Nostr notes by jeffg

Nostr event nevent1qqsx7shcxm004u2qlk53r0hyxrul6njvr6se0wveultkmndya437z3szyqtnnkfhmjxqcums4gn4skfccyv7yhzp7mzyrfwnf3kns5p7xymw76egscq

2026-10-12T10:23:49Z

gm.

Yeah - it's best to set your normal relays as the ones you ...

2026-10-12T08:35:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…zgqu
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Yeah - it's best to set your normal relays as the ones you want to use in normal apps, you can use our whitenoise relays for your inbox relays (or use your own if it's a good relay). The group relays will default to whitenoise relays in the app for good group performance but the original issue was almost certainly your inbox relay being down.

momentum++ https://github.com/marmot-protocol/awesome-marmot

2026-10-10T19:36:52Z

momentum++

https://github.com/marmot-protocol/awesome-marmot

what's the issue? did you get any errors?

2026-10-10T18:56:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…dgq5
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what's the issue? did you get any errors?

My son has been working on a fun little racing game the last few ...

2026-10-10T18:04:12Z

My son has been working on a fun little racing game the last few weeks. You can sign in with your nostr account, and run tournaments with cashu buy-ins and the winner takes the pot!

https://satsracer.com/

apple. we accept bitcoin on our site https://ipf.dev/donate

2026-10-05T16:12:54Z

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apple. we accept bitcoin on our site https://ipf.dev/donate

Someone is spamming kind 1059 gift-wrap events right now. About ...

2026-10-04T23:38:32Z

Someone is spamming kind 1059 gift-wrap events right now. About 13k per minute. And 96%+ of them are all being directed at one npub.

npub16qvz6xcre9rta66afdn5ygtvqg0nsv3w3uyfha3hytxams0crx4qpz97ax (npub16qv…97ax)

Looks like someone's script is running away with itself.

😂😂 vandalism for good. #nevent1q…x7zj

2026-10-04T15:35:43Z

😂😂 vandalism for good.

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gm.

2026-10-04T15:34:53Z

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gm.

not yet

2026-10-04T00:35:25Z

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not yet

to the group? is this the npub you want added? you don’t need ...

2026-10-03T22:57:50Z

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to the group? is this the npub you want added? you don’t need an invite for the app just get it at https://whitenoise.chat

it’s on zapstore and play store. happy to add you to the ...

2026-10-03T22:43:08Z

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it’s on zapstore and play store. happy to add you to the community group!

we have a group on @nprofile…sp3z that is over 100 members and ...

2026-10-03T22:25:31Z

we have a group on White Noise (nprofile…sp3z) that is over 100 members and has been running flawlessly for weeks.

no coordinators. no shared keys. no special relays.

fully decentralized end to end encryption. it just works.

👋

2026-10-03T22:22:53Z

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👋

working on that now.

2026-10-03T16:49:49Z

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working on that now.

yes!

2026-10-01T16:47:43Z

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yes!

You can also donate at https://ipf.dev/donate 😉 ...

2026-09-30T13:26:34Z

You can also donate at https://ipf.dev/donate 😉

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nevent1q…29vq
if you want to support what we’re doing at White Noise (nprofile…radp) you can now donate right in the iOS and Android apps.

you can even set up an easy recurring donation with Apple Pay on iOS.

since we’re a 501(c)(3), if you’re in the US, your donation is tax deductible.

🙏

that was like 20-30 minutes of me working. we released new ...

2026-09-30T10:35:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…p97h
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that was like 20-30 minutes of me working. we released new versions this morning so the community groups blew up again!

sorry about that. i actually meant to remove that. we added it a ...

2026-09-30T09:57:50Z

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sorry about that. i actually meant to remove that. we added it a bit ago when Will said he was turning off the damus relay but it’s still going so…

if you want to support what we’re doing at @nprofile…radp you ...

2026-09-30T09:56:47Z

if you want to support what we’re doing at White Noise (nprofile…radp) you can now donate right in the iOS and Android apps.

you can even set up an easy recurring donation with Apple Pay on iOS.

since we’re a 501(c)(3), if you’re in the US, your donation is tax deductible.

