Today Im at the point where I don’t think open protocol apps are going to succeed in time to beat AI. Current best bet on Nostr: Pablo and Will.

Hard realities:

-Everything in the US happens in a 4 year Presidential cycle.

-Tech celebrates new beginnings, yet totally has its own culture; “we’re early.” It’s nearing too late.

-The Fediverse is built on manipulation. The reliance on anything that isn’t human centered lands tech in the same place it’s been for years. People will just stay on Meta => landing society the AI win => just in time for what? => the US Presidential.

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Why #[1]​ and #[2]​? It does take the full time commitment. Even then it’s a race.

People Nostr needs to fund in addition to the gents above? #[3]​ and #[4]​.

If Nostr had full time #[5]​ #[6]​ #[7]​ #[8]​, it’d be solid for the road/contenders ahead.

I wish I could do that too, pull the plug and dedicate myself fully to Nostr 💜🦦

It is of vital importance we make Nostr sustainable for all.

Agreed. Much love 💜

💜🫂💜

Sames.

Wen nostr nest about this topic? 👀

about when and how we all can quit fiat mining to work on nostr and/or bitcoin full time? sure!

😂😂😂 I meant about the thesis Angela was presenting here 😂

😭 😭 😭 okay that will work too.

Oh my gosh I adore this and wish we were all in CR by the water chatting 🌐 #[2]​ do you have a link to your podcast with Preston? I’ll listen to it today.

Yeah

Funnily enough, the first few minutes were about TBD’s announcement of web5 😂

https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/bitcoin-fundamentals/jack-dorseys-decentralized-identity-network-pablo-fernandez/

Yay!! K I’ll listen before 7 eastern

What do you mean beat AI?

How about Nostr integrating with open source AI?

I believe open source LLMs will catch up enough to provide a lot of the same opportunities.

Maybe a non-profit foundation to help market nostr and fund development wouldn’t be such a bad thing? I suspect people would through a lot of sats at that endeavor. I know everyone here hates centralization, but everyone simultaneously throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks only works for so long. It feels like nostr has plateaued as far as new communities joining and media coverage.

Can you elaborate on the connection to the presidential cycles?

I have spent a lot of time thinking about CBDCs and the attacks against bitcoin, about a hard-fork on society (I spoke about this last year on #[2]​‘s podcast), but the game theory of the communications protocol is probably completely different, as information is not as easily containable as fiat money.

Very interested to hearing more about your thesis.

For what is worth, I’m focusing all my efforts in growing the nostr reach in any way possible by making better tools than what exists in legacy siloed platforms; I fee the urgency you feel, and in acting following this urgency, but I’m very curious to understand your urgency better.

Thanks for writing this, by the way, you made me think, which is one of the most beautiful gifts one can give another person.

Pablo! I just finished your podcast. It was so nice to hear you share about your experiences in Argentina, your career thus far, and that you draw inspiration from jack and past leaders such as Seneca. Cheers to Seneca’s quote, “while we wait for life, life passes,” and cheers to you :)

Let me know what you mean by “the game theory of the communications protocol is probably completely different, as information is not as easily containable as fiat money,” and then I’ll attempt to speak to that.

Re: the US Presidential as it relates to technology, AI, bitcoin, etc. People can be certain that the topic of digital currency (it would take constituents amplifying the word Bitcoin for the government to prioritize that word over calling it all Digital Currency) will come into focus this election cycle. The CBDC topic, and any overall want Bitcoin advocacy, would need a public spokesperson in order to drive change. Currently, META has the ear of the Administration;

March 2022 => US Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets => Responsibility of => Office of Science and Technology Policy => OSTP Director => Dr. Arati Prabhakar => Founded 501c3 Actuate => Funded By => Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Re: Nostr/Bitcoin: If the ultimate goal is for people to have security of their own assets, and a fair shot at the government not coming down on any entity or individual, there is a need to have mutual understanding with the government. Amplifying some of what you mentioned in your podcast - essentially that protected classes (minorities, women, youth) are the individuals that can benefit most from both systems - is the way to gain mass support.

In terms of what to build for Nostr if the ultimate goal is people having their own security, fiscal or otherwise => people need an abc understanding of how to run their own relay + abc re: lightning.

Keep the faith. The swarm can make a huge difference in a surprising amount of time. There are also more folks that are full time than you think. #[2]​, #[3]​, etc.

I’m also now full time on Nostr. 😉

Oh my gosh yay! You are?? K! I’ve heard tons about Primal too. You did #[5]​ have my endless respect either way because you looked after sweet #[6]​ in CR 💞

My correlation is experience in the last 3 Presidential cycles. I’ve stepped back since 2021 - ironically went to Disney thinking “pretend this’ll be great,” and it was worse! 😳

Faith, like you said 💜 #[7]​ definitely send me that link tho!

#[5]​ looked after us too 🙃 she was the team’s wheels.

Yeah, the politicians and the politics are bad and getting worse. Best to just opt out of that and try to build the community you want to see.

Love that 🫂

Amen.

I loved having #[4]​ with us; she made #nostrica much more special

Best time with you two 🫂 grateful it all worked out how it did

Me too! What serendipity. The universe was looking out for all 3 of us.

Beat AI? What do you mean?