It is predictable that the collapse of the US into authoritarianism would happen due to “national security concerns.”

This is what happened with the PATRIOT Act and the AUMF, which now serve as precedent for the RESTRICT Act, and the DATA Act, to name just a few examples.

This is why those accessing banned websites in the US will be treated as terrorists and sanctions violators, not as ordinary people just going about their day-to-day lives.

People will soon realize that #bitcoin was built for not just a digital world, but for an AI-driven world.

As AI proliferates, we will be flooded with exponentially-rising tides of convincing-looking data, including data that buries and revises other data generated in the past. Content will be unceasingly generated to rewrite consensus reality in every field, domain, and social group.

The timechain will become the digital backbone for a shared historical record.

I'm supposed to be doing a presentation/demonstration of Bija at Nostrica on Sunday and the truth is that I'm not only pretty uncomfortable to have to stand in front of a crowd and present something but I also feel unqualified to do so in many respects :/

Bija started as a fun project for me in early November, I'd barely written any code for years and building a client seemed like something interesting to dig my teeth in to reintroduce myself to it. There was only a few accounts, mostly devs, active at that time but 2 weeks later Nostr exploded and it wasn't long before half of Bitcoin Twitter was there! 4 months later and this fun project has consumed most of my time over that period!

Anyway, feeling like I need to write my thoughts down as I've been having sleepless nights over it. Torn between feeling unworthy to be presenting and not wanting to let people down when I've said I'll do it. Again, this started as a fun project for me, I certainly never wanted any notoriety, success, money, or anything else from it. If it would maybe add some value to this amazing ecosystem that would be amazing - decentralised and censorship resistant social media that actually works is something I've wanted for a long time.

I probably shouldn't be stressing myself so much over it, everyone in the space is so nice and welcoming, I'm just acutely aware of how much dev talent there is around here whereas I was a lowly web dev without any formal training until around a decade ago, that walked away from it, and has just recently thrown himself back in at the deep end. Whilst I do have a functioning client which has a fairly unique approach, the fact is that I've learnt most of the technologies used along the way, during the process of building Bija, and there's many areas where I'm not sure, or qualified to know, if I've really made the best design choices, etc. - I'd only used Python a little before and never used Flask, SqlAlchemy, websockets and various other things in my life before. Hell, when I walked away from web dev HTML5 and CSS3 weren't even in use yet, they were on the cards but you couldn't actually use them because no browsers supported them, not to mention that javascript was still only being used for basic front end stuff! It still boggles my mind that we have full stack js now 🤣

I don't know what will become of Bija, it doesn't have a particularly large user base, I certainly enjoy using it myself though, as do a few others. Fundamentally I care way more about the success of the protocol as a whole than of Bija, and more than that the success of a new, more open, decentralised, and censorship resistant Internet, whether that means Nostr or anything else that achieves those goals.

Peace out. Thanks for reading. Feels better out than in!

I may seem lame as fuck but I’m secretly cool and even more secretly I’m lame as fuck.

I assume that 95-98.5% of Nostr early adopters are BTC types. So my expectations are more signal here. Sure there is more signal here than on Twitter, but that is based on a really fucking low threshold (I said Twitter). Zap excitement is not signal (although zaps are), regurgitated Maxi tropes are not signal (although on Twitter they might be). What I am saying is early Nostr adopter's (at least the Bitcoiners here) should be leveling up. Lots of people asking for more diverse topical content, but technically shouldn't we be seeing better deeper more complete bitcoin take's here? Nostr adoption metric's probably need more diverse content (foodie's, cat's, dogs, science, wtf ever normies like...) But if math is truth, shouldn't the earliest days of Nostr contain immense Bitcoin signal not available elsewhere? All I am saying is I love you people - and we all should level up. #Plebchain

Fun fact. My zap signature (450) is from my initiation number for my fraternity, ΘA 450

HERE IS THE LIST - Bookmark It

Nostr / Bitcoin Dev List

Pablo #[0]

Cameri #[1]

Mike Dilger #[2]

Will #[3]

Luke Dasher #[4]

Keith Mukai #[5]

Nick Klockinga #[6]

Karnage

#[7]

Derek Ross #[8]

Fiat Jaf #[9]

Kieran

#[10]

Calle

#[11]

Vitor

#[12]

Hodlbod

#[13]

Koala Sat

#[14]

Lapulpeta

#[15]

Martti Malmi

#[16]

Henry

#[17]

Ben

#[18]

Rock

#[19]

Roberto

#[20]

Iefan

#[21]

TC

#[22]

jleger2023

#[23]

Semisol

#[24]

RooSoft

#[25]

MonLovesMango

#[26]

Clark Moody

#[27]

Not gonna lie - that was pretty intense... what was different that time?

I already sent it. 👀

43000 Devs are target

I have no bookmark features, stop trolling me