IMO, the integration of a token of some kind to reward users for viewing ads isn't crazy - I much prefer it as a business model to their selling my search data - but the time has come to swap BATs for sats.
This is pretty great. It is basically what Brave could have been if they did not get distracted dumping their premined shitcoin on users.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tor-project-mullvad-vpn-mullvad-browser/
If Brendan could be persuaded to swap BAT for lightning tips, it would be a phenomenal boost to both Brave & LN. But, as you say, the existing token is a strong counter-incentive, sadly.
My money is on either Sergey Nazarov or the NSA...
Ignore last...user error, I think!
#[0] - the iris accounts & NIP05s look promising! But the register button seems not to work, nor the 'Yes, please' button. Presume this is still WIP?
Ha, yes, to an extent. Though I meant that this seems particularly fertile ground for academic economists.
Amethyst's latest version is live in the PlayStore
Go tell grandma she has custom zaps now.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitorpamplona.amethyst
Do you also have a github link, Victor? For some reason, the Playstore won't let me download.
Any economists on Nostr yet? The integration of genuine low-friction micropayments is fascinating - not only for what they enable but also for what they reveal, all with easily-extracted data. I'd have thought it was exactly the kind of thing economists salivated over.
I'm so old that, in the early days of the internet, I used to spend time actively hunting for websites to visit!
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Yeah! It's great, though; much healthier incentive for people to spend time here than the clickbait and outrage of the bird app!
Not among first 50, I know, but I love how people are doing this!
Am receiving a variety of errors from #BlueWallet, when I try to tip from within Iris. Errors range from 'bad response from server' to 'invalid user'. Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot?
Brendan Eich here yet? BAT tipping was a neat idea but zaps have taken off 100x faster. Shifting Brave to LN tips would be awesome!
here's a question that motivates me: what does our education system look like on a bitcoin standard?
Hmm...you might need to specify the question a bit more.
Do you mean value? There's one set of questions around value: monetary value is one-dimensional, pretty much by definition (i.e. when we pay a monetary sum, it represents our best projection onto one-dimension of the multiple dimensions of the thing we are buying - though we invariably value these imperfectly). How would this work for education, I wonder? Very difficult to assess & collapse those multiple dimensions.
Do you mean long-time repositories of knowledge? How we preserve knowledge over time and prevent corruption (accidental or deliberate) is something that Arweave ethusiasts can comment on.
Or do you mean consensus? There's another set of questions here, but these are even trickier because we struggle to reach consensus as to what constitutes historical truth, or what values & subjects we should teach. These are the domain of messy, human politics, and I don't think blockchain offers tremendous insights here, TBH.
IMO, if you want some Nostr & BTC related topics, it would be better to teach your students about (i) the history of debasement of fiat currency & inflation; (ii) the idea of separation of money & State; (iii) media / institutional capture and the importance of free speech.
Yeah, this is the one thing that should maybe come with a bigger flag for new users. It's online forever. Some clients (e.g. Iris) have a 'delete' button, but as I understand it, that just adds a 'deleted' tag to the original post to tell clients not to display it.
