Benjamin Franklin would arise before dawn to read voraciously for hours. I shitpost.…...

Apparently we have run out of data for AI training. What next?…...

This might sound counterintuitive - since #nostr is a relatively open protocol, it’s better to focus one building a singular capability that the whole network can use, rather than adding on ‘features’ which is typical of a walled-garden approach. Embrace the unix philosophy of build one thing and build…...

From 1964: Marshall McLuhan to 1979: Ralph Merkle was the golden age for governance and cryptography. Everything we are building on today comes from the foundational ideas developed during that age.…...

Bitcoin: In proof of work we trust. Lightning: In penalty-based protocol we trust. Cashu:: In blinded signatures we trust.…...

Ralph Charles Merkle — SECRECY, AUTHENTICATION, AND PUBLIC KEY SYSTEMS, published in 1979 The precursor to proof of work. “To solve a puzzle, we must cryptanalyze the cryptogram. Once it is done, we learn the information that was “enpuzzled”, the plaintext of the cryptogram. Just as we can encrypt plaintext to…...