Dikaios1517

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│Christian│Husband│Father│Presbyterian│Bitcoiner│

In that order.

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2026-03-26 17:01:44 UTC

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We have @nprofile…3acz and @nprofile…6qh0 who are probably the most active with gaming content.

2026-03-25 00:51:26 UTC

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I would submit to you that though you say this, you do not actually behave this way.
This requires understanding that human authority is not unilateral, though. It is delegated and limited to specific contexts. For instance, when you go to a friend's home, you recognize their authority to set boundaries for what they will let you do and where in their home they will allow you to go, and you recognize that if you don't abide by his boundaries, he has every right to kick you out. You are the guest and they are the resident, so they have some legitimate authority over their home, but only in that context. The authority is reversed if that same friend comes to your home.
The same is true for parenting. It is contextual authority, not unilateral, and it should change over time as a child matures and demonstrates the ability to make responsible decisions. A parent must exercise much more authority over a 2-year-old than a 12-year-old. Eventually, parents do not have an authority role over their children at all, but only advisory.
A Christian perspective does not permit me to reject all forms of human authority as illegitimate, because God's Word commands me otherwise. You may not agree with a Christian worldview, and that's fine, but I submit my own thinking to God's revelation. For instance:
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise), that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land. Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." - Ephesians 6:1-4
"Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you." - Hebrews 13:17
"So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders." - 1 Peter 5:1-5a
"We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work." - 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13a
Paul, writing to Titus, a fellow minister of the gospel whom Paul had left in Crete to get the new churches there fully established: "Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you."
And then the ones that we really buck against:
"Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good." - 1 Peter 2:13-14
"Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment." - Romans 13:1-2
Nevertheless, we know that these commands to obey those in legitimate authority over us are not blanket requirements to do whatever they tell us, no matter what, because Scripture gives us examples of those who were commended for resisting ungodly authorities. For example:
Peter and John told the Jewish religious leaders, who tried to force them to stop preaching about Jesus, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard." - Acts 4:19-20
Later, again before the Jewish religious leaders, Peter and the other apostles were questioned again about why they continued teaching in the name of Jesus, and they responded, "We must obey God rather than men." Acts 5:29
Also, Pharaoh ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill every male infant born to a Hebrew woman, "but the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live." That is, they disobeyed his authority because it contradicted God's revealed will, and we are told that they were commended for it: "So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families." - Exodus 1:15-21
There are many more examples that I could cite of people being commended for disobeying human authorities when ordered by them to go against God's revealed will. Therefore, in order to hold all of what Scripture says in balance, those with a Christian worldview must conclude that God has put in place legitimate human authorities that have authority within the context or sphere that God has placed them, but that God himself is the only ultimate and unilateral authority, and therefore we must obey him rather than human authorities at any point where these delegated authorities overstep their bounds by opposing, contradicting, or becoming more restrictive than God.
Again, though, if you don't hold to a Christian worldview, there is no reason to accept what God's Word has to say on the matter. Yet, I think you still likely recognize legitimate authority in various contexts within your own life, even if you claim otherwise.

2026-03-24 21:40:59 UTC

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Interesting, I have never attempted installing anything through Zapstore's website, only through the app.

2026-03-24 21:39:30 UTC

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You have two options: 1. Lie to them to pass UAT, or 2. Tell them their expectations are unrealistic and every service they currently use has the same issue, whether they realize it or not. If they aren't going to use what you have made because it can't guarantee deletion, then they should be consistent and opt out of absolutely everything else as well.
It is impossible to prove the non-existence of anything, and that is just as true in this context as it is in philosophy.

2026-03-24 18:32:33 UTC

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You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless untill they rest in you." - Augustine of Hippo

2026-03-24 17:53:24 UTC

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Yes, I remember that article. Was this it?
#naddr1qv…ejkx

2026-03-24 16:54:13 UTC

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There's honestly not much to figure out. Download the APK from GitHub and install it. Android might prompt you to allow installation from unknown sources if you've never installed an app this way before. Then Zapstore will appear in your apps list. Open it and it is incredibly straightforward for finding and installing apps. You will have to allow Zapstore as an unknown source as well the first time you install an app from it.

2026-03-23 18:08:34 UTC

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I prefer indoctrinating, but yes. Happily so.

