The core issue in large scale construction projects is the power that main contractors have over payment terms. They can insist on 90 days credit. That's a disincentive for a large segment of the market, who may well be the best qualified, to submit quotes in the first place, but it kind of spurs subcontractors who take the bait, to complete their billable work promptly.

If those bastards were neutered, and the architects were held more responsible for their errors, I think you would find the rest of the people in your thesis would take care of themselves. At least that's my experience of efficient and easy going contracts.

 You don't need instant payment to be incentivised to give a job your all, you just need the assurance that your payment is assured at the end of the week,so you can pay weekly shopping bill, or pay your workforce so they can go weekly shopping etc.

Suppliers currently don't require instant payments, or if they do they don't give credit. That they give credit obviously adds to the cost of what they sell, which could do with addressing.

The lightning payment would make the act of being paid simple and frictionless. But I would think as long as terms are honoured, and of a sensible timescale ie not 90 days, which is forcing sub contractors with weekly or monthly bills to need a loan to cover zero income for 90 days, which is an overhead that goes into their pricing, that would be a revolution in itself.

Maybe lightning first target is to streamline payments between the manufacturers of construction materials. A bit easier to nail down, all things being equal, compared to the organic mass thst is a construction site. I'm rambling now :)


That's how I plan to set up my business.   It's a transitionary time. In effect using the crap money as best we can to build something for the future.


Your thread broke Nostr :) I've never read such a long thread. Interesting, a lot way over my head. Is there a site or a book that covers your equilibrium thesis?


That's quality info, 🙏


You have a lot of chickens. Or the laying capacity for a lot. Looks very tidy setup


Looking comfortable in the shade


Is Oscar Merry of Fountain on Nostr? I can't find him and I have a question why all clients except Fountain recognise my browser extension. Im running out of tunes to whistle while the wheel of death keeps spinning at login page. Fountain is ace btw, I can wait.


Looking at egg timers, as you do. We have come a long way. Found one from the 60's, the classic hour glass, calibrated for 3 minutes and 2 seconds. Never realised my boiled eggs and soldiers as a kid were so precisely prepared. Those old folks could teach us a thing or two!

And now you can get wind up egg-timers, equally fascinating.

And an egg-shaped pod that you drop in the pan and they change colour as the eggs go through soft, medium to hard. Not sure about that one, if you wear glasses, you are going to steam up checking progress.

Personally, I'm a "take it as it comes" boiled egg eater these days. Although everyone else says my eggs definitely taste better, I can't really tell the difference any more because I never eat shop bought.

However, whenever I do eat a boiled egg I am immediately transported back to childhood, watching Spiderman cartoons and dunking soldiers often burnt to a crisp, because my mother didn't have a toaster time.
#eggs #chickens #homesteading #growstr #nostalgia not #nostralgia


Probably Nostr 101 but how can I find a conversation between me and another npub, if I know the approximate date

#asknostr


Over the years I have seen many new roads in rural areas run alongside varying degrees of remains of original tracks. The minor roads aren't necessarily defunct. Travelling through France or Spain, unless you are loaded or in a hurry, secondary roads are very useful


Sign me up for that:)


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If you are thinking of getting some chickens for their eggs, I suggest 8 ad a sweetspot number. naddr1qqxnzdejxsergdpexgmrzv3sqgs8ksa3ewj00rvwdp9grgx0tlx5laq7pvryzxaggrt8tj4mncx5tgcrqsqqqa28epaq93

"They say" if every third home had a few chickens, factory farms would be gone tomorrow. A little idealistic, but you get the idea.

Modern intensive animal farming is such a fiat construct. Ignore the billions of hectares of land that could flourish if animals were around fertilsing and disturbing the soil. Instead get in as many tractors as you can outside, while cramming as many animals into an interior space as possible, be that a cage, a pen or soft-focus barn.

But keeping such a density of life healthy is no easy task. It creates problems that need solutions that generate economic activity that ushers in other problems.

Just think how many vets are prescribing all sorts of products that keep hens from keeling over, but the medications stay in the animal and pass through to the animals that consume it, mainly homo sapiens.

Or behind the scenes, you may not be aware of the literal shit show going on to store, and dispose of effluent. The expense, the processes, the nonsense to keep it out of the water supply, often unsuccessfully. Madness.

And consider the side effects on human health as we are drilled to eat three square meals a day (or in Spain, eat something 5 times a day!) On top of that constant food craving, we are sold ever less nutrient dense comestible "stuff" to sate those cravings. It seems we don't eat to feel literally full, we eat until we have enough micronutrients to meet our body's needs.  So we have to eat so much more than our ancestors to find those nutrients, and so we get obese, and so it goes on.

This circle can only be broken by backyard chickens. I'm kidding, but you get the idea. Start somewhere.


https://fountain.fm/episode/nvE4MO4qv2SB4q9ZcItK  nostr:nprofile1qqsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7qgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx7mnnv968xtn0wfnsurtqc6  is always so convincing about the inevitability of Bitcoin. Another chance to hear his reasoning on The Bitcoin Podcast with nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygq2h5yj


It's Wimbledon in the year of the Beatles. A baby boy is born to a Scottish teddy boy father and a blue-blooded English woman. The child leaves the hospital with only one nipple intact and blue hands and feet. Rumour has it the impoverished boomer parents then leave it in front of an open gas oven for hours on end. They tell concerned relatives that they need to cook and heat at the same time, to keep the bills down during one of the last Big Freezes in London. The Spartan approach works out fine and the baby grows into a strapping lad, the eldest of four siblings.

Fast forward 60 years, I'm still here, still Spartan to a degree. I've never watched a point, set or match at the home of tennis; gas is the only way to cook, and although circulation issues seem to be a thing of the past, I still have no time for snow.

After much traveling, I have settled in Spain, which to me is a brilliant mix of Europe and Africa. Ex-pat Spain probably conjures up pictures of clear blue skies and sun-baked beaches full of inebriated pink Brits and loud Germans. Not gonna lie, I dodged that bullet on day two and gravitated inland to the least populated part of Europe's most mountainous nation.

Weather-wise, rural Spain is all about the 300 days a year of bright sunlight beaming its anti-depressant energy over blanched landscapes of olives, ochre soil and sleepy villages. Temperatures can range from minus 10C and snowy to over 40C and drought. I'm writing this in a darkened room sheltering from the August sun. However for all the talk of extremes, there are plenty of months of tolerable in between.

I have had the good fortune to live among olive groves, and be part of a process to restore the ridged ochre soil between gnarly old olives to some semblance of green. A few years in, a bag of experience packed, an olive farmer is what I want to be, til I can't.

Since being a kid, I have had a soft spot for chickens with their crazy dinosaur look, busy-body attitude and resilient constitution. As a teenager I was nicknamed Chicken George after the guy in Roots! It doesn't hurt that chicken eggs are also number one on my list of all-time favourite foods. Number two was bacon, which along with eggs, I ate for breakfast every school day til I was 18.

A few years ago, I went right off meat, just one day I couldn't put the most delicious of fillet steak to my mouth. Weird. So began another journey, to plant-based, plus my eggs of course. The relationship with real bacon ended, closely followed by that vile substitute processed vegan bacon bollocks.

Learning what to eat took some adjusting to. I certainly didn't lose weight. Must have been doing something wrong! Beer anyone?! A while back I discovered goat cheese, and said goodbye to any chance of B12 or protein deficiencies! Intermittent fasting has closed the circle. Having lived both sides of the track, I feel healthier than ever with this combo. My mind's as sharp as a tack, and I can still pick olives like a champ. YMMV!

Of all the passions in life, however, the true top spot on my list of all-time favourites is my beautiful, bilingual daughter. She's working out OK!

It has been a long and varied journey to this point. I think, though, I have been well prepared for this last venture with the chicken farm, before I too am put out to pasture. But it has to be said, if it weren't for the promise of Bitcoin - fix the money, fix the world - I honestly wouldn't be as optimistic about the future as I am now. LFG, as them cyber hornets might say.

Join me on Nostr, the backbone of a genuinely positive social media platform, where I fill in a few more life-story blanks, and share news on Olive Grove Eggs. BTW, I have a mighty good deal in mind for customers who buy my eggs on Nostr!


It's Wimbledon in the year of the Beatles. A baby boy is born to a Scottish teddy boy father and a blue-blooded English woman. The child leaves the hospital with only one nipple intact and blue hands and feet. Rumour has it the impoverished boomer parents then leave it in front of an open gas oven for hours on end. They tell concerned relatives that they are trying to cook and heat at the same time, to keep the bills down during one of the last Big Freezes in London. The Spartan approach works out fine and the baby grows into a strapping lad, one of four siblings.

Fast forward 60 years, I'm still here. I've never watched a point, set or match at the home of tennis; gas is the only way to cook, and although circulation issues seem to be a thing of the past, I still have no time for snow.

After much traveling, I have settled in Spain, attracted to the culture - a true mix of Europe and Africa - and the climate. The cliché image of ex-pat Spain is probably clear blue skies and sun-baked beaches full of inebriated pink Brits and loud Germans. I dodged that bullet and gravitated inland to the least populated part of Europe's most mountainous country. To me, Spain's climate is all about the 300 days a year of bright sunlight beaming its anti-depressant energy over the nation's hills and sleepy villages. As for temperatures, they can range from minus 10C and snowy to over 40C and drought, and everything more tolerable in between.

