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THE NOSTR REPORT

THE ULTIMATE SUPER APP
Apr 6, 2023
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🎙️Quote of the Day🎙️
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“Nostr is the open ecosystem alternative to the super app.”
Rabble (npub1wmr…g240)

quoting nevent1q…24vl

Nostr is the open ecosystem alternative to the super app.

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Rabble (npub1wmr…g240) shares a banger about the race to create the ultimate super-app, and why the open, chaotic, and decentralized nature of #Nostr gives it the best shot. 🌪️

quoting nevent1q…9t8l

Nostr: An Open Super App

The super app is something like WeChat, a single app where you do everything, book a car service, talk to your friends, make purchases online or in person. It's a monolithic do everything app and it's very popular, especially in China.

Silicon Valley tends to make apps that are nothing like the super app. It's because western tech companies don't work anything like Chinese internet companies. Western tech tends to rely on a huge base of open source software but then create these vertically integrated silos of apps that do one thing well with elegant design and not many options. When an app does try to do lots of things we hate it, just look at MS Word.

The vertical integration is narrow. The Chinese super app does everything broadly, but it's not so pretty. SV tends to stagnate, companies are afraid to compete with themselves so they get stuck at a local maximum. Our culture of product development find something that works, and sticks with it. That's why in the west, big companies buy the upstarts. If you're an ambitious entrepreneur, you quit and create a new startup. Most likely you'll fail, but you might do well enough that a big company will you buy you out, or you'll do so well you replace the incumbents.

The last western super app was AOL. And we celebrated its death. Since then it's just been a dream. It was Elon Musk's goal when he bought twitter, it was the story that SBF sold to investors as he pumped up FTX. An app to rule them all.

We don't make a super app because our culture, politics, and economic system don't work like that. We hated being stuck on AOL. Silicon Valley's real super app is the web itself, the browser, linux, smart phones, etc... They're more open, less controlled, more competitive. Our legal system punishes companies that become dominate to eliminate monopolies. Out business culture causes big tech companies to be safe and consistent. Google had the lead in AI yet it was OpenAI that launched ChatGPT in a chaotic barely coordinated 6 week sprint.

Even after AOL, there was a time when silicon valley was moving towards its model of a more open super app. Facebook launched their platform, twitter's api enabled a tremendous app ecosystem. But both companies chose to lock things down. They did it because their only economic model was based on advertising and required their control. The web was slowly enclosed from an open chaotic ecosystem to a platform which monitors users behavior and captured their attention to sell to advertisers.

I think open social protocols we're seeing emerge today, and in particular nostr, could be our super app. Instead a single app that does everything. It's a common social protocol where many apps can be created and run. We've created a system that reflects a set of values around autonomy, openness, decentralization, permissionless participation, privacy, encryption, and yes cryptocurrencies. Without the financial part, we can't make the ecosystem thrive.

We can make a super app, but not one, rather a family of apps, a style of apps that let there be a choices on a common platform. Smart clients, dumb relays, and just enough cryptography to keep it all functioning.

When we build this new open super app protocol, we'll need to create all the things that existed on the centralized social media apps, but also the giant closed super apps. The old model was vertically integrated. Lots of services and businesses were needed to keep it running but they were all controlled by a single company, hidden off from the public. The advertising marketplace, the content moderation, the CDN for fast media delivery, the transcoders for making images and video the right size, the algorithms for deciding what to show you or who you should connect with, the bug tracking, customer support, business development team, legal, compliance, public relations.

We don't like how the vertically integrated ecosystem worked, it didn't provide us agency and autonomy. But most importantly, we didn't have the space to innovate and create. In this new open system, we still need all those services provided by the big companies is needed somehow. We need to meet those same needs, but in new ways.

Users see the frontend of an app, the UX, their experience as a user. But there is so much more, middleware, backend, business operations. All of that will need to be created in a new open ecosystem.

To take one example, moderation, so we don't have to see a constant flow of ISIS beheading videos, some that we can handle with algorithms, but that's also how big social does it today. Even with the best AI minds in the world, a lot slips through. People need to be able to make judgements, and figure out edge cases. I don't like the choices that Facebook, TIkTok, or Elon's Twitter makes, but it doesn't mean we won't need to make those choices. Now we can make it a service where we pay people who do that social labor. And we can choose who we want to do it, making sure their values are alined. We can use a stead stream of payments to all of these services.