2026-03-23 17:58:27 UTC

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As a father and a Christian I raise my children to understand that the only legitimate forms of human authority have been delegated by God and they become illegitimate to the extent that they opposes, contradicts, or becomes more restrictive than him. In short, it is better to obey God rather than men, but God does put people in legitimate authority over us. Nevertheless we should respect and obey them only insofar as they are in conformity with God's revealed will.

2026-03-22 15:29:44 UTC

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@nprofile…7ysa is great for webapps on mobile. If you're on Android, you can pair it with Amber via NIP55, and webapps will treat it like you are using a browser extension.

2026-03-22 14:57:49 UTC

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ColdCard has an indicator light that lets you know if the firmware running on it doesn't have a matching binary to an official release, but that's the only one I know of for sure. Moreover, that protects you from someone AFTER the manufacturer flashing malicious firmware to your device; it does not protect you from the manufacturer themselves.

2026-03-18 01:04:02 UTC

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I used it primarily for the stats; relay stats, active users, and individual stats like zaps and such. Not something I would expect to see in other Nostr clients.

2026-03-17 16:01:16 UTC

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Absolutely agree. It was Satoshi's equivalent of the 95 Theses, released the same day to make a statement.
Luther, via the printing press and the translation of Scripture into the language of the common man, unleashed something that could not be stopped, because every household could have a copy of God's Word that they could read and understand.
Bitcoin has done the same thing for money by allowing virtually anyone to have a copy of the full ledger and verify the state of that ledger for themselves.
How do I KNOW that Jesus is Lord? Not because the church told me so, but because I can read it for myself directly from the Bible.
How do I KNOW that there will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin? Not because I trusted the word of some civil magistrate that he won't inflate the money supply, but because I can verify the supply on my own node and I know I won't update to a version that alters the issuance schedule.

2026-03-14 18:28:44 UTC

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The test should be enough on its own, though. A relay that require's AUTH should not serve any requests for kind 1059 without first sending an AUTH request, right?

2026-03-14 17:47:47 UTC

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Outbox is write. Inbox is read.

2026-03-12 20:58:45 UTC

Another day, another #Wisp update.
Incredible work on this client @nprofile…jejf !

2026-03-12 03:52:22 UTC

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On a side note, I got to try some cougar meat for the first time, too.

2026-03-12 03:51:14 UTC

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Was a good time. We were intending to cover chapters 21-24 or maybe even 25 tonight. Yeah... We only made it through 21.
Spent a lot of time on why we structure Lord's day worship the way we do, and the continuing relevance of the 4th commandment for Christians.

2026-03-02 20:14:52 UTC

My note is no longer top of the feed on Wisp!
Client keeps getting better and better!
Thanks @nprofile…jejf !

2026-03-02 16:44:16 UTC

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Still trying to send and receive between White Noise and White Noise.

2026-03-01 15:52:30 UTC

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Thank you for the shout out and the kind words, my friend!
Completely understand where you're coming from. Do what you need to do for your own wellbeing.

2026-03-01 05:02:34 UTC

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Pretty sure that's the intention behind them being hash addressable, right?

2026-03-01 04:30:59 UTC

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Clients won't fetch the blobs from the new server when they can't find it on the old one?

2026-02-28 19:55:31 UTC

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Was thinking the same thing. 😂

2026-02-27 18:25:32 UTC

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Very nice! I have no room for adding new physical books to my bookshelf (I can only fit one at this time), so I have been sticking to digital books for now. Driving me crazy because I much prefer physical.

2026-02-27 06:02:57 UTC

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Freerse is still being worked om?

2026-02-27 04:17:37 UTC

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LunaNode

2026-02-27 03:23:38 UTC

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Yeah, Amethyst properly ignores future-dated notes.

2026-02-27 02:07:16 UTC

I am still immortalized on Wisp, and any other client that doesn't ignore future-dated notes.
#nevent1q…wnmd

2026-02-27 02:05:48 UTC

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Is the "Extended" feed just the next layer out of WoT from a user's follows?

2026-02-27 02:01:07 UTC

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Grab the latest release.
https://github.com/barrydeen/wisp/releases/tag/v0.1.2-alpha

2026-02-27 01:33:50 UTC

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Gotta say, it's really good already.
I did have it crash a few times earlier this morning, but it has bern very stable all afternoon. Makes me think there must have been a note in my feed that it wasn't handling well and isn't an issue now that it is buried beyond the number of posts that Wisp loads.
Wallet setup was really easy. Amber login was smooth. It handles notifications really well. The UI is really nice. Intuitive and attractive.
There are still some things to be worked on, but I have no doubt @nprofile…jejf can deliver.

