Final talk today! nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m

Beauty will save the world

nostr:npub1ad0ptuzte83alpkpqqctvewlaqj5zq23c83m82xw8apg4t6zlyns6xng2c #sansalvador
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Keeping any part of your body untouched these days is tough… 🥵

#VirginHair
#Myhairisheavy

Too long or what? #AskNostr
https://m.primal.net/MXyM.mov


Can confirm. It’s a LOt of hair


Hands down one of the best meals I’ve ever had.

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This tasted soooo good


Bom dia Gente 🌞✨

this  easy homemade mayo is a must-try for anyone cooking with whole, animal-based ingredients! Super creamy, packed with protein, and no oils, just pure, delicious goodness. Perfect for adding to your next meal! 🥚🍴

Ingredients:

- Boiled Eggs - 3
- Animal Fat of Choice, this time I used GHEE- 2 tbsp
- Vinegar - 1 tsp
- Raw Cow milk -1 cup
- Salt to Taste

*For end results, mayo must be in the fridge first for at least an hour

#HomemadeMayo #pv #NutrientDense #AnimalBased
https://m.primal.net/MCuX.mov


I follow u in real life already. But I’ll follow this account too 😘


If I open a Kitchen Gallery here in #Nostr would you follow me ?

#AskNostr

I’m all about organs, especially chicken hearts! Getting in organs 2–3 times a week is key for me. Here in Brazil is very traditional but I created my very own recipe … 😌

They’re packed with iron, B vitamins, and loads of nutrients you just won’t get from muscle meat alone.

Plus, they’re surprisingly delicious when cooked right! Anyone else an organ lover? 🫀🍽

#EatOrgans #ChickenHearts #NutrientDense #RealFoodRevolution #TraditionalEating #WiseTraditions #MomaCocina #FoodForFuel #AncestralFoods #OrganMeats

https://m.primal.net/MDSg.mov


Couple reasons:

1. Long form nostr is super painful. Half the time drafts break, and the formatting is a nightmare. While medium is retarded, at least I can literally copy / paste direct (whether from Substack or Docs), and all the formatting comes along.

I’ve told this to Pablo and others many times. Nothing’s been built to address it.

2. Even if I did publish in Nostr - which I generally do when I finally have the time to do all the formatting - I’d still generally post on shitty medium simply because it reaches a different group of people.


Really?
You didn’t read the part CLEARLY written on the geyser checkout where I said:
“Geyser does not support variable shipping so I’ll email you about it later”

If you wanted shipping too, I ran a kickstarter that had a shipping option to pay altogether.

In the end it actually worked out cheaper on geyser anyway, with the two payments.

Regarding not using Lightning, I am travelling and no time to hook up a node to btcpay server. If you wanted Lightning, there’s a thing called nostr where u can zap me and then put it in the survey.

Problem solved.

Dont get knickers up in a twist without first thinking a little


Evan 😂


Whelp…it got taken down on Medium after a few hours 😂

Now you know it’s worth reading! https://image.nostr.build/c0990184228b0932ed051fbbf7650b6b0db602e7e60219bd911734c1897efbb9.jpg  nostr:note16e2skcdsv880le7uvfhsaja0vt6ydc7mdwwzaqhsz03y32qmgl0qmsmgts


nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m : "the past was in many ways superior to the present. Sure, we have toilets, running water, refrigerators and airplanes; but we’re also fatter, dumber, sicker, lonelier, weaker and, some might argue, more slavish and obedient than we’ve ever been."

https://remnantchronicles.substack.com/p/i-took-all-the-pills


Nah. When you realise “bitcoin doesn’t fix this” - it’s sobering.


“I took all the pills”

And how I found the white pill..

https://open.substack.com/pub/remnantchronicles/p/i-took-all-the-pills?

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 nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m did it again!

https://remnantchronicles.substack.com/p/i-took-all-the-pills


From now on, yes


Rule 2: Refer to Rule 1

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Mood
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Finally out.
11/11
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Well - I had it scheduled for a while. Bitcoin just decided to catch up and celebrate with me 😂


FINALLY here!!!
(just in time for the REAL bull market)

THE BUSHIDO OF BITCOIN is now available on Amazon.

Two years in the making: 135,000 words. 530 pages. 2.5lbs.

This monster of a book is available in digital, paperback, and of course, a beautiful, thick hardcover: which is no bullshit, one of the nicest books you will hold in your hand.

10 VIRTUES FOR A WORLD ON A BITCOIN STANDARD.

As some of you know, this is not a book about Bitcoin per se. It’s about who we must become when Bitcoin wins.

The onus is on us early adopters and the future socio-economic to embody the virtues, behavior and character that can build a new, ascendant civilization.

I have three asks of you:

1. Watch the release trailer (sound on)
2. Grab your copy on Amazon (if you’ve not pre-ordered already)
3. Consider leaving a review, so the message spreads.

Thankyou in advance for your support and to everyone who has helped and supported along the way including John Carter as editor, Ross Stevens who wrote the foreword, and each of the people who wrote me a recommendation, including nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a nostr:npub1zjdup4z7k4y7p22w929sau8hxp9yy26jv9haqhfxg6y5w83llf5st3vtya nostr:npub15vzuezfxscdamew8rwakl5u5hdxw5mh47huxgq4jf879e6cvugsqjck4um and a few others.

https://m.primal.net/MAHN.mov


It’s true 😆
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Let's talk freedom of speech at the #NOSTRDAY at nostr:nprofile1qqsgc8mpvvr9y0qeh896dew894lcal24jsrzpaq0yjjlrujn4jfphgspzfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezu7nzvshxwecpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5pe0pgn with nostr:nprofile1qqsx5dvc2g3cmjgz4mgelwlk5p2ln2ljrsw23y2ar38z0agd7tefpkgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsynqns3 nostr:nprofile1qqsx45yrjtgm4glklaafgz0z4309gs6cwfja3d99s8rqvlvgagcptpqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhs73mfy7 nostr:nprofile1qqsz4kglrh9zmn2lez08yzx3u5ze7zavppcdv07rhtppc75n3rap3lgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshszymhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43z7yqgscy nostr:nprofile1qqsr9hz0ykwr5l8x45fsaarhzp5awrgt56j4e6tqltzwgwdrl9waenspr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vp39eukz6mfdphkumn99e3k7mgpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vpj9eukz6mfdphkumn99e3k7mgpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vpn9ejx7unpveskxar0wfujummjvuz7vnhs and Jack from HCM Capital
#SaoPaulo #Nostr https://image.nostr.build/2f75c7bd7d78c0c603a83e7608f5fa1b936597d3f44e5245d78b501332dc7426.jpg


Sad I had to miss this


This is also my wife. And she’ll get angry at me if I eat whatever it is I was eating that she said she didn’t want any of.. 😂

Love you nostr:npub1gscnk7wlcvcruw7scjhwpjrja94gfu369fzkyje6kcc0yn6rqyhscqtpjp
Happy birthday 😘😘
https://m.primal.net/LyFG.mov


"The future of social networks will be based on the #Nostr social graph" - nostr:nprofile1qqsx45yrjtgm4glklaafgz0z4309gs6cwfja3d99s8rqvlvgagcptpqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp00lrnle, founder of nostr:nprofile1qqs2rx4daefmcuwjttl0xegx0guh3tps64fq6dhv3nr56aagw2hhxkgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuvrcvd5xzapwvdhk6qgdwaehxw309aukzcn49ekk2qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8x6tpd4ehgu3wvdhk6k9gn65 at nostr:nprofile1qqspvjc787glwgn85f5555r0ccmd8k09c75cd2eypy6npf7s36376wgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tc7vm50f in #SaoPaulo

https://image.nostr.build/4c9a25d1d56779ccb832ab6b9eb2fd11f2ba16fe78ff041f1148eba098ecd6b0.jpg


Yep. The whole campaign was strategically flawless. The team, the approach, the comeback energy. All of it. The 4yrs away proved to be the best thing possible. Turned America into a compressed coil ready to explode to the upside. Bullsih


New book on my new toy.

