No Solutions

By Gigi

No solutions; only trade-offs. Walking towards a better internet.

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April 22, 2025#10 - Walking with Jesus
"It's gonna be permissionless or hell."
Gigi and gzuuus are vibing towards dystopia.

Books & articles mentioned:
AI 2027
DVMs were a mistake
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Takedown by Laila michelwait
The Ultimate Resource by Julian L. Simon
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Momo by Michael Ende

In this dialogue:
Pablo's Roo Setup
Tech Hype Cycles
AI 2027
Prompt injection and other attacks
Goose and DVMCP
Cursor vs Roo Code
Staying in control thanks to Amber and signing delegation
Is YOLO mode here to stay?
What agents to trust?
What MCP tools to trust?
What code snippets to trust?
Everyone will run into the issues of trust and micropayments
Nostr solves Web of Trust & micropayments natively
Minimalistic & open usually wins
DVMCP exists thanks to Totem
Relays as Tamagochis
Agents aren't nostr experts, at least not right now
Fix a mistake once & it's fixed forever
Giving long-term memory to LLMs
RAG Databases signed by domain experts
Human-agent hybrids & Chess
Nostr beating heart
Pluggable context & experts
"You never need an API key for anything"
Sats and social signaling
Difficulty-adjusted PoW as a rare-limiting mechanism
Certificate authorities and centralization
No solutions to policing speech!
OAuth and how it centralized
Login with nostr
Closed vs open-source models
Tiny models vs large models
The minions protocol (Stanford paper)
Generalist models vs specialized models
Local compute & encrypted queries
Blinded compute
"In the eyes of the state, agents aren't people"
Agents need identity and money; nostr provides both
"It's gonna be permissionless or hell"
We already have marketplaces for MCP stuff, code snippets, and other things
Most great stuff came from marketplaces (browsers, games, etc)
Zapstore shows that this is already working
At scale, central control never works. There's plenty scams and viruses in the app stores.
Using nostr to archive your user-generated content
HAVEN, blossom, novia
The switcharoo from advertisements to training data
What is Truth?
What is Real?
"We're vibing into dystopia"
Who should be the arbiter of Truth?
First Amendment & why the Logos is sacred
Silicon Valley AI bros arrogantly dismiss wisdom and philosophy
Suicide rates & the meaning crisis
Are LLMs symbiotic or parasitic?
The Amish got it right
Are we gonna make it?
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Takedown by Laila michelwait
Harry Potter dementors & Momo's time thieves
Facebook & Google as non-human (superhuman) agents
Zapping as a conscious action
Privacy and the internet
Plausible deniability thanks to generative models
Google glasses, glassholes, and Meta's Ray Ben's
People crave realness
Bitcoin is the realest money we ever had
Nostr allows for real and honest expression
How do we find out what's real?
Constraints, policing, and chilling effects
Jesus' plans for DVMCP
Hzrd's article on how DVMs are broken (DVMs were a mistake)
Don't believe the hype
DVMs pre-date MCP tools
Data Vending Machines were supposed to be stupid: put coin in, get stuff out.
Self-healing vibe-coding
IP addresses as scarce assets
Atomic swaps and the ASS protocol
More marketplaces, less silos
The intensity of #SovEng and the last 6 weeks
If you can vibe-code everything, why build anything?
Time, the ultimate resource
What are the LLMs allowed to think?
Natural language interfaces are inherently dialogical
Sovereign Engineering is dialogical too
...more
1h 37min
April 18, 2025#09 - No Strudelutions
"It isn’t obvious that the world had to work this way. But somehow the universe smiles on encryption."
hzrd149 & Gigi take a stroll along the shore of cryptographic identities.
