Sure, but then you'd have to use a Xiaomi phone
The Bitcoin Conference is already in talks to have Bitcoin Asia return to Hong Kong, ideally at the more centrally located Convention and Exhibition Centre next year. Tokyo and Singapore are also possible future locations, nostr:npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va said.
The CEO of Tether has a new project making what he calls "unstoppable apps", just like bitcoin is the "unstoppable money". But he sees anything using relays as flawed in this respect. He had some comments on Nostr that wound up on the cutting room floor, but may be of interest here:
> "The issue with Nostr, [which] has become popular, is it has relays. The relays are part of the equation. Without the relays, Nostr cannot work … There was [once] Kazaa, Nutella, Limewire – all had relays and all were shut down or all failed. The only peer-to-peer protocol that worked and could not be shut down was BitTorrent because it did not have any point of failure. So that's our benchmark. We could have taken many shortcuts to make it easier for us, but it took six or seven years to develop something that is truly resistant to the wrath of God."
The new company, called Holepunch, has developed a protocol called Pear Runtime that is solely P2P. Its first flagship app is a video conferencing and chat app called Keet, and it supports Lightning wallets. I suspect Nostr at least served as some inspiration.
“It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't think tech needs to choose between being friendly towards average users and tinkerers. You can strike a happy medium. nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6's post makes me think of the recent Fast Company article on Obsidian: https://www.fastcompany.com/90960653/why-people-are-obsessed-with-obsidian-the-indie-darling-of-notetaking-apps
The crux of the piece is basically that the note-taking app Obsidian has grown to 1 million users despite not being very user-friendly because it requires knowledge of Markdown. I don't think Markdown is the major barrier here. Most of the things a user might want to do with text notes (bullet points, bold and italics, headers) can be easily toggled with UI buttons in Obsidian. I think most digital natives have at least a passing familiarity with markup languages or can easily adapt.
Obsidian is actually good example of how software can be both user- and programmer-friendly. Nostr still has a lot of hurdles in the way of mass adoption, but being able to peek under the hood isn't one of them.
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Frustrations abound with the crypto exchange licensing process in Hong Kong so far. Joseph Wang, the astrophysicist who spoke with nostr:npub1mygerccwqpzyh9pvp6pv44rskv40zutkfs38t0hqhkvnwlhagp6s3psn5p on nostr:npub1tr0va8lk35pp4lnk64ymneywdjmmq6juznxlg5ejerkhxgwk7ggsw5qqpx back in June, offered some of his insight, having gone through the process to kind of kick the tires. He has a dour outlook, although other industry players say the Securities and Futures Commission is on the right track.
Another Nostr-adjacent piece I wrote recently for the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong. This was written more for other journalists, but maybe some people here will appreciate it.
An enthusiastic group of pro bono programmers strewn across the globe, including in Hong Kong, are building the open source, crypto-focused super app of Elon Musk’s dreams – but without the app.
Featuring nostr:npub1ejxswthae3nkljavznmv66p9ahp4wmj4adux525htmsrff4qym9sz2t3tv and nostr:npub1mygerccwqpzyh9pvp6pv44rskv40zutkfs38t0hqhkvnwlhagp6s3psn5p
Young people in China are embracing lightning travel… but not Lightning travel
It's already popular with certain segments of the crypto crowd and it's censorship resistent. Would seem like a natural fit.
I think Synology has something like that if you use their NAS, but I've never tried it. Also, this isn't self-hosted but it's fully encrypted: [CryptPad](https://cryptpad.fr/)
Actually, I spoke too soon. Apparently it's open source and can be self hosted: https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad
I think Synology has something like that if you use their NAS, but I've never tried it. Also, this isn't self-hosted but it's fully encrypted: [CryptPad](https://cryptpad.fr/)
It should have read 8 million followers each. This is the story: https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3233703/china-crypto-crackdown-weibo-banishes-80-prominent-cryptocurrency-influencers
80 Chinese crypto influencers with a combined 8 million followers were recently removed from Weibo. Have any of these people found Nostr yet?
What phone did you go with?