I have always had a soft spot for chickens with their crazy dinosaur look, busy-body attitude and resilient constitution. It doesn't hurt that chicken eggs are also number one on my two-item list of all-time favourites. Number two was bacon, which alongside eggs, I ate for breakfast every school day til I was 18.

A few years ago, I went plant-based plus eggs. Obviously my relationship with bacon ended, both the real stuff and that vile processed vegan bacon bollocks substitute. Luckily, I have been blessed with a beautiful little daughter, so I decided to bump eggs down to number two, so she could have a shot at the top spot on the list. She's working out OK!

I will aim to fill in the rest of the gaps in my bio on Nostr.

**If you aren't sure what Nostr means, just scroll to the bottom of the web site and click on my Nostr feed box. You will see my posts.**

If you want to interact, below is my npub or "user name" .   Go to this [Nostr How-to page](https://nostr.how/en/clients) written by the experts, and pick a Nostr client ie app for iOS, Android, or desktop. Once installed, just paste my npub into the app's search bar and my feed will come up.

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**2- click sign-up without revealing your name or an email is very easy, but putting together a profile or even signing back in isn't so obvious, unless you understand a few key concepts and how they interact. I am compiling what I did, which may help fellow non-techy types.**


Last night I offered a simple tip about walking on gravel to assess your gait.

What stage is the moon at tonight, and do you know where it is in the heavens now, without looking?

GN.


It has to be said, Nostr folks are so helpful and positive and encouraging.  Much to share, shining lights on so many rabbit holes, stimulating, eye-opening.

I'm sure the tone of any network is set by the earliest adopters and if they refuse to budge on their principles, whoever follows is going to feel that vibe.

It's very obvious with forums that the tone is set by the owner. I was in an industry where the forums were animal houses. Owners setting up threads designed to provoke arguments. I set up a forum, called it a reading room, it got quite busy and I literally never had to moderate a thing. People just came along and saw there was no BS and vacuous lol comments , just great info and obligingly adopted that mode.


I will let you know, thanks very much for the gesture. Although it's eggs for sats, I need the chickens alive!


As Michael Saylor says, inflation is a vector so your inflation rate will vary! Im looking at charging 15% above the BTC price for fiat customers.


In principle, since 2017, Google's terms explicitly say they do not scan emails for ad targeting. https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15862492/google-gmail-advertising-targeting-privacy-cloud-business But they do have a long list of 3rd parties who they vet (and then don't police) who have access to read emails https://mashable.com/article/google-reading-your-emails-response

Google say they can scan emails for "security purposes".

So, screw Google every which way. Much easier to delete the whole empire from your digital life than play their game of whackamole trying to find the right combination of settings to be shielded from their invasions of privacy. And if there is such a combination, you can bet they will move the goalposts to make sure they still have a way in.


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Order your eggs here.

Having studied Bitcoin, we get inflation better than most. Donald Trump said exactly that. Something along the lines of  "*You Bitcoiners understood inflation was coming way before everyone else. And here it is."* Inflation is the hidden tax.

Our inflation-busting eggs will be delivered within 48 hours of being laid. Usually from the previous day.

To secure our customers the best prices, fixed for several months at a time, we need to keep our overheads low. We aren't going to skimp on feed, it's the key to the health of our hens and the quality of our eggs. It is however the biggest line item for us. So the more feed we can buy at a time, the longer we can hold our prices.

The biggest expense after feed is cost of delivery. We have to deliver smart.

Our ordering policy:

We ask customers to commit to a minimum order of 3 month's eggs, and pay for them up front. We can also offer to hold prices for 6 months and 12 months on that basis.

**Minimum order size** is 1 dozen a week per customer, or 1 dozen every two weeks. You can order more than 1 dozen per week or per two weeks. Commercial customers ordering a minimum 3 dozen per week can expect a discount.

You can recharge your account any time, in 3 month blocks.

**We deliver** every day to a drop-off store in various towns and villages around the area. Mostly fruit and veg stores who are participating in our local circular economy scheme. The store owners aren't earning anything from handing out the eggs, but hopefully you will support them and the community scheme by buying quality products from them.

See the list for when we drop off in your village or town.

**Reminder about deliveries.** We will send you a reminder on Whatsapp the night before the drop off.

Pick up your eggs from your store on the delivery day.  You must show the QR code on your phone to the store owner so they can remove 1 dozen eggs from your account before handing them to you.

If you cannot pick up on the regular day, ask a neighbour to pick them up for you. You should forward them your QR code via Whatsapp so they can show it to the store owner before they receive the eggs.

**Keep it simple**

I have run a very small scale version of this. It works if you are happy to receive the same amount of eggs every week and you don't ask us to drop off extra eggs or change the day just for you.

If we don't have a rigid system, we cannot possibly keep on top of things and keep the prices steady and be reliable.

Thanks for your support and understanding.


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Temperatures in the low 40C, birds struggling to drink, feed and lay.


"Google Play is axing its Security Reward Program"

The program paid devs up to 20k to locate vulnerabilities in popular Android apps.  Google says they’re "winding down the program due to a decrease in actionable vulnerabilities reported by security researchers"

In other words, they no longer give a shit if there's malware on Google Play, because now they changed the legal liability to be on the app dev.  Over a year ago, they changed the legal wording so the dev has to self-report what permissions are used.  This shifts responsibility away from the Play Store onto the dev.

But if Google shifts the responsibility on the dev for the bad side, but they keep the good side (collecting user data), then why do we even need them?  We don't.  Avoid Google Play... switch to F-Droid, APKs, and Obtainium.


As KArnage says, It's the Nostr Address name verifier that is another layer of proof of who is the real you in that list of impersonators


8 chickens, a sweet spot for a backyard flock

To be precise, healthy hens will each provide you with 0.82 eggs per day average over the year! That is about 4 dozen eggs a week from 8 healthy hens. That yield covers a lot of scenarios.

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KeepassX


Talk about slowly, slowly suddenly. Yesterday #Proton released encrypted notes/doc sharing, which is a huge deal to get off of Evernote and any OS notes apps that auto sync to snoop doggy dog Googles or Apples.

Today Proton have their bitcoin wallet up and running. Shame I can't see a Lightning option to go with their one-click email sending option, but I am sure that will come.

And now #Fountain App have just filled my inbox with glorious news that they are now a Nostr client.

This is visionary times.


It feels like everything in my workflow is getting encrypted now!! Thank god for Password Managers.

#asknostr But is there an obvious hole in the plan, an obvious weak spot.

Even PDFs have been added to the current list. https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-password-protect-a-pdf-on-mac

Proton mail, Drive, Calendar. Proton Docs, what a gem.

VPN

Whatsapp is encrypted by default and now my archives on Google Drive are too.

I hesitate to password protect the passwords to keys on Amber signer. Seems a bit much!


That's a very inspiring article. I'm on that path. Accepting BTC is not a marketing gimmick, it's how a business has to be, else it's really not worth being in a business in a system designed to suck you in and suck you dry through inflation and bankers. Fiat is accelerating us along a road to nowhere. Yuk.


Hi, very interested by your honey for sats initiative. What's the deal with the #420 order? When I scale up an egg enterprise I will be focused on orange and purple-pilling my customers, hence curious for any clever angles you have found.

I'm at charging top rate for fiat, offering discounts for BTC. And to get them to follow me on Nostr, so I can message them and keep them informed of progress with the farm, I am going to offer a small discount or maybe bonus "special eggs" .


aesthetically your blueberry syrup looks fantastic. I'll skip the ice cream, waffles and pancakes, if you don't mind. Straight into a vein will do me.


You aren't going to die of stress living there.


good for you. The Nostr scroll is so far from doomer it is ridiculous. There is just so much good info being swapped and shared. How much more actionable info can I absorb, that's the problem here.


If you are going to get backyard chickens, I'd suggest 8 point of lay birds. It's a sweet spot.

- Not too expensive to house
- Not too expensive to buy
- Not too long to wait for eggs
- Easy to look after.
- Not too heavy on feed bills.

To be precise, good layers will each provide you with 0.82 eggs per day average over the year! That is about 4 dozen eggs a week from 8 healthy hens. That yield covers a lot of scenarios.

- Keep a voracious egg-eating family fed on delicious eggs for a third of the price of  eggs in supermarkets, the quality of which won't come close to what your hens lay if you keep them eating a variety of cereal, scraps or free ranging.

- Eight birds will lay enough surplus eggs for a "normal egg eating family" to share or trade with neighbour(s).

- When the short nights set in, production will drop, even if only temporarily while they adjust, but 8 birds between them will usually give you some eggs.

Less than 8 and your egg supply isn't so reliable. More than 8 and well, there's nothing wrong with more than 8, it's just not the same sweet spot!

Rearing from day olds or incubating, it's all doable but that's a different ball game.  I would argue, aiming for 8 layers going that route is not cheaper and could involve dealing with a bit of death compared to  Point of Lay birds from a reputable breeder.

Again, there's nothing wrong with this alternative. You will just learn that not all fertilised eggs mature, there is no telling how many day olds are males, and chicks die for no apparent reason, all of which complicates the program ie you need a lot more than 8 eggs or day olds to end up with 8 layers in 4 months' time.

