Uneventful Friday
Feb 10, 2023
Block Height: 775,924
Moscow Time 46:06 ⚡/ $
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🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️
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derGigi ⚡🧡 (npub1der…xzpc) giving us the sound moral by translating the famous Evelyn Beatrice Hall quote she attributed to Voltaire.
I disagree with the stupid shit you do with Bitcoin but I will defend your right to do with Bitcoin whatever you want.—--------------------------
🚨Headline Nostr News🚨
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Cameri (npub1qqq…n47m) warns of security vulnarability! Relayrunners please update your Nostream relay to 1.22.2 ASAP
quotingATTENTION ALL NOSTREAM RELAY OPERATORS:
nevent1q…5adr
CRITCAL SECURITY VULNERABILITY FIX RELEASED IN THIS VERSION.
Please update your Nostream relay to 1.22.2 ASAP.
I can’t reach to each Nostream relay operator individually cause y’all don’t set your pubkey on your settings.
Details about the vulnerability will be disclosed soon.
A patch version of nostream has been released. Current version is 1.22.2
## [1.22.2](https://github.com/Cameri/nostream/compare/v1.22.1...v1.22.2) (2023-02-10)
### Bug Fixes (Vulnerability not included here)
* instructions to run locally
* upgrade axios from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3
* upgrade knex from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1
Security vulnerability reported by #[0]
Thanks Peter!
🐙 Anti-Spasti (npub1yu2…9xxs) Kraken agrees with SEC to immediate stop of sale of unregistered securities and pays $30MM 🐙
Kraken has agreed to immediately cease offering or selling securities through the staking services and pay $30 million in disgorgement, prejudgment interest and civil penalties.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/crypto-exchange-kraken-settles-with-sec
Derek Ross (npub18am…p424) waxing philosophical on paid relays. Are they a 💩🪙 shitcoin? Derek thinks not. TLDR: we are early.
Are Paid Relays a Shitcoin?
Last night on Nostr Spaces, we discussed potential implications of paid relays. I believe we Nostriches all understand that paid relays are needed for 1) to pay for the service that we're using as nothing should be free 2) relay operators need funds to pay for relay hardware infrastructure and 3) to thwart spammers.
#[0] said that he thought that paid relays were Shitcoins. What did he mean?
With a Shitcoin, anyone can create one. There is no Proof-of-Work in this process. The creator makes promises about their current offerings or future offerings. And lastly, they want payment and take user's money.
#[1] mentioned that he believed paid relays should operator on a Web-of-Trust model. What does this mean?
Do you know the relay operator? Do they have an older or well known Nostr public key? Did they previously run a free relay? Do reputable people use and recommend this relay? It's fairly easy now to form a Web-of-Trust with well known actors in this space and community.
As we move forward, we do need to watch for scams. A relay and operator could appear out of nowhere. A relay could promise the moon on speed and resources. That relay and relay operator could also disappear in a day or a week or a month, after they've reached their fund raising goal.
Right now, using Nostream to operate a paid relay at least requires a ZBD developer account. This is right now behind a gatekeeper. #[2] needs to approve relay API access. This will get easier in the future. In the future, Nostream will work with other providers and I would assume even end up working with your own node. In the future, we'll need to be more diligent when choosing paid relays.
Start building your Web-of-Trust now.
umbrel (npub1agh…mhct) Next Amethyst update to support connecting to Umbrel relay app. ☂️☂️☂️☂️
great news!! the next amethyst update will allow you to connect amethyst to your nostr relay on umbrel 🤙—--------------------------
https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/commit/09919e99b9d9a6717979a93c6d8e396b18c64b50
🏝️Nostrica Update🏝️
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🏝️🏝️ BitcoinJungle (npub14f2…v7lu) Bitcoin jungle is working to create lightning capable off-ramps and kyc-free on-ramps with businesses in Uvita for Nostrica next month.
We’ve been working night & day to finish building Costa Rica’s first fee free, instant lightning-capable offramp. It’s in beta testing right now. Will be ready for #nostrica. Hope to have every other business in Uvita onboarded to Bitcoin before you arrive next month.—--------------------------
Make sure you bring some sats (also there will be options for kyc-free onramps while you are here)
🖥️nostr Tech🖥️
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jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s) adds a way to tell paid vs free relays in Damus. 🧭🧭
Damus 🤝 paid relays
jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s) working on a paid Damus relay. Also hints at Damus Purple premium service that would include access to paid relay. 💟
Hoping to have a paid damus strfry relay soon. Will be enabled when you sign up for damus purple, and you'll be able to join externally as well with lightning.
jleger2023 (npub1t9a…h4uw) provides latest updates on Nostrgram client.
