UASF tipped the scales
The major battle happened on the segwit2x mailing list
You cant really predict these things, any more than you can predict what you will dream at night
You can try things, and see what sticks
Specialist relays are part of nostr, because nostr can service so many different use cases
It might make sense to separate text notes and git updates, because there are logically different audiences. Though there can be some overlap
I definitely want to do development over git+nostr though, so that I'm not locked in to centralized frameworks
That would come down to individual preference. Which is why it's good there's a bounty, and people can try different things
Personally for me, I would want to see an extensible system that tracks git code, and gets realtime updates, so that it can deploy the latest version
That code should be able to move from one location to another seamlessly, e.g. github -> gitlab -> own hosting -> github again
Then an extensibility mechanism for other features, comments, pull requests, bounties, on-chain commitments, smart contracts, bot frameworks, data provenance etc.
It depends how it is done
Uncenorable code is pretty powerful
Has the potential to change humanity
I dont think bitcoin being on github is much of an issue, there are many forks of it too
Yep, the BIP system was introduced to slow Gavin down
Block size war was an amazing thing. For the first time in history a group of volunteer open source developers stood up to billions of dollars venture capital, millions of users, most of the hashing power. It went to the market ...
And the developers won!
The reputation of developers in an open source project was worth more than 100mm, or even 1Bn, in VC money per person. That's why in bitcoin, reputation is more valuable than anything
It was a first in history, and it's why we still have open source bitcoin
Yeah, it wasnt about block size, it was about control
Listen to Marshall McLuhan
segwit brought us lightning
taproot brought us nostr
Bitcoin scripts use taproot, but they are purposefully limited
#nostr takes taproot, and is much more powerful and expressive. Two main things that are added to make something Turing Complete are conditional branching (logic) and loops (repeatability).
The result is that any type of computation can be run on nostr. Furthermore, it will be possible to anchor certain things to the block chain, if needed, giving audibility and tamper proof systems