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Visual depiction of the architecture of 3 different decentralized social networking protocols Fediverse First of all we have Mastodon (I often call it by this name because Mastodon is the de facto controller of the protocol), but a better name would be the

The end of NIPs Many a time it has been brought up the fact that the NIPs repository is a central part of the otherwise fully decentralized Nostr protocol and some ideas have been proposed about how we should proceed to decentralize that part of it.

How can web apps be independent protocol clients?

Nostr is pro-censorship In Keys are meaningless we hopefully made it clear that keys are not central to Nostr's idea, in fact keys are just an unnecessary burden that enables something much more important: relays.

Keys are meaningless A common misconception of technologists when they first discover Nostr is to put too much weight on the cryptography and start worshipping the keypairs.

Redistributing Git with Nostr Every time someone tries to "decentralize" Git -- like many projects tried in the past to do it with BitTorrent, IPFS, ScuttleButt or custom p2p protocols -- there is always a lurking comment: "but Git is already distributed!"

P2Panda and the super-peer curse Recently was suggested to me that https://p2panda.org/ was a great protocol and that maybe Nostr wouldn't be necessary if we could just use that.

document.characterSet and another meaningless example of flexibility destroying protocols I always knew of at least two standardized ways browsers used to determine the charset of a given webpage document: the Content-Type header and the <meta charset> ta…

kind:1 maximalism and the future of other stuff and Nostr decentralization These two problems exist on Nostr today, and they look unrelated at first: People adding more stuff to kind:1 notes, such as making them editable, or adding special corky syntax th…

Nostr: a quick introduction, attempt #2 Nostr doesn't subscribe to any ideals of "free speech" as these belong to the realm of politics and assume a big powerful government that enforces a common ruleupon everybody else.

How to do curation and businesses on Nostr Suppose you want to start a Nostr business.

About Nostr, email and subscriptions I check my emails like once or twice a week, always when I am looking for something specific in there.

Censorship-resistant relay discovery in Nostr In Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant I said Nostr is centralized.

a way to do an open and permissionless mesh network I don't have much experience with that so maybe this is all a stupid nonsense, but I think routing in mesh networks (by which I mean all the software that exists out there for creating smallish mesh netw…

Nostr: a quick introduction, attempt #1 Nostr doesn't have a material existence, it is not a website or an app.

Just malinvestiment Traditionally the Austrian Theory of Business Cycles has been explained and reworked in many ways, but the most widely accepted version (or the closest to the Mises or Hayek views) view is that banks (or the central bank) cause the gen…

Rust's .into() is a strictly bad thing It just makes the code unreadable for no gain.

Soft-forks on Bitcoin A traditional soft-fork activation plays out like this: someone makes a proposal if half-dozen respected Core developers like that, they implement it and talk about it everybody loves the idea they ship it in Bitcoin Core miners turn…

A response to Achim Warner's "Drivechain brings politics to miners" article I mean this article: https://achimwarner.medium.com/thoughts-on-drivechain-i-miners-can-do-things-about-which-we-will-argue-whether-it-is-actually-a5c3c022dbd2 There are basically…

Things a coalition of evil miners can do on Bitcoin If a miner coalition has 75% of hashrate for 6 months they can steal coins from a Drivechain without any risk, that's what the drivechain haters say.

The "Drivechain will replace altcoins" argument The argument that Drivechain will replace shitcoins is not that people will sell their shitcoins or that the existing shitcoins will instantly vanish.

Reasons why Lightning is not that great Some Bitcoiners, me included, were fooled by hyperbolic discourse that presented Lightning as some magical scaling solution with no flaws.

Criteria for activating Drivechain on Bitcoin Drivechain is, in essence, just a way to give Bitcoin users the option to deposit their coins in a hashrate escrow.

Reasons for miners to not steal See Drivechain for an introduction.

Bluesky is a scam Bluesky advertises itself as an open network, they say people won't lose followers or their identity, they advertise themselves as a protocol ("atproto") and because of that they are tricking a lot of people into using them.

Using Spacechains and Fedimint to solve scaling What if instead of trying to create complicated "layer 2" setups involving noveau cryptographic techniques we just did the following: we take that Fedimint source code and remove the "mint" stuff, and just u…

Why I don't like NIP-26 as a solution for key management NIP-26 was created out of the needs of the Nostr integration at https://minds.com/.

A vision for content discovery and relay usage for basic social-networking in Nostr Or how to make a basic "social-networking" application using the Nostr protocol that is safe and promotes decentralization.

The problem with ION ION is a DID method based on a thing called "Sidetree".

The problem with DIDs Decentralized Identifiers are supposedly a standard that will allow anyone (or anything) to have an online identity.

What is better than bounties and grants?

Hosted Channels vs Fedimint For those who want a comparison, here is the comparison.

A flexibilidade da doutrina socialista Os fatos da revolução russa mostram que Lênin e seus amigos bolcheviques não eram só psicopatas assassinos: eles realmente acreditavam que estavam fazendo o certo.

Sol e Terra A Terra não gira em torno do Sol.

A prediction market as a distributed set of oracle federations See also: Truthcoin as a spacechain.

Truthcoin as a spacechain To be clear, the term "spacechain" here refers only to the general concept of blindly merge-mined (BMM) chains without a native money-token, not including the "spacecoins".

The flaw of "just use paypal/coinbase" arguments For the millionth time I read somewhere that "custodial bitcoin is not bitcoin" and that "if you're going to use custodial, better use Paypal".

Excerpt of discussion about DIDs and ION Melvin Carvalho: "Not a single entity I know that's doing production deployments has actually vetted did:ion and found it to be production capable."

Doing automatic payouts to users on the Lightning Network No service wants to keep users balances forever or "become a custodian", as that may have some complications dependending on who is doing it.

Scala is such a great language Scala is amazing.

OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY and the "covenants" drama There are many ideas for "covenants" (I don't think this concept helps in the specific case of examining proposals, but fine).

How to fight a war without a State (The title is misleading.)

Bitcoin is not inherently volatile A response to https://gist.github.com/fernandonm/81cb21bdce0910055de32b98ee4119e1 This piece from Fernando Nieto claims that any asset that is expected to constantly appreciate in value -- as Bitcoin is expected to, as i…

A list of things artificial intelligence is not doing If AI is so good why can't it: write good glue code that wraps a documented HTTP API?

bolt12 problems clients can't programatically build new offers by changing a path or query params (services like zbd.gg or lnurl-pay.me won't work) impossible to use in a load-balanced custodian way -- since offers would have to be pregenerated and tied to

A big Ethereum problem that is fixed by Drivechain While reading the following paragraphs, assume Drivechain itself will be a "smart contract platform", like Ethereum.

Bitcoin Hivemind This page is a work in progress.

On HTLCs and arbiters This is another attempt and conveying the same information that should be in Lightning and its fake HTLCs.