No Solutions

By Gigi

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

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The podcast currently has 34 episodes available.

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February 23, 2025#03: Data Ownership is a Lie w/ Pablo
“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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1h 31min
February 15, 2025#02: There is No Global w/ Pablo
“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.to/[email protected]

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1h 16min
February 09, 2025#01: Start Ugly w/ Pablo
“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.to/[email protected]
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47min
February 07, 2025 #00: Test Recording / Teaser w/ Pablo
A teaser.
Recorded at 882,688.
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4min

FAQs about No Solutions:

How many episodes does No Solutions have?

The podcast currently has 34 episodes available.