The chat thread looked so farcical that I had to double check it wasn't a parody account. Is it possible the text has been edited? It just looks too scripted, especially since Jack Dorsey had shared his thoughts regarding Twitter being intended as a protocol publicly.
Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
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Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Twitter started as a protocol. It should have never been a company. That was the original sin. Dorsey seems to have figured it out.
Considering Dorsey's active participation and evangelising on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, I expect that he will be working in that direction; building a messaging protocol based on the Lighting Network that allows users to upvote with satoshis. This monetises the user engagement and makes bots less feasible, aligning user incentives.
Dorsey has been hitting at that for a while but AFAIK never delivered.
Meanwhile some guys created Nostr[0] that is so simple and functional its comical. Basically you sign a message and broadcast to one or more relays. Its not even p2p.
Keet/Holepunch[1] are based on DHT and some bittorrenty things. Basically serverless and p2p as far as I can understand. There is some scrutiny about the source code not being available but they said the project is really nascent and as soon as they clean the code they'll release it. I'd like to see that.
[0] - https://nostr.com
[1] - https://keet.io
None of the above projects are blockchain based and require tokens to transact although they might have some LN integration in the future.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#43The chat thread looked so farcical that I had to double check it wasn't a parody account. Is it possible the text has been edited? It just looks too scripted, especially since Jack Dorsey had shared his thoughts regarding Twitter being intended as a protocol publicly.
This doesn’t really strike me as private conversation. Jack was probably just telling Elon because he probably didn’t know about the protocol comments. I follow Twitter pretty closely and I didn’t know he said that.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#44Where do these emails and texts come from? Does US litigation force companies to reveal executives' communications?
In the US, part of litigation is something called discovery. This is when involved parties ask for and provide documents to establish facts of the case (requests can also be disputed, and deleting documents is a Problem). The communication of executives with Musk would be relevant to a civil case between Musk and a company.
Litigation isn’t something that should generally be taken lightly because things like discovery will tend to bring dirty laundry into public record unless documents are given additional requests to seal them. And even these seals can be litigated for certain interested parties to access them.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#45> Twitter started as a protocol. Can someone help me understand that? When and how did it start as a protocol?
He might have meant that the “idea” of Twitter was originally a protocol.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#46I have to admit this is a bit surprising from Musk. I was pretty firmly of the theory that his real motive re Twitter was basically narcissism, and I'm still not sure that's wrong. I note he's not agreeing strongly with Dorsey, with the strongest phrase being "I'd like to help if I can". And I still think he would be better off using any money he might have spent buying Twitter on funding a handful of open source com…
It’s likely 99.9% of Twitter’s user base does not care about this issue. Would be hard to build a product that is compelling enough to overcome the extreme network effect of something that is arguably a utility.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#47I really, like REALLY thought it was a fake and parody tweet about their "tweeting styles¨. Turns out they are real messages.
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
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Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you hear Musk being interviewed you'd certainly have to believe otherwise, he definitely claims he is the brains behind a lot of innovation.
That's hilarious, because for someone with a literal degree in physics he doesn't seem to understand the physics at all
Can you provide some examples?
Re: Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022
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