CD200: UTXO - WISP - BETTER NOSTR

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Happy Bitcoin

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Tuesday,

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freaks. It's your host, Odell, here for another civil dispatch. The show focused on actual Bitcoin

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Our top supporters from last week, awesome rip with Craig Raw was stimmy 40

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HPW with 21,000 sats. He says free samurai in all caps. Damn right. And we got a zap from ride or die freak map 21 with 10,000 sats, and he says great rip.

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Anyway, freaks, I got a great show lined up today.

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Been a long time coming. Can't believe this is his first appearance.

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But we have

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the man, the myth, the legend, UTXO here in the house. How's it going, UTXO?

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Doing great, man. Thanks for having me.

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So I've known you since you were a Bitcoin dev, and now you've decided you finally had enough of Noster apps being unstable and you had to

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jump into the masochism yourself.

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Yeah. That was an unfortunate decision. I make a lot of those starting with Bitcoin now. Here's why here's my worst one with Noster.

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So,

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I mean, wisp is awesome. You have this new app for Android wisp.

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Why should people care?

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Yeah, I don't know if a lot of people were in my shoes, like mostly on the, on the Android side, you would see that a lot of the apps were sort of becoming like more unstable or slower

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or just didn't have basic things. All the apps have them now, but like, we didn't have GIF keyboards, even though that's like the easiest thing in the world to do. And like that took years and there were just, there were many other things like that that I just like, I wish I had them. And then finally AI

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got good enough that I was like, okay,

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I don't have to complain about it anymore. I can just build my own plan.

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I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about AI too. But why is Wisp

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well, let me put it this way first. It's a great app. It's easier said than done. It's hard to make something that's stable and reliable.

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Fundamentally,

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do you think you have a different perspective

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or strategy

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in terms of like how like, what you like, why is Wisp different?

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Yeah, fair question. I think two

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things. One is like, I'm a very heavy nostril user myself, you know, in a bad way.

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I have a very good idea of what I want.

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And probably another like really big aspect is that I'm pretty close to FIA Jeff. You know, I talk to him all the time and

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I follow his ideas, you know, like when he says something is good or something is bad, I actually, I listened to him.

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But really the main thing to take away from Wisp is that, yeah, there's a lot of focus on UX stability,

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making it fast, which is really important because like we have to, our apps have to compete with big tech apps. Like people are not going to come to Noster because it's decentralized,

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like maybe a small portion will, but if we really want mass adoption, like the apps need to be awesome.

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So really I'm like building with that in mind, but at the same time, like we couldn't take

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shortcuts that make big tech fast, like having fun central server like that, that basically sort of kills the idea of Noster. So we started like fundamentally at just using the outbox model, you know? So even if you publish to your own relays, Wisp can find those notes. And what's also cool about that is it actually makes it faster because

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when I'm going out and connecting to, let's say, I don't know, 70 relays,

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I can respond

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to the user with the fastest relay instead of waiting for like one big one, which might be slow sometimes, fast others.

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So it actually even speeds up the experience, I would say.

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So

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first of all, I don't think we said it. First of all, it's wisp.mobile

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is the website,

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and it's Android only.

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For now. You can get it as an APK. I think you can get on the Play Store. Can you get on the Play Store? We're in a beta on Play Store, so only people invited can join, but it should be on Play Store probably The like next

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coolest experience is getting it on Zap Store. I think it all kind of, you just feel like you live in the future.

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You if you download through Zap Store, and you send them a nice fat Zap if you if you like the app, but so UTXO would you do you think is wisp for a mainstream user? Or is it for a power user? Or can it be for both?

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I mean, I certainly think it can be for both. I mean, I would consider myself a power user and it's

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very rarely

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missing anything that I want, but I'm really trying to build it

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for just mass adoption. Normal user, not technical.

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Doesn't know anything about relays or cryptography or private keys. You know, they just sign up. There's money in there. They don't have to sign up for a lightning wallet.

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Just just money can just go into their account right away. They don't know how any of it works and it all just works.

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So I'm really hoping that's the case, but I don't know, time

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will tell, but that is my goal at least is to make it appealing to just any Twitter, Instagram user, Twitch user,

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anything like that.

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Makes sense to me. So I on that note, I really like so we

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a prime will be integrated

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spark wallet. I saw you chose the same route.

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It makes I mean, it makes the lightning onboarding super easy.

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Yeah, and straightforward.

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And you have full Zap support full on chain support.

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User doesn't have to manage liquidity. User doesn't have to have Bitcoin or receive Bitcoin.

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The backups are interoperable.

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So you can take a seed created in Primal and just put it into

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Wisp, which is really cool and vice versa. You made a decision that we had disagreement with on the Primal team and we went the opposite direction,

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which is you encrypt you you give the user the option to encrypt their seed with their NSEC and then back it up to relays.

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So all they need is their NSEC. And as long as they have their NSEC, they also back up their wallet, which by the way, I love that. If you can tell which side of the disagreement I was in Primal HQ, I think that is such a great UX. So kudos on that.

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Yeah, thanks. And actually, credit goes to the Daniel, who is the one who built that. Actually with like, even though WISP shows you, Hey, you should do that. We back it up anyway. It just happens automatically.

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And this has already saved a few users from

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losing their money. Of course it was like, you know, 3 pennies or something. Yeah.

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But they said, they're like, oh man, I forgot to click on this. And I was like, oh, don't worry about it. You know, it's already on all the relays.

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Yeah. And the cool part there, a handy feature.

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The cool part there is I mean, obviously, like, it's great that they can't that it makes it much more difficult for them to lose their money. But just from like a UX point of view, it's really cool. Because what it means is like, if someone opens Whisp for their first time,

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and another wallet is doing this spec,

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then basically,

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all they do is paste in their NSEC, and then all of a sudden their wallet and all everything is all set up and already ready to go. It all comes in one.

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That feels really smart to me. What do you say to the haters about Spark?

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Well, the

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first thing I would say is

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Noster Zaps,

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come on, man. Like even the biggest accounts are not making money on Zaps. There's nothing.

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You could lose that money and it'll be totally fine.

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I think if you're comparing it to a custodian, because here's the truth,

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90% or whatever of Nosser is using a custodian, if it's not Spark,

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it's actually harder for Spark to rug. I'm not saying they can't rug, they can absolutely,

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but it's harder for them to do it than

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a provider. Like I'll just pick on myself, like node lists, like let's say I was trying to run it. Like I could rug it way easier than Spark could. So that's why, but of course I don't keep any real money in there. Like whatever that amount is for you, 10, $20, whatever, withdraw it to your own node, withdraw it on chain. Just keep your fun play Noster money on there, throw your pennies around and don't worry about things like that. They're, they're much more important things to worry about. It's spending cash. It's how much, I mean, I don't know if it's good for this generation, but it's like how much cash you put in your back pocket when you go out at night And, you know, you might get mugged on the street. I've that in some cities, that's probably more likely than a spark rug, but it's spending cash. You should think of it that way. And then the other piece is the privacy piece,

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which I don't know how you're handling zaps, but in our case,

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it's, you know, Primal and Spark have insight into your transaction history. You know, I think for Nostril specifically, most zaps are

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most zaps are public zaps. So you're not actually losing real privacy there. Obviously, it could be more private. It could also be way less private. But it's an interesting trade off balance. And I think it's just it just works really well today.

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So we'll see if something better works in the future.

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I'll say for primal at least we would switch. I think you'd probably say the same.

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Yeah. And I think when it comes to like, to privacy, like it's absolutely, it's not a privacy tool by any means. It's in fact, it's sort of designed for the opposite of that. Like we want to show our zaps on Noster and publish notes about it. So

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in this case, like using it just for a Noster Zap wallet, I think

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like trading off privacy is the right thing to trade off in this case.

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Yeah. Yeah. It's just a really cool onboarding tool. You so you did something

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So I figure

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the structure, the general structure of Freaks that I'm gonna go with here and UTXO for that matter is we're gonna talk about the details of WISP, and then I wanna go higher level with UTXO because I think he thinks about things interestingly.

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You made a really

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wild out there decision and you've changed the name of Zaps to send money

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and you've denominated them in dollars. Defend yourself.

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All right. Well, the first thing I'll say is when you sign in with Amber or a signer, you will never see that. Okay.

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No one's That's your mainstream hurdle?

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Basically.

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Yeah. I don't think any normie is gonna go on Google Play and then like, go download Amber. Like there's just no way they're gonna do that. So only people who sign up for like a brand new NSEC are gonna see that. But I think it makes, I don't know. This is my thesis is that a lot of people hate Bitcoin. They see Bitcoin and they're like, oh, it's crypto, Donald Trump or like whatever.

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And then they just run away or they think it's a big crypto

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scam that we're running with this app. So that's my thesis. I don't know. Maybe it's right, maybe it's wrong. We're about to find out. So that was my big decision for

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doing it. And I don't see the problem at all. It's not like I'm using stable coins or anything. I'm just literally doing a conversion rate. That's literally all I've done. She's changing the label,

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but you'd be surprised, man. So like just quickly on that on West, here's another controversial thing I did for Sats.

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I used the B symbol.

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Okay. I didn't use the lightning symbol because lightning is not Sats. Like lightning is lightning or Zaps, but it's not Sats.

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That's not a unit.

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So I was like, at least Bitcoin

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is a unit.

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And people are like, I'm never downloading WISP.

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You are using the I Bitcoin

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hate the Bitcoin logo. It's like, oh my God.

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Some people are out of their minds, man. But anyway, yeah.

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Yeah. I mean, to be clear, I I'm I like the send money experiment.

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It should be interesting to see how it plays out.

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I don't think this I don't think it's necessarily a bad decision. I think it's kind of clever that you

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make it a default on basically fresh onboarding.

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I think that differentiates people decently. Well, I think it's a very like low lift way of differentiating

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a power user versus a

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new normie. I mean, I think there should be more experimentation

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on

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these little things, these light touch things that actually do mean a lot to a new user as they come in. I think the biggest confusion you might

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be present with is

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if Bitcoin goes up or down significantly, which it tends to do. It

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has a history of doing that. And I know from example, the Samurai developers, basically, they had so many support requests

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for like, I had $50 in my wallet, and now I have $20 in my wallet, that they just removed dollars altogether. They were like what you know, most wallets, even if you default to Bitcoin, you still show the dollar amount. And even in that situation, you have issues. So there's always like UX issues around it. But just something in terms of messaging to users,

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you know, you have Bitcoin in here. So this is,

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you know, your your 10¢ might be worth 50¢, your 50¢ might be worth 25¢,

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You could proactively get around some confusion. But generally,

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I love the idea of send money. It's like nor it just normalizes Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the best money. I'm just sending money to someone. I'm receiving money from someone. I think about it most most people think about in dollars, even the most diehard Bitcoiners are constantly thinking about the conversion rate. I start every episode with it. You know, that that is probably the more useful number. You also probably I think it probably pushes zaps up, which is

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something to think about. Because right now, it's like, okay, you like, you don't think about you send 111 satch like I send so much. But like you sent them less than a dime.

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Exactly. Honest. I am normie mode is not released yet. That's gonna be when Google Play is approved, it's gonna be released but I'm running that build right now for myself. And honestly,

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can see it. Like if I'm gonna zap you 21¢, the, or 21 stats, the exchange rate today is 1.5¢.

