I feel sad for all the people who recommend Bitcoin wallets and Nostr clients to friends and family very enthusiastically over the years only to have these things blow up in their faces every single time.


True, bitcoin is dead. Nostr does not work. Fortunately there are banks and feisbuk


The rugging never ends…


It’s devastating.


It really sucks gifting someone some Bitcoin and then have to come back to them 6 months later and tell them then need to move their bitcoin.

At least if I set them up with seed words, that will endure.


Onward 🫡


All the Monero wallets I ever recommended are just fine.

What's wrong with BTC wallets?


What's happened now?? 👀


early adopters dilemma


Opendime or Satscard work too, they can swipe the sats when they are ready!


I'm trying to purple pill people on Mastodon. The more they argue, the more interesting it becomes.  I like it.


My only issue has ever been to engage them in the first place.

Pick two: Horse, water, drink.

😡


The best way to promote nostr among your friends is to be active in it.  They will download the nostr client just to read your tweets.


What a fragile generation.
This happens when you step out and try new things. Don’t crumble and cry because something wasn’t perfect first try.


My obligatory disclaimer for orange pills:

"Remember, we're doing things on the cutting edge, so it's more than likely we'll eventually end up bleeding."


It’s not pills and edges. It’s just normal life.


:angery:


I'm much more conservative now in my recommendations.


Yeah. Some context would be nice


Zapped by hegwood0328858fc3f56d


Nothing specifically.


It's not even the rugging, but wallets get abandoned, new incompatible technology comes, nice little custodians close shop, onchain stuff gets unusable, Lightning stuff breaks and so on.


Sorry to hear that.


But if it's only posting tests or images and reacting to posts, it's okay after spending some initial effort finding people who post stuff you're really interested / people who post frequently on random but entertaining stuff. The initial month is a hurdle 😅

Basic notes and replies (and maybe 60% threads) is fine. It's the other stuff that's all over the place 🙈


I mean.. bluewallet dropped lightning support. Phoenix and wallet of satoshi backed out of US. samourai wallet..


And now even the ones that actually work are leaving, at least when it comes to the US.


because Monero isn't a threat to the State


More people gotta use opendimes!


Anything generally then?

Or just nothing at all?


But a transparent public blockchain that can be surveilled by any government on the planet is

omegalul


it's a long game. at some point it will just be 'go to this site' or 'download this app' and individual will just use it. the idea of it being Nostr or Bitcoin will just fade into the background and it'll become Internet and Money. that's the future I'm waiting for.


Onward 🫡


I give up


Was just curious what blew up. :)


got to risk it for the biscuit


What should we recommend in a decentralized world? What would a recommendation engine look like?


No, it's exactly the other way round. The state isn't a threat to Monero.

While the state embraces and extinguishes the unique properties of BTC through KYC, taxation and criminalising the ownership of non controlled fiat money through money laundering claims.


This