The Nostr protocol can uniquely enable us to be free from the tyranny of personal tech devices. Use any public / shared nostr terminal. When you want to access private data or sign a message, tap your signer device on the terminal. If you must, get a pager that notifies you of important events so you know when to get back to a terminal.

There should be public Nostr terminals like phone booths. purplepag.es relay to look up an address like a phone book. Sign the message with a signer device.

Thinking about money is fundamentally uncool. It’s cool to not have to consider money at all. This is a big reason that advertisement-based products took off. It’s also a big reason that long term subscriptions took off rather than micro-payments. The less you force your user to think about money, the more they will like your product.

NoSpace.app rocks. Nobody cares that it’s centralized because it has soul. Something as simple as a customizable profile goes a long way. Nostr devs could never https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6af3tPW8AA6OBM?format=jpg&name=large

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The mistake of “value-for-value” is assuming that people only do things that are valuable. People know that what they do most of the time is *not* valuable. So they would correctly conclude that these time wasting activities are worth nothing to them.

Imagine this: a paid Nostr relay that uses the Stripe API In other words, Nostr for normal people

I’m really loving the new generation of Haskell-like languages. Taking the good parts and leaving the not so good parts. Pushing forward the ideas of what a programming language can be.

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Bitcoin winning is inevitable. Bitcoin doesn’t need you to force it on people. So why not just also accept USD to cover relay and development costs? Bring in the normies and let the superiority of Bitcoin be obvious to them over time. View quoted note →

How can one go about writing a pen pal app on Nostr? Basically the only missing piece that hasn’t been done before is the ability to search for profiles based on a “looking for” field. It could be used to make a language exchange app, for example. Just need custom profile data and to be able to query that

Someone ping me when @SimpleX Chat changes their name. Until then, it’s just a non-starter

> That is why the cost of opening a channel was a minimum of 3000 sat When I told people this last year, nobody believed me. Yep. My first experience with Lightning was laughably bad because of Phoenix. Glad to see that they fixed that.

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Thought experiment: Everyone in the world has a personal server running in their own home. What then is the biggest blocker to creating a functioning p2p network?