Nostr News - May 27 with #[0]​ and #[1]​

We did a weekend jam session a few hours ago to squeeze one in between our busy travel schedules.

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/Z7SLdj6GB9c

Podcast:

https://www.curiousdk.com/p/nostr-news-may-27-max-webster-and

In it we talk

0:00 bitcoin Miami - big Nostr energy

6:18 Wolf Lightning Accelerator

14:34 supercycle of compounding tools - Nostr + AI + Opensource

21:00 Lightning payments from/to Machines

29:55 AI/LLM decentralization/open

38:37 "Open" AI

39:48 Curated Feeds by #[2]​

54:55 Dhruv Bansal - Will AI Dream of Electric Bitcoin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCH1bFO1hPE

1:07:07 Scenius on Nostr: https://kk.org/thetechnium/scenius-or-comm/

1:14:15 Hack Nostr On

1:15:47 fiatjaf relay showcase based on PoW

1:19:25 Damus one-tap zaps and zap payment split

1:26:43 Podcast Highlighter by Karnage

1:28:54 Highlighter product updates!

1:31:39 SimpleX - private messenger https://simplex.chat/

1:36:00 app stores, micro-apps, super-apps

he was prob tripping 🌈🦄

get #[4]​ involved, the master of musical sub-genres

i didn’t know about “psychedelic shoegaze” until he mentioned it

oh yeah, #[4]​ and i were just talking about SimpleX today on Nostr News (to publish soon)

i would love to learn more about it, but i will be traveling for a few weeks and won’t be able to make videos while i’m on the road. hopefully still interesting in late June when i get back home! 🤙

#[5]​ host the SimpleX folks on Nostrovia? prob a good one to learn about

😹 😹

cashed in on some debts he was owed?

oh great, i’ll bring over some steaks to BBQ

heard his setup is 🔥

i’m building some quality relationships on Bluesky

oh, maybe a simplex bug? it took me to a group i was already a member of

I like to multi-source. No kings, no heros, no gatekeepers… just gather as much information from the marketplace of ideas as you feel is adequate to form a view on what you think is true.

It’s healthy to look at all financial incentives as a balance of risk/rewards.

Many people contribute to FOSS out of interest or as a hobby with no expectation of financial incentive at all.

But you can approach FOSS with an intention to commercialize. For example, I once had coffee with a developer named Ross Mason who started an FOSS project which became a commercial success called MuleSoft and sold to Salesforce for $6.5 billion.

When you consider dedicating your time and effort toward FOSS there may be no commercial opportunity. You may discover a commercial opportunity along the way. In that world you’re taking on personal risk, but if you figure out something new/novel/interesting/valuable you may get substantially rewarded by the market.

If you work for a company who pays you (and in which you have no ownership of the company) then you are taking minimal risk and getting certainty of the reward you negotiate (your salary).

Most software projects live on a spectrum of maximal certainty, but minimal surprises to the upside or minimal certainty and maximal possibilities of upside. Your choices about where to place your effort depend upon your desires/needs/life circumstance. It’s always a spectrum and there is not one universally correct answer.

But if someone is paying you a salary, you should realize that they are likely doing so with the expectation that your work output has a risk adjusted ability to create more reward than they’re paying you, otherwise they wouldn’t take that trade.

i haven’t listened yet, but i’ll queue it up and share some thoughts

agreed. for me it’s the right mix of wild-west/frontier ideals with a present grounding in our ability to make near term changes that impact the lives of people we know and love

what is the tyrannical spirit? how do we avoid it?

i appreciate good faith trolling! 😋

how do you decide what is truth in “a blockchain”? investigate the incentives, the multiple adversarial parties competing to achieve consensus. analyze the signatures of these parties with whatever software you choose, multi-source perspective on block height/weight to decide which blockchain you choose to believe things about.

fine if most people don’t have the time to do this, but that fact that it’s possible is what’s important, imo

thanks for watching and sharing! let’s discuss your perspective today, Max ✌️

single-sourcing of truth is the most corrupting force in the universe

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it me 😝

now i see 26 in sleepyfrens