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Inventor of the word “spywall”. Proof: https://damus.io/note1crepuk77r7dxpugv8vqh5de8xnatxlu2rmztxd70nuhs686pdfssw28plm I do bitcoin stuff. Heard about Bitcoin in 2011. Didn’t act on it until years later. 😅

My holiday tradition is watching really bad ‘80 movies. 🍿

Last night I watched Masters of the Universe from 1987. Oldest movie that I know of starring Courtney Cox (she’s as pretty as ever in this movie).

Also surprised to see that Tom Parris of #voyager fame also starred in this movie 😃

Today I discovered that Jeff Goldblum's greatest performance was in fact in the movie "The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai" from 1984 🤯

This is a great statistic. I’ve shared this on my free open Bitcoin only newsletter (via WhatsApp): https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va9PHyn2975Gqo9RkZ0m

I've remarked before that #NOSTR is the perfect protocol to base a new photo sharing platform on.

What if NaturePics is nothing more but a paid relay that only accepts and relays notes from it's own client (maybe by adding a field in the note that is basically a f=(AxB) where A=the NPUB and B a hardcoded password in the clientapp and f=the code that makes your note be allowed on the relay. B can be updated every now and then to prevent spam attacks on this relay.

In this gated NOSTR community you own your social graph (because well hidden is settings is your NSEC) but you only see nature pictures.

NaturePictues is just one example off course, but I know that the sharing-pics-between-platforms is a real hassle. What if some friends are on Android and some on Apple (and don't have a gmail account) ? Then Google Photodrive is not an option, and neither is a shared Apple-Photo-Album.

Making a cross-platform-photo sharing app is one of the many ways NOSTR can be utilised 😃 nostr:note1e3lk3zcmh5vftqxc3jqe0ng9h7h3lw002yaak0ut3adhdnuct2eqr5qxrt

Replying to Avatar Max DeMarco

This is my RADICAL approach to how I would build a community-first Nostr client:

First of all: remove access to the entire ecosystem once a user logs in. (I know this sounds counterintuitive, but hear me out).

This is a community-first approach. Once you're onboarded by a creator, you don't want random Bitcoin or footstr content on your timeline. You came to interact with the community. In the beginning, give users as little choice as possible when it comes to interacting with the protocol.

All they see and feel is the core function of the client: COMMUNITY!

They didn’t come to grow their own community or make new internet friends—they came for the artist, the YouTuber, or whoever it is they care about.

So give them time to slowly get used to the new interface and focus on enjoying their first experience. How do we do that?

From a product and UX perspective, this means thinking about how users interact with the platform and designing an intuitive, engaging experience.

Based on conversations with my friends, here’s what they need:

User-first approach (duh): Users own their data and private keys but don't know that at first. The experience starts as a simple username-password login (NIP-07).

Onboarding: There needs to be a paywall (both fiat and BTC), with as little friction as possible.

Forum-style discussions: Organize content into threads/topics so users can easily participate in conversations.

Threaded discussions: Each thread allows for nested replies, much like Reddit or traditional forums, enabling deep, organized conversations.

Tagging system: Let users tag content by topic or interest to make navigation easier.

We don't want to overcomplicate things—just keep it simple. Make it a basic forum where they only see content from their community.

Voting/Engagement system: Introduce upvoting, reactions, or comments on posts—this is easy.

Now comes the magic of Nostr... with zaps (tips) or the ability to send money back and forth, users slowly realize that this is actually different. (You see? We’re getting there gradually.)

Moderation tools: Yeah, I know this sounds lame, but some creators wouldn’t want their forum spammed with footstr pics (sorry, guys). Allow some users to moderate discussions, flag inappropriate content, or create private spaces within the community.

This is the basic community client mvp. It would be enough for some creators who care about freedom and want to build a community on a self-sovereign level. The rest comes later down the road.

Private and public spaces: Offer both public forums and private groups where users can control membership and discussions—more options for the user.

Leaderboards: Show the most active or helpful members based on engagement, contributions, zaps, or participation.

Reputation: WoT, yes baby—now we're getting closer to the full Nostr ecosystem.

Achievements: Gamify the experience by rewarding users with badges or other forms of recognition for their engagement.

User-controlled feed: Implement a home feed based on the relays and topics the user follows - this is where I would open up the whole nostr ecosystem (how? I have no clue yet).