This dialogue explores how cryptographic signatures fundamentally shift power dynamics in social networks, moving control from servers to key holders. We discuss the concept of "setting data free" through cryptographic verification, the evolving role of relays in the ecosystem, and the challenges of building trust in decentralized systems. We examine the tension between convenience and decentralization, particularly around features like private data and data synchronization. What are the philosophical foundations of building truly decentralized social networks? And how can small architectural decisions have profound implications for user autonomy and data sovereignty?
Movies mentioned:
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Soylent Green (1973)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
The Matrix (1999)
In this dialogue:
Hzrd's past conversations: Bowls With Buds 316 & 361
Running into a water hose
Little difference, big effect
Signing data moves the power to the key holders
Self-signing data sets the data free
Relay specialization
Victor's Amethyst relay guide
Encryption and decryption is expensive - is it worth it?
The magic of nostr is that stuff follows you around
What should be shown? What should be hidden?
Don't lie to users. Never show outdated data.
Nostr is raw and immediate
How quickly you get used to things working
Legacy web always tries to sell you something
Lying, lag, frustration
How NoStrudel grew
NoStrudel notifications
Data visualization and dashboards
Building in public and discussing in public
Should we remove DMs?
Nostr as a substrate for lookups
Using nostr to exchange Signal or SimpleX credentials
How private is a group chat?
Is a 500-people group chat ever private?
Pragmatism vs the engineering mindset
The beauty and simplicity of nostr
Anti-patterns in nostr
Community servers and private relays
Will vibe coding fix (some of the) things?
Small specialized components VS frameworks
Technology vs chairs (and cars, and tractors, and books)
The problem of being greedy
Competitive silos VS synergistic cooperation
Making things easy vs barriers of entry
Value4value for music and other artists
Adding code vs removing code
Pablo's Roo setup and DVMCP
Platform permission slips vs cryptographic identities
Micropayments vs Subscription Hell
PayPerQ
Setting our user-generated data free
The GNU/Linux approach and how it beat Microsoft
Agents learning automatically thanks to snippets published on nostr
Taxi drivers, GPS, and outsourcing understanding
Wizards VS vibe coders
Age differences, Siri, and Dragon Naturally Speaking
LLMs as a human interface to call tools
Natural language vs math and computer language
Natural language has to be fuzzy, because the world is fuzzy
Language and concepts as compression
Hzrd watching The Matrix (1999) for the first time
Soylent Green, 2001, Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, Johnny Mnemonic
Are there coincidences?
Why are LLMs rising at the same time that cryptography identities are rising?
"The universe smiles at encryption"
The universe does not smile upon closed silos
The cost of applying force from the outside
Perfect copies, locality, and the concept of "the original"
Perfect memory would be a curse, not a blessing
Organic forgetting VS centralized forgetting
Forgetting and dying needs to be effortless
(it wasn't for IPFS, and they also launched a shitcoin)
Bitcoin makes is cheap to figure out what to dismiss
Would you like to have a 2nd brain?
Trust and running LLMs locally
No need for API keys
Adjacent communities: local-first, makers and hackers, etc.
Removing the character limit was a mistake
Browsing mode vs reading mode
The genius of tweets and threads
Vibe-coding and rust-multiplatform
Global solutions vs local solutions
The long-term survivability of local-first
All servers will eventually go away. Your private key won't.
It's normal to pay your breakfast with sats now
Nostr is also a normal thing now, at least for us
Hzrd's bakery
"Send Gigi a DM that says GM" - and it just works
The user is still in control, thanks to Amber
We are lacking in nostr signing solutions
Alby's permission system as a step in the right direction
We have to get better at explaining that stuff
What we do, why we care, why we think it's important
...more
1h 56min
April 04, 2025#08 - Navigating the Vibe
"With the shift towards this multi-agent collaboration and orchestration world, you need a neutral substrate that has money, identity, cryptography, and web-of-trust baked in, to make everything work."
Pablo & Gigi are getting high on glue nostr.

