Privacy without anonymity is not privacy. Anonymity is the foundational baseline. Privacy is only privacy if one can reveal himself to the world selectively, not when one is obliged to reveal one's self to the most vicious group of people throughout the history of humanity.

Yes, 8 is good. Thanks 🙏

Thank you so much for this. Folded boosts are preferred as they’re easier to read, highlight genuine activity, and cut out redundant noise.

Timeline first, notifications second, search third. These cover the 90% use case and keep interop clean.

I was looking into hosting one myself but Primal's unique API endpoints pose a problem. Do you have any working setup currently for this? If we want a truly Primal-like caching relay, we would need to reimplement their undocumented API endpoints, which is nontrivial and not part of the public Nostr specification as of now.

There's no alternative that worked here. Suggest me one working cache relay that can be used as am alternative to the proprietary one from #Primal?

Now the drama is in BIP-444 proposal and that one is much more dangerous.

Security and adoption weaknesses resulting from an abrupt drop in difficulty make the “wipe-out” scenario much less likely. Instead, they increase the risk of the new chain being attacked, marginalized, or abandoned, which can preserve the legacy chain as the canonical #Bitcoin in practice. So, rapid block production from low difficulty isn't just an advantage, it is also the main Achilles' heel that could doom an attempted aggressive fork.

Is anyone following the #UASF discussions on the mail list and GitHub? This is looking very concerning. #asknostr

It's wild watching the #Monero bois slam the bid wall while chanting about being “delisted from the major CEXs”. So what does this mean, bros? Offloading shadow coins for fiat glory now that the bags got juiced?

I had a huge ignore list mainly consisting of various kinds of bots that I did not want in my global feed and yesterday when I tried adding another bot npub to the list, @amethyst gave an error saying "failed to decrypt NIP44 something..." , and, then, my ignore list got messed up with many of the included being set free. is this a bug or is there a limit to the ignore list inclusion?

The BIP-444 proposal and its game theory weaponize Bitcoin’s consensus mechanics to enforce ideological aims, using risk asymmetry and economic realities to drive protocol changes when social consensus is lacking. While technically potent, this approach reflects both the strengths and potential hazards of open, adversarial blockchains.

Does that mean what I think it means **fuck the state**? If yes, we're proud of your choice.

It seems can only be accessed if one has primal relay in the relay list.

Omarchy looks absolutely stunning, was just looking into it when I saw your post.

I don't think I can agree to thatas long as as fiat are representative of the real world purchasing power:

After all the #bitcoin gnu hate, #monero bros are gnu cheerleading when the price of it is pumping.

While running own CLN node, I failed to emphasize this crucial bit of the equation. As a side note, I mainly use cashu with npub.cash to receive zaps in nostr; it's great for that for me.

What added value in using cashu in terms of privacy vs using bolt12 in a non-custodial way?

I can buy it right now in Kraken (see the screenshot below).

Kraken EU still offers XMR.