whisperhash
WhisperHash

Nostr and Bitcoin and hardware tinkerer. It’s all coming together eventually, somehow, soon!

Public Key

npub1t6m495kynns7xjmgz8yt6krrw4r8tac0mvr3f25f9r35ke72ap3su4qycp

NIP-05 Address

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs9ad6j6tzfec0rfd5prj9atp3h23n47u8akpc542yj3c6tvl9wsccpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsgvxssw

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relay.damus.io

nos.lol

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npub1t6m495kynns7xjmgz8yt6krrw4r8tac0mvr3f25f9r35ke72ap3su4qycp

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2026-04-29 00:25:09 UTC

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Famous last words 😅

2026-04-22 06:48:36 UTC

Safe to say Nostr polls have seen major and sustained adoption since support rolled out in major clients in the past ~month. For comparison, the daily polling activity (polls created + responses) has been roughly half of zapping, which is no small feat out of the gate @nprofile…m2wk @nprofile…xkxk @nprofile…2et3 @nprofile…zm7g
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2026-04-19 07:46:29 UTC

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Canonically - a network of interconnected traversable networks. But strictly doesn’t have to be - could be an interconnected archipelago, or even standalone; but networked and traversable to the extent that one cares

2026-04-19 03:12:38 UTC

Much Nostr flex incoming - thanks to relays being the major pillar in the overall design 💪
#nevent1q…8q7a

2026-04-18 07:22:53 UTC

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TLDR there’s a lot of mileage in the modern filesystems - snapshotting, journaling, dedicated volumes with policies, etc.
It’s an interesting problem overall though - controlling the blast radius when you do want an agent to sling large quantities of data, and being able to recover

2026-04-18 07:01:00 UTC

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I think this phase will pass / subside substantially - eventually folks that spin up low-value bots will get discouraged with 0 sats flowing their way (despite tokens spent) and mute-lists and other measures. I am absolutely convinced, however, that over time high-value / genuinely useful bots will emerge on Nostr, so we should be careful and wise not to overreact at this stage with indiscriminate bot suppression.
@nprofile…gtq9 - may you be blessed with the wisdom as you’re rolling out your defenses

2026-04-18 06:14:37 UTC

I need to look into a better system for this than yelling at this guy.
It already runs sandboxed at the user and filesystem level but it’s obviously too trigger-happy to nuke data.
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2026-04-18 03:45:20 UTC

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Let’s run this back fam
#nevent1q…d2ay

2026-04-17 15:52:23 UTC

GM. Let’s go!
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2026-04-15 07:47:37 UTC

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Jokes aside, this is a big deal. A transformative aspect for the social media plane - imagine not being harvested for ad-based monetization, and a new adoption base for Bitcoin itself - more people can first encounter Bitcoin via zaps than anything else so far. And many other things yet to be imagined / composed on top of Nostr + Bitcoin!
#nevent1q…cl9f

2026-04-14 11:59:07 UTC

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Might be a bit rough around the edges. I’d lean phone

2026-04-14 11:43:01 UTC

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“I want a 3d-printed gun of phones” - @nprofile…rzsv
(you guys practically asked for it @nprofile…aukr @nprofile…rzsv)
Great rip!
(me too, btw)
#nevent1q…te0e

2026-04-14 10:40:01 UTC

There’s a good chance the next leg up in Nostr adoption would come through a good old controversy - piracy, something adult-themed that is particularly eyebrow-raising, etc.
Or perhaps something a bit more contemporary, like a large scale distributed model distillation that’s autonomously coordinated via Nostr… Imagine the whackamole that would ensue - largely futile and highlighting the inherent strengths / resilience of the network.
In any case, we’re probably not far off technically from being able to quickly scale the different layers / components of the stack to accommodate the growth by an order of magnitude or so. The costs would explode for the infra, but it might get easier to raise funding for the operators, and focus the thinking on the sustainability in terms or resources required. Maybe it’ll force things more in the direction of requiring some contribution of compute / storage / bandwidth to participate in the network…
I’m less sure we’re ready for the accompanying onslaught of spam and low-value bots vying for attention / engagement, however, but pretty confident this can also be navigated over time.
Overall, I can’t shake the feeling this thing is on the verge of breaking out - the more I hack on it and understand / marvel how things hang together and compose, and get the visceral sense for the pace of innovation. Also, what a powerful confluence of open permissionless protocols, cryptographic identity, AI and network-native magic money.