Books and articles mentioned:
Saving beauty by Byung-Chul Han
LLMs as a tool for thought by Amelia Wattenberger
In this dialogue:
vibeline & vibeline-ui
LLMs as tools, and how to use them
Vervaeke: AI thresholds & the path we must take
Hallucinations and grounding in reality
GPL, LLMs, and open-source licensing
Pablo's multi-agent Roo setup
Are we going to make programmers obsolete?
"When it works it's amazing"
Hiring & training agents
Agents creating RAG databases of NIPs
Different models and their context windows
Generalists vs specialists
"Write drunk, edit sober"
DVMCP.fun
Recklessness and destruction of vibe-coding
Sharing secrets with agents & LLMs
The "no API key" advantage of nostr
What data to trust? And how does nostr help?
Identity, web of trust, and signing data
How to fight AI slop
Marketplaces of code snippets
Restricting agents with expert knowledge
Trusted sources without a central repository
Zapstore as the prime example
"How do you fight off re-inventing GitHub?"
Using large context windows to help with refactoring
Code snippets for Olas, NDK, NIP-60, and more
Using MCP as the base
Using nostr as the underlying substrate
Nostr as the glue & the discovery layer
Why is this important?
Why is this exciting?
"With the shift towards this multi-agent collaboration and orchestration world, you need a neutral substrate that has money/identity/cryptography and web-of-trust baked in, to make everything work."
How to single-shot nostr applications
"Go and create this app"
The agent has money, because of NIP-60/61
PayPerQ
Anthropic and the genius of mcp-tools
Agents zapping & giving SkyNet more money
Are we going to run the mints?
Are agents going to run the mints?
How can we best explain this to our bubble?
Let alone to people outside of our bubble?
Building pipelines of multiple agents
LLM chains & piped Unix tools
OpenAI vs Anthropic
Genius models without tools vs midwit models with tools
Re-thinking software development
LLMs allow you to tackle bigger problems
Increased speed is a paradigm shift
Generalists vs specialists, left brain vs right brain
Nostr as the home for specialists
fiatjaf publishing snippets (reluctantly)
fiatjaf's blossom implementation
Thinking with LLMs
The tension of specialization VS generalization
How the publishing world changed
Stupid faces on YouTube thumbnails
Gaming the algorithm
Will AI slop destroy the attention economy?
Recency bias & hiding publication dates
Undoing platform conditioning as a success metric
Craving realness in a fake attention world
The theater of the attention economy
What TikTok got "right"
Porn, FoodPorn, EarthPorn, etc.
Porn vs Beauty
Smoothness and awe
"Beauty is an angel that could kill you in an instant (but decides not to)."
The success of Joe Rogan & long-form conversations
Smoothness fatigue & how our feeds numb us
Nostr & touching grass
How movement changes conversations
LangChain & DVMs
Central models vs marketplaces
Going from assembly to high-level to conceptual
Natural language VS programming languages
Pablo's code snippets
Writing documentation for LLMs
Shared concepts, shared language, and forks
Vibe-forking open-source software
Spotting vibe-coded interfaces
Visualizing nostr data in a 3D world
Tweets, blog posts, and podcasts
Vibe-producing blog posts from conversations
Tweets are excellent for discovery
Adding context to tweets (long-form posts, podcasts, etc)
Removing the character limit was a mistake
"Everyone's attention span is rekt"
"There is no meaning without friction"
"Nothing worth having ever comes easy"
Being okay with doing the hard thing
Growth hacks & engagement bait
TikTok, theater, and showing faces and emotions
The 1% rule: 99% of internet users are Lurkers
"We are socially malnourished"
Web-of-trust and zaps bring realness
The semantic web does NOT fix this LLMs might
"You can not model the world perfectly"
Hallucination as a requirement for creativity
...more
1h 36min
March 28, 2025#07 - Zig Multiplatform
“The age of the idea guys has begun.”
Justin & Gigi vibe about Zig.
