🤣 pepe knows
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EricFJ

Co-founder / COO at Conduit Bitcoin

Nostr only.

2140: Transactions build demand and secure the network long term. Let’s build the Bitcoin circular economy together.


I’m not sure if Nostr is aware of what’s going on in the #WordPress community right now, but it’s headed toward a civil war and has effects that are rippling through the entire open source internet.

If someone is capable of developing a decentralized plugin repository built on Nostr, you’d have a million developers turning their heads to look this way. This is a much larger opportunity for nostr to attract talent than any possible exodus from Twitter.


"You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?"


Stan is a lucid G


Holy shit


Humanity has NEVER before had a fixed money supply that is rehypothecated through proof of work. This is eventually what happens in 2140 when the block reward is gone (and effectively, long before that).

This isn't "digital gold". Gold didn't have this property - its supply scaled with our industrial power. This is totally fucking new territory.

This is an experiment, just like the formation of the United States was once upon a time. It's a vision of something better than before, designed consciously.

I think Bitcoin's properties make it somewhat inevitable, so our best shot at making this work is to adapt to whatever it is. We'll need new social and commercial paradigms around it. Some of the old stuff will work, but a lot of it won't. It's chaotic and beautiful all at the same time... and we're going to live through that transition. Godspeed.


Congrats!!! 🎉🔥 beautiful couple


Exactly 🤙🏼


Boo


D’s) nuts


Microstrategy is debt-levered custodial Bitcoin with the overhead drag of a public company. In any insolvency event, there’s limited recourse for the shareholders who are LAST to collect from the company carcass. It’s a centralized point of attack for actors who would want to damage the real Bitcoin network. Antithetical to the real mission and a huge risk to the space.


Unpopular opinion: #MicroStrategy might wrap itself in enterprise software, but let’s be real….the only reason their stock has any hype is Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s entire power comes from decentralization. No CEOs. No boards. No lobbyists. If you’re riding with MicroStrategy, you’re putting your faith in a centralized corp that plays footsie with the WEF….the VERY parasites Bitcoin was built to reject. Self-sovereignty and censorship resistance? They couldn’t care less.

Bitcoin is about opting out of the broken legacy system, not hitching a ride with corporate stooges. The second you rely on a company with shareholders and boardroom agendas to push the Bitcoin narrative, you’ve already lost the plot. MicroStrategy’s mission? Corporate profits. Period. Not your freedom, not your sovereignty. Betting on them is like hiring a fox to guard the henhouse.

If you’re serious about Bitcoin, stack sats. Be your own bank. Don’t let centralized players like MicroStrategy dictate your financial destiny. Bitcoin is for the people…not corporate interests. Sovereignty means cutting the cord from all of that. If your plan involves some boardroom clown lobbying at the WEF, you’re missing the point.

Bottom line: Not your keys, not your #Bitcoin.


No, we are not trying to DDOS the lightning network...
that's just  nostr:npub1xzrkzsrnr83vn7h0udq6tnapwpswy5equlrtkn3nu0e0anlmzynqne0qap trying to find a bug in the order flow


There’s a guy I’ve seen in the lobby of a commercial building I work in for something like18 months who wears one on his chin every single day. I don’t fucking get it…
Screw it I’m gonna ask him next time I see him


Modern + Terminal? Yes please. H/t @aceaspades
https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qqxnzdej8q6nwv3jxqerxdp3qgszaszc8f76kmtlacew7r2jt5x2tff22d0mymkgsfe9jthmv0eqmagrqsqqqa28xpusug


RIP


I’ll give it a shot, can’t help myself of course


If they were gonna make up a story about who Satoshi is on HBO for entertainment purposes, then they really dropped the ball.

Paul Le Roux would have been way more fun.


I don't love how the term NPC dehumanises the individual.

Although they seem like an NPC, I think it's probably more accurate to say they're AFK. Their avatar is on autopilot & they're completely unaware of who they really are.


They’re trying to scrub some Diddy associations


MSM clearly wanted nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm to be Satoshi
He should sue HBO


You could make some serious dough with a Bitcoin trading card game fr


Just watched the whole thing. It's great until it goes off the rails in the last fifteen minutes. I think it's Roger Ver and Amir Taaki that sent the documentary maker chasing a ghost. They made RBF seem important, even suspecting it to be a government sabotage effort. This glorifies nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm's image in his head, which Peter then openly exploited - while being very honest about doing so.

The bigger meta mistake the documentary maker made was to seek out people who enjoy being on TV. If he'd contacted experts in a more systematic way they would have ruined the plot. But this is more fun for everyone. nostr:note1w0679347vjl0sjny793aahr3k7cxzxjklrzqdd82dfatfe64m2rq97nkww


This is Art.

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It does seem unlikely, yeah the rumor is it’s low but it’s really a black box


1) if it works, he has to know how to sell (harder than it sounds)
2) leverage works both ways. If the bull run doesn’t go as “planned” (nobody knows shit) then MSTR is a centralized company with assets that can be called


Too many developers trying to make the superapp of Nostr when the best approach is too have smaller apps doing less things and a better compatibility layer between them.


Great episode


I can also see how the amorphous nature of Nostr makes some programmers uncomfortable and frustrated - but this is actually beauty in my mind since it more closely mimics the natural world vs the deterministic centralized matrix... we should work with it and not against it. "Let it go".

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I personally think the fun part about Nostr as a network is that it doesn't have a centralized "steady state" source of truth. Depending on what parts of the network you're hooked up to and how you interact with them, there's an amorphous version of your npub out there that looks different depending on what lenses (relays? clients?) it's being observed through.

We need more open source tools like this available widely and implemented in clients to provide an effective "steady state" of things for users, but ultimately it's up to all of us as users to implement them for ourselves and control our own truth.

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We’re way past that Warren


Classy guy, he coulda said nsec


Ze fiat ponzi will collapse itself in due time and need more liquidity. No idea when... things can always get more insane.
Pair this article with any of MGs previous work on Passive investment and you'll see the scam at work, and the great Jenga tower of the S&P500 being propped up.
This isn't necessarily a recession call since the Fed is well equipped to handle this IMMEDIATELY will a dollar bazooka (although I wouldn't be surprised if there's a short blip of buying opportunity). What it does say for sure is more dollar liquidity incoming at a higher pace than most may expect.

Article link (paywall): https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/uber-alles

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Watching now - here's a link with a timestamp to the panel with  nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a + Nic Carter + Eric Balchunas for anyone interested:
https://www.youtube.com/live/9HjylxjjCW4?t=24000s

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GM! Fun, thoughtful morning read. Sample from the article:

"Widely regarded as literature’s first antihero, Milton’s Satan is a complex, intriguing character who boldly rebels against God’s reign. This version of Satan shakes his fist at God, declaring:
'It is better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven!'"

From the perspective of fiat defenders, I imagine Bitcoiners share this attitude... yet we don't believe in their false "Heaven"...

Have a great Saturday!

https://www.culture-critic.com/p/what-does-satan-look-like


I read the just introduced Saving Privacy Act so you don't have to, and it's pretty fucking badass. If passed, it would completely reform financial privacy in the US.

The Bill removes SARs and CTRs filing requirements, makes financial information only accessible via a search warrant, specifically introduces fourth amendment protections, bans the creation of central databases holding personally identifiable information without the establishment of a dedicated law granting a US agency such right, bans the US Government from creating CBDCs, and introduces criminal penalties for any US official violating your financial privacy rights.

Yes, please.

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https://www.therage.co/untitled/


Good morning 🙏🏼


GM!! PV 🤙🏼


Good morning! Right back at you


Great place to start learning !


This is too good


Be the bot you want to see


Karen, keep your hands off their Bitcoin

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This is what evil sounds like in 2024. The only “growth” El Salvador will get from the IMF is one that will need surgical removal.


How I feel perpetually with so much development on here happening so fast

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It’s October 3rd
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Ze matrix


Also note when “news” like this doesn’t move the market. Good BS detector.

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Spoiler: the HBO doc will not reveal who Satoshi is/was.

Ignore guerrilla marketing. Read “Trust Me, I’m Lying” by Ryan Holiday.


To spend it later let’s be real


When you’re lost in the journey…have you found your way?


Lol


Dawg. We’re on our way


All the kids are the other social media platforms

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Hahaha. She’ll have to get her own


Courtesy of the wifey.
(Yes I’m still trying to purple pill her)
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Blur the license plates!


A wife?


Might as well admit it now…
I profited HUGELY buying puts on SBNY. These were available extremely cheap AFTER Silvergate got taken down. Seemed like an obvious asymmetric bet once the government showed their hand. Best trade of my life. Profits went to a vacation, paying off debt, self custodied Bitcoin and gave me some breathing room to fund what we’re experimenting with at Conduit. Hey, maybe they’ll come to regret it…

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Inspired by nostr:npub1spdnfacgsd7lk0nlqkq443tkq4jx9z6c6ksvaquuewmw7d3qltpslcq6j7- let’s breathe the #acro hashtag life here
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More acro posts on Nostr LFG


GM!!


The apex predator of finance

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I feel ya


Did you give him a massage?


These are all modern flexes


Exactly. And/Or review farms


imagine product reviews with npub reputation on the line...


let's keep it that way...


