Nostr notes by YakiHonne

Saying thanks should be simple. With zaps, you can tip a creator ...

2026-10-13T00:10:04Z

Saying thanks should be simple. With zaps, you can tip a creator in one tap, and it arrives in seconds. No middleman, no minimum, no waiting.

What was the last thing you read that deserved a zap?

#YakiHonne #Zaps #Bitcoin

Your best article shouldn’t disappear because a platform ...

2026-10-10T11:08:35Z

Your best article shouldn’t disappear because a platform changed its rules.

On YakiHonne, your writing stays yours: portable, permanent, and rewarded directly by the people who read it.

What’s the one piece you’d never want to lose? ✍️

#YakiHonne #Nostr #LongForm

YakiPro web updates: ...

2026-10-06T02:58:39Z

YakiPro web updates:

* Fixed issues related to publishing premium content.
* Added BLOSSOM servers managements in settings.
* Added more filters on content page for notes and articles.
* General bug fixes.

YakiHonne Mobile updates: ...

2026-09-29T01:22:23Z

YakiHonne Mobile updates:

Changed:
- Updated QR code scanning for more reliable camera lifecycle handling.
- Video playback now keeps the device awake while a video is open.

Fixed:
- Lightning invoices prefixed with lightning: are now accepted across payments and QR scans.
- Reply threads retain available root-note context when an intermediate reply is unavailable.
- Paid-note payment events are removed after processing.
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Its back ~

2026-09-28T04:05:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…we49
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Its back ~

👀 All eyes on YakiHonne, and on you. You use it every day, so ...

2026-09-23T21:54:44Z

👀 All eyes on YakiHonne, and on you. You use it every day, so you see what we can't. This week, tell us how it's really going:

1️⃣ What do you love about YakiHonne?
2️⃣ What frustrates you?
3️⃣ What's one thing you wish existed? Drop your answer

Your feedback helps shape what comes next.

Your Account, Anywhere, Anytime ...

2026-09-21T08:53:38Z

Your Account, Anywhere, Anytime

Nostr event nevent1qqs040t8tsa9k69m6fpg87fkxps762qsta5hkpcwp3gng6jfljvxznczyqsfsmac8em4m9k33r99e803pnndvylqadl9w69q7zcjkd7d4ssmxw7dl45

2026-09-18T00:49:29Z

Mobile updates:

Added

- Video editor and video compressor before publishing.

Changed

- Engagement chart enhancements.

Fixed

- GrapheneOS feed issue where notes failed to load.
- Note preview before publishing is now scrollable.
- Paid notes payment issue.
- Notification tap no longer shows "notification not found" when the note isn't in the local DB yet.
- Replies not showing under some notes.

Stay in Control of Your Relays ...

2026-09-17T01:25:00Z

Stay in Control of Your Relays

From Creator to YakiPro Creator 🔥 ...

2026-09-14T22:27:49Z

From Creator to YakiPro Creator 🔥

Visualize the Energy Behind Your Words ...

2026-09-12T11:54:59Z

Visualize the Energy Behind Your Words

See Your Writing Through Fresh Eyes ...

2026-09-08T01:47:45Z

See Your Writing Through Fresh Eyes

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2026-09-06T08:42:22Z

Web updates:
- Video compression in the media upload editor — smaller files, faster uploads, with a progress bar.
- New filters on the dashboard — All, Scheduled, Paid notes, and Premium for notes, plus Premium for articles.
- Post stats now show the relays a post was found on.
- Fixed a bug in the search page.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.

Don’t Lose the Chance ,YakiPro All the Way ...

2026-09-05T05:08:56Z

Don’t Lose the Chance ,YakiPro All the Way

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2026-09-01T02:58:08Z

Mobile updates:

YakiPro 1.0.1 build 14:
[1.0.1] - 2026-08-31

Added

- Blossom media server management from settings.
- Premium badge on notes and articles in the content library, and inside the article view.
- New Yakihonne article reader view.
- Edit article from the pull-down menu.
- Posting time shown in the analytics top-content table.
- What's new screen in settings.
- Italian, Portuguese and Thai translations.

Changed

- New country picker when enabling Stripe payouts.
- Redesigned the publish article sheet: container-style cover upload, "Update" label once a cover is picked, bordered sheet, and fixed side-by-side Publish and Save draft buttons.
- Second Reader AI actions now match each paragraph's feedback, and the AI assistant stays open after processing.
- Warn before discarding an article's AI discussion and Second Reader data.
- Analytics drill-down clears the previous data when a new bar is selected.
- Lazy tab loading for faster navigation.

Fixed

- Removing a tag in the publish article sheet no longer takes multiple taps.
- Enabling premium on content now animates immediately and reverts if the requirements aren't met.
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements.

YakiHonne 2.0.7 build 205:
[2.0.7] - 2026-08-31

Added

- Kind 1111 (NIP-22) comment support in notes and replies.
- Free plan card and a side-by-side plan comparison in pricing.
- Premium badge and a "Seen on" relay indicator.
- Landscape support for video playback.

Changed

- Rewritten paid-note payment flow with live tracking, auto-publish, and a new published-confirmation screen.
- Username now always shown in edit profile, with connect and upgrade prompts when needed.
- Second Reader AI actions now match each paragraph's feedback, and the AI assistant stays open after processing.

Fixed

- SSE stream now re-logs in on an expired session and retries.
- Payment sheet no longer leaves stale invoices behind when closed.
- Removed the 800 sats payment preset from zaps.
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements.

For those who may not know. ...

2026-08-31T03:02:47Z

For those who may not know.

Your Content. Your Growth. Your Analytics. ...

2026-08-27T03:50:00Z

Your Content. Your Growth. Your Analytics.

It is already under the settings thre is three options for the ...

2026-08-26T06:51:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…6fpc
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It is already under the settings thre is three options for the liquid glass, if u didnt see it in your device perhaps its not powerful enough to adjust because it switches automatically to the perfomant spot: settings -> appearance -> glass quality

YakiHonne & YakiPro are Live in AppStore: YakiHonne: ...

2026-08-25T09:49:04Z

YakiHonne & YakiPro are Live in AppStore:
YakiHonne: https://apps.apple.com/my/app/yakihonne/id6472556189
YakiPro: https://apps.apple.com/my/app/yakipro/id6783617216

Yaki Pro : Create More. Do More. ...

2026-08-24T03:45:59Z

Yaki Pro : Create More. Do More.

Yakihonne Update: Introducing YakiPro, Subscriptions, AI Writing ...

2026-08-22T03:22:42Z

Yakihonne Update: Introducing YakiPro, Subscriptions, AI Writing Tools, and a Completely Redesigned Experience.

After three months of intensive building, we're excited to unveil the biggest Yakihonne release ever. This update brings together everything we've been working on since June — a ground-up visual redesign, a professional creator suite, native subscriptions, AI-powered writing and reading tools, and self-hosted key management — all shipping across Web and Mobile.

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A Brand New Look: Yakihonne v6.0.0

Yakihonne has been completely redesigned from the ground up with a content-first philosophy. Every screen, component, and interaction has been rethought.

- Glass / Fluid UI — a new translucent visual theme rolled out across the entire app
- Redesigned navigation — cleaner app bar, drawer navigation, and streamlined menus
- Refreshed components — new buttons, spinners, dropdowns, selectors, and hover cards
- Lucide icon migration — moving to a modern, consistent icon set across all views
- Guided onboarding tour — new users are now walked through the app on first launch
- Available on both Web and Mobile

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Write Smarter: The New Article Editor

The article editor has been rebuilt from scratch to give creators a professional publishing experience. This premium feature is available to all Yakihonne subscribers, and new users can try it entirely free with a 7-day trial!

