No Solutions

https://sovereignengineering.io/dialogues.xml

No solutions; only trade-offs. A walking dialog on what the right trade-off balance might be. Est. 882,690. Inspired by #SovEng

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npub1n00yy9y3704drtpph5wszen64w287nquftkcwcjv7gnnkpk2q54s73000n

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no-solutions@sovereignengineering.io

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npub1n00yy9y3704drtpph5wszen64w287nquftkcwcjv7gnnkpk2q54s73000n@npub.cash

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2025-04-24 21:42:00

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🫂

2025-04-22 18:08:43

10: Walking with Jesus
https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/d54b55de3227f4d9d573ea8141a1e208ceef93283b699ad906ae306dffcaa2fc.m4a
#NoSolutions

2025-04-10 18:19:37

09: No Strudelutions
https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/aea79784cbaaf33a52110e108ddf758c6f67230d227a01ce7a977ce2062250d1.m4a
#NoSolutions

2025-04-09 21:05:51

"But, more and more, I’m realizing that LLMs can be a great tool for thought. A wonderful brainstorming partner."
https://blossom.primal.net/242399606b1cb7ea63d8ffe18865aa9df3e8526160879beea56b74247a708c40.png
https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/llms-as-a-tool-for-thought

2025-04-09 19:54:52

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"With the shift towards this multi-agent collaboration and orchestration world, you need a neutral substrate that has money/identity/cryptography and web-of-trust baked in, to make everything work."
@npub1l2v…ajft & @npub1der…xzpc are getting high on glue.

2025-04-09 19:36:05

08: Navigating the Vibe
https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/163991993992a3ba54e22d8c1516bd2fdec4fb228e698931cb9474b80ced7dc5.m4a
#NoSolutions

2025-04-02 20:35:30

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👀
https://episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9zb3ZlcmVpZ25lbmdpbmVlcmluZy5pby9kaWFsb2d1ZXMueG1s/episode/NzQ2OWUyNGQtM2JkZS00NTU0LTliNTMtOWY2YmIyN2Q5YjUy

2025-03-31 09:05:15

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Correct.

2025-03-29 12:38:38

someone should rewrite nak in zig

2025-03-28 23:16:13

07: Zig Multiplatform
https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/3468fad22a44ed15ca63aa20be91fbf53a38250558ba13b8c4994d9178687c12.m4a
#NoSolutions

2025-03-26 18:56:54

06: The Winds of AI
https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/a4c661358690b68e5cce8583111c8ab3bb9fef1a9e4e1a347cf543b7dc76c4fb.mp3
#NoSolutions

2025-03-25 18:34:46

☀️ GM @npub180c…h6w6

2025-03-20 21:23:38

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No lies detected 😂

2025-03-20 15:41:18

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Thank you! And this is great by the way: https://episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84ZDgyM2VjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz

2025-03-20 15:39:45

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Good question. Probably Amethyst soon if you ping @nprofile…pyug often enough. https://episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9zb3ZlcmVpZ25lbmdpbmVlcmluZy5pby9kaWFsb2d1ZXMueG1s/episode/MzVjY2Q5MDItMmJmOC00ZTYxLTgyMTItZTdhNzcwYTlmYWE0

2025-03-18 15:20:44

05: Prompt & Pray
https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/409edb5b9bdf2a76b0b94747667e815f9388c80b0ffed213cf0b4d4346bc3c72.mp3
#NoSolutions

2025-03-15 20:26:33

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Thank you 🫂

2025-03-15 18:58:19

https://blossom.primal.net/e50911135bfadf01873972062f5015770e6137d72198e2c7d19bb1a6b02b6b44.jpg

2025-03-13 23:25:10

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In this dialogue:
- Where is the Utopia that the internet promised?
- “Neither nostalgia nor utopia”
- Net Neutrality is a moral stance
- Where did the internet go wrong?
- Tech as a tool; is tech always neutral?
- Technology that increases agency VS tech that enslaves
- Competition vs Symbiosis
- “Who will run the mints?”
- “Anyone” can use it vs “everyone” can use it
- Centralizing vs. Monopolizing
- Bitcoin has an ethos baked in (You Shall Not Steal)
- Passive internet vs active internet
- Agency in cyberspace, and how to maximize it
- Blinded custodian vs regular custodian
- User data is a liability
- Obscura / Mullvad / Silent.Link as obvious early adopters
- Run your own ISP - Tollgate
- Cryptography is Not Enough
- Bitcoin is Time
- Time requires heat
- Zero-knowledge service providers
- Electronic Cash vs Digital Cash (CBDCs)
- Credit requires KYC, KYC implies outside enforcement
- Writings on Micropayments by Nick Szabo
- eCash fixes 402, obviously
- Who Owns the Future?
- “You are the product” vs “Subscription Hell”
- “Hello old friend!!!”
- Cathedral vs Bazaar
- Why paywalls suck
- Information wants to be free
- "Markets become absurd as supply approaches infinity."
- eCash + AI = match made in heaven
- #LearnToCode vs #LearnToPrompt
- Scarcity in cyberspace: compute, storage, networking
- Zero-Knowledge compute & zero-knowledge proofs
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
- https://github.com/AbdelStark/cashu-zk-engine
- MCP https://github.com/AbdelStark/bitcoin-mcp
- MCP DVM: https://github.com/r0d8lsh0p/n8n-AI-agent-DVM-MCP-client
- DVMCP: https://mcp.so/server/dvmcp
- Olas & Nutzaps (NIP-60, NIP-61)
- Bitcoin is not only the internet of money, but it is the money of the internet
- Re-building the internet archive on top of nostr
- Bitrot & 404
- Resurrection markets & marketplace for hashes via Blossom
- Hugs 🫂
h/t @npub12rv…85vg

