Is the purpose of the news to inform or propaganda?

If it is to inform why don't you know about the wars in Darfur or Congo? 24 hours a day about Ukraine and Palestine couldn't spare 5 minutes?

They called it the Federal Reserve System to make you trust it. But it’s not federal, and it holds no reserves. Just wait till that truth goes mainstream.

Loans are so retarded. 100% of payments should go to principal until that’s paid off. Scamming ass fags

How Nostr’s Self-Signed Events Became an Unintentional Conceptual Breakthrough

Sometimes, the most profound innovations happen by accident. Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) was originally designed as a simple, censorship-resistant social media protocol. But in its design, it unintentionally solved one of the biggest problems in decentralized systems: how to create a universal, trustless data verification model without centralized issuers.

The key breakthrough? Self-signed events—a concept so simple yet so powerful that it fundamentally changes how identity, reputation, and data integrity work on the internet.

The Problem: Most Digital Identity Models Rely on Trusted Third Parties

In most identity and data verification systems, trust depends on a central authority (a government, a corporation, or a network operator). The Issuer-Holder-Verifier model—which powers systems like Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs)—still assumes that:

1. An issuer must sign and vouch for the authenticity of data.

2. A verifier must check that signature against a trusted registry.

3. The holder is dependent on both parties for validation.

This model, even in its decentralized form, still reinforces external trust dependencies. It ensures that someone, somewhere, still has control over who can issue and revoke credentials.

The Nostr Breakthrough: Self-Signed, Self-Validating Data

Nostr’s design bypassed this entire structure by introducing self-signed events as the core data unit. Instead of requiring an external issuer to vouch for a message’s authenticity, the event itself proves its validity.

Here’s why this is revolutionary:

1. Every Nostr event is cryptographically signed by its creator.

• If the signature matches the public key, the event is valid.

• If anything in the message is altered, the signature breaks.

2. Verification requires no third-party trust.

• Anyone can check a signature without relying on a central authority.

• There’s no need to ask an “issuer” for validation—it’s built into the event itself.

3. No registry, revocation list, or lookup service is needed.

• Unlike the issuer-holder-verifier model, where verifiers check with an issuer, Nostr signatures are final and independent.

• The validity of a message is self-evident and self-contained.

Why This Matters: A New Paradigm for Trustless Systems

What started as a simple social media protocol accidentally created a universal model for decentralized, self-authenticating data. This breakthrough has implications far beyond Nostr:

• Decentralized Identity Without Issuers: Instead of a government or corporation issuing credentials, a person can simply sign messages proving ownership over data.

• Tamper-Proof, Uncensorable Communication: Because each event is self-authenticating, it cannot be modified or faked without breaking the cryptographic proof.

• A New Reputation Model: Trust can emerge organically by recognizing long-term, signed activity—without relying on external authorities to issue credentials.

Conclusion: Nostr as an Accidental Innovation

Nostr wasn’t created to replace digital identity systems or redesign trust models. It was just meant to be a censorship-resistant protocol for social media. But in its simplicity, it stumbled upon a fundamental conceptual breakthrough: self-validating, self-sovereign data.

This shift—from issuer-dependent verification to self-signed, universal proof—could reshape how we think about identity, credentials, and trust in a decentralized world.

The traditional web is great for how it has improved our lives: browser/https/dns/rest/api/tcp/ip

But I fear that this improvement is now going into full adversarial reversal and we need to look at entirely new architectures.

That’s where #nostr comes in.

Though, today, many #nostr client/npub/relay implementations rely on the above protocols , I believe that there is a clean enough conceptual breakaway from the traditional web and its limitations.

For example, an ip address can be replaced by a npub, that I can generate and bind it to me only. In contrast to an ip address which needs to be assigned.

Anyway, that’s where my thinking is going, especially after reviewing authentication protocols, though ‘modern’ are inextricably bound to the legacy traditional web and are reaching the end of their lives, no longer appropriate in this new world that is emerging.

Curious of any other thoughts on this.

Not even a U.S. Shitcoin Reserve is able to start „Altseason“. Bagholders for life 💀

i just had an idea for an actually useful thing to do with an AI that has been trained on a huge volume of scientific/engineering technology data:

create a map of the essential technologies and facilities required to maintain the use of - eg, diesel engine without critical electrical systems

eg. how to effectively preserve functioning computers and policies for maintaining data storage for a 50 year period while the technology returns after a sudden total loss of all electrical dependent infrastructure

these are very important questions to ask if we are looking down the barrel of a serious geomagnetic disaster

from time to time, nostr seems less active. from time to time, old nostriches post less often. from time to time, activity and engagement seem down. is that the case? perhaps from time to time, but overall, over the last 6 months, nostr is about the same or even slightly higher in weekly active users.

we see other networks growing, outpacing nostr, but no one said decentralization was going to be easy. we have a massive uphill battle ahead of us, and we're mostly going forward without a clear path, making our own as we push forward.

it's okay to struggle. this helps define the problems that need to be resolved.

i haven't been saying to create notes and send zaps every single day for the past two years, because i have nothing else to say. i say it, because it's a constant reminder that all of you, every single npub, to continue contributing, because this *IS* hard and *YOUR* contributions do matter.

nostr's not dead and has a bright future ahead.

