Who could have seen this coming?
Ask HRF? I don't really know...
Do you mean you need a new Pubky invite?
Sir, I wrote BIP177.
My opinion is fully specified!
BREAKING - nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx supports BIP177 in recent public statement:
"If you guys wanna call sats bitcoin I don't really give a shit... Stay humble, stack bitcoin."
Make one! You could vibecode an app that uses our homeserver and indexer in an hour if you use the early version of our SDK.
And if it can use our servers, it can use yours instead too if you want (to run some).
Consensuspionage?
No, the internet is the internet. Nostr is on the internet.
Read the article that @Truthcoin is too scared to respond to!
The Drivechain community is in uproar! Will Paul man up?!
Only in the Pubky.app PRIVATE BETA (iykyk)
https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/003452JMEVW7G
If you see something, say something.
Top is in.
My mute list is the most valuable content on nostr.
Miners dont need to pool at all.
No. It is simple because any design that implies trust in miners must accept that also means trust in government, and trust that nothing would convince them to rug pull.
This is a horrible assumption.
You could just ask the miner to run a mint for you and get a better UX.
I thought we were talking about Nostr?
If the goal was to prove that people will build outside the status quo, Nostr succeeded.
But if the goal is to create a scalable, censorship-resistant web that normal people can rely on, then it hasn’t even begun to meet that bar.
What I’m pointing out isn’t that Nostr shouldn’t exist. It’s that its design inherently caps its scalability and censorship resistance. The same loose structure that makes it "easy" to build on also makes it impossible to coordinate, enforce quality, or provide credible exits.
Success measured by enthusiasm is one thing. Success measured by capability is another.
They are all just keys right?
What makes a nostr key special? Well, it uses the Bitcoin curve.
What makes a pubky key special? Well, it uses the ed25519 curve.
Nostr's curve allows some sort of handwavy Bitcoinyness.
Pubky's curve allows interoperation with Mainline DHT and other existing relevant crypto.
The result is Nostr always relying on censorable DNS to find anything, making keys disposable and hot. Where Pubky can actually use keys as persistent entities, and keep them cold.
Keys can be search on any network, but not every network can be trusted.
(This ONLY covers the differences for the identity layer, we could continue with how data is transmitted and aggregated, and then how search and coordination differ ... but i wont bother because i know you dont actually care)
If you trust miners you dont need drivechains. Just tell them not to replace your txn and include it someday when they can. And also accept that as settlement when people pay you. Zero-conf txns solve your needs.
Only fair for me to post this here too:
Not saying, proving.
Because no one actually needs more blockchains.
The birth of Lightspark, led by David Marcus, was the top indicator for LN.
He is like a vulture that arrives to pick the bones of a trend 2 years too late.
It is all the same shit rearranged. Nothing can anchor to bitcoin without trust.
Drivechains are a trainwreck.
https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/003452JMEVW7G
Devs hacking on disposable projects?
Imagine if the first thing builders did with Bitcoin was make the desktop node wallet great.
Imagine if the first thing builders did with Lightning was make the desktop node wallet great.
We'll never know.
Never gonna happen.
This is a keychain for Pubky apps.
In Pubky, you can keep your keys cold or separate from your apps, unlike Nostr.
More to come.
Nostr is just another app.
It isnt bitcoin, it is a security, and they dont need to tax it while sitting, they can specially tax any actual actions.
As for the bitcoins, well, they can just take them.
Not really, is that how the description reads to you?
casuals
You acted as if you wanted to have a design conversation, and then resorted to boring style policing when it got real.
It's clear you have nothing useful to say. I doubt you know much about Bitcoin either.
Zzzzzz
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It's almost always a mistake to use Bitcoin as a way to discuss web concepts... at least in any positive way.
Pubky is not a derivative of Nostr; it is the product independent R&D that began before Nostr existed. If anything, I have may have had more influence on Nostr than it on Pubky...
That's all irrelevant of course, there were many key-based systems, many social networks, and many other contortions of the web long before Nostr or Pubky came along.
So, unlike Bitcoin, this isn't a case where new tech fixed a huge problem with a novel design, and then spawned a bunch of opportunistic clones. That is nonsense and incompatible with reality.
First, Nostr hasn't proven anything beyond the herding capabilities of the Bitcoin cult and influence of Jack Dorsey and, to a lesser degree, Matt Odell.
While those things have been impressive, this has only shown us there may be a market for a perpetual hackathon sandbox culture. Nostr has not changed the world. It has not solved problems for anyone at all. The Nostr hacker community has not shipped a killer app, not even a single killer tool for devs, no more growth, no thriving startup industry.
There is literally no single significant aspect of Nostr code or the movement that is now improving the lives of many people in a way they did not already have. The use case of Nostr is merely the potential of Nostr, and the cult's belief in that potential.
(I know this is all going to seem very harsh, but it is also sober and healthy to consider such perspectives if they ring true...)
Second, our work at Synonym is not easy and there is no big payoff. Doing our job well means securing funding for wildly speculative research, providing the world with a bunch of free open source tools, planning and managing multiple teams, demonstrating the plan by actually implementing products and services, all while outsiders are more incentivized to ignorantly detract from your work, than to support it. Then, even if we end up being correct, our best chance at profit is to fairly compete as a generic hosting provider and indexer service.
So, I think you'll find my hinges are all intact, but attached to a door you are too scared to open.
If you support the ideal of a real free-market society, then at least do some research before dismissing the work of dozens of people across multiple years.
Our work is fucking cool and meant to help literally everyone, that means you, so please stop being so ignorant about it.
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Duration-wise, every past Bitcoin bull market has peaked between now and December.
Statistically, that means most people with extra BTC have started scaling out already.
Just say it correctly and you have nothing to worry about!
You keep asking me questions but not learning anything.
Also, stop quoting people, especially if they weren't even talking about Nostr; speak for yourself.
Watch this if you want your answer.
"Why build Pubky as an incompatible network instead of a few NIPs?" ...
Well, why did Nostr build something new instead of improving on something that already existed?
Why would any new project from the outside choose Nostr of all the designs in the world and build on that?
Well, we don't agree with Nostr's design. Despite that, we did actually offer all of our ideas to Nostr since the beginning, they never cared. We even explicitly tried to get them to consider PKARR, and it was rejected.
You cannot just convince a cult to believe in a new vision, they are loyal and blinded. You cannot depend on uninterested people to make your ideas a real.
So, we made something better by rethinking everything, instead of making something derivative and broken.