Kinda unrelated to this post but what is a good alternative to starting a company right now? I have an idea that I want to be a thing of it's own, so I have an international trademark for the brand, a nostr key pair, a domain name and a GitHub organization. The last two won't be necessary in the future. For any payments, I can use Bitcoin and don't need to involve the gov.
But are there somethings that I can take advantage of? Are there some things that I should avoid no matter what?
It should still refer to the original, the edit is more like a special reply from the post author itself
If a nostr client wants, it can allow you to:
- Comment on a like
- Delete a deletion
- Send DMs that are public
- Quote someone else's encrypted DM on a blog post
+ and anything else that you can think of.
Doesn't mean they should or that you should cheer for them if they do
For bootstrapping such a network, the links can also be logical initially:
You can be connected to x-router via IP itself, which is physically connected to let's say the most active community of this protocol.
You start connecting to y-router directly when Y Inc starts supporting this protocol and sets up an ISP in your locality
What would it take to zap directly from one's bank account here in India using UPI that gets auto converted to lightning payments via Strike's APIs?
- NIP-97 Login with Nostr (https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1042)
- Login with Nostr via NIP-07 if user has window.nostr
- Let user connect their cal.com account to their nostr profile via NIP-46 remote signing, and then use that signer to generate NIP-52 Calendar Events when possible
VSCodium instead of VSCode, Chromium instead of Chrome
Thing I learnt from Twitter this week:
Adding "no yapping" to the end of ChatGPT prompts make it answer things much more concisely
If this system was built into the operating systems and supported by ISPs, then you could do P2P data transfer securely and all the P2P solutions (that don't even work) won't be needed
You could even generate an ephemeral identifier for each video call, file transfer etc to preserve your privacy. Or connect to your home lightning node from your phone without TOR
Yes. That same Dat Protocol was renamed to Hypercore and was governed by the Hypercore Protocol Org. Now it's governed by Holepunch, a company that's "backed by" Tether, so it's a subsidiary I guess, just like John Carvalho's Synonym.
Fun fact: John Carvalho's comments on some podcast that they will do a decentralized Twitter alternative some day (probably was thinking of using Hypercore back then) made me realize it's possible, and then I discovered nostr.
I spent 7 months after college in 2021 without a job and learn as much about bitcoin as possible. Also discovered nostr and hypercore at that time.
I understood the entirety of what nostr was back then in 15 minutes. Bitcoin took a few months. I have been working as a dev for 2 years now, still have no clue how any of the things from Holepunch work. It has always stayed in my list of things to learn about, but for some reason, I just can't intuitively understand anything, no matter how much I try.
I was looking into pear aka hypercore quite a bit in 2022, a lot more than nostr at the time before getting pulled back here.
Pear was previously named Hypercore Protocol and has been around as a research project for a while, with a relationship to Bittorrent.
It uses the Kademila DHT to discover peers on the internet but requires holepunching.
It is worth looking at the internet archive to see the old diagrams before they modified the website to be what it is now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220704132854/https://hypercore-protocol.org/protocol/#hyperswarm
As for quality of audio/video over keet, its much better than any other app, and also works over VPN.
A lot of hiccups last year caused keet to break on my network but it seems to have been fixed in the last few months.
The quality of experience still needs work, but I'd not dismiss it entirely and keep an eye on what is happening. There are enthusiasts using it on a regular basis.
It was called Dat Protocol once, then they rebranded. Paul Frazee tried building a decentralized social network called CTZN using it but don't think that took off. Paul has also heavily contributed to the SSB ecosystem, and now works at Bluesky if I am not wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL44nU_eAhM
The better thing to do would be to use a simpler protocol for private sharing of files etc (like the Signal protocol) and announce your preferred servers using nostr. Kinda like how live streams, audio spaces, and git stuff work over nostr
existing software is shit because we were afraid of giving users direct access to private keys
the web, and most apps are much more complicated and limiting than they need to be
bitcoin made it necessary to learn about private keys and digital signatures, nostr uses that momentum to fix software's flaws
this might be useful
