When Finney said that Bitcoin will scale with banks, he didn't say whether or not we can have both accounts and freedom. View quoted note →

Don't know why did it take me so long to find this analogy, but this; Nostr is signed UDP. View quoted note →

AI coding will do exactly what React and JS did before it; encourgae a whole generation to never have a single deep thought about computers or networks or systems, leaving all the work worth doing for the people that still care.

A million sovereign temporarily trusted by trillion users with credible lateral exit from any sovereign to another... Is all you can dream of and way more than necessary anyways.

Bitcoin fees are so low (too low) that I struggle every day to remind myself that Bitcoin isn't a sustainable solution for PKI long term.

100% ... Bitcoiners are like Bluesky users, they will call you a Nazi for using Twitter and take great pride in harassing you until you deactivate your Bluesky account because they just like it cozy conformist and obscure Have fun staying poor but will also burn you at the stake if you dare asking for anything that helps scaling or UX or trustless bridges. The IQ ratio between Bitcoiners on social media and the average Bitcoin developer is more or less ZERO. View quoted note →

Bitcoiners reject any change that would allow people to build decentralised solutions like these while paying fees to Bitcoin miners, then when developers go build their own Blockchain or use other Blockchains as Bitcoiners told them to... Bitcoiners call them shitcoiners!!! I am starting to get childish vibes here. Everyone who wants to build a sustainable system will start to learn to absolutely ignore these retards, and just do what is best for their users. View quoted note →

Counterpoint; very very few software can survive without maintenance let alone survive as immutable code. And almost all of these are single player not social apps. View quoted note →

The 24h pulse UX in jumble is very good and I think it should be used in many other contexts, especially chat apps and small world media. You get very cheap yet very effective way to keep up with people you follow, and if, IF you want to see more you can go read it from their data host. Just enough aggregation to be dangerous, and actually saves on bandwidth Vs if everyone has to send a notification to all their followers. Very useful but cheap enough it can remain decentralised.

It is funny yet not so funny that that protocols have shipped and grew to millions of users then pivoted and gave up, while other protocols are still work in progress privately, as if timing is utterly irrelevant. On the other hand, what a privilege not to care about outcomes. View quoted note →

Aaaand Farcaster pivoted from social media to flat out a crypto wallet! View quoted note →

Bluesky is trending towards less than 1 Million daily active users and that includes people silently liking ... That is the total addressable market of large world social media... And remember, almost everything else is better off with a slightly enhanced version of Email.