I don’t think good US presidential candidates can emerge within the structure of our current system. We need more fundamental reinvention.

Nostr’s super-power is interoperability, yet most nostr services tend to build complete experiences rather than “the best micro-app to achieve X” Is this due to a belief that each app should be a complete end-to-end experience in itself? a lack of coordination among devs? something else? excerpted from a phone call today with @Max

“Not your keys, not your name?” Just saw this article about a new approach to self-sovereign names called “Spaces”. Any opinions on this approach or suggestions of others to consider?

Bitcoin Magazine

Not Your Keys, Not Your Name: Here’s Why Naming Is The Next Killer App For Bitcoin

Why we need a decentralized solution to domain names, and namespaces to find content on the internet, that is beyond the control of centralized thi...

HARD AGREE 🤜 🤛 View quoted note →

i don’t know if explicit suppression of trolls would work since the identification of such might be just as hard as it is for today’s providers. but there may be an answer somewhere in an open network

real problems, but we’re not giving up View quoted note →

we need open, user-switchable, transparent algorithms new people come on and can’t find the good stuff. this needs to be easy for a casual user who is curious to try it out @Vitor Pamplona and @miljan are already building toward this future, but we can do so much more. simpler onboarding, easier to discover the good stuff, no engagement-bait shenanigans. the future is bright (but not evenly distributed) View quoted note →

Bitcoin is pristine collateral Lava makes that utility accessible to everyone — all non-custodial, of course https://github.com/lava-xyz/loans-paper/blob/main/loans_v2.pdf cc @Shehzan

@verbiricha I’m stuck on the pop-up when I click “post” on habla.news/write. any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

I’m going to try publishing my first long-form note (I think). Wish me luck! 🤞