bitcoinerrorlog
John Carvalho

You’re confusing routing with enforcement.
Bitcoin isn’t a packet network, it’s a global arbitration system with finite capacity.
Layering only works while users can still enforce their claims on L1 within the required time window. When that becomes too expensive, the system shifts from trustless to trusted.
Your probabilistic outcomes assume proof of work is obtained already, but layers create new trust games on top of future blockspace, not PoW.
The security model degrades under congestion. Because it doesn't scale, by design. Layers force you to trust your cosigner and compromise your prior PoW assurances.
The base layer size still determines how many people can retain real sovereignty. Layers force you to trust your cosigner and compromise your prior PoW assurances.

2026-03-11 11:47:13 UTC

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i have a deadline to share my paper on this in May, til then my advice is, well, actually do the math

2026-03-11 10:42:09 UTC

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I cant speak for others, but no, I am arguing that onchain scale ultimately limits active users to the millions, and if you compress too many in a layer, you quickly get cascading issues interacting directly with onchain blockspace limits. 2-week windows become too expensive to enforce, channels become trusted, etc.
It's just admitting that Bitcoin has a size. You can increase blockspace, but you can't gain meaningful scale via layering to even 10 million active users in current conditions.
Will users tolerate regular blocksize increases so layers can slowly scale at pretty much the same proportion to onchain? Or will they tolerate their channels requiring regulation due to being trusted?
Note, I AM a Lightning provider since the beginning.

2026-03-10 17:39:36 UTC

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All layers introduce counterparty risk via shared msig constructions, and then use some form of onchain enforcement to mitigate betrayals.
That's why layers dont actually scale Bitcoin, because their assurances require onchain txns.

2026-03-10 10:50:51 UTC

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Layers are just unconfirmed transactions. They do not provide scale, they provide coordination of trust.
You're just arguing for bigger blocks in the end, which is fine, but also requires coordination or trust to pull off, and can only do so much.
What you're missing about our work is that being trust-compatible enables actual scale, and having a credible exit from that scale is all you need to commoditize central providers.
You're just reciting your script while remaining ignorant of the design.

2026-03-10 06:16:23 UTC

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Sorry, I don't have time to dismantle all of your preconceived personal limits and misconceptions about our work. Your posts are hot air. Just propose something specific instead of nihilizing everything.
Trust is society, you must design it into any network.

2026-03-09 19:23:00 UTC

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show me what you got

2026-03-09 19:20:53 UTC

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You're still conflating money, payments, settlement, and credit. This is why your replying with weird hot-air "fallacies" and metaphors.
Bitcoin does not need to scale (it could never) for every economic interaction on-chain. Layers, altcoins, stablecoins, etc, already concede that.
Bitcoin only needs to be censorship-resistant sovereign money with large-enough proof of work.
Lightning "scales" payments by reusing liquidity and delaying final settlement ... thanks to trusted unconfirmed transactions, not amazing protocol design.
Atomicity scales further by digitizing trust explicitly, so obligations can be routed, netted, and settled incidentally instead of pretending every meaningful economic act must be immediate final settlement. It's a mutual credit system. It coordinates trust where it exists, not as a last resort.
An occasional block increase does not solve for global retail, commerce, or finance. It just moves the bottleneck while increasing centralization pressure on validation and propagation.
The real fallacy is thinking Bitcoin failed because finance cannot be made fully trustless. Trust is not a bug in finance, nor for massively scalable payments. It is a requirement. Trust is the subject.
The gap is whether trust is explicit, contextual, and user-controlled, or, managed by institutions and platforms.
The next step is not pretending the base layer or LN should become Visa. The next step is building open payment and credit systems that preserves Bitcoin as the settlement anchor, to the degree its users require, not a crusade for Bitcoin domination.
#nevent1q…mhe9

2026-03-08 09:12:35 UTC

Minimizing Violence Through Systems Design
https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/0034RZVYA7780
https://blossom.primal.net/f59d89bab86e0e8a6c16441af94623799a9963016200ba17594bfdb7061e4175.png

2026-03-08 06:31:03 UTC

Good morning, you should be building on Pubky.

