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15 minutes ago•••
In about a month, many of us will be celebrating our two year anniversary using this beautiful protocol. I can't believe that.
40 minutes ago•••
I'm glad we're always having fun on Nostr. That's important to me.
1 hour ago•••
Can someone make me a blocked by 1000 users on Bluesky badge? Will zap 1000 freedom units.
Derek Ross replied 1 hour ago
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1 hour ago•••
I sent this email to Untappd. fingers crossed
Hello Untappd,
I've been a proud Untappd member for over 14 years, joining way back on November 7, 2010. Being social online has evolved. I'd like to take a few minutes and talk to you about it.
In a time when users value freedom, control, and choice, the Nostr protocol offers a new way forward for social platforms. As an open, decentralized communication protocol, Nostr is transforming the social media landscape, allowing platforms like yours to engage users in innovative ways. Here’s why adopting Nostr could be a major step forward for your platform’s growth and user satisfaction.
What is Nostr? Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is a decentralized social protocol that empowers users with a unique level of control over their content and online identities. Unlike centralized platforms, Nostr provides users with an open ecosystem where their digital identities and posts are truly portable and interoperable across platforms.
To learn more about Nostr and how it works, you can explore these resources:
Nostr.org – An overview of the protocol.
NostrApps.com – Explore the growing ecosystem of Nostr-compatible applications.
Nostr Protocol GitHub – Access the open-source protocol for detailed technical specifications.
Social Media is Broken - Recorded at the first Nostr Unconference in Costa Rica, March 2023.
The protocol is rapidly gaining momentum and support within the tech community. Notably, Jack Dorsey has contributed $10 million to fund open-source Nostr development, underscoring its potential to redefine how we interact online.
Why Nostr is Important for Platforms Today Enhanced User Experience: With Nostr, users have the freedom to engage across multiple platforms without needing new logins or fragmented profiles, which can significantly improve satisfaction and loyalty.
User Control: The protocol allows users to take ownership of their data and content, aligning with the growing trend toward user-driven digital experiences.
Cross-Platform Interaction: Nostr provides a unique foundation for seamless interaction with other applications and platforms, enabling collaborative growth and increased engagement opportunities.
Innovation Potential: Nostr’s open-source framework encourages developers to create new and unique features, fostering an ecosystem of innovation that benefits your platform and its users.
Case Study: Fountain’s Success with Nostr Fountain, a podcast and social interaction platform, recently transitioned its user experience to integrate Nostr. With this move, Fountain expanded its reach, offering users a unified identity and an intuitive experience across decentralized platforms. This transition has attracted new users, driven engagement, and aligned Fountain with the future of social interaction.
For more about Fountain’s journey, check out their full story here.
What Nostr Can Do for Untappd Adopting Nostr offers you the chance to:
Attract a Broader Audience: Nostr appeals to digital enthusiasts who are looking for more control and cross-platform compatibility, positioning your platform to attract tech-savvy users.
Encourage Loyalty and Retention: By empowering users with portability and control, you enhance their experience and loyalty.
Drive Innovation and Growth: With the Nostr protocol’s open ecosystem, you’ll gain access to a range of new features and integrations that increase engagement without the typical barriers to innovation.
Useful NIPs (Nostr Implementation Possibilities): These NIPs could be utilized by Untappd.
Every user, beer, and venue could get their own public key / profile.
NIP-01 - Social posts and comments
NIP-25 - Reactions
NIP-23 - Blogs articles from Untappd/Vendors
NIP-58 - Badges
NIP-52 - Location / Geohash
NIP-52 - Calendar events
And more…
Implement as little or as much of Nostr as you’d like. You’re in control.
Let’s Talk I’m here to help you explore what Nostr adoption and migration could mean for Untappd and to offer technical support to transition your login and social features seamlessly. Let’s discuss how we can work together to bring your platform into the decentralized social future and expand your user experience.
Looking forward to connecting!
Best regards,
Derek Ross Nostr Evangelist
4 hours ago•••
When nprofile1qqsxvns8pl39uakaema9fy5uphjzajkssyqfx5r7yn0yvgs828xm02spzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0djmwfv adds Nostr login...
4 hours ago•••
I told you, didn’t I?
To the sensitive ones, don’t come crying later. Bitcoiners spend 2 to 3 years hearing nonsense, but then the tears of the nocoiners could fill a pool.