Is this the first Bushido of Bitcoin to be read on a daylight?

nostr:npub1a00wj229auzjswlq4s77y4u8eqdx5k9ppatgl8rtv8va65f6mwksum9q3h nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m nostr:npub1rm95vgkrhm4hwj0f4vr8jw95j3w30tj8h9lfmmzj89hlrkwrtv4sqfqh3k
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I beleive it is !!


This is 100% my wife
https://m.primal.net/Lxhd.mov


The internet wins again.
https://m.primal.net/LxLd.mov


Too many of us have done or experienced this
https://m.primal.net/LxLL.mov


This should be the basis for the remake 😂
https://m.primal.net/LwxR.mov


Te amo


Love u


✅ Nostr Panel - done! nostr:npub1ze93u0u37u3x0gnfffgxl33k60v7t3afs64jgzf4xznapr4ra5us0u3pxq
Topics: Nostr - A New Social Layer and Space for Web Creators | The Sovereign Identity and Interoperable Data Layer of the Web
—
With nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m & nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft - thx guys!

📸 photo by nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa | cc nostr:npub1pumdyz7qfu0suamv4nrl0vcg574dtl5mwazva6nyjxhpwc4ccxxqca3ane
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A shame that GigabasedDad guy is a scamming LARP


Trump, Elon, RFK, Ron Paul, Dana, Tulsi, JR.

What an ensemble.

First time I’ve had real hope for America in a while.
https://m.primal.net/LvwC.mov


Very cool!
Great name also


Bom dia #SãoPaulo 🇧🇷

Travel Swag + Travel Snacks 🥩

#BirthdayWeekendVibes ⚡
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Svetski

Building the technical & social layer for the Network State: https://satlantis.io - A "social network for Sovereign Individuals"
Writing about it: https://bushidoofbitcoin.com


Huh? Really??


A new chapter begins
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Excellent essay:

“The Material Collective Unconscious or Noösphere

There is the individual mind, each of us has one (presumably). Depending on ones skill and sensitivity, communicating with other people contains an enormous amount of information, far more than mere spoken words: intonation, physicality, facial expression, micro expressions, body language, etc. The result is an overall vibe that one gives off.

Communications via the unspoken, that is, the unconscious aspects of the self. That information is absorbed by those around you and subconsciously understood. Once assimilated, information is added to the personalities of others, modified, and re-transmitted; repeaters altering the collective unconscious state through repetition.

The smaller the group, the more specific and complex this collective unconscious group-mind can be.

https://open.substack.com/pub/alwaysthehorizon/p/defining-the-collective-unconscious?


Wisdom from Julius Evola
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“Winning like never before”

That kind of energy and magnetism cannot be faked.

https://m.primal.net/Lswg.mov


Welcome!
You should check out nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 - it’s a Nostr client for Nomads / Travellers


Fucking legend


Nice !!
The dunes are much better IMO


Cooking Argentinian Empenadas in Beef Tallow with nostr:npub1f4q60j7fklm7sjzdz4ye42g5r3elnguuxajuch2kx8apulfkx0xqf2a37d at The Bitcoin Citadel.

#BuenosAires

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Yeah. I hate lightning. Also - have spoken with Mick about this. Too many variables with shipping to be able to make it simple in the geyser flow as it is. It would add another 7 tiers to the campaign which is a non-starter.
Kickstarter does it right, and soon, I know Geyser will have it set. Probably in time for next year’s book (part 2 of the Bushido series)


Yeah man. I’m in the middle of conferences and have no time to set up a whole node - which is the only way to do it on btcpay server.

Other option is to just zap me here and then put it in the form


This means it is not alive.
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How’d you like to join us in forming a bitcoiner citadel in Argentina next week?

nostr:npub1f4q60j7fklm7sjzdz4ye42g5r3elnguuxajuch2kx8apulfkx0xqf2a37d and I are excited to host the first ever nostr:npub1rm95vgkrhm4hwj0f4vr8jw95j3w30tj8h9lfmmzj89hlrkwrtv4sqfqh3k Summit at our private luxury residence in Palermo, Buenos Aires.

This is a small and intimate, bitcoin only and invite only event with 21 open seats.
Reach out to me for pricing options if you’d like to come! 🏰🚀

Speakers include nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m nostr:npub1spdnfacgsd7lk0nlqkq443tkq4jx9z6c6ksvaquuewmw7d3qltpslcq6j7 nostr:npub1l9m34zah55aktc9jcw4z4jzdugqx7zwdmnkjac09e9kxvz9swfsq0xsepm nostr:npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9 and more.
#buenosaires #argentina
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Moar of this coming soon to Nostr via nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3
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I just exchanged 150 USD and they gave me all this money 💰 WHAT THE HELL?!

But thank God #Inflation isn’t real, right? Lmao

#BuenosAires 🇦🇷
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Made it to #BuenosAires 🇦🇷🌞

So far, it feels like the most European city I’ve visited in the Americas—like a mix between Madrid and Bogotá.

Definitely wouldn’t live here though… too much city life, feels dirty, in crisis, and a bit unsafe.

But the meat? It’s great! Been eating lots of organs 🤤

👀 nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 #Argentina
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https://m.primal.net/Lguz.mov
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Yep. The question is how to deal with dissenters. Sometimes they are necessary. Sometimes they are a cancer. The trick is knowing which is which. Indeed the perennial problem


Great analogy


It’s certainly a strange place


Excellent argument against the “free market of ideas”

https://open.substack.com/pub/oldbooksguy/p/in-defense-of-echo-chambers?


Happy Monday,

LATAM Tour is kicking off at #labitconf next week. 🎉

There is a whole #NostrDay nostr:npub1rujdpkd8mwezrvpqd2rx2zphfaztqrtsfg6w3vdnljdghs2q8qrqtt9u68

Sign up here 👇
nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 will be leading the Tech - workshop for example and so many more will be involved! Can't wait!

#latam
#buenosaires
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Few understand this


He’s the man
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Amen

nostr:note19x55aruerry4xq340082qkqy4llwhx9y5jysjuspu94eeava4ksq9r8y4j


Yessss


Who was this, that predicted the modern world so perfectly more than a century ago?

Who, and from which of his books?

First correct answer gets 421 Sats
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Interesting..just watched the manifesto


I guess that’s something nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft might want to work on


Thankyou Artur!


Who cares about fiat. Let him control interest rates. Perfect is the enemy of real progress.
Get out of the way.
Moron


Yes. Did I fuck something up?


*Prediction: Social Networks of the 2030s, will be different to Social Networks of the 2020s, and in some ways, will come to slowly resemble the Social Networks of the mid 2000s and early 2010s.*

In the last decade - the past five years especially - social apps have become more social media than social network. They’ve become more about discovery, and less about relationship. More about size, and less about connection. More about the algorithms, and less about the social graph.

Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon, gave a fantastic talk on a similar thread at SXSW 2024, called “The Death of the Follower”

<https://youtu.be/hwn6-8XpIuE>

I believe this will change over the coming decade, as people begin to crave community and connection again, and not just content consumption.

This doesn’t mean the multi billion user platforms run by algorithms will disappear. In fact, they will probably be larger and stronger than ever.

BUT…I predict that we will also see the rise of many, many niche and micro-social networks with a focus on relationships, communities and the social graph.

In fact, there will also be applications that do a mixture of both media/content/algorithm and network/community/social.

In this essay, I’d like to look at the history of Social Networks, how they started, how they’re going, what the evolution looked like and what the future will hold.

# Social 1.0?

Social 1.0 has been about massive, billion+ user platforms. Think Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn.

While there is certainly a variance in the kinds of users attracted to each, and also how they work, there are some underlying commonalities among them.

First of all, each of these Social 1.0 networks are platforms.

They are built in such a way that they own not only the content and data, but also the user’s identity (eg: your handle), the social graphs and connections (follows/following), and the algorithms that serve up the content (or censor it).

This is not a problem in and of itself. In fact, it worked extraordinarily well for the teams who built sticky-enough applications that fostered network effects and reached scale.

The problem however, arises later, when the platforms who basically own everything, lose the incentive to provide value, and instead need to find ways to keep people “locked in.” Turns out, the best way to lock people in is to push their dopamine buttons and hook them on content. In other words, when social-networks reach saturation, the only thing left to do is drive consumption.

This of course creates some perverse incentives. And since we are creative human beings after all, we find ways to game the incentives, resulting in the problematic state that social media finds itself in today: a big digital dopamine-dispenser, where the user, instead of being a client, becomes the product, and a slave to the algorithm.

> *“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. It’s the gradual, slight, imperceptible change in your own behavior and perception that is the product.”*
>
> ***-Tristan Harris, The Social Dilemma Documentary***

**The second issue is the converging nature of all these social networks.**

Because they are siloed platforms, they cannot leverage content between each other. In the early days of social (pre-2010), there were open APIs all over the place and each social network bootstrapped off the other. Instagram bootstrapped both off Twitter and Facebook!

But, as the realisation dawned on each of them that their key asset was their users, they had to - economically-speaking - ***cut off*** ***access*** to others that might leech their user base. This is perfectly rational market behaviour, given the constraints they were working with. **Your** social network is valuable insofar as **you** have enough connections there to sustain it. If someone starts to suck your users away, it could destroy you. See MySpace and many others along the way.

So what happens here in time, is that all the feature set of all these platforms begin to, slowly by slowly, inch toward each other.

Instagram created the first real “influencers,” and since then every other social network copied. SnapChat created stories, basically everyone followed. TikTok came out and has since pushed almost every social network towards being more ‘social media’ by implicitly incentivising video. Now, almost every platform is doing some sort of video short.

Of course, the increase in internet bandwidth and device quality has gone hand in hand with this. Video is far more engaging and close to “real life” than simple photos or text are. But there’s something else that came with this. And that’s the more from being networks with a social graph, toward being essentially content engines. I will elaborate on this in a future essay.

The result of all this is a strange blend of excess redundancy and dependence on platforms which own your digital footprint.

I find myself these days, posting basically the same shit, across multiple social apps. Sure, there is some variance, but since everyone is increasingly getting on all of them, the audiences, while quite different in the early days, are slowly becoming the same.

This redundancy part, is something that platforms like Buffer and Hootsuite have taken full advantage of.

Other than the annoying redundancy, the dependence side of things involves me as a creator, trying to optimise all of my content for the algorithms, ie": for maximum engagement instead of maximum value, across all of these platforms. And worse, trying to do it such a way that doesn't get me banned, because my content, my social graph and my identity are owned by the platform, not by me.

Long term, what this does is both (a) waste a lot of time, and (b) make creators less interested in producing for their niche, and instead producing for a bunch of algorithms that are increasingly converging around appeal to a lowest-common-denominator of consooomer.

It’s a strange situation, that almost had to happen, but which we can change.

## How and why did this happen?

Despite what the conspiracy theorists might believe, this was not all part of some premeditated agenda. These things are complex and emergent. Nobody had any clue what these platforms would come to be in the early days. Nobody had any idea Facebook would be used for marketplaces or that Instagram would change the very nature of travel, food and fashion. But they did, because they evolved, and did so in such a way that conspiring to use them became necessary.

Because Social 1.0 platforms are all companies, they are able to be “captured” - especially if they’re public. This is part of why Elon is such an important figure. He’s rich enough to not be entirely captured and he acts as somewhat of a bastion against the rot. That being said, this is not a viable long term solution to the problem, because one man is fragile, and the nature of the current paradigm and available building blocks is such that it will trend once more to centralisation, censorship and co-opting.

So if you want to know the real reason as to why we got here, it pretty much boils down to the building blocks that we had available. If you have mud all around you, don’t be surprised that the best structure you can build is a mud-hut.

This first round of social networks saw humans and human nature collide with an ‘internet’ that fundamentally lacked an identity layer, something the early pioneers were not ignorant about. The issue was that a viable implementation was never conceived - or at least, never broadly adopted. The internet stack only made it four layers deep:

What happened instead of a native digital identity for the web, was the creation of many identities owned by the actual applications built ON the internet. Instead of a protocol like TCP or IP, identity became a feature inside of a product. In fact, “logging in” is basically a feature, and your profile or identity are simply a database entry owned by whichever online product / service you signed up for. You have an identity with Amazon, with your bank, with your sales software, with Facebook, with Google and with every other online service.

This of course got very messy in time. We all ended up with a million and one identities, each requiring their own username and password. Not only that, but each online service became a honeypot full of private, identifying data that hackers love to exploit.

Some bandaid solutions arose to solve this problem. One was password managers (which we all hate). The other was SSO. Companies like Google and Facebook saw an opportunity here and being so broadly used developed Single Sign On (SSO) - and to some degree, they solved a big issue. It’s much easier to have a secure email set up with Google and just log in using SSO. The solution of course, comes with its very own problem, namely; Google/Facebook (insert SSO provider) ends up owning your identity, making you increasingly dependent on them.

This might be ok in a perfect world, but as you know, we live in an imperfect one. It’s very easy for Google to not only use that information to exploit you (selling your data, selling you shit, etc), but you can very easily get ‘cancelled’ or deplatformed.

While this is problematic with an email account, it even worse with a social account on a platform like Facebook or Twitter, because at least with your emails, you can own the list. On a social network, you could spend years building a following, an audience, a treasure trove of data and content - and then one day, be cancelled for saying or believing the wrong thing. Or perhaps even worse: become algorithmically irrelevant.

This is clearly a problem and one that has only become more prevalent since 2020. Celebrity chef Pete Evans, was de-platformed from Facebook and Instagram in 2020 after his public support for Trump and his opinion on the Covid-19 situation. Almost 2 million followers, gone overnight. The same has happened to countless other creators and online personalities who dared have an opinion in conflict with the mainstream narrative - I was one of them. My personal twitter account was perma-banned in 2021, right as my public profile began to take off because I dared question official narratives (although I created a new one).

So ultimately, we have a web stack that is ok, and got us quite far over the last 30-40 years - but comes with a unique set of problems, that are a function of the building blocks we’ve had to work with. I don’t believe there was a ‘master plan’ to get here, but there was no other option consider the ingredients we had. The only way to really handle identity, and later social, at scale, has thus far been with these constraints.

