I genuinely think this would be a great thing if it wasn’t a shitcoin scam. Like imagine if you could get a simple ZK Proof of humanity attached to your pubkey. So nice View quoted note →

Do not (ever) have a big reveal public announcement of your app and then have an invite-only brick wall after download. You will never (ever) get those users back that you just bamboozled. Clubhouse, Bluesky, the list goes on… Exclusivity might be cool in San Francisco. Everywhere else it just breeds resentment.

Hi, my name is Dale. I’m 71 years old from Arkansas. My grandson told me about this NOSTR thing and I thought wow that’s better than FaceBook J Can you show an old fart what these “zaps” are about? Oops wrong profile

Why not charge for iOS version of BitChat? Run ads targeting people going to big festivals like EDC. People would pay $5 to be able to not lose their friends. It’s borderline a safety requirement for girls at least. @calle @jack Use the money earned to improve the app.

“The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it” View quoted note →

Remember everyone: you do not own your data on Nostr. The relays do. “But I can run my own relay! I can even support NIP-70! It’s my data!” “MUST” in an NIP means “WON’T”. You own the rope that you hang yourself with. That’s all you own. Nostr is the “congrats you played yourself” protocol.

Nostr was not made for normal people. It is actively hostile to normal people. View quoted note →

Do most nostr clients use NIP-70 by default? It basically gets you understandable data spread. It’s how people assume nostr works to begin with. Turning off NIP-70 should be the exception, not the default. Reserved for people that are trying to get famous and spread a message.

NIPs

NIP 70 - Protected Events — Nostr Implementation Possibilities

When the "-" tag is present, that means the event is "protected". A protected event is an event that can only be published to relays by its author....

Everything is luck. To say otherwise requires a fearful degree of pride or hubris. In the words of Shia Labeouf, “I won the lottery. I won a scratch off. What the f-ck is talent?” View quoted note →