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Not sure. A lot of pieces to put into place, a lot of network to build. And we can’t just build networks arbitrarily because they are only viable with a particular geographic density. (ie. 100K drivers all over the world is useless, 100K drivers is one big city is entirely self sustaining) I think the best way to get there would be to leverage Uber’s attempts to crack down on getting clients out of app. If we build the app flows and tools, then we can start by trying to be the “give me your personal number” version of Uber. So we can onboard Uber drivers and pay them privately out of band. Then you create a client based network, rather than a broad public network. Until it gets to the point where the public one emerges on its on. It would take years to be viable if we started today, but who knows how well momentum could run with something like that. 🤔

Nostr can gro big and then afterwards just build an Uber app on nostr that will connect everyone

Arn’t we closer than a few years? These movements start at the grass roots…with Nostr, could you just start with a couple of hashtags, city, neighborhood, needaride. And a couple of people covering that neighborhood. Respond and pay via zap. Peer to peer. Before you know it, someone will add some basic functionality on a couple of servers, off you go. #Nostr and #Bitcoin are revolutionary, a market place for everything. Not long from now.

i use a decentralized uber every day. it is called indrive dirt cheap and you can even negotiate the rate you are willing to pay

Anyone with an expertise in code could build an open source protocol that creates an encrypted handshake between drivers that are available and rider demands. suggestions: bidding system, filters by location, lightning payment rails, blind rating system, and vehicle capacity filters. Most everything comes down to the egoic need for recognition over having the things we want. Do you want an actually good video game? build it. Give it away and you will have the game you wanted. The compensation for a service only comes upon request not demand.

the decentralized uber version i use every day is 'illegal' . the criminal narcotraficantes called 'gobierno' made it 'illegal' like uber and didi. they could shut down uber and didi but they cannot shut down indrive because it is decentralized. it shows that it is very easy to decentralize car sharing

Bitcoin is a record keeping system, which is what money is as I explained in the video. So yes it provides as extremely valuable and critically necessary service for the economy that uses it. The individual cannot get bitcoin without providing a service or value in exchange for it. That’s the whole point. Rather than entire industries surviving on counterfeit, people have to actually exchange something and provide value to others in order to earn some bitcoin.

Well, the dollar system has been working pretty well for several decades. Debt has always been rising in every country, money is debt. What matters is distribution not volume.

It has not been working well. It has created a bloated, corrupt financial system, it has created the largest debt imbalance in human history. It has systematically stolen from the middle and lower classes at the benefit of the political and counterfeit class. It has funded a century of literal total, never ending war. The power of a select, privileged group to unilaterally counterfeit money that everyone else is forced to use is the most absurd, corrupting power that society could possibly create. The idea that this is good for anything is beyond ridiculous. It is a horrendous cancer upon society.

But also the dollar nation is the richest in the world. Flawed, a lot, but the dollar has definitley worked for America. It depends on the time period, the 50s and 60s were great for middle class. OR they wouldnt BE middle class.

That when people lost it. Money is a value, not a system to maintain or to control, but just a value (rare and not). People are in bitcoin just to get a part of that system (part of the bitcoin tax). Bitcoin is not use to exchange value, but to ear that part of a system. Even when govs come to tell them to wear a donkey hat they will gladly put it on, and ear that part of a system. If i get to sum up all of this : bitcoin is not money but a system of something that can be called money.

… 🤦🏻‍♂️ You still did not listen to anything I said in the other thread. I have no clue why you are so stubborn and defensive about this, but I’m muting you since you can’t get over it for whatever reason. Have a good day.

Linux only since 2012.

Technically, what they “own” and provide is a system of network connections because we failed to build technology that allows us to make those connections without them. And they have exploited that simple fact to the most insane and abusive degree possible. So while you’re right in a sense, i think it’s more precise not to say they don’t provide anything at all, but that they have created a giant closed environment so they can rent seek off of everyone who joins it to find other people (rather than something they provide directly). They’ve tried to “own” the market square and the very idea of others’ communication.

yeah that too same page, different angles, both true imo 😂

That would be awesome!