I interpret his tweet to be about protecting against censorship and maintaining access to all, I might be wrong.
Agree it's very clumsy and admit I also once paid to hear his views, until it seems his success went to his head.
When you realise someone is not for you, don't waste energy, just move away.
Today I confirmed my decision to retire from the business I've part owned with my business partner for the past 10 years, a business I invested 10 years of my life into building.
So to feel like I've failed is very strange, but that's how it is right now. In time this feeling will pass and something new will emerge.
Onwards.
Interesting read on LLM's
We/you are already on the list, even if your bitcoin isn't (yet).
But the road and task ahead does not change, we are simply more aware.
Keep doing what you are doing.
Clear eyes, full hearts.
(Ben Hunt)
#photography
If anyone is curious to explore the topic of "reputation over compensation", take a look at Advancing Bitcoin talk I gave back in March this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUgQPR6ecuo
FOSS is the way.
Your talk was very real. Thank you
Indeed, they already have.
Okay not replace all but whatever is built must be resilient and it must survive.
My main point is to highlight that monetization, in my humble opinion, increases competition and reduces cooperation.
Nostr/Bitcoin are still at the very very beginning of a long journey. One which will require those people with vision to sacrifice their time and creative energy.
To monetize too soon may be detrimental to the overall project if it reduces cooperation, which is still vital while the basic plumbing is still being developed.
No one should underestimate the scale of the endeavour, which is in essence to replace a financial system which was built over hundreds of years.
Who constructed such monuments?
Very different - my apologies
Message from Thebes to nostr.
Who constructed such a monument?
This years Christmas Present
The comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38718544 are proof that we can't make "just apps" and have people use them without knowing that Nostr is a thing. Users must know.
And in fact I think it is much easier to teach people about Nostr than about why your damn app doesn't have email+password login and where is it storing things and how does moderation work without telling them about Nostr.
And when they finally understand the basics of Nostr they will suddenly understand everything about not only your app, but about all other Nostr clients.
Decentralisation is the long term advantage but is the short term constraint and consequently nostr will take time to evolve because it will be expanding in all directions at the same time.
There will be winners and losers along the way and these will be decided by many factors, including plain old good luck.
Patience and perseverance will be key.
I tried to onboard my friends tonight and had a heck of a time. Both had iPhones so I got them both on Damus. And they could show me their QR code. But once I got it, I couldn't figure out how to paste their public key into my phone client to follow them. I tried nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg, coracle (nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn) and amethyst (nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z) and none of them had an obvious way to follow someone by pasting a pubkey.
Also one installed nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm but couldn't figure out how to connect it to Damus nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955, and I couldn't either.
Eventually I followed them both after they posted and I searched for them.
This needs to be easier on phone clients. There need to be maybe more menu options? Or maybe they are hidden somewhere? I had bragged about how much I know about nostr and am involved in nostr, and then I couldn't even get them setup. It was embarassing.
Oh, and nostr:npub1wmw3ny90zg6gmy7jlme76vthjjreapn94cmx9vduxzjhntm9xamq24stj0 and nostr:npub1ckhwr3lvc8g5yvwg22hv8vysvk437q0hlftvm5d432x43ps2ll5qfkpq0g are gonna need zaps once we get their wallets setup. They were floored to find out that random people might just send them money for something they post.
I'm a 'regular' user and now you feel my pain and I welcome your openness to posting about how difficult it is to work nostr out.
I hope the community listens.
That will be my decision, not yours.
Nostr is hard to comprehend full stop.
Another dumb question?
So I get that I have a private key, but I don't know how to keep it secure, or at least I'm not confident that I I'll be able to keep it secure because it's not clear to me when it's safe to use it because how do I know if an app I'm inputing it into is genuine.
So just like X, but for different reasons, nostr just seems equally unappealing as a place to invest in, because in nostr' case it seems almost inevitable that, at scale, the average user is going to loose control of their private key.
I can't square this circle and nostr will not scale imo until it resolves these fundamental usability questions for the 'regular' user.