K if you cut that into a million slices there will be more to go around


I saw fructose fathers everywhere when I lived in West Hollywood


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#meme #memes


So your favorite social media protocol is full of anti-social people?
Yeah babe, for now


Depends on my mood


Anothaone.gif

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Goodbye X. Hello Nostr.
#nostronly
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Salma Hayek, or Friedrich Hayek? Be honest


Could we put ecash in video games in a secure way?
#asknostr


It still blows my mind that THIS is the litmus test many people in tradfi are failing


Panthers ignored baseline physical statistics when they drafted Bryce Young 1st overall. He’s 5’10”. The shortest QB to ever win a Super Bowl was Russell Wilson at 5’11”. You don’t bet on physical outliers like this. (and I suspect performance drops off massively at the tails of height distribution for QBs in the #NFL)


“Fluoridated water poses an unreasonable risk to children.”
Don’t drink fluoridated water! No one needs systemic fluoride.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/epa-must-reduce-fluorides-risks-to-childrens-iq-court-says


using AI to help code is fucking fun not gonna lie. Skip the monotony, focus on the fun stuff


I’m no martial arts leader but kettlebells have a lot of bang for their buck- simple & sinister🤙🏼


It’s hard for me NOT to believe that the transition from fiat to Bitcoin will emerge suddenly as a gangster coup de grâce by a nation state… probably sooner than most think.


Get outta there man


Cool


Get more friends like this:

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Badass couple


Not a bad outcome even if it’s self interested. Pretty hard to truly co-opt open source if what you make is open source


Dude went to Burning Man this year or something? I’ll believe it when I see him make open source Nostr stuff

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Like DK mode


You’re a mysteriously wise and testosterone filled man, I can’t objectively understand your position so I should probably get my t checked


So it’s an objective subjective observation then?


I’m curious to hear more! Is there an objective experiment I should be aware of?


Is this a subjective or objective truth you’re observing about people with low t?


Huh?


I’m posting this on TCP/IP

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In 2140 the Bitcoin network will be secured only by transactions

We must build to be ready for that future


Ask the mainstream AIs to explain how they detonated phones and you can’t get an answer


No matter the context, war should always be a tragic and regretful outcome… even if “necessary”. What a disgusting display.


Side hustle to be able to afford the whip in the first place so he can hang


🙏🏼 drawing clear lines between Bitcoin and “crypto” is always important
Tell them to delete Xitter 😅


Well he had a good run. Centralized services die in the end


GM part two 🤙🏼😅


I dunno man, he’s not doing himself any favors with this one. This is potentially causing post-election chaos and brings up memories of Jan 6 which turned off a lot of Republicans. He should just focus on winning and not sowing doubt for if he loses:

“UOCAVA voting systems have several measures in place to prevent fraud while ensuring eligible voters can participate. Here are some key methods used:

1. Voter verification:
   - Voters must complete a Federal Post Card Application (FPCA) to register and request a ballot.
   - The FPCA requires personal information like full name, date of birth, and Social Security number.
   - Election officials verify this information against existing records.

2. Signature matching:
   - Voters must sign their ballot envelope or a separate declaration.
   - Officials compare this signature to the one on file from voter registration.

3. Unique identifiers:
   - Each absentee ballot has a unique code or barcode.
   - This prevents duplicate voting and allows for tracking.

4. Secure transmission:
   - Many states use secure online portals for ballot requests and delivery.
   - When ballots are mailed, they're often sent via expedited, trackable methods.

5. Witness requirements:
   - Some states require a witness signature on the ballot envelope.
   - This helps verify the voter's identity and that they voted without undue influence.

6. Affidavit of eligibility:
   - Voters often must sign an affidavit declaring their eligibility to vote.
   - False statements on this affidavit are subject to perjury laws.

7. Ballot tracking:
   - Many states provide online systems where voters can track their ballot's status.
   - This transparency helps prevent and detect potential fraud.

8. Post-election audits:
   - States conduct various types of audits after elections.
   - These can help detect any irregularities in absentee voting.

9. Federal oversight:
   - The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) and the Department of Justice monitor UOCAVA voting.
   - They can investigate and prosecute cases of fraud.

10. State-specific measures:
    - Some states have additional security measures, like requiring copies of identification documents.

It's worth noting that studies have consistently shown that voter fraud, including in absentee voting, is extremely rare in U.S. elections. The challenge is often balancing security measures with ensuring eligible voters can easily cast their ballots from abroad.”


Good morning #coffeechain

Confession: I used to be into “crypto”. I actually made money off speculating on it. Lucky me.

Then somehow I finally saw the depth and importance of what Satoshi originally created. I realized the beauty of the “simplicity” and saw the myriad ways the infinite, pointless “crypto” projects either lost the plot, corrupted themselves or diluted their objectives, resources and never mind their stupid tokens too.

Truth is it’s not simple at all in this space. There’s enough depth in Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr & ecash to spend a lifetime learning and not even get close to truly mastering it all. And I love that.

Anyway, cheers to all you badasses making things on here. You inspire me to be better, to learn, to write, to build and to share. I’m off to find a better coffee supplier for our flagship shop and hopefully make a deal.


I’ll keep in mind for the future that you post your thoughts not for discussion but so people can marvel at your wisdom. Cheers dude


also, for your interest: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39

not trying to be a dick, but beyond a minimum level of "intelligence" as measured by the test (around 100) it's pretty clear it doesn't really tell you much about a person


My wife, a psych doctorate candidate


I.E don’t whore themselves out to people who want to inflate their egos for solving puzzles. It’s used “properly” to measure learning deficiencies


“When I’m confronted with a problem, and I have the choice of making it the user’s problem or my problem, I’ll make it my problem every time. That’s my job.”

An excellent and free read for anyone remotely interested in web design: https://resilientwebdesign.com/

h/t nostr:npub1xzrkzsrnr83vn7h0udq6tnapwpswy5equlrtkn3nu0e0anlmzynqne0qap


1. Build in the open.
2. Ship and iterate fast.
3. Create a community around it.


Have you read Taleb’s paper on how IQ is more of a test on unintelligence rather than intelligence? Psychologists who use the test properly also concur…


TY. Distributed solar is still a good idea to reduce base load and fluctuations on the grid. FYI something she doesn’t really give enough credence to in the book


I don't think this book mentions #bitcoin once, but if you know the basics about mining then this will help you understand very quickly how Bitcoin can make our grid a hell of a lot more resilient, green and COMPETITIVE.
https://www.amazon.com/Shorting-Grid-Hidden-Fragility-Electric-ebook/dp/B08KZ51SDP
(please excuse the Amazon link, couldn't find anything better)


This man is anti-Bitcoin and I disagree with him on many things, but this piece is definitely worthwhile: https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/a-choice-to-believe

Some gems:

"While I disagree with much of the Republican “platform” and candidly fear the potential for narcissists in office, the alternative is much, much worse as Kennedy’s speech makes clear."

"Food production is uniquely suited to predatory acquisition strategies. Calamities befall small local/regional producers on a regular basis. This was the genesis of crop insurance when first introduced in 1899 through farmer cooperatives. Like many well intentioned ideas, it was ultimately federalized by the government. In 1994, crop insurance became mandatory for those participating in other government programs like price supports. Predictably, the mandatory premiums disadvantaged smaller farmers/food producers and drove further consolidation in the industry. "

"In America today, market after-market demonstrates the existence of monopoly powers. The cozy relationship with regulators is a key component and it is here that the Democratic party has simply become absurd with dismissive counter-attacks on “corporate greed” and FTC enforcement."

"...healthcare is increasingly about predatory (and opaque) pricing, and payday lenders (for all their very real failings) provide a mechanism to escape the healthcare collections racket. We are an increasingly unequal society and a growing fraction are increasingly resource constrained which lowers our aggregate productivity and productivity growth."

(his Substack is high quality and thoughtful all around, worth the subscription IMO if you can handle reading opinions you don't always like or agree with... which I can't recommend more to this community)


“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark


If you’re going to be non-partisan, then fucking be non-partisan. This is a clear conflict of interest and how you end up like pre-Milei Argentina where government employees essentially vote for their own self interest. The stunning irony of the announcement of their endorsement being behind a Hatch Act warning is clown world stuff.
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“This is not a call for civil disobedience. It is also not an attempt to undermine the valiant work of developers focusing on trust-minimized technologies. It is the proclamation of the undeniable potential within our grasp as individuals to organize and use technology to elevate our communities.”
#bitcoin #ecash #nostr

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/the-financial-anarchist-manifesto


Hamilton Lake sunrise - Sequoia National Forest
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Muy cool. Perro… coolest? No se


GM #coffeechain

#writing
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Hey at least we have a filter now


mood. https://i.nostr.build/DM7BRNzRPkGfmhEO.jpg


If you try hard enough, it could be


A’ja Wilson from mid-range looks like a damn video game cheat code woof


“They need to actually see the eerie and creepy omnipresent ads online disappear or become wildly inaccurate as they make purchases privately, out of sight of the big data fishing net.” 👌🏼

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/choose-privacy

#privacy


Revealing rejected/pending applications makes a ton of sense in principle and it could prevent VC cherry picking or reveal clear conflicts of interest. HOWEVER this might also cause an administrative/political nightmare for the operation and be lose lose. I’m sure there’s fake or disingenuous applications abound which would not be well judged by the public. My gut says let em cook but maybe there’s a middle ground here where all applications above a certain standard are default revealed (proof of x # of prior commits on FOSS projects or something? This is hard).
Also… nothing is stopping applicants from posting it here on Nostr. If their reputation/work is respected by the community then it will pressure Opensats to consider to save their own rep. Like we’re currently witnessing…
All in all FOSS contributors shouldnt feel entitled to some big daddy charity fund to help them though. That’s not the attitude that’s gonna change the world anyway


You cannot use someone
Else’s zap
To fund yourself


Congrats!!