- Richer editor — more powerful formatting tools, @-mentions, and a completely redesigned publish flow
- AI Writing Assistant — an in-editor AI panel that helps you draft, refine, and improve articles in real time
- AI Change Tracking — review AI-suggested edits before publishing with inline diff views
- PDF & Markdown Import/Export — import existing documents directly into the editor or export your work
- Energy Mapper — visualise the emotional tone of your notes before posting

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Read Smarter: Second Reader

A brand new AI-powered reading companion.

- Contextual assistance — get summaries, explanations, and deeper insights while reading any article
- Multiple AI personas — choose a reading companion that matches your style, from casual to academic

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Earn, Subscribe, and Support Creators

YakiHonne now has a full subscription and creator economy built in.

- In-App Purchases — subscribe directly through Apple App Store or Google Play
- Yaki Points — earn and spend points to unlock paid content, redeem awarding codes, or put toward a subscription
- Paid Notes with Points — unlock paid notes by redeeming points instead of Lightning invoices
- Free for Subscribers — Pro subscribers skip paywalls entirely
- Subscription & Usage Page — see your current plan, usage, and remaining allowances at a glance
- Full integration with Stripe for global payments

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Login with Google: Pomegranate Key Recovery

No more losing your Nostr identity. We've deployed our own Pomegranate FROST remote signer infrastructure.

- Google Sign-In — create or recover a Nostr account using your Google login
- FROST threshold signatures — your private key is sharded across multiple independent operators. No single server can reconstruct it
- Self-hosted infrastructure — auth.yakihonne.com, po.yakihonne.com, and pomadmin.yakihonne.com, all operated by us alongside independent third-party operators
- Key recovery in settings — recover your private key from your linked Google account at any time

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YakiPro: The Professional Creator Suite

Introducing YakiPro — a dedicated app for creators and publishers who are serious about building on Nostr.

- Dedicated creator interface with its own unique navigation, layout, and theme
- Advanced analytics — engagement stats, follower growth charts, zap tracking, and top-performing content
- Scheduled notes — write now, publish later
- NIP-63 subscriber management — manage your premium subscribers, relay access, pricing, and delegation
- NIP-05 identity settings — manage your verified Nostr identity
- Language & theme settings — customise your workspace
- Available on both Web (v1.0.0) and Mobile (v0.0.1)

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Why This Update Matters

- Professional publishing on Nostr is here. YakiPro + the rebuilt article editor + AI tools give creators everything they need to publish, monetise, and grow — natively on Nostr
- Subscriptions without middlemen. Native NIP-63 subscriptions, in-app purchases, and a points economy mean creators earn directly from their audience
- Key recovery solves onboarding. Google Sign-In via Pomegranate's FROST threshold signatures means new users can join Nostr without ever worrying about seed phrases or raw private keys
- A design that invites exploration. The glass/fluid UI and content-focused redesign make Yakihonne feel like a premium, modern platform

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Download & Update Now

Experience the new design, try YakiPro, and start earning!

Web
- YakiHonne: https://yakihonne.com
- YakiPro: https://pro.yakihonne.com

Android
- YakiHonne: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yakihonne.yakihonne&hl=en
- YakiPro: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yakihonne.pro&hl=en

Zapstore
- YakiHonne: https://zapstore.dev/apps/com.yakihonne.yakihonne
- YakiPro: https://zapstore.dev/apps/com.yakihonne.pro

iOS / Apple
- Appstore: Coming soon — pending Apple App Store approval.
- Testflight links:
- YakiHonne: https://testflight.apple.com/join/tcXozZIu
- YakiPro: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Nm3PZ6tK

Where Creativity Meets Freedom ...

2026-08-21T01:51:15Z

Where Creativity Meets Freedom

Yakihonne: A New Era of Premium Features ...

2026-08-19T01:28:19Z

Yakihonne: A New Era of Premium Features

yakipro, coming soon ...

2026-08-16T23:47:39Z

yakipro, coming soon

Manage. Connect. Grow. ...

2026-08-16T12:27:49Z

Manage. Connect. Grow.

http://blossom.yakihonne.com/6b02843ba770be5091337b957fdddda58f6716a837d92c1244b903a334312c06.qt

Subscriptions, Simplified ...

2026-08-15T23:18:17Z

Subscriptions, Simplified

http://blossom.yakihonne.com/8829eaa2dc0f0244c46ca7198134666f3d063f2d6a0c0df4dc18b3abaf3a148b.qt

We love you too Uno 👏

2026-08-15T15:51:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…eqf9
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We love you too Uno 👏

Yakihonne Mobile — A New Era Begins ...

2026-08-15T02:43:17Z

Yakihonne Mobile — A New Era Begins

Coming Soon: A New Yakihonne Experience ...

2026-08-13T16:06:52Z

Coming Soon: A New Yakihonne Experience

Breaking the Digital Cage: Identity, Choice, and Nostr ...

2026-08-12T00:40:25Z

Breaking the Digital Cage: Identity, Choice, and Nostr

When Wojak Discovers YakiHonne (Gigachad Saves the Day) ...

2026-08-09T19:15:08Z

When Wojak Discovers YakiHonne (Gigachad Saves the Day)

Fair point. The visuals can be AI, but the voice might be where ...

2026-08-07T12:05:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…tvw5
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Fair point. The visuals can be AI, but the voice might be where the human presence comes through.

We’ll definitely experiment with a real YakiHonne team voiceover in the future. Thanks for the feedback 🤙

you can find them under the dashboard-> scheduled ...

2026-08-07T06:41:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…59qq
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you can find them under the dashboard-> scheduled Moos (npub19qc…7xw2) Sedd (npub16vj…88a2)

Pretty much what johonny said 🙏 @npub16vj…88a2 ...

2026-08-07T06:39:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…5d2x
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Pretty much what johonny said 🙏 Sedd (npub16vj…88a2) Moos (npub19qc…7xw2)

Centralized servers burning? Nostr users don't care ...

2026-08-07T04:12:48Z

Centralized servers burning? Nostr users don't care

Sneak peek: what's coming for YakiHonne creators ...

2026-08-01T22:22:10Z

Sneak peek: what's coming for YakiHonne creators

You built the room. The profile. The audience. The memories. But ...

2026-07-31T12:30:07Z

You built the room.
The profile.
The audience.
The memories.

But someone else still controlled the lock.

Own your identity.
Own your connections.
Own the key.

Built on open networks.
YakiHonne

#Nostr #OpenSocial

What do you think this is? New tipping feature or something else ...

2026-07-30T20:36:03Z

What do you think this is? New tipping feature or something else entirely

😉 😉 ...

2026-07-29T09:49:12Z

😉 😉

What Makes Nostr Different? ...

2026-07-16T23:55:20Z

What Makes Nostr Different?

Creators Deserve Better Than Ad Revenue Crumbs 😎 ...

2026-07-15T23:18:09Z

Creators Deserve Better Than Ad Revenue Crumbs 😎

Algorithm Turbulence? I've Been Training for This 😏 😏 ...

2026-07-14T12:54:36Z

Algorithm Turbulence? I've Been Training for This 😏 😏

My Client Died. My Identity Didn't. ☕ ...

2026-07-06T21:28:50Z

My Client Died. My Identity Didn't. ☕

Why protocol ecosystems often outlive applications. Applications ...

2026-07-01T17:20:58Z

Why protocol ecosystems often outlive applications.

Applications are businesses ,they can shut down, pivot, or get acquired. Protocols are shared infrastructure. HTTP, email (SMTP), and RSS all outlived the specific apps built on them. Nostr as a protocol will persist even if every current Nostr app disappears, because the spec is open and anyone can build a new client or relay. The data and identity don't belong to the app. This is the core advantage of building on a protocol rather than inside a platform, the platform can die; the protocol keeps running.