🙏

@nprofile…radp ftw ...

2026-09-30T09:33:54Z

White Noise (nprofile…radp) ftw

gm 🌞 ...

2026-09-30T07:35:30Z

gm 🌞

For those crashing out over this... the limit on NIP-44 payloads ...

2026-09-29T16:12:08Z

For those crashing out over this... the limit on NIP-44 payloads was raised to 4GB minus 1 byte back in June. I'm not asking for a protocol change, it's already changed.

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nevent1q…wf5l
Hey relay runners!

It's time to raise the event size limit on your relays. 64kb is so 2023. 1MB+ is the hot stuff now.

We're trying to support groups larger than ~60 on White Noise (nprofile…9puf) and the limiting factor is inbox relays rejecting events that are larger than 64kb. White Noise handles it beautifully when your inbox relays don't block it.

already started.

2026-09-29T12:48:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…2lpt
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already started.

it's an easy fix too. 🤷‍♂️ my relay implementation ...

2026-09-29T11:51:49Z

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it's an easy fix too. 🤷‍♂️

my relay implementation Wok has higher default limits. Khatru, Haven, and others also default higher than 64kb now. It's basically just a historic holdover.

lol 😂

2026-09-29T11:38:28Z

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lol 😂

how's the view of the game from that armchair, QB?

2026-09-29T11:07:34Z

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how's the view of the game from that armchair, QB?

this is not a fork. it's already in the NIPs. the past limit ...

2026-09-29T11:06:25Z

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this is not a fork. it's already in the NIPs.

the past limit was NIP-44, but that limit was raised months ago in the NIPs repo. this is just relay implementations not being updated or configured for higher limits.

I choose optimism and action.

2026-09-29T10:50:05Z

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I choose optimism and action.

Hey relay runners! It's time to raise the event size limit on ...

2026-09-29T10:41:36Z

Hey relay runners!

It's time to raise the event size limit on your relays. 64kb is so 2023. 1MB+ is the hot stuff now.

We're trying to support groups larger than ~60 on White Noise (nprofile…9puf) and the limiting factor is inbox relays rejecting events that are larger than 64kb. White Noise handles it beautifully when your inbox relays don't block it.

Deploy the RED TEAM! @nprofile…wh3a @nprofile…y780

2026-09-28T15:00:17Z

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Deploy the RED TEAM! calle (nprofile…wh3a) Rob1Ham (nprofile…y780)

I am strongly in favor of getting more (and more interesting) ...

2026-09-28T14:58:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…rhul
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I am strongly in favor of getting more (and more interesting) people on nostr.

there are plenty of us here because it's the best (only?) hope for building a more free and user-centric internet.

there are also quite a few loud obnoxious people here too. but, turns out, that's life.

Absolutely required watching for anyone that thinks of themselves ...

2026-09-28T14:54:36Z

Absolutely required watching for anyone that thinks of themselves as a programmer or software engineer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY

tbh. I have no idea if you need to change anything on amethyst. ...

2026-09-25T15:28:08Z

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tbh. I have no idea if you need to change anything on amethyst. VitorPamplona (nprofile…x58v) ?

never got the invite. did you send it around the same time you ...

2026-09-25T05:46:50Z

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never got the invite. did you send it around the same time you send this reply? i’ll have a look into why it didn’t get to me.

😂

2026-09-25T05:44:29Z

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😂

Yes - testflight for now - but we'll be releasing to the app ...

2026-09-25T05:40:04Z

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Yes - testflight for now - but we'll be releasing to the app store as soon as Apple approves our build.

poor take. interoperable e2ee messaging is an intensely difficult ...

2026-08-31T16:25:45Z

poor take.

interoperable e2ee messaging is an intensely difficult problem. signal didn't solve it. matrix couldn't either. simplex hasn't managed either.

i'm biased of course, but I believe what we're doing with Marmot is the way forward. it's already proven it's interoperable and it's now stable enough to be a daily driver.

