In other news, you look at something awesome like Gruuv by @𝚁𝚢𝚊𝚗 - done tastefully and natively on Nostr (nsite, blossom, etc) - and are instantly reminded that Nostr is profound and there’s much much to look forward to

gruuv

Decentralized Music Sharing

OSMU (Open Source Miners United) community are moving off Discord. But not to something Nostr-based. Bummer, as it’s very much a kindred community

Another major aspect of the @Zapstore worth highlighting is the cadence of app updates / releases - because these are not gated / bottlenecked by a centralized app store, devs are able to ship updates much faster to their users, even multiple times a day if they wish, and some do. We’ve been averaging about 10 updates / releases per day for Nostr-native apps and ~50 / day total recently. Again, this is a unique strength of the Zapstore / Nostr-native approach over traditional / centralized app stores - you trust the dev through your web of trust already, therefore you’re most likely happy to accept software updates from them as fast as they are able to ship!

Similar to Bitcoin, once you’re sufficiently Nostr-pilled, some things you just can never unsee. The clusterfuck that is the current domain name system is one of them

Wow, something is almost certainly front-running my attempts at domain name registrations. The rot is deep

Quite a change in tone from Bloomberg compared to even a couple of weeks ago. One day they will also stop referring to Bitcoin as “token” - this is just so jarring

Bloomberg.com

Bitcoin’s Stealth Rally Has Traders Setting Sights on $80,000

Bitcoin is approaching $80,000 for the first time since January — a stealth recovery built not on euphoria but on short covering and the relentle...

Safe to say Nostr polls have seen major and sustained adoption since support rolled out in major clients in the past ~month. For comparison, the daily polling activity (polls created + responses) has been roughly half of zapping, which is no small feat out of the gate @Vitor Pamplona @miljan @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 @ABH3PO

If you find yourself getting deeper into the technical underpinnings of Nostr, its various moving parts, the opinionated choices etc, but haven’t stumbled on @No Solutions yet - it’s a must, and invaluable. I’d recommend starting from the very first episode - for a handful of episodes, then mixing in recent episodes for the latest / bleeding edge developments, and converging somewhere in the middle. Brilliant choice of format - a dialogue on a walk with some key folks and contributors to noteworthy / breakthrough projects - to tease out the tradeoffs, choices and fundamental tensions. @Gigi @Sovereign Engineering

Much Nostr flex incoming - thanks to relays being the major pillar in the overall design 💪 View quoted note →

I need to look into a better system for this than yelling at this guy. It already runs sandboxed at the user and filesystem level but it’s obviously too trigger-happy to nuke data.

GM. Let’s go!

There’s a good chance the next leg up in Nostr adoption would come through a good old controversy - piracy, something adult-themed that is particularly eyebrow-raising, etc. Or perhaps something a bit more contemporary, like a large scale distributed model distillation that’s autonomously coordinated via Nostr… Imagine the whackamole that would ensue - largely futile and highlighting the inherent strengths / resilience of the network. In any case, we’re probably not far off technically from being able to quickly scale the different layers / components of the stack to accommodate the growth by an order of magnitude or so. The costs would explode for the infra, but it might get easier to raise funding for the operators, and focus the thinking on the sustainability in terms or resources required. Maybe it’ll force things more in the direction of requiring some contribution of compute / storage / bandwidth to participate in the network… I’m less sure we’re ready for the accompanying onslaught of spam and low-value bots vying for attention / engagement, however, but pretty confident this can also be navigated over time. Overall, I can’t shake the feeling this thing is on the verge of breaking out - the more I hack on it and understand / marvel how things hang together and compose, and get the visceral sense for the pace of innovation. Also, what a powerful confluence of open permissionless protocols, cryptographic identity, AI and network-native magic money.

Bad robot 🤖