Testing zaps from #nostr #safebox. Please ignore.

The only requirement is NIP-01. You can be your own 'democratic society' of one, if you wish. The protocol won't help you or hinder you. If you fork NIP-01, you can be even more 'democratic' to yourself.

#nostr is democratic protocol.

My early morning reading companion says GM

I’ve really distilled it down to this:

If you can pay and publish with your npub, you can be truly sovereign.

This simple statement didn’t just jump out me, it was the accumulation of years of hard work and thinking. Plus, I kept adjusting and refining my vision based on my #nostr #safebox project. I’m not saying this is the end point, but it’s pretty good for me now to stay inspired.

I see this as a logical conclusion. If a state’s only recourse is to fine in their fiat, then this will happen.

https://www-theregister-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/

$20M for chat.com

Meanwhile, my npub was free.

If every npub is automatically imbued with the ability to publish and to pay, then you’re talking sovereign infrastructure.

Fiat Canada Dry in U.S.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/why-canada-dry-s-made-from-real-ginger-claim-isn-t-on-u-s-cans-1.7376929

Once you can privately pay someone without anyone’s permission or knowledge you realize there’s no other way.

#nostr is a democratic protocol.

You vote for everything with your private key.

homo sapien + nostr zaps = homo economicus

Decentralized economic protocol

ecash transceivers

Power protocol.

Rights protocol.

Honor protocol.

https://github.com/bitcoin-cap/bcap

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/07/usurpers-helpmeets/#disreintermediation

Love it! nostr:note19zp6lhg0g2zrycsepgv0k8cnfe0zqewqcpc2lvzrpu2a8an33n0qg5968k

How quickly a year has gone by.

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The reason I ask (rhetorically) is that I am growing weary of the ‘F*** the State’ narrative. Well, the dog just caught the car, and we need a more constructive narrative. In reading articles on the outcome of the election, there were many observations that it was ‘about the economy’, not about high-minded abstract principles. That got me thinking about what #nostr is really about - it’s about me and my economy’.

So, is #nostr still needed?

#asknostr

Someone’s gotta tell Cory Doctorow about #nostr

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-02-ulysses-pact-tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast-b2f89bb5b4d8

It’s not useful for myself. But it’s useful when I am testing and I am rugging myself. However, since it is a bearer instrument, if I send it to someone else, it suddenly becomes a liability.

If #nostr would be characterized as an infrastructure, what would we call it?

Be it resolved that #NostrDay shall be observed on the 7th day of November annually.

If in favour of or against this motion, zap, boost, quote, react accordingly.

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Oh cool. I am good with that!

All the more reason to observe November 20th as #nostrday

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As for managing the double spend, it could be done with a cryptographic accumulator.

I now see the possibility of enabling every npub to issue their own ecash tokens, instead of relying on a third-party mint. This has tremendous value because every npub can issue its own transferable credit notes (cash) and eliminate the mint as a counterparty. Of course, it has to be trusted, but if I trust someone already, this should not be an issue. As well, every credit note has an immediate credible exit - it can be cleared out immediately via lightning.

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It's called experimentation.

Huh?

Imagine if every npub was its own mint and relay by default.

“The price we pay for special technological extensions, whether wheel, alphabet or computer, is that these massive extensions of sense become closed systems.”

Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media

“Money is a metaphor in the sense that it stores skill and labour and also translates one skill into another.”

Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media

'Proof of work' is the catchier phrase.