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Max 1 year ago
[New Pod] Ideas from the Edge: Music, Discovery, eCash, and Identity with Tony Giorgio This was a fun one! @tony and I cover a lot of ground, including: - Music and its role in society: “He who controls the music controls the mind” - Why the ad model for monetizing the Internet is not only a panopticon, but also extremely ineffective - How to find under appreciated long tail Internet content - How to improve Nostr on-boarding for noobs - The role of the curator on Nostr - Permissionless identity creation means evolution can happen much faster - How Tony uses AI - How to live a healthy life with (and without) technology; camping is great - in theory - The balance between contributing to open source and building a company - Lightning Network as the final settlement layer and Nostr Wallet Connect as the async message layer - eCash and why Tony is bullish on Fedimint - Fedimint as its own consensus network - Nostr evolving into identity for the Internet - Nostr as the fire hose of raw data - you can build anything with it - Open source vs. closed AI development
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Max 1 year ago
What emoji do you use to represent nostr? Most of the birds I've found are not quite right. The dodo is ok 🦤 but I wish there was an ostrich...
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Max 1 year ago
New Pod: Ideas from the Edge (Ep 03) Swarmwise, Ron Paul, and Open Source AI w/ @Christopher David Christopher and Max explore: - The influence of Swarmwise and the Pirate Party on Chris’ approach to building - Lessons learned from the Ron Paul Campaign in ’08 and ’12 - The state of open source AI - Plans for openagents.com to unlock bottoms-up market intelligence - What exactly is the singularity? Is the future gray goo or Star Trek? Full Discussion on SN:
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Max 1 year ago
New podcast episode: AI, Simulations, and Startups with @k00b (Founder, @Stacker News) I had so much fun in ep 01 with @Stuart Bowman that I'm back with more! In ep 02, Keyan and I discuss a whole bunch of ideas, including: - What is the singularity? - The future of AI and the coming intelligence explosion - Does the brain create or receive consciousness? - Can machines have souls? - Do we live in a simulation? - Keyan’s learnings from 7+ startups prior to Stacker News - How to balance intuition and feedback from reality - Why @jack is a 🐐 founder - Using bitcoin to create physical constraints in digital space - The future of Stacker News territories - Kagi and the opportunity to disrupt Google search - Evolution, epigenetics, and the observer effect Discussion on SN:
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Max 1 year ago
[New Essay] Nostr is Identity for the Internet The Internet needs user-owned identity and an associated open data layer. And I'm more convinced than ever that Nostr will win. I agree with @jack that the long tail of microapps is ultimately Nostr's killer feature. But which will take off next? In my mind, Nostr will follow a straightforward trajectory - first solving discovery/reputation problems for Bitcoiners, then for early tech adopters, and finally for the mainstream. Here are some examples where I think Nostr based discovery & reputation will shine: - Global, social payments ala @primal @OpenSecret @Alby & @Boardwalk - Ecash mint discovery/selection ala @OpenSecret & bitcoinmints.com - Marketplaces for DLC oracles ala lava.xyz - Local Bitcoins replacements ala @npub1m0st...40un - Open Source AI agent discovery ala @Christopher David's openagents.com & @CASCDR - Marketplaces for APIs ala @PABLOF7z's DVMs & @npub14tku...zw96 - An open github replacement ala @DanConwayDev's gitworkshop.dev - An open PWA App Store ala @franzap's zap.store & store.app - ValueRank search & discovery ala @npub1sx9r...6g8m @dataMachine 🤖 & kagi.com - Marketplaces for files ala @Stuart Bowman & @hzrd149's Blossom - Review & UGC content sites ala @npub15lay...v7v3's heyapollo.com & @Svetski's Satlantis - Value4Value content creation and delivery ala @Fountain @Wavlake & @Geyser Of course the most exciting category of all is the unexpected wave of unimaginable apps that will eventually emerge. Ultimately, user owned identity and open data lead to online trust, which is a beautiful and deflationary force, capable of disrupting predatory marketplace middlemen and shifting the balance from financial to social capital. I.e. a more humane world. (h/t @Stuart Bowman) Thanks to @brugeman @miljan @David King @bob & @Moritz for feedback on this essay.