Dikaios1517

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│Christian│Husband│Father│Presbyterian│Bitcoiner│

In that order.

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2025-11-14 21:56:55 UTC

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Less big mining facilities means plebs mining at home earn more sats for the same energy spent. That will encourage more to mine from home.
Pair that with DATUM or SV2 so that plebs are all making their own block templates and big data-centers switching away from mining Bitcoin to hop onto the AI compute bandwagon could be a very good thing for mining decentralization.

2025-11-12 20:52:44 UTC

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Looks like you can add a subscription to a particular npub in Pokey. However, it looks for that npub's posts on YOUR inbox relays.
This means whoever you are subscribing to must be using at least one of your inbox relays as one of their outbox relays. You could also set up a WoT relay that aggregates posts from folks in your web of trust and make sure you have that set as one of your inbox relays.

2025-11-12 20:46:34 UTC

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Trying now...

2025-11-12 20:37:41 UTC

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If on iOS, Nostur has the option to have notifications when a particular npub posts.
Not anything similar on Android that I am aware of.
Lists are definitely an option. For that I would recommend using Coracle.
Amethyst has the ability to display a feed from a list of npubs, but not yet the ability to manage said list. List management will be coming in the next update.

2025-11-11 04:04:58 UTC

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Yeah, that's the closest thing I have found. Not sure if all square retailers are represented there, though. It's specifically about places you can buy gift cards for, but there are some places I know use Square that don't show up there, which tells me that, too, is not fully inclusive of all Square merchants in the area.
That said, it's definitely a good place to start. I am planning to hit up a few local places tomorrow.

2025-11-11 00:07:08 UTC

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Not quite what I am looking for. The one they have in CashApp is great for finding places that already have it turned on to accept Bitcoin, but I want to be able to find the ones that HAVEN'T turned it on yet, too.

2025-11-10 22:10:15 UTC

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I'll second Nunchuk

2025-11-10 21:11:20 UTC

Will be using Strike a bit more to pay for things locally now.
#nevent1q…5fyr
Would be really great to have a directory of Square retailers so we know where we can go spend our sats. Once the retailer activates it, of course.

2025-11-10 06:50:32 UTC

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Considering you are able to post this, I assume you still have access to your private key (nsec). You just need to use that to log into Primal. Better yet, if you have an Android phone, you can install Amber, put your nsec in there, and use Amber to sign into Primal.
Done.

2025-11-10 06:25:10 UTC

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I know I have more than 2 private mutes, but for some reason it's only showing 2.
I was also today years old when I learned that @npub1cwh…ujc5 has me muted for some reason. lol I guess I don't get to buy any jerky.

2025-11-10 05:54:03 UTC

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Oh man... Gotta go play with relay.tools again.

2025-11-10 05:50:59 UTC

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@npub1m4n…c2jl also recently built something of that nature into her custom build of Jumble, I believe.
https://jumble.imwald.eu

2025-11-10 00:02:25 UTC

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Primal's UX is definitely in its favor.
However, not all criticism of Primal is FUD and purity signaling. There are legitimate concerns.
#nevent1q…qy50

2025-11-08 19:45:15 UTC

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The BIOS is not the same on all Windows computers, because the BIOS is firmware running on the motherboard. You'll have to look it up for whatever motherboard is installed in that PC.

2025-11-08 07:15:52 UTC

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The process is pretty straightforward, if I remember right. Use something like Balena Etcher to flash whatever distribution you want to use onto a thumb drive, then boot your computer into the BIOS and make sure it is selected to boot from that thumb drive before booting from the internal hard drive. Save and restart and it should prompt you to install your Linux distro and ask if you want to do so as a dual-boot with your existing OS, or overwrite the existing OS. Choose the former and you will need to tell it how much disk space to partition for your Linux distro.
I am sure you can find more detailed instructions with a pretty quick search, or on your chosen distro's website.

2025-11-07 19:21:09 UTC

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Fair. I have not looked into any of the specific claims that folks have been censored by Primal, so I stuck with the simple fact that whether or not it has occurred, it IS possible to be done, and would not be obvious to anyone who only uses Primal that any censorship had taken place.

2025-11-07 19:03:21 UTC

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Lest anyone be confused, I did not go easy on Primal in this article.

2025-11-07 19:02:39 UTC

Wow... It's a @nprofile…z8wf approved critique!
Thank you for the zap, sir!
#naddr1qq…nv8u

2025-11-07 18:09:29 UTC

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It boils down to a matter of what the proper definition of a "Nostr client" is, and whether Primal fits that definition.
I did a less hot-headed write up on it here:
#naddr1qq…nv8u
It's a bit of a long read, but it is detailed about the difference between the competing definitions, and why it's important to understand the tradeoffs of using an app like Primal.
It's not to say you shouldn't use Primal. That's up to each user to decide whether the trust tradeoffs are worth it. It's very somilar to the need to understand the trust tradeoffs of using custodial lightning or eCash. Doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't use it, but you may be more careful about how many sats you keep in it.

