“Universal high income won’t come from taxes,” says world’s richest man. View quoted note →

I have some concerns about the Marmot protocol / whitenoise.chat @JeffG > Messages in White Noise are encrypted end-to-end and temporarily relayed through several Nostr servers, which cannot read them and don’t permanently store them. Relays act as transient delivery points, discarding data after transmission. How can we guarantee that they don’t permanently store them? If they do, this is a clear “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” attack. > Users can further prioritize privacy by selecting trusted relays or hosting their own, Messages are designed to be propagated on Nostr. It’s a gossip protocol. It’s not designed to have access control lists at the foundation. So how does running our own server actually help us? > ensuring no single entity retains control over their communications. See, this statement frames the concern as being about “my communication is being blocked”. But the real concern is “my communication is being harvested and decrypted by 3 letter agencies”.

Urbit is better than Nostr. But Urbit can be built on top of Nostr.

Letterboxd has ads now. Perfect time for Nostr to step in

Nostr needs more safety built into it. ACLs for who can read your data, etc. If that needs to happen in a L2, so be it. But until you can control who can read your data, there will be no mass adoption.

Bitcoin is always way more interesting in the bear season

Easy upsell for relay servers. The ability to see read receipts. The relays have this data inherently. So just save it and expose it to users that are willing to pay for it.

I’m still wanting a Nostr architecture that allows me to control who can access / proliferate my posts. Something more like Urbit or Pubky. @JOE2o @semisol View quoted note →

Internet money needs to be spam proof inherently. One of the many reasons I like Grin.

Grin

Ordinals on Grin

I think Grin is about the most spam proof chain there is. Where spam is shorthand for inscribed arbitrary data. This is because Grin is scriptle...

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Pubky reminds me of the Bluesky beta. By the time they launched, I lost all interest. Sorry im not in the cool kids club

For most users, the convenience of not dealing with this stuff is genuinely worth potentially losing a million dollars. Because: 1. the million dollars didn’t even feel “real” because bitcoin isn’t mainstream as a real currency. 2. bitcoiners obviously underestimate the pain of self custody. View quoted note →