2026-03-07 06:53:23 UTC

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You have Bitcoin goggles on, so you deny yourself understanding.
"Bitcoin doesn't scale" is not a mantra, it is an objective fact that any rational engineer can observe about its design.
You can just use math; it isn't actually debatable. I will make anyone look like a fool for such beliefs if given a fair format.
Further, Bitcoiners have some retarded views on what things like money, payments, and settlements are, so they support dead-end research that appeals to their emotions and hopes.
You. Will. Never. Scale. Bitcoin. Trustlessly.
Thus you will always need to digitize trust explicitly.
It's your lack of creativity & experience that makes you think any of this is coping or naive.
I am offering a solution that maintains P2P sovereignty, not excuses.
#nevent1q…z2ek

2026-03-06 17:46:40 UTC

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I'll just build it and show you instead of try to explain it further. Have fun waiting for covenants or whatever it is you do.
Freedom can't compete without coordination and trust.

2026-03-05 18:55:01 UTC

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Do you actually know our design for our system, and specifically for how to employ P2P credit?

2026-02-28 14:29:46 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/bb113afe0d2fd561d5cabc89a88df06b3da24ffb412227e6f86bba0f542ecba1.png

2026-02-27 08:13:33 UTC

Everyone, except you, is tracking everything you do on the web, trying to infer everything about you.
Shouldn't you be tracking too?
Shouldn't you know as much as the people marketing to you, as the governments propagandizing you?
Why don't you?

2026-02-26 10:58:48 UTC

PKDNS provides the most decentralized identity and discovery system on the planet.
Key-based domain names that tell everyone where to find your data.
Use it.

2026-02-26 08:00:22 UTC

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You’re mixing up the bootstrap server with the actual architecture.
Yes, most users are on pubky.app right now. We’re early, so of course there’s a default host. That’s onboarding convenience, not a system dependency.
Your account isn’t “on pubky.app.”
Your identity lives via PKDNS in the millions of DHT nodes that do already exist. Your pubkey points to where your data is hosted, and that location is controlled by YOU.
So if you leave pubky.app, or Synonym's server, you don’t lose your identity, nor your continuity of threads, etc. You just point your key at a new homeserver (self-hosted, private, paid, all are supported). Same key, same social graph, new data location.
The DHT’s job is just like DNS. It answers “where do I find this user’s data?” It’s not meant to carry traffic or connect devices.
If Synonym disappeared tomorrow, users would lose a popular host, not their identities. They’d re-host, update their record, and carry on.
That’s we separate the parts:
- PKDNS
- homeservers
- indexers/apps
So decentralization isn’t “how many homeservers exist today,” it’s whether users are willing to self-host if no one else will host them.
The protocol itself, the entire system, is decentralized, but it supports centralization safely because PKDNS provides a credible exit path, unlike any other system.

2026-02-26 07:49:23 UTC

https://x.com/jturner/status/2026456244723044522?s=20

2026-02-22 13:16:18 UTC

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only an ignorant subhuman would think so

2026-02-22 11:19:37 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs0y32e8zcz0pa4nt6458nhneltww2vpp794x9fyxh3p8fgxf98r9ch4svwr

2026-02-22 11:18:59 UTC

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This was meant to quote this note, but Primal sucks so here: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspu9tps6dda9w7kxvyqcqqw7gekt90m0529a2edj7yqy2mnv8f0zssdujqz

