Hmm, if it’s true that new people are no longer making their way here, I would suppose there’s an element here tied to the fact that the login/key process is still clunky and intimidating.
No normie is going to safely and intuitively use Nostr with the current state of the key system. But it seems a ton of people are hand waving this away or acting like it’s too hard or not important to solve. 🤔
Obvious it’s not the only thing, and there’s plenty of reasons the network cycle may be in a bear market, but I would gander that plays a meaningful part.
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when is the pod with Robbie the fire
He already dropped it on YouTube but not sure if it’s in the feed yet. We will be publishing on nostr:nprofile1qqsth23xaejyzxzzq5p95nfn7sqduen9hx5c478pk66c9efvutquglqpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumtfd3hh2tnvdakqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxz6gnnzhfk feed soon too though, just a handful of episodes lined up before it.
I legit haven’t noticed less activity. Have you seen this in your own network or just specifically stats from somewhere? 🤔
That’s the crazy thing about what pubky is building. They keep positioning as competing with Nostr, but I don’t see why that has to be. The actual pubky DNS layer can be used independently and it’s really lightweight from what I understand. A new way to provide additional robustness and censorship resistance at the relay layer would be a huge benefit, imo
How could you combine pubky DNS for relays with Nostr? 🤔
How boss would it be if you could run Nostr by connecting to relays that couldn’t be censored and could always pop right back up and were reachable with the exact same key no matter where they hosted?
That’s what I do, I’ve really enjoyed their service and it gets better at a regular pace. Lots being built
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Bearish because it's hard to get a seat at the cool kids table. Folks like nostr:nprofile1qqstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqpzdmhxue69uhkzmr8duh82arcduhx7mn9qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxg8mv947 will invite you, but not many others
I think the trick is to send legal threats 😂
Faces 35 years for literal common sense and courage to do the right thing.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.”
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Allen firstly can't thank you enough for writing this. For some silly reason I still work in Tradfi and you really helped me think through the stablecoin endgame for banks and the inherent incompatibility with FRB.
Question to both of you - can you elaborate on how taproot assets theoretically solves issuer network lock in?
Let's use the example of someone sending USDC and the recipient settling in USDT.
I'm guessing it would be a matter of sufficient liquidity of both assets in the channel/s to allow the swap to take place? Would the recipient wallet deal with this via the LN invoice?
I'm not super technical when it comes to lightning. Would love to understand how this works in practice.
The swap occurs directly over lightning. Both respective fiatcoins have to have liquidity (but the sender and receiver are basically the liquidity in this case) and to the lightning network, and even to each user, which currency at the beginning or the end is irrelevant. The payment is being settled in sats and converted on both ends.
It’s less taproot assets specifically, and that you can send these assets over the Lightning network for settlement.
Right now if you have tether and want to pay me, I HAVE to accept tether, or you have to go to an exchange, make an account, and swap it to USDC, and you hen download and install a USDC wallet to send that to me instead if I want to receive it. Which nobody is gonna deal with, they will simply use Tether/USDT for the sake of simplicity. So there’s huge lock in, similar to “CashApp users can only send money to CashApp users.”
However, as taproot assets, the swap to sats in a Lightning invoice is built in. So as long as the sender and receiver agree on the value (which is just the invoice amount), I can “zap you” USDT and I don’t even have to know or care what you receive it as. You could just be taking the sats, USDC, ruble coin, yuan tokens, some bitcoin based shitcoin, who cares? That’s simply your choice and the thing actually transmitting the value, is BTC. It becomes this bridge, and ironically kinda becomes this “any currency to any currency DeFi system” without needing a coordinator, or stupid blockchain, or order book, or ETH VM, or any of that garbage. It just needs a sender and receiver and simple agreement on the value to exchange. It’s the nodes at the edge run by tether or some bank or Coinbase or whatever that need to build liquidity to accept their token and forward sats that creates a foundation for this, and after that bootstrap, the barriers just kinda fall away and there’s less reason to use any specific stablecoin/fiatcoin instead of any other simply due to how much it’s used, but instead you would use specifically what you *trusted.*
See folks. This is why you never skip a nostr:npub1hw4zdmnygyvyypgztfxn8aqqmenxtwdf3tuwrd44stjjeckpc37q6zlg0q episode 🤣
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Unfortunately the UX around torrents are horrendous. And I say that as a lifelong pirate.
