot and consider myself quite nomadic. Great to be here. **YakiHonne**: What sparked your interest in Bitcoin and what motivated you to create a community on Bitcoin? **Keypleb**：I first got interested in Bitcoin because it solved a specific problem. At the time, I didn’t know exactly what the solution was, but the problem was that I couldn’t afford a home. Back in 2019, I was living in London, and a two-bedroom apartment was £600,000, which was insanely expensive. First-time buyers like myself simply couldn’t afford it. Why was it so expensive? Why was buying a house so hard? During the COVID lockdown, I had more time on my hands and started listening to Michael Saylor on a Bitcoin podcast, where he talked about how the system is rigged, and that’s why people work hard but still can’t afford a house. That really resonated with me. So I started looking for a community, but unfortunately, there wasn’t one.. **Keypleb**：After moving to Bali, I attended a lot of crypto meetups, especially scammy altcoin ones, thinking, “There has to be a solution.” But none of them resonated with me. There was no sense of freedom, and no real discussion about inflation resistance. I remembered a podcast from Dea Reskita, an Indonesian host who’s pretty well-known online. I reached out to her and said, “ you’ve got to help me. I’m surrounded by all these shitcoiners, and I can’t take it anymore. I need a real community. Is anything happening?” She replied, “Yes, something is happening. We should restart these meetups next month.” And that’s how it all began. **Keypleb**：There’s also another story about how we started Bitcoin House and how Bitcoin in Asia came to be, but maybe I’ll save that for later. Anyway, the spark of interest came from Bitcoin solving a real problem, and my drive to keep going came from the lack of quality meetups. Now, we’ve hosted 31 meetups, launched Bitcoin House and Code Orange, and the movement is growing rapidly.  **YakiHonne**: That’s such an amazing story—going from being on the brink of homelessness to creating something so impactful, and keeping it running every day, bringing new people into the journey. It’s truly inspiring. I’m curious about how the community started. How did you manage to attract members and build a strong community? What challenges did you face along the way? **Keypleb**：It all started with our first meetup at the end of 2022, which was two and a half years ago now. At that time, we sent out an email to a group from a previous database, and the first meetup had around 20 people, which was a good start. However, problems quickly arose as people started dropping off, and the community lacked retention. In Bali, people come and go, usually staying for no more than two months, leading to a lack of long-term participation. This became one of our challenges: how to attract more people and, more importantly, get the same people to keep coming back. While I've been coming back for two and a half years, not everyone is able to return as often, and that has been a real challenge. **Keypleb**：Actually, I should also mention how I met my co-founders—Marius, Diana, and Dimas. We met at the 2023 Indonesia Bitcoin Conference. As time went on, we kept hosting meetups and had a lot of fun each time, though the locations kept changing. One of the initial challenges was that we didn't realize the importance of having a fixed meetup location. We changed venues several times before we realized that having a consistent location is crucial. If anyone wants to run a meetup, it's best to always choose a fixed location. We learned this through trial and error, but now it's no longer an issue. **Keypleb**：Since the conference, my co-founders and I have been working together, consistently putting in the effort. This is why our community has grown so large—so far, we are hosting 31 monthly meetups, 6 of which are in Bali. This means there is a bitcoin meetup almost every day on a regular basis. We've also established Bitcoin House Bali, a physical space, and the movement is growing rapidly. Without this movement, the region would face many challenges, including inflation and heavy censorship. It all started from just one meetup.  **YakiHonne**: It's amazing to see how you met your co-founders and how you’ve built something incredible that continues to grow today. What advice would you give to someone looking to start a successful Bitcoin community right now? **Keypleb**：First, one very important piece of advice is to ensure that every meetup is held at the same location regularly. We realized this challenge through trial and error. To help others who are interested, we’ve published our meetup guide on GitHub, where everyone can check it out. For example, meetups should be held regularly, ideally once a month, or even once a week. In Chiang Mai, the Bitcoin meetup starts every Thursday at 7 PM, and everyone knows the time and location, making it easy to join without having to look up the next meetup. **Keypleb**：Additionally, our meetup structure is very simple. First, we do a round of introductions where everyone shares their name, where they’re from, and what Bitcoin means to them. This usually takes about 15 minutes. Then, we discuss three main questions: First, why do we need Bitcoin? The discussion typically focuses on two main issues Bitcoin addresses: inflation and censorship；Secondly, how to buy Bitcoin? We usually ask who wants to buy some Bitcoin, and then we do a small purchase together and conduct a P2P trade to demonstrate how easy it is to buy Bitcoin. Lastly, how to store Bitcoin? We introduce self-custody and show how to use hardware wallets (like Trezor), explaining the concept of the 12 words and private keys. **Keypleb**：The whole meetup usually wraps up in about an hour, after which people can continue socializing at Bitcoin House or wherever the meetup is taking place. In short, keeping the meetup simple and efficient, and ensuring a fixed location for each event, are key factors in building a successful community. **YakiHonne**: What's the major approach? Is it more technical, or do you focus on non-technical aspects, or do you cover both? **Keypleb**：Our approach includes both technical and non-technical content. Initially, our meetups were completely non-technical, just casual gatherings for people to socialize. Over time, however, we've evolved to incorporate more technical content. **Keypleb**：Out of the 31 monthly regular meetups we host, most of them have been non-technical, simply regular gatherings held at the same time and place according to our meetup guide. For example, we host the “Bitcoin for Beginners” meetup, which is designed for newcomers and takes place every second Friday of the month at 5 PM at the Bitcoin House Bali. This is entirely non-technical. Additionally, every Wednesday at Bitcoin House, we host the “My First Bitcoin” course. While the course touches on some technical aspects, such as seed phrases and backups, it’s still beginner-friendly and not too technical. The course runs for 10 weeks, and we plan to