Last Notes
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math ✌️
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate
how about relays, lightning wallets, dvms? any ideas how these are doing?
maybe kinda one-offs, curious on ongoing arr metrics
you’re talking about fundraising rather than actual revenue generation?
has any nostr project generated 10btc+ in revenue yet? #asknostr
hello nostr 🔥󠅤󠅕󠅣󠅤󠅙󠅞󠅗󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅙󠅞󠅗󠅣
https://youtu.be/nLRL_NcnK-4
we’re just missing zap-to-reply
stay strong
https://media.tenor.com/GBjEvUkbbwoAAAAM/internet-internet-down.gif
entropy is the ultimate universe trend, and nostr is surfing that wave 🌊
that's why facebook was so obsessed on getting new users to connect with 10 friends in their first week. they discovered an extremely strong correlation between this and long-term retention. classic example of what drives network products
https://media.tenor.com/FEFXD00U1ssAAAAx/elon-musk-john-travolta.webp
if you know someone who'd need an extra hand, i'm happy to help with user testing and the discovery phase!
nostr is very about privacy. what's the status on product analytics? are client devs tracking users' behaviors? (quite hard to iterate on ux without some data)
seek your users' feedback but never let them design your app. instead, organize 15min calls, where they share their screen and perform the most common tasks in your app. after 5 conversations you will know every friction point users face.
i've tried them all - primal, damus, coracle, nostur, nostrudel... pretty much every client available on ios :) jumble stands out - simplicity is definitely its strength, plus @npub1syj…f6wl commitment is impressive. what's your take?
for free is often the most expensive
the best performing founders i’ve met make bold product bets but hold their "product vision" loosely, letting active users guide the way
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the best founders make bold product bets but hold their "product vision" loosely, letting active users guide the way
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/who-was-polish-cinkciarz-and-w-Qvq6JIQ6QW617_EvDTFTIA
i had perplexity explain "cinkciarze" as another possible inspiration for you:
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Cinkciarze – The Original Peer-to-Peer Currency Market in Pre-90s Poland
Who were they?
• Cinkciarze (from the English “ching-ching” sound of coins) were underground currency traders in communist Poland (1940s-1989).
• They exchanged Polish złoty for US dollars, Deutsche marks, Swiss francs, and other hard currencies, helping people protect their wealth from government-controlled hyperinflation.
• The Polish state banned foreign currency exchange outside official banks, but cinkciarze offered a decentralized alternative—often more efficient than the state’s broken system.
How does this relate to Bitcoin?
• Bitcoin is the new cinkciarz—it allows people to store value outside government control, especially in economies with unstable currencies.
• Like Bitcoin, cinkciarze provided a peer-to-peer financial network where supply and demand determined the exchange rate, not central planners.
• The state tried to crack down on cinkciarze, just as some governments try to regulate or ban Bitcoin today. Yet, they thrived because people needed an alternative to bad money.
two years ago, linkedin felt normal while nostr seemed abstract. today it's completely reversed
add that you're saving in emojis and memes and you're ready to go!
💯
small chases revenue
corps - margin
“good artists copy, great artists steal”
(stolen quote)
crossfit pain is the way, true proof of work 😁
“mute” is the only algorithm i need ☯️
still interested to learn if it's me or @npub12vk…pugg
looks really cool!
do zobaczenia!
this time only haven set to write
is @nprofile…p2q2 compatible with haven/wot relays? all green on damus, red on primal. #asknostr
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my first haven relay is on, thanks for help @npub1kun…3lhe
will check jumble, thanks!🙏
thanks for that. and what’s your first choice client for mobile/ desktop?
don't know to be honest. press releases, blog posts probably? maybe trackable with perplexity, they quote sources
(and i’m serving a very traditional, legacy industry)
definitely a thing. young ppl have largely abandoned google, preferring to search through chatgpt instead. in my saas business about 5% of leads now come from gpt or claude searches
europe is built on consensus mechanism. this struggle should feel familiar to any bitcoiner
very true, if sth good comes from all that storm around, it's the mindset shift
where’s my flying car! ⚡️
check out "where's my flying car", and you will find out ppl in the 50s were much bolder on their future/our present than it actually is.
seen that on rick n morty!
curious about your relay choices - which ones made the cut and which didn't? #asknostr
zap-to-reply could eliminate nostr's spam problem, or at least make zucky boys, yodas, and other reply-fucks actually provide some value
reading your idea when "zap-to-reply" popped into my head 😂
yet 😂
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luckily it's easier to read through it than apply 😅
lesson for nostr ppl straight from the book: “once the words are out, you cannot take them back. keep them under control.” 😁
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“There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.”
this creates centralization around both clients and their owned relays. would be nice to have something like a relays directory (similar to nostrapps).
most of us probably stick with the default relays that come with initial client setup
on business mission/future, tobi lutke (shopify ceo) often describes a 100 yr mental model. first imagine the end state, then reverse engineer the path.
so…
nostr in 2125 will be...?
#asknostr
one of those rare books where every single page could be expanded into its own book
fascinating concept, enjoyed reading @nprofile…zau4. anyone actively developing in this area?
what's the missing app in the ecosystem nobody is building yet?
before quantum physics, reality was centralized. now? distributed across probabilities
what about transferable reputation? allowing ppl to migrate their "karma" between npubs? this could help activists who operate openly today but might need anonymity tomorrow. anyone working in this field?
what nostr app/ use case no one is doing yet? #asknostr
create your not-to-do before your to-do list
not-to-do lists are powerful tools for focus
trusted npub = trusted id ?
“mute” is the only algorithm i need
first we blame the state for using 4 horsemen against us, then these same riders manipulate us into defending them against the state.
remember, not every freedom banner stands for good.
i know this and similar stories well
...or perhaps our kids will avoid joining some racist shit youth groups... these things are never black and white.
outrage isn't a product of the internet but is fueled by its algorithms
https://news.yale.edu/2021/08/13/likes-and-shares-teach-people-express-more-outrage-online
nostr = antifragility
the worse things get, the stronger the protocol
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
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insanely fast! ⚡
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do you know if anyone is circling around the concept for reputation transfer between npubs?
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love how balaji reframes left/right. it's about tactics, not opinions:
“Note that we take no position on whether left or right strategies are objectively “good.” In our model, these are just tactics used by warring tribes, by two different social networks going at it. The revolutionary tribe uses left tactics and the ruling tribe uses right tactics. But if the tribe using leftist tactics starts winning, it starts using rightist tactics to defend its wins, and vice versa.” (the network state)
thanks, heading to bali in july
the big bang: ultimate decentralization in just 0.00000000000000000000000000000001 sec
@nprofile…3kna @nprofile…pe5e
performance +10
creativity +∞
when times get tough, free software gets tougher
creationism dominated understanding of life's origin for 2000 years, then darwin happened. stay calm, stack sats, #grownostr
foss shows antifragility at its finest, with each regulation becoming its fuel. when times get tough, free software gets tougher
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the good news though…
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building ai agents is so much fun that i need to keep reminding myself all the time to stay in love with the problem, not the solution
open source everything ⚡️
here’s my favorite:
“Unlike an ideologically disaligned and geographically centralized legacy state, which packs millions of disputants in one place, a network state is ideologically aligned but geographically decentralized.”