2025-11-07 17:43:44 UTC

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Most any web client should work. For instance, go to the note on Jumble that you want to share and copy the URL from your web browser.

2025-11-07 17:41:18 UTC

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It's not. Nostrplebs forwards requests to my actual lightning address.
Glad it's back up!

2025-11-07 17:34:23 UTC

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I stand corrected.
Thank you.

2025-11-07 09:44:38 UTC

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Replying to you now from snort.social in Brave mobile browser using NIP-55 signing. No NIP-46 bunker string exchanged whatsoever.

2025-11-07 09:23:31 UTC

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Keychat is just one of many options for NIP-07 signing. Alby, nos2x, and a couple others are out there, as well. NIP-07 is the most universally adopted signing standard for all Nostr web apps.
If you are building a PWA, then order of priority would probably be NIP-07, then NIP-46, and finally NIP-55 since it is Android specific.

2025-11-07 02:43:36 UTC

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There are some projects for connecting with folks privately. Keep an eye on WhiteNoise for one.
Also, Flotilla allows for communities to run a private relay that only community members can access. This adds a basic layer of privacy, though it does not include encrypting the notes on the relay.

2025-11-07 01:54:50 UTC

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Are you looking for them to be added to specific clients? Pinned posts are already a thing, just not supported by all clients.

2025-11-06 23:40:40 UTC

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If you use Amber already, then I highly recommend pairing it with Keychat for all Nostr web apps. Keychat uses NIP-07 like a browser extension would, but when paired with Amber it uses NIP-55 to reach out to Amber to get the signature. Both NIP-07 and NIP-55 are very reliable, so I have never experienced an issue with signing in Keychat.
Meanwhile, NIP-46 is very spotty, and it is hard to determine why. It seems like it works ok if you can initially get logged in using it. The problem is that it can take several tries before you can successfully log in.
Apps that present you with a QR code to scan a connection string seem to work better than ones where you have to manually paste in the bunker string from your signer app, but that means you are using that client dev's preferred relay for passing messages back and forth between the client and the signer, rather than the relay you prefer to use.
It's almost as if the client only looks for the signed connection request for a very short time, and if it doesn't see it on the relay in time then login fails and you have to try again. Highly annoying.

2025-11-06 18:05:18 UTC

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In that case, Keychat is still really good for web apps by itself, but you do have to trust it with your nsec on iOS.

2025-11-06 17:42:40 UTC

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You on Android or iOS?
If Android, then Amber + @nprofile…se3k is a really powerful combination for all Nostr web apps.

2025-11-06 17:37:17 UTC

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Gotcha. I use a browser extension for signing into web apps. NIP-07 signing is still more reliable than NIP-46.

2025-11-06 09:21:03 UTC

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I am still using Longform.space and enjoying it.

2025-11-06 08:16:27 UTC

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Yeah, the exact way the apps are signed for the Zapstore is above my head. It's probably just a note with the hash of the app that is signed by the Nostr key. When Zapstore downloads the app to your device, it then checks the hash of what was downloaded against the hash in the note signed by the dev's Nostr key to make sure they match before installing.

2025-11-06 08:08:50 UTC

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No. All apps on Zapstore are signed with Nostr keys. Either the developer's keys or Zapstore's keys. This allows you to be very confident that what you are downloading is the legitimate app released by that developer, when they are signing their own app releases.
Not sure what, if anything, is used for signing apps on Play Store, but it certainly won't be the same as the Nostr key used to sign the app on the Zapstore.
If you installed the app from the Play Store originally, Zapstore will tell you that the keys don't match if you try to update it there. You will first need to uninstall the Play Store version of the app.
And I agree that Zapstore signing many of the apps is not ideal, but that is because those devs haven't taken on the responsibility of signing their app releases. In the case of Nostr apps, they may just not be aware of how to do so, or that they should do so. In the case of other apps, their devs may not even be aware that Nostr exists, or care to use it, but Zapstore still wants to have the app available for folks to install.
Otherwise, Zapstore wouldn't have many apps available at all if it was only apps that devs were signing for themselves.

2025-11-06 00:51:44 UTC

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Of course their signatures will be different. Play Store doesn't use Nostr private keys for signing, while Zapstore does.
Uninstall the Play Store version and install the Zapstore version.

2025-10-31 18:16:49 UTC

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There are much worse songs to have pop into your head.

2025-10-29 19:42:11 UTC

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Freedom comes with responsibility.
Nostr enables freedom of speech, but to take advantage of that, you will need to take responsibility to learn how to use it effectively.