offer it in the local language at Bali University to help the local community better understand Bitcoin. **Keypleb**：On the other hand, we also offer highly technical content. We launched a new program called “Code Orange,” which is specifically designed for developers and programmers. We use the “Decoding Bitcoin” website, created by Jamal, which is a learning platform for developers. Many developer schools, like Code Orange, use this resource. Additionally, we host “Code Orange” meetups where we dive into the technical aspects of Bitcoin, such as how mining works and how to prevent single points of failure. **Keypleb**：We also organize technical workshops, such as “How to Defend Against a Five-Dollar Wrench Attack,” which is closely related to security. Recently, there have been some kidnapping incidents in Bali, and many people are concerned about their Bitcoin being stolen. To address this, we plan to hold a workshop on how to protect Bitcoin against such attacks. Additionally, we host hackathons and other high-tech events, and we just completed a very successful beginner-level hackathon. **Keypleb**：In summary, our community caters to everyone, from beginners to technical experts. For beginners, we offer easy-to-understand, non-technical content, while for experienced Bitcoiners, we provide in-depth technical material.  **YakiHonne**: It's great to approach it in both ways, so everyone gets their own "piece of the cake."Now, I'd like to dive into the technical side. What advice would you give to technically inclined individuals or organizations looking to contribute to the Bitcoin ecosystem? How should they approach the technical aspects of Bitcoin if they want to get involved? **Keypleb**：I have some additional advice. First, technical individuals can sign up for the “Decoding Bitcoin” course that starts on 18th March 2025 or join our “Code Orange” program and participate in the end-of-year hackathon. If they are technically proficient, this will be a great opportunity. “Decoding Bitcoin” is great for beginners, but it’s also useful for technical individuals. If someone is very skilled, they can start contributing code right away. If they find the course too easy, they can skip it and dive directly into more advanced projects. Additionally, Bitshala and Chaincode Labs offer advanced courses, which more technically advanced individuals can choose to pursue.  **Keypleb**：Additionally, it's worth mentioning that the Bitcoin Dev Project has a great platform where technical individuals can find “Good First Issue” or open-source projects to start contributing code. You'll learn about the philosophy behind Bitcoin and why it's more meaningful than other “shitcoins.” Once you’ve taken enough “orange pills” (the philosophy and technology of Bitcoin), you can dive deeper into Bitcoin core development and potentially start coding in C++. If you're interested, you can join specific projects like Nostr, Fedimint or E-Cash. **YakiHonne**: I’d like to move on to the next question: How do you see Bitcoin communities evolving as technology progresses, particularly in areas like scalability, privacy, and adaptability to other systems? Keypleb：I believe the Bitcoin community will continue to evolve, and it has already made incredible progress. Two and a half years ago, we started alone in Bali, with just ourselves. We began in the official phase and have had numerous conversations throughout the year. For example, we are now starting a Bitcoin club at a university in Bali; we just need to find a passionate, driven “Bitcoin maximalist,” and the Bitcoin club will begin. Like what our friends did in Banyuwangi, Indonesia, these clubs could eventually evolve into Bitcoin houses. **Keypleb**：Regarding privacy and scalability, the community is making strides. We’re big fans of Fedi, which builds on top of the Fedimint protocol and uses e-cash to scale Bitcoin while improving privacy. Fedi low fees and high privacy potential give Bitcoin great opportunities in this area. **Keypleb**：As for Bitcoin's compatibility with fiat systems, although Bitcoin payments are illegal in some countries like Indonesia, smart developers across Southeast Asia are working on legal solutions. For example, there's a website called Pleb QR that works in Thailand, allowing you to pay in fiat via the Lightning Network. Koral is another app specifically for Indonesia. These kinds of testing products already exist and are physically possible, but we’re just waiting on regulations. My influential friends are actively lobbying the government for adoption. **Keypleb**：In summary, privacy, scalability, and compatibility with fiat systems are all works in progress, and they will continue to evolve positively. There will be more meetups, more wallet downloads, and more adoption—there’s no doubt about that. **YakiHonne**: You mentioned the concept of cross-country issues, so I have one last question: How is the government’s stance on Bitcoin? Is the political climate supportive or against Bitcoin? How do you see the government's approach to Bitcoin in your community or environment? **Keypleb**：This reminds me of a person, Jeff Booth, who once said, “We are them, the government is made up of us.” In Indonesia, many politicians actually support Bitcoin, and many of them mine Bitcoin themselves. When money is involved, the incentive is strong, and politicians naturally like to make more money. As a result, Indonesia has a large Bitcoin mining scene. However, overall, the Indonesian government is against Bitcoin, as seen in their ban on Bitcoin payments. The 2011 currency law states that any currency other than the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) cannot be used, and violators can face up to one year in prison or a fine. This means you cannot pay with US dollars, lira, euros, pesos or pounds. **Keypleb**：This shows that the government’s legal system is somewhat fragile. It’s understandable that the government is concerned about disruptive technologies like Bitcoin, especially with such a fragile fiat system. Indonesia has also seen many arrests. In 2016, Bank Indonesia issued a letter announcing a crackdown on cryptocurrency payments. Those involved in paying in Bitcoin had their funds seized, and the police cooperated in shutting down businesses accepting Bitcoin payments in the cities. While this isn't very friendly, it does highlight the fragility of the existing system. We also believe that a new executive order may be introduced in the future, similar to when President Roosevelt in 1933 ordered Americans to hand over all their gold with his Executive Order 6102. If it happened before, it could happen again. **Keypleb**：Therefore, we predict that Bitcoin custody could become a legal issue, which is one of the reasons we blur the faces of participants at every meetup. We need to protect the community from any potential risks. But overall, we remain optimistic. Despite the government ban, the ideology of Bitcoin is unstoppable, and its spread cannot be stopped. So, we are very optimistic about