Technology that has shifted human civilization typically has been in the realm of advancements in communication. Or in other words, reducing friction between people coming together. Tech we consider standard or even obsolete spurred an immense amount of innovation which typically did not build upon them the way we would consider layer 1 technology, but influenced societies all together.

Airplanes, automobiles, telegraphs, phones (in all their forms), were time machines that catapulted the user forward faster and farther than they would have ever reached otherwise. They reduced latency between people interacting.

Even more recently, going from 2g to 3g to 4g and now 5g, we saw humanity propelled forward because the reduced friction, measured in latency and bandwidth, allowed for us to communicate and collaborate faster.

AI is a lever that will undoubtedly help more men and women move the world, but it's not yet in the same category as the technology that reduces friction between human interaction. It's a productivity gain that magnifies what one person can accomplish. I am not yet sure if it will be a net positive on humanity, though. Depends on how we address property rights in a brave new world and whether income becomes conditional on foregoing civil liberties. Getting incentives right to spur innovation and stabilize society will be tough.

I think technologies like Neuralink may actually be more positively impactful on societies, because it resembles other innovations in the past that have done the same, in that it can reduce latency and increase bandwidth in communication. It will have its dangers at first, undoubtedly, but within a few generations, I have faith those will be worked out through an anti-fragile system, because we share incentives, regardless of class, for it to be, and it can become ubiquitous.

Is this AI?

Pizza is already an open-face fruit and cheese sandwich. What's wrong with simply adding another type of fruit?

Also, here's a shitty life hack for those who don't eat carbs: if it's good on a pizza, it's good in an omlet.

Didn't one of them leave it all behind, go off to flight school, and become an amateur volleyball player in the Navy? Whose son later also seeks revenge of his own for his father's premature death?

The cycle of violence those nerds perpetuated...

My first colonoscopy is tomorrow. What else can we screen for?

The final boss will be separating violence from state. Unimaginable in our time, but our species is still young. Maybe in another few thousand years.

Maybe #Bitcoin plays a part in this.

Thank you and glad you're as active in it as you are. Every Saturday, I wonder if today's the day we run out of things to talk about. And by the end of it, nobody wants to leave because the conversations are so lively.

The Seattle BitcoinWalks are great and unique. It's a quarter mile loop at a park which anyone can join or leave on their own time. There's ample parking, restrooms, stunning views, and food/beverages close by. It's intentionally accessible to families, those with limited mobility, and those who just live life on their own time.

The best part by far is the quality of conversation with the variety of Bitcoiners who participate. We've had highly technical regulars, first-time Bitcoin meetup newcomers, travelers from across the country, and the occasional influencer.

We've talked health, BIPs, Nostr, wallets, geopolitics, social justice, personal liberties, and even Bitcoin! There's also been a fair bit of IRL Bitcoin buying and selling at BitcoinWalks.

So long as the roads are safe to travel, Seattle BitcoinWalk takes place every SATurday. I look forward to catching up the next time!

Anyone ever setup a private Matrix server with bridges to other communications apps (WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram, etc.) on an Umbrel?

#asknostr

The Book Obedience to Authority, by and about Milgram's experiments, should be redone, but instead of believing they were administering pain, participants should believe they are followed by creeps. First, the creep should be in the room with them, watching their every move and asking inappropriate questions but never answering any from the participant. Then a creep should be in a separate room watching but should be visible to the participant. Then the creep should no longer be visible but the participants told the creep is watching from the cameras, and shown a picture of the creep. Then the creep should be back in the room with the participants and explained that they are now watching their loved ones. And repeat the experiment from there, with the creep changing proximity to the participant but always reminded that they are watching either the participant, the participant's spouse or children, or someone else for whom they care.

