Why TCP/IP won:
1. Flexibility: Worked across diverse hardware/networks.
2. Simplicity: Smaller, modular protocol suite compared to OSI.
3. Open & Free: No licensing fees; anyone could implement it.
4. Early Deployment: DARPA/DoD adoption and ARPANET “flag day” created momentum.
5. Scalability: Datagram-based design allowed the global Internet to grow organically.
6. “Rough Consensus and Running Code”: The IETF’s approach meant working software came before bureaucracy.
Sound like #nostr ?
Would polls be more fun with nostr?
‘Thanks for being a beta tester! Your reward, a window seat! Due to unforeseen issues on the last flight, we’ve added a ripping panel for easier exit.’
TCP/IP - never been voted on since 1981.
Should be back up. Backend vpn logged me out. Looking forward to deploying a production-grade infrastructure soon!
Thanks for the heads up. Rebooting the server….
Just updated my profile to |#OpenSats Grantee x 2|
Mucho Gratitude!
We’re gonna win! #nostr #safebox
nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f
Bitcoin solved decentralization by making rules immutable.
TCP/IP solved decentralization through ossification.
Nostr solves decentralization using a stupid simple event format.
Every successful protocol solved decentralization by removing the committees.
Keep Nostr Simple.
Reading stories about how someone’s life can be destroyed or irreversibly altered because they lost their phone or some papers in their wallet.
We can do better.
That’s why I am building #nostr #safebox
Cool! Any more detail?
Yeah. Just. Wow. 🤯
Watching all those bananasats come pouring in.
Thank you!
$0.25 CAD per view
Banana for sale. $0.25 CAD
Good to know. I am also concluding that zero knowledge proofs are a waste of time for the purported benefits they give you.
Unconditional love, gratitude and hard work is all you need.
Nostr is so late, or maybe so early?
Schnorr, not Shor. I don’t know much about Shor, other than it’s regularly name-dropped to instill fear into the fiat followers.
Back in the 90s, Adobe had a project called Camelot. The idea was simple but radical: make documents portable so they’d look the same no matter what computer, printer, or operating system you used. That’s how we got PDF — the portable document format. It went from an internal hack to the global standard for documents.
Nostr is sitting at a similar moment. Right now, our records — posts, payments, signatures, attestations — are scattered across silos and platforms. Each one has its own quirks, its own lock-in. But with Nostr events, we’ve got the chance to create a Portable Record Format:
Universal → any event can be relayed and read anywhere.
Portable → your records aren’t stuck in someone else’s database.
Faithful → signatures make sure the record is intact and authentic.
Standardized → like PDF became an ISO standard, Nostr could become the open standard for records.
PDF solved the “what you see is what you get” problem.
Nostr could solve the “what you sign is what you share” problem.
Portable documents changed everything. Portable records might do the same.
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
nostr:note1wguueqy5ctd6vagq2y8vxtl6902kpuw3nawkp2v8rm63ap96nv5ql6mndw
Zap test
Networks outcompete hierarchies.
Secure your private key. Verify everything else.
Still a work-in-progress but the key idea is that you can have a private record and funding stash out there in the nostr network only accessible by you without fear of being deplatformed.
nostr:npub1ssdszl2flqs33qdz8t9aqq4lkp7qm8qdwgxy4xwyye55tzlsacusgvunvc give #safebox a whirl again. I had the relay pointing to a vpn address that was no longer being used due to my infrastructure changes
Likely already collected and model trained.
Anyway, I think this a great advance. For me, I’ve boiled it down to: ‘how well-known is the signer in my web of trust?’ - nothing to do with reputation or endorsement, it’s organic, but heckuva great signal for TOFU.
The browser has morphed into a vendor-controlled computing platform.