2026-02-22 11:17:27 UTC

FREE OPEN fucking SOURCE FREEDOM fucking SOFTWARE
You are paranoid about its heritage? Are you a fucking puritan or something?
Do you even know my heritage?!
Who the hell are YOU to doubt me in the first place? Who fucking cares which retarded hang-ups you have about your backwards tribal way of thinking?
Why is it that when I make you feel uncomfortable about your SOFTWARE you respond by talking about me?
Why is this place such a fucking cesspool? Why do you all tolerate this, and support this behavior?
You think being a fucking memetard is a win? No, it's being a fucking meme! A fucking oversimplified idea made into a joke. Forgettable.
Stop with the "pleb" shit and take some fucking responsibility.
Your memes are stupid. You are stupid. You make everyone that supports you more stupid.
Being stupid and insignificant is not cool, it is a fucking psyop.
Holy fuck, grow the fuck up and suffer some fucking reality.
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE CAPABLE OF!

2026-02-22 09:13:20 UTC

A list of products you are probably neglecting as a Bitcoiner, and as a proponent of freedom software in general.
https://blossom.primal.net/6f652f81cbc62cf919c6493ce6a92735362c4dab3f196f3fc10cee39b7f95c95.png

2026-02-22 07:52:27 UTC

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You figured out that ignoring me is the safe strategy, surely you can figure out that ignoring Kratter and knotzis is all you need to do. You give them power when you say their names.

2026-02-21 11:01:06 UTC

Some people really are eerily consistent at being contra-indicators.

2026-02-19 20:57:09 UTC

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You’re still blending authority with attribution.
Bridge admins have no authority, agreed. They’re just reposting content. That’s precisely the problem with proxy identity. There is nothing binding the bridged account to the origin user beyond social assumption.
Pubky doesn’t grant bridges authority either. It removes the need for them to have any.
Authority comes from key control. Attribution comes from signatures. Discovery comes from resolving the user’s published endpoints.
If a bridge reposts ActivityPub content, you can verify:
• Did this originate from the user’s key?
• Does it resolve from their declared endpoints?
• Is it mirrored faithfully or modified?
If not, it’s just an unaffiliated repost, exactly as you described. The difference is it becomes trivially provable instead of socially ambiguous.
On your other questions:
DHT = Distributed Hash Table. Think of it as a decentralized key-value store. Instead of DNS mapping domains to IPs via registrars, pubky records map public keys to user-declared resource endpoints via the DHT.
And no, DNS is not limited to IP mapping. It’s a general record system. Pubky uses the same concept, just key-native and registrarless.
Compatibility with ActivityPub wouldn’t be about protocol replacement. It’s about identity resolution. ActivityPub actors could publish pubky (PKARR) records pointing to their canonical data, mirrors, or servers. Apps that resolve those records gain cryptographic attribution instead of trusting instance admins.

2026-02-19 16:47:26 UTC

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If you had a login bug I am happy to provide a free code, and happy to collect your bug report.

2026-02-19 11:36:27 UTC

Ha! Google published BoomerTabs :)
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/boomertabs/hmgjoneiakpbapigllgmgcaickalcjef

2026-02-19 11:13:43 UTC

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You need to isolate the problems you’re describing. You’re mixing impersonation, data integrity, and discovery into one bridge issue.
Your pubky (a public-key-signed DNS record in Mainline DHT) tells anyone where to find the canonical endpoints for your data. Any app can resolve those endpoints and verify it is looking at the user-designated source, even if that source is a trusted third party.
Integrity is a separate layer. If you want verifiable data, you still need explicit mechanisms such as cryptree structures, versioning, snapshots, mirrors, etc. Discovery does not replace integrity, it enables it.
If the complaint is: I trusted a third-party proxy account and now they are censoring or exploiting it, this gives you a way to set the record straight. You can publish canonical endpoints and authentic data. It does not and cannot prevent bad actors from continuing to impersonate you. Protocols cannot stop attempts at impersonation, they can only make authentic identity cryptographically distinguishable.
If the complaint is: impersonators exist, there is no digital way to prevent someone from copying your public data. The enforceable boundary is signature verification and canonical resolution. If an app refuses to verify, that is an application design choice, not a protocol limitation.
If the complaint is: I want trustless bridging inside legacy apps, then those apps must adopt identity resolution and verification models like this, or accept the tradeoffs of custodial bridges.
Not your key, not your account.

