Ethereum as a public bulletin board…

Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum’s key use case is a ‘public bulletin board,’ not just smart contracts

Ethereum’s co-founder wants developers to stop forcing blockchain into every problem and start treating it as a reliable, shared memory for the d...

Some working definitions coming out of yesterday’s @nosfabrica #wotathon call. Assertion: An assertion is a Nostr signed event that states a fact, claim, or statement in the event’s content or tags. Attestation: An attestation is a Nostr signed event that references one or more other events (e tag) or entities (p tag), and optionally provides additional context, evaluation, or qualification in the event’s content or tags. Assertor: An assertor is the Nostr public key (npub) that publishes a signed event that constitutes an assertion. Attestor: An attestor is the Nostr public key (npub) that publishes a signed event that constitutes an attestation. Acceptance: Acceptance is the decision to rely upon or act upon one or more assertions and associated attestations.

“the barrier for hackers and hostile nation states is no longer Signal’s gold standard encryption. The vulnerability is some agentic system that is built in an incredibly insecure way” Excerpt From “Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on AI and the tension between privacy and public safety” Taylor Owen, Mitchell Stuart The Globe and Mail

We need to remind ourselves is that the most-consumed narrative, fiction - is fake.

Motivation is the key differentiator.

Pretty sure that Aristotle concluded that the function of the brain is to cool blood.

Your Brain Is Not An Information Processor

Except in the trivial sense that its a blood flowing machine, an electrical signal generator, and a glucose consuming system

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Engineering asks what is true about the system and what must be changed to make it sound. Negotiation asks what parties are willing to accept, disclose, defer, or absorb. Know the difference.

Good article about the (non) privacy of Lightning. It mentions how ecash can be a private payment layer on top. #Nostr #Safebox does exactly this - all payments between #safebox addresses are negotiated as ecash, even though they look like Lightning payments. The payments don’t touch Lightning at all. View article →

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Engineering was never about coding. ‘Engineering’ is actually called applied science for a reason - you apply it. So now we are in the era of Applied Computer Science. Engineers never hand-rolled their own metal to get planes into the air. The real skill now is how to engineer with these new capabilities- not to hand-roll more code. /cc @TFTC View quoted note →

The big lesson: Don’t overengineer.

The Law of Reversed Effort in Finance

A deep exploration of the law of reversed effort in financial markets. Why tokenization, crypto, and financial engineering often increase systemic ...

Npubs are authorities you can trust.

Transact, Don’t Preach.

Protocol. Policy. Know the difference.

Historical family photo.

TCP/IP: the past NOSTR/FIPS: the future @Arjen @Johnathan Corgan