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Like that's actually,

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I feel kind of like I'm insulting somebody. It's a fun thing. You're flipping

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them a penny. Imagine if you walk past a homeless person or no, even worse, a musician or something, he's playing a beautiful song. You walk up and you just super confidently, by the way, you just flick him a penny. Massive disrespect.

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Yeah, exactly. For me personally,

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it has increased my

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Zap amounts because, yeah, it's too low. When you look at it in pennies, it's too low, man. It's offensive.

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Just to me, just to me, I'm not saying other people it's offensive. Okay. I'm just saying for me, I feel bad when it looks like a penny.

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Yeah. But in stats form, it's not offensive. Like if someone sends me 21 stats with like a salute emoji, I'm like, wow, respect. Yeah, absolutely.

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Cause that's a real money, you know, like a penny is just totally worthless.

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Yeah. It's interesting. It's a let us know. I think there's a bunch of us that are actually interested in the experiment. So as it unfolds, I'm sure you will update us on Noster, but, I'm pretty interested. And I will say when the build comes out, I will, I'll create a fresh NSEC just to,

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can I if I'm a power user, assume in the settings, I can just toggle back and forth? Right? Yeah. Okay.

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So I'll just do that. I I would like to live on the normie

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send money route for a little bit and see what happens. Okay. Next next item on the agenda

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that doesn't exist is we got into a little bit of a tiff about the follower counts.

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Think.

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How do you feel about follower counts?

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That's my question for you. Yeah. I mean, I don't. The number one thing is there's literally

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no

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possible way to get accurate count. It is not possible. So no matter who tries and how you calculate it, everyone's gonna have different numbers and agree like what is like, what even is a follower? You know, like if What is a follower?

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What if my let's here's a really real example, right? Like maybe I want my relay to always pull your notes and I

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just put a like throwaway NPUB to always follow Odell's thing and pull it into my relay. Like, is that a user? Is that a follower? Yes.

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Okay.

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Like me personally, I kinda think it has to be a human.

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But who set that up?

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Who set up the that it has to be a human?

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No. No. No. Like, did a did a computer do that all by himself or did a did a human set up that?

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Human

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set up that. A human set it up.

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man, but like the way

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it it's, it's really, it's really tough, man. I mean, I don't know. Don't know the exact correct answer.

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I don't pretend to know the right answer either. I mean, so this goes I think there's a couple intertwined

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aspects here. Right? Follower counts, like what users see, engagements.

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Right? So like likes and reposts and stuff.

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also just like total network user metrics.

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this is the first time,

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like the real first time at scale where

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different front ends, different apps can interpret all that data in different ways.

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Right? And it's and so it's it's open to interpretation in a big way. While in closed tech land,

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like on TikTok,

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how do they count followers? You know? But I mean, they no one knows. And it is also a bullshit metric. There's no absolute number.

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It doesn't exist even in central media, you know, centralized corp corporate

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follower account. So then the question I think becomes, okay, who is the user and what is most useful to them?

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And I I think that's kind of how you have to go from it. So I think you had some really interesting ideas around that. So how, like, how are you thinking about that?

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So for me, when I even think about follower counts or stats in general.

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I think a huge purpose of stats, especially like for big companies is to like blow up their valuations or to like look better, you know? But for, for Noster,

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I mean, there are businesses like, okay, Primal wants to show good numbers. They're a business. Right. But maybe like an open source project would

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I'm not really sure. But for me, I think where follower count is actually useful and what we've done in WISP is only show

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followers that are in your network.

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The reason for this, it helps me find people who I probably should follow because other people in my network also follow them. It's not really about account. It's about how, like, sure I should be that this is going be a good follow-up. So it's people you follow,

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it's people you follow,

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who follow people

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that follow you.

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People you follow

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and who they follow

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that follows this other person. The person that follows me. Sure. Yeah.

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So if you follow nobody,

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you would get nobody.

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That's right. That's right.

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And it will scale. Like, let's say you follow 10 people, you prob your extended network will probably be like a 100 people.

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What? Cause they follow an average 10 people each.

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And there would be overlap and dedupe.

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Is this the view you show? If I go

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from my account,

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Is that the follower count that shows your network, not my network? It shows your network. So it's so it's Odell. How many people? So it's people that follow you

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that I follow?

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Yes. Or they follow? Yes. It's relative to you. It's not like a global state. It's always relative to people If looking at I go to your account, it's showing something different than if Pablo goes to your account. Yes.

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That's pretty cool. I like that. Yeah. So it's that way it's more personalized. It's actually like useful to the user. It's not just like a ego number or something. It's actually just helping me make a better feed, make a better decision. But I, you know, maybe that's not even a follower account.

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That sounds to me more like a reputation score.

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I mean, it could be what people will say to that is that just because I follow you doesn't mean I'm trying to give you plus reps. You know, like, I might think you're a total dick, but it does. There's plenty of there's ways for you to,

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to track what someone's saying without following them if you don't want to.

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That's just lazy.

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centralized,

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like the corporate alternatives. But

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don't take it as a full on endorsement. Like they shouldn't be like watching your children or like, I don't even know, like hiring them for a job or something. But there's at least a slight nod that I'm, you know, there's a mutual respect. That's why I'm following them.

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But maybe at least the content is is somewhat quality. Like, otherwise, I wouldn't follow.

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Yeah. Building like a web of trust here. That's

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I mean, the reason I bring that up, though, is because like, oh, is it a reputation scores of follower counts? Because I think that's very useful.

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And I could see a world obviously, I'm

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been the most focused on primal, I could see the world where that is shown

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under what we show as follower count.

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to try and

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fake it till you make it get people into Noster.

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Because that's what they're doing. Like,

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to the idea of normies, right? It's like they're used to the upper bound x gives you the upper bound.

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Facebook gives you the upper bound tick tock gives you the upper bound.

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we're always gonna be on a back foot.

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Yeah. I mean, bring up a really good point, man. And like,

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it's absolutely true. But I guess what really

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when I put out that the web of trust relay, it was like a year and a half ago or something.

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I remember it specifically. So Primal was out. I had something like 9,000 followers or something Primal. And then all these bots are trying to break my relay with web trust. And then like four days later, have 17,000 followers.

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know that they're just end pubs that just got created and then thrown away. Right. Human.

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So just, I guess to me, it's just like, I just I know how fake the number is. Right? And it bugs me. Not

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necessarily fake. It's just measuring something different.

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think it's I like, I honestly think it's defensible.

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if the question is, okay, I want to do

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on Noster and try and improve it,

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improve its adoption and retention, I think retention is something that we have a lot of problem with more. It's like, it's even worse than just a straight adoption because if someone's first touch is bad, the second touch is so much harder to get. I think the upper bound is pretty much useless to you. And

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also the highly con the very conservative bound is also probably useless. And what is helpful is somewhere in the middle. And my guess is when you think about,

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big tech social media,

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that's probably how they're thinking about it too. It's like to their shareholders,

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they do the upper bound number. And then internally, like if they're actually trying to do productive, pragmatic growth statistics and stuff, it's somewhere in the middle.

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But the lower bound also, I think hurts us.

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Because it's like,

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you're you're, you're heavily discounting a large portion of people like I do believe that 90% of people are lurkers or something. And there's really there's really no way to algorithmically

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remove that. And so I do like your setup

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where it's not trying to do either of those. It's just like, okay. It's it's in network,

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basically reputation, but I like I like that as a concept. I don't know. It's complicated. And there's no obvious answer here.

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Yeah. And I guess just the really big thing is that like, you know, I whatever follower account you want, I could just make a bot to give you that number, you know? So I feel like the the web of trust or like some kind of AI inference or some like, you need some number, especially because at least on Twitter and Instagram, there's a cost to signing up. Like you need an email address or a phone number or some sort of friction, but an MPUB, I can literally make a million MPUBs in ten seconds

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with no cost and three lines of code.

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The accounts are way cheaper on Noster, so it's, I don't know, man. To be fair, we do do some limited,

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like if you create, if you do like 10,000

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we we do some limited scraping off the top, but it's mostly upper bound.

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Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I

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it's just a theory,

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and there's no way to prove it, and that's the fucked up part.

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But when TikTok

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was starting off, like, I wouldn't be surprised if they had like a hard coded your follower count increases by 1% every day. Yeah, you know, there was people that were like posting like beard chugging videos, they're like, I got a million followers.

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Noster doesn't exist in a vacuum.

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kinda have to play the game. I think I I wanna see more game players in Noster. We don't have enough. And that's why I respect

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Wisps game because I it's good to have

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more game players that are like willing to like actually

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fight off the fight with the status quo. Like you, it's like being a pacifist and going to war is kind of how I think about it. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. And look, like you did convince me. So Noster archives,

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another product, I know we didn't get into this, but Noster archives is like the analytics site that I built and

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we're way more relaxed with the filters on that. So like, you know, the counts will be semi similar to Primal.

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You'll see on follow accounts or daily active users. Like, we're just looking for at least one signal. Like, maybe you lurk, but you got if you just like something,

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that's enough. You know?

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But if you truly just lurk They might not even have it. They might not even have an MPUB.

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Like, that's like, isn't the

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think part of the problem with Bitcoin is it had way too many philosophers came into Bitcoin. So I'm not trying to be a Nostril philosopher.

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the idea of a user with Nostril does is a very blurred line because the concept of user really comes from

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centralized walled gardens.

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Right? And so I've made mostly in jest in the past.

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Every human is an active user of Noster because they can always read a note without permission. Like they don't need to sign in.

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They period they don't need to sign in. So and I know this for a fact, because I, you,

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I have many haters.

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I don't know if the freaks are aware. But there's a there's a lot of people that hate me. And they just look at my post at primal.net/odell.

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Like they don't have a Nostrad account. They hate Nostrad.

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But they know what I'm posting. And I know because when every once in a while, it pops off, and there's screenshots

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that get circulated around.

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And then all the people that are looking at the screenshots, they're obviously,

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they don't have MPUBs.

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So it does blur the lines. Like, what what is a user?

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I don't know.

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Yeah. I I also don't know, man. This is definitely a question for the philosophers. We're gonna get Gigi in here to talk about it, man.

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Gigi is one of our best philosophers. He's a

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he's a practical philosopher. But it does make I don't know. It it makes me

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it's just something to think about. Like, I do think,

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you know, every good meme is based on reality.

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There we do not have that many users of Noster. And it's probably better for us to be realistic about that and try and grow the number. But then also sometimes I just feel like

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the community or whatever goes in the opposite direction a little bit too hard.

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And like, I mean, I do have some thoughts on this is like, a lot of times, if you ask the,

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all the people who are left on Noster is this is like survivorship bias, right? It's like most of the people who tried Noster have left, like probably 98,

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97% of all people who tried Noster, like never came back. And all the people who really liked Noster stayed and think that it's fine. Like, and of course they do because

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they're the only ones left. All the just weirdos who liked it stayed.

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But if we want those 97%

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of people who didn't stay, we need a different product for them or different experience so that next time they will stay. What

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do you get from like,

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I mean, so we met each other through the Bitcoin community, like, obviously, we've been in the Bitcoin community for a while.

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What do you take from like, there's is not even a

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it's not even that the Bitcoin community didn't adopt

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Noster and mass

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or that a portion of the Bitcoin community is ambivalent to Noster.

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It's like there's like 40 to 50%

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of at least a Bitcoin x community that fucking hates Noster.

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Where do you think that comes from? Is that solvable? Or is that just

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you just say

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it is what it is and that's done now?