Articles mentioned:
LLMs as a tool for thought by Amelia Wattenberger
Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs by Nick Szabo
How our interfaces have lost their senses by Amelia Wattenberger
Talks mentioned:
The Art of Bitcoin Rhetoric by Bitstein
Books mentioned:
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
In this dialogue:
nak
Files
SyncThing (and how it BitTorrent Sync became Resilio Sync)
Convention over configuration
Changes & speciation
File systems as sources of truth
Vibe-coding shower thoughts
Inspiration and The Muse
Justin's LLM setup
Tony's setup (o1-pro as the architect)
Being okay with paying for LLMs
Anthropomorphising LLMs
Dialog, rubber-duck debugging, and the process of thinking
Being nice and mean to LLMs
Battlebots & Gladiators
Hedging your bets by being nice to Skynet
Pascal's Wager for AI
Thinking models vs non-thinking faster models
Sandwich-style LLM prompting, again (waterfall stuff, HLDD / LLDD)
Cursor rules & Paul's Prompt Buddy
Giving lots of context vs giving specific context
The benefit of LLMs figuring out obscure bugs in minutes (instead of days)
The phase change of fast iteration and vibe coding
Idea level vs coding level
High-level vs low-level languages
Gigi's "vibeline"
Peterson's Logos vs Vervaeke's Dia-Logos
Entering into a conversation with technology
Introducing MCPs into your workflow
How does Claude think?
How does it create a rhyme?
How does thinking work?
And how does it relate to dialogue?
Gzuuus' DVMCP & using nostr as an AI substrate
Language Server Protocols (LSPs)
VAAS: Vibe-coding as a service
Open models vs proprietary models
What Cursor got right
What ChatGPT got right
What Google got right
Tight integration of tools & remaining in a flow state
LLMs as conversational partners
The cost of context switching
Conversational flow & how to stay in it
Prompts VS diary entries
Solving technical vs philosophical models
Buying GPUs & training your own models
Training LLMs to understand Zig
Preventing entryism by writing no documentation
Thin layers & alignment layers
Working in public & thinking in public
Building a therapist / diary / notes / idea / task system
"The age of the idea guys has begun."
Daemons and spirits
Monological VS dialogical thinking
Yes-men and disagreeable LLMs
Energy cost vs human cost
Paying by the meter vs paying a subscription
The equivalence of storage and compute
Thinking needs memory, and memory is about the future
Nostr+ecash as the perfect AI+human substrate
Real cost, real consequence, and Human Action
The cost of words & speaking
Costly signals and free markets
From shitcoin tokens to LLM tokens to ecash tokens
Being too close to the metal & not seeing the forest for the trees
Power users vs engineers
Participatory knowing and actually using the tools
Nostr as the germination ground for ecash
What is Sovereign Engineering?
LLVM and the other side of the bell-curve
How nostr gives you users, discovery, mircopayments, a backend, and many other things for free
Echo chambers & virality
Authenticity & Realness
Growing on the edges, catering to the fringe
You don't own your iPhone
GrapheneOS
WebRTC and other monolithic "open" standards
Optimizing for the wrong thing
Building a nostr phone & Gigi's dream flow
Using nostr to sync dotfile setups and other things
"There are no solutions, only trade-offs"
Cross-platform development
Native vs non-native implementations
Vitor's point on what we mean by native
Does your custom UI framework work for blind people?
Ladybird browser & how to build a browser from scratch
TempleOS
Form follows function & 90's interfaces
Lamentations on the state of modern browsers
Complexity & the downfall of the Legacy Web
Nostr as the "new internet"
Talks by Ladybird developer Andreas Kling
Will's attempt of building it from scratch with Notedeck & nostr-db
Justin's attempt with rust-multiplatform
"If it doesn't have a rust implementation, you shouldn't use it."
Native in terms of speed vs native in terms of UI/UX
Engineer the logic, vibe-code the UI
From Excalidraw to app in minutes
What can you one-shot?
What do you need to care about?
