greg

I like to learn things and build things | bitcoin enthusiast | energy production maximalist | author #NostrTechWeekly

Public Key

npub1r3fwhjpx2njy87f9qxmapjn9neutwh7aeww95e03drkfg45cey4qgl7ex2

NIP-05 Address

gregwhite@nostr.report

NIP-57 Address

gregorygmwhite@strike.me

Profile Code

nprofile1qqspc5hteqn9fezrlyjsrd7sefjeu79htlwuh8z6vhck3my526vvj2spzdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ukzcnvv5hx7un8tjya0e

Publishing to

relayable.org

Author Public Key

npub1r3fwhjpx2njy87f9qxmapjn9neutwh7aeww95e03drkfg45cey4qgl7ex2

Show more details

Last Notes

2024-08-30 19:06:02

This is amazing high quality, high signal, low view count podcast about bringing about abundance in the world by leaning into capitalism.
Seems right up this community’s alley!
Love the tagline: “prosperity is energy intensive”
https://youtu.be/N6hLGUW3R90

2024-08-30 15:57:19

- reply

That would make many monetized social interactions much easier 🤔
Nice Sam, hell yeah 🤙

2024-08-30 02:38:38

- reply

Nice can’t wait to dig in

2024-08-29 23:34:33

- reply

That’s cool. Excuse my ignorance: If each event has a lighting address how does the service ensure the event author can receive that money?

2024-08-29 21:12:00

Is there a zap only client? Just find someone by npub and zap any amount?
This is particularly difficult on iOS because of the AppStore I think.

2024-08-29 01:16:01

- reply

This is exactly what I was looking for!

2024-08-29 01:15:21

- reply

LFG this is excellent. Gonna share with the folks I’m talking to about it.

2024-08-28 18:12:38

- reply

Thank you!

2024-08-28 15:53:04

Is there a good explanation of the outbox model somewhere that I can share? @npub1l2v…ajft @npub10np…tl5h maybe?
Having more convos about it as the way Nostr can scale and don’t have a great write up to share.

2024-08-28 03:31:56

- reply

Does it publish people’s answers as events in the clear? Or is there some privacy built in?

2024-08-27 00:27:46

- reply

Oops sorry

2024-08-27 00:27:31

Was watching this #Nostriga talk on funding Nostr https://youtu.be/qD-Y0fq5KiA?si=4BHtI0tsDDjTwvxL
I think it’s ok that there aren’t a ton of VCs investing yet. It’s not the role of investors to donate money.
It’s also not the role of protocols to be profitable.
One of the great side effects of capitalism is that you get talented, smart people who get wealthy and can afford to donate when a technology is too young to be profitable.
That means a lot of folks are contributing without being supported enough to do it full time. This isn’t ideal but it does force contractors to be ruthless with their time. Only working on what is critical in their estimation.
From my understanding of history we are on the blessed timeline, and things seem to be happening in the right timing to build something truly great.
Once we can build profitable businesses on top of the unique capabilities of Nostr THEN we will see investment rolling in.
I have every faith Nostr will continue its rapid improvement and we will, in time, eat Big Tech’s lunch.

2024-08-26 22:54:36

- reply

People who have replaced religion with politics. They’re looking to see their savior in person

2024-08-26 22:27:27

- reply

You’re in the right place! Welcome!

2024-08-25 22:49:57

- reply

Depends on what you truly want from social media.
If your goal is connecting with people then leaving wouldn’t improve your health unless your people aren’t here/responding.
If you find your true motivation is validation from other people responding to you. Then a full detox may actually be healthy.
There are many other motivations too.
But it seems like you are saying you’re not getting what you want out of social media and I hope that changes for you. 🫂

2024-08-25 22:19:26

Anyone know if there’s a VPS provider in El Salvador?
Seems like a jurisdiction that may be safer than Europe for hosting apps.
I can’t find one with a data center actually located in El Salvador.

2024-08-25 04:17:57

- reply

Forgive my ignorance. What’s a relay hub?

2024-08-24 22:27:32

- reply

If there are heads to the hydra it’s the relay operators right? How healthy is that ecosystem at this point in history?

2024-08-24 22:24:12

- reply

What does active resistance look like for the average person? Genuinely want to hear your and others folks’ ideas.

2024-08-24 19:03:09

Feeling excited to build stuff today. What are yall working on?
I’m trying to build something to alert me in the morning when the smoke forecast in my area exceeds an AQI limit I set.

2024-08-24 00:32:31

Wow integrating with Telegram is so easy.
Just built a system to alert myself to new user signups and errors and it took me 5 minutes.
I can’t believe it took me so long 😂

2024-08-23 03:28:25

- reply

Sounds awesome thanks for connecting

2024-08-23 03:24:12

- reply

That makes sense. I keep forgetting we are on Nostr where folks actually do the thing instead of just build knowledge about the thing.

