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Say you're a new kid at school and you've never been a popular person. Do you care about who the most popular kids are? Maybe so you can avoid them!
After a few weeks you still don't have any friends, but you have noticed a few people that seem cool, so you "follow" them. Based on this set of follows, you can compute a "friend score" for anyone you don't know at all. It's simply the percentage of people you follow who are friends with the person in question. (There's actually a twist to it, but I'll get into that later.)
To see this idea in a proof of concept nostr app, check out https://friendstr.vercel.app with a NIP-07 equipped browser, or append /(your npub) to the URL.
I use Signal when I don't care if spooks are seeing it 🤙🏼
SimpleX still miles ahead of Signal with no user ids at all! 🤙🏼
That just takes me to play store 😭
//another
Thriller 🟠 drop
Lightning talk with John Carvalho
Car talks with John Carvalho, CEO of Synonym, a company dedicated to fostering Bitcoin adoption and envisioning a future where Bitcoin supersedes fiat currency. They explore the potential realities of a society free from the control of major financial, technological, and governmental institutions, discussing the role Bitcoiners play in shaping this desired future. John shares his insights on the importance of building on the Lightning Network and its implications for traditional financial systems like Visa. The conversation also covers Synonym's strategic approach to building a peer-to-peer economy, highlighting key projects like the BitKit wallet, Blocktank, and Slashtags and where they fit in their collaborative and competitive landscape. They delve into the broader implications of Bitcoin's growth post-ETF, halving events, and the concept of Bitcoin maximalism as it approaches near-universal adoption.
🪂 topics discussed:
• johns predictions
• lightning scaling
• visa
• how to think
• bank tech
• custodial bitcoin
• latest thing
• bitkit wallet
• aesthetic
• wallet build
• dependencies
• competitors
• collaborators
• blocktank
• slashtags
• widgets
• post etf
• bitrefill
• bitfinex
• building
• post halving
• maximalism
• 99%
//Thriller ep:
📀 zap via fountain: https://fountain.fm/show/6Na2tAjoNr9lZxpPAH25
📀 rss via transistor: https://share.transistor.fm/s/961bbcb7
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THRILLER ZINE – 15 FEBRUARY 2024 – PUB VIEW → https://www.thrillerbitcoin.com/lightning-talk-with-john-carvalho/
⚡️Follow the conversation for the ep on Stacker News. https://stacker.news/items/425952
I need to give this episode a listen. Too bad he's too good for nostr 😭
E-cash or e-nuts isn't cash or money at all, it's a token of a loan to the mint. E-cash marketing affinity scams bitcoin, which is a money you hold yourself. As a bearer asser, no one else can hold your bitcoin for you. Who's gonna hold your nuts?
I don't think of a bank as a money warehouse, so no
