“Lightning adoption is a pipe dream” Nostr living the dream?

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Justin Bons (@Justin_Bons) on X

BTC is a dead end Lighting adoption is a pipe dream, with a UX only usable with custodians Spending hundreds of terawatts on a speculative asset ...

Tomorrow at 1pm ET, will be talking with Lyn Alden and Arnold Kling about the Silicon Valley Bank fiasco and whether the worst is yet to come for American banks and the Fed… https://www.youtube.com/live/WalAt5nyJY0?feature=share

This article frames the divide quite brilliantly, and I say that as a strong partisan of the “rationally redesigned commons” Ostrom-influenced version of social media’s future that I think Nostr exemplifies.

Institute for New Economic Thinking

Ayn Rand vs. Elinor Ostrom: The Fight for the Future of Social Media

The contrasting ideologies at play in this tech sector mirror the conflicting ideologies in economics

How do you imagine that Nostr could/will break out into the mainstream?

Ok, so is there a way to either mute or remove yourself from a thread? Just asking... theoretically.

I encourage this community to delve into McLuhan if you haven't already. Highly relevant to what Nostr is trying to accomplish. I infused my retrospective take on the 2010s with his prescient insights.

So the official story at this point is that a "pro-Ukrainian group" with zero known connections to any government destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines.

New streamlined zapping in Damus is 🔥

Now that I've got this pretty seamless lightning wallet set up in my browser, anyone have good ideas for online stores where I should spend it?

Follow my colleague #[0] and help me convince her of the brilliance of Nostr!

I was fascinated that the Madoff series on Netflix meticulously documented the SEC’s failure after failure to uncover the Ponzi scheme unfolding right in front of them and then concluded that more SEC regulation is the answer. Made a video about it here.

Do you think things like real property titles will eventually be transferred via smart contract using Bitcoin as the base layer? Or is this a pipe dream?

Right now Twitter is exploding with news about a division within the Dept. of Energy concluding that COVID probably came from a lab. I'm relieved knowing that next time there's a massive effort to suppress a discussion, Nostr will be here.

The dream of the ‘90s is alive on Nostr

If you didn’t yet see our full convo about Nostr, you might check out this clip with #[0] pub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s explaining some of its origins and aims to me and #[1] with the help of @nvk.

Become uncensorable

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reason (@reason) on X

Shortly after @damusapp became the first Nostr client to be approved on the Apple app store, it was blocked in China—but the government can't sto...

News you can use.

What’s the easiest way to post pics here via Damus app?

On yesterday's Reason stream, I floated the idea of Nostr playing a future role in archiving historical and literary works so that we could easily track editorial "revisions" over time. I think it's important to maintain the integrity of primary sources and original works in this way in the digital age. Curious if anyone else has thought about this or has ideas about how something like that might be implemented via Nostr. It's been on my mind for awhile but most recently with the Roald Dahl story.

the Guardian

Roald Dahl rewrites: edited language in books criticised as ‘absurd censorship’

Author Salman Rushdie among those angry after some passages relating to weight, gender, mental health and race were rewritten

This chat with #[0], #[1] and #[2] about the past, present, and future of Nostr today has me hyped for where things are headed. I saw some Nostriches I recognize from around these parts in the comments, so thanks for watching and sharing!