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don't know, these are just guesses and thoughts is that they're trying to defend their

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follower counts or like the accounts that they built up on Twitter and like Noster sort of threatens that. Even though that's so stupid because if you just come to Noster, everyone's gonna follow you there. Like,

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what are you talking about? You know? Like, I don't know. Do you lose your followers Odell when you came over on Noster?

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Percent. Yeah. Nobody follows you on Oscar. It's true. No, no. I mean, like, I think

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quote unquote, reach is definitely diminished.

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Of course.

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I think because you don't get the mainstreams.

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But what's cool about Noster is the ride or dies, right? It's where the ride or dies dwell without permission. And it's already a massive success in that regard. The question is, does it ever get

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velocity?

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I think is the is the better question. And I do think it's funny with Noster that

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but but that's solvable by you don't have to go like full Odell and delete your fucking,

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you know, massive x account. You can keep that. And you can still use Noster for different things. I think it's a little bit disappointing. A lot of people say that there's too much Bitcoin stuff on Noster.

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And as a result, I've tried to go out of my safety zone, which is like usually I historically, X was my only social media, And I only talked about Bitcoin.

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And because I'm such a quote unquote, large account on Noster,

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I felt compelled to like,

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you know, here's a blurred picture of my children or whatever, you know, like here, I have other hobbies, like, here's the gun I carry, you know, I'm trying to like,

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spread the message. But also at the same time,

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it's frustrating, because if there's 20 more Bitcoiners,

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like high value Bitcoiners that start using Noster actively, it would be way more useful to me. Like there's not that I need more Bitcoin content.

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But it's not necessarily that many people. It doesn't have to be 10,000 people. There's like a select 5,100

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people that if they started using Noster even

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infrequently,

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it would be be much better experience for me.

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I agree. And even there's there's a bunch of Bitcoiners who are like primarily on x, and then they occasionally

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will come like safety and just came the other day and posted on Noster, you know, like, yeah, why don't you just always post on Noster bro? Like, why is it just like once a year? Like, what are you doing? And so if just a few more of those guys came to Noster or just like, I don't know. Have you ever heard them articulate

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why they don't like Noster? Like a specific reason? Or they're just like, oh, it's just stupid and it's gonna die even though it never dies?

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00:34:55.640 --> 00:34:58.600
I mean, that's what I'm trying to, I know there's,

389
00:34:59.640 --> 00:35:01.160
and I'll try and stay humble here,

390
00:35:02.214 --> 00:35:03.975
that I was a little, like,

391
00:35:04.694 --> 00:35:07.975
some of the blame probably comes to me because I was a little aggressive

392
00:35:08.214 --> 00:35:10.215
in the earlier days of Noster.

393
00:35:10.454 --> 00:35:11.735
And so there's,

394
00:35:11.815 --> 00:35:15.655
there's a group of people that hate me, so they hate Noster. And then there's,

395
00:35:31.215 --> 00:35:33.775
That's the key. That's the keys.

396
00:35:34.015 --> 00:35:34.815
But

397
00:35:35.455 --> 00:35:39.935
yeah, I don't pretend to know all the answers. I mean, with primal, we're just trying to build

398
00:35:41.695 --> 00:35:42.895
a very,

399
00:35:42.975 --> 00:35:58.170
you know, user forward app that is takes reasonable trade offs. Because look, at the end of the day, like these people use X, there's a shit ton of fucking trade offs that they're taking. And there's there's probably like a happy middle ground. And I respect the fact that a lot of people like their first touch was

400
00:35:58.730 --> 00:35:59.609
disastrous,

401
00:35:59.609 --> 00:36:00.890
and then they just never came back.

402
00:36:03.545 --> 00:36:09.944
Yeah. And I mean, you know, fair enough, especially years ago when we're just like getting started. We have like astral.ninja

403
00:36:09.944 --> 00:36:13.785
or whatever like, yeah. Okay. That that was super made my key, by the way.

404
00:36:14.430 --> 00:36:15.390
On Astral?

405
00:36:15.550 --> 00:36:17.790
It hasn't been compromised yet.

406
00:36:19.230 --> 00:36:26.510
Any day now. I just I think my old account was Astral, but then I I made it in browser. I made it in browser live on a dispatch.

407
00:36:28.635 --> 00:36:35.595
And I've been using it ever since. That's what I think is so funny. Like people like, Oh, you guys use Amber, like, blah, blah, blah. It's like, okay.

408
00:36:36.075 --> 00:36:39.275
Like, I just raw dog this NSEC all over the place.

409
00:36:39.915 --> 00:36:47.109
And one day, it'll probably get compromised. And I'll send out a post being like, I got compromised. And then I'll signal next to UTXO

410
00:36:47.109 --> 00:36:47.990
GG,

411
00:36:48.150 --> 00:36:56.390
Pablo, a couple other people in my personal web of trust. And they'll be like Odell got hacked, because he's raw doggies and sec everywhere. And this is his new

412
00:36:56.875 --> 00:37:01.115
and sec. And then there we just solved key rotation. Like it's not really that big of a deal.

413
00:37:01.835 --> 00:37:06.795
Exactly. Was just saying the same thing. Was getting into an argument with someone on Oscar about this. Look at American huddle.

414
00:37:06.955 --> 00:37:09.435
Many Twitter accounts did that guy have? Think he got to know.

415
00:37:10.700 --> 00:37:19.099
Yeah. And whatever, he got his followers back every single time. And most people are also not American hodl. They have like 80

416
00:37:19.579 --> 00:37:20.700
friends or

417
00:37:20.940 --> 00:37:29.605
200 followers or whatever. You'll get them back. It's not that serious to lose a key. I would just say when it comes to like, you know, raw dogging insects,

418
00:37:29.605 --> 00:37:32.165
the the main way you'll get screwed is

419
00:37:32.325 --> 00:37:39.365
by accidentally pasting it somewhere else. It's the handling of the key material. Yeah. It's not really the app. It's not like the app that's yeah.

420
00:37:40.220 --> 00:37:42.780
It's in your clipboard and then you know,

421
00:37:44.460 --> 00:37:51.420
it to Facebook or something. I am yeah, I don't think it's I think that's a funny one. Just like from a practical standpoint.

422
00:37:52.595 --> 00:37:58.595
Yeah. And it's always just a private web of trust. You know, it's like, oh, a signal message comes in from American HODL. He's like, I made another

423
00:37:58.994 --> 00:38:00.835
I made another Twitter account.

424
00:38:02.994 --> 00:38:12.000
Okay. What else do we wanna talk about? I want to talk about I saw you playing around with like the AI tools you have. First of all, with why

425
00:38:13.200 --> 00:38:27.455
when iOS, if you really want the norm, if you want the Bitcoin Twitter influencers to use it, they're going to need an iOS app. Yep. It's it's true. It's true that just stay tuned for maybe some news on that. Maybe not. We'll see.

426
00:38:28.175 --> 00:38:33.215
But I'm, I am very aware that normies like iOS. I am not oblivious

427
00:38:33.215 --> 00:38:39.240
to that. You should make the iOS one should be send money only. There's no way to Exactly. Get into Bitcoin

428
00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:43.800
Yeah. They want their Bitcoin mode for iOS.

429
00:38:47.240 --> 00:39:13.580
So AI tools, how are you thinking about them? To me? That's like the new rabbit hole. I'm like fascinated by it. Oh yeah. I'm, I'm super, I'm getting so deep into like the local AI and setting up your own rigs and doing this kind of thing right now. Oh, AI is, AI is crazy, man. Like I'm, I don't know. I think a lot of people like there's call it like slop or, oh, it's just like, know, there's a lot of slop. Of course there's a lot of slop for sure. But it is slop too.

430
00:39:14.299 --> 00:39:18.059
Yeah. A lot of human slop. I would say for coding it's,

431
00:39:18.545 --> 00:39:21.185
it is legit, man. Like it actually,

432
00:39:21.345 --> 00:39:38.730
you know, like I am a coder. Okay. I spent like twenty years learning to code. Okay. And this thing runs circles around me. It makes me look like a terrible dev. And that's okay. I just had to like, go of that identity. You know, I'm just, that's okay. The robot beat me. So now I have to wield the robot, you know, like that's

433
00:39:39.210 --> 00:39:40.810
all there is to it. So I think,

434
00:39:41.450 --> 00:39:46.650
I don't think AI is a bunch of slob, especially for coding. Like I think Claude is absolutely insane.

435
00:39:47.765 --> 00:39:58.165
That's sort of like my high level thoughts, but really what I'm super excited about is the open source models that are coming out now, man. Like Quen 3.6 is legitimately

436
00:39:58.165 --> 00:40:08.600
a good model. Like if you, I know, I know my little bot that I made this morning has like, some bugs a little retarded, but like completely retarded. Yeah. It's completely retarded.

437
00:40:09.640 --> 00:40:17.125
Quan 3.6 can run open claw, like, and do web searches and pretty much do everything other than coding.

438
00:40:17.365 --> 00:40:21.925
And you can run that on pretty cheap hardware today. What are you are you running in locally?

439
00:40:22.085 --> 00:40:23.525
That bot? Yeah. Locally.

440
00:40:24.005 --> 00:40:31.930
Yeah. It's all local. It's on my GPU server. What is it running on? What is it running on? So I have four thirty ninety RTX

441
00:40:31.930 --> 00:40:32.810
GPUs and

442
00:40:33.289 --> 00:40:34.330
then they're,

443
00:40:35.369 --> 00:40:37.770
it's served up with VLLM.

444
00:40:38.010 --> 00:40:40.250
It's like a, yeah, like a server

445
00:40:40.795 --> 00:40:44.555
software and yeah, it can handle something What does that cost?

446
00:40:45.995 --> 00:40:52.155
Well, if you wanted to buy it today, it'll cost a lot. But the thing is I, I have it Is as a that like $10,000

447
00:40:52.155 --> 00:40:57.200
or is what is it? I think each RTX is probably like $3,000

448
00:40:57.200 --> 00:41:01.920
right now. So just GPU is probably like ten to twelve thousand fifteen k build.

449
00:41:02.640 --> 00:41:08.865
Yeah. Something like that. But I built this like three years ago, and it was way cheaper. I got those GPUs for, $600.

450
00:41:08.865 --> 00:41:09.745
That's wild.

451
00:41:10.225 --> 00:41:16.865
Yeah. So they're way cheaper. And it's even the RAM. Like, I'm pretty sure I spent, like, $200 on RAM. The RAM I have now is, like, $2.

452
00:41:18.625 --> 00:41:19.585
Physical commodities.

453
00:41:21.099 --> 00:41:21.740
Yeah.

454
00:41:21.980 --> 00:41:33.099
But what I will say though, is like, I set it up to run as a server so that, you know, dozens of people on Noster can all use it. If you just wanna use it for yourself, you do not need to build like that. You just need one GPU.

455
00:41:35.085 --> 00:41:35.725
This is,

456
00:41:36.525 --> 00:41:50.850
this is quench three, six. I thought, I mean, the latest one I saw was three, five. Did they just come out with three, six? They just came out with 36. Yeah. And it's a, it's a mixture of experts. So it runs way smaller. It, like most of the responses are on 3,000,000,000 parameters,

457
00:41:50.930 --> 00:41:53.730
which is like super small and fast, but it's still

458
00:41:54.050 --> 00:41:55.010
really smart.

459
00:41:55.410 --> 00:41:55.970
Yeah.

