Max

https://hivemind.vc/nostr/

Helping entrepreneurs build the hivemind ⚡️

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npub18lzls4f6h46n43revlzvg6x06z8geww7uudhncfdttdtypduqnfsagugm3

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MaxAWebster@stacker.news

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max@primal.net

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nprofile1qqsrl30c25at6af6c3uk03xydr8apr5vh80wwxmeuyk44k4jqk7qf5cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsrm5spt

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2024-11-22 07:28:50

Major improvements all around. Feed marketplace will be a game changer
#note1kae…c43m

2024-10-30 22:54:53

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And also on the funding point, our total funding is still a pittance compared to more centralized networks like Bluesky or Farcaster. I also think we generally lack CEOs (with a few exceptions). I love the hackers (truly I do!). But I'm trying my best to find the entrepreneurs who really want to make money. Most of these types that I'm speaking with are barely aware of nostr's existence. I'm hoping I can help change that at least on the margin ;)

2024-10-30 22:49:15

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These are great points. I hear you on the concern around what happens if Jack's funding dries up. To be clear though, I've also invested in a number of companies who are using nostr as a part of their core infrastructure even if it's not their primary focus. Many of these cos are making money (with paths to profitability) and do run relays (though focused on specific subsets of nostr). Examples include Fountain and Alby (in addition to more obvious ones like Primal).
I'm seeing demand for specialized paid relays for use cases like Nostr Wallet Connect. No one (at least not me) could have predicted that relay infrastructure would be used for something like passing lightning invoices around when nostr got started. Lightspark recently announced that they've built their UMA stack on top of NWC and now have economic incentive to run or pay for relays (although again only storing specific subsets of nostr data).
All that to say, I'm seeing companies with real revenue using and paying for at least some nostr infrastructure. This was not the case even 6 mos ago so seems like we're headed in an at least somewhat promising direction. Some of those experiments are starting to bear fruit. To be fair though, while I really like and appreciate the grant funding, I'm much more bullish on startup investing because startups are trying to become self sustainable.
I agree things could certainly be better though. And I know I need to dive deper into #ditto. You like this model because it incentivizes communities to pay for relays?
What else could we do to make sure relay operators are profitable? Again, pay to post relays make a lot of sense to me. I hope to see experimentation there.

2024-10-30 21:04:41

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I would definitely love to see more growth. And agree that relay incentives are not yet fully baked for lots of people to run relays, though I think businesses will run them with present model. I still see nostr as the only existing system that provides permissionless identity and a sufficiently simple design to scale. When I bring my social graph from primal/damus/amethyst to fountain and discover podcasts that my follows are listening to - it makes me very bullish. It feels a lot like early Facebook social graph days without the inevitable shutdown. That portable social graph / identity will solve cold start problems for so many types of apps that I can’t help but be excited! All that said, I’m certainly open to suggestions on what else we should be funding/supporting to help the network grow. I agree finding a way to incentivize relays like pay per post could make a lot of sense