~ balaji
20 mins to friday in CET - time to call it a night, nostr crew! gm, gn!
you'd be bored watching humanoids playing super bowl
from the book: “as Assange put it, no amount of violence can solve certain kinds of math problems”
i think programmers will shift from code writers, to ai operators, to ultimately full stack system designers
programming combines three elements: code writing, logical structuring, and designing.
the ratio so far was probably 70/20/10.
ai copilots and "vibe coding" are shifting this to… 40/40/20?
ultimately though, i see programmers at 0/20/80.
ain’t simple but…
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what’s your best simple idea to improve nostr? #asknostr #grownostr
proactivity comes from data, reactivity just follows.
skin in the game, literally, is the ultimate human advantage over AI.
transferable reputation is the missing point of any social media, critical for full censorship-resistance. being able to migrate one's reputation from npub to npub could be essential for activists, etc. zaps seem to be a natural foundation for such a system.
anyone working on nostr projects in this area? #asknostr #grownostr
are there similar events in cee, warsaw maybe?
just don't be too harsh on people going back and forth ;)
transferable reputation is the missing point of any social media, critical for full censorship-resistance. being able to migrate one's reputation from npub to npub could be essential for activists, etc. zaps seem to be a natural foundation for such a system. anyone working on nostr projects in this area?
thoughts? @nprofile…a0td
in "the network state" balaji introduces the mimetic code - the idea that our commitment to social groups can be quantified.
as we live in multiple circles (example: programming, bitcoin, hiking), we create our unique, multi-layer code.
zaps w/ their corresponding events could be used to calculate one's code, and from there, maybe some zaps-based algos are the way to improve things.
thoughts?
real estate is built on the paradigm of land scarcity. i wonder how long this will remain true.
for 1400 years, geocentrism ruled as the centralized model of the universe. when copernicus introduced heliocentrism, it took another 200 years before people finally reached full acceptance.
💯 curiosity, first principle thinking, and logic/ statistics are the only skills resistant to time
the best sign of nostr's success right now might be people complaining it's becoming too centralized
been thinking about this a lot: decentralization is a long-term game. the church controlled all written knowledge for around 1000 years, with no more than a few thousand manuscripts in circulation. then gutenberg happened, and within the first 50 years of the press, the number of books hit 9 million copies. today, the books market is around $95bn, which is around 3.8% of amazon's giant market cap 🤯
so, decentralize... centralize... decentralize... and the loop goes on and on
hey, definitely! living in warsaw i wouldn’t miss a chance to meet you guys
anyone using simplex chat here? how’s the dev of e2ee nostr messaging? #asknostr
your favorite ios client is… #asknostr
yes, i think both bluesky and farcaster are centralized when it comes to identity management, etc.
Eat me if you wish but what’s the difference between Nostr, Bluesky, and Farcaster? #asknostr
haven't been here for a while, how is it diff from a few months ago? #asknostr
looks great, and the machine color fits perfectly!
> Reporting is free speech. Reporting a reporter for misreporting something is also free speech. And people can make decisions based on those records.
yes.
☯️
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gm ☀️
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why we sleep is probably the most impactful book i’ve come across for health and performance improvement.
any non-fiction as the fifth pick on your list?
thank you for that food for thought
couldn’t this pow concept (awesome!) be applied generally across nostr relays/ clients to fight spammers?
sorry for the confusion. i was referring to your idea that today’s economy pushes creators to copyright their ideas. if someone decided to make their IP open (noble), the options to make a living seem limited. curious if there are alternative models (value-for-value?) that could create a win-win scenario.
thanks for the sunday mind stretching:)
> good ideas are more valuable for society the faster they spread and the cheaper they are to put into use.
that’s a great insight and a very true diagnosis. it’s also why open source is so important.
do you know concepts (besides communism) trying to solve this “noble, but hungry” dilemma?
how do you define IP? do you distinguish between personal creations (art, books, music) and more corporate assets (like patents or software)?
perceived value is THE value…?
#bitcoin and real estate - what are the opportunities/ unsolved problems? (except property tokenization)
#asknostr
banks are fat, slow, and broken, but it’s the regulators who make the mess. banks might even be happy to cut their kyc costs and increase their margin…
“we don’t need no…”
the album of my childhood
ux is multilayered. it’s not only about how we use things but also how we interpret them.
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usually, i use primal with its LN wallet, but testing nostur right now (with no wallet declared). zapping still work? ⚡️
#asknostr
what’s your privacy setup? (email, messenger, file storage, mobile/ desktop os) #asknostr
who uses umbrelOS here? what hardware do you use? #asknostr
had the same… worth to backup a profile here https://metadata.nostr.com
very early gm ☀️☕️
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don’t know the author but definitely my all-time favorite
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@npub149p…722q under design
exactly. one stupid thing you click on, and you’re stuck in the stream for a while…
nostr is permissionless, but not effortless.
#proofofwork
it sounds cliche, but still, there’s nothing for free – in centralized apps, we are the product. algos are optimized to push content that keeps us on the screen longer, and creators like mr. beast are exploiting that. today’s social media is no diff than old good, ad-driven cable tv.
some might say nostr is free, but that’s not true. nostr is permissionless, but not effortless. we’re in control, and we need to provide our proof of work to discover and engage.
“… and learn how to win on nostr” 😂
so glad it doesn’t work 😅 - i left centralized apps to avoid seeing „10 things that will change your life” and other bs algo-driven content 🏴☠️
per client because…
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when thinking of networks and protocols, i like to compare it to early cable phone networks. in theory, you could reach anyone, anywhere, but in practice, if your phone is fucked up, the whole network’s utility drops to zero.
that’s why user experience and retention are so critical.
nostr contributors should be obsessed with user retention – that’s the be or not to be for protocols. it would be interesting to analyze new users’ activity per client.
early projects need extreme focus. what is nostr’s focus today? what’s the bet and why? #asknostr
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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i think there’s no such a feature on @npub12vk…pugg?
lol, does it mean e2ee „secret chats” to dissapear?
gm ☀️
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Looks like the little prince whose lamb has grown into a sheep 🐑 gm ☀️
telegram’s take:
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paraphrasing:
> if we don’t set up a deal with the state, we can get banned, and we’re fine with that.
end of the story. this screams the issue with centralized apps.
also, remember telegram isn’t e2ee by default, so if they’re active in a country, we can assume they’ve “established privacy balance with gov”
@npub1c8n…ne96 inspired me to dust off my old minox 35gt #photography
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you’re the boss here
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enjoy!
