Welcome to my Habla.News blog!
Good day! As you can see, I go by the psuedonym TheGoldenDragon. I am the Linux Unplugged mascot and all of this tech really excites me! Bitcoin, decentralization, nostr, self-sovereignty, its all just so great. I blog fairly candidly over at The Golden Blog-A-Thon and I have been doing some thinking. *What if we could garner value from blogging that is decentralized, peer-to-peer-esque (think those that don't custody and those that do), and attach a comment like boosts?
Enter Nostr
While I was coalescing over the finer points of making my home blog boostable, Nostr was under my nose the whole time! I was wholly unaware that you could long-form blog on this protocol AND get comments AND get zaps. What a TIME to be alive. Generating value for your audience and getting that value back is the pinnacle for me. It keeps me wanting to write for whoever wants to read it and is widely distributed across many relays! Maybe one day I, too, will host a relay.
Value for Value and the Adpocalyptic Winter of Podcasting
When the money printer goes brrr and everybody is rolling in free cash, who really wins? When this kind of market is afoot, the fiat just flies around and every poor bastard gets a brand deal from some gadget or gizmo aplenty. This also makes many folks have to tone down what they say, since their funding rides heavily on their content and more importantly, their words. Say something controversial and you are likely to get cancelled by brands and fans alike. How can that model change? For this, we turn to the nostr protocol! Censorship-resistance is a key factor here. Relays can choose not to host you content, but, thats a-okay as others can just distribute it! What a time to be alive.
But, what happens when we slam headfirst into recession and hyper-inflation? We RTW on Runescape.
I joke, but, that is actually a reality for Venezuelans.
Fiat Faucet Flows
You all know about economies of scale. I'm not the first on this topic. and I wont be the last. The one percent has their bag and is firmly grasping it against the rest of us, tighter than ever before. How can folks like us change that?
Decentralization and Sovereignty
I'm not sure how we actually have a revolution, but, BTC and self-custody of your funds seems a great start. With the current state of Bitcoin and the ETFs that are being brought up, this can only help 'Coiners. With the halvening around the corner as well, stacking sats and buying the dip right now can only bolster us even more. Being that this is also a currency, spend it where you can!
The Rails, Man!
cough Yes, sorry. The tech really gets me excited. Anyway:
Giving value back to your community is POWERFUL. Not only can you:
- Get feedback that is valuable to you
- Become community-driven from that value and
- Not have to worry about taking that My Pillow ad read
And its all tied to Bitcoin. You get value in the form of comments that can be tied to Satoshis.
Zaps, how electric!
I am not totally sure about the zaps just yet, but, it looks like it is very similar to getting a boostagram! That seems very exciting to me and gives me hope for blogging yet.
Until next time, be kind to one another.