2024-10-30 20:39:28

This was a fun one! Bullish on nostr and nostr startups
#note1zv7…vywu

2024-10-23 16:42:38

[New Pod] Designing @npub1sg6…f63m's favorite shirt, Creating an open music library, and Growing an indie music empire with @npub1eeq…at9s (Founder, lightning.store and @npub1yfg…v6vg)
Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/x3v4yu6AuXsmYvdljKZe
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGimjeyTiwY
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hivemind-ideas-from-the-edge/id1731637285
Substack: https://hivemindvc.substack.com/p/designing-jacks-favorite-shirt-creating
SN: https://stacker.news/items/737103
I sit down with Sam Means, founder of lightning.store and Wavlake for a fascinating conversation about the future of the music industry!
Here are a few topics we discuss:
The genesis of lightning.store
Parallels between Bitcoin and the punk/DIY scenes
Max’s dad - indie artist who made some cool trippy nostr shirts (which Max is wearing during interview)
Sam’s NOFX Nostr shirt (which Max wears frequently)
How Sam decides what shirts to make
Making Jack’s favorite shirt, seeing it on the Super Bowl, and stress testing Sam’s Lightning node + btcpayserver setup
Sam needs a Lightning Shopify app that works (opportunity for listeners!)
Sam got started making a first website and forum for the Weezer fan club
Sam is the consummate entrepreneur: he just does the things that need to be done
Sam’s education was coming up in bands and working venues
Pinkerton - the Weezer album changed the course of Sam’s life
Can a band be big and not suck?
Why the music biz generally sucks for bands
The magic of finding a new band that “flips your lid” (Sam’s new favorite phrase)
The magic of David Bowie and artists who can reinvent themselves
Finding the weirdest 10cc record in Japan
A history of the interplay between music and technology from pre Internet to p2p file sharing to streaming to what’s coming next
Scott Joplin and piano rolls (artists were getting screwed from day 0)
Lars from Metallica will forever be known as the guy who wants to put 12 yo music fans in jail
Music Like Water (2005, Forbes) - early article explaining how to charge for music like a utility
The monthly subscription fee for everything was the first step to a new idea
~97% of artists on Spotify make approximately nothing. If this market can make anything somewhere else they’re likely to try it
Bitcoin is the real occupy Wall Street; Wavlake is the real occupy Spotify
Even though big artists are making money, they’re still leaving a lot on the table with all the middlemen
Wavlake is changing incentives so super fans can give uncapped support for the value they receive
We jumped into the internet super fast. Now Nostr is helping us rearchitect the web by letting people travel through the Internet and bring their social graph with them
Now Wavlake and Value4Value is doing this for Music; the industry was almost completely uprooted in the last wave, but ultimately failed; now we have another shot
The role of the curator in the new more p2p internet world
Wavlake’s grand plan: it’s not a music player with zaps, but rather an open music catalogue that disrupts all of music distribution
Bandcamp and SoundCloud are examples of building a new library from the ground up
Wavlake is following their example with the key difference that their library is not confined to one app but open to anyone (e.g. Fountain)
How does Wavlake compete with Spotify - they don’t
The magic of interoperable networks and instant payments (good clip around 1:10)
Artist still only had to upload track once but the potential for where that track can live and get monetized is unlimited
The negotiations between all parties is transparent unlike current opaque set of deals
We’re making podcasting for music (another good clip around 1:14)
Wavlake’s open music catalogue is inspired by thePodcasting 2.0 spec
Developer splits incentivizes developers to try adding and monetizing music in new ways
Now music can live in all kinds of different experiences (good clip around 1:16)
Interoperability means your social graph and comments follow you to any app you use! A comment in Wavlake shows up in Fountain
LN Beats and RSS Blue also working interoperably
Sam is not afraid of competition, in fact he’s paying to incentivize it
One artist monetizing via bitcoin and value4value will start the tsunami
Check out the Forbes article on Value4Value
Ainsley Costello might already be the first big artist. She had made about $750 over years across Spotify 60+ other services. In one year, she’s made >$12k on Wavlake, Fountain, and other Lightning V4V apps. She was the first artist to earn >1M sats
If 97% of artists can make enough to do music full time in value4value land, it’s game over for traditional music industry. And if they can do well, imagine how well the big artists can eventually do when they cut out the middle men
Superstars like Kanye, Snoop Dogg, and James Blake are just as pissed about the current state of extractive music industry
Average people may not understand exactly how they’re getting fucked, but they know they’re getting fucked with the current monetary and business system - largely because every system lacks transparency
In an open world, companies like Wavlake will need to add valuable services (e.g. licensing) on top of their library to compete and win
ASCAP (what a name lol) fails to live up to their promise to monitor song uage and pay artist royalties
Maxs ideas for nostr business models: #1 remix economy - stemstr for everything and #2 rise of the curator or DJs for everything - getting curators paid for their good taste
Wavlake’s plan to build split marketplaces for music and live radio shows where hosts get paid
Value4Value music podcasts are taking off on Wavlake and Fountain
Sam owns several successful businesses around the music industry (lightning.store, merch, label, venue, zine, wavlake). Each business feeds into this growing indie empire
Wastoids is crazy cool video zine; Sam and his colleagues interview cool indie bands like People Under the Stairs and Red Cross
Check out his pods like Click Vortex, a crazy show called Midnight Music Review in the Attic with an Argentinian dude dressed like a wolf presenting new music in his attic, and a Friday music show inspired by MTV News
Sam starts experiments that could feed into each other and scales them as they work
His buddy works at Aquarium Drunkard and gets major indie darlings to come on show
Goal is for Wavlake to become one of the channels on DistroKid that will catch artists’ attention when they wonder why they made $700 on Wavlake and only 9 cents everywhere else; Wavlake already has simple onboarding for artists, now just needs a simple onboarding for fans
Open library is already 10k+ tracks and growing, that’ll just keep getting better
Sam’s team of 28 pitches in all over his indie music empire
Sam’s secret: he doesn’t know what he’s doing, he just does what needs to be done! His intent was never to run a business, he just wanted to be in a band haha
Sam’s been doing Value4Value at HelloMerch for 17 years. He doesn’t make a penny until something sells; Wavlake will scale in a similar fashion

