🚨 WHITE NOISE LIVE DEMO! 🚨
Today is a big milestone. I'm now 100% sure that MLS messaging is going to work on Nostr! 🤙 I've been optimistic for weeks now but... you never know until you write that last line of code that ties it all together.
Personally, this project has stretched me way out of my comfort zone. I'm a web dev, not a cryptographer! I also didn't really know much about memory management or compiled languages before getting started on this project. Suffice to say, I've come a long way! 😊
It's not quite ready for use, but I'll have builds out very soon.
https://v.nostr.build/TNOG9ZGYjLEpeIlz.mp4
For those that don't know much about the project, I recommend finding my past MLS updates on Highlighter. Or just ping me here – I'm happy to answer questions.
Nice one Jeff. Congrats! 🤗
Hey Max, we are building a nostr client that allows better monetization for creators.
Bitcoin lightning low transaction fees are the key to delivering micropayments.
Encrypted content, where nostr users can pay with lightning for the decryption key. They then own a copy that is only accessible with their nsec.
Digital content ownership that is not dependent on a centralised platform.
GM Nostr!
Has the ECB declared war on us?
MSTR is a shitcoin!
The banks threaten to shut down our bank accounts for what we say on social media.
At the same time, we build an uncensorable social media with an integrated, uncensorable payment system.
Saylor is making negative public statements about crypto anarchists, but https://www.hope.com/resources still lists Soverign Individual, Murray Rothbard, and Hans Herman Hoppe. I know he's actually read these books because I've heard him talk about them.
I see three possible scenarios now. Listed in order of likelihood.
1. He understands libertarian theory, but has become enamored with power and wants to join the high finance club. He's more interested in compromising with them than he is with a genuine renaissance. (Likely)
2. He's somehow compromised through blackmail or some other conflict of interest and has yet to be able to break free from that. (Possible)
3. He is an exremely talented actor as well as an investor and CEO. He didn't mean anything he said in his recent interviews and is playing coy for his advantage. (Very unlikely)
He has always been a spook!
Bitcoin is money that you can own.
You can hold it on your own person wherever you go and you hold securely in a way that nobody can see that you have it. Robbers or governments can search your house for gold.
If you hold your bitcoin securely, then they can’t take it.
This facility has never existed before in history. There has never been a form of money that you really own for yourself without relying on a bank or a legal system to protect your ownership.
In the past many people have resorted to storing their gold in a bank vault. The problem with that is the fact that the bank can be robbed by people with guns. Bank alarm systems are much more sophisticated than they have been in the past so they now rarely get robbed. Though some would argue that the bank robbers have become more sophisticated. They have in fact taken over the government and they are slowly and quietly robbing us of our savings in way most people cannot see.
Bitcoin doesn't require a third party to store it securely.
Bitcoin doesn't require armed guards to securely transfer it to someone else.
Bitcion is already a work of fiction.
The blockchain is the story that we all agree on
Very true, but if you want to exist in the normal world these days it is very difficult to do so without having access to the internet.
If you have a farm, you produce your own food and you trade cash for medical supplies etc, then you can be off grid, but for most people, an online presence is essential.
The fact is, that with the current centralised structure you have no ownership of your data online. You give up control of your data, the moment you share it and large companies store it, analyse it and they will earn money from it.
Bitcoin and Nostr have the potential to fix this.
A great podcast. Really interested in the concept of building intentional communities.
It seems that if you want to build a community that uses a common currency and has a common idology, then the thing to do is to build it around Bitcoin.
Bitcoiners will come and stay if they know that Bitcoin is being used as the currency. The shared values of Bitcoiners are generally very strong and cohesive.
There really is no need to engage with alt coin smart contracts that could be rugged at any time. Land ownership can be divided and legally bought and sold within the existing legal structure of whatever duristiction the community exists in.
Essentially what I am proposing is a property development where lots are sold to people with the stated intention that Bitcoin will be used to trade amongst the community members. The community members will likely build shops, bars, cafes, and trading systems that use bitcoin. There is no need to re-invent the legal structure of property ownership using smart contracts.
It is interesting to hear that so many intentional communities have failed in the past. I would like to research this more, but my first instinct would be that many of the communities created in the past were philosophically against money. Sadly, civilisations depend on money to keep account of the contributions of individuals and to operate as a fair medium of exchange enabling the specialisation of production. It is possible that the denial of the need for money as a key element of civilisation has been the reason for the 90%+ failure rate of intentional communiities.
Perhaps bitcoin fixes this?
The internet has started out as a communist place.
Digital ownership has been restricted to a handful of large tech companies.
Subscription is credit
Advertising is slavery
Bitcoin is digital money that you can own
Nostr is digital content that you can own
Without private property there is no freedom
Nostr is to digital media what bitcoin is to money.
Decentralised storage gives ownership of data.
Anything you think you own in twitter is the equivalent of fiat money.
Gm Nostr
You can pay for it with lightning from a device where you have not registered any personal details
You can pay for it with lightning from a device where you have not registered any personal details
Yes I don't want to think, I want the algorithm to do it for me.
Why would I use frictionless money to reward a creator, when I can use centralised fiat systems to enslave them.
Please take my data, use it manipulate me, rob me of my time and make me think that getting free shit is freedom!
GM Nostr
Looks like coinbase might not have all the btc that their customers think they have.
If they don't have all that they owe to their customers, then they are short the price of btc.
A run on coinbase will squeeze them and force them to buy BTC.
This may be what has been happening to the btc price for the last week.
ETF providers are publicly asking coinbase for more liquidity. Who knows what they are asking them for in private?
I just figured out the point of ditto.
They can never shut us down as anyone can spin up a client!
GN Nostr
Gm pioneers
It seems that a number of high profile atheists are changing their views recently.
Could that be due to the number of enormous existential threats that we facing in the modern world?
He claims that he is taking his BTC to his grave
And yet he has already given it all to coinbase!
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I am concerned the reply guy replies will greatly reduce the usability of nostr… It is getting bad..
The ordinals did a great job of getting people on lightning and making us all think about scaling options ahead of when we would need it
BREAKING!! 🚨
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT from Gavin Newsom about illegal memes and the upcoming most important election of your lifetime! Early access brought to us from the Babylon Bee.
https://v.nostr.build/ykVfRTZsKfKi7qto.mp4
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A world where memes are illegal...
can I create a meme for that? 🤫
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I just got the card working. I found the way to access the CVV number and have tested it by subscribing to a substack. It works!
The fees are high if using outside of the US, but if you want anonymous digital payments in the tradfi systems, then it is now possible.