2026-02-26 18:55:53 UTC

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Any plans to improve search, particularly relating to user results?
https://relay.brightbolt.net/bef4b0d365e7112ba388a221ae5375baa190a96bc46c628ad11425a9045d6f3c.jpg https://relay.brightbolt.net/444dd0d715fa43ffe095447a3bf2816b723d65eb638326f67d97e6d9cb87f3c4.jpg

2026-02-26 17:58:23 UTC

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Should probably ignore future-dated notes. 😉
https://relay.brightbolt.net/dcf3447e2fe407b41de0448ca9f1070315557396edc017b92333d881f1918689.jpg

2026-02-25 22:56:01 UTC

@nprofile…radp now has NIP-55 login and a LARGE changelog! Anyone want to give ot a try with me?

2026-02-22 00:52:48 UTC

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*Came to Android.
https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qqt8gmm0d3ejuun9d3shjtnjv4kxz7t5dahkcuczyp7vx29q3hdj4l0elxl800hlfjp538le09epsf7k9zj59ue2y37quqcyqqq8uzcutgh5r
More options are ALWAYS welcome, though!

2026-02-21 23:12:31 UTC

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This reminds me of my response to @nprofile…d5tl back when there was a lot of discussion about whether to just start calling sats bitcoins. He asked what the fuss was all about, and asked "if it ain't broken, why fix it?"
Here's what I said to steelman the argument and then give my reason why I am not on board with it yet:
#nevent1q…pjma

2026-02-20 23:28:48 UTC

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It's 2026! Why the heck didn't they at least go with NIP-17!?

2026-02-17 19:52:39 UTC

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Reply you sent or reply you received?
I think Amethyst handles replies differently regardless. It should be fetching replies others send you from your inbox relays and sending your replies to your outbox relays.
The proxy relays are for loading your feed of original posts, if I understand correctly.

2026-02-17 19:43:53 UTC

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I've noticed that Amethyst still shows I am connecting to hundreds of relays, but every post only shows that the note was found on one of my proxy relays, and the app definitely feels like it loads faster, especially profile information.

2026-02-17 04:58:05 UTC

Changed my Amethyst setup to use a couple proxy relays and WOW what a difference!
Much faster and more stable, and profiles actually load so I know which of my follows posted the note.
My proxies: aggr.nostr.land and my own WoT relay.
Yes, I lose out on the outbox model for fetching notes from my follows' relays, but the tradeoff is worth it for actually having a functional app.

2026-02-17 04:51:07 UTC

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In my experience, there is usually a direct and inverse relationship between a person's disdain for Calvin and his lack of familiarity with church history in general.

2026-02-17 04:40:59 UTC

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But ser, he burned Servetus at the stake! How can you support such a monster? /s

2026-02-16 19:29:37 UTC

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It is. It's a library for all sorts of self-published books, and they've been uploading public domain classics as well.
It looks like your project is just for your own publications, which is absolutely fine. It's similar to having a blog website for just your own articles, but for books instead. And because you aren't relying on someone else's client, you can have complete control over what the site looks like and how the chapters are displayed. Very handy.
I do something similar with my long form articles, using npub.pro so I can have a website to send people to and they will only see what I have written, rather than being bombarded with all the articles that have recently been published, regardless of author.
It looks like you opted to use a custom note kind for this, which is a good choice, since it means your chapters won't pop up on every long form client out there. They'll only be viewable on your custom client.
I probably would have gone a different route, though. I would have used Alexandria's kind 30040 and kind 30041, since those are intended for book publishing, with each chapter being a separate note (30041) and then an index note that associates them together in the correct order (30040). That way you can still have your custom client that only displays your own publications, but people would also be able to read your book, or stumble upon it and start reading it, on Alexandria as well.
This would have accomplished all the goals you stated above, while also taking advantage of the interoperability superpower that Nostr has, allowing the same content to exist on any client that can display the appropriate note kind.

2026-02-16 02:38:48 UTC

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So... Project Alexandria remake?
https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/

2026-02-12 16:54:02 UTC

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Nothing new. Anything in particular you're trying to achieve by updating your setup?

