This diagramming excercise has helped me to clarify to myself that #nostr isn’t better social media. Also, #cashu isn’t a better form of money. But when put together, they become the building blocks to support Title and Trade Networks that can’t be stopped or influenced by outside actors. You can be a network of two, as in this diagram, or a network of billionaires.
Size doesn’t matter.
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I'm interested why you in your opinion nostr isn't better social media and cashu isn't better money. Both are more than just social media and money, and they do have censorship and privacy respectively, with tradeoffs. Combining them looks very interesting.
My knowledge of both is limited, especially compared to yours.
This is really an exercise (experimentation, actually) on how to communicate to normies. For myself, my brain switches off when someone tries to pitch me a 'better protocol', 'better architecture', 'better money' or whatever. Totally the same for 'better social media', most folks brains will switch off and stick to X or BlueSky.
What I am really trying to do here, is put my finger on - 'what's different?' - what is something that I can do entirely new that I could not do before. I think I am getting closer to the answer that I can set up my own global trade and title network, without having to rely on, be interfered with state authorities.
I’m interested in a local community sovereign stack for local exchange, and I think this exactly fits the bill. We have local unofficial currencies for trading services in some city neighborhoods, and it’s done in old-school cheque style manner, bringing this to digital is interesting, specially combined with radio mesh networking to be completely self-sufficient.
Cool. That's exactly my target. My goal is to have something ready for community pilot later this year.
Interesting synergy you've compiled there, 1kraider. On a stand-alone basis, I've looked into radio mesh networking after stumbling-upon some of the dongles one needs to make it work. My first concern was how vulnerable would a radio-mesh network be to regulatory interference if State Authorities got wind of such an installation. We could speculate at two levels here: (1) on the basis of a universal template applicable to most States around the world, and (2) the likely reaction from heavy-handed Entities, such as the E.U. or perhaps, Carney's Canada.
