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A browser extension that keeps your Nostr keys secure while letting you use any Nostr application seamlessly. Available now for Chrome and Firefox.

Unlike dedicated mobile coding apps that have failed to gain traction, Shakespeare is a Progressive Web App that delivers a full development experience on mobile with Nostr Git sync.

The Myth of the Garage and the rise of the techno-feudal state

Comfort food extraordinaire.

The 55th dose of your weekly Nostr Newsletter

Prosperity has one prerequisite: do not steal. Secure property rights enable voluntary exchange, which accumulates capital fairly. The West is collapsing because governments have become systematic thieves.

Do You Love God's Word?

Why I find the tiresome Russian propaganda so tiresome.

Bitchat is a decentralized messaging app that enables offline, peer-to-peer communication via Bluetooth mesh networking, making it ideal for scenarios with no internet or heavy censorship. It ensures privacy with end-to-end encryption, supports both local and location-based global chats via geohashes, and includes security features like a panic mode for immediate data wiping.

I can't fix everything, and I don't pretend to. But I kept thinking: what if we could ease the pressure just a little this Christmas? Give these families some breathing room so they can say “yes” to a small activity, a treat, or even just not worry about the next grocery run?

Good security engineering means naming your enemies. Marmot's threat model specifies exactly which adversaries it defeats and how it defeats them.

GrapheneOS plus Zapstore, Amber, Citrine, Amethyst, and White Noise creates the first phone free from corporate control over your digital life.

NIP-BE brings Bluetooth mesh networking to Nostr, MIP-05 solves private push notifications, and major clients (Amethyst, WhiteNoise, Damus, Notedeck) ship security and UX improvements.

You can't truly own your life if someone else can print money and steal your purchasing power, freeze your bank account for wrong-think, or force you to ask permission before transacting—which is why Bitcoin matters more than most people realize. This article breaks down how Bitcoin is the Philosophy of Liberty applied to money: self-ownership through private keys, property rights through a fixed supply, and voluntary exchange through a censorship-resistant network that treats everyone equally r...

The 54th Edition of your weekly Nostr Newsletter

After three years of building apps, running services, and growing the Nostr community, Derek is reflecting on the journey, and what comes next. From founding NostrPlebs and NostrNests to launching the Grow Nostr Initiative and bringing Nostr Booths to conferences worldwide, it's been a wild ride. Now, a major change is on the horizon. This article is a milestone grounded in gratitude and a belief that we have to build the future we want to live in.

Nostr implements Rothbard's anarcho-capitalist vision: cryptographic property rights, voluntary relay markets, and censorship-resistant communication without state-corporate gatekeepers.

John Galt and Satoshi did the same: they withdraw the life energy from the system. They both understood that the game is rigged and that the best way to win is to opt out.

The corn meal adds a nice, grainy texture to chewy cookies and brings down the sweeteness.

TLDR; all Nostr stuff is declined for the next FOSDEM conference, a keynote at the Noderunners conference, a Nostr workshop at the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference and how we are setting up a new foundation entity. Plus a short note about Nuxtstack.

Use ChaCha20-Poly1305 everywhere without hardware AES. Use AES-256-GCM with AES-NI. Never reuse nonces. Prefer AEAD always.

Bitcoin Infinity Academy - Course 2 Part 13

Join the Shakespeare Community to connect with builders, attend workshops and events, become an ambassador, and get help with your AI-powered web development projects.

Life isn't a scripted fairy tale, it's a stack of cold "Now" moments you actually have to choose through. Excellence is just habit compounded. The stage is set, your moves are real and free. Stay curious like a kid, own your patterns, and build forward one clear decision at a time.

Introducing the Banyan relay concept. A personal nostr relay built on web-of-trust to collect notes from your most trusted contacts using your engagement with others as a trust metric.

The different types of references in nostr long-form content

A new editor for Habla

In Geometric Unity (GU), chirality is not fundamental on the ambient space $Y$. It emerges on the observed $4$-manifold $X$ from three intertwined ingredients: (i) an immersion (observation map) $\iota: X \hookrightarrow Y$ and pullback of fields, (ii) a gauge-equivariant torsion that generates a $\gamma_5$ coupling, and (iii) the signature/orientation data that fixes which chirality survives upon pullback.

Bad actors can easily fool personalized PageRank using the link farm attack. Well-placed NIP-56 reports can pick off bad actors like a sniper rifle, effectively cleaving away an entire link farm with only a small handful of well placed reports.

Personalized, portable trust metrics on Nostr require standardized protocols to communicate trust metrics from Web of Trust Service Providers to Nostr clients. Open, shared protocols will empower users, prevent vendor lock-in and accelerate adoption, just as they did for email and Lightning.

It all stinks.

Everyone’s eager to blame Vail, crowds, or fancy gondolas for $300 day passes, but that’s just noise. The real issue is the monetary system itself, which distorts prices and drains purchasing power while pretending everything’s fine. Skiing didn’t get pricier—fiat just keeps lying to you.

Are you heading in the right direction?

Create your own social platforms, communities, and applications with Soapbox's open-source toolkit. Tools for Nostr, ActivityPub, and the decentralized web.

Yes, we actually managed to get this working. It was a crazy idea, but we #GitCitadel residents-and-frens are crazy enough to get it working.

Nostr's greatest strength - that you own your identity through cryptographic keys - becomes its greatest weakness when keys are lost or stolen. This post introduces two simple, social solutions that let users mark compromised keys and rotate to new ones through community verification, without complex cryptography or pre-planning.

Bitcoin Infinity Academy - Course 2 Part 10