Took a break from Nostr “notes” this winter. Just now getting back to it. You know what saved Nostr for me? More other stuff apps. 🤯

Of all my dear friends who have replied so far, none has mentioned the obvious. Nostr is the social layer for Bitcoin. It provides "opt in" decentralized verifiability (through social proof) where otherwise only KYC has been possible. So the killer app for Nostr (and what only Nostr can do) is webs of trust as a conduit for Bitcoin transactions. Because Nostr is "the social layer" for a growing number of apps, trustability for any transaction can be accurately inferred without ever requiring a central authority. Only Nostr can provide such verifiable information about any pubkey, because only on Nostr can provenance be traced transparently across such a wide diversity of (voluntarily public) pubkey interactions. And TSM is proving to be the most important NIP for Webs of Trust. https://gitworkshop.dev/[email protected]/tsm

Nostr is what winning looks like. 🚀

I generally like to think of increasing regulations as free Nostr marketing … but this one (chat control?) stumps me. I’m not sure yet how Nostr solves for this, because these laws are written to target devices … not the apps used or websites visited. Ideas?

Yummy 😋

Can I euthanize my Blobbi? (humanely of course 🫪)

From Alex with love 🐶

When all you know is strong armed governance, then even your “freedom algo” ends up reflecting the same. Algos are fine. But his algo is not mine. Nostr alone addresses 4/5 of his “requirements” without even implementing WoT. Layer “customized algos” and “algo discovery” … then you end up with “choose your own governance” where everybody wins. My2 sats.

Can I put my Blobbi up for re-adoption?