Hope that helps.

As a word to the wise, there was a rush for laying birds in Spain this Spring and the breeders were caught by surprise. Unfortunately, rather than doing the right thing, they sold young birds as Point of Lay. 40 days until the first egg, is not how it is supposed to work, especially at today's prices.

#olivegroveeggs #chickens # homesteading #grownostr

8 chickens, the perfect number for a typical backyard flock

How many chickens makes best sense for an average family.

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This 1963 Deutz tractor runs on olive oil. Started with a  mix of diesel but not necessary. No plug changes. Leaks in places, so a plentiful source of oil to drizzle over your ploughman's lunch. #olives #homesteading https://image.nostr.build/c727002e0650ce9ec2c5f77e5eb10194ab49cfa2e87293ac0b7ffbc3d456f2b5.jpgnit


Cool, but Sony is the camera to aim for. Thanks for helping me avoid the paradox of choice.


The relay owners who keep on selling data like Twitter fiat twats,  aren't going to make it, as long as enough early adopters insist on a more correct path. Free to access shouldn't require giving up our soul to a fiat creep masquerading as a freedom fighter.

In this case, I really don't see anything wrong with some strongly worded, but simple agreement that flashes up by default when Nostr users connect to a relay.

"Our relay will not forward a single piece of data to any third party. If we do, we understand that when it comes to light, that is the swift end of our relay's existence on Nostr." End of guideline.

I presume, overall, that reflects the will of Nostr users?

To back it up, Nostr needs tools to monitor the potential central points of failure of ethos, and tools to make the community aware of those relays harvesting data.

 It doesn't need to be anything subjective. Data in, no data out. If that isn't the case, up goes the red flag. If the cause of the data leaving the system was the FBI with a gun that's one thing. If it's anything else, adiós.

The community needs to demonstrate that there is more potential social benefits or income from being an ethical relay than a data snitch.

I'm not talking guideline theory here. I have seen it in practice in my former work life, where there were no legally enforceable rules, but plain speaking, this is how we roll in this business community.

If you don't think you can participate on this basis, don't bother joining, because when the network finds out a fellow member has been taking the piss, their connections and benefits here are toast. And the network will find out because we value what we have built up and we aren't going to let our values slide, because those core values are all we have to differentiate ourselves from the rest.

Guidelines help those users in a weak moment, all of us at some point in time,  to process the repercussions of saying one thing and doing another for purely selfish ends. Some rules but no rulers.

My tuppence worth. With no technical smarts to know how far relays can be monitored.


I can't zap you some sats for that very poignant post.


American Ice Cream

Dear 2 year old. Let’s take a trip to the playground. Go play with the other children.
All the children stay entertained & blissfully play in peace.
The ice cream truck comes with every choice imaginable.
We go to purchase ice cream but realize some of the other kids don’t have money. They don’t even come to the line. Doesn’t that make you sad? They are unable to see they should be allowed the same choices & a fair chance at purchasing ice cream.

Dear 2 year old: I’m going to pay for others to have some ice cream now.

Run away mad if you want. I’ll explain later.

The 2 year old is angry but eventually forgets about the ice cream & plays again.

Later the 2 year old lays down for a nap. I explain that WE can have ice cream whenever we want. Others don’t have that choice. Is that fair? Shouldn’t humans help one another when we can?

He sleeps.

On the other side of town a child sleeps thinking about how good that ice cream tastes & he will do anything to be able to afford ice cream in the future. He grows up & makes money to do so but quickly forgets that others should be given ice cream as well. Isn’t that sad?

In another version of the USA
we all live happily & have the freedom to choose our favorite flavor of ice cream.
We work together sharing our resources & pay others fairly to create the bowls that hold our ice cream. But that’s just an American dream.

—-
If we do Nostr right: beautiful snowflakes or humanity will realize the beauty in weird 🌕🎈


Before finding Bitcoin, I didn't know enough to hate fiat but since entering  the workplace in 1981, I knew in my bones there was something very wrong with the fundamentals.

Who knew, 1981 was the year the US debt first hit one trillion bucks. Since then, the cause of my fundamental angst about "what the hell sort of wierd game are we all playing?"  has just rolled on and on gathering more debt and more reasons to not participate.


Tremendo, very easy and looks good and the gravy... it schedules posts too


Walking on gravel tells you a lot about your gait. That's all. GN


If #canada calls, you can have your smoke back love from Spain https://image.nostr.build/6e8bfb9d15296d64b786cf61f1c1a44d5f195d6839db60360249642c083ef9fc.jpg

https://www.msn.com/es-es/noticias/espana/no-hay-un-gran-fuego-en-madrid-lo-que-hueles-y-ves-es-el-humo-de-los-incendios-de-canad%C3%A1/ar-AA1p7FJS

The only fake news here is the Madrid town hall saying there are no health side effects.

If there's one thing living in mountains does for you, it's growing accustomed to fresh air, and noticing very easily a drop in air quality. I just walked up through this and can feel my bronchials wheezing


The truth, definitive truth is a hard one because it appears from extensive studies that we create our own reality as a coping mechanism.

Even if we completely dismiss any scientific study, just look around. We say it out loud all the time ..in my view.

Visitors to my area see beautiful olive trees on immaculate ochre terracing. From my perspective, I see an eco disaster of unfathomable proportions. Probably the "truth" is somewhere in the middle but neither view is wrong.


I certainly don't believe the seafarer who still hasn't fallen off the edge of the disc, no. I suppose the earth could be a disc that is permanently going downhill, which is one way of interpreting the view from an aeroplane.


Ruight on, fella.


Scheduling is a useful feature indeed. I gave shipyard a spin, had a few misfires working it out but it is a good writing tool as far as writing online goes.

 For me, I have to be disciplined and write up anything of consequence offline first. Too many past mishaps.


Did you hear the one about the cruise ship captain who thinks the earth is flat?

That's not a joke 🤣 And definitely not something my brain is capable of making up.


No espresso to tar coat your tongue with?


Still better than my efforts. I use entry level smartphones so don't hold much hope for award winning night shots.

Instead of spending bucks on a smarter phone, which I'm bound to break,  is there such a thing as an idiot proof digital SLR or whatever a real camera is called, for say 100€ second hand that I can connect to my mac on special occasions?


#nostronly that's a good hashtag.

Just been explaining why I'm launching a new business and Nostr is going to be my only social media platform.

Simple. I don't want to go slowly mad on the mental madhouse that is mainstream social media.

And I don't need to reach a gazillion people online from day one anyway.

To drum up customers for my egg business, I need 100 max, (restaurants, bars, general public mix) I need to go the direct route, knocking on local doors, local businesses. It is doable in rural Spain. That's how it works best, because people like to know who they are buying from. Handing over a few sample eggs doesn't hurt the cause either.

And because Nostr is way more than social media, I want to integrate as many Nostr apps into my web based workflow. For instance, the day before a delivery I message the customers. Currently its going to be a Whatsapp, because everyone in Spain is on Whatsapp. But I dont need to Whatsapp everyone in Spain,  just my customers. So if they are on Nostr, I should be able to message a bunch of people from what, Nostrchat or some other Whatsapp killer.

To persuade my customers to join Nostr, just offer a running 5% discount. I can set them up on Nostr on the spot. Message them to show it works.

If it's meant to be, my general Nostr reach to the wider world should grow as Nostr grows too.


That's one to hug #trees


Any joy uploading photos?


In your closing remark, you mean disconnect from "centralised social media" right? I was with you up til there. I am finding so much value in Nostr, the conversations are well proper, like, and much of the information I'm gleaning is applicable and helpful to my current real world activities.


Really enjoying the hard work of reading the Dark Property Newsletter. The set ups to the interviews that follow are pieces of literature in themselves, and the interview transcripts are even more challenging, for me anyway. But the content is so engaging, and I'm reading sections twice, so I don't miss anything. This one is about using satellite imagery to inform the calibre of journalists who are probably on Nostr https://dark.properties/sensing-the-earth/

#journalist #satellites #darkproperties


The level of English in Portugal is much higher than neighbouring Spain. Sounds simplistic but it's down to subtitles! In Spain the movie guys have perfected dubbing. In Portugal English movies were subtitled, so you develop an ear. Each film star has their own dubber who stays through their career. It's a weird phenomenon. The end result is Spanish students are insanely well drilled in grammar but hablan inglés como indios.


I'm still like a kid at Christmas when I look around the garden or the olive grove and spot something I planted from seed or have followed since it appeared out of nowhere.

This Queensland bottle tree is one of my proudest attempts from seed. I think I even had to drop the seed in boiling water to kickstart it. It's only 60 CMS tall at the moment but give it 50 years...

That and watching a pollinated squash emerge as a tiny blob and three days later just appears by magic the size of a football.
#grownostr #olives #trees https://image.nostr.build/ae6edf2e93f7020fd42f33def660df301eaf9201af768ff5d9d196047856117d.jpg


I was an avid reader until I went to secondary school. Under the bedcovers with a torch kind of fanatical reader. I don't bear grudges but I make an exception with a school system that squeezed my love of books out of me.

So many studies show that kids' creativity diminishes in state systems. What can you make with a paper clip is the classic benchmark.


