where the next generation will come from
Honest question. What kind of content do you want to see on Nostr?
Was just thinking about this. What do we do?
I absolutely agree with your comment. The choice of what software to run in a full node or mining is a vital choice we have as bitcoin loyalists. And your point about the controversy over ordinals, in my view foreshadows more controversies to come. I agree that early-stage code development was a great thing that birthed Bitcoin, but further development at this stage risks fragmenting bitcoin (see Ethereum as an example - after the switch to POS many miners revolted and backed Ethereum Classic).
Yes I agree. I realize my post created misunderstandings. My point is rather that “Satoshi” is an idea at this point (and not a person/leader), and it is a unifying idea that we can all align around.
Yes I do mean something to this effect - that “Satoshi” is an idea/concept at this point, rather than a person.
Martin Luther did indeed break away from the Catholic church. Yet today, both Catholics and Protestants call themselves Christian and would stand up to defend Christian values. However, interestingly the Chinese government does not officially classify Christians as Christian - if you look at Chinese govt references they always classify people as Protestant or Catholic, in order to divide the Christian community.
The other day I went to the bitcoin forum and looked up for satoshi's last interaction.
He didn't like the idea of bitcoin been used by wikileaks to find funding because it could bring bad PR to a project in development.
I guess he just realized that his project was not longer his.
Here is the article that he referenced one day before his last post.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/499375/could_wikileaks_scandal_lead_to_new_virtual_currency.html
Good call-out. Last year I spent a month to read every single known message from Satoshi and I do recall this. He was worried the attention from the government could kill the project at an early stage, but we are beyond that fear now. To your point about the project not being his, it’s true that the project has been passed on to new maintainers. But I’ve been thinking deeply about future threats to bitcoin and a big one is the threat of a fragmentation over a future controversial code change. That’s why it will become important to ossify the source code by getting people to treat the code as sacred (inspired by a divine prophet) which is how religions protected their texts from being mutated.
I was once asked who I admire most out of Satoshi, Elon Musk, or CZ.
My answer: Satoshi. The other 2 are businessmen, but Satoshi Nakamoto is a modern-day prophet of God.
I’m a former Apple employee (7 years there). Sadly, Apple’s “not gonna make it”.
Zaps have inspired adoption in more industries, like music streaming (below). This is why nostr + bitcoin are transformational 🙌 nostr:note1wxz7hvqf64j8ddyetjfkc36jcmjwgg2s4far9wng08q65k0fjx4qc2r8mk
Pretty awesome ⭐️
I guess there’s been a lot of drama about Apple banning zaps, people joining Nostr because of twitter’s rate limiting
Wishing you lots of sunshine 🌞
Hahaha
Tempted to start a bitcoin only business too!
