How about those with superiority complex?
Do you somersault onto your throne or do you just majestically descend on it from your high horse?
Cue hover hate…
I need you to do better at not quoting a prolific shitcoiner in bitcoin context…
Enough with the platitudes. Or have you run out of stuff to say? You are not a celebrity, don’t try to sound like one.
Ya’ll just closet fiat fuckers
Except we happy sat your dumbass for all the recycled shit but now in all caps!
YES! Fuck decentralization and censorship resistance.. Here, have my keys too and just feed me
As Sovereign Engineering comes to a close, I'd like to take some time to reflect on the past few months. It feels like it was yesterday when I was sitting in a Panera Bread in NYC listening to a Nostrovia episode when these guys nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft and nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc mentioned a crazy idea to bring a bunch of hackers to an island in the middle of the Atlantic to work on Nostr stuff for two months. At this point I had only recently heard about Nostr, in fact, I was still debating between building on Farcaster vs Nostr 😅. By the end of that podcast I was hooked, I knew I had to find a way to get myself into the Cohort and start contributing to the future of the web. So I started working on a client, learning all about the intricacies of the protocol as I did. A constant flow of Nostr podcasts streamed into my ears, fueling the next few weeks as I put together what eventually became Flockstr. (Funny enough, Flockstr was originally supposed to be a Patreon/Substack client where users could subscribe to creators and consume long-form content). Once my MVP was done I sent DMs to a bunch of the big names on Nostr to get some feedback. Luckily, despite not having much cred to my name at the time, I got some awesome encouragement from nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn & Pablo which pushed me to keep going. Fast forward 4 months and now I find myself sitting in a cafe in Madeira, writing this retrospective as I get ready to return home tomorrow.
In that time I've:
1. Turned Flockstr into the first Nostr Calendar events client
2. Built Flare.pub the first YouTube/Video sharing app on Nostr
3. Built Find Me On Nostr a fun little game to spread the word about Nostr and share some sats
4. Contributed to the Nips repo
5. Visited Bitcoin Park in Nashville to meet a bunch of Nostriches like nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx, nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424, nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf, nostr:npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3, nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg, and others
6. Joined SEC-01 in Madeira where I got to work with some of the most capable developers in the space and discuss the future of the web (I could gloat more about my time in nostr:npub1s0veng2gvfwr62acrxhnqexq76sj6ldg3a5t935jy8e6w3shr5vsnwrmq5 but this is a kind 1 after all so let's keep it somewhat brief 😂)
7. Created Seeker, an Events app for Bitcoiners built on Nostr ready to onboard the next generation of Nostriches.
8. Presented at Bitcoin Atlantis where I was able to meet some incredible people like nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m, nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8, nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr, nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc, nostr:npub1jpvsahpy0vgq7gu8nfqjkeskce0gwjk8jpss590xkvjh5xxe4epsruqgsz, nostr:npub1zjx3xe49u3njkyep4hcqxgth37r2ydc6f0d7nyfn72xlpv7n97ss73pvrl, and so many more.
All of that in just a few months. I was just checking my GitHub, and my first ever Nostr commit was Oct 5th, 2023 marking tomorrow my 5-month Nostr-anniversary. It's amazing how much can happen in such a short time. Thanks to all who I've had the pleasure of meeting so far in this journey, I can't wait to see what the next 5 months have in store. 🧡
Lately nostrichers starting to sound a bit shitcoin-y with all the self-pumps..
Mostly it’s pretty dumb and will not last. People mistake fiatjaf’s saltiness for smarts. Whereas relays and nsecs are a product of a weak mind amid low IQ density in this space.
I will be back in 6m to tell you I told you so again.
I messed around with Nostr nostr:npub1us9uc0sjjg0vyvh7vefgu2a96hx5up5gujl6pqays65hlk4de6hsnwq4g0 today to test the friction points.
I did indeed run into friction points, especially given my safety-minded view as a large account that doesn't keep track of every detail that's going on, but the active community there on a random Monday was great and helped me get in touch with them easily. With a slight bit of effort, it was easy to start talking with them and figure a few things out.
It felt a lot like Twitter/X Spaces. I had no audio issues. Pretty seamless. Not all that different from my first Clubhouse or Twitter Spaces experience where I was like, "what the fuck are we doing here?"
My only extra caveat was how to easily prove my identity without really thinking about it, and understanding the tech to make sure I'm not accidentally revealing my private key. So there's a bit of an assessment there.
If anything, my feedback was that I need Nostr protocols to help manage and sign my keys better. Keeping my private key secure while using my public key to get involved with things should be easier in the long run.
@fiatjaf “Nsec has a chance of working!”
A year later, nostr is still such a nascent mess. Not as nice, but still just as much a mess.
Yep. Spam is *always* the answer.
Have you never seen / read “the beach”?
We all know how anything that puts faith in the goodness of humans actually ends.
Most of the real user social is composed on the toilets.
That’s what ya’ll are working on.
The sheer number of people who have submitted their privkey/nsec for verification on https://verified-nostr.com is quite staggering. And that’s despite a bold, red message to only send the pubkey in hex.
Fortunately for them, I ensure those submissions are discarded. That said, there really should be a better way for key management and/or training for new folks to realize the privkey/nsec is basically their password.
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Sadly all the clients are kinda lame and recommend the same bunch of opinionated nerds (and Gigi) that circle jerk each other (they call it zapathon) on how nostr is awesome and it fixes everything and it’s the meaning of life itself. But if you hang around a bit you’ll see it’s actually just another product of broken money. These morons made their money selling bitcoin to other idiots and so they don’t have to make anything that solves anything or does anything anyone would actually pay real money for. So clients suck, relays suck and the whole new user experience is just shite. But it’s worth a visit if you’re into cyperpunk subculture phenomenons..
This advice is proof of stupid. No wonder nostr isn’t really growing. Few angry nerds that say GM every morning…
Did an interview with nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s today regarding Nostr and Damus.
It was freaking great!
Who the fuck would zap this bs post by the posterboy of twitter loving bit-shit-coiner? was it just a wankzap to make ya’ll simple minded plebs fall for it
Unpopular opinion: nostr is borne of frivolous, broken money…