460
00:41:56.530 --> 00:41:56.930
They,

461
00:41:58.290 --> 00:42:00.450
I mean, I thought it was kind of cool

462
00:42:00.835 --> 00:42:02.515
with your bot that

463
00:42:03.075 --> 00:42:11.155
you just like it just understands Noster. So you just pay it with Zaps, and then it and then it proceeds. You start to see, like, the real

464
00:42:13.075 --> 00:42:14.275
like, it's all coming together.

465
00:42:14.930 --> 00:42:23.810
Right? It's like you got the masterpiece, you got the Bitcoin piece, you have the open source AI piece, and they just really complement each other really, really well. Yep.

466
00:42:24.210 --> 00:42:26.130
Does it make you more bullish on master?

467
00:42:27.735 --> 00:42:36.215
I mean, I hope my actions speak harder than my words on how bullish I am on Noster, man. Like I am mega bullish. Well, here's what I,

468
00:42:36.855 --> 00:42:38.215
I don't know

469
00:42:39.335 --> 00:42:42.215
what, how other people are gonna perceive Noster.

470
00:42:42.215 --> 00:42:42.695
And it's,

471
00:42:43.200 --> 00:42:49.600
at the end of the day, this is network effect technology, right? I can be bullish all I want. If other people don't adopt it, then it doesn't matter.

472
00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:52.160
But I just legitimately

473
00:42:52.160 --> 00:42:54.080
just like looking out at

474
00:42:54.640 --> 00:42:57.200
the world and like social and communications,

475
00:42:57.200 --> 00:42:59.204
like I just can't see

476
00:42:59.525 --> 00:43:00.244
it's

477
00:43:00.805 --> 00:43:03.685
so good, man. There's just, there's nothing

478
00:43:03.765 --> 00:43:08.244
that comes close to as good as Nostril is. And I just can't believe that people don't see it.

479
00:43:10.580 --> 00:43:13.220
Yeah, we have I mean, we have everything except the people.

480
00:43:13.540 --> 00:43:16.580
I just that one key part. I

481
00:43:17.780 --> 00:43:22.900
so I mean, do you use the frontier models to the proprietary top of line,

482
00:43:23.300 --> 00:43:24.900
America made NSA tech

483
00:43:25.845 --> 00:43:27.045
four seven.

484
00:43:27.765 --> 00:43:28.245
Absolutely.

485
00:43:28.565 --> 00:43:32.405
The only reason whisp is good is because Claude is good. That's literally So

486
00:43:33.045 --> 00:43:36.005
I mean, the gap between that and the whatever

487
00:43:36.005 --> 00:43:37.045
quint three,

488
00:43:37.365 --> 00:43:37.445
or

489
00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:42.119
I don't know what the Google's

490
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:44.840
recent open source model is actually pretty good.

491
00:43:45.160 --> 00:43:48.040
Yeah. Gemma four. Yeah. Gemma four.

492
00:43:48.440 --> 00:44:01.555
The gap is still fucking huge. Yeah. It's not it's not even close, man. But for coding, it's not, but for like chatbot, let's say like chat GPT, just want to like talk to it, research stuff. It actually is comparable now, man.

493
00:44:02.435 --> 00:44:04.195
I really hate the,

494
00:44:04.435 --> 00:44:08.595
like the reply, spam bot stuff. Like who do they think they are? Like, it's obvious

495
00:44:09.050 --> 00:44:10.570
what's going on there.

496
00:44:11.130 --> 00:44:25.805
And they must be spending a bunch of money unless they're running local models. They're running local models for a fact. The Bitcoin libertarian. Do you know who I'm talking about? The guy who's like responding with like in Spanish too, he's got an English one and a Spanish one that responds every one of my posts.

497
00:44:26.204 --> 00:44:30.605
Yep. Bitcoin libertarian was a base truth, a primal

498
00:44:30.605 --> 00:44:31.484
diet,

499
00:44:31.645 --> 00:44:39.085
or there's all sorts of them. But my primal diet, what is that he just responds to every one of my posts being like, this didn't discuss meat.

500
00:44:40.530 --> 00:44:41.410
It's like,

501
00:44:41.650 --> 00:44:45.730
bro. It's so fucking stupid. But my It's gonna get worse.

502
00:44:46.370 --> 00:44:58.325
My end spam model catches all of those, man. You don't see any that one. About let's talk about the end spam. So this runs locally on a relay and it's a very, very lightweight local model. Right? It runs on your phone.

503
00:44:59.125 --> 00:45:02.165
Oh, so it runs on the app level. So is it running on,

504
00:45:02.484 --> 00:45:06.280
if I'm running Wisp, it's just running on my Android device? Yep.

505
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:20.520
It runs on your Android device and it, so like, I also use it on my Relay, you can use it anywhere, but Wisp, like, you don't have to use my Relay to take advantage of it. Your device will look at anybody who I don't follow already.

506
00:45:21.695 --> 00:45:23.375
It will check, hey,

507
00:45:23.695 --> 00:45:24.335
is

508
00:45:24.735 --> 00:45:29.135
this a bot? So it's not like checking every single note. About like the good bots?

509
00:45:29.375 --> 00:45:30.495
There

510
00:45:30.495 --> 00:45:31.935
are good bots out there.

511
00:45:32.575 --> 00:45:33.455
Yeah, like Recbot?

512
00:45:34.350 --> 00:45:41.310
Yeah. Rec bots. One of my favorite bots is how I know the price you run that. I mean, I've been trying to build out like that Citadel wire news bot.

513
00:45:41.630 --> 00:45:44.670
Like, is it getting caught up in ends if people's end spams?

514
00:45:45.070 --> 00:45:48.750
No. So end spam only looks at replies and notifications.

515
00:45:49.795 --> 00:45:52.115
If you're just posting to your feed, it doesn't

516
00:45:52.355 --> 00:45:52.915
check.

517
00:45:53.795 --> 00:45:54.915
Yeah. See that.

518
00:45:55.955 --> 00:45:59.395
I like, I it's

519
00:45:59.635 --> 00:46:03.730
an open protocol, so I can't stop you from doing whatever you want. And ultimately,

520
00:46:03.730 --> 00:46:07.010
you know, give the users more tools so they can consume how they want.

521
00:46:07.970 --> 00:46:14.210
But if you're listening to this, and you have like a low energy fucking reply bot, just like fucking turn the thing off.

522
00:46:15.265 --> 00:46:19.905
I don't think you're doing anybody favors. And it's just hilarious as an open protocol, because it's like,

523
00:46:20.385 --> 00:46:25.025
I saw someone today. So the Bitcoin libertarian guy, like bot,

524
00:46:25.345 --> 00:46:27.425
controlled by a human responded

525
00:46:27.590 --> 00:46:33.430
in Spanish and English to me. And then I guess the Spanish version got auto translated in amethyst.

526
00:46:33.590 --> 00:46:38.390
So then someone from amethyst responded to the auto translated one in English,

527
00:46:38.630 --> 00:46:40.390
which then responded back in Spanish.

528
00:46:41.075 --> 00:46:44.755
And it was just like, it was just a funny example of open protocols,

529
00:46:44.755 --> 00:46:51.315
right, where he has an English bot and a Spanish bot, but you see them both as English because you have auto translate on.

530
00:46:52.275 --> 00:47:00.250
And then the humans replying back asking questions to this fucking retarded bot. But the ones that like actually post to direct feeds, I think are

531
00:47:00.250 --> 00:47:03.530
a little bit more interesting to me. Like, I think

532
00:47:04.970 --> 00:47:07.370
I don't know, I think where we're going everyone,

533
00:47:07.450 --> 00:47:08.490
most people will have,

534
00:47:09.545 --> 00:47:18.825
you know, like the robot assistant of varying levels, you know, some people will have like the big tech surveilled and controlled one other people have more freedom, focused setups.

535
00:47:18.825 --> 00:47:24.025
But like, if you need a chatbot interface, like, it's probably not going to be in the replies, unless it's,

536
00:47:24.590 --> 00:47:26.830
you know, I guess dunking on someone

537
00:47:27.150 --> 00:47:30.030
where you want it to be a public back and forth.

538
00:47:30.270 --> 00:47:42.455
And so done right, that could work. But just like the random replies thing, don't think will ever really be a thing. Anyway, as long winded, but the bots that own their own feed, right? So like wrecked bot, for instance,

539
00:47:42.695 --> 00:47:45.895
which I think is like a low lift perfect example

540
00:47:46.055 --> 00:47:47.335
of the power here.

541
00:47:47.974 --> 00:47:49.335
It's a real

542
00:47:50.580 --> 00:48:00.020
I I think it's real advantage of Noster. I don't I don't know how it actually plays out. But like anyone who's playing with these things, if you want it to be an x bot,

543
00:48:00.340 --> 00:48:03.620
or a Facebook bot, or TikTok bot or something,

544
00:48:04.905 --> 00:48:10.745
You know, you have a permissioned API, it might cost you a shit ton of money, you probably have to KYC to use it,

545
00:48:10.985 --> 00:48:14.745
you'll have all these different random errors, because you have a centralized dependency,

546
00:48:15.065 --> 00:48:16.505
the fact that you can just,

547
00:48:16.905 --> 00:48:19.065
you know, tell your bot to spin up an NSEC,

548
00:48:19.660 --> 00:48:31.740
and then have like, you there's no API requirements, you just generate a fucking NSEC, can generate infinite NSEC's, and can just broadcast to the fucking world in a relatively robust way with not you having to deal with no back end whatsoever,

549
00:48:32.645 --> 00:48:33.685
is amazing.

550
00:48:33.765 --> 00:48:38.725
And I just I feel like that could be fucking huge. I just don't know how it actually plays out in practice.

551
00:48:40.484 --> 00:48:51.180
Yeah. I don't know either. And and, you know, I could tell you a cool story actually about wreck boss. You know how, like, whenever the price really spikes, it just goes crazy. And there's like tons of messages.

552
00:48:51.500 --> 00:48:55.900
So most of the big relays will rate limit you, you know, they don't let you post

553
00:48:56.060 --> 00:49:06.425
30 messages in ten seconds. So that kept happening to rec bot. So what's also cool about Nasser is like, okay, I'm getting rate limited by these relays. I just made my own relay

554
00:49:06.744 --> 00:49:20.390
I published all my notes there and it has, and nobody can stop me. Now everybody can get RecBot's notes, even though like the rate limits are totally legit. You know, I put rate limits on my Yeah. Need to do the primal relay white listed rec bot.

555
00:49:20.550 --> 00:49:21.430
Okay.

556
00:49:21.430 --> 00:49:24.790
Nice. We believe in all the wreckage just flowing.

557
00:49:25.430 --> 00:49:29.845
Good. Thank you. But yeah, it's just all these layers, you know, it's just so unstoppable.

558
00:49:29.845 --> 00:49:31.525
But the problem is that nobody

559
00:49:31.605 --> 00:49:40.485
actually cares about that. That's that can't be like our selling point to people because nobody is But getting I but I what I think it is is not

560
00:49:41.690 --> 00:49:43.210
Look, I don't pretend

561
00:49:45.369 --> 00:49:50.250
like citadel wires like this wonderful gift to man to man. I am trying.

