There is a revisionist idea that Web 2.0 created walled gardens because (insert your least favourite thing) is evil, in reality walled gardens are just well scoped well aligned group of people with incentives to cooperate for the purpose of good experience. The only other sustainable form of interoperability are; 1. Open source Dictatorship (Linux, Git, etc..) 2. Standards committees plutocracy (even worse than #1) 3. Adversarial interoperability; where you reverse engineer your competitors formats to steal their edge (.PSD, etc..) #1 and #3 are the source of all the good things in the web. If you want to change thing about Nostr, just build the best app you want, capture as much of the user base as you can, and everyone will just follow you, and you will save yourself the drama. View quoted note →

A great day and a glorious memory, may we live long enough to see the happy ending of this struggle for justice.

Happy to see zcash rallying, maybe Bitcoiners can stop dismissing all competition as scam and realize a real upgrade is required.

It is safe to express your hatred for genocidal scum, be proud of it. View quoted note →

For a Blockchain to remain decentralised, you have to limit the number of Utxos, because everything else can be compressed, but you need this full set to be able to produce new blocks, and for users to create transactions... But that already sounds like Pools, and indeed, a trustless pool is a Blockchain (or call it a distributed event log if you want) with a hard limit on the size of UTXO set. There can only be so many pools on Bitcoin, because Bitcoin too needs to limit its utxo set, but the limit is very large, and there is still shallow recursion (pools inside pools) if necessary. Cross pools finality will always be slow though, but it will probably still be faster than banks finality (30 days).

Bitcoin is a temporary proof of publishing,, if you think data on Bitcoin will live forever in any special way unlike any other torrent file, you are wrong. Even UTXOs can be deleted and nodes demand that you send your Utreexo proof to spend. Nothing is forever, everything has maintaince costs and if not paid, they get entropied. View quoted note →

You can verify arbitrary computations over private inputs, on Bitcoin, right now. Time to build useful stuff with that.

Simulate soft forks or bust

Liquid federation would have been better off as a trusted cosigner of transactions on Bitcoin to enable opt-in opcodes.

I bring you good news; centralisation will forever remain crippled by compliance... Want decentralisation? Build tools for the anarchists who understand the sovereignity of the Internet and practice it.