Anyone have a suggested Pubky to enter as an example to see what public data it reveals?

Nobody. Unlike previous bull runs, friends and family haven’t started asking about it again yet this cycle.

How would it be possible to “mine all remaining bitcoin in the USA”? What could possibly be done to prevent any person or entity outside of the USA from mining a single block? It’s just a clear misunderstanding of how bitcoin mining works, and nothing will make that statement achievable. I guess maybe a credible threat of nuclear attack against any location detected to be mining bitcoin outside of the US. Even then, that would not be ‘good for Bitcoin’.

Can we give 9 a grade of F already? Notes: “that’s not how this works”

Will do. That was my main hold up. I'm going to consolidate my different histories in one place for easy searching (work phone, personal phone, different laptop browsers, ChatGPT subscription export, etc.) That will have me using ppq.ai far more frequently, and I'll drop the subscription which was serving that purpose for me (the ability to continue conversations later). Once I'm using ppq.ai more often, I'll be happy to send over any additional feedback.

This is fantastic! Thanks for circling back!

Yea, ente and immich are the two I played around with the most today. Settled on giving ente a try with this friend group. The browser link functionality for both was similar, but, I figure there is a greater chance of these friends making a free ente account, in which case the app has significantly more album collaboration features. The same is true with immich, but much less likely these friends will create their own immich instances. Alternative would be having them create accounts on my VPS, but, ente seemed more beginner friendly in that regard.

No, I plan to pay for the storage. I was going to pay for the VPS anyway (which also would have meant paying for the storage). Friends can have a free account (5 GB storage free), and still have full access to the shared album I am hosting (via paid storage) it appears.

The plan isn't to just have a ente.io account that keeps growing, it would be to collect all photos from a few trips, take them offline to personal storage (and friends can save what they want) then delete it. But some paid storage will be needed in the interim.

Update: https://github.com/ente-io/ente is looking like a really promising option. Fully open source, end to end encrypted. Skip the VPS step and just pay for the storage you need, with lots of tiers to choose from. Pretty much ticks all the boxes above

Thanks, I’ll definitely look into this for my own use, but, I’d still be skeptical about sending out a link to a shared folder with upload capability, and having it be passwordless to friends of friends. Adding a password already adds a barrier to some, adding a weak password isn’t much better. I don’t have to want to keep track of what security vulnerabilities are out there which might allow for exploits to gain access beyond the group folder. I kind of like the idea of keeping my personal storage separate from links I send out to a wider audience for group photos. Even if the fears are unfounded, the value of peace of mind is real.

Yea, I'll definitely play around with it. Seems like more of an improvement to other areas of my file management, with a side benefit of if I set up a reverse proxy, I could securely use it for the purposes of this post. Perhaps a few extra steps, but combined with other benefits, may be worth it. Appreciate it.

I agree that my personal photos should stay with me, but when it comes to collecting photos from other family/friends, most of which already have their photos in google photos, collecting them on a cloud server before moving them to more private storage is not a big concern to me. I'd rather that than worry about the security of connecting some friends of friends on a group trip into my own home network with a passwordless link, which I would still need to do with a home NAS.

Thanks, I did consider that route, which has other benefits, but didn't seem like it would achieve this specific functionality.

If I was linking to a NAS at home, I'd still have to deal with securely letting people connect to my network. It wouldn't be as simple as just sending a link out to a VPS.

I need something where friends and family can easily upload photos and videos with minimal clicks, so I'd still need some other layer on top of the NAS to simplify that most likely.

That would be more of a 'have lots of storage up front' kind of solution, whereas I was hoping to have something that could allow for large file uploads, but, I wouldn't need them for more than a week or two while we gathered photos then deleted them.

That said, if I'm thinking about it wrong, and there are ways to configure QNAP/Synology to align more with these needs, I’d love to hear! Otherwise, I’m hoping to find a solution that offers more flexibility around temporary uploads and easy sharing.

I have not—any in particular to try?

The list of self-hosted photo/video sharing options I’ve found so far is below. Before trying each, I wanted to see if someone here might mention what they are already using that hits on the functionality I'm looking for without having to try them all:

Chevereto, Immich, LibrePhotos, Lychee, Mediagoblin, Nextcloud Photo Gallery, Photonix, PhotoPrism, Photoview, PiGallery2, Pixelfed, Piwigo, Synology Photos

I can try adding some DAMs to the list as well, to focus on pure file uploads and downloads and get away from the specific photo/video aspect. However, that might stray from this feature:

…which would be nice to have. Especially from some family members who would have no idea how to access photos they downloaded as files on iOS if they didn't show back up in their photo library.

Here are some others I had bookmarked previously in addition to OPs. Haven’t used any of the below yet, but wanted to have them available the next time I needed an eSIM. Has anyone tried any of these:

Do you have a demo of what the payment flow looks like when the video is embedded elsewhere (Nostr, Twitter, Farcaster, etc.) ? I.e. not pasting l402://blockbuster.fewsats.com/video/info/f6b50d0c11b542c5bb020e18a49dc7cb into the text box at http://videos.l402.org ?

It’s an open source remote control app for any NWC wallet, which could be your self-custodial Alby Hub instance, your Umbrel or Start9, or a custodial service like a legacy Alby account or CoinOS.io. Choose your own adventure.

When it comes to Alby hub and NWC, I don’t see any options to select relay(s), so I assume Alby’s relay is the only one used. Does this cause anyone with more knowledge of NWC any privacy concerns?

I second @brian_sabc, a lot of PoW out there now with what you've been building. Just sent a little support to lightningpub@geyser.fund as well. Thanks.