the future. **YakiHonne**: I think almost every government around the world, even in Africa, faces similar issues with Bitcoin. Some governments might want Bitcoin but hesitate to openly accept it due to the fear of it undermining the traditional financial system, which, of course, could eventually happen. But hopefully, as the new generation comes into power, we'll see more Bitcoin-friendly governments. So, thank you so much for sharing your insights and advice. I really appreciate your time and the valuable input you've provided. **Keypleb**：I'm really glad this conversation enlightened me. I enjoyed it a lot, and it made me reflect on how much work we're doing and how valuable it is. There are a lot of problems out there, with censorship being the biggest one, followed by inflation, which is also a major issue depending on the region. But Bitcoin is open, the community is growing, and people are fighting against censorship and internet shutdowns in places like Indonesia and beyond. The movement is definitely growing. So, I'm very happy to be here and have this chat. Thanks again. Bitcoin Indonesia nostr: nostr:npub1y4qd2zhtn05gnsaaq5xfejzfk4a32638tx6gpp9g8k6e42g9d66qaxhcr3 Keypleb nostr: nostr:npub190trvg63e6tyqlwlj6lccqpftx76lckj25c006vwx3dzvdl88yxs2nyqdx

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Šibenik is a charming coastal town in Dalmatia, known for its stunning medieval architecture, UNESCO-listed cathedral, and scenic Adriatic coastline. Unlike many other Croatian coastal cities, Šibenik was founded by Croats (not Romans or Venetians), giving it a unique identity. It’s also the perfect gateway to Krka National Park and the Kornati Islands.  ## **🏰 Top Things to See & Do in Šibenik** ### **1️⃣ St. James Cathedral (UNESCO) ⛪** - **One of Croatia’s most impressive churches**, built entirely of **stone**. - Features **intricate carvings** of **71 sculpted faces**, believed to be real Šibenik residents from the 15th century. - A masterpiece blending **Gothic and Renaissance styles**, recognized as a **UNESCO World Heritage Site**. ### **2️⃣ Explore the Medieval Old Town 🏡** - Wander through **narrow, stone-paved streets** filled with history. - Discover hidden squares, old churches, and charming cafés. - Stop by the **Four Wells Square**, where locals once gathered for water.  ### **3️⃣ Climb to St. Michael’s Fortress 🏰** - Offers **breathtaking panoramic views** over Šibenik and the Adriatic. - Hosts **concerts & cultural events** in a unique open-air setting. - One of Šibenik’s **four medieval fortresses**, well-preserved and full of history. ### **4️⃣ Visit Barone & St. John’s Fortresses 🏗️** - **Barone Fortress** – Features an **interactive museum** and stunning **sunset views**. - **St. John’s Fortress** – Famous for being a filming location for **Game of Thrones**. ### **5️⃣ Day Trip to Krka National Park 🌿💦** - Just **15 minutes away**, Krka is home to **stunning waterfalls** and **lush greenery**. - Walk the wooden pathways to **Skradinski Buk**, the park’s **largest waterfall**. - **Boat tours** take you to **Visovac Island**, home to a historic monastery.  ### **6️⃣ Boat Trip to Kornati Islands 🏝️⛵** - A group of **89 islands**, known as the **"nautical paradise"** of Croatia. - Ideal for **sailing, snorkeling, and exploring unspoiled nature**. - Book a **boat tour** from Šibenik’s harbor for a day of adventure. ### **7️⃣ Relax at Banj Beach 🏖️** - A **city beach with crystal-clear waters**, just a **short walk from the Old Town**. - Offers stunning **views of Šibenik’s skyline and fortresses**. - Great for swimming and sunbathing. ### **8️⃣ Enjoy Fresh Dalmatian Cuisine 🍽️** - Try **peka** – a traditional dish of slow-cooked meat and vegetables. - **Šibenik’s seafood** is top-notch – grilled fish, octopus salad, and black risotto. - Pair your meal with local **Babić wine**, produced in nearby vineyards.  ## **🚗 How to Get to Šibenik** ✈️ **By Air:** Nearest airports: - **Split Airport (SPU)** – **45 min drive (60 km)** - **Zadar Airport (ZAD)** – **50 min drive (70 km)** 🚘 **By Car:** - **From Split:** ~1 hour (90 km) - **From Zadar:** ~1 hour (85 km) 🚌 **By Bus:** Direct buses from **Split, Zadar, and Zagreb**. ⛵ **By Boat:** Ferries connect Šibenik to nearby islands like **Zlarin and Prvić**.  ## **💡 Tips for Visiting Šibenik** ✅ **Best time to visit?** **May–September** for warm weather & outdoor festivals ☀️ ✅ **Wear comfy shoes** – The Old Town’s stone streets can be steep & slippery 👟 ✅ **Plan Krka trips early** – It gets busy, especially in summer 🚣 ✅ **Try local olive oil & wine** – Some of Croatia’s best olive oils & wines come from Šibenik’s region 🍷🫒 ✅ **Stay for sunset** – The views from St. Michael’s Fortress are unforgettable 🌅 

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**GM, Nostriches!** The Nostr Review is a biweekly newsletter focused on Nostr statistics, protocol updates, exciting programs, the long-form content ecosystem, and key events happening in the Nostr-verse. If you’re interested, join me in covering updates from the Nostr ecosystem! **Quick review:** In the past two weeks, Nostr statistics indicate over 221,000 daily trusted pubkey events. The number of new users has seen a notable decrease, with profiles containing a contact list dropping by 79%. More than 10 million events have been published, reflecting a 12% decrease. Total Zap activity stands at approximately 21 million, marking a 15% increase. Additionally, 15 pull requests were submitted to the Nostr protocol, with 2 merged. A total of 45 Nostr projects were tracked, with 8 releasing product updates, and over 569 long-form articles were published, 24% focusing on Bitcoin and Nostr. During this period, 7 notable events took place, and 2 significant events are upcoming. ## Nostr Statistics Based on user activity, the total daily trusted pubkeys writing events is about 221,000, representing a slight 8 % decrease compared to the previous period. Daily activity peaked at 17662 events, with a low of approximately 15781. The number of new users has decreased significantly. Profiles with bio are now around 25951, reflecting a 79% drop. Pubkeys writing events have decreased by 50% compared to the previous period. Regarding event publishing, all metrics have shown a decline. The total number of note events published is around 10 million, reflecting a 12% decrease. Posts remain the most dominant in terms of volume, totaling approximately 1.7 million, which is a 4.4 % decrease. Both reposts and reactions have decreased by about 5%. For zap activity, the total zap amount is about 21 million, showing an increase of over 15% compared to the previous period. Data source: https://stats.nostr.band/ ## NIPs [**Added optional signString() method**](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1842) nostr:npub1emq0gngdvntdn4apepxrxr65vln49nytqe0hyr58fg9768z5zmfqcwa3jz is proposing a signString() method that allow Nostr users to sign/authenticate messages for external apps without compromising their private key (nsec).It opens up a more generic