Let's try to see if I can put Nostr to work:
I'll send sats to every valid suggestion.
If you were giving out 3 awards for bitcoin that were technical in nature, which categories would you come up with?
Bonus sats if you come up with 4 candidates for your proposed achievement categories.
Privacy
For me, something that is as non technical as possible - Beginner Guides for Bitcoin, Wallets, Nostr.
I struggled to learn everyday, didn’t get a hard wallet for months. Maybe the resources are there, but I didn’t find them all.
best dlc-integrated application
best ecash-integrated application
best nostr-integrated application
best documentation/explainers
- must include diagrams
- see: anything elle mouton puts on her blog https://ellemouton.com/
best usability improvement
- could be static addresses, fixing force closes, removing the need to run a server, etc.
see: josibake silent payments, glozow TRUC transactions, calle cashu
free-est freedom tech
- biggest improvements in censorship resistance, trustlessness, decentralization, etc.
see: bluematt & t-bast BIP353
1- privacidad
2- Anticensura
3- Autosoberano
technical memeability
Knowledge
Onboarding
Promoting
1) Spam Control
2) Best Use Case
3) Web of Trust
1) Julius Caesar - Simple Cipher
Key pair encryption - Merkle
2) Adam Back - POW hash cash
3) Nick Szabo - Timestamp chaining
And...
4) Yoshi Itsuki from nostr:nprofile1qqsxugjjylrmak4hvhn5k2ddnqgvsereprgq9sdeunp3jhxa58dgafcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhskum55f for his work with Zen Kamera (a cover for the international encryption work he did in the 80s and 90s)
I THINK YOU HAVE TO GIVE AWARDS FOR PRIVACY, NETWORK EFFECT, INCENTIVE, AND MAYBE ALIGNMENT???
Sustainable Mining Award
Strengthening Node Award
Privacy Focused Development Award
Odell for his self custody recommendations, NVK for making the best damn hardware wallets out there, and Craig Raw for being a one man desktop wallet king.
my zap is failing
- onboarding and usability
- mining decentralization
- scalability
* "in the trenches": bitcoin core
- gloria
- that fuzzer guy I keep forgetting the name of, he's German
- fanquake
* "mad scientist": novel new protocol stuff
- Robin Linus with BitVM
- Rusty with The Great Script Restoration (maybe a misnomer but the generalized cost function idea is novel work)
- Jonas Nick (with Veronika if I'm not mistaken) (et al?) with Shielded CSV
- Josie Bake with Silent Payments
* "user go up": getting stuff in the hands of users
- Rust for bolt12
- Silent Payments could also fit here
- Luke Childs of Umbrel
Rough ideas, keep your sats 😅