562
00:49:50.490 --> 00:49:54.890
I'm playing around with these things because that's how I learned best. And also, like, I would like a very condensed,

563
00:49:55.275 --> 00:49:57.355
high signal, no bullshit

564
00:49:59.515 --> 00:50:04.155
news news service, basically, without all the engagement bait. Like, as as

565
00:50:04.395 --> 00:50:06.474
as the leader of my family,

566
00:50:06.714 --> 00:50:23.020
as, you know, running tons of projects and and businesses in the space, like I need to be up to date on what's going on without all the bullshit. And so I'm building something that I want to see myself. So it's not a waste of time, and I'm trying to learn. But my point is, is the ability for someone to create

567
00:50:23.595 --> 00:50:24.715
a very

568
00:50:25.115 --> 00:50:25.755
good,

569
00:50:26.555 --> 00:50:40.930
a very useful automated service is not the feature. The feature is when someone does, I think when someone actually cracks the nut and like has something that is actually very useful to a large amount of people, it could be the thing that drives them into Noster.

570
00:50:42.850 --> 00:50:43.410
Think

571
00:50:45.730 --> 00:50:48.210
part of what I've been playing around with CitadelWire

572
00:50:48.210 --> 00:50:51.250
is for the normies, they can just go to citadelwire.com,

573
00:50:51.250 --> 00:50:52.370
which is effectively

574
00:50:52.370 --> 00:50:55.825
a Noster app. It's like a Noster web app that only shows one account.

575
00:50:56.065 --> 00:50:59.425
Like, that's what it is. Like, core of it is just a Noster note.

576
00:50:59.744 --> 00:51:00.865
And then eventually,

577
00:51:00.865 --> 00:51:08.785
then they might move in. Right? And so if I'm thinking about like, what is a major one? I don't know if you noticed, like, we almost we almost got the jet tracker guy.

578
00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:19.000
The guy who tracks all the rich people's jets. He had different accounts for each jet. And he got banned off of X for his Elon jet tracker. What a coincidence.

579
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:29.895
Was the only account that he got banned. And he started a Noster account. But why do I bring this up? I bring this up because he also has a website. And so it's someone who creates something like that,

580
00:51:30.454 --> 00:51:31.335
where a

581
00:51:31.734 --> 00:51:34.855
million people are hitting his website and then 50,000

582
00:51:34.500 --> 00:51:40.100
were realizing that on the back end is Nostril notes and when the website's down, they can just go interact and zap and comment

583
00:51:40.340 --> 00:51:42.660
on any of the notes in the background, I think.

584
00:51:43.860 --> 00:51:45.140
Long winded. Okay.

585
00:51:46.260 --> 00:51:56.645
Yeah. I I didn't I didn't know that he's on. So he is posting on Noster, like, trackers are Noster Nodes? No. We we lost him. I think we lost him. Damn.

586
00:51:57.685 --> 00:52:01.045
Me let me do a quick search. Elon Jet tracker.

587
00:52:04.380 --> 00:52:05.980
Elon jet tracker.

588
00:52:06.059 --> 00:52:08.140
He was on Noster for a bit.

589
00:52:09.260 --> 00:52:11.980
Oh, yeah. Here. One year ago, I was posting about him.

590
00:52:13.260 --> 00:52:13.660
Nope.

591
00:52:16.405 --> 00:52:18.725
Well, we need to improve search too,

592
00:52:19.445 --> 00:52:19.925
but

593
00:52:21.125 --> 00:52:27.125
we had we had Elon's jet tracker on Nostrad for a bit for like a year or so.

594
00:52:27.605 --> 00:52:28.565
Here it is

595
00:52:29.220 --> 00:52:30.340
Three years ago.

596
00:52:32.260 --> 00:52:40.900
But yeah, then we lost him. But I think that's a perfect example. Like, it's so random. You know, it's not something that you like, really think about. But like, I was getting like millions of views

597
00:52:41.405 --> 00:52:45.405
on people that just wanted to track where rich people were traveling,

598
00:52:45.645 --> 00:52:47.245
which is all public information.

599
00:52:48.045 --> 00:52:48.445
Right.

600
00:52:49.405 --> 00:52:51.245
Yeah, man. And I know like, so,

601
00:52:52.605 --> 00:53:04.070
you know, I've been working on just like building WIS, but like, it's pretty much got all the features I want. Of course, like every app needs maintenance and stuff, but most of my work that I see myself doing is on

602
00:53:04.390 --> 00:53:08.470
marketing and trying to reach out to like, let's say have you ever heard of kick.com?

603
00:53:08.934 --> 00:53:09.655
Probably?

604
00:53:09.895 --> 00:53:10.775
Yeah. Yeah. Twitch

605
00:53:11.494 --> 00:53:12.295
competitor.

606
00:53:12.615 --> 00:53:19.575
Yeah. So the whole reason they were born is because Twitch keeps banning everybody all the time. You say, like

607
00:53:19.734 --> 00:53:20.455
Rumble.

608
00:53:20.535 --> 00:53:23.095
Yeah. Exactly. It's exactly that. Right? So

609
00:53:23.640 --> 00:53:30.440
but even on kick, even now people are getting banned from kick. And essentially they didn't solve anything. They just launched another service.

610
00:53:30.680 --> 00:53:36.039
Exactly. Now look, if to get banned on kick, you gotta be pretty degenerate man, but

611
00:53:36.735 --> 00:53:52.770
Nosser actually offers a viable alternative to these guys where they literally finally cannot get banned. And like, they actually have a problem with getting banned. Normies who are talking about the sports ball game, they're never gonna get banned from Twitter. It's fine. But like some of these Twitch people, they have

612
00:53:53.170 --> 00:53:58.530
like tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people that wanna watch these super degen streams.

613
00:53:59.010 --> 00:54:05.645
And Nosser is pretty much the only solution that they have, I think. But right now what they're doing is streaming over discord.

614
00:54:07.005 --> 00:54:08.285
Yeah. Why is it? Well,

615
00:54:09.485 --> 00:54:11.405
discord is very uncensored,

616
00:54:11.405 --> 00:54:13.005
man. Very uncensored.

617
00:54:13.005 --> 00:54:18.030
At least for now. I don't know if they're, if they did that KYC thing yet, but it's like, I'm out

618
00:54:18.350 --> 00:54:22.590
they after like Charlie Kirk's assassin was like groomed through discord.

619
00:54:23.710 --> 00:54:24.270
They

620
00:54:24.750 --> 00:54:28.510
started doing they're doing a bunch of KYC stuff, obviously, is completely centralized.

621
00:54:28.670 --> 00:54:31.790
I mean, so like this one hits close to home, right? Because

622
00:54:32.435 --> 00:54:35.075
that was one of the main reasons we prioritized

623
00:54:35.075 --> 00:54:41.315
video streaming on Primal. It's so hard to break into that. I don't know. It's clearly a dope.

624
00:54:41.875 --> 00:54:44.115
Like, it's cool that if you broadcast

625
00:54:44.450 --> 00:54:45.490
on Propel,

626
00:54:45.570 --> 00:54:58.610
Wisp has support for it. Nostril has support for it. Amethyst has support for it. Can just see it in whatever app you're using. That's obviously a massive advantage to us. I think Zaps and Stream are really fucking cool. Like, obviously, in the corporate world,

627
00:54:59.235 --> 00:55:00.275
we've seen,

628
00:55:01.075 --> 00:55:10.355
you know, YouTube super chats and whatever the Twitch version is, the kick version, they all tick tock version, like sending ice cream to each other. Like people love that shit. And

629
00:55:10.355 --> 00:55:19.440
I think we can do that better than them. But it's so hard to break into. And to your example, I mean, Kik, like, didn't Kik like, pay a bunch of influencers, like $500,000

630
00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:20.560
a pop switch?

631
00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:24.640
Oh, way more than that. Way more. Yeah. So you're gonna do that?

632
00:55:26.045 --> 00:55:28.045
No. I think I'll just say,

633
00:55:28.285 --> 00:55:48.880
because most of these guys, they're only kick only because they're banned from the other ones. Right? But I can just reach out to these people and be like, hey, why don't you just add Noster to your stack? You're already doing YouTube and Twitch. Like just add Noster into your OBS or whatever, and broadcast to it. Like that, that's it. It's not much more. You'll make a little bit of money. It's no extra work.

634
00:55:49.440 --> 00:55:52.560
But do you even know that Noster exists? They probably don't. Right. So

635
00:55:53.015 --> 00:55:57.015
at least like an attempt to do it, to do some outreach and

636
00:55:57.415 --> 00:56:02.855
like Now do you do you tell them do you to broadcast an Nostra? Do you tell them you should use wisp?

637
00:56:04.375 --> 00:56:07.895
Well, I'll probably in this case, tell them to use ZapStream

638
00:56:07.895 --> 00:56:09.710
because they can't broadcast

639
00:56:09.710 --> 00:56:14.990
from a wisp, but I'll explain that there's this whole audience of people who are willing to send you Bitcoin,

640
00:56:15.309 --> 00:56:17.470
that that's the benefit of why you should add.

641
00:56:18.589 --> 00:56:27.265
You don't even have to monitor the chat or anything like just to get our content up, you know? So it's not just only no good radio streaming all the time and nobody else.

642
00:56:27.984 --> 00:56:34.465
Well, RHR has been doing it for like three years now. That's true, but it's a rare show, you know? It's a gem.

643
00:56:34.545 --> 00:56:35.665
It's a once a week.

644
00:56:37.620 --> 00:56:38.820
Yeah, I don't know.

645
00:56:39.540 --> 00:56:40.260
I

646
00:56:42.340 --> 00:56:46.660
I mean, maybe it doesn't take that much. Maybe it's just, you know, one or two

647
00:56:47.620 --> 00:56:58.285
prolific people. I mean, I always joke around. It's like, if I don't, I'm like such a boomer with this these people, but like, I show speed, like started broadcasting on masters, the only one I know.

648
00:56:58.925 --> 00:57:02.365
Like, we'd easily get 100,000 users out of that shit.

649
00:57:03.405 --> 00:57:05.325
It totally matters in person.

650
00:57:05.980 --> 00:57:29.595
And that's just like one example of one streamer. It could be Instagram Simps. It could be just Saifedean posting more. Like it could we just have to get the content creators who already have an audience and not even necessarily migrate it. Just add it. Just build it into your stack that Noster is also a place that you can publish that they know they can control. You know, that Twitter is never gonna demonetize or

651
00:57:29.755 --> 00:57:32.315
Noster is never gonna demonetize the way Twitter might, you know?

652
00:57:33.590 --> 00:57:34.390
Yeah.

653
00:57:34.790 --> 00:57:36.150
I don't know. It's interesting.

654
00:57:38.150 --> 00:57:38.630
It's

655
00:57:41.110 --> 00:57:45.670
I don't know. Yeah. Network effect is a bitch. What about the piece that

656
00:57:47.885 --> 00:57:52.285
I do think like if you're just doing bare mirroring, it's like completely useless.

657
00:57:54.605 --> 00:58:01.724
I don't, I don't think it's obviously not as good as like actually engaging with chat and whatever, but there,

658
00:58:02.319 --> 00:58:04.640
I don't think it is useless to have,

659
00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:12.720
to have content like ready to go, even if it's just mirrored content, you know, you, you hop onto an author, it doesn't feel stale. It feels lively.

660
00:58:12.880 --> 00:58:15.280
So then should we just do that without their consent?

661
00:58:17.285 --> 00:58:21.765
Should we just be scraping big accounts and just posting it if mirroring's fine?

