mbarulli / Marco Barulli is on Nostr

Progressive bitcoiner.
Co-founder at Bernstein.io | Math Teacher
Former Ambassador at Firefish.io | Former co-founder at Clipperz.is

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2026-09-30 20:41:10 UTC

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I don't have any issues with the backup of my notes: all saved on my relay plus daily backups.
The problem is that old notes basically disappears from all major relays, therefore becoming unavailable to the public.

2026-09-30 18:05:58 UTC

I've been archiving my own Nostr history on a home relay (self-hosted on StartOS), and today I compared it with what public relays still serve.
Of my 1,690 events going back to January 2022, 1,236 are no longer on any of the 18 relays I asked. Some of the biggest relays have pruned most of my history in the last six weeks. My very first note from 2022 now exists only in my archive and in Primal's cache.
I tried to republish the missing events. They're my own signed events, so no key is needed. Every relay I tried rejected anything older than three years with "created_at too early". So the oldest part of my history can't even be restored.
#asknostr: does anyone know of relays that:
1. don't prune, and
2. accept old, validly signed events, so you can backfill your own history?
Paid is fine. I'd rather pay for a relay that keeps things than find out later that my notes are gone.
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2026-09-08 11:05:50 UTC

My Nostr bio says "progressive bitcoiner."
I've taken some heat for it and been called the usual toxic names. I don't mind, but I'd like to explain myself a bit more.
Someone once said there's bitcoin, and then there are bitcoiners. Bitcoiners are a very diverse group, and they arrive for all sorts of reasons, because bitcoin works like a mirror: whoever looks into it finds reflected back whatever they were looking for. I consider this a strength, not a defect.
If you're a libertarian, you see money separated from the state: resistant to seizure and censorship, permissionless, decentralized, transparent, the ground for individual sovereignty.
If you follow Austrian economics, you see sound money with its 21 million hard cap, and a built-in incentive toward low time preference.
If you're an investor, you see digital gold, number-go-up, a hedge against inflation, portfolio diversification.
If you're a progressive, you see a way for marginalized communities to build generational wealth, for women to keep savings out of an abusive partner's reach, for people living under totalitarian regimes to hold money nobody can confiscate, or an incentive to build renewable energy capacity in poor regions through mining. And so on.
As I've written many times, bitcoin is for everybody, and it's in everybody's interest to see it adopted by all sorts of people, as long as they champion bitcoin for what it is, and nobody tries to bend the protocol to fit their own worldview or value system (Hello, Luke!)
So why signal "progressive" here on Nostr, when it provokes such nasty reactions? (I've been told several times that I should stay away from bitcoin.) Because a label, even though it puts you in a box that never quite fits, still works as a signaling device: it lets other people who hold progressive values know that there are others like them in bitcoin.
Bitcoin doesn't care who you are, but other bitcoiners do.
It's important that progressives point to real examples of bitcoin serving progressive ends, because people come to bitcoin through language and stories that resonate with them, not through someone else's.
My hope is that the broader bitcoin community makes room for progressive bitcoiners like me, and sees that while we may disagree on political ideology, social issues and economics, we all agree on one thing: bitcoin.