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nevent1q…hdcd
to the ppl working on encrypted messaging "standards" on nostr: stop with the science projects, make something decent & interoperable & pragmatic that can "just work" everywhere, talk between yourselves and agree on something instead of reinventing the wheel and further fragmenting the ecosystem, stop wasting time and money and testing people's patience. doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to work and be relatively easy to implement. not my area of expertise but it shouldn't be that hard my frens.

nevent1q…xzdj

Nostr is terrible as a transport mechanism. Nostr is amazing as ...

2026-08-03T15:11:20Z

Nostr is terrible as a transport mechanism.

Nostr is amazing as an identity system.

🫂

2026-06-25T22:31:35Z

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🔥 The BSA is one of the worst, most damaging pieces of ...

2026-05-19T14:44:40Z

🔥 The BSA is one of the worst, most damaging pieces of legislation ever created.

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nevent1q…q55r
Very pleased to share that I'll be testifying before Congress this Thursday on how the Bank Secrecy Act has failed!

Quietly released Nostr Doctor yesterday evening. The hope is that ...

2026-03-14T15:32:43Z

Quietly released Nostr Doctor yesterday evening. The hope is that this simple tool will help everyone to do the basic housekeeping on their accounts and data to make sure they continue to have great experiences using nostr as the protocol and clients change over time.

Would love to hear your feedback if you think there are other tools we should add to it.

Huge thanks to hzrd149 (nprofile…l3nw) for doing all the heavy lifting!

https://nostr.doctor

Building high quality software on decentralized protocols is the ...

2026-03-10T20:59:10Z

Building high quality software on decentralized protocols is the hardest of hard modes.

If you’re out there building on hard mode I want to follow you.

Tell me about your project. 👇

If you’re too young to have grown up on the internet of the 80s ...

2026-02-21T14:33:05Z

If you’re too young to have grown up on the internet of the 80s and 90s, this podcast is a must listen.

The early Internet is why I’m here on nostr.

https://overcast.fm/+ABI2YZl_B4E

It's time we had good, reliable, open-source data about ...

2026-01-13T08:58:16Z

It's time we had good, reliable, open-source data about Nostr.

https://stats.andotherstuff.org

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naddr1qv…ln93

Nostr's distributed architecture is a feature, not a bug. No central server harvesting your data. No single point of failure. No corporate gatekeeper deciding what you can post or who can see it. Events flow across hundreds of independent relays, replicated unevenly based on where users publish and subscribe.

But this design creates a surprising challenge: How do you get network-wide analytics when there's no central server?

Each relay sees only a fraction of the network. Events spread unevenly—some relays hold millions of events, others just thousands, and the overlap between them varies wildly. Questions that any centralized platform could answer instantly become genuinely hard. How many people use Nostr? What content is popular? How healthy is the network overall?

Take a simple question: How many daily active users does Nostr have? On a traditional platform, this is trivial—count the sessions. On Nostr, we can't see people browsing. No login event, no session tracking. We can only count users who publish something. So "daily publishing users" on the dashboard will always look lower than centralized services report. I'm measuring people creating, not lurking.

When I talk to people about this, the reaction is the same: everyone wants data, but nobody has done the work to get a complete picture. Most assume it's too big a problem—one you'll never quite solve. But the Pareto principle applies. We'll never get a perfect view of the network, but a very good picture is within reach.

Before Pensieve, most people relied on stats.nostr.band. But that project isn't open source, so there's no visibility into how those numbers are calculated. Over time, I found myself trusting those metrics less and less. I wanted something transparent.

Introducing Pensieve and Nostr Stats

I built an open-source solution: Pensieve, an archive-first Nostr indexer that aggregates data across relays, and Nostr Stats, a public dashboard that visualizes network health.

Pensieve isn't just another indexer. It solves the aggregation problem: pulling events from across the network, deduplicating them, validating them, and storing them both for the long-term and for analytics uses. The stats dashboard sits on top, but is just one way of making the data accessible.