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gn warsaw, gm tokyo, gd west coast
1, 2, 4, and 5 - done 🫡 thanks
it reminds me beautiful little book “show yourk work”
> Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you’ll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It’s that simple. ~ austin kleon
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there are plenty of wallets, @npub12vk…pugg has a built in one.
thanks for sharing your work and progress 🙏
any ideas to fight this mf’er? literally, spamming everything.
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enjoy!
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set up your lightning wallet and this could be you ⚡️
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#introductions
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#introductions
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playing around with #nostrmarketing value propositions after some discussions here with @npub1m4n…c2jl and @npub1dtg…up6m
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gn warsaw, gm tokyo, gd new york
writing is thinking, not the other way around
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“a watch tells the time; a $20,000 rolex tells people you’ve got issues.”
~ christopher ryan
sounds a little like a “global village,” but community is definitely the direction. will think on it and share some thoughts later
we had some discussion on this with @npub1dtg…up6m and my opinion circles around "being in charge".
i don't ask for permissions.
i'm not a product here.
i own the mute btn.
i choose
feeds,
apps,
ppl.
it’s a fuckin powerful thing when you consider today’s internet, and probably the broader promise that will attract normies
generally, i’m into@npub1wmr…g240's belief that nostr can transform from a “bitcoin meetup” into sth like copenhagen’s christiania district. people from various professions, with diff passions, but all sharing common values (and here comes the full nostr ideology side). i think that’s a key part of nostr’s identity, and why we, as strangers, have so many topics to talk about.
see a grey square instead of emoji?
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hey nostr! i’d love to hear your thoughts on the privacy side of the protocol.
#asknostr #introductions
#note1srh…7mkj
luckily, 1 btc is still worth1 btc!
neither “10 hacks that will change your life” 🤙
statistics and physics lesson in one picture.
1. smoother line over time shows how distribution and regression to the mean work.
2. the line’s direction, when considering bitcoin, mirrors the 2nd law of thermodynamics and the concept of entropy. decentralization is a natural state of the universe.
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gm ☀️ hodl your head high this week!
i'd say the moral is academia is theoretical and guys were disbelievers, but to truly assess their opinion we'd need to know how many jeffs actually failed with similar projects. survival bias alert
zapping, value for value :) these are still unknown waters with big potential
gn warsaw, gm tokyo, gd new york. see you to -day -morrow
love it! i’ve been a fanboy of medium film mamiya, and now went completely the other direction into minox 35gt. tiny creature!
found him! seems he’s ventured into real estate these days! 🧡
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that’s really good. i was thinking of nip05s in terms of general identity proof (like my domain registered under my name), but never considered it could be part of building a broader trust system. interesting! where’s the catch though?
@npub1v02…mwuj, maybe worth a shot?
nice, i’m not a monero guy, but sounds like this is the direction nostr could go
> you will whitelist trusted npubs and ignore everything else.
promising idea! seems to tackle some threats without direct control/filtering
@npub1d3h…frtn thanks for that zap! thanks to it i realized even more: v4v is a pure representation of karma!
talking about kind 0's… thinking of nostr in a few years and millions of users sharing their stuff here, what are your thoughts on the risks of social exploitations of such open information? it's not a big deal today to build a social graph of nostr users, their connections, interests, political views, etc.
if one would like to target some group with fake news or propaganda, using nostr open information it's possible to identify the most active, influential hubs, etc. the more mainstream the use of nostr, the bigger opportunity in such actions.
karma is real! no magic here, just pure statistics and psychology - humans are wired to return positive actions (reciprocity theory). so, the more good we do, the higher our statistical chance of experiencing "karma" ☯️
naval ravikant goes evn further, pointing out the compound factor:
"play long-term games with long-term people. all returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest."
☀️
and only the long game matters
dubai is an example of commodity-to-asset transformation. they literally converted oil (through fiat) into real estate.
plus: no income tax, vat 5%, inflation 2%, generally, crypto-friendly…
> while the protocol itself is hard to censor, it’s very easy to censor an app.
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plenty of amazing artists here! a great place for noice!
brazilian note boom soon? 👀
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it’s not super cool, but proves my earlier take:
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gn warsaw, gm tokyo, ge new york
primal, but here’s a nice overview of diff clients:
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sometimes i think my @npub12vk…pugg has consciousness as it decides itself what should i see 😂
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a great example of antifragility characteristics - the more motion on the other side, the stronger our case ☯️
speak freely, but mute button’s mine
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awesome, how many ppl around you set their nodes? what’s the reach?
so many artists here! awesome 🤩
check @npub1wmr…g240's nostriga talk. big picture view:
https://youtu.be/XUsk7cqZyKU
nodes approve this pow, collect your block’s reward! ⚡️🏋️
"as a central bank we can create money"
ratio, which is money, can't be created. only value, and only based on some work, has ability to create.
mindblowing view, lucky you! 🏄🌊
can’t make it on sep 7, but see you next time!
thanks for sharing all these designs. my feed was so colorful yesterday!
so far the best definition of what’s going on here!
#introductions #asknostr
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time is irrelevant, growth will come
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this doesn't have to be a place for everyone (yet). maybe it's even better. nostr is still a baby, it's fragile, learning things, still needs time to meet the big world full of traps.
just today i was thinking about nostr nests and clubhouse. what killed clubhouse was a bad strategy that worked like a magnet for quasi gurus, celebrities, coaches. the place was drained by them and left empty and sad. if i see a threat for nostr today it's getting some toxic hype. hopefully, can't happen without growth pumping algos.
what's happening here makes sense. it's foss, and we're shaping its identity, future developments, etc. there's no central chief visionary officer so we could skip this part. i think general discussion is coming. just today i met three diff, passionate guys - a bike geek, a japanese artist, and an amazing photographer. all to share their things.
we should be patient, use the opportunity to be heard, and… keep sending notes!
gn warsaw, gm tokyo, gd new york
that’s the feeling from early twitter, just a consciousness stream
cześć than and let’s meet one day! i see you’re into design, and just today i was playing around comparing twitter vs primal ux
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then it’s time for warsaw!
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yes, definitely. clubhouse was onto something, but they failed doing this celebrity/invite-only engineering. twitter spaces are interesting, but they are more like a loud stadium, and not a meetup to actually meet and talk to people. fingers crossed! 🤞
btw. nests app is awesome, the most promising thing imo!
tweetdeck: pro tool, like a command center for multiple threads and timelines.
notedeck's usp similar? what's your bet?
i believe that’s the whole fun! 🤩 ottawa pics look amazing! my bike-obsessed friend lived in canada for 2 years. says it's the most beautiful place to ride. lucky you!
i’ll test damus as the next one
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it seems twitter is pushing hard into premium right now. you can literally see how the attention flows to the promo box.
