We all know what a Consensus Constraint feels like. It feels like a Phobia. It feels like a limiting belief. It is a rule written in our past that limits our future freedom. Civilization has these phobias, too. We call them Institutions or Dogma. To heal the world, we must do exactly what a therapist does for a patient: go back to the source code, verify the truth, and rewrite the Consensus.

How would you document the price discovery?

Yes, price discovery needs to happen naturally. But in order for price discovery to happen, there first needs to be liquidity. 1 sat for 1 kb is just a test case for illustration of the concept, not a locked market price.

Nation States are contracts, given jurisdiction over land by international convention. Plant a flag, claim to control the rules, nobody else can claim other rules within your sandbox. Corporations are contracts, given jurisdiction over a copyright/patent/trademark by nation states, and enforcing that jurisdiction in order to accumulate capital to give to shareholders. Authoritarianism is when claimed authority becomes self-perpetuating through the abuse of capital, the forces that control and amplify the movement of information. When governments take over business, we call it communism sometimes. When businesses take over government we call it regulatory capture. Both are fascism, and both lead to authoritarianism. The only defense against this is a combination of rights that must be demanded. The right to exit, taking control of our capital outside of the influence of either nation state or corporation. The right to fork, taking control of the rules that apply to how we interact with others. The right to verify, giving us the truth from the source, not claims from people we can't trust. The right to sustain, protecting our foundations from those who would extract for their own profits.

The first step would be to create a protocol that takes the idea of bitswap from Protocol Labs, and makes the exchange sat for kb instead of kb for kb. Filecoin just created silos with a high barrier to entry, while IPFS is supposed to work p2p. What's missing is the economic incentive for the Distributed Hash Tables to gather and reveal the file storage locations quickly, and stop losing data from garbage cleanup that wipes away 70% of all content within a week.

The economics incentive layer has always been the biggest missing piece from true neutral global social media. If you're going to remove it entirely, you might as well build another silo system.

I know that you are coming from Ethereum. And I've said in previous threads to others that creating a version of Nostr that runs on ETH, or Monero, or any other blockchain is certainly possible, and desirable. Making all of these different systems work together including zaps would require an exchange protocol where I send sats and you receive eth. That's also possible. But it would be a nightmare to implement. And not worth the effort, in my opinion. If you want to try, be my guest, but I just can't see it working, at least not at scale.

I joined Nostr because I wanted to be on a platform that could not be stopped by national borders. Most of the people in my other social media circles are focused on their networks, not the world at large.

Well, nobody 'controls' Nostr, it's designed to be beyond anyone's control. What I'm seeing is a free for all of development where anyone with an idea and the skills is trying their hand and trying to tap into the streams. There are thousands of apps out there that could be forked and brought into the Nostrverse, which is fun to watch. But, what I'm also seeing is a lack of overall vision. Most people are trying to identify market niches and building what they know, and very few people are looking at the overall structure and trying to encourage the building of foundational layers that themselves can be built upon. I'm sure if anyone IS doing that and they see this, I'm probably wrong, but all I have is my own eyes and my own limited feed. And that would absolutely prove my point. Nostr, at least to me, is a information sharing application layer. The principles are strong, with distributed storage and retrieval of posts and content. What it lacks is not people, but a reason for people to come to this network instead of the ones that they are already using. In the old days we'd be talking about a "killer app", which is why I think so many people are trying to do just that. I think differently, and what I believe we need is a "killer foundation", something that Nostr can utilize, add to and become part of. I have A vision for how it can do that. I just don't have the skills to make it happen.

Well, let me ask this. How many advertisements have you seen? How many bots? How much of your time on Nostr has been spent scrolling through stuff that you really don't want to see? You first joined in May of 2023, and I can see everything you posted along with all of your replies. You didn't believe the Lightning Network was a successful project, and didn't think it would be. Do you still believe that? You came back 6 days ago and immediately launched into what you think is wrong with the protocol and why other options might be better. I've engaged where I feel that my reply might add value, and live my life. Our networks are ours to build, nobody else can do that for us.

B. And I'd probably hire someone to help me build a new foundation for global file sharing and storage based on an idea that I have.

Fiat Currency is a political tool. CAPITAL is not. Bitcoin is a digital representation of financial capital. It can be used as a store of value, medium of exchange (currency) and unit of account. It's real money, more real than anything else humanity has ever invented or used.

I don't mind being told that my facts are incorrect, and I'm always willing to revise my conclusions based on new evidence. I just don't like people screaming at me that I'm wrong without having anything to back it up.

Well, on your specific point about a nation state deciding to make a total change to Bitcoin overnight without building any infrastructure or cultural change beforehand, you're absolutely right. It would be a disaster. I don't know that I would call it a complete destruction of the economy, but prices would go crazy in unpredictable ways. We would not want that to happen, instead we would want the government of that country to actually make the switch from debt based to wealth based, and that's much bigger than just changing what they use as a medium of exchange. There is no country on the planet that is even close to being able to make the switch entirely, honestly not a single one is willing to really try. There is a way to do it of course. But there would still be an adoption curve for much more than just digital financial capital.

"I don't want to see that note on my feed." - Scroll on. "I don't want to see that npub on my feed." - Mute user "I don't want others to see that note on their feed." - Report content "I don't want that type of content to ever exist on any feed anywhere!" - ... Then what you want is for the Internet to be shut down? "I demand that everyone see my content!" - Mute user I love Nostr.

I'll mute spam peddlers and people who are intentionally mean and/or nasty. I just don't have time for either of those. I don't mute on disagreements, even if they are fundamental, because live and let live. The world is bigger than just me and my opinions.

I'll upload a PDF to IPFS and then start transferring it to the repo over the weekend. It can be cleaned up from there by me or by others who want to get involved.

Can we use Nostr itself?

I'm working on an idea, a protocol, built using Bitcoin and designed to change things. But I need someone who is actually a developer that can review the idea and tell me if I'm into something or if I need to make changes. I need help. So that's what this is, a call for help. From a community that I barely know.

They don't have to. What matters is choice. I can see posts from people I follow on Mastadon, I just can't send them zaps. At least not yet.

Want to #grownostr, build a bridge to Base.app.

A bridge of information without a bridge for capital keeps communities in silos. What if a zap on Nostr arrived on Mastadon in whatever currency or chain that the user wants to store. I think Bitcoin is the best, so that's what I would choose. But everyone should have their choice.