Hence why I call it Social 1.0, and why now, with the emergence of new technologies and new ways of managing your digital identity and footprint, we have an opportunity to build a ***new*** Social Web that doesn’t fall into the same trap as the first one did. We understand how people behave online much better than we did a decade or two ago. If we learn from the past, we can do things differently in the future. We can build something fundamentally new, and more importantly, ***better***.

# What is Social 2.0?

Social 2.0 is the term I’m giving to this very nascent but emerging new field of social networks that are smaller and more niche, and that are once again focusing on the connection between people, as opposed to the algorithmic content-recommendation engines. Some (not all) are leveraging the new building blocks that have emerged over the last five years.

In general, they are smaller, more community focused, and concentrate around a particular domain. This is a trend that is gaining traction, with a number of strong examples in various domains:

- Cara: Basically an Instagram for artists
- BlueSky: Basically Twitter for the Left
- TruthSocial: Like Twitter for MAGA
- New Public: Pluralist digital public spaces
- Dribble: A social network for designers and digital artists
- Primal: Like a Twitter meets Venmo that appeals to Bitcoiners
- Farcaster: Kind of like Twitter, but for Crypto Degens, built on ETH
- Ditto: Decentralised, self hosted, community-social networks
- Highlighter: Like Patreon meets Substack for digital creators that want censorship resistance.

And of course there is [Satlantis](Satlantis.io), which is essentially a Social Network for Sovereign Individuals. We are interested in the global community of people who live at the nexus of the following interests and domains:

Beyond their size and focus, the most interesting commonality, which in my opinion will become an ever-increasingly defining characteristic for Social 2.0 platforms, is that some of these (eg: Highlighter, Primal, Ditto and Satlantis) are all built atop a ***common social protocol***: Nostr.

This is important because the identity and social graph do not live on the platform, but instead live on an underlying protocol - a bit like how your email lives on and is transmitted on the SMTP protocol.

This approach and what it implies could be the most significant upgrade to the web, perhaps since Web 2.0 really became a thing. If a robust, user-owned identity layer is adopted across the web, the entire topography of the internet will change, and so will the design space and the kinds of products which can be built.

Of course, the benefits it comes with, also bring some drawbacks, but in my opinion, they far outweigh the downsides. This is why I am so interested in the future of the social web, and the role Nostr in particular can play.

## What is Nostr?

An explanation of Nostr is probably not necessary for anyone reading this essay here, but I'll summarise how I explained it over on Substack for normies and non-Nostr people. Hopefully it's useful when you're doing some Purple-pilling.

- Nostr is a rich identity layer for the internet.
- This identity is rich because you can append meta-data to it, for example, a profile photo, a description and perhaps most importantly, a list of follows and followers. This is what makes it a ‘social protocol,’ and not just native identity for the web.
- This identity is also sovereign, meaning that it’s not “issued” by some platform or entity, but instead mathematically derived as a crypto-graphic key pair. Your private key is your ID, and your public key is your public address / username (how people find you). So long as you control the private key, you fully control your ID.
- Unlike a blockchain, Nostr is stateless (like the internet) so it has the capacity to scale, and because it’s not money, it doesn’t need consensus. This avoids all the extra bloat that kills the usage of all other “crypto” and “blockchain” networks.
- Storage is solved by the market. If you are posting data that might be censored, you can run your own relay (like a database) and ensure that it’s never taken down. If you’re posting non-sensitive content, you can very easily rely on the network of relays that the apps you’re using use. This is fine for 99% of use cases, and is abstracted away so nobody is impacted or annoyed.
- It is very tightly linked to Bitcoin, the lightning network and other e-cash solutions, which make it “internet money native.” This is a huge benefit because commerce on the web will only want to grow, while the legacy digital banking infrastructure gets more stringent and draconian - so we need a plan B. Bitcoin solves that, and Nostr can scale without needing to shoehorn a token into it.
- Like TCP/IP and SMTP, it is a protocol. This means it’s not owned by a single entity or company - making it much harder to capture.
- As a new protocol layer, it upgrades the topography of the web, and opens up a design space that was not possible before. It’s a significant new building block for the web. Recall the earlier diagram depicting the current “internet stack.” With Nostr and Bitcoin, the internet stack gets a serious upgrade:

Of ocurse, if you haven't read @nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a 's peice on Nostr it's worth doing so: <https://www.lynalden.com/the-power-of-nostr/>

I also did a thorough X post explaining it here: <https://x.com/SvetskiWrites/status/1828403019081269661>

There’s also a great post from my other Substack called Reviewing Reviews:

<https://remnantchronicles.substack.com/p/reviewing-reviews>

# Comparing Social 1.0 and 2.0

Now that you have all of this context, let’s close out this essay with a quick comparison table between the two social paradigms:

![](blob:https://highlighter.com/8263e97b-37e8-4e5d-80be-034dea93ed30)

As you can see, there are some general differences. And while I don’t show it to make the claim that one is good or the other is evil, I personally believe that Social 2.0 is technically and socially superior. It has better building blocks, and it’s the best shot we have at making the web more sovereign, independent and useful.

Also note:

1. These dichotomies are not hard rules. There’s a lot of both elements across all kinds of social networks, but broadly speaking Social 1.0 is larger, more about discovery than relationships, more about content consumption and more algorithmically driven than Social 2.0 will be.
2. The rise of Social 2.0 doesn’t mean social 1.0 will entirely disappear. In fact, part of the 2.0 movement implies that there will be both big and large social networks, and both protocol-connected and independent platform-enclosed social networks. In fact, there will also be blends of the two. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Threads, or maybe even X one day, leverage something like Nostr. Maybe they become “Nostr-compatible” so that people who have built profiles and audiences on Nostr, can easily port them over to X, while maintaining control.

It will be interesting to see how the future evolves, now that we have some new and unique building blocks. One thing I am certain of, is that the future will look different to the present, and I look forward to helping built it with Satlantis.

Thankyou for reading the first full essay on Social 2.0. If you're interested in checking out Satlantis, go here: [Satlantis.io](Satlantis.io)

### Aleksandar Svetski

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The past, present and future of social networking


Will be around the same time
31Oct


They say that if you’re not embarrassed by your MVP, you waited too long.

Well…I’m both embarrassed and proud right now. Massive lift by the nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3  team.

More on the way. 💪
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Mega based 🤌🏽😆
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EXACTLY this. Lolbertarians can’t seem to get out of their own way. That’s why they always lose


This excerpt from the introduction to "The Bushido of Bitcoin", by nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m, is 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜! 🤯🤩

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/hard-money-and-hard-men

And if you haven't ordered your copy of "The Bushido of Bitcoin" yet, you should do that right now, here:
https://geyser.fund/project/bushidoofbitcoin


King

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Social Networking in 2030
The past, present and future of social networks.

Humans are social. There is no escaping that. We built the internet as a way to communicate, and inside of this 'cyber-space', we proceeded to create digital communities and ‘social networks.’

The first iteration of these networks have devolved into algorithmic dopamine-dispensers, but I believe we are the precipice of a new era of social networking - something that started 20yrs ago now.

We have some new building blocks and a chance to build them more intentionally now that we understand more about human nature and its relationship to the web.