High Sierra Trail with Whitney summit completed in 6 days. Many grasses were touched. PV 🤙🏼
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Beautiful work


Yo 🤙🏼


Good morning #coffeechain and all the community on here I’m slowly building. Gonna be out touching grass for a while. Pura vida. 💙🤙🏼


Would be a fun version of the timeline. A very BJJ move lol


GM! 🤙🏼


Eventually, it’s the value of the blockspace itself that backs it


Poetic


Open source user/community generated algos controlled by preference sliders would be cool if they came with periodic reminders to reset or refresh your filter bubble. Maybe I’m naive but I believe conscious use of open source filtering/sorting tools (aka algos) can still be useful in some cases.


Constantly need to remind myself of this…


Yeah. Shitcoin casino who don’t care about anyone but themselves


Need to shout out nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle and nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9 team…

At the current stage, companies still need fiat to operate and pay for most of their supply chain. You need to do this in a legal and compliant way, too.

So even if you’re accepting BTC as payment for goods/services and you’re a fully orange pilled psycho you still need to convert a certain amount of that to fiat to stay afloat. We hope to change that one day but for now it is what it is.

I’m almost ashamed to admit it but strictly because I’m a numbers monkey I avoided Strike due to higher conversion fees and tried to make Binance work in an effort to shave off overhead. They had lightning network working (apparently) and advertised cheaper trading fees.

Our business application took fucking months and no customer service in sight. Completely hung up. Ok fine, Coinbase gets LN network working- let’s try them because they’re advertising low fees too (I know… fuck them, fuck me, I get it). Needless to say that process was even more of a joke. There’s not even a clear way to make a business account. Don’t get me started on them.

So finally, I get bumped back to the place I should have been in the first place: Strike. I’ve silenced my inner accountant- it’s a real Bitcoin company. Fill a form on their site. Bang, get an email. Fill out app in 15 minutes- bang, the partners get another email. Partners fill out what’s required on that one in <5 mins. Bang, approved next day and working with fiat bank connected. We’re up and running.

If anyone at Strike reads this, keep doing what you’re doing. Hopefully you can afford to lower fees one day but for now worth it to avoid fake crypto companies and we fully support you. Cheers.


We gotchu Carol


NYT is dangerous

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Is this for real? WTF


I feel you


Planning on migrating off iOS soon anyhow


Gotcha. Thank you


I’m sorry to hear that


If we had precedent that protocols couldn’t be legally banned under constitutional law it might be helpful in creating an impossible whack-a-mole situation for the gov


GM. Is there any precedent to being able to ban a protocol even if only on paper? Like, I’d assume they can’t legally ban TCP/IP without crossing some sort of constitutional line


Fun last episode. Particularly enjoyed the discussion near the start about what it means to live a life and run a business anchored in #bitcoin. Grateful for what nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx has done and stoked for the next part of his journey. If nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a officially orange pilled me, then I could say Peter’s show hit me hard with an orange IV and opened my eyes to the broader world. Cheers sir.

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Takes a sec


iOS app, proton VPN


Open to being wrong about this

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Try @zeus


Fuck yeah haha!!


Fuck yeah!!


Open source Nostr social graph / event data visualizations are going to rock this world. Very stoked to support this and honored to be working with this man. We’re making a mess and trying a bunch of things at Conduit but our roadmap is getting clearer. More to come…🤙🏼

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Listening loud on patio doing some planting. Loud enough to orange and purple pill some neighbors hopefully 🤙🏼

https://fountain.fm/episode/S7hb3aMjbXMYsbHpIDNl


Yo nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 I had to disconnect my VPN to connect my Nostr. Has anyone else reported this issue? Thx

Maybe also #asknostr


Lolll this is it right here


Not sure tbh. It’s getting nasty out there but always seems to last longer than it should. Hardly anyone gives a fuck about lower class but watch out below if middle class loses its footing. If I were to guess it hinges on employment levels and/or whenever the treasury runs out of tricks to prop up real estate market. Post election game over it seems… no matter who’s in charge. The damage done is irreparable.


Fun idea mate… but TCP/IP or SMTP don’t have logos and I struggle to think why Nostr should have one long term without creating some weird exclusive club. I suppose if the community generally gets behind it and it helps in some way then I could get behind it but we shouldn’t make any “official” logo or even pretend to. Generally (freely) accepted guidelines like Purple + Ostriches are fun and harmless but we don’t need an official flag or whatever


Lol, nice


Effects of a K shaped recovery fueled by a fiat spigot. Those close to the spout doing just fine, yet this is happening at the same time


That’s the beauty of a pendulum


Fuck you


I dunno- it’s pretty effective as an amplifier a la “Streisand effect” 🤣


Working on purple pilling him, not yet but I’m pretty relentless


Inspirational doc shared with me by nostr:npub1xzrkzsrnr83vn7h0udq6tnapwpswy5equlrtkn3nu0e0anlmzynqne0qap
Can’t help but see the fiat crap exported to the world by Monsanto. The power to be close to the spigot is real. Decentralization incentivizes more diversity and ironically interconnectedness too.
Anyway, GM!
#foodstr

https://youtu.be/LM6neNyNu_U?feature=shared


This is clearly making folks freak out- probably by design lol.


Lol. How they gonna find out?


He’s probably slightly more reachable thru Substack


True. It’s pretty fun what it reveals when you watch them try though


You’re capable of curating your own addiction


Hyper-specialized solutions are quite likely to be sustainable. Clients just have to do one thing exceptionally to breakout, and not necessarily for the whole world.

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There are those who come here with certain expectations (images don't load, can't find users, DM privacy sucks, no blue checkmarks, ...) and a conflicted mind that doesn't let them enjoy the freedom of chaos. They need it to be wrong and broken so they can handle the dissonance when going back to Elon's private global hellscape.

Then there are those who come and see an infinite space of possibilities and also challenges, they see the beauty in the chaos. They know that this protocol owes them exactly nothing.

They ask: what can I do with nostr what has never been done before? And slowly they realize how big this question really is.


Transactions one day secure the network. At that point we will all be more conscious of our spending. It needs to be done, but it will be far more strongly considered. The fiat mindset will be forcefully killed, and through that we can have true earned prosperity.


Hate to admit being so late to the party but this is the book that finally made it all click and got me off the “trader” sidelines

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Great bot to support. Damn this community makes me smile sometimes

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I’d like to see how they’ll handle credits for unrealized losses too lol. This is a joke- literally a death rattle of a power drunk political party that has completely lost any footing in reality


DEA cracking down on a “problem” the FDA created by having only one legal option for psychedelic assisted therapy. Oh and meanwhile they reject other medicines like MDMA (and probably Psilocybin too) even after successful comprehensive trials that they made them go through. What a joke- any wonder why there’s a populist desire to get rid of these corrupt agencies?

https://doubleblindmag.com/dea-cracking-down-on-ketamine


🤯

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GM- delete is fragile. Screenshots will always exist. Quote and correct yourself if needed and get over it. Be responsible for not posting private info or deal with the consequences. My two sats anyway.

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You miss all the shots you don’t take


“There is a paradigm that all doers share: the willingness and the need to take 100% responsibility for their own lives and their own destiny all the time, no matter what they are involved in. That means that it's never someone else's fault, and there is never an external influence that truly limits what is possible.”


Keep rollin!!


Good morning!


This 100%.
Curate your own feed. Nurture the social circle you build here. Be thoughtful and authentic with your posts. No shortcuts.

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10/10 lol. Pay these folks.

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Beastly crew


Yeah. Let’s start a movement


Nuhstor


Looks like it hasn’t been used in a while


Good morning!!


We’ve got a few things in common


Game on

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You choose the meaning here, nothing is force fed. Certainly less addicting… might need a mission or higher purpose as a side dish tho


We could do <3 years too with CCP sponsorship lol.


A workaround is to hibernate your LinkedIn while it’s not needed, but not sure if this works in your situation


It’s an illusion - take the dive


Life gets better, don’t wait


Pull the plug


Right here. #nostronly


https://nostpic.com/media/04c960497af618ae18f5147b3e5c309ef3d8a6251768a1c0820e02c93768cc3b/b0488b81a053520ccc42f0c6fa99b4f91273f98d1d907225e374e92eb4a1d098.webp

#TruthBeTold


Scary stuff happening in Europe. And yet they’re having us think they were the ones fighting a regime opposed to truth? Not a pro Putin post, just an observation of hypocrisy.

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Feels like Gala Games and god knows what else they’re doing over there is going to run out of money in a bad way soon


For now… until the game of attrition starts where everybody’s waiting for even lower rates lol


Make sure they’re not spamming you to try to make you miss a sim-swap. They might be getting you to ignore your phone while getting carrier to swap. Keep an eye out for legit texts or contact from your carrier…


Yeah might as well delete it now, doesn’t get much better than this lol.


Lol. Yeah that is odd. Godspeed


Lol. Well done


Strange. On Primal mobile (iOS) I can click on image to get it isolated then long click to download. Can you view image only in browser?


What client are you using?


Strong gratitude signals with real skin in the game


Congrats!!


BURN THE BOATS


Good morning!!


BITCONNEEEEECCT


Truth. 🙏🏼

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You got this. #nostronly


Made me laugh, even exchange I’d say


Amazon/venmo ? 👀


The more they do this, the more users we get


Boom.

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GM #coffeechain warriors. Make it a good one. ♾/21
https://m.primal.net/KGnB.jpg


Huh? I didn’t even say I disagreed in principle. Exceptions prove rules. Sure, Ayn Rand’a a great one too!  Trying to open up the discussion beyond a broad simple statement- thought that’s what this place was for. Don’t appreciate your reflex either, friend. Cheers.


Damn.


Gm, sorry for your loss ☕


Some light reading on a significant counter point: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/05/1979-and-all-that


Works both ways


Yes please


I’ve also had more friends come out of polite disagreements here than any other “social” platform


GN sir


Gotta keep that shit north of 2 minimum.