Thanks for that.

OK, looks like you are the  relay guy in residence haha, whats the answer to this question?

A relay is a server, presumably it is not impregnable. So if the relay were compromised, the hacker can censor, edit, generally mess with the content. I assume that because if a relay owner can delete content, they can surely edit too? Can the relay owner switch off and somehow revert back to the original, or are they just toast?

Follow on from that. I understand relays dont "talk" to each other just to the users sending content their way. So presumably there is no concensus mechanism in Nostr whereby the changed content can be rejected by the network.

How do we know if a relay has been compromised and we aren't seeing censored content. Is it the community watching for changes somehow? Or are we reliant on the relay owner knowing, alerting, doing the right thing?

Dont worry, I will go away soon :)


That reads like it's a feature a client would integrate? And it connects you to all relays?

My experience so far which is zilch, is that I don't seem to connect to so many relays. Not even 20.

Should I make an effort to connect to as many relays as I can find on Nostr watch or is there a happy medium?

 Is there a downside to the mutiny option to connect to every single relay  or just gravy?

Sorry for the endless questions. Gathering info so I can do right by Nostr when I'm here.


We just saved Marty from investing a bunch of BTC in the wrong hard asset. Although if he wants to go super niche and special, I can put him in touch with some of the best bricklayers on earth.
https://youtu.be/PB8TWMKHHMQ


It works well for an abandoned project. The UK should take heart.


Isn't the US built out of wood these days?


It is all in the eggs!!

https://image.nostr.build/8c221bc26ce8edaf6204557bf378e7f8dde11aec691ea7cd9802a4f67f3c73b9.jpg

Home grown cherry tomatoes helped along by chicken manure from a  deep litter coop

Eggs from my layers.

Homemade Masa de madre rye bread that I swap with a neighbour for eggs.

You can't buy this quality of food in a supermarket.


NIP 90 Content Discovery request


#asknostr #satellite.earth  Where on earth is the search option on Satellite desktop?


Is there, dare I say, a central list or report where you can see ratings or what is being said about relay operators?

And can I ask what you mean by broadcasting services opposed to VPN? (I am 5 years old in Nostr years!)


Thanks Big BB! So we should start on Nostr from day one on the assumption that some relays will be abusing their trust (willingly or not) at some point. Time to extend my Proton VPN plan!

Centralised elements in a de-centralised system can't bring down the system but they can sure create big issues for those caught in their immediate sphere of influence.


Relay owners can see all IP addresses, right? Is the anonymity idea compromised if a nefarious actor can simply set up a bunch of relays and start linking IP info to content? Or is that not how it works?
#asknostr


 That moon yesterday was huge and dominating and crystal clear, not that you can tell from the photo!

https://image.nostr.build/c03138b39a5df1db3b55daef35144705f535b1261a1d202114adc73a60ec1404.jpg

What sort of smart phone can take decent pictures of the moon or sky in general? Or is it a matter of settings?

#photography #iOS #android #camera #olives #eggs #chickens


It's more a marketing question really. I have free range chicken eggs, I can get truffles easy enough. What suggestions for combining the two ingredients would grab your attention as a pro chef, and maybe prompt you to give me a call for supplies so you could offer those dishes to your clientele.


The direction of travel away from coca cola is to be applauded but calling it a victory when the replacement is non-alcoholic beers merits praise indeed to the marketing department.

 Having weaned myself off of alcoholic beers, you feel self righteous on the 0,O until you read the nutrition labels. They are pop, soda, carb monsters by any other name. The carbs end up as sugar around your waist. 4 bottles a day of 0,0 is not healthy, unless you are measuring its alcohol content v beer.

Obviously if drinking water in Gaza is compromised, just like the old days, bottled beer is a way to go. But the healthiest drink is still and always will be water. Ask every animal on earth! We are the only dumb animals who have psy ops trained drinks industries telling us otherwise.
#water #beer


All very delicious. Know much about truffle infused eggs?


Nost won already. Come to #amethyst on Android. Ditch your iphone hahaha be your own algorithm. I kno i kno it doesn't have an actual algorithm but you get my point.
https://v.nostr.build/xIaEjgo6PgFHeCZd.mp4


This is a study in perfect proportions. Fantastic photos.


https://youtu.be/kc_Jq42Og7Q?si=-gddES1rPhuO0y-- Go to 15:36 Cue Nostr, anyone?

I am very impressed with how laid back but useful Nostr is. On Twitter I can recall the angst of checking my feed. Checking Nostr is more like checking a regular email account a few times a day.  It doesn't feel like a threatening relationship.Nw and again its not good news, but most of th time, I'm not anticipating checking into a string of abusive emails, or spam.  They are well filtered these days!


you have a good eye


I think Nostr has a brilliant take on how to do social media right. The lack of manipulating algorithms alone frees us all from the mental angst that one will experience on mainstream social media platforms.
Having praised it to the rafters, I also think that persisting with the almost exclusive focus on pitching Nostr as a twitter killer is misguided. For one, it hasn't killed Twitter, not even a dent. Elon is more of a threat to twitter than any upstart.
When looking at the way the online world "over there" is going, it is a bit naive telling a normie that Nostr is a superior form of social media. That is like saying you are a nicer version of Hannibal Lector. Think about it. In the minds of the masses, Twitter and FaceBook, Insta, Tik Tok are social media. The way they do social media is toxic, and whether their gazillion-strong userbase admit it or not, there is a growing societal sense that “social media is not healthy”. Hence my puzzlement at insisting on pitching Nostr as a better social media, especially when it is so much more.
Nostr is a new internet where you take your ID from app to app signing in with something akin to an automatic smart key. You aren't tracked or asked for personal details or served ads. There is no controlling central forces, no equivalent of mega sites trying to silo the internet, forcing users to comply with ever more stringent privacy invading requiremens. The users have the controlling hand on the Nostr internet.
Of course social media apps are probably the most polished on Nostr, but the array of working apps that the average person could use regularly are there already. Venture capitalists need to throw their money at mostly non social media apps.
Pitch Nostr as a suite of apps. Pitch the dumbed down version of the Nostr philosophy. People will come.
And who pitches the Nostr apps? Those blue check X users on Nostr. They need to step up.
Jaron Lanier had it right 6 years ago. For their own sake, they need to get off Twitter. Seriously, there is a every chance they are mentally ill to some degree. They can literally detox on Nostr which doesn't have the manipulation model at its core.
And secondly they need to get off Twitter for the sake of society, especially the Nostr society. Only by preaching to Twitter users from the outside, with an outsider perspective, can they expect to be taken seriously with their Why Nostr? pitches.
 They should pummel Medium and long form platforms with Why Nostr? And push the apps not the social media.
Their posts will surely get tweeted. Twitterati will get to read the perspective of outsiders, recovering Twitter addicts who have found a new internet as envisioned by Tim Bernard Lee that already works well, and already has a bunch of productive apps. The Twitter killers can continue to be the best iteration ever of social media, but for marketing purposes, they are a part of the rich Nostr sphere, not the overarching big daddy. Something like that!


#Day16 #21DaysOfNostr

On a centralised algorithm, you are just a number. A piece of data waiting to be harvested and abused, like an employee inside a fiat economy. Their time and energy being stolen from them by inflation and taxes. The system wins.

The tax and inflation of a central algorithm is their attention. It zaps their time and energy away from them in return for less than they had before. The system wins.

Nostr zaps that energy back into you with real content. And rewards the real content with hard money. Everybody wins.
 https://image.nostr.build/6ec4af3ef9831fa6da58f98a764ffaf1e144810e642a24aea9e3d1b111faae30.jpg


What can I say from Shipyard.pub? Not so obvious how to get started.

Now I'm writing in draft form, nice.

 Added a gif just to make the point.
https://media.tenor.com/ODDBX48dLssAAAAM/dancing-pool-side.gif

Removed all distractions in full screen mode. Not sure why the text is overflowing my mobile screen.
How do I get out of full screen?

Just hit something and ended back at the start saying I had no drafts.
Shoot the bed.

Clicked on write again, and I'm back on the draft that apparently doesn't exist. Not sure what that's about. No indicator it is saving it for me.

I just copied everything to this point because I am going to click what should be the menu. But I'm not sure what might happen.

No idea what the flow is here. The menu option brought up a screen that's got a transparent window over it so I can't click on anything. Preview at the bottom, clicked but that shows no preview.

Again not sure what took me back to schedule.

The pen icon top right. What does that do? It says write. What am I doing now?

Back on the main screen, writing with gif and attachment options, preview and schedule.

This feels fine, the right page to be writing. I will give a miss on the full screen, unless there's a really simple way to escape full screen, of course.

Still not sure what I'm doing. One false move... Copying manually as I go.

Preview works. It's a great Font.

I'm going to set to publish it in an hour. Here goes nothing.

Back again, found the edit option. Scheduling options are pretty cool. Defaults or custom any date or time.
#shipyard #nostr


It is mind blowing how mankind ever got this far. We don't know much about anything and what we do know gets twisted and obfuscsated.

 Abiogenic theory says that fossils could not possibly create the amount of oil we have used so far. Is that about right?

 If that gets proven correct in my  lifetime, the biggest Homer Simpson DOH and forehead slap in history is probably going to kick off a tsunami that drowns all our dumb gullible asses.

