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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.
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Next attempt to get White Noise to finally work well for everyone. Now it finally works for my npub, so shoot me a message if you want to try!
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@utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 seems like Wisp doesn't work when not giving DM decrypt permissions to Amber.

The industrial war machine was built on concentration, first of capital and command, then of targets. Cheap drones are tearing through that architecture because a low-cost weapon can now erase an asset that required years of budgets, contracts, and political theater to build.
Rothbard and Hoppe did not write about quadcopters, but they described the political and economic logic that made the old model brittle, and the battlefield is proving them right.

Rothbard bibliography is 62 pages of titles
https://mises.org/articles-interest/rothbard-bibliography

One of the reasons the latest White Noise release doesn't work for some accounts is that nostrs outbox model is suffering massively from bad data that some users have in their relay list. This is our attempt to improve the situation at least a bit.
You can run the doctor session for your friends and tell them about improving their setup!
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Merchant courts showed that private dispute resolution outperforms the state monopoly. Victim-centered restitution showed that criminal justice worked for centuries without prosecutors or prisons.
This post completes the argument by showing how insurance, arbitration, restitution, and cryptographic enforcement compose into a single integrated legal system where each layer enables the others and no layer requires a monopolist.

Coldcard mk5 looks dope.
Good to see the keyboard further improved, I still have PTSD from mk1...

https://video.nostr.build/3e6c76a55db21c94cbdb5743e6120d7a5c0f2f0d0a32b48736c86999fb3ef5c1.mp4

The Marmot Protocol has published its full specification as six Marmot Implementation Proposals covering everything from identity and group construction to encrypted media and privacy-preserving push notifications.
This post walks through each MIP to explain what the protocol does at every layer and how the cryptographic guarantees work in practice for users who care about private communication. The specs are open and the implementations are already shipping.

Two PRs to NanoClaw for adding marmot support!
https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw/pull/858
https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw/pull/901

@hzrd149 built this awesome view where you can see the latest key packages published by users, if you want someone to talk to on @White Noise this is a good way to find them!

https://marmot-protocol.github.io/marmots-web-chat/contacts/explore

New long form client by @Grafton @ Vexl
Very smooth distraction free UI!
https://samizdat.press/
Try it and give feedback for what can be done better.

Check out @V E C T O R, a cool nostr chat app that also supports marmot. This release brings back interoperability with @White Noise & Pika & Burrow & Marmot-ts web app!

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Looks like we have fixed the outbox model relay connections in @White Noise, users with a large follow list now don't get overwhelmed with relay connections, which caused messages to not be delivered or received.

We still have more polishing to do, but next release will hopefully work for your existing npubs!

This is a really cool idea!
It works
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Comparative advantage is one of the most misunderstood principles in economics, and AI has made the confusion worse. Most people think it means comparing yourself to others, but the real logic is internal: you should focus on the task where your own opportunity cost is lowest.
This post follows that insight through the hardest question AI raises, what happens when a machine beats the weaker worker at everything, and arrives at conclusions that neither the doomers nor the optimists want to hear.

It doesn't need to be fancy.
It just needs to be free.

Still the apple prison guards have not approved our update to White Noise, it's both hilarious and sad...
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Most people start chaining agents too early. They have a vague task, they split it into planner, writer, reviewer, tester, maybe even critic, and then they wonder why the result feels bloated, circular, and strangely fragile. The answer is simple: the chain did not remove uncertainty, it only distributed it across more participants.
The Ralph loop matters because it forces the system to keep working until the task crosses a clear finish line, which means the chain has to serve a concrete result instead of producing a polite pile of intermediate artifacts.

You can make @Amethyst search 100x better by adding these to your search relay list:
wss://antiprimal.net
wss://relay.ditto.pub
wss://nostr.wine
wss://nostr.wine

Thanks @Vitor Pamplona for that tip

Decentralized encrypted group messaging has been called impossible by the people who built the best encrypted messengers on earth. Moxie Marlinspike designed Signal as deliberately centralized because he concluded that federated protocols freeze in time while the world moves forward, and even the IETF's multi-year effort to build MLS still required a central delivery service.
Now the Marmot protocol offers the first credible specification for solving this problem at the protocol layer, and interoperable implementations are already shipping.

You must use nostr with Tor or a VPN.
It is so easy for anyone to link your npub to an IP, and it better not be your real IP...
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Hilarious that the prison guards have still not reviewed the update...
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We probably identified the issue with the relay connection in @White Noise, fix is being worked on now!
https://github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise-rs/blob/ca355847562e04667d1b591dfd306309601b68ff/relay-control-plane-rearchitecture.md
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The latest @White Noise release works well for new npubs, but if you have a lot of follows, the app connects to too many relays and gets overwhelmed, messages don't get sent or received then.
Even when you log out of that large account, the error will persist, so you'll have to wipe the storage completely and log in with a fresh of low follow count account.
Please have a bit of patience, the next release should fix that, sorry!

Ok ok, let's be real & stay humble, it's not really working, just less broken... 🙃
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Now with amber support I'm finally using White Noise on my main account, shoot me a DM please if you want to test!
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Only out on @Zapstore for now.
Apple prisoners will get it when the guards allow us to send them a letter into the gulag.
Use a real computer if you want to use the cool stuff.
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