Nostr can be the protocol upon which we build an open super app ecosystem which contains multitudes.

elidy (npub1a7n…vfnu) It’s official — #Nostrasia is here! 🤙🏽 The #Nostrica account has taken another form and it seems like we should all start packing ✈️🇯🇵🇨🇳Any ideas or suggestions you have for this un-conference feel free to DM thenostrworld (npub1nst…rg5l)

quoting nevent1q…hwst

Time keeps moving. To find nostrica now, search for nostrasia@nostr.world

#[0]

mcshane (npub16vr…p2va) #Nostrasia official website https://nostr.world/ is live 🔥 💻

quoting nevent1q…ulyd

https://nostr.world/ is live

jack (npub1sg6…f63m) explains why he has removed his NIP-05. Check out his reasoning and let us know what you think. What other solutions would be better?

quoting nevent1q…unaw

I took off my NIP5. I don’t know. I just don’t think it’s the right and accessible solution for individuals. Great for orgs and companies tho.

I don’t have another idea at the moment. Best way you know it’s me atm is my pubkey which was posted to my Twitter account. Drafting off 17 years there.

nos.social (npub1pu3…tfch) The #Nostropical Hackathon has announced their new winners! 🤙 Make sure to ⚡️the winners! 🌴🍍🐠
NostrFollower by Felix (npub1z9n…vycf) and Incognito by mewj (npub1fzd…z4dv) , anton (npub1h72…k5rt) , & neoop (npub1afj…a3sz)

quoting nevent1q…euz0

We can’t spell BUGS without U, especially in Open Source culture 🐞🙇🏽… here’s the latest update on the #Nostropical Hackathon’s Community Voting winner.

Because we conducted the vote transparently on Nostr some users were able to check our work and found different results for the winner. After triple-checking with community members, we indeed found & regret an error in our initial tabulation and announced the winner of the Community Vote. See the image below for the updated correct tabulation.

As noted here…
https://iris.to/note1gct35x084r3l5elv0xyr88v6qc0mn2shcxyyaqdsdngl9h5fa2cqyrgtx6
… it was a neck-and-neck two-way race between:
NostrFollower by #[0]
and Incognito by #[1] #[2] & #[3]

We want to make this right for both teams. So we *added* a Community Vote prize award for 2nd place!

Here’s the correct tabulation for the Community Vote:
1st Place: Incognito - 25,000,000 sats
2nd Place: NostrFollower - 12,500,000 sats

We are sorry for the error, and we are very grateful to this open transparent software culture!

Congrats to both 1st and 2nd place award Community Vote winners!

hackernews (npub1s9c…a9je) Bob Lee, Creator of CashApp and former CTO of Square’s tragic murder leaves a void in the tech world and in the hearts of those who knew him. 🪷🌺🌸

quoting nevent1q…20ql

Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed to Death in SF

Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899 )

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/mill-valley-man-killed-sf-stabbing-17878809.php

Attention devs! btcplusplus (npub1dwa…7c52) announced today the dates for the new bitcoin++ conference! Apr 28-30 in Austin, Texas⭐️ If you are interested in bitcoin layer-2s⚡️ this is the place to be! 🇺🇸

quoting nevent1q…wg64

bitcoin++ is coming up in Austin, Apr 28-30. with a focus on bitcoin layer-2s and what's new in the dev space, don't miss out.

https://btcplusplus.dev/

npub103tex2x0jq52g4yd2yt6lf8cgj8m2yx2jq3l2a4hhjg0cklxeelq7w3uul (npub103t…3uul) Martin Guitars, arguably the world’s most famous guitar company unveils a #Bitcoin ₿ guitar. “PURE signal” 🎸, says npub103tex2x0jq52g4yd2yt6lf8cgj8m2yx2jq3l2a4hhjg0cklxeelq7w3uul (npub103t…3uul)

quoting nevent1q…fvx9

This is PURE signal. The world's most famous guitar company, Martin - a family company - hired Thomas Ripsam to lead the company forward and at the famous NAMM guitar convention, they unveiled a Bitcoin Guitar. PURE signal. The future is now.

https://acousticguitar.com/thomas-ripsam-c-f-martin-and-co-s-first-non-family-ceo/

rock (npub1yau…7h9m) reports that they've had such a great response to the Stemstr Early Access program that they're opening up additional slots for more users. Check it out at https://www.stemstr.app

quoting nevent1q…sa7e

We're so hype about the response to the Stemstr Early Access program! Opening up more slots now so we can keep the invites flowing 🌊

AviBurra (npub1hqa…t56s) Don’t miss #Plebchain Radio tomorrow at 5:45PM EDT, right after #zapathon. Marce (npub1y67…q62h) and corndalorian (npub1lrn…qnw5) from The Nostr Report will give a weekly recap of what happened on Nostr during the Lightning Round, and then this week’s featured guests are CARLA (npub1hu3…h8nh) and walker (npub1cj8…rz4u) . Hope to see you there! https://nostrnests.com/plebchainradio

quoting nevent1q…2a7k

Join #[0]​ and me for the next episode of Plebchain Radio this Friday at 5:45pm ET (15 min after the zapathon ends)

We have a truly special one for you this time. First, #[1]​ and #[2]​ lead us through the Lightning Round with #[3]​

Then, everyone’s favorite Bitcoin couple, #[4]​ and #[5]​ join us to muse about life, the universe, and everything as only they can. I wonder if there will be singing involved?

