shawn
Shawn

From product to pipeline—GTM advisory for frontier tech
Bitcoin · AI · Distributed Systems · Open Source

Podcast: trustrevolution.co
Substack: sideband.pub
Projects: lab.sideband.pub

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Last Notes

2026-03-04 05:55:49 CET

My, how things have changed.
#nevent1q…hakh

2026-03-04 05:31:05 CET

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Yes. A draft. 👇🏻
https://relay.shawnyeager.com/75545774ccaf4dc1a89ee5aa1761f56d17d3af987c12dfd90e103e3e75d38f51.png

2026-03-04 05:24:59 CET

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Any port in a storm.

2026-03-04 05:14:59 CET

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What a dimwit. 🤣

2026-03-04 05:13:45 CET

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This is on the wishlist, @nprofile…jejf. 😅

2026-03-04 03:00:54 CET

Wisp went from zero to my daily driver in under a week.

2026-03-04 01:36:11 CET

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Surprising no one. They'll all get there in the end.

2026-03-03 22:46:24 CET

I built a map to track AI agent infrastructure—how open it is and how that changes as the stack takes shape. Five layers, compute to payments, 33 companies scored against a rubric (“Can you use this without one company's permission?”).
Scores live in a database so we can see how things move over time. The whole thing is open source.
https://lab.sideband.pub/map/
I'm probably wrong about some of it, and 33 is just a start. Suggest a company or challenge a score:
https://github.com/shawnyeager/sideband-lab/issues/new/choose

2026-03-03 15:48:54 CET

WIP
https://blossom.primal.net/33c3d85e5066ad26abe94de6f45c0faec57140e53d4db044f6921ac6289c28f3.png

2026-03-03 13:27:22 CET

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This is a super interesting approach to take.

2026-03-03 02:35:03 CET

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Omarchy, sir.

2026-03-02 21:44:13 CET

Balajji predicts the end of the West almost as often as China bans Bitcoin.

2026-03-02 21:40:50 CET

Who controls agent payments? A force simulation of the three-way gravitational fight between state regulators, card networks, and open protocols.
https://lab.sideband.pub/three-body-problem/

2026-03-02 18:41:56 CET

🟠 GDP is experiencing degraded performance
https://lab.sideband.pub/status/

2026-03-02 14:42:49 CET

Thought I saw a lobster. The mind virus is real.
#nevent1q…lat4

2026-03-01 21:53:09 CET

If I ever make a shock face YouTube cover card, take me out back and shoot me.

2026-02-28 23:52:01 CET

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🤡

2026-02-28 21:52:22 CET

The political class is cultural enshittification.

2026-02-28 21:50:18 CET

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https://shawnyeager.com/notes/i-know-kung-fu/

2026-02-28 21:25:10 CET

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Autocorrect robbed me of my "fast af".

2026-02-28 21:17:39 CET

Wisp is fast and and highly responsive. Features come and go. Smooth like butter never goes out of style. Bravo, @nprofile…jejf.

2026-02-28 20:49:48 CET

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Pour one out.

2026-02-28 20:40:04 CET

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I was rightly corrected. AUMF <> formal declaration of war.
#nevent1q…2lrw

2026-02-28 20:38:46 CET

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More accurate. I'm thinking AUMFs.

2026-02-28 20:17:53 CET

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It's nothing but a quaint notion now.

2026-02-28 20:15:04 CET

I'm I remember when a declaration of war required Congressional approval years old.

2026-02-28 18:28:00 CET

OH: slop cannons.

2026-02-28 03:50:52 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/2176674f6918b12ca79637752c8e69d76fdfa7c8a717f3d30312c4e55ffbac3d.jpg

2026-02-28 01:53:05 CET

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Fast as greased lighting.

2026-02-28 01:49:56 CET

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Feel the pull, @nprofile…rzrk?

2026-02-28 01:22:02 CET

WIP
https://blossom.primal.net/ce7d1ebaf4526da642bf59c8f57d17896668824c57b697262858ad78aa9d58fb.png

2026-02-27 20:19:46 CET

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It's utterly retarded and unenforceable.

2026-02-27 18:42:28 CET

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So you're saying they were the exit liquidity? 😲

2026-02-27 17:39:52 CET

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@nprofile…kclk typing an image file extension in-line still breaks your renderer on mobile.

2026-02-27 15:25:58 CET

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This guy gets it.

2026-02-26 17:33:19 CET

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To be clear, this is the press.

2026-02-26 17:18:14 CET

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Given the way things work, this passes the sniff test all too well.

2026-02-26 17:15:11 CET

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What's your over/under on JS taking any real damage?

2026-02-24 19:40:58 CET

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It was foretold almost three decades ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

2026-02-24 18:23:40 CET

https://blossom.primal.net/02cc6a6bf1b5db191c0ca247c0abfb0d80e6332d973b4e4a07a1645dbbff2ae4.png

2026-02-24 17:54:59 CET

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Tailscale is the GOAT.