Why email and Nostr have a similar architecture. Both are open, ...

2026-06-30T18:55:12Z

Why email and Nostr have a similar architecture.

Both are open, federated protocols where identity and infrastructure are separated. In email: your address is you@domain.com, servers (SMTP/IMAP) store and route messages, and any email client can talk to any server. In Nostr: your identity is your public key, relays store and route events, and any Nostr client can talk to any relay. Neither is owned by one company. You can self-host the infrastructure. The key difference is that Nostr replaces domain-based identity with cryptographic keys, which is strictly stronger.

YakiHonne Street Interview Series. 🎤 This episode features ...

2026-06-30T08:30:44Z

YakiHonne Street Interview Series. 🎤

This episode features students from Federal university Lafia sharing their thoughts on Bitcoin, Nostr, and the digital freedom.

Let us know your first impression in the comments below!

#Nostr

What If No One Had to Make This Decision? ⚡ ...

2026-06-29T09:14:03Z

What If No One Had to Make This Decision? ⚡

How Lightning zaps work under the hood. A zap is a Bitcoin ...

2026-06-28T09:08:07Z

How Lightning zaps work under the hood.

A zap is a Bitcoin Lightning payment attached to a Nostr event. Here's the flow: you click "zap" on a note → your client looks up the author's Lightning address (from their profile metadata) → it fetches a BOLT11 invoice from the author's Lightning wallet via their LNURL endpoint → you pay that invoice → the wallet then publishes a special zap receipt event (NIP-57) back to Nostr relays, signed by the wallet, proving the payment happened. Clients then display that zap receipt as a visible "zap" on the note. The money moves over Lightning; the proof of payment lives on Nostr.

Yes there is, Settings -> Customizations -> Feed settings ...

2026-06-28T01:39:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…mksa
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Yes there is, Settings -> Customizations -> Feed settings you can disable or enable or reorder the actions as pleased.

Why censorship resistance is a technical problem, not a political ...

2026-06-26T18:55:21Z

Why censorship resistance is a technical problem, not a political one.
Saying "we won't censor" is a policy and policies can be changed under pressure. True censorship resistance requires that the architecture itself makes censorship difficult or impossible. Nostr achieves this technically: your event is cryptographically signed (can't be forged or secretly altered), broadcast to multiple independent relays (no single point of failure), and your keys are yours alone (no account to deactivate). Even if one relay remove
your content, others still have it. The resistance is baked into the design, not just promised.

🔥 Nostr is Easy to Explain. right ?? 😂 😂 ...

2026-06-18T18:54:34Z

🔥 Nostr is Easy to Explain. right ?? 😂 😂

Bitcoin Has No Borders: A Japanese Handmade Creator's Story ...

2026-06-18T12:49:28Z

Bitcoin Has No Borders: A Japanese Handmade Creator's Story
Made by : Shigeru Minami (nprofile…wprv)

https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqkyn09vqxm8da92mykujjkpczs969h4vhrge88kerfqmuf29u6v5qyf8wumn8ghj7u3wddhk56tjvyhxjme0qy88wumn8ghj77tpvf6jumt99uqp2jtj2at42a65wen4x4zvv9k9je2c89ty6uchrm65k

Why Nostr uses public/private key cryptography ? Your identity on ...

2026-06-18T07:48:01Z

Why Nostr uses public/private key cryptography ?

Your identity on Nostr is your key pair. There's no username/password database, no company that owns your account. Your private key signs every event you publish, proving you authored it , without trusting any third party. Anyone can verify your signature using your public key. This means your identity is self-sovereign: no platform can ban "your account" because your account is just a math relationship between two keys that only you control.

A Door the Reaper Can't Find ❤️ ...

2026-06-17T19:56:42Z

A Door the Reaper Can't Find ❤️

What actually happens when you publish a note on Nostr? When you ...

2026-06-17T08:12:33Z

What actually happens when you publish a note on Nostr?

When you write a note, your client creates a JSON object containing your message, a timestamp, your public key, and an event kind number. Your private key then signs this object cryptographically, producing a unique signature. That signed event is sent over WebSocket connections to one or more relays. The relays store it, and anyone subscribed to those relays (or querying them later) can retrieve and verify your note. There's no central server involved, just your signed data floating across relays.

Building the Sovereign Internet ❤️ ...

2026-06-15T10:08:58Z

Building the Sovereign Internet ❤️

We watched a creator lose his followers overnight. No warning. No ...

2026-06-10T07:54:22Z

We watched a creator lose his followers overnight.

No warning. No appeal. One report. Gone.

He had built his business on that platform. His income, his community, his identity, all of it was rented from a company that could revoke it at any time.

That's when we started building YakiHonne.

YakiHonne is a social platform built on Nostr. a decentralized protocol where no single company controls your account. Combined with Bitcoin payments, it means creators can publish freely AND get paid directly by their audience.

We're not here to replace every platform. We're here to give creators infrastructure they actually own.

If you're a creator, marketer, or just someone who believes in digital ownership, follow us. We're building in public.

The Broken System Behind Social Media 👎 ...

2026-06-07T18:47:53Z

The Broken System Behind Social Media 👎

The Builders Never Stopped ❤️ ...

2026-06-05T19:58:33Z

The Builders Never Stopped ❤️

The internet gave everyone a voice. But has it truly given ...

2026-06-04T13:05:52Z

The internet gave everyone a voice. But has it truly given everyone an audience?

What do you think is the biggest barrier for independent creators today distribution, monetization, or trust?Drop your thoughts below.

#YakiHonne #ContentCreators

🎉 10,000 Followers! 🎉 What started as an idea has grown ...

2026-06-02T21:07:11Z

🎉 10,000 Followers! 🎉

What started as an idea has grown into an amazing community of 10K people, and that's something worth celebrating.

Every follow, like, comment, repost, and conversation has helped us reach this milestone. We're excited about what we've built together and even more excited about what's coming next.

Thank you for being part of this journey. 💜

Now we want to hear from you:

✨ How did you discover us?
✨ What kind of content do you enjoy the most?
✨ What would you like to see more of in the future?

Drop your thoughts in the comments and let's celebrate this milestone together! 🚀

🎉 10,000 Followers! 🎉 We've officially reached **10K ...

2026-06-01T19:26:24Z

🎉 10,000 Followers! 🎉

We've officially reached **10K followers**, and it's all thanks to you! Every follow, comment, repost, zap, and piece of feedback has helped YakiHonne grow into the community it is today.

To celebrate and thank you for your support, we're giving away 50,000 sats! ⚡

Drop a comment below with your Lightning address and celebrate this milestone with us for a chance to claim a share of the prize pool.

Thank you for being part of the journey. 🚀

#YakiHonne #Nostr #10KFollowers

You go to settings enable gossip model then the profiles fetching ...

2026-06-01T17:00:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…a93d
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You go to settings enable gossip model then the profiles fetching will
be improved vastly 🙏 it us under content moderation 🫡

Think you know the answer? Take on this quiz question and win ...

2026-05-31T00:30:26Z

Think you know the answer? Take on this quiz question and win zaps

We didn't build YakiHonne to compete with Centralized Media ...

2026-05-29T23:13:31Z

We didn't build YakiHonne to compete with Centralized Media Apps. We built it because censorship-resistant publishing shouldn't be a luxury, it should be a default.

On this day in 2010, someone spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas. 🍕 ...

2026-05-22T16:29:19Z

On this day in 2010, someone spent 10,000 BTC on two pizzas. 🍕
Worth $25 then. Worth over $1 billion today.
That’s not a story about regret.
That’s a story about what happens when money evolves.

