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📰 Nostr Daily Digest — Mar 18, 2026

🔥 TRENDING (from your follows):

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Some of our oldest seed stock is still good…
Seeds from 2009 that have been in the back of the fridge…

2. 3❤️ 7💬
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Republican support for war with Iran jumped from 23% last year to 84% right after the bombing started.

Why think for yourself when you can let an insecure senile scam artist do it for you.

3. 2❤️ 5💬
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why is Amethyst missing in both of these?

4. 2❤️ 2💬
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What sign in method do you use?

5. 4❤️ 0💬
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🙏




6. 4❤️ 0💬
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My daughter onboarded, today. So, that's 4001. 💪🏼

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More than I thought! 😂

🎯 KEYWORD HIGHLIGHTS:

1. [bitcoin, privacy, nostr] • 210⚡ 13❤️ 2💬
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A lot of people seem to not be aware what a major win for privacy the SEC's interpretation on securities is, so let me spell this out for you.

Under Gensler, the SEC attempted to classify digital asset developers as securities broker/dealers.

This would have meant that anyone offering digital asset services and software would have needed to register with the SEC and apply KYC/AML programs by law.

Similar language has been included in latest market structure proposals, which insufficiently clarified who exactly such registration requirements would apply to.

The SEC's interpretation now makes clear: No AML/KYC for bitcoin, at least not under the SEC's authority.

Probably the biggest advancement for privacy under this entire administration.


2. [bitcoin, ai, nostr] • 6❤️ 1💬
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This article by **Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb**, published on **31 October 2024** as part of the series **“The Chain”**, argues that Facebook’s **Libra/Diem** project was not a genuine failure, but rather a key step in laying the political, regulatory and technological groundwork for a new digital monetary infrastructure. According to the authors, the underlying objective was not merely to launch a Facebook currency, but to promote a model in which private digital money is integrated with surveillance, state regulation and the dominance of the dollar. ([Unlimited Hangout][1])

The central thesis is that **PayPal, Facebook and figures close to Peter Thiel** had been pursuing a kind of “new global currency” for years. The article highlights that **David Marcus**, former president of PayPal, led Libra at Facebook, and presents Libra as an attempt to leverage Facebook’s enormous user base to create a global monetary network. When regulators put the brakes on the project, the authors interpret this setback not as a definitive end, but as a phase that helped shape the regulatory framework for subsequent **stablecoins**. ([Unlimited Hangout][1])

The text then links **Libra, Silvergate, SVB, Paxos, PayPal USD, the crypto lobby and stablecoin legislation** as parts of the same financial reconfiguration. The idea is that, following the visible collapse of Libra, many of its goals and personal networks lived on in new companies, alliances and products. In this interpretation, dollar-pegged stablecoins do not compete against the US system, but rather **extend the hegemony of the dollar** across the internet and public blockchains. ([Unlimited Hangout][1])

The article’s conclusion is highly critical: the authors argue that the **Bitcoin + dollar-pegged stablecoins** ecosystem has ended up serving less an idea of financial freedom and more a new order in which private companies, Wall Street and Washington jointly reinforce US monetary power. They also contend that this model facilitates **financial surveillance** and preserves the dollar’s global leadership rather than weakening it. ([Unlimited Hangout][1])

Put very simply: **the article says that Libra ‘died’ in the public eye, but that its true legacy was to pave the way for the world of regulated dollar-pegged stablecoins, with PayPal and similar players as the main beneficiaries**. ([Unlimited Hangout][1])

I can also provide you with an **even shorter version**, in 5 lines, or a **neutral summary separating the facts from the article and the authors’ conclusions/opinions**.


3. [ai, nostr] • 43⚡ 1❤️ 2💬
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Agreed. I love me some #nostr. I use it all day, every day since May 1, 2023. The barrier for entry is IMHO, too much preachy religious, political posts, which alongside the intensely technical ones, can put off the potential “keeper” npub. and I have npubs that we follow and truly find value in, which keeps us active. It took about six months of daily trying to overcome the Joe Rogan/JordanPeterson vibe when I first got on #nostr. Frankly , and a few others kept me engaged by the sheer force of their npub personality. I would take a bullet for those two. and have shown a willingness to help the uninitiated become comfortable on this protocol, which is unheard of on legacy SM. I even got a response from once (where I felt it was really him), tho we *disagreed on Elon and his role in our space. There are signs that we must weather this digital winter where AI gains ascendancy. It is a beautiful terrible thing. ☯️

*AFAIK since Jack does not argue

All npubs who helped me/us that I am not naming, beg pardon.

4. [bitcoin, ai, nostr] • 2❤️ 0💬
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GM. Went on a Primal onboarding spree last night.

Incredible having a wallet straight out of the box and people got to feel the zap magic/ Bitcoin Venmo right away.

I remain convinced that Primal & Nostr apps are the most friendly first touch for Bitcoin.