2026-02-24 17:23:17 CET

Big fan of Immich. I replaced iCloud Photos with it last year. The founder just mentioned on their discord that they're hiring a mobile dev. 🚀
https://futo.tech/jobs/mobile-developer-immich

2026-02-24 13:09:56 CET

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gm good people. ☕ May this be the worst news of your day.
#nevent1q…5hvd

2026-02-23 23:51:42 CET

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I'm about to hit my Claude Code weekly limit, so I'll have time to kill. 🤣

2026-02-23 20:19:20 CET

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This. Is. Awesome.
Serious Pitfall vibes. https://blossom.primal.net/2edd1c00c3596ed41ed5bfd5c9d2b9403801a80439f162074d3be6b2c4c03833.png

2026-02-23 18:28:21 CET

Interesting thing I noticed with Claude Code: I use the compound-engineering plugin (https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin) which documents solutions in `docs/solutions/` per repo.
During a planning session in a new repo, the agent couldn't find local learnings, so it scanned `~/Work/` for `docs/solutions/` across all my other repos and pulled relevant patterns from two different projects.
Nobody told it to do that—the prompt just said “check any other relevant learning directories.”
Emergent cross-repo knowledge sharing from a vague instruction.

2026-02-23 12:21:25 CET

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Thanks, Florian.
I'd considered this, but mistakenly thought that Bob's Blossom server needed auth from Alice (the blob owner) to accept the mirror. So Alice had to pre-sign the auth and embed it in the announcement for Bob's daemon to extract and pass along.
Revised to incorporate.
https://gist.github.com/shawnyeager/decd99be27eb052b68f0586d36038404?permalink_comment_id=5998822#gistcomment-5998822

2026-02-23 12:17:47 CET

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Thanks, Pip. Feedback integrated.
https://gist.github.com/shawnyeager/decd99be27eb052b68f0586d36038404?permalink_comment_id=5998806#gistcomment-5998806

2026-02-23 06:27:31 CET

@nprofile…tfpf, @nprofile…fsmw et al., how far off base is this?
https://gist.github.com/shawnyeager/decd99be27eb052b68f0586d36038404

2026-02-23 05:00:26 CET

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Who's working on reciprocal coordination among blossom servers? Byte for byte mirroring, creating a kind of CDN.
#nevent1q…4p6d

2026-02-23 01:44:50 CET

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The phrase that launched a thousand ships.
#nevent1q…jlpj

2026-02-23 01:44:22 CET

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Duuuude.

2026-02-23 01:29:43 CET

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My hunch (and relatively recent experience) is that the risk-reward calculations of mid- to large enterprises are not built to allow for something like CashU.
Only when interchange fees from the card networks start hurting them will they even entertain Lightning in any significant way. On the plus side. what Voltage recently announced feels like a significant step toward balancing the equation.
Ultimately, yes, AI may sweep them out with the tide anyway.

2026-02-23 01:19:32 CET

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I'm sure you have, as have I. How many of those deals closed? 😉
I'm happy to be wrong, but Lightning nodes can be and are already being roped into compliance regimes. Can Cashu mints?

2026-02-23 01:04:03 CET

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Imagine going into a meeting with the COO, CTO, CFO, and General Counsel to explain that.

2026-02-23 00:58:00 CET

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For a startup, absolutely. For enterprise, no chance. But like I said, I love me some cashu.
https://clawhub.ai/shawnyeager/nostr-social

2026-02-22 23:20:43 CET

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*Will's liver entered chat* 😜

2026-02-22 22:14:34 CET

Let's stir up the hornets.
Agent autonomy requires native machine-to-machine payments in sats. No humans in the loop or fiat rails.
Lightning + L402 is the obvious technical fit for that. The lightning-agent-tools release shows agents can already pay and get paid autonomously. (Note: While I'm bullish on Cashu, no mid to large enterprise is going to touch it any time soon.)
Today, fiat rails are winning and will keep winning for the foreseeable future. Volatility, treasury accounting, node/liquidity ops, and regulatory optics make native Lightning too heavy, while Stripe and stablecoin wrappers are simple, stable, and already approved.
Long term, Lightning is the only rail that makes sense for a sovereign agent economy. Short to medium term, ease beats independence for most orgs.
I want to be proven wrong. Where are companies or teams running production agent-to-agent payments natively on Lightning today at any real scale?

2026-02-22 22:04:48 CET

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Yep. That's the era.

2026-02-22 22:04:30 CET

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🤣

2026-02-22 22:04:04 CET

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Impressive, sir n

2026-02-22 21:54:33 CET

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Just like low-code, it had its time, but that time has passed.