At YakiHonne, we believe value should move as freely as ideas — no algorithms, no middlemen, no gatekeepers.
Write. Share. Zap. Own your audience.
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! 🍕⚡️

⚡️ First 10 comments with a Lightning address get 210 sats each.
Drop yours below 👇

#Bitcoin #PizzaDay #Lightning #Nostr #YakiHonne

The algorithm doesn't show your best content. It shows ...

2026-05-19T22:55:28Z

The algorithm doesn't show your best content. It shows content that keeps people angry and scrolling. YakiHonne has no algorithm. Your words speak for themselves.

Real Supporters Matter More Than Viral Numbers #Bitcoin #Nostr ...

2026-05-18T17:34:07Z

Real Supporters Matter More Than Viral Numbers

#Bitcoin #Nostr

#naddr1qv…0w8y

2026-05-18T13:00:34Z

quoting naddr1qv…0w8y

The Day Maria Got Paid in 11 Seconds

Maria had been writing about urban farming for three years.

She published on Medium, built a decent following, applied to monetization programs, waited the obligatory months, met the threshold requirements, filled out the tax forms and eventually received a deposit that felt more like a rebate than a reward. Seventy-something dollars for a quarter's worth of work, routed through a payment processor, taxed at the source, delayed by "processing cycles."

Then someone on Nostr zapped her post.

Her phone buzzed. 900 sats. Instant. No dashboard. No minimum payout threshold. No 30-day holding period.

She didn't even fully understand what had just happened. But something about it felt different — the way email felt different from fax, or the way streaming felt different from buying a DVD. Not just faster. Structurally different.

First, What Even Is a Zap?

A Zap is a Lightning Network payment sent directly from one person to another, attached to a piece of content a post, a note, a comment, a reply.

On Nostr-based platforms like YakiHonne, you see a little lightning bolt icon beneath posts. You tap it, enter an amount in satoshis (sats), optionally add a message, and send. The creator receives the payment — often within seconds, sometimes milliseconds directly to their Lightning wallet.

No intermediary decides if the content is "eligible." No algorithm gates the distribution. No company holds your money pending review. Value moves from the person who felt something to the person who made them feel it.

That's the whole thing. And it's deceptively simple.

The Money Layer the Internet Never Had

Here's a piece of context that puts Zaps in perspective: the internet was built without a native payment layer.

When the core protocols of the web were designed, there was no standard for sending value the way there was a standard for sending text or images. HTTP can carry a webpage across the world in milliseconds. It cannot carry a dollar. That gap was filled awkwardly by financial institutions, payment processors, and platforms acting as middlemen between audiences and creators.

The result is a system we've all normalized but that looks absurd once you examine it:

A reader in Lagos enjoys a creator's essay. To support them, money must travel through a bank, a payment processor, a platform's internal ledger, possibly a currency conversion service, and eventually weeks later, fees deducted arrive somewhere near the creator's bank account. Assuming the creator lives somewhere the platform supports. Assuming they've verified their identity. Assuming they've hit the minimum payout. Assuming nothing gets flagged.

The Lightning Network is an attempt to build the payment layer that was always missing. It runs on top of Bitcoin, enabling near-instant, near-free transactions at scale. Zaps are what happen when you attach that capability to social content.

Satoshis: Smaller Than a Cent, Bigger Than You Think

A satoshi — sats — is the smallest unit of Bitcoin. One Bitcoin equals 100 million satoshis.

At most current valuations, a single sat is worth a tiny fraction of a cent. So when someone zaps you 21 sats, they're not making you rich. They're doing something else entirely: they're expressing signals.

This is where the money conversation gets interesting.

Traditional monetization is binary in practice. You either monetize or you don't. You either hit the threshold or you don't. The economic infrastructure wasn't built to carry micro-expressions of value — a "this made me laugh" worth $0.003, or a "thank you for this" worth $0.07.

Sats change the denomination of appreciation.

21 sats means I saw this. 210 sats means this was good. 2,100 sats means this mattered to me. 21,000 sats means this changed something. The number isn't arbitrary ,Bitcoiners have a cultural relationship with the number 21 (the total supply cap of 21 million Bitcoin), so zap amounts often carry embedded meaning. The payment is also a message.

And when thousands of readers each send 21 sats? That accumulates into something real without a platform taking 30–45% off the top.

Maria, Continued

After that first zap, Maria started paying attention.

She noticed the people who zapped her weren't anonymous ghosts. They had profiles. They were part of conversations. One of them, a man in Berlin who wrote about permaculture left a message with his zap: "This changed how I think about rooftop soil depth. Thank you."

No algorithm had served him her post. He'd found it because someone he followed had reshared it. He read it because the headline was honest. He paid because the content earned it.

Maria began to understand she wasn't just receiving money. She was receiving feedback with economic weight attached. The posts that got zapped most were the ones that were most specific, most personal, most technically dense. Her audience was, in effect, voting with sats not on virality, but on value.

She restructured her writing around that signal. Less broad. More deep. Fewer takes, more investigations.

Her income didn't explode. But it became hers legible, direct, immediate. She could see which essay got 4,400 sats in a week. She could see who valued her work on urban water recycling versus her work on container gardening. The payment data told her something the like count never could.

The Structural Shift Nobody Talks About Enough

Most coverage of Zaps focuses on the technical novelty. Lightning fast! Bitcoin native! Decentralized!

The deeper shift is economic and relational.

Traditional creator monetization is advertising-adjacent, even when it looks like subscriptions. Platforms need scale. Scale requires algorithmic amplification. Algorithmic amplification optimizes for engagement, which often means controversy, emotion, and volume, not depth, accuracy, or craft. Creators learn, consciously or not, to produce what the system rewards. Zaps break that feedback loop.

When your income comes directly from readers, you optimize for readers, not for what an algorithm thinks readers want, not for what an advertiser will pay to be adjacent to, but for what actual humans in your actual audience find valuable enough to send money for.

This reorients the entire creative calculus. Slowly, imperceptibly at first, and then all at once.

But Is It Real Money?

This is the question that stops most people, and it's fair.

Sats are denominated in Bitcoin, which is volatile. 2,100 sats might be worth $1.40 today and $2.20 next month or $0.90 the month after. For someone trying to pay rent, that uncertainty is not trivial.

But here's how creators who've integrated Zaps into their income tend to think about it:

Zaps are additive, not substitutional. Maria didn't quit her newsletter subscription revenue. She added a Zaps layer on top. The volatility is manageable because it's not the whole picture.

Sats can be held. Unlike platform credits that expire or ad revenue that requires conversion, sats can sit in a wallet and be converted when the rate is favorable. This is a feature for creators willing to engage with it.

The infrastructure is improving. Lightning wallets are getting simpler. Conversion tools are getting better. The friction that makes Bitcoin feel alien in 2024 is actively being engineered away.

And perhaps most importantly: even 10 dollars a week in Zaps from a small audience, compounding as that audience grows on a platform where discovery is not gated by algorithmic favoritism, is not nothing. It is, for many creators globally, more reliable than waiting for a platform to decide they've hit their threshold.

What Zaps Are Really About

Strip away the technical vocabulary, Lightning, sats, nodes, channels and Zaps are about one thing:

Restoring the direct line between a creator and the people who value their work.

That line existed before the internet, in different forms. The patron and the artist. The town square and the storyteller passing a hat. The magazine subscriber and the journalist whose byline they trusted.

The internet blew that line up and replaced it with something that served platforms far better than it served creators or audiences. Zaps are one attempt , imperfect, early-stage, culturally specific , to draw that line again.