2024-08-22 22:21:53

- reply

Thank you!
What do you mean yours isn’t ready yet?

2024-08-22 22:21:00

- reply

Oh damn I wanna meet @npub16ux…lra7 based on their profile even if they don’t have answer. I am a huge regenerative agriculture nerd

2024-08-22 22:19:37

- reply

That’s what I’m wondering. If farmers want it and it doesn’t exist I’m also happy to build a directory 😂
“Solve problems you have” and all that

2024-08-22 17:49:01

I’m looking to buy a half a cow to put in a chest freezer so I can buy direct from a farmer. Any advice on how to find someone?

2024-08-02 18:50:39

1. Commercial real estate losses mounting
2. Housing prices declining
3. Unemployment up
4. Deficit spending still high
5. Interest rates still high
Is this finally it?
I think this will be the beginning of the next printer round if the losses are bad enough banks have to finally realize all those unrealised losses they’ve been hiding since the collapse of SVB.
I’ll be it’s gonna be a wild few months

2024-07-24 19:10:33

- reply

Who wants to pave the streets with gold? Seems like that wouldn’t be crazy with what we can find in asteroids.

2024-07-24 18:24:09

If countries start using Bitcoin as a reserve asset, do yall think that’ll be positive? Or is it too centralizing a force at this point?

2024-06-26 19:23:53

- reply

Sure but can it be built so arresting people wouldn’t stop it.

2024-06-26 17:16:44

I wonder if there’s a way to build wikileaks on Nostr as a protocol instead of a company. So there’s no one to arrest and no central server to shut down

2024-06-21 23:47:15

Thinking about spending a few months in El Salvador. Anyone form there or lived there for a while? Hoping to plug into a local community.

2024-06-20 15:08:04

- reply

I’ll have to check it out 💪 thanks 🙏

2024-06-19 21:54:35

Anyone aware of any books or essays on abundance generated by technology? Been doing my research but it seems not much thought has gone into the possibility of a radically abundant future (and how it may not be far off)

2024-06-07 16:39:35

- reply

https://media.tenor.com/UFXpodC9gLUAAAAC/this-is-the-way-this-is-the-way-mandalorian.gif

2024-06-04 23:12:52

- reply

Wonderful thank you!

2024-06-04 19:09:17

- reply

Been thinking of spending a few months there. Any advice for an American looking to get the most of of time there?

2024-06-04 19:08:24

Finally coming up for air after a while heads down. How yall doing?
What’s new in the nostr-verse?

2024-04-10 15:58:59

lol I gave up social media for lent and come back to Nostr today.
It’s glorious 😂

2024-01-29 01:51:26

- reply

That’s very kind. Thanks for your support ❤️

2024-01-28 19:21:50

- reply

Yall have been very kind and delightful partners ❤️

2024-01-28 19:01:48

- reply

Thanks for being a great reader ❤️

2024-01-28 18:42:44

Hey Folks, I’m going to pause contributing to the Nostr Tech Weekly.
I have too many commitments at this point to give it the time it deserves. I still fully believe in Nostr and the community and the wonderful devs 💪.
I’ve had a lot of fun working with @npub19md…6vzk and look forward to seeing how to support the community going forward.
Love yall ❤️

2024-01-17 04:30:18

- reply

Are you thinking like a presigned event? Or something that is a more abstract interface that also takes your private key to sign it?

2024-01-12 04:39:14

- reply

How can it be evergreen if it’s not in all caps? 😂

2024-01-07 23:44:37

Nsecbunker is highly featured this week 😊 #note1rcj…33e9

2024-01-02 23:20:47

- reply

Habla.news is where @npub19md…6vzk does long form content. It works well! And some clients are able to sense the markdown format and display it well.
But monetization isn’t something I’ve seen much yet in this context (just zaps I think)

2024-01-02 21:05:09

- reply

Nice yeah I wanted to get a sense of how scalable it could be (not that there’s a ton of demand at this moment)
I can imagine an ecosystem of providers that all use different Lightning providers but provide the service to bootstrap a nostr account (keys, profile, address, wallet). I’m stoked to play with it

2024-01-02 20:49:40

- reply

Oh damn didn’t know it was already that robust. Wow
Where can I read up on the LN wallet stuff? Is it something where the bunker is the node and comes with all the attendant maintenance? Or is it offloaded to some other trusted provider?

2024-01-02 19:08:47

- reply

Can’t wait 💪
This definitely pairs well with being an “address provider” (NIP 05) too. It’s a natural bundle for those that want an easy button for Nostr login / ID management.
Exciting stuff!

