Everything is reputation.
"Something becomes increasingly real as contradicting it becomes increasingly costly."
"...from the perspective of an organism, physics can be understood more simply: it is the set of patterns that has accumulated the highest possible reputation."
Settlement is Subjective
Bitcoin is often described as providing probabilistic settlement. A transaction with six confirmations is considered more settled than one with a single confirmation because reversing it would require substantially more work...
Some people blacklisted nvk, and his products, years ago, avoiding this tragedy.
Those people used their own judgment, not hype or fame, to make decisions.
You can be one of those people, but you need to shed your current method of choosing whom to trust. This is not high school, there are no loyalties.
My favorite features of Pubky are the ones we are about to ship:
1. Collections - We redefined the concepts of bookmarks, blogs, channels, albums, pin boards, podcasts and all types of sets or series by elegantly combined them into one primitive concept for the network: collections. Coming VERY soon.
2. Locks - "Unlock" any content using any mutual payment method. This brings both ecommerce and a new level of payment coordination to the free web.
3. Graph Views - If you think social graphs or web-of-trust is cool, wait til you see our customizable graph visualizer and start filtering the web, and your peers, with it.
These are not merely cool new features for Pubky App. These are some of the most powerful primitives the open web has ever seen, and the features we demonstrate only scratch the surface of what's possible.
...And these are just a portion of the projects we are working on in our effort to provide the Atomic Economy to humanity. We know what to do, and we'll keep building it out until it is crystal-clear why you should join the next web.