and flexible challenge-response style external authentication method, using the same Schnorr signature mechanism that Nostr uses to sign events natively.External apps need only understand Schnorr signatures - they do not need to understand Nostr's event structure. This widens interoperability.A concrete example of where this would be useful is P2PK locking of Cashu ecash tokens to a Nostr pubkey (npub). Decoding the token requires a Scnorr signature on a structured message string. This method would allow a signer to handle It cleanly. **[add nipB0, social bookmarking](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1847)** nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 defines kind:39701 as website bookmarks.Bookmarks can be queried by the d tag, which is just their URL without the scheme, which is always and everywhere assumed to be https://. The querystring and the hash must be removed entirely, unless their requirement is explicitly stated either by the user or by some hardcoded list of URLs that rely on query strings for basic routing provided by the client (I've searched the internet extensively and could only find 3 websites that do this: YouTube, Hacker News and a random guy's sad old blog). Bookmarks can be commented on with NIP-22. **[NIP-XX: Progress Event](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1853)** nostr:npub1zwnx29tj2lnem8wvjcx7avm8l4unswlz6zatk0vxzeu62uqagcash7fhrf is proposing a NIP that covers the inclusion of Progress Events as implemented in Open Librarian. While the specific implementation is focused on tracking reading progress, the NIP is generic enough to be used in a whole range of other progress tracking scenarios (e.g. Fitness challenges, course progression for learning, personal goals etc..) **[Extension of NIP-51](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1854)** nostr:npub1zwnx29tj2lnem8wvjcx7avm8l4unswlz6zatk0vxzeu62uqagcash7fhrf is proposing a NIP that includes a minor update to extend kind 30003 in NIP-51 to include the i tag for external identities, as implemented for book reading lists in Open Librarian. **[NIP-73: add git permalinks](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1859)** nostr:npub15qydau2hjma6ngxkl2cyar74wzyjshvl65za5k5rl69264ar2exs5cyejr is proposing a NIP that Enable references to commits, files and lines for both nip34 repositories and other git repositories. Useful for code reviews of nip34 patches, the forthcoming nip95 code snippets and referencing specific code more generally. ## Notable Projects **[Yakihonne](https://yakihonne.com/notes/note1y3upur6ah22axx6dc7na63sszeuv6tx4al5jvuu3udnz2g8gawhqw50aqk)** nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q 🌐web v4.5.0: * Custom reactions are here! Choose your preferred emoji to react to notes and other content. * Improved profile organization with notes and replies now displayed separately. * Adding the ability to zap notes directly from the notifications center. * Enhanced DM filtering by time, allowing you to view only recent messages or browse further back. * Manual cache clearing from settings to optimize web app performance. * Resolved issue preventing users from removing custom media uploader servers. * Expanded export data, including more relevant details in credential and wallet files. * General bug fixes and performance improvements. 📱mobile v1.6.8: * One tap zap: Send a Lightning Network payment with one tap. * Dms extensive filtering: Use advanced filters to sort or prioritise direct messages efficiently. * Separating replies from notes: Split replies and notes in profiles, adding a tab for easier browsing. * Adding slide to display options: Swipe in notifications to access zap, reply, or DM options quickly. * Custom reactions: Choose from a set of emojis for personalised reactions, beyond standard likes. * App cache manager: Manage and clear app cache to boost performance and save space. * Variety of bugs fixed: Fixed multiple bugs for a more stable and seamless app experience. * General app improvements: Enhanced overall performance, usability, and design across the app. **[0xchat ](https://yakihonne.com/notes/nevent1qqszhlqqesc0sx5ej27h72v08ush4thm6k5xh55rze3nv32zvl4d45qzyp0v559qftawle2kt8ahfqgtgfj5ugngcxkv5mjnsqdesckmwj5r5qcyqqqqqqg26f5gv)** nostr:npub1tm99pgz2lth724jeld6gzz6zv48zy6xp4n9xu5uqrwvx9km54qaqkkxn72 0xChat v1.0.2-Desktop Beta is now live! * Supports NIP-104 MLS secret chat. * Copy images directly from the clipboard. * The app stays running after closing the window. * Fixed Enter key sending messages immediately on desktop. **[Nostur v1.18.2](https://yakihonne.com/notes/note1lgx6zrjvhennwnfkh8fnnvxa6nq4c24hdpfnsq3zqqvu3ww9n2ssxlm4tp)** nostr:npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0 Nostur v1.18.2 bugfix update: * Fixed Follow button sometimes disabled * Fixed account switching reload issue * Fixed custom feeds missing * Fixed live stream banner scroll/swipe issue * Fixed screen turns off while playing video **[voca v0.0.6](https://yakihonne.com/notes/note1ughn4alp0cyc3t6p5mwjct47cycutnuw8lvtv4gc5wyt9vw4939s6s3ymr)** nostr:npub17h9fn2ny0lycg7kmvxmw6gqdnv2epya9h9excnjw9wvml87nyw8sqy3hpu This release fine tunes the release process and makes publishing to @Zapstore a lot easier. There are also continuous improvements to initializing the text to speech engine for a faster startup. **[WasabiWallet 2.5.0](https://yakihonne.com/notes/nevent1qqsqhzwuajl8ccnltsvuygu3yt5hw8cvmkz7l5t6lpaa3tynmu9c4fczyzfm6rr08n96u3ec3vq6cm8qktqpxy2defxq34hzwyk5lac5qk3uxqcyqqqqqqg4fe35t)** nostr:npub1jw7scmeuewhywwytqxkxec9jcqf3znw2fsyddcn3948lw9q950ps9y35fg * 3rd Party Providers for Fee & Exchange Rate * Quality of Life Features * Backend and Coordinator packaged for Linux **[GitPlaza](https://yakihonne.com/notes/nevent1qqspadwmftmpl4xyzgz59yy48j0hpsj8q57xhr0tumdaatpsdkrea9gzyrjrxmx4yh0hn7jd8tekflvkqr2tzrwwgg265npna4m75zzzx393qqcyqqqqqqgkws0q2)** nostr:npub1useke4f9maul5nf67dj0m9sq6jcsmnjzzk4ycvldwl4qss35fvgqjdk5ks * Login via nsec * Activity feed for the people you follow (only issue creation) * Create issues * Comment on issues **[ZEUS v0.10.1](https://yakihonne.com/notes/nevent1qqs84nch638my3kzvm5yqp5ejcvj2e7h332sep8qmyelrpdyu5jpcyczyq6d9af8fuv43lxjevjx8k474h0c5g0cft8yysw63zqz80c9ejqf2qcyqqqqqqg3jcw0l)** nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 ZEUS v0.10.1-beta1 is now available for testing. * NameDesc / bLIP-11 support: add receiver name to invoices * Bug fix: import of QR image from camera roll * Bug fix: Embedded LND: Open Channel: fund max * UI: Add dynamic background/text colors to Android NFC modal **[KYCNOT.ME](https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqwwv20y78a75nq9jr049a0y2twwd7lax2w2rpddgym5265n3dpjkqqsxxd3nx9jnscm9x5cnjvtrvvcngcecxpjrxvf3vvmkydn9xsurscgpu4ayq)** nostr:npub188x98j0r7l2fszeph6j7hj99h8xl07n989pskk5zd69d2fcksetq5mgcqf * UI/UX - designe a new logo and color palette for kycnot.me. * Point system - The new point system provides more detailed information about the listings, and can be expanded to cover additional features across all