ODELL: So while we're on that topic, why do you focus so much time, energy, money, on nostr?
JACK: It's... The only reason I'm in a position that I can even consider doing something like this is because of the grace of the open source developers on the Internet. And the way that the Internet was built... for those of you who are as old as me, you remember Usenet, you remember the early days of Linux, you remember gopher, you remember the early days of the web, you remember the principles.
But most importantly you remember that you could read the code. And that was incredible. The fact that all these APIs were open, the fact that RabbleXVF brought this up, that TCP/IP. the very foundation of the Internet, was considered the ugly, wrong choice, and people made it work. And every single interaction we have today, in the world, every single person in the world, has an interaction today where they touch that work. And they touch the concept of the bazaar model instead of the cathedral.
We have so many companies and we have so many organizations trying to build this cathedral model, and control it, and take more and more so that they can profit more and more. And we need to have an opinionated and different approach that we build in parallel. For when those things fail, which they will, we have some place that people can go do. And that's what gives me a lot of patience around what everyone is building here, because like, our only goal here is just to build in parallel. And make sure we continue to build something that, when people need it, it's available. And I think that's really important that we always have those options available to us. The same is true for Bitcoin.
There's a lot of talk about how censorhip resistence is important, and a lot of talk about censoring, a lot of talk about freedom of speech and all these things, but no one has proven that they actually want that. If they actually wanted it, they'd be using it every single day. And it's a lot of... it's really good marketing right now, but if you actually want to see if people believe in it, believe it in their soul, they're going to act, and they're going to do something about it. And we're just not seeing it right now. But when they are ready, or when they're forced to be ready, or when their mind's finally open to take another action and sacrifice the convenience they have right now, and the network they have right now, that this place is ready, and that Bitcoin is ready, and it's up to the task of supporting billions and billions of people.
So it's a long haul, and it's something that we might not even see the entire fruits in our lifetime - I think we will - but the fact that we have this collection of people working on this, and working on these ideals, and thinking about the long term, and suffering through the small numbers right now, I think is really important, really unique, and, I dunno, I love it. I love being part of this community.
[ODELL raises a hand to the audience, who claps]
JACK: Matt [ODELL] is very big on clapping, and getting energy back from the audience, so, I don't care, so, any time he stops talking if you could give him some energy back and, I'm good.
quoting note17zu…7f0ujack (nprofile…rqw7)'s conversation with ODELL (nprofile…hj2c) was absolute fire 🔥, watch it at 7 hour mark on.
Zapping everyone that comments and spreads the word.
https://www.youtube.com/live/uI38gUNaJLY