2026-02-12 05:52:38 UTC

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Nose to the grindstone with seminary. Still keeping an eye on how things are going round here, though.

2026-02-12 05:49:59 UTC

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2026-02-05 20:45:45 UTC

"Wear you out" is over. "Scare you out" has arrived.

2026-02-05 03:03:16 UTC

When I tell people that progressive sanctification looks like a Bitcoin price chart, it's times like these that keep the statement accurate.

2026-01-17 20:58:29 UTC

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Depends on your definition of "client."
#naddr1qv…re6k

2026-01-17 19:23:25 UTC

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Coracle.social or Jumble.social mostly.

2026-01-13 18:14:01 UTC

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"Centralize around relays" is a mischaracterization, I think. There are over 900 known relays, all being administered by different individuals. Many users run their own relays, at minimum for backing up their own notes, if not as personal outbox/inbox relays. More people could run their own relays, but assume it is harder than it really is. Tools like Nostr Relay Tray make it incredibly easy to run a relay from a home PC.
It may not be as fully decentralized as P2P would be, but it is a far cry from centralized. Not unless you would characterize Bitcoin as making the same mistake by "centralizing around nodes," because not everyone who uses Bitcoin runs a node, but instead rely on someone else's node.
I'd say that both Bitcoin and Nostr strike a good balance between ease of use and decentralization. Anyone just coming in is not required to run a node or a relay to participate, but we keep building tools to make it easier and easier for people to do so when they understand the benefits.
You say I point to Tor as a good solution. I think you may have misunderstood. Tor is the only available solution to allow you to use Citrine as an outbox relay others can read from, but not necessarily a good one. It only works if your audience is using a client that can access relays over Tor, such as Amethyst. As a result, your potential audience size is greatly reduced.
As you mentioned, though, people can and should post to multiple (at least 3) relays, with three of them being announced as their outbox relays where their notes can reliably be found. That allows people to find their notes, even if they don't have the ability to connect to the phone relay over Tor, or because the phone isn't able to connect to the internet, etc.
I think a relay on the phone is much better as a local-first relay, though, that pulls in notes from other relays for the relay owner to read in their favorite client, and that blasts their own notes out to other relays, keeping a local copy. This would allow users to browse notes and post their own, even if they are currently offline, and the relay will automatically broadcast their notes once they have signal or WiFi, and pull in more notes for their feed. I believe this is the approach that Damus is taking, but I am not sure if that built-in relay will be accessible by other clients running on the same device, or if it will only be available to Damus itself. If the latter, then I would much prefer to use a dedicated relay on the phone like Citrine than to use a client-specific relay for each and every client, which would each be independently retrieving notes and sapping bandwidth, storage space, and battery life.

2026-01-13 08:25:13 UTC

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I believe the goal for Damus is to have a local-first integrated relay.
Android has one you can run on your phone that works with any native client you also run on your phone, thanks to @npub1w4u…0jr5 . It's called Citrine.
Not sure which approach I think is best. If you only use one client, then building it into the client might be the way to go. If you use multiple clients, then building it into every one of them doesn't make sense. Better to have a separate relay app that all of them can access.
When it comes to having a relay that others can read YOUR notes from, the difficulty is in securely exposing a local service to the broader internet, and the fact that even at their best, phones have limited bandwith, battery life, and intermittent internet connection. It is much better to run an outbox relay on a server than on a phone. Though, technically, you CAN use Citrine as an outbox relay when paired with Orbot, but it would only be accessible by others via Tor, which would be audience limiting.

2026-01-12 20:28:32 UTC

It's easy to forget how far you've come in your #Bitcoin journey, until you start helping someone who's new remember how to send a transaction from their self-custody wallet.
Concepts that seem basic to me now are completely foreign to newcoiners. Things as straightforward as, "Your hardware wallet can't sign for a transaction you haven't imported into it yet, because every signature is unique to the transaction it is signing for."

2026-01-12 18:57:37 UTC

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Definitely. Nice and warm here in the lodge, though.

2026-01-12 18:43:31 UTC

View from my "office" today:
https://relay.brightbolt.net/ae51265e472d4d6c55f18b83dd292c9c7ff33bdd69899dafb1c6835b8b34048b.jpg

2026-01-12 18:31:55 UTC

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Is NIP-46 finally getting more reliable?

