AJ_AFreeExistence

😊 this makes me so happy and grateful. If anyone else would like a copy that you can hold let me know. I'll post it to you when I get back to the UK 💓 View quoted note →

"This is not technically difficult. The hard part is cultural: convincing a community steeped in self-custody ideology that custodial architecture is appropriate for some use cases. The ideology emerged from Bitcoin, where the stakes were financial and the custodians were often untrustworthy third parties. Nostr inherited the ideology without examining whether it applied to organizational contexts where the custodian is the organization itself." View Article →

When I lived in Bermuda (I think the population was less than 65k people at that time) a huge number of people rode bikes/scooters. You NEVER left your helmet on your bike. It was either locked up in the bike box or you took it inside with you (your friend's house, a restaurant, whatever). You could never leave a helmet out in London either. Here in Chiang Mai, a city with far more people than Bermuda, many people just leave their helmets with their bikes, unsecured. I don't know about Bermuda, but I remember a time when London was a lot more high-trust. Maybe with the sheer number of people there it was never at Thai levels, but it was certainly more then, than it is now. I miss that