Fuck yeah. Glad you’re here


And yeah we’d watch it


nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a check this guy out you could do an XR livestream and really level up the production quality: https://parkerhowell.com/portfolio/instaquest/


the algorithms are getting to the point where they are sending the same content to everyone. almost every platform. copy of a copy of a copy only to maximize ad impressions.

straight programming, just like the programming of radio, tv, and cable.

i want to be able to create, choose, and share my own algorithms. only way out of the bubbles being created. 🫧


The more I interact here the more cool & interesting people I find. It takes effort though, and that’s a good thing IMO
#plebchain


Correct. You can buy fractionalized shares of gold allegedly stored safely in a foreign country and pay someone you’ve never met to manage it through an online broker who’s terms of service you never actually read. Oh and you’ll need to KYC for this. Power to the people.


Truth.


I used to talk about Bitcoin
I still do, but I used to too


Every Bitcoin book is a children’s book if they know how to read


They’re not even remotely interested in what the populace wants. Bernie? Fuck off. RFK jr? Don’t kid yourself. “We know what’s best”. Bitcoin? Not in our house. Disgusting. This party really needs a re-brand because every stunt they pull is far from “democratic”.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/politics/democrats-exclude-bitcoin-and-crypto-from-2024-platform-aligning-with-past-hostility


Let’s hope so. It would be an epic way to burn $44B or whatever it was


This is 100% going to happen to a lot of projects on Nostr too. Which is why we should at least be considering FOSS licenses like MPL in lieu of MIT where possible…


Thx for the reminder…


Yeezy once he realizes he can’t be banned


Although I share your ideals- how would this work more specifically? Some tokenization that settles periodically in a federated system like Liquid? Stocks are shares of companies that exist in legal frameworks formed and enforced by state powers. Ownership rights of these shares are also enforced by the state. Who enforces the global ownership rights of shareholders even if we use bitcoin for transaction settlement? Who do I sue when a company doesn’t honor my shareholder rights… and under what court? How is bankruptcy handled and by who? There’s a lot to solve for here if you want to make something better than what has evolved to this point.  — This is a comment on: https://yakihonne.com/flash-news/nevent1qqs0cmpnlpxc9xjqsse24tztvpvgnusmlxww32ejzfmphvqtt5ug7mqzyzmejmqc8cpkmuncq229hq9mmj9shavhrdnzr2rt7dtfcvepzlc86qcyqqqqqqgygyw2k


100%. nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q has a good feature here showing sent/received on profile pages (maybe others do as well?). Basically a generosity ratio.  — This is a comment on: https://yakihonne.com/flash-news/nevent1qqsvjz94uchu6xrmwfgfj2a470w3ywsr99qjwvl24ccwu6u4djz5w5qzyqzvj9w6alhrsvtl5u6ygjkwuwg2sf5lukqskgjpuhnd6dpal0kvjqcyqqqqqqgvfhey2


Great idea. Highly interested in these discussions happening here. #nostronly


I agree the efforts are largely impotent, especially outside of the US like you said. The only condition I’m interested in is putting up a roadblock for parties that want to take something open source and make closed source iterations. The MPL seems to fit this pretty well- basically similar to MIT except attempts to force future iterations to be open-source. No offense, but MIT is literally using the state to actively give up your rights. I don’t see how that furthers the cypherpunk cause vs. something like the MPL.


In the spirit of alt content: here’s a wholesome photo of a golden duck we’ve watched grow from a baby. We’re so stoked goldie made it through the duckling ordeals and grew up.
#nature
https://m.primal.net/KCux.jpg


I say this right after posting dev content as my first post in a couple of days


If we keep participating in non btc/dev/etc content too, it’s gonna open up the horizon for Nostr. Nice work


I guess as a follow up to this, if the state wanted to stifle your project by sponsoring a competitor, and/or even co-opt your project… twisting it for their purposes, aren’t you making it easier for that to happen with a license that allows follow up work to be closed source?


I totally get where you’re coming from. I struggle with this because I see the conflict as open source vs. closed source instead of state vs. xyz. I’d like to use the state to our advantage where possible- but tell me what I’m not seeing…


Tough balance to strike


Thx
So do you feel the GPL chain restricts your offering too much? No worries about MIT being taken and used for closed source projects?


Lmfao.


Nostr is the only one starting as an open protocol (that I know of).
Bluesky seems very closed, and even their proposed federation model is far from open. This is still governance, dressed up differently.
These villages you speak of can (and I would argue eventually will) all happen here, with different flavors, settings, filters, whatever… an open protocol lets this happen organically. Closed protocols by definition have an upper limit on growth. Sure they could somehow be part of this movement at the outset, but they’ll die out to an open protocol like Nostr eventually once it takes off


What free open source licenses are folks here using for their projects? Benefits/drawbacks? Curious on the takes of the community here.
#asknostr


THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO PROMOTE NOSTR IS TO USE IT.


Why Nostr is struggling…

There is too much of an overlap with X, not only in the feature sets among the primary applications, but more importantly, in the kind of audience that Nostr is catering to.

Sure..censorship resistance at the protocol level is a differentiator, but the to the average person, you may as well be talking gibberish. They don’t know wtf a protocol is in the first place - let alone why it matters for censorship resistance to happen at that level, or more importantly, WHY they should trust Nostr to deliver on that promise. “Bcoz nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m said so” is not an argument.

————

Bluesky is a case in point here.

It’s got a VERY similar feature set to X, claims to be open source / censorship resistant (similar narrative to Nostr), and is growing MUCH faster than Nostr, bc it has captured a key audience, ie; people with TDS and EDS (Elon Derangement Syndrome).

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/bluesky-signups-surge-uk-amid-musks-row-with-government-over-riots-2024-08-13/?

I’ve been on there a few times, and the content quality is enough to make you want to throw up….but at the very least, it’s working for that kind of content, and for the people who want it.

I don’t have a direct answer here..but I think it’s something to do with the over-emphasis on technicals.

nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 mentioned increasing the emphasis on design the other day. I agree this is a move in the right direction. We’re taking a very design-focused approach with nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 (we’ll have ALOT more to show in the next 6wks).

That being said, it’s not enough.
IMO, Nostr is technically mature enough for us to go out there and talk about it to more people, and build a narrative BEYOND the 500 of us that are talking to each other on here.

People like nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft or nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc can correct me if I am wrong here. Maybe there’s alot more to do technically.

But if I am right, I’d like to see more initiatives that are marketing oriented being supported by nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as and nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f and other coalitions. Maybe we even need a council of Nostr businesses, who together pool some funds to help drive some marketing initiatives?

Whatever the case, we need to expand upon the Nostr narrative, make it more compelling and speak to more people about it.
At the very least, we have to conquer then Bitcoiners. If we can’t get the segment who are into freedom money onto the freedom of speech network, we’re DOA. That’s a first step.

I know nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa is working on a very cool initiative in relation to this. The Nostr Booth is IMO a great way to make Nostr more “real” for bitcoiners by having a physical presence at all the conferences.

I know nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 + nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 are doing some Podcast outreach. That’s super important too. nostr:npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va and crew are putting on Nostriga. Amazing. nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr / nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg are doing great things with nostr:npub1spdnfacgsd7lk0nlqkq443tkq4jx9z6c6ksvaquuewmw7d3qltpslcq6j7, etc on the content side. I’ve got some things up my sleeve personally which I will begin to do once nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 is in a position to represent a NEW kind of Nostr-product..

But we need MOAR..

And…we also need to find another angle that is NOT about censorship resistance. That’s clearly not working against X.

I don’t know the EXACT narrative or spin, but it has to be more “running towards” than “running from”.

More white pill, less black pill.

Anyway.
I will probably turn this into an article. I’ve been thinking more and more about “writing in public” as we build Satlantis, and sharing more about how we’re thinking about growing a “network product” on top of a “network protocol”.

If you think this was valuable, please repoast so more people can see and get involved in the discussion.


Funding cohesion.

Non-plumbing consumer facing projects often have more than one dev.

If we want FOSS customer facing applications, we need to fund them as a team. Dev(s)+Front_ppl, that front end maybe include designer, front end dev, ux person, etc...

Tacking on a designer later keeps things as shitty as they are now.

Many/most devs would love to defer the front of the house to a front of the house person. But not later when he did all the work and a non-technical designer comes and tells him to change everything.

Startups with the best user experience win because they have a tight team from the beginning.

Cisco sucks because they have. Design department vs dev department.

FOSS suffers from this syndrome and attracts the wrong resources at the wrong time.

Funding orgs amplify this by not encouraging teams vs individuals.

The goal is not "more" FOSS stuff, it's more FOSS stuff that gets USED.

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Good morning! 🤙🏼


Learn a little code, try to build something, then see if you feel like critiquing the devs as much.


Got sent this from a friend who used to work at Polymarket:
https://rekt.news/hedging-bets/

“When prediction markets become kingmakers, who's really calling the shots, the crowd, the coders, or the ones holding the biggest bags?”

More proof that “crypto” isn’t decentralized- only various attempts at governance on different rails failing over and over again as they run face first into greed, corrupt incentives and black swans. Have any of them ever been designed for resilience against our worst tendencies? Nope. Only #bitcoin / #lightning / #ecash and #nostr is needed folks.


This mic drop is extra saucy with her voice and accent

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They respond to lagging data, but the market responds to them. When they finally see a slowdown and start to cut, the market takes the cue and waits for further cuts, which slows activity further…


Spitznagel’s warning from November 2023: you should start worrying when the fed cuts rates.


Hold out hope 💙


My job is getting in the way of my hobbies.