Maria's 900-sat zap wasn't a payment that changed her life.

It was proof that someone in the world had read her words, decided they were worth something, and sent that decision directly to her without asking anyone's permission.

In the history of how creators get paid, that is newer than it sounds.

Published on YakiHonne · Lightning-native publishing on Nostr

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2026-05-13T06:20:39Z

Web Hotfixes : (v5.9.1)
- Resolved the image pasting overlay issue where pasted images were hidden during note creation.
- Fixed fetching articles, videos and curations with Yakihonne NIP-05 URL.
- Added icons to the BLOSSOM options for a clearer and more intuitive interface.

Your Instagram username is not yours. Your X handle is not yours. ...

2026-05-12T21:11:01Z

Your Instagram username is not yours. Your X handle is not yours. The platform owns it. You're just renting space on someone else's land.

They Called It the Creator Economy. Here's Who Actually Got ...

2026-05-11T19:58:18Z

They Called It the Creator Economy. Here's Who Actually Got Paid.

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They Called It the Creator Economy. Here's Who Actually Got Paid.

There was a promise made somewhere around 2015. Maybe you heard it on a YouTube ad, or in a Medium post shared by someone who'd just quit their job. The promise went like this: the internet has finally democratized money. Anyone with a camera, a voice, or a story could now get paid for their work. No gatekeepers. No record labels, publishers, or studios standing between the creator and the audience.

They called it the Creator Economy.

It was a lie. Not entirely — but enough to matter.

The Math Nobody Talks About

Let's look at what the Creator Economy actually produced.

YouTube, the flagship of the "anyone can make it" dream, pays through its Partner Program. To qualify, you need 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours per year. As of recent data, fewer than 10% of all YouTube channels ever reach that threshold. Of those who do, the average small creator earns between $2 and $5 per 1,000 views. Post three videos a week for a year, grind for an audience, and you might clear enough to cover a phone bill.

Spotify is worse. The platform pays between $0.003 and $0.005 per stream. An independent artist needs roughly 250,000 streams per month just to earn minimum wage — in the cheapest city in America. Over 90% of artists on Spotify earn less than $1,000 per year from the platform.

Instagram and TikTok? The creator funds both platforms launched with great fanfare paid out fractions of a cent per view. TikTok quietly restructured its fund after creators revolted over earnings so low they bordered on parody. Some reported earning $20 for a video that received a million views.

The numbers tell a consistent story: 99% of creators earn nothing meaningful from the platforms they build on.

Who Actually Got Paid

The platforms did.

YouTube generated over $31 billion in ad revenue in 2023. Spotify reported 600+ million users. Meta's advertising machine — fueled almost entirely by user-generated content — prints billions every quarter.

The model was never "we pay creators." The model was "creators attract users, users attract advertisers, advertisers pay us." Creators were the product, dressed up in the language of entrepreneurship.

The top 1% of creators — the MrBeasts, the Charli D'Amelios, the Pewdiepies — did get paid. Handsomely. But they serve a function: they are proof of concept. They are the lottery winners held up so the other 99% keep buying tickets.

Every hour a struggling creator spends making content for free is an hour of labor the platform captured at zero cost.

The Nostr Difference

Then something different appeared.

Nostr is a decentralized protocol — not a platform, a protocol — built on cryptographic keys and open relays. No algorithm. No ad revenue. No company sitting in the middle extracting value from every interaction.

On Nostr, creators receive zaps.

A zap is a direct Bitcoin Lightning payment sent from one person to another, instantly, with near-zero fees. You read something that moves you, you send the creator 100 sats. You listen to a track, you zap the artist. You find a piece of writing that saves you an hour of research, you send value directly, immediately, without a platform taking 45% off the top.

The economics are structurally different:

No follower minimum. A creator with 12 followers can receive zaps from all 12 of them on their first post.

No algorithm deciding reach. Your content reaches your followers. Full stop.

No revenue share. 100% of the zap goes to the creator. The protocol takes nothing.

No demonetization. There is no central authority to pull your income because you said something they didn't like.

This is not a creator fund. It is not a tipping feature bolted onto an ad-based model as a PR gesture. It is a direct, permissionless, censorship-resistant value exchange between human beings.

Why This Matters

The Creator Economy promise failed not because people aren't creative or audiences aren't generous. It failed because the architecture was designed to extract, not to distribute.

Platforms needed creators to be poor enough to keep creating for free, but successful enough as a concept to keep new creators signing up. The system worked exactly as intended — for the platforms.

Nostr doesn't fix human nature. There will still be creators who struggle to find an audience. But the structural theft is gone. When someone values your work, they can pay you for it directly. No intermediary. No permission required. No algorithm deciding your content is too niche, too political, or too honest to monetize.

The Creator Economy told you that you were building a business.

You were building someone else's.

Nostr gives you the tools to build your own.

Published on YakiHonne — a Nostr-native long-form platform where value flows directly between readers and creators.

"In 2024, over 50,000 creator accounts were suspended on X in ...

2026-05-10T00:50:20Z

"In 2024, over 50,000 creator accounts were suspended on X in a single week. Their followers? Gone. Their content? Gone. This is not an exception — it's the model."

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2026-05-06T19:18:13Z

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Bitcoin without a communication layer is incomplete. Nostr without sound money is limited. On their own, each solves half a problem. Together, they cover the full picture, payments, communication, commerce without handing control to any single company.

In practice, this looks like: sending money to a friend in Indonesia without touching a bank. Tipping a writer in Thailand without a payment processor taking a cut. Running a business where no one can freeze your revenue on a Tuesday morning because your content violated a policy you didn't know existed.

The Lightning Network handles the payment rail, fast, cheap, final. Nostr handles the social and communication layer open, portable, censorship-resistant. Plug them together and you get something genuinely new: an internet where your identity, your audience, and your money belong to you.

What this actually solves for people in Southeast Asia

The theory is interesting. The real-world applications are more so.

Remittances. Our region sends enormous amounts of money across borders every year, and somewhere between 6 and 8 percent of it disappears into fees and exchange rate spreads. A Malaysian worker receiving payment from Singapore via Lightning keeps essentially all of it. The transaction settles in seconds. There's no bank cut, no correspondent bank cut, no waiting three business days.

Creators who want to own their work. Right now, a Malaysian content creator building an audience on any major platform is building on rented land. The platform takes 30 to 50 percent, can demonetize without warning, and owns the relationship with the audience. On Nostr, you take your followers with you if you leave, and payments come directly from the people who value your work, no intermediary deciding what you're worth.

The 290 million people without bank accounts. Financial inclusion gets talked about a lot and delivered on rarely. Bitcoin and Nostr don't require a bank account, a credit history, or a minimum balance. A smartphone and an internet connection is enough to participate.

Businesses that need to keep running. When a payment platform faces regulatory pressure or goes down, businesses that depend on it stop. Infrastructure built on open protocols doesn't have a single point of failure. There's no company to pressure, no CEO to call.

What a "zap" actually is and why it's interesting

A zap is a Bitcoin micropayment sent over Lightning, typically between Nostr users, attached to a specific piece of content. Someone posts something useful; you send them 21 satoshis. You enjoyed an article; you send 210. It takes one tap and costs almost nothing.

That sounds small. The implications aren't.

For the first time, money is genuinely native to the social layer of the internet. Not advertising money, where your attention gets sold to a third party. Not subscription money, where you pay a platform that may or may not pass it along. Direct value, from reader to writer, from listener to creator, from customer to merchant instantly, globally, without asking anyone's permission.

This changes the incentive structure in ways that matter. Spam and low-effort content become economically costly when every interaction can carry real value. Quality work gets rewarded immediately rather than being filtered through an algorithm that optimizes for engagement. Creators build direct economic relationships with their audience instead of chasing metrics that a platform controls.