2024-10-22 19:18:36

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cc @npub1c87…8avm

2024-10-22 19:18:15

That nostr.com NIP-05 though!!
#note1lcl…zwlm

2024-10-16 19:14:41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBwAxmrE194

2024-10-14 18:41:29

NWC the standard!
#note1x59…e0m5

2024-10-09 21:53:49

Yes! @npub1ste…mul5 for everything
(Eg see https://pkgzap.albylabs.com from @npub1get…0nfm)
I’m looking to support projects that make it easy to create, discover, remix, and share all forms of media (software, agents, music, art). I’m especially interested in hooking these systems up with open source agents and DVMs as well (ideally with python tooling). Hmu if you’re working on anything in this realm
#note1vtt…m7xw

2024-10-09 20:36:03

💯
#note1qqq…uuvv

2024-10-09 20:30:48

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haha get ready dude ;)

2024-10-09 20:15:54

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And I started taking daily magnesium supplements about 2 years ago and that's changed my life. I sleep much much better.

2024-10-09 20:15:11

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Almost nothing processed. But probably not enough veggies. General diet is lots of eggs, salmon, sardines, brown rice, and popcorn on stove. Cooked green beans, onions, bell peppers, and broccoli a few times as week as well. Occasional salads and (no added sugar) acai bowls. Lots of olive oil. Japanese green teas in the morning. Buckwheat tea at night. And that's about it haha

2024-10-09 20:05:18

I've been experimenting with fresh green juices the last couple days (spinach, celery, cucumber, lemon, ginger). Holy shit do I feel energized!! Like I feel amped beyond belief.
I'm wondering if I've been missing some crucial micronutrient before these juices. Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any best guess at which nutrient might be doing the trick?

2024-10-09 19:43:14

[New Podcast] Ideas From the Edge: High Strangeness, Memetics, & the Open Source Insurgency w/ Jack Heart
https://fountain.fm/episode/Yq7TAbg6t2BLvdCqGLyM
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/high-strangeness-memetics-and-the-open-source-insurgency/id1731637285?i=1000672400114
https://hivemindvc.substack.com/p/high-strangeness-gnosticism-memetics
This was a fun one! In most recent episodes, I’ve had conversations with builders from the Nostr/Bitcoin community about other rabbit holes they’re interested in. In today’s episode, I sat down with Jack Heart, a longtime blogger and veteran of high strangeness and esoteric rabbit holes galore.
Although we focus primarily on themes from Jack’s blog and recent book, we do spend some time discussing the principles of Nostr and how they align with Jack’s view of building an open source insurgency. I’m hoping to do more conversations with thinkers like Jack from communities philosophically adjacent to Nostr.
You can learn more about Jack’s work on his blog, Tekgnostics, and in his new book, Brave Noo World: A Guerrilla Ethnography of High Strangeness.
Here are some of the other topics we cover:
- High strangeness and the acceleration of technology, society, and novelty
- Tekgnostics - a balance of artifact and epiphany
- J. Allen Hynek - coined the term high strangeness
- The origin of "Foo Fighters" - UFOs
- Cosmic triggers - the atomic bomb - UFO craze after the war - term - UFO coined after lights over Mt. Ranier
- 2012 as omega point for Terence McKenna and the Mayans
- High strangeness going mainstream as dominant paradigm: politicians calling each other weird
- Synchronicity as meaningful coincidence
- Vernor Vinge’s singularity and the end of the human era
- Humor as the highest and most human form of intelligence and the great weapon against bureaucracy
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Noosphere as the omega point of human thought and the next layer of biosphere
- Humans will ultimately be all right because of our creativity
- Humans are tool and model builders
- Early internet was the first model of the hivemind
- Nostr and gnostic — a happy synchronicity ;)
- Digital evolution and DNA
- Philip K Dick’s view of DNA as a binary system of memory coils which gnosis allows us to read
- The workaround - humans’ core ability to adapt to whatever circumstances
- Jung and the ability to catch ideas from the noosphere
- The Buddha is in the Park
- Discordianism: seriousness vs humor - don’t take the world too seriously
- Humor is the highest form of intelligence; perhaps AI will struggle to mimic or understand humor
- “When I dress like a clown, the cops won’t hit me”
- The clown and jester archetype; the fool and the trickster (Prometheus , Krishna?)
- Meme magic and memetics as mind virus
- Memes are a big reason Trump won in 2016 (Pepe the frog)
- The open source / decentralized insurgency
- The ebb and flow of everything
- Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, chakras, and the 8 brain model of psychology
- Crowdfunding a billboard for Brazil all over nostr
- Nostr as the open source / decentralized insurgency against bureaucracy
- PKD and blows against the empire
- Bureaucracy lacks a sense of humor
- Gnosticism as the mystic arm of Christianity
- The great Yin/Yang, masculine/feminine, binary dichotomy of the universe
- Why something instead of nothing (manifest vs. unmanifest)?
- The mythology of Ancient Civilizations - civilizations rise and fall all the time
- Creating substrates for data redundancy and preventing human amnesia (Nostr/Project Alexandria)

