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Check out @deutsia, a non-nostr app published on @Zapstore

Definitely give Tamers of Entropy a read, we don't have nearly enough cypherpunk fiction, and this is a great one!
@dworis 💀 No Good KidYou prepare the files on a computer, some noisy machines print them, yet there’s still something deeply human about holding a physical book in your hands. Some stories dare to redefine what “deeply human” even means. is one of them, and it’s being printed as we zap our good mornings. 💜 This lunarpunk novel by & npub14lu8z2jvr6z7swge808c6ae35j82j2gzpcmeuxctcysn4qmksehq0eg6uw also comes with...

Made some improvements to towardsliberty.com.
All pictures get pulled from local blossom server and search is fuzzy now.

What's the most complete list of nostr apps?

After several posts analyzing what bills of exchange did, how governments killed them in 1914, what the parallel economy lacks without them, and what the engineering template for reconstruction looks like, it is time to name the project building it. Bitcredit runs electronic bills of exchange on Bitcoin, with a Chaumian ecash mint layer, a guarantee asset, and Nostr transport. This post maps the architecture. The series that follows will work through each component in detail.

We need more Nostr speakers for @FreedomTechSummit

Apply now and shill your stuff!
https://freedomtechsummit.com/

Anyone interested in a serious review of v3 of my book The Praxeology of Privacy before it goes to print?

Massive improvement, try it out!
The best way to anonymously ship your vibed apps.
@DanConwayDevhttps://gitworkshop.dev rewrite shipped. Is there a better time to try git nostr? protocols > platforms

Remember, when you move utxos on a forked chain you link common coin ownership on the parent chain.
Don't fuck up your privacy for picking up pennies in front of the train.

Can someone please make riverside obsolete?

Nostr login, MOQ audio/video calls, local recording and streamed to a blossom server for each participant.

Two projects aim at the same goal of unstoppable networks for human beings, and they arrive at radically different solutions. Reticulum strips addressing and ports from the protocol entirely and optimizes for radio links so slow that five bits per second counts as usable bandwidth, then builds its own parallel universe of applications on top. @FIPS takes the opposite bet, keeping IPv6 semantics alive through a TUN adapter so that unmodified SSH and curl can cross a mesh of Nostr identities. This post walks both stacks from the wire up, then shows where their design choices force different tradeoffs.

I see more and more non-nostr apps publishing on @Zapstore!
Like @CruxCoach, a climbing app, which recommends zapstore as best place to get the app, and use nostr DMs for feedback.
https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qq2kxmmd9e3hyatcvdhkzcmg9eskuerjda5kgqgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh85ctswd6x7un99ejx2aszyrn45xzuqxwsjpyatl9su2dzejdl6qtwcrmd3yhunrm0lcqcrfyq6qcyqqq8uzch789f5

The usual covenant debate on Bitcoin starts with Script and soft forks. PIPEs v2 starts somewhere stranger: it asks whether a spend condition can be enforced by making the signing key itself unavailable until a proof exists. That move shifts the burden away from on-chain verification and into witness encryption, committee setup, a huge off-chain artifact, and the engineering needed to bind them together.
The result is one of the most interesting proposals in current Bitcoin research because it enlarges the design space without asking Bitcoin consensus to change.

We're building a little something...
@internet privacy foundationIntroducing internet privacy foundation. We build the infrastructure that protects privacy online: open protocols and permissionless tools. We're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations are tax-deductible for US donors. https://ipf.dev https://blossom.primal.net/cdfc05464933bab8a654d1a390e9e215c6e2a700774d765e54282076c3b11219.png

Three architectural families have broken an assumption that was treated as a law of cloud architecture for two decades: that the machine running a computation must see the data the computation runs on. Homomorphic encryption operates on ciphertexts, secure multi-party computation distributes the work across non-colluding participants, and trusted execution environments isolate the work inside a hardware enclave opaque to the machine's owner. The privacy architecture of the next decade will be built on their compositions.

Working on making marmot transport layer agnostic.

