Dealll Nostrdise 🏝️🍹😎

Nostriname, let’s go! You’re welcome anytime 🙌🏾🤗

Unfortunately no 🥲 Severe fomo, but I really need to get some rest and head back to Suriname

Had a blast! Safe trip home 🙏🏽

To building a better future 🥂

Excited to speak at Adopting Bitcoin about the Bitcoin Circular Economy in Suriname! 🇸🇷 nostr:note1epnkd8zwvf29pnrggk69l6zcjt6t9jtzpas9752g7wqfasw0n4xsz3tdmn

Just mute and archive unnecessary groups, only way to maintain sanity

Just when you thought the internet couldn’t get more centralized, kill me now 😩🫠

Oh I seriously have that problem with them, but it seems to have gotten much worse now, Ipage is now Bluehost, literally two websites in one, front end is just a farce, two landing pages in 1… and check this out:

It’s just a new form of predatory pricing it seems, without breaking antitrust laws 🤔

Apparently iPage has been acquired by BlueHost and I was literally trying to check out, page went blank and now the domain is gone. But this has been happening a lot, I’ve noticed the past year or so, then suddenly you have to negotiate to buy the domain.

Is it just me or every time you want to purchase a domain and don’t buy it immediately after looking it up, suddenly it’s unavailable 😑

Why are you not in the Amsterdam Nostriches group yet? nostr:npub1qg5a5l3t7pakmm4r4up2e764xecsw62fk3rntevm24fwyczhndtsdrvc4x

I feel like I’m talking gibberish 🥴

- Napster provided a centralized server that indexed the files, and carried out the searches. Individual files remained on the hosts' computers and were transferred directly from peer to peer.

- The Pirate Bay, seed & leechers, Torrents, the BitTorrent protocol

- The Bitcoin protocol, the blockchain is roughly half a terabyte now

- On a site to download a torrent there’s an info hash and a magnet link

Argh it’s all just brainfarts 😵‍💫

Can a client index files and carry out searches, files remain on the hosts’ PC, linked only to your nsec and an info hash on the Bitcoin protocol, could you store the entirety of data on the internet on everyone’s PC without storing data on the protocol?

A combination of the worlds biggest distributed ledger/server/network and Nostr, crowdsourcing data processing mix old school Napster 🤔

Apps have missed the memo on user-friendliness.. Registering with an e-mail or phone numbers should be like magic, handling all the complexity without a user having to jump through hoops, auto create whatever is needed on the backend, that option should at least be available. The masses don’t care about nscecs and pubkeys or hashrates and nodes, it’s too many steps and too complicated for the average user. The UX is horrible. 99.9% of people don’t understand how their computer or the internet works, heck or how the phone they have in their hand works or how it’s connected to the internet… yet they still know how to use it. Same goes for Bitcoiners, eg. Imagine you had 0.0001% of the world trying to convince the other 99.9999% how Ethernet, DOS, HTTPS, TCP/IP, Kernel, terminals, OS’s and other stuff works, instead of just creating a seamless user experience. Nobody would be using the internet. Apple and Microsoft created products even your grandma could use, that’s what set off the computer and internet revolution. Facebook created a platform that made connecting with friends so easy it spread like wildfire and launched it at universities, before it scaled. It wasn’t even the first. That’s why we have crypto and web3 bs and companies like FTX that reach the masses. As long as the industry doesn’t understand marketing, that their UI/UX’s suck and how to scale, it won’t. And marketing to more ‘plebs’, the same people at the same conferences, circlejerking for a few thousand attendees doesn’t count. Similarly as attending or speaking at CES does not sell products at scale. If there’s one thing SBF knew how to do/did right, it was how to market the crap out of a product.

Sad, but true