I love my chickens.😊 #grownostr #chickens #countrylife

trees can be scary to programmers: lots of pointers flying around everywhere to different parts of memory, lots of memory allocations, but fixed and balanced trees have a very simple representation that you can store and navigate in a straight line (programmers like straight lines, we call them arrays)

The numbers in this image are the index into an array. Given any position in the tree, you can find a parent or sibling element with a few arithmetic operations which result in another index.

No allocating complex data structures, no chasing pointers around, just a bit of math to jump around a tree flattened into a straight line. As a programmer finding elegant solutions like this is a pure dopamine hit. Code can be beautiful 🥹

#nerdstr #treestr

Bittorrent v2 is really good at having shared merkle trees across torrents

RetroShare is an open-source, decentralized communication platform that offers secure messaging, file sharing, and forums through encrypted friend-to-friend connections.

I'll probably never use it. I already have SimpleX for messaging, Wormhole/torrents/Nextcloud for filesharing and Nostr for forums.

Maybe “freedom tech” like X can fix this lol. 😏

is there a way to positively report people on nostr?

for like antisemitism etc

Gm 🌞

I zoomed with 6 Peruvians using bitcoin in wonderful ways yesterday.

Hopefully the Bitcoin in Peru documentary with cointelegraph will get fully green lit today 🤙

I have been testing a zap-per-feature model where people donate when we release new features. If we don't release anything, "we don't get paid" :)

It's actually not bad, considering how small Nostr is right now.

But I know most people only consider "monetization" if it is recurring an "automated". Which is a very Silicon Valley/Venture Capital way of looking at it.

Nostr companies trying to monetize are doing it in the wrong way: holding keys, closing the code, selling data, attaching paid/closed services with their clients, centralizing caching/relays, putting ads, getting a share of transactions, etc. IMO, those are all terrible ways (incentives are not aligned with users) and only serve to alienate their users against them.

Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone is super reluctant to monetize services and relays on #Nostr?

If we can’t make these things sustainable then we will either lose them, or they will stay nothing more than a weird little corner of the internet with lots of hope but no chance of ever scaling.

I still haven’t seen the basic model of zap sharing tried by any major client or relay. But I DO see regularly comments about how expensive relays are. I mean it might not work, but can’t we TRY it?

I want to make the distinction here too that this doesn’t mean we are closing off the network, we are adding permissions to the protocol, this doesn’t suggest at all to used closed source code, we simply need the services necessary to keep this ecosystem robust, to be profitable and have the resources to thrive. If they aren’t, then NONE of this works. Economics is everything.

I know building features is more exciting. I know we all want to make everything that we can free, and I agree all of the *code* should be shared. However, I think there is a natural insecurity (and I say this because I have this problem personally) with charging a fair price, and fearing criticism or the ire of people who believe everything should be free (as in price) when we need things to be free (as in Liberty). They are not the same, and confusing the two could stifle, or drastically slow down, the insane potential of this place.

TL;DR We have GOT to divert some energy to thinking about how to make this ecosystem sustainable, or we will lose it.

(Disclaimer: this isn’t a judgement on whoever is thinking about this problem. It just *seems* like few are. If you are building in this way please share your ideas or what you are trying. I’m extremely interested)

This is just one small optimization thanks to nostrdb. More to come!

Damus Suite… email (async comms), work chat, socials, all powered by nostr. works on prem and is insanely simple to setup. So many business opportunities 😵‍💫

You're rockin it man. Fuck the haters and assholes.