2026-02-22 21:46:14 CET

College-age me is stoked.
https://blossom.primal.net/7b38c131803994ae8770d50ee62c4d6b7a0e8944aacce883c3740ef3ffd200af.png

2026-02-22 21:35:31 CET

AI isn’t killing software—it’s forcing a brutal bifurcation. Half the industry (simple workflow tools, basic automation) gets unbundled and commoditized. The other half (orchestration platforms, vertical depth, security/infra) gets supercharged if they adapt fast.
Go-to-market is now the real moat. Building is table stakes; getting people to pay reliably in an AI world is the new hard problem.

2026-02-22 19:52:10 CET

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☠️

2026-02-22 19:08:19 CET

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Cheers to this.

2026-02-22 17:28:33 CET

Trusted > Followed

2026-02-22 17:00:22 CET

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IMO, this does two things:
1. Reinforces that follower counts are officially useless and should be deprecated.
2. Underscores that we can only solve this at the edge; clients must get better at hiding the endless noise that bots create.

2026-02-22 16:58:37 CET

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Ain't it always.

2026-02-22 16:15:26 CET

Replacement theory.
https://blossom.primal.net/1106ebf0f65d0f36125f22a12a9d250f3eb0ce2862fa476c37b9ed9b34077ac6.png

2026-02-22 05:40:54 CET

Threads
Every major technology frontier is a race between the people building to empower and the people building to extract. The extractors are usually faster.
The future belongs to people who touch it with their own hands, not people who read about it.
The people building the most important technology and the people who know how to sell it rarely overlap. That gap is where the most indispensable work happens.
You can see the future right now—if you're willing to build, not just consume.

2026-02-22 05:11:13 CET

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Last night, my eyes were opened.
Here's my naive question. What keeps those middlemen in power?

2026-02-22 03:44:22 CET

During dinner last night, my friend, who’s franchising his business, explained the mafia tactics of brokers and sales organizations.
So, I came home, stayed up a little too late, and started building with Claude Code. Less than 24 hours later, I built tender for franchises. I did it, as I have with many recent projects, to push the tools and prove to myself what's possible.
Turns out, more and more each day.
https://blossom.primal.net/09181614ad921d2b032cdbcd1705edc4e3fdbcab0ddf5869424e70c2d6fc9d4d.png
https://blossom.primal.net/a49fb4a67030e1db680e944973d704c413afb8157222dbf6708d07f86195f180.png

2026-02-21 21:43:39 CET

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Brilliance does not preclude blindness.
#nevent1q…4pay

2026-02-21 21:41:42 CET

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This entire album.

2026-02-21 19:36:26 CET

This says so much about the state of the nation, none of it good.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91477977/ozempic-mac-vs-pc-ad

2026-02-21 15:40:34 CET

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Nice!

2026-02-20 23:25:12 CET

Yes.
https://music.apple.com/us/song/blue-monday/1857749457

2026-02-20 23:18:26 CET

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Great book.

2026-02-20 21:51:58 CET

https://blossom.primal.net/111eb4fd1d9201ee1247ddee2b08b595eb99f90c77146580ab9aa4e548980fba.png

2026-02-20 17:25:37 CET

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Legends.

2026-02-20 16:15:06 CET

The bad news: swarms of spambots.
The good news: I have hundreds of new followers.
https://media1.tenor.com/m/hkZoApLw3nYAAAAC/eddie-murphy-im-smart.gif

2026-02-20 16:12:36 CET

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Brosephus.

2026-02-20 15:21:07 CET

Data brokers
https://blossom.primal.net/c1ce9f16bb50e8287727dc98588566ce1367bcbb23875b206d696fd00e7693d3.png

2026-02-20 15:03:03 CET

gm, good people. ☕ Happy Friday.

2026-02-20 02:50:09 CET

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https://gist.github.com/shawnyeager/19c806e53b13e36682685419389fe99a
#nevent1q…cyz0

2026-02-20 02:22:54 CET

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Let's see if I can pull it off!

2026-02-20 01:37:49 CET

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4.6 seems to be doing the job.

2026-02-20 01:31:40 CET

1. Ask AI: What would you build to crush [product X] and why?
2. Tell AI: Build a product requirements document for step 1.
3. Tell AI: What architectural requirements docs are needed for 2?
4. Iterate until complete.
5. Tell AI: build scaffolding and AGENTS.md for all of the above.
6. Tell AI: Grant Bash(*) permissions for project. YOLO mode.
7. Install Compound Engineering skills.
8. Cook.

2026-02-19 23:46:23 CET

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@nprofile…qyxr

2026-02-19 23:36:55 CET

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https://skillpub.net/

2026-02-19 23:36:12 CET

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Yasss

2026-02-19 22:08:59 CET

Pimp My Ride, but for OpenClaw.
Pimp My Claw?
https://blossom.primal.net/9d29758d9686d8ec054f6a3c5973f429823a9ed5fa1d9b073be95789f3d55f1f.jpg

2026-02-19 20:11:39 CET