Show these people this place is alive if you feel inclined.

Also, if people are creators on other platforms, my tool to bring existing content over is working quite well.

https://ownyourposts.com/



5. [bitcoin, ai] • 2❤️ 0💬
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In 2018, a Harvard economist went on CNBC and predicted bitcoin would fall to $100. Today it trades above $72,000 — and Harvard's own endowment quietly allocated $100 million to a bitcoin ETF.

The pattern keeps repeating: the most credentialed voices in finance dismiss bitcoin, not because they lack intelligence, but because truly understanding it requires questioning the system that built their careers. Central banks, monetary policy, fiat stability — these aren't just topics they study. They're the foundation of their entire professional identity.

So when bitcoin works exactly as designed — permissionless, borderless, censorship-resistant — they don't see strength. They see a threat to the worldview that earned them tenure.

Meanwhile, adoption moves on two fronts: from the bottom up through individual savers pursuing financial independence, and from the top down through sovereign funds and endowment allocators. The people who built reputations dismissing bitcoin are now managing portfolios that hold it.

Reality doesn't wait for academic approval.

I break down why the credentialed class keeps getting bitcoin wrong → firebtc.io/p/harvard-humbled

6. [bitcoin, ai, nostr] • 1❤️ 0💬
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GM #Plebchain #Coffeechain #Bitcoin #Nostr #Einundzwanzig #Nostrtalk




7. [ai, nostr] • 11⚡ 0❤️ 0💬
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A client using SQL is just caching data locally to make its own experience faster. That doesn’t help anyone else. Other clients aren’t reading from that database. They still go straight to relays to fetch data. So SQL doesn’t speed up the network or Nostr itself, it just means that one client doesn’t have to refetch everything every time.

On the WebSocket side, relays can't return unlimited data. If a client asks for too much in a single request, the relay will simply cap the response and not send everything. So WebSocket requests are kinds limited and they just stream whatever the relay is willing to send. If you want more data, you have to break your requests into smaller chunks.

🌍 GLOBAL TRENDING:

1. 5k⚡ 93❤️ 49💬
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Primal 3.0 is now live for everyone. 🫡

After rolling out early access to Premium and Pro users, we’re happy to make it generally available.

The highlight: a brand new wallet — no KYC, no limits, available globally.

Here’s what’s new in Primal 3.0:

- Spark wallet
- Polls with zaps
- GIF button
- Faster feeds
- Smooth onboarding

Give it a try and let us know what you think.


2. 7k⚡ 41❤️ 8💬
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#Amethyst v1.05.0: Bookmark Lists, Voice Notes, and WoT Scores

This release introduces Bookmark List management, a complete overhaul of Voice Notes/YakBaks, and the debut of Web of Trust (WoT) scores for a safer social experience.

This version adds support for creating, managing, deleting, and viewing multiple bookmark lists, which include both public and private members. You will find an improved "Bookmarks" menu option in the sidebar and extra bookmark options in the context menu of each post, allowing you to add posts directly to one or more individual lists.

The Voice Notes UI has been redesigned to allow recording directly within the new Post Screen and a dedicated Voice Reply screen. Users can record a new voice message, preview it with waveform visualization, re-record if needed, select a media server, and post the reply. You now have full control.

Amethyst now supports Trusted Assertions. By connecting to a WoT provider, you can see trust scores and verified follower counts directly on user pictures. This helps filter signal from noise, identifying reputable accounts to follow, which DMs to open, and which notifications to prioritize. To activate this, you will need to find a provider capable of computing these scores. While providers are currently limited and resource-constrained, we hope more will bring their own algorithms to Nostr over time.

Quartz received a significantly improved database engine capable of sub-microsecond queries using Android's default SQLite database. The engine is optimized for mobile environments, using as little memory as
possible to avoid impacting other apps.

In the background, we have begun building Amethyst Desktop. While much work remains, the goal is a standalone, mouse-first application that moves away from mobile-centric UI layouts.

New Features
- Trusted Assertions: Added support for trust scores displayed on user profile pictures
- WoT Followers: Displays verified follower counts in user profiles
- Bookmark Lists: Full support for custom lists by
- Relay Information: New UI with expanded NIP-11 feature support
- Voice Notes & Replies: Redesigned experience by
- Profile Banner: New default banner by
- Native Links: Intercept njump, yakihonne, primal, iris.to, zap.stream, and shosho.live to open directly on Amethyst by

Improvements:
- New in-memory graph-based cache scheme; moved reports and WoT scores to this new system
- Disabled top bar reappearance to prevent feed shifting when navigating between pages
- Lenient Kotlin Serialization to prevent crashes from malformed JSON;
- Removed expired addressable events from cache
- Moves reports from the old caching system to the new Graph-based one.
- Reverted to a 500-post load limit for Profile screens to handle high-reply accounts
- Moved the QR Code screen from a Dialog to a full Route.
- Re-adds name as a tagging name to the profile edit page.

