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 Yep. We will make all the things clean and pure concepts "money", "algorithms", even "censorship" (as nostr has more censorship than legacy, but it is controlled by each user).
For the first time in social networks the science of algorithms and making them better will be crowd-sourced 🔥 
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 Made new series on LNbits yt, celebrating the inspiring people/spaces in #bitcoin. I was lucky enough to visit AmityAge Bitcoin Center Roatan.
Dusan and peers are doing incredible work educating and making a space for bitcoiners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iatcs2K5bh0 
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 Hey nostr:nprofile1qqswrlemlh2wgqc4jkds3d8ueqj9a2j3gcm7r48v9tskdd6rxsd7rtcpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2u... 
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 Nah, it's an evolving working progress, always has been. To survive it must continue to improve. 
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 Its Musk in AI flesh suit, or she has a chip. 
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 I hope not. That country was a literal warzone, so we couldnt project the processes we hold dear in our stable countries. The country is functional now and safe for residents, the change is dramatic. The real test is if he can step down via fair elections, which is usually when populist leaders who made radical change slip into being dictators. 
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 Yeah, we need that page 
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 Sir, market is empty :(
Can you add market.nostr.com and plebian.market 
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 Or something similiar. Can it not pull from some json we can all share?  
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 The json can live on a repo 
 are there nostr clients out there that completely ignore Bitcoin?

I wonder if pushing Bitcoin so... 
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 Oooo, cool 
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 I'd like an onboarding experience that doesn't suggest bitcoiners, rather interests, and connects to relays and folks who share those interests.  
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 Lol, patience, lightning is only 5% complete, people grinding to find bridges and make LN available to all. Rome wasn't built in a day etc.  
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 Sorry to hear that. Mutiny wallet was great. I'm sure whatever comes next will also be great â¤ï¸ 
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 It is an issue that the person who controls twitter is so politically outspoken. 
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 https://image.nostr.build/94748dbdff30e0bc49d55bf121efb4fa16744edf90899942e2028a6cc844cd3b.jpg
All those Tesla bros calling Elon "goat", "based", bla bla bla, should be utterly terrified one man is gaining dominance over space, global access to Internet and social media. 
 
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 Man I love Where39. Use for burying treasure, doing dead drops or meeting anon.
https://arcbtc.github.io/where39/
Made an LNBits extension for it recently 
https://github.com/lnbits/where39 
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 The ads in twitter are making it even more unbearable. Micro aggressions that'll push users into our loving arms.  
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 Long thread with my thoughts on the past week in Nashville 🧵👇 
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 Ah damn, I missed you!
Added security made it hard to walk bump into folk 
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 nostr:nprofile1qqswlf4t6zg59jhj8hahpmfmn025jppfq892vmmgvfv6rnz45jtsx6gpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwd4hhxarj9ec82cspz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqyzgfjr has a cracking new pr in for nostr.org 🤯🙌
Comments of course welcome 💜
https://github.com/lnbits/nostr.org/pull/15  
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 I'm so honored. This means a lot coming from you. Thank you. If it wasn't the support and inspiration I had ftom you early on, none of the projects I work on now would have existed, truely. I owe you a lot, and am very much standing on shoulders of giants 🙌
 
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 Privileged take. People need stability, literally the core function of sound money. Most people just can't afford wild price swings, that's it, nothing to do with a lack of understanding game theory. Good MoE is stable, bitcoin is not stable. Build stablecoins on bitcoin that can easily be swapped in/out, and hope one day enough liquidity and commodity use cases exist that bitcoin becomes stable and can be used raw as MoE. 
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 Currently locked in to this mess, and getting tories out is a win 😂 
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 The shadow banning of nostr related posts on twitter is so blatant. I didn't ever think about twitters shadow banning policies until encountering on my own posts, makes me wonder how many other shadow policies exist 🤔. 
Anyone who thinks Elon Musk is pro free speech is a fool.
https://image.nostr.build/09a62f8065216e78c1ceac2c60fdbdb06da96d6db34f5b91b748a3c643f9489c.jpg 
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 Would you rather be rich in a captured world or of average wealth in a free world? 
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 Chatted with an hero of ours francismars@chainduel.net from Chain Duel 🤩. Francis and Chain Duel team have used a bunch of #LNbits extensions in their tournament snake based game for #bitcoin payments and prizes.
Chain Duel is quite simply beautiful👌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46aHKk8cLfg 
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 Started off contributing and building by making videos, although sadly falls down the list of things to do these days.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSYcLQoQbRGAtuHnQ4U4mXeL&si=1KJDUqOoDtVFN9MM 
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 Meet @sambonzuki (clearly the next Jack Mallers), as he talks me through all the hardware he builds using #lnbits #bitcoinSwitch. Sam is also CEO of @_gamertron_ making #bitcoin powered video games 🔥🤯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eFATj2vFP8 
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 Beer is clearly the killer use case for #bitcoin.  Chatted with Pieterjm from #BitcoinTaps, about their excellent bitcoin beer taps ðŸ», and how help #LNbits and #bitcoinSwitch helped them build.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6bimcQC2pw 
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 I caught up with nostr:nprofile1qqsvfa085adgecmg84ffelcxx6zrn3ffu5jrc6cjtwng0zge3ptv43c82kf5d in BTCPrague to chat about all his great projects such as BTCmaps, and how LNbits made building that little bit easier 🔥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiXMADI1nmM 
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 Our cypherpunk brother is free!!! 🎉â¤ï¸
This is such a pivotal moment for free press. #freeassange
https://image.nostr.build/76ac803542522d681359cce759a3448d7f9da86930df39ff47618f7ec88c1273.jpg 
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 Well, yes of course, but him not being forcibly extradited and charged for treason is worth celebrating as its own event 
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 Can you guess what movie is this?