This is not a long read, but an important one if you’re a content creator of any kind, and are interested in what's quite possibly the biggest shift in the internet since social networks and Web2.0 became a 'thing.'

https://open.substack.com/pub/futuresocial/p/social-networks-in-2030?


𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟯𝟬, by nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m
The past, present and future of social networking.

https://futuresocial.substack.com/p/social-networks-in-2030

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Sexy!


Argentina, Brasil, Salvador AFAIK


Make it happen !!


Bringing NOSTR to LATAM!

This journey has been absolutely incredible and we just reached 100 contribution mark 🥹🎉

We’re officially more than halfway to our goal, and we couldn't have done it without all of YOU! 🙌

A huge thanks to all the sponsors,  supporters and the entire community for making this all possible! 🙏 🥹

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… and so many more!!!!

Special shoutout to nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m for patiently listening to me and introducing me to so many amazing people. Your support means the world! 💜

Also, heartfelt thanks to my female Bitcoin community  @lesfemmesorange and nostr:npub1dg6es53r3hys9tk3n7aldgz4lx4ly8qu4zg468zwyl6smuhjjrvsnhsguz  for your unwavering support! 🧡

We're halfway there— let’s do this!

Every bit helps us reach our goal. 🙏

#grownostr
#latam

https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative

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I’d love to send you a copy of The Bushido of Bitcoin


Bom dia tudo bem!
Good to see you here amigo.


Resistance is not futile, but essential.
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Nietzsche, prophesying the future,120yrs ago. 🎯
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🇬 🇲

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Fun Fact: The "21 Questions" purple pill is chewable, and actually tastes like grape! 🤯

And sovereignty. It tastes like sovereignty, too. 😉

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The warrior is a master of both mind AND body.

He is a man of action, which implies a unification of the physical and psychological.
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The enemy of excellent is not bad, but average.
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Check out nostr:npub1zf8p8cdg67hhx46wvdm96yd2jc9z3hen5nf606edwhv26ummf4vssf7888 for something similar to stoic teacher


Cute.
But that approach has downsides.

“Pure engineering” lacks soul and art.

It’s important there is a non-economic and non-engineering approach for the things we can touch, see and taste.


A powerful and profound burden to bear


Probably nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9  :)


“Architecture is frozen music” - Goethe

Architecture and music are both are inspired by what’s inside.

If you wonder why both are so bad today, look inside & look around.

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130k words. Done. Finished.

Writing and editing for The Bushido of Bitcoin are complete.

It's now with the typesetters. We'll have a busy couple weeks getting it all ready for print, with a beautiful cover & all.

130k of the hardest hitting words ever compiled into one book, coming your way in less than a month.

Thank you to everyone who supported.

Can't wait to get this in your hands.

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I saw someone do this to one of my emails a while back - but still don’t know how to do it 🥲


What an absolute legend


I’m excited to be going to labitconf.com in Buenos Aires to talk about Nostr and the importance of social media being build on a permissionless open protocol. There’s going to be a Nostr day after as a side event to help people exposed to Nostr to dive deeper.

This is connected to bringing the NostrBooth to three November conferences in Latin America.  The project, organized by nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa, is being crowdfunded by the community and we need your help to make it happen.

https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative


BEAUTIFUL book.
Damn. I want one


The Age of Fiat is Over
—> A New Era Begins

130k words.
Officially done.
Coming end of October.

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It’s easy to think you know someone just by what they share online, but there’s always more to the story. So, I thought I’d take a moment to properly introduce myself to all the new faces here!

My name is Paloma, also known as Moma ✨ I left my country 4 years ago to explore the world, spending 2 of those years nomading and backpacking across 4 continents.

I’ve traveled to 30 countries and lost count of how many cities along the way, lol. 😂 I’ve lived in Miami, Madrid, Costa Rica, Austin, and now I’ve settled on a beautiful island in Brazil 🇧🇷 I speak Spanish, English, and now a mix of Portuñol.

Currently, I’m building a supplements brand  nostr:npub16a8cel7lequtxj69yr5q4tpnhv00dylawwwupm7w0cuajn5najwq8tvstx  💙.

Most of my time is spent wifeying, homemaking, lifting weights, and cooking—check out my traditional food gallery at @momacocina_ 🍴(on IG)

In the past, I ran an online coaching business helping women amplify their confidence, connect with their feminine energy, and create a life that turns them on. I took a time out but am considering a comeback 😏

Miscellaneous Fun Facts:

▪Proud Latina & Island girl 🇩🇴🌴 #dominican
▪Psychologist w/ a Master’s in Human Sexuality & Couples Therapy
▪Spent most of my childhood as a ballerina 🩰, performing in my country and abroad
▪Modeling & acting as a side hustle since I was 11
▪Weightlifter 🏋🏻♀ since 2015
▪ Scorpio ♏ through and through
▪ I’m all about loyalty, being upfront, and showing mercy—these are the values I live by.
▪My Beagle girl 🐶 @mara_thebeagle_ (On IG)
▪Animal based, Passionate about traditional cooking & nutrient-dense foods 🍳
▪Natural living enthusiast 🌱—herbal remedies, farmers market, detoxes, and holistic health
▪Love to write ✍🏼 and use it as a way of coping.
▪Love Languages: Quality Time/Acts of Service

✨ I’m also working on something special behind the scenes that I can’t wait to share with you all soon… stay tuned!

Your turn! Who are YOU? 😍 What do you offer to the world?

#introductions #GrowNostr https://image.nostr.build/8134bd1cd4b1c47195d836b817cbdb206bd5b741559be209918d133fd8d3a601.jpg


For sure.
If I wasn’t building Satlantis, I think I’d be building that. But we can only get to so much 🤷🏻♂


None are good right now. The amount of times I’ve lost a draft is infuriating. They also don’t format properly. It’s not worth the effort.

When someone takes it seriously and builds something really good, I’ll try again.


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New “building in public” blog: Social 2.0

What is Social 2.0?

If Social 1.0 was about billion+ user platforms that transformed into algorithmically driven dopamine monsters, Social 2.0 is an opportunity to build something new and more intentional.

It’s a second chance to build a social layer for the web.

The Social 2.0 era will be marked by the rise of many different niche and micro social networks, each with a core focus or specialty domain.

It will also likely be developed atop a global, open, identity protocol - the leading candidate which I believe is NOSTR - where users own their content, data, followers and identity.

Full intro piece below.
Subscribe on Substack for now.

I will bring it over to Nostr of course, when nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft gets Highlighter working properly 😉

https://open.substack.com/pub/futuresocial/p/authentic-intelligence-becomes-social?r=1daig&utm_medium=ios


If you cannot judge, you cannot decide. If you cannot decide, you are paralysed.

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…
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The Chad Taoist
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Not quite an artist, but certainly content with soul. The White Pill

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Well done


Good morning Berlin, slowly recovering here. Not sure what kind of virus I got… but I wanted to share a this with you all here.
The last two months have been really busy.
I’ve been working with a few amazing people to put together a Nostr booth for THREE back-to-back conferences in LatAm.
What started as a simple “let’s do a booth and a few panels” has turned into something way bigger than I expected: full Nostr days packed with workshops, onboarding, dev sessions, merch, local events, content creation, and so much more. 😅
I won’t lie, it’s been a lot, and I’m still figuring things out… but I’m working hard to get there.

