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A short insight into Blossom protocol implementation by nostr.build.

How to create a nostr app quickly using applesauce

This is a piece about online child safety. My hope is that it will start a conversation.

Inspired by Jonathan Edwards

A conversation between Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/20592-national-security-archive-doc-06-memorandum

Could the great pyramid have been part of terra-forming earth?

Can the west survive freedom?

Comparing Ben Franklin's Junto to a future built on Nostr shows how the tools of community and debate evolve with time. Both prove that people crave spaces to connect, share, and grow—whether in a colonial tavern or a digital address. Yet their differences reveal trade-offs: the Junto’s structure offered depth and focus but capped its reach, while Nostr’s openness promises scale at the cost of order.

This post give a quick overview of mathematical models from network science that detail how innovations spread and technology is adopted in social networks.

EXECUTIVE ORDER SIGNED BY PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ON MARCH 6, 2025: "ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE AND UNITED STATES DIGITAL ASSET STOCKPILE"

An introduction to cryptographic identity for the non-technical (but patient) reader.

Today's bitcoin technology is up to the task of replacing and improving yesterday's insecure and costly conveniences.

Nsite Info Update March, building out content, collecting tooling and creating gateways, allot has moved on this project. This monthly update is the starting point for Nsite Info & Cloud.

Inflation heavily penalized the maintenance of a healthy diet. Each decade saw such a diet get relatively more expensive, especially for categories like red meat and dairy. In contrast, Americans who embraced cheaper substitutes and new, processed foods managed to keep their food spending growth below the inflation that a healthy diet would incur. This behavior-adjustment – switching from costly whole foods to economical processed and alternative foods – has been a key reason the reported CPI fo...

A high-level breakdown of the major components and subsystems required to implement an e-voting system using blinded ephemeral keys, threshold cryptography, open timestamp proofs, and Nostr (or any decentralized relay approach). Each component is described in terms of functionality and roles—in practice, some of these can be combined or implemented as separate modules/services.

A white paper describing a Nostr-based election system that incorporates: Voter-Generated Ephemeral Keys (the voter, not the authority, generates the key). Blind Signatures from the Election Authority (EA) to authorize that ephemeral key. Homomorphic or Mix-Net Encryption to protect ballot secrecy. OpenTimestamps-style proofs to give each ballot (and any re-cast ballot) a tamper-proof, verifiable time anchor. Re-Voting until the cutoff, allowing a voter to replace a previously cast ballot. ...

You can either take control of your relay lists, or they will control you.

v0.11 release for the applesauce packages that support noStrudel

The Story of the Good and Bad Figs

All the projects and libraries I worked on in Q4 2024

A brief walkthrough of what DVMs are, and how to build them

Everything you wanted to know about #nutzaps that nobody else will tell you.

Why I'm so darned difficult to impress.

Why we aren't just hacking.

What we've been working on! The Damus OpenSats progress report.

How to form a project team and have it not end up a fruitless mess.

A brief recap of the Nostr Booth at FOSDEM 2025

Most people don't truly understand money. Here I hope to help shed some light and show how it is heavily misunderstood.

Anil Patel's (@anilsaidso on Twitter) list of essential essays that provide a foundational understanding of Bitcoin.

How our development operations are structured.

Musing over the releases.

My frustration with Nostr copycats.

2024 reflections and 2025 predictions from a humble pleb

An elegant, simple, vegetable-cream soup.

A rating scale for humans.