this line is great:

“I like autonomy because of the pain it causes when you’re wrong. You need that pain to learn not to do it again, you need the visceral experience.”

@k00b is a genius

thanks for reading and appreciating!

the math is left as an exercise for the reader 😝

I have it on my todo to play with this. It looks interesting, but after a few runs I still wasn't sure if I was using it properly.

thanks for reading and appreciating!

I didn't want to make the writing about a price prediction for bitcoin, but I couldn't help but be curious about the scale of what we were talking about here.

I believe there is an exit tax when expatriating from the US. As best I can tell it is calculated on a “deemed sale” of a person's assets on the day before their expatriation. I'm not very informed on this topic. Just saying that throughout your life you're opting-in and opting-out of various systems (sometimes actively, sometimes passively) . There may be a tax/cost to opting out, but if it's tied to the moment of opting out that seems like a roughly reasonable way to organize society.

100 percent

but if we strive for an imperfect system that has enough social consensus to work... maybe it's on the horizon?

i.e. tcp/ip is not perfect... but it's good enough and the consensus we have around it far outweighs its flaws

bitclout, but better friend.tech, but better study history and improve upon the patterns

those are all good examples of concepts/areas to consider, imo. if i were to guess, i think something like a game is fertile ground. something simple and a little playful like friend.tech which has a natural status/hierarchy to the game play/mechanics. obviously needs to be more durable than that (and built on sound money 🤙)

I agree that a WoT is on the horizon somewhere. I think it's going to take more than just a technical solution. I suspect someone comes up with some novel idea to galvanize trust in a new form... "lightning in a bottle" kind of thing where playing with trust/relationships is core to some new service/approach/technique, not just a technology that does the smart thing. I'm interested to hear about anyone experimenting in this direction.

that's kind of the point of the article. stop search for yet another new money. instead focus on building new things that you can build now that we have a new money. doesn't meaning building is done. but can focus with more clarity

OP was prompted by a reply I got to a different post I made. (explained in the details of this post actually!)

I would like to have an npub on my twitter bio, in my email footer, etc. I have seen a lot of people use Primal links to share their profile like this: https://primal.net/dk

I am a supporter of Primal and I think they do a great job with what they're building, but primal.net/dk is yet another pointer to where my npub can be found which is my actual unique identifier.

I just see non-techies stumble when they can't figure out why they can't just choose a username like every other social network they sign up to. It feels awkward and strange when they already have a mental model/pattern for how this "should work".

thanks for sharing. these are great lessons.

for the record, I'm less interested in DNS-replacement specifically and I agree that there's a lot of legacy rails on which we would still dependent.

I'm more interested in the "human readable names for public keys for nostr" idea. it's a mess to share my npub and it's hard to explain to non-technical people why we need to do nip-05 verification

ha, I've never bought any Ordinals/"rare sats". not opposed to them philosophically, just not super passionate about them existing and that's my investment bar, tbh

Stacker News on the other hand? net good for bitcoin, net good for the internet, net good for civilization. passionate about that all day!

stuff like Nostr, Nostr Wallet Connect, a replier suggested maybe a decentralized name service, and even Stacker News is part of what's next

anyway, the point is I don't think just because bitcoin is a good SoV and ethereum claims to own programmability it doesn't mean we're done building new things on bitcoin. plenty of new things are enabled by bitcoin's existence and that's where I'm going to continue spending my time

@maciek check this! 👀

"satslash" is a cool idea, thanks for building/sharing!

have you learned anything from your work in the Ordinals ecosystem that might suggest a solution to creating a decentralized namespace?

I was just asking this on it's own thread separately (#461828), but I think there's something to learn from Ordinals that might influence the solution space to explore.