This might be the season finale photo but the weather is still holding. 
Nostr is in a completely different realm than the other social media apps/protocos. The other apps feel like being in a big loud popular restaurant while nostr feels like you’re on the outside build on a new frontier.
My gut feeling is that someone is going to realize that note/zap relayed transactions are completely unstoppable and will start building an entirely new infrastructure based on the protocol.
They have one decentralized server…
testing zaps, please stand by
Yeah, I developed my own 'agile' methodology with four iterative development modes that feedback, feed forward into each other.
1. Possibility
2. Feasibility
3. Scalability
4. Usability
I spend most of my time between 1 and 2.
Very cool use case for zaps. nostr:note1m4ycw40wve2dr075zq35la682kp8fpu22n2jwzxkp0yh20h62hes4a0m0p
Very cool.
It’s a njump.me link to an event which you scan via your camera app; it asks to open to your default app, which hopefully you can zap from.
I also tried directly from a Lightning wallet, it got confused. We may need to standardize something so that Lightning wallets can zap directly without going into a #nostr app. Easy to do, I’ve done it via #nostr #safebox command line - zap event - now need to make it standardized for all Lightning wallets.
I can see the potential for a real-time zap leaderboard at an event where the zaps and comments show up in real time.
Another use case, only made possible by nostr zaps. nostr:note1cq5mwxlpxf839jvd6y8e6s2rm99rv2kc59gv79z8ncmj5m59qzuskc4fua
🔥 Couldn't have described it better myself!
I echo your sentiments in spirit but not yet in practice. We’ve let LinkedIn become the platform it’s become; yes, move away from it. It will burn itself down eventually.
Already, everyone self-censors in positive business-speak. Anyone who falls outside that guardrail gets shadow-banned.
The badge thing is really cool. I was playing around with it a year ago but now focused on payments. This could evolve to everyone being able to issue verifiable credentials and you decide based on your web of trust if you will honour the credential.
There are other ways to build, too. For example, I am really lousy at community outreach and I have people that excel in that department, so we are working together to build a local community.
Good point.
I plan to read this spec to understand how much easier it is to implement the concepts in #nostr
https://openid.net/authzen-authorization-api-1-0-implementers-draft-approved/
Friendly reminder that LinkedIn contacts are not your contacts. Tried to connect someone via LinkedIn at a meetup but we were both forced to upgrade.(we did not). We connected via #nostr instead (I onboarded him)
Where I got turned off by ‘user-centric’ design is when it got taken over by the self-appointed muses who claimed they only, with their deep knowledge, could discern the needs of the users. ‘Techno-barbarians need not apply!’
My contention was always - the users didn’t know what they wanted, because they were not aware of the possibilities to begin with. They were always asking for ‘faster horses’.
Don’t bellyache, build.
Totally excited that I got an instance of ditto up and running. Even more excited that I can use the relay as the backend for #nostr #safebox
But I still need help to grok how I can use this to make a real difference for a community. Advice, examples, most welcome! Plus, on a more technical note, I need to know how to configure to relay NIP-17 messages. #asknostr
Nothing is official until the money comes through!
Well, it came through! 🙏🤝
Official announcement coming soon!
BTW, the banks (not the central banks) hate the M0 layer (banknotes), because it forces them to hold dirty cash in their safes and convert their liabilities (M1) into M0 which can be used outside their payment system. Banks also hate CBDCs because it disintermediates people from their systems, and enables people to be direct deposit holders of with the central bank.
I was never a fan of CBDCs, but CBDCs still could be the lesser evil to the existing payment systems. I have always been aware that opposition to CBDCs could play into something far worse, total surveillance payment systems.
Fortunately, we have the exit option of bitcoin, and I firmly believe we can build a universal payment system using Lightning and ecash. This will make CBDCs, stablecoins, and eventually all fiat currencies moot. nostr:note16awn0595pya0t4wx7sv9wv0wszcgm6dptcsm4rxawt2rsqwa4q2qp8thwm
Canadians got to feel that 100k euphoria sooner. It felt artificial…
Your control authority is #nostr and #bitcoin
Private Power Protocol
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1. Power to Pay Privately
2. Power to Publish Privately
3. Power to Prove Privately
4. Power to Permit Privately