Now deal with it 🤣
5 hours ago•••
🚨 USA 🇺🇸 /Russia 🇷🇺 /Ukraine 🇺🇦 : With two months left in his term, the president has authorized for the first time the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia, according to the New York Times.
Detail: Biden made the announcement on Brazilian soil (Brics country) Biden is in Manaus.
5 hours ago•••
Brazil 🇧🇷 / USA 🇺🇸 : If anyone finds Biden lost in the Amazon rainforest, please return him to the address 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC in a White House there.
5 hours ago•••
In November 2021, American police surrounded a lakeside mansion in Georgia.
In the basement, they found a safe.
Inside, there was $661,000 in cash, gold bars, and a jar of Cheetos.
The jar held 51,680.32 Bitcoins.
To understand how this fortune ended up there, we need to know James "Loaded" Zhong – the owner of the mansion.
A classic nerd, he loved exploring obscure forums online.
In 2009, one post in particular caught his attention.
Eight years later, James would become one of the biggest #Bitcoin whales.
Curious, Zhong mined a few thousand #BTC at home, just to see what would happen.
He had just entered college with near-perfect entrance exam scores.
Like any 18- or 19-year-old, he spent a good portion of his #BTC on parties.
Alcohol, psychedelics, and other harder stuff.
Ironically, James's addiction made him even richer.
For convenience, he started buying his powder from a site called Silk Road, the largest Bitcoin marketplace of the time.
Then, one day, when he went to withdraw #BTC from the site, our protagonist encountered something unexpected...
The site was incredibly slow.
Impatient, James started clicking the "withdraw" button furiously 😤
When he checked his wallet, he was stunned to see he had received DOUBLE the balance he actually had to withdraw 😮
He blinked, checked again. And voilà.
He had just found the real-life "Klapaucius."
Silk Road had a flaw that allowed users to exploit a second function while the program was performing another task.
In this case, "double-spending bitcoin."
In the following days, Zhonginho lived the happiest time of his life ☺️
He drained about 8% of the site's reserves 😱
He then reported the bug to the Silk Road owner and, as a reward, received some extra coins.
He sent 40,000 BTC to one address and 10,000 to another, where they remained for almost a decade.
James Zhong, at 22 years old, was now one of the largest Bitcoin holders on the planet 👑
What would you do if you had 50k #BTC stashed away? 🤔💭
James chose to make waves online.
I bet many of you would do the same.
He pretended to be an "asset manager" on Bitcointalk and built a legendary persona, one that would go down in history.
His name there was "LOADED" 🔫
The theft happened in 2012.
Zhong's coins were worth $1 million. He entered college "with life sorted."
But #BTC went from $10 to $1000 between 2012 and 2014 📈
By the time he graduated at 24, his coins were worth over $30 million.
He bought a house, a car – and started funding the party for his "friends."
Up until then, he had only spent the BTC he earned from mining.
If he had kept it that way, he probably would have never been caught.
But, intoxicated by euphoria, he made a mistake…
... and planted the seed of his downfall during his 3rd bull cycle in 2017.
At the height of the #Bitcoin "civil war," LOADED got carried away on Bitcointalk.
He challenged Roger Ver to a $20M bet, #BTC vs. BCash.
To prove his seriousness, he signed a message with the key to a wallet containing $44M in BTC.
But then, "on-chain rats" entered the scene...
... and soon they linked the wallet to the infamous address 1DkyBEK...
... widely known for its connection to the Silk Road drain, years prior.
🫥 After this revelation, LOADED disappeared from the forum and never posted again.
He knew he had made a huge mistake.
And it seemed he already anticipated the worst.
The 2017 bull run arrived, and James switched to "heir" mode.
The #BTC he had mined at $10 were now worth $10,000.
He bought several Lambos, rented yachts, traveled the world, and invested nearly $10M in real estate.
The flaunting didn't go unnoticed.
Then, on a fateful night in 2019...
James' house was robbed.
They took $400K in cash.
The broken windows shook our Bitcoin mogul.
He called the police, and a case was opened.
The investigation went nowhere.
The thief was never caught.
But the case caught the attention of the IRS...
After all, who keeps $400K in cash at home?!
They requested browsing records from Jaminho's ISP 👀
Mapped his wallets.
And eventually, they uncovered the connection first mentioned on Bitcointalk years earlier:
between LOADED wallets... and the original hacker from Silk Road 🫢
James never sold any of the BTC stolen from Silk Road.
The site’s owner even thanked him for reporting the bug.
He would have remained free if it weren't for that message and that bet in 2017.