It’s only when traditional delivery gets too onerous or restrictive that people go back to pirating.
Why do so many engineers fail to grasp the difference between building an app, and building money?
#Bitcoin wasn’t built to impress software engineers.
It was built to change the world.
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🔗 https://fountain.fm/episode/FQXtIVB4Naznmp1j0Tdo
The "just use this website" solution is so frustrating.
Published in 2011
Still relevant to this day
Makes no sense
How on earth did you read this that way? 😂🤦🏻♂️
If you have a better way to filter bots and spam in a decentralized network, then 40 years of cypherpunks and P2P developers would love to hear it btw. 🫡
The money supply has increased pretty reliably at about 7% per annum for like 50 years. Mostly mild fluctuations with a few exceptions. I would pose the question as to why you can get a 4-5% mortgage right now?
I think the answer is that we have to have a clear way to measure against the past. It’s only in the comparison to a harder asset that has enough liquidity that we can even see the degradation of the currency and accurately price it. (CPI is total garbage for this)
This is why I think the presence of bitcoin is the only thing that will actually restore real interest rates.
Newly issued money is explicitly used to increase the supply of debt by manipulating its price. When that new money enters the economy, it obscures the amount of actual resources available until it circulates through the economy and prices adjust - this is whether the rate is constant or not.
Thus, it gives debtors a permanent and systemic subsidy at the cost of savers. Prices only adjust *after* new debtors bid up prices in the market with new money.
You are correct that a significant change in the rate is more *disruptive,* but persistent inflation in the money supply is a subsidy for debtors either way.
Dude I thought newpipe broke some years back. Didn’t know it was still alive!
I was so worried about how Iran was 2-3 years away from a nuclear bomb in 1992. Then how they were 2-3 years away every year since was even crazier. Can’t believe we dodged that bullet for 33 years thanks to our diligent, honest, and hard working govt.
Again, how old are you?
First, inflation has been 7% year over year for the better part of 50 years and is closer to 10% most recently. The consumer price index is meaningless nonsense. But I’ll give a more complete answer when I have a minute to break it down. And the short term “return” or lack thereof on the fiat price of bitcoin has nothing to do with it.
You think there is another asset that can can actually protect sound monetary restrictions against completely reckless and economically retarded governments? 🤔
CT’s debt per capita is the worst in the country. And they have over $90 billion in unfunded liabilities. There’s not a ghost of a chance that they get out of this unless there is aggressive return on investment (they invest in a monetizing asset that will correct this massive problem) or by massive devaluation of their debt, which will cause a collapse of their economy and they can all be poor together.
The situation is beyond “extreme” already and this country and the entire west is acting like it’s “business as usual,” when we are on the brink of the world stepping away from the dollar. And nobody has any idea how quick it can fall apart historically when other countries exit the network that we push our inflation off onto.
Reality doesn’t care about anyone’s opinion.
The his has nothing to do with “agreeing with my thought process.” But are you under the impression somehow that the current fiat debt situation and trajectory is sustainable? Because if you are you are deeply mistaken.
Easy way to tell the real ones. It’s not about spending or saving. If you are on a #Bitcoin standard, you use your money and there’s not really a debate.
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I’m about to just fly somewhere randomly in the middle of the day so I can use lightning at a @SteaknShake
1. Nodes can be sybil attacked, there is no cost so there cannot be an objective way to reward them nor any true measure as to whether they are doing any good for the network.
2. Running a node is more a defensive measure than an outward service. Kind of like holding your own keys. Nobody should be rewarded for that, its just dumb not to do it. However if everyone holds their own keys the network is stronger for it, similar with nodes.
3. Nodes and miners weren't separate ideas in Satoshi's time. There was simply the Bitcoin software. If you installed it, you were a full node and a miner. It wasn't for a couple of years before mining was so pointless on non-specialized hardware that node running became a separate idea from mining.
Which human being actually cut it.
I want to see pure extracted cuck in its human form.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/uk/toby-carvery-london-oak-tree-scli-intl/index.html
Well it sounds from the story like someone trying to meet regulations and code literally told them to cut it down, and then they stupidly followed instructions.
Kind of a good example of when you make a bunch of rule followers and then over complicate the rules so everyone is afraid to break them, you get a bunch of people who don’t question things when they are told to do something. 🤔