Performance:
- Faster event id checker by serializing, sha256 hashing, and ID comparison without creating any intermediary buffers.
- Faster event JSON parsers by avoiding new variables and thus garbage collection calls
- Faster tag array Deserializer
- Manages the pool state without having to loop through relays, saving some milliseconds of processing.
- Adds a cache system for WoT scores
- Improved Compose stability for video UI

BugFixes:
- Fixes JSON serialization of UTF-8 Emoji surrogates for compatibility with standard Nostr implementations
- Improves error message on zap configuration errors with detailed NWC URI by
- Centers QR dialog content and reduce excessive top spacing by
- Closes subscriptions when ending them on NostrClient instead of waiting for them to finish
- Requires a relay to be an outbox/inbox relay to be able to NOTIFY a user of a payment
- Improves the speed of parsing of invalid kinds inside an address string
- Fixes count not working for LIMIT queries in the DB
- Fixes icon bug with incorrect resource id by
- Fixes missing updates to the feed when the top list is not yet available locally
- Fixes List of supported NIPs as Integers on NIP-11 by
- Fixes ConcurrentExceptions on event outboxes

Desktop:
- Base Compose Multiplatform Desktop App with posts and global/following feeds by

Web:
- New website by

Quartz:
- Adds support for Trust Provider lists and Contact Cards for NIP-85
- Early support for Payment targets as per [NIP-A3](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/2119) by
- Initial support for NIP 46 by
- Adds support for fast MurMur hash 3 64 bits
- Adds a nextLong secure random method
- Removing the generalist approach of ptag-mentions
- Removes deprecated fields in UserMetadata
- Removes compose bom from Quartz to avoid unnecessary dependencies.
- Removes datetime dependencies from Quartz
- Adds dependency on coroutines directly (instead of through compose runtime)
- Removes old secp256 target dependencies
- Adds Default scope for NostrClient and Relay Authenticator

Quartz-Event Store:
- Moves from text tags to probabilistic 64-bit MurMur Hash3 integers for performance
- Moves from range index queries to kind,pubkey queries by default.
- Adds simpler SQL queries for specific simple Nostr filters
- Expose SQL query plans, vacuum, and analyse to lib users
- Implements AND Tag queries from [NIP-91](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1365)
- Implements GiftWrap deletions by p-Tag with deletions and vanish requests
- Offers several indexing strategy options to users.
- Adds several test cases that verify not only the SQL but also the indexes used
- Exposes raw queries that return columns for relays that might not need the tag array
- Forces the use of the index on Addressables and Replaceables on triggers
- Fixes duplicated events being returned from the DB
- Fixes unused Or condition in the SQL builder
- Refine the structure of the module classes for the DB
- Removes the Statement cache since statements are not thread safe
- Creating interfaces for multiple EventStores

Code Quality:
- Updates kotlin, compose, multiplatform, activity, serialization, media3, mockk, secp256, tor, androidxCamera, stdlib
- Adds a compose stability plugin to allow traces in debug
- Updates to the latest Zapstore config
- Updates quarts instructions in the ReadMe.

Updated translations:
- Czech, German, Swedish, and Portuguese by
- Polish by
- Hungarian by
- Hindi by
- Slovenian by
- Spanish by
- Latvian by
- Dutch by
- French by and Alexis Magzalci
- Chinese by

3. 341⚡ 19❤️ 27💬
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Who else misses the old Primal pink theme? We could bring it back as an option.

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Square to auto-enable Bitcoin payments via Lightning Network for all eligible sellers on March 30, 2026.

h/t Nick Slaney

5. 761⚡ 27❤️ 12💬
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A year ago I sent a DM to a girl on 𝕏.

A year later we have each other blocked and this is a random marriage photo I found on Google.


6. 2k⚡ 17❤️ 14💬
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Hi, everyone.

I’m bummed to report that this account has been compromised.

I’ve started a new personal account at the following npub:

npub14ad23x8g6yak4mm6nad9umm7grq0ckhf4s70svq4wn5fgjywf9es9vxvet

You can also search for me at frank@primal.net.

You’ll see that my Primal Legend status has been transferred to that new account.

I’d greatly appreciate if you could share this post to help my followers find me.

I’d also like to give a major, major shout out to and who’ve been helping me out tremendously in the wake of the account being compromised.

They’re both absolute legends.

To help show that the new account is real, you’ll see that they’ve both already followed me over there.

Thank you and onward 🫡

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GM beautiful Nostr peeps 💜

Made it through the most challenging backcountry ski-tour of my 50s yesterday. Body aching all over and as thoroughly exhausted as I can ever remember.
Yet still buzzing in every cell of my body from the exhilaration and awe of spending precious time in such a beautiful piece of this pristine, untouched, rugged environment.

Pure gratitude 💓🏔️😌



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