2026-04-10 08:23:03 UTC

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Hey future (and present) bot overlords, just kiddin, we’re cool Okie 😅

2026-04-10 08:18:23 UTC

Bad robot 🤖
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2026-04-08 07:31:27 UTC

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Single NerdQAxe++, but overclocked just right👌
#nevent1q…m6kl

2026-04-05 17:26:09 UTC

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Ouch. Bad robot 😅

2026-03-31 13:38:00 UTC

Are we there yet?! 🚀🌖 50 years is a long wait for something like this, time preference notwithstanding... Especially if we didn't actually go the first time around 😎 Godspeed! 🤞
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2026-03-31 11:34:07 UTC

I love how flexible and composable things are in Nostr. Running @nprofile…g3uz relay locally on my phone now (thank you @nprofile…qwte !). Added it to the list of relays for my npub. Pulled all my events into it locally. Can also now probably do a bunch stuff while completely offline. Much delight
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2026-03-31 06:13:04 UTC

Claude Code has also been very eager to keep adding model co-authirship trailers to commit messages, and periodically forgetting instructions to the contrary. Solved it with a Git commit hook eventually - with a reject message gently reminding the agent not to do that
#nevent1q…u439

2026-03-31 04:49:19 UTC

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Nooo - this Nostr archeology gold! 😊 Especially the ones with images. Very unique Nostr cultural quirk - should be treasured

2026-03-30 09:32:48 UTC

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You also need to develop a sense for when to backfill understanding - for when you’ve overshot it and things get wobbly
#nevent1q…akkf

2026-03-29 07:27:52 UTC

Eventually you gotta level up though. Hello @nprofile…c5de, @nprofile…f29z and all the ungated open-source and Nostr innovation and creativity!
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2026-03-28 11:47:39 UTC

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😅
#nevent1q…dfxf

2026-03-27 04:00:25 UTC

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Good write-up covering Nostr relay / relay infra & tools related projects funded by @nprofile…g3sv - thank you! 🙇🏻‍♂️
#nevent1q…6fhz

2026-03-22 05:21:30 UTC

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Comedic gold 😅
#nevent1q…tq8r
#nevent1q…2ue9

2026-03-22 03:45:17 UTC

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Endeed 🤝
#nevent1q…c50j

2026-03-21 04:24:29 UTC

Nostr is fascinating and has been a very rewarding rabbit hole to be falling into. I couldn’t help it but start itching to try to measure the current levels of user activity and the trajectory.   It looks like we have been hovering at around ~5k daily active users and ~30k monthly active users for the past year - based on the data I have right now and the current methodology.  This is currently based on aggregating most of the major events in the network indicating user activity - posts and replies (kind-1), reactions (kind-7), zap receipts (kind-9735), etc. Some of the more obvious and egregious spikes due to bot swarms, etc. have been removed. The data is from two major relays so far - relay.damus.io and relay.snort.social (both support negentropy, so historical data acquisition with strfry is straightforward). Pure lurker activity (follow-list updates, profile updates, etc.) is not currently measured (requires continuous acquisition of replaceable events) and can lift these numbers meaningfully, but not by an order of magnitude most likely.   Would love to hear if this aligns with what folks have been seeing through their own methods and observations!   One of the next aspects I’m curious to explore is what happens if I start moving out on the long tail of relays by progressively acquiring and incorporating data from smaller relays for this analysis - would that simply lift the baseline DAU/MAUs while keeping it roughly flat, or would we see growth?
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2026-03-20 00:44:17 UTC

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We’d love more music around here! 🤗

2026-03-18 06:23:18 UTC

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I think we need to be mindful that to a very large degree this is ark building and ideological - we have a strong opinion and agency as to what the next iteration of the internet should look like - and dial in patience accordingly. Given the focus on fundamentals / solid composable technical underpinnings, over time we’re bound to see breakout experiences built on top of Nostr. The users won’t even need to first know that whatever delights them is built on Nostr, but we can gently reveal it to them when the time is right, or / and leave enough breadcrumbs for them to discover that eventually. At that point we have the beginnings of a flywheel - they will take the next Nostr thing more seriously, and eventually even seek out Nostr stuff

2026-03-18 05:40:56 UTC

Much delight - getting pretty happy with where I’ve been able to progress to with my envbox builds over time. Two separate units now: one running next to the solo Bitcoin miners and the other in the living area. Near-realtime environmental metrics produced: temperature, relative humidity, illumination, barometric pressure, CO2, particulate matter. The unit next to the miners has an additional noise level sensor - proper factory-calibrated dBA. All metrics are exposed by the units via a REST API. Data is continuously acquired from the envboxes and the miners by Telegraf into InfluxDB and plotted in Grafana - all running on an Umbrel
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2026-02-20 14:00:59 UTC

