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Ian 3 months ago
BIP110 is like the transgender argument. Some people think it is wrong for men to be in women's bathroom with little girls before something bad happens and other people thinks there is nothing wrong with it until something bad happens. #idonttrustcore
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Ian 4 months ago
With all the talk about "The Epstein Files" it's important to remember that he had a boss. We're not calling the files by his boss's name only his. And that boss has multiple Epsteins working for him. And he is sacrificing one to save all the others.
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Ian 4 months ago
#GM my #nostriches I need some help. I need your favorite Nostr essays (30023) naddr. I am in the process of loading up my openclaw instance with naddr of some of the best essays on Nostr to help it understand where @The Architect of NextBlock City stands on the different topics and issues in the #bitcoin and #nostr community.
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Ian 6 months ago
The best analogy I've found for coding with AI: it's a 3D printer for software craftsmen. Yesterday I worked through four different database frameworks. Not reading about them—implementing them. Feeling the tradeoffs between security, sovereignty, and scale in working code. When I decided one wasn't right, the AI rewrote the entire data layer in minutes. Evaluate. Adjust. Repeat. That kind of iteration used to take weeks. The mythical 10X engineer everyone chases? They were still bottlenecked by typing and context switching. This is a category shift. The craft isn't gone. It's distilled. System design, debugging intuition, knowing which tradeoffs actually matter—that's still you. What's disappeared is the tedium of translating clear intent into syntax. The keyboard was never the instrument. Your mental model was. Now you can finally work at the speed of thought.
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Ian 7 months ago
This guy is amazing at explaining #bitcoin without ever saying the word. Bitcoiners need to hear what he says about he bronze age collapse.
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Ian 7 months ago
Today working with cursor felt like I was sanding something down to a finished product. So many things we used to look over at previous jobs cause no one wanted to do them. Ai loves grunt work. View quoted note →
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Ian 7 months ago
#gm my #nostriches Can't wait for the future where we're saying things like "it used to take me 10 minutes to download a model. We only had 1 GB Internet."
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Ian 8 months ago
#gm my #nostriches image
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Ian 9 months ago
True #wealth in 2025. image
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Ian 9 months ago
#gm my #nostriches. Did anyone catch the #bloodmoon last night?
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Ian 10 months ago
20+ years building systems. This is the one that matters. This is not a social media platform. This is an attention marketplace. Platforms are designed for control. Marketplaces are designed for sovereignty. We built two protocols to make this marketplace possible: PROMO Protocol for marketplace interactions. Telescope Protocol for Bitcoin-native timekeeping. The PROMO Protocol provides the data set for this marketplace. Anyone can build the best implementation. Billboard is the first. By using Nostr as the data layer for coordination and orchestration, we ensure that nobody can silo this marketplace. The Telescope Protocol provides logical partitions for the data of a marketplace whose only medium of exchange is Bitcoin. This is what happens when you understand Bitcoin and Nostr deeply enough to see how broken everything else is. And how we can fix it. #nextblock #attentionmarketplace #grownostr View quoted note →