Stop bitching and take some initiative. Asking permission has never worked.

Anyone in Calgary that wants to bootstrap a local Bitcoin circular economy with me, it's happening. Here comes the Saturday SAT market. Help me build it.

FURTHERMORE - even if you aren't local to Calgary, your amplification helps A LOT. It makes sure that people are aware and it also encourages others to do this at home. EVERY TOWN AND CITY NEEDS THIS.

OPA link:
https://public.theorangepillapp.com/event/654fb6ee12ce84c1fa015a53?_branch_match_id=886325331464206759&utm_medium=Share&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXzy9KzEtPLcjMydFLLCjQy8nMy9ZPsUyxjKgKMnJxTQIAZBF7qScAAAA=
Meetup link:
https://www.meetup.com/btcsessions/events/297300366/


I'm curious to hear your assessment. My questions would be:
1) What do you make of the conflation of support for Palestinians with support for Hamas, and any criticism of Israel as antisemitism?
2) Whether you agree with Saif's assessment that what Israel is doing now is cynically trying to create a humanitarian disaster such that other nations have to take the 2.2 million Gazans as refugees.
3) How do you see the competing property rights claims?
4) If Israel to a large extent created their own boogeyman in Hamas?
5) What are your thoughts on the US govt's role in all of this and their support of Israel?
6) Why is it that those who seemingly can't fight themselves are the quickest to advocate mass killing?


does anyone else play the Bourne Identity theme song when they are signing a transaction with their coldcard?


All the time! And often in high-pitched falsetto


Henry Thoreau was a real one

civil disobedience nowadays is largely using a different URL and a better money and for most that’s too much to ask 🤔


Literally can't zap this enough!


Can confirm it is valid https://image.nostr.build/e5f770d30122c2cb57813558e38cc3128b7a5d38a0a0507550469f9c80a2b83b.jpg


A+ meme nostr:note1rmcccde2s05g2fvpckhfh8uyxvv56krsrwt4lwfy0krp9l0uvfpq4z3y6s


Good evening https://image.nostr.build/8afa61e4e436da0d8ba11ec90bfec32543538b5cc63f3f945ac1e71f7cf1731f.jpg


Zelda and Link 👑🗡🍃🏹🌟 #halloween https://cdn.zbd.gg/ugc-uploads/d1fec16b-1698623645728.jpeg


I've long appreciated Gabor Maté's sober, compassionate perspective on the intractable, Sisyphean Israel/Palestine conflict. This 37min conversation is a great one: https://youtu.be/SHDBw-wx6w0?si=v8suxmb0qj13uC0d


“It is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not the known that breaks men’s spirits, but the unpredictable. A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational; it has to deal not in death, but in sudden death; a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are psychologically unable to bear” nostr:note1vfcdfsvujkg9t2ghegxz3l2pp9mat3tezgey5t6csqnm5g4nq9rq22tlp0


Enjoying the cherry blossoms and reflecting on the precious brevity of life whilst Fincen seeks to eradicate the last vestiges of financial privacy.

Good evening. https://image.nostr.build/047d25deb6e176b526485e20953e9a14a98b3d6eacae4de56a021bb19a6790a9.jpg


Bring back the guillotines!


Compliance is a dirty word.


If you are looking for a dating app that doesn't suck and optimizes for long-term compatibility definitely check out https://keeper.ai/


Nostr is an oasis in a desert of derangement


Is there any mobile Lightning wallet that has integrated Bolt12 recurring payments?


How wild is that we can come together online to make frens, work on projects and send each other value across the world without relying on finantial institutions? Habla contributors come from Russia, Argentina, USA, Thailand, China, and many more countries. This is what the internet was meant for.


BREAKING: Paul Krugman announces inflation is defeated.

“In the battle of inflation, the Federal Reserve has prevailed.” https://i.nostr.build/GXzV.png


Good morning #nostr. ☀🫂

On September 11, 2001, I was living less than 7 miles away from the site of the horrifying attacks on the World Trade Center. I didn’t see or hear it happen, and wasn’t watching TV that morning, so I was informed by a phone call. One of the two planes had flown directly over my home and I didn’t even realize it.

I spent the next month in a state of shock and confusion, glued to cable news, radio, and the internet. Real-time online news at the time barely existed, so information moved at a different speed than it does today. The 24-hour networks didn’t know how to respond, so they just kept airing the same clips over and over again with non commercial breaks. There was so much bad reporting, and people taking advantage of the situation to intentionally spread misinformation and disinformation. Our governments were complicit in this, of course. We saw it happen right before our eyes just a couple of years later with the relentless march to invade an uninvolved country with an entirely fabricated reason. And yet we somehow accepted it as a nation and as a world, because we were conditioned to out of fear. I couldn’t believe others didn’t see what I saw, and realized just how easily people around me had been manipulated.

We were constantly reminded to say, “Never forget.” to honor those who died in the attacks on our country. I won’t, and I can’t. I lived through it all. But we should also #NeverForget how 22 years ago, we gave up our privacy and civil liberties, started a generation-long war, and accepted an ever-expanding surveillance state that was once only the domain of dystopian science fiction.

Finally, in this timeline, the technologies and tools have been built and handed to us that could begin to turn the tide against all of these abuses of power. I only hope enough of us use them to matter.


