Nostr Web Client

A few facts about Primal:

- We have 4 devs: 1 iOS, 1 android, 1 web, 1 backend

- We open source everything we build under the MIT license

- We’ve raised a small seed round from mission-aligned investors

- We optimize our UX for onboarding new users to nostr and bitcoin

- We’ve always been friendly and supportive of other nostr projects

- We will continue building and shipping; that’s a promise

Our goal is to build a profitable business that serves nostr users and no-one else. We expect that to be a long process, spanning many years. We are here and ready to grind.

Anyhow, GM. ☀️

It’s great to see the master of making complex things easy in action.

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jack

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?

So now that a signup is easy (with Primal at least) what’s the incentive for people to signup? I think that being better than Twitter could be enough (in time)

When Apple came up with iPod, there were plenty really good MP3 players out there; then shortly only iPod was left.

The worst perversion of Justice was his acquittal

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Ivan

And if you think 3,5% you haven’t been to a grocery store!

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Ivan

Bullish.

totaly contrarian signal!

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Ivan

📖 Recommendation for anyone looking to create some better habits.

thanks - don't we all!

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I really enjoyed this conversation with nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z.

Given Preston’s audience, my goal was to talk about the virtues of Nostr, instead of simply shilling Primal. I hope we’ll see some new faces around here as a result of this pod.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEfH9jaLBz0

For many who, like me, were in despair over the erosion of our freedoms, thank you @miljan and the whole community for a mountain hope delivered!

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My Nostr predictions for 2024

Today marks one year since I joined Nostr. It’s been a crazy year, but I have a feeling that 2024 is going to be much crazier. Here are some predictions:

1. Nostr social media clients will become insanely good. By the end of the year we will surpass the legacy social media clients in terms of UX and features, making them look like relics of the past.

2. More lightning wallets will implement Nostr integration. By the end of the year Nostr will become a de facto standard public lightning directory.

3. The bitcoin bull run will bring more users to Nostr, adding more gravity to the network.

4. At some point, a massive new cohort of users will join Nostr. We won’t be ready for them. Relays and other services (indexers, media hosting, etc.) will struggle to support them. After some hiccups, the Nostr ecosystem will adjust.

5. With the increased network activity, spammers will return in force. They will be sophisticated and relentless, putting all of our spam mitigation services to the test.

6. Long form notes will become much bigger on Nostr.

7. At least one “other stuff” content type will take off in a meaningful way.

8. Nostr’s censorship resistance capabilities will get tested in a major public episode.

9. The AI community will get much more interested in Nostr. They will be attracted by the idea that open source language models, combined with Nostr’s open social graph and publicly accessible data - could actually democratize AI.

10. By the end of the year everyone - even the haters - will realize that Nostr is going to win.

11. nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx will accuse me of not being bullish enough.

Anyhow, GM ☀️ and Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🏻

The Oracle has spoken!

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https://apps.apple.com/app/primal/id1673134518

BIG NEWS: Primal for iOS is now live on the App Store.

This release comes with an integrated lightning wallet, ability to zap and get zapped, send & receive lightning payments, and buy small amounts of sats via an in-app purchase. I will talk in detail about our wallet approach soon.

We worked really hard to make the Nostr onboarding experience as smooth as possible, and give new users the ability to send and receive zaps without friction. Please try the app and let us know your thoughts! 💜🤙

Congratulations Miljan!

https://gem.cbc.ca/the-passionate-eye/s02e02?cmp=GEM_cbc.ca_homepage_shelfnew

We in Canada continue to pay CBC to call us racists:

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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻

How many terrorists has the TSA caught by making us take our laptops out of the bag?

Great and funny question!

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Lyn Alden

I know physicians in Egypt that, after their shift, go home and stack physical dollar bills. They earn no interest. If a thief or a fire takes their home, they're done.

They have looked around at the monetary technologies available to them, and decided that this was the best one: stacks of paper claims issued by the global hegemon that they're not particularly fond of, stored in their own home rather than trust the banks. What a sad state of affairs.

They put as much of their illiquid net worth as possible into buying a condo, and the rest of their liquid net worth goes into paper dollars with no interest. So, for starters, they have to sacrifice liquidity for savings.

Egypt is not a very tech-savvy market; bitcoin, stablecoins, and other similar tech are all on the fringes. Many Muslims believe that bitcoin is speculation and thus bad, and so I appreciate the work that Saifedean and others do to show that no, bitcoin is interest-free sound money and good. If anything it's fiat money that doesn't conform to Muslim ideals. But more importantly, most Egyptians haven't actually spent time to understand the tech, unlike Nigeria or other countries. It's just not a "thing" there yet.

The only time I encountered someone in person who had not yet heard of bitcoin, was in Egypt. I was speaking to a friend, and we were talking about the Iranian protests; she was happy that many women had taken off their head coverings if they wanted to (she herself was someone who did so in Egypt, where it's permissible). I was like, "yeah, but it's rough for them. They risk getting bank accounts shut off. That's why some of them have promoted bitcoin. but I think it's still way too small yet."

And she was like, "what's bitcoin?"

And I was surprised. Many people haven't understood bitcoin, but most have heard the name. She hadn't heard the name even in 2022.

What we have today is clearly a local maximum. This is clearly not the height of monetary technology.

nostr:note1thet3ggupzn9rmll84u4s2zunhah9a6l2ucjkvr95xlcp0h36tqqsg9eqc

Keeping paper money In mattresses is a pretty common in the countries where banks had flopped at some point.

In former Yugoslavia , for example, many people lost everything in 90’s with demise of state-owned banks.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/stay-at-home-mom-fined-37k-for-organizing-anti-restrictions-protests

The Canadian courts continue with righteous stance and just fined a woman 37k for protesting ugly lockdowns. What happened wit reconciliation?

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Lyn Alden

If a book had a decent number of diagrams and charts, would you want the audio version or would you want the physical/ebook (visual version)?

Secondary question- if those charts and diagrams are described in the audio version by someone who knows what they are talking about, would that affect the answer?

It will depend on the reader - someone who has interpreted charts before will be able to visualize them from audio

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Lyn Alden

If a book had a decent number of diagrams and charts, would you want the audio version or would you want the physical/ebook (visual version)?

Secondary question- if those charts and diagrams are described in the audio version by someone who knows what they are talking about, would that affect the answer?

Is epub/Mobi version in the making?