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John Carvalho
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CEO at Synonym, creators of Pubky, Bitkit, and Blocktank.
I am here for all your phone numbers! I am going to call you and call you and call you! mwooohahahahaha
Nostr would like me a lot more if I believed in someone famous instead of myself.
As the image shows, this is a qualification for FREE 1GB storage and hosting of your data. This is a SERVICE PROVIDED much like the one Primal offers, or any nostr relay would need to offer, to survive. My company offering to provide that service for free if you can prove you aren't a bot, but you don't have to use any specific service in Pubky, just like you don't have to use Primal or a premium relay if you don't want to. This has nothing at all to do with the protocol or Pubky tech, it is just how computers, businesses and networks work. But it does show that Nostr users don't really understand how any of these things actually work underneath, because they were taught by memes and podcasters, and are not actually interested in the tech at all, right?
Do nostr users know the difference between an app and protocol? Between a product and tech? All your apps have ToS because all businesses have to follow laws. All your relays can censor you because all computers have an owner. This is just how things work.
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bitcoinerrorlog 2 months ago
This week I dropped my first formal research paper: Credible Exit and The Law of Conservation of Blockspace. It shows the limit on users that Bitcoin layers can support in a "trust-minimized" way, and proves layers cannot actually scale Bitcoin. It's so over?! No, but this requires earnest/honest protocol engineers and builders to recalibrate narratives and R&D around scaling the taboo concepts of trust, and credit. Synonym adjusted about a year ago and thus has already begun designing and implementing new ways to address the situation. @dzdidi and I also presented the latest progress on Paykit, a superficial payment layer for optimal coordination and payments UX. My slides are here, maybe Denys can share his too. https://blossom.primal.net/bf90dce113a89810a173d6064db1f47ef20911e5b2a7fe5a6c8fbc0ca5e380ef.pdf
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bitcoinerrorlog 3 months ago
You can't actually solve problems while following current norms. Because acceptable norms provably allow current problems to exist.
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bitcoinerrorlog 4 months ago
A list of products you are probably neglecting as a Bitcoiner, and as a proponent of freedom software in general. image