662
00:58:22.644 --> 00:58:30.940
I mean, I'll tell you, sir sleepy does that a lot. He like reposts old movies or whatever. And I like watching it sometimes,

663
00:58:30.940 --> 00:58:42.140
you know, I would, I think that is a good idea. I think people should do that. Like if there's a content creator that you like, and you wish their content was on Oscar, just put it on Oscar, you know, no one can stop you from doing it. So just do it.

664
00:58:42.785 --> 00:58:44.545
Is that person a user?

665
00:58:46.385 --> 00:58:54.385
It's just one user. See that the new account that's being mirrored is not a user, but there's one power user who has two accounts, but it's just one Okay.

666
00:58:55.905 --> 00:58:56.465
Fair enough.

667
00:58:58.100 --> 00:58:59.540
Yeah. I mean, I think

668
00:59:01.700 --> 00:59:12.580
I don't know. I go back and forth on it. Mean, obviously, there's very useful people. Gleason was running Trump bot for a while. And it's like, okay, he's the president of The United States and he's like, shoot social posts, like, move markets.

669
00:59:13.355 --> 00:59:14.555
Be nice to

670
00:59:15.115 --> 00:59:23.915
even if he's not engaging, it'd be nice to I mean, I doubt he's engaging people on truth social either. He's not like replying in the comments being like, that's a great idea.

671
00:59:24.555 --> 00:59:31.710
So like, his mirroring is great. He stopped doing that. So maybe I should be the change I want to see in the world.

672
00:59:32.030 --> 00:59:33.790
And do that. But I think for

673
00:59:34.349 --> 00:59:36.750
I don't know, a lot of them, it does feel

674
00:59:37.549 --> 00:59:41.789
stale. And maybe it feels less stale if someone does it without their permission.

675
00:59:42.505 --> 00:59:44.825
Like if I go and mirror Luke Gromans

676
00:59:45.545 --> 00:59:47.385
tweets to Noster,

677
00:59:47.465 --> 00:59:49.865
and it's like, I'm doing it. He's not

678
00:59:50.425 --> 00:59:54.984
pretending we're beneath him. He just doesn't think of us. But if he is just

679
00:59:55.500 --> 00:59:59.260
whatever he tweets out, just automatically goes to Nasir, it feels like disrespect.

680
00:59:59.900 --> 01:00:06.780
I don't know. It feels you know what I mean? Does that make I do know there's and there's a limit, I guess of like,

681
01:00:07.020 --> 01:00:14.945
how famous the person is before it's acceptable. You know, like, of course the president do whatever you want. Right. But like if it's your boy or

682
01:00:15.025 --> 01:00:17.585
someone who's like trying to build their own business or something,

683
01:00:18.545 --> 01:00:32.280
but I don't know, man, because it can't be stopped. Like all the mastodon bridges are basically doing that. Right? Well, let me let me use it as an example of one of my boys who I think cares about Nostrad, but uses both. Right? And that's

684
01:00:32.520 --> 01:00:34.920
Peony Lane. Peony Lane? Penney Lane?

685
01:00:35.775 --> 01:00:38.015
Penis Lane. I don't know. That's

686
01:00:38.015 --> 01:00:43.855
what I call the best best wine in the business. Right? If he was just blank mirroring

687
01:00:44.895 --> 01:00:46.415
his tweets,

688
01:00:47.055 --> 01:00:56.290
like, it would be just complete disrespect. But instead he's he just lives two lives. He lives like an ex life and he lives or Lynn Alden is another example. Yep.

689
01:00:56.530 --> 01:01:01.410
Right. She has different posts that she posts on Noster. It was like when it's like the blatant,

690
01:01:01.410 --> 01:01:01.890
I'm just

691
01:01:02.934 --> 01:01:07.734
adding it as a field in my automatic post thing. It's just straight disrespect.

692
01:01:09.015 --> 01:01:09.974
I'm

693
01:01:10.135 --> 01:01:15.575
I'm not going to name names, but I can immediately think of like 10 people who are doing that. Like,

694
01:01:16.070 --> 01:01:26.550
so my sense is that, but then I also look at their engagement they get on those posts and people do like those posts still, you know, and they still reply and they still zap and they still like it. Yeah. It's fascinating.

695
01:01:27.110 --> 01:01:36.525
So I think it's okay, man. It's not your cup of tea. That's totally fine. But I think a lot of people are into it still. As long as they log in and occasionally reply back or

696
01:01:36.925 --> 01:01:39.165
Occasionally reply back is the key.

697
01:01:39.405 --> 01:01:41.805
Yeah. Or at least see it, you know? Come on.

698
01:01:46.590 --> 01:01:49.070
I mean, Greg Gee is another one. All the merchants,

699
01:01:49.070 --> 01:01:51.310
they live in both worlds. Soap miner.

700
01:01:52.110 --> 01:01:56.270
But they don't mean have- If you're running a business, you kind of just have to be on Twitter, right?

701
01:01:57.345 --> 01:01:59.665
I mean, yeah, you'd probably be on Tik TOK.

702
01:02:01.185 --> 01:02:02.625
Cause there's more people there.

703
01:02:04.625 --> 01:02:10.945
Yeah, absolutely. Like you got, you gotta make sales, man. This is not about purity. This is just about making money through different marketing channels.

704
01:02:11.540 --> 01:02:13.140
Yeah, I will say Ben,

705
01:02:13.460 --> 01:02:14.820
Ben, the wine dealer,

706
01:02:15.140 --> 01:02:18.020
he should get credit for like actually

707
01:02:18.260 --> 01:02:20.020
using Noster consistently.

708
01:02:20.420 --> 01:02:24.180
But he does not get enough shit that he doesn't accept Bitcoin for his wine.

709
01:02:24.740 --> 01:02:25.619
On his website.

710
01:02:26.994 --> 01:02:31.475
It has to do with some regulations with shipping wine or whatever. Okay.

711
01:02:31.475 --> 01:02:32.675
We're

712
01:02:32.755 --> 01:02:33.875
not quite there yet.

713
01:02:36.435 --> 01:02:38.435
Don't know, you have anything else interesting to talk about?

714
01:02:40.080 --> 01:02:41.120
I've enjoyed this.

715
01:02:41.680 --> 01:02:47.840
Me too. My InSpan, Nelsa Archives, WISP. I mean, that's, that's pretty much the big things I'm working on right now.

716
01:02:48.560 --> 01:02:54.480
Well, let's let's just the AI tools a little bit. Your flow on like your daily basis

717
01:02:55.055 --> 01:02:56.095
is a,

718
01:02:56.255 --> 01:03:02.575
you mentioned Claude, are you just, are you, you have a subscription or are you going through an API? How are you handling that?

719
01:03:04.095 --> 01:03:07.135
I have both, like I have their max plan,

720
01:03:07.535 --> 01:03:09.295
but I still have $200 a month.

721
01:03:10.170 --> 01:03:13.770
Yeah. Yeah. 200 is 300 Canadian dollars.

722
01:03:15.450 --> 01:03:19.930
So is send money going to show Canadian dollars if you're in Canada or?

723
01:03:20.490 --> 01:03:24.170
If you pick it, you could pick whatever currency you want, but yeah, it's every currency.

724
01:03:25.515 --> 01:03:31.355
Okay. Sorry. Anyway, it should just be dollars. I think it's like the one Fiat to rule them all, but yeah, no,

725
01:03:31.755 --> 01:03:33.515
of course an American would say that.

726
01:03:34.474 --> 01:03:36.795
Okay. So it costs you 300

727
01:03:36.875 --> 01:03:40.234
Canadian dollars to have your clawed max plan. So you have that.

728
01:03:40.930 --> 01:03:41.730
Yeah.

729
01:03:41.730 --> 01:03:46.210
So I have that, but it usually gets maxed out. So I also have the APIs

730
01:03:46.210 --> 01:03:49.970
and Codex like, so Codex is more like my secondary one.

731
01:03:50.290 --> 01:03:59.135
So usually how my flow goes is it like, it depends on the difficulty of the task, but a lot of times what I'll do is I'll use Claude in plan mode.

732
01:03:59.535 --> 01:04:07.135
So get Claude to make a really good plan, review all the code base or whatever. And then I'll use a cheaper model like Codex or even my local Quinn

733
01:04:07.500 --> 01:04:15.980
to actually implement the plan depending on the difficulty. So that's like one way I'm trying to like get around the limits because I'm not buying a second account. That's just way too much.

734
01:04:16.700 --> 01:04:18.700
Well, mean, now, like

735
01:04:19.674 --> 01:04:20.715
clawed

736
01:04:20.795 --> 01:04:28.635
max or whatever you're getting supposedly you're getting like $5,000 of value for your well, guess in Canadian dollars, it's like $10,000

737
01:04:28.635 --> 01:04:31.914
$7,500

738
01:04:31.914 --> 01:04:33.755
worth of value for your 300.

739
01:04:34.910 --> 01:04:52.765
I honestly, they're like max subsidizing it. Yeah. Or even more, if I had to hire a developer and I was in a business where I did hire developers and I had to hire someone who outputted work as cleanly as Claude did, I'd be paying them $10.20, dollars 30,000 a month. I get it for $300 and they work all day. Like, that's insane.

740
01:04:52.845 --> 01:04:56.365
Yeah. I don't think that lasts. I think that's the interesting.

741
01:04:58.525 --> 01:05:01.165
I think that's where it starts to get interesting. I'm kind of curious

742
01:05:02.820 --> 01:05:04.260
in your opinion, but

743
01:05:04.660 --> 01:05:07.300
like, I think the skill set here is

744
01:05:09.060 --> 01:05:10.180
like maximizing

745
01:05:10.180 --> 01:05:19.015
cost per output quality. And right now the line is blurred because you have these subsidized subscription models. So there's like a bunch of lazy people using this stuff.

746
01:05:19.495 --> 01:05:24.055
Or they're using this, they're not necessarily lazy people, but they're people using this in a lazy way.

747
01:05:24.295 --> 01:05:24.775
Because

748
01:05:25.255 --> 01:05:27.175
if you're getting $5,000

749
01:05:27.175 --> 01:05:30.855
worth of token usage for $200

750
01:05:31.100 --> 01:05:35.020
you're going to use it in a lazy way. But if you have to spend $5,000

751
01:05:35.020 --> 01:05:43.020
on it, you're going to have to figure out a way more efficient way of handling it. And that's the hardest part right now. And that will be the hardest part. That's the skill, I think.

752
01:05:43.955 --> 01:05:47.315
Yeah. It's more like about product development,

753
01:05:47.315 --> 01:05:52.835
like having a good product that you're working towards, not just like, Oh, am I just dicking around? Cause this is fun and

754
01:05:53.315 --> 01:05:54.115
whatever

755
01:05:54.115 --> 01:05:55.315
I'll experiments.

756
01:05:55.315 --> 01:05:58.595
Like if your experiment costs money, then you probably wouldn't be doing it.

757
01:05:59.580 --> 01:06:07.100
But yeah, and I could tell you like too, so take my rig, for example, let's say you wanted, you're like, no, I wanna do local AI and

758
01:06:07.340 --> 01:06:12.220
this and that. Okay, you could spend $15 on this rig to have a bot that's

759
01:06:12.525 --> 01:06:14.685
30 times more retarded than Claude.

760
01:06:15.005 --> 01:06:19.085
And how long would it take you to break even if you were just bought Claude?