#imapoet

keep building.

Trump said AI data centers will have their own power generation without plugging into the grid. Would that work?

GM from beautiful Colombia.

With all the chaos and nonsense going on in the world right now, I wanted to share something that I believe is critical as it relates to what is happening on #bitcoin (the first global free market that can’t be cheated) versus a system of corruption (trying to stop that system) Either 1) through willful intent or 2) lack of knowledge.

(*the majority of people fall into the lack of knowledge group)

According to game theory and playoff matrices: even when there are very high rewards and low punishment (they wouldn’t get caught) approximately 10% of people won’t cheat - no matter what!They place a higher internal value on integrity that overrides external rewards. I’ve seen this number as low as 2.5% and as high as 20%.

Why is that important:

Although everyone wants to see themselves as one of the honest, the math says that between 80 - 97.5% of people will cheat depending on the rewards. Now enter money - the ultimate pot of gold with high rewards and low punishment for cheating because people don’t understand it. Most people will cheat - a mirror of the world we see and have seen in Bitcoin since its inception. Need inflation, bad for environment, drug money, doesn’t scale, crypto, meme coins - the list will go on and on because if people can “get rich at someone else’s expense - most will. Those are simply the numbers and always have been.

In fact, in prior periods of history, the honest were at a massive disadvantage because and would often be killed by the cheaters. Because the integrity was so rare, society would often celebrate these people after their deaths as lessons of what we wanted our higher selves to look like.

#bitcoin has changed the equation. Giving those with integrity the power. Why: because 2.5 - 20% of people that won’t cheat is a massive number - especially if many of those people are decentralized and can’t be “found”. Those are the people who eventually run nodes, contribute their time and energy to keeping #bitcoin decentralized and secure, watch for attack vectors, build value on top of this protocol, call out the cheaters, teach and advocate to help others see it. Those people simply can’t be bought, and more are joining every day.

That decentralized and secure protocol bounded by energy is repricing everyone and everything from the other system and it will continue to do so as that system tries to grapple with: the cheaters no longer make the rules.

It will be chaotic, many more will try to cheat (don’t be afraid to slay your heroes) but in the end…..Satoshi unlocked a way to put the best of us into a protocol that was best for all of us.

What a time to be alive.

When I think of buying something I always multiply by x2500 to see how much it would be worth in Bitcoin at 100% adoption. Example:

A $10k x 2500 = $25M

A $10k car is not worth $25M which means I’d rather stack sats for that $10k to get the $25M in 10 years.

What is the problem with seed oils?!

Hey nostr, not your usual post coming from me, but a genuine question since i see so much talk about avoiding seed oil, and E chemicals (or whatever they’re called). Now my diet is mostly based around red meat and i cook almost exclusively with olive oil (aside from butter sometimes) also try to eat a nice variety of fruits and vegetables, etc. This isn’t an attack just a genuine question, if you answer is gonna be “because seed oils are bad!😡” don’t bother replying i would like to generate some discussion😃

#asknostr #carnivor #seedoils #health

Running #solid media kraken with #nostr login. What could be better?

Almost finished the solid + nostr integration, meaning that it will be possible to build a whole new generation of apps, an order of magnitude faster, and several OOMs more scalable, at the intersection. Best of all worlds, for the end user!

0.5 felts like the safe bet, but really didn’t believe Powell would go anything other than the safe 0.25% cut. So, does this means bulltard mode can be fully engaged and we all get girlfriends? #bitcoin

The phone market is severely underserved. Every time you buy a phone, there's the danger it will be a piece of junk, or become one too fast. This causes us to mostly all buy the same models, and we rush to the latest gen of whatever.

But I might not want even more pixels on my camera, or want a camera at all, or maybe I want a physical switch to control if my microphone is connected. These aren't even options on the market.

Here's how we fix it - and fix the fucking surveillance, too. Sell phones in pieces, and allow people to mix and match parts from different sellers. Make it as customizable as possible. Parts just snap together and the OS is ready to switch stuff.

Some part of your phone isn't up to snuff anymore? Switch it out. I might want a new CPU but not need a new screen. I might not want a camera at all.

For sure, this would cause less profits for Apple and Google. But the hundred other phone makers, that barely make any sales, don't have much to lose if they switch to supplying interchangeable parts.

And it might even spark a creative mania. I'll jump all over replacing the camera with a high powered laser. Or a handheld mass spectrometer, another gadget I dream about.

#Phones #tech #innovation #lasers #makers