I mean she got all zero scores and Australia got embarrassed on the world stage. I think this was a huge net loss for woke ideology


This is the way


Rock on 🤙🏼


Or better yet troll people on other platforms with only a preview of your post then a link here
#nostronly

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10/10

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This seems like a reasonable compromise


Amen. Set up your wallet


Decentralization requires distributed responsibility. Maybe it should be slightly dangerous. There’s no skin in the game in traditional social media.

“Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world”. Nostr without NIP-09 enforcement doesn’t change this- it just makes your actions a one way trip therefore adding responsibility. The user has a choice how to use it, and it’s a very simple open protocol that allows easy generation of an anon profile if that’s what’s wanted.

Photos accidentally uploaded- yeah that would suck. Password copied and posted? Woops- better hustle to change it. It’s on us.

Appreciate you sir🫡. Now watch me put my foot in my mouth.


This might be exactly why we don’t want across the board NIP-09 enforcement. Idiots exposing themselves and not being able to undo it is a pretty useful feature.

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Gotta love the nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx zap that highlights this being a troll and/or moron, baller move


There could be a compromise here. 100% effective NIP-09 “enforcement” seems technically impossible and might even set a strange precedent if enforced by some group on here (even a well liked one).

However, we might be able to get to a place where events get “deleted” reasonably effectively so someone can tuck something away from plain view. Seems like not a bad feature.

But I suspect part of the current magic here is folks knowing they can’t truly delete posts. Makes me think more at least (and ruminate over typos more too lol) so I’m sure it reduces mindless hateful discussion. Not sure I’d love to be on a platform where people can sneak in and out talking shit and then pretending like they never did.

Anyway, nobody can stop a screenshot so it might not be the best feature to spend a ton of resources on with such an easy workaround.

Love the thoughtful discussions no matter what.

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Screenshots effectively make this moot in centralized ones too


If you ever want to purple pill someone who can handle reading, see below.
Thanks for what you do nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu

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Amputate


We’re gonna meme ourselves into a better future, lads and lasses.

The jester is the one who tells the truth, shielded by humor.

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Elon Musk is a single point of failure.


Streisand effect. This helps Elon and he knows it. Though we can also assume Nostr will gain from this


Barbara Streisand
OOOOOWEEEEEEOOOWEEEEOOEEE


Whoa


And they’re hosting an event Oct 18th right when Pacific Bitcoin was canceled. Who’s in??


Transactions secure the network. Long term if we all stare at our pile like this and don’t use it for real economic activity it becomes worthless…


Wtf


It’s pretty poetic that a multi-state level coordinated attack on #bitcoin is itself a Byzantine General’s problem


Exactly


I hope this is how this works here for the long term:

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Oh I totally agree. I started to notice the negative feelings after spending time in that place too. We’re not immune to the algos


Lmfao. Wifey and I got a good laugh at this one


I’m all for this. Our participation makes this place grow! Cheers


Haha rock on!


Yes pls


Great post. Dave Chappelle seems to fit this model too IMO.  — This is a comment on: https://yakihonne.com/flash-news/


He definitely tapped into a stifled desire and seemed to make an effort to support it. The problem is it’s “free speech” only on his terms. Go and try to link a Substack article over there. Probably already blocking nostr links too. I can’t say whether or not your opinion is right, but long term it will all drive to open protocols as we find out there’s no heroes in this game.


“In a later book, The Clock Of The Long Now, Stewart Brand applied the idea of shearing layers—or pace layers—to civilisation itself. The slowest moving layer is nature, then there’s culture, followed by governance, then infrastructure, and finally commerce and fashion are the fastest layers. In a loosely‐coupled way, each layer depends on the layer below.” - https://resilientwebdesign.com/chapter5/

Interesting idea because it seems like we now have the infrastructure (#Bitcoin + #Nostr) to bypass the current governance layer and feed directly into the culture layer. Seems natural then that a new governance layer will be formed to properly intermediate culture and infrastructure.

Hopefully it’s a lot smaller than the current overgrown and stifling governance layer.


First of many I’m sure 👊🏼

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Has been for a long time


Celebrate these transitions. Each and every one you see.

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Fuck yeah Trey! Burn the boats. Nostr only. There’s a palpable positive difference here.


Nice work Nick 🫡


Hey yeah I agree with you, self zaps should be filtered out. Oh and it worked


Couple of things here:
-you may be conflating biological sex and the concept of gender… as I understand it, trans people accept their sex (external reality) while debating their gender (internal reality) and so they seek to align them
-this internal conflict doesn’t have any direct affect on their ability to judge objective/external reality, their recall, their morals, intelligence, etc.
I personally try to evaluate each person as I meet them and try to be objective as possible. I don’t think categorizing someone with gender dysphoria as untrustworthy by default is helpful in this evaluation.


Oh and GM ! 😬


Still a beginner but my current opinions:
-Be authentic and thoughtful, let people get to know your personality and share your unique value
-zap gratuitously for things that make you say “amen”, make you laugh or help you learn something… etc
-repost great content and add your own flavor if you want (probably should zap if you’re gonna repost, seems the right thing to do)
-send/reply to GMs and GNs, make this a community… participate in your network’s discussions (not just the big accounts!)
-use hashtags selectively and only as they are relevant, but definitely do use them to help your fellow Nostriches who want specific types of content
-default sort as “latest”, check in on trending less frequently
-purple pill as many people as you can and burn the boats on other social accounts #nostronly hahaha


Goodnight sir


Good morning!


This is how bullish I am on user-choice algorithms in the long run.

https://m.primal.net/JsyY.gif


I believe…
-There’s a future where provable human created content will become more valuable. Like classic cars. Live shows will also be craved more.
-AI will never fully encapsulate the complexity and ever moving nature of analog instruments and human emotion. It will get really good, but real sound has infinite depth and resolution. Combine that with emotion- the machine will forever be chasing.
-AI ultimately a tool. Human + AI will always be better than AI only. Hopefully we can still weave magic with it as a creativity enhancer.
Great post 🤘🏼


Damn! Good for her.


Thanks for your efforts 🤙🏼


TBH I will lose patience for many of them who don’t make the jump eventually. This will be a nice bullshit filter as time goes on. Put skin in the game.  #nostronly 🫡

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MORE CLIENTS SHOULD SUPPORT DISPOSABLE NPUBS. AMETHYST IS LEADING THE WAY HERE. WOULD BE THE SINGLE BIGGEST PRIVACY WIN FOR ONLINE SPEECH ACROSS THE BOARD.

NORMALIZE SINGLE USE DISPOSABLE IDENTITIES. AS THE REST OF THE INTERNET MOVES TOWARD LINKING EVERY ACTION TO LEGAL IDENTITIES, NOSTR REPRESENTS A BRIGHTER PATH.


This is on our roadmap. Disposable npub allows option for private market purchases while still leaving the option to post a verifiable review.


Awesome post, thx. I got told to read Adam Smith when I tried to explain the concept of switching monetary denominators to someone. Like trying to tell a fish they are wet. Maybe I could send them this. — This is a comment on: https://yakihonne.com/flash-news/


Never forget this part - transactions secure the network long term. Hodling isn’t enough. #zap zap baby.

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The more experience I gain, the more I examine things through one main lens when it comes to really important things: only work with people that you’d be willing to go to war with.

Iterate towards those people.


You’re damn right there is! Congrats


Zapping is a spiritual act of gratitude enabled by Nostr.


As soon as it leaves a hard money standard I suppose they might say to themselves, “we’ll pay it back sometime” or “it will be worth it” which are ultimately lies so not sure how you can start being honest from there. I’m sure there’s honest people within the system somewhere, but I’d argue a naive actor within a fundamentally dishonest system doesn’t make them truly honest.


Good morning! We’re so early.


I always remember the scene in Narcos where they were fixing an election. By gaming the results and announcing them from one early reporting area, they hoped to discourage voters from participating in later reporting districts. This is the same game.


"Every profitable bitcoin business should support the open source contributors that make this movement possible. We are incredibly grateful for Build Asset Management choosing to lead by example with a long term commitment to the OpenSats General Fund." —  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

https://opensats.org/blog/donation-commitment-from-build-asset-management


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https://m.primal.net/JsGF.jpg


Honest fiat brokers
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Tough one


I repeat: more #bitcoin buyers below $50k than there are S&P buyers below $5k

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At what point do they just shut the doors on this company?


Purple pilled someone this evening - got them on @primal ez pz

He likes TA tho. If you see this Teddy, we can still be friends.

#grownostr

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If your unit of measure is dollars i then sure whatever, but the word “value” is a lot broader- especially because I’m talking about timelines longer than the dollar has even existed. Before modern Finance 201 or Econ 101. Gold was once the base unit of measure as were other things. Bitcoin may one day be. USDT etc are literally promises to a unit on a ledger. That’s not a store of value in any sense of the word outside of these textbooks you’re referring to. You could also say they sold out of Tether into Bitcoin. Everything is relative to your base unit of choice.


Thank you


This is called hedging your bets and it would be smart for Bitcoiners to continue to engage the party they don’t think will/should win

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Encourage you to spend some time in the non theoretical world and come back to this statement. Try a role in procurement or anything really where you have to constantly value real things and there’s consequences for getting it wrong.


Depends on a lot of things


That wasn’t ever the point of money


I think whenever you’re having a discussion around “store of value” you should clarify the timeline you’re assuming. Fiat can be on a shorter timeline, sure. Gold certainly has been on a longer one.


Yeah I’m not exactly listening to them. I guess that’s what I’m trying to express. What’s SPV?