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playing around with ai eyetracking sim, i’ve put web @npub12vk…pugg and #twitter on a quick ux comparison 🔥
even with just sample data, primal is clearly ahead in content presentation (even though there’s a massive shoutout image on my twitter screen, primal scores 10% higher in content window attention!)
congrats @npub16c0…6nvr & co!
one area where primal could boost engagement is by giving the “say something” cta more attention. combining it with the “new note” btn, primal gets about 3% compared to twitter’s 9%. maybe here’s sth to engage more new nostriches to send notes. especially as, like someone mentioned here, “web is for content creation, mobile for consumption”
#nostrux
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fingers crossed! the second name of this place is value for value!
good overview! would you add your perspective on the question below? i’m trying to research what ppl like/ dislike/ which platforms they choose and why.
nostr: nevent1qqsfu8vrdejus7y6dt2z4jcjt3r3zalakvnv4cdudf7ls6nz6stuavcecwzp4
“When selling to advertisers, for example, they have to convince them that people are looking. How do they get more people to look? Outrage, conflict & arguments. Better yet: make people addicted to outrage, conflict, and arguing, and they will maximize "time on site" and other engagement metrics. Advertisers love these! Who cares about truth, wisdom, beauty, nuance, or value? Who cares about honest dialogue if you can maximize clicks instead?”
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look at kids, they represt the default state - curiosity, openness, creativity, fragility. the rest is the influence of civilization, system, school
startOS is definitely how i imagine apps in the future! awesome work @npub149p…722q ⚡️
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🫡 definitely! it’s just even the most distributed networks have their hubs of influence⚡
i can recognize many great devs contributing to nostr, but who’s the candidate for nostr’s chief ux officer? #asknostr
btw, are you using a diff app for mobile? i see some people have two setups, one for desktop, one for mobile
i see you’re into ux, so i’m guessing you’ve tested a few apps before settling on ditto. why this one?
btw. love your daedalus website, and great to see more ppl from #proptech!
we should definitely talk someday!
when you choose, would love to hear which and why!
assuming by your lightning address you’re using @npub12vk…pugg - your first choice app?
nostr is like old-school dating and meeting new ppl. no algorithms to matchie-matchie, just the good old „gm” 🤙
i’ve heard so many good things about amethyst. fingers crossed to see it on ios/ web one day!
primal web is so mich better than its ios version
there’s a great concept of extreme pmf introduced by todd jackson.
when you have satisfaction, the growth engine is within reach, but it still needs a good efficiency model. maybe it’s a bit diff with foss, as time is less of a factor than when you’re backed by venture capital, but it still matters.
thanks for the post, we definitely need more product-oriented conversations!
cool, i’ve heard amethyst is really good. have you tested others for comparison?
what's your favorite nostr client and why? #asknostr #introductions
manipulation, nostr, and detox
#note1t4q…ylew
ping… #proptech
https://m.primal.net/KRGh.mov
two notions here:
1. most of these techniques are a recipe for running a media business. the news industry is built on fear that keeps us coming back to check the status. and because all media are online now, algorithms prompt editors to almost live content editing to increase traffic. they don’t differ much from ad-driven social platforms.
2. speaking of social media… as these techniques manipulate and increase engagement, it must be reflected in social platforms’ algorithms. propaganda content will generate more ad revenue than our conversations here.
two things i find useful:
for 1) news detox: there’s a simple theory that you don’t need to read news, because if sth important happens, the information will reach you anyway.
for 2) switch to nostr! 😀
yes, and yes. the competition between the two was driven, among a few things, by silver’s higher utility for daily transactions.
the “accident” refers to a single decision by britain, where the fixed gold-silver ratio made gold overvalued - worth reading how this snowballed into a butterfly effect.
congrats! any 101 how to start?
entire life in warsaw and still not sure if i’ve ever seen one 😂🕷️ enjoy the city!
here’s my feedback after a few days!
#nevent1q…wcu5
great to see more creators joining in!
well, at least not blue pilled!
thanks, i appreciate it! i assume you’d agree with this picture i came across a while back:
https://m.primal.net/KPlL.jpg
correct me if i’m wrong, but i see two different characteristics in bitcoin and monero. bitcoin has the potential to store value—given its scale, transaction volume, social consensus, and sec approval. monero, on the other hand, is strong on privacy. having a global currency that fulfills both goals seems a little utopian, don’t you think? (by “utopian” i mean “highly impossible in our lifetime”)
> Is the idea of “decentralization” possible in a world where states can arrest CEOs and founders? Nothing can prevent somebody from exchanging funds with one another using Bitcoin or expressing something on Nostr, so long as enough independent people are running a network of Bitcoin nodes or Nostr relays.
#note1jul…f2xl
click to see the full image
#nevent1q…ua0f
smart guy says :
https://m.primal.net/KOYA.jpg
good starter, even better recap after a while
#nevent1q…4dtd
interesting, what’s the source?
great speech, loved the comments on digital neighborhoods, the prototyper-user challenge, the concept of nostr-Christiania, and the reminder to put aside our technical bias.
ps.
@npub1wmr…g240 thanks for the “magic string” - now I know how to explain nostr to my mom! 😀
i have plenty of highlights from the book - it’s multidimensional, layered with anthropology, history, and today’s world analysis. worth reading, packed with statistics and research.
plenty of room to form your own opinion.
“digital neighborhoods” as coined by @npub1wmr…g240 pushes my analogy beyond just foss:
#nevent1q…w6f3
yes, however, generally ppl don’t care about that
#nevent1q…4tva
> human social layer 🧡
i think the concept of frost/frens cosigning as a way to restore one’s identity could be a huge step toward broader adoption!
thanks for the clarification. just looking at things from a regulatory perspective (a client and relay server registered under a single entity)
> a gold standard won out over silver mostly by **accident**.
rereading @npub1a2c…w83a book, i’m starting to think future descriptions of bitcoin and fiat could follow a similar path…
“a bitcoin standard won out over the dollar mostly by accident.”
history shifts overnight, with small things growing big, and the once significant becoming irrelevant.
there are only two parameters we must watch: time and motion, as probability is simply the outcome of accumulated time and repeated exposure.
🧡
i think damus or primal might be vulnerable as they combine both a client and relay, making it harder to “remove some liability,” echoing @npub1sg6…f63m's recent remarks about twitter.
#nevent1q…areh
generally, people don’t care about privacy. they prefer a sort of social agreement with authorities that goes like this:
> gov, do whatever you want, just keep life steady for the majority.
only “steady” is defined differently depending on whether you live in the us, eu, russia, china, etc.
hobbits - that’s who we are as a society.
any new nostriches after the wedding? or at least a few orange pilled?
will the future protocol’s gravity center around relays or clients?
nostr clients don’t store information, relays do. intuitively, they seem more exposed, like p2p torrent users, but they’re also more spread out, making them harder to target. however, this doesn’t mean client creators are completely off the hook - just less vulnerable than centralized apps that manage everything - users, databases, and platforms - all in one place.
thinking about this comment from the @npub1qny…95gx / @npub1sg6…f63m discussion:
#nevent1q…areh
works but i only see my zaps
my favorite quote
> you can’t build a company that means to serve as a town square without having sth underneath it that no single entity owns.
