Alexandria Catalogue - Highlights

#einundzwanzig

**NIP-61 NutZap informational event** (`kind:10019`) – this tag tells other people how to send ecash to you. It contains the mints you use, the relays you’ll read NutZaps from, and the pubkey they should P2PK lock your ecash to.

Bitcoin just works.

There will be balance. 'Online' and 'Offline' will be two ends of a spectrum, not a binary.

If we follow nature, failures will be local and not kill or disturb the whole organism. There will be balance.

## Growing the new web We should be growing this new version of the web, no fertilizer, let it find it's own flows, take what you need but don't try to control it or work against it. Find the natural patterns and links to how we've lived for a thousand years and build your tools around it.

## Growing the new web We should be growing this new version of the web, no fertilizer, let it find it's own flows, take what you need but don't try to control it or work against it. Find the natural patterns and links to how we've lived for a thousand years and build your tools around it.

### Homegrown software I believe software in the future will be grown, not written. LLM's and the tools we connect to it will not go away and we're seeing early signs of how future software development will look.

it's like pointing at the end of the forest. Which tree is in the forest and which one is not?

It is social, organic, it's how we've operated as humans for millennia. It's incredibly fascinating that we've been able to recreate this Web of Trust in the digital world. It's the filter that protects us from overwhelm of inputs and if needed, from each-other.

## Working with nature  Instead of working against nature we should see it's patterns and adapt to it. Don't build a pumping system if you can divert the river and let part of it flow your way.

It is in this simplicity that I see natural patterns emerge. For example, I don't think it's a coincidence that Nostr works in streams, it's a natural pattern that is most efficient and occurs in nature all the fucking time.

Inventions that fundamentally changed our world have always had one commonality: They were dead simple.

It also supports the reverse process, allowing you to monitor a public key and automatically back up all associated blobs to your local machine. Other powerful features include periodic health checks to ensure your online blobs remain accessible, enabling you to re-upload them if they disappear.

It watches a local directory, indexes any files you drop into it, and uses Blossom integration to let you access or share them from anywhere. Essentially, you can request your server to upload a file from your local filesystem to a Blossom server, making it available to be downloaded from anywhere. It also supports the reverse process, allowing you to monitor a public key and automatically back up all associated blobs to your local machine.

Beacon is a liberating and audacious idea: infiltrate walled gardens like WhatsApp with Lightning payments and other freedom technologies. Born from the realization that in many parts of the world, WhatsApp *is* the internet, Beacon uses CVM as the unstoppable glue to connect its different components and users from closed ecosystems to open networks. It's a pragmatic tool for guiding people toward free information, free networks, and freedom money.

This is especially appealing for node runners or anyone with a spare device and an internet connection. We are actively working to make this even more accessible, with plans for "one-click" CVM server installations on platforms like Umbrel and Start9, truly democratizing the ability to run one's own corner of the internet.

When a user provides their own convenience, they sacrifice nothing. Convenience is transformed into sovereignty.

This unlocks the concept of "rolling services"—infrastructure that can move geographically without any disruption in accessibility. It makes deploying services not only trivial but also unstoppable. Security and privacy are enhanced by default; since a service never needs to reveal its IP address, only the relay it connects through can see its IP, but all communication is end-to-end encrypted, rendering the relay blind to what's happening.

The complex dance of configuring networks, firewalls, and NAT traversal becomes obsolete. You can deploy a service from your laptop in a coffee shop, and it is instantly accessible to the world, securely and privately. The service is identified by *who* it is (its pubkey), not *where* it is.

Suddenly, the need for API keys vanishes, replaced by cryptographic identity. The complex dance of configuring networks, firewalls, and NAT traversal becomes obsolete. You can deploy a service from your laptop in a coffee shop, and it is instantly accessible to the world, securely and privately.

Suddenly, the need for API keys vanishes, replaced by cryptographic identity. The complex dance of configuring networks, firewalls, and NAT traversal becomes obsolete.

At the heart of our exploration was a fundamental realization: CVM enables a powerful paradigm shift by allowing services to be addressed by a public key rather than a permissioned, location-dependent IP address. This seemingly simple change has profound implications.

The promise of a truly decentralized internet has long been a guiding star for builders, developers, and advocates of digital freedom. Yet, the practical challenges of deploying services that are both censorship-resistant and easy to manage have often felt insurmountable.

pennies do not exist online. Never have, never will.

We shouldn't be surprised by the polarization and outrage maximization that we observe online; it's a natural outcome of the incentive to maximize engagement.

Human action is shaped by the subtle and not-so-subtle structures of the systems we are embedded in.

14 Jahren nach Deutschland gekommen und lebt heute in der Schweiz. Er ist Comedian, hat aber auch Cybersecurity und Geschichte studiert. Eine wilde Mischung, die ihm einen einzigartigen Erfahrungsschatz beschert hat.

Wir haben heute das freieste Geld der Welt – Bitcoin. Aber gleichzeitig schaffen wir es kaum noch, frei miteinander zu reden.

