Until the US Government Order 6102's you... which is something I'm 100% convinced will eventually happen, one way or another (and KYC and AML are one way).
A lot of the "features" that most people complain nostr apps lack are just stuff that, simply, the decadent "social media" apps imposed on users because they benefit their sick business model, aka "monetization" of user information.
It's perfectly understandable that devs looking to profit from nostr spend so much time and effort trying to replicate them. Not so much that users are the ones clamoring for them. They seem to have become completely unable to either remember what "the social internet" used to be like.
Or, if they're just so young all they've known is Facebook and its hellish walled garden ilk, they seem unable to think outside the box and imagine other ways to communicate.
I do not need a permanent TL hosted on a relay. I do not need search "features" that log what my interests are. I don't want companies and commercial content on my feed. I don't even think the thread model is that great, either. You may like all those things for the right reasons, and that's fine.
What I'm saying is that if nostr's offer to the wider public is "we do the same, just worse. But we've got bitcoin", they will just stick with what they know forever. There are models in the past that fit what nostr claims to be a lot better and that were abandoned for the wrong reasons. If you have to copy, why not look at those?
This is from the main Spanish news organization. Completely unreliable, in other words, but the guy speaking can be clearly heard and he even says they've carbon-dated the things to be 1000 years old...
Two "bodies" that look so fucking fake that I just can't. But they're saying come and inspect them yourselves, and presenting this stuff at the Mexican Congress...
Huh? It's on CNN too
That's why I said I don't want them "in my social media", not "in my protocol" (?). No need to have commercial spam on my Damus/Primal/Iris/Snort... feed. Let them make apps based on Nostr specific for that.
I don't want any commercial content in my social media, to be frank. If someone wants to be on top of the latest, let them use channels dedicated to reporting on tech and news. To give you an example of what I expect from this, it would be what mIRC used to be.
I don't understand your rationale. If hyperbitcoinization occurred now, and 1 sat = 1 USD, fees in sats would actually be much lower, not higher. So smaller UTXOs would become more spendable.
Come to Barcelona, you will be able to routinely watch seagulls rip apart, using only their beaks a variety of small fauna: pigeons, cats, small dogs... And then they only pick the choice bits like the heart and liver. Some vicious shit, I tell you.
I have to say that the man looked at least as old as I am, so there's that. But we can't afford to be picky in this day and age.
I just heard an AMERICAN political journalist correctly use "apparatii" as the plural of "apparatus" (referring to the bureaucracy of the political parties).
(A tiny bit of) my erstwhile faith in the US has been restored.
Seeing how some people, mostly (according to the chain analytics people) recent holders, are willing to sell at these absurdly undervalued prices just so Blackrock can scoop those sats... I have to say that my faith in the possibility of redemption and advancement of the common man is shattered.
And my cynical "perhaps each of us actually get what we deserve" brain kicks in, and reminds me that I can scoop me some as well, and fuck everybody else.
Today in (the Spanish portion of) Catalonia we commemorate our National Day.
I'm so glad there doesn't seem to be any significant presence of fellow Catalans here, because I'm sure y'all would get to see my ugliest most Twitter-toxic side today.
TSA became a multibillion dollar agency overnight, and the gate to all sorts of mass biometric and personal data gathering, and abuse of all individual rights taken for granted up until that moment.
Does it mean he will take all his fellow muslims with him too? nostr:note1yly5flcdvjxk3rsw4le94z8kypm49mxflpxuaygkq9djcuc7dnrsljpwdm
I've said it a couple of times already - if you're in Bitcoin, you are shorting the USD and more broadly the fiat system. You have a pessimistic outlook on the short term direction we're headed. It has to get a lot worse before it gets better (through Bitcoin). But we're nowhere near the bottom yet. Not by a long mile.
So you find yourself in a curious position. It makes no sense that you cheer and promote the partial solutions that would help palliate the pain and prevent the death of the current status quo. For instance, whoever competes against Joe Biden in the next primaries and presidential elections.
This came to my mind again a propos of Argentina's Javier Milei. If he wins and goes ahead with the dollarization of Argentina, the USD will receive a gigantic boost, and conversely, the Argentinian people will almost immediately drop BTC. So to make it better in the short term, the long term cure will be stalled or even aborted.
Tough pills to swallow, I know.