yes 😂

congratulations nostr, great job everybody 😂

I can't agree more. "The tech wave is driven more by" killer apps "than the technology itself." #Nostr is now particularly like the Homebrew Computer Club, and the Nostr client App is like Apple I-1976 and needs to continuously improve the experience. We're just a fringe app right now, but the demands of the core free tech revolution will make this mainstream. Needs like the textile machine for the steam engine revolution, the automobile for the internal combustion engine revolution, the light bulb for the electric revolution, and the iPhone for the smartphone. I believe that time is coming.

Absolutely agree and this is the “signal” Elon just released in his Twitter post (can’t call it X). About this years efficiency added to the platform.

This article will also be the talk I will give at NostrAsia Tokyo.

Traditionally, people (tech & non tech) associate decentralization with blockchains, mostly because blockchains (including Bitcoin, the first ever blockchain) introduced the concept of decentralization to the mass audience.

__Blockchains, regardless of types, are created to solve problems that require global consensus.__

However, most types of applications don't need global consensus. I argue that 99% of the applications don't need global consensus even if they are networked.

Your chat with your friends don't need to be agreed by all computers globally. As long as the participants of the conversation agree on the same chat history, it works.

If you share some files with your colleagues in a collaborative editing software, such as Google Docs or Notion, this file & its editing history don't need a global consensus of all computers. As long as all editors/commenters/viewers can agree on the same file, it works.

Besides chat and office software, most softwares just doesn't need global consensus.

__Global consensus, at its core, is to address problems around limited resource, such as Bitcoin's limited quantity of money.__

Most softwares is just not about limited resources at all. This is why building decentralized applications on top of blockchains don't work in general. They are solving the wrong problem with the wrong tool.

Nostr solves the missing part of decentralization infrastructure. I am not saying that the current implementation of Nostr is the true and only solution. But its philosophy, generic relays + specific clients, is the right way to go.

There are 3 major areas of decentralization problems:

1. Identity

2. data manipulation

3. data preservation

### Identity

Nostr's private key + public key makes it possible to locally verify identity with algorithms instead of relying on centralized servers to tell you if this person is this person, in contrast to OAuth.

### Data Manipulation

Because of No.1, all clients can independently create & manipulate data without needing to communicate with servers.

### Data Preservation

Relays only act as the long term storage layer and communication layer instead of the authority of business logic.

A normal relay is vastly simpler than traditional cloud-first server software. Therefore,

1. it's cheaper to develop. The best relay, `strfry`, is only developed by a single person with only 15K lines of code, yet it's more useful than most centralized cloud software.

2. It's cheaper to operate.

3. Because business logic developers don't need to write server code anymore, it's much faster for them to release their features.

We can call this decentralization, or we can call this local-first software. The key takeaway here is, by reducing useless server code, we can save money, save time, and create better software so that the whole society benefits from it. Some of us can probably get rich because we save so much money, even if we operate in a 100% fiat way.

### What's the opportunity for us?

Because most people, especially decision makers in most companies, still think __decentralization__ == __blockchain__ and they fear the regulation complexity of blockchains, they are blind to see this other part, the major part in fact, of decentralization.

They will miss a huge opportunity to reduce cost and boost productivity.

Therefore, our opportunity is to build better software & services in a much more efficient way and actually beat them in the fiat world. We don’t even need to unleash the superpower of zaps.

This article will also be the talk I will give at NostrAsia Tokyo.

Traditionally, people (tech & non tech) associate decentralization with blockchains, mostly because blockchains (including Bitcoin, the first ever blockchain) introduced the concept of decentralization to the mass audience.

__Blockchains, regardless of types, are created to solve problems that require global consensus.__

However, most types of applications don't need global consensus. I argue that 99% of the applications don't need global consensus even if they are networked.

Your chat with your friends don't need to be agreed by all computers globally. As long as the participants of the conversation agree on the same chat history, it works.

If you share some files with your colleagues in a collaborative editing software, such as Google Docs or Notion, this file & its editing history don't need a global consensus of all computers. As long as all editors/commenters/viewers can agree on the same file, it works.

Besides chat and office software, most softwares just doesn't need global consensus.

__Global consensus, at its core, is to address problems around limited resource, such as Bitcoin's limited quantity of money.__

Most softwares is just not about limited resources at all. This is why building decentralized applications on top of blockchains don't work in general. They are solving the wrong problem with the wrong tool.

Nostr solves the missing part of decentralization infrastructure. I am not saying that the current implementation of Nostr is the true and only solution. But its philosophy, generic relays + specific clients, is the right way to go.

There are 3 major areas of decentralization problems:

1. Identity

2. data manipulation

3. data preservation

### Identity

Nostr's private key + public key makes it possible to locally verify identity with algorithms instead of relying on centralized servers to tell you if this person is this person, in contrast to OAuth.

### Data Manipulation

Because of No.1, all clients can independently create & manipulate data without needing to communicate with servers.

### Data Preservation

Relays only act as the long term storage layer and communication layer instead of the authority of business logic.

A normal relay is vastly simpler than traditional cloud-first server software. Therefore,

1. it's cheaper to develop. The best relay, `strfry`, is only developed by a single person with only 15K lines of code, yet it's more useful than most centralized cloud software.

2. It's cheaper to operate.

3. Because business logic developers don't need to write server code anymore, it's much faster for them to release their features.

We can call this decentralization, or we can call this local-first software. The key takeaway here is, by reducing useless server code, we can save money, save time, and create better software so that the whole society benefits from it. Some of us can probably get rich because we save so much money, even if we operate in a 100% fiat way.

### What's the opportunity for us?

Because most people, especially decision makers in most companies, still think __decentralization__ == __blockchain__ and they fear the regulation complexity of blockchains, they are blind to see this other part, the major part in fact, of decentralization.

They will miss a huge opportunity to reduce cost and boost productivity.

Therefore, our opportunity is to build better software & services in a much more efficient way and actually beat them in the fiat world. We don’t even need to unleash the superpower of zaps.

It’s fine, the app sucks definitely. You can probably add pasmo and Suica without apps and right in the Apple wallet, if on iPhone 🐶🐾🤣

GO Taxi, also get a PASMO or Suica for the trains/busses (touch payment). Use primarily trains and busses, especially from the airport. Taxi is not cheap here, but it’s up to you 🐶🐾🫡

Trains! Uber is not really a thing 🐶🐾🫡

Wow! You did all the endpoints? I was working on it for password manager. I only got sign in to work so far. Haven’t did the other UI for signing.

One of the biggest fallacies I see when talking about inflation in terms of savings debasement, and in particular, focusing on how it disproportionately hurts the lowest percentiles of income earners, is the fact that the lowest percentiles have no savings. That's what being poor is. If they had excess income, they'd have savings and assets. But they don't. And the poor never have! So the only meaningful way to judge if the poor are being disproportionately affected by inflation, is to compare their income across time, to prices across time.

When we look at income data from the past few years, it actually turns out, that the poorest Americans saw their incomes grow by over 20% since the pandemic.

The massive rise in wages for low-skilled workers was actually one of the major self-reinforcing drivers of inflation.