You really consider SegWit Bitcoin's "Independence Day"?
Bitcoin was independent from the start. Independent from any one central entity.
What did we gain independence from?
Amethyst, although read-only. My npriv is only known to nos2x-fox extension.
Just built a proof of concept implementation of nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3wamnwvaz7tmxd9k8getj9ehx7um5wgh8w6twv5qs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0ds7csnrk 's new DM spec. I'm no cryptographer, but the spec looks really good. Maybe not to SimpleX standards regarding forward/future secrecy, but there is no more metadata leakage.
Gift Wrap? Or what's the spec?
I copied this from nostr:npub1mdgx4zvhlhwu5lyz7qpk3auehgzaf6frlcshur0zdee0hta3sa3slpj2aj
Guys, stop uninstalling Twitter/X! Just when you go there, poke your followers with some nostr content. We won't free people from the matrix by simply disappearing. They will not miss us until very late in the game. Let Elon ban us one by one.
Relays can't filter by content what is encrypted. So if you remove all the meta data including the sender, you won't know who could even detect spam in the message. Denial of service spam could post to channels that don't exist so to say and relays would store the garbage?
This content would be bound to relays that get paid for its storage probably by the content's author, which is not automatically wrong but still a few steps away from where we are so far.
I didn't mean to imply you couldn't do stuff that fiatjaf doesn't like but I would hope that it gets you to stop and think for a second about this angle of the problem.
Then how about not including nostr DM in the clients? Fiatjaf removed DM from branle for that reason. Use other tools for this. Nostr is not for DM.
I suggested a DM nip that would improve the situation and that would work for group chat, too, sort of but I also think nostr might just not be the best tool for encrypted communication. Better improve the public message use-case than to stress client devs with more and more standards that are inferior than other existing tools.
On the other hand ... censorship resistance being the main goal of nostr kind of is the opposite of encrypted chat for a limited group. Nostr is for stuff that wants to be spread wide and far and making concessions for limited speech might go against that primary goal.
Same applies to DMs.
We have nips that suggest relays don't share all information with all clients equally which already is in the way of mirroring those events to other relays, thus making some relays points of centralization.
Other nips suggest ephemeral pubkeys that make it harder for relays to tell DOS attacks from legit communication.
I hope HRF only sponsor solutions that keep these issues in mind.
Was it worth it?
Serious question.
I wanted to ask @obi via DM about his nostr pubkey but this is what I got :( 
I would if I could limit my experience to follows of my follows. I see no point in a global feed as I feel it's pointless to spend much time reading bot posts that escaped the careful curation of whoever designed the "global" feed.
Love your optimism but if that "longer time horizon" exceeds my life and that of my children, I'd rather push to accelerate things in the right direction. Radically.
Having some famous nyms can be nice, too:
> The goal isn't to become rich and famous. The goal is to become rich and remain pseudonymous.
Throw ground beef into a pan, add butter, cream, cheese, curry paste. Simple, quick, low carb and delicious.
We have won. Nostr is the bird app now. X concedes our victory.
The re-xed x was from when Elon thought it would be a good idea to use the Doge logo 🤦♂️
Also the logo looks like https://t.co/2oxGBDileW and probably a dozen other brands :D https://t.co/GoKBYNQ6xk
We can't know for sure but I hope we will soon learn who controls the Patoshi stash.
"End the fed" never suggests to end this centralized cabal of manipulative vampires with another such cabal. https://t.co/CrcckDVaLy