We are heading into the season of celebration: 10/31 Bitcoin White Paper Day 11/20 Nostr Day 01/03 Bitcoin Genesis Block Day Celebrate accordingly.…...

Should we celebrate November 20th as #NostrDay ?…...

“Whenever any new medium or human extension occurs, it creates a new myth for itself, usually associated with a major figure: Napoleon and the trauma of industrial change; Chaplin, the public conscience of the movie; H#tler, the tribal totem of radio; Florence Nightingale, human woe by telegraph wire, and…...

"Electric media, however, abolish the spatial dimension. By electricity, we everywhere resume person-to-persin relations as if on the smallest village scale." Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964…...

Going back to the good ole CIA security triad (confidentiality, integrity, availability), my view is that #nostr rounds out the integrity part with signed events and the availability part with relays. Most security methodologies focus solely on the confidentiality part - that’s perfectly fine within a command and control context,...