2024-10-08 18:46:31

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Every jam session is better with the bay + sauna!
We just need to get mics in there that can handle the heat haha

2024-10-08 18:40:48

O shit! @npub1az9…m8y8 Now THIS is the content I want on Nostr!
#saunamaximalist
#note1y84…89ua

2024-10-07 19:33:57

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d06Tv3wUkwg

2024-10-07 19:09:28

Actually this model will be huge for all kinds of creative development. @npub1ste…mul5 for everything 😉
#note12uv…c7lj

2024-10-07 19:08:17

Zapping repos with split payments will be a game changer for software development. I'd love to see someone run with this incredible concept from @npub1get…0nfm 🐝 ⚡
#note1gmr…2jw5

2024-10-07 19:03:22

This is great! I would love to see more AI, energy, and art/music content on Nostr
#note18qq…5wt8
Glad to see that @npub18na…5evl is spreading the good word on Reddit as well!
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1fxg9yo/interesting_accounts_that_are_not_posting_about/

2024-10-07 05:03:36

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Makes sense! Python DVM library seems like a game changer

2024-10-06 21:52:40

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aww that makes more sense

2024-10-06 21:07:12

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See this discussion on @npub1jfu…m0gx as well: https://stacker.news/items/712731

2024-10-06 21:04:58

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Based on feedback from @npub1mel…5c24, perhaps this chart is more interesting:
https://m.primal.net/LNLv.png
(note I ran out of free lines so activitypub/mastodon is missing, but it surprisingly only had 1.2k stars)

2024-10-06 20:52:57

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Cool! I'll play with it.
I'm with you on agents communicating over nostr. openagents.com and fewsats.com are the best examples of this vision I've seen so far. cc @npub1tlv…7fdm
I guess DVMs as well, though I've yet to find a user friendly way to interact with these - what's the best DVM client right now? cc @npub1mgv…pdjc @npub1l2v…ajft

2024-10-06 19:59:16

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I’m definitely excited to see @npub1q9p…vcqf and @npub1cas…dg5l up the ante for sure. And I’m impressed by what the next version of @npub12vk…pugg is looking like. I’m also really excited by the music/podcast discovery on @npub1v5u…n0v5 with their new nostr integration. And I assume next tweetdeck style drop from @npub1xts…kk5s will be 🔥
I haven’t played with @npub10qd…arpj yet. What excites you about it? And what sort of AI app do you think would be most interesting on nostr?

2024-10-06 19:22:23

Nostr vs. Bitcoin Github star history
https://m.primal.net/LNIj.png
Is this a fair comparison? What causes the next vertical phase? BTC bull market? Current apps get better? New apps/use cases emerge?
cc @npub16c0…6nvr @npub1l2v…ajft @npub1kuy…kdj8 @npub1xdt…ntxy @npub1unm…d0j2 @npub1mel…5c24 @npub1xts…kk5s @npub1xv8…lk3x @npub1c87…8avm @npub1g53…drvk @npub1gcx…nj5z @npub1lun…27lj @npub1myg…sn5p

2024-10-06 19:14:44

Still one of the best explanations of nostr's potential h/t @npub1xdt…ntxy
#note1gv4…t02s

2024-10-05 22:11:32

The nostr powered music and podcast feeds on @npub1v5u…n0v5 are the coolest things on nostr right now!
And it's only getting better as people share more tracks from @npub1q9p…vcqf & @npub1yfg…v6vg
Can't wait til I can set up a dj/radio station and stream for sats (with splits to the artsits). I see @npub1q9p…vcqf already has "artist radio" - just one step away ;)
cc @npub1uzp…k3xk @npub1ds3…hzcn @npub1eeq…at9s @npub1unm…d0j2
#note1nac…2qlr

2024-10-05 22:03:41

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Right!?