> that’s what nostr represents to me. you can remove some of that liability and you can get back to the idea of what twitter was meant to be, and what it ultimately is.
~ @npub1sg6…f63m
this project, right? it’s extremely promising! @npub1zac…5dy5 🤙
#nevent1q…vum5
listening to yesterday’s @npub1sg6…f63m @npub1qny…95gx conversation:
> you can’t build a company that means to serve as a town square without having sth underneath it that no single entity owns.
> that’s what nostr represents to me. you can remove some of that liability and you can get back to the idea of what twitter was meant to be, and what it ultimately is.
—
is the future of twitter to become the nostr client?
in the end, is it bad or good for nostr case?
interesting that you brought up the hot wallet analogy because one of my questions is:
what’s the equivalent of a cold wallet for nostr?
i see nvault moving things forward here, but i’m still thinking about broader adoption.
imagining millions of users spread across a bunch of dominant clients. when there’s a massive leak of credentials in centralized systems, it’s somewhat manageable, but with nostr… that could be a protocol killer with no way to fix things.
but — just to confirm, clients don’t store nsecs outside of the device, correct? if not, then it makes sense that phishing or user errors are the bigger risks.
thank you!
reminds me of the substack ban, where any tweet containing a substack link was deprioritized, and blocked from being liked or rt.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/07/twitter-substack-censorship-retweet/
two nsecs into the bride and groom envelope for a fresh start? 😀
thank you, Chip.
i’m very into product development and design, talking to a bunch of users every week. my opener line is:
> tell me only things you think might be hard to hear. these insights will help me improve, so don’t hold back.
what i usually get in return is pure gold — as someone smart said “never let yourself end in a >friend zone< with your users.”
ps. regarding nostr feedback… maybe you guys can enlighten me on this? #asknostr wasn’t any helpful this time.
#nevent1q…kcgw
i’d love to understand how these 100,000,000 nsecs is/ will be secured
#nevent1q…9l2h
usually, #asknostr and #introductions spark a lot of engagement, but not so much on this topic.
anyone willing to dive into how client apps store nsec keys? what are the risks of large-scale leaks, and how do we minimize them?
hundreds of cryptocurrencies exist, and i get why bitcoin (first mover, broad adoption) but why is monero? i’m genuinely curious.
after a few days, i get the sense there are basically two camps here: monero and bitcoinero. right?
> new with timeless understanding
i think that’s nostr.
i’m thinking about the first part, but, for a few days, i’m cracking my brain to find some analogies (“the old”) from other disciplines to what i see here on nostr. today’s concept of “feed marketplace” or @npub1v5u…n0v5 integration with nostr are just so unique.
today’s social media for obvious reasons (ad impressions) are like a crowded pub or speed dating. many faces, snap moments, next table, next scroll.
this changes though. concepts like substack and nostr’s @npub1w0r…cu4x or @npub1v5u…n0v5 seem to introduce a more content-centric approach, where a conversation is on top of higher-quality consumption.
it feels more like reading a book in a park and meeting some friends passing you from time to time.
how many of these needed to realistically challenge the big players? could bitaxe act as a huge decentralized pool?
yeah, you’re right. but i think by the chart distribution it must have been, idk, around… 58k respondents? more or less, but i’m pretty sure somewhere in that range!
to take it further:
“each time history repeats itself, cost goes up” ~ r. wright
> Only 5.4% of the general population belong to these two types, but they make up over half of bitcoiners.
guess we’ll keep being the weirdos for a bit longer! 🤙
super interesting. even though myers-briggs is pseudo psychology, it’s still useful for making generalizations. was there any mention of the sample size?
in the uk, number plates act as serious value keepers. the most expensive ones go for ~600k pounds and more
🎯
https://m.primal.net/KIPf.jpg
thanks. and how about the largest nsec pools like @npub12vk…pugg @npub18m7…q955 @npub1nz6…0w5y @npub1pls…kx8j etc?
how are client apps storing nsec keys? are they? 🤔 what are the risks of massive leaks that could compromise sec keys (making them unusable)? #asknostr
my product mentor used to say:
> it’s never the users’ fault if they don’t use the product the way you designed it.
great product design requires extreme humility.
very true, the simplest designs are the ones that stay robust over time, if not antifragile
i’m trying to think if there are any real-life analogies to this kind of characteristic. usually, it’s not so hard to spot similar patterns, but this one’s breaking my brain
the internet’s big moments: search engines, smartphones, social media, content platforms, streaming, bitcoin, crypto, big data, and ai.
this is another big one.
first, it connects and redefines many of the above. second, it breaks down the silos and makes the internet more like real life - where we talk to friends wherever the hell we want 🤙⚡️
10 down, 90 to go! @npub1nst…rg5l, make some noise out there!! 🤙
i see your point, but aside from the protocol properties themselves, there’s also a utility side, and it’s possible for any network to die due to lack of participants, further development, no funding, etc.
if you have an idea to reframe the question, feel free to suggest it
here’s a source paper from vitalik buterin: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06421
just launched a one-question survey to test how user activity, topics, notes and replies correlate with sentiment/ approach toward nostr:
#nevent1q…mhjf
great read, i’ve highlighted a lot, but i think this one really captures the book’s spirit:
“We are the only species that lives in zoos of our own design. Each day, we create the world we and our descendants are going to inhabit. If we want that world to be more like the San Diego Zoo than the living tombs, we’ll need a clearer understanding of what human life was like before our ancestors first woke up in cages.“
https://m.primal.net/KFzR.jpg
reading about quadratic voting concept adapted by gitcoin, seems interesting: https://www.matthewthom.as/blog/fund-open-source/
many mentioned concepts on evolution are well summarized in “civilized to death”
@npub1sx9…lkn8 filled out the survey? 😀 still a chance to be in the first five!
submit your nostr-iment response here: https://tally.so/r/nGL5Np
years ago, i looked into how facebook influences opinions for my psych master’s thesis. now, i’m curious to look under nostr’s hood with one question:
> how would you feel if you could no longer use nostr?
this product-market fit scoring question, developed by sean ellis, is a simple, powerful metric to assess product development over time. if successful, i will put the survey in a quarterly loop.
it’s not completely anonymous, as the survey asks for npubs (optional, but recommended). having public keys and survey responses will allow for in-depth statistical analysis to look for correlations between one’s activity, frequency of use, topics, and level of satisfaction. without that, the results would poorly reflect only where we are, without pointing to any promising directions or dead ends.
hopefully, the survey will provide clients, NIPs developers, and designers with useful, voluntary insights from users.
i’ll kick off the analysis with a minimum of 100 responses, but 500-1000 would be the sweet spot.
if you see the value, submit your response and spread the word.
https://tally.so/r/nGL5Np
cc @npub180c…h6w6 @npub1xts…kk5s @npub1der…xzpc @npub16c0…6nvr @npub1qny…95gx @npub1l2v…ajft @npub179e…lz4s @npub1gcx…nj5z @npub1cj8…rz4u @npub1dtg…up6m
transparency marks the progress of civilization, and following the laws of entropy, it’s the final state we’re progressing toward.