2025-10-27 09:23:49 UTC

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Oh, no. Custodial dollars in your bank account very much are dollars, but that's because unlike Bitcoin, dollars aren't anything more than IOUs in any form they take. That's why we call it "fiat."

2025-10-27 03:01:28 UTC

I don't know who needs to hear this, but eCash is not any worse than any other form of custodial Bitcoin.
It may not be any better either. That's debatable. But it's certainly not any worse.
Everything that is less than ideal about eCash is equally true about other forms of custodial Lightning.

2025-10-23 00:49:13 UTC

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Oh, on the relay, too, it seems:
https://relay.brightbolt.net/9a3f99d584c43043c44f62fa3f8d9428875d839a30c11df53353e19768d1a39c.jpg

2025-10-22 18:30:10 UTC

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Yep. My request was prior to the creation of his own community app store.
Since you're here, though. I was wanting to play with Blob Box, but it doesn't seem to want to let me add any npubs to the whitelist. I keep getting this error when I try:
https://relay.brightbolt.net/8897d68e10f67dbd159f669c706a4d831ff3dd426e9bb53b676e6ac49dd16c8a.jpg

2025-10-22 18:14:18 UTC

#HAVEN relay for @npub1agh…mhct is really shaping up! Thank you @npub1m2j…3wgu for taking this on, as I think it will be a massive deal for #Nostr users to easily host their own notes and media!
And when I say easy, I do mean ridiculously easy. We're talking:
1. Install from app store.
2. Open the app and choose "simple configuration."
3. Paste in your npub and add your username.
4. Save changes and click "Restart Now."
That's it! Relay up and running. You can add other optional configuration if you want, such as blastr and import relays, but that's not required.
From there, you just need a reverse proxy setup, and Umbrel has Nginx Proxy Manager to make that easy, too.

2025-10-22 00:39:47 UTC

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Cool. Gotta head out shortly to go wrangle some teenagers. Teaching our youth group about Bitcoin tonight at church.

2025-10-22 00:15:44 UTC

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No problem! Enjoy yourself some grass-touching!
When you're back, it looks like the directory it can't find is ".scripts/app" from the install command you have listed on the Github page.

2025-10-21 23:53:42 UTC

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You have no single "score" in Coracle. Every npub will have a different score for you based on their own web-of-trust. For instance, your score for me is 9.
When I speak about fake vs real accounts, I am not talking about npubs that don't have any impostors. There aren't any other 🥚 profiles out there trying to represent themselves as you. You're a nym and one of a kind, as far as I can tell.
I am talking about people like @npub127e…4qsm who are well known individuals, and who have numerous npubs trying to dupe people into thinking they are the real jack.
As soon as you have other npubs trying to pass themselves off as you, there will be a question of which one is real and which one is fake. Then web-of-trust score can be very helpful for differentiating, because no one has impostors trying to pose as them until they are well-known enough that the real one should have a naturally high web-of-trust score.

2025-10-21 22:04:45 UTC

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Running into some trouble with the manual install. The directory ~/umbrel/apps couldn't be found, so it just dumped the repo directory into my ~/umbrel directory.
Is it meant to go into the ~/umbrel/umbrel/app-data directory instead?
I went ahead and put it there, but still doesn't want to install. Can't find any such file or directory named "haven" even after I cd into the app-data directory.

2025-10-21 21:41:45 UTC

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Yeah, I hadn't ever heard of Profilestr.com until you mentioned it. Looks like they aren't using web-of-trust to generate those "trust" scores at all. Rather it is being based on metrics that are pretty easy to game, such as profile completeness, account age, social activity, and economic activity.
So, while a known fake account I found has a "trust" score on Profilestr of 67 (Blue indicator rather than green which appears to be "best"), it has a Web-of-Trust score of 0 for me on Coracle.social, which is a clear indicator to me that this is a fake npub. Speaking of which... @npub1mt8…m7cz , it looks like you are following a fake Hodlbod. This one is not real: @npub1nyr…lzp9

2025-10-21 21:29:00 UTC

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Now to get it into a community app store for testing purposes...
Hey @npub1ye5…knpr , you have a community app store for Umbrel, right? Would you be able to host this for testing on Umbrel before @npub1m2j…3wgu submits it to the official app store?

2025-10-21 21:18:29 UTC

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Sorry, which verification site are you talking about?

2025-10-21 20:52:29 UTC

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It's not so much a different definition of trust so much as what we are trusting them for. By following an npub, you indicate that you trust it will be used to post content that is of interest to you. If they start posting a bunch of content that you don't care about in the slightest, that trust is broken and you remove them from your follow list, or even go so far as to mute them.
Muting is even higher signal, because it indicates that you trust a certain npub will post nothing that is of interest to you, to the point that you don't ever want to see what they have to say.

