Francis Mars

I push Bitcoin adoption so you don't have to • francismars.com • chainduel.net • pubpay.me

Public Key

npub1t5atsakzq63h45asjn3qhlpeg80nlgs6zkkgafmddyvywdufv6dqxfahcl

NIP-05 Address

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs96w4cwmpqdgm66wcffcstlsu5rhel5gdpttyw5akkjxz8x7ykdxspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs7amnwvaz7tmwduh8xarj9e3hyqguwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skcqg0waehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmdqy28wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mqmyf5vw

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nostr.mom

nostr.oxtr.dev

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Last Notes

2026-01-19 11:59:19 UTC

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2026-01-18 20:07:19 UTC

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2026-01-18 11:08:30 UTC

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Don't tell that to Bitcoiners

2026-01-18 11:04:33 UTC

SPX/XAU still on the same price level as 1973...

2026-01-17 20:35:39 UTC

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2026-01-17 16:36:07 UTC

Show me your kind:3 and I’ll tell you who you are.

2026-01-16 21:13:54 UTC

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2026-01-16 15:56:08 UTC

I accepted a job working for PubKy 🥰🥰🥰

2026-01-16 12:54:34 UTC

Vibe coding is great but then you find yourself doing the refactor of the refactor of the refactor

2026-01-16 12:24:01 UTC

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I did apply with a project that changed how people interact with lightning and educated thousands of people for the last 3 years but your intern said the project doesn't apply to the mission 🥲

2026-01-16 00:29:12 UTC

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You should take a look at pubpay.me

2026-01-15 17:08:34 UTC

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🤣 🤣 🤣

2026-01-15 15:40:28 UTC

2PAC or BIG?
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2026-01-14 15:47:38 UTC

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Or did you mean Picasso style? 😂

2026-01-14 15:00:28 UTC

AI is getting so good that my last 5 prompts were "proceed"

2026-01-13 23:53:16 UTC

How to Swerve the AI Salesmen
https://youtu.be/kgUAQRHZ86M

2026-01-13 14:42:55 UTC

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🤘
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2026-01-13 14:13:42 UTC

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Everybody wants to play @nprofile…86kc until it's time to deposit the sats
#nevent1q…dn5h

2026-01-13 12:09:52 UTC

Hey @nprofile…cd8v , saw you mention the @nprofile…86kc hack on the @nprofile…kxcv podcast. Just wanted to say the Chain Duel guys love you too 💜
We fully agree security is critical. While the system wasn’t perfect, this hack wasn’t related to vibe coding, the node was assembled before that was even a thing.
The exploit was external to us: Alby had removed the default Umbrel option that required authentication. That’s now fixed.
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2026-01-12 22:30:36 UTC

When I explain my friends about inflation
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2026-01-12 16:52:24 UTC

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You're too late for that. All the Bitcoin I ever controlled was either stolen or spent 🥲
But you're just in time to try the projects I mention on the post

2026-01-12 16:20:48 UTC

I wanted to share two Bitcoin and Nostr native tools that have proven extremely effective for real-world adoption at conferences and community events: @nprofile…dyk5 LIVE and @nprofile…86kc.
PubPay LIVE adds a live value-for-value layer to talks using Lightning + Nostr. Each performer gets a live QR on screen, letting the audience zap sats and send comments that appear instantly. It turns passive observers into engagers and onboards people to Lightning and Nostr without friction.
Chain Duel complements this on the competitive side. It’s a multiplayer Lightning game where players scan a QR, deposit sats via LNURL, duel in real time, and the winner takes the pot. It’s one of the simplest ways to make Lightning “click” through play.
Together, they work before, during, and after talks — onboarding users, creating real economic activity, and making Bitcoin tangible rather than theoretical.

2026-01-12 13:40:14 UTC

Ogimi
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2026-01-11 14:21:40 UTC

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that’s the thought I was exploring in the post, thinking through the human side of OSS.

2026-01-11 14:13:52 UTC

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I agree, grant chasing skews incentives in OSS, humans naturally respond to these incentives. And while survivor bias is real, it’s great that some of them actually make it.

