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David W
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It was meant to trigger 😂 Nostr will win out. Just some ways to go before zaps become more lucrative. Think we’ll see spaces & social circles leading to more zapping

Easy mistake to make. But bitcoiners are everywhere and you’ll find plebs in any country 💪⚡️just need a few weeks to make those connections

Thanks mate. Hopefully will be setup to host you when the time is right 😁 hope you’re all doing great.

You missing the 🐻 like I am?😂

Would zap this if I could ⚡️👏

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I ran some usability tests on 3 nostr clients to get an idea of where new people are struggling. The testing was meant primarily for UI/UX issues. Keep in mind the same of people is small (10) so it may not give us a complete picture.

For each test, I took down notes and counted how many times people pointed out various issues. I then tallied them up to get a general idea of the problem areas:

Terminology issues - 19

UI issues - 15

Discovery issues - 12

Key issues - 12

Perception issues - 8

Lack of content - 5

Didn’t read - 4

Possible major bug - 3

Terminology refers to people who indicated being confused about some of the nostr terms. Among most confusing things were: Keys, relays, Nostr address, nostr, lightning address.

Except for one occasion, everyone was universally lost on those terms and did not have enough information to understand them. People didn’t even know what nostr is (understandably so given that the clients are not named nostr).

UI issues is a broad category of various UI problem areas. My summarized findings point out all of the issues users faced while trying the apps.

Perception issues is my way of defining how people are perceiving the apps. Most people compared them to Twitter. But some have attributed other things like “for trading bitcoin” or “for gambling” among other assigned purposes. Whether that’s an actual problem or not is up to developers to decide, but if you want your apps to appeal to everyone, that’s something to think about.

Discovery issues are where people couldn’t find what they were tasked with - for example finding interesting notes or people.

Key issues encompass a range of problems people ran into such as not knowing if their keys are saved, or how to recover them, or what they mean in the first place. One person logged in with their npub without write permissions and couldn’t do any other tasks, showing a lot of frustration in the process.

Lack of content is just that…

Didn’t read - means they skipped whatever screen was there just to sign up quickly. Most people did not read, though one did. This is important because we need to think about how to make things easy to understand without much reading.

There were a bunch of bugs which could fall under UI issues, but on 3 occasions there were major bugs where the user could not do anything to advance forward. This underscores the importance of testing clients on various operating systems and browser configurations.

The current test findings are in a Google sheet, and I’m happy to share with any developer who’d like to see them. For testers’ privacy reasons I will not share a public link here. DM me if you’d like a link.

Fantastic work. Can never be enough of this 👊⚡️

Great write-up and justification for separating funds with new wallets. Top-up, spend and replenish.

Makes total sense to limit the amount of funds each service has access to. Rather than having complex configurations in macaroon files that depend on user awareness, fresh wallets will give us what we need. As you say we’re already doing it day to day with custodial solutions and users benefit by not exposing private keys.

Love what I see you’re building at Mutiny. Can’t wait to dive deeper into the API.

Thanks Car.

Just shows how much crazy good content has been posted on the site to date. Appreciated the golf clap. Have an epic weekend

Missing the bear market already

PlebDev Journey:

Swapping 🟥RED squares in the physical world for 🟩GREEN ones in the digital realm.

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I hear you. Portugal is a better idea. They are part of the EU (a sinking ship) and do depend on business & immigration to sustain themselves. But they have a solid friendly culture and having family as a safety net can be important.

Hope things become clearer and easier for you guys. Enjoy your Sunday with the fam, my friend

I know myself that moves like this are never easy. The good thing is you have your wife’s family to support you both. And Mercosur will still allow you to jump around if need be.

I do believe that such mandates are easier to circumvent this side of the water, than in Europe. You will find like-minded people who are prepared to help you, less worried about the ramifications. As the Sovereign Individual states:

“It will therefore be easier for persons living in traditionally poorer countries to surmount the hurdles that their governments have thereto placed in the path of economic growth.”

“Freedom is stronger than slavery, and a good idea, once spread is impossible to stamp out.”

“When men are free to think and produce, they innovate and improve everything around them at a startling rate.”

📕 The Market For Liberty

(revisiting a recent write-up)

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“In nations with relatively limited governments, this conflict may only be minor, but in totalitarian countries it can amount to a latent civil war between the ruled and the rulers.”

“A sizeable laissez-faire society, simply by existing, would amplify stresses within the nations and compel them to move rapidly toward either complete freedom or tyranny.”

“Producers in every nation would want to move to a the laissez-faire society. Governments wouldn't be able to offer the men of ability in their countries enough to keep them from flocking.”

Ideally. However a second citizenship is likely sufficient, as a 1st step.

If you have a citizenship, that country will very likely let you in. If you have a 2nd passport, the leaving country cannot likely keep you in.

Providing you have enough time to arrange travel, a 2+ year temporary citizenship is likely sufficient for most use cases. Particularly as a stepping stone to a passport 🤙