they’re incredibly counter-intuitive for anyone who doesn’t intimately understand cryptography and security, and they make it way too easy for people to make a mistake

it’s a long discussion but there are other ways to handle key management and recovery that don’t require people to manually handle backups

Oh I dont know if I have used it enough yet to say, but I will try to answer:

• It's okay to make the design nicer, I promise.
• It should use Slashtags and Reputation features more deeply
• The jobs page should be priced per day, not per minute, and should have a 1 sat minimum bid.
• it shouldnt be custodial balances
• it should have more leaderboard features for users and post-types and timeframes, etc

maybe it already does some of these things or these are bad ideas, just riffing!

I'm in Kuala Lumpur right now and I recently went to what was billed as a "Bitcoin" meetup.

It was an interesting cast of characters there, a lot of apparently big names in the Malaysian tech and entrepreneurial scene. (One presenter asked "does anyone here not know who I am?" and I was the only person out of 100ish who raised my hand lol).

The thing that struck me was there were only a few other guys there who were actual Bitcoiners, and if they were Maxis they didn't want to talk about that in that group.

Most of these people were working on Ethereum and Solana based startups whose function I couldn't understand in the least, even when I spoke to them at length about what problem these companies and apps were supposed to actually solve. Several of them involved NFT anime type characters which they encouraged us to snatch up while we still could.

Many were curious what this random out of place American dude was doing at the meetup. When I told them I was a long term Bitcoin holder and enthusiast, they sort of treated me as a "cute" old-fashioned fellow, gave me a figurative pat on the head, and "good for you."

I don't know quite what to make of that experience, but I think it relates in some way to the We Are Still Early reality-meme. (WASE)

I think many smart and tech-savvy people feel like they were late to Bitcoin, so they chase the next big thing, and try to outsmart everyone else in some sense. And maybe they are too caught up in the flashy jargon and bells/ whistles of Blockchain™ technology, rather than focused on how it can actually apply in normal people's lives?

I'm struggling to come up with an analogy to what these guys are up to.. are they ahead of their time in some way, like working on the pets.com or similar early 2000's dotcom startups that failed then, but exist now that the internet is more mature?

Are they Betamax enthusiasts? The Betamax was superior tech on paper but just lost the adoption race.

Or are they missing the plot entirely because they never understood the fundamentals of what Bitcoin was invented for in the first place? So they are down some strange dead end path inventing Segway scooters that are "definitely-gonna-change-the world-bro"?

I guess what I'm asking is, where does all the shitcoinery and Blockchain™ tech fit in to this WASE idea? Why are so many smart people missing what seems so obvious to us?

Maybe things are about to shift right now, and the blockchainers will start to realize that they chose the wrong horse, and migrate over. Bitcoin seems like it's starting to go mainstream but it's always hard to tell if I'm just in my own bubble.

https://m.stacker.news/64030

developping a backend (powered by fastapi) to provide nip05, lnaddress paid/free services on a custom domain, with a possible service management directly through nostr DMs for customers.

GME. When I dug into the financial corruption after I'd looked into that saga. That was when I orange pilled, I want out of this corruption and BS.

I'm not going to bore you with the details, you can look them up for yourselves. But when you watch something like that play out in real time and the people who's job it is to enforce the law are either complicit or outright don't care. That's when you know you can't escape the playpen fence they made.

BTC is the wire cutters. The fence has a hole. All you gotta do is crawl through it.

When I was young (10-14 years old) I trusted in the government. I thought different political ideologies have different principles. (I admit...I was naive).
In my university years, I had the opportunity to work as voluntar for a political organisation in my country. An organisation who represent the minority's rights....and when I constated what kind of "murder" it is.....my opinion was changed 180 degrees, and I becomed trustless with any political organisation