I love Kagi and I happily pay for it.

Edit: someone already posted what I had to say

This will reveal my pre-existing bias, but I'm excited for shopstr because despite lots of PoC decentralized markets being built (in fact, censorship-resistant markets was the original idea of nostr), none of them have really reached maturity.

I also think cascadr is really cool. The concept itself is really good, but they're doing some neat design work under the hood as well.

Bitcoin is simply the best money that exists. But I really got here through the completely unrelated avenue of wanting a censorship-resistant social media. The fact that the only protocol really living up to the promise was the one created by bitcoiners just demonstrates how focused bitcoiners are on real solutions rather than hype.

More wrt nostr, but content moderation. There is a tension between censorship resistance and safety (of various kinds). A lot of the content that shows up on the internet is objectionable or illegal. Objectionable content is relatively easy to deal with by using strict web-of-trust filters, but illegal content — especially CP — is very hard to detect, dangerous to handle, and presents a real danger to everyone exposed to it. There are screening techniques that exist, but rely on proprietary databases and hashing algorithms. Open-sourcing those components isn't an option because they're a form of compression, and so always possible to reverse-engineer by attackers. https://about.iftas.org/ is doing some good work in this space in the ActivityPub world.

NIP 65! But really, anything to do with indexing and discoverability. NIP 89 is also really useful for helping people find special purpose clients, and NIP 01's relay hints are super important for helping people who are different relays find the content you're pointing at.

I think we've only really begun to discover solutions to the problem of network partitioning, there is a lot of research still to be done in this area. The fact that kind 10002 is mutable means that you can't easily look up people's relay selections at a point in time. Relay hints are set in stone, but easily become stale. I don't know what a decentralized indexing solution would look like, but this is part of what I mean when I talk about "de-commodifying relays". Relays should have different data sets, and reconciling/navigating them should be core to what nostr does.

I'm one of those grumpy devs who doesn't believe you need https if you're not handling private data. But you're probably right, sigh

I was listening to Marty's interview with Phil Geiger recently, and he mentioned that there is a big education gap for getting people to self-custody right now. I looked around and didn't find much like this, except associated with bitcoin.com which seems exceedingly sketchy, so I decided to put myself out there.

Feedback welcome on the idea and site. Please pass this along to any friends or relatives who want some help getting started.

Shake you rancher's hand

You basically just described my situation and perspective, except I have 3 kids (and a 4th on the way).

This gives me an idea, it would be cool to implement account verification somehow by having accounts sign a message (e.g. the website's domain) with a private key corresponding to a known public key. Then they could prove they own the private key by signing their own domain with the same key and putting that on their website. That's very manual obviously, but it could be systematized I bet.

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