Here’s something I worry about with the dogma around #bitcoin as “digital gold” and the *perfect* money:
New gold supply has not gradually decreased through its history as a money or store of value- in fact many periods it has increased geometrically, coinciding with technological/industrial improvements (and increased economic activity, population, productivity, etc).
Bitcoin will not do this. It is hard coded not to. So… how are we so confident without past evidence through any other similar medium with similar properties (like gold) that it will behave *perfectly* as money or a store of value?
I still think it’s the best we’ve got by far. Completely revolutionary. I’m deeply orange pilled- but I’m also fairly certain that we will have to innovate and adapt around this new system in ways we don’t fully understand yet. The future is only theoretical at this point and what we’re attempting is an experiment (like the USA).
While I personally believe this future will be far better than WTF is going on now I’m not naive enough to think it will be rainbows and butterflies. So let’s keep building and discussing openly as we learn because there’s a long road ahead.
Taking off, PV 🫡


This might sound dumb but reading this conversation has helped me identify and understand the concept of a craving. Whoa.


What makes up the “mining cost per BTC” line? How do they get that data from around the world? I’m skeptical but open to learning something here


Thanks for pointing him out


Headed to the airport…


Forever mic drop

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Thanks for sharing them here


Nobody will enjoy anything a small account creates if they don’t ever see it. Let the smaller accounts connect with each other using hashtags and if you see someone overdoing it or being tasteless then block them. They’re useful for people starting out here trying to make connections and it can still be authentic.


I can get behind this 🫡

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If I worked at Twitter and watched this I’d have to follow up with an HR complaint


Yes please


Her hand and arm motions are so authentic they give me goosebumps

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Get off there dude


You’re probably right about the lack of stimulative effects- everything you describe is highly unproductive and yet likely “necessary” as this all plays out. So the value in real terms of BTC or Gold won’t necessarily go up (in terms of being able to exchange for real assets).
The question for many is, do they at least maintain their value- especially relative to fiat? The ultimate goal is to afford real assets and real productive power… but when folks feel they can’t afford anything meaningful in those categories they turn to saving/stacking/hodling something they hope will survive a Fourth Turning type shift.
Your concerns are justified: people need to take care of themselves in REAL terms during tough times and not worship a yellow metal or orange coin hoping it will solve all their problems.
Ultimately, if BTC is going to work long term, we do need to realize the productive power of this new system and not just stack/hodl and hope.

[Thanks for the morning mental stimulation- GM & cheers]


I do hope the Chinese people have alternatives like we do. Most of us here know the MSM is whacked on both sides so then turn go to newsletters, socials, podcasts, etc to try to find some signal in the noise.


Fuck yeah 💪🏼💪🏼


Aw cute, the state thinks it’s fixing something. How about we make a better open marketplace with Nostr/Lightning where we don’t shove cheap crap down people’s throats? Anything they do to “fix” infrastructure on fiat rails will be polishing a turd.

https://www.engadget.com/amazon-liable-defective-thirdparty-products-135528763.html?guccounter=1


Can they generate their stories using AI?


If you’re not a fan of communism then check out the movie Tetris

h/t nostr:npub1xzrkzsrnr83vn7h0udq6tnapwpswy5equlrtkn3nu0e0anlmzynqne0qap


Lol 👀


Them folks are hardcore. I wonder if they’d accept me with my 100 swings


10/10 👌🏼


I wasn’t feeling it but I said I would.

(Is the #kettlebell gang up in #nostr yet?)
https://m.primal.net/JqfM.jpg


They know there’s no solution. They hoped to stave it off until the next administration but it’s not gonna work


Are you speaking from any kind of experience here? Got any software business or investing results of your own to back up your opinion?


Some thoughts as a mutiny angel investor. Open source wallets are hard. They’re even harder to monetize. The samourai/wasabi shit made that monetization even harder. Having seen some of the financials, I feel confident stating the team isn’t/wasn’t “pocketing money”. They are a small scrappy startup team working with limited resources. I believe they are doing their best / did their best with the wallet. I don’t believe anything nefarious is going on. Startups are just fucking hard.


Hard to argue with this on aggregate

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I wish I could zap this


10/10 🤣


Printer is coming. https://image.nostr.build/85047d206e5cb97da1cd1c6bef08aba6e11b700648c14bd27897c884e331a002.jpg


Damn. Thanks for the tip


GN!!


Every experience with tradfi makes the BTC based system painfully obvious


Here's my full main-stage keynote from Nashville

It was spread across two days, so that's why I change halfway through 😂

51 minutes but I worked hard to carefully consider each minute

The talk is packed with lessons and examples that I have learned and seen across my entire career of people using Bitcoin to change the world in the most unlikely of places

I walk through how Bitcoin is a revolution for commerce, freedom, and electric power, citing dozens of examples in each case

This one is for every single person who has ever said Bitcoin is useless, just as much is as it's for every person who is curious about Bitcoin and wants to know more

Most people know that Bitcoin is a great savings technology, which is of course its primary use case, but I don't dwell on that

Here we get into everything else it does

No price talk, all utility

Hope this helps

So grateful for the  nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu team for giving me this opportunity

Onwards!

https://m.primal.net/JqMR.mp4


I’ll have what you’re having please 😅


Lol.


Long term, we need private money or it just gets traced / taxed / seized by the state anyway.

But truly private money makes for a bad store of value. You can’t audit the ledger, so a bug could create unlimited inflation that would be hard to detect.

So privacy is how you move money, not necessarily store it.


Ditto. Cultivating an authentic community here has so much more potency. Even if Nostr becomes “bigger” in overall adoption one day, by design each users experience will be more localized (which is perfect IMO)


His books are necessary reading IMO, also recommend material from his partner Mark Spitznagel. These texts ironically teach you not to listen to everything he says or does. No heroes in this game.


The waves of what I'll call Software Socialism (see Champaign Socialism) are increasing in frequency on nostr. They look something like this:

“Why would VCs have designs to generate outsized returns from their investments in [X, Y, and Z] startups?”

“How dare [insert for-profit company] choose to charge for [insert feature]!”

“Why isn't this commercial product open sourced to the degree that meets my personal satisfaction?”

“They took outside capital and decided to change direction after considerable struggle, reflection, and effort? F*ck those guys!”

To which I'll offer:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
―Theodore Roosevelt


Also I can’t zap your post for some reason!


“Software socialism” 👌🏼. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Keep building cool shit for a community you care for and fight to keep your vision + values as you walk the path. Capitalism in software isn’t inherently bad… the need to make something profitable generates hardcore product feedback. Those in the arena do have a responsibility to manage incentives vs vision and this isn’t magically going to go away on a Bitcoin standard, though I hope it will get easier to align without fiat.
Great post, cheers Shawn


👀

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Not a fan but this is a REALLY dumb statement by DeSantis- of course Minnesota was ground zero… that’s where George Floyd was killed


Damn. I had tried it on mobile browser originally and it worked despite my hesitation. Now had the app downloaded, account set up, and put it on my to-do to play with / figure out e-cash using Mutiny. Too bad- but I wish them the best and am confident this community will come up with equally cool things in due time.

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Ask Claude LOL


Careful with googling things that I post lmao.


Transactions secure the network. LFG


If y’all ever get lucky enough to see this guy work you’ll understand

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This is a decent summary of why even though #bitcoin is a risk asset for some and may shed part of its own over-leveraged value during this process, it is still fundamentally the best exit option. It’s hard to see for the outside world, but dollars/etc are losing this position to BTC and heck maybe even Gold too right now.

…Also currently of the opinion that there are relatively way more buyers of Bitcoin below or around $50k (as we’ve seen recently) than there are buyers for the S&P below $5k.

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This I feel is true but the dominance of passive strategies has amplified the volatility and is the underlying structural issue why the markets are high and distorted in the first place


And in a thin passive-dominated market this has disproportionate effects


Lol.


The market is mostly held up and has been inflated by passive index funds regularly funded by employers/employees 401ks that basically hold all the same stocks, once the inflows stop/reverse enough not to support the artificial valuations that’s the tipping point… and we’re getting close to that if not there now. Ponzi market


This guy fucks.

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(Go movie first in that case)


You’re welcome - enjoy!!


The Gentlemen movie or series by Guy Ritchie if you haven’t already


Study pole vault. Study Mondo. Lessons in there.

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Go Mondo!!!!


It happens in Venice every day baby just like the photo

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Hopefully the intimate gathering still happens so we can hang with all their laid off employees in a slightly sketchier Venice venue


New conf. Let’s travel!


APPARENTLY I MEANT ELECTRIC BOOGALOO. CAREFUL WITH YOUR MEMES FOLKS


You think #bitcoin is a ponzi? Have you heard of index funds?
https://m.primal.net/JpFf.jpg


Fyre Fest Atomic Boogaloo successfully avoided

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Hahaha. God damn it.


Beautiful thing about Nostr is you can choose not to follow vapid posters like that… and they can follow each other if they want a fluffy feed- that’s their right. I don’t see these types of posts as top zapped or trending often.

I’m also not sure if there’s currently a better way to form fresh interactions with non-followers than hashtags at the moment- but I’m all ears.


Hell yeah. Let’s get more of this content on here


Technical analysis, AKA astrology for men


Considering how stoked I am, imagine how bearish my tradfi portfolio is


This is honestly a really sad day. As Mutiny wallet is sailing toward the sunset, I hope that Lightning wallet devs will step up their game to fill the void they left. We need self-custodial wallets that run a node on your phone. We need options. We need the talent.

We probably also need another wallet that mixes Ecash with Lightning to cover everything from very small balances to very large balances. One that let's you start with 100 sat and holds your hands and opens channels for you as you acquire more sats.

I've been building Lightning wallets for years before I started working on Cashu. I know how fucking hard it is. Ecash is child's play compared to Lightning's complexity.

