Can you guys remind me to get on stacker news? Thanks #stackernews

#zap

Have a great weekend everyone!

I'm working today...

Unrelated picture from sunset at Baltic sea yrs ago...

Dreaming to be able to go to the gym again... when it'll be possible...60€ a month is a lot in my current situation can't afford yet hopefully after few months health is getting better step by step. Working in forest cutting trees on the one hand is job but being in nature heals. #Nostr #ZBD #zap Thanks for your kind attention. Enjoy your weekend whoever reads that...

#meme #memestr #memes #nostrmemes

PUSH FORWARD.

NEVER STOP. 🫡

Anyone watch Rebel Moon?

The bank runs continue.

Withdrawing from US app store

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

Run a node. ⚡️ nostr:note1lg0y9k5dlfsye899ncpgw982tgxfffd5efsdwve27wpm3xw0v0fqcctsx2

Good morning nostr! Rainy with a cup of tea and lofi kind of day.

If you’re here, you’re family. Even the weirdos 🤣

Mental model: an ecash mint with the purpose of processing payments for a specific service is an alternative to an accounting system.

The flow:

- user tops up balance (e.g. via Lightning)

- service provider (SP) issues ecash to user

- user pays ecash to SP for use of service

Imagine running an entire blockchain for a single application, a website, social network, VPN provider. That would enable interesting use cases but would be a huge waste of resources. With ecash, you can build these systems without blockchains. Lightweight, fast, and cheap.

That is why I'm advocating for businesses to explore these use cases as I see great potential in them, especially in the Bitcoin space. Not only does it guarantee privacy, but it's also easier and safer to build than to have user accounts, passwords, balances, transactions, etc.

Closed ecash systems also do not run into risk of being regulated as money transmission services for the same reason you don't have this issue when you use a BTCPayServer for selling a VPN, for example.

It's only the service provider who gets paid for its service.

I'll be focussing on these use cases as we're developing the Cashu protocol, which allows you to use ecash with Bitcoin.

The internet is as bad as it is partially because payments are so bad. Payments forced us to think in accounts and accounts forced us to be traceable.

🤣 these motherfuckers are delusional

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See… it makes sense.

I would argue for something similar but different. I don't want DMs tied to a specific device. But I'm too sleepy right now to expound upon that.

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