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2024-11-20 05:08:45 GMT

“Bhutan has mined over $1 billion worth of bitcoin using its previously stranded hydropower resources”
We are so early
Wait until every authority on earth realizes they can transform waste into unstoppable, unseizable money
That will be the true gradually then suddenly moment
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2024-11-17 05:11:32 GMT

Moderation, or censorship?
Who decides? https://image.nostr.build/b4a0d72a32c056256fd26051d51d6fc3050f7a77bd874d6280db1c0e5d66bbfa.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2823149e286b292b88a03829ef09d99823bab92c09b17546747007758ed46f29.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a601dbf64eeb23bfbd9f2ecd0078a51784f828d0a7ded7e538128566bed216ed.jpg

2024-11-15 02:30:15 GMT

Nostr fixes this https://image.nostr.build/42ca95e724b86410f14a63bece481e2483d034ff70a7d2cc273afe07f70d42af.jpg

2024-10-28 17:12:58 GMT

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Tried to zap you but couldn't, which is a huge irony that needs to be fixed 😂

2024-10-24 23:16:52 GMT

Why the Bitcoin <> Nostr <> Ecash stack is a whitepill moment, in 14 minutes
It can be a depressing world, but with these tools we can quite literally grow superpowers
The opportunities we have today to empower others are beyond our own imaginations
Onwards!
https://m.primal.net/LhGP.mp4

2024-10-20 14:53:24 GMT

Whenever I see statists like the ECB get upset about Bitcoin, or when I see more brazen regimes try and actually implement an all-out ban or crazy tax scheme, I turn to my favorite bit of writing anywhere on Bitcoin and remind myself that a ban is the Berlin Wall and that “fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly”
Bitcoin is Ariadne by @npub1sfh…ymqt
“Bitcoin is often framed as “competing” with fiat currency. This is true in a sense but I fear there is a rhetorical danger of invoking the wrong kind of “competition”. It is not a fight, for example. There is no conflict. Bitcoin is not trying to damage or sabotage its opponents, because it isn’t trying anything and it knows no opponents. It has no awareness whatsoever of who might oppose it or why. It is simply an alternative; an exit valve; an opt-out. It is competing only insofar as it is proving to be a far superior alternative. It is not a sword for Theseus to fight the Minotaur, but a thread to follow to exit the labyrinth. Bitcoin is Ariadne.
There will be tremendous value in normalizing this rhetoric amidst the likely growing chorus of opposition desperate to smear Bitcoin as inherently nefarious, or hostile, even. Opponents must be forced to explain what is wrong with people interacting freely, and why true goodness can only follow from coercion, in their understanding. Should those who have found a way out of the unbearable labyrinth of capital strip mining not take it? What do they owe the Minotaur?
Does anybody really believe that, having fully understood the choice they face, any individual would choose to save in a self-referentially mispriced toxic loan rather than a provably sound digital bearer asset? Or, more simply still, that they will think it makes less sense to hold money that is a pure asset than money that is literally defined as a liability? Why not opt into a financial system that is built on trustless verifiability rather than unverifiable trust?
… It is worth working through the optics of any decision to engage with Bitcoin in a truly hostile manner, because it is certainly coming. McNeill reminds us that, even some seven-hundred-or-so years ago, “the breakdown of established patterns of conduct always appears deplorable to a majority of those who witness it.” By no means do I have a utopian outlook on this subject — rather, it is something of an intellectual rite of passage to accept the nonzero utility of dystopian paranoia. Bitcoin will be banned, many times, in many places. But a ban is an open admission of practical and moral failure and is arguably the best advertisement of all. A ban is the Berlin Wall; fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly and cruelty of repression. Bitcoin doesn’t force anybody to stay. They come, and then they stay, because they want to — because it is both practically and morally superior.”