My deepest respect goes to the lunatics who put a fucking Lightning node in the browser and pushed LDK to places where no one else has ever been.

Thank you nostr:nprofile1qqs9hejyd252x8q3kw6980ud4lymx3hlx2x3lgg6p7sz58nyv8m2nvgpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33wscxu7t8xc6xwdtkwac8yanpx5e8wmrrd46rwentv3erqdmkx4j8ydmnxv6hyct389nnq7r8vvcxkdrcvdek2er2vachv0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2ujnh08 nostr:nprofile1qqswrlemlh2wgqc4jkds3d8ueqj9a2j3gcm7r48v9tskdd6rxsd7rtcpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqjxamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwfhh2mnywfhkx6mzd96xxmmfdejhyuewvdhk6jg4k33 nostr:nprofile1qqsq6myr3rwtqjdcm48u357ccwae8h3a4y96s28y7zwg458ngeyg5vcp2amhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33wq6xkeec0fu826ms09knx6pjxpjhyenpxdekzmt2xqc8ymfjva6rguf4wan827t4xd6xwvrcxd4xwvm8v4ehvmnr0pnrsqgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8vatvwpjk6tnrdaksz9rhwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2ase3kkz0

🫡🏴☠


This is the part where it’s fun to watch TA boyz justify their past lines on a graph


Can’t hit “sell” if you can’t access your brokerage account.
https://m.primal.net/JoqG.jpg


when the network is less secure, nobody will be able to afford to attack it lol


Basically this

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Nikkei in Japan is doing worse than #bitcoin today. Chaos in the government controlled market and circuit breakers all around.

Stack sats in the free market, dont gamble on stocks.

I bet theyre about to fire up the money printer or backstop some banks and corporations.


STAY GRATEFUL AND ZAP SATS


Time to dig up the 10,000 words I wrote on the index fund #ponzi scheme? Show me the money


10/10 would zap again

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Lol. It’s over


Yikes. HYOK folks.

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Oh no is Pacific Bitcoin gonna be Fyre Fest? Damn we were looking forward to it


#Zap the dip.


Zip the dap


Zaps are currently discounted. #zap more.


Can’t wait to buy BTC from tradfi speculators while they try to save their levered ponzi index fund portfolios


Calling it now: S&P gets rekt harder than #btc in the end. Nasdaq below both.


This is tradfi dumping a risk asset that trades 24/7 before they dump their assets that trade 8/5


This is spot on. Once unemployment hits a tipping point the auto-buy index funds are toast… and there’s no buyers left below. Republicans are hoping it happens pre-election and dems are trying to push on the ponzi until after. Regardless who gets the potato debt/GDP is too high to smooth it over now. Buckle up.


Lol.


Agreed. Yeah I was wondering how much each of them played. I do hope/assume one day Bitcoin is sort of just ever present through zaps and commerce yet not the main topic of conversation. For now I’m enjoying it though.


Damn. Cool


With a special shout out to  nostr:npub12hcytyr8fumy3axde8wgeced523gyp6v6zczqktwuqeaztfc2xzsz3rdp4 for the grooves.
https://m.primal.net/JoFf.png
#coffeechain #grownostr #meme #memestr


STAY GRATEFUL AND ZAP SATS


Is reputation not a part of this new perpetual ID? Do people not care about it?


I don't want to be rude but if you send me a DM that is not giftwrapped, I'm probably not going to answer. Please use a nostr client that supports giftwraps (Amethyst, 0xChat, ...) or use Matrix to reach me (contact in bio).

If you don't use giftwraps, everyone can see that you've messaged me. Some bored weirdo is going to look at our metadata and post it publicly as a display of their genius. It happened in the past. I wish I could prevent people from sending me DMs here in the first place.

Please be aware of this and don't use normal nostr DMs to improve your own privacy and the privacy of your peers.

Stay nutty 🫡


Barter games ? 👀


someone’s just gonna keep all the zaps on many of those 24hr posts lol

oh and it’s probably a game of 3 card monty

Gotta love a new wild west


Yeah I agree you could expand on 1) with a whole discussion around caring for and curating a reputation I guess but I think the key point is you can’t edit- only correct yourself afterwards which takes some stomach. Maybe I’m not understanding what you’re getting at though?


#nostr is awesome. I’m trying to figure out why there are far less assholes here… I have some theories:
1) there’s self filtering going on because you think to yourself “does this need to be a public statement?” before posting something that can’t ever be deleted
2) a #zap incentivizes value over divisiveness
3) #Bitcoin serves as a common core belief system that allows discourse on other orbiting topics

Curious on takes from other folks here


In a world where our currency directly represents energy spent, great design uses the least amount of energy for maximum impact


Who knows… maybe you are motivated and disciplined- but your playlists just suck.

#kettlebell


Amen- Set up your wallet doc, we wanna zap you!


Agree- just did the same


nostr:npub1xzrkzsrnr83vn7h0udq6tnapwpswy5equlrtkn3nu0e0anlmzynqne0qap is a rockstar dev


Libertarians and bitcoiners who preach freedom and peace, but then turn around and promote hateful transphobic or various [insert form of ignorant bigotry] content are seriously missing the fucking point.

We can do better.


THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT BECAUSE WE WILL MAKE IT BRIGHT.

MUCH WORK TO BE DONE.

ONWARD. 🫡


Same!! 👊🏼


We need all kinds of folks. Appreciate you


Fuck yeah. One day at a time we get more folks busting in. #nostronly

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At what point would you consider leaving X and going nostr only?


Been my main one recently


Hey Nostriches! I'm making my big entry into the Nostr scene here with a project I've been cookin' up with my rockstar co-founder  nostr:npub10xvczstpwsljy7gqd2cselvrh5e6mlerep09m8gff87avru0ryqsg2g437.

I'm a single dev + designer hard-at-work on this project on my free time, while I'm not Tech Lead-ing for a big ol' Fortune 200, or bouncing my newborn around to help her settle after a big burp, so progress is going a bit slow, and the Nostr bits are currently in-development.

Our live store, Coffee by Conduit, is working end-to-end, powered by BTCPayServer. This is our first production release of the system, so if you encounter any issues, please feel free to reach out to me directly; I'll include Support details on the site in a near-future iteration.

Check back soon, because I've got the Nostr layer hot in the oven!

I'm open to critiques on the overall design of the site thus far. Let me know whatchyall think of our project: BTC Market, Crafted by Conduit.

https://conduitbtc.com

#tech #nostr #new #new-project #ecommerce #e-commerce #bitcoin #lightning #conduit #conduitbtc #coffee #conduitcoffee #coffeebyconduit #coffee-by-conduit #buynow #buy-now #programming #design #nostr-design #nostr-devs #devs #developers #engineering #engineers #engineers-of-nostr


Rock on, thanks. Also listening to your recent ish pod with nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx right now and getting up to speed. We’ll be implementing e-cash at some point but clearly a lot to learn here
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I’m also curious to learn more about this rotating e-cash though thanks for bringing that to my attention 🙏🏼


Undeclared fractional reserve would definitely fall under the crook category- I’m certain that will happen somewhere in this market of “banks”- but at what scale? Am I naive in thinking there’s some kind of social layer within this community that would enforce transparency to allow a mint to even get large/popular enough to be systemic? Over-engineering “perfect” solutions and leaving nothing to the social layer comes with its own complexities, unforeseen consequences and never mind UX/scaling issues…


IMO your #2 incentives based system will happen inevitably. Like a new free banking system based on BTC. Some will be good, some will take too much risk, some will be crooks. If there are enough options then the good win out overall and the overextended/crooks fail often and early enough for the system to remain healthy on the whole


#nostr only bb

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#bitcoin #nostr #meme

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Wow he smoked that reporter


Poetic


And yet California won’t let you collect it 👎🏼


Same!!


GM!!


Don’t forget LinkedIn


It's a sad waste of resources to go against the will of the people


Cold as ice lol.


Let’s zap ⚡ our friends in Venezuela for having to endure this. Or we aren’t using 🧡💜 the right way. 🫡

Stay safe, frens.

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Seems really productive and a great way to lower inflation 🙄


No, X doesn’t need you Sasha that’s all gaslighting- #nostr only babe


I think if you’re making something valuable for the community, your country, the world, etc. and you want to draw attention to your project in an authentic way then it’s fair game to zap gratuitously to community members who might share your vision (if only they saw it) and draw attention to your npub. I don’t think that big obvious targeted zap “ads” on Nostr will ever have a good ROI because people will see through that as lame, contrived or even simping depending on the npub you zap. You could even get a negative ROI by getting muted if you are completely tone deaf. If you’ve got the budget, spreading zap love to smaller accounts for awesome shit they post should naturally draw positive attention- but the real reward if you do this right is you gather a dope community around you who all support each other. That’s the magic nostr potential right there.


#Venezuela is a great reminder:

You vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out.


#nostr only get ya head right folks

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Rare video.

Carl Jung on why we need to study the human psyche: https://video.nostr.build/01bd3216b2382d2db9e403daec1dbcdbeb5ca05d3a66025ba9c3a9257e3c9677.mp4


Classy response, bravo. Taking notes here. If people don’t like the zaps and it doesn’t create any new business then you funded Nostr users instead of a centralized platform for no gain to yourself. Seems fair to me. There’s gonna be some kind of advertising on Nostr especially on relays/clients that aren’t paid. There will likely also be paid ones that filter out all commercial content- which could also be cool. The best part about this whole thing is we all get to choose our sandbox.


“We are our own marketing department” 🫡

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Nice freakin’ work


Fantastic post here. So much confidence in this community ok iterating until we nail it.

Side note: Authentic connections and interactions here are the way to go. It’s ultimately going to be extremely hard to fake on an open protocol.

