I wonder if Jack had coded Samiz in a weekend it would have been mostly ignored by the press like what happened with all his other Nostr-related endeavors and even Bitcoin ones.
Ok, not hating on Jack’s weekend project, but he’s already had enough press coverage.
So here’s Anthony Accioly’s coverage for nostr:nprofile1qqszfrv3m6acxyqy4ghuega2n74rntkrfg9sp4pmse94vul56gnul8cpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsxej3h9. That’s right - we already have a BLE Mesh working for Nostr, and NIP-17 for private messages and NIP-EE for groups, forward secrecy and all the other goodies.
So yes. Cool things are happening on Nostr right now. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
#nostr #samiz #bleMesh #nip17 #nipEE
Discussion
You never know what gets picked up by the press... Still, compared to the Anthonys and even the Fiatjafs of the world, there's a "Silicon Valley billionaire" centre of gravity that at least gives him a chance of being heard by the media.
Even after all this time, when you ask random folks about Nostr, other than "Never heard of it" and the typical answer about BTC and toxic sruff, "Isn’t that Jack Dorsey’s social media thing?" is still a pretty popular answer. Just like it was during Bluesky early days.
Not hating on Jack in any way though. In a way, if “Jack Dorsey did something” gets media attention and brings in users to try things out, then he’s doing us all a favour with his presence and endorsement (on top of the funding when he senses something might actually work of course).