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Max 10 months ago
[100k SAT BOUNTY] This is an experiment! I'm going to a hackathon this Saturday and I'd like to showcase to a new community the power of nostr and lightning zaps. I have 2 ideas that I would like to prototype (I'm currently vibe coding them but unlikely I'll have them totally ironed out before then). I will pay a bounty of100,000 sats each via zap (so a total of 200k sats up for grabs) for a live working web version + code/prompts for each of these ideas. I will choose the best project for each category at my discretion (and will only choose one if I think it's complete enough to showcase). I am (of course) also happy to list you on the team and give you credit for building. I just want to sweeten the pot and get this done BEFORE SATURDAY MORNING AT 9AM PT. Here's what I'd like to build: 1) Memstr A meme generator with nostr login and zaps. You include 5 or so popular meme templates (guy looking at girl, winnie the pooh, etc) and allow anyone to enter their own text. They're then able to share theire memes via popular nostr relays and other users are able to zap their favorite memes. A leaderboard shows the most popular memes by global zaps and by the zaps of your follows. (I'm also open to using other WoT calcs but I assume that's too complex.) You should be able to login via a browser extension like alby, paste a priv key, or spin up a new nostr identity. 2) Nostr Radio A clone of
Explore live radio by rotating the globe
Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
 with nostr login, zaps, and a zap leaderboard. Allow anyone to login to the site via browser extension like alby, priv key, or spin up a new identity. Users can zap and share radio stations they like via popular nostr relays. Users can also zap their friends for sharing radio stations they like. There should be a leaderboard tab showing popular stations (global) and from the zaps of your friends. Again, I'm open to other WoT scores as well, but not necessary as that adds complexity. If you're interested in working on either of these, please feel free to reply to this note with questions (for whatever is not clear) or ideas. Again, I'll only choose at most one project for each bounty and only if it's fully functional and ready before Saturday at 9am PT. If nothing's ready by then or this proves to be too difficult, no sweat! Also, I'm trying to gauge how difficult/how much work this is for someone who knows what they're doing. If the pot is not rich enough, I'd like that feedback too. Thank you! I'd appreciate any help getting visibility for this experiment 🙏 @Metamick @HoloKat @Alby @bumi @Roland @Moritz @René Aaron @David King @moneyball @miljan @Lyn Alden @vibegawd @danny d @Gigi @PABLOF7z @franzap @Stuart Bowman @elsat @Christopher David @Jordi @brugeman @bob @gudnuf @miles 🌞 @Prashanth @plebdevs.com @Cameri🐦‍🔥
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Max 10 months ago
Vibe coding could be the major catalyst for nostr adoption "im actually bearish on the 'consumers will all be prompting their own full apps' thing because most good apps require data and there is no such thing as real data portability for consumers." https://x.com/nearcyan/status/1909730703388115132 A global data commons/backend solves this 𓅦𓅦𓅦
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Max 11 months ago
When you're following lightning development super closely, it can seem frustratingly slow. But if you zoom out, it's phenomenal. I just seamlessly used Muun wallet to top up my @Alby hub and make a bunch of tips (both large and small) to friends and random nyms on nostr via @npub19hg5...yv9p in @primal . We've come a long way!
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Max 1 year ago
Money & Markets in a Post AGI World w/ @Jordi (founder, @Fewsats ) YouTube: Fountain:
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Hivemind: Ideas from the Edge • Money & Markets in a Post AGI World with Jordi Montes, Founder - Fewsats • Listen on Fountain
Jordi is one of the few people in the world with a deep understanding of the concurrent singularities of AI and Bitcoin. He has particularly novel ...
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Money & Markets in a Post AGI World with Jordi Montes, Founder - Fewsats
Jordi is one of the few people in the world with a deep understanding of the concurrent singularities of AI and Bitcoin.
 Jordi is is one of the few people in the world with a deep understanding of the concurrent singularities of AI and Bitcoin. He has particularly novel thoughts on the nature of money and markets post AGI/ASI. This was a fascinating discussion - hope you enjoy! Topics: - How Jordi became AGI/ASI pilled (language = code) - The concurrent singularities of AGI/Bitcoin (almost no-one understands them both) - Two fundamental types intelligence: 1) desire / will and 2) implementation - AGI capabilities: all implementation, “will” remains to be seen - As long as there are still multiple groups who own things, different perspectives, and multiple groups reach AGI/ASI around the same time, we’ll still need markets for coordination - Markets forming between agents (and humans) should create brand new economic theory untestable heretofore - Jordi outlines several novel forces for markets in a world with agents in [Beyond the Sum: Unlocking AI Agents Potential Through Market Forces](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10388): 1) perfect replication of actors, 2) dynamic instantiation (and deletion) of actors, 3) collective learning with perfect information, and 4) resource fluidity for agents - The role of Nostr and an emergent web of trust in filtering information in this new Internet - Gigi’s articles on how a better currency/payment system can lead to better business models: [Attention is a Terrible Currency](https://dergigi.com/threads/attention) and [Value for Value](https://dergigi.com/value/) - Comparing the early Lightning Network to the early Internet - Building http://fewsats.com: payment infrastructure for AI agents. Jordi’s new demo:
Sherlock - The first domain registrar for AI Agents
Sherlock - The first domain registrar for AI Agents
Enable your AI agents to search, buy, and manage domains with just two lines of code.