Falls du noch am Zögern bist, weil du das Gefühl hast, zu wenig über Bitcoin zu wissen, um eine Konferenz zu besuchen: Das ist Quatsch! (Finde ich.) Es gibt keine bessere Gelegenheit, um Neues zu lernen und sich mit tollen Leuten zu vernetzen als eine Bitcoin-Konferenz.

Aus der Familie wurde ich diese Woche gefragt, wieso der Bitcoin-Preis wieder steigt. „Es ist Oktober“, war meine Antwort.

We can click our freedoms away by signaling Ok in the Microsoft or Macintosh window after squinting through their thirty pages of restrictions, or we can click Cancel, and see instead if there is a piece of free software that does what we need. We should click Cancel when we can because that's the more ethical choice. This means we'll have to learn a new program, and sometimes the free program might not work as well. The ethical choice is not always the easy choice.

Call your parents. Even if your relationship is complicated. Even if you haven't spoken for a long time. Even if they are far away. Call them, and tell them that you love them. They might need to hear it.

Love is the answer. Not reason, not logic, but Love.

Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames.

Wie bei Pocket Bitcoin verwahrt auch Bull Bitcoin zu keinem Zeitpunkt deine Coins, sondern ermöglicht dir den direkten Kauf und die sofortige Auszahlung auf deine eigene Wallet. Dieser Ansatz entspricht dem Bitcoin-Grundsatz "Not your keys, not your coins" und minimiert das Risiko von Hacks oder Insolvenzen der Plattform.

Das Besondere an Bull Bitcoin ist der konsequent non-custodial Ansatz. Anders als bei vielen anderen Börsen behältst du als Nutzer jederzeit die volle Kontrolle über deine Bitcoin. Wie bei Pocket Bitcoin verwahrt auch Bull Bitcoin zu keinem Zeitpunkt deine Coins, sondern ermöglicht dir den direkten Kauf und die sofortige Auszahlung auf deine eigene Wallet.

I like that I can set it up myself - using some CLI Terminal commands, my own relay, a NIP-05 thingamajig. But why oh why do so many clients want me to paste in my nsec1 key??

“My father was devoted to me,” he says. “Absolutely devoted.” And Blair is equally devoted to him.He regards himself as the keeper of the sacred flame for his father.

We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. We’ve sent out large quantities of hardware to folks at Fedora, Bluefin, Bazzite, NixOS, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Omarchy, and many other distros, and have sponsored either the organizations directly or events with Linux Foundation, LVFS, NixOS, Debian, KDE, Hyprland, and others. Within the team itself, personal distro and OS preferences span basically every Linux distro you can imagine along with FreeBSD. I personally am running machines with Fedora (for machine learning), Bazzite (for gaming), Omarchy (general productivity), and Windows 11 (when I have to). I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.

What matters is trust and accuracy, which is to say, digital signatures and reputation.

the constant drumbeat of currency debasement across the world

We've seen hyperinflationary events in countries like Lebanon and Turkey that have rendered their currencies defunct. In the case of Lebanon, the central bank simply came out and said that people were not going to have access to their money and gave Lebanese citizens an overnight haircut on their savings. We've seen countries like India and Nigeria mess with their physical bills, forcing their citizens to exchange smaller denominations for larger denominations, causing massive disruptions in the process.

Unfortunately, humanity is able to reap the full benefits of tech deflation because people are forced to fight the powerful forces of monetary inflation. If we want to live in a society where everyone has an exponentially higher chance of leading an extremely high quality life in which they can reap the full benefits offered by advances in technology, tech deflation needs to be paired with a deflationary money like bitcoin. As technology makes us more productive, expands the spectrum of potential goods and services that can be brought to the market relatively cheaply and pushes humanity forward, people should be able to buy more for less and save their excess productivity in a money that works for them, not against them.

The money printer is orders of magnitude stronger than the forces of tech-driven deflation. AI is not going to change that.

Because it has always been the case. The other ironic thing about Nikita's tweet is that he seems to be completely oblivious to the fact that tech has always been deflationary and we have witnessed awe inspiring levels of tech deflation over the course of centuries. Here's a picture of the first ever computer that was built by the US Army.

And yes, in the long-run, if these AI models continue to live up to the hype, may ultimately replace white collar jobs that cost companies hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. However, the additional productivity gains will be soundly overwhelmed by the amount of money printing that enables them in the first place.

In every case, these bugs are a result of poor design — overloading a single kind for multiple purposes is always a recipe for disaster. But in cases where poor designs become conventional, it can be helpful to handle events in such a way that unanticipated data doesn't get dropped.

The most important thing when handling events is to protect the user from attacks. Everything else should be handled in a fault-tolerant way, assuming incompetence rather than hostility.

Events can be malformed, either from a buggy implementation or from someone trying to attack software applications. A `p` tag might have an invalid or missing value, or a relay hint that is trying to spy on users. Event `content` might include HTML injection attacks, or illegal content.