#note1d8a…jhpn
💯, it's one of the properties of increased transparency - less volatility, less speculation, more value based on real, tangible things.
big props for your architecture-first approach; it’s not often you see this kind of radical thinking anymore
just yesterday, i was thinking about how feed-based social media doesn’t mirror real-life interactions. it’s more like speed dating - every scroll/ table, a new story, a new person.
cool, go with that and share! 🤙 very curious, can’t stop thinking about yours “one keypair, everything nostr, …” powerful
> The functionality is simple: "one keypair, everything Nostr, with Bitcoin"
that’s an awesome promise. think you could take a shot at the other P’s too?
#nevent1q…x85y
thank you, appreciate you sharing all these insights. i’ve still got a lot to learn - diving into @npub1w0r…cu4x model next
some influence, some are excited, but what matters is that here, i’m in control
love that we’re all living across different timezones - hearing gm whenever i pop in is a great feeling!
gm to the east coast, gn tokyo
maybe what we need is some proof-of-work mechanism - no success in finding a valid hash, no feed for you today! 😁
i remember when i had a dump phone and envied reading about the release of the first iphone. today i'm asking myself - how can i reorganize my life to "afford" a dump phone again.
the problem with commercial real estate data is that it's fragmented (many players, each aggregating the same/similar information for their own purposes). as a result, there's at least a double cost - one to collect the data, and one to verify it, multiplied by the number of players. this leads to many implications, including information gray areas and institutional players exploiting insider insights.
today, our platform solves the problem of data collection (we act as an integrator), but the missing puzzle is verification.
a few years ago, I was working on the idea of "property digital passports" - we built a theoretical model, the idea that each property could have its nft-like token with its history records chained in it (so there shouldn't be a need to double verify information that has been confirmed in the past).
didn't develop it further because we needed to put more effort into the core business, but... when I came across nostr, I was very excited because the concept is very close to what we were looking for.
to answer your question if we will use nostr, i still need to learn more and understand it better, but I'm very optimistic.
would love to hear your thoughts here!
#nevent1q…su8k
thanks, i get what you mean about significance and changing the web.
i’m in that too. not just here - my company is pushing to transform the commercial real estate industry towards full information transparency. it’s a hard task, but that’s the fun part in the end.
ambitions should be high, but timing (is the market ready for my solution?) and strategy (start small, dominate, then expand) matter too. the result of these two factors is pragmatic tactics that let you keep moving forward, day by day, step by step.
about ads:
> selling stuff, and that also means ads
if it comes to that, i’ll just start my own client 🙃 and that freedom is exactly what i love about nostr!
but… i think we’re underestimating the potential impact of value-for-value. @npub1xts…kk5s created something incredible with zaps; you won’t find that anywhere else.
still looking with a fresh outsider's eye, i think vfv is a big opportunity that could lay the foundation for a new, humble, and healthy creator’s economy. in my mind, it’s an ads-free model (of course!) where clients can earn fees (like patreon, substack) and, instead of disrupting MY feed with THEIR paid content, they invest in new mechanisms to discover worthy things. and as i see these ideas are already popping up in discussions.
there’s a difference between influencing an idea and trying to sell some stuff. for me, value for value is the path to a new, humble creator’s economy.
thanks, i need to read more on bluesky.
i think the biggest challenge today is figuring out who we want to speak to.
“find your niche and then go one level deeper” is usually a solid starting point for growth. nostr is amazing, and i know exactly what promise i’m into. the trick, though, is defining a group out of the cyber early adopters (probably all of us here today).
#nevent1q…wcu5
💯 true, nostr isn’t a startup locked between investors' expectations, and that’s a big comfort. the challenge is to be patient enough
trial and error - sure, but to make it effective there must be some thesis we test
i’ll start with my personal 4p that led me here:
persona:
i’m a startup founder (in the eu) with 10+ years in proptech. i had a bitcoin story years ago, similar to what @npub18am…p424 described once (“old discs turned into a multi-million dollar mirror”). i’ve always been into privacy and osint.
problem:
i never had instagram or facebook - it’s just not me. i like good conversations and interesting people. i tried twitter, but hated the ads (problem 1) and even more, (p2) the algorithms serving up the same quasi-influencer content (“ten ways to this…” and “what i’ve learned from…”).
this led to a third problem - every social media platform today is a selling tool. if not through ads, then through influencing. ads are annoying, but influencing feels fake, and i don’t want that in front of my face.
product:
that’s how i ended up on nostr, probably through some article on @npub1sg6…f63m involvement. i read the paper, explored tons of websites (com, org, band, watch, you name it), and found @primal available on iOS. here i am.
nostr promise:
i see no ads and no influencers.
value-for-value and full control are the promises that hooked me.
if ads show up in my feed, i can switch clients. if i encounter annoying influencers, i can mute them.
last but not least—
i’m still short here, but i already like you guys. i enjoy reading your notes, discussions, memes. you’re a bunch of smart people, and that’s a promise hard to deliver on the web 💜
pv 🤙
i’d flip the question—it’s not about who we compete with, but who we’re delivering value to. once that’s clear, knowing the competition becomes relevant.
there’s a simple 4P framework for early startups struggling to find product-market fit: persona, problem, promise, product.
the product must deliver the promise that solves the problem for your persona.
if anyone wants to dive deeper into nostr marketing, i’m happy to help—got a good bit of marketing/startup/tech experience 🤙
if micro-decentralization is about relays, clients, etc., maybe there’s a macro view centered on the protocols themselves? growth matters as PoC, but maybe each protocol - nostr, bluesky, or others - will end up building its own village of like-minded people?
