You should read a lodging of wayfaring men by Paul Rosenberg next!
Without the freedom to transact we have no other rights.
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Well, craigslist but real world Web of trust reputation based so you trade with friends and friends of friends, but it’s done in a discrete and anonymous way. If you and I have 15 friends in common, it’s a good chance that you and I are going to have a successful trade with each other.
So it’s a true peer-to-peer marketplace that scales
Pure P2P non-profit private marketplace based on your web of trust, not a wallet, not a trusted third party. Doesn’t touch Bitcoin or fiat.
I totally agree, I use signal for daily driver with the people I trust, I use simplex/threema for others.
Yet phone numbers are still the best web of trust that exists.
I see you’ve been on Temu
Sure, I understand different tools for different use cases, yet people as a whole will gravitate towards what ever is easiest. So meeting people in the real world and swapping contacts, we do that in many ways, when we are at conferences, telegram is the place that is suggested to me most often to contact.
This is purely out of convenience. This is where I find issue.
Humans are creatures of convenience.
Look at any grass in the city and you’ll usually find a dirt path cutting through it, while there is a perfectly good paved path to protect the grass and keep it nice next to it.
It doesn’t matter what the defined use cases are people will use it in whatever way is most convenient.
My point this morning was I wasn’t expecting to see signal under attack for enabling privacy by default for millions of people. My mom understands signal. My grandma understands signal. This is why it is effective.
The main use case being large chats I’m not so sure about…. Sure they are there but far too many people use telegram as their daily driver now.
Ok now how many of you actually do that? Facebook is social media, yet 2.1 billion people communicate with messenger as part of their daily private messenger.
If we don’t make privacy by default, then we find that people will use whatever is most convenient, even if it means giving away their privacy.
What you said is all valid and these are ways to use it without compromising your privacy, but the average person does not and will not think about it until it too late.
This makes no sense and is a bad take.
Bitcoiners slamming signal while championing and using telegram was not on my bingo card for 2024.
Telegram is not private by default.
Can anyone explain why bitcoiners love telegram so much? Your privacy for the sake of convenience.
My dog is very happy about this
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I’ve used it. Actually I prefer nostr:npub1yul83qxn35u607er3m7039t6rddj06qezfagfqlfw4qk5z5slrfqu8ncdu for trading P2P. It is cheaper, or it used to be. Don’t know now.
You may also test https://learn.robosats.com/ to buy no-KYC sats on Lightning Network P2P as well.
Try vexl instead, it’s non-profit, truly private, and pure p2p
Hello fantastic nostr people. I was blown away by your incredible support when I posted the below note. I had 10+ job opportunities pepper my inbox within hours. What a powerful statement to this community. I was overwhelmed 🙏 and now I have a new job! Here's the note from a month ago; scroll down to find out more...
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Over the last month I have weighed many different opportunities, and I am excited to announce that I have accepted the position of CTO for FanFares.io run by nostr:npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9!
nostr:npub16lvpp8hyxetuuczk4kjx2vqxhwmyruc72r59ysmgrsnjg5rcz8kqk07j3k is building an open source PWA that enables podcasters and content creators to publish and monetize their content via nostr rails and lightning micropayments. There are tons of exciting things coming that I'm excited to talk about in the near future, like at BTC Prague 🤙 see you there!
I am still deeply committed to ONOSENDAI and completing my OpenSats grant, which Simon has been fully supportive of, so my schedule will allow for this.
I'm not sure about the future of Yondar since my company ran out of funding to develop it, but it's open source so I have faith that it will live on somehow.
I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to work in the nostr space. I am grateful for my 16 years at the marketing agency where I started my career, but this next step is much needed and a perfect fit.
So, thank you wonderful nostr people for supporting me and showing your care. It has meant the world to me. I am SO ready to put 100% of my time and focus on nostr and bitcoin development. I feel like my work at FanFares is going to have a measurable and immediate impact on nostr and bitcoin adoption and I can't wait to get started! 👾💜
This is amazing to read! I love it! Community is everything plebs helping plebs!
Vexl is free and open source, totally private, end to end encrypted and scales on a real web of trust. It’s built for Bitcoin but it’s essentially a private social network that enables p2p without any 3rd parties.