Is software architecture more art or science?

Anything that requires computation. Picture a DVM that runs a filter to find the best posts for you. Today, even if you know the DVMs code, you need to trust the DVM to run it. With this, you can ask the DVM to run and check if the result was from the code you were expecting.

Verifiable Computation is the next big step for Nostr.

What age is appropriate for a midlife crisis? Can I have one early?

One of the reasons I liked building on Nostr was that I did not have to run any infrastructure.

Well, I'm running a personal relay now.

An interesting picture, Europeans prefer to have their savings in the bank, as opposed to the US who prefer to have their money invested.

Europeans are not financially educated, Europe is dead.

Elon Musk hates Bitcoin, he hates it because he didn't invent it, he hates it because he can't control it.

Elon Musk's worldview is centrist, Bitcoin is decentralized.

Remember this, Elon Musk will never get to Mars, he is just a sellout living off state money.

I for one will never buy a Tesla, a Tesla is the opposite of freedom.

This from someone who is building relay tools and whose monetization model depends on independent usage and payment.

This is how nostr moves nowhere. nostr:note1lkv4czvjdedz5973zzm0q5pxaq3jgqj8faa85yg9zmalhasgykksaaps06

Bitcoin dumping at the conference is so traditional 💀

Stop sucking up to politicians and bankers.

Where we’re going, we don’t need ‘em.

the simple fact that your time and energy can be saved in a way that cannot be stolen and used against you feels fucking good man. #grateful

Are we still going to call Nostr notes "tweets" or was that a one-day fad?

On Android you can, in the wallet settings of their app.

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?