My ideal for Tetrapolar long-term: — no corporate bank account, ever; BTC in, BTC out. — no VC funding, only self-growth. This limits it in a lot of ways, but at the same time will feel like a superpower if successful.

First they came for Jaguar, then they came for Ferrari.

When circumstances change in their favor, people often become what they fight.

Back to reading Russian classics. Dostovesky's era: "They were so poor that they only had one servant." How we have fallen...

Tetrapolar’s current functionality is simple and effective, and I want it to be the g̶o̶l̶d̶ bitcoin standard in the future. In the meantime, the market has its preferences, and I aim to tackle those, too. View quoted note →

A world in which banks don’t hold international trade by the balls is now possible.

Looks like NostrVPN has already implemented FIPS!

Getting my first market feedback on Tetrapolar. Some market niches, or rather participants in those niches, don't actually have an escrow problem, and are operating totally fine with wire transfers. I wonder if, in the long run, the biggest market will turn out to be something I haven't even thought about. We shall see.

Software development is cool, but have you tried business development? I think the latter is more challenging to my personality type. But it has to be done.

Test - paid note. I don’t know what this is.

Is there a feed on Nostr that displays notes by your followers + people they follow? Could be an interesting discovery mechanism that is also somewhat spam-proof.

Overall, I’m over the AI and humanoid robot revolution hype. Life is back to normal. View quoted note →

The AI-2027 paper was interesting when it came out. But it’s basically Hollywood-style propaganda fiction, in which the USA are the good guys, and the President saves the planet.