2025-10-21 20:47:51 UTC

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I think the confusion comes in because of a disconnect on what is meant by "trust" in this context.
It's not that, "I would trust this person with my life," or "I would trust this person to not to rug-pull me."
Rather, it's simply, "I trust that this npub will continue posting notes that I will be interested in seeing." And as soon as they prove that trust to be misplaced, you 86 them from your follow list so you no longer see their notes.

2025-10-20 19:22:39 UTC

@npub1qds…gfw3 or anyone else who might know. Is there a guide anywhere for getting the docker version of Haven up and running on Umbrel using Portainer?
If not, would someone with the know-how be able to give a rundown?
#asknostr

2025-10-17 19:48:43 UTC

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10k sats/year or 1000/month. I chose yearly.

2025-10-17 19:46:35 UTC

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I just logged into it to confirm the above was still the case.
At least, I don't see anywhere to add any of the above.
https://relay.brightbolt.net/2b213cbe9d68cb6872e7e170f5df04e4411b7f19b3eb92da053f1f412321cdc0.jpg
Also noticed that it still has my "Declaration of Independence" note at the very top of the home feed. I guess they haven't figured out how to filter notes from the feed with timestamps well into the future. 😂
https://relay.brightbolt.net/7faa35412833651f9edb93295e7400b4f396eaab35392be5e306681b1a12e261.jpg

2025-10-17 19:38:47 UTC

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I tried out Yakihonne, but its composition screen is missing a couple things.
1. Nowhere to add a title image. That is, unless it is just taking the first image you add into the body of the article as the title image?
2. Nowhere to add a short description of the article.
3. Nowhere to add tags, except the body of the article itself.

2025-10-17 19:33:41 UTC

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Primal isn't bad, but Longform is clean and uses standard 30024 for drafts.

2025-10-17 19:28:58 UTC

Longform._ is truly a pleasure to use for writing and publishing long-form notes.
Great job with this client @npub15yp…mpcx! I am very happy to support your work!
#nevent1q…mr75

2025-10-14 06:31:50 UTC

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I don't think I mentioned anything that would suggest I "roll my eyes and pretend the holy crusades never happened." They happened. Whether they should or should not have happened is a matter of interesting debate. In generally I think there was good cause to go to war with the muslim hoards trying to convert all of the middle east, northern Africa, and beyond by the edge of the sword. Just warfare and vigilante justice are two very different things, though.

2025-10-14 06:04:43 UTC

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I'm looking for chapter and verse, my friend. What specific passages do you think are wrong, or were added in order to allow evil to have free reign? Also, interpreting the Bible in a way that fits with your own sensibilities, rather than what the Bible actually says is called "eisegesis" and is not tolerated by conservative Bible believers, who would rather conform their understanding to what the Bible actually teaches, rather than conform the Bible to their understanding.
It seems that you have trouble with the very biblical idea of forgiveness, but I think it may be due to a misunderstanding of its proper application.
First, forgiving others doesn't mean they shouldn't have consequences for their actions. If you murder someone, you should forfeit your life, regardless of whether anyone forgives you for what you did.
Also, God doesn't forgive everyone, and nor should we. There will be plenty of people enduring God's righteous wrath for all eternity, even if they managed to escape temporal consequences for their sins in this life. Forgiveness is conditioned on repentance. There is no requirement to forgive those who continue in wicked impenitence, and there is a duty to protect others by getting dangerous criminals off the streets.
I don't know of a single Christian who does not believe we should punish murderers, rapists, pedophiles, arsonists, vandals, thieves and all manner of other criminals who are destructive of civil society. Even if they beg for forgiveness, they should face the just penalty for their crimes in this life and let God sort out the next.
If, on the other hand, you are advocating for individuals to take justice into their own hands, I would have to vehemently disagree. Outside of self-defense, which the Bible DOES encourage, there is no call for violent action against criminals on the part of individuals. That is the rightful purview of the civil magistrate.

2025-10-14 05:03:42 UTC

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According to the Bible, there are only two ways to get to heaven. 1. Be 100% morally perfect, which no man has done. 2. Rest and trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sin and his righteousness credited to you through faith.
Option 1 is out the window, since "There is none righteous, no not one." (Romans 3:10) All of humanity stands guilty before a holy God. That means option 2 is the only way left to us. So, no, Christianity at least is not a religion of "do this, that, and the other thing, and don't do any of these bad things, so you can go to heaven." Rather, it is a religion of trusting in what God, through his Son Jesus Christ, has done for you. Now, that doesn't mean we can go and just live however we want, because the one who knows how much he has been forgiven will live a very different life. But it does mean we don't have to try and earn our way to heaven.
Next, you are absolutely right that God does not need our souls. The point is that we need him. Our hearts will be most satisfied when we find God to be our greatest treasure and joy. Or to put it the way Augustine did, "Our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee." We need God, not the other way around.
Considering you think there are many parts of the Bible that are wrong or misunderstood, you must be well read in the Bible. What particular things the Bible says do you think are wrong, misunderstood, or have been edited?

