Is nostr a verb? As a matter of UX could an app "nostr" you something? #nostr #ux

View quoted note → A couple years ago, hiking through the forest it struck me how beautiful it was that underpinning all of the trees, plants and even the soil, was a base layer where countless microscopic transactions took place every moment and what emerged was this magnificent experience. It was at that point that I saw the value of protocols and standards that enable incomprehensible complexity and beauty to spring forth. Nostr gives me this vibe. There's already too much going on to track and I love it.

As human brains mature their context windows get shorter.

The way what we're doing here has unknowable boundaries makes me want to reread The Sovereign Individual. #bookstr

Seedlings #grownostr

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Is there a hashtag for crowdsourced paywall jumping?

Today's Nostr clients tend to come with relays preselected but for best resiliency and censorship resistance shouldn't they be more random? In that case, having at least one shared relay would be necessary for comms between two random users. If there are 300 relays in operation, how many randomly selected relays should each client connect to for there to be at least one relay overlapping? This is similar to the birthday problem but I'm not sure how to enter it into any online calculator. #mathstr #nostr #relays

My cable box screensaver has been showing me ads for months. It used to show landscapes. This is how long it took to notice. Guess landscapes don't monetize.

From my comment on Stacker news to the common question of when and how did you find Bitcoin? -- You know how they say you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink? Well when exactly I found or heard about Bitcoin was less important than the deep curiosity that I've always had. When I found it, I went down the rabbit hole with eyes wide. It only took a few days to see that it was interesting but only after months and years has it proven to be resilient against many of the proposed threats I had read about. The key was to withhold judgement and let my curiosity guide me to understand and verify as much as I could. Bitcoin holds up well to this approach.

It's more fun writing on nostr than in a journal. Written hundreds of thousands of words and have the hardest time publishing anything from it. Back in the day I'd have an idea work on it over a few days and get it out. Many duds but a few winners and sometimes you only know which after years. So why not just put stuff out and let the global brain figure it out? Ego for one. Ya don't want to get a reputation for putting out garbage, right? Well with few followers that's perfect too because nobody's gonna see anything unless it gets a boost or three. So no need to filter at the beginning. I trust this makes sense. These days the goal isn't anything but causing many neurons to fire with positivity.

Why is this the first word in the BIP39 word list?

Art may challenge the consumer. The challenging aspect can be anything. Durability, think of the banana or performance art. The canvas, so many sculptures made of canvases. Scale, from umbrellas on a landscape to microscopic images carved in silico.

What is art? It's unanswerable isn't it? Then, what is real art?