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 Make some wild predictions for the rest of 2024. Let’s hear them. Can be about anything. 
 WW3 
 No! Not that one! 
 Ok, some nice less doomy ones:

$100k #bitcoin
#NOSTR hits the mainstream
Aliens make contact, come in peace.
Nuclear fusion advances 
 Me: cash app integration with nostr and that part of the app becomes  CashChat ™️ 
 Altszn like we've never seen before.

Why not? The SEC just enabled every scammer on the planet. 
 Yeah seems they opened up the hell gates 
 The “missing notes” problem on #Nostr will be solved unexpectedly… profiles & threads will load without discovery issues.

Syncing was only half the battle. Outbox will evolve into something unexpected. 
 Sounds like you know something 🤔 
 After bitcoin hit one billion dollaz a pop cannibalize became the new diet among the no-coiners 
 😱 
 sorry, i was wrong, Nostradamus just came along and whispered to me that ‘ everything's gonna be alright , just keep fighting the good fight, seek wisdom, peace of mind and all will be fine’ 
 Kinetic AI war 
 Who is fighting who? 
 anti signal signal 
 hey brother 
 The warp speed barrier is broken, leading to the Vulcans take notice of us for the first time .. 👀🖖🏼 
 Shower girl returns to nostr, spins up her own client which all nostr OGs pile into and it's ace!😜 
 The dream 😴 
 Social credit score will become a thing in the US. 
Over time more and more things will affect it beyond your financial situation. 
Driving record. What you drive, frequency and distance. 
What you watch on TV
Your political bias. 
Your religion. 
Your evaluations at work. 
Your children’s report cards and evaluations at school. 
Your carbon footprint. The square footage of your house.  The amount of electricity you consume. 
Total garbage you throw out each week - based on weight. 
The social credit score of your friends will have an effect on your score. 
In time, you will be able to earn social credit points by being a snitch. For example, reporting someone who is running a side business from their home without government approval.  Or reporting someone who waters their lawn too frequently.  This will cause suspicion and even division among lifelong friends. 
The ability to obtain certain jobs will require various levels of social credit scores. 
Many people will live the social credit score system and many will despise it. It will cause commotion and division until it is accepted. People will learn to game the system over time just like a financial credit score. 
 🤮 
 Agree. But the ball is rolling in that direction already. 
 push the country left so we push back right 
 cage fights in congress 
 pfizer loses 
 Bitcoin gobbling bots 
 The CIA assassinates RFK, Jr. to get the Kennedy Hat Trick. 
 I have 4

>LND adds Bolt12. We'll be able to zap to bolt12 offers on Nostr.
>Torrents make a comeback thanks to Nostr
>Someone is going to start offering yield to use their ecash mint - rebirth of traditional banking on Bitcoin
>Bitcoin circular economy initiatives go mainstream and will start getting their deserved attention 
 "aliens" turn the white house to a white ash (its roof is not blue) 
BIS/IMF worldwide credit freeze, which leads to bank runs 
5g/haarp instructs the jabbed to do some crazy stuff or drop dead 
power outages everywhere 
weather war intensifies 
lockdowns into 2025 
pureblood preppers renetwork our communities and start rebuilding 
we ascend to the next level in this game.. 2026? 
 The bird flu infects 10 bazillion people (per the gov) and we all gotta get more shots to be safe. Most people accept this, they did not learn from Covid because critical thinking is not okay. 

But hopefully something more positive. 
 Betelguese won't supernova 
 OpenAI will merge with Unitree to create a killer robot with hyper intelligence.