Ok, very interested in this NIP for p2p trading of Bitcoin using Nostr.

GitHub

docs: nip p2p trading by nicolasburtey · Pull Request #405 · nostr-protocol/nips

very first draft of a p2p trading spec. more work is needed but early feedback would be appreciate to see who else can be interested by this nip.

Need this badly. Will figure out how to get African engineers on it too.

Damn, Paxful going down sucks for Africans. Looking forward to the Nostr and Bitcoin “roll your own” p20 Bitcoin future. Is it #noones?

A good day out. Lake Magadi, Kenya.

Whenever I fly above a nighttime America I’m always amazed, stunned, inspired by the amount of capital and infrastructure in this country. So many cities that are alone larger in infrastructure than whole countries elsewhere.

I was in SF March 2020 when Trump closed international flights to the US. I was in SF March 2023 when SVB imploded. Guess I should stop visiting SF…

Back in the US. I'm in SF for a couple days, then Tennessee. Philip is off to Houston for Empower conference. Busy times!

Had a good day checking out some geothermal in Kenya. A lot of opportunities in that space for mining.

Disappointed with the lack of technical honesty and lack of objectivity in MIT Tech Review piece on Bitcoin mining. “As long as bitcoin miners can profit from proof of work, Weaver says, they will choose proof of work: “The only way to reduce Bitcoin’s criminal energy consumption is for the value itself to be destroyed. If Bitcoin becomes worthless, then bitcoin mining stops.” Yes, incentives work. That’s why it was built this way. “Criminal”? Hyperbole is apparently good, solid media.

So strange to hear someone talking positively about CBDC’s in Africa. Ridiculous.

Apparently Vitalik will be in Nairobi this week. Web3 people are very excited about it.