2024-10-13 14:54:59 GMT

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@npub12rv…85vg demonstrated it to me, was amazing, but was coded by someone else in just the last few days, he can tell you

2024-10-13 02:10:12 GMT

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I actually custom made it! :)

2024-10-12 20:52:28 GMT

See you in the study room 🫡 #note15l4…s4ee

2024-10-12 20:45:17 GMT

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I literally saw a demo yesterday for putting ecash on a hotel-type card

2024-10-12 20:36:10 GMT

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Sender does not need to be online, receiver does to prevent double spending

2024-10-12 20:05:28 GMT

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He is the one who told me about it :)

2024-10-12 19:45:10 GMT

One amazing thing I learned about (out of many) at the ecash conference
A router for sharing internet
Someone from India, living in a place with a lot of internet access problems, built a set-up where people can buy internet without having any internet in the first place. 1 sat per minute
He built a captive portal that you log into and the page says — I take ecash from this one mint, get ecash from there and paste it into this text box — you paste it in, hit enter, and you’re online
You’ve made an offline payment and voila, you're now online
There are many exciting Bitcoin developments happening but it's becoming more clear that ecash is a wholly different, complementary technology that does different things, including many things that Bitcoin can't do no matter how many upgrades it gets

2024-10-11 15:07:18 GMT

Coming at you live, from the ecash revolution✌️ https://image.nostr.build/74a2fbb902c9e7711040339c2a4eb7f86dedce1ff4097f4837c6421e22e1f8c5.jpg

2024-10-10 14:21:20 GMT

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Wow - will do!

2024-10-10 13:48:26 GMT

Berlin is a great place to talk about how to build better p2p bridges between people and take down the financial walls that separate us
Stoked for the ecash conf! https://image.nostr.build/083a6f107f4dfb07e45daeacc62479ec2cc72cbafd2508399a3d5712fe4adbeb.jpg

2024-10-09 00:13:01 GMT

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The Meereenese Knot!

2024-10-05 15:41:59 GMT

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Epic!

2024-10-05 00:00:09 GMT

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Thank you and likewise!

2024-10-04 22:54:24 GMT

“Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world”
As I reflect on spending three days with some of the world’s most innovative, persistent, and creative Bitcoiners, this quote from James Baldwin really resonates
Through a mix of code and action people are quite literally (to borrow a term from @npub1s05…eyhe) **bending** the world in a new direction
There is a lot of darkness, but let’s not loose track of the light. It’s there, and it’s real
Onwards! 🫡

2024-10-02 13:49:24 GMT

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Black Swan

2024-10-02 13:43:47 GMT

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Killer duo

2024-10-02 13:43:27 GMT

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First time I saw them was Bonnaroo 2006
Legendary 28 song set
They played EIIRP to close the second encore
Spiritual

2024-10-02 13:40:43 GMT

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So good

2024-10-02 13:27:38 GMT

Tough but
How to Disappear Completely https://image.nostr.build/6d0879a9a83dc9ae82c5f76159307ebee3a56c8e1c2e1a138fc1b2cfdcec73e3.jpg

2024-10-01 21:06:04 GMT

Some Nostr client needs to design an algo where I just see posts from home miners showing off their sick new setups

2024-10-01 12:54:20 GMT

👀 https://image.nostr.build/65bb06bf2d0104b883430af41ca72bc79c18d96a858dc47071151299458da4fa.jpg

2024-09-30 22:15:59 GMT

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Yes but if the money was good enough it was inevitable that they would want it, too

2024-09-26 17:23:10 GMT

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Strange, works for me, forwards here:
https://hrf.org/finney-prize/

2024-09-25 20:36:49 GMT

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What is “democratic justice”

2024-09-23 20:30:48 GMT

These kind of history-based feeds are interesting and have really become a thing in the past few years, I could see well-curated ones doing well on nostr https://image.nostr.build/5133f60020ce41807d83e9a0e2cf2c16b2decacca1d0a5cc9a510f56593f3c55.jpg

2024-09-20 23:35:18 GMT

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In a Bitcoin standard what happens if I’m 22 and have no capital but what to buy a car. You don’t think leasing or auto loans will exist?

2024-09-20 21:01:17 GMT

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You think that people with no capital won't borrow to finance things if we use Bitcoin instead of dollars?