2025-10-10 23:58:10 UTC

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Romans 7 is not the description of life prior to conversion. It flows from chapter 6 which is all about how we have died to sin and have been made alive in Christ. Romans 7 is therefore ecplaining why, if that is the case, we still sin as Christians.

2025-10-10 23:22:14 UTC

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I think it is possible to wholeheartedly agree with what @npub1ak5…0gwg posted, and yet also agree that the identity of the Christian is no longer that of being a sinner, because our identity is found in Christ.
In 1 Corinthians 6, Paul says, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
That, "and such WERE some of you" is a statement of a new identity in Christ. No longer sinners, but "washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ." Yet, Paul's purpose in saying it was to call them out for not behaving in accordance with that identity they had in Christ.
Even though I am now, by the grace of God, a member of his chosen people, his holy nation, and his royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9), I am still my own worst enemy, not doing the good that I want, and doing the evil I do not want (Romans 7:19). So it is still warranted to think of myself as the chief of sinners in the _present tense_, as Paul did in 1 Timothy 1:15. Surely we would not accuse Paul of not understanding his identity in Christ because he still referred to himself as a sinner.
I am a sinner saved by grace, and credited with righteousness outside of myself; still in the process of being conformed to that perfect righteousness that I possess in Christ. The more I remember this, the more I am reminded to treat others who sin against me with grace. The one who is aware of how much he has been forgiven and how much he still needs forgiveness will be much more apt to forgive others. That kind of grace toward others born out of self-awareness of sin is absolutely crucial to marriage in particular.

2025-10-10 22:51:08 UTC

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The Word of God comes to us in various ways at various times. Sometimes it is in the still small voice, as it came to Elijah in 1 Kings 19, but that is not so uniform as to be considered the normative way that God speaks.
God's Word also comes through Moses commanding Pharaoh, "Let my people go!" Or through John shouting from the wilderness, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!" Or through Paul rebuking the Galatians, "O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified."
Don't be quick to limit how God must speak to his people without taking the whole of Scripture into account.
The point of the quote from Clowney is that when a man is called to be a minister of the gospel, he must understand the weight of that call, because it comes with the need to preach with authority from God, "Thus saith the Lord." Sometimes those words will be soft words of comfort and consolation, but other times they will be commands to repent from wickedness.
This is one reason why Reformed churches put a high premium on expository preaching, verse by verse, through the Bible. It puts things in proper balance, such that you don't have one minister who preaches nothing but hell-fire and brimstone all the time, while another just focuses on how much God loves us all the time. The whole of what Scripture says must be preached. Both words of comfort and assurances of love as well as warnings to repent and flee from sin and its wages.

2025-10-10 18:46:36 UTC

"The pulpit is not a psychiatrist's couch or a seminar room. The preacher is a herald, an announcer, not a pollster. In the New Testament, the words for preaching ring with the authority of proclamation. The principal terms are drawn from the language of public life rather than from philosophical dialogue or religious ecstasy. The preacher is a messenger of the kingdom announcing the good news of the redemption God has wrought. His word is a trumpet call: 'Thus saith the Lord.' He bears witness to the decisive intervention of God and calls men to a decision. The preacher does not talk in scholarly footnotes nor does he cajole men with an ingratiating whine. He stands with boldness, using free speech before God and men in the authority of heaven's messenger. Whether men hear or refuse, they must be told." - Edmund Clowney, Called to Ministry
#Christian #Reformed #catholic

2025-10-06 20:35:43 UTC

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Clients almost need to have a setting to block downloading pfps that are over a certain size limit.

2025-10-03 00:11:37 UTC

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I am not terribly moved by the legal liability argument. I will gladly endure the persecution of a hostile state for standing up for what I believe is right.
I am, however, moved by the moral argument.
I look at it similar to the porn issue on Nostr. I run my own relay, and I am under no illusions that filtering porn from my relay is going to make much impact on Nostr as a whole at all. However, I can have a clear conscience knowing that I am not contributing to it with my relay.
Same with filters on my node. It's not going to have a lot of impact on keeping non-monetary transactions, especially those containing data I find to be immoral, out of the blockchain, but I will know that my node is not contributing to the problem, and since I am creating block templates with my node's mempool, I know that if I ever found a block, it would not be contributing to the issue.
So I see a lot of reason to have the option to filter your mempool if you want to do so as a node runner, and that taking that option away is not the route we should be going. Not so node runners can bend to the will of any state, but so they can be faithful to what they believe is right. Particularly since doing so in this context in no way imposes their view of what is right on anyone else. They are deciding it only for their own individual node.