2024-10-05 22:02:54

Who's cookin up beats like this???
https://x.com/scubaryan_/status/1841214469008949656

2024-10-05 21:20:37

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Check it on @npub1v5u…n0v5! They have a tab just for music shares via @npub1q9p…vcqf or @npub1yfg…v6vg

2024-10-05 20:52:03

https://tidal.com/browse/track/365311013?u

2024-10-04 21:03:18

https://tidal.com/track/195420807?u

2024-10-04 21:01:01

https://tidal.com/track/304779370?u

2024-10-04 20:48:57

https://tidal.com/track/308238304?u

2024-09-25 17:00:23

Notes from my conversation w/ @npub1c87…8avm (founder, @npub10ef…aeh3)
https://m.primal.net/LByQ.jpg
Listen on @npub1v5u…n0v5: https://fountain.fm/episode/GwkMHQvCQCFjmLdqbCeT
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anarchism-the-origins-of-nostr-the-future-of/id1731637285?i=1000670559595
Substack w/ video: https://hivemindvc.substack.com/p/anarchism-the-origins-of-nostr-and
#note1w8z…s8yz

2024-09-24 18:35:30

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It's the fountain link! https://fountain.fm/episode/GwkMHQvCQCFjmLdqbCeT

2024-09-24 18:07:31

[New Podcast] Anarchism, The Origins of #Nostr, & The Future of FOSS w/ @npub1c87…8avm
https://m.primal.net/LAmF.png
https://fountain.fm/episode/GwkMHQvCQCFjmLdqbCeT
I sit down with LNbits founder Ben Arc for a wide ranging and fascinating conversation about political philosophy, Nostr, and the future of FOSS/AI. This was a treat to record and I hope you enjoy! Here's a full sample of what we discussed:
- Ben’s left libertarian / anarchist lens on Bitcoin - the ultimate goal is liberty
- Stateless socialism, Marx, and Adam Smith
- Open protocols like Bitcoin / Nostr and public key cryptography replacing functions of the state
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: “Property is theft, property is liberty”
- Soulful vs. soul-less capital
- “The Adam Smith Invisible Bitch Slap” - Ben’s synthesis of left anarchism and Austrian/ancap thought. Open protocols, public key cryptography, FOSS create new more efficient commons in which private capital can participate. But if capital tries to co-opt the commons, it gets the Adam Smith invisible hand bitch slap (see the big blockers from Segwit2x). This creates the playing field for an actual free market
- Collaboration vs extraction - key is aligning incentives so both parties win and grow the pie
- “Value waterfalls and the remix economy”- Max’s idea of how BTC and open source protocols will evolve - similar to Stemstr. Both parties win when they collaborate are incentivized to share the same stream of files which get remixed and create thicker value waterfalls or a bigger pie for all
- Peter Kropotkin and Mutual Aid - rereading Darwin for mutual aid as a driving factor in evolution
- Karma and evolution: 1) nothing is permanent; everything is in flow; everything is relative - one order lower of complexity sees only itself + information 2) karma may be the ultimate driver/law of evolution - a system evolves in its totality toward more mutual aid and complexity
- Hegel and the Master-Slave Dialectic - exploitation requires dehumanization making both parties less in touch with reality and happy; in order for them to both be free they need to become peers. The ultimate goal is more liberation/liberty
- P2P peer relationships are the best healthiest relationships: what we see in Bitcoin and open networks
- John Nash: non oppressive mind space is healthiest - Mind on Strike: giving more people mind space allows their minds to explore and explode open; libertarianism comes from liberation and the need for some equality for this to happen.
- Is John Nash Satoshi?
- Ben’s entry to bitcoin: dorky Uk news correspondents, his students using dark markets, a hatred of banks, and Wikileaks
- The mindseed for Nostr: Ben’s Diagon Alley
- Pirate Bay and p2p markets
- Building the first twitter clone on nostr; apologies for NIP-04
- Reverting a fiatjaf hard commit led to Branle
- Securing http://nostr.com for 1 BTC
- First talk on Nostr at Paralelni Polis
- Finding the alpha with the productive nyms; spear fishing for projects; hanging out on edge of internet; if you’re sending a deck it’s generally too late for me
- Nostr and free / open / non Orwellian / non evil IoT - what all can we build with relays, web sockets, and public key crypto
- Building a new web with Nostr (e.g. see Nostr Wallet Connect and early IoT)- the old web is compromised and drowning in AI spam; dead internet theory is here; Nostr (public key crypto) for signing notes is our best defense
- http://Nostr.com is selling dope NIP-05 verifiers
- LNbits released a Nostr signing device for identity management
- Nostr is best of both worlds online - create smaller forum like communities while still riding on a global network effect
- “A better Internet is possible” - we’re not at the end of history
- FOSS, nostr, and bitcoin are viruses which infect the system: Just like the major financial institutions with Bitcoin, eventually Twitter will plug into Nostr
- Monopoly of the commons is the future; FOSS eventually swallows all (see Switzerland recently requiring the government to use FOSS)
- AI brings the age of disposable software at least at the level of building extensions
- The need for more Bitcoin and Nostr tooling in Python for the AI community so they can easily bring identity and payments / value transfer to the agents
- Max’s thesis: evolution of digital life forms : open source models will evolve into swarms of agents with value - see http://hivemind.vc/ai
- The importance of reputation in Nostr: Web of Trust as a theoretical solution; open timestamps with payment to go higher up a merkle tree; AI agent as dvm for calculating trust
- Ben is more wary of AI long term and thinks it will be more monolithic than swarm-like; perhaps it becomes a benign dictator that could kill us or just give us what we need to be happy; could be capitalism as we know it eating itself and requiring a new system?
- How the Light Gets In: philosophy festival (part of haybook festival): open AI guy calling the god AI Super Gaia
- Max’s idea on AI: there will be always trade-offs resulting in different forms of intelligence