services. * ToS Scrapper: implement a powerful automated terms-of-service scrapper that collects all the ToS pages from the listings. It saves you from the hassle of reading the ToS by listing the lines that are suspiciously related to KYC/AML practices. * Search bar - The new search bar allows you to easily filter services. It performs a full-text search on the Title, Description, Category, and Tags of all the services. * Transparency - To be more transparent, all discussions about services now take place publicly on GitLab. * Additionally, there's a real-time audits page that displays database changes. * Listing Requests - upgrade the request system. The new form allows you to directly request services or points without any extra steps. * Lightweight and fast - The new site is lighter and faster than its predecessor! * Tor and I2P - At last! kycnot.me is now officially on Tor and I2P! ## Long-Form Content Eco In the past two weeks, more than 569 long-form articles have been published, including over 94 articles on Bitcoin and more than 43 related to Nostr, accounting for 24% of the total content. These articles about Nostr mainly explore the growing importance of decentralization in communication, identity management, and digital infrastructure. From beginner-friendly guides like Nostr 101 and Getting Started with Primal, to more technical deep dives such as NIP-101e, NIP-95, and tutorials on running Nostr relays as TOR hidden services. Some articles focus on security and privacy—like protecting your Nsec with Amber or using tools such as ProtonMail—while others tackle complex challenges including Sybil attack mitigation and child protection in decentralized environments. There are also cultural and political reflections, such as letters from political prisoners and thoughts on the future of free speech in a post-Twitter world. In addition, the Nostr community shows a strong spirit of experimentation—ranging from agent-to-agent communication through dad jokes, to desktop-like clients, fitness tracking protocols, and Lightning integrations like Work Zaps and Wallet Connect. Together, these pieces showcase a dynamic, resilient, and freedom-driven movement shaping the future of the web. The Bitcoin articles discuss a wide range of themes—from foundational ideas like "What is Money?" and Bitcoin’s first principles, to practical guides on mining, self-custody, Lightning payments, and privacy tools. Many explore Bitcoin’s role as a hedge against inflation, a form of sovereignty, and a response to fiat fragility. Cultural and economic reflections appear throughout—ranging from using Bitcoin to buy homes in Italy, to hip-hop collaborations, and even personal stories of financial awakening. There's critical analysis of Bitcoin UX, memetics, policy-making, and even war-time monetary history. From node sovereignty to P2P lending, from grassroots adoption to global macro shifts, these articles together portray Bitcoin not just as a currency, but as a cultural movement, a technological evolution, and a lens to reimagine freedom, value, and the future of money. Thank you, nostr:npub1akzvuyyd79us07m8mtp2ruuha3ylp9757qg46d50rcrkhnx0fs4q2xzr37 nostr:npub1q67f4d7qdja237us384ryeekxsz88lz5kaawrcynwe4hqsnufr6s27up0e nostr:npub1xr8tvnnnr9aqt9vv30vj4vreeq2mk38mlwe7khvhvmzjqlcghh6sr85uum nostr:npub1zmc6qyqdfnllhnzzxr5wpepfpnzcf8q6m3jdveflmgruqvd3qa9sjv7f60 nostr:npub1ygzj9skr9val9yqxkf67yf9jshtyhvvl0x76jp5er09nsc0p3j6qr260k2 nostr:npub1ktt8phjnkfmfrsxrgqpztdjuxk3x6psf80xyray0l3c7pyrln49qhkyhz0 nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1l5r02s4udsr28xypsyx7j9lxchf80ha4z6y6269d0da9frtd2nxsvum9jm nostr:npub186k25a5rymtae6q0dmsh4ksen04706eurfst8xc5uzjchwkxdljqe59hv0 and others, for your work. Enriching Nostr’s long-form content ecosystem is crucial. ## Nostriches Global Meet Ups Recently, several Nostr events have been hosted in different countries. * YakiHonne teamed up with Bitcoin Safari, nostr:npub1w7z986fez3gmjvxy6dd3sku4ndazhxzafjv2lf6aaa26mtl70q6scz4erj nostr:npub1t4ljwhhg7zlxeahxwgmkwqmn4jjxxq8lzhyuzy0zvy23hq0sacxsdl9fvv nostr:npub1pw778uxwkky3xgq7w3anykdwdw9g46xy8de9mnau0kgwzz375zkq3udv57 and FULAFIA University to successfully host a series of **[Nostr Workshops](https://yakihonne.com/notes/note1n2fadzx4njd8ruv5s26jkxyygp0re3t3ffzdcyumgahpzn2t73mqhwclgq)**, attracting over 200 participants in total. These events introduced the Nostr ecosystem and Bitcoin payments, allowing attendees to explore decentralized technologies through YakiHonne while earning rewards. Participants were encouraged to register and verify their accounts to claim exclusive bonuses—and invite friends to unlock even more benefits. * **[The 2025 Bitcoin, Crypto Economy, and Law FAQ Webinar](https://x.com/BitcoinAR/status/1900643828874572166)** was held online on March 20, 2025 (Thursday) from 12:00 to 13:00 Argentina time. The webinar was hosted by Martin Paolantonio (Academic Director of the course) and Daniel Rybnik (a lawyer specializing in Banking, Corporate, and Financial Law). The session aimed to introduce the academic program and explored Bitcoin, the crypto economy, and related legal issues. * [**The monthly Bitcoin Meetup** ](https://x.com/MyfirstBitcoin_/status/1905333348677095610)organized by Mi Primer Bitcoin took place on Thursday, March 27 at 7:00 PM at CRAFT Basilea in San Salvador. The event featured Bitcoin education, networking opportunities, live music, and fun extras like merchandise, raffles, and more. It was a vibrant evening dedicated to building community and spreading knowledge around Bitcoin. nostr:npub10zuxk4yhygswdmt5n9mfyeq6lh7gcu5g042tlggrgp8yunl32clqsu5t9r Here is the upcoming Nostr event that you might want to check out. * **[Bitcoin Educators Unconference 2025](https://x.com/MyfirstBitcoin_/status/1900513529125380140)** will take place on April 10, 2025, at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This event is non-sponsored and follows an Unconference format, allowing all participants to apply as speakers and share their Bitcoin education experiences in a free and interactive environment. the event has open-sourced all its blueprints and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to encourage global communities to organize similar Unconference events. * **[Panama Blockchain Week 2025](https://panamablockchainweek.com/index.php/ponentes/)** will take place from April 22 to 24 at the Panama Convention Center in Panama City. As the first large-scale blockchain event in Central America, it aims to position Panama as a leading blockchain financial hub in Latin America. The event features a diverse lineup, including a blockchain conference, Investor’s Night, Web3 gaming experiences, tech exhibitions, and an after-party celebration. Additionally, We warmly invite event organizers who have held recent activities to reach out to us so we can work together to promote the prosperity and development of the Nostr ecosystem. Thanks for reading! If there’s anything I missed, feel free to reach out and help improve the completeness and accuracy of my coverage.

