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David King
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nostr/bitcoin student/storyteller

fingerprints of #[0]​ on every nostr project

he’s the Zorro of Nostr

It’s a music service #[3]

today let’s celebrate @Karnage​ for making open source software look beautiful

If larger companies create their own clients, but don’t control the underlying identities/data (due to the architecture of the protocol), any non-compliance with the principles can be better served by more open (open source) alternatives… it’s hard for clients to compound value in the same way as they historically have when everything is dependent on DNS

even email, originally an open protocol, has the addressing/datastore tied to initial conditions which allow for larger companies to capture/extract/centralize

such initial conditions (“my account”, “my service”) are structurally non-committed and hence more decentrzlied here

the interesting part about nostr is how many new services it enables because no one controls it... so censorship resistance is a characteristic that enables more building, but not the overall end purpose for a typical user

similar to how without censorship resistance bitcoin could not commit to a fixed supply... you may value fixed supply more than censorship resistance based on your current interactions with the financial system, but you can't really have fixed supply without censorship resistance

GOAT: decentralized AI powered by bittorrent and bitcoin. i haven’t read the specifics yet. opinions?

https://twitter.com/cocktailpeanut/status/1639036133047783424

thanks, MC4. Let’s continue to pay it forward to welcome new people in! 🤙💜

Thank you, Paul! I will pay it forward

we’re still so early

never underestimate ideologically-driven nerds who ship

cc #[0]​ #[1]​ #[2]