Pablo's NDK snippets
7GUIs and GUI benchmarks for LLMs
"Now we're purpose-building tools to make it easier for LLMs"
"Certain tools really make your problems go away."
Macros and meta-programming
Zig's comptime
UNIX tools and pipes
Simple tools & composability
Nostr tools for iOS & sharing developer signing keys
Building 10 apps as one guy
Simplicity in a community context
Most people are on phones
Most people don't install PWAs
Zapstore & building our own distribution channels
Web-of-trust and pushing builds quickly
Improving homebrew by 10x
(Micro)payments for package managers
Guix and bitcoin-core
Nix vs Guix
Reproducible builds & web-of-trust
Keet vs "calling an npub"
Getting into someone's notifications
Removing the character limit was a mistake
...more
2h 47min
March 27, 2025#06 - The Winds of AI
“The human spirit should remain in charge.”
Pablo & Gigi talk about the wind.
In this dialogue:
Wind
More Wind
Information Calories, and how to measure them
Digital Wellbeing
Rescue Time
Teleology of Technology
Platforms get users Hooked (book)
Feeds are slot machines
Movie Walls
Tweetdeck and Notedeck
IRC vs the modern feed
37Signals: “Hey , let’s just charge users!”
“You wouldn’t zap a car crash”
Catering to our highest self VS catering to our lowest self
Devolution of YouTube 5-star ratings to thumb up/down to views
Long videos vs shorts
The internet had to monetize itself somehow (with attention )
“Don’t be evil” and why Google had to remove it
Questr : 2D exploration of nostr
ONOSENDAI by Arkinox
Freedom tech & Freedom from Tech
DAUs of jumper cables
Gossip and it’s choices
“The secret to life is to send it”
Flying water & flying bus stops
RSS readers , Mailbrew , and daily digests
Nostr is high signal and less addictive
Calling nostr posts “ tweets ” and recordings being “on tape”
Pivoting from nostr dialogues to a podcast about wind
The unnecessary complexity of NIP-96
Blossom (and wind)
Undoing URLs, APIs, and REST
ISBNs and cryptographic identifiers
SaaS and the DAU metric
Highlighter
Not caring where stuff is hosted
When is an edited thing a new thing?
Edits, the edit wars, and the case against edits
NIP-60 and inconsistent balances
Scroll to text fragment and best effort matching
Proximity hashes & locality-sensitive hashing
Helping your Uncle Jack of a horse
Helping your uncle jack of a horse
Can we fix it with WoT?
Vertex & vibe-coding a proper search for nostr
Linking to hashtags & search queries
Advanced search and why it’s great
Search scopes & web of trust
The UNIX tools of nostr
Pablo’s NDK snippets
Meredith on the privacy nightmare of Agentic AI
Blog-post-driven development ( Lightning Prisms , Highlighter )
Sandwich-style LLM prompting, Waterfall for LLMs ( HLDD / LLDD )
“Speed itself is a feature”
MCP & DVMCP
Monorepos and git submodules
Olas & NDK
Pablo’s RemindMe bot
“Breaking changes kinda suck”
Stories, shorts, TikTok, and OnlyFans
LLM-generated sticker styles
LLMs and creativity (and Gigi’s old email )
“AI-generated art has no soul”
Nostr, zaps, and realness
Does the source matter?
Poker client in bitcoin v0.0.1
Quotes from Hitler and how additional context changes meaning
Greek finance minister on crypto and bitcoin ( Technofeudalism , book)
Is more context always good?
Vervaeke’s AI argument
What is meaningful?
How do you extract meaning from information?
How do you extract meaning from experience?
“What the hell is water”
Creativity, imagination, hallucination, and losing touch with reality
“Bitcoin is singularity insurance”
Will vibe coding make developers obsolete?
Knowing what to build vs knowing how to build
10min block time & the physical limits of consensus
Satoshi’s reasons articulated in his announcement post
Why do anything? Why stack sats? Why have kids?
