That's why I tolerate Ethereum Foundation - they're small, their power is limited, and their "subtraction" philosophy means they're actively working toward their own irrelevance. View quoted note →

Institutions aren't inherently bad. What's bad is when they outgrow human scale and begin demanding that people serve them, rather than the reverse.

What I don't like about Nostr is that it's full of bad security patterns or "security simplifications". I mean, sure, Bitcoin didn't have BIP-39/mnemonic at the beginning either, but progress here seems veeery slow.

Nature 🌱

@Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast Hi, thank you for what you are doing to connect ecosystems! Do you have any tips for Ethereum-positive people to follow here on Nostr? 🙏

Nostr's success is largely dependent on whether the Bitcoin community can break their approach to diversity. Diversity is the key.

I'd rather spend my time with my honest opponents (Bitcoin maxis) who actually believe in something than surround myself with people who turned "decentralization" into empty branding. I hope you will be nice to me :) View quoted note →

I'm still processing the experience of standing completely alone against hundreds of people calling me racist and white supremacist for raising concerns about AT Protocol's (Bluesky) decentralization. It was watching intelligent, technical people get swept into mob dynamics, unable to think independently. The silence from those who privately agreed but wouldn't speak up was perhaps most disturbing.

Nostr is for everyone, right?

The Clipper chip was an NSA-developed encryption device (1993) designed to secure voice and data communications with a built-in backdoor allowing law enforcement to decode intercepted transmissions. It was defunct by 1996.

Clipper chip - Wikipedia

"American exceptionalism means Americans believe their local conflicts are global concerns, their cultural context is universal truth, and their ignorance of other perspectives is everyone else's problem."

I think to fix society we first have to fix our social (networks).

Every technology encodes a theory of who can be trusted. Manipulative tools assume people are dangerous and must be managed; convivial tools assume people are capable and deserve access. The architecture you build reveals which humanity you believe in—and slowly creates the humanity you assumed.

Is Nostr for anarcho-convivialists who support Ethereum?

Sorry for saying that AT Protocol has more potential than Nostr - I guess I had to see that for myself, the hard way. The people at AT Protocol hate the authors of Bluesky and their original goals and everything decentralized and it's impossible to build something censorship-resistant in this environment

"The AT Protocol is doomed because the community that adopted it hates everything it was designed to enable. And no amount of elegant architecture can overcome a culture committed to its own subjugation." My article: "Why I Left AT Protocol"

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