Is anyone using Amethyst on a large tablet? If so how do you envision the app using the screen space? Are there any Tablet native apps out there worth taking a look?

What do Nostr clients need the most to help with growth?

Data has been "the new oil" for large tech companies for a while. They're getting rich building massive data models on using data that people freely provide to them in exchange for their services. Open protocols allow users to take back control and puts users in charge of their data. Nostr allows us to all be in charge of our own social graph. This is why I'm so bullish on Nostr. It's game changing.

It's one thing to be skeptical of Bitcoin when you first hear about it. It's hard to believe that such an odd architecture could survive the test of time.

And yet, the folks who have by far taken the biggest L are those who were on the cypherpunks mailing list, said it would never work, and continue to deny the past 14 years of evidence to the contrary.

i'm missing a sync feature though, so that i see the same conversations from desktop and mobile ... but i guess that's difficult if there's no IDs ... hope it'll get there, because apart from that it's wonderful

App stores are solutions to problems created by abstractions.

Remove the abstraction: Kill the app store.

That simple.

Do you have an opinion on standing desks?

I hope the whole world hops onto Nostr and joins the party , but at the same time , I couldn't give a shit what they do.

It's like with Bitcoin , you get it , that's great , and if you don't then whatever man more corn for the rest of us .

I should follow more interesting folks to get better feed. Any recommendations?

I spoke at a big bitcoin-adjacent company this week and one of the best questions was from someone who asked what the downsides of bitcoin adoption might be.

I always do appreciate these steelman questions, the skeptical questions, the ones where we challenge ourselves. Only when we can answer those types of questions do we understand the concept that we are promoting.

So the classic example is that in modern economic literature, "deflation is bad". This, however, is only the case in a highly indebted system. Normally, deflation is good. Money appreciates, technology improves, and goods and services get cheaper over time as they should. Price of Tomorrow covers this well. My book touches on this too, etc. The "deflation is bad" meme is still alive in modern economic discourse and thus is worth countering, but I think in the bitcoin spectrum of communities, people get that deflation is fine and good.

My answer to the question was in two parts.

The first part was technological determinism. In other words, if we were to re-run humanity multiple times, there are certain rare accidents that might not replicate, and other commonalities that probably would. Much like steam engines, internal combustion engines, electricity, and nuclear power, I think a decentralized network of money is something we would eventually come across. In our case, Bitcoin came into existence as soon as the bandwidth and encryption tech allowed it to. In other universes or simulations it might look a bit different (e.g. might not be 21 million or ten minute block times exactly), but I think decentralized real-time settlement would become apparent as readily as electricity does, for any civilization that reaches this point. So ethics aside, it just is what it is. It exists, and thus we must deal with it.

The second part was that in my view, transparency and individual empowerment is rarely a bad thing. Half of the world is autocratic. And half of the world (not quite the same half) deals with massive structural inflation. A decentralized spreadsheet that allows individuals to store and send value can't possibly be a bad thing, unless humanity itself is totally corrupted. I then went into more detail with examples about historical war financing, and all sorts of tangible stuff. In other words, a whole chapter full of stuff. I've addressed this in some articles to.

In your view, if you had to steelman the argument as best as you could, what are the scenarios where bitcoin is *BAD* for humanity rather than good for it, on net?

first and foremost, every relay and everybody with your public key can see who you are talking to.... which is definitively not secure/private. if your private key is ever leaked, you will never know that people can be spying on you and they will have access to all your history with all your messages and few other things more

But Nostr dms are not that secure.. I love Nostr but I think keet or simplex serve a different purpose? It can even be integrated potentially I think for DMs?

Is there any comparison between Keet and SimpleX for chat messaging?

I know keet is “never on a server” and simplex is temporarily on relays though encrypted (you can self host it also)

But is there any comparison in terms of security?