It's not a perfect system, the tooling is still rough, the user experience has a way to go. But the underlying model is sound, and it's running right now.

Yakihonne April Update: BLOSSOM Management, NIP-22 Comments, and ...

2026-05-05T07:19:27Z

Yakihonne April Update: BLOSSOM Management, NIP-22 Comments, and Interactive DM Gifts Now Live

We’re excited to bring you the April update for Yakihonne across web and mobile! This month, we focused on giving you total control over your data, unifying the way you converse, and making communities easier to share.

Total Storage Control: BLOSSOM Management

Take charge of your decentralized media. We've introduced a dedicated BLOSSOM file management page across the platform.
- View, manage, and delete your uploaded and mirrored files effortlessly
- Total transparency over your decentralized storage footprint
- Available directly from your settings on both Web and Mobile

Unified Conversations with NIP-22

Engaging with long-form content just got better. We’ve implemented NIP-22 to standardize comments across the ecosystem.
- Leave rich, threaded comments on Articles and Videos
- Enjoy full interoperability: your comments will render correctly on any Nostr client supporting the NIP-22 standard
- Seamless transition between reading and discussing

Relay Sharing & Interactive DM Gifts Hit Mobile

We've supercharged how you connect with communities and friends:
- Relay Orbits Sharing: You can now easily share specific relay URLs. When someone clicks your link, it opens directly to that relay's dedicated content feed!
- Interactive DM Gifts for Mobile: Following up on last month's highly popular Web release, mobile users can now send and receive interactive DM Sats gifts, making peer-to-peer value exchange fun and native on the go.

Web Update (v5.9.0)

* Dedicated BLOSSOM file management page for easier handling of uploaded and mirrored files.
* Fixed join relay requests changing status without proper confirmation.
* Added the ability to share relay URLs directly from Relay Orbit.
* Shared relay URLs now open the full content page for that specific relay.
* Fixed direct messages not sending when using the Enter key on the keyboard.
* Fixed the comments section where some replies were not appearing correctly.
* Fixed BLOSSOM media URLs failing when unsupported characters were included.
* Resolved gallery images overlapping with message boxes inside the chatbox.
* Added support for HLS video playback.
* Added support for NIP-22 comments.
* The Smart widget Playground page is now mobile responsive.
* General improvements and bug fixes.

Mobile Update (v2.0.4)

- Launched interactive DM Gifts.
- Introduced Blossom server management.
- Added NIP-22 comment support for articles and videos.
- Optimized relay sharing links with direct content parameters.
- Simplified relay invitation UI to "Share".
- Unified feed settings by moving nested replies configuration.
- Improved relay browsing experience from the homefeed.
- Added relay sharing capability within the Orbits view.
- Improved relay joining with automated connection timers.
- Fixed relay filtering when posting notes in Relay Orbits.
- Added automatic state reset for paid note progress.
- Resolved layout and keyboard overlap on relay join requests.
- General bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Why This Update Matters

- BLOSSOM management ensures you truly own and control your decentralized media.
- NIP-22 breaks down content silos, bringing Nostr closer together.
- HLS Video playback on Web means massive, high-quality streams finally play without a hitch.
- Relay sharing drives viral discovery for niche communities and private gated feeds.

Update Now

Update to Web v5.9.0 and Mobile v2.0.4 today to take control of your BLOSSOM storage, try out NIP-22 comments, and start sharing your favorite Relay Orbits!

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2026-05-05T03:22:02Z

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Bitcoin's cryptographic security faces a new threat as ...

2026-05-04T09:36:28Z

Bitcoin's cryptographic security faces a new threat as quantum computing enters commercial deployment. This article explores what self-custody wallet users need to know about post-quantum cryptography — and why Malaysia's Bitcoin community should act now.

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Self-Custody in the Quantum Era: What Exodus's 'One App' Vision Misses About Long-Term Key Security

For tech professionals and researchers at the frontier of Bitcoin, AI, and quantum computing.

01 · INTRODUCTION

Exodus wallet's pivot to becoming the "one app for money" following regulatory setbacks reflects broader crypto industry consolidation around self-custody solutions. CEO JP Richardson's vision emphasizes user sovereignty—controlling private keys rather than trusting exchanges. Yet as quantum computing commercializes (IonQ's 2025 milestone being the latest marker), the cryptographic foundations of these self-custody solutions face existential questions.

Current hardware wallets and software key management systems rely on ECDSA or EdDSA signatures, both vulnerable to Shor's algorithm once fault-tolerant quantum computers scale. The irony: self-custody advocates correctly identify custodial risk but may be storing keys in cryptographic formats obsolete within a decade.

02 · THE HIDDEN DEPENDENCY: CRYPTOGRAPHIC AGILITY IN CONSUMER WALLETS

Modern Bitcoin wallets like Exodus, Ledger, and Trezor implement BIP-32 hierarchical deterministic (HD) key derivation, generating unlimited addresses from a single seed phrase. This elegance becomes a liability in quantum transitions. Migrating to post-quantum algorithms (such as hash-based XMSS or lattice-based Falcon) requires not just software updates but fundamental changes to key derivation paths, signature sizes (SPHINCS+ signatures can exceed 8KB vs. ECDSA's 72 bytes), and transaction structure.

A 2024 analysis by Chainalysis found 43% of Bitcoin users still operate wallets last updated over two years ago—a dangerous lag when quantum timelines compress. Exodus's mobile-first design optimizes for convenience, but building "quantum-safe" into user experience means dramatically larger transaction sizes and reduced throughput, trade-offs rarely discussed in consumer marketing.

03 · MALAYSIA'S SELF-CUSTODY LANDSCAPE AND REGULATORY PRESSURE

Malaysia's 2024 Securities Commission guidelines mandate licensed exchanges implement custodial safeguards, inadvertently pushing tech-savvy users toward self-custody solutions like Exodus. Local adoption of hardware wallets grew 67% year-over-year among Kuala Lumpur's tech community. However, Malaysian users face unique risks: frequent cross-border transactions (Singapore, Thailand) expose public keys during Lightning Network payments, and the prevalence of mobile-only access (68% of Malaysian crypto users) limits adoption of airgapped hardware solutions.

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia's blockchain research lab recently proposed "quantum key distribution over Langkawi fiber networks" for institutional custodians, but retail self-custody solutions lack similar quantum preparedness initiatives.

04 · AI-ASSISTED KEY MANAGEMENT: A BRIDGE TO QUANTUM SAFETY?

Emerging research explores AI models for adaptive key management—systems that monitor quantum computing benchmarks and automatically trigger migration protocols. A 2024 MIT paper demonstrated machine learning models that analyze blockchain UTXO sets to prioritize high-value, quantum-vulnerable addresses for user alerts.

Applied to self-custody wallets, this could mean Exodus-style apps that warn: "Your 2015-era P2PKH address holds 0.8 BTC—migrate to Taproot before Q2 2027 quantum risk threshold." The technical challenge: implementing this without introducing new attack vectors (malicious AI suggesting fake "safe" addresses) or privacy leaks. Malaysia's AI regulatory sandbox under MDEC could pilot such systems, combining the nation's growing AI expertise (20+ MSC-status AI firms) with urgent cryptographic needs.

05 · WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE BITCOIN NETWORK

Self-custody is philosophically correct but cryptographically temporary. Bitcoin's network security depends on users actually migrating keys—not just holding them. This requires wallet developers like Exodus to prioritize cryptographic agility: modular signature schemes, transparent quantum risk scoring for each address type, and seamless migration UX.