2024-01-02 19:00:29

- reply

Sweet! In this regime could there be nsecbunker providers that provide this as a service?

2024-01-01 00:33:34

Let’s discuss how to sustainably fund Nostr development 💪 #note1tqj…7dx8

2023-12-25 23:50:22

- reply

There we go, now I’m in familiar territory 😂

2023-12-25 21:47:53

- reply

Should have known. I’m so conditioned for closed or complicated APIs 😂

2023-12-25 16:54:51

Thanks to all the Nostr devs this year ❤️ #note12fz…dd7w

2023-12-21 00:29:38

- reply

Is this using NIP 71? https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

2023-12-17 19:50:05

- reply

My wife and I had an issue with Square that was similar. She had just opened a small business checking account with them and they just nuked it for no reason and they intentionally made it so you can’t reach out to them to get a human on the line.

2023-12-17 07:51:47

- reply

I use a small cupcake tin and put it in a large pan with a small amount of water in it. Boil the water and crack an egg into each oiled cupcake spot.
The steam cooks the egg 😊
Much easier and cheaper than getting a purpose built poacher or trying to just drop an egg in boiling water 😂

2023-12-11 23:39:43

- reply

I think it’s a question of what is Nostr for. And the protocol is designed for uncensorable speech. Unstoppable broadcasting in the face of totalitarian governments or social platforms.
Delete-able notes are a bug in this context.
That’s game changing for journalists, human rights advocates, and political dissidents.
Nostr is just soooo close to perfect for many other social media use cases that sometimes it’s tempting to want comfortable features.

2023-12-11 17:57:19

Got to talk to my team about nostr this morning. Brought me joy.
Hopefully our community will make them feel welcome if they join!
#grownostr

2023-12-10 05:36:57

@npub1l2v…ajft you manage nsecbunker.com right?
just tried to subscribe to get a naecbunker. Paid the invoice and then it hung while deploying a bunker.
Can’t get back there even though payment was sent 😬
The url where it got hung up had “undefined” in it so I think there was a bug. That or I’m just not patient enough (waited a couple minutes)
Can you help me recover it? Or did I just get rugged 😂

2023-12-08 19:46:51

- reply

I’m talking about Grok having access to Twitter DMs or drafted tweets

2023-12-08 17:49:59

- reply

Really?! I couldn’t get it to do it for mine. And I’m too nice to do it for anyone else 😂

2023-12-08 17:45:57

Yooooooooo Grok (twitter’s AI) has access to everyone draft tweets 😂
Not DMs though, thank goodness 😅
https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1733155136279572850?s=46

2023-12-08 01:59:00

- reply

😂 true true. I guess they call that marketing

2023-12-08 00:12:54

- reply

The idea is you pay for hosting but only the cost of hosting. I’d imagine you pay for upgrades too but only if you want it.
But the proof will be in the pudding, gotta see if they can sustain themselves on this model

2023-12-08 00:03:30

I love the ethos of https://once.com I hope the products are viable.
It honestly feels very Nostr-like in its reasoning.
https://x.com/twistartups/status/1731372487093493881?s=46

2023-12-05 23:00:32

- reply

Same difference in my book. Anything that’s censored is always said to be “unsafe”

2023-12-05 22:56:38

- reply

I wonder if DHS mandates blocking certain sites on airport WiFi 😂
If so I think we made some waves.

2023-12-05 21:56:13

- reply

I’d prefer to sweep custodial sats to my self custody lightning node anyway. But getting people unfamiliar with self custody set up on Nostr is easier with a wallet setup like this.
As long as people can swap in their own self custodial wallet to replace the Primal one I think this is an unmitigated win. I hope that feature is out or coming soon!

2023-12-05 18:52:04

- reply

Ah well as long as people read it that’s all I care about 😂

2023-12-02 20:24:41

- reply

@npub1l2v…ajft do you have any resources on how recovery would work in case they need to via email? I’m not quite able to understand that interaction with nsecbunker

2023-11-28 22:55:05

@npub180c…h6w6 is it possible to programmatically create njump links? Or is it just as simple as creating the irk as a string directly with the note id or npub

2023-11-27 19:00:01

- reply

Yeah I think it’s an open ticket in Damus. Other clients handle it better.
The best is habla.news where it was written but Nostur and Nostrudel do a great job too

2023-11-27 00:47:17

Hormones are essentially biological pub-sub style communication and the message bus is your blood stream.
🤯

2023-11-20 05:41:06

- reply

Thanks for the encouragement 🙏 most of the writing is Saturday. Sunday we just edit and publish when we are hanging with our families 😊

2023-11-19 23:50:17

This week is all
About DVMs! #note12zm…7pf7

2023-11-17 17:27:54

- reply

Agreed! I’ve experienced the same 😊 congrats on your journey, seems like a well rooted one. Would love to connect if you want more Christian community.