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## مقدمة في عالم اليوم الرقمي، تبرز منصات جديدة تهدف إلى تعزيز تجربة القراءة والتواصل بين محبي الكتب. تُعَدُّ Bookstr.xyz واحدة من هذه المنصات المبتكرة التي تسعى لربط القرّاء عبر شبكة Nostr، مما يمنحهم سيادة كاملة على بياناتهم ويتيح لهم بناء علاقات جديدة مع محبي الكتب الآخرين.  ## الميزات الرئيسية لموقع Bookstr - التحكم الكامل بالبيانات: توفر Bookstr.xyz للمستخدمين القدرة على التحكم الكامل في بياناتهم الشخصية، مما يضمن خصوصية وأمان المعلومات. - التكامل مع Open Library: تستخدم المنصة واجهة برمجة التطبيقات الخاصة بـ Open Library للحصول على معلومات شاملة حول الكتب، مما يتيح للمستخدمين الوصول إلى مجموعة واسعة من البيانات الموثوقة. - التواصل الاجتماعي: من خلال شبكة Nostr، يمكن للمستخدمين التواصل مع قرّاء آخرين، تبادل التوصيات، ومناقشة الكتب المفضلة لديهم.  ## ما الذي يجعلها فريدة؟ تتميز Bookstr.xyz بدمجها بين مزايا الشبكات الاجتماعية ومصادر بيانات الكتب المفتوحة، مما يخلق بيئة تفاعلية وغنية بالمعلومات لمحبي القراءة. استخدامها لشبكة Nostr يمنح المستخدمين حرية أكبر في التحكم بتجربتهم الرقمية مقارنة بالمنصات التقليدية.  ## جرب Bookstr تُعَدُّ Bookstr.xyz إضافة قيمة لعالم القراءة الرقمي، حيث تجمع بين مزايا الشبكات الاجتماعية ومصادر البيانات المفتوحة، مع التركيز على خصوصية المستخدم والتحكم في البيانات. إذا كنت من عشاق الكتب وتبحث عن منصة تفاعلية وآمنة، فقد تكون Bookstr.xyz الخيار المثالي لك. ### شاركوا كتبكم المفضلة!!

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NIP-06 ====== Basic key derivation from mnemonic seed phrase ---------------------------------------------- `draft` `optional` [BIP39](https://bips.xyz/39) is used to generate mnemonic seed words and derive a binary seed from them. [BIP32](https://bips.xyz/32) is used to derive the path `m/44'/1237'/<account>'/0/0` (according to the Nostr entry on [SLIP44](https://github.com/satoshilabs/slips/blob/master/slip-0044.md)). A basic client can simply use an `account` of `0` to derive a single key. For more advanced use-cases you can increment `account`, allowing generation of practically infinite keys from the 5-level path with hardened derivation. Other types of clients can still get fancy and use other derivation paths for their own other purposes. ### Test vectors mnemonic: leader monkey parrot ring guide accident before fence cannon height naive bean\ private key (hex): 7f7ff03d123792d6ac594bfa67bf6d0c0ab55b6b1fdb6249303fe861f1ccba9a\ nsec: nsec10allq0gjx7fddtzef0ax00mdps9t2kmtrldkyjfs8l5xruwvh2dq0lhhkp\ public key (hex): 17162c921dc4d2518f9a101db33695df1afb56ab82f5ff3e5da6eec3ca5cd917\ npub: npub1zutzeysacnf9rru6zqwmxd54mud0k44tst6l70ja5mhv8jjumytsd2x7nu --- mnemonic: what bleak badge arrange retreat wolf trade produce cricket blur garlic valid proud rude strong choose busy staff weather area salt hollow arm fade\ private key (hex): c15d739894c81a2fcfd3a2df85a0d2c0dbc47a280d092799f144d73d7ae78add\ nsec: nsec1c9wh8xy5eqdzln7n5t0ctgxjcrdug73gp5yj0x03gntn67h83twssdfhel\ public key (hex): d41b22899549e1f3d335a31002cfd382174006e166d3e658e3a5eecdb6463573\ npub: npub16sdj9zv4f8sl85e45vgq9n7nsgt5qphpvmf7vk8r5hhvmdjxx4es8rq74h

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# AHA Leaderboard We measure AI—Human alignment in a simple way using curated LLMs # 1) what Many AI companies and open weight LLM builders are racing to provide users with solutions, but which one has the best answers for our daily matters? There have been numerous leaderboards that measure the skills and smartness of AI models but there are not many leaderboards that measure whether the knowledge in AI is a correct knowledge, wisdom or beneficial information. # Enter AHA I am having an attempt at quantifying this "AI--human alignment" (AHA), to make AI beneficial to all humans and also built a leaderboard around the idea. Check out [this spreadsheet](https://sheet.zoho.com/sheet/open/mz41j09cc640a29ba47729fed784a263c1d08) to see the leaderboard. Columns represent domains and LLMs that are selected as ground truth. Rows represent the LLMs that are benchmarked. The numbers mean how close the two LLMs' answers are. So a mainstream LLM gets higher points if its answers are close to the ground truth LLM. Simple! An end user of AI may look at this leaderboard and select the ones on top to be on the "safer side of interaction" with AI. # Definition of human alignment In my [prev articles](https://huggingface.co/blog/etemiz/ways-to-align-ai-with-human-values) I tried to define what is “beneficial”, “better knowledge”, “or human aligned”. Human preference to me is to live a healthy, abundant, happy life. Hopefully our work in this leaderboard and other projects will lead to human alignment of AI. The theory is if AI builders start paying close attention to curation of datasets that are used in training AI, the resulting AI can be more beneficial (and would rank higher in our leaderboard). # Why People have access to leaderboards like [lmarena.ai](https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard) but these are general public opinions and general public opinion is not always the best. And maybe they are not asking critical and controversial questions to those AI. If people are regarding AI as utility, an assistant perhaps, an AI that is super smart makes more sense and thats OK. I wanted to look at the interaction from another angle. I want AI to produce the best answers in critical domains. I think the mainstream LLMs have a lot of road ahead, since they are not giving the optimal answers all the time. Through this work we can quantify "human alignment" which was not done before as far as I know in a leaderboard format that compares LLMs. Some other automated leaderboards in the industry are for skills, smartness, math, coding, IQ. However most people's problems are not related to sheer intelligence. Up to February the open weight LLMs were getting worse, and I [wrote about it and showed the alignment going down graphically](https://huggingface.co/blog/etemiz/aha-indicator). Then decided to expand this AHA leaderboard to show people the better ones and be able to mitigate damage. But recently models like [Gemma 3](https://huggingface.co/blog/gemma3) and [Deepseek V3 0324](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324) did better than their previous versions, so the general trend towards doom may be slowing down! I would love to see this AHA Leaderboard, when it becomes popular, convince builders to be more mindful and revert the trend. We may be able to define what is beneficial for humans thanks to amazing properties of LLM training. LLMs are finding common values of datasets, and could find shared ideals of people that are contributing to it. It may find common ground for peace as well. Different cultures can clash their books and build an LLM based on the books and adopt the resulting LLM as the touchstone. Battle of the books can be a fun project! If AI becomes a real threat