2026-02-18 15:26:12 UTC

Bitcoin is what happens when money stops asking who is in charge.

2026-02-18 14:53:47 UTC

If you watch this you will find that some people think I said some interesting things and that I wear interesting clothing
https://rumble.com/v75u0om-why-using-bitcoin-matters-real-world-use-cases-plan-forum.html

2026-02-15 17:13:20 UTC

Introducing BoomerTabs!
BoomerTabs is a Chrome extension for people who always have too many tabs open.
The goal was simple: make tab management faster and less annoying.
What it does best:
- Replaces tiny-labels with larger, readable tabs
- Supports multi-row layouts so you can actually see more
- Lets you drag, drop and organize tabs, including between rows
- Supports tab groups with color cues and inline collapse/expand
- Includes fast search so you can jump to the tab you need
- Handles zoom levels properly, so the UI doesn’t break at different scales
If your browser usually has dozens of tabs open, this makes a real difference!
https://github.com/BitcoinErrorLog/boomertabs
You have to install manually with the ZIP for now, but I did submit it to the Chrome Store for review!
(Yes, this is a Sunday vibe-coded project)
https://blossom.primal.net/6c2f29a7e59fda3869bc774b96a951f50f8e6aef073962fd7d7ac1eb93973cc0.png
https://blossom.primal.net/d7425c568b7f799ae563aa8572799fb22b039b13deffe484203ce24bbc2eb297.jpg

2026-02-14 15:32:57 UTC

The fact the dropping my iPhone is unlikely to break the glass gives me hope for humanity.

2026-02-14 00:02:37 UTC

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Okay, but you will be on Pubky eventually, may as well start now.

2026-02-12 09:44:37 UTC

When you choose bad role models, you choose a smaller life for yourself.

2026-02-12 09:43:12 UTC

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Ready when you are!
(well, give me a couple weeks, heading back to Portugal this weekend)

2026-02-12 09:42:00 UTC

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I think he is confusing you for how Odell won't talk to me due to conflicts of interest.
Either way, I am happy to talk about our work, or Bitcoin, with anyone!
Do you have your own show currently? Livestreams? I don't know what the current "scene" is.

2026-02-11 17:05:58 UTC

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1zqJVdjrWMlKB

2026-02-11 13:16:36 UTC

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Correct!

2026-02-11 12:09:53 UTC

Join us for a public Pubky Dev Call -- TODAY!
We’ll walk through recent updates, roadmap updates, and hear directly from the community.
- Pubky overview
- Pubky SDK walkthrough
- Events demo
- Homeserver Dashboard demo
- Q1/Q2 Roadmap
- Q&A
Google Meet:
https://meet.google.com/qfp-dihh-gbi
X stream:
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1zqJVdjrWMlKB
Starts in 5 hours from this post!
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2026-02-10 13:56:18 UTC

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Everybody is somebody in Pubky!
Don't worry, you dont have to pretend to enjoy nostr anymore.
We believe in you!

2026-02-10 13:49:50 UTC

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you should cry harder on pubky instead

2026-02-10 13:18:15 UTC

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Most of what we have shipped is for public-only use cases.
However, we are wrapping up work on a pubky-noise library this month, and related tools for our keychain and wallet. This unlocks private messages and related features for Pubky.
After that set of features ships, we'll be working on more access-control related features, maybe versioned data, etc.

2026-02-10 13:14:13 UTC

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You can say anything you want about Nostr!
It's okay for people to appreciate Nostr; it's cool in its own way, and has its own history and community.
But if I'm gonna spend money on building something, it is, and always was, (since before nostr existed), something else: the atomic economy.
I'm a man on a mission, and I have no loyalties to inferior technologies!

2026-02-09 09:09:24 UTC

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Nope. Read it.

