This is surprisingly a pretty good episode: View article → I didn't expect @Justin Moon to be such an idealist, he used to give me the impression of a skeptic pragmatist who had lost all his early vision of a better world, but was pleasantly surprised he is still delusional. Of course at this point he has probably already abandoned https://github.com/justinmoon/shadow, but that really sounded like a good plan and very grounded, it's still worth a listen. Also good points in the end about how Marmot is a bad idea.

The @verbiricha exit shows how important @arthurfranca's

44billion

One login, many apps

is. Soon some of the best clients of Nostr -- https://grimoire.rocks, https://habla.news and https://chachi.chat -- will be down and there is nothing we can do about that. In an environment where these apps were published as fully static HTML/JS assets and used through an app like 44billion they could live forever. Better than that: if it's easy to browse and recommend new maintainers that will incentivize new developers to continue maintaining forks of these codebases, as they wouldn't have to go looking for users and begging them to switch to a new URL. That means these apps can continue to live and users can continue to receive updates and everybody wins.

@Nuh please consider joining: View article →

I want Nostr to improve the status of online communication and publication in many ways. I want to see if it will really work in reality as it does in theory. I think Nostr has tons of potentially very interesting features hidden in it that will only make sense once more people are using it. I really want to see all of this in action. View quoted note →

Nostr might not be winning against X, but at least it is winning against Postel's Law, which is a much worse enemy. View quoted note →

Some people think Bitcoin doesn't have to scale and get adopted enough to become money, it can just be a "store of value" forever. The first thing is that these people don't really believe in "storing" anything, they want their "value" to go up, not to be stored, so the discourse is already skewed from the start. Meanwhile all the value Bitcoin has today and all its price growth came from the expectation that it would be used as money (i.e. means of payment etc) at some point. Because random pubkeys stored on blockchains are just worthless bytes, if we stop making moves towards the only real goal (commerce adoption), then eventually markets notice and all the side "store of value" and related discourses are exposed to reality. Remember those people that used to say Bitcoin was a ponzi scheme -- I don't know, Peter Schiff, Jorge Stolfi? Their takes were nonsense to me at first because I had in my mind that everybody believed that Bitcoin would eventually become money, so there was no way this was a game of the greater fool, everybody would benefit, even the last person to buy Bitcoin on Earth would benefit from it. But no, these people just assumed Bitcoin would never become money, and with that assumption their reasoning makes perfect sense: if Bitcoin doesn't become money then it is nothing but a ponzi scheme -- as most of the shitcoins clearly are. And now we have all these self-described Bitcoiners who think the same, don't be one of them. And please make them wrong again.

The latest #pyramid release allows you to see who are the weirdos connecting to your relay: And what they are subscribing to: (All the IPs were randomized before the picture was taken.)

This is a stupid protocol, but I like that at least they are not shy about the need to have multiple interoperable clients with no dependency on centralized servers or domain names. View quoted note →

UX specialists saw that AWS was successful and immediately concluded that their click-ops UX was the cause of the success, so they had that replicated on Google Cloud Console. The market has decided.

People should listen to James O'Beirne's take on quantum threats to Bitcoin more. In short: there are none, and scaling and miner revenue are much more important concerns regardless.

I've opened my Gmail web app 3 times today and deleted all emails on the inbox. The same emails were there again the next time I opened it some hours later. I think the third time it worked.

There are so many emojis and most of them no one uses, I don't know how you manage to find the ones you want to use in that enormous (and tabbed) pile of icons. Even worse, my two most common emotions when reading stuff online are not represented at all.

I paid for a meal with Bitcoin recently. The place was very modest and they just had a WoS QR code glued to wall. When I told the old woman at the cashier that I wanted to pay in Bitcoin she just told me the amount and trusted me to type that on my phone and trusted that my wallet would know how to convert that into satoshis at a reasonable exchange rate (she didn't know anything about Bitcoin I'm pretty sure). Can't we make this better? There could exist a device with buttons where she could type the amount like she did with the credit card machines all other customers were using. She would just press the amount there and handed me a QR code to scan with the amount included, and exchange rate conversion done at some server trusted by the restaurant, it could be fully offline. I'm just saying this because I was amazed by the fact that so many years have passed and I barely hear about these kinds of issues or the solutions to them. Makes me feel that no one is thinking about the problems of grassroot Bitcoin commerce adoption, which is the most important thing.

Nostr promoting reunions of old friends, beautiful to see. View quoted note →

Quotes as replies: back to the old Nostr days.

If we were to market NIP-17 as a simple generic open protocol for DMs on the internet (without mentioning Nostr or NIPs or anything) by what name could we refer to it?

Some people are sleeping on

Nostrord

Nostrord - Decentralized Group Chat · NIP-29 Nostr Client

Nostrord is a NIP-29 client for decentralized group chat on Nostr. Built with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Compose. Relay-enforced moderation, ce...

eCash

is a really good idea and very necessary in the current state of the world. I really hope it gets a chance to fulfill its purpose.

Who said Nostr doesn't have valuable original content? View quoted note →