How Pensieve Works

I took an archive-first approach. Rather than piping everything directly into an analytics database, Pensieve first stores canonical events in compressed archive files using a format called notepack. Notepack was created by @jb55 and is a fast and highly compressable binary data format for nostr events. Why the extra step? Durability and portability. These archives can be backed up, shared with researchers who need historical data, or used to bootstrap a new instance. They're the source of truth.

Only validated, deduplicated events make it into the archive. Events get checked for valid signatures and proper formatting before they're stored—garbage doesn't get in.

Pensieve pulls data from multiple sources:

Live relay streaming with intelligent relay selection, maintaining persistent connections to relays and receiving events as they're published

Historical backfills from JSONL and protobuf archives—I've already processed over a terabyte and a half of historical data, including the full archives from Primal's relay

Automatic relay discovery via NIP-65, finding new relays as users update their relay lists

Negentropy syncing with the Damus relay for efficient event reconciliation

That last one deserves an explanation.

Imagine you have a million events and a relay has a million events. How do you figure out which ones you're each missing? The naive approach: request everything and deduplicate locally. But that's expensive—you're transferring vast amounts of data you already have.

Negentropy, created by @Doug Hoyte, solves this elegantly. It's a set-reconciliation protocol based on range-based comparison. Both sides compute short fingerprints (hashes) of the event IDs within a given range. If the fingerprints match, those ranges are identical—no need to check individual events. If they differ, the range gets subdivided and compared again, recursively narrowing down to just the events that are actually different.

The result: Pensieve asks for only the IDs it's missing. No redundant transfers. And when a relay connection drops, negentropy lets Pensieve catch up efficiently on everything that was published while it was disconnected—no need to re-fetch the entire history.

I also built a relay quality scoring system. The logic is simple: not all relays are equally valuable for data collection. Some relays surface events I've never seen before. Others mostly send duplicates of what I already have. Some stay online reliably; others drop connections constantly.

The scoring system tracks all of this—novel event rates, connection success, uptime—and dynamically prioritizes which relays to focus on. Resources flow toward relays that consistently deliver unique data. It's naive right now, but even simple heuristics help when you're trying to efficiently cover a network of hundreds of relays.

ClickHouse is the secret weapon here. It's a column-oriented database built for real-time analytics on massive datasets. Traditional row-based databases struggle when you ask questions like "how many unique users published each day for the last year?"—they have to scan entire rows even when you only need two columns. ClickHouse stores data by column, so aggregation queries that touch billions of events come back in milliseconds. It's open source, battle-tested at companies like Cloudflare and Uber, and designed exactly for the kind of time-series analytics dashboards need. When you're slicing and dicing millions of Nostr events by kind, by timestamp, by author—ClickHouse doesn't break a sweat.

I built it in Rust for a reason. When you're processing terabytes of messy, inconsistent data—files with invalid formats, malformed tags, events that claim to be from January 1970—you need a system that's both fast and reliable. Rust gives you both. Its memory safety and type system mean that once the code compiles, you've got a pretty good sense it's going to be stable. Edge cases get handled. The program doesn't crash at 3am on a Sunday.

What You Can See Today

The dashboard is live at stats.andotherstuff.org. Here's what you can explore:

Publishing users tracked over time (excluding ephemeral keys)

New user growth and retention patterns

Event kind distribution: see what types of content dominate the network

Zaps and Lightning activity: real money flowing through Nostr

Relay distribution from NIP-65 data, showing which relays users prefer

Time-series charts for all metrics, letting you spot trends

One insight that surprised me: the sheer number of users with dead relays still listed in their relay preferences. If you haven't checked your relay list lately, now might be a good time.

The data tells the story of a nascent network. New user numbers are noisy—there are plenty of ephemeral keys and profiles that never get filled out, which might be bots or might be people who tried Nostr once and bounced. There's work ahead to prove Nostr's value to a broader audience.

But that's exactly the point. Seeing real numbers—honest, transparent, calculated from verifiable data—is what the community needs to make good decisions about where to build next. No more guessing. No more trusting opaque metrics from closed systems.

What's Next and Getting Involved

Pensieve is currently live-streaming roughly one million events per day into the system. The historical data goes back to what I call "Nostr genesis"—the creation of @fiatjaf 's original design document—and I've already backfilled archives from Primal.