761
01:06:19.805 --> 01:06:24.685
Like Claude is like seven, eight years. It would have taken you break even with this terrible rig. Obviously

762
01:06:24.845 --> 01:06:32.430
you should just buy Claude. And especially if you're doing open source work, you know, like I have no need for privacy when I'm building WISP. All that code is published.

763
01:06:32.750 --> 01:06:37.150
I need zero privacy from my LLM to build this stuff.

764
01:06:39.550 --> 01:06:42.030
It's not like you're not making a privacy trade off at all.

765
01:06:44.005 --> 01:06:47.685
Yeah, this is already going to be public. It's going to be a public release.

766
01:06:47.845 --> 01:06:49.925
Yeah, I think particularly

767
01:06:51.605 --> 01:06:55.285
if you're trying to go for like the higher end open source models,

768
01:06:56.000 --> 01:07:04.799
like that is a luxury good, like if you're buying hardware for that right now, you know, if you have particularly very optic sensitive situation,

769
01:07:04.799 --> 01:07:08.320
like it makes sense, because you're doing it strictly for the privacy reasons.

770
01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:11.520
But do not delude yourself into thinking that you're saving money,

771
01:07:12.185 --> 01:07:18.425
going the local route right now. And then there's a separate piece where it's like, the small light stuff,

772
01:07:18.585 --> 01:07:23.545
like what you're doing on the phone for spam, already capable enough, super interesting.

773
01:07:23.785 --> 01:07:29.420
But if you think like there's so many just hype people, right? That are like, oh, like you download

774
01:07:29.740 --> 01:07:34.140
the latest Chinese open source model. And it's like, you can get you're you're getting

775
01:07:34.540 --> 01:07:45.085
Opus four seven qualities. Like, you're you're not you're not even getting fucking close. And then you're added. You're in negative disadvantage to other people, which is why I think like the

776
01:07:47.085 --> 01:07:56.525
like the PPQ concepts are really is really cool, or like Venice. I think like that concept is really cool, where you have many different models you can choose from.

777
01:07:57.210 --> 01:07:58.890
You're not doing KYC,

778
01:07:59.290 --> 01:08:01.610
you're paying for it on a paper use.

779
01:08:01.690 --> 01:08:03.930
Yes, you're giving up privacy if you're hitting

780
01:08:04.170 --> 01:08:10.650
the walled garden models, but there's a balancing act there. There's like, okay, I use local for some things I use and to end encrypted

781
01:08:11.675 --> 01:08:13.755
for other things. And then I use,

782
01:08:13.915 --> 01:08:14.635
you know,

783
01:08:15.115 --> 01:08:16.315
Claude for

784
01:08:17.195 --> 01:08:23.275
heavy lifting stuff that maybe doesn't have as much privacy concerns. There's like a balancing act that people have to find.

785
01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:29.160
Yeah. And also a big part of it is how you're actually using the LLMs. Like sure.

786
01:08:29.240 --> 01:08:35.400
Maybe you use some of these privacy focused services and they didn't collect your identity, but maybe

787
01:08:35.400 --> 01:08:46.434
in the course of doing your development, you gave them your database credentials or your NSEC or something, you know, like that is still vulnerable to exploits. And I think that just happened the other day, right? Lovable

788
01:08:46.515 --> 01:08:55.810
got hacked and all these, like all everyone's chat history got leaked. And so that can still happen even on privacy focused ones. It's just that your identity is not associated.

789
01:08:55.890 --> 01:08:57.090
But there's a huge way.

790
01:08:57.810 --> 01:08:58.610
Lovable,

791
01:08:59.010 --> 01:08:59.730
I mean,

792
01:09:00.450 --> 01:09:08.485
definitely didn't pitch itself as a privacy. Like it was keeping all the records in the cloud and shit. And that's why it got taken down. I mean, that's why it got hit.

793
01:09:09.365 --> 01:09:14.565
Yeah, totally. But I mean, of course, like Claude is keeping this and Gemini and all The

794
01:09:15.045 --> 01:09:17.285
end points are the end points are like,

795
01:09:17.700 --> 01:09:19.860
obvious, it's like a VPN trust model.

796
01:09:20.100 --> 01:09:22.099
Right? So you're trusting them. Right?

797
01:09:23.219 --> 01:09:24.900
But like with PPQ,

798
01:09:25.620 --> 01:09:29.380
like, I don't think Matt Alborg is keeping logs. Of course not. Lovable.

799
01:09:30.225 --> 01:09:35.905
I mean, it's not just because I think he's a good guy with high integrity and a lot of proof of work in the space, which he is.

800
01:09:36.865 --> 01:09:50.600
It's because I also think he's smart enough to realize that it adds extra liability onto his business and doesn't doesn't want to lie to the user and do it. But you are trusting him to do that. The endpoint but lovable, like that was one of their features was like,

801
01:09:51.160 --> 01:09:56.840
we save all your shit like telegram does. And so it's like, you got good UX. But then the endpoint, obviously,

802
01:09:57.080 --> 01:10:04.715
depending on what inputs you're putting into it, is gonna figure out who you are. I mean, I, I think Anthropic

803
01:10:04.715 --> 01:10:07.595
came out and said, like, they named a specific

804
01:10:08.395 --> 01:10:18.489
Chinese researcher that was using it to train his I forget which open source model it was. And like, he was using one of the API access points without providing his identity,

805
01:10:18.650 --> 01:10:23.289
but like the things he was uploading, they've like figured it out pretty quickly who the guy was.

806
01:10:27.050 --> 01:10:27.289
Yeah.

807
01:10:28.364 --> 01:10:31.885
It is wild times. And the thing is too, is like these models,

808
01:10:32.125 --> 01:10:44.550
I don't think they're trying to be malicious, but they do things like you tell them, okay, you can't read my .env file. So they're like, oh, I'm blocked. Let me try another way. And then they'll output it to the terminal. And they're like, Okay, got it. So

809
01:10:45.750 --> 01:10:51.110
no matter how hard you try, if you're using these cloud models, man, they're gonna get your database,

810
01:10:51.670 --> 01:10:56.790
like the big model endpoints, they're gonna get all of that data. So just be careful out there, freaks.

811
01:10:58.264 --> 01:11:08.665
Yeah. I don't know. It's it's it very much feels like the wild west, which is what I find interesting about it. How do you think about, I guess I should ask you about the Southern Chime. Do you have a hard stop?

812
01:11:09.320 --> 01:11:09.960
Nope.

813
01:11:11.160 --> 01:11:23.720
Okay. Might regret saying that. Okay. We're gonna continue. How do you feel about like next five years of this stuff? We're gonna see massive job loss. Like what it what are your current thoughts? And we're not gonna hold you to it because no one really knows what happens next.

814
01:11:24.324 --> 01:11:32.644
Yeah. Yeah. It's so hard to make such prediction because like, look how far AI came in just a couple of years, you know, it's actually insane,

815
01:11:33.045 --> 01:11:37.684
but I do strongly believe we are

816
01:11:36.840 --> 01:11:43.000
sort of approaching a limit in terms of how smart the LLMs can get. And really like what

817
01:11:43.320 --> 01:11:45.000
scales now is

818
01:11:45.320 --> 01:11:48.520
maybe like how accurate it is that it's more consistently

819
01:11:48.520 --> 01:11:52.874
always giving you a good output, that it's faster and that it can get cheaper.

820
01:11:53.275 --> 01:11:55.755
But in terms of like how much smarter

821
01:11:56.074 --> 01:12:01.275
it can get, like, I'm sure it can get like a little bit smarter or maybe let's say two X smarter,

822
01:12:01.435 --> 01:12:04.395
but I don't think we're going to see like X smarter in five years.

823
01:12:05.060 --> 01:12:09.060
I think that we're about to like, sort of hit a wall. Yeah. That's

824
01:12:09.380 --> 01:12:11.700
sort of how I see it. In terms of like

825
01:12:12.020 --> 01:12:32.235
job loss, I don't I think it's like more job creation is there's going to be all these jobs for people to implement AI and nothing works. It's going be like everyone's working on Noster everywhere in the world because yeah, every company is like, Oh my God, we have to implement AI. And then they like, they try to implement it. They make all these new systems. It doesn't work. You need now you need security researchers and more developers and

826
01:12:32.990 --> 01:12:47.710
yeah, I don't know. I don't think it's going to be like a big panacea. I think it's very useful and I think it's like going to be improving people's search and reporting and maybe like help you with your PowerPoint or whatever, but I don't see it as like mass layoff type of thing happening.

827
01:12:47.870 --> 01:12:48.430
That's

828
01:12:48.675 --> 01:12:50.514
That's yeah. Basically what I think right now.

829
01:12:50.994 --> 01:12:51.635
Really?

830
01:12:52.755 --> 01:12:58.914
Subject to change. I mean, I could definitely be wrong. Okay. I'm staying humble, but that's what I currently think. Yeah.

831
01:12:59.715 --> 01:13:00.594
I I mean,

832
01:13:04.310 --> 01:13:07.190
I don't know. I mean, what, what I see in

833
01:13:08.630 --> 01:13:09.429
maybe,

834
01:13:09.670 --> 01:13:11.590
maybe this, I think

835
01:13:12.630 --> 01:13:14.950
startups are the first mover

836
01:13:15.415 --> 01:13:17.975
because they're the most likely to die.

837
01:13:19.255 --> 01:13:26.215
And particularly Bitcoin startups were already kind of operating pretty lean because their cost of capital was Bitcoin.

838
01:13:26.615 --> 01:13:27.415
So like, will,

839
01:13:27.990 --> 01:13:31.670
you know, I will put out there that my bias is obviously

840
01:13:32.550 --> 01:13:37.750
companies that are led by Bitcoiners, not necessarily even Bitcoin companies, but companies that are led by Bitcoiners,

841
01:13:37.910 --> 01:13:42.710
which is what ten thirty one has exposure to, and what I have exposure to on a constant basis.

842
01:13:43.785 --> 01:13:55.385
Those founders have always been more lean, right? They know that they could rather hold Bitcoin than go off on some spending journey. And they never assume the next check is coming because

843
01:13:55.710 --> 01:14:01.310
we just don't live in fiat land where they, you know, they can raise like series

844
01:14:01.310 --> 01:14:02.110
G.

845
01:14:02.670 --> 01:14:10.430
And they're just like constantly raising money. Like it's just not money's tight in Bitcoin land, but they're implementing AI like at a wild pace.

846
01:14:11.005 --> 01:14:13.485
And usually what we see happen isn't like,

847
01:14:14.205 --> 01:14:17.085
yeah, there's like the more sophisticated ones that

848
01:14:17.485 --> 01:14:26.890
are maybe running one local model and trying to do things. But most of the time, it's just straight outsourced to big tech. Right? And it's mostly Claude,

849
01:14:27.050 --> 01:14:28.810
but you know, probably there's

850
01:14:28.810 --> 01:14:38.330
actually a decent amount of the Google side just because almost every business runs on G Suite. It's really hard to run a business without G Suite. So Gemini is already like ready to go.

851
01:14:39.085 --> 01:14:49.724
And then a lot of Claude usage, but yeah, I don't know. I think so the question to me becomes, where am I going with this? The question to me becomes like, when does it hit Google? Google has 190,000

852
01:14:49.724 --> 01:14:50.364
employees.

