The intersection of advertising and personal responsibility is complex. While the decision to advertise for BlockFi is certainly regrettable in hindsight, dragging Peter for it at this point seems harsh and unnecessary.

Zoom out for moment. Peter has done more to educate people about the value of Bitcoin than most any of us combined. He put all his time and money into fighting off Craig Wright.

I have no connection to him, never spoken to him, but based on his track record it seems fair to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he has only good intentions.

During the last run I put funds into BlockFi and Celsius because it looked like free money to those who were just going to hodl anyway. Kept hearing Odell’s voice in the back of my head and decided nah it ain’t worth it. He saved my ass.

It’s like, you can do it, but you shouldn’t do it, however there’s not another option based on existing standards.

Nothing I'm aware of. You've got a couple issues to contend with, first being that GPX is based on XML. You've got a choice to make, convert it to GeoJSON or leave it in it's native format. Embedding data with a schema (XML) or specification (JSON) into a nostr message still has it's own set of issues as embedding JSON or XML within another JSON structure increases the complexity of validation.

You have a nip-05 badge on your profile in Primal iOS. Is that what you're looking for?

Did you use strfry for the storage layer?

Really interesting how is blurs the lines between client and relay in a unique and useful way.

There's real value in a client that's also a reliable, indexed *backup* of everything you care about. Not just performance, but ownership. This reminds me of Obsidian which I'm a big fan of.

Super cool. Really excited to try this out. So this gives everyone a persistent and local copy of all their content plus the things they like, bookmark etc??

Nah man, we all have value. AI will just change the types of things we value as a society.

Remember, we are still in control of the future. Things will only be out of control for those that are not planning ahead.

"on here" is an understatement from you Will. 😂

Nostr is still a tiny corner of the internet, but damn if it’s not one of the most interesting.

Grateful to be a part of this community. Here’s to more greatness in 2024 and beyond.

Totally agree. We have a tendency to look at big networks like Twitter and think that’s the measuring stick when it’s more like an anomaly. The target audience here shouldn’t be “internet users”

If we’re building systems that are based on the way humans learn and communicate, we also have to accept there are not universal rules for establishing which humans are nefarious or naïve, which ones give and which ones take, etc.. The current flaw in thinking (IMHO) is that robots are going to be different. The outcome is not destined to be good or bad, it will continue to be a balance of both.

The main challenge for humans is we have limited bandwidth for cognitive input and things are going to get exponentially more noisy. That’s where the robots are better equipped, and the risk to us is not being enslaved, it’s being completely overwhelmed.

It’s not hopeless, it’s just different. Humans are super resourceful and resilient, I’m optimistic we’ll come up with solutions.

We'll need to have methods for establishing trust with AI agents as well. It will just use a differernt set of heuristics.

It still has global scale though. There are plenty of people I trust on nostr that I don’t know outside of nostr.

With the increasing amount of generative AI content, the greater risk to free speech is not explicit censorship, but in widespread confusion and mistrust.

As people feel more fragmented, they feel more disconnected, and they feel more lost. Community networks of trusted relays could provide protective measures against this.

Nostr has identity and auth baked in to the protocol, but don't limit yourself to thinking of it as yet another way to SSO into a website.

Consider how it can be used to seamlessly connect to a collection of overlapping wireguard networks that run trusted relays for example.

It isn't necessarily about private networks, it's about trusted networks. Implementing filters at the proper layer provides scale and flexibility that separates network operators and relay operators.

It could be. More about supporting a federation of interoperable apps though.

When other devs have tried decentralized identity it's typically been tied to another function like a wallet or messaging app. You need some other incentive/utility to bootstrap usage.

Nostr on the other hand already has identity, auth, and social graph built into to the protocol. The other apps on the network are the utility.

laser focus on portable identity + social graph is a great idea. nostr has the primitives to make it work.

Nah they would just rather say “see our debt is not so bad.”

One of the things I love most about the V4V livestream nostr:npub1a6c3jcdj23ptzcuflek8a04f4hc2cdkat95pd6n3r8jjrwyzrw0q43lfrr put on last night was a reminder of the value of shared experience. It made nostr feel more alive, and more connected to the real world.