2026-01-12 18:27:36 UTC

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Have you checked your wallet to see if the zaps are coming out despite Amethyst's UI not showing it? Sometimes I would have that issue, but the zaps were actually going through, just not displaying as completed until I closed and re-opened Amethyst.
Aside from that, you can remove your NWC connection from Amethyst and re-add it, so long as you still have the connection string saved somewhere.

2026-01-12 03:03:58 UTC

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Not sure if he's still actively working on improvements, but @nprofile…vyxv is the guy you want to hit up if there are changes you want to see that would make longform.space better.
I haven't tried out Habla again since the recent updates, but longform.space was my favorite for publishing my last few articles.
Reading, though? I would agree that Primal is top dog right now.

2026-01-08 20:17:24 UTC

Lately, #Coracle and #Yakihonne have been the most consistent clients on #Android for actually showing me when I have notifications.
#Amethyst has really been letting me down in that regard. #Pokey has usually bridged the gap, but not always.

2026-01-08 19:08:36 UTC

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I run both.
My Start9 is my Bitcoin and Lightning node. I run everything Bitcoin related on it, and nothing else. So Bitcoin, mempool, electrum server, DATUM, JAM, UTXOracle, LND & CLN lightning nodes, Alby Hub, and a watch only wallet in Sparrow.
My Umbrel is my homeserver, running Nextcloud, Photoprism, Calibre Web, Audiobookshelf, Jellyfin, AdGuard, a Synapse server for a Matrix community, and various other non-Bitcoin related tools that I use on a regular basis.
Why I set things up this way:
Currently, Umbrel has a much wider selection of apps and is easier to connect to remotely, since it has Tailscale and Nginx Proxy Manager alongside the Tor option. Meanwhile, Start9 has a good selection of Bitcoin related apps, but not a great selection outside of that, and until we get StartOS version 4.0, it doesn't have any option for connecting remotely except Tor and Nostr Wallet Connect; the latter of which is only useful for connecting to your Lightning wallet. Additionally, it's just a good idea to run everything Bitcoin related on a separate device than you run everything else to reduce the surface area of possible compromise of sensitive information.

2026-01-08 18:52:16 UTC

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How followers are sorted/displayed to you is going to be different from client to client. Typically I have seen them sorted by the order you followed them. I have not come across a client that will display them based on when they last posted anything.
However, if your goal is to unfollow inactive users, there are a couple tools out there for just that.
https://unfollow.yeghro.com/
and
https://www.plebsvszombies.cc/

2026-01-08 05:41:11 UTC

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Thanks! On winter break for another week and a half, then back to the grind.

2026-01-07 21:36:50 UTC

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Not sure on the video, but one good resource for freedom focused alternatives is kycnot.me
Another great privacy focused resource is https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

2026-01-04 00:14:19 UTC

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Nice pipe!

2025-12-18 08:53:38 UTC

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I am assuming that "free for anyone to use" is what you meant by permissionless. They are each centralized and moderated services. The only way for a blossom server to be truly permissionless is for the user to run their own.

2025-12-16 19:11:04 UTC

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100% agree. Users should have some indication that the event will be protected, and ideally a way to select whether or not they want the event to be protected when they write to a single relay.

2025-12-07 02:50:58 UTC

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Not sure about other clients, but I seem to remember Primal being one of the worst about nuking follow lists.
This may be related to how the Primal client works when compared with other Nostr clients. Most Nostr clients check for your relay list from one or more popular indexer relays, which pull these lists in from other known relays, then look for all your other notes from the relays you listed. This way the clients are looking for your notes where YOU have stated they should be able to be found.
Primal doesn't do this. Instead, the clients only read from Primal's caching server, which itself attempts to aggregate all notes from all known relays. If your follow list, which is just a kind 3 note, never makes it onto Primal's caching server for whatever reason, the Primal app is not going to look for it on your relays at all. It's just going to create a new follow list for you, overwriting your old one on the relays you normally write to.

2025-12-06 19:29:18 UTC

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There are some things about how self-custody lightning works that are notoriously difficult to obfuscate away in order to provide a good experience for non-technical users.
Phoenix wallet comes about as close as possible, but the tradeoff is footguns when the user runs out of inbound liquidity in their channel and they end up with a much larger transaction fee than they were expecting, because they had no idea they even HAD a channel, or how to manage its liquidity.
Some liquidity management can be automated, but nothing really solves the lack of remaining inbound liquidity issue. And that is a concept that many non-technical folks can't even wrap their minds around, let alone want to try and manage for themselves.