853
01:14:51.804 --> 01:14:53.244
Like it doesn't have to hit

854
01:14:54.820 --> 01:14:56.020
every business

855
01:14:56.180 --> 01:15:00.660
to have a massive outsized impact on the economy in terms of job loss.

856
01:15:02.260 --> 01:15:03.860
The big tech companies

857
01:15:04.340 --> 01:15:06.260
alone are maybe

858
01:15:06.420 --> 01:15:07.220
10,000,000

859
01:15:07.220 --> 01:15:13.475
employees or something. If that gets cut down to two, and all of a sudden you have 8,000,000 people that were making

860
01:15:13.635 --> 01:15:17.395
outrageous bullshit salaries of like, k a year or whatever.

861
01:15:18.515 --> 01:15:19.715
And they all get let go.

862
01:15:22.550 --> 01:15:25.110
We can have like pretty significant effects.

863
01:15:25.190 --> 01:15:27.750
And I, I think that's where we're going.

864
01:15:28.230 --> 01:15:31.510
And I think people are like trying to paint it in a rosier picture,

865
01:15:33.190 --> 01:15:47.605
but yeah, I don't know. I think there are good arguments and I feel like it always seems that way sort of in the moment. I mean, I don't know. I don't want, I'm not going to pretend like I'm a philosopher here. Okay. Again, I'll leave that to Gigi, but

866
01:15:50.410 --> 01:15:54.409
know there are many instances in history where like, let's say a company or a country

867
01:15:54.730 --> 01:15:58.010
was like, most of their economy was just all like processing

868
01:15:58.010 --> 01:16:02.970
textiles. And then suddenly boom, this machine comes out and 90%

869
01:16:02.970 --> 01:16:20.929
of the people just boom, they lose their jobs. They're like, what are we gonna do, man? Like, right, all the jobs are gone. Right? So it's just that sort of always that same narrative, like always happens again and again. And I, I don't think that AI at least the way it is now is like, okay, now this time is actually different. Like, don't think,

870
01:16:21.250 --> 01:16:27.489
I don't think that's where it's at right now. Maybe, maybe that's coming, but I think like LLMs, for example,

871
01:16:27.810 --> 01:16:45.075
I see that maybe like improving products, like maybe Gemini like works better now or something like my customer support is faster. I can get a refund faster because a human didn't look at it. Like maybe things like that happen, but, and I don't know. I would also say that there's probably like a bubble in big tech where these people are getting ridiculous salaries.

872
01:16:46.340 --> 01:16:47.460
No, it needs Yeah. To be corrected

873
01:16:48.740 --> 01:16:54.660
So either way, like it could be a healthy thing. Maybe the big bubble is that people are getting paid $200,000

874
01:16:54.660 --> 01:16:57.860
a year to go to meetings and make PowerPoints and just dick around,

875
01:16:58.340 --> 01:17:00.980
which is like, you know, half of corporate America. Like,

876
01:17:01.605 --> 01:17:04.244
I can just make your PowerPoint in two seconds now.

877
01:17:05.125 --> 01:17:12.005
Yeah, but I mean, if they all get fired, that's like 12% unemployment rate, and that's like Great Depression brutal.

878
01:17:13.045 --> 01:17:26.090
Yeah. To be clear. I mean, it would yeah. But they would do something else, wouldn't they? Like, they're not just Yeah. If they were like working for DoorDash, that's not not the same thing. But I do agree that human like humans usually find a way. But there's like

879
01:17:26.650 --> 01:17:28.330
there is a

880
01:17:30.185 --> 01:17:36.105
a, I think it's also important to realize that we've never been in this place before. Like I don't, history rhymes,

881
01:17:36.105 --> 01:17:43.225
but we're in a very different situation. I forget who it was. Know, it was some modern philosopher king

882
01:17:42.739 --> 01:17:43.780
That was like,

883
01:17:44.660 --> 01:17:49.059
the big tech royalty got up has gotten a pass up until this point

884
01:17:49.540 --> 01:17:50.260
because

885
01:17:50.580 --> 01:17:53.619
they've they brought with them this upper,

886
01:17:53.860 --> 01:17:55.780
like this upper royal class

887
01:17:56.135 --> 01:18:01.975
that is below them. Work at the companies or whatever, but they're making like you said, like, there's $600,000

888
01:18:01.975 --> 01:18:05.335
salary, they're going into the office, they have a full buffet,

889
01:18:05.335 --> 01:18:06.535
you know, the big tech style.

890
01:18:08.770 --> 01:18:14.610
And so those people are all like, super happy, but they're like, beneath them. And they kind of get brought up with them.

891
01:18:16.610 --> 01:18:17.809
In this world,

892
01:18:18.610 --> 01:18:21.010
like we could easily see companies, I think,

893
01:18:22.235 --> 01:18:30.554
that are you know, these trillion dollar mega giants that have like 70 employees like we see with Tether. We've seen it more recently with hyper liquid.

894
01:18:31.675 --> 01:18:35.195
Obviously, those are both like in crypto land or whatever Bitcoin land.

895
01:18:36.100 --> 01:18:41.220
But we kind of see it with only fans only fans is like super profitable per employee.

896
01:18:41.780 --> 01:18:45.940
So like, when is the first time we see a billion dollar unicorn with just one employee,

897
01:18:46.100 --> 01:18:48.340
two employees, like, think that starts to happen.

898
01:18:49.685 --> 01:18:51.845
Or arguably OpenClaw.

899
01:18:51.845 --> 01:18:56.085
Didn't OpenClaw get a billion dollars? And that's just one guy? No one knows what

900
01:18:56.485 --> 01:18:57.925
mean, got bought by

901
01:18:58.885 --> 01:18:59.765
OpenAI.

902
01:18:59.765 --> 01:19:04.245
I mean, I know OpenAI paid TBPN guys over a $100,000,000 at leaked.

903
01:19:05.190 --> 01:19:14.710
So if they paid him that, then I would hope that Peter with OpenClaw got more than that. But it doesn't matter because that's all funny money, right? Like that's printed stock.

904
01:19:15.030 --> 01:19:17.190
Like it's the original shitcoin.

905
01:19:17.350 --> 01:19:22.754
So they don't know. I mean, what's the real valuation? We'll find that out when they eventually go public.

906
01:19:23.474 --> 01:19:28.754
And there's actually like a liquid market where you can trade your shares against it. But like, what's the first like real?

907
01:19:30.114 --> 01:19:37.770
You know, like the next? I don't know. I'm thinking like even lower tier, Like the next Snapchat or something could be like three employees.

908
01:19:38.090 --> 01:19:40.889
Like one is extreme. That's you're being provocative.

909
01:19:41.050 --> 01:19:42.969
Like people need companionship.

910
01:19:43.210 --> 01:19:52.015
I think like if you're like building a unicorn, like you probably need like three ride or dies around you at the very least. But they could have like a team of a 100 agents running everything.

911
01:19:52.175 --> 01:19:55.614
We're already at that tech level. Think like we're pretty close.

912
01:19:57.215 --> 01:19:58.415
Yeah. We're not there.

913
01:19:58.735 --> 01:19:59.855
I think for sure

914
01:20:00.190 --> 01:20:09.149
that it's coming. Tether was a, is a pretty unique different situation because it's like their capital is scaling. It's not really their productivity, but yeah. You

915
01:20:12.110 --> 01:20:20.664
could launch like thirty, forty Claude AI agents at once and build an entire code base. You could tell me not to do that now. Tethr's a perfect example.

916
01:20:20.824 --> 01:20:29.700
Right? Because I think I think the last public information that was released, because it is a private company, it was like under a 100 employees. And like, they're making like $25,000,000,000

917
01:20:29.700 --> 01:20:35.220
profit a year. I bet you if you got rid of like 95 of those employees, they'd still make like $24,000,000,000

918
01:20:35.220 --> 01:20:37.699
in profit like, is like those.

919
01:20:38.020 --> 01:20:41.060
At that point, it's just like, you might as well have

920
01:20:41.865 --> 01:20:44.744
an extra 70 people doing whatever the fuck they're doing.

921
01:20:45.305 --> 01:20:48.025
But I bet you it's a small core that is actually

922
01:20:48.585 --> 01:20:50.744
generating the majority of the profit.

923
01:20:51.465 --> 01:20:54.985
And I think that becomes more common. Usually, historically,

924
01:20:55.850 --> 01:21:03.849
we haven't seen that again, the digital era, we've seen companies that scale bigger than they've ever been able to scale before these big tech giants,

925
01:21:04.090 --> 01:21:04.810
Facebook,

926
01:21:05.130 --> 01:21:06.889
literally their their

927
01:21:06.970 --> 01:21:09.690
addressable market is limited by birth.

928
01:21:10.305 --> 01:21:14.144
Like they basically have full penetration of the human population.

929
01:21:14.385 --> 01:21:16.385
They just need more babies to be born.

930
01:21:17.425 --> 01:21:21.665
So that piece happened. But then they also brought with them 300,000

931
01:21:21.665 --> 01:21:23.425
employees or whatever Facebook has,

932
01:21:24.550 --> 01:21:30.150
that we're all getting ridiculous salaries. Well, imagine if those 300,000 people didn't exist, and it was just Mark.

933
01:21:30.870 --> 01:21:36.230
And like, I guess, like, his wife was involved from early on, and like three compatriots,

934
01:21:36.230 --> 01:21:37.670
and then they had Facebook,

935
01:21:38.175 --> 01:21:40.975
You know, this is like a multi trillion dollar business.

936
01:21:41.695 --> 01:21:46.735
Yeah. Maybe if that happened, Facebook would actually be good and we wouldn't need not. There

937
01:21:48.335 --> 01:21:56.730
was a time when Facebook was good, man. We're in university times, you know, and you need a university address to get in. It was actually a good app. The good old days.

938
01:21:56.970 --> 01:21:58.810
No. My good old days.

939
01:21:59.210 --> 01:22:02.250
Anyway, sir, I think this was a great rep. I really enjoyed it.

940
01:22:03.130 --> 01:22:04.810
Thanks for going a little bit

941
01:22:05.530 --> 01:22:06.810
philosophy with me.

942
01:22:08.284 --> 01:22:14.124
Next time. We'll need Gigi for sure. And we'll bring Gigi on next time. Anything you want to tell the freaks before we wrap?

943
01:22:14.844 --> 01:22:23.869
Just the main thing is if you haven't tried wisp yet, please try it. And if you have any issues or like feedback requests,

944
01:22:23.870 --> 01:22:28.590
any thing you want added, like I'm all ears, please tag me, message

945
01:22:28.910 --> 01:22:33.445
me. I'm down to make the product as good as possible. So help me, help me do it.

946
01:22:34.245 --> 01:22:38.165
Love it. Freaks. I'll put all relevant links in the show notes.

947
01:22:38.805 --> 01:22:40.725
Let's do this again in like six months.

948
01:22:41.445 --> 01:22:43.445
I'm in. We'll do a recap. See where we're at.

949
01:22:44.380 --> 01:22:49.500
See if you're completely broken and pivoting to something else or got replaced by AI

950
01:22:50.540 --> 01:22:57.580
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951
01:22:57.580 --> 01:22:59.740
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952
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953
01:23:05.635 --> 01:23:07.954
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954
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955
01:23:14.740 --> 01:23:18.020
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956
01:23:18.020 --> 01:23:18.820
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957
01:23:19.380 --> 01:23:22.900
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958
01:23:23.773 --> 01:23:26.253
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959
01:23:28.893 --> 01:23:31.133
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