2024-09-20 20:59:27 GMT

Lots of debate about the Saylor / Saifedean conversation
I thought it was really interesting
No one really knows what credit will look like in a Bitcoin Standard
They both make good points
I tend to think that (young, less capitalized, etc) people will of course still borrow to buy a car or or a home, to Michael's point
But I also agree with some of Saifdean's points about the inevitable decline in value of government debt
People seemed to hyperlock onto a short clip of it on X and spit takes instead of listening to the whole thing which is unfortunate
There's way too much 100% agreement in this space so a 2-hour animated conversation with two people who do share a lot in common but really disagree strongly on some stuff and aren't afraid to push back is very refreshing

2024-09-18 16:58:13 GMT

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🤙

2024-09-17 23:47:07 GMT

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Yep 😉

2024-09-17 23:46:50 GMT

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See my essay for more context on that
https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/

2024-09-17 23:45:30 GMT

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Congrats!

2024-09-17 22:16:28 GMT

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🐘 ⛰️ 🤙

2024-09-17 16:48:20 GMT

"We can't entrust our primary communications network to a handful of corruptible humans. And now we don't have to."
I had the pleasure to work with Reason on this Nostr explainer video this summer
Happy to see it in the wild!
https://m.primal.net/KsvE.mov

2024-09-17 03:24:37 GMT

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Because it’s insane? Would you like to live in a world where you could go to jail for a t shirt?

2024-09-16 23:15:05 GMT

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Not relevant

2024-09-16 23:14:51 GMT

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You think this is fake news?

2024-09-16 03:02:51 GMT

Police state city 😢 https://image.nostr.build/2aff88e63064d00f4ad6a39b52781b28c677e785350ba4ac1d18715ca0f2622a.jpg

2024-09-14 21:04:09 GMT

Follow David 👇 #note10ce…3ux2

2024-09-13 23:32:08 GMT

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Every day

2024-09-13 20:12:15 GMT

AMA on Stacker News
https://stacker.news/items/683717

2024-09-13 18:12:02 GMT

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So sick

2024-09-10 18:18:35 GMT

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🇺🇸

2024-09-09 23:33:43 GMT

Trump's monetary policy seems to be:
1) Devalue the dollar (to become more competitive with manufacturing)
2) Force other countries to still use it (through a <checks notes> 100% tariff on countries who try to use other currencies)
Post-fiat historians will look back at these times with a lot of wonder and fascination
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-07/trump-pledges-100-tariff-for-countries-that-shun-the-dollar

2024-09-07 17:07:17 GMT

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If she was a CIA plant she’d probably be pushing stablecoins

2024-09-06 21:44:46 GMT

Surfed this morning, 3 dolphins came right into the line up and caught waves and played around (literally swimming right under/next to you) for 5 minutes, was incredible, nature is amazing 🐬 🤙

2024-09-06 20:30:35 GMT

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Yo 😉

2024-09-06 20:30:17 GMT

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Yo 😉

2024-09-06 15:42:02 GMT

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Maduro is a horrible horrible murderous corrupt socialist criminal who has helped destroy Venezuela
did you know that the once-proud country is the cause the world’s largest refugee crisis?

2024-09-05 20:22:49 GMT

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Try a different client?

2024-09-05 17:03:36 GMT

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It will be on Bitcoin Mag YT channel soon

2024-09-05 16:41:57 GMT

I had the honor to interview María Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, about how fiat money was weaponized against the Venezuelan people by the Chávez and Maduro regimes
She says Bitcoin is a "lifeline" and "vital means of resistance" and said that a future democratic Venezuelan government will use Bitcoin to rebuild the national reserves that the Chávistas stole and put Venezuela back on a path to peace and prosperity
I've put out a lot of content in the past few years but I think this is the most important thing I've done -- the implications are vast considering a) Venezuela is one of the world's largest energy exporters with some of the world's largest oil reserves and b) María Corina Machado is not some rogue leader or dictator but a US ally
I hope you can watch 🇻🇪
https://m.primal.net/KfiC.mov

2024-09-04 23:07:13 GMT

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The hub is amazing

2024-09-04 17:01:58 GMT

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That's basically what I did

2024-09-04 17:01:25 GMT

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He won two years ago, always is sharp

2024-09-04 17:00:52 GMT

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Excellent!