All you need now is motivation
Upcoming agents will actually do the thing
Proliferation of writers: quantity VS quality
Crisis of sameness & the problem of distribution
Patronage, belle epoche, and bitcoin art
Niches, and how the internet fractioned society
Joe’s songs
Hyper-personalized stories
Shared stories & myths (Jonathan Pageau)
Hyper-personalized apps VS shared apps
Agency, free expression, and free speech
Edgy content & twitch meta , aka skating the line of demonetization and deplatforming
Using attention as a proxy currency
Farming eyeballs and brain cycles
Engagement as a success metric & engagement bait
“You wouldn’t zap a car crash”
Attention economy is parasitic on humanity
The importance of speech & money
What should be done by a machine?
What should be done by a human?
“The human spirit should remain in charge”
Our relationship with fiat money
Active vs passive, agency vs serfdom
...more
1h 40min
March 18, 2025#05 - Prompt & Pray
"What should the next iteration of the internet look like?"
In this dialogue:
Paul and his awesome nostr t-shirt
Are we all just nostalgic?
Where did the optimism of computing and the information superhighway go?
We went from interop to pay-to-unlock.
Do we have to live in the digital gulags forever?
Homecooked meals and homecooked apps
Paper straws and the downfall of Western Civilization
"You need to be okay with people getting rekt"
If the car would be introduced today, it would be illegal
Bravery and personal responsibility
"nostr will only be what diehards will build it to be"
Bad teleology is built into the current (non-nostr) app landscape
"You can get a lot of the upside without holding your own keys”
“...but you can't get ALL of the upside!"
Expressiveness and free speech online
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, and Financial Freedom in Cyberspace
Self-publishing vs platform publishing
Information calories. Can we count them?
Don't make me think!
Is not being forced to think part of the problem?
Mutiny & bitcoin UX that's too easy
Games and costly mistakes
The early days: software distribution via print magazines
Prompting allows you to define your own teleology
Vibe coding and Cursor
"The hard part is to figure out what you want."
"What should the next iteration of the internet look like?"
GenZ doesn't know shit about files and folders
Why files are great
Gigi's SyncThing & Standard Notes setup
File-based apps like Smart AudioBook Player
Reading apps like Pocket, Instapaper, and Readwise Reader
Saving all the things & linking stuff together
Clips of podcasts and videos, e.g. Fountain
A Commonplace Book to cyberspace
Creating a "Family Bible" app
If you want to maximize profits in the attention economy, you have to get users addicted
(Zaps potentially fix this, as you wouldn’t zap a car crash)
Let computers do computer work, let humans be humans
"The end is not being on the computer"
Solo private / group private / public
Liberal vs Conservative sentiment in social environments
Whom to care about?
Web of trust & our understanding of it
Forgiveness, Trust, and Repeat Games
Tit-for-tat and forgiving tit-for-tat
Three strikes and you're out!
"Choose your gulag" is the alternative to nostr
7-generation thinking
2140
The Sovereign Individual is embedded in a social structure, always
I, Pencil
Jungle vs Civilization
Fiat = because I said so (“Fiat Lux” - Let there be light)
Do we need leaders in bitcoin?
Peterson Fallacy / God vs Bitcoin
Jesus early followers were the Followers of The Way
Zaps are not payments
Zaps are not "tips"
Bitstein & Pierre: The Reorg
Vervaeke: “Where do you go for wisdom?”
Rough consensus and Pieter Wuille
"There is no such thing as a leaderless system"
Wisdom in cyberspace
Can we build wise tools?
Prompting the Bible, ChristGPT, and Bible Slop
Gell-Mann amnesia effect
Vervaekes AI argument: The Coming Thresholds and The Path We Must Take
Where do new ideas come from?