2025-09-30 17:05:32 UTC

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Primal's caching happens entirely server side, then the client only has to read from the caching server. If anything, this practice should reduce the amount of data used, since the client isn't requesting notes from multiple relays and likely receiving a lot of duplicates.

2025-09-28 23:53:47 UTC

I love how, as in every other context, @nprofile…ttc0 is the expert with all the answers. 😂
#nevent1q…gwmh

2025-09-25 17:43:46 UTC

Road trip to Presbytery meeting in Portland!
https://relay.brightbolt.net/def5287c37298b9bf25e25afcc924e22f2b59468550ad6312bbe99b3e0cf486b.jpg
Still a looooong drive ahead.

2025-09-25 15:51:03 UTC

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In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. — 1 Peter 1:6-7 ESV

2025-09-24 19:54:34 UTC

@npub1hte…sw3d as DM? This is going to be so gloriously and hilariously nerdy, and I am here for it!
#nevent1q…r2dr

2025-09-24 18:40:10 UTC

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2025-09-24 18:30:38 UTC

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Able to create invoices fine from my Alby Hub using Alby extension or Alby Go.

2025-09-24 02:20:41 UTC

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The measuring stick is not based on good things outweighing bad. The standard is perfection.
"You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." - Matthew 5:48
"For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it." - James 2:10
I generally agree with the idea that punitive justice is intended to be a deterrent against crime, though. Again, the civil magistrate does not wield the sword for no reason, but in order to be "an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer." (Romans 13:4)

2025-09-24 00:21:40 UTC

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The idea of a pretribulational rapture was actually first promoted by a Brit named John Nelson Darby in the 1830s. It just really caught on here in the states via C.I. Scofield.

2025-09-23 21:17:35 UTC

About to do some back-porch hammock reading for one of my seminary classes.
https://relay.brightbolt.net/7ed9fa950d0413f08fdcd8354004ecd314ce9fdd162b9ce278d689b6c135963b.jpg
#Reformed #Christian #Presbyterian #catholic

2025-09-23 20:02:49 UTC

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Your problem seems to be that you see everyone else's sins as great, and your own as small.
Additionally, eternal forgiveness does NOT mean a lack of temporal consequences for one's actions. God does not ordain the state to wield the sword for no reason.
Forgiveness is also handed out by some too freely. Forgiveness is and always has been conditioned upon confession and sincere repentance, or what the Westminster divines called "repentance unto life."

2025-09-23 19:53:10 UTC

The Zionist and the Kinist are alike undone by the biblical answer to a single question:
Who are those who may rightly be counted as children of Abraham?
The answer is, all who share the same faith that Abraham had are his legitimate offspring, which includes faith in Jesus as the Messiah, the promised Christ that Abraham trusted God would provide. (Galatians 3, especially verses 7, 16, and 29.
"And if you are Christ's, THEN you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise." (Gal. 3:29)
The inverse would also be true: If you are NOT Christ's, then you are NOT Abraham's offspring, and are not heirs.
This undoes the Zionist, because it means that so-called Israel of today is no people of God whatsoever, except those who rest and trust in Christ. Therefore, they have no claim on the promises of God made to Abraham. Only the Church does.
This likewise undoes the kinist, because it means that everyone in Christ are to be considered "kin" in the only way that matters, by sharing the same faith as Abraham, united to one another through unity with Christ.
#Reformed #Christian #catholic

2025-09-23 04:50:24 UTC

Additional correct answers:
I did. Saving me, among the rest of God's elect, from the just penalty for sin is the mission that necessitated the cross.
God did. In and through the actions of the Romans, Pilate, and the Jews was God's providential hand, orchestrating it all for his glory and our good. (Acts 4:27 & 28)
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2025-09-23 04:30:54 UTC

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Hyphen is not necessary. Seems the preferred is "key pair" unless using the phrase as a compound adjective, such as "key-pair generation," which is probably where I saw it used that way.
I will get it updated.

2025-09-23 03:48:26 UTC

What was my impetus for returning to finish my seminary education?
There were several contributing factors, but this is certainly one of them:
> "At the time of writing, the OPC's list of vacant pulpits has twenty-nine openings–about one-tenth of all OPC congregations and the highest number in several decades... Our brothers and sisters in the Presbyterian Church in America have calculated a need for 220 new ministerial candidates _annually_ over the next ten years... Twenty percent of the pulpits in the United Reformed Church are vacant. The Evangelical Presbyterian Church, with over 600 congregations, reports that nearly 50 percent of its ministers plan to retire in the next five years." - New Horizons Magazine, July 2025. Article by David S Veldkamp, titled 'The Laborers Are Few: Addressing Needs in the OPC and Beyond'
This is not good for maintaining the purity of the church. Desperation for ministers may cause churches to settle for men who are not firmly rooted in Scripture and the Reformed system of doctrine, as summarized in the Reformed confessions and catechisms.
Where once presbyteries would not allow exceptions to the doctrinal standards, they may begin to look the other way, to get a long vacant pulpit filled, because there just aren't any better candidates available.
Without solid men willing to step up and answer the call, this situation could be a recipe for some previously faithful Reformed denominations to slip toward liberalism, which some could argue is already happening as we speak.
#Reformed #Christian #catholic

2025-09-23 00:06:05 UTC

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For sure! I appreciate the feedback!