The moon landing happened though, please? I actually watched it on TV. Or did I? Did I have TV then. It's all an illusion. We do create our own reality, else we would go mad.


Yep, we didn't have to know the intricacies of an engine before pulling handbrake turns in our first car. Same with Nostr.


I'm not a kid any more and I really wouldn't be hopeful for the future if it weren't for Bitcoin. Really, the general direction is such a disappointing down or inward at best. Bitcoin started as a few bright sparks flying off, but it seems they are landing and catching fire a little bit. At some point that process should produce enough firelight for enough people to see by and change the current disappointing direction of travel.


There are billions of seeds in the soil waiting for a reason to germinate. Sometimes we are smart enough to work out what they need to get going. But Nature knows better than us usually.


This is a very good read. I'm no scientist but I'm interested in the human gut biome and regen agriculture and working better with nature.
 Zach Bush talks very eloquently about the intelligence of bacteria and how the gut is the main brain, which has spurred him to get into the farming world.
 This interview shows there is So much to discover still. But plenty of creative work going on.


It was 4 year apprenticeships when I was a lad. Admittedly plumbers would have spent 3 years cleaning solders. But it's the experience around experts that counts in the long run. Your perspective is useful, especially if you were to show the mistakes. Because it's getting over problems that teach the most. Cheers


I know I got my scale wrong, It's been a while since watching Hot Wings.


The veg looks delicious and the peppers look spicy. What do they measure on the Richter scale?


Excuse the brain dump. I have been grappling with how to entice potential readers/customers on my website to try out Nostr. Nostr as in social media, because tht is how it is pitched (I hink wrongly, but hey, I justturned up!!) . My conclusion is that it is super easy to show someone to sign up to Amethyst say, but once signed up, what then? They look at a bunch of posts that may or may not make a good first impression.
And if I say, to find me on Nostr, to see a feed you might identify with, just copy and paste a (mental long wtf) npub key? Compared to @XYZ that's a massive first hurdle right there, to enthuse a normie FB user into grappling with a move onto Nostr social media. And we arent even at signing back in or event signers yet!

But like you, I had a light bulb moment. A trip through the apps on https://nostr.net/ is golden and inspired me to see Nostr in a new light, or as I suspect, the original light before the focus on social media clouded the overall (marketing) vision?

I set up a web page yesterday, my attempt to  woo potential new customers (zero tech heads) to try out Nostr via the world of other Nostr apps. Apart from going to home pages, they don't need to do anything to get a good first impression of what's available. Signing up for a Pinterest-like experience is not necessary. Just to see that there is a Pinterest on Nostr is pretty cool in itself. Spin through a few more. Mrs Jones from FaceBook is much more likely, in my view to be open to scarier terms like npubs and event signers etc.

Im not dissing the Twitter-killer apps, at all, but think about it, social media is becoming poison because of how they do it on the other side. I did use to avoid social media like the plague. Nostr does social media right, honest, mate. I think that, really, but say it outloud to your mother, its not an easy sell. However saying that Nostr does Pinterest or form-filling right, thats more credible, no? Anyway, this is my pitch on my site.

"In the tech world Nostr is best known as a "Twitter-killer" or the social media app built by Bitcoiners. I used to avoid social media like the plague, but Nostr is far from the gruesome Wild West experience it is portrayed as. Sure, there are a lot of Bitcoin enthusiasts and developers, but there's great conversation to be had on all sorts. And once I started to use hashags: #olives, #gardening, #chickens #catsr, or #asknostr, well, horizons have really opened up.

(I show a nice pic of Amethyst for mobile, Satellite for desktop social media.)

But Nostr apps are the big surprise.

Nostr is actually a protocol that enables the construction of a new internet. An internet many say we sorely need.

Nostr developers are releasing Twitter-killer, everything-killer apps on Nostr, almost daily. It is still very early in terms of choice, but I am very happy to incorporate the examples listed below into my business work flow.

I follow with a quick spin through the apps that I am using or getting into.

Lumina as a photo gallery
Memester for fun inspiration
Pinstr for pins no surprise
Pollstr
Mapstr
Formstr
Habla.news for long form posts

I give the 1-2 how to sign into Nostr apps. And a link to a more expansive How To use Nostr and sign into apps secure and fast. Thats it.
Re-reading my pitches for Mrs Jones on FB to join Nostr social media from cold now sounds faintly ridiculous. But if she has been wooed by other apps, she is more likely to answer the call to install Amethyst or whatever, so I can at least DM her when her eggs are coming.
At the moment my website is on Ghost,which is pretty damn good. And I will need Whatsapp to send updates on delivery times. But if I can get my site onto Nostr with npub.pro bring it on. Because then I can really consolidate the business side of things.  Customers will have the whole billing and zap payment option on the same page too.

This protocol has got my vote.


wheres AI when you need it


#asknostr Can someone check my maths? When critics say Bitcoin has no track record, it has only been around for 14 years, consider the trading years it has been open. The New York Stock Exchange is open for trading 6.5 hours a day five days a week. Since January 3rd 2009, Bitcoin has been "open for business" 136,776 hours. That's 21042 NYSE trading days, which is 4208 weeks, which, not allowing for other holidays is 80 years in stock market years. Does that figure out right or do I need to move a decimal point #bitcoin


You are getting through some work. Enjoying it still?


Hey #grownostr what do you think to the woven olive wood fencing as sides to raised beds? Nothing goes to waste. With metal grid, mallazo, you can weave really tight curves. Or au natural use olive branches as stakes and keep the curves shallower. And there is no restriction on height except your framing. https://image.nostr.build/6181af5d61e9c9d56c05c8006706a37c93f491f6ce8f4c64cfbe2b5c99babe06.jpg
 #olivegroveeggs


It's constant epiphanies these days.


I'm jealous! Even cherry tomatoes are slow for me this year. Just had a dump of rain so we shall see how #grownostr fortunes change over the next week.


Tell me about it. My desktop isn't bang up-to-date as it is, so I'm usually on the phone  to check out nostr apps.


You seem pretty switched on to Nostr. If I set up my business online with a bunch of Nostr apps, what is the best approach to relays. Or any other steps to be a responsible user?


I just clicked another button on amethyst and there is the request delete option. I will add nip 09 to my reading list. This is kid in the candy store time again. Thanks for your pointer


A shame the note is scrambled, otherwise that definitely would do the job for a simple invoice.


I can't pay myself. Can you post a screenshot of what you see on the invoice. I'll pay you back. cheers Thsts assuming your keyboard can prompt a screenshot haha


I'm literally writing up exactly that in the payments policy for my prospective egg business. Eg

"6000 sats or 4€. Please note the EUR price is 15% higher in real terms, due to the extra expense and friction dealing with the bank.'

That's my story and I'm sticking to it


How does this #Amethyst inline lightning invoice generator stack up for simple POS business use at a market, say? IE if you paste the following into your lightning wallet, does it generate an invoice for you showing a kilo of potatoes with a ref number( for my bookkeeping records) and the amount (10 sats) for you to pay?

lnbc100n1pntkfjwpp5rr7ecps8p70seshnfuwpehqhza4ef4u2vrzlxeqk2x3r4jlpg6yshp52jtn8zz4j004ly8npfhmh9cqje5q4uyedm9ss7v6p7mrl53wpsmscqzpuxqyz5vqsp5zh0k39yxhdly7s6vrj69ha97shnrp7nzqmnu2jxhhmgz7pp3r34s9qxpqysgqdypkq44r2y7c7a5gdnmagp49375rw4445lms9vpqkrfndyf4kjrptx0f0mzsr7c65g08ys8t2f9thd2fsclejrxcd3gc7wlhevs7krspjrmnwc


How do you make a delete request to relays?


Where posts are full of embarrassing ideas or typos,  deleting is a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Surely an easy solution is, replying to yourself and putting in a disclaimer or explaining yourself better. That subscribes to the idea of owning mistakes and showing growth.

But where an error is disastrous, accidentally posting a private key, that needs some sort of consensus from relays to delete or within apps, some way of parsing and flagging before a final publish. Like where say URLs aren't recognised on some forums etc


Does running several browser extensions explain why  I never see Amber in action?.

 For most sites offering browser extension login, nos2x-fox pops up just fine.  ( I had issues where it would generate random new ID when logging in to sites, but reinstalling #nos2x-fox solved that)

I also have Alby. Which appears now and again when I make a lightning payment

But I don't see any life in Amber

s.

Are extensions battling each other to be used or is there a simple logic behind nos2x appearing  and Amber just being redundant.


#asknostr what's the deal with Minds.com ? I dont get the connection with Nostr.


#Satellite how does your file hosting service compare to Proton Drive for functionality and security?


Present Western governments are all the marketing a free protocol could dream of.

I think we just need to build more relays, make sure the apps don't become bloated and broken, and stay humble.

Nostr is already winning, we need to not screw up.


