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We never stopped building, it's just depressing that our peers are sheep that think they are lions, so all we can do is fight each other over nonsense instead of rallying behind what makes sense.
Hmm I wonder if Pubky has a protocol... maybe I should check before I say something ignorant... hmm let's see, oh wtf is this, a whole fukn github org with all the open source code? It has specs? And docs? Oh wow I'feel so retarded right now, what was I thinking?!
Posted this article in Pubky so you guys cant whine about how whatever retarded browser you use cant see Medium or whatever.
Also, I intentionally left the Gemini watermark on the image just to trigger you more.
Is this article ai-generated? Am I a sociopath? Complain to me, it is ofc the only reason I breathe.
Pubky works.
It allows a much better UX.
You can actually cold-store your keys.
It scales.
It has real identity solution.
It has a real censorship resistance solution.
It has novel coordination capabilities.
Kinda impossible to isolate due to Bitkit team and roadmap overlapping a lot with other teams. Bitkit was Synonym's first project, starting with just 2 guys. Today the core Bitkit team is 4 people, plus time from QAs, designers, legal, etc.
Is it cheap to create a production-grade wallet? Not really, the main costs are related to supporting Lightning.
However, Synonym is very lean in spending compared to typical startups. After 5 years, and tons of research in many areas, and currently at 30 people, we have spent less than $10M, mostly on Bitcoiner salaries. (Compare this budget to your favorite Bitcoin startup, which probably spends double our rate).
This has yielded multiple versions of Bitkit, an entire identity and web protocol, a LSP server and service, a scalable social app, a new payment protocol, a keychain app, a new credit protocol, etc, etc.
In the end, it would be silly to complain about any of our spending, because all if it is towards a goal of total user autonomy, making society, and Bitcoin, a better place.
We are not merely building a wallet, we are building the Atomic Economy.
Regardingi Nostr, I think most of the hate me, and are tribally attached, so we won't really do any serious marketing there, maybe some trolling when I am bored.
They don't want something else, no point pretending otherwise.
On X, well, the algo and mktg approach changes there every month, maybe the only angle worth trying is the AI community, because Pubky's graph capabilities will also be hooked into AI features this year, and these are highly complimentary paradigms.
Regarding development using Pubky tech, we have hired a Developer Advocate to help, and we will likely also prioritize business development for integrations for specific aspects (like Paykit, when ready).
For users, the first phase differentiation is only the tagging, and subjective filtering features (custom feeds will be added this month).
I don't intend to harp about self-sovereignty of Pubky, instead we will demonstrate actual use cases that speak to their problems: algos that killed your reach and fed you slop, ecommerce without middlemen, spam-free ux, and more. But we have a lot more to build before we can clearly make some of those claims.
Major projects will be completed this year around payments and ecommerce capability.
I am still finishing the roadmap, but if you want, join our dev call this month, there's just too much recall in one reply!
Pubky.app should work well on mobile, but we haven't made a native app for mobile, and we still have a lot we can do to improve the PWA psuedo-app features.
No, not in the Mastodon/ActivityPub sense.
Pubky homeservers do not do server-to-server message delivery. They just host your data for your pubky (your key-based identity). Discovery and aggregation happen via clients and optional indexers/caches that read from homeservers.
See repos for pubky-nexus, pubky-core for the code, and pubky.org for more details!
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