2024-09-04 05:04:23 GMT

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Nick Chubb had one of the worst knee injuries you’ll ever see like a few months ago

2024-09-04 05:03:49 GMT

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Yeah maybe I will regret that?

2024-09-04 04:20:25 GMT

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Be the change you want to see in the world 😉

2024-09-04 04:20:05 GMT

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Alright well let's go

2024-09-04 03:53:42 GMT

https://m.primal.net/KdMI.png
Started using Nostr to collect fantasy football dues for the 6th annual SatBowl
10/10, no notes
In the near future there will be fantasy football apps entirely built on nostr, looking forward to that
P.S. before you jest, remember that close to 70 million (!) Americans play fantasy sports, all together sending billions of small transactions every year

2024-09-01 17:37:19 GMT

💜 #note16rj…d56r

2024-08-29 19:03:07 GMT

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🔥

2024-08-29 17:32:44 GMT

A good morning is a morning catching waves w/ Paul and @npub1330…2k82
☀️ 🤙 https://image.nostr.build/0b0c63fb3ce0546f63e9952f72d3410b9feebbf6e44c8d55c39b428c79da55a4.jpg

2024-08-28 21:05:35 GMT

+1 #note1a7t…rnkg

2024-08-26 18:35:44 GMT

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Cheryl Payer - Debt Trap
Michael Hudson - Superimperialism

2024-08-25 06:47:31 GMT

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Soon, hopefully!

2024-08-25 00:20:22 GMT

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Can’t argue with that

2024-08-25 00:20:10 GMT

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Teton is sick
Glacier next on the list

2024-08-24 01:50:18 GMT

Yellowstone is truly amazing
Couldn’t believe this was real https://video.nostr.build/51b18a74f4ff5e9c5a66f4afc36a6827557048644ae404098c39951e91503b8d.mp4

2024-08-23 03:50:17 GMT

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Thx!

2024-08-23 00:29:42 GMT

Wyoming is awesome 👌 https://image.nostr.build/dad225a6ccb68e06d54e33d85a899cc8dccf777c4295ec1fc58b8ab811333b63.jpg

2024-08-17 23:16:27 GMT

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Thank you!

2024-08-15 22:44:29 GMT

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Welcome!

2024-08-15 19:12:00 GMT

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I mean. If anything I think the bitcoin dollar is temporary

2024-08-15 14:03:23 GMT

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Yes - who’s gonna buy long dated debt?

2024-08-15 07:56:50 GMT

I would strongly recommend this book
It hasn't gotten a lot of attention but is definitely worth it
The thesis is simple
Just as the dollar moved from being based on gold to being based on oil (the petrodollar), it is today in the process of moving to a new base of Bitcoin, with the help of stablecoins
But thankfully the book doesn't end there with that dark outcome
It heavily implies that through proper engineering and layering and technologies like ecash, we can defeat the fiat system
https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/the-bitcoin-dollar-book

2024-08-15 07:49:00 GMT

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Ahmed is an amazing person and I am very proud that we could host him in Oslo. I don’t think we watched the same talk. Did you see the part where he walked through person by person all of his family that Israel killed?
Mustafa Barghouti also spoke, which you might be interested in. Video below.
Just FYI the suffering in Gaza received more stage time and focus at HRF’s annual event than any other topic this year (more than China, Russia, etc)
https://oslofreedomforum.com/talk/gaza-what-happens-next/

2024-08-15 02:18:18 GMT

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You’re already on Nostr :)

2024-08-14 05:48:18 GMT

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It’s becoming much more authoritarian over time

2024-08-14 03:35:51 GMT

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It was pleasure! So fun

2024-08-14 01:23:53 GMT

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Maybe a little saccharine but CODA was highly enjoyable

2024-08-14 01:18:56 GMT

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Thank you!!

2024-08-13 18:39:23 GMT

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Only the first half! Thanks!

2024-08-13 18:38:49 GMT

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Thx!!!