#note1e8g…wk8f
“you become detached from real life the more you are attached to the game”
powerful
agree, that’s permissionless
#nevent1q…dl8x
looks like ‘sound money’ has a new meaning!
yes, i missed the “i’m aware of being watched” type - that’s the one we should be to effectively fight for change while still having a decent life. it’s just that i’ve met a few severely paranoid guys, and hell, they’re the most unhappy ones i know :(
gn
https://m.primal.net/KBhq.jpg
there are two types of privacy guys: “someone’s watching me” and “i’m an advertising product.” being in the first group isn’t healthy, unless you’re very special.
idk, i’m too short here, but waiting to see the results! 🤙🤞
go with nip-05 verification, so we know it’s you 🤙 https://nostr.how/en/guides/get-verified
how about using https://npub.pro/ ?
twitter hooked me 11 years ago with the idea of a ‘consciousness stream’
nostr hooked me 22 days ago with its algo:
nostr = (twitter - 11 years) + permissionless + (weird)² + pv 🤙
cyberpunks write the code, but some centralization is necessary when it comes to physical stuff. without it, how can more people edge closer to the decentralized ‘mirror’?
image: satoshi, phil, jeff b, and me
https://m.primal.net/KBaj.jpg
#note1w0r…0lhy
https://m.primal.net/KBWi.jpg
strike, yakihonne — great ux/ui is entering the nostr space with full force ⚡️ just keep it a little w3ird, guys 🙃
enjoy 🤙
https://m.primal.net/KBYW.jpg
https://m.primal.net/KBWi.jpg
after just a couple of days here, going back to linkedin feels like visiting a flashy dubai mall: shiny storefronts filled with stuff that’s worth nothing, and an even less interesting crowd.
nostr is different - it’s got this genuine vibe of the early internet i remember from the 90s 💜
#note1amq…ks2q
concentration and centralization don’t always go hand in hand. if you think about the ratio of contributors to consumers, more decentralization can lead to greater concentration. take nostr: as user numbers grow faster than contributors, those contributors will have an increasingly bigger impact. yet, from a network perspective, more #nostr users mean more decentralization of information and less concentration, thanks to additional relays, clients, etc.
small circles, no power structures, contributions by choice, agility to move fast.
after reading “civilized to death,” i’m fascinated by the parallels between hunter-gatherers and open source community.
back to the roots, #nostr?
gm, nostr! “at any given moment, the strongest dream in that moment wins that moment” ~ dave chappelle
my way to handle stress comes from running - think about the next step, then the next one. a few more steps, and suddenly, stress is just something you’ve left behind 🤞🤙
ping… proptech 🔭
#note16jn…eas0
love the idea of giga galactic computer
https://youtu.be/S9JGmA5_unY?si=T9Y0XrUTWeIEriY5
yeah, “quote posts are not replies”
i’ve tried that a few times, always betting on the person (because of the skills…), but it ends the same way every time - you either lose or have to fire them, then find someone else. plus, you’re left fixing the culture and admitting to your team that you messed up.
if i’m not sure, i prefer a one-week trial with my team, then i ask for their take. it’s a more community-focused approach, imo.
nope, what you get is a decaying culture and overall underperformance
going deeper into the rabbit hole, @npub1der…xzpc hits the point: “(…) it will be very difficult to criminalize an idea which is based on the exchange of text messages. (…) bitcoin is text. bitcoin is speech.”
it’s hard to ban something you can’t touch, confiscate, or lock in a deposit. gold, alcohol, drugs, and gambling (even online) involve some physicality and centralization. bitcoin is different—more of a “catch me if you can” style.
domains are messed up. most names are taken, not used, and just for sale.
domains shouldn’t function as empty value assets, but as ‘utility tokens,’ a digital equivalent of real estate. it’s fuckin wrong to buy them just to keep them unused.
i tried using chatgpt for acronym ideas, and after 30 mins, it’s clear this thing is a disaster when it comes to imagination.
creative minds, we’re safe.
#AI
1 - 🫡
2 - test my imagination 😁
#nostr, you met me at a very strange time in my life.
“intelligence boils down to curiosity” ~ aaron swartz
fighting for a better world is needed, but we can't neglect the reality we live in. aspirational for the future, pragmatic for today.
“there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” ~ mark twain
learned today, bit @ would be more intuitive
#nevent1q…zcht
you nailed it on the censorship, out-of-control algos, and gov, but i’d push more on how ad-driven models are brainwashing us with content that’s just ‘watchable.’ it’s not that the whole internet is broken - it’s that ads have hijacked it. that’s where i see the real value in value-for-value #nostr
love the create only mode, kinda “writer’s mode”! ⚡️
dzien dobry, love your drawings and oils 🙏
beautiful @npub15ej…p58q - you’re based in PL, right?
testing again.
#nevent1q…e5zk
testing.
nevent1qqs94nn5mq6ltptcanx942g8c6jq95n4963rne8ysespt6s26u92ercate5zk
what’s the best way to share a note in a comment? #asknostr
i circle around this for a while
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transparency = equilibrium ☯️
beautiful design, great feature
#note1dfp…8g48
“protecting eu citizens from serious harm” - the definitions of ‘protection’ and ‘harm’ have been pushed to the next level.
i like a presentation to sink in. idea, title, then outline, then a few days to think and look around through the prism of that outline. and then boom, six-hour me-and-slides marathon, and ready to roll!
the universe seeks equilibrium, a balanced state. while reducing entropy is possible, it demands energy.
bitcoin has a physics-backed advantage. it just needs time.
reading two books at the moment: “civilized to death” and “the deficit myth.”
both share some common, disturbing notions on civ, taxes, and poverty.
“since 1977, the Fed has operated under a dual mandate from Congress, that directs the Fed to pursue max employment and stable prices. basically, Congress put the Fed in charge of jobs and inflation (…) The mandate is predicated on the belief that there’s delicate balance between too much employment and too little. it also assumes that the Fed has the ability to move the economy to its sweet spot, where just the ‘right’ number of ppl are kept on the sidelines, wanting to work but trapped in unemployment for the sake of keeping prices in check. (…) to put it crudely, the Fed uses unemployed human beings as its primary weapon against inflation.” ~ the deficit myth
“poverty is a most necessary ingredient in society (…). it’s a source of wealth, since without poverty, there could be no labor.” ~ civilized to death
“the gov doesn’t want dollars, it wants to provision itself. the tax isn’t there to raise money. it’s there to get people working and producing things for the gov.” ~ tdm
“taxes are there to create a demand for gov currency.” ~ tdm
committed to building a transparent commercial real estate industry, nostr’s progress shows the way. #proptech
https://m.primal.net/JwIY.jpg
https://www.inc.com/rohini-venkatraman/4-ways-to-get-back-creativity-you-had-as-a-kid.html
after watching the ai video @npub1xts…kk5s shared, i found myself diving deep into a rabbit hole.
the progress in ai video is enormous. imo, we might soon enter a (short) ‘weightless’ time where it’ll be hard to tell what’s real. this could lead to a total shift in trust paradigms, maybe even pushing us back toward face-to-face relationships, which are harder to fake.
this got me thinking about true digital identities (not just emails) and the importance of protocols like #nostr. if i can sign a note with my nsec, why not a video or photo?
but the big question haunting me: how do we confirm identity without relying on government-issued documents?
yeah, her right hand looks a little off, but that seems to be the final artifact.
powerful force, once you realize it
“we are the only species that lives in zoos of our own design. each day, we create the world we are going to inhabit” ~ chris ryan
what do bitcoin and real estate share? scarcity. btc's supply is locked, and so is the planet's—150 trillion sqm of land, 350 trillion sqm of water, and the entire troposphere.
where do they differ?
nostr is only partially attractive to haters. you can say what you want, but you’ll only reach those who want to listen. so, it’s just another bubble.
