This is pretty huge! Nostr + MLS w/ @niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡 and @Max on bitcoin++ Insider Edition. Full episode:

If nostr truly solves spam, privacy and URI persistance, it'll likely be larger than email and the web. URIs break all the time. Wayback Machine helps, but doesn't scale and is centralized. Email has so many spam and privacy issues. There are ways to mitigate, but it's a mess. Cookies and lack of user/identity (or lackof) has wrecked the decentralization and privacy of browsers with centralized providers.

Is this an opportunity to fill a need? The "main" implementation seems blatantly unsupportive. How incredibly disheartening. What are ways people are getting support? cc: @ODELL @Luke Dashjr @Bitcoin Mechanic

So along with an apparent GNU/Linux VM in Android 16, there is now also desktop windowing and a taskbar! 🌞 Mobile/desktop convergence is now headed in both directions: Gnome towards mobile and Android towards desktop. 🤘

Android Open Source Project

Android 16, Android 16 QPR1, and Android 16 QPR2 release notes | Android Open Source Project

Solving for censorship resistance and spam (and media noise) I think are two sides of the same satoshi.

For the same reason the World Wide Web has scaled, Nostr can scale: "The system had to have one other fundamental property: It had to be completely decentralized. That would be the only way a new person somewhere could start to use it without asking for access from anyone else. And that would be the only way the system could scale, so that as more people used it, it wouldn't get bogged down." —Tim Bernes-Lee

One of the origins of BitTorrent was a project called Mojo Nation, of which had a digital cash (albeit centralized) component! 💫 As detailed in chapter 12 of this book 📚:

One of the first articles on digital cash from 1995: Extropy Issue 15 mentions Magic Money and an article about Free Banking that inspired Bit Gold and then B-money. https://github.com/Extropians/Extropy/blob/master/Extropy-15.pdf?raw=true More issues of Extropy available at:

GitHub

GitHub - Extropians/Extropy: PDF issues of the late lamented Extropy Magazine,

PDF issues of the late lamented Extropy Magazine,. Contribute to Extropians/Extropy development by creating an account on GitHub.

Extropy #15 (1995): https://github.com/Extropians/Extropy/blob/master/Extropy-15.pdf?raw=true

Tropic Square will be at BTC Prague, I wonder if Trezor will have any related annoucements!?

Tropic Square | Tropic Square at BTC Prague 2025

"Our TROPIC01 chip has been on the market since February 2025, when we started supplying the first samples. During the second quarter, we will start supplying chips in tens of thousands of pieces, ie in sufficient quantities for serial production of the first products with our chip." (Translated)

Forbes

Český startup mění pravidla hry. Světu nabízí první „průhledný“ bezpečnostní čip

V rozhovoru s šéfem startupu Tropic Square Janem Pleskačem jsme probrali nejen plány firmy, unikátnost čipu TROPIC01 a otevřenost jako nový...

"Just do it." —Shia LaBeouf

Another classic book! And also funny.