Lol the Will Smith Chris Rock one is the best by far


Very sorry to hear that.  So sad.


Congrats!  Nice work


Any recommendations for how front-end devs can contribute?  I'm a react / react-native developer and would like to help people who are building nostr clients (as opposed to the protocol).


Walking down the street... and then we spot this sign!
https://image.nostr.build/7f16b0a5f249ea4a29d4aaee0db875a15bb4ed1bb41f7750346248ef301d9308.jpg

Followed the signal...
https://image.nostr.build/301ffb967e9197609217d33b3c5c29d379a7d4e44f21e50f228958d28e11b6b5.jpg

Lots of people must be inside...
https://image.nostr.build/092f79a464f198a18d5116494daee29faa44bb162237c8c38dcc58ef7719f28e.jpg

"You must be weary fellow traveller," a kind Bitcoiner handed us a drink...
https://image.nostr.build/2da8d0a92ad78e37b78dfd94c33fde59143deae06f69ef7c5c3e6882fe0a0f41.jpg

We sat down and learnt about Nostr Wallet Connect which helps all sorts of apps interact with our lightning wallet, making the open ecosystem even more seamlessly interoperable!
https://image.nostr.build/977f4181d23b4c5ce1a0a1760cba6a8a7d086b3c7227b1a788e70029f58d44bb.jpg

And then we learnt about the various Bitcoin scaling solutions the free market has been working on.
https://image.nostr.build/f08d0672633f660e6ebf7f082ccbb4175dd7c56fdaa17133e1e23901808e62ac.jpg

What an epic space 😍
https://image.nostr.build/b3beaf766a06043cf2a3e5e992f703d951b5c02695fed61640c3c6ba06d49df5.jpg


That is my favorite half hour of the day.  :)


I grew up in church and I never "felt" anything during that time.  I feel like my closest experience to what religions describe as God came from psychedelic experiences.  Its actually what made me open to it again.  I think maybe it just strips off your intellectual/ego filters which otherwise act as kind of an immune system to feelings of spirituality (once you are older and entrenched in a belief system).

Its still difficult for me, but having had that "zero to one" moment where I actually experienced a spiritual feeling viscerally (rather than just being told that it exists) made me feel like I can develop it.  I really couldn't even conceptualize it before...I just thought religious people were kind of nuts/brainwashed.

If that's off the table for you, reflection and spending time in nature with no distractions may be helpful too.

I'm still kind of a noob Christian, but I think I've had the same issue.


#Bitcoin #guns
Bitcoin and Decentralized Defense
https://m.primal.net/KhAZ.mp4


Not sure who needs to hear this, To all #bitcoin and Open-Source innovators: whether you’re building hardware or software, here’s a hard truth, you’re on your own. No Bitcoin billionaire is coming to fund your work, and grants are like solo mining Bitcoin on a Bitaxe. Every project you start will likely require you to do everything yourself. Don’t rely on others, until your idea is fully realized, no one will truly care. Even when it’s built, most people will give it a brief glance before moving on. Build for yourself, create something you’re passionate about. Get lost in the excitement of your ideas, because that excitement might be your only reward. Be ready to drain your savings account to zero. This is the reality of Bitcoin and open-source development. But if you’re the developer I think you are, nothing—least of all this message—will stop your work.


I am much more relaxed here too.  I feel much more like I am selecting things to think about rather than having them pushed into my head.


New hampshire


GM
Please send bear tree memes.
I'm annoying my depressed Fren until he laughs. https://nostpic.com/media/001863c7837dc05c768e4ed8d6ab2dd65d5f6af9df7e2a93190acf7f4a915c7a/56954406db608df2433667e94431b3b132b51e05c6c6fd1a6e876731a0dfec0c.webp


Really does.  I just got a kindle Scribe to journal (trying to get one more habit to be offline/not on a computer).  I can feel my blood pressure dropping while I use it.  Its better for reflection and contemplation than typing....I can't even write fast enough to vent.  Venting at .25x speed just makes you feel silly.   Lol.


100%.  I switched to a flip/dumb phone for a few months at the beginning of this year and I felt like a completely different person.   I would actually daydream and come up with ideas again.  It ended up being too obstructive and I unfortunatey switched back.

Since then though, I've tried a couple easy habits that have really helped.
1. Keep it put away (out of sight and out of touch).  I'll zip it into a pocket of my backpack when I'm working and close it into the nightstand when I'm in bed.  Just not seeing in your peripheral vision or feeling it in your pocket really cut down on a MASSIVE percentage of that passive, compulsive feeling to "check" something.  Even just 1 second of extra friction is enough to make a huge difference.
2. Set the phone UI to greyscale (black and white).  It is amazing how much less interesting / engaging this makes your phone even though it is still usable/functional its just not very enjoyable (which is what I want).

Anyone else got any simple habits for reducing phone usage?


So true man. I am grateful for this every day.


beef jerky.  I make it at home in bulk.  Also RX bars are pretty good.  Just basically eggs whites, dates and nuts.


I'd like to participate in building NOSTR.  I'm a front end dev (React / React Native).  Any suggestions on nostr open source projects (or a way to find them?).  Not looking on the protocol side, more on the web/mobile app side.


It really is mind boggling how quickly it has advanced


That's awesome.  More stuff like this!


I saw a video recently which described the data which is aggregated on a person as their "digital twin".  Maybe we can just make this twin, fuzzy, erratic and absurd.


I have been thinking about this too.  This type of thing may be more effective than trying to be overly private.  Seems like it would be a lot easier to simply spam the people surveilling you so they have no clue what you actually think about anything.


the nostr revolution will be led by nyms, with strong verifiable reputations, not public figures that can be jailed or otherwise pressured in meat space.


Does this require a trip to Mt doom?


Back on Nostr after I first checked it out about a year ago.  It seems like there is a lot more traction and super exciting things happening!


Interested in self-sovereignty, martials arts, music and tech.


Lol.  I did this when I was recording the proposal to my wife.  Turned the video on, leaned it up against the wall and pressed record.  Have a really romantic audio recording of my proposal and really solid footage of the wall


I am able to post on #nostr on one computer but when I try from a different device I am stuck in "read only" mode.  I have the private key stored in the getalby extension on both devices and I am using the Iris.to web client.  Any idea what could cause this?  Is there some documentation somewhere? nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m


Even though I love self-custody, it really is a huge sense of responsibility.  You have to desire self-sovereignty for it to be worth the perceived extra stress.  I think that what Obi is doing with Fedimints (where someone personally connected to you is self custodying the bitcoin for a group of people but not every single person needs to learn it in depth) is going to be more scalable.

I hear people say that self-custody is going to get "so simple" but the more I hear that the more trust is involved.  If the people taking self-custody don't understand the basics for how to vet whether a self-custody solution is actually secure, eventually you are going to have a herd of people fall victim to marketing campaigns about self custody that aren't actually self custody.   Imagine for example how many people who own ledger hardware wallets are 1) not aware of the private key backup recovery they use on some devices and 2) wouldn't know why that was an issue even if they did know.

The simpler you get with self-custody the easier it will be to push people into unsafe products in my opinion.


I think the number of people who own bitcoin that self custody would be maybe in the 20-30% range.  I think it really depends on how unstable and confiscatory governments get and how obvious it is to the general public.  If the average person doesn't think their government is going to steal their bitcoin then they will probably hold it in a bank for peace of mind.


Tee hee stop it Cupid me


I need to check these out I have the Bose Quiet Comfort but they are starting to crap out after quite a few years