I haven’t followed bitcoin inside baseball much. In general I’m pretty skeptical of cryptocurrencies in general, but think there are some limited uses… I’ll take a peak.
Salt and Caramel… ;-D
Something like https://nos.social ?
People used to joke that people only talked about twitter on twitter. Eventually that stopped. Being able to transition away from talking about the platform on the platform to something not related to the tools is an important evolutionary step for a social platform.
At a cafe I could just get a 25 cents refunded when I buy a coffee if I’m a regular customer but instead they give me a punch card where I can collect ‘tokens’ of a punch each time I buy a coffee and redeem for a coffee when I get 10 of them. It’s a locally useful currency. It doesn’t replace the primary currency, but fulfills different needs.
I’m not a true believer… if you want that, go to other folks. I don’t mind. ;-D
There’s use for local currencies… Just look at how cafe’s use them to reward customers. You issue a ‘token’ for each coffee purchased and then allow the customer to redeem 10 tokens for a coffee. The cafe can just give you x satoshi as thank you for being a recurring customer, but that’s just a discount. The limitations of the cafe punch card are what gives it value.
My supermarket here in New Zealand issues stickers. One for every 10 dollars spent, I think. When I have 35 stickers I can exchange it for two wine glasses. It’s an economic system that works and is useful. It’s not a solution for everything.
In secure scuttlebutt we’ve been experimenting with with we call a local coin. Basically the crypto equilivent of a loyalty punch card at your cafe. Anybody can issue them, people can trade them, they’re more locally scoped than a big blockchain / crypto currency. No centralized log. I think that kind of token would work well on Nostr as well.
Here’s the draft paper: https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%263VbqUowZBxGIx%2Fd2BD72yGlbpqer2%2FPJVzUFBgex4AY%3D.sha256
The final version of the paper is awaiting peer review for publication….
#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "rabble"
The original twitter text number was: 415-283-8611 it was just some SIM card that we got and plugged in to a phone connected to a laptop over usb and some windows script to send and receive sms’s.
#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "rabble"
How do set your nostr id to use with cash.app? I see notices of it but can't find anything on how it works.
Twitter was plaintext because we had to make it work over sms! ;-D
Another option is to go like email and let people post with multiple alternative encodings of their content, plaintext, md, and html…
Personally I really like what you can do with formatting in markdown in scuttlebutt.
More I think there’s lots of interesting things you could do with collaborative document creation using CDRT’s where you scoped who could contribute based on your social graph. That kind of document would need some formatting.
I wish Nostr clients tried to render posts as markdown… that’s what scuttlebutt does, it’s not perfect, but it does allow inline formatting and embedding images / links. Full html seems like too much, plaintext is limiting. Markdown is flawed but works.
It must be really weird to famous enough that you’ve got to keep where you travel / live secret. It’s a big change from when you tried wearing a t-shirt with your phone number on it to see if people would call you.
Yeah, you could have a relay which was accessible via a DHT / tor which runs locally embedded in the app. In addition to a cloud hosted relay. That way you could sync over mesh networks / bluetooth / etc.. That would allow the app to work without an internet connection. Kind of something which is halfway between ssb and nostr.
There’s a spectrum of opinions. Some folks are very excited about it, and a few scuttlebutt dev’s are moving to using Nostr. Others are very dismissive. Mostly folks admire Nostr. In some ways Nostr works better, easier to join relays vs pubs, not being local first syncing, but also Nostr is missing a bunch of scuttlebutt things which I think will come.
We have a GitHub replacement in scuttlebutt, git-ssb and I’m guessing since nostr is basically updated ssb, it’d be easy to port over / reimplement.