2025-11-11 04:04:58 UTC

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Yeah, that's the closest thing I have found. Not sure if all square retailers are represented there, though. It's specifically about places you can buy gift cards for, but there are some places I know use Square that don't show up there, which tells me that, too, is not fully inclusive of all Square merchants in the area.
That said, it's definitely a good place to start. I am planning to hit up a few local places tomorrow.

2025-11-10 22:15:52 UTC

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Every hop in a lightning transaction is an update to a legit on-chain transaction signed by both of the channel partners and which either of them could broadcast at any time to put it on-chain. The fact that it doesn't get broadcast until the channel is closed does not make it any less a legit on-chain transaction.
Lightning is absolutely Bitcoin.

2025-11-09 03:20:24 UTC

@npub1der…xzpc , read.withboris.com is really slick!
Thank you for vibing it into existence!

2025-11-07 17:34:23 UTC

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I stand corrected.
Thank you.

2025-11-06 09:08:42 UTC

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Signing stuff on Nostr can be done a few different ways. Remote signing is one of them. Signer extensions are another.
Here's a basic rundown.
Bare Nsec Signing - This is when you give the Nostr client (YakiHonne, Damus, Primal, etc.) your nsec directly, so the client itself can sign anything it needs to (or wants to) with or without your express permission. This is dangerous, because the more apps you hand your nsec out to, the more likely that it could end up compromised. This could happen due to giving your nsec to a malicious application, or just due to a completely unintentional bug in the client's code. Don't give Nostr clients your nsec if you can at all avoid it.
Browser Extension Signers - This signing method is detailed in NIP-07, and it is a standard signing method for almost ALL Nostr web clients. That is, clients you access via your web browser. Using this method, your nsec is stored locally on your device, and the Nostr web client sends signing requests to the extension, which uses your nsec to sign those requests, but that signing operation is all happening locally on the device you are using. This is much better than giving a Nostr client your bare nsec, since only one application has your private key instead of potentially hundreds. However, it has the downside that it can't really be used with any other Nostr clients except ones you access via your web browser.
On iOS, one app that uses this signing method is @npub1h0u…rwx8. I highly recommend it for all of your Nostr web client needs.
Remote Signing/Bunkers - This signing method is detailed in NIP-46, and unlike Browser Extension Signers, it can be used with any type of Nostr client, so long as they have added support for it, both web clients and native apps. It is called "Remote Signing" because the application holding your nsec may or may not be on the same device as the Nostr client you are using, and which is making signing requests to the signer application. The trade-offs of using a remote signer will vary greatly based on which one you use. For instance, if you are using nsec.app, you are entrusting your nsec to a server you don't control and you are trusting the app developer, but if you are using a remote signer running on your own home-server, you have less risk, since you are just having to trust the dev. There are even standalone devices for holding your nsec and signing remotely.
On iOS, you can use Aegis as a "remote signer" application. I put quotes around that, because Aegis still does the signing locally on your device, and you can only really use it with apps you are accessing from the same device Aegis is running on.
Android Signing - This signing method is detailed in NIP-55, and it is only available for Nostr clients on Android. This allows Nostr clients to reach out to another application running on an Android device to request signing. The most common application used for this signing method is Amber. This method is not available on iOS, because it more strictly partitions applications from one another.
Now, these methods of signing are quite a separate matter from backing up your nsec. Though the name "bunker" seems to imply a safe place to store your nsec, that is not really its intended use. It's a way to have only one application that knows your nsec, rather than giving it to every Nostr client you use.
There are a couple different ways to safely store a backup of your nsec. The first is to turn it into a ncryptsec. This is just an encrypted version of your nsec, using a strong password, but then you need to either remember or store that password somewhere, too. The other method is to turn it into a seed phrase, just like a Bitcoin seed phrase. Amber signer can do both of these for you, but it is only on Android... Aegis can create an ncryptsec for you, though, and then you can store that however you like. So long as the password you used is strong enough, you can even store it in a cloud drive without worrying about it, because it's useless without the password used to generate it.

