I chose to be bitcoin only. Its a free world.

No is buying ltc

Foloow the money.

You can buy bitcoin on robosats or on in other places no kyc and have btc anonymously

If i wanna stay poor ill setup a ltc node and just get ltc

What software do you know which I can self host to crowdfund a project? I am interested in writing an OAuth 2.0 provider to allow users login through nostr on websites which support it such as Discourse, MediaWiki, Wikijs and so on. I want the crowdfunding software to support self hosting, payments in multiple cryptocurrencies and I shouldn't have control of the money till the threshold is reached. Like I ask for 3000 USD and then either in 30 days it is reached or if not, the money is returned to the senders.

#bounty #crowdfund #nostr #crypto #cryptocurrency #selfhost #foss #bitcoin

Cryptography is not politically neutral technology.

Uncomfortable Nostr Reality check:

I've tried to Nostr-pill all my YouTube friends (some of them have incredible amounts of subs), but none of them care about the censorship resistance or decentralization. Even though they know Nostr exists, they have no incentive yet to come here. Their audience would follow them anywhere, but they need the tools to create community communications.

It's a sad reality, but it all comes down to usability, UX, and ultimately the easiness of paying and signing up for the community. None of these can afford to have a sign-up problem or issues with someone being interested in joining the community/their platform. It needs to work flawlessly and feel and look professional. Some of them charge $3-5k a year just to get access to this closed space, and people are willing to pay for this.

Another big pain point is community management. All of these YouTubers create these platforms to help their audience have a safe place to communicate with each other and build their own tribe.

Nostr is capable of facilitating all of this - we're just not there yet. We need to somehow invest so much more into UX and design.

All of this will come when the time is due. So, knowing that all of this is possible and that ultimately, Nostr will be powering most of these via the social graph, is what makes me extremely bullish. But also, let's not get ahead of ourselves and expect them to come already.

The UX and features are not there yet for these people. I am more than happy to help anybody trying to make this a reality. I want nothing more than having these people join Nostr. But I also totally understand their pain points. So, if you're a dev or a company working on this, please feel free to reach out - I can tell you all the issues they told me. Or just tell me how to best do this; maybe I can jump on a podcast so the issues are open-sourced for the whole community to hear.

#nostrdesign #asknostr

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...? What would you like me to expand on? I've said what I said, is is there some particular detail you'd like to have a conversation about?

Satoshi must be an academic.

Out of the only 8 references cited in the Bitcoin paper, 5 are academic research papers, of which 3 are academic conference proceedings from scientific symposia.

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How am I supposed to use it if no one I know accepts it? They are not even familiar with it.

You might be right about darknet usage but I don't need anything that requires payment there.

In my business, I'm paying my supplier with bitcoin and he doesn't accept shitcoins. Are you telling me in order to use monero, I actually have to convince him to accept it? Sorry, I don't have the time or energy for that. And how will it be more private if my supplier knows that it's me who's paying him.

In addition, and this is a VERY important point, how do I go on about purchasing it KYC-free? If your answer is that I should exchange my bitcoin for it, then you need to seriously consider how crazy you sound.

You expecting me to let go of bitcoin and concentrate on monero is a shitcoinologist's wet dream.

May I get kind of hints for newbi #crypto #trader

If there is not a lot of interest in the coin from users and miners the network is vulnerable.

While privacy coins are important I have a hard time believing they will ever be more popular than say VPNs are in China - used by a small minority. Governments will make them illegal so only hard core will use them. Therefore privacy coins need to be secure without large scale adoption. #xmr #zcash

Someone please merge the privacy technology of ZCash with the Bitcoin lightning protocol. Voila! Currency. #bitcoin #zcash #monero

I've been thinking about how much smaller and weaker the #cipherpunk movement is as compared to the 1990's.

Now, to be fair, people in that era were legands. Bringing #PGP to people, for example. DeCSS, the battle for #privacy, and so on.

Now I see people who not only hate #bitcoin and #crypto, but they dedicate time and effort to convincing others that it's a technology which must be defeated at all costs.

So what happened? Why are people who would normally be happy to cheer on those who try to empower the user and cut out huge #corporations be treat us with such hostility?

1. The cipherpunks were always a very small number of people, in a few small groups. Many of the groups are no longer around due to implosions that people outside the group do not fully understand. But new people have appeared, so that doesn't explain everything.

2. People have given up the the fight for privacy. Many people have told me they don't care if corporations see their data as long as they get high quality, cheap or free service. Some never cared, others have been ground down over the years, still others can't justify the level of a pain in the ass that it is to have a reasonable amount of privacy. I think this is a big part of the lack of entheuasim. It's hard to get excited when you feel like you can't win.

3a. As for bitcoin in particular, it seems to be the people who haven't stayed humble. You know the type. The ones who will tell nocoiners to "have fun staying poor". The ones who write off concerns about the environment and insult people instead of taking the time to explain the grids being built in Africa, the methane capture, the increased speed of building out of solar and wind power generation, and so forth.

3b. Bitcoin is lumped in with the blockchain projects, and the failures like FTX and MtGox. The community has gotten better at trying to distinguish bitcoin from the wannabes, but there's more work to be done. Again, insulting people will not cause them to change their mind nor their ways.

3c. At the same time, bitcoin is seen by many as a wall street toy that makes big #bankers rich. The #community has not done as well at disputing this, and a large part of that is because so few business want to accept btc. The "it's not currency because you can't use it to buy goods and services" isn't entirely wrong. People on nostr know you can buy a few things directly in btc if you really try hard enough, but groceries, gas, the power bill? Ha! No. We also know you can buy gift cards and use them at places like Amazon, but that's just a pragmatic hack which sort of reenforces that so few places/people accept bitcoin. To compound matters, few want to part with their coins because NGU. It's a rut where the only way I can see out is to get individual people to accept and then hold btc for goods they make or services they provide. If it were more useful as a currency, it'd take the wind out if the sails of this "but purely speculative" perception. Keep having those conversations when the opportunity arises, and realize that if your pushing bitcoin on people who don't want to hear about it, it'll just entrench them in their existing views. Talk about how it has benefited you personally and if they are curious, they'll ask.

4. Being against corporate dominance, and living by what they believe, cipherpunks have a hard time getting their message out. It's not like they're going to buy ads on Google or Facebook to tell people to use Tor. This also somewhat dovetails with the first point. When there were a small number of groups, it was easier for people to know what is going on and try to join in the efforts. When there are instead 1000 different projects that don't talk to one another and new projects spinning up that are doing the same thing that the existing projects have done for a decade, it's really hard to stay in the know. On top of that, there's few people to do the work at hand because efforts are so fragmented. I appreciate all of you who ask for projects that do XYZ and those who boost and answer. I don't have any delusions that people are going to abandon their project in order to join forces with another project, but maybe we could at least stop digging this hole even deeper? Just a thought.

5. Maybe the threats to #freedom and privacy aren't that bad as compared to how they were 30 years ago. I don't buy it, and the doomers clearly don't either. Still, if people do believe this, it would explain the lack of urgency and enthusiasm.

I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones that came to mind today. And if you've gotten this far and still want to tell me I'm completley wrong and that bitcoin is not just a speculative asset, I mean I guess go ahead if you want, but you're preaching to the choir. So if that's you, try telling me how I can communicate my message better instead. Where did you get confused? How can I use fewer words and get my message across more clearly?

If there's any question about what that message is, it's that I want the people to be on the side of the cypherpunks who are fighting evil corporations. And not just the people on #nostr, or on social media. I mean everyone!

They are scared. Ignore them