Analytics: Give admins and group leaders insights into community engagement, most active users, and popular threads.

User feedback system: Allow users to provide feedback on discussions, groups, and content, enabling continuous improvement for the content creator / community owner but also for the client.

These are my first thoughts.

After brain-dumping all of this, I realize that this almost works as a white-label solution for creators.

So… does this make sense? What do you think?

I know it’s radically different from opening up the whole Nostr ecosystem to users, but I want to experiment with this. Based on conversations I’ve had, people would be overwhelmed by too much too soon.

This also solves the problem of onboarding people and letting them follow random accounts. Here, they follow people with similar interests and those they already trust, which reflects trust onto the protocol as a whole.

I’m not sure if this will eventually lead to users discovering the full beauty of the Nostr ecosystem, but hey—that’s for later down the road. At least this is running on nostr in the backend.

Also, I have no idea how to code any of this. But I want to make it happen. This is me starting an open conversation.

Let’s see where this takes us and how we can make it happen together. 🧡

I've remarked before that #NOSTR is the perfect protocol to base a new photo sharing platform on.

What if NaturePics is nothing more but a paid relay that only accepts and relays notes from it's own client (maybe by adding a field in the note that is basically a f=(AxB) where A=the NPUB and B a hardcoded password in the clientapp and f=the code that makes your note be allowed on the relay. B can be updated every now and then to prevent spam attacks on this relay.

In this gated NOSTR community you own your social graph (because well hidden is settings is your NSEC) but you only see nature pictures.

NaturePictues is just one example off course, but I know that the sharing-pics-between-platforms is a real hassle. What if some friends are on Android and some on Apple (and don't have a gmail account) ? Then Google Photodrive is not an option, and neither is a shared Apple-Photo-Album.

Making a cross-platform-photo sharing app is one of the many ways NOSTR can be utilised 😃

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I just drove 80km in north Italy and 4 separate times I saw police cars that stopped drivers and where writing them tickets.

That’s a police stop every 20km. Italians are either doing something very wrong or something very right 🤔

Can we be real for a second? We have poisoned our food supply, engineered highly addictive chemicals that we put into our food. We spray it with pesticides that kill pests. What do you think they do to our gut lining and our microbiome? And then they come in sick. The GI tract is reacting. It's not an acute inflammatory storm. It's a low grade chronic inflammation. And it makes people feel sick, and that inflammation permeates and drives so many of our chronic diseases that we didn't see half a century ago.

(...)

We cannot keep going down this path. We have the most over-medicated, sickest population in the world. And no one is talking about the root causes. The Pima Indians are the perfect example. Here is a group where the obesity diabetes rate was less than 1%. The land in New Mexico and Arizona had its rivers supplied, diverted by ranchers and settlers, and the land and the soil was destroyed. The government, recognizing this tremendous injustice, started to send free government food, but it wasn't organic kale and fruit and vegetables, it was processed and junk food. Instantly, the Pima Indians developed an obesity, diabetes rate of 90 percent.

Read the whole thing here: https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1838665564648280274

BOLT-12 solves for receiver privacy, Taproot channels solve for chain analysis, and PTLCs solve for malicious routers and enable async payments for mobile devices and browser extensions. We're seeing it in use all over the world.

Is there any more Lightning FUD that hasn't been addressed by the latest developments on layers? What is Lightning missing as a fully complete alternative to shitcoins like Monero?

Source: https://x.com/cryptoquick/status/1838951397427179796

Argos, the revolutionary tool that makes visible the hidden patterns and cascading effects of retractions on scientific research.

https://www.scitility.com/blog/press-release-sept-2024

Very good idea: being able to unfollow the weak link 👍

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Why can’t I zap you today 😥

The #Apple #EarpodsPro2 have active noise canceling.

But they are unable to filter the Italian Grandpa Who’s Calling His Granddaughter On Speakerphone.

I just tried 😂

Where are the Palestinians in Gaza on Nostr that I can Zap directly if I feel like helping them out?

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It makes no sense to me that an OG from the 1st era of ₿ would dox himself to Kraken like this.

Why not send the coins to Liquid first? Or to a DEX?

https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1838565573673844790

Sorry. Bit too late now. But you can prevent jet lag by going to sleep and waking up at certain times specific to your destination.

You can use the Time Shift app to calculate these 😅