Ben Arc

Nostr is the everything app of freedom | lnbits.com | nostr.com | first nostr twitter clone maker | bitcoin tinkerer

Public Key

npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm

NIP-05 Address

ben@nostr.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsvrlrhw86l5sv06wkyjgs6rrcekskvk7nx8k50qn9m7mqgeqxjpvgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wsq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdsawxqgu

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relay.wellorder.net

nostr.bitcoiner.social

nostr.mom

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npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm

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2024-09-14 11:54:41

I honestly think @nprofile…r4lw Telegram alternative is going to quickly become the worlds most used nostr client. There's a billion tg users happy to jump ship, particularly if someone can make a bridge for transitioning groups, and a bot father alternative.
https://image.nostr.build/b5176b84612e0fcb88d89304a14a57f14b989c192c0cf3a66e3423482dacc551.jpg

2024-09-12 22:30:00

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Only 20mins! From nothing to vps, domain, phoenixd and lnbits 🔥🔥🔥

2024-09-12 22:17:38

LNbits running on Phoenixd tutorial!
Phoenixd is an incredibly easy self-custodial lightning node that is managed, and is the perfect solution for someone who wants to run a lightning node but not have to bother with channel management pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28coHBX3aI

2024-09-10 10:38:00

LNbits Inc. seed raise dataroom (with deck and videos): https://drive.proton.me/urls/GRKR4ZWMBM#o4qGDbKAJeqx
For anyone interested. I think the pitch/products is correct. Other successful companies related to a FOSS project, and with healthy relationship, just offer support services as a way of feeding back developer time into the FOSS project, WordPress, Canonical, etc. A good example is the nip05 example in the deck, we built a thing using lnbits which gave us a good reason to tlc the nip05 extension, which anyone can now make use of.
Any VC types types here interested, please reach out to ben@lnbits.com 😘

2024-09-06 12:39:27

Users with my.nostr.com Nip05s please go to your panel and select "update LNaddress" to use for zaps.
https://image.nostr.build/7f7d5e6810c8e7783e09fd8e105bf10425d4765c8996e58d1cd3c2278924bea9.jpg

2024-09-05 17:35:42

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Hyper doom scroll mode?

2024-09-05 02:25:55

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state

2024-08-31 15:05:39

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Yeah, sucks when we're reminded we are not as free as we thought. A better Internet is possible though 👍

2024-08-31 15:04:16

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Sure, but as we saw with Arab spring. Social media is very powerful, can get people elected, start revolutions, etc. The very fact there is a raised eyebrow over the algo and Musks intent, means alternatives not potentially captured must be used.

2024-08-31 15:01:36

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No. Shouldn't happen or be possible, which is why nostr 🚀

2024-08-31 15:00:06

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So the illusion of freedom using captured platforms can continue?

2024-08-31 14:57:06

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Because PayPal Boyz are prob all spooks?

2024-08-31 11:45:37

EU considering shutting down twitter in Europe.
This is not people being locked out of a free speech platform, it's people being locked out of Musks coercive agenda propoganda machine, and learning tools exist that transcend private interest and heavy hand of state.
https://image.nostr.build/87e3e6d1f9d7aa93ac6776c90c01bf3a8a70a3ae61f07ffd0ffaf0437599aed2.jpg

2024-08-31 11:09:23

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Best solution always rises to the top.
Also dev talent, nostr has 1000x more hands on deck.

2024-08-31 11:05:33

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That would be a master play, but unlikely.

2024-08-31 11:04:31

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Yerp. Fee more riots and gov will just ban.
People aren't being booted from using a free speech platform, they're being booted from coercive Musk agenda propoganda platform.

2024-08-31 10:05:16

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I mean, it shows musky for the wolf actually he is.
Unless twitter changes a bunch of countries will follow, and nostr really is the best alternative.

2024-08-31 09:59:05

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3 weeks, wow, that's a big hill!

