what have we become

Patreon platform is horrible, bad UX, messy, etc...

Who's building pay walled creator community alternatives on Nostr?

I've received a lot of suggestions that #0xChat needs to simplify some features and focus more on chatting. Here are some planned tasks:

1. Remove Moments, along with the like and reply push notifications for notes.

2. Remove Channels.

3. Simplify the UI.

4. Replace secret chat with NIP-104 DMs.

5. Replace private groups with NIP-104 groups.

What do you think?🤔

We have all been there

Bike riding, lots of squats, some deadlifts, some sprints, some pushups, some dumbbells, long walks in the sun, and cold plunges.

That's kind of my vibe now.

This sounds good .. just can’t import my private key to connect to my

Profile .. throwing an error

There it is. nostr:note12dlu0pz20pw3x0x9h2vhjhe3pd9n53qk39krgghqpa4hw3tv5c5svwudkn

I think people are very excited about a mainstream company with 70M users creating a bitcoin offering.

But I also think people are tired of bullshit marketing claims.

The world is not black and white.

My X account got suspended. I am not told what post(s) or action(s) caused this.

I had over 10k followers.

Necessity is the mother of migration.

Yes, unless somehow it is removed from all accessible the relays.

Here's an #asknostr for today as I finish up a round of research. I've already looked into this a lot myself but it's ever-changing and there are people way deeper than me into this.

Frictions and risks related to key management are often cited by critics as one of Nostr's limitations. You lose your key, and you lose your identity. Plugging your key into a bunch of different apps is not ideal, since the more you do, the bigger the potential attack surface is for a leak.

Restricting your usage to a couple apps or browser extensions, and using them to sign for other applications, seems to be the best method so far for minimizing the attack surface.

Looking beyond that, what sorts of protocol updates or app services are ideal to help minimize the frictions and risks of key management while keeping the protocol itself super simple as it is?

Keychat users can have an unlimited number of IDs, and generating and deleting them is very convenient. You can switch between different IDs by swiping left or right. nostr:note103pekl3q5wh275dw0zlqwgec2qy7lkp9d7xsk7nuy926xl9805lsj3w6ua

I’d be happy to contribute to and use my public platform to bring attention to legal defense funds for people who build open source privacy tools, or for legal attempts to push back on unconstitutional government financial surveillance.

I just need to know that they are credible from people I trust.

nostr:npub1tm99pgz2lth724jeld6gzz6zv48zy6xp4n9xu5uqrwvx9km54qaqkkxn72 – a chat app built on nostr is the first app to support multisig Cashu ecash – collaborative zapping LFG!

3000+ users 🎉

Try it!

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

A story that illustrates why I will never orange pill anyone ever again.

2015- Attempt to orange pill friend multiple times. No dice. Totally uninterested.

2019- He asks me if now is a good time to get into bitcoin. “It’s always a good time”. I set him up with a HW wallet and tell him DCA and chill.

2019- Friend calls me a few months later, he wants to put the down payment money for his house into bitcoin, but he’s nervous. I say no worries I will backstop your investment. What’re friends for?! I want you to succeed. He now has a no risk investment. Financed by me.

2020: Friend is doing well. Has been stacking hard and has 2 coins. A great stack for his income.

2021: He starts watching cringey YouTube videos about shitcoin trading. Gets into a private telegram, trades his 2 bitcoin into 4 and then gets rug pulled and loses everything.

2021: He’s near suicidal, very dark times. He doesn’t tell me anything because he knows I warned him about trading and thinks I’ll be disappointed in him. Finally he tells me. I help him get a personal loan so he can take advantage of the remainder of the bull run. He sells at 55k and manages to break even. He’s not up but he’s got his house money back.

2023: We’re out drinking with some other friends from high school. He expresses some jealousy towards me in a semi awkward fashion. “Every time I see this dude (me) I think about bitcoin.”

2024: I meet up with him so the kids can play at the park. Vibe is off. Lots of insecurity and tension. They’re going on a trip to San Diego and I ask if they might go to the zoo while there. “I can’t afford that. That’s for rich people like you”. Odd interaction, but I shake it off.

2024: A few weeks later he gets drunk and hits on my wife via text messages. She shows me immediately and I confront him. He’s like “sorry bro I was drunk I didn’t mean it”. I tell him off and make clear this is the last time we will ever speak.

No good deed goes unpunished. I could not have been nicer to this dude and more helpful along the way and he is fully consumed by envy towards me.

Unfortunate.