 - a domain registrar made for AI agents - Is python now the lingua franca? How do we get more bitcoin and nostr libraries in python? - The future of Nostr as the open identity/communication standard for humans and agents - AI / agent predictions for 2025 Full discussion:
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Money & Markets in a Post AGI World w/ Jordi Montes (Founder, FewSats) \ stacker news
Jordi (@fewsats) is is one of the few people in the world with a deep understanding of the concurrent singularities of AI and Bitcoin. He has parti...
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Max 1 year ago
[New Pod] Complexity Rules Everything Around Me with @Lyn Alden Fountain:
Hivemind: Ideas from the Edge • Complexity Rules Everything Around Me with Lyn Alden • Listen on Fountain
This was a fun and fascinating conversation with Lyn Alden! We discuss a number of topics about which she’s not typically asked. One common threa...
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Complexity Rules Everything Around Me with Lyn Alden
Podcast Episode · Hivemind: Ideas from the Edge · 11/01/2024 · 1h 41m
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Complexity Rules Everything Around Me with Lyn Alden
This was a fun and fascinating conversation with Lyn Alden!
 This was a fun and fascinating conversation with Lyn Alden! We discuss a number of topics about which she’s not typically asked. One common thread throughout the conversation is how best to understand and invest around complex systems. Please note that while Lyn and I discuss some biohacking/energy boosting stuff, we’re definitely not doctors, so do your own research ;) Here are a few of the topics we cover: Energy Hacks - Lyn’s favorite energy boosting hacks, including: magnesium, sardines, vitamin K2, vitamin A, cold plunges, and sprinting Complexity and Permaculture - Lyn’s fascination with permaculture and the application of permaculture principles to our information diets - How Lyn builds a brand around being open and intellectually honest to avoid group think and audience capture - Top down vs. bottom up (Communism vs. Capitalism) is the big story of the 20th century that continues today Nostr - The promise of Nostr as a new substrate for re-wilding the web and its ultimate TAM - Evaluating Nostr vs. other systems/protocols attempting to build a decentralized identity/data system - NOSTR project requests from Lyn and Max Big Tech and AI - Lyn’s take that AI is a continuation of the cloud computing wave, which means it’s centralizing in the medium term - BUT these big companies are snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by restricting and closing off their products, which leaves an opening for tech that’s a year or so behind but actually open and less neutered - Lyn is less bullish on AGI; the biggest breakthroughs are likely to come out of left field like trillion dollar health care companies - Lyn is also less bullish on robotics because it’s energy intensive and more complex; software often goes faster than you think and hardware often goes slower than you think Open Source Software and Companies - The big winners from open source software are platform aggregators (e.g. AWS) and users - Lyn analogizes companies built on open source software to ETFs - products with trillions of dollars under management but companies like Black Rock, State Street, and Invesco, which are big but not massive. BlackRock is a $160B company and only half of that is ETFs. Big but not Google or Apple. ETF businesses are worth a couple hundred billion for an industry worth >$10 trillion; the true winners here are the users as margins race to the bottom MicroStrategy - Can $MSTR sustain its premium trading 3x to NAV ? - $MSTR advantages: founder control and growing liquidity network effects (e.g. MSTR options markets); very few ETFs and companies will achieve sufficient liquidity in their options markets Bitcoin and Energy - Bitcoin is energy backed money - external entropy is what makes the Bitcoin system not circular logic (like proof of state) and a truly autonomous system - Both Lyn and Max track energy price/density models for Bitcoin - Lyn also uses MVRV Z-Score for tracking fair Bitcoin price
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Max 1 year ago
The challenge of securely logging into a nostr mobile app seems to be stifling innovation/usage for a number of powerful experiences. I've run into this repeatedly over the last couple of days. Who is actively working on solving this? I know @PABLOF7z has nsecbunker and @brugeman has nsec.app. What else is out there ?
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