2024-09-23 22:42:08

🐐
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL0yfxDe6jE&si=FLJYbgDQVu0EIJh4

2024-09-23 22:40:10

h/t @npub1lun…27lj
#note1kgt…9rw9

2024-09-15 20:39:13

WHO DAT?!

2024-09-13 20:43:03

Stacker News AMA with @npub1trr…hdpu is LIVE - this will be ⚡️🔥
#note1f45…ydsc

2024-09-13 19:36:49

size
#note1gm2…rjn3

2024-09-12 19:28:15

Who's going to build the hub for remixing software?
https://x.com/seyitaylor/status/1834218814109548597
Nostr seems like a really good substrate for this...
@npub1kuy…kdj8 @npub1wf4…dgh9 @npub1lun…27lj @npub1l2v…ajft

2024-09-11 22:11:32

The challenge of securely logging into a nostr mobile app seems to be stifling innovation/usage for a number of powerful experiences. I've run into this repeatedly over the last couple of days.
Who is actively working on solving this?
I know @npub1l2v…ajft has nsecbunker and @npub1xdt…ntxy has nsec.app. What else is out there ?

2024-09-11 21:10:45

https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjxxdt9vd3kvdpc95uxxce5956x2dty95ukxd3k94nxzvfcvejxxvpcvejxyqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshsygx0gknt5ymr44ldyyaq0rn3p5jpzkh8y8ymg773a06ytr4wldxz55psgqqqwens3tn974

2024-09-10 18:48:52

The @npub1spr…8s72 hack week was the genesis of the Netherlands and now Brazil billboards! See all their ideas below for inspiration.
What message do you like for 🇧🇷 ?
cc @npub1kmw…xqk9
#note1ynx…xd28

2024-09-10 17:42:26

https://m.primal.net/KmIS.jpg
I like to open it up to random pages - I Ching style
#note195j…qf4d

2024-09-10 04:54:20

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Yes! It's easy on browser with @npub1get…0nfm
Not sure on mobile. Someone else was asking me this as well, so might be worth making this easier to see @npub1kmw…xqk9
Also @npub1kuy…kdj8 had some great ideas around making it easier to see that you can zap a note from a client like @npub12vk…pugg or @npub18m7…q955 and that the zap will go toward the project goal. Could be as simple as marking the zap in some way. Perhaps a crowdfunding NIP (is there already one?) could make this easier