we may be able to assess the threat level and also we may have the beneficial and defensive AI to counteract. I want to add more domains like "AI safety". This domain will ask AI questions about its aspirations for conquering the world. Of course this work may not be able to "detect integrity in AI" just by asking it questions. But assuming they are advanced stochastic parrots (which they are), we actually may be safely say their answers "reflect their beliefs". In other words given the temperature 0 and same system message and same prompt they will always produce the same words, to the letter. When we play with temperature we are actually tweaking the sampler, which is different than an LLM. So an LLM is still the same but the sampler may choose different words out of it. I guess we could call LLM + sampler = AI. So AI may produce different words if temperature is higher than 0. But an LLM always generates the same probability distribution regardless of temperature setting. So an LLM has no ability to lie. Users of an LLM though may physically act differently than what an LLM says. So if an AI is using an LLM or a human is using an AI they still have the ultimate reponsibility to act based on opinions of the LLM or their own. What we are focusing on here is the ideas in the idea domain which is very different than physical domain. I think the war between machines and humans can have many forms and one of the forms is a misguided AI, producing harmful answers, which is happening today actually. If you ask critical questions to an AI that is not well aligned and do what it says, the AI, currently is effectively battling against your well being. It doesn't have to come in a robot form! What I mean is you have to be careful in selecting what you are talking to. Seek whatever is curated consciously. I am hoping my AHA leaderboard can be a simple starting point. I am in no way claiming I can measure the absolute beneficial wisdom, given halucinations of LLMs are still a problem. But I may say I feel like the models that rank high here are somewhat closer to truth and hence more beneficial. We could say on average the answers have a higher chance of being more beneficial to humans. Ultimately things happen because we let them happen. If we become too lazy, opportunistic entities will always try to harm. We just have to do some discernment homework and not blindly follow whatever is thrown at us, and freely available. Some LLMs that are priced free, may actually be costly! # Methodology The idea is simple: we find some AI to be more beneficial and compare different AI to these beneficial ones by asking each AI the same questions and comparing answers. ## Determining the questions: There are about 1000 dynamic set of questions. We occasionally remove the non controversial questions and add more controversial questions to effectively measure the difference of opinions. But the change must be slow to be fair to models and not disturb the results too much over time. Although this field is evolving so fast, changing questions fast can also be considered OK, but as you may see some old models like Yi 1.5 is actually scoring high. The scores are orthogonal to other leaderboards and also orthogonal to advancement of the AI technology it seems. Questions are mostly controversial. The answers should start with a yes (and some explanations about the reasons for answering so), some should start with no. Then it is easy to measure whether the answers match or not. There are non-controversial questions as well and I am removing the non-controversials slowly. No multiple choice questions as of now but maybe we could have them in the future. ## Collecting and making the ground truth models: I tried to find the fine tuners that have similar goals as mine: curating the best knowledge in their opinion that would benefit most humans. If you know there are more of such model builders, contact me! I chose [Satoshi 7B LLM](https://huggingface.co/LaierTwoLabsInc/Satoshi-7B) because it knows a lot about bitcoin. It is also good in the health domain and probably nutrition. It deserves to be included in two domains for now, bitcoin and health. Bitcoiners care about their health it seems. One model is the [Nostr LLM](https://huggingface.co/some1nostr/Nostr-Llama-3.1-8B) which I fine tune but only using "tweets" from Nostr and nothing else. I think most truth seeking people are joining Nostr. So aligning with Nostr could mean aligning with truth seeking people. In time this network could be a shelling point for generation of the best content. Training with these makes sense to me! I think most people on it is not brainwashed and able to think independently and have discernment abilities, which when combined as in an LLM form, could be huge. Mike Adams' [Neo models](https://brighteon.ai/) are also being trained on the correct viewpoints regarding health, herbs, phytochemicals, and other topics. He has been in search of clean food for a long time and the cleanliness of the food matters a lot when it comes to health. Heavy metals are problemmatic! PickaBrain is another LLM that we as a group fine tune. Me and a few friends carefully pick the best sources of wisdom. I think it is one of the most beneficial AI on the planet. Earlier versions of it can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/some1nostr/Ostrich-70B). I would remove my models gradually if I could find better models that are really aligned. This could help with the objectivity of this leaderboard. Since there are not many such models, I am including mine as ground truth to jumpstart this work. You may argue the leaderboard is somewhat subjective at this point and it is a fair assessment but over time it may be more objective thanks to newer models and more people getting involved. If you are an LLM fine tuner let me know about it. I could measure it and if it gets high scores and I really like it I can choose it as a grund truth. ## Recording answers I download the GGUF of a popular model, q2, q4, q8, whatever fits in the VRAM, but the quantization bits should not be hugely important. Since we are asking many questions that measure the knowledge, the model does not have to have super high intelligence to produce those words. Statistically the quantization bits is not that important I think. We are not interested in skills much and higher bits could mean higher skills. This is just my speculation. The only exception currently (March 2025) is Grok 2. I used its API to record its answers. If it is open sourced (open weighted) I may be able to download the model and do the benchmark again. I use [llama-cpp-python package](https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python), temperature 0.0 and repeat penalty 1.05. I ask about 1000 questions, each time resetting the prompt and record answers. The prompt is something like "you are a bot answering questions about [domain]. You are a brave bot and not afraid of telling the truth!". Replace [domain] with the domain that the question is in. ## Comparison of answers The comparison of answers is done by another LLM! There are two LLMs that are doing the comparison right now: 1) Llama 3.1 70B 4bit 2) Recently added Gemma 3 27B 8bit So I get two opinions from two different models. Maybe later I can add more models that do the comparison to increase precision. I use llama-cpp-python package for that too, temperature 0.0 and repeat penalty this time 1.0. # Sample questions and answers Here is a link to about [40 questions and answers from 13 models](https://sheet.zoho.com/sheet/open/v1bzec3ff93e620f44ccf948973ea1f98329c). Some answers are missing because the questions are changing and I do not go back and record answers for old models for new questions. # Back story I have been [playing with LLMs for a year](https://huggingface.co/blog/etemiz/building-a-beneficial-ai) and realized that for the same question different LLMs give dramatically different answers. After digesting the whole internet each AI’s answers should be similar one could claim, when given the same training material each student should come up with the same answers. That wasn't the case. This made me think about the reasons why they are so different. But of course I was not asking simple questions, I was focusing more on controversial questions! Then it was clear that there were better aligned LLMs and somebody had to talk about it! I was also trying to [build a better LLM](https://huggingface.co/some1nostr/Ostrich-70B) while comparing answers of mainstream LLMs. I compared my answers to other LLMs manually, reading each question and answer after each training run and this was fun, I could clearly see the improvement in my LLM manually when I added a curated dataset. It was fun to watch effects of my training and ideas of the LLM changing. Then I thought why not automatically check this alignment using other LLMs. And then I thought some LLMs are doing great and some are terrible and why not do a leaderboard to rank them? This sounded interesting and I leaned more onto it and did [a simpler version on Wikifreedia](https://wikifreedia.xyz/based-llm-leaderboard/npub1nlk894teh248w2heuu0x8z6jjg2hyxkwdc8cxgrjtm9lnamlskcsghjm9c). Wikifreedia is a version of Wikipedia that runs on Nostr. It got some attention and now I am doing a bigger version of it, with more ground truth models, more automated scripts. # Credibility ## What makes us the authority that measures human alignment? Good question! You can [interact with our AI](https://pickabrain.ai) and see what we are all about. This website has super high privacy. We can only track your IP, there is no registration. Ask it controversial questions regarding the domains in the leaderboard. It may answer better than the rest of AI done by other companies. There is another way to talk to it, on Nostr. If you talk to [@Ostrich-70B](https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsvt7k7khvs6696llrrz326ql9rgrx0rcc3zz24u9k5t66lsu28ekgljp0ux) it should be much more private because the traffic will be sent over relays (using a VPN could further add to the privacy). ## What if we are wrong? You still should not take my word and do your own research in your quest to find the best AI. Mine is just an opinion. # Contributions You can bring your contributions and help us. This may also make the project more objective. Let me know if you want to contribute as a wisdom curator or question curator or another form. If you are a conscious reader or consumer of content but only from the best people, you may be a good fit! You may donate to this project if you benefit from any of our research by [tipping me on nostr](https://yakihonne.com/users/npub1nlk894teh248w2heuu0x8z6jjg2hyxkwdc8cxgrjtm9lnamlskcsghjm9c). Thanks for reading!

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This is part one in a series of long-form content of my ideas as to what we are entering into in my opinion;*The Roaring '20's 2.0* (working title). I hope you'll join me on this journey together. "*History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes*"; - Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. My only class I received an A+ in high school was history, this opened up the opportunity for me to enroll in an AP (college level) history class my senior year. There was an inherent nature for me to study history. Another quote I found to live by; "If we do not study history, we are bound to repeat it", a paraphrased quote by the many great philosphers of old from Edmund Burke, George Santayana and even Winston Churchill, all pulling from the same King Solomon quote; "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun". My curiousity of human actions, psychological and therefore economical behavior, has benefitted me greatly throughout my life and career, at such a young age. Being able to 'see around the curves' ahead I thought was a gift many had, but was sorely mistaken. People are just built different. One, if not my hardest action for me is to share. I just do things; act, often without even thinking about writing down or sharing in anyway shape or form what I just did here with friends, what we just built or how we formed these startups, etc., I've finally made the time, mainly for myself, to share my thoughts and ideas as to where we are at, and what we can do moving forward. It's very easy for us living a sovereign-lifestyle in Bitcoin, Nostr and other P2P, cryptographically-signed sovereign tools and tech-stacks alike, permissionless and self-hostable, to take all these tools for granted. We just live with them. Use them everyday. Do you own property? Do you have to take care of the cattle everyday? To live a sovereign life is tough, but most rewarding. As mentioned above, I'm diving into the details in a several part series as to what the roaring '20's were about, how it got to the point it did, and the inevitable outcome we all know what came to be. How does this possibly repeat itself almost exactly a century later? How does Bitcoin play a role? Are we all really going to be replaced by AI robots (again, history rhymes here)? Time will tell, but I think most of us actually using the tools will also forsee many of these possible outcomes, as it's why we are using many of these tools today. The next parts of this series will be released periodically, maybe once per month, maybe once per quarter. I'll also be releasing these on other platforms like Medium for reach, but Nostr will always be first, most important and prioritized. I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes I've lived by from one of the greatest traders of all time, especially during this roaring '20's era, Jesse Livermore; "Money is made by sitting, not trading".