This was a fun one! Tony and I cover a lot of ground, including:
- Music and its role in society: “He who controls the music controls the mind”
- Why the ad model for monetizing the Internet is not only a panopticon, but also extremely ineffective
- How to find under appreciated long tail Internet content
- How to improve Nostr on-boarding for noobs
- The role of the curator on Nostr
- Permissionless identity creation means evolution can happen much faster
- How Tony uses AI
- How to live a healthy life with (and without) technology; camping is great - in theory
- The balance between contributing to open source and building a company
- Lightning Network as the final settlement layer and Nostr Wallet Connect as the async message layer
- eCash and why Tony is bullish on Fedimint
- Fedimint as its own consensus network
- Nostr evolving into identity for the Internet
- Nostr as the fire hose of raw data - you can build anything with it
- Open source vs. closed source AI development