2026-02-08 15:39:43 UTC

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Can he assume you read the article he linked first? The post exists to answer your exact questions.

2026-02-07 16:52:32 UTC

https://eventky.app/event/gabri5dk51q1c1kzi53hjpqw5yhmw1nqsryzsfx5kubd7jpm63jy/0034M8WQCPK20?instance=2026-02-11T18%3A00%3A37

2026-02-07 16:49:13 UTC

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🕺

2026-02-06 20:21:32 UTC

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https://github.com/pubky/pubky-backup is basic backups for now, and we have a Umbrel homeserver WIP here: https://github.com/francismars/homeserver-dashboard

2026-02-06 17:25:54 UTC

Bitcoin 101
https://bitkit.to
https://x.com/bitkitwallet/status/2019814845751914750?s=20

2026-02-06 12:35:11 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnnHprUGKF0

2026-02-06 12:26:47 UTC

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Is uses a "semantic social graph" for tagging URLs and keys.

2026-02-05 15:39:54 UTC

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You can have as many servers as you want. Just set up mirrors and add those to your pkarr record.
Nostr is a subset of Pubky capabilities.

2026-02-05 14:59:21 UTC

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Okay, now tell me about Mainline DHT and Pubky's protocol and how it fits in and why.

2026-02-05 14:58:36 UTC

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what happens in nostr if someone can't find your data in their relays? and how do they know whether they have all the data?

2026-02-05 14:57:36 UTC

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You switch to another one or host it yourself.

2026-02-05 12:25:06 UTC

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...
do you have something useful to say? or maybe a genuine question?

2026-02-05 12:06:37 UTC

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We surely dont test in your browser, hence the bug.
Surely this proves Nostr is superior and you are superior to all men.
Enjoy your bitter life.

2026-02-05 11:59:53 UTC

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Is this where you note some retarded privacy larp browser you use, and I tell you turn on JIT or whatever?

2026-02-05 11:58:05 UTC

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Is the indexer centralized?
Only in the sense that every server on earth needs to be run by someone, not the sense that everyone needs to use someone else's indexer.
You could also run your own indexer, for your own app, etc.
The identity network (Mainline DHT) is the most decentralized on Earth. The data model offers seamless portability. The aggregation model is modular.
You do not have a technical argument against this system because it was designed intentionally, not incidentally.

2026-02-05 11:53:43 UTC

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dominated*

2026-02-05 11:53:04 UTC

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Pubky identities have 10s of millions of nodes powering its censorship resistance. Mainline DHT is literally the largest, most decentralized network in the world.

2026-02-05 11:51:40 UTC

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Darth just has a grudge against me, so his judgment is a bit clouded.
I didn't cave to his abusive behavior, so he won't be nice til he feels like he denominated me, which is never gonna happen, so here we are!
Learn for yourself:
https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/0034M0VM2ETV0

2026-02-05 11:20:53 UTC

Learn something new today
#nevent1q…dayd

2026-02-05 11:18:44 UTC

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But don't worry, Saylor definitely has the bitcoins.
#nevent1q…kgzy

2026-02-04 21:12:24 UTC

Finding things in Pubky gets easier and easier the more people use it.

2026-02-04 19:56:38 UTC

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We have to agree to disagree then, because lack decentralized discovery ultimately results in a naive identity-key design.
Your point about persistence suffers the same weakness: that discovery ultimately relies on centralization in Nostr, so hosting it yourself does not provide any guarantee of being discovered without trust.

2026-02-04 18:19:46 UTC

Nostr vs Pubky: The Basics
https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/0034M0VM2ETV0

2026-02-04 15:04:19 UTC

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Pubky would let you literally filter out all those things in the middle so you don't have to go to a mountain.

2026-02-03 17:16:07 UTC

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I think everyone else still sees it 🤷‍♂️

2026-02-03 16:12:32 UTC

Is Nostr culture anti-innovation?
What happens if something truly better arrives, will you stay out of pride?