hate needs algorithms to artificially push content into people’s feeds to truly spread.
and that’s where nostr wins. here, i control what i see and read.
curious how many startup/tech founders own some bitcoins. there's probably no group that better understands what’s behind this chart.
so many similarities between btc and startups – pmf discovery, adoption based on trial and error, early user feedback, never-ending ups and downs, the sense of doing something important for others, breaking the status quo, ongoing passion for tomorrow, etc.
this is what drives me to be here: the sense of building the largest startup ever launched in history.
https://m.primal.net/JriX.jpg
"you deserve an open platform…" yep, agree 🤙
EM gave a quite good definition of money on lex podcast a few years ago: “… think of money as information. it’s just an entry in a database for resource allocation - a ratio of exchange”
at any given moment, the strongest dream in that moment wins that moment.
you have to be wise enough to know when you were living in your dream. And you have to be humble enough to accept when you’re in someone else’s. ~ dave chappelle
you have to be wise enough to know when you’re living your dream and humble enough to accept when you’re living in someone else’s ~ Dave Chappelle
another one I like
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@npub1jut…f04x circling around gratitude, this could also work well for online paid communities. i’m in two local groups, one for tech founders in europe, and another one for general tech. in both, the most active channel is #payitforward, where people help each other. this direction is also less fragile to hr/tax-related issues.
sounds like a great way to introduce zaps/nostr/bitcoin to the general business. I can easily imagine a ⚡️ btn on my company’s slack!
great idea! fingers crossed 🤞
after 15 years in proptech/cre, i can say it’s the best time to get cre people involved in transparency/bitcoin. today, they’re listening.
I've watched cre/proptech for 15 years, and after decades of being almost entirely analog (phone, paper, and spreadsheets), something is changing.
The covid/office crisis was a huge lesson that even this billion-dollar industry can’t maintain the status quo.
The trick with real estate is that we build for decades, while the world changes overnight. real estate can’t adapt as fast as tech requires.
CRE 3.0 is a concept of the industry’s progress, making it robust to the world’s pace.
Transparency is the key - and that’s exactly where CRE should learn from bitcoin, #nostr, and similar innovations.
sounds like twitter ads 🙃
I was never a bitcoiner. I’m not a developer. I’m not an open source creator, more a consumer.
I’m a proptech founder solving fragmented information in commercial real estate. My goal is to unlock data and create a more transparent industry where ppl compete based on skill and exp, not just what they know. This isn’t such a big issue in the US, but it’s a huge progress decelerator in Europe.
A few years ago, I read “Token Economy” by Shermin Voshmgir and drafted an intro concept for a real estate information protocol.
Then, a few weeks ago, I discovered #Nostr, and I haven’t been this excited in a long time. The concept, even if not adapted directly, is literally an instruction for creating decentralized information-sharing protocols.
And that is something that must change the status quo.
Yesterday - finance, social media - today, information and business - tomorrow.
Thank you guys 🤙
How are the Urban Land Institute, Sam Altman, Scarlett Johansson, and real estate CEOs connected?
A few weeks ago, I gave a keynote on AI at Entralon Club's CEE Business Retreat. Many attendees found the presentation eye-opening, so I decided to turn it into a post and share it more broadly.
Here’s the first part of a three-part series. Enjoy!
https://tomogrodzki.substack.com/p/could-ai-run-a-real-estate-company
#proptech #commercialrealestate
“One of the biggest things Bitcoin has taught me is that proof of work matters and empty promises do not.” @npub1cj8…rz4u
Homo quantum.
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here’s an interesting piece:
“(…) This scalability suggests that an error rate better than one in one million could be achieved using a distance-17 qubit array that comprises 577 qubits of suitably high quality.”
https://physicsworld.com/a/breakthrough-in-quantum-error-correction-could-lead-to-large-scale-quantum-computers/
1 discussion, 4 experts, 7 key takeaways on CRE data transparency. Fresh insights from last week's ERES panel:
#1
Transparency builds trust, supporting long-term market stability. As one panelist said, "CRE is a relationship business. Improving confidence among participants benefits the entire system."
#2
Utility function - data to be transparent (accessible) must be digital, opening new opportunities for tech-based performance improvement across all levels.
#3
It reduces risk and improves liquidity - easy access to relevant information speeds up better decisions.
#4
Transparency can make business a positive-sum game, potentially increasing market growth through more win-win situations.
These insights are remarkable, but panelists Piotr Trzciński, Paweł Toński, Krzysztof Sakierski, and Prof. Björn-Martin Kurzrock agreed that significant challenges remain, and they're not easily overcome.
#5
Data quality is king. Without it, everything falls apart - there's no trust, no reduced risk, and no value added. As one speaker said, "Garbage in - garbage out.”
#6
Someone else said, "Business is just a bunch of people." That's very true, and that's why for data transparency to exist, market participants must see its benefits and agree to co-create this vision of the market. This condition is a must, whether we have the best quality data or not.
"Enthusiasm is necessary for any great change to take place."
Final challenge and opportunity:
#7
"Life is a game,
real estate is a game.
This shouldn't change."
Radical transparency often worries market participants about losing their edge or the market becoming boring. This is partly true - high value extraction and big bets must remain, especially for commercial real estate developers.
However, protecting the status quo is always short-term, and change brings huge opportunities for early adopters and pioneers.
I see transparency as the future bridge between real estate and technology.
--
originally posted on Linkedin on July 2024
#proptech #commercialrealestate
"I am a »protein-based« offer generator for tenants."
"25 years in valuation, 80% of the time copy-paste."
"Reporting eats up my time. I have no time for clients."
"I'm an agent, but my only weapon is a spreadsheet."
"CRE is a relationship business, but time for relationships - none."
I've heard dozens of such stories in recent months.
Automation is the solution that will free up the most valuable asset we have - our brains. There's only one condition for this to happen - we can no longer be afraid that transparency and technology are a threat to the industry.
Information will no longer be an advantage.
Skills and teams will determine who wins.
This is a huge opportunity for the industry, and young people, in particular, should push their organizations to transform. The next generation of professionals won't know what Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V is.
originally posted on Linkedin on July 2024
#proptech #commercialrealestate
“bitcoin is not asking for permission. we forgot to do that”
- A. Antonopoulos
“bitcoin is not asking for permission.
we forgot
to do that”
- A. Antonopoulos
today, #nostr -like protocols are influencing the general public. one day, they will transform big industries and corporations.
open source = transparency
transparency is the measure of human progress
nostr feels like early twitter, and that’s a great feeling!
#nostr feels like early twitter - no ads, no politics, just a bunch of friendly ppl and their thoughts.
when it comes to #AI there are dommers everywhere, talking about machines taking over one day. but what I see every day at work are happy ppl who no longer do dummy copy-paste jobs.
seems like I’m the first #proptech soul in this decentralized bay 🏴☠️
any proptech folks around?
hello, world!
#introductions
