Derek Ross

The purple pill helps the orange pill go down.

Developer Relations at Soapbox.

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Last Notes

2026-08-08 15:25:24 UTC

My cousin is getting married in a few hours. That's the most significant thing happening today. Nothing else 🤓🥹

2026-08-08 13:05:55 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! 💜🤙🏻🫂

2026-08-08 03:32:01 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/jDJkh3w0wTAAAAAC/gregzaj1-ln_strike.gif

2026-08-08 03:31:38 UTC

Tomorrow will be quite interesting. Goodnight and wabi sabi, Nostr! 🫂🤙🏻💜

2026-08-08 03:21:34 UTC

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GM 🌄

2026-08-08 03:19:37 UTC

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Hah.

2026-08-07 23:17:12 UTC

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That's fine brother. We're still allowed to have different opinions around here 😂 Thank you Nostr 🤝🏻 And thank you for the kind words. I appreciate it.

2026-08-07 22:18:10 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/d4913deb2e2669949d82fb075b765708b05668569b218a6c48ad0cd131a5077d.jpeg

2026-08-07 22:01:28 UTC

Coldcard.
Boltz.
Zeus.
BTCPay Server.
It does feel like we're under attack. What other popular ecosystem tools could be next?
LND.
CLN.
LNBits.
Your app?
Secure them now. Use Kimi K3.
Update your repos with a SECURITY.md to help make contacting and contributions easier.

2026-08-07 21:32:31 UTC

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Most of our software is riddled with bugs. And it doesn't matter if they find 10 million bugs that result in zero funds lost. If they find just 1, just 1, the efforts are worth it to save the life savings of hard working people that are just trying to make their lives better.

2026-08-07 21:22:53 UTC

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Right? Like why would they do that 😅

2026-08-07 17:39:52 UTC

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More work to be done 🤝🏻

2026-08-07 16:53:27 UTC

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Yes. @npub160t…yjc9 sent me 6.15 bitcoin to advertise this fund savings feature.

2026-08-07 16:14:28 UTC

Upgrade your BTCPay Servers immediately to version 2.4.2.
There is a critical vulnerability being actively exploited on BTCPay Server, which can result in the loss of funds.
Please update your BTCPayServer to 2.4.2 by going to Admin Dashboard -> Server -> Maintenance -> Update & verify the 2.4.2 version string in the footer.
If you are unable to update right away, turn off your BTCPay Server to prevent unauthorized access until you can update.

2026-08-07 14:22:45 UTC

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👀👀👀 A good morning indeed.

2026-08-07 12:57:33 UTC

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GM. i remember these days. 1) im happy that i don't have them any longer 2) im sad i don't have them any longer.

2026-08-07 12:11:29 UTC

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! Happy Friday to those that celebrate! 🫂💜🤙🏻

2026-08-07 03:23:50 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/lNMyjjSWLYcAAAAd/my-man-my-man-denzel.gif

2026-08-07 03:03:34 UTC

👀
#nevent1q…62xh

2026-08-06 23:25:26 UTC

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Yes.

2026-08-06 23:24:45 UTC

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Got it! Thank you.

2026-08-06 22:38:37 UTC

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I'd be at a loss for words. 🫂🫂🫂

2026-08-06 22:05:20 UTC

Do you love TUI style interfaces? Do you love complex UXs that others hate? Are you a protocol geek? Are you a warlock? If you said yes to these questions then grimoire.rocks is for you!

2026-08-06 20:24:09 UTC

LOL https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqgxvatw9ec82mnrdpex7er0d3nx7qgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh85ctswd6x7un99ejx2aszyrrd3cp6a5lqhxalh3yg2ud83xmn33ex5rfvenn2pdrpj6luwd0kzqcyqqq8uzccavk4h

2026-08-06 18:13:23 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/f06bf0f7f0911448a1a54fe12d2a16c3a09289e7071a5fb0c00ab74003dabe3c.png

2026-08-06 17:43:46 UTC

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Some people, including me, abandoned our faith. We must bring it back and band together in our time of need.

2026-08-06 17:43:11 UTC

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https://blossom.ditto.pub/72eb06424a9d37c82736b5655737d52f42fdcc60aad59992154976c2b0474398.gif

2026-08-06 17:41:53 UTC

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Nostriches love 🫂

2026-08-06 17:37:04 UTC

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Yes. I took mine off 3 years ago.

2026-08-06 17:36:21 UTC

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Been in two today so far 😄 I was on Nostr Compass recently and Bitcoin Walk earlier this morning.

2026-08-06 17:31:22 UTC

I think we gotta bring laser eyes back.

2026-08-06 17:29:55 UTC

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Big Squishy has gotten to you.

2026-08-06 17:20:23 UTC

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squishes are dumb. my kids have like 30 of them. probably more. so dumb.