2023-11-17 15:10:41

- reply

What parts did you read that struck you so hard?

2023-11-13 01:15:16

- reply

Here you go!
https://habla.news/a/naddr1qqrkvatwv35kuecpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqygzjkjs8d09mhhp6rth6xu6czm8hfxfmrwxmyq4srjyrck9707kch5psgqqqw4rsjqda4u
I think it got mangled in the markdown writing process. Apologies

2023-11-09 04:04:26

- reply

Fair!

2023-11-09 03:28:17

- reply

Super easy to use ChatGPT to generate a comment based on what you think the worst part is.

2023-11-07 16:22:45

Today’s #PragmaticOptimism
India is now almost entirely electrified. They went from less than half of their people with access to electricity a few decades ago. To now as good as any developed nation.
That’s a large population that now has cleaner water, better schools, better hospitals than ever.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IND/india/electricity-access-statistics#:~:text=India%20electricity%20access%20for%202021,a%200.61%25%20increase%20from%202019.

2023-11-06 19:26:21

#PragmaticOptimism
Thanks for your work @npub1gcx…nj5z ! #note17dh…ntkj

2023-11-06 16:44:02

Despite how much turmoil there is in the world I think there’s a lot of reasons to be optimistic. Not in a naive way but in a practical way, the world is rapidly improving and solving problems.
The community we have here in Nostr is a good example of this and I want to spread some pragmatic optimism 😊 So I’ll start today:
If you haven’t heard of it: The Ocean Cleanup project is crushing it and making significant progress on cleaning up garbage from our oceans.
Check it out: https://theoceancleanup.com/dashboard/

2023-11-02 19:39:31

I wonder if this is caused by when daylight hours are in winter or how industrious a society is.
Seems like higher latitudes tend to have more dynamic economies. https://image.nostr.build/5b6ce6a5ec783f181ebca1dec21a524eec641913fdb0ef7468e28736efa49105.jpg

2023-10-30 03:37:46

- reply

Did you add via “suggest a relay” button or add the relay as in make it one of your “preferred relays”
The purpose of relay.guide is to help folks find and add relays to their preferred relays so that their future posts go to their preferred relays.
Relay.guide is a list of many (most?) active relays out there and it’s constantly reading the data those relays are publishing about how to utilise them. So if you say “payment instructions unknown” for any relay it’s because that relay isn’t publishing how to pay for access to that relay.
That’s determined by how the relay is hosted and configured and is very specific for each situation.
Does that help?

2023-10-29 19:34:10

- reply

Agreed! But the organization size it will take to be good enough isn’t likely in the thousands like existing players.

2023-10-29 18:38:23

This week’s focus is about building tools for content creators to supercharge Nostr adoption. Would love your thoughts! #note1wf8…zvwr

2023-10-26 20:29:00

- reply

Gotcha. Makes sense. Almost an L3 where banks or bank like entities could issue private ecash the way Hal Finney talked about things working eventually.

2023-10-26 18:52:49

- reply

Helpful. I’ll read right now the thing that’s escaped me so far is who the custodian is

2023-10-26 15:58:05

- reply

Do you have any good resources on cashu? Based on the website it feels too good to be true but I’m sure there’s some tech I haven’t read up on yet.
I’d love to understand the trade offs.

2023-10-25 15:15:44

- reply

Fuck yes

2023-10-24 12:37:53

- reply

Yes. Have you read it?

2023-10-24 05:16:30

- reply

So grateful for your voice on this.
I think that message may help attract more folks that have vague misunderstandings about Bitcoin or associate it solely with the price obsessed crew
PS your book is a masterclass. I now recommend it to anyone who feels like the system is rigged against ordinary people.

2023-10-23 20:58:24

- reply

Gotcha! My bad I didn’t understand the 60 day part as deeply as I thought. This has better protection than I thought!

2023-10-11 23:33:52

- reply

And don’t want to bomb other neighborhoods

2023-10-11 19:28:03

- reply

Gotcha yeah totally possible. I agree and think that moderated communities (like Reddit) on Nostr should use an event kind other than 1 to make sure it doesn’t show up on the general feed of Twitter-like clients.
But that’s not how NIP 72 is defined right now.

2023-10-11 19:06:23

- reply

Similar problem to private group chat it’s not solved yet. You can do it but it’s essentially going to be a group chat.
If you’re looking for a private Reddit type experience I haven’t heard of anything yet.
There are moderated communities like Reddit on Nostr but I think all the posts that are allowed are publicly available.