2024-08-13 18:38:39 GMT

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So bad
Good reality check though

2024-08-13 16:31:21 GMT

Here's my profile for Reason on Nostr and why it could very well change the world
Pasting a few paragraphs here, you can find the rest at the link
Feel free to spread far and wide 😉
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Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True?
Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network
Alex Gladstein | 8.13.2024
Virtually everyone agrees that social media is broken. On Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, people fear out-of-control algorithms, fake news, state actor censorship, and propaganda. Google and Meta collect vast troves of personal information on their users and receive hundreds of thousands of requests every year from governments around the world to access that data. YouTube has become arguably "the most powerful media platform in the history of humanity," yet its algorithm is an ever-changing black box to the creators that populate the platform with videos. During the pandemic, federal officials were in contact with every major social media platform, coercing them to remove content.
The problem is centralized control. We can't trust companies to run our primary communications infrastructure. Government regulation only makes matters worse because it creates new legal barriers to entering the industry, which protects incumbent players and stifles innovation.
What if there were an alternative, not owned by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or the Chinese Communist Party? What if there were a way to control your own data to prevent companies from harvesting and monetizing it? What if you had granular control over what you see in your feed, with the freedom to choose your own algorithms? What if you owned your identity, which could be accessed seamlessly across different clients? That way, if you disapprove of the changes that Elon Musk brought to X, instead of closing your account you could take your handle and followers elsewhere.
That alternative exists. It's called "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays"—or Nostr.
The Decentralized Solution
Invented by a pseudonymous programmer and overwhelmingly funded by grants from non-profit foundations, this decentralized, free, and open-source protocol has been quietly evolving for the past three years. Like bitcoin, Nostr is a community-run digital network highly resistant to censorship and corruption. It has 40,000 weekly active users and a growing ecosystem of clients and applications ranging from social media to long-form publishing to payments.
Nostr is only necessary because our existing internet is so broken.
Fifteen years ago, social media seemed destined to decentralize the world and give power back to the people. In 2009, we watched as Arab Spring activists used Twitter and Facebook to organize, coordinate, and help topple several long-standing dictatorships. The promise was that these new social platforms, designed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, could help liberate the masses.
It was intoxicating—but turned out to be a mirage. The Arab revolutions stalled out when brutal military regimes cracked down. These platforms became tools for spying and censoring their users. X and Facebook have helped journalists and human rights activists reach bigger audiences, but they haven't fulfilled their revolutionary promise.
Jack Dorsey's Shift from Bluesky to Nostr
This was a major theme at the 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum, which is put on annually by the Human Rights Foundation, where I serve as chief strategy officer. At this conference for democracy and human rights, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey told the audience that the problem was, actually, guys like him: The very fact that Twitter, now X, has a CEO makes it a single point of failure. Governments routinely pressured Dorsey to censor content; once the company's offices in India were raided. Dorsey says that under the new Musk regime X complies with whatever governments want.
The X network is proprietary. Known as a "silo," this construct traps a user's identity, followers, and data. X also has the power to evict anyone from the platform and delete what they've written. Several years ago, when he was still running the company, Dorsey became convinced that Twitter should become an application instead, where users could post content to an open, ownerless network. This would make it similar to how bitcoin works, where you use an application called a wallet to interact with the network, but the network itself is neutral and open.
Building a non-proprietary architecture was Dorsey's original vision for Twitter, but over time the need to maximize revenue to build a business and serve shareholders undermined that goal.
Nevertheless, in 2021, Dorsey encouraged the creation of Bluesky—an initiative bootstrapped in-house to create that open neutral base layer. But after Musk bought the company, the managers of Bluesky were afraid they would run out of money and started raising funds from venture capitalists, which undermined the vision of building an open platform. Dorsey grew disenchanted and left the Bluesky board.
At the conference in Oslo, Dorsey explained what happened next:
I asked a question: What open source initiatives should I be funding that would be helpful to the public internet? And people kept tweeting at me that I should be looking at Nostr. I found the GitHub that described it and it was 100 percent what we wanted from Bluesky, but it wasn't developed from a company. It was completely independent. Its paper diagnosed every single problem we saw and had. But did it in a grassroots and dead simple way, that felt like the early Twitter where any developer could get on and really feel it.
Escaping the 'Golden Prisons'
Nostr was created in 2020 by the pseudonymous Brazilian programmer fiatjaf, who describes it as "the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global 'social' network once and for all."
Though nobody is in charge, Nostr works as promised and is thriving. "It is the solution we've all been looking for," says Miljan Braticevic, founder of Primal, one of the two dozen plus clients now available for the Nostr protocol. "Nostr is not a Twitter competitor or a Mastodon competitor. This is the biggest misconception at the moment. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Nostr is nothing less than the foundation for the new internet. Meaning almost every conceivable app we have today will be built on Nostr."
Braticevic's prediction is echoed by at least a dozen other prominent developers. Martti Malmi, the first coder to work on bitcoin alongside Satoshi Nakamoto, is now a Nostr developer. In a recent talk, he said he had started to work on similar ideas around decentralized identity in 2019, only to come close to giving up. But then he found fiatjaf's invention, which he called a "godsend."
"Bitcoin is freedom of money, and Nostr is freedom of everything else," Malmi said. "I was there" in the earliest days of bitcoin, "and Nostr is even more intense."
For something that could be world-changing, Nostr is quite simple. To join, you sign up with a mobile or desktop client, which helps you to create a public and private key pair. The public key (or "npub") is used as your identifier, and you share it with clients and other users so that people can find your posts or pay you for your content. The private key ("nsec") is hidden by the user, stored safely (just like a bitcoin seed phrase), and is your way to log in to different services. Unlike platforms like X or Facebook, no other information is required to set up and use Nostr.
This gives users a powerful range of sovereignty. You can use a client, for example, that has strong hate speech controls. Or you can choose one that doesn't have any at all. You can use a client with aggressive algorithms, just like the ones X uses today. Or you can use one without any algorithm at all. Today, when you log in to an app like Primal, you can sort your feed by what's the latest, by what's most popular, by what's most zapped, or by customized keywords. It's up to you.
Last month, the macroeconomist Lyn Alden, author of one of the best books on bitcoin, published a long essay about Nostr's potential:
[Nostr] is a simple set of foundational building blocks that, if widely adopted, could gradually reshape "the Web" as we know it. Instead of a separate set of siloed social ecosystems, we could gravitate toward a more interoperable set of ecosystems, with more of the power dispersed to the content creators and to the audience, and away from the middlemen corporations.
The Nostr network is constructed like a spider web that can morph and regenerate, making it almost impossible to censor. When you set up a client on Nostr (perhaps, Primal or Damus on iOS; Amethyst on Android; or Coracle on the web), you choose from a variety of relays to connect to. This architecture ensures no single point of failure: If you are connected to seven or eight relays, and half of them choose to censor posts, your feed remains censorship-free, as your app will display the net sum of everything broadcast from each relay. If the Chinese government decides to attack your relays—as it did in 2023 when Damus launched on the Hong Kong and mainland app store—then more can be spun up. "The enemy," said Damus creator Will Casarin, "is too numerous."
Prominent bitcoin developer and educator Gigi—who switched to Nostr and deleted his X account—says that what helped it become so resilient is that it has zero exit cost. If the Chinese Communist Party bans YouTube, its domestic users lose everything. There's no way to get back their profiles and followers. The same is true if a user voluntarily closes an account.
Gigi calls these corporate silos "golden prisons" with no escape. Nostr's spider-like architecture makes escaping easy. If one client goes down, or you fail to connect to one relay, you just find another client or connect to another relay. You keep your posts, photos, preferences, contacts, and even algorithms of choice. If you use X, you are an X creator. But if you use Primal, you aren't a Primal creator, you are a Nostr creator.
https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/

2024-08-13 01:49:22 GMT

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Executive

2024-08-11 06:14:34 GMT

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lol, appreciate you

2024-08-10 04:06:54 GMT

If you would like to see a Nostr panel at SXSW next year (one of the world's biggest normie arts, culture, and tech festivals, tens of thousands of attendees, mostly C-level folks) then you can vote here to make it happen!
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/155651

2024-08-09 22:12:46 GMT

I've been working all summer on a long read for Reason Magazine about Nostr.
It comes out in a few days.
Really excited to share it with you all!

2024-08-09 20:09:39 GMT

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Thanks Jake!

2024-08-07 22:29:29 GMT

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