In my view, which is worth a week of exploring, Nostr needs to be sold as a complete new internet package, not just social media. Its all very cool to push Primal and Iris and all the rest of the Twitter killers. The way you can go from one to the other and your account details always pop up, not going to argue, it is impressive. But now branching out, exploring working Nostr apps listed on https://nostr.net/ wow, Nostr really can be the alternative to the whole "other' internet. I found Lumina, an app that displays all images loaded on to Nostr. Cant do that with a combo of FaceBook, Twitter etc
Memester  self explanatory
Pinstr is Pinterest for Nostr
Pollstr and now found Satellite which works really slick. They are all accessible with one universal ID and the Browser Extension. Its brilliant to have like a Google login but no tracking. That's my2 cents.


The perforated pipe is the secret to a self watering container. Wrap in weed fabric before filling bucket with soil etc

Self watering container. Make a hole in the side of the bucket 2" below the top of the perforated pipe at the bottom. This creates an airgap to avoid anaerobic acivity in the soil.

Self watering containers are great for growing food on balconies.

Olive trees for shade, glorious shade. In the depths of winter the air beneath an olive strikes warm. Amazing trees.

The spout in this self watering container is slipped behind the weed fabric and empties into the bottom reservor. The bucket lined with fabric cuts out the chance of soil blocking the pipe at the bottom

This is the soil before we started to regenerate it. Either way, this environment kills boots. I'm now reduced to gluing and nailing soles back on. It works.

Hugelkultur in a hot climate needs to stay at ground level. Spectacular raised mounds just dry out too fast.

The hugelkultur is levelled off with top soil. You can build a vegetable bed with a 20 cm layer of compost etc. The first couple of years, the wood does rob plants of nitrogen.


I found memestr earlier but I think I'll just follow you :)


Hi Stonie, you tried to help me out on nostrchat, I can help you out a bit with your take on Bitcoin price.

 Everybody buys bitcoin at all time highs, it a rite of passage.

There is s saying which is so true, you get bitcoin at the price you deserve. If you wait, you will be lucky to get in at a cheeky price. There are only a few days of the year that the market acts up or down in a mind blowing way, and it usually happens when we sleep. So best to just start with a few bucks worth and let it flood over you.

I presume the 20 buck reference is a joke, because there are so many diehard holders who will never sell, and therefore they bitcoin dropping to stupid lows.

At the end of the day, nobody fully understands bitcoin, and Bitcoin doesn't care what I say. But history says it's trend is one way only. Cheers


How much do you pay for a dozen of ecological eggs


Hey nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8spz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz8mhwden5te0vf5hgcm0d9hx6ctcd9kkzmrfwd68xtn0dekxjmn9qy28wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mqu0s8zt just about to dip into your newsletter. Noticed your avatar on X. Is that from Ronda? I guess it must be that reminder of a magical place that makes leaving Twitter harder! Keep up the good work.


Regarding the reference to basic human rights, as Whitney Webb points out, there are inalienable human rights that no man can allot to us, and then there's inglorious UN human rights, the ones deemed suitable by the UN, changeable on any given day.


So simple. Is there a tool that will let us run text through it before posting, to save the bot some legwork. Pre ention rather than cure, kind of thing.


Nostr's lack of Twitter-like algorithms seems to have the power to push social media based communities towards altruism. Or just plain being able to post  how we really are in real life, not some polished up, unattainable version of ourselves created for the internet.

 Something like that.

It's still early and Nostr can do no wrong, especially after listening to an interview about the depths Facebook and co go to manipulate us.


Is this built into nostr, when you publish.? Great idea.


As an olive grower, it is interesting, or maybe the word is saddening to see the public reaction to paying a realistic price for olive oil. Sincerely,  this 191% higher price should be the norm. And hopefully the olive industry and govt health departments can keep the public understanding the nutritional value of the rolls Royce of oil, so they dont switch to canila and nations become even less healthy.

The prompt for this price rise was a 40% drop in production in Spain, which produces half the world's olive oil. Mills paid around €1.80/kg for oil olives this year, That works out about 8€ per litre coming out tbe mill.

In 2000 the price was €1 a kg. 69 cents to €1 has become the norm. I don't have to explain the destructive forces of inflation to a mainly bitcoin audience.!

  This area had the biggest harvest in living memory. Producers actually made money. My reaction to this year is not to think everything is now rosy and olives are worth growing because fair prices for growers could become the norm

There is still a fundamental issue to solve to keep olive growing sustainable. Non irrigated olive trees, the sustainable  trees that live for hundreds of years, are on an alternate year fruiting cycle, We literally have zero olives coming this year. So other parts of Spain will carry the load. For the common good, let's hope they do.

But even if prices stay fair for producers, there is still a fundamental issue - a biannual income. That is no foundation for producers in this day and age. It just makes growers perfect bait for this debt based financial system.

There is griwing trend for irrigating trees to even out annual returns. But that will destroy olive growing countries. The water sinply is not there.

 That's how I came with . the project of Olive Grove Eggs. To promote an egg laying enterprise set in olive groves, providing farmers with a regular income that financially evens out the year of feast,  year of famine, without having to irrigate.

We will see. I'm a nobody so I'm going to have to do a lot of work, but it seems so obvious to me. Just like it seems obvious that 191% higher price for one of the most nutrient dense calories we got, the core to the Mediterranean  diet, is not a bad thing. But it will be interesting  to see how it pans out.

 2€ for table olives.


#asknostr is the nsd lnbits signing device a realistic option? Or is a browser extension just as good.

I see 200$ nostr signing devices, presumably they have it all covered, or is tbis still very early days and stick with alby etc


New users with expertise in whatever non tech hashtag, can take advantage of being early and  build a reputation in advance of the inevitable stampede.


Peeliñg back the skin on mainstream social media. All those hunches that something  changed in the 2010's to ruin a good idea. It's Nostr's time now https://youtu.be/kc_Jq42Og7Q?feature=shared


Oh, I thought I selected a divider when formatting a post in habla.news, but it looks like it was a code box. Oops.I guess censorship resistance means my voof will be there to taunt me forever


With temperatures in Spain ranging in the high 30's to low 40C, chickens will struggle to drink, feed and eventually, lay.

Chickens are pretty resilient birds, but, if you have ever been severely dehydrated yourself, you will appreciate how hard it would be for chickens that go beyond hot and thirsty, to make themselves drink, let alone eat. A vicious downward spiral can soon kick in, depleting resources and resolve. When heat stroke kicks in, it doesn't take long for a bird to weaken physically and mentally and slowly pass away.

So what can you do to help hot-winged chickens cope in the peak heat of summer? Primarily, you need to look out for them, just like I needed assistance when I was dehydrating!

**Tell tale signs of dehydration **

First sign of heat stress is the open beak panting. They flex their wings too, to increase airflow. If they are in a bad way, their combs start to deteriorate from bright red to grey-pink and droop to one side. They lose their drive to be a busy-body and settle down in a quiet spot. If nothing is done, they will fade away quietly....

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This an excerpt from an original article on [Olive Grove Eggs](https://olive-grove-eggs.ghost.io/chickens-dehydrating/).

 I'm a big Nostr fan, and I will post extended summaries of original articles here, and link in from Nostr clients and from outside the ecosystem, to help raise awareness of Nostr.

Selfish hat on, for me, the more use cases for Nostr, the sooner I will be able to orangepill my readers and egg-buying customers into joining Nostr. Once onboard, the sky is the limit. My aim is to run my business on Nostr, use bitcoin lightening as currency, cut ties to the other internet and blaze along clear roads to hyper bitcoinsation! Mwahaha

Dehydration can be devastating for chickens. The hens in the photo live in a deep litter coop. They are doing just fine. In fact they are complaining a lot less than me. But if they weren't looked after, they would be in trouble. Here are a few ways to get them through 100F days

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq76rk896faud3e5y4qdqea0u6nl5rc9svsgm4pqdvaw2hw0q63drqqxnzdejxvcnxwfjxyenwdehsxffjl


note to self when off-grid. anything over a one liner, type on my laptop, copy and paste into nostr etc. It is so much quicker and less prone to internet snafus.


tanglesheep certainly kick-started some ideas. thanks


I'm starting a small  local business  and as we speak, integrating Bitcoin into every level of the plan. It is becoming clearer all the time how it's going to work in a fiat world

As a savings tool, BTC in, hodl it.

As currency,- BTC in, convert to euros and spend it on justifiable business exoenses, no cap gain tax event, just account for it as income.

 As it stands, to live with a true bitcoin standard,, at some point it is kind of leaving it to someone in the chain to cash out into fiat. Unless an accountan ist able to fill the big gap in my knowledge, this is the process:

Capital gains tax  issue especially when number is going up. One solution to keep the business itrading all in BTC, is to line up suppliers in advsnce who will accept Bitcoin. When I receive BTC from a sale, I send it straight to a feed supplier for example, as a payment against an order. I always need feed, or the chickens will, I mean. No profits made. So I'm alright, for cap gains

But all that does is pass the buck, unless the supplier has ways to spend their bitcoin too.

 I know in a circular economy bitcoin is brilliant as currency, but I'm not sure how to sell the ides to others without having to admit that without cashing out into fiat and spending it, bitcoin is more a matter of philosophy IE we are proving we believe in it even though it is costing either hard cash, excuse the terminology, or tve ridicule of having to rely on fiat to make it work for daily business.

So it makes no hard business sense day to day.. but magic as a treaury asset

 Obviously if the tax office were to drop the Cap Gain penalty for day to day use that's the game changer

To balance it out. I guess, you could just make losses, in a bear market,? holding back efore you spend BTC.

