Ads will come to Nostr. The attention here will be too valuable for such a market not to emerge. Either we make it decentralized or face the consequences of centralization.
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." – Ayn Rand
Victor Stabile
victorstabile.com
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Freedom tech developer. Engineering physicist. Enterpreneur.
Sponsored events enabled by Atomic Signature Swaps is a solution to the advertisement part of @Ross Ulbricht's DSP proposal:
"The fact we have to contend with is that money is a key element in centralization. Users bring advertisers, advertisers bring money, money pays for expansion and development of the service, and a better service brings yet more users. Money is essential to this feedback loop that draws everyone to the same service provider, whose real business is that of matching eyeballs to advertisements. [...] Somehow, the users must be at the center of this process of value creation and transfer. Given that user attention is the source of value in the system."


GM @Vitor Pamplona!
How it started:
Mints are blinded custodians
How it's going:
Mints are blinded escrows
#AtomicSignatureSwaps #ASS
@Gustavo Stingelin won a prize at the MIT Bitcoin Expo Hackathon for implementing Atomic Signature Swaps with Taproot. Open-source moves fast! Congrats 👏

Devpost
TANOS: Taproot Adaptor for Nostr-Orchestrated Swaps
Atomic Bitcoin–Nostr swaps powered by Taproot and adaptor signatures.

The iphone moment for AI coding happened a few weeks ago.
A proof of concept on how to atomically exchange Nostr event signatures for Cashu payments. This approach also works on-chain using taproot. 
GitHub
GitHub - vstabile/sig4sats-script: Atomic exchange of Cashu payments for Nostr event signatures using Schnorr adaptor signatures
Atomic exchange of Cashu payments for Nostr event signatures using Schnorr adaptor signatures - vstabile/sig4sats-script
ATH is cool and all, but I’m really hoping he keeps his promise to free Ross and bring back P’nut.
Improving my self-custody skills


Since X was banned in Brazil, I’ve noticed a lot of Portuguese people complaining about Brazilians there. I guess there’s less Brazil-related content in Portuguese to algorithmically compete with that.
Cloud computing made it millions of dollars cheaper to launch a startup. Nostr will make it billions of dollars cheaper to launch a social network or marketplace. Gm!
Coming soon


If someone can sneak explosives into pagers, what could be inside our hardware wallets?
Planning a new project to help bring Nostr into the mainstream in Brazil.


@Fabio Akita da uma olhada no
eu participei da segunda turma e o @Leonardo participou da primeira. Vale muito a pena e as inscrições da terceira turma já estão abertas.

Sovereign Engineering
Sovereign Engineering
The program that brought you Blossom, Nutzaps, Wikifreedia, Nsite, TollGate, Zapstore, and more...
Posting on Nostr today is like buying Bitcoin in 2013—minus the getting rich part.