Sandwich prompting style (HLDD / LLDD)
The Tale of John Henry
Silicon Sages
Conscience and The Muse
Hypermedia and HyperNote
Glassholes, Google Glasses, and wearable technology
Prompting & Praying for An Internet Worth Having
Books mentioned:
The Bible
I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read
Don't make me think! by Steve Krug
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
...more
1h 49min
March 13, 2025#04 - Ecash Fixes 402
“I don’t believe in Utopia anymore. I’m too old for that.”
In this dialogue:
Where is the Utopia that the internet promised?
“Neither nostalgia nor utopia”
Net Neutrality is a moral stance
Where did the internet go wrong?
Tech as a tool; is tech always neutral?
Technology that increases agency VS tech that enslaves
Competition vs Symbiosis
“Who will run the mints?”
“Anyone” can use it vs “everyone” can use it
Centralizing vs. Monopolizing
Bitcoin has an ethos baked in (You Shall Not Steal)
Passive internet vs active internet
Agency in cyberspace, and how to maximize it
Blinded custodian vs regular custodian
User data is a liability
Obscura / Mullvad / Silent.Link as obvious early adopters- Run your own ISP - Tollgate
Cryptography is Not Enough
Bitcoin is Time
Time requires heat
Zero-knowledge service providers
Electronic Cash vs Digital Cash (CBDCs)
Credit requires KYC, KYC implies outside enforcement
Writings on Micropayments by Nick Szabo- eCash fixes 402, obviously
Who Owns the Future?
“You are the product” vs “Subscription Hell”
“Hello old friend!!!”
Cathedral vs Bazaar
Why paywalls suck
Information wants to be free
“Markets become absurd as supply approaches infinity.”
eCash + AI = match made in heaven
#LearnToCode vs #LearnToPrompt
Scarcity in cyberspace: compute, storage, networking
Zero-Knowledge compute & zero-knowledge proofs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
https://github.com/AbdelStark/cashu-zk-engine
Cairo: https://github.com/starkware-libs/cairo
MCP https://github.com/AbdelStark/bitcoin-mcp
MCP DVM: https://github.com/r0d8lsh0p/n8n-AI-agent-DVM-MCP-client
DVMCP: https://mcp.so/server/dvmcp
Olas & Nutzaps (NIP-60, NIP-61)
Bitcoin is not only the internet of money, but it is the money of the internet
Re-building the internet archive on top of nostr- Bitrot & 404
Resurrection markets & marketplace for hashes via Blossom
Hugs 🫂
Links & References:
Nostr Protocol Repository: https://github.com/nostr-protocol
Cashu (e-cash): https://github.com/cashubtc
NIP-60 (Cashu Wallets): https://nips.nostr.com/60
NIP-61 (Nutzaps): https://nips.nostr.com/61
The Cathedral And The Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
...more
1h 38min
February 23, 2025#03 - Data Ownership is a Lie
“You’ll get all that for free if you build it right”
In this dialogue:
01: Start Ugly
02: There is No Global
Concept of ownership & “Read, Write, Own”
Shamir Secret Sharing and Timelocks
“No amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.”
You can’t prove deletion of a key (or anything, really); best you can do is “burn” bitcoin
Data is information, which behaves like an idea (not like an apple)
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – https://dergigi.com/threads/memes-vs-the-world
Why the Pubky architecture isn’t great
Cashu
Nutzaps: NIP-60 / NIP-61
How nutzaps fix fake zaps on zaplife.lol
“Ecash fixes HTTP 402”
“[Bitcoin [and nostr]] take advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but hard to stifle.” –Satoshi Nakamoto
Discovery with NIP-89
#RunDVM with NIP-90
Why micropayments can’t work on credit rails, and how bitcoin is the rediscovery of money.
Putting payments into blossom
“Money is essentially a tool to keep track of who owes what to whom. Broadly speaking, everything we have used as money up to now falls into two categories: physical artifacts and informational lists. Or, to use more common parlance: tokens and ledgers.”
“maximum utility in the world of Bitcoin entails the adoption of maximum responsibility.”