2024-08-31 09:57:04

Welcome, all of Brazil 🇧🇷, to Nostr 💜 https://image.nostr.build/2b8dda64995f907e0e7ecc5a8035a573f8957486d48e22e7c16cea2d47a215af.jpg

2024-08-31 09:49:16

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https://media.tenor.com/XF5gjvDxOxQAAAAM/leonardo-di-caprio-one-of-us.gif

2024-08-29 19:20:19

It's a shame telegram is so compromised.
Whoever makes Nostr tg with @nprofile…r4lw's MLS, can you please not try to be clever and change, just clone tg EXACTLY how it is.
A cloned alt tg would be very popular and transform a load of chickens into mighty ostriches 🙏

2024-08-28 08:26:15

If you have never made pull request to a free open-source project you should make that your weeks challenge. Even something simple, like fixing some spelling in a readme doc. Don't be scared. There's a bunch of technical ways to make a pr, but the easiest is to edit a doc directly in github, it will make the pr for you. Just register on github, go to the page you want to edit and click the edit button 👍.
Even if your pr is rejected, you made a pr, well done, you are a modern human again, welcome to the revolution 🤝.

2024-08-28 08:04:07

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We used to call them leeches.
I liked people being shamed as leeches for not contributing, we should go back to that model

2024-08-28 08:03:13

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Lurkr

2024-08-28 07:54:27

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Nostr relays have nothing to do with bitcoin nodes.

2024-08-28 07:52:54

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There are loads of revenue driving activities that will justify running relays, big expensive relays, as well as small plucky ones. Todd's issue was people using term decentralised, relays are not decentralised, censorship resistance is achieved via resilience.

2024-08-26 11:57:01

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Mans of culture. https://image.nostr.build/55110c39bce3ed0406f4a8feab354fdb9716c63e706d79c293f3335c02dca512.jpg

2024-08-26 11:55:14

World's first cult with secret rituals that are completely free and open-source.
#nevent1q…sjzc

2024-08-25 11:31:45

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Will use in my workshop. Master doodler

2024-08-25 11:31:14

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Fucking cool 😍
Ben@nostr.com

2024-08-23 08:03:31

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Fixed == twitter using nostr

2024-08-23 07:54:27

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Drunk me filling out the speaker application gave sober me a good incentive

2024-08-23 07:48:52

Bye bye twitter https://image.nostr.build/9f7a58a246859fe402973c2e874205dbc33d91f205276ba44b960dbfb06fcfe6.jpg

2024-08-23 07:41:11

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I have a PR for zap lamp to make more generic like bitcoin switch. It makes sense. I used for demo yesterday

2024-08-23 07:40:21

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Ooo. Multiple libraries. We've made it 👌

2024-08-23 06:06:12

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Using @nprofile…vgte excllent Arduino library
https://github.com/lnbits/arduino-nostr

2024-08-23 05:21:56

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Why meeting irl, and taking time to exchange ideas is soooo important. #nostriga is dope 🤯

2024-08-23 05:19:42

When you do a talk on nostr Iot and 1hr later @nprofile…cw9k has implemented a zap alarm in his BTClock ❤️
https://image.nostr.build/ecd0146b68c36f806cea64f7580e9bd7acf3309d56c6af70a21136692787327c.jpg

2024-08-22 08:04:41

Primals new granular feed marketplace is sick 😍 https://image.nostr.build/04e24f76eb902f5eb2e6cda68cf20515439780dc569e30e59a0826505111caf3.jpg

2024-08-15 23:56:03

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Never. I'm with AI

2024-08-15 22:27:34

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😂

2024-08-15 22:26:17

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By humanity.

2024-08-15 22:23:06

Chatgpt gets it.
https://image.nostr.build/04bfb634e1dddd33fa3f54ff879a828efa929f3c3b6eb7b6fa87946af99b5ed9.jpg

2024-08-15 22:04:36

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Don't worry GBP did worse when world reserve currency 😂

2024-08-15 22:03:24

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Darkfi stuff, perhaps. Saw him a few months ago, looks like he's in a good place.

2024-08-15 22:01:59

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In fact, this is the use case that gets me bullish on fedi. A federation not subject to regulation as its supported by the sovereign nation doesn't have drawbacks of yocal federations, or regulatory burden.

2024-08-15 22:00:11

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Fook dollars, I'm talking El Sal Dollar and Welsh Pound! Free ourselves from USD or GBP hegonomy. A stablecoin system pegged to basket of currencies or commodities would be an import at tool of liberation ✊

2024-08-15 21:56:56

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Why do you need bitaxe, just get computer brrrring. Does software for vanity npub exist somewhere?

2024-08-15 21:55:33

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I know we all hate shitcoins etc, but the concept of dai is good. One day..