NOSTRGRAM UPDATE - PAID+PUBLIC RELAYS YET STILL SPAM FREE!
* Public relays have been reincorporated in this update so you can see everything going on but without the spam.
* The Global feed still only shows paid relay content, but if you follow anyone that's not on any paid relays they will now appear in your Following feed.
* Relays are only called if the note/event can't be found on the caching server (rare). This keeps bandwidth to a minimum (important on mobile devices).
* Popular feed was been replaced with Friends+, which shows you all the people you follow plus the people *they* follow (up to a maximum of 2,000 people). It's a great way to discover new content and conversations without the spam of the public relay Global feed.
Try NostrGram at https://nostrgram.co/
Already using NostrGram? Refresh the page to get the update.
stacksatsio (npub10jn…vcrd) Updated list of paid relays. 📖
Paid Relay List Update [775,837]—--------------------------
24 paid relays now online, more coming soon with #[0] opening ZBD dev accounts
Add individually to your relay list and you will receive an invoice by DM to pay and gain access.
wss://eden.nostr.land - 5000⚡️
wss://nostr.milou.lol - 1000⚡️
wss://puravida.nostr.land - 10000⚡️
wss://relay.nostr.com.au - 6969⚡️
wss://relay.orangepill.dev - 4500⚡️
wss://nostr.wine - 8888⚡️
wss://nostr.inosta.cc - 5000⚡️
wss://relay.nostrati.com - 2000⚡️
wss://atlas.nostr.land - 15000⚡️
wss://nostr.plebchain.org - 6969⚡️
wss://relay.nostriches.org - 421
wss://relay.nostrich.land - 2100⚡️
wss://nostr.decentony.com - 7000⚡️
wss://bitcoiner.social - 1000⚡️
wss://private.red.gb.net - 8888 ⚡️
wss://nostr.gives.africa - 10000⚡️
wss://nostr.uselessshit.co - 2169⚡️
wss://nostr.ownscale.org - 4000⚡️
wss://nostr.howtobitcoin.shop - 5000⚡️
wss://nostr.bitcoinpuertori.co - 10000⚡️
wss://paid.spore.ws - 420⚡️
wss://nostr.bitcoinplebs.de - 5000⚡️
wss://nostr.naut.social - 4000⚡️
wss://lightningrelay.com - 6,678⚡️
@ me when new paid relays come online, maintaining a list at:
https://relay.exchange
⚡nostr Business⚡
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Start9 (npub126n…e9ll) announces a bitcoin only store powered by BTC pay offering 9% off, free international shipping, and auto deletion of data within 30 days of fulfillment. On their was to a Bitcoin Standard. 🔌⚡
📣 Start9 is no longer accepting Bitcoin payments through our Shopify store.
Announcing our new Bitcoin [only] Store, powered by BTCPay. Benfits:
- 9% off
- Free international shipping
- Automatic deletion of data within 30 days of order fulfillment
https://bitcoin-store.start9.com
This is part of our longer-term strategy to move onto a full Bitcoin standard for all operations.
Roy (npub1ey6…szvp) Lightning ⚡️ as a service? Breeze SDK promises to allow anyone lightning payments on any app with with fiat on-ramps. Big if true!
To realize the Lightning⚡ economy, it has to be easy for developers. Lightning as a Service (LaaS) lets anyone access #Bitcoin payments from any app thanks to the revolutionary Breez SDK. Now build 🔨🔨🔨
Read more here 👇
https://medium.com/breez-technology/lightning-for-everyone-in-any-app-lightning-as-a-service-via-the-breez-sdk-41d899057a1d
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🎩nostr Lifestyle🎩
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mcshane (npub16vr…p2va) gives us the friendly advice not to spend our #Bitcoin on ordinals this weekend, please do what the man says.
Don’t spend all your #Bitcoin on ordinals this weekend.—--------------------------
🩺Nostr Health of the Network🩺
Nostr.IO/stats appears to be down. Todays stats can be found at https://nostr.band/stats.html
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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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arkinox (npub1ark…h43w)
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When I see a link to Twitter in my nostr feed
Stay Classy Nostr.