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Replying to Avatar JeffG

GM Nostr 🌞

I'm starting my day with an #askNostr

If you're a dev and you're looking for an impactful project to help on, White Noise would love to have you. A small group of us have started alpha testing and there's LOTS to do. Small bug fixes, improvements to the UI, and many features all waiting patiently to be worked on - https://github.com/erskingardner/whitenoise/issues

I've done my best to build the project to be easy to understand and easy to collaborate on and I've very willing to help you get setup. The app is Rust on the backend and Sveltekit on the frontend.

Ping me directly or be a cypherpunk and just clone the project, start writing code and submit PRs. 🙏

You don't describe anywhere in this post what White Noise actually does

I've seen that idea of creating a common currency based on commodities and national currencies but I think it's infeasible. Would be way too complicated to set up and then maintain (against failure).

If a country ends up with an excess of a trading partners' currency then just exchange it for commodities they want to stockpile or for gold or eventually for Bitcoin.

I strongly doubt any member of BRICS wants a common currency. The Euro is a prime example of why it's not desirable.

I think talk about a BRICS currency is a narrative propagated by North Atlantic powers for their own ends.

I look forward to the day that the nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as website goes dark like USAID has done, and nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu is exposed for the meddling, warmongering fraud that he truly is.

Replying to Avatar gladstein

This whole process has really surprised me, but it’s good news, so excited to share!

In the summer of 2023, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) launched a Bitcoin Bounty program aimed at funding software developers to create new tools and features for Bitcoin tailored to the needs of dissidents and human rights advocates challenging authoritarianism worldwide. These bounties ranged from UX improvements to privacy upgrades and open-sourcing closed and permissioned systems.

There were 11 bounties in total, each with specific objectives. The deadline was Dec. 31, 2024.

We are excited to announce that every single bounty was claimed and that the resulting tools and upgrades are now empowering human rights activists daily across popular apps such as Blue Wallet, Zeus, Stack Wallet, Iris, Coracle, Keeper, Bull Bitcoin, Cake Wallet, and more.

This program highlights the impact of collaboration between human rights activists and software developers to create better tools for freedom. HRF is proud to have played a role in this effort and looks forward to continuing similar programs in the future. Special credit goes to the Oslo Freedom Forum, where much of the critical interaction between developers and activists occurred.

This wave of bounties was inspired by a successful pilot project in 2021, executed in partnership with Strike and Jack Mallers, which supported developers like Will Cassarin and Calle. Their innovations later gave rise to important advancements such as zaps in Nostr and the Cashu ecash protocol.

We learned a lot through this process and look forward to doing similar things in the future.

There’s so so much to be gained from mixing political dissidents with developers!

The HRF is an obvious intelligence agency cutout and we should be extremely wary of their guiding directions of development

So monarchies, where you had to get a royal letter patent was communism?

US Americans are so braindead in how they throw this word around

Ppl who are chill or cool aren't continually self- congratulating themselves on how chill they are, as nostr does