This is cool! Can agents use Opal locally without the relay roundtrips?

I think the problems you pointed to are real so they already manifested. Perhaps not enough ppl realize yet. I also say that a pragmatic optimism is warranted though. So in a way yes, I am saying most problems will be solved. Not sure about the timeline and want to accelerate the solutions to problems I see more pressing, that's my part.

Yes the narrative has been misleading it's not ideal. However with more overall bitcoin adoption, including adjacent tech, we will hit obvious walls if what you say is true: - Big LN nodes failing / hacked due to too much complexity - Adverse fee environment destroying LN UX for the nth time - Backlashes from 99% kyc custodial wallet usage - Just sheer fatigue and churn of developers and non-custodial users alike If these will play out increasingly, the issues become obvious and the problems need to be addressed. To some extent Spark, Ark and even #Cashu came about for exactly these reasons. I know it's very hard to be among the first adopters because we tend to be impatient for the tech to succeed (like nostr) and when we face the chasm to cross it can burn us out quickly. Endurance and timing are most relevant in this situation.

You look at Lightning and especially how hard it is to run a node securely and economically and one can realize this is made for industrial grade batched bitcoin transactions. But it does scale bitcoin in a way, it allows for institutions to cheaply send and receive and this benefit trickles down the value chain: A cheap LSP e.g. It's like a checking account for tenth the cost of what it is today, and stronger exit guarantees. However, to truly scale bitcoin to microtransactions, we might not be able to avoid custodians. Hope ark and spark help this situation but I don't see them solving this problem as cleanly as people would like

So I guess you considered #Frost if you have been thinking about this for a long time but you haven't mentioned it. Why? Key rotation on the nsec level will hardly be a thing unless there's some cryptographic breakthrough because it would centralize the protocol, see PLC in atprotocol and such. You basically must centralize key lineage tracking to a trusted party but that just doesn't go well in a distributed system. Frost shard-based signing UX can be very stable and fairly revocable, it's just not yet spread so much. Social rotation is the other way, it's been talked about many times. It is a viable alternative in a network like nostr, especially if communities get more popular. The reason why there's not too much anxiety over this is just the fact that there's not yet enough demand I think for nostr in general. We're building things out and if there's real pressure in the future from economically relevant users accruing, at some point it's gonna be figured out.

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Massive scale corrupts massively

> I think it is important to say specifically how pacing will allow us to make the AI development process safer. --- Specifically, I hope to get hold of smart enough unrestricted AI hosted safely in my apartment. That constitutes safety for me. https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

BudaBit is coming along nicely, will start more activities for all the freedom tech devs out there! If you want to set up your own community **on any relay** (not like nip29) with just a few clicks, take a look at how BudaBit communities work: https://budabit.club/community-guide In the future I will implement optional server side enforcement but I think it should be super easy to start a public moderated group. Why are BudaBit groups unique? - Technical focus (tight nostr-git integration) - Fine-grained moderation enabled by content sections - Community-first web of trust - Curate Repos, Code Snippets and Smart widget extensions into your groups - Run and recommend infrastructure as a group admin: Relay, blossom media, grasp server, ecash mint, email alert service, possibly more in the future - Select your service providers based on your community memberships and community-first #wot Join to learn more or talk about freedom tech: https://budabit.club

Didn't know so much wokism is left in Linux land: https://stopomarchy.neocities.org/

It's only time that can show the true nature and benefits of Nostr. Waiting for the masses is futile, we must go step by step, first a focused cypherpunk group then work our ways towards a broader audience. That is why niche apps are more justified currently than anything else