I’m so grateful for all the developers working each day to build on Nostr. It’s exciting to watch everything grow in real time. 
I suspect it’s temporary and because most people on here more or less have similar worldviews. There’s excitement about where Nostr could go as well, which makes people generally positive.
I think it’s temporary because we reward things like “owning” the other side, us versus them, black and white thinking, with likes, rts, and comments. I think it’s only a matter of time before we start doing the same with zaps.
However. We make it what it is. The power to reward kindness and thoughtful engagement, etc. with actual monetary value could blunt those destructive tribalistic tendencies.
I do think ditching algorithms and reliance on the advertising model will go a long way towards better conversations.
This note I sent this morning shows up on my main feed but does show up when I go to my profile (on at least three different clients using the same relays). Why would that happen?
https://damus.io/note13wfx00ydnsszcxc69t4n57a6h5dpdc36697p3n7dm3qvqvlw545s9h6jlx
Thanks for sharing this! I would've had no idea otherwise and I do have one of those accounts.
Since all notes are attached to a person's pubkey, won't long notes show up on all clients regardless of lengths. For example, if I post a 1000 word essay using habla.news, won't people following me see that post in the Damus app (for example). I suppose it depends on the relays one is publishing to...Maybe it would make more sense for a person to have a long form pubkey and a standard "social" pubkey. Just thinking out loud.
My concern is that, even with zaps, clients will be built that hijack our amygdala and people will gravitate towards those because of the propensity we all have for a good dopamine hit. My concern is we end up with the same sociopathic media hell we have now - but with zaps.
I’m confused, friend. I never said taxation was theft. I don’t think it is. In fact, I used taxation as the case in which government collecting money from its citizenry is explicitly *not* theft. It’s based, in principle, on the consent of the governed.
Happy to give you the last word here. 🍻
Right. I don’t think I implied that. If i did, then I certainly didn’t mean to.
I said it was an oversimplification. Maybe to the point that it’s not a useful analogy (?) - but you asked what they meant. I think that’s what they mean when they say that.
I understand that you can price inflation under any monetary system.
I’m not seeing how (2) is relevant though. If there’s benefit to theft, it doesn’t take it not theft. If you steal five dollars from everyone and put in a park, it doesn’t mean you didn’t steal five dollars.
Maybe the best good-faith way to put it is this: The “theft” is the extent to which monetary inflation causes the non-consensual decrease in buying power of the monetary energy a citizenry has accumulated.
This is an oversimplification, but basically money printing decreases the value of your money because it increases the supply of money. Your $100 can't by the same amount of stuff that it could before.
The government wants to spend money on something, but instead of increasing taxes to pay for it (which the citizenry would presumably know about), they print money. Suppose it's 2% inflation rate. your $100 can now only buy $98 of goods and services. They've taken $2 in buying power from you, without your consent. They've stolen $2 from you. (Had they proposed a 2% tax, you would've been more likely to say no, so they fund projects in this way instead.)
Again, this is an oversimplification. But that's the basic idea.
The other thing I like about it is that it can be tried without impacting users who have no interest in it. If you just want to use Bitcoin mainchain as is, it doesn't affect you. But there seems to be a lot of upside in terms of useful projects (zcash but on bitcoin, for example) and more txn fees for miners which will be more important as the block reward decreases.
I found this conversation really helpful. Paul explains it for the non-technical folks.
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/should-drivechains-come-to-bitcoin
This was my most listened to album of 2022. Fantastic. 🔥🔥🔥
Ah, that was the problem. Was using my mobile browser. Checked w/ the nos2x extension and it worked. Thanks for the reply!
Hey #plebchain friends, #[1] supports #drivechain and you should too! Read more here: https://fiatjaf.com/drivechain.html
What's up, nostriches? I worked on a small project over the weekend, a micro app for reading/writing NIP-23 long form notes. Is still a work in progress so some things might not work well but it implements the NIP, has reactions and will add coments/zaps soon™️, check it out at https://habla.news
The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/verbiricha/habla
You can link to all kinds of nostr content from a long form note, check out this note https://habla.news/a/naddr1qq98yetxv4ex2mnrv4esygrl54h466tz4v0re4pyuavvxqptsejl0vxcmnhfl60z3rth2xkpjspsgqqqw4rsf34vl5 for an example.
Happy writing 📝
I can’t find a place on habla.news to sign in so that I can comment or write. What am I missing? 😕