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Are there Nostr hackathons? Even if there's no real funding for that, we should be having them to create the "buidl" culture of Ethereum. Great products will come from them and create cyclical growth.

Anyone know the secret to getting Nostr relays to work? I've used a number of apps on Nostr, like chat apps and some Discord-style UXs, where despite my friends and I being on the same relays, the message histories are very disjointed, and sometimes retrieve messages, then don't, then do... Is there a good guide out there for Nostr development or any communities I can join? Any recommendations are welcome!

Can someone explain to me this whole Bitcoin circle jerk thing. Like I understood it a decade ago when it was still new, and actually revolutionary (and you could buy drugs and stuff), but feels like it hasn't really evolved much in comparison to Ethereum, where there's tons of non-financial use cases. And I respect the purity of keeping Bitcoin as a financial tool, but after a whole decade, jumping into Nostr and people are still circle jerking over Bitcoin... Am I missing something?

Is there a good Nostr development starter template?

Capitalism was a Coordination mechanism for Colonizers.

Farcaster built on Ethereum, and other blockchain-based social media networks use the blockchain for the wrong purpose; the blockchain was designed to solve the "double-spend" problem. It's important to not double spend money and votes, but beyond financial, governance, and token-based access control systems, the blockchain is simply overkill. Social media does not suffer from the "double-spend" problem - if anything, the concept of "going viral" is literally the opposite of preventing a double spend. Social media posts are not scarce and should be "spent" as much as user engagement permits. All that matters is that we can verify the owner/creator of the post, so they receive credit for their contribution (unless they want to remain anon). For this reason, Nostr applications will outgrow Farcaster and other purely blockchain-based social media apps!

Gen Z voted in a revolutionary new government using a Discord poll... We could do so much better with Discord-similar tooling built on Nostr and integrated with ZK voting and roles-management systems on EVM or Aztec networks. NFT token gating for sybil resistance in voting applications that use ZK proofs to protect the preferences of voters. Decentralized, immutable, private governance integrating the social aspects of Nostr and the governance capabilities of blockchains nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn9qyw8wumn8ghj76twv3jhsetj9e3k7unpvdkx2tnnda3kjctvqqspwwwexlwgcrrnwz4zwkze8rq3ncjug8mvgsd96dxx6wzs8ccndmcqdslk3

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