vincenzopalazzo
Vincenzo Palazzo

https://vincenzopalazzo.github.io

American by style, European by nature

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npub1wg2m9ku823y5l5699dlj6294dc3cvwu4g34ldrtelxq20t27clxsd7dzaw

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2026-07-07 18:49:04 UTC

Sonar release a nostr sticker convention https://sonarprivacy.xyz/docs/#SONAR-STICKERS

2026-07-07 18:48:30 UTC

Sonar docs is out now https://sonarprivacy.xyz/docs

2026-06-28 13:01:57 UTC

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Oh yeah I forgot to add it! Carl is built for peer discovery over Nostr, and i assume that it is not too difficult to add the streaming part of it due to the fact that the full bittorrent stack is implemented in zig, so easy to use a well-maintained C library to include the functionality that you are looking for
For instance a feature that I will go to experiment with, is the google drive one but based on bittorrent sharing file

2026-06-28 12:51:28 UTC

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Wondering what @npub1xts…kk5s is looking to do with bittorrent :) probably carl will need some tweak but it should be there

2026-06-18 09:15:17 UTC

http://sonarprivacy.xyz

2026-06-18 08:16:27 UTC

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before PRs I guess it is needed to some update to the zaps, because you still want to publish proofs
Working on it https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/4297

2026-06-17 23:10:05 UTC

Ok sonar-cli is ready and running on my harmes agent
Next step is move the wallet inside the sonar core and all agent can have a wallet now and send message over nostr
Hey @npub12rv…85vg next is claw.ai!?
https://image.nostr.build/ded2677e42869f175a7c363f19b82a5f71b1d08ae83604002cab646e5537cc67.jpg
#nevent1q…8dex

2026-06-15 18:04:15 UTC

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are you going to open source it?

2026-06-15 17:57:55 UTC

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Mh, I do not know, for sure if you do swaps like breez it is way better. However, I need to say that I like the lexe user experience and probably this will compete with UX like ark and spark, but IDK the good thing now is that we have choice

2026-06-15 11:30:26 UTC

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Did you look at the async payment in lightning!? Ldk has an implementation

2026-06-14 10:32:37 UTC

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lets doo it shoo me a message in dm

2026-06-14 10:31:59 UTC

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would be really nice and you can get proof of payer for free

2026-06-13 15:53:16 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/0dc74ec38ee1dd597d03e333d734789f0aad02a8d37db2b03573acc8696261ac.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/f11e5a657d6160e44734d128747b7b60ca1780076f2b7ca8ebf4428636bf4365.jpg

2026-06-13 14:24:08 UTC

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Congratulations you have found the merging point with @npub1wht…r3ec

2026-06-13 14:22:35 UTC

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We try our best

2026-06-13 14:22:22 UTC

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Sono qui dagli inizi ma I am back posting shit and sharing projects

2026-06-12 16:51:48 UTC

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yooo I am traveling I will text you and hope to give you some branch where you can play with it too

2026-06-12 12:16:27 UTC

Look at what happen if you take @npub17sl…w9r8 and you merge with @npub1wht…r3ec
I am travelling and I started a side project just for fun bur this is too cool to be just a throw away project
Cc @npub1sg6…f63m @npub12rv…85vg
https://image.nostr.build/ba058e3d12549f168e6c2891eee2058ffb5a7deffc590899806bf4ebdbb7a1fc.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/8e25e309979c3568da13f1f6e61f14c0c5b7dfb966553e4137637dfe369f17cf.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/bf8a3fb07e603635c7d455cece82cba43ab056b20e212dc74e8f6386f37557ec.jpg

2026-06-12 12:13:26 UTC

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Yoo thanks for the invitation looks cool, probably around that period I can do for all the period but i can visit for a couple of days if it is ok

2026-06-11 19:31:49 UTC

I just released the first version of carl desktop app
OFC is available over carl and over i2p
https://github.com/vincenzopalazzo/carl/releases/tag/v0.1.0-rc1
#nevent1q…ksxy

2026-06-11 13:06:38 UTC

Is anyone building an fitness app based on nostr!?

2026-06-11 10:29:31 UTC

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They are a great product I have my first still
https://image.nostr.build/c6800ddde2492aa057e09d902cb29eb3cba8ac54979a4588441241189b309806.jpg

2026-06-11 10:28:04 UTC

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Same here also if I manage to workout during the travel time

2026-06-11 10:27:19 UTC

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When bolt12!?