2024-08-15 21:53:52

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I reckon eventually we will get a makerdao type thing on bitcoin as well.

2024-08-15 21:52:13

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Galoy are running stablesats on Blink. Standardsats gets not nearly enough attention, but the ideas dope.
https://standardsats.github.io/

2024-08-15 21:50:30

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Ahhh, those types of stablecoins. I'm more defending stable MoE. Although it is possible to have stablecoins without companies on bitcoin, more work on that should be haooen. I guess when you say stablecoins you mean the tether types?

2024-08-15 21:45:18

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Standardsats, stablesats, on LN, that's all I know thus far. Stablesats is being used a bunch I think

2024-08-15 21:42:33

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Give me grey skies, rain, a warm hearth, jumper and a cup of tea 😍

2024-08-15 21:36:56

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Although yeah, social scene had taken a hit.
Make a conference "Anarchist bitcoin"

2024-08-15 21:36:06

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Neoliberals supporting and shilling anarchist tooling works. Let them embrace the trojan

2024-08-15 21:33:54

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Nah its dumb bitcoin elitism. People on subsistence wages should be able to use bitcoin payment rails, and stablecoins are an important part of that. Being interopable, also gives quick access to the savings property of bitcoin.

2024-08-15 21:31:36

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Why not to fill out forms after a few beers

2024-08-12 14:12:27

Wen mini-game tab in Amethyst @nprofile…pyug?
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/64.md

2024-08-09 16:43:46

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Is that what is? I thought my game was getting way weak

2024-08-09 16:38:00

I'm so relieved nostr social clients exist. I used to love doom scrolling twitter, but it's become utterly unusable, timing is 👌

2024-08-09 16:33:22

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https://media.tenor.com/QrlT0Zy7lE0AAAAM/thanks-bow.gif

2024-08-09 16:29:27

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It's the quality of federation and how the funds are secured. So far I wouldn't trust the federations being discussed. Early days tho. Liquid go to great pains to secure their federation, for now that seems like a better solution to me. Or trust a high signal team, like Galoy and Blink.

2024-08-09 16:25:11

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National federated stablecoins to be used by nations and wiggle out of fiat hegamony. El sal dollar rather than USD. We could use in Wales to create a Welsh pound, and escape Bank of England. People get stable and private money, that's harder to corrupt than current fiat.

2024-08-09 16:20:39

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Really? I have a few custodians I "trust", but I wouldn't want them bundled with bunch of others I don't trust.

2024-08-09 16:18:50

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Then why bother 🤷🏼
With ecash, game theory is borked unless dark market murky mints or mints being able to transcended regulatory burden, such as a country. Creating sovereign soft currencies with fedi makes me bullish, the rest seems pointless.

2024-08-09 16:13:53

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Finally sorting out shed so I can make some tutorial videos. Have you got a shed? Everyone should have a shed.

2024-08-09 06:47:37

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A json on a repo would also be curated, and by more people

2024-08-09 06:20:52

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Sounds like shit federations that will break.

2024-08-09 06:12:46

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I hope not. That country was a literal warzone, so we couldnt project the processes we hold dear in our stable countries. The country is functional now and safe for residents, the change is dramatic. The real test is if he can step down via fair elections, which is usually when populist leaders who made radical change slip into being dictators.

2024-08-09 06:01:21

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The json can live on a repo

2024-08-09 05:41:31

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I'd like an onboarding experience that doesn't suggest bitcoiners, rather interests, and connects to relays and folks who share those interests.

2024-08-09 05:39:00

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Oooo, cool

2024-08-09 05:38:25

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Or something similiar. Can it not pull from some json we can all share?

2024-08-09 05:37:41

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Sir, market is empty :(
Can you add market.nostr.com and plebian.market

2024-08-09 05:36:34

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Yeah, we need that page

2024-08-09 05:31:56

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Yep. We will make all the things clean and pure concepts "money", "algorithms", even "censorship" (as nostr has more censorship than legacy, but it is controlled by each user).
For the first time in social networks the science of algorithms and making them better will be crowd-sourced 🔥

2024-08-09 05:08:26

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Sorry to hear that. Mutiny wallet was great. I'm sure whatever comes next will also be great ❤️

2024-08-09 05:06:56

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Lol, patience, lightning is only 5% complete, people grinding to find bridges and make LN available to all. Rome wasn't built in a day etc.