2025-11-06 08:08:50 UTC

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No. All apps on Zapstore are signed with Nostr keys. Either the developer's keys or Zapstore's keys. This allows you to be very confident that what you are downloading is the legitimate app released by that developer, when they are signing their own app releases.
Not sure what, if anything, is used for signing apps on Play Store, but it certainly won't be the same as the Nostr key used to sign the app on the Zapstore.
If you installed the app from the Play Store originally, Zapstore will tell you that the keys don't match if you try to update it there. You will first need to uninstall the Play Store version of the app.
And I agree that Zapstore signing many of the apps is not ideal, but that is because those devs haven't taken on the responsibility of signing their app releases. In the case of Nostr apps, they may just not be aware of how to do so, or that they should do so. In the case of other apps, their devs may not even be aware that Nostr exists, or care to use it, but Zapstore still wants to have the app available for folks to install.
Otherwise, Zapstore wouldn't have many apps available at all if it was only apps that devs were signing for themselves.

2025-11-06 00:51:44 UTC

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Of course their signatures will be different. Play Store doesn't use Nostr private keys for signing, while Zapstore does.
Uninstall the Play Store version and install the Zapstore version.

2025-10-31 17:58:36 UTC

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I think Shipyard.pub still works. Hivetalk Honey also.

2025-10-22 05:28:02 UTC

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I am guessing no. The only things I am seeing for "haven_relay_1" in the loggs is "Environment variable OWNER_NPUB not set." The bulk of the rest of the logs are for "haven_config_ui_1" and they are all ""GET /api/status HTTP/1.1" 200 -"

2025-10-22 00:13:20 UTC

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Yup. That makes sense. When you look at your own profile in Coracle, while logged in, you typically have a pretty high score, because many of the people you follow often also follow you. For instance, my score for myself is 254.

2025-10-21 21:41:45 UTC

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Yeah, I hadn't ever heard of Profilestr.com until you mentioned it. Looks like they aren't using web-of-trust to generate those "trust" scores at all. Rather it is being based on metrics that are pretty easy to game, such as profile completeness, account age, social activity, and economic activity.
So, while a known fake account I found has a "trust" score on Profilestr of 67 (Blue indicator rather than green which appears to be "best"), it has a Web-of-Trust score of 0 for me on Coracle.social, which is a clear indicator to me that this is a fake npub. Speaking of which... @npub1mt8…m7cz , it looks like you are following a fake Hodlbod. This one is not real: @npub1nyr…lzp9

2025-10-20 20:14:14 UTC

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Ah, thanks!
@npub1dry…wfpc would you mind giving me a rundown of how to get Haven running via Portainer on Umbrel?
If I can get it figured out, I will probably write and release a guide for others.

2025-10-20 06:50:49 UTC

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I don't think having the sender metadata leaked is an issue, if the message is only sent to the recipient's DM inbox relay, and that relay supports auth to ensure only the recipient can request the message. I don't think NIP-4 uses NIP-44 for encryption, though, right? Would it be better to use that updated encryption standard, at least?
Then, yes, users could have a relay that they set a required price to post a DM to them. Users who have the know-how would be incentivized to run a relay where they get paid anytime someone wants to DM them. The rest of users would have to rely on relays that take a cut of the payment, or else deal with spam.

2025-10-17 04:14:43 UTC

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You don't hear much talk about it for the same reason that you don't hear much talk about safely storing your Lightning wallet's private key offline. Lightning keys need to be stored on an always online device, because they are used to update the state of your Lightning channel(s). Your key is used both for sending and receiving.
Nostr keys are similar. As Ryan mentioned earlier, your Nostr keys are used to sign for literally everything you do on Nostr, so you can't really keep them offline, or you'll constantly have to be digging out your signing device for every reaction, zap, comment, and post you make.
There have been some attempts to come up with a key delegation standard, which would allow you to have a master key that is kept offline, and it can sign to delegate a child key to have the authority to sign on its behalf, and that child key would be what is used regularly to sign for everything you do on Nostr. Meanwhile, the master key would be kept in an offline signing device and only used if the current child key was compromised and it was needed to sign to revoke that key's authority and delegate signing authority to another child key.
Unfortunately, it turns out that this adds a TON of complexity that every Nostr client would have to account for, and would break every client that currently exists until they could figure out how to implement it.

2025-10-12 14:53:41 UTC

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GM, brother!

