It’s so good. (My favorite Ethiopian restaurant in Dubai.)
Yes! Bitcoin and Nostr are freedom protocols.
Today HRF announced 2 billion sats in gifts from its Bitcoin Development Fund to projects worldwide
We are delighted that we could gift $50k of this to #[0] for his awesome work on nostr and Damus ⚡️
Other recipients include the Africa Bitcoin Conference, the Qala Fellowship, core developer Vasil Dimov, Lorban (for their important work on Stratum V2), and Bitcoin Myanmar, a new group that will be producing Bitcoin educational content for people trapped inside Burma’s military dictatorship
More info at the link. Next round of gifts to come in May!
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/hrf-donates-2-billion-satoshis-bitcoin-projects
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Cabin for a week sounds cozy. Cooking, music, movies, and board games.
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Agree that we need to expand the protocol ecosystem.
Nostr’s decentralization, interoperability, and user choice are great outcomes. I’d love to see more variation of the type of apps built on nostr, like the long form writing app (habla) just released. More nostr touch points with apps that users find useful or fun is the way.
I don’t think thousands of clones of the same mobile app is very useful. Apple filters for clones being published in the App Store, so they’d probably not be supportive if clones with minor changes were being pushed. Cloning is easy, but maintenance, improvement, and support is hard. It would be much better if we had high quality solid offerings in different categories that users saw as viable alternatives to centralized corporate apps.
I hope that developers building on nostr can create sustainable businesses that incentive them to continue working on projects that provide value.
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The incentives and responsibility of the public social media companies are to serve shareholders and advertisers. This will almost always mean that the focus will be on quarterly profits and growth. Reliance on advertising for revenue results in making product decisions that aren’t aligned with consumer users. You end up with features being developed that focus on revenue at the expense of almost anything else.
User happiness as an outcome or features that thoughtfully consider users aren’t the top of the priority list — if they even make the list. I don’t think they started out that way, but they almost all ended up there.
This is aside from all of the other risks of centralized ownership. They become targets of governments, shareholders, advertisers, activists of all stripes, and so on. This isn’t unique to any particular large centralized platform company with this model.
This is where a decentralized protocol like nostr and a supporting ecosystem of developers and services has the potential to breakthrough. This can work.
I was thinking the same, but my thoughts on this has changed over the last week. If more mainstream on-ramps to lightning exist it will become less of an issue. Also, they can just reply with an emoji or anything.
Why not 1 sat = zap on posts and ability to tip on both profiles and notes? I realize that isn’t the current proposed spec. Just a thought.