400 optech editions, crazy!
Thanks a lot to all contributors!
@Bitcoin OptechBitcoin Optech newsletter #400 is here: - recaps the "Testing Bitcoin Core 31.0 Release Candidates" PR Review Club meeting - Optech Newsletter #400 Podcast https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/04/10/ 'Testing Bitcoin Core 31.0 Release Candidates' was a review club meeting that did not review a particular PR, but rather was a group testing effort. Before each major Bitcoin Core release,...

Reminder, Marmot community call in 30 minutes.
@White NoiseGet ready, Marmots! Tomorrow is the big day. MARMOT COMMUNITY CALL We will discuss: • This month's key progress • The current state of the White Noise app • Future plans for the protocol • Q&A from the community 📅 Tuesday, April 7, 16:00 UTC. Join us here: https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot https://blossom.primal.net/ed2a59a0c000cf8f6eb5bb66e49d4f84fde54422cf0f8371ada1bb6b134faf53.png

There is now an official internet standard that makes it possible for Tor onion services to get verified security certificates the same way any website does, automatically, for free. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9799/

Bitcoin settles payments without counterparty permission, and Nostr coordinates action without censorship. Together they enable spot transactions and real-time coordination across the parallel economy. What they cannot do is create credit, and without credit, the parallel economy cannot finance production across time.

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https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/pull/2106

Next marmot client joins the burrow!
Test out nymchat.app
@Lux#Nostr I'm excited to announce an update to the #Nymchat end-to-end encrypted group chats! All new group chats now use Marmot Protocol for MLS encrypted group chats. Forward secrecy, post-compromise security, and zero metadata. If for some reason a recipient can't use MLS, it falls back to our original NIP-17 group chat iteration, which is still e2ee. https://nymchat.app

Don't do this with your own app, sign it yourself instead!
https://zapstore.dev/docs/publish
@MaxWant to install an app but it's not on ? Just paste the GitHub repo link in the zapstore search bar, hit enter, and wait a couple minutes, it will be automagically indexed in the background!

Yet another awesome app discovered on @Zapstore
A no-bullshit app store is so refreshing.
@MaxFully offline translator android app, nice! https://github.com/davidventura/firefox-translator

Fully offline translator android app, nice!
https://github.com/davidventura/firefox-translator

This turned into a long one...
A comparative analysis of financial privacy across ten systems: Bitcoin's transparent baseline, WabiSabi CoinJoin, Lightning Network, Spark, Ark, shielded client-side validation, Monero RingCT, Monero's upcoming FCMP++, Zcash's Sapling and Orchard pools, and DarkFi's anonymous-everything architecture.
Each system stakes its design on a different anonymity set, trust model, and architectural layer. The result is a spectrum from adequate plausible deniability to full untraceability, and your threat model determines which point on that spectrum you need.

Want to install an app but it's not on @Zapstore?
Just paste the GitHub repo link in the zapstore search bar, hit enter, and wait a couple minutes, it will be automagically indexed in the background!

Multi-device support in an encrypted messenger is an authorization problem. It is not a sync problem, not a UX problem, not a storage problem. The question that must be answered before anything else can proceed is simple: how does a second device prove it belongs to the same person, in a way that every group member can independently verify, without any central authority vouching for the claim? Marmot PR #44 introduces MIP-06 to answer exactly this question for White Noise.

Dev/Hack/Day + Cypherpunk Meetup =
@FreedomTechSummit

If you're coming to @BTC Prague, don't miss it.

Get your early bird tickets at
freedomtechsummit.com

When you install @V E C T O R, make sure you use a different npub than in @White Noise, multi client support with the same npub is not yet speced out.
@YuurinBeehttps://image.nostr.build/ac23423d3198ffbdad01014a49918e7baa74179be5199be2ef5899e032d67650.png GM, Nostr! On behalf of I wanted to give a special thanks to for such professionalism and efficiency for listing Vector. It honestly is one of the nicest UXs for an app store I've seen and really sets the bar for the Nostr ecosystem. Hats off to everyone involved. I went to search for some design...