2026-02-03 11:32:55 UTC

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Pubky is now open!
Pubky SDK is ready to build with!
Pubky Ring let's you keep your keys cold!
https://pubky.app
https://medium.com/pubky/opening-pubky-4bdca7dc4c77
https://pubky.org

2026-02-03 11:32:36 UTC

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Pubky is now open!
Pubky SDK is ready to build with!
Pubky Ring let's you keep your keys cold!
https://pubky.app
https://medium.com/pubky/opening-pubky-4bdca7dc4c77
https://pubky.org

2026-02-03 11:31:48 UTC

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Pubky is now open!
Pubky SDK is ready to build with!
Pubky Ring let's you keep your keys cold!
https://pubky.app
https://medium.com/pubky/opening-pubky-4bdca7dc4c77
https://pubky.org

2026-02-03 11:31:24 UTC

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Pubky is now open!
Pubky SDK is ready to build with!
Pubky Ring let's you keep your keys cold!
https://pubky.app
https://medium.com/pubky/opening-pubky-4bdca7dc4c77
https://pubky.org

2026-02-03 11:31:11 UTC

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Pubky is now open!
Pubky SDK is ready to build with!
Pubky Ring let's you keep your keys cold!
https://pubky.app
https://medium.com/pubky/opening-pubky-4bdca7dc4c77
https://pubky.org

2026-02-03 11:03:31 UTC

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We dont test in niche browsers, but it should work fine in chrome or webkit - do you have something important disabled locally?

2026-02-03 09:12:32 UTC

Pubky is literally a permissionless protocol. This image represents our free hosting service.
Nostr users have blinders on to anything competitive, when they should be supportive and looking for people to team up with.
I have 13 years of history in these communities; never scamming, never lying, always trying to help and build open source stuff.
Why assume anything nefarious from me, ever? It is weird and makes things very awkward when you say incorrect things and FUD our work.
It makes no sense and makes nostr look like a pile of tribal cowards. Why would anyone want to be that?
Nostr is not Bitcoin, you dont have to pretend "maximalism" makes sense.
#nevent1q…mrn8

2026-02-03 02:52:23 UTC

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That is probably because nostr dm has been very broken in most apps for a long time, i spent a lot of time answering people back then

2026-02-03 01:30:52 UTC

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99.9%* of the time

2026-02-03 01:24:14 UTC

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You are confusing offline signing with online authentication.
Amber signs Nostr events locally because Nostr requires signing every event. Pubky does not. Pubky establishes revocable sessions so apps can authenticate without repeatedly touching the identity key. Ring needs network access to complete the login handshake, not to export keys or sign content.
You make a key, you sign in to a homeserver, you take the key offline, you are done.
No more keys needed until you want to sign in to another server or app.
You only need to be online to auth or update your server location. Otherwise the key is mostly not used.
Pubky allows actual cold keys that only need to be warmed if you move servers or add more apps. You can keep Ring offline 90% of the time.

2026-02-03 00:24:09 UTC

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You have no idea what you are talking about. Why are you expecting internet things to work without the internet?
If you are sincerely interested, research the tech or ask questions related to an actual use case.
Nothing in the world works lile Nostr because the nostr design is naive. Stop assuming better tech should resemble Nostr, it wont.
I cant be polite to someone whose only goal is to lazily pretend our work is evil, that's not how the world works.
Pubky.org

2026-02-02 22:46:34 UTC

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You clearly did not check at all.
Pubky does not work like Nostr.
Nostr signs every message with the identity key. Pubky signs PKARR to publish identity + endpoints, then uses revocable sessions to authenticate to any homeserver/app.
PKARR updates can be signed offline. The Pubky app is local-first. Network is for syncing/publishing, not for producing signatures.
So comparing Amber offline signing to Pubky is mixing layers, and a misunderstanding of the design.

2026-02-02 14:33:17 UTC

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