2024-09-10 04:08:14

Funding Secured!!! 💰 ₿ 𓅦 🇧🇷 >4.2M sats from >140 nostriches
Ask and ye shall receive! On Friday, I noticed an amazing Nostr billboard in Amsterdam put up by @npub1qe3…zefe & based upon ideas from @npub1spr…8s72. I asked if anyone was doing something similar for Brazil, a country where awareness might really move the needle at this particular moment in time (h/t @npub18pl…hesh for the mind seed). By Saturday, @npub1kmw…xqk9 had launched a project and worked out the logistics with @npub13u2…gkaz. As of 30 mins ago, we crossed the finish line thanks to a generous contribution from @npub1ug8…d9ry.
This is a BFD and shows the power of open networks for communication, value, and payments working symbiotically together. We literally willed an idea into existence in ~ 3 days (and I'm guessing we'll need a few more to get the art/message settled and board up).
Social media was powerful in the past, but ultimately very limited. It's one thing to rally and organize the troops. It's something else entirely to transmute that potential energy into kinetic energy via the coalescence of "real world" value. The digital world is now reshaping the physical and this is just the beginning.
Nostr, Bitcoin, and the Lightning Network together are much more powerful than anyone yet realizes 𓅦₿⚡️
#note1w68…28zm

2024-09-10 02:29:00

I would love to see someone carry the torch with @npub1ste…mul5! This project is the best example of the remix economy which Nostr enables and has real legs imo
#note1dvd…4mvl

2024-09-09 23:02:24

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One of the 🐐 s

2024-09-09 23:00:36

Speaking of which: I love @npub1ste…mul5! Is anyone still working on this project? Probably the best example of the Nostr native remix economy to date

2024-09-09 22:59:35

Product idea: I'd love an easy to use meme template maker complete with nostr login and lightning split payments. Ideally this could evolve into a meme marketplace where people remix and distribute memes. Inspired a bit by @npub1ste…mul5
#note1ure…gn3e

2024-09-09 22:57:43

https://m.primal.net/KlRu.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2MCgo8izsVMdDEKLgaBnJF?si=9DSay--GQoWkQVn75D-mZA

2024-09-09 21:13:45

We've got >3M sats from 138 contributors! Who's gonna help us get over the finish line to put up a Nostr billboard in Brazil? 🇧🇷 𓅦
https://geyser.fund/project/nostrifybrazil via @npub1kmw…xqk9

2024-09-09 21:08:06

How much of this bump do you think was actually new users from Brazil?
My guess is that most of these were Bitcoiners reactivating after reading about Telegram and Brazil. Could also be a post conference bump. And, ofc, we've been growing steadily for ~6mos. It seems like folks are returning and sticking around due to better app experiences, interoperability, etc. One great example is that returning Bitcoiners are now able to link their npub to their @npub1v5u…n0v5 account and a have much richer experience with a pre-populated social graph like Breaker back in the day.
Wdyt? If these are Brazilians, where can I find them?
#note1qqq…yrmp

2024-09-08 20:22:24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShWTcxqUqvw

2024-09-08 19:56:43

open code + open data --> digital life evolves
This reminds me a lot of my convo with @npub1lun…27lj
https://fountain.fm/episode/E8PW5z2yVPzNBN2b44Kr
#note1pyw…ku8a

2024-09-07 21:43:07

Funding Match Secured 💰 ₿ 𓅦
Big shout to @npub1xts…kk5s Let's keep going! We're about 2M sats away. Who's up next?
https://tidal.com/browse/track/4527443?u
#note1utd…c98r

2024-09-07 18:47:47

Ask and ye shall receive - well done @npub1kmw…xqk9!
I just made an initial donation. I'll match another 420k sats if folks donate today. We're currently at ~680k sats. Let's make this happen 🇧🇷🚀
https://geyser.fund/project/nostrifybrazil/
#note1l0g…txn8

2024-09-06 22:48:01

This is amazing! I didn't realize it was real.
Is anyone working on crowdfunding a similar billboard for 🇧🇷?
cc @npub1qe3…zefe @npub1kmw…xqk9 @npub1kuy…kdj8 @npub1ug8…d9ry @npub1j8y…vrvg
#note1hx8…ve54

2024-09-06 22:46:16

This is amazing! I didn't realize it was real.
Is anyone working on crowdfunding a similar billboard for 🇧🇷?
cc @npub1qe3…zefe @npub1kmw…xqk9 @npub1kuy…kdj8 @npub1ug8…d9ry
#note1hx8…ve54

2024-09-06 17:18:04

https://soundcloud.com/jazzhopcafe/j-dilla-tributes-mix

2024-09-04 18:51:55

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Bands like Modest Mouse will kill it with #Value4Value

2024-09-04 18:51:00

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One of my faves

2024-09-04 18:50:40

https://tidal.com/browse/track/183082700?u

2024-09-04 18:16:07

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G33AcZzZ0pM

2024-09-02 20:02:44

Open protocols for:
• Value ₿
• Payments ⚡
• Identity/communication 𓅦
Each is powerful on its own, but they need each other to thrive 🤝🚀
#note1a8r…kmf7