You definitely don’t want to miss this one. Set your blockclocks!

https://nostrnests.com/plebchainradio

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💻nostr Tech💻
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Vitor Pamplona (npub1gcx…nj5z) Amethyst 0.32.2: Create posts with LN Invoice. 💟
Updates

quoting nevent1q…e76k

Amethyst 0.32.2: Create posts with LN Invoice

- Adds Note preview in Chat and DMs
- Adds tagging for Notes and Users in Chats
- Adds LN invoice creation in new posts
- Adds notifications for profile zaps
- Adds private replies of DMs in Notifications

Performance:
- Initializing index maps with large buffers
- Lazy initialization of the json mapper (300ms)
- Reduces the use of disk access in Account Mgmt

Download:
- Play Edition with Translations: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.32.2/amethyst-googleplay-universal-v0.32.2.apk
- F-Droid Edition without Translations: https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.32.2/amethyst-fdroid-universal-v0.32.2.apk

jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s) Damus update 1.4.1 (5) fixes auto translation, bugsfixes 🪲 against crashes, and more caching that should result in a performance boost when using the app! 🔥

NotBiebs (npub1vp8…npsw) adds "extract" command to https://nostrstuff.com to extract the note ID from a nevent value.

quoting nevent1q…dfvu

#[0] I added an "extract" command to https://nostrstuff.com that extracts the note ID from an nevent value

hodlbod (npub1jlr…ynqn) - Coracle v0.2.22 update brings several updates, including the ability to collaps threads and overall improvements with UI consistency. See full list of changes here.

quoting nevent1q…dkmu

New version of Coooooooraclleeeeeee!

## 0.2.22

- [x] Add ability to collapse threads
- [x] Add titles to overflow menu on note detail
- [x] Re-work streamContext to keep listening for updates
- [x] Render notes within notifications properly
- [x] Remove flag reactions, since they're somewhat redundant with mutes
- [x] Generally improve UI consistency and feel
- [x] Add event id, likers, and zappers to note info popover
- [x] Mutate seen_on to show all relays a given note was found on

mempool (npub18d4…6lt3) Mempool v2.5.0 now available on umbrel (npub1agh…mhct) giving you your own self-hosted Lightning explorer.

quoting nevent1q…4uj0

Mempool v2.5.0 is now available on #[0]!!

Update now to get your very own self-hosted Lightning explorer!

Also included: mined block visualization, historical fiat prices, updated search bar, and much more.

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preston (npub1s5y…6q7z) - Taleb has openly acknowledged his mistake and gone short on Bitcoin. 🤦‍♂️🤭

quoting nevent1q…2glm

On this day, 6 April 2023:
1 BTC = $28,000 USD

“Taleb has openly acknowledged his mistake and gone short on Bitcoin.”

https://u.today/black-swan-author-admits-his-major-bitcoin-mistake

If you haven’t seen it yet, LynAlden (npub1a2c…w83a) ‘s piece 📝 on Bitcoin+Nostr is a must read 📚🟠🟣

quoting nevent1q…z2vr

My Bitcoin+Nostr article is on my website now (originally on Swan a few weeks ago). https://www.lynalden.com/open-networks/

Like many of my articles, it's also on Seeking Alpha now (normie finance).
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4592014-implications-of-open-monetary-and-information-networks

PlebiusEconomus (npub17tj…655z) tells us why the tokenization of everything won’t work, and that the primary focus should be on a sound monetary system.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/dont-tokenize-use-bitcoin

TomerStrolight (npub1mz7…tl8g) wrote a great piece entitled 📝 "The United States of Bitcoin". Check it out!

quoting nevent1q…ejul

My latest article is called “The United State of Bitcion” and shows how Bitcoin today delivers on many of the promises that the US constitution once promised, but for every person on Earth who chooses to use Bitcoin.

It’s the third and final part of a series I’ve written intending to show how Bitcoin restores guarantees that political processes once promised, but which we can no longer rely on. (Links to the first two are in this article.)

https://www.swanbitcoin.com/the-united-state-of-bitcoin/

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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥
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Wake up!
Gu₿i (npub1gpp…z7l5)

quoting nevent1q…vpup

#Bitcoin

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Stay Classy Nostr.