2026-01-11 13:32:11 UTC

Open source is often romanticized as a space where developers collaborate freely, driven by passion rather than profit. In this story, contributors are usually imagined as well-paid engineers hacking on side projects after work, generously donating their time to the commons. Sometimes that image is true. But increasingly, it is incomplete and dangerously misleading.
A significant amount of open-source software is built and maintained by people who are not financially secure. Unemployed developers, students, contributors from low-income regions, or individuals without a safety net routinely spend months or years maintaining infrastructure that others depend on. Their work powers startups, corporations, and entire ecosystems. The value they create is immense. The compensation they receive is often zero.
This asymmetry exists across the software world, but it becomes especially troubling in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin presents itself as an ethical response to a broken financial system. It promises sovereignty and an escape from extractive intermediaries. And yet, much of Bitcoin’s open infrastructure is built on the same old pattern: unpaid or underpaid labor at the base, capital accumulation at the top. The irony is hard to ignore. Poor contributors are, quite literally, helping rich people become richer.
This is not usually framed as exploitation. Contributors are told they are earning reputation, experience, or optionality. But these currencies only work if you can already afford to wait. You cannot pay rent with GitHub stars. Long-term upside is meaningless if short-term survival is not guaranteed.
Open source claims to be open to everyone. Technically, this is true. Socially and economically, it is not. The system rewards those who can afford to work for free. Time, stable housing, healthcare, and emotional safety are invisible prerequisites. What looks like meritocracy is often just privilege with good branding.
This is not a moral failure of individual contributors. Most are acting rationally. Open source is one of the few domains where barriers to entry are low, credentials are optional, and participation is global. For many, contributing is an act of hope. That hope, however, is routinely captured and monetized by actors with more capital, more stability, and more leverage.
The real failure is structural. Open source has no default mechanisms to sustain the people who maintain it. It relies on altruism to prop up systems that generate enormous economic value. When maintainers burn out, disappear, or collapse under financial pressure, the ecosystem reacts with surprise, despite having depended on their unpaid labor all along.
Bitcoin solved a profound problem in monetary design. It did not solve the problem of funding public goods. It did not eliminate power asymmetries. And it did not magically align incentives for human labor. If anything, it exposed how deeply those problems run.
And the uncomfortable truth will remain: the people building the tools of escape are often the least able to use them.

2026-01-11 01:18:41 UTC

Bitcoin figs this
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2026-01-09 11:51:22 UTC

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V4V as easy as making a post
https://pubpay.me/live/nevent1qqs0u4se9xhkzq4wyqnkkx27jypku9gma8atzpu0l3edv3e2s9n2ttcuzfc8w
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#nevent1q…9rxd

2026-01-09 11:48:19 UTC

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What a list of amazing artists 🤩 We need to get them all on @nprofile…dyk5 LIVE getting those FAT ZAPS
It's actually pretty easy to use! Let me know if you need any help set up guys 🤲

2026-01-09 11:46:53 UTC

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That's the dream 🤲

2026-01-09 11:46:20 UTC

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Ah! Made me laugh and then I got sad.

2026-01-09 11:45:01 UTC

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Sorry, but you're not invited.

2026-01-09 11:44:21 UTC

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That's precisely my idea for Bringing Bitcoin that I've been trying to get off the ground for 3 years! More recently, @nprofile…2jjt has been pushing a similar concept called Sats4Sounds

2026-01-08 21:10:43 UTC

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all permissionless, and happening in real time. Once you experience it live, it’s hard to unsee

2026-01-08 21:09:37 UTC

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I’ve been attending Bitcoin conferences for the last 3 years with @nprofile…86kc , putting Lightning in front of people and letting them use it. I’ve personally seen thousands of first-time Lightning payments happen.
From that perspective, the world is more ready than we think

2026-01-08 17:22:56 UTC

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Thank bro 🤲🤲

2026-01-08 17:22:03 UTC

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Zapping people running their own nodes can sometimes fails because their relays or zap receipt isn’t set up correctly.
PubPay Live is exactly that: a leaderboard you can use for zapvertising. Many have figured that out at AdoptingBitcoin 🤲

2026-01-08 17:17:33 UTC

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*No marketing was harmed in the making of this note

2026-01-08 17:16:01 UTC

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Exactly, Lightning and Nostr interactions everywhere! Sounds like we should do that 🤲

2026-01-08 17:14:10 UTC

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The good ones stay and you can still zap from home 😎

2026-01-08 17:05:41 UTC

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Yes 🤲 Check out the readmes that explain PubPay and PubPay Live. There's also a NIP in the works!
https://github.com/francismars/PubPay

2026-01-08 17:03:18 UTC

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Thank you so much Tanja 🤲 Your feedback and energy helped shape PUBPAY into what it is today

2026-01-08 16:38:35 UTC

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It's already released 🤲 feel free to make a PR or two
https://github.com/francismars/PubPay
#nevent1q…z9af

2026-01-08 15:14:32 UTC

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https://youtu.be/VeYKqGgkwrI

2026-01-08 14:27:54 UTC

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I’ve actually never tried Nostur but that sounds wild
PubPay has some pretty cool zap animations (no sound for now).
Let’s just say we have some fun ideas in mind for @npub1rwh…7avv 🤲⚡️

2026-01-08 14:12:39 UTC

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Exactly. Once you see it happen live, going back feels very quiet.