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 Paddington bear?  
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 Dude.
What a lovely film (and books).
If you have wee ones show them.
We have a bronze stature of Paddington Bear in Paddington train station in London, always brings a tear to my eye.
An orphaned Bear in London "from the deepest darkest jungles of peru".
 https://image.nostr.build/12397de967d4f4436b7ecde5765bad5b99aac5336aaacd5b37a6c3f237de9146.jpg
 
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 Doxxed, only a dad would make such a joke 
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 As well as replacing impossible captchas and passwords, there is no better solution for our post-real Internet and things like video deep fakes, than just signing with public key crypto.
The world will soon become very familiar with key pairs. It solves all the problems. 
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 Lnurlauth does this.  
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 Ace to have you here btw, tell your eth pals to join us â¤ï¸ 
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 FOSS win! Thank you @MichaelAntonF for staking a bounty for improving the usermanager extension ðŸ™
Calling all #lnbits bounty hunters, this is a great one👇
https://stacker.news/items/581226 
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 Built an #LNbits extension and submitted to vetted-extensions in 1hr (despite being destroyed from week of #BTCPrague). 
Also covered how you can charge for your extension. Build an LNbits extension in an afternoon and get paid 🎉😘
Filmed on location at the wonderful Paralleni Polis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHXLvvjClHI 
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 FACEBOOK.
TIKTOK.
WECHAT.
LINKEDIN.
X.

PSYOPS. 
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 Paypal 
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 Yesterday a bunch of publications claimed that Noam Chomsky had died. He’s not dead. And here o... 
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 What the deuce?! 
Well done, I've been shilling him nostr for years. Congrats on getting him on!!!  
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 Spinning up LNbits is even easier now with a lovely new UI 😠https://video.nostr.build/cffeb8f7d73195b3d34c9ac8f72befbeaa5bf500a87d4bf40ccd3fb821dde79e.mp4
 
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 $ price per bitcoin, just look at the chart 
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 @BTCPrague was flipping epic ðŸ˜
Perfect balance of hacking, hanging and talks 👌.
Huuuge props to Matyas and team 🙌
Thanks for all the #nostr support as well. Idea batteries are fully charged, I can't wait to get home and start building â¤ï¸ 
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 Bitcoin is the internet of money
Nostr is the Internet of social media (and other stuff) 
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 The different relay choices on Nostr further separate people.
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp6y2dy0f3k... 
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 So no Nip04 likes anytime soon. Could be flirty winks 😉 
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 The hidden likes on Twitter further separate people. 
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 So no Nip04 likes anytime soon. Could be flirty winks 😉

nostr:nevent1qqsdeym66wuyhmmh28vf646egywagm8sqfcu8e0t9mt7k0n47hy7apgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsyg8g3f53axxenp7fv3fpmlmqqf0kquqr0zjg0yvqmjamffgz0pgyzypsgqqqqqqsu0yjeq 
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 Dude, you should have said hello! 
Nice hanging anyway 🔥 
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 We made an LNBits extension for the @BTCPrague fundraise 🔥🔥 When you pay the lnurlp of a project the funds are automatically pushed to the projects lnaddress.
Give what you can, these are all GREAT projects â¤ï¸
(thanks @7dcd0524 for the idea ðŸ™)

https://image.nostr.build/38f458f6fb5f40cd9afb0fefef2e9f7e1d36f586a208a5721873fc357ecb1647.jpg

https://demo.lnbits.com/raisenow/99vS8QWiRsbtMvodTZSfj6 
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 Focusing on culling Fake Zaps is going to be way more fruitful than filtering for high signal in ... 
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 I think we can do better. A decentralised rating system is needed for the world, we certainly need for markets. Vlad Stan had the great proposal of weighted paid votes in a Merkel tree on bitcoin, best proposal I have heard so far.  
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 Like open timestamps, but for ratings  
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 They don't, like openstamps it's all hashed into one big transaction. The miner could make the Onchain transaction with the tree cheaper, but that just benefits whoever is running the rating server.  
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 You bunch of fascists! 
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 Fascist free and open source protocol developers and advocates.  
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 Clearly didn't spread the disease 🙄, @fiatjaf vaccined himself with fascist fascism from fascists.  
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 I'm starting to think you don't even need Reviews, of let's say movies, if: 
1. You have Zaps   ð... 
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 Great! Now i can zap myself into a solid rating using just a few sock puppets 
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 Thank you for your service sir 🫡, getting all those lovely atms to the people! ✊
You are an onboarding mastermind! 
One day soon, when the whole world uses bitcoin and ditches the fiat crap, after every atm transaction users will be played:
 https://video.nostr.build/cf6449447338c0d8c61ca8d0738a676516e54877d19b0913725c7c91a40a13d1.mp4

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 Are these dms your received you are talking about?  
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 Nostr can have best of network user effect and themed spaxes (like 2002 forums). I imagine a load of interest/topic-centric clients to emerge soon. Like the forums we had before gravity of generalised social media pulled in users. Client for Trump fans (flags and maga hat branded), clients for different breeds of dog, etc, etc. The developers could even add extra useful features for their specific user group users, or run relays for their users. Community leader/"influencer" types will shill their users to their clients.

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 It can't die. Dorsey gave it a shot of adrenaline, but now growth will be a steady rise.