"I can remember 12 words. Therefore I am a free man." —Adam Curry


Are you working on an open-source project that needs some design help? Want to improve the UX of your nostr app?

Use #nostrdesign to summon help or reach out to design@opensats.org
 https://opensats.org/blog/announcing-nostr-design


I've been dealing with Bitcoin since pre-2013, and I've gotta say I've never seen it feel as powerful as it does on Nostr. The instant, effectively-free transactions that spring from having so many people on Lightning Addresses is like arriving on a different planet.

Most people's experience with Bitcoin payments -- if they even have it -- is a 30-60 minute wait for mining + two-plus block confirmations, and a fee that made it feel dumb to send less than $20. Most people don't want that. They don't need that. They will never care about that. Some do -- I did -- but it's a permanent minority. This is what makes lightning-fast settlements a big deal.

When normal people and businesses realize that global money transfers can be borderless, instant, free, and only take like two clicks, I think things are going to get very interesting. Still need to cover a lot of road on the privacy problem, but this already feels better than everything naked on-chain.

The hardest problem has always been making it easy for people who don't care about Bitcoin to accept Bitcoin (tender resistance) -- without requiring them to start caring about Bitcoin.

The way you do that is by making it "better than money." We're not there yet for everybody, but for the first time in many years, I caught a glimpse of how it might be possible.


I really love and embrace the nature of async communication and a way of life in general.

Today, nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f  announced the thing I was working on for a while (nostrdesign.org). This initiative was made possible only because of them and everyone who contributes to the nostr fund. I also want to thank nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc  and nostr:npub10000003zmk89narqpczy4ff6rnuht2wu05na7kpnh3mak7z2tqzsv8vwqk  for their assistance! But while this was happening, I was at the beach with my family, enjoying our weekend.

In a corporate world that stresses so much the importance of clear communication and perfect timing this would have been a total disaster. But here, people have long time preference for all sorts of things including their lives. We value freedom, autonomy, you know… LIVING. After all, what is the point of any of this if not to make our lives better somehow?

To me, this was authentic, human, and even funny. It shows that we can all come together in a single place while living totally different lives in different parts of the world. It shows that we are human and can forget about time zone differences - and that is totally fine.

Coincidentally, it gives me many reasons to talk about #nostrdesign and is a great way to raise awareness (perhaps too much 😂). What can I say… marketing! 😈


IMO this is as close as it gets to a perfect film.

Hits on all counts: thematic poignance perfectly executed (I dare you not to tear up near the end), wonderful characters and relationships, a killer soundtrack, and tongue-in-cheek humour that isn't quippy (at least in the Marvel-esque fashion that undermines the catharsis of the story).

https://image.nostr.build/9460243a8f67808369b6cfad0201d036ea0a688fbe386ea397afd4665bb94d6b.jpg


Getting rid of the bun fixes this!


What's even wilder is that they weren't even trying to pander, or dilute the Japanese-ness of their creations.

"Oh, you like big houses, big cars, big boomboxes, big meals and machismo? Well, here's a small, cute and vaguely effeminate everything!"

Totally bonkers!


It's incredibly paradoxical that perhaps the most insular, introverted and ethnically homogenous nation on earth has ended up wielding more cultural power than anywhere else of earth... It's not even close.


You gotta be kidding me with the orientation

https://image.nostr.build/34f8ef4f9a6f0361c68ccf75d4c0e9ccf07abd5c4d7b54c1fb530bc638417f6c.jpg


TIL we can thank (or blame) Japanese schoolgirls for much of our modern world

https://void.cat/d/Vt4XuAYveVbey6BUbhckgp.webp

https://void.cat/d/t4wLqX5UJowGbtuGWpF1U.webp


eNuts beta is now open for public testing on ios and android. If you're up for trying it out, I advise you to review the release notes before proceeding with the installation and only use funds you're prepared to lose. Please report bugs or share feedback/suggestions over Github.

https://github.com/cashubtc/eNuts/releases


OpenSats is proud to announce long term support for bitcoin core developer nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c.

Sjors has reviewed almost a thousand pull requests since 2017, some of them in-depth reviews across many rebases. He has opened about 160 pull requests over the years in various areas, mostly related to the wallet codebase. His main focus is on thorough code reviews as opposed to writing code himself.

Joining nostr:npub1uaj9phu5lpxpczm3vaayt46m0yv0pduxzy7z6quwd2uggxue7fmqx9665u and Marco Falke, we are now providing long term support to three bitcoin core developers.

Onward 🫡

https://opensats.org/blog/sjors-provoost-receives-opensats-lts-grant


Christchurch, New Zealand
https://image.nostr.build/d1f49b279161d7a92ddc7f885dceb4ec79646d430da27e411308dc8472bbf0fc.jpg


Good morning https://image.nostr.build/baa81dc432315c1e813ac9e27d37df4bd0c34923039a74f6f1761e516bc8935b.jpg


Nostr changes everything for me


Citadel Dispatch 92: Mandibles with Lionel Shriver

BLOCK: 778126
PRICE: 4202 sats per dollar
TOPICS: Lionel Shriver is the author of The Mandibles - a book is set in the United States in 2029 during a debt crisis that results in hyperinflation and economic collapse.

listen: https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch/cd92-mandibles-with-lionel-shriver/

watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGev5HrIfaQ