2026-01-08 13:56:43 UTC

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That's the audience’s choice. They can stay fully immersed in the talk, or they can actively engage. Sending money is the ultimate form of attention: it’s voluntary, costly, and expressive. You can reward, signal appreciation, or even criticize. In real time.

2026-01-08 13:52:03 UTC

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We already did 🤲
#nevent1q…djcn

2026-01-08 13:50:19 UTC

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ahahah sure, but there are alternatives! for people that don't want to use the QR code, just use nostr to navigate to the post and zap it directly 🤲

2026-01-08 13:37:21 UTC

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Will do! https://blossom.primal.net/2a8233618fac8622dc3a5f44dc5bb686f9b70f59b1cb13cf934953c064329482.png

2026-01-08 13:31:58 UTC

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Which actor should portray you in the documentary?

2026-01-08 13:28:10 UTC

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It can be the norm today, thanks to nostr 🤲

2026-01-08 13:27:24 UTC

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Ahah cool story bro 🥂 but in this case, you're just scanning a nostr event on your own nostr client, not a random link to a website 😎

2026-01-08 13:11:14 UTC

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I'd do it for 1k sats 🤲
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2026-01-08 13:09:32 UTC

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PubPay uses kind1s for zaps, not kind 0s (yet!)
#nevent1q…jyv5

2026-01-08 13:04:23 UTC

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Got it. Now what? 👀

2026-01-08 12:39:47 UTC

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Ah! Yes, that happened at @nprofile…z7vd. Gives you mixed feelings, receiving money with criticism 😂

2026-01-08 12:38:19 UTC

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Everybody uses it, whether you want it or not 😇
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2026-01-08 12:33:10 UTC

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We already did 😎 Just need to get it out there to more eyes and events!
#nevent1q…djcn

2026-01-08 12:30:41 UTC

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You clearly weren't on @nprofile…z7vd 😎
#nevent1q…z9af

2026-01-08 12:07:27 UTC

Imagine this: You're on stage. A QR code appears on the screen behind you. Someone in the audience scans it and zaps you 100,000 sats. The screen explodes with an animation: their name, their avatar, spinning letters spelling "TOP ZAP." The audience sees it. More zaps come in.

2026-01-08 12:03:37 UTC

@nprofile…dyk5 utilizes kind: 1 events (text notes) to represent payment requests, making them part of the social fabric of Nostr.
PubPay uses specific tags to define payment parameters, such as the amount, payer, and payment conditions. These tags make the payment request machine-readable and interoperable with other Nostr-based applications. Any client that understands these tags can display and process payment requests correctly.
This transparency ensures accountability and allows for public verification of payments through kind: 9735 events (zap receipts) linked to the original payment request.

2026-01-07 18:20:10 UTC

Merry Christmas ☦️ https://blossom.primal.net/f1af192e9e1fed66418e5761eefa27cc3cdf2fb98e364b6eccda2f6b1f3aaa61.png

2026-01-07 18:12:09 UTC

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2026-01-07 13:46:23 UTC

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Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too https://blossom.primal.net/dd5b8b8c6559692540bca9f4efe0e9a97238210a571930bca6c13e089ccbb9b3.png

2026-01-07 03:57:48 UTC

Web of Borders
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2026-01-07 01:59:09 UTC

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2026-01-04 23:48:45 UTC

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Parts of spain are literally on the African continent

2026-01-03 23:07:28 UTC

The only way to get an OpenSats grant these days
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2026-01-02 11:33:59 UTC

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True that is not good to be connected to nodes that won't provide you that reliability and liquidity you need.
Maybe your node is optimized to the fullest and you have nothing else to learn? If that's the case it makes no sense for you to open random channels, but that's not my situation.
> LN is not Facebook.
😂 not disagreeing but funny statement.
> "I want to help the network"
I didn't say I want to help the network.
> doing more harm than good to the whole network
I'm not sure I agree with your statement and I'm not worried about the fragility of a distributed permissionless network tbh

2026-01-02 10:58:38 UTC

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that's both beautiful and confusing 🥲
Do you want to open a channel with me? 🤲