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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunin 3 Jun \ on: How to start a conversation with strangers? alter_native
Everyone loves being the subject of conversation, praise and humour. Use empathy and jokes to break the ice and you'll get on well with everyone!
If you have this reputation for your employees... g'luck with the rest! You better hire chadGPT then!
While it is true that employees should be better than their managers, there are no absolutes.
Some of my best employees were those who developed and maintained the relevance of the business processes that their subordinates followed. My favourite Balanced Scorecard (Kaplan and Norton) allowed all personnel to follow a single goal, clearly tracking their own and their department's indicators, as well as those of the entire company.
Open systems win!
And probably that wont change if they keep using it
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but I use ChatGPT every day for simple tasks that don't require much thought.
For example, I use it to:
- preparing simple but personalised responses to dozens of emails;
- to summarise an article or material that I don't want to read in full, but still want to be aware of;
- to check calculations or conclusions that I make on simple tasks for clients. and so on.
Correct, mostly because people itself don't know what their values are, and try to figure out what other value to make it profitable. But is profit, the real value? Strongly held values allow individuals to provide intrinsic value, not because it is their main goal, but as a result of their actions.
Maybe the hardest work isn’t building something profitable, but rediscovering what’s worth building in the first place?
Making real value should come first. But I think a lot of people don't realise how tricky it is to define what value is and for whom. Sometimes the market figures it out before the founder does.
Do you think I could move my business thoughts to ~AGORA?
Thanks for your questions, by the way.
So, to sum up: No, Bitcoin doesn't need KYC, but new social use cases built around Bitcoin like P2P services, borderless collaboration, Network States – often do. We're not enforcing KYC, we're enabling peer-verified personhood — decentralised, voluntary, private by default.
Bitcoin doesn't need KYC. That's exactly why we're not trying to "add KYC on top of Bitcoin" - we're building a decentralised optional trust layer that can support use cases where personhood and accountability are needed, without sacrificing user sovereignty.
Our protocol, Shegby, was inspired by the real-world needs we had when building a P2P marketplace of services - where both buyers and providers need a way to verify trust with each other before entering into a transaction. When people are interacting with each other online, especially when it's across borders, there's a real need to check who they are and what their reputation is, while also keeping their privacy intact. That's the gap we're solving.
You might say our HumanRank system is like Web of Trust, but it's set up like PageRank:
- One person who's been verified can verify another person.
- The trust score decides the ranking of the verifiers.
- It's up to the user to decide who to trust, what to reveal, and to whom.
At the end of the day, we're aiming to create a Network State (inspired by Balaji S.), where the flow of citizenship, collaboration and services between individuals needs to be voluntary but also strong identity models - not reliant on state-controlled systems.
Howdy @lunin, thank you for sharing your project here. The best places to receive support form the bitcoin community are many, Stacke.News is one of them. However I also suggest you to try the following: https://geyser.fund you also have @steliosats and @metamik around here that are able to respond to any question you have. They also have their own dedicated support channels https://angor.io that is next P2P crowdfunding for startups There are also more platforms with a more traditional approach, either case, most of the projects are bitcoin-only. Another detail to consider, is that KYC is not really seen as a good thing around the bitcoin community, for those that understand the implications of doing such thing, stay probably away from such services. Evermore, nostr protocol has an embedded trust system, commonly known as Web of Trust, it does not require KYC and has been proven to be really useful for many use cases. Can you point us to resources that help better understand your project? How and why a sovereign individual would need identity verification? How are you planning to integrate bitcoin and lightning?
You're spot on about KYC. The traditional, centralised version just doesn't work for a lot of people in the Bitcoin ecosystem. That's why we're not building the usual KYC — we're creating a peer-to-peer, user-controlled identity protocol.
With Shegby and HumanRank, there's no central authority, and users don't have to disclose any data unless they want to — and only to the people they trust. Even then, they can decide exactly what to show and even make money from access to that data if they want to.
Basically, we're creating a KYC layer that's all about user privacy, decentralisation and freedom. It's more like "proof-of-personhood" than KYC as the industry knows it.
We think this is really important for getting more people to use Bitcoin in all sorts of situations where you need to prove who you are – but without losing the trustless and censorship-resistant nature of Bitcoin.
I'm happy to share more on how we're approaching this and how it aligns with Nostr's Web of Trust and Lightning-based payment flows. Thanks again for the warm welcome.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Nostria Successfully Completes $30,000 Pre-Seed Funding Round Using Angor Protocol.
https://www.nostria.app/press/pre-seed-fund-raised
Here are some thoughts to kick off the discussion:
I’ve seen a lot of discussion in the Nostr community about the limits of relay scaling — it seems like Nostria is tackling this issue head-on. I'm curious to know if others here have experimented with similar peer-to-peer models.
I'm also wondering about offline message delivery, which I see as a potential challenge. How might a fully P2P protocol handle delayed delivery, especially for mobile users?
Lastly, is it a fair concern that removing relays could increase complexity for developers who are used to the current Nostr model?
I would love to hear how others are thinking about the trade-offs of decentralisation in social protocols.
We would love to get feedback from the SN community:
- What do you think of the approach?
- Are there any technical issues you can see?
- Is anyone here experimenting with alternative Nostr architectures?