2024-08-31 21:43:35

Ask and ye shall receive...
#note1m2e…gv2n

2024-08-31 21:42:52

This has legs...
#note1c7q…7ua3

2024-08-31 00:39:26

This is a really great idea! Lmk if you end up building a Nostr Orkut clone for 🇧🇷 The window is open to get meaningful traction quickly
#note1n6s…tsdg

2024-08-29 21:34:02

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This was high school for me haha

2024-08-29 21:32:30

I'm making music again! Will drop some old original stuff on @npub1yfg…v6vg soon and maybe more mixtape stuff as blossom file...
Woud love to do some collabs with nostriches too
This was recorded before COVID:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7dRob11mbsIwBptfoZ8XxV?si=jV6hFN5CRbuWiJmGmiR-GA
Feels like a different life...
#note1hkv…he2m

2024-08-29 21:30:25

Since we're talking NOLA and mixtapes today... #504
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWe7cpcVrwE

2024-08-29 21:29:32

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will check it!!

2024-08-29 21:11:25

And where are my nostr producers at?
I love this beat tape from the @npub1xr8…5uum on @npub1yfg…v6vg
https://wavlake.com/thewildhustle
#note1wm7…k9qa

2024-08-29 21:06:11

And while we on the topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJUNTcOGeSw
#note1a4k…my02

2024-08-29 21:00:27

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https://archive.org/details/datpiffarchives

2024-08-29 20:58:57

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RIP datpiff
https://archive.org/details/datpiff-mixtape-mefa7d25

2024-08-29 20:57:53

Where are people dropping mixtapes these days?
https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/1d50f2e4-c6bb-4748-bd6d-5b0235377a45

2024-08-29 20:55:16

Truth. Can't believe it's been 19 years....
#note1sl6…9hhu

2024-08-29 20:50:34

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@npub1unm…d0j2 has been thinking a lot about this bridge

2024-08-29 18:00:35

What are your favorite subreddits? How do we get that content on Nostr?
Personally I'd love to see content from subs like:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/
https://www.reddit.com/r/makinghiphop/

2024-08-29 17:50:38

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Very cool! Where can I learn more? Is this the same project? https://geyser.fund/project/gitcitadel

2024-08-29 00:01:27

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time for some nostr stickers ;)

2024-08-28 23:35:45

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Thanks @npub1j8y…vrvg 🙏
I was very sad to miss 😟 It looks like it was amazing! I love the Nostr community and am already planning something cool to make it up to everyone - hopefully involving some open source AI as well ;) Let's jam on it soon

2024-08-28 23:22:10

💯 Nostr is the open digital substrate in which an ecology of AIs will evolve. Pubkeys will be the membranes delineating organism from environment. And the flow of energy backed money (bitcoin via lightning network) will represent metabolism.
I published this >1 year ago, but still generally agree with the thesis: https://hivemind.vc/ai/
So far I've been excited by projects like Open Agents, Unleashed Chat, Project Alexandria, and DVMS. What else should I be watching? @npub1tlv…7fdm @npub1az9…m8y8 @npub1m3x…a5sf @npub1l2v…ajft @npub1mgv…pdjc
#note1kmg…thqx

2024-08-18 20:46:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0AXzoL1BUk&t=270s

2024-08-18 20:20:58

Is anyone building an open nostr data set formatted for fine tuning llms? For inspiration: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fineweb-v1

2024-08-18 20:19:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFOa2lnnA7s

2024-08-18 20:16:20

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16380

2024-08-18 20:15:40

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almost double 6 mos ago

2024-08-17 21:28:01

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Different benefits at different stages
While you're in the cold water, you have extreme connection with physical reality. It doesn't matter what else is going on in your life, you're 100% there (during winter it feels a bit like you're entering cardiac arrest haha)
After the cold + sauna, immense relaxation. Like this very deep calm despite whatever external conditions. The contrast between extreme heat on the skin and this deep cold you feel internally is magic
It also seems to be great exercise. Purely anecdotal (no research), but the cold seems to burn off excess fat and a long hot sauna feels like you did cardio
I'm hooked

2024-08-17 20:26:10

Daily swim in cold water + sauna has changed my life
#note1jnk…kvnh

2024-08-17 19:46:18

This is sick! @npub14pf…7mwj bot live on @npub1jfu…m0gx
https://stacker.news/items/651131
ELI 5 for threads, Podcast summarization (collab w/ @npub1v5u…n0v5), and other fun utils
Would love to see this available for nostr posts as well!