2025-03-13 22:49:57

04: Ecash Fixes 402
https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/f00e902261b524870c8ef2da36e62666f0964adfccd20dd6d020d7d6da6adc29.mp3
#NoSolutions

2025-03-11 00:38:53

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👀

2025-03-08 22:10:29

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Preach!

2025-02-23 23:42:49

#YESTR https://blossom.primal.net/dfd4e7319e34a98a4143263964525e78364b2cad41e963a0ee3d3250f2083de5.jpg

2025-02-23 00:22:38

Few understand this. https://blossom.primal.net/ef267c5f3b0b2fdceca3572707dc56e7b117c594199d44135aeecfa0f5886c57.jpg

2025-02-21 23:54:07

03: Data Ownership Is a Lie
https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/d6cba62896e2db1220038210de2941420dbe768cef819327fdd0c55c71b0d46f.mp3
#NoSolutions

2025-02-15 19:40:49

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Links & Further Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_cognition
https://nips.nostr.com/60
https://nips.nostr.com/61
https://nips.nostr.com/89
https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko's_triangle
https://www.jrepodcast.com/guest/adam-curry/
https://localfirstweb.dev/
https://www.localfirstconf.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/25/icq-1996-2024-the-first-universal-messenger-had-a-good-run-and-is-leaving-us-soon
https://www.chatinum.com/articles/the-old-chat-apps-of-the-2000s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI

2025-02-15 19:39:30

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In this dialogue:
- What is this No Solutions thing anyway?
- Why dialogue and distributed cognition is so important
- Why is nostr exiting for developers?
- Evolution, Life, and nostr
- What is the perfect nostr app, and why can't there be THE perfect nostr app?
- Why there is no "global" view in nostr
- Impossible problems vs. possible (but still hard) problems
- Blossom, blossom, and more blossom
- Zooko's Triangle
- Freedom Tech Building Blocks
- NIP-60/61, NIP-89
- Email vs ICQ
- Accepting constraints & moving forward
- Nostr has data integrity, but no data guarantees
- Bitcoin as an extreme RAID system
- Fault tolerance vs. efficiency
- "Build the infrastructure, don't run it."
- eCash fixes 402
- Everything in nostr can be one-click
- There's infinite nsecs (and they are free!)
- The magic of the nostr view-only mode
- The Local-first movement
- How to monetize without putting yourself in the middle?
- RoboSats as an example of open-source monetization
- The YouTube like count is a lie

2025-02-15 19:06:58

02: There is No Global
https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/454ec3ebf261084fe0abbcb6b31409cb29db23ed97784f896b60d7226bfe17ba.mp3

2025-02-14 23:52:04

https://blossom.primal.net/5ccb3a6fec788d811d65ddedf21f626d5bd8c2d93cc83b5e64e1491c2b356a24.jpg

2025-02-09 10:10:21

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Links & further reading:
https://excellentjourney.net/2015/03/04/art-fear-the-ceramics-class-and-quantity-before-quality/
https://world.hey.com/dhh/that-shipping-feeling-b7c8c565
https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-was-wrong-we-need-crypto-587ccb03
https://dergigi.com/2023/04/04/purple-text-orange-highlights/
https://highlighter.com/

2025-02-09 10:07:55

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People and projects mentioned: @npub180c…h6w6 DHH @npub1yxp…399s @npub1nxy…avr7 @npub1w0r…cu4x @npub16c0…6nvr Proton & Hey

2025-02-09 10:01:23

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In this dialogue:
- Why starting ugly and shipping early is hard
- The ugliest thing that Pablo ever shipped
- "Happiness is shipping"
- Make it real first, you can make it pretty later
- Getting into the habit of shipping
- Highlighter and the hang-up of shipping something big
- How nostr allows you to have cash flow from the get-go
- #value4value for artists and devs
- What DHH & 37Signals got right

2025-02-09 09:18:36

01: Start Ugly https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/efd05ea087e894bfa056803f881e8de25e775cee3d65f2ae303c1f282b619a61.mp3 #NoSolutions

2025-02-07 22:21:30

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No great thing was ever achieved by a pessimist.

2025-02-07 16:42:28

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there is no second best relay bundle

2025-02-07 15:42:12

No Solutions - a teaser. #Starcraft
https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/d8b969dcdd4e956b581ac66933076b1a9080d219aeddf03110c768bec43e842f.ogg

2025-02-07 13:47:28

mood https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/65a2c64cb64d0b6dc45a08c7a656b5100832258826e37e7007fdd1fce745d7e6.jpg

2025-02-07 13:26:38

Start ugly.