Why is there an annotated version of the Bitcoin white-paper on Genius.com, a website for song lyrics?
Quite remarkably, the lyrics of the song âBitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash Systemâ composed by Satoshi Nakamoto were uploaded to Genius in 2013.
Most of the annotations and comments left are quite interesting. Among those who added their annotations are notable figures like nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp and nostr:npub1xeejes6lu4scttcmzytq5wfad3e6rljpmhc3snqs89xz3jjavfasnuz3mx - btw, someone should invite Balaji Srinivasan to be more active on Nostr!
https://genius.com/Satoshi-nakamoto-bitcoin-a-peer-to-peer-electronic-cash-system-annotated
Someone asked on Reddit the following questions: âExplain how Nostr works like Iâm a 5 year oldâ.
I really liked this answer by nostr:npub1xr5vhu2z0sfhlfsxwjnrjscurx5adaxq0lfft80cx9vwva8uew4qk293g6:
> For social media you need an identity that people can use to follow you, and you need a way to prove that your posts are made by you, not someone else using your identity. In traditional social media the service provider does these things when you create your username and password. The downside is that the provider can now block, ban, or censor you because you rely on logging in with them to post or see content.
> In Nostr you create a public/private key pair (npub and nsec). Your npub is your identity and you use your nsec to digitally sign your notes so everyone else can prove they came from you without relying on a centralized service provider. You send your notes to one or more relays, which are servers to store and distribute your content.
> There is no central person who can deny you access to your profile (you own it and you provide the proof its you). Relays are easy to set up so even if a relay operator decides to block you, you can just send your notes to different relays. Your followers can see your notes no matter what.
Wonderfully concise and to the point!
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1i6t4g7/comment/m8f1x7q/
One interesting thing I've noticed now that we've adopted being able to put any of your lists as a feed in nostr:nprofile1qy8hwumn8ghj7efwdehhxtnvdakqz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmnyqyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyf8wumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetnqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7uewwdhkx6tpdsqzqrezcph2cyqzdp80e35026z5p6p595tqn4gghn2rztqr3esef79kkewsr3 is that it really uncenters the main ContactList.. In some ways it's really amazing, we get a google plus circles like experience. Do i want to see posts by nostr devs, tap that list, if i want my nos team, i can look at that, or the nos recommended users, or people i follow on bluesky or mastodon... I can put all the overly enthusiastic posters on a list...
But a lot of Nostr apps are built around the idea that ContactList is your primary way of calculating the social graph. Especially Nos, we particularly use it for things like mutes, content warnings, etc... By making my lists way more open, a web, then Nostr works really differently.
What's more, what would happen when it'd be easy to use somebody else's lists the same way?
Yes, lists are essential, especially going forward with more and diverse people joining Nostr.
Too bad that Nos is still iOS only.
Apparently, the domain clipperz.is and the associated online password manager are blocked in these countries (and certainly others too). I guess those governments are not big fans of strong cryptography.
Clipperz is a project I co-created in 2005 â way before the W3C pushed browsers to provide native support for cryptographic primitives. Back then, the only way for a web app to execute a cryptographic protocol was to rely on Javascript code, which was slow and fragile.
Therefore, we had to write our own Javascript cryptographic library and build on top of them. We provided users with tools to run the whole app locally, and they could also check that the open source code was the same as the one running in the browser (a precursor of what became known as deterministic builds).
Of course, we were mocked by the whole security community, with very few exceptions (one being npub1xyd5ja34s4nk0l6urnh69wx9ep6uuxz2ujrkm2f8n6pfhgqa6y5s2xn6n2 ). We didn't care because we had a lot of fun, a reassuring security review from Cure53, and the love of many thousands of users.
With the evolving support of browsers for cryptographic algorithms, the online password manager became faster and more robust.
Clipperz has been running smoothly since 2005, happily serving its loyal and generous users, and it has never suffered a security breach of any sort.
"Powered by Nostr" will be the new "Intel inside".
Feeling optimistic ...
Today is a good day to relaunch what #Ross posted on Medium almost 4 years ago: a proposal for a new decentralized architecture for social media, a proposal that will appear quite familiar to all Nostr users. A truly remarkable document that could potentially serve as a roadmap for Nostr development.
Some of Ross's design goals have already been achieved by Nostr. Others still require further work. Some may not be well-received by the community or may be technically challenging to implement within the protocol.
I am skeptical about the role of advertisers being as central as Ross envisions. In his vision, advertisers are considered an essential pillar, alongside users, content servers, and interface providers.
Nonetheless, itâs something I recommend reading to everyone.
And the handmade diagrams are just so cute! <3
https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99
#freeross #socialmedia
Reposting with the aim of gathering comments on Ross's proposals for a new decentralized social media by those currently creating and shaping the Nostr ecosystem.
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Today is a good day to relaunch what #Ross posted on Medium almost 4 years ago: a proposal for a new decentralized architecture for social media, a proposal that will appear quite familiar to all Nostr users. A truly remarkable document that could potentially serve as a roadmap for Nostr development.
Some of Ross's design goals have already been achieved by Nostr. Others still require further work. Some may not be well-received by the community or may be technically challenging to implement within the protocol.
I am skeptical about the role of advertisers being as central as Ross envisions. In his vision, advertisers are considered an essential pillar, alongside users, content servers, and interface providers.
Nonetheless, itâs something I recommend reading to everyone.
And the handmade diagrams are just so cute! <3
https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99
#freeross #socialmedia
Iâll be damned. Ross is free. Heâs been issued a full pardon.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/21/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-trump-pardon
The Guardian still does not make any effort to understand what Silk Road was and why Ross created it.
To them Silk Road is a drug marketplace, and Ross the evil mind that created it.
Before memes were a thing, I was in love with Someecards.
I was not alone, Someecardsâ deadpan humor was quite popular back then.
Someecards launched in 2006, and it featured parodies of the traditional greeting cards. Unfortunately, in 2018 the "create card" feature was removed and users could no longer create and share their own custom ecards.
But before that happened, someone made this:
Stasera #SatoshiSpritz a Rimini.
Il mio primo in Italia dopo tanti anni e dopo tanti Bitcoin Meetup (o meglio Bitcoin Stammtisch) bavaresi.
Grazie!
Sembra essere sparita/o.
Nostrudel, Coracle, Listr, ...
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nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn5v9m827pww3jkx6qprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyd8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndamx2un9d9nkutnpwpcz7qpq3wnx7nyf0q6e2ltgae80d2l9nttk0dmvdrapjg7my8jl6kghtdss4ygkj3 : Yes, companies are welcome. Get in touch for instructions, thanks!
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