I wonder if it's just the late stage fiat, or what else is exacerbating it. I suspect the 2 party system and a big state is the cause.
But what are the causes of the 2 party systems?
Is the evolution of all repeated democratic games towards the big state 2-party systems?
Verifying my Nostr Nests identity: 21c-1UREGA4vX8vyEDsN8duGASRNgn8Cp15ZE7BYXSY
I think it doesn't have the NFC chip yet. Just the Bluetooth.
But there also seems something brewing - they just bought an identity/payment startup.
https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/oura-smart-ring-contactless-payments-wearables-b1081785.
It would be cool if they open it up for integrations. You could sign transactions, notes, get physical smart key accesses, multisigs, ...
It seems that Amethyst chooses the private by default. I love that choice; very trust building from the client; compare with blue checks, lol.
Dollar milkshake is turning into a dollar ice cube.
Interesting point in the whole heated debate to me was that without the EU law forbidding the businesses to charge extra fees for the use of credit cards, there wouldn't be any heated debate, and everyone would peacefully choose whatever payment method they prefer at whatever costs.
In US it's not uncommon to have the credit card charges added to the bill, or SMBs commonly offering discounts when paying in cash. Then the customers also learn what is preferred, and courteous to do, and they can choose to follow it unless the cost of carrying cash around is too high for them.
📣 Announcing Ostrich Work 📣
It's the first Nostr-native job board using the new 30402 event kind detailed in the Classifieds NIP.
It's still very early but you can post jobs and browse through jobs. Lots more to come soon™!
Jobs? Classifieds? You might be wondering how these are the same. It's best to think of Classifieds as "anything being offered". This can be places to stay, stuff for sale, jobs, places to rent, personal ads, etc. And yes, I've got a few more projects in the space in mind...
Thanks nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft for the early feedback.
I was thinking about the need for this some time ago. And thought that as long as there's not really much censorship on the classic jobboards, it's not as urgent use case for nostr as for example the social media space.
Just later, thanks to Pablo and others, I realized the strength of Nostr is even more in its simple permissionless extensibility.
If we manage to provide a highly segmentable experience, which you can tailor to every single niche job market, you can quickly outcompete the existing big monolith JBs which are contained by having to optimize to the single (nonexisting) median employer.
The irony while everyone wants to tax the rich, and then it turns into full-Karen attack against your local pub.
(All at the same time when government spends the tax money to support the Michelin restaurant owners)
Also, Brussels lives in it's own sphere to most. They are shielded from the population. And it's harder to connect on the issue across different countries than for example within the US against the Federal government.
Lol! Truly wild!
No trillions poured into the "public infrastructure" drains could ever give us these things. Thank you!
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Lol. Baaad 🤣
Maybe that't the one job we can save for humans for now.