No solutions; only trade-offs. Walking towards a better internet.
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#04 - Ecash Fixes 402
“I don’t believe in Utopia anymore. I’m too old for that.”
In this dialogue:
Where is the Utopia that the internet promised?
“Neither nostalgia nor utopia”
Net Neutrality is a moral stance
Where did the internet go wrong?
Tech as a tool; is tech always neutral?
Technology that increases agency VS tech that enslaves
Competition vs Symbiosis
“Who will run the mints?”
“Anyone” can use it vs “everyone” can use it
Cent
#03 - Data Ownership is a Lie
“You’ll get all that for free if you build it right”
In this dialogue:
01: Start Ugly
02: There is No Global
Concept of ownership & “Read, Write, Own”
Shamir Secret Sharing and Timelocks
“No amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.”
You can’t prove deletion of a key (or anything, really); best you can do is “burn” bitcoin
Data is information, which behaves like an idea (not like an apple)
“If you have an apple and I
#02 - There is No Global
“We do not have the answers."
In this dialogue:
What is this No Solutions thing anyway?
Why dialogue and distributed cognition is so important
Why is nostr exiting for developers?
Evolution, Life, and nostr
What is the perfect nostr app, and why can’t there be THE perfect nostr app?
Why there is no “global” view in nostr
Impossible problems vs. possible (but still hard) problems
Blossom, blossom, and more blossom
Zooko’s Triangle
Freedom Tech Building Blocks
NIP-60
#01 - Start Ugly
“We have the chance of building the next iteration of the internet, and hopefully, not repeat the mistakes of the past."
In this dialogue:
Why starting ugly and shipping early is hard
The ugliest thing that Pablo ever shipped
“Happiness is shipping”
Make it real first, you can make it pretty later
Getting into the habit of shipping
Highlighter and the hang-up of shipping something big
How nostr allows you to have cash flow from the get-go
#value4value for artists and devs
What
#00 - Test Recording / Teaser
A teaser.