This is how Brussels is welcoming you after you get out of central station 😔 It’s in front of the Commons Hub so we took some buckets, trash picking sticks and we got to work. Thank you Jeremy for your help!

What’s your favorite bitcoin wallet that provides a good tradeoff between UX and security / recovery?

Should we also do a meetup in Brussels? We could use the Commons Hub for that (in front of central station). Would there be anyone interested? View quoted note →

I’m actually excited for the much needed changes that Trump and Elon Musk are going to bring to the US. I’m very aware that it’s quite politically incorrect to say in Europe but I’m a free citizen. You can’t fire me. So here I said it. You can block me or unfollow me. If you are intellectually curious though, read on. I would never have voted for Donald. I can’t get behind his rhetoric and his style. He crossed the line too many times for me. And I’m very sad that we have to reach a point where such polarizing person is what it takes to finally take a big turn. But here we are. See, we are at a fork in the road. Everybody is asking for change, but nobody really wants it. “We want change but not that way”. Well, sorry folks, but this is not how change works. Change is very uncomfortable. It makes us lose our points of reference. We feel lost, until we finally wake up, get back to our senses, and start building again what will become the new points of reference, the new institutions that will be much more adapted to this changing world. So it’s time to embrace change. It’s time to reconnect with nature. It’s time to reconnect with seasons, moon cycles, genders and the role we are supposed to play in society. It’s time to build. So I won’t join people complaining about every move that Elon and Donald are gonna take. It’s too easy to criticize from the bench. I will, however, very much support the builders that will come after the mess they will inevitably create. The citizens that will recreate a new order, the ones that will take care of the most vulnerable and make sure that we leave no one behind. The ones that will recreate the commons and local communities. The new institutions that will give every one of us a sense of belonging and mattering. There is no time to waste. Let Elon and Donald do their thing. We’ll do ours. Onwards, citizen 🚀

We got the design of our mobile wallets wrong 📲 They focus on transactions. They should focus instead on the relationships we are forging with each of those transactions. I just went to our Indian restaurant next door to pick up some food. When I pay, I want them to see the history of our relationship, not just the status of this last transaction. This would incentivize everyone to build long term relationships instead of short term transactions.

Revisiting the centralized, decentralized, distributed graph at the Commons Hub Brussels. Moving from efficiency 📈 to resilience 🔅 From corporations 👔, to startups 👟, to communities 🌻. From CEOs 👨🏻‍💼, to cofounders 👬 to stewards 👫. We have become independent from one another, but hyper dependent on millions of strangers thousands of miles away. We are connected to a global network 🌍, but disconnected from our own local network 🌳. Time to rebuild our social tissue, our resilience. Because community is immunity. Key insight: to forge more relationships within the network, we need to introduce new currencies to acknowledge & reward other kinds of contributions 💧🔥 ☯️ That’s why we need #web3, the new Internet of currencies.

🇪🇺 Europe wants Kamala to win. 🇷🇺 Russia wants Trump to win. 🇺🇸 America is deciding today 🗳️

Reality check: Most presidents and governments only represent a minority of citizens.

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Excited to bring Open Collective to web3, the OG platform to fund open source communities. Please give it a warm welcome 🤗 https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/42161/608/116 Next up, Nostr? What is it that you need to organize and fund Nostr communities?

Remember farcaster? Yet another example that too much money can kill your project. I remember seeing job posting with crazy salaries. Recipe for attracting the wrong profiles. Movements start with believers, not with employees.

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Captain Zwingli 🍌🎙️ (@ChrisJourdan) on X

Remember Farcaster? They raised $180M, including $150M in May '24 with a billion dollar valuation! On July 1st, Farcaster hit $2 million in cumul...

This presentation from the founder of Patreon could inspire many of us in the Nostr community. A shift is happening. Not only on the Internet but in the world. It’s time to shift from the outer world to the inner world, from reach to depth of connection, from doing something that matters to others to doing something that matters to you and your local community. Platforms that displaced others never did it on the same paradigm. Nostr doesn’t need to replace Twitter. It needs to enable something new, something different. Replacing Twitter will be a natural byproduct. Not the product. How could we use Nostr to enable creators to reach their 1000 true fans? How could we create a bazar with millions of local shops that care about servicing 1000 people, not one million people? After discussing with @David King the other day, we talked about whether the problem of a global username was still relevant in this new world. Your last name was invented by the nation state. And your global unique username by this idea that you had to build a global audience. But what if you don’t? Local shops only need a unique name in their locality. This is a good example of a design decision that sets the tone, that defines who we are, how we are different, how we are not playing the same game. Anyway, here is an invitation to slow down. Do less tweets, more long posts, take the time to think. Take the time to build stuff that will last 200 years. We need more human beings, less human doing.

Nostr feels like ethereum in 2016. Just discovering metamask. Before mass adoption we need the concept of a multisig and account abstraction. 👉 Your private key should be linked to your device (and never ever leave it), not to your identity.

@npub1teaw...gq5u Verifying My Public Key: "xdamman"

Great talk @rabble! I have so many questions. Where’s the best place to get started?

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