The support from the community has meant so much to me, and I’m deeply grateful, especially as I’m still new here and have a lot to learn. Some incredible people have already gotten behind the initiative, and I hope they can speak to the effort happening behind the scenes. 🙏 It also means the world when people share and talk about this, as it helps build awareness and keep the momentum going.

Massive thanks to the organizers too—we’ve scored amazing booth spaces and seriously, after seeing how much booths usually cost, their generosity is next level!

The local communities have been incredibly supportive, helping me organize dedicated Nostr Days after each conference. They’re always eager to listen to my questions and brainstorm solutions whenever I come to them with a new idea. We’ve secured some amazing venues in each city, including the Community Center at La Crypta and the iconic Bitcoin Mansion at Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador.

Here's what’s being planned for each Nostr Day, in each city:

➡Nostr 101 Workshop (Morning): Introduction to Nostr and its key concepts
➡Technical Workshop (After lunch): A deeper dive into the technology
➡Onboarding Workshop (Afternoon): Hands-on sessions with Nostr apps

I’d love to hear your thoughts on what people might like to see or experience, or any ideas on what we could showcase. Your feedback will help shape these events!

And let’s not forget the amazing podcasters who have trusted me and invited me onto their shows.

That being said, we could still use some extra hands, voices, and support. This has been organized on a tight budget, with everything being offered at cost, but there are still expenses that need to be covered.

We’ve come such a long way, with so much work already put in. Any help—whether it’s sharing this or contributing, even just a small amount—will go a long way towards making these events as meaningful as possible. 💜

Even if it’s $1, or $21 or $100. Every Sat will go towards making these events as impactful as possible. 💜

This is the nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 link (who’ve been gracious enough to feature and support it):
https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative

Also I’m putting every Sat I receive on Nostr towards this!

Thanks to everyone who’s been with me on this journey so far, and helped out.
It means the world!


It could all be so simple
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Well by this logic, it means we’re likely to have the opposite (ie; worst) October in history


Are you guys coming to latam ?
Would love to get you involved in the Nostr Days and all the workshops.


Over 18 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 sats have been raised for the Nostr booth so far! 🤯

That's great, but it's just getting started.

Join this 100% community-driven initiative to educate the masses on censorship-resistant communication by following the link below.

Let's increase Nostr adoption everywhere! 💜

https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative


"Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally."

— Aristotle, Politics

What people don't realise is that equality is either evil or just plan stupid.

Equality of outcome is obviously retarded. This is what communists believe. But what many people - even on the right - fail to realise, is that equality of opportunity is also retarded (although not as evil).

You can't have it. In order for everyone to have equal opportunity, they'd all need to have the same genetics, the same parents, be born in the same place, at the same time, with the same resources.

You do NOT want equality.
You want fairness. And fairness leads specifically, to inequality.

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The Bushido of Bitcoin is finally ready.
Release date TBA...Stay tuned.
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Learn more here: https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative


You can establish the city on Satlantis, as an ambassador. DM and nostr:npub1693220pmp0a4c04a0p7hkz874vsxkyfrvtk2yk4zjyj3e4c0ugjs3r4j0c will help


Let’s get these babies all listed on Nostr via nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3


When Geyser contribution ser ?
🫶🏼


Satlantis 1.0 is coming along.
Bloody thing turned out 10x larger and harder to build than we anticipated.

I’m looking forward to seeing how broken the first version is when it goes live in November, so we can get in there and fix things, on the fly, in the trenches. https://image.nostr.build/589b21e8c04a61026e19a137c5358d530df043789b2105a3449972ce0b36ac03.jpg


This is the way
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You sir, are an absolute CHAD


I guess it will depends on the dates.
Ping nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa


Hmm. Damn.
I guess you could just zap Tanja, and she can then allocate it. Go hard!!


nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs - this is what I DM’s you about. Your support would go a long way. Look into it when you have 5min


The guys have done an awesome job setting up nostr:npub1h5ewqujs336m0kdez46l03jttnaqp3yrvf7evertw0ec52q3qulq4kcdg7


Reach out to Tanja and Derek. I’m sure one of them would love to help. This is not my think. I’m too busy with nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3  - we just contributed.


I’m really happy to see this coming together and the community get behind it.

Derek & nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s with the support of myself & nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr put in a huge effort to get the first “Nostr Booth” done nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r earlier this year and it was a huge success.

This is chapter 2, and it’s an entire initiative involving:

- 3 conferences in 3 cities over 3 weeks
- 3 full “Nostr days” on the day after each event
- Getting the actual organisers onto Nostr, and have them use it to post updates & activity + encouraging attendees to get on to stay up to date.
- A bunch of cool merch
- Loads of material for nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz's new Nostr Film

This is going to be absolutely EPIC, and if you’re reading this, please support. This is a community initiative, which many have contributing to so far, but AFAIK, it’s only 40% of the way there.

I’ve put up personally, and also from nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 considering it’s a Nostr business.

Well done on the hustle so far nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa

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Come to these!
There are THREE happening back to back


That’s part of THIS initiative.
There is a booth at SatsConf.

So help the project get some donations, in order to make it happen. I’ve personally contributed $500

Let’s get this going!


Growing Nostr is hard. Not because we don't have the tools, but because it requires the hard work of many of us, not just the few. Decentralization is great, however this means that no centralized growth team is going to step in and do the work that's needed. We'll have to rely on a multitude of people to accomplish this. These people will be cultivating and nurturing Nostr's growing ecosystem. They're seeking out unique communities, on-boarding new users, and educating them on the tools at hand, so that new users can create their own spaces on Nostr.

These have been initiatives of mine since the beginning days here. I love building communities, helping people use technology, and speaking about my passions.

Many people across Nostr are working on similar initiatives, trying to #grownostr and foster community. nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa is one of them. We spoke at extent last week about her current project. She volunteered at the Nostr Booth that I organized at nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r a  few months ago, got purple pilled in the process, and is now planning on doing similar initiatives at three Latin American conferences coming up soon.

I had a conversation with the organizer of LaBitConf in Prague, who expressed a strong interest in having a Nostr presence at his upcoming conference. He asked that I replicate the same level of involvement he witnessed in Prague, including a booth, speakers, panels, and more. He clearly recognized the significance of Nostr and was eager to feature it prominently at his event. Unfortunately, I had to decline, as it’s not feasible for me to attend every conference. However, this is where the strength of the Nostr community comes in—others can step up and make it happen.

This is what Tanja is doing! Check out her project.

https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative


The world is yours.
But only if you have the courage to conquer it.
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A true warrior is also a philosopher

To be a samurai meant that you not only knew how to fight, but you knew how to think.

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The (Deep) State of Global Censorship
Ep. 44 with Mike Benz, a free speech & censorship expert on  nostr:npub1ms9urcp4yctm00g0w45ydlgsaluddpf203d20cgnhqvlv97nlz8s3s6kln

Topics:
• censorship & free speech, big tech & freedom tech
• the mechanics behind censorship tactics
• U.S. foreign policy including Israel’s role

>> Links below.

My guest today is Mike Benz, a free speech & censorship expert, the Executive Director of Foundation for Freedom Online, a nonprofit watchdog dedicated to protecting digital liberties and restoring the free and open Internet. Benz was in charge of the cyber portfolio for the US State Department during the Trump administration, where he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications and Information Technology. That role included formulating and negotiating US policy on Internet diplomacy issues as well as interfacing with private industry and civil society in the Big Tech space.