Anyway, if relying on fiat to make it work day to day is the only option, so be it. Greater minds than mine no doubt see the nuts and bolts that need to be tweaked to get to an easier usage of BTC for everything.

Am I missing anything obvious?
#btc #circular economy


DOH, good job you went first. My bitaxe would have melted by now


Hi. You must have been tutored by a Nostr pro. I never knew about #introduction


1400w would blow my off-grid power set-up. Can the #bitaxe go lower?


Finally hashed for a whole day. I know it just a bitaxe but this is exciting to watch. Hahaha #bitaxe
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with the state of battery, I m going on what an advanced Stihl tech told me in UK last summer, so maybe I'm behind.

 Brands like EGO are at 56v batteries and long warranties with joined up ranges.  Stihl are way down on that, and he banged on about a build issue on a stihl chsinsaw where they glued on some component that should be moulded. Living off their name he reckoned for now.

His Stihl work involves keeping shit hot 20 year old chainsaws going, but he won't sell the battery ones, as Ego etc have nailed it for now.

Always evolving so maybe Stihl are ready to leapfrog a generation and be the dogs again.

cheers

Proud owner of Stihl petrol chainsaw and strimmer :) but use an electric olive picker that cost about €250 and knocks spots off Stihls petrol one - just as fast,  kinder to the trees also much quieter


That's good news. Cheers


That's a great resource, thanks.

I see a few posts going around, with a hint of concern about how to expand the Nostr userbase.

I hear lots about censorship resistance, distributed network, and privacy, keys and extensions. My mum cares not for that under the hood, frankly geeky speak

 I am determined to make a go of Nostr despite the challenges, but what will interest my mum is a pitch along the lines of

- Enter a made up name and click Go,  to start using Nostr

- With a one-time set up of a password she can use every app  on Nostr without having to remember usernames Or passwords.

-   easy access to closed family chat environments like her WhatsApp group

- be able to zap her grandkids around the world with  a few bucks at birthday time.

That's the sort of experience that mattesr to her most. Until that is the level of messaging, and until Nostr can deliver that everytime, no way will adoption be anything other than slow.

For all the fantastic progress on Nostr there are still so many misfires and wtf just happened there moments. Its fine, it's exciting, I'm going to risk it and try build my new business around it, but will I be confident  enough to get my mum to switch, nope.

 The first time she  hits a glitch because of a behind the scenes weirdness with relays not syncing or a latest greatest apps in development just doesn't work one day, she will be off.

The potential is amazing


A good plumber is as rare as chickens' teeth, good move.


It doesn't surprise me about Stihl being behind with the money tech that is Bitcoin. They still make really good petrol chainsaws, but there's this tech called battery powered, and they are way behind on that tech curve too.


#nos2x-fox Can anyone help #asknostr

I have set up the extension mobile and desktop, using my public-private key with a json profile.

1 - Why doesn't the extension log me in using the profile I have set up?

eg The extension seems to generate a random npub on the first smaller screen display and use that when I try to login to say Nostr Chat, rather than npub I have installed on the main dashboard.

Am I missing some sort of selection button for the account I want to login with, or am I missing the point of what the extension does!

2 - I have logged into nostrchat as my desired npub with the extension, but when I tried a chat, Nostrchat requested my private key to reply. That doesn't seem right.

When I land on a nostr friendy site the extension pops up as expected and I can authorize time limits, which seem to be reflected in the "revoke" info on the dashboard. And zapping works OK too. So it is functioning, just I have  not got it going slick

3 - I went on wavlake and zapped with the blessing of the extension!
But...epic fail with trying to "login with Nostr". nos2x-fox was nowhere to be found. Maybe that's a wavlake issue? Any ideas welcome
Cheers https://image.nostr.build/e68cdcd41bdbeb8b55a83fc7b19783ccc8e2c4430e29b66c749d84f163b60e2e.jpg


Thanks, I'm there. And number 5000 on the account wait list.


entering the dangerous phase of adopting Nostr!. Stated off simple and seemed to work, but now Not sure what the event signers are doing, if anything. I thought Alby was desktop, but it flashed up on my mobile phone. #nos2x-fox desktop seems more present but it seems to generate random npubs while seeming to be set on my default one, which I want to use. And #Amber doesn't appear to be doing anything. I tried logging into primal and nothing popped up as a signer. Amber dashboard literally says go try out an app which I did hoping Amber wound deal with login. Any guiding hand most welcome. I want to get this worked out because I'm determined to make Nostr my home.


Great advice. Decentralise the food system is a catchy phrase.

Whereabouts are you?

I'm working on setting up about 400 chickens, free ranging in olive groves in Spain

As well as laying the best of eggs they can regenerate the land and fertiliser the trees as they go about their day. They will sleep and lay in mobile coops which get moved every 3 days, so they can be outside all day intensive grazing - poop and scratch to their hearts' Content- without overloading the soil.

In Spain, small scale olive groves can't generate enough to live on without subsidies. Without irrigation it's a two year cycle of good harvests and you need a lot of hectares to make them pay.

Egg business is very profitable and year round. The idea is to create a blueprint for a supplementary business. Provide coop designs, all the equipment and set up costs, plus all the laborious paperwork, licenses, a marketing plan, website and billing etc all done, and offer a full starter package 'How To'  Then get it out there to try develop a network of olive farmers doing the same.

The egg business also lends itself to developing a local circular economy which obviously needs to be backed by bitcoin.

Eggs are not just brilliant food, they open doors. Offer someone a dozen fresh eggs, no one can resist and without me asking, I can see folks they look around for something to offer in return, some veg from the garden, a drink... They are a great catalyst for economic activity and hopefully when I am set up, I will have a good excuse to orange pill a bunch of people.

A bit more of a  first wave than you probably expected 😁 but that's eggs for you, cheers.


You guys crack me up with your podcast ads. Good luck raising the bar to infinitely amusing.


Perhaps someone should tell Mr Kroos that immigration is also a big deal in Spain. But based on the experience of this immigrant who has been all over Spain, the general feeling is that wherever you are amongst people of all colours and creeds and economic status, the overriding sense is tvst this country is super safe. It is safer here than pretty much anywhere else - at least since Spain got rid of their own dictator.

It makes one question how bad Germany really is when I watch the mainstream media version of Spain. They will have viewers believe the country is overrun with drunken Brits, only people of colour stab, and don't go to the beach unless you sre prepared to dodge a drug running speed boat ploughing through the umbrella-ed sun worshippers chased by cops. Cheers
#Spain


Very nice. The word verdant comes to mind. Hard to get that effect where I live without lots of extra water, mulch up to your eye balls and shade cloth. One day I will get round to making sure I have all three at once.

 #growstr #chickens #olives #Spain


Amen, brother. Apart from the neuroplasticity part, thats my experience too. Everyone was breaking rocks, as my mate once described most businesses marketing themselves in our industry 15 years ago. I got my head around the magic online marketing formula:

- Write engaging real life articles on WordPress for humans, but make sure Google bots found it useful too IE good SEO, and building a few columns IE categories with lots plenty of reinforcing content.

- Take snippets from the article and reach out on Twitter, which til 2014 was an excellent place to hang out before it evolved into troll-ville.

- Eventually you build an online community which then drums up enquiries. That was the part we really nailed.

The industry norm was to keep potential clients hanging waiting for days if not weeks for a call- back or quotes. We set ourselves up so we could call back within 2 hours and get the quote out within 24 hours.

The face-to-face interactions reinforced the online picture we presented. We actually delivered what we claimed online. People appreciated that and trusted us. Securing work was like falling off a rock.

It's a tried and tested way that works. There are many efforts to try cut corners or do things better - like dump websites and the blogging which most people find tiresome, and build a company with a FaceBook business page. To think you can build trust with one liners and a photo twice a day is pretty naive, but while it was a trend, just had to hold my tongue.

Anyway, I'm sure AI is going to spawn many short cuts and do just fine til everyone realises the points you are making. I wanna do business with people not robots.

Sorry if that was a ramble.


Awww, cutey varmint. #catsr They had the best mother cat a kitten could hope for. Imagine my surprise when they emerged from a stone wall and took up residence next to the house.

These are last of the bloodline. I learnt the hard way, you gotta be on top of the repro situation else the population soon gets out of hand and cats are no longer cute, but just another pest. https://image.nostr.build/86c13b7ead90eac63a84b37094f6ccd45eb25c950459078422bbdfc163328359.jpg


If all users dont post at least one cat pic on Nostr it surely fails the test for social media for the masses.  #catsr #cats


Hi Stacks. Catch them mice, bring them in the house to dismember; crap in the plant pots before you lay on the laptop and tail text while ordering your dinner with a side of mackerel else you won't eat it. #cats


So much for asking Nostr! For what it's worth I have no idea what the answer is :)


Breaking news from Lilliput. The first crop of beefsteak tomatoes has arrived
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I have lived it through Lord of the Rings.:) I don't disagree with you, it looks pretty cool. They have the best rugby. Just too far away.


The way I read the chart it went up 8% today. Maybe it isn't just the world that is upside down.


If you are practicing free journalism in one of the oppressed countries and have a timeline to prove it, please DM me for a free nostr.build account. We’d like to support you and not limit your uploads of videos and pictures! 🐶🐾🫡☮🕊
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29, and not likely to do any of the other 21. People actually visit New Zealand?