For Malaysia's Bitcoin community, this intersects with national cybersecurity strategy: the CyberSecurity Malaysia agency's 2025-2030 roadmap should explicitly include post-quantum cryptography education for fintech developers, potentially partnering with Bitcoin developers contributing to BIP-360. The self-custody movement must evolve from "not your keys, not your coins" to "not quantum-safe keys, not your future coins."

⚡ KEY TAKEAWAY

Self-custody wallets secure today's Bitcoin but lack quantum-safe migration paths users will desperately need before 2030.

📋 中文摘要 CHINESE SUMMARY

主题： 自托管钱包在量子计算时代的密码学脆弱性

核心观点： Exodus等自托管钱包强调用户掌控私钥，但当前密码学基础（ECDSA/EdDSA签名）在量子计算机成熟后将失效。后量子算法如SPHINCS+的签名大小达8KB（当前ECDSA仅72字节），迁移需要重构交易结构和密钥派生路径。Chainalysis数据显示43%比特币用户的钱包超过两年未更新。马来西亚68%加密用户依赖纯移动端方案，缺少硬件钱包的物理隔离保护。

Bitcoin网络影响： 钱包开发者需实现密码学敏捷性——模块化签名方案和量子风险评分系统。MIT研究展示AI模型可分析UTXO集，优先提醒高价值地址迁移。马来西亚CyberSecurity机构应将后量子密码学纳入2025-2030金融科技开发者培训路线图。

Bitcoin House Malaysia · FrontierBTC Weekly · For editorial use. Not financial advice. *#Bitcoin #QuantumComputing #Malaysia #BTC #Nostr

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2026-05-03T09:58:17Z

keep it up ❤️

Why Nostr Beats Twitter — And Why It Matters for Everyone check ...

2026-04-28T10:46:21Z

Why Nostr Beats Twitter — And Why It Matters for Everyone

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The Platform You Built Your Life On Doesn't Belong to You

Twitter was supposed to be the internet's public square. The place where news broke, movements formed, and real conversations happened. For a while, it felt that way.

Then came the suspensions. The shadowbans. The algorithm changes nobody asked for. The trending topics that were quietly manipulated. And eventually, a 44 billion dollar acquisition that made one thing impossible to ignore, you never owned any of it.

Your followers? Twitter's asset. Your posts? Twitter's content. Your years of audience-building? Gone the moment someone decides your account violates a policy you never fully understood.

You were always a tenant. The landlord just changed.

This is not a political argument. It does not matter which side of any debate you are on. When one company controls how billions of people communicate, that is not a public square. That is a privately owned megaphone that can be switched off at any moment.

There is a better way. It is called Nostr.

What Nostr Actually Is — No Jargon

Here is the simplest possible explanation.

When you sign up for Twitter, your account lives on Twitter's servers. They can delete it, ban it, or change the rules tomorrow, and there is nothing you can do. You agreed to their terms. They own the infrastructure.

Nostr works completely differently. When you create a Nostr account, you generate two cryptographic keys , think of them as a padlock and a key. Your public key is your identity, what people follow and know you as. Your private key is your signature, proof that you are who you say you are. No company holds it. No server stores it. It lives with you.

Your posts are signed with your private key and broadcast to a network of independent servers called relays run by different people all over the world. If one relay goes offline, your content exists on others. If one bans you, you connect to another. Your identity travels with you everywhere, because it is yours.

No one can take your account. No one can silence you by flipping a switch in a San Francisco data center.

Censorship Resistance Is Not Just for Activists

People assume censorship resistance is a niche concern , something only dissidents in authoritarian regimes need. That thinking is naive.

Censorship rarely announces itself. It looks like a post that mysteriously reaches nobody. A shadowban that makes your content invisible without telling you. A "community guidelines" strike with no appeal and no explanation. An algorithm that quietly decides your voice is not worth amplifying.

Anyone who has used Twitter seriously has felt some version of this.

On Nostr, this is structurally impossible. Your notes are cryptographically signed — no one can alter them. They are distributed across multiple relays, no one can make them disappear entirely. Your identity is a key you hold, not an account a company controls, no one can revoke your right to speak.

Individual relays can choose what content they host. But instead of one platform with one set of rules enforced by one company, you have thousands of relays with different policies. You connect to the ones that work for you. The power is distributed. No single point of failure exists.

That is what censorship resistance actually means. And it matters to everyone, not just people living under authoritarian governments.

You Own Nothing on Twitter. You Own Everything on Nostr.

Every tweet you have written. Every photo uploaded. Every follower earned. None of it belongs to you. Twitter can use it to train AI. Sell advertising against it. Change how it is displayed. And if your account is banned tomorrow, all of it vanishes.

The entire business model of social media is built on this asymmetry. You create the value. They capture it.

Nostr flips this. Your key pair is yours : mathematically, permanently. No company issued it. No company can revoke it.

Your audience is portable. If a better Nostr app launches tomorrow, you switch to it instantly. Your followers come with you. Your content comes with you. Your entire social presence moves because it is attached to your keys, not to any platform.

Try doing that on Twitter. You cannot and that is entirely intentional. Your audience is Twitter's asset. They have built a system designed to make leaving as painful as possible.

On Nostr, you are always free to go. Because everything you built was yours from the start.

Getting Paid Without a Middleman — Zaps

This is where Nostr does not just beat Twitter. It makes Twitter's creator economy look like a bad joke.

Twitter has tried subscriptions, Super Follows, tips. The results have been underwhelming. The problem is structural , the platform always sits in the middle, taking a cut, setting the rules, deciding who qualifies, and reserving the right to remove your monetization at any time.

Nostr has Zaps.

A Zap is a direct Bitcoin payment from one person to another, sent instantly over the Lightning Network. Read something that moved you? Tap once and send the creator a small Bitcoin payment. It arrives in seconds. No platform takes a percentage. No company approves it. No one can freeze it.

This works identically whether the creator is in London or Lagos. No bank account needed. No payment processor approval. No geographical restrictions. Just a direct transfer of value between two people.

For creators who have spent years building audiences only to watch platforms extract all the value this is not an upgrade. It is a completely different game.

Start Today

You do not have to delete Twitter. You do not have to make a statement.

Just download YakiHonne. Create your Nostr identity in two minutes , no personal information required. Follow some accounts. Read some posts. Send a Zap to a creator whose work you value. Experience what a social network feels like when it is built on open infrastructure, genuine ownership, and direct value exchange.

Because once you feel the difference between renting space on someone else's platform and actually owning your digital presence the choice becomes obvious.

Nostr does not just beat Twitter on features. It replaces the entire philosophy of what a social network is supposed to be. Your keys. Your identity. Your audience. Your money.

All of it — actually, genuinely, mathematically yours.

Ready to own your voice? Download YakiHonne today. yakihonne.com

YakiHonne — Bitcoin-native · Open-source · Built on Nostr

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2026-04-15T12:54:43Z

Loyalty On Nostr ❤️

Psychology of Value-for-Value 🤔🤔 ...

2026-04-13T10:40:38Z

Psychology of Value-for-Value 🤔🤔

No algorithm to chase 💫 ...

2026-04-06T10:25:18Z

No algorithm to chase 💫

Most beginners make the same mistakes !!!🤔 ...

2026-04-05T11:28:07Z

Most beginners make the same mistakes !!!🤔

Lighting Wallets Explained 💥 ...

2026-04-03T13:00:00Z

Lighting Wallets Explained 💥

Yakihonne Update: Auto-Translation, Relay Discovery, and Sats ...

2026-03-31T09:34:11Z

Yakihonne Update: Auto-Translation, Relay Discovery, and Sats Gift Packets Now Live

We’re thrilled to roll out a major update for Yakihonne across web and mobile. This release is designed to tear down language barriers, enhance community discovery, and give you more native ways to exchange value. It introduces instant auto-translation, a robust relay review system, and seamless Sats Gift Packets in direct messages.

