• Nostr

About me

I'm a self-proclaimed software engineer. I care about building elegant, effective, software that expands individual's freedom and drives responsibility/decision-making to the edges.

Nownownow Updated: 2023-03-31

• 🍳 Flipping bits at SwanBitcoin.com as Head of Platform & R&D.
• 🙇 Learning Rust for the sole purpose of using BDK
  • [BDK Gotchas]
• ✍️ Writing Bitcoin 201: The missing book between The Bitcoin Standard and Mastering Bitcoin.
• 👀 Current Research areas:
  • Nostr
• 🌎 Currently in: 🇬🇷 Greece
  • My family and I are world schooling
• 👀 Previous Research areas (I'm still interested in):
  • Slashtags/Hypercores (very bullish)
  • Peerswap
  • Core lightning Coldcard Signer: use a coldcard as a LN signer
  • AWS KMS PSBT signing (aka creatively signing bitcoin transactions)

Projects

• Nostri.chat

  A chat widget, powered by Nostr, with a creative spin.

• ZAPLIFE.lol

  Real-time feed fo nostr zaps. The best tool to shut up the "lightning doesn't work" people.

• 🥛 got nostr?

  A simple UI to verbally point to your nostr identity without reciting 64-bytes of hex.

• PSBT.io

  I started building this project for the sole reason that I randomly stumbled upon the PSBT.io domain. Not able to believe my eyes, I decided to publish a bitcoin tx broadcaster, under an IFTTT-like interface.

  Why is this cool? You can decide when to issue a bitcoin transaction, for example, you can add collateral to a bitcoin-backed loan if the price of bitcoin falls below a certain threshold, thus avoid getting liquidated.

• 🍍 Ananostr

  A neat interface I'm playing with to learn Svelte and play with Nostr. It acts as a nostr-powered Craigslist. Particularly designed with the Nostrica 2023 conference in mind.

💬 Writing

• Seeding a Bitcoin marketplace

Latest Podcast Appearances

Hosting

This website is being hosted on a hyperdrive. You could run my website locally (why would you? 🤷‍♂️ I don't know)

# Install Hyperdrive-CLI

$ hyp seed hyper://ad37e56c6486fabc0ea8d0eecf7cfb55074c3dcb7d4922f8dcfe866ffc65cd8a//
$ hyp drive http hyper://ad37e56c6486fabc0ea8d0eecf7cfb55074c3dcb7d4922f8dcfe866ffc65cd8a//

# My website will be now running on http://localhost:8080/
    

Why?

Ummm, because it's cool? What kind of dumb question is that?

Web π

I used to say this was my shitty web3, until wizard-of-words @allenf notes that this was just slightly better than web3.