Replace Bitcoin with Nostr in this article and it pretty much works. Not the most elegant, not the fastest or most efficient, but it works. And, because it works, it enables a universe of new products and behaviors.

Sunday Summary, APR20

A week in review from the Editor

GM and Happy Easter you maniacs! I hope everyone has a day full of food and fun.

Don’t get angry, get even. * by succeeding wildly despite whatever they put in your way

Sitting in a long taxi ride running deepseek on my laptop and cranking through complex rust database abstractions. The future is here. 😎

Own your freedom.

What communities or subcultures do you wish we had more of here on Nostr?

Reminder: The Bank Secrecy Act is a gross overreach of government authority. It should be repealed.

🤙🤙 devs as celebs. Jokes aside. This is a good idea. View quoted note →

GM 🌞 Lately, I've been thinking less about building "Nostr" and more about building the free and open web. What does that mean? Maybe a metaphor can help: It used to be that traveling abroad was a big deal; cultures were super different, it felt alien to the traveler and they were challenged (and usually improved) by the experience. Now, in so many places (certainly across NA and Europe) the differences are so small as to be nearly unnoticeable. You have to go to parts of asia, india, or africa to get those experiences. And many of those parts of the world are perpetually held down in service to the western world's economic machine. Building a free and open web to me is about threading the needle of having a globally available communication network that allows information to spread at the speed of light but also allow for small pockets of extremely unique culture & economy to form and flourish. We want to create a substrate for people and agents (machines) to work together, using digitally native money, without any friction from imaginary lines drawn on maps or from whatever bureaucrat thinks they're in charge of our lives at any given moment. Just people and machines working together, of their own volition, on things they think are important. I want to be able to digitally travel to other parts of the web and feel out of my depth, feel challenged, and I want to improve because of those experiences. Our fight isn't against twitter or blue sky, and it's not a fight focused just on Bitcoin either. It's a fight against a globally homogenous future run by a handful of platforms full of newspeak-approved messages and ads.