2025-09-22 23:58:58 UTC

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I like that as well. A couple concerns I have, though:
First, even though "key-pair away" is colored, which would normally catch the eye more, it has less contrast than "is only a," which will tend to reverse the emphasis.
I think keeping both lines in the solid purple keeps the main focus on "FREEDOM" and secondary focus on "key-pair away." If I really want to ensure that is the case, I can make "is only a" a bit smaller, or less bold, but still in the same font family.
Second, this is going to be printed on a shirt, and gradients don't always print well. I know solid colors will print cleanly, so I will probably stay with that on the keys and the accents to the side of the middle line.

2025-09-22 23:37:20 UTC

Ok, I think I am liking this version best.
https://relay.brightbolt.net/033f79051376049abd93c6a725e5b7f7322fa06c3804641af3de0a41cf946d36.jpg
Some folks liked the horizontal, rather than angled, keys. They bugged me more and more as I looked at them, though.
I also felt like having the drop-shadow on "is only a key-pair away" was a bit too busy, and removing it makes "FREEDOM" pop even more, which is what I am going for.
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#Bitcoin #Nostr

2025-09-22 23:34:27 UTC

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I dunno. The more I look at the horizontal keys, the more they bug me. lol

2025-09-22 23:17:47 UTC

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You like the keys horizontal, rather than angled with the text, too?

2025-09-22 23:14:45 UTC

Another alternative. We'll call this one "C."
https://relay.brightbolt.net/7dc2c78bca87c2f3fe5fdf080e4fb5d28a0a0a559a8b0a26ca656d7f0315826e.jpg
#nevent1q…3xem
#Bitcoin #Nostr

2025-09-22 23:01:26 UTC

Ok #Bitcoin and #Nostr friends. Which do you like better?
A.
https://relay.brightbolt.net/d3ca72fe035f6f17d7e0653b135f1cd2dbbbd6990221a367298ca82dbd180544.jpg
B.
https://relay.brightbolt.net/1091555b04ec85b5c61ae30292e2a9d70c32b7f88c4491fe3a9a10ab402d007c.jpg

2025-09-22 06:26:21 UTC

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https://relay.brightbolt.net/af64936d1e294faa7fbc237511e344b002a6d02241e4111c0f072fedd9f6e14f.jpg

2025-09-22 05:01:37 UTC

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2025-09-22 03:52:25 UTC

Love and God's law are not antithetical.
They are synonymous.
> And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it. - 2 John 1:6
The first table of God's moral law:
> "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment." - Matthew 22:33-38 (Jesus quoting Deuteronomy 6:5)
What does that look like?
> And God spoke all these words, saying, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. "You shall have no other gods before me.
> "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
> "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
> "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." - Exodus 20:1-11
The second table of God's moral law:
> And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets." - Matthew 22:39-40
And what does that look like?
> "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
> "You shall not murder.
> "You shall not commit adultery.
> "You shall not steal.
> "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
> "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's." - Exodus 20:12-17

2025-09-19 18:29:50 UTC

Still the best client on iOS in my opinion.
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2025-09-18 05:11:43 UTC

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That's not a bad interpretation from the NLT,. I still prefer more direct translations, rather than dynamic equivalent, though.
Ephesians 3:6 NKJV — "...that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel..."