Complexity of Lightning vs the simplicity of eCash
Amber and Citrine
How Pablo became the BIS
12 words in your head can literally save your life
The in-between of custodial and non-custodial in a multi-mint world
Nutzaps integrated in chachi.chat
The intermediacy of nostr is magic
In nostr you’ll get a lot for free IF YOU BUILD IT RIGHT
“Free Speech platforms cannot exist; if there is a ‘deplatform’ button, the button will be pressed.”
“Neither nostalgia nor utopia.”
Solutions that make stuff worse over time vs solutions that make stuff better over time.
#asknostr on passkeys, and why we think they’ll make things worse over time.
Authentication vs identity: “identification asks, authentication proves”
You are not your name and photo; identity is prismatic
(m00t’s talk on it at web summit 2011)
Starbug from CCC pwning TouchID biometrics from a high-res photo (article)
Key rotation and (American) HODL
Social recovery
Multi-sig for nostr with FROSTR
Links & References
Nostr Protocol Repository: https://github.com/nostr-protocol
Cashu (e-cash): https://github.com/cashubtc
NIP-60 (Nutzaps): https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/60.md
NIP-89 (Service Discovery) & NIP-90 (DVMs) – upcoming proposals: https://nips.nostr.com/89 & https://nips.nostr.com/90
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February 15, 2025#02 - There is No Global
“We do not have the answers."
In this dialogue:
What is this No Solutions thing anyway?
Why dialogue and distributed cognition is so important
Why is nostr exiting for developers?
Evolution, Life, and nostr
What is the perfect nostr app, and why can’t there be THE perfect nostr app?
Why there is no “global” view in nostr
Impossible problems vs. possible (but still hard) problems
Blossom, blossom, and more blossom
Zooko’s Triangle
Freedom Tech Building Blocks
NIP-60/61, NIP-89
Email vs ICQ
Accepting constraints & moving forward
Nostr has data integrity, but no data guarantees
Bitcoin as an extreme RAID system
Fault tolerance vs. efficiency
“Build the infrastructure, don’t run it.”
eCash fixes 402
Everything in nostr can be one-click
There’s infinite nsecs (and they are free!)
The magic of the nostr view-only mode
The Local-first movement
How to monetize without putting yourself in the middle?
RoboSats as an example of open-source monetization
The YouTube like count is a lie
Further links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_cognition
https://nips.nostr.com/60
https://nips.nostr.com/61
https://nips.nostr.com/89
https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko’s_triangle
https://www.jrepodcast.com/guest/adam-curry/
https://localfirstweb.dev/
https://www.localfirstconf.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/25/icq-1996-2024-the-first-universal-messenger-had-a-good-run-and-is-leaving-us-soon
https://www.chatinum.com/articles/the-old-chat-apps-of-the-2000s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI
https://njump.me/[email protected]
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1h 16min
February 09, 2025#01 - Start Ugly
“We have the chance of building the next iteration of the internet, and hopefully, not repeat the mistakes of the past."
In this dialogue:
Why starting ugly and shipping early is hard
The ugliest thing that Pablo ever shipped
“Happiness is shipping”
Make it real first, you can make it pretty later
Getting into the habit of shipping
Highlighter and the hang-up of shipping something big
How nostr allows you to have cash flow from the get-go
#value4value for artists and devs
What DHH & 37Signals got right
People and projects mentioned:
fiatjaf
DHH
SuperTestnet
nostr.build
Highlighter
Primal
ProtonMail
Hey
Further links:
https://excellentjourney.net/2015/03/04/art-fear-the-ceramics-class-and-quantity-before-quality/
https://world.hey.com/dhh/that-shipping-feeling-b7c8c565
https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-was-wrong-we-need-crypto-587ccb03
https://sovereignengineering.io/
https://dergigi.com/2023/04/04/purple-text-orange-highlights/
https://highlighter.com/
https://njump.me/[email protected]
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