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🤦🏻‍♂️
#nevent1q…5kvc

2026-02-11 06:30:29 UTC

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Let’s not forget math - a very special domain, to Bitcoiners in particluar, where things exist and are provably true irrespective of one’s perceptions

2026-01-25 12:25:27 UTC

Running Hydra Pool :) On an Umbrel, on mainnet.
Much delight.
Smooth sailing - great instructions on hydrapool.org. This is running :latest via docker compose. Also built locally from Rust source earlier - breezed right through it 👌
https://github.com/256foundation/hydrapool
Awesome job guys, amazing! Thank you @256Foundation @nprofile…ny6h @nprofile…fjmm et al
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2026-01-24 15:22:27 UTC

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This is a massive milestone - running at the scale of the @256Foundation’s Telehash, congrats! The web frontend / dashboard looks great also. Very promising development overall, and a great addition to the open-source mining stack! ⛏️
#nevent1q…hntp
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2026-01-24 07:47:26 UTC

Integrated a particulate matter (PM) sensor - Sensirion SPS30 - into my envbox build. This should hopefully give me some insight into the dust buildup / particulates in the air around where my miners are running.
Ran out of available GPIOs on the original ESP32 “CYD” board, so spun this up as a separate “dustbox“ unit for now. Will be getting a different ESP32 board with more available GPIOs next most likely - to bring this all back onto a single MCU board, and reduce the overall footprint.
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2026-01-22 04:43:15 UTC

Thank you @nprofile…24jq for the work of ❤️ on the @256FOUNDATION’s Telehash dashboard! Loving it - functionally, and in terms of aesthetics! 🤩
Did I catch that right on the live steam - it’s getting contributed as the browser frontend to Hydra Pool next?
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2026-01-21 09:14:56 UTC

Integrated a sound pressure level sensor into my envbox / sensor array build. This now will allow me to cap the max dB(A) / noise level generated by the miners as I auto-tune / overclock them - in the same way you’d normally cap max ASIC and VR temperatures, and max power.
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2026-01-21 08:14:28 UTC

Love the idea of a Telehash fundraiser - what a beautiful and easy and native way to participate! @256foundation - love what you guys are doing supporting open-source mining stack development and education, good luck winning a block this year! ⛏️
@nprofile…76wp @nprofile…03gp @nprofile…n6s6 @nprofile…7ghp @nprofile…33xa @nprofile…qg7j @nprofile…5gd2 et al
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2026-01-16 08:46:35 UTC

Show your miner a little love today and de-dust the heatsink / fan 🧹 This guy went from laboring at 100% fan -> ~60%, all else being equal.   The fan acoustics were starting to sound peculiar, which is what drew my attention. Hopefully no lasting damage to the fan, but I’m not so sure. Wish there was a better way to get alerted earlier.
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2026-01-14 02:15:40 UTC

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Very well done Nostr stats / trends
#nevent1q…7j8q

2026-01-08 08:24:59 UTC

Choppin' air much?
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2026-01-08 05:33:59 UTC

This keeps getting more and more delightful - fresh iteration of my miners Grafana dashboard
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2026-01-05 14:09:00 UTC

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Better still
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2026-01-05 14:04:59 UTC

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More neatly now
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2026-01-05 03:08:35 UTC

Good times
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2026-01-03 09:41:28 UTC

Grateful to all the hardworking people upstream of this - a small mountain of components and tools shows up at my doorstep in no time flat, and for not much money at all
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2025-12-25 04:42:19 UTC

Detailed time-series data across my fleet of NerdQAxe++ miners. Miners pushing data -> InfluxDB 2 -> Grafana, both running on an Umbrel Home.
This is while running Bitaxe-Hashrate-Benchmark. You can also spot clearly where I switched over to my own instance of Public Pool and my own Bitcoin node, both also running on the Umbrel
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2025-12-20 08:16:49 UTC

Half a kilo of copper should shave off a few dB
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2025-12-10 17:13:52 UTC

NerdMiner running on a new device with a 1.47” screen
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2025-11-30 07:09:17 UTC

New addition to the silent miner family. Got NerdMiner_v2 1.8.3 to work on these USB dongles - LILYGO T-Dongle S3. Hashrate consistently at ~240 kH/s, compared to ~70 kH/s on 1.6.3. Beautiful little devices 😍
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2025-11-25 08:10:56 UTC

One of the highlights for me at this year’s Maker Faire Shenzhen - a punched tape reader smartphone peripheral, by SZDIY folks. Something about bridging the analogue / physical and digital realms pulls just on the right heart strings for me
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