That's a Zach Bush tip? He's the dogs danglies with health. Have you come across his 4- minute work out on YouTube? Way better than press-ups. Helps buiild muscle while you sit typing. Even my old mum can do the exercises.


Nostr is so free, as in freedom, compared to Twitter. It's a nice catch phrase, but its meaning can only carry weight when you really do need to protect your freedom.

The other day I tried to set up an X account using a pseudonym, because I wanted to flex.  If I want to post cat pictures or pick holes in the latest music, I''m not going to hand Elon my personal details to post trivia.

Elon's goons wasted hours of my time before refusing to authorise or authenticate a user account on a platform where free speech is a supposed cornerstone of their company.

Screw them. I'll post cat pics on Insta instead. Same reaction. You do not comply .. It is frustrating, but really doesn't wreck my quality of life.

But what if I were revisiting a state where they don't share the concept of freedom of expression. You know, the protections that westerners enjoy - as long as we hand over our personal data to private companies to sell as they see fit!

I've been places where nowadays they do throw ex pats in jail for "harmless" remarks on Twitter. So instead of flexing, I really need protection, saving me from myself. But Twitter simply keep on applying a protocol based on the assumption I'm just another of the most bored people spouting shit in the safest place on earth.

Want to get edgy online in a dictatorship state, and protect your freedom - Nostr - you want a pseudonym account? Go right ahead. But I need to be totally anon! These people don't mess around. Sure, we have an instant solution for that. Fill in the anonymous posting option. Like this guy IE me, who said, What.

And the kicker is, with Nostr you don't even need to justify why you want to be anon. It's assumed you are free.


Is there a way to take an exported json file of a Casper themed ghost website and import it into npub.pro ? A migration tool?
Hats off to your project, a new wave is coming!


In my experience eggs and goat cheese are the way to take the stress (and vit B12 supplements) out of a pure plant based diet.

I know of plant based eaters who eat a little meat occasionally to get a boost of different "dirt". I can't do that. Years ago I was chomping through a delicious big ole fillet and something clicked in my head and I was literally repulsed by what had been my favourite food for 59 bloody years. Minds are mad!

I'd suggest non supermarket eggs. Whatever the box says in those places,, even bio, who really knows whats going down. I've only eaten home-raised eggs, so I know what my birds have eaten.

 The only marginal health issue that I have come across in reading is, if you eat a lot of them and you eat animal fat, eggs maybe mess with cholesterol. But I've looked far and wide for evidence not to eat 3 or 4 eggs over a day, every day, it just isn't there.

I know I have a bias about eggs, but fill your boots.

And local goat or sheep cheese. It's a cruder dairy product, but it's dynamite food.


Vintage BTC sessions https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uo58zmyXqFY


Amethyst on degoogled Android over Tor signed in with Amber running Citrine/Start9 home relay plus Mutiny Blastr and zapping with Minibits


impressed by how joined up Nostr is.

Not gonna lie, it has been a head fart week bouncing off walls joining dots but just set up an #npub.pro  website with a ghost theme in minutes. Proof of work,  woohoo.

Instead of adding a script in ghost to embed my Nostr feed and show a bare bones #nostr.band display of my feed, I can put a nice image in ghost theme  and link it to a pretty npub pro blogsite built with my Nostr feed, and presumably give it  a little SEO linking boost too.

Anyone know of a way of importing a JSON file of a current ghost site with the Casper theme into npub.pro?


You practice what you preach. Cool.


If you are growing food I would like hear from you on Nostr. Even moreso if you are building a local community food exchange or other form of economic cooperation between neighbours, local businesses.

Bitcoin can't  work if the main drive stays within the bitcoin maxi financial and developer demographic. It's amazing what you guys have done and do, but bitcoin needs for that passion to get off the keyboard and out the office and into the wider world where nyms and nips and halvenings and cpi and FED strategies are not a staple on the daily menu.

If you read my bio, the time has come for me to graduate from hodling with a rudimentary grasp of wallets and do my bit to integrate bitcoin into an egg business in the regular world. So any help and advice or inspiration from bitcoin central, Nostr, will be most welcome. https://image.nostr.build/a8cbc6efdfd58e02b32168e39d6e4000087fd057d1d579d8343476f96254fda7.jpg

alt Raised bed for vegetables with woven olive wood sides


Through my non developer eyes your dashboard looks like it took serious smarts. Is it hard to code that, or is the hardest part working out what you are trying to achieve and then coding is relatively straight forward?


Hey, I know you from Twitter, ya wino haha. Glad to see you still going circular economy! Can you put me on to other folks on nostr producing food who I might follow?


Totally agree with bringing bitcoin mining back to where it was when satoshi was around. I have said elsewhere, bitcoin development needs to go in the direction of "will this work for Africans" rather than, "will this impress westerners most of who dont have let alone see any need for bitcoin just now."


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I think that's a first world problem. The project I saw in Kenya, all UBI did was turn around almost every recipient family's fortune and health, relationships and community.

Or maybe its a general condition, that  the poor are underestimated? If you have no hope you do degen stuff for sure. Just a few bucks a week though can bring so much hope when you have nothing. Ask me how I know!


I can't zap anyone on Primal right now. no support for the wallet in Spain, Alby haven't invited me so I can't link my non custodial wallet. Somehow I made a zap on amethyst though. So nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp can thank them for being 20 sats better off


Breaking news - having tried to set up semi anon accounts on Twitter and Meta to prompt normies to follow me on Nostr - no joy.

They really do want to own our arses. Trust us to be responsible and protect your privacy. Nonsensical claptrap.

And what a bunch of control freaks under the guise of free speech. 15000 reviewers monitoring what is posted. Complain if you see something you don't like... Never heard of off buttons.

Of course there is awful behaviour, but treat grownups like offenders from day one is no way to set standards. I guess there is no excuse but to go Nostr and decentralised and open source and  teach my damn phone to stop suggesting Nistr, Mistr.


Bitcoin and water are very scarce resources. If water companies treated their asset with the same understanding of scarcity as bitcoin companies, maybe water won't build into yet another dire issue.

https://olive-grove-eggs.ghost.io/water-is-so-abundant-but-precious/ A bunch of thoughts in long form to wet the appetite.


Enjoying Ghost after years of WordPress complexity. Added drop down menus and discovered free Tally contact forms after looking around nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy website. I had tried a couple of other form services but interacting with Tally, both creating form and their communication, seemed very fluid.


Track live Bitcoin transactions with the Mempool Visualizer. Check it out at btcframe.com #Bitcoin #BTC #Mempool #BitcoinMetrics

https://btcframe.com/img/images/mempool-visualizer.png?v=1722492161


Nostr ecosystem has great potential. Send a friend to primal net  to take a look - it's easy enough for them to scroll through a Twitter-like timeline. But as a normie trying to set up your own account and go further, tap into nostr apps to build an online presence for a small business, you have to be pretty determined to adopt ithe Nostr way. Friction points abound.

Primal is a simple gateway in to a social media presence, if you aren't a novice to the concept of Public private keys for setting up user accounts.

It may not seem that big a deal for seasoned bitcoiners, but through normie eyes... I think the leap from joining Facebook to Nostr is  not that far removed from a bitcoiner who has navigated setting up a hardware wallet without a coach on hand, being presented  with  PGP to join a social network.. You are going to have some mental gymnastics. That's a big barrier to entry just post hello Nistr.

Instead of a long string of crypto, maybe crunch public and private keys through a shortener and give a new user a simple phrase.

Once you have an account, it's not obvious how to send a friend to check you out.  They say everyone has an email type address, easy. Well, it's not easy is it! t. You have to work out how to get a verified @ tag. You have to work out that everything works through a lightning friendly wallet, and only so many wallets play nice with lightning . And having navigated that " trivial" layer of complexity to set up say A Spark wallet, I checked every line in the settings to find my @ address, not there. You just have to twig that spark has verified your @  spark me automatically,. It's too easy.

Or how do you give someone a URL to your Nostr timeline? Vanity URLs for $10. Stop the Nostr appeal right there!

And Nostr apps look great until you are told to install an extension for Alby.  Jesus, invite only.

I learnt this setting up a ghost.io website newsletter account as part of an online marketing stack. I'm not going to bow down and go twitter or Facebook, so I can have a recognised URL socialmedia.com/me, but ibeing a Nistr type presence, which is obviously the right way of being online, is going to hurt progress. But no pain, no gain, right.

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I used to run an online content marketing business and when GDPR reared its head back in the day, the easiest solution was to run all the email communications through protonmail.

Years later, getting back into enterprise mode,  I forgot how good Proton mail is. Easy to forward Gmail and strip out a whole layer of tracking; importing contacts is a  doddle. Aliases are so easy to use. All encrypted and they give you a decent amount of free storage to get used to it.

 And it looks like in recent times they have flexed their crypto tech muscle to deliver a full suite. VPN that privacy advocates rave about. The calendar is simplicity.  Drive exposes iCloud for the shitshow it has always been.

Good job, Proton. One caveat.  I heard, I think from nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx ? they do bow to FBI demands to hand over details on  30,000 accounts a year. Not ideal, but not bad out of 100 million users.