In this episode, we discuss censorship & free speech, U.S. foreign policy including Israel’s role. We dive into the censorship industrial complex, the mechanics behind censorship tactics, and the implications for free speech in the digital age. We also touch on the intersection of technology and free speech, particularly in relation to Bitcoin & Nostr, and end on a message of hope for a future of freedom and digital liberties.

https://v.nostr.build/r7Jn9Qusuzt22gAX.mp4


Many of the best cities from these countries will be listed on Satlantis in the coming 12 months.

On there, you’ll discover communities full of people you can connect to, and build real, localised webs of trust with.

You will find the best merchants and vendors, whether for food, for health, for wellness or for living your best life. Whether that’s seed oil free restaurants, farmers markets, places that accept bitcoin or the best chiropractors, masseurs and acupuncturists.

It will have it all - and the best, as selected by a global community.

You will find the best events in each city. Whether that’s a bitcoin or nomad meetup, the coolest festivals or conferences that you find most relevant.

This and so much we have planned. Stay tuned!

Satlantis, will be the Social Network, for Sovereign Individuals
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True. There’s only one way through hell though - and that’s the keep going.

Nostr UX sucks in comparison to what else is out there. I’m certain nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 1.0 will also suck. But that’s the only way, with limited resources, that we’ll get anywhere. Gotta keep building, iterating, refining.

That being said, I 100% agree that nowhere near enough focus is placed on the user. Right now, it’s all on development. Which may be warranted. I just wonder when the shift begins to happen…


Uncomfortable Nostr Reality check:

I've tried to Nostr-pill all my YouTube friends (some of them have incredible amounts of subs), but none of them care about the censorship resistance or decentralization. Even though they know Nostr exists, they have no incentive yet to come here. Their audience would follow them anywhere, but they need the tools to create community communications.

It's a sad reality, but it all comes down to usability, UX, and ultimately the easiness of paying and signing up for the community. None of these can afford to have a sign-up problem or issues with someone being interested in joining the community/their platform. It needs to work flawlessly and feel and look professional. Some of them charge $3-5k a year just to get access to this closed space, and people are willing to pay for this.

Another big pain point is community management. All of these YouTubers create these platforms to help their audience have a safe place to communicate with each other and build their own tribe.

Nostr is capable of facilitating all of this - we're just not there yet. We need to somehow invest so much more into UX and design.

All of this will come when the time is due. So, knowing that all of this is possible and that ultimately, Nostr will be powering most of these via the social graph, is what makes me extremely bullish. But also, let's not get ahead of ourselves and expect them to come already.

The UX and features are not there yet for these people. I am more than happy to help anybody trying to make this a reality. I want nothing more than having these people join Nostr. But I also totally understand their pain points. So, if you're a dev or a company working on this, please feel free to reach out - I can tell you all the issues they told me. Or just tell me how to best do this; maybe I can jump on a podcast so the issues are open-sourced for the whole community to hear.

#nostrdesign #asknostr

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I will be there 👇during the day #Nostr only 🤙 In the evening I fly out to Bangkok to create new #Art and see my Thai #Nostr friends again #Siamstr nostr:note1eh0eut5sgvcz8at7fed8dxnzlp98g9vpf5kgxd4j5fwj4em20m6sap8mkw


Very good. I did a huge language deep diver  a decade ago. The best I ever came across was the “Pimsluer” method. Guy was a genius.
I picked up conversational Spanish in 30 days.

I didn’t continue unfortunately - life gets busy - but I’m sure if I did a whole 90 days, and then stayed in a Spanish speaking place, I would’ve been flying by now. The good thing is; I can understand pretty well, and a lot of that is residue from the Pimsluer stuff I did.

Definitely worth checking out.


Keep chasing your dreams
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Tudo bem !


Unfortunately, despite multiple invites and attempts by people to work WITH you, in good faith, you’ve instead decided to put your ego infront of what’s an extremely beneficial initiative to drive Nostr usage and adoption across three cities.

I’m very disappointed


How do you “steal credit ” for work?


3 cities. 3 countries. 3 conferences. 3 full Nostr Days following each conference. It’s gonna be EPIC.
Hope you can make one of them!


There's a traveling Nostr booth initiative on Geyser:
https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative


You’re all welcome. I sold some Sats last week to pay bills 😂
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Happens to me all the time


This is why these were the first 2 subjects I decided to focus on for the first 2 editions of "21 Questions."

I know it's way too early to think about this very much, but after the Beginners Guide to Nostr is done, what should the next 21 Questions book focus on? "A Beginners Guide to _"?
nostr:nevent1qqsqf3qkz33pyfs83et9wgflccsctexpucetnajlf9fsgzgddwgvz9cpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnsyg8cumryxsh3upfysp3suflpq9kuud0u8fs5uczrflh54gjsxv5v4ypsgqqqqqqs07y5ql


Take the white pill
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Make sure you’re climbing the right mountain.
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Nice!
nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm - I DM’d you


I saw an early preview of this, and it is very, very powerful.

Bitcoin’s protection under the first amendment. Take some time out to read it.

https://nydig.com/research/bitcoins-protection-under-the-first-amendment


That’s true
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We are going to win
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Most are. But they’re a place to find legit people who are more likely to be interested in Nostr.

IMO, that’s the cohort of people we need to onboard here first. And we need to 10x the number of people on here in order to really reach a critical mass.


My wife


Want more Bitcoiners to take the purple pill?

Check out this new initiative on nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9. If enough of us donate just $9, it will be enough to add a Nostr booth to future Bitcoin conferences, and bring a new wave of Bitcoiners to the freedom and censorship resistance inherent to Nostr! 💜
https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative


Actually a solid idea 👌👌


Fucking legend 💪


No, actually I don’t 😂


Never give in.
Never, never, never.

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


You grow through struggle and adversity, not through comfort and ease.
https://m.primal.net/Kyev.jpg


I know we’re all aware of the damage seed oils cause here on #Nostr, but I don’t see much content on why thyroid-friendly, stable fats are so beneficial—like what I call the Sacred Six: 🧈 butter, 🐄 ghee, 🐂 beef tallow, 🥥 coconut oil, 🐖 pork fat, and 🦆 duck fat.

I started making my own beef tallow and pork fat a while ago and love how easy, healthy, and affordable it is.

These fats are nutrient-dense, free from harmful additives, and perfect for high-heat cooking without breaking down into harmful compounds. Unlike seed oils, they support healthy hormone production and reduce inflammation.

Choose wisely!

I post this kind of content regularly on my kitchen food gallery page—feel free to check it out if you want to learn more!

Waiting for the Nostr Client that will bring a gallery aesthetic to Nostr nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 👀

https://www.instagram.com/momacocina_?igsh=MTltNW1kdnJtbzZxeQ== https://image.nostr.build/db58c089fc838bfc1789b97a949302b2ece5d12a6ece801d3fca582bff113491.jpg


Great essay Tanja. Well done


A few weeks ago, I shared my first essay about my experiences at the Nostr conference in Riga, which was an eye-opening event that deepened my understanding of the Nostr protocol and its community. After receiving some valuable feedback, I’m eager to contribute further and build on my initial thoughts. During this process, I proposed the idea of a “Nostr Traveling Booth.” In retrospect, I realize that I may have been a bit too enthusiastic in my approach and unintentionally overstepped.

I’m learning the importance of being more thoughtful when joining a community like Nostr, which thrives on openness, collaboration, and shared contributions. I want to clarify that the idea for the booth originates from @nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 , who deserves full credit for his work, especially at @nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r .

