nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx new blue check/unverified dystopian bifurcation of society just dropped.
Hey there, great episode! you mentioned Mostr, a Mastodon-Nostr Bridge when talking about Soapbox. If you see any profiles ending in "@mostr.pub", they are using it. A crazy thing would be, (if Instagram's Threads actually gets around to adding their ActivityPub interoperability) perhaps Threads profiles can eventually be bridged onto Nostr.
(Not me, random mostr user.)
Lol, what?
Anyway, link to cointelegraph article:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/pre-mined-ethereum-worth-116m-resurrects-after-8-years
(I can't believe the article is "the importance of hodling themed," as opposed to a critique on pre-mining)
Okayyyyy. I'll do one too.
How whale-y is BTC? According to
app.intotheblock.com/coin/BTC the "Concentration by Large Holders" BTC is at 11% while, Ethereum is at 42% (likely due to the Foundation & Consensys.) BCH is at 37% (probably due to the fact that to be a major holder of it, you are likely a believer in it, which not everyone is), ADA 32% (similar reasons to Ethereum), Polygon 85% (đź‘€Oof!), AVAX 78% (Also oof.) Then I came to two last coins that. I'm going to be honest. I thought *might* have been almost as distributed as Bitcoin. Litecoin and Doge. Litecoin was 50% and Doge was 65%! Don't know why/how these last two are so bad.
Also, the numbers show (despite Saylor's best efforts) that distribution is only increasing over time. (Although numerous news outlets such as Time and CBS has published articles critiquing Bitcoin's coin centralization as largely held by few (HELLO! Have you heard of fiat?!) Here's a great piece by a analytics company Glassnode proving the increasing distribution over time.
Something I haven't heard anyone mention (in relation to Instagram's Threads app) is that Nostr has a Mastodon-Nostr Bridge (Mostr). When Threads does add Fediverse interoperability, it can likely be interoperable with Nostr, too and Threads users can be zapped.
Hey there, I found on Stacker News a piece of writing regarding Instagram's Threads. It draws parallels to how Google (all but) killed an instant message standard (called XMPP) by becoming interoperable with it, and suggests that this is perhaps what Zuckerberg is doing.
Step 1. Become interoperable with open network (but OVERWHELMINGLY most users use Big Tech version.)
Step 2. Make it suck for people using non-Big Tech version. Slowly fall out of interoperability.
Step 3. Cut off interoperability.
Anyway, it's a good read/theory. Thinking adversarially has paid off for us as Bitcoiners, so it's something to watch out for over here at Nostr too. Being wayyyy smaller than the Fediverse, we are even more vulnerable to this.
It is also a "Twitter killer" the fact that they released it before having ANY ActivityPub interoperability shows they would rather take the opportunity to kick Twitter when they are down (ratelimiting) than actually be decentralized. However, it has a stricter moderation policy than Twitter.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Nostr News - Jul 13 - nostr:npub18lzls4f6h46n43revlzvg6x06z8geww7uudhncfdttdtypduqnfsagugm3 and nostr:npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8
+ Nostr Documentary
+ is Threads good for “team open”?
+ Nostr, Lightning, AI
+ OpenSats congrats/roll call!
YouTube:
Podcast:
https://www.curiousdk.com/p/nostr-news-jul-13-max-webster-and#details
Hey there, I found on Stacker News a piece of writing regarding Instagram's Threads. It draws parallels to how Google (all but) killed an instant message standard (called XMPP) by becoming interoperable with it, and suggests that this is perhaps what Zuckerberg is doing.
Step 1. Become interoperable with open network (but OVERWHELMINGLY most users use Big Tech version.)
Step 2. Make it suck for people using non-Big Tech version. Slowly fall out of interoperability.
Step 3. Cut off interoperability.
Anyway, it's a good read/theory. Thinking adversarially has paid off for us as Bitcoiners, so it's something to watch out for over here at Nostr too. Being wayyyy smaller than the Fediverse, we are even more vulnerable to this.
It is also a "Twitter killer" the fact that they released it before having ANY ActivityPub interoperability shows they would rather take the opportunity to kick Twitter when they are down (ratelimiting) than actually be decentralized. However, it has a stricter moderation policy than Twitter.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Maybe an account you can ask about fee rates mempool conditions, that kinda thing.
It was a pillar of the SOV narrative, which pre-lightning was at odds with the circular economy mindset, since pre-lightning, the circular economy was so associated with big blockers doing coffee transactions. What's kinda rough though, is I still hear Jimmy say this kind of stuff. The situation has changed, because the tech has changed. Lightning is here, and circular economy doesn't mean changing block size. Also, things are starting to get weird, we are approaching the "then they fight you stage." Eventually the on/off ramps will become fewer, more limited, more surveilled. Time to start building the parallel economies and drop the "HODL-ONLY" mindset.
Man a big difference between Bitcoin Twitter culture and Nostr culture is circular economy vs HODL ONLY. Look at this fiat-loving nonsense.
Have you noticed Twitter is displaying YouTube links fully again? For a while they weren't, and only the shortened link showed. (My assumption was this was to discourage any leaving of the platform as you don't know for sure where the link really would take you.) I wonder why they changed their mind.
(Opinions held by the Unverified, (which happened to feel opposed to this) were wayyy at the bottom and nobody scrolls that far to read what those conspiracy theorists think anyway.)
Twitter moving to "primarily a subscription model" nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx
Reactions from the Verified to move in the direction of making being Verified mandatory were positive.
Twitter moving to "primarily a subscription model" nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx
We are already on track to have Energy priced in sats. Computation should be next.
Wowza. Kinda surprised Apple allowed this. Isn't this one of the things you got problems about with Damus, nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s? The not being able to delete user accounts? Well, I guess this is *an option* for deleting their account. (Not a very good one, but *an option*)
(Image from Fortune article)
The world's richest man is Nostr's PR department.
Maybe get your signature and Caribou's on it if you do auction it.