”Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts”.

-Aleksander Solzenitzyn

I guess I’ll take the praise 🙏

Speaking from experience, I can say with the utmost confidence that the average person will not be able to handle digital self-custody of anything until they can confidently manage it while under the dual influence of alcoholic cocktails and the smoke of a plant at the same time.

Same 🧡

Holy crap thats epic.

Who is the sweetest baby ever? Milou #zbduh

Be patient everyone, we're building a whole new civilization.

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I think it’s important that education around this all slowly ramps up. For most people, a new experience like this is already a lot to digest. Slowly but surely people will understand.

Nostr and Lightning Address appear to be the most exciting developments atm (although I am fascinated in validity rollups — still learning). I'm testing things out and sending out some zaps in 3...2...1... I like crowdsourcing information, so drop a comment telling me things I should research in the space. Yes, this is real!

Permission-less and open cross-integration. For me, the big picture of nostr is how clients can talk to one another without requiring an API key. You accrue audience on one client and carry it over to the next without having to rebuild it.

You don’t need to wait to be approved to build, you just create what you’d like to see in the world and make it be a part of the global nostr network right away. The networks effects from that are pretty powerful imo.

Right now all of the platforms are segmented and you have to cross-post physically to reach different audiences. Your Twitter, Youtube, TikTok followers are in different places and most likely don’t know about each other. With nostr, they can be on separate clients but be a part of the same core following. This enables better content discovery across client types (music to social, video to social, long-form to social, social to ecommerce, ecommerce to social etc…)

Now throw in the lighter fluid aka zaps, and you have instant payments between everything and everyone. Makes transactions more fluid, faster, more satisfying and empowering (money in your hands much more quickly to circulate back into the network or into your wallet). Massive shift in exchange of value!

For merchants that means

- Faster payments to expand their business more quickly

- Closer social ties to their customers

- Faster feedback to improve offers

- A more powerful marketing engine (now instead of showing your product in one place, it can show in many).

- Targeted advertising (zapvertising - zap the people with audiences that match your customer base and they’ll see the zap comment).

Just one powerful economic engine that will keep growing and accrue value directly to people participating in it.

But honestly, we probably haven’t even scratched the surface on what use cases will be unlocked.