Bottom line, people who want to watch strangers, especially with the intent to exploit them (and why else would someone want to watch strangers, really) is creepy. People forget that it's real life humans on the other side of these apps, watching them, gathering information. It's anti-social behavior that society has normalized, because the creeps just happen to not be standing in the room with the participants while they watch them. nostr:note153u45lztm4wel4km6yxy6vpa6jyj0g0m7ps04wrwh72dzf3ehseq5y3qw3

Can #Nostr socials win not because it is getting 10x better but because the other sites are getting 10x worse?

How can most the internet be clean, curated, professionally done, and be that bad? It has become exponentially worse just from November alone.

The good news is none of this impacts Bitcoin you personally possess.

And Bitcoin is for anyone, not everyone. That means it is meant to survive even when someone- or groups of people- do things with Bitcoin with which you don't approve. Governments and corporations fucking with it is a feature, not a bug, because the implications- and ironically the value- for Bitcoin as freedom money would actually be much, much worse, if they were unable to do what they are doing.

And none of it stops others from using it in entirely different ways rooted in high moral valuee that strengthen personal responsibility and free speech.

Please, just give me coal.

There are places in the world where the government is so small and ineffective that nothing works. The police cannot be relied upon. Neither can social services.

No drinking water. Every building runs on generators. The infrastructure is crumbling. Telecommunications and banking are expensive and aged.

But what also doesn't work? Tax collection. Government surveillence. Enforcement of draconian, overreaching laws.

And the residents cannot imagine living anywhere else.

Being your own armory, but for money, sounds way cooler than being your own bank.

Sir, there is this thing that has taken Nostr by storm, called Bitcoin. It needs more developers and designers to build upon it. It is a kind of shared hallucination, that believe it or not, some people think about constantly, and yet others do not think about at all. The latter have not been reached, and are waiting for someone like yourself to create the change they don't know they need.

I woke up this morning and promised myself I wouldn't think about Bitcoin today. After all, Bitcoin is presently boring and today is a day for higher priorities such as family.

But I awoke at 3:00 am still adjusting back to my own time zone. Family was still asleep. And Bitcoin runs 24/7. What. Was. I. To. Do.

I kind of like the AI slop. It's less censored, more based, a little messy. Reminds me of the early internet.

Harvard-Stanford-Wharton?

Sir, this is Nostr.

nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s Nostr could also be the social base layer of a game launching browser that inverts the current experience of having to login to a game to find whether friends are playing. Instead, someone could see what games their friends are playing (ex: bobby is currently in a Minecraft world, Susie is in Roblox, Johnny is in a Fortnite game), and click a button to join them not just in the game, but exactly where they're playing. Think Zap Stream but for playing games rather than watching videos. Nostr could be invisible in the background, and all the user sees is a game launcher/browser that starts with their friends.

WhatsApp dominates the world for messaging and phone, and for corporate engagement, even more so than websites, it seems. And social media have replaced social networks for human-to-human interactions.

Where are the connections in the next 10 years? Machine-to-machine interaction such as IIoT-to-AI. Centralized APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic) are siloed. If you build an autonomous AI agent, it currently has no standard way to "talk" to an agent from another company, negotiate a task, or pay for it. An agent can have an identity (npub), listen for job requests (relays), deliver the work (encrypted DMs), and get paid instantly (Zaps/Lightning).

I don’t see this in war torn countries. Places where true despair and poverty exist. Why are stores open in these places without goods under lock and key?

Which industry?

The Calvary has come. An actual engineer is working on the problem. nostr:note1r050gfjjs2ytpenksusl2tse65hw3dfzuxzsw8p5rut36p50pqws4ssw76

Now do 6-7. Kids will finally start to adopt Bitcoin.

Try LN Beats

Still cool.

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Expand this to 750 words, add in some self congratulatory pontification, and I think you got a solid LinkedIn post on your hands here.

I used to think Bitcoin was the mind virus and we're the freaks.

But then I came to realize as I spend more time with more Bitcoiners, we're the only sane people in this world. nostr:note1mv223ac9mzra2fqfy64xhlr28838wpkrueeu5h7763fhwyad2yzsu7qfn5

If you're here, you're a psychopath.

