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🚗 DonkeyRide is looking for alpha testers!

Riders, drivers, independent operators — and parents coordinating shared, multi-stop pickups.

Try the browser app, test real road routes, no-money journeys and privacy-first direct mode.

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Gopherspace has one endemic disease: holes die with their hostname, and nothing in the protocol can prove who wrote what.

Kind 31436 is a proposal to fix that with signed events. One event is one document. The path is the d tag, the text is the content, the signature is the author's. Nothing is referenced and nothing has to stay switched on, so any bridge that can fetch a copy can serve it to a client written in 1991.

One implementation renders those events as gopher menus, gemtext, plain HTML and terminal output, and never holds a key. Signing is NIP-46 or a browser extension, always.

npx gopherkind read [email protected]

That is the project's own documentation, published as kind 31436 and read back out of relays. The website is the same events with a different renderer in front of them.

The spec is at nostr-protocol/nips#2429. It is a draft, nobody has reviewed it yet, and the number changes if it ever lands. Relays still choose what to keep and deletion is still a request. Writing that down does not make it go away.

gopher://gopherkind.com/

https://gopherkind.com/

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Am I the first person signing Amethyst notes on nostr with an ESP32 on a desk in another country???

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NIP-QUOTE (kinds 30530, 30531): structured pricing for Nostr.

NIP-99 gives you classified listings with a price tag. NIP-QUOTE gives you the negotiation layer. A provider publishes a structured quote with line items, tax, validity window, and payment method options. Multiple providers can quote the same request. Once accepted, Payment Terms (kind 30531) lock in the deal: milestones, deposits, streaming rates, cancellation schedules.

NIP-ESCROW (kinds 30532, 30533, 30535): conditional payment coordination.

NIP-57 zaps are one-way. Cashu tokens are bearer instruments. Neither gives you "hold these funds until both sides are happy."

Lock (30532) commits funds with proof. Settlement (30533) covers all outcomes via a single outcome tag: released, forfeited, partial_forfeit, or expired. Payment Receipt (30535) proves money moved; also handles streaming payments via tick_number and cumulative tags for time-based billing.

Payment-rail-agnostic. Events record what happened; money moves on Lightning, Cashu, Strike, Stripe, or whatever rail the parties choose.

Build with this: a freelance platform with milestone-based payments and per-deliverable quotes. A peer-to-peer marketplace with buyer protection. A ridesharing app with per-minute streaming receipts.

https://github.com/forgesworn/nip-drafts/blob/main/NIP-QUOTE.md

https://github.com/forgesworn/nip-drafts/blob/main/NIP-ESCROW.md

Published 20 more Nostr protocol extensions on NostrHub, plus updates to 2 from last week. The full portfolio is now 27 standalone NIPs covering payments, trust, scheduling, disputes, provenance, and more. 40 new event kinds total.

Payments: NIP-QUOTE (structured pricing), NIP-ESCROW (conditional payments with settlement outcomes), NIP-INVOICING (machine-readable invoices)

Trust: NIP-TRUST (portable trust networks with revocation), NIP-REPUTATION (structured ratings), NIP-DISPUTES (dispute resolution with mediator support)

Scheduling: NIP-BOOKING (calendar availability and slot booking), NIP-PROVIDER-PROFILES (service provider discovery)

Ecosystem: NIP-CRAFTS (technique documentation), NIP-PROVENANCE (supply chain tracking), NIP-SCARCITY (workforce shortage signals), NIP-MENTORSHIP (training progression)

Paid APIs: NIP-L402-SERVICES (Lightning-gated API discovery, 8 production implementations)

Three composition guides show how existing NIPs combine without new kinds: SLA monitoring, community governance, institutional referral routing.

All standalone. No framework lock-in. Every NIP works independently.

Authorship verified with NIP-VA (kind 31000) attestations.

https://github.com/forgesworn/nip-drafts

Shipped toll-booth - L402 middleware that turns any HTTP API into a Lightning paywall.

Five backends (Phoenixd, LND, CLN, LNbits, Alby). Three payment rails (Lightning, Cashu, NWC). Runs on Express, Deno, Bun, and Cloudflare Workers.

Cashu-only mode means you can gate a serverless API behind payments with zero Lightning infrastructure.

Already running in production gating a Valhalla routing engine at routing.trotters.cc.

npm install @thecryptodonkey/toll-booth

https://github.com/TheCryptoDonkey/toll-booth

Just shipped rendezvous-kit; an open-source library for finding fair meeting points.

The problem: every "meet in the middle" tool uses geographic midpoint. That's just a straight line on a map. It ignores roads, terrain, coastlines, everything that actually determines how long it takes to get somewhere.

rendezvous-kit uses real routing engines to compute isochrones (reachability zones), intersects them, discovers actual venues inside the overlap via OpenStreetMap, and ranks them by fairness.

Three fairness modes:

min_max: nobody travels too long min_total: group minimises total travel min_variance: equalise journey times

Routing is engine-agnostic; plug in Valhalla, ORS, GraphHopper, or OSRM. Self-host your routing infrastructure with zero API keys.

Venue search queries OpenStreetMap's Overpass API. You can point it at your own Overpass instance if you want full control; or use the public endpoint for free.

Only runtime dependency is geohash-kit (also ours). Zero third-party dependencies. TypeScript, ESM-only, MIT licensed.

Interactive demo with real UK scenarios; cycling in the Lake District, coastal concavity on the Severn Estuary, 5-person tight budgets in Manchester: https://thecryptodonkey.github.io/rendezvous-kit

Source: https://github.com/TheCryptoDonkey/rendezvous-kit

Just shipped geohash-kit - a TypeScript library for building location-based Nostr apps.

• Multi-precision g-tag ladders for geographic discoverability
• REQ filters from coordinates + radius with neighbour ring expansion
• Smart polygon coverage — cover any area with compact geohash sets
• Parse g-tags from events, find the best precision match
• Zero dependencies, 736 tests

https://github.com/TheCryptoDonkey/geohash-kit

#geohash #nostr #nostrdev #opensource

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Working on my Nostrshire talk for bitfest.uk

Setting up a nostr relay - https://medium.com/@thedonkeydemo/private-nostr-dev-relay-fadc9ae70c84

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