At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. Tech production editor for South China Morning Post covering Web3, censorship, digital trade and supply chains.
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Last Notes npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane The Bitcoin Conference is already in talks to have Bitcoin Asia return to Hong Kong, ideally at the more centrally located Convention and Exhibition Centre next year. Tokyo and Singapore are also possible future locations, @npub16vr…p2va said. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane The CEO of Tether has a new project making what he calls "unstoppable apps", just like bitcoin is the "unstoppable money". But he sees anything using relays as flawed in this respect. He had some comments on Nostr that wound up on the cutting room floor, but may be of interest here: npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane https://media.tenor.com/_7dnOT1DdvEAAAAM/sad-whine-cry.gif npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane Binance has largely stayed quiet about Hong Kong's crypto licensing scheme while rivals poured in. But it seems the company started its play to gain a foothold in the market 10 months ago. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane I switched to RedReader and it seems to work fine with VPNs and VPS IPs. Not as good of an app as Relay, of course, but good enough for as little time as I spend on Reddit. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane This is an interesting advantage of an open protocol. An app like Substack is designed with the idea that everyone is a creator, but of course it also has to cater to people who are primarily consumers of content. But is there any precedent for this? The closest thing I can think of for a reader-focused app centered around an open format is an RSS reader. Is there enough demand for an app that caters only to Nostr readers? npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane I've also noticed a shift towards local-first productivity software, with a lot of Chinese developers. I don't think this is a coincidence either, but seems hard to get people to talk about it. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane https://image.nostr.build/f7579fa3a95c283cbe2561a6abb83180f1b3698d4e9bce38203753deafcc6d91.gif npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane As in: This Nostah protocol is wicked cool. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane An imaginary number, from the looks of it npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” –Friedrich Nietzsche npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane I think this is mostly right. I'm also on the record as saying that having to manage your own keys is a major hurdle for the average person: https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3236382/decentralised-social-media-super-app-elon-musks-dreams-already-exists-growing-interest-china npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane I don't think tech needs to choose between being friendly towards average users and tinkerers. You can strike a happy medium. @npub180c…h6w6's post makes me think of the recent Fast Company article on Obsidian: https://www.fastcompany.com/90960653/why-people-are-obsessed-with-obsidian-the-indie-darling-of-notetaking-apps npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane Frustrations abound with the crypto exchange licensing process in Hong Kong so far. Joseph Wang, the astrophysicist who spoke with @npub1myg…sn5p on @npub1tr0…qqpx back in June, offered some of his insight, having gone through the process to kind of kick the tires. He has a dour outlook, although other industry players say the Securities and Futures Commission is on the right track. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane Another Nostr-adjacent piece I wrote recently for the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Hong Kong. This was written more for other journalists, but maybe some people here will appreciate it. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane I think ActivityPub is pretty great at what it was designed for, which is connecting a bunch of smaller social networks where people can build niche communities around specific interests. Something like Nostr is better for that universal "town square" ideal that Twitter seemed to be striving for pre-Musk. BlueSky's AT Protocol seems to sit somewhere in the middle. In any case, I think there is room for a protocol that uses PKI and ActivityPub to co-exist, just as Facebook and Twitter have co-existed. They serve different purposes. I think bridges are cool, and probably useful in certain contexts, but I can't personally think of any reason why I'd want to access Mastodon content on Nostr or vice versa. These are very different networks. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane An enthusiastic group of pro bono programmers strewn across the globe, including in Hong Kong, are building the open source, crypto-focused super app of Elon Musk’s dreams – but without the app. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane Young people in China are embracing lightning travel… but not Lightning travel npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane It's already popular with certain segments of the crypto crowd and it's censorship resistent. Would seem like a natural fit. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane Actually, I spoke too soon. Apparently it's open source and can be self hosted: https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane I think Synology has something like that if you use their NAS, but I've never tried it. Also, this isn't self-hosted but it's fully encrypted: [CryptPad](https://cryptpad.fr/) npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane https://youtu.be/3I-D8Ozc4Oc?si=4HeZ5PrXnsLTpJr4 npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane It should have read 8 million followers each. This is the story: https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3233703/china-crypto-crackdown-weibo-banishes-80-prominent-cryptocurrency-influencers npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane 80 Chinese crypto influencers with a combined 8 million followers were recently removed from Weibo. Have any of these people found Nostr yet? npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane What phone did you go with? npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane How do you find new people to follow? npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane What's going on here? Lol npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane 👋 I'd like to RSVP npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane One significant challenge to overcome, though, is a lack of agreed standards for exchanging trade data on a blockchain and between blockchains. Shipping containers and electronic data interchange documents were only widely adopted after a push from standards bodies. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane Why use blockchain at all when trade seems to work just fine without it? Advocates say it can help reduce some of the remaining barriers to digitization, like the fact that the bill of lading is still largely paper-based. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane GSBN has eight major shipping and terminal operators as shareholders, each with equal voting rights in the governance of its blockchain. The nonprofit is out to prove blockchain has a future in supply chains, but the CEO admits it could take a while. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane Supply chain management was supposed to be a killer application of blockchain outside cryptocurrencies and NFTs. But the end of Maersk and IBM’s TradeLens last fall caused some to doubt the tech’s applicability – but not Hong Kong’s GSBN. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3216365/blockchain-based-logistics-looks-increasingly-chinese-after-exit-maersk-hong-kongs-gsbn-has-global npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane I think IPFS has some big advantages over torrents. But for distributed collaboration, how does this compare with something like Radicle? https://radicle.xyz/ npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane So we can expect an official HSBC Nostr account soon? npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane You can sign up for the waitlist here: https://bsky.app/ npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane Hong Kong's New crypto policy proposal shows its "commitment towards being the leading Web3 hub", but it also limits retail investors to big-cap coins and requires exchanges set up committees to regularly review tokens to determine if they should still be traded. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane Censorship in China has created a restrictive media environment that hampers the development of large language models. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane > By attempting to cut China off from advanced semiconductors, America is incentivising China to focus on more mature forms of chip manufacturing, where the choke points are weaker and China already has a large share of the market. These sorts of chips are required in great numbers in electric cars and weapons. If artificial intelligence turns out to be less important than the American government thinks it is, incentivising Chinese firms to take greater control over commodity chips may end up looking like a mistake. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane Still no cryptocurrency trading in mainland China, but The Ministry of Science and Technology is setting up the National Blockchain Technology Innovation Centre in Beijing. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane Do you get a lot of Chinese spam on here? The vast majority of the posts I see on my global feed are in Chinese. Much of it porn, or more likely scams pretending to be porn. npub1decs7fsdnh2ykdeycla9j9sxx74q4c0ce72jrkyu7faf4sqyydus0t9ggh haldane > Apple’s recent removal of Damus, a decentralised social media platform built on an open protocol backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, from its China App Store for violating domestic cybersecurity laws came as no surprise at all, according to the developer behind the new app’s technology.