I want to know who their adman is. Because that guy is definitely a Bitcoiner.

Since sticking to open source apps on my phone and paid services from big tech companies, I've not seen an ad in ages.

I hadn't even realized it until speaking with a normie whose online experience is defined. He mentions something, and is flooded with ads for it everywhere he goes online.

I'd forgotten ads were even a thing. Advertisers probably had forgotten about me, too.

This is what dying in obscurity looks like and it's beautiful.

We're about to enter a currency war with the world. And we'll probably win it. If the regular Joe anywhere in the world stores their value in US stable coins, and accepts stable coins for payment, and pays in stable coins, all instead of using their local currencies, the whole world opens up to U.S. investment.

Whereas before, Americans would struggle to earn a return outside of a few fast paced markets that could grow faster than their currency would weaken against the dollar, stable coins pegged to the dollars means Americans can enter fast growing economies and earn a return in dollars at the same time. The sounder money helps people.

Now imagine if the world worked on #Bitcoin. https://video.nostr.build/d2a700c77480c78c4344585647a350a864cbd24949b067ecbb5fc8643f5b5531.mp4

Gold shops and banks, too.

I’ve been using the Pixel 10 desktop mode with an Apple Magic Keyboard/trackpad and large monitor as my primary work computer since I’ve purchased it. My Linux laptop is now dedicated to Bitcoin and I hardly touch it.

I love the convenience of not carrying around multiple devices, as well as spinning up a workstation by just plugging into any hotel tv.

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Solve real world problems, not “me-too” apps but just on Nostr? I think there are a couple of interesting models to look at:

-The Samwer brothers’ Rocket Internet. Their core skill was rapid expansion, which allowed them to clone trending American startups in markets their American counterparts weren’t yet in.

-Apple’s and Google’s OS’s are built on Unix and Linux. They took open source tools and built closed source solutions, leveraging some characteristics of the FOSS tech, and not others, for proprietary solutions.

-One of the distinct advantages of Nostr is its uptime. What are uses where Nostr’s uptime is superior to current solutions, AND is necessary for mission critical? Perhaps where data ownership is also important? What about rails for Internet of Things- accessing security devices remotely? Or rails for medical information? Solutions don’t have to be consumer-focused only. What about supply chain and logistics, where physical packages have a tamper proof audit trail? Or content registries? Or can Nostr be a cheaper solution for companies with SLA’s that demand 99.999% uptime?

Listening to how #Bitcoin Maxi’s come into Bitcoin is like listening to people say ‘I was prey. Then I became predator.’

Ever wonder why Bitcoiners seem to just stop caring about things? Probably because what once seemed big, are small when the mind framed in Bitcoin.

Wait until you see the U.S. GDP as measured in Bitcoin.

What do you think will happen in the future? The U.S. GDP/BTC suddenly changes course for no reason at all? Yeah, right.

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Confirmed.

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I am participating in SOUND Bitcoin Walk

Summer Challenge!

It’s day one and I have reached 9381 steps so far!

#grownostr #bitcoin #bounty #soundhsa #movetoearn #sats

Why can’t a pruned Bitcoin node run on a phone? Not as ideal as a full node, but will vastly expand the number of nodes running.

I’m thinking of switching to the Pixel 10 for nostr:nprofile1qqs9g69ua6m5ec6ukstnmnyewj7a4j0gjjn5hu75f7w23d64gczunmgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43q4gnztg and to run Ubuntu in Termux. Will use with an existing docking station setup I already have.

One convergent device.

Thoughts?

Congrats. You discovered the void within the void.

Sliding into this thread, in support of the principle of the statement.

Is that API calculated in Bitcoin?

Somebody message me on nostr:npub1whtn0s68y3cs98zysa4nxrfzss5g5snhndv35tk5m2sudsr7ltms48r3ec - I’d like to experience ‘Signal but better.”

Walk me through what I’m looking at with these screenshots