Or, thinking about it, maybe it was just a matter of time before he got caught 🤔
Social deprivation was Zhong's Achilles heel.
Fortune had made him forget Rule No. 1 of Fight Club.
CNBC has a good document. on.
He received undercover agents, showed them suitcases of money he used to impress girls, and opened a laptop with 1,500 #BTC
James lived a movie-worthy life from 21 to 33 🎞️
Imagine watching #Bitcoin soar from $5 to $50K 🚀😱
A 10,000x increase in value.
And unlike some Faria Limers out there, this guy had no fear of "not being sufficiently allocated."
He was LOADED.
This is the story of one of the biggest WHALES in Bitcoin history:
James "Loaded" Zhong 🐳
James was convicted last year for money laundering at the age of 33.
He was arrested in Alabama in July 2023.
And that's how we ended up at the mansion siege in Georgia on 11/9/21.
The second-largest seizure in the history of the U.S. Department of Justice:
$661.9K in cash51,680.32 #BitcoinMillions in real estateMillions in precious metals
With the billions stored in the Cheetos jar, he could have bought over 7,000 houses like the one Zhong lived in.
Everyone has that friend who invested in #bitcoin early and became a bon vivant...
... but imagine being friends with LOADED?!
They say he handed out paper wallets of #BTC at night to everyone. Paid for trips. VIP access.
In the end, none of his friends were seen at the trial.
5 hours ago•••
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Derek Ross replied 5 hours ago
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8 hours ago•••
There's going to be a Nostr booth at the upcoming FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium on February 1 and 2, 2025.
What's FOSDEM? Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized European event centered on free and open-source software development.
It looks like there are a lot of good stands that compliment Nostr's ethos that are going to be there. If I was there, I would go around to every single booth and talk to them about Nostr, connecting with each and every one of them, tying their products and services into Nostr's ethos, and hopefully getting them to create brand and/or personal accounts. 🔥
Derek Ross replied 8 hours ago
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10 hours ago•••
We sure do love zaps and the value for value economy here. Though, one of the largest user based technical hurdles for Nostr, IMO, are zaps. While not required, they do enhance the experience. Because of this paired with the fact that many of us are Bitcoiners, we tend to get a bit overenthusiastic when new users join. So, how do we make this easier?
Does Nutsack fix this? Maybe?
I'm still not entirely sold on Nutsack fixing this issue, at least in it's current form. Mint selection may need to be automatic or have recommended mints, but also allow advanced mint selection for more technical people. We also need incredibly easy solutions to convert from 🥜 to ⚡.
Telling people that they're going to need a second application or even a third application doesn't seem like a good experience either.
Would you be comfortable holding hundreds of thousands of sats in a Cashu mint? I would not. Because of this simple fact, I would not be able to recommend Nutsack to new users. I cannot recommend something to people that I don't use or don't fully endorse.
For me, the key is to help users help themselves and while helping them, don't set them up for failure. Don't set them up to be rugged.
I know that nprofile1qqs04xzt6ldm9qhs0ctw0t58kf4z57umjzmjg6jywu0seadwtqqc75sprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszynhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4esdp32r9 is aware of all of these shortcomings and that he's actively working on making NIP-60 Cashu wallets better and easier to use.
Hell, maybe I'll dive in and switch my zaps to nuts for a while. Do a little bit of dogfooding. Er...squirrelfooding.
Anyways. All of that said, I truly am excited to watch clients integrate this and am hopeful that we can solve all of these onboarding issues. Maybe I'll be surprised.
12 hours ago•••
Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 💜🤙🏻🫂
Much love to all of you Nostriches. You're the best community one could have. Thanks for all of the love, laughs, and support.
20 hours ago•••
Google's Gemini seems to get really angry and aggressive after someone uses Gemini to answer homework questions.
You can read the whole chat conversation here. https://gemini.google.com/share/6d141b742a13
21 hours ago•••
Meet Bob. Bob is an OG nostrich. Bob is humble. Bob does 99% of all moderation of media content uploaded to nostr.build. Bob doesn’t complain, Bob does what he does best! Kudos to Bob for keeping media fun and flowing! 🫡🫂
Derek Ross replied 21 hours ago
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39 hours ago•••
#PreemptiveMeme
40 hours ago•••
Oh wait, it's not even satire. Trump actually sells these shirts.
Well in that case, don't be lazy by only printing a square picture. Make the whole shirt Mars colored. Make Swag Great Again.
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