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Building privacy and governance tools on Aztec and Ethereum

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2026-02-04 00:28:16 UTC

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you don't need "exit" if you can hold people accountable, which requires being informed. and it's not a zero-sum game, you can build exits, while staying informed, and in fact, build better exits because you are informed.

2025-10-16 23:25:17 UTC

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Been testing with friends, but more often than not we get this message when searching for each other, even though we are all on the app 🤔
https://blossom.primal.net/e678edf9f112fd16c433ee3d1f1d93dc09fc7a0ef4654cbd042f90ea620573a9.png

2025-10-16 18:09:08 UTC

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lol what?? people find joy with each other in difficult situations. i've seen people under siege in Gaza make some funny videos occasionally, because finding joy is a form of survival and resistance. have you even ever worked in a hospital? this is such an unfounded conspiracy

2025-10-16 18:01:33 UTC

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Facebook's loss. You have better places to build community now.

2025-10-15 14:41:57 UTC

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The crypto scams have not only made criminals - like Trump - wealthier, but they have destroyed the reputation of crypto as a tool for liberation. Maybe early crypto scams were simple cash grabs, but they now seem part of a systematic tactic to destroy people's trust in truly decentralized money, so that they will be more welcoming of CBDCs.

2025-10-15 14:32:29 UTC

Are there Nostr hackathons? Even if there's no real funding for that, we should be having them to create the "buidl" culture of Ethereum. Great products will come from them and create cyclical growth.

2025-10-15 14:28:57 UTC

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this would definitely increase censorship resistance!

2025-10-14 12:51:24 UTC

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the "no politics" attitude is how we get fascism - by disengaging from politics and being hyper individualistic, focusing on your personal finances and forgetting about human dignity. the children are being bombed and you are worried about Nostr being political??

2025-10-14 12:47:35 UTC

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🇵🇸✊🏼

2025-10-14 12:45:48 UTC

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but we should still be able to token-gate.

2025-10-14 12:43:57 UTC

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isn't it still easier than other servers?

2025-10-14 12:43:19 UTC

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the best tech gets build under the worst conditions

2025-10-14 12:41:10 UTC

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which one? was this Aztec? is this UK thing 😬

2025-10-10 04:38:17 UTC

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economic violence

2025-10-09 19:08:48 UTC

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i'm guessing Larry Ellison won't be on "best behavior" bc these surveillance systems he's helping to create won't target himself

2025-09-30 16:33:30 UTC

Anyone know the secret to getting Nostr relays to work? I've used a number of apps on Nostr, like chat apps and some Discord-style UXs, where despite my friends and I being on the same relays, the message histories are very disjointed, and sometimes retrieve messages, then don't, then do... Is there a good guide out there for Nostr development or any communities I can join? Any recommendations are welcome!

2025-09-21 19:21:12 UTC

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What about not conceptualizing The People as "consumers" in relation to the government. Personally prefer "citizen."

2025-09-21 02:41:53 UTC

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makes sense, a strategy to claim that use case. religious manifestation of financial value - guess all religions do that in some way

2025-09-20 23:17:06 UTC

Can someone explain to me this whole Bitcoin circle jerk thing. Like I understood it a decade ago when it was still new, and actually revolutionary (and you could buy drugs and stuff), but feels like it hasn't really evolved much in comparison to Ethereum, where there's tons of non-financial use cases. And I respect the purity of keeping Bitcoin as a financial tool, but after a whole decade, jumping into Nostr and people are still circle jerking over Bitcoin... Am I missing something?

2025-09-20 21:35:47 UTC

Is there a good Nostr development starter template?

2025-09-20 20:51:35 UTC

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Being a billionaire surrounded by Yes-men is a real mental handicap.

2025-09-20 19:45:05 UTC

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let's make it happen! it's weird tho, Bitcoin folks are very financially focused, not much happening governance-wise, and Ethereum folks have built themselves a bubble, thus have little interest in Nostr since they use Ethereum for everything (like Farcaster for example)... i find it odd how insulated these 2 communities have become, especially since Eth was originally an outgrowth of the Bitcoin project

2025-09-20 19:39:31 UTC

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i might try a PoC with federated or key servers, as you're right, Nostr a bit wacky with aligning the relays, but hope to launch MVP on Nostr ultimately

2025-09-19 18:55:08 UTC

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Markets and trade are as old as the ancient formation of city-states, but primitive capital accumulation by merchants arbitrage of trade between city-states was limited, until in the 15-16th centuries, when the merchants began to seize political power, which provided legal frameworks for capitalism to expand, backed by the violence of the state.
So yes, I agree Capitalists forms of market and trade existed throughout the ancient world, but Capitalism as a hegemonic global economic system depends on its control of political power and state violence.
What changed about 500 years ago is the invention of the printing press, which allowed people to read and interpret the Bible for the themselves in Europe, which prompted the Protestant Reformation, undermining the union of the feudal-state with the Catholic church. This was the crucial historical moment where the merchant class, which was highly organized and resourced, was able to seize political power, and that is when the nation-state emerged.

2025-09-19 05:17:02 UTC

Capitalism was a Coordination mechanism for Colonizers.

2025-09-18 23:53:37 UTC

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And in the last election is was Moderate-Right vs. the Far-Right. But at least the Dems offered genocide lead by a black woman instead of the typical white man.

2025-09-18 23:36:36 UTC

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But doesn't this run on home servers instead of client-relay network? In that case Comm, using Keyservers, already exists (although the web3 part of Comm is severely lacking).

2025-09-18 18:29:22 UTC

Farcaster built on Ethereum, and other blockchain-based social media networks use the blockchain for the wrong purpose; the blockchain was designed to solve the "double-spend" problem. It's important to not double spend money and votes, but beyond financial, governance, and token-based access control systems, the blockchain is simply overkill.
Social media does not suffer from the "double-spend" problem - if anything, the concept of "going viral" is literally the opposite of preventing a double spend. Social media posts are not scarce and should be "spent" as much as user engagement permits. All that matters is that we can verify the owner/creator of the post, so they receive credit for their contribution (unless they want to remain anon).
For this reason, Nostr applications will outgrow Farcaster and other purely blockchain-based social media apps!

2025-09-18 18:14:01 UTC

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After P2P private group communications, we need ZK voting integrated from Aztec blockchain and SFT-based roles management systems for sybil-resistant voting in these private groups. Governable private tactical tools to fight authoritarianism and the surveillance-security state!

2025-09-18 18:08:46 UTC

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Same in the US. We must call for direct decentralized action to vandalize and destroy these devices before the surveillance net is too thick for such anonymous direct actions!

2025-09-18 18:03:54 UTC

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Curtis Yarvin's Urbit and Balaji's Network State are framed as democratic on the basis of decentralization, but are incredibly monarchic; obey or leave. It's like saying you oppose the Roman Empire, but welcome the Dark Ages where Feudal Lords reigned over peasant serfs.
This "if you don't like it then leave" mentality is one of total privilege and complete individualism. Many Bitcoiners unfortunately are libertarian individualists who only oppose MEGACORP in favor of their own CORP, their own rule, and their own people.
Decentralization != Democracy

2025-09-17 15:42:53 UTC

Gen Z voted in a revolutionary new government using a Discord poll... We could do so much better with Discord-similar tooling built on Nostr and integrated with ZK voting and roles-management systems on EVM or Aztec networks. NFT token gating for sybil resistance in voting applications that use ZK proofs to protect the preferences of voters. Decentralized, immutable, private governance integrating the social aspects of Nostr and the governance capabilities of blockchains @nprofile…slk3

2025-08-25 00:12:02 UTC

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