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I'm a cartoon character and won a bet with another cartoon character on here for 0.5 Monero. He didn't pay me for a while so I called him a scammer then he paid me and called me a pussy. It's pretty magical here, I'm a fan.

Well, here’s a legacy thread that you can read that details my position on ethereum / crypto / web3 / NFTs Bitcoin is not Crypto. The revolution will not be premined.

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Brad Mills 🔑⚡️ (@bradmillscan) on X

Ethereum is a trojan horse for tyranny. Consensys owns Infura & Metamask. JP Morgan, UBS, Mastercard own Consensys. 99% of EVM transactions ...

My $0.02 as no one special - the integration of the frictionless payments network (lighting) in the protocol nostr is truly revolutionary, as P2P exchanges are not tracked nor fees taken from it. Absolutely under appreciated.

#[0]​ interviewed #[1]​ live on nostr and wants your thoughts on nostr and it’s future development! Go help him out🤙 #[2]

This may not make much sense without context but it has a few helpful links (if you can see the markdown rendered that is) #[3]

Nice! If you would like some info from us - team developing Plebstr (multiplatform Nostr client) let us know 🤙

I'm learning from your questions, Ben. Thank you. I thought Axios would be here first...

This open format definitely makes fact-checking easier

Open-source, permission-less, and decentralised protocols - most notably Bitcoin for sound money and Nostr for information - are empowering individuals, regardless of background or economic status, across the world. They provide critical checks and balances on the centralising and monopolising tendencies of states (e.g. CBDCs, social credit scores) and large corporations (e.g. deplatforming, anti-free speech).

I’m excited about where this platform can go. I initially came here to learn and read about what’s happening in web3. I am not a dev, and don’t always understand the nuance, but I work in an industry that was impacted by digital assets and could be changed by the growth of ai, laws surrounding cryptocurrency, & web3. There are very few people IRL I can ask about block and fintech that know what they’re talking about. I love the anonymity on nostr and advocate freedom for its users. In time, I do hope the user base grows & I can find chat streams with people outside of tech.

Question: in what way do you find it easier to fact check here versus twitter?

This is by far the greatest thing to happen this decade and possibly this century for the general masses. In a matter of months Nostr has gone from something the likes of free speech advocates from early 2020 were told they should build if they wanted to share their conspiracy ideas and wished they had already, to being more advanced and feature rich than a half dozen decades old multibillion dollar social media companies. Not to mention it brings all levels of identity validation, spam mitigation, true user engagement (no algos), seamless commerce, and more to the table in addition.

In some ways, we're getting back to the 90s and the early days of the Internet: building protocols that are open and enabling a lot of innovation on top of it. For example, everyone knows error 404 but 402 was there also (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402). Now, the payments have materialised and are as easy as visiting someone's profile on nostr. It's called zapping or public tips but it can be used for more than tips. Another aspect of the early Internet was the openness to innovation. Everybody could contribute, and the spirit of building, discovery and awe was there. It was a new frontier where a lot of opportunities were possible before the centralisation and silos. A third aspect is more generic but you have a community feel on nostr. And, it's a global village at the moment that is respectful, inspiring and supportive. The fourth one is related to the underlying principles of liberty and openness that are pretty much in question in every part of the world. Johan Norberg's book Open: The Story of Human Progress is a wonderful explainer of this phase and its importance. A few quotes from my review: "There are periods in history where different cultures with different religions, ethnicities and locations had rule of law, rapid economic growth and scientific progress. These upturns were often sudden, unexpected and very expansive with population and income growth... All of them have commonalities that are the basic message of the book: people were open to new and different ideas, innovations, cultures, habits, foreigners, technologies, business models and more importantly to the uncertainty that opening up to something different and strange bring."

Petri Kajander

Open: The Story of Human Progress by Johan Norberg »

Johan Norberg has written a magnificent book that gives insights how fragile our current success is and why it is not guaranteed to last.

A lot of the frontiers are closed at this point. Space travel is not accessible yet. Metaverse has not really taken off. Invasive wars are a reality now that has set us back almost 100 years. Money printing and all the rest of the troubles in the economies are also making things look grim. nostr and AI are examples of new frontiers that are exciting, full of opportunities and are shaping our future in very unpredictable ways.

#Nostr and #Lightning⚡will eat the internet