I'm looking for more historical data. If you're a relay operator with archives, I'd love to backfill from your data. The easiest format: JSONL files (one event per line), compressed with standard compression (gzip, zstd, etc.). Send me the files or share a link, and I'll handle the rest.

On the roadmap: deeper event kind breakdowns, more relay analytics, and eventually a BI tool that would let researchers run custom queries against the full dataset. I'd also like to see multiple Pensieve instances running, tuned for different geographical regions or relay types, with negentropy syncing between them to ensure comprehensive coverage.

The code is fully open source:

Pensieve: github.com/andotherstuff/pensieve

Nostr Stats: github.com/andotherstuff/nostr-stats

For developers who want to contribute: the relay discovery and quality scoring system needs work. The current heuristics are naive, and there's room to make them smarter. I'd also love to expand how we're using negentropy syncing and sync with more relays.

Built as part of And Other Stuff, an open-source collective focused on public infrastructure for Nostr. Having a large analytics data source doesn't just serve researchers—it opens the door to services like aggregation APIs that let client developers get fast counts on followers, likes, and replies. That's the kind of shared infrastructure this network needs.

Check out the live dashboard at stats.andotherstuff.org, explore the code, and if you've got historical data to share—reach out.

GM 🌞 Even Switzerland is moving against privacy these days… ...

2025-11-16T08:50:33Z

GM 🌞

Even Switzerland is moving against privacy these days… 😥

https://tuta.com/blog/switzerland-surveillance-plan

The next Marmot Dev Call is this upcoming Tuesday (Nov 4) at 1600 ...

2025-10-30T09:15:35Z

The next Marmot Dev Call is this upcoming Tuesday (Nov 4) at 1600 UTC.

We'll cover the new specs for encrypted media and our proposal for notifications.

I've also recently talked several people building on Marmot so we'll leave time at the end of the call for demos too! 💪 Who's going to step up??

GM. I'm so glad I wasn't in Vegas. Everything I have seen ...

2025-05-30T06:19:25Z

GM.

I'm so glad I wasn't in Vegas. Everything I have seen confirms my suspicions. The world financial apparatus, led by the US and aided by an army of people who only care about number go up, is trying hard to co-opt Bitcoin into a custodial asset, managed (aka controlled) by them.

Don't fall for it. Bitcoin MUST be a peer to peer technology for it to succeed (NgU is NOT succeeding). I refuse to believe that it's "inevitable" that we'd get this fiat managed outcome when we hit the mainstream.

Bitcoin is money for people; not governments, banks, and corporations. Fuck them. They've had their chance to run things and they've broken nearly everything.

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nevent1q…vayr
It feels like Bitcoin has finally crossed the Rubicon into the mainstream both a triumph and a tragedy.

Walking around the conference this year, you could easily mistake it for a fintech summit or SaaS expo in Vegas. Same blazers, same VC pitch decks, same awkward networking energy. The suitcoiners outnumber the cypherpunks by 100:1.

On one hand, this is what we fought for: global legitimacy, serious capital, institutional attention.

On the other, something’s been lost in translation. The raw edge, the revolutionary energy, the sense that we were building something against the system not polishing it up to sell it back to the system.

Bitcoin doesn’t feel quite as dangerous anymore.

It feels… professional. Predictable. “Respectable,” even.

Maybe that’s just the mask Bitcoin wears while it continues hollowing out the old world from within.

Either way, the vibe has shifted.

Video, I don't think so. It was on the second day so I ...

2024-08-27T07:40:29Z

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Video, I don't think so. It was on the second day so I believe there is an audio recording that they'll release at some point? thenostrworld (npub1nst…rg5l)?

Fancy single origin from a local roaster here in Chiavenna. ...

2024-05-27T07:24:07Z

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Fancy single origin from a local roaster here in Chiavenna. https://sierranevadacaffe.com/en

GM Nostr! 🌞 #coffeechain https://m.primal.net/IOhQ.jpg

2024-05-27T05:59:36Z

GM Nostr! 🌞

#coffeechain