Bitcoin doesn't need politicians. This is disgusting.
I feel you, brother! Sometimes I am so disappointed by bitcoiners and by the direction we are going that I just want to forget it all and do something completely unrelated. But then again, discovering Bitcoin is what made me excited about technology again, after years of believing it is all useless...
Even Nostr is still widely misunderstood. People assume you can build stuff "on Nostr" as you would build a "dapp" (whatever that means) "on Ethereum".
Platforms - of which Ethereum and the like are the culmination - are a mind virus that skews your whole world view.
A "dapp" cannot logically be built "on a platform". It has to be a stand-alone app that you can self-host and which *uses* open protocols, such as Bitcoin and Nostr to interact with other apps.
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Nostr and REST can cohabit peacefully. There is no reason to be a Nostr maximalist. See Blossom, for example. It works *together with* Nostr rather than trying to mutate Nostr into what it is not.
NIP-96 is dead. Long live Blossom.
The difference is in the way most people build nostr apps.
Most nostr apps use the nostr relays both for data storage and as actual relays (to relay data between the entities storing the data and the client apps).
In Bluesky there is a clear distinction between relays and PDSes, both of which you can self-host, which makes the model much easier to understand, which in my opinion is a huge plus.
Why are they called "progressives" when they are in fact "resetists"?
How is a reset a form of progress?
Yeah we tried to avoid touching the private key. This is the best we came up with... 6 months ago or so.
Since then we pretty much rewrote the whole thing, including the log in. The new version just asks your extension to sign an event, but the event never gets sent to relays.
Coming very soon.
The new version, with improved Nostr log in, is not live yet. Coming in 2 weeks. Final bug fixes and testing underway. What you tried is a very old version of our Nostr log in which worked by sending you a DM. We use the extension to log in now.
One more of my bounties claimed!!
This one by #[0] Chakany
This is a Ghost Blog replacement using Nostr. You can just fork the repo below and get a blog for yourself. I hope to play with it more this week.
Repository: https://github.com/jacany/nblog
Demo site: https://blog.jacany.com
Post https://bountsr.org/nostr-self-hosted-blog/
If you find this project useful, please contribute. Specially front end devs…
Hey, I also claimed this by DM-ing you, but no reply.
Oh, no!
Twitter was kinda boring lately anyway.