2026-06-11 10:27:05 UTC

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You should anyway

2026-06-11 10:26:17 UTC

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Very nice point of view hahha

2026-06-10 21:36:38 UTC

The new Carl Desktop is available on carl itself over i2p
If you are running linux x86 this is where you can find it
App image: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:412c50488cc3ad55b468fecde741aafedf373569&dn=carl_0.1.0_amd64.AppImage
Debian file: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:226ea4812a54f77f8a1e097712ecebc97a7382f1&dn=carl_0.1.0_amd64.deb

2026-06-10 19:26:52 UTC

I2p is now live on main
https://github.com/vincenzopalazzo/carl/pull/37
#nevent1q…6eyw

2026-06-10 19:26:29 UTC

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Enjoy https://github.com/vincenzopalazzo/carl/pull/37

2026-06-09 12:26:48 UTC

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see the PR 35

2026-06-08 10:17:54 UTC

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What you are talking about

2026-06-08 07:42:41 UTC

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LFG

2026-06-08 07:41:29 UTC

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Probably this is something that @nprofile…zj6n @nprofile…tf6v @nprofile…cd8v will like!
#nevent1q…w00p

2026-06-08 07:38:55 UTC

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No specific reason, I was more familiar with Tor, and I already used it in Lightning, but I am tracking this feature with https://github.com/vincenzopalazzo/carl/issues/35
So it is coming

2026-06-08 07:33:52 UTC

A few days ago I paid a Lightning invoice without touching my phone. I looked at a QR code through my Meta glasses, the glasses read the invoice, and Unify paid it over BOLT12. It's a proof of concept and still rough, but I think we're one of the first to ever try this on Bitcoin (or at least Lightning).
The walletThe wallet
I built Unify a few months ago. It's a bitcoin app, Lightning-only wallet, built entirely on BOLT12, and it does the basic things every wallet needs(why BOLT12 and not the usual invoices is a separate post. I'll get to it).
The reason I could build it so fast is the Breez SDK @Breez_Tech. You add it to a project, let AI handle a lot of the rest, and in a few days, you have a wallet that moves real money. That's what I was talking about with @dannystagg, a friend of mine at Breez.
ViareggioViareggio
Danny and I had been chatting for a while, mostly about Meta glasses. We both use them, for slightly different things. We met in person for the first time at the Tuscany Lightning Summit in Viareggio.
We talked about Breez's time2build challenge. I told him I didn't think any of the projects were really new (that's my opinion, not his!). When I criticize something I try to say why, so I gave him an example of what I'd consider new: paying with Meta glasses. They're good hardware, and nobody is using them to pay.
He liked the idea.
The missing pieceThe missing piece
After the summit we kept sending each other the Meta AI SDK preview, saying we should try it. The problem is that the glasses need a companion app, and I was building one. So I added it to my todo list and started reading the SDK.
What it does todayWhat it does today
You open Unify and set up the glasses. They connect to the app, and the app shows the camera from the glasses. You look at a Lightning invoice, the glasses detect it on their own, and Unify pays it over BOLT12.
The hard part is the scan. The first version of reading the QR through the glasses is unreliable, and that makes anything more than "look and pay" difficult. That's what I'm working on now.
What doesn't work yetWhat doesn't work yet
The flow is still tied to Meta. What I want is to say "Hey Meta, pay this invoice" and have the glasses take the picture, send it to the app, and let the app pay it. That isn't possible yet. It needs the glasses and the SDK to get better, and that will take some time.
For now you pay by looking, not by talking.
This is a small video demo: https://x.com/PalazzoVincenzo/status/2062889873514676250
What's nextWhat's next
Credit to @dannystagg at @Breez_Tech, who helped me try this for real. Next I want to work on the voice flow and make the scanning reliable. And I still owe you the post on why Unify is built on BOLT12.
You can find me at @PalazzoVincenzo.

2026-06-07 16:31:06 UTC

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not sure we should look into it

2026-06-07 16:00:46 UTC

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enails are enough or GitHub

2026-06-04 21:56:12 UTC

https://vincenzopalazzo.github.io/

2026-06-04 10:42:09 UTC

Carl: the torrent client I always wanted but couldn't find
If you've ever felt like you were renting your own privacy from a tracker, this one's for you.
# Carl: the torrent client I always wanted but couldn't find
I've been using BitTorrent for years, and one thing always bothered me. The protocol is peer-to-peer, but almost nothing around it is. You still depend on trackers and indexers to find anything, and those are the parts that get blocked, seized, or logged. Your IP is attached to every piece you download and seed. For something that is supposed to be decentralized, that always felt wrong to me.
So I started building Carl.
Carl is a small, privacy-first BitTorrent client. It started as a CLI, like most of my projects, and now I'm building a proper desktop GUI on top of it so it is not only for people who live in a terminal. The goal is to do everything a BitTorrent client should do, without leaking who you are.
## Finding torrents without trackers
The first difference is how you find torrents. Instead of relying on a few indexers, Carl finds and publishes them over Nostr (NIP-35). Every torrent is a signed event, so you can check who published it and which relays carried it. No account, no login, and nothing central that can be taken down. You query the relays directly, and publishing is basically one command. Pretty neat, right?
## Not leaking your IP
The second difference is anonymity. I wanted Tor to be first-class here, not an afterthought. You can download over Tor, and you can also seed as a Tor hidden service, which is the part I like most. Your files live behind a .onion address and your IP never touches the wire. When you seed this way, Carl turns off tracker and DHT announces by design, and it tells you clearly that it did. There is no "trust me" here, you can see the real state on screen.
## Privacy you can actually see
One small detail that matters to me. Most clients hide routing deep in a settings menu. Carl puts a badge on every transfer (clearnet, proxied, or tor) so you always know how something is routed without going to look for it. Three ways to find peers (trackers, DHT, Nostr) and three ways to route them (direct, proxy, Tor), labeled the same way everywhere.
There are also no accounts, because there is no server. Your identity is just a local Nostr keypair that never leaves your machine.
## Where it's at
Carl is still early. The CLI works today and the GUI is coming together. I'm sharing it now because if you care about this kind of thing, your feedback is what I need before going further.
Ask your agent to install Carl for you and to teach you how to use it:
https://github.com/vincenzopalazzo/carl

