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Chief user experience complainer. Head of FOMO.
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We’ve released a big update of nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch in the leadup to the launch of of the creators and journalist residencies.

Check it out: nostr:note1knecawf8jzpdwezx9dpxkyhwljxlaynu0w5rre2954pcncdxxrpqnndqe3

We’re working on performance and hygine in the app while we also redesign the user discover and search functionality. In the last few months we did about a hundred user interviews with current, former, and future Nostr users.

We found a few things which jumped out at us.

* We discovered that the Nostr community is broadly considered friendly and welcoming.

* Almost everybody wanted there to there to be content on other topics beyond bitcoin. This was the case with both people who considered themselves bitcoiners and also those who didn’t identity themselves as bitcoiners.

* Most Nostr users felt welcomed, but a small number of people were agressive in harassing other users. We need to develop decentralized permissionless solution to these problems if we want Nostr to grow to it’s potential with hundreds of millions of users.

To address these issues we’ve created a program to highlight content about other topics beyond bitcoin. These folks are using bitcoin, they’re being setup with lightning wallets, and promoted in the app to help them be discovered without the centralized algorithms. Once this launches it’d be great to welcome these creators and journalists and validate the business model of micropayments and subscription content over zaps.

https://www.nos.social/creator-residency

https://www.nos.social/journalism-accelerator

I resonate with the other commenter... pictures of the experience would help 😉

use something not as obvious, but with the same secondary meaning 😉

you need wallet software that's open source and automates these actions for the user without user direct interaction.

Me: Let's do something productive.

My brain: What if the singer Josh Katz from Badflower had a child with Anya Taylor-Joy? Would that result in Sid from Ice Age?

Last time you replied "meh", but now, after two weeks, you disagree with my point?

People are all into these omegas and rolexes, but dude - this is Casio! Casio is the ultimate bitcoiner watch brand. It's cheap, it gives you time and it doesn't f*&k your privacy!

The only other available option is a sundial in sand...

So I think I'm going to execute on this.

Thinking between:

- A700W-1ACF

- Casio Royale (AE-1200WH)

- A158WA (the classicest classic)

What do you guys think?

#casio

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Where did you come from, where did you go?

Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?

I agree with the problem space exploration and that's great... but I also think ultimately there will be only one/couple to win and so the unfortunate "best" strategy is for VCs to push money into the L2s trying to overpay other L2s on blockspace fees and marketing.

The one that will stand the longest will win...

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content warning: nerdy bitcoin thoughts after a day of btcplusplus.dev

If we had some form of covenants we could have hundreds of L2s instead of just a few that barely work. Covenants are not spooky. They just mean being able to look at information of the transaction in the script that unlocks bitcoin for spending.

Before I didn’t really care about transaction introspection but many smarter bitcoiners are starting to convince me otherwise.

We could have channel factories that would solve many lightning onboarding problems, not to mention replacing the “i steal all your money because you restored from backup wrong” to “i just fix the channel state”.

It would also enable non-interactive versions of Ark and would open up tons of potentially more efficient L2s that make onboarding onto bitcoin easier and safer.

With op_txhash and other introspection proposals you could do “stacking”, a way for anyone to take a bunch of transactions and make a more efficient bundle translation to reduce fees, which will be increasingly important when fees get higher. This can be seen as a less hacky way to do sighash flags.

rusty’s great script restoration with a proper op budget has played a huge role in my shift of thinking, things like op_cat can be re-enabled, fixing the concerns which prompted satoshi to disable it at the last minute.

You can bizarrely get introspection from op_cat itself in a super inefficient way, but if we end up fixing script ideally we would just do something smarter like #lnhance

I can’t help but thinking of the future risks to bitcoin in a high fee environment if we don’t have tools to deal with it.

This is all theoretical of course, as engineers all we can do is come up with the best possible solution, ultimately its up to the node runners if they think its worth the opportunity to fix these problems.

Why do we need hundreds of L2s again? They all have to still fit into the blocks, right?

My grandmother is literally getting her (60s) music for her mp3 player over torrents.

And she's getting help with stuff on various online forums and she's schooling the teenagers there...

Sue USB cables for transmitting illegal content!

For my federal agent: If you need help understanding what things are morally wrong and morally good, then check out this evaluation of good versus bad as your starting point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY55CdGx4H0

#banana #bread

I guess all arch users will now have to become vegan...