How can we have a bitcoin economy without bitcoin businesses? WE CAN’T. Bitcoin will succeed regardless but to live on a bitcoin standard we need the rails for capitalism on a bitcoin standard. Unless you’d like to sell your bitcoin to pay for things that is. 🤡

Hmmmm really? I don't think Cargo is that bad tbh.

I also started to appreciate the opinionated way golang handles dependencies (and everything else), but took me a while and still definitely a love/hate relationship.

Apple developer during standup.

“So we need an example PDF, I’ve got an idea-“

Manager “it doesn’t matter just pick one.”

Dev “Any PDF?”

Manager “yea. Anything else?”

Dev “nope. Got it.”

And that’s how the whitepaper ended up on all MacOS devices.

Unga Bunga. #Bitcoin

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(paraphrased) approaches to suffering:

Buddhists: empty thyself and avoid suffering.

Dune Bene Gesserit: let the suffering pass through you; only you will remain.

Catholics: offer suffering in prayer to give it meaning.

Prosperity Gospel: God must be displeased; give more to the church for blessings.

I always have a backpack, fully set, which i can grab and just leave in 30 seconds flat. I feel i'll need it some day.

I often visit hiking stores, they got some pretty cool stuff nowadays.

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Reflecting on Nostrica

Nostrica was the first nostr conference and it was full of enthusiasm as any first gathering of a community which has come together is. It reminded me of the first time the secure scuttlebutt community held its scuttlecamp or the first Ruby on Rails conference. A kind of geminal moment where a community which has existed only digitally gets together to meet in person.

I first heard about nostr when it was mentioned on scuttlebutt about a year ago, but I didn't pay a lot of attention. There are many social media protocols and new ones appear all the time. I keep a database of them and even did a lightning talk recently titled 101 social media protocols.

Nostr started to get more attention after Elon Musk took over twitter and the need for an alternate went from a heretical idea to something everybody could see. Elon gave it a boost by temporarily banning twitter bios containing nostr identifiers and links. Nostr was rough but ready enough for it because @jb55 had a decent working client for iOS in TestFlight.

Nostr is an updated secure scuttlebutt that was easier to work with and used multiple cloud services for content hosting and syncing as opposed to being a local / offline first protocol. Nostr has functionally very similar to several other decentralized social media protocols like forecaster, lens, chatternet, and bluesky's at_protocol.

With one key exception:

> Nostr is created in the open with small pieces loosely joined coordinated with rough consensus and running code.

> Nostr isn't the best at anything, or even good, it's a messy chaos that works.

Nostr is like the open web, javascript, html, php, rss, asterisk, linux. Where as farcaster, lens, and bluesky are created by a closed team that has specialized knowledge and the only people who can participate in a fundamental way are the employees of those companies or a few trusted and vetted outside contributors. The other protocols are culturally more like java, xml, android, and the chrome browser. The code is released under an open license, but it's not being developed by an open community. Nostr, like the fundamental tech which has transformed the web from an academic project to digital everything, is a permission less open commons.

Secure Scuttlebutt has the same chaotic and vital openness as nostr. I've been working building secure scuttlebutt applications and the protocol for the last 4 years. The community's core is built around solarpunk values, the idea that the future is bright, sustainable, and coordinated with autonomous and communitarian values. Think hackers meet permaculture.

What about the bitcoin?

There are a lot of nostr early adopters who are enthusiastic about bitcoin, they're true believers. But nostr doesn't use bitcoin, it has no token or cryptocurrency, there is no blockchain in nostr, no mining, no minting. There is the ability to link to a version of bitcoin micro-payments through their lightning payments, but that's possible in mastodon and twitter as well.

To me the biggest worry was what kind of culture the bitcoiners would create, and how their values would be embedded in to the technology. In my experience, the bitcoin community is more socially right wing than people involved in cryptocurrencies as a whole, somewhere to the right of Ron Paul. As a leftist anarchist, this poses a problem.

I think there's space for a multitude in nostr. The space is innovating very quickly and lots of things are being tried. I'm excited for the future.

Nostr is freedom. 🫂

Serious answers only. If AI will replace 300 Million jobs in the next decade.

What will these humans being do instead?

I get that new technology usually leads to huge economic growth and increases standard of living of society. However, you still need to be entrepreneurial to pay the bills.

love to hear other wise elder plebs thoughts. Because honestly I have no idea how all this plays out.

“Go off the grid” I would but is that even possible?

I dont think you can truly be off grid anymore. Or at least it’s incredibly difficult.

I go over to bird app for less than a minute and this insanity is what I found. Fiat is crumbling and they don't know what to do

I went over to the bird app and found the tweet. What I can't find is a link to the statement or the video.

Does anyone have anything to corroborate?

It's not that it would surpise me that she said this or that the White House is thinking this way. I would just very much like to see it for myself.

Temporal Tourism:

If you could go back and observe the past, but you were unable to change or affect events, what would you experience?