2024-08-09 04:55:55

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Nah, it's an evolving working progress, always has been. To survive it must continue to improve.

2024-08-08 22:48:33

Made new series on LNbits yt, celebrating the inspiring people/spaces in #bitcoin. I was lucky enough to visit AmityAge Bitcoin Center Roatan.
Dusan and peers are doing incredible work educating and making a space for bitcoiners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iatcs2K5bh0

2024-08-07 13:51:37

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Its Musk in AI flesh suit, or she has a chip.

2024-08-07 13:41:22

Meanwhile on twitter...
https://video.nostr.build/7cb36143ed25754f2facd62b55005873ce80b13bc164a724e80e6f26e1253b2a.mp4

2024-07-31 15:46:25

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https://image.nostr.build/94748dbdff30e0bc49d55bf121efb4fa16744edf90899942e2028a6cc844cd3b.jpg
All those Tesla bros calling Elon "goat", "based", bla bla bla, should be utterly terrified one man is gaining dominance over space, global access to Internet and social media.

2024-07-31 15:25:32

It is an issue that the person who controls twitter is so politically outspoken.

2024-07-30 02:28:32

Man I love Where39. Use for burying treasure, doing dead drops or meeting anon.
https://arcbtc.github.io/where39/
Made an LNBits extension for it recently
https://github.com/lnbits/where39

2024-07-30 01:35:48

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Wowza! Classy walled garden (prison). https://image.nostr.build/425ebeb7cd1c43398305dc35824fe5e2f9f4e44b14e3ac963831509af3b5ef17.jpg

2024-07-30 01:19:17

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Ad bully people into premium.
https://image.nostr.build/5bf7366828cc5e1d943bd18a79e19353dbcc728328143050369874bcf03099d4.jpg

2024-07-30 01:02:06

The ads in twitter are making it even more unbearable. Micro aggressions that'll push users into our loving arms.

2024-07-29 12:05:02

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I'm so honored. This means a lot coming from you. Thank you. If it wasn't the support and inspiration I had ftom you early on, none of the projects I work on now would have existed, truely. I owe you a lot, and am very much standing on shoulders of giants 🙌

2024-07-29 02:48:47

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Ah damn, I missed you!
Added security made it hard to walk bump into folk

2024-07-29 01:24:57

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Contribute more to it 🙏

2024-07-29 00:34:07

@nprofile…gfjr has a cracking new pr in for nostr.org 🤯🙌
Comments of course welcome 💜
https://github.com/lnbits/nostr.org/pull/15

2024-07-09 23:49:51

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Privileged take. People need stability, literally the core function of sound money. Most people just can't afford wild price swings, that's it, nothing to do with a lack of understanding game theory. Good MoE is stable, bitcoin is not stable. Build stablecoins on bitcoin that can easily be swapped in/out, and hope one day enough liquidity and commodity use cases exist that bitcoin becomes stable and can be used raw as MoE.

2024-07-04 15:36:50

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Currently locked in to this mess, and getting tories out is a win 😂

2024-07-04 14:53:23

Please, no more tories 🙏 https://video.nostr.build/603c06145ed7ac2992f9c259b2c586ace5ff895fba517552863611c774a5970d.mp4

2024-07-03 11:53:06

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https://media.tenor.com/R66bE7PidwsAAAAM/a23.gif

2024-07-03 11:30:35

The shadow banning of nostr related posts on twitter is so blatant. I didn't ever think about twitters shadow banning policies until encountering on my own posts, makes me wonder how many other shadow policies exist 🤔.
Anyone who thinks Elon Musk is pro free speech is a fool.
https://image.nostr.build/09a62f8065216e78c1ceac2c60fdbdb06da96d6db34f5b91b748a3c643f9489c.jpg

2024-07-03 11:13:33

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Started off contributing and building by making videos, although sadly falls down the list of things to do these days.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSYcLQoQbRGAtuHnQ4U4mXeL&si=1KJDUqOoDtVFN9MM

2024-07-03 09:28:01

Chatted with an hero of ours francismars@chainduel.net from Chain Duel 🤩. Francis and Chain Duel team have used a bunch of #LNbits extensions in their tournament snake based game for #bitcoin payments and prizes.
Chain Duel is quite simply beautiful👌
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46aHKk8cLfg