Little known advantage of Nostr DMs: No one can know if the chat is complete or if there are missing messages even if the nsec leaks.

Nostr doesn't link DMs to one another in any way. Double ratchet schemes, like Signal for instance, derive keys from the state in previous messages making it a verifiable chain. If a message is missing, whoever has the main key to decrypt and derive the chat will know it if the chat is complete or not.

On Signal, or any ratchet-based technique, you can prove you have all the messages.

Little known advantage of Nostr DMs: No one can know if the chat is complete or if there are missing messages even if the nsec leaks.

Nostr doesn't link DMs to one another in any way. Double ratchet schemes, like Signal for instance, derive keys from the state in previous messages making it a verifiable chain. If a message is missing, whoever has the main key to decrypt and derive the chat will know it if the chat is complete or not.

On Signal, or any ratchet-based technique, you can prove you have all the messages.

I haven't looked at how the new SimpleXs relayer servers are working and how many of them are out there, but If you just use SimpleX in the default setting (where everybody just uses the companies' default servers), them SimpleX is worse than NIP-17. Tracking by IP breaks all privacy. If everybody uses the same servers, all metadata is known by the company.

Yep, it’s where most of my friends are.

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification and opinion. Are you saving or converting dollars into Bitcoin? Or is NOSTR just the draw for you here?

Dollars to Bitcoin is your preferred move?

All of your crossing the chasm models are destroyed.

Fiat fundamentalists have no idea how difficult it is to make an ethical and profitable Bitcoin only business.

By the time Bitcoin reaches the early majority of the adoption curve these people will not understand why it seemed so difficult to understand or adopt before or what went into making their onboarding experience so easy.

The rate of improvement on Bitcoin only services along with the feature sets are incredible. Some that come to mind are onramp’s latest insurance update, river’s force field, unchained’s lending products etc, and Bitkey’s experience to name a few.

The product roadmap for these services have such a large overlap of competitive features that are just table stakes and the price of admission to be considered as a service. And if these features are not already free they will be. It’s just too difficult to differentiate as financial services products to charge for table stakes.

This makes for a competitive landscape with no room for errors.

We simply have not seen this type of competitive set up for consumer services before.

Add to the undifferentiated feature sets that the best engineers in the World are ones that think from first principles and identify the biggest opportunities before writing any code. Morally and ethically they would rather lose money than to chase easy crypto wins. They’re obsessed with the challenge.

These engineers work in Bitcoin and compete against other engineers of this caliber all day. The result is that these services competing for existing and new Bitcoiners are creating the possible set of experiences that has ever existed for the best money that has ever existed.

All of your crossing the chasm models are destroyed.

On a blockchain app, your users will always fight each other for blockspace. Because there is only a given amount of bytes available every 10 minutes, the more users you have, the more expensive it will become for each user. Which make users move on to cheaper apps as your app grows in usage.

It is shocking to me that some devs still don’t get how blockchains will always work against their success.

It's all looks great when you don't have any user.

Nostr fixes this.

Fiat money is an illusion that looks like real money when it changes hands, so you believe it's tied to something real and exchange something real for it.

The illusion is all well and good until things start to break, and you need the real thing, only to find that there isn't any real money at all. There's just debt and the false promise of real money to pay it back. The fiat economy can never stop moving or else the illusion will dissipate.

The condition of more profit to be made by manufacturing overseas is a direct result of monetary engineering in a world where all the currency is fake. It's really hard to believe that can ever come about naturally.

All those Nostr meetups and conferences, people could be scanning each others phones and verifying each other!

People who tolerate being trained in abstract reasoning are the people with high IQ... No amount of training is going to make dumb people understand abstract thinking. People have different intellectual capacities. That's just the ugly reality.

Not funny, it's getting harder and harder to find teachers. Factory workers are getting paid better than English teachers recently, plus with the weak yen many city's are hurting to find teachers. I feel like I am in the human trafficking business.

There is no "default" compiler in Kotlin. You have to pick a compiler based on your target binary type. The JVM-stack is just the older one.

LLVM is the unsung hero of all new programming languages. Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Zig wouldn't exist without it.

LLVM is the unsung hero of all new programming languages. Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Zig wouldn't exist without it.

In my city of 30k we are contracting 75 Filipino English teachers. The walls are starting to come down, but immigrants still need a college skill set or marry to stay long term.