My intention was never to take credit, but rather to support and build upon the fantastic progress already being made.

That being said, Nostr is very unique and what I’ve learned in the short time that I’ve been around is that multiple people can run not only similar products, but also similar initiatives, ***at the same time,*** and everything actually benefits Nostr! This is hard to get your head around at first but when it dawns on you, you realize that it blows your mind.

So with that in mind, I want to be clear that my Nostr Booth proposal is a community initiative which I want to put all my energy behind AND use to inspire *others* from all over the world to copy and do themselves too!

### The Traveling Nostr Booth

A Traveling Nostr Booth is a simple idea with a lot of potential Every Bitcoin conference needs (and many want) a dedicated space to showcase Nostr. The ones I’ve spoken to recognise that this is one of the best ways to bridge the gap between Bitcoiners who know of it but aren’t yet using it. We saw it work at BTC Prague, and I think there is an opportunity to build on that in Amsterdam (which @nostr:npub1qe3e5wrvnsgpggtkytxteaqfprz0rgxr8c3l34kk3a9t7e2l3acslezefe , @nostr:npub17plqkxhsv66g8quxxc9p5t9mxazzn20m426exqnl8lxnh5a4cdns7jezx0 , @nostr:npub1gwa27rpgum8mr9d30msg8cv7kwj2lhav2nvmdwh3wqnsa5vnudxqlta2sz and the team are doing) and also LaBitConf, SatsConf, and Adopting Bitcoin which I’ve been hard at work organizing for later this year.

Beyond this, I’m starting to see other ideas materialising.

### Building a Nostr Growth Team

@nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 recently disscussed the need for a Nostr "Growth Team" in response to @nostr:npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8's great article on Substack. I love this idea, and it made me think further about what we can do with the Nostr booth initiative.

Instead of only organizing booths, what if it’s turned into a booth-driven movement? The booths themselves should be a centerpiece and come with other growth initiatives. What could those be? Well. A few ideas come to mind. We could use the booth to propel dedicated panels and keynotes on stage - we have seen it work in Prague. We could run satellite events with technical workshops and beginners onboarding - like the Noob Day at Nostriga. We could involve content creators to produce content at the conferences and use it to start hyper-local conversations on the ground. In this way, we could make Nostr *"the place you go to post & find updates"* for the conference. Kind of reminiscent of how Twitter was used at SXSW in 2007.

A few of these have been fleshed out, and depending on the community support and funds raised, as many as possible will be pursued. Let’s dive deeper into some of these.

### Satellite Events:

Satellite events are great for expanding the reach of the booth and creating more meaningful interactions before or after the event when people are up or down-winding. Think of them as mini-events attached to the larger conference. Satellite events could include:

- **Panels Showcasing Developers and Creators**: Highlighting people working with Nostr, giving them a platform to share their projects and insights.

- **Technical Workshops**: Aimed at educating new developers and builders, these sessions would offer deep dives into the Nostr protocol, helping to attract and develop talent within the ecosystem.

- **Hands-on Workshops**: Focused on onboarding new users, guiding them step-by-step in setting up their profiles and experimenting with different apps.

- **High-Quality Networking Events**: These would be informal gatherings, allowing attendees to build connections, share ideas, and form collaborations that could strengthen the community.

### Panels at Conferences:

We can use the booth to create momentum with organizers to secure panels or keynotes, creating a formal presence on stage where thought leaders, developers, builders and creators  can discuss Nostr’s growth and potential. This always works best when there is a booth that people can go to afterwards, and likewise, the booth can be used to drive people to the talks.

### Nostrifying the Conference:

"Nostrifying" the conference is about embedding Nostr into the very structure of the event. Here’s how we could do this:

- **Get the conference organizers on Nostr**: Work directly with organizers to set them up with Nostr accounts.

- **Make Nostr the official communication platform**: Encourage them to post updates, announcements, and even event schedules exclusively on Nostr.

- **Engage attendees**: Provide incentives or workshops to get attendees to use Nostr as their primary tool for interacting with the event, sharing updates, and networking. This could create a feedback loop where more people join Nostr simply because it’s where the event’s buzz is happening.

### Nostr Documentary:

@nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz known for his documentary “Social Media is Broken” featuring Jack Dorsey, is working on a new Nostr Documentary. I’m thrilled to confirm that we will be allocating a budget toward this (the more the better). This new documentary will follow the traveling booth across Latam, and show how people are actually using Nostr, on the ground. If Documentary #1 was about “concept” - Documentary #2 is about “application”. His experience and vision will help bring Nostr’s story to life, capturing the energy of the community and the technical progress we’re making.

### Looking Forward: A Community-Driven Initiative

Ultimately, the vision for the Nostr Traveling Booth is for it to evolve into a self-sustaining, community-driven initiative. With the support of fundraisers and the involvement of passionate contributors, we can establish a model that not only works for Bitcoin conferences but can eventually expand to events outside of the Bitcoin space. Imagine a big Nostr booth at SXSW or Web Summit where 50,000 - 80,000 people attend? But before we can run, we have to crawl.

These three Latam conferences are a testing ground. There is so much to learn, and there's only one way to do it. I'll do my best to document the entire journey so that everyone can learn, copy and take it elsewhere. If this trial goes well, the next step could be gathering community support for a potential Bitcoin conference 'world tour' next year, with stops in places like Vegas, Prague, and other major events.

If you're interested in helping out or collaborating on this, please reach out! You can donate time, expertise, and of course, some Sats. We’re raising via Geyser right now, and every little bit helps!

Thank you so much for reading.

\
—Tanja


The internet is a strange place.
Or maybe that’s the world.
Either way…incredible
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Yeah I think that’s because steak is very tricky to get right.
Personally though, I hate steak. Or at least, I don’t like it compared to slow cooked brisket or beef cheek - and perhaps that’s because it’s so hard to get steak right


Satlantis.io


The best sushi I’ve had is from #SãoPaulo

10/10
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Cool!
Can we do this with nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 ?


This remains one of the greatest quotes ever written.
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Damn. I was so busy yesterday I missed this whole thing.

Poor Derek walked into a hornets nest with that one 😂

What can I say. I married a hot Latina with a hot temper..few understand this


Very cool


Keep at it brother!
Still my most used client


Beauty is both objective and subjective.
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Building


Why courage?
Swipe ➡

BushidoOfBitcoin.com
Presale ends 30 Sept.
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The beauty of medieval civilisation
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To Glory
https://m.primal.net/Krtn.jpg


https://cdn.satellite.earth/d7887b7c4ff9f467957b785abd3ae2d27eac74b5f6fb41b8acd3c8ba186538de.mp4

Thanks for the latest contributions to the #Nostrdam #NostrBooth initiative during the nostr:npub13e6qu4kdjsyysrfl5an558rawvqg0rx2xuat9ca706spcdqjzhuqq6md43 conference 🙏 nostr:npub1pzurm7nx3q08894wl6uautryq95sku5jhzgwjjrskwdafcwxekuq4n7vtu nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m

https://shares.sebastix.dev/MWGdQjNQ.png

Please help us to create a next-level Nostr Booth next month: https://geyser.fund/project/nostrboothbitcoinamsterdam


Kick ass over there lads!!


Walking is more than just walking
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Go for a walk sir:

https://primal.net/e/note1379l39td97pna7zvtdytp3am2dq82z9a05aza3ua9m0euzvv4jksxueevn