Nostr feels like the early days of bitcoin.
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It feels like the rebirth of the mid-2000s indie web scene. Like, shockingly. Bitcoin gives it a batter chance of survival though. Mix PTSD and nostalgia for me.
At least back then the internet was still decentralised and wasn't controlled by a few big corps you mean?
Facts. It's all about the choke points.
KYC. Cloudflare. Digital ID.
There's a different set of choke points now, and more of them. Bitcoin is a huge buff on our side though. Last time they cut us off at the identity layer and gated us at the APIs. Also standards bodies.
Stupid internal drama on our side was also a factor. Humans gonna human, though, I guess.
Yes
it certainly does. When my buddy turned me onto nostr a few days ago it immediately hit me like lightning (pun intended) and sunk if that fast. This is wild, the fact that its based off of SBB in general was a cool realization. Getting involved over the last days has been an ADHD dream boat for me and inspired me to dust off so many hats. But the main one is one I thought I would never wear again, director of technical services. In the early 2000s I was in the theatre business during the change from 35mm to digital. I installed one of the first Barco DP900 projectors and turned on the first "light engine" commercially.
This feels like that moment, a shift from the old paradigm to something totally different while remaining somewhat the same. #nostrisepic