Reading “The Devil’s Chessboard” by David Talbot. I never realized how batshit crazy things were in the 60s and 70s. War has really transitioned from the kinetic realm to the psychological realm.
Tim Bouma
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Markets use products and prices. Governments use regulations and fines.
‘For You’ on Twitter
This motivates me to protect my nsec.
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I came for the protocol but stayed for the payments.
Build one thing and build it well.
It’s simple: with USB, npubs are sovereign endpoints.
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Universal Sovereignty Bus.
Build for others as you would have others build for you.
I like bike pics.
Just Build…
I see #nostr evolving to a ‘universal message broker’ (mainstream-friendly name) that enables any endpoint (npubs) to securely communicate with one another (via relays).
UMB becomes the backend integration for everything.
Simple architecture:
REST APIs: Front Door
Message Brokers: Back End
Truth
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Unpopular opinion: #nostr is not a social media network, it’s a protocol.
We haven’t figured out yet the basics of a generic trustworthy protocol. I believe #nostr is the best chance to be this protocol.
Meanwhile everyone else is jumping the gun on personhood credentials, KYC, biometrics, digital ID, etc., without having these protocol basics figured out.
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The attacks you agree with are contributions.
I now have time to train to this position.
Looking forward to doing this with my grandkids.