2025-10-11 00:29:54 UTC

Humility does not come from believing how great I am, but from believing how great Christ is.
"Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior." - John Newton, the writer of the timeless hymn Amazing Grace
#nevent1q…8n3v

2025-10-03 18:55:11 UTC

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Highlights are a separate event kind. Kind 9802, specifically. Not all clients support all event kinds, nor should they.
That said, I think it makes sense for major kind 1 clients like Primal to also support highlights, as people naturally want to share quotes they found interesting with their followers and spark discussion around them without their followers needing a separate app to see the highlight.
Highlights are also really nice to use within a long-form article. I think I have a highlight in one of my articles. I wonder how Primal reads handles it...
Highlighter.com also supports highlights, as does Amethyst on Android.

2025-10-01 20:37:12 UTC

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Here's my two posts about Dispensationalism for the sake of others reading this thread finding them easily.
Thanks for the shout-out @npub1ak5…0gwg !
#nevent1q…m9wr

2025-09-22 23:14:45 UTC

Another alternative. We'll call this one "C."
https://relay.brightbolt.net/7dc2c78bca87c2f3fe5fdf080e4fb5d28a0a0a559a8b0a26ca656d7f0315826e.jpg
#nevent1q…3xem
#Bitcoin #Nostr

2025-09-22 23:01:26 UTC

Ok #Bitcoin and #Nostr friends. Which do you like better?
A.
https://relay.brightbolt.net/d3ca72fe035f6f17d7e0653b135f1cd2dbbbd6990221a367298ca82dbd180544.jpg
B.
https://relay.brightbolt.net/1091555b04ec85b5c61ae30292e2a9d70c32b7f88c4491fe3a9a10ab402d007c.jpg

2025-09-22 05:01:37 UTC

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@nprofile…7vv3

2025-09-19 18:29:50 UTC

Still the best client on iOS in my opinion.
#nevent1q…6xmv

2025-09-17 19:53:34 UTC

Dispensationalism, that's why.
#nevent1q…39pu
Dispensationalism is a way of interpreting the Bible that sees (among other things) the promises God made to Abraham in Genesis 12, 15, and 17 as properly belonging only to the Jews as an ethnic people, and therefore they are seen as God's true covenant people, while the New Testament Church is seen as an historical parenthesis. God will therefore eventually take up fulfilling his promises to his true covenant people, the Jews, once he is finished with his plan for the Church.
This teaching is directly contradictory to the teaching of the Apostles, who expressly applied the promises made to Abraham to the New Testament Church. See Acts 2:39 as a repetition of God's promise in Genesis 17:7-8, but expanded to include "all who are far off," that is Gentiles who would come to faith in the Messiah. Likewise, Paul tells the church in Rome that they are children of Abraham by sharing in the same faith that Abraham had in Romans 4, especially verses 9-17.
Paul repeats this teaching even more explicitly in Galatians 3:5-9, where he says:
> "Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith--just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"? Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith."
The final nail in the coffin of the Dispensationalist's improper hermeneutic, in my opinion, is found in Romans 9, though. There Paul describes the nature of the relation of the Gentiles who are coming to faith in Jesus to those Jews who apostatize by rejecting him. The description is that of an olive tree, where the natural branches that reject Christ are cut off, while the wild branches (Gentiles) are grafted in. Into what? Into "Israel," as he calls it in verse 26. Gentiles who come to faith are grafted into Israel, God's covenant people, and Jews who reject Jesus are cut off. They no longer have any claim on the promises made to Abraham and no right to call themselves God's people whatsoever. In order to regain that claim, they must come to faith in the promised messiah, Jesus Christ.

2025-09-16 19:56:06 UTC

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Has a seminary class learning Biblical Hebrew a bit earlier today.

2025-09-16 19:35:21 UTC

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Been there... a couple times. Once in my first car, a Ford Aspire, when I was about 18, and a second time when I was 22 or so in a Kia Sportage.
Strangely enough, the Aspire survived the hit, but the Sportage did not.

2025-09-14 00:13:25 UTC

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Is it just me, or does the dude in this gif look like @nprofile…jp2l?

2025-09-14 00:09:33 UTC

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Not at all.

2025-09-11 08:45:49 UTC

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Got it. Yeah, then there is no reason to assume it was a pro marksman. Easy shot with a rifle.

2025-09-10 20:28:21 UTC

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With a handgun? Dang...

2025-09-10 19:32:18 UTC

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He's one of the most powerful apologetic voices in the conservative Christian wing of polotical discourse, particularly to young people.