Just built a unknown note Kind viewer and went down the rabbithole of what is out there. The know unknowns are wild
Kind
443,441 chess
1010 -- no idea
1984 -- somebody was naughty
30078 -- ?? but there is a lot of them
1311-- live chat
my take away is Nostr is weird, and people are building. Kind 1 is a small slice of nostr
Groundwork
groundwork@primal.net
npub14ac0...uzeg
Building things.
NIP discussions happen on GitHub. A decentralized protocol governed by a centralized platform.
The people with the most skin in the game — relay operators, client devs, active builders — have no more weight than a fresh account.
What if the process lived on the protocol it describes? Permanent event IDs, cryptographic authorship, relay-redundant. The spec lives where the thing it describes lives.
Curious who'd show up.
Exploring NIP-85 (Trusted Assertions) as a way to surface participation and helpfulness scores in a poll-focused client. Still early — curious if anyone has built on it or run into friction points. What's your impression of it so far?
Running an experiment in consensus building. First 10 to vote get 1 sat. What percentage of participants needs to agree before something is considered consensus? View quoted note →
test
Every 4 years we select whoever best convinced us they'll fix things. Then we're surprised when they fix things that look good in 4 years.
"The most dangrous thing in the world is a confident man with a half-baked idea and no one arond to questoin him."\n\n— somone, probaly