Derek Ross

Bluesky outage? 😂 How does a protocol go down? This reminds me of Solana going down. 😂

https://pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/april-2026-outage-post-mortem-219ebg2

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Engage.

The Bitcoin mempool is near empty and we're chilling near ATH? Where are all of the Ordinals bros? Have they been priced out? Are they shitcoining on another chain? 🤣

The welcome bots make me seem like a welcome bot too 😡

your boys aren't doing too well. They better work hard if they want to play PSU.

Nostr is always winning.

Why? 👇🏻

How many people did the protocol censor? How many people did the protocol push towards specific content? A specific narrative? How much of your attention did the protocol take? How many advertisements did the protocol shove down your throat?

The answer above is zero. ☝🏻

We are winning.

https://coracle.social/nevent1qqsdd59c89qtv7s63f0dgxpwn5ct0h5wjujde2ahvw2k58v9phezf5spz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygp8n8zqq7dj4e0shcuaenjxlxzchqa8fgdtd6l8kaqcy046rz8w7cpsgqqqqqqs96mxml

teaching CNBC about money.

A Dogecoin security vulnerability was used by a hacker to crash 69% of nodes. It could have been used to bring down the entire network. Bitcoin's security is unmatched.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/dogecoin-flaw-nodes-crash-69-percent

At least 3 tents, not from the press, are outside the jail where Luigi is being held.

A bald eagle flew over my car moments ago. It's a sign and a great birthday present from the universe. 🦅 #murica

What's the most telling about the FBI's announcement to use certain apps is that the announcement mentions "responsibly managed encryption".

This means they want a backdoor.

"Law enforcement supports strong, responsibly managed encryption. This encryption should be designed to protect people’s privacy and also managed so U.S. tech companies can provide readable content in response to a lawful court order."

Nostr can fix this with 0xChat and upcoming implementations of NIP-104 E2EE Messaging using the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol.

https://coracle.social/note105cjh95ce6yprc5y0x6alz3gcn75m0h3y0nuuy3yzjn7gmargn2sy3p2fc

I made this simple web page a few weeks back to easily monitor the bitcoin price as we waited for 100K. It doesn't do anything special. No charts. No candles. No lines. It's just a number. It refreshes the price from Coinbase every 5 seconds. Now that we hit 100K, it probably won't get much use, but feel free to use it.

https://derekross.me/btcusd.html

The introduction of badges changed Reddit for me. The psychological need to continue using Reddit to continue my daily streak is strong.

I noticed this after the first few badges. 5 days 10, 20, 30, etc. I wanted to keep going because I was getting notifications that I was completing something special.

After earning a couple badges, I found myself forcing myself to use Reddit every day just to keep my streak alive. Then, badges started to become more rare in quality as the streak day count increased. I wanted to collect them all! I wanted to see if I could earn the legendary ones. 365 days? 500 days? Hell yeah!

I don't particularly care about Reddit all that much. Most days I'd be fine just reading. I don't need to upvote or downvote. Or at least I thought I didn't? Badges changed that for me.

I see this with my children, especially my daughter. Her and her friends all use Snapchat to communicate. She cares about keeping her streaks alive with friends. It's a silly little indicator in Snapchat, just like Reddit, that keeps pulling people back in.

I know that we all recognize the issues with legacy social media. I know these tactics are meant to keep bringing us back, so that the algorithms can keep us enraged and engaged, to steal our attention. We can do better!

It's no secret that user retention is horrible across the Nostr ecosystem. Could a Nostr client implement something similar to these streak badges without the negative aspects to keep people coming back? Definitely.

Nostr doesn't have evil algorithms. (Someone could build one though. It's an open protocol!) I believe a developer could implement a similar feature to draw people back into their application. We have a badges spec. The badge could be automatically assigned and displayed on the user profile as their engagement increases.

I guess technically this doesn't even need to be implemented by a specific client. Someone could essentially write a DVM for this, right? This would be a large task though. The DVM could use the nostr.band API or search.nostr.wine API or something similar to do this and assign these streak badges automatically across "all of Nostr" or even just a specific set of relays. Relay operators could implement something such as this too. It's all possible.

Thoughts?

Twitter is now throttling Tweets that contain external links.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-admits-x-is-throttling-links-effectively-limiting-people-from-reading-news/

I'm being told that I have a scammer impersonator on Bluesky apparently. I am winning. 🥹

We're 20 hours into the upgrade and we're all like, don't worry, we gave them a 36 hour window. We're fine 🥱🥱🥱

A new "brand" npub. Doesn't know what a Nostr address is, but immediately adds Cashu npub.cash Lightning address.

🚩

I don't know which cool new chat toy to use 🤣 I'm using both. Both are fun to use and have different use cases.

Chachi is like Telegram. Flotilla is like Discord.

Meanwhile at Netflix

It's a beautiful day for an outside wedding.

this new blink 182 song is a banger imo #tunestr

I'm think about spinning up a Ditto instance for a local community that's deeply engraved in Facebook. I no longer have a Facebook, so I don't know how to onboard them 😂 This will take some work.

It's been deleted. Do you see it?

for all of you new/old Bitcoin Twitter folks: if you're looking for a simple web client that just works without all of the extra bells and whistles, check out https://ditto.pub

It's good to see people realizing that protocols are better than platforms.

I've been holding onto this for over a year. It will finally be hand delivered next week 🥹 #plebchain

🏃🏻‍♂️5K ✅ 🥩 Ribeye ✅ https://i.nostr.build/vwCzGGK5k5UcJ9iK.jpg #foodstr #ProofOfSteak