2026-08-06 16:32:51 UTC

who wants to see @npub13af…hxdh stream?
https://blossom.ditto.pub/8ebc13672e464ea3d9c105f00882cf9d7e8eca32bc08a1585ad79037d2b2d5ea.png

2026-08-06 16:19:48 UTC

This is why you need to do this if you're trying to move your Coldcard funds. They're watching and waiting to snipe your funds. nevent1qgsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqqyrkt8thrvv7v68wqpfftjyq356kqq4873sj99fmztn8lgz7kxw2v5qwcs73
#nevent1q…522f

2026-08-06 15:43:02 UTC

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What's that skill do 🤓

2026-08-06 13:58:22 UTC

what new ai skills are you using?

2026-08-06 13:39:15 UTC

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GM PV BB! 🫂🫂🫂

2026-08-06 13:14:21 UTC

1 podcast recording down, 1 to go!

2026-08-06 13:13:51 UTC

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hell yeah. real ones remember the daily note for 3 years stragiht.

2026-08-06 11:52:34 UTC

good morning and pura vida, nostr! it's time to record a podcast! 🫂💜🤙🏻

2026-08-06 11:51:57 UTC

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one man's dumb is another man's conspiracy theory.

2026-08-06 03:47:39 UTC

GN Nostr. Build something amazing. 🫂💜🤙🏻

2026-08-06 02:36:04 UTC

Big Buzz PR. Fingers crossed. I created my own open source markdown file editor 9 months ago and have been using it daily within my agentic workflow. If I'm moving that workflow over to Buzz, I need documents, and I think others would like document viewing, editing, and creation too, in an environment that deals with a multitude of markdown files. https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/4997

2026-08-06 02:25:13 UTC

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I shake a lot of hands 👀

2026-08-06 02:24:45 UTC

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Have your agent do the hardwork 😅

2026-08-06 01:59:41 UTC

Leaving GitHub can be hard, but it's not impossible. You just gotta do it one repo at a time. Here's our story and the tools we're using. https://soapbox.pub/blog/leaving-github

2026-08-06 01:49:29 UTC

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this is the way. create and IoT jail and let them have their fun in their own playground.

2026-08-06 01:48:43 UTC

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awesome. thanks for sharing!

2026-08-06 01:42:32 UTC

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glad to see you come around :) I use Coinos for a few projects and I've always had good experiences with them. and the fact that they're going to use Ark? that's bad ass! is it the Second version of Ark? :P

2026-08-06 01:02:11 UTC

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Coinos didn't shutdown their Boltz instance like everyone else? Wait a second. And since when do you like Coinos? Where's the real Daniel?

2026-08-05 21:24:16 UTC

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Correct. I have an IoT network jail.

2026-08-05 21:14:54 UTC

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Many people have these with their cheap IoT devices 😬

2026-08-05 19:31:15 UTC

people are unplugging their Blockclocks out of an abundance of caution. i probably would too. i wanted one, but couldn't bring myself to spend the sats.

2026-08-05 17:24:08 UTC

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if this is all true then he would have believed that 4.0.1 had fixed the entropy bug when it fact that was when it was introduced. he can't do both.

2026-08-05 16:19:59 UTC

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A couple people tried, but not hard enough.

2026-08-05 16:10:03 UTC

Sometimes there is no conspiracy and shit just fails. It's the world we live in. It's not perfect. We know this. We shouldn't assume that the world magically went perfect momentarily before said thing failed.

2026-08-05 16:08:22 UTC

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I would have almost believed this until you said most contested fork on Bitcoin history 😂 You have been led down the wrong path. 2% of the network has signaled for it. That's not contested. That's a minority. A very small voice that has not realized that BIP-110 is a terrible joke that doesn't work.
That said, the certificate has been renewed. I assumed that it was low priority given that they have been under attack for a week.
As a systems administrator myself, I will absolutely forget to renew a fucking certificate manually as I am trying to defend the rest of my entire infrastructure. Priorities.

2026-08-05 16:03:43 UTC

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October 17th.

2026-08-05 15:11:24 UTC

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😂 side event at Nostr Valley in two months? @nprofile…2sgp

2026-08-05 14:18:15 UTC

new conference in the works lol
#nevent1q…qtz8

2026-08-05 14:18:03 UTC

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okay this sounds like a fun time. who's planning it?

2026-08-05 14:09:12 UTC

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office space style lol

2026-08-05 14:08:51 UTC

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Truth.

2026-08-05 13:08:36 UTC

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Good morning 🌄

2026-08-05 03:55:01 UTC

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I see. Have you seen Odell's statements on this? Either way it's still a terrible situation. I didn't roll dice, but I had a complex passphrase on my MK4s
Also, I've been telling my non technical family members and friends for years to use BitKey, which might be considered collaborative custody. I think it's good for normies. No CIA agent or company has paid me to say that.

