Nostr Predictions for 2026: The Year Everything Clicks
1. 2026 Is the Year of the “Other Stuff” - We've been building for this. It's happening. It's finally happening.
2. Shakespeare Becomes the Default Way to Build - Okay, maybe not just Shakespeare, but AI-first is the default in 2026.
3. DMs Finally Work and What Comes Next - NIP-17 DMs on all major clients!
4. Mainstream Media Can No Longer Ignore Nostr - You may not care about mainstream media, but 8 billion other people do, and we're there in 2026.
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Narrator: it was ... surprisingly accurate!
Hey Derek it's me your biological son Tatum can you help me connect my wallet I am having trouble thanks dad
Tatum! 💜💜💜
Vanessa! I would zap you but I can't fucking figure out why NWC isn't connecting. Just pretend I zapped you.
:) miss ya! Hope all is well!
Hey son I love you and I miss you. When are you coming home? What's wrong with your wallet? What time are you using and what app is giving you trouble?
Don't think so. Nostr will remain a failed experiment until it can give users 1/ credible exit (relay-decentralise-max), and 2/ consensus on key rotation between client devs... and a few other things.
Jack Dorsey's unwillingness to promote nostr on Rogan etc. speaks volumes.
Okay.
Where can I find where Jack was unwilling to promote Nostr on Rogan?
You won't find it. He hasn't been on Rogan since like 2019 🤣
That's what I thought too haha! Way before Jack started promoting Nostr on X/Twitter
NIP-17 not sure. NIP-17 groups a security risk imo. One-to-one use case seems solid though.
@JdM doesn’t look like it works with nested replies?
I'm on Primal (desktop if that matters) and I'm trying to connect my Alby Hub via NWC. I was able to connect it to Stacker News and Zeus just fine via NWC, but when I paste the connect secret into Primal, it just says it's active, but it doesn't automatically resolve on the Alby Hub side like it did for Zeus and SN. It just keeps spinning saying it's taking longer. And it won't let me zap 😟
i don't use Alby Hub, but i just went into Primal Settings, Connected Wallets, and added my Cashu.me Wallet and it worked immediately. *shrug* I know that doesn't help... Why don't you just use the Alby Extension on desktop with your NWC node?
It should. Idk why, but it sometimes stops working. I'll look into it tonight.
Building the "Other Stuff"
I fixed the problem, everything should work fine all the time (I hope) 😃
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Also before Nostr itself existed in the first place, but you know...details.