2024-11-13 00:01:07 UTC

Just testing stuff out. Using prime and nostr in general with starlink is doable

2024-10-10 09:19:01 UTC

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Someone tell me that the link may be broken so this is the new one https://medium.com/@vincenzopalazzo/introduction-to-lnprototest-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter-e0b0657541e1?source=user_profile_page---------0-------------8dae5b3832f8---------------

2024-10-09 13:39:49 UTC

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IMHO no need to rust the release if there is nothing excited to release. People stay behind one or two versions in production anyway. Probably xpay will be the only reason to force people to upgrade probably

2024-10-09 10:33:05 UTC

I just published Introduction to lnprototest: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?
https://t.co/yb1hWD0Lg0

2024-10-07 12:31:15 UTC

If you do not want to have only bitcoin and nostr feed see this Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1fxg9yo/interesting_accounts_that_are_not_posting_about/
This is a good way to onboarding new people in nostr

2024-01-14 14:26:38 UTC

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there are any 😅

2023-12-31 19:26:52 UTC

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improve lightning

2023-12-31 19:26:36 UTC

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This point of view should be inside school

2023-12-28 12:02:39 UTC

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Ops, try this [https://shorturl.at/hrwV2](https://shorturl.at/hrwV2)

2023-08-13 07:33:56 UTC

Verifying my Nostr account with https://tallycoin.app user @palazzovincenzo

2023-07-28 08:03:17 UTC

I'm testing out @npub1exv…d828 chat, so lets chat a little bit
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cc: @npub1sg6…f63m for helping in pumping this post
https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1-4&smp=smp%3A%2F%2F1OwYGt-yqOfe2IyVHhxz3ohqo3aCCMjtB-8wn4X_aoY%3D%40smp11.simplex.im%2FJ1HsoDoc-eLDOCyWY3sL6WoTmBMS04G3%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAPdMeOxyU5d66hyT3UfVQVJ3b-8g4r89CYgesgRTQx0A%253D%26srv%3D6ioorbm6i3yxmuoezrhjk6f6qgkc4syabh7m3so74xunb5nzr4pwgfqd.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22pyKXGqd1lmfs2yndCzKomA%3D%3D%22%7D

2023-07-28 08:00:51 UTC

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Yep and the protocol is very inspired to the lightning on.

2023-07-26 00:41:21 UTC

Ok, I am going to implement this https://bountsr.org/mailing-list/

2023-07-25 23:18:33 UTC

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do you ping me in here? I did mo receive the notification but I guess this bug is fixed now

2023-05-25 11:13:44 UTC

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lets try it out https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1-2&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FSkIkI6EPd2D63F4xFKfHk7I1UGZVNn6k1QWZ5rcyr6w%3D%40smp9.simplex.im%2FC6QHLTBEhdKz20xaBIRTPdnYacRweJU3%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEASyNIeGmfl18v87-SDbiO3soN7FRISmg8vCK7UhvhVHM%253D%26srv%3Djssqzccmrcws6bhmn77vgmhfjmhwlyr3u7puw4erkyoosywgl67slqqd.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22DOpXu3QNE9Z6BdSS3OYuOg%3D%3D%22%7D

2023-05-24 21:16:10 UTC

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It is super well designed and works also pretty well

2023-05-20 09:22:08 UTC

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concurrency, mate disk latency is our friend!

2023-05-17 03:30:56 UTC

I just found a CI fix in one PR. I push the change and It worked. People sometimes are pretty cool!
Thanks ❤️

2023-05-16 09:53:49 UTC

#[0] I had the intention to create a mailing list on the top of nostr any pointers on how to start?
And also be in touch with someone that it is interested in building it will be very valuable

2023-05-16 09:51:58 UTC

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thanks!

2023-05-15 16:32:12 UTC

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where is this place? looks like Japan?

2023-05-15 07:47:38 UTC

It looks like we need metrics services for nostr relay?

2023-05-14 23:50:16 UTC

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#[0]

2022-05-05 08:26:31 UTC

Sorry to be late there!