2026-08-05 02:57:27 UTC

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nostr getting mainstream adoption is wild :)

2026-08-05 02:56:20 UTC

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slack was cool af 10 years ago. now it's terrible.

2026-08-05 02:56:05 UTC

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a failure? how? it's the most popular project on github over the last two weeks, near daily every day.

2026-08-05 02:55:20 UTC

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it's a slack alternative with agentic workflow built in. it's been the most popular project on github since announcement two weeks ago. and it's built on nostr!

2026-08-05 02:17:04 UTC

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hell yeah brother. what's the most popular item right now?

2026-08-05 02:07:15 UTC

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i assume he's radio silence for legal reasons. who knows?

2026-08-05 02:06:56 UTC

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im not really seeing any of that. perhaps im missing the apologists. examples?

2026-08-05 02:05:17 UTC

Buzz v0.5.5 gets a built in terminal.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/59eb24d81b51c6a6ee29b710d1c4d5f770a6c06603535945261044cae2b33290.png

2026-08-05 01:24:43 UTC

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But you just said they're going to be in lawsuits?

2026-08-05 01:21:59 UTC

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What had OpenSats done to be sued?

2026-08-04 23:56:05 UTC

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WTF.

2026-08-04 21:17:17 UTC

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It's a little of both isn't it 😂

2026-08-04 21:02:56 UTC

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No period
https://github.com/Coldcard/firmware/commit/37e4af5451c260c1e7d429fe8972c4cb5e68ee59

2026-08-04 20:32:48 UTC

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That is kind of funny 😅

2026-08-04 20:23:37 UTC

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no need to apologize. this is well said.

2026-08-04 20:22:40 UTC

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nope. he was always kind.

2026-08-04 19:25:20 UTC

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now i just want some good chocolate

2026-08-04 19:22:39 UTC

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lol

2026-08-04 19:20:05 UTC

can't hack a yellow rock.
#nevent1q…xq47

2026-08-04 19:19:31 UTC

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yeah, that's really odd... that said, a friend of mine from Toronto told me that he's met Peter several times at local meetups.

2026-08-04 19:18:14 UTC

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mf.

2026-08-04 19:16:48 UTC

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people use products for various reasons from the management team, to customer service, to quality of devices, to locale of the company, etc. it's impossible to find something that checks every single box.

2026-08-04 18:51:46 UTC

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hah. npubx.cash is boned at the moment.

2026-08-04 18:51:02 UTC

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oh. thank you. that could be the issue.

2026-08-04 18:50:13 UTC

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im not going to blame Odell or other 'podcasters' that recommended Coldcard. that *too* would be a dick move.

2026-08-04 18:00:18 UTC

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2026-08-04 17:40:34 UTC

Oh no. Moonshot now has a credit card to earn Kimi tokens.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/5dfcc287a523f03dc75c93dd7157f141989c2f697ea1e94f6f204f18fae7ff80.png

2026-08-04 17:33:41 UTC

Armada 0.46.0 is out!
Concord communities get disappearing messages: a community-wide timer, set at creation or in community settings, that expires messages for everyone and lets relays purge them too. Channels can be grouped into categories and dragged into order, new text channels default to private, and invite links are limited to owners and admins. Discover gains a theme creator and paints faster, and channels, threads, DMs and message links are all addressable by URL.
Added
Disappearing messages in Concord communities, with a notice in each channel when staff change the timer
Channel categories: group channels, manage categories from the sidebar, and drag channels to reorder or file them
A theme creator in Discover
Revoke all of your own invite links for a community at once
Add members to a private channel from the member sidebar
A public chat link page for a person, so someone who isn't on Armada sees who they'd be talking to and can join
Share an image straight from the lightbox
AND MORE! https://zapstore.dev/apps/buzz.armada.app

2026-08-04 17:26:25 UTC

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Incorrect. For example, I have never met @nprofile…xcpk and I like using Amber and shill Amber every time I get.
Use Amber.

2026-08-04 17:06:29 UTC

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I wish I had a local meetup. It would be like a support group right now 😂

2026-08-04 17:05:42 UTC

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Subjective.

2026-08-04 17:05:34 UTC

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I don't think so. I always tell people what I'm using and why I like it. I talk about my passions and educate people on them. I've been doing this my entire life. Bitcoin is no different.

2026-08-04 17:04:15 UTC

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I'm just talking to on the voices in my head.
That said, I think you have them blocked. That's how it works on the Nostr.

2026-08-04 16:35:53 UTC

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It's not like we were close friends or anything like that. I don't think I've seen him in 2 years... But yes. I'd absolutely love to sit down and have a chat with him about a lot of this.