2025-09-17 23:40:55 UTC

To expand on this a bit, one of the particular passages used for why Christians "must" support the current state masquerading as "Israel" is Genesis 12:2-3, in which God says to Abram, before his name was changed to Abraham:
> "I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
Therefore they see a danger in cursing Israel, since they are presumably Abraham's descendants, who inherit the promises made to him, and those who curse them will themselves be cursed.
This, of course, ignores two important principles:
1. Inclusion in God's covenant with Abraham has ALWAYS been on the basis of sharing the same faith Abraham had, and not by birthright. Consider Ishmael and Esau as pointed out by Paul in Romans 9 and consider Christ's words to the Pharisees and Sadducees in Matthew 3:8-9:
> "Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones."
While there is definitely a generational inheritance aspect to the covenant of God, it is NOT an automatic and universal inheritance that disregards faith, and especially since messiah has come, it is not without submission to and faith in Jesus Christ.
2. Those unfaithful who were descended from Abraham by blood were specifically called by Christ "children of your father, the devil" in contrast to their claim of being children of Abraham.
We see this very plainly in Jesus' teaching in John 8. Here he says to "those Jews who believed him" (verse 31):
> "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
Shortly thereafter, in verse 39, some unbelieving Jews answered him saying, “Abraham is our father," as though that should be the end of the matter. What is Jesus answer to this? He tells them they are no children of Abraham, and they prove it by their actions.
> "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this."
He goes farther, telling them who their true father is in verse 44:
> "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do."
So, the Jews who reject Christ, like the ones who put him to death, have no rightful claim to be called "children of Abraham," or heirs of the promises made to him. Rather, they are children of the devil, according to Christ himself, whom are later called "the synagogue of Satan" in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9.
True Israel, God's covenant people, is synonymous with the Christian church, firmly holding to the teaching of the Apostles and the Prophets, and none other. The rest are no sons of Abraham whatsoever, but are of their father, the devil.
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2025-09-17 21:33:38 UTC

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I think dispensationalism became so popular in evangelicalism here in the states predominantly because the issue of the day was the authority, inspiration, and inerrancy of Scripture, which the dispensationals, to their credit, fought vehemently to defend, and therefore other aspects of their teaching were more readily and uncritically accepted by those who wanted to defend a high view of Scripture.

2025-09-17 21:25:58 UTC

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That screenshot is the least helpful definition of dispensationalism I have ever seen. EVERY Christian believes that God's self-revelation has a historical progression consisting in several stages. The difference is how self-contained and disjointed the dispensationals consider those stages to be, to the point that they treat them almost like plan A, plan B, plan C, and so on, with God progressing to the next plan when the one before it supposedly failed.

2025-09-17 19:53:34 UTC

Dispensationalism, that's why.
#nevent1q…39pu
Dispensationalism is a way of interpreting the Bible that sees (among other things) the promises God made to Abraham in Genesis 12, 15, and 17 as properly belonging only to the Jews as an ethnic people, and therefore they are seen as God's true covenant people, while the New Testament Church is seen as an historical parenthesis. God will therefore eventually take up fulfilling his promises to his true covenant people, the Jews, once he is finished with his plan for the Church.
This teaching is directly contradictory to the teaching of the Apostles, who expressly applied the promises made to Abraham to the New Testament Church. See Acts 2:39 as a repetition of God's promise in Genesis 17:7-8, but expanded to include "all who are far off," that is Gentiles who would come to faith in the Messiah. Likewise, Paul tells the church in Rome that they are children of Abraham by sharing in the same faith that Abraham had in Romans 4, especially verses 9-17.
Paul repeats this teaching even more explicitly in Galatians 3:5-9, where he says:
> "Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith--just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"? Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith."
The final nail in the coffin of the Dispensationalist's improper hermeneutic, in my opinion, is found in Romans 9, though. There Paul describes the nature of the relation of the Gentiles who are coming to faith in Jesus to those Jews who apostatize by rejecting him. The description is that of an olive tree, where the natural branches that reject Christ are cut off, while the wild branches (Gentiles) are grafted in. Into what? Into "Israel," as he calls it in verse 26. Gentiles who come to faith are grafted into Israel, God's covenant people, and Jews who reject Jesus are cut off. They no longer have any claim on the promises made to Abraham and no right to call themselves God's people whatsoever. In order to regain that claim, they must come to faith in the promised messiah, Jesus Christ.

2025-09-17 19:21:59 UTC

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Beat me to it.

2025-09-16 21:33:33 UTC

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I am using a curriculum I have been working on with a good friend of mine: @npub1s9d…rp5v
The plan is to have that curriculum available for churches, just like the My First Bitcoin curriculum is available.
We're starting with a 4 week curriculum that follows this basic outline:
Week 1: God is the true owner of all things, and we are merely stewards.
Week 2: Money itself is not necessarily evil, but God ordained its use in society for our good and his glory.
Week 3: Money, like virtually every other part of our lives, has been corrupted by sin, especially in the current form of fiat money.
Week 4: Only sound money that cannot be corrupted, specifically Bitcoin, can set us back on a path to glorifying God through faithful stewardship of money.

2025-09-16 19:56:06 UTC

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Has a seminary class learning Biblical Hebrew a bit earlier today.

2025-09-16 19:39:43 UTC

Hebrew done for the day. Aced my vocab quiz, too. 💪
Next up some study time, then Westminster Standards, and ending the day with Theology 5: Apologetics and Ethics.
Then teaching my church's youth group about why God ordained money. And yes, we will be talking about #Bitcoin in the coming weeks.
Busy day.
#Reformed #Christian #catholic