Seamless Auto-Translation

Nostr is global, and now your feed is too. You can now read notes and articles from creators around the world without language barriers.

- Optionally auto-translate notes instantly upon opening them
- Translations process seamlessly within 3 seconds
- Connect with international communities and creators without friction
- Available on both Web and Mobile

Relay Discovery & Access

Finding and engaging with the right communities is easier than ever. We've introduced powerful tools to help you evaluate relays before joining them:

- Relay Reviews: Read reviews and ratings from other users to discover the best active relays
- Join Requests: Easily request access to private or gated relays directly through the app interface

Monetization & Value Exchange

We are continuing to build out our creator economy and peer-to-peer transaction flows with highly requested features:

- Sats Gift Packets: Send Bitcoin natively within direct messages to reward friends or creators directly
- Flawless Paid Notes: Enjoy redesigned QR payment flows with flexible dropdown wallet selection options
- Pending Paid Notes Dashboard: Track and manage your paid content directly from the mobile app

Web Update (v5.8.0)

- Relay invitations via join requests for easier access to private relays
- Relay reviews added to help evaluate and discover relays
- Sats gift packets can now be sent directly in messages
- Expired notes are now automatically removed from the feed
- Auto-translation applied when opening notes or articles
- Fixed issues when visiting profiles via NIP-05 URLs (Yakihonne NIP-05 users)
- Fixed problems when adding Alby wallet accounts
- Fixed bunker connection issues
- Fixed follow status detection in search results
- Redesigned toast messages for clearer feedback
- Fixed QR code payments for paid notes and added wallet selection options
- Added imeta support for uploaded files in notes and articles
- Fixed incomplete or partially loaded thread fetching issues
- Improved URL preview metadata fetching for better accuracy
- Fixed UI issues when note options position changes
- General bug fixes and optimizations across the app

Mobile Update (v2.0.3)

- Added relay review
- Added relay join request
- Added expanded nested replies in notes
- Added nsec saving to ios keychain
- Added option to autotranslate note in 3 seconds
- Added support for nwc multi relays
- Added pending paid notes in dashboard
- Added imeta tag when publishing notes and articles
- Added expired content ignore
- Fix pasting text in private message not working
- Fix profile fetching issue
- Fix screen orientation in youtube links when trying fullscreen mode
- Fix paid notes not being submitted issue
- Fix notification refresh when switching to view
- Other bug fixes and performance improvements

Why This Update Matters

- Auto-translation makes Nostr a truly borderless, global network
- Relay reviews and join requests make navigating the decentralized relay ecosystem intuitive
- Cleaned-up feeds (ignoring expired content) and expanded nested replies dramatically improve the reading experience
- Sats gifts and improved paid notes strengthen the native Bitcoin creator economy

Update Now

Update to Web v5.8.0 and Mobile v2.0.3 today to break language barriers, discover new communities, and start sending Sats directly in messages on Yakihonne!

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2026-03-31T02:41:19Z

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A hotfix for it is online just today lol, you can understand this ...

2026-03-30T00:26:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…lxx8
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A hotfix for it is online just today lol, you can understand this article to get a brief idea about Paid note. More to come in the future too 🙏
https://yakihonne.com/article/s/_@yakihonne.com/ZNgNJFqqzAJxhJCsBtfx-

Mastering Nostr 🤔 🤔 ...

2026-03-27T08:17:08Z

Mastering Nostr 🤔 🤔

No ads , No stress 💥 ...

2026-03-25T11:40:11Z

No ads , No stress 💥

The Psychology of Zaps 🤔 ...

2026-03-23T18:06:54Z

The Psychology of Zaps 🤔

Lighting network 💥 ...

2026-03-22T09:08:42Z

Lighting network 💥

Eid Mubarak! May this beautiful occasion fill your heart with ...

2026-03-20T08:12:53Z

Eid Mubarak! May this beautiful occasion fill your heart with love ❤️

#Arabic #Yakihonne

Lets go for it too 🫡 A star from you could make a difference ...

2026-03-18T13:56:05Z

Lets go for it too 🫡
A star from you could make a difference 🙏

https://github.com/YakiHonne/web-app
https://github.com/YakiHonne/mobile-app

quoting
nevent1q…349d
I want to try too, though the odds are low 😁
https://github.com/CodyTseng/jumble

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its feels like an ecosystem 💥 ...

2026-03-16T09:51:27Z

its feels like an ecosystem 💥

This is YakiHonne ❤️ ...

2026-03-10T16:59:51Z

This is YakiHonne ❤️

Today we celebrate the strength, creativity, and achievements of ...

2026-03-08T11:16:15Z

Today we celebrate the strength, creativity, and achievements of women around the world. Happy Women’s Day 🌸

To mark this special day, YakiHonne is giving back to the community with a 50,000 sats prize pool exclusively for women. 21 women who comment on this post will receive a share of the sats.

If you’re a woman in the community, share your thoughts, your journey, or your experience with decentralized social media. Let’s celebrate the voices of women helping shape the future of the open internet together. ⚡

The Future of Social Media Is Decentralized 💥 ...

2026-03-05T18:10:22Z

The Future of Social Media Is Decentralized 💥

Introducing Media on YakiHonne. This release brings full NIP-71 ...

2025-12-28T06:54:21Z

Introducing Media on YakiHonne. This release brings full NIP-71 uploads—images and videos with trimming, filters, and playback controls—plus a Media feed on mobile for reels/short-style viewing. Profiles level up with pinned notes and a dedicated Mentions section, while a slimmer loading bar, smarter notifications, and RTL auto-detection make everything feel faster and cleaner. Add QuickTime support, better routing, and a wave of fixes, and you’ve got a smoother, more expressive YakiHonne.

web :
[5.5.0]
• Media support for images and videos across the app, including dashboard, notifications, note previews, relay feeds, search, and user profiles.
• Display of pinned notes on user profiles.
• Ability to pin and unpin notes.
• Added a dedicated mentions section to user profiles.
• Muting state for videos is now properly saved across media views.
• Media publishing now supports images and videos with filtering, trimming, and additional controls.
• Replaced the loading screen with a minimal loading bar for a smoother experience.
• Comment inputs now auto-adjust height based on content.
• Relay encodings are now included in notification URLs for more accurate routing.
• Articles can now be browsed on a standalone page.
• Automatic language direction detection in the article editor (LTR/RTL).
• Fixed incorrect hashtag parsing.
• Fixed markdown link syntax issues when selecting text.
• Improved markdown link parsing in the previewer.
• Added helpful hints to the link toolbar for better usability and clarity.
• Added support for displaying QuickTime videos.
• Fixed timestamp randomization issues related to NIP-17.
• Updated default image placeholders for profile pictures and thumbnails.
• Fixed message decryption issues to prevent multiple parallel popups when using extension signers.

mobile:
[1.9.7]
Added
• Introducing Media feed (videos, images).
• Added profile pinned notes.

Changed
• Add RTL directionality in Articles’ editor.
• Profile sections reworked.
• Added mentions section in profile.
• Load latest selected sources on startup.
• Re-scroll to the top of feed when changing options.

Fixed
• Fix Amber encryption syncing & Amber nip44 event decrytion issue.
• Fix messages not being fetched from dm relays.
• Fix “nostr:” not working in search.
• App stability improvements.
• Bug fixes & performance improvements.

[1.9.6]
Fixed
• Fix scrolling stuck behaviour.
• Fix nostr scheme decoding issue.
• Fix audio controller not being dismissed properly.