#nostr #grownostr

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They better hurry lol.

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W. T. F. ?


Cool. Now do private e-cash + lightning transactions being legitimate.
Long way to go.

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With no privacy, there's no freedom 🎯
https://v.nostr.build/xUL5Sa2rrfuTcrs6.mp4


Hey brother, do you wanna check out my OnlyFans page?
🤣


Who knows - I could see an undemocratic group claiming a false 51% victory here too at which point all hell would break loose.


Good morning!!


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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Maria Corina Machado, an opponent of Nicolás Maduro, has posted all 73.25% of the records provided by the CNE online. Everything is available and proves that Edmundo González received 6.2 million votes, while Maduro received 2.7 million votes, thus confirming the electoral fraud.

https://video.nostr.build/9d7a61421dcbf63158d46091b477f6a3cc96bbfc6dc4ed2b3efde576a13319c3.mp4


Incentives > filters / censorship

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GM

muting volatility short term only makes it worse long term

stay humble and stack sats


Sorry for what you have to live through right now. 🙏🏼


It wasn’t this morning (in fact they were reporting the 51% BS) but it’s undeniable now:
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/government-opposition-both-claim-venezuela-election-win-official-results-2024-07-29/


MSM wasn’t reporting on any #venezuela election doubts this morning- but #nostr was. Now the MSM stories are coming. Go zap the folks on here providing boots on the ground coverage. We don’t have to just “pray for them” anymore with this technology. We can send resources directly.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/government-opposition-both-claim-venezuela-election-win-official-results-2024-07-29/


Mike Green’s ego is massive. FTR: I appreciate his discourse around passive distorting the entire market, and many of his other analyses, but the man has a blind spot for BTC he can’t get around.


Podcasts I wish I could #zap 1/n:
https://fountain.fm/episode/K1zfhUgZQLGXLzaryNam


Podcasts I wish I could zap 1/n:
https://fountain.fm/episode/K1zfhUgZQLGXLzaryNam


People are leaving #nostr out of frustration

I get it

There are PLENTY of issues currently

But you have to understand where we are right now

It's like being frustrated with bitcoin in 2012 because it couldn't scale

Things are being built and being built FAST here on nostr

Have a bit of patience and consider supporting the devs who are building here on nostr


Isn't it amazing what we are doing here? Every ZAP is a transaction that settles in seconds. Sending bearer assets around the world. No bank can do this.


Good morning!! ☕👌🏼


Haha nice. GM!!


GM! Morning run time for me and the pup too , though without the elevation gainz (that would be cool). Cheers and enjoy the reno 💪🏼


GM folks, spread positivity on #nostr 🤙🏼

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Golden duckling at our complex- smaller than the other normal colored ones but thriving nonetheless. GM 🙏🏼
https://m.primal.net/Jhxt.jpg


Good reminder 🙏🏼


https://video.nostr.build/b161b15961b3aae7af33abe8670b5857f7af13bdc2bf43916458ec13dcffc9d2.mp4

#photography #photostr #artstr #plebs #plebchain


Praying for our Venezuelan nostriches, please be safe 🙏


Thank you for sharing.


Good morning 🙏🏼


The biggest story around Nostr isn’t censorship resistance.

It’s the total reshaping of the incentive structure on the Web. The platform silos currently hold most of the power, but Nostr will shift it to users and content creators. This will become more obvious as we build out the tools for users and content creators. Zaps are just the starting point. Exciting times ahead.

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Their loss.

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Thanks for doing what you do. Hell of an example to set for the community. Props.


This morning vs this afternoon for me


In some cases yeah, but note that with BTC/LN/etc. we can now create systems that objectively disincentivize spam instead of outright creating tools giving centralized power to admins to decide what to filter. It won't ever be perfect, but a hell of a lot better/fairer through better tech.


I hate needles too. Not sure if it helps but what seems to get me through it is reminding myself of the probability of something going wrong directly to do with the needle- which is basically zero. Oh and breathing- don’t forget that.


10/10

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One hundred percent

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We're glad to have more of you while we can


Damn.


“Cast a vote… but don’t join a cult.” 👌🏼

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#zaps create demand for #bitcoin. If enough folks want to participate on here then they will spend fiat so they can zap more therefore bringing additional liquidity into the BTC network. This is working so far, the vibes are good- but we need more and more value4value apps/communities/etc to keep this train going.

Eventually, miners get paid to secure the network only through transaction fees on the final settlement layer (base chain). So block space needs to be increasingly valuable as time goes on. This won’t happen only through HODLing- we NEED to transact!

The base of the pyramid is probably e-cash. Then lightning above. Then base chain. So that pyramid base needs to be really fucking big for the settlement transactions at the pyramid top to be valuable enough to secure the network long term.

What we’re doing here on #nostr is a huge part of building that base. I don’t know about the rest of you- but I fucking love zapping people and paying for things in general using BTC. I feel like I’m not only directly sending value for awesomeness but also securing our network and paradoxically increasing the value of my HODL’ed stash.

PS- mad props to all the creators out there building up this V4V network together. You all rock.


Good morning!!


GM!!


Lol. Where’s Remi when we need him


GM #coffeechain

Sunday guilty pleasure. Gotta pay the #kettlebell gods later.

Hope all you creative nostriches have a productive and flowy Sunday.

Love this community. Cheers.
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GM! Got me hungry


Nice! GM!


😅GM!!


Much better


“Nostr represents the free speech continuation of the #Bitcoin vision.” - nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s https://i.nostr.build/4AamabX8EFQEpUJl.jpg


Maybe never fully accountable. I debate this with myself too. But… the more of us there are that hold our own keys builds up a lever we haven’t had historically: the threat to leave with our wealth with the least friction that there has ever been.


NOTES AND OTHER THINGS WE'RE PLAYING WITH TRANSMITTED BY RELAYS


RFK is the most bitcoin friendly candidate and the only candidate that takes us seriously.


Oof


Trump was smart to identify a huge group of people who are single issue voters and portray himself as the one who will help them.

Let’s hope he’s smart enough not to betray this group. For his own sake. I imagine this community could turn on him like wolves if they felt wronged.

Let’s keep him accountable.

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I was in the same boat. iOS?


SAD, Trump's pledge to fire Gary Gensler got way louder cheers than his pledge to free Ross. That's what happens when the number go up crowd forgets about whats more important, FREEDOM GO UP https://image.nostr.build/e7b85ef01f185c01fb0bab2fc3f83f098541e7ecb04712b7f2a43f1f54374a5c.jpg


Oof. Spot on


Hey- I would love to be zapping EFF posts to support! When will you set you set up your wallet to receive? Is there something preventing this?


Beautiful shot.


Good afternoon.

The Bitcoin conference currently has a lot of political theater, and the Trump headliner is front and center much to everyone’s joy or frustration depending on where you stand on that, but I’ll take a moment to highlight something that’ll get lost in the shuffle.

Today on the main stage, Jason Maier (author A Progressive’s Case for Bitcoin) interviewed progressive congressman Rho Khanna. They talked about a lot of stuff but the TLDR headline takeaway statement from Khanna was “Bitcoin is about freedom. Bitcoin is about human rights.”

And around the same time, a bunch of Democrat Congress people sent a letter to the DNC chair saying the party needs to embrace this industry better, and basically that the Warren wing of the party isn’t the way to go here anymore. Whether it’s polling data, sheer numbers about how many Americans own this stuff, or more knowledge conversations about bitcoin’s energy impact and other things, being anti-bitcoin is a losing strategy.

Yes, a lot of this will be forgotten after the election, both from Republicans and Democrats. Politicians gonna politic. And there will be shitcoinery. Politicians are currently in their pandering phase. But when I began writing about this industry nearly seven years ago, I would not have expected to see this much explicit support by 2024.

The builders, the educators, the advocates- all of your work does matter. At least when it comes to protecting Americans and others against some of the most potentially hostile government positions, the narrative war is working. We need more work on the right to privacy, and that imo is the harder battle, but given how successful things have been on other fronts, I think that front is workable too.

Immutable money. Unstoppable voice. Endless memes.


Any wonder why people in this community hope for something more similar to the old cash/coin world where this level of surveillance wasn’t possible?

With the #bitcoin / #lightning / #ecash tech stack it’s possible to re-create similar conditions to the old world, but it must be developed with care because it CAN cut both ways.

We all have a right to (metaphorically) walk into a digital shop, pay for legal goods with basically untraceable tender, and be given the *choice* whether to reveal/share our actions to the world. This choice is what has been taken away from us- at first voluntarily through convenience and now slowly ever more through coercion and even outright forced compliance.

The magic of #bitcoin and the associated tech stack is that it’s now possible to leap frog the convenience part (it’s just THAT much better) while building back in the privacy / data control rights in a provable fashion.

And that’s motivating as fuck.

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ditto


and it's DONE. #nostronly

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One of the OG asshat currencies


Yeah fuck it, I’m ditching that platform for good. TONIGHT. Made some good money through intel found on there before it became whatever the fuck it is now and was holding out hope it was still useful. I’m all in on #nostr. GN

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20 years of exponential dollar destruction if it even would last that long


Even the exec order would be front ran. Absolute chaos. Nice sentiment tho- he’s setting the bar for Trump lol. It’s all games.


'True power lies not in domination, but in the harmony of all things, where each part finds its place in the whole.'

*

https://cdn.nostr.build/p/jExq.png
#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney


Yeah that crap advice is unfortunately still very prevalent. Hopefully you can reason with her.


Enjoy. This is the one that finally set me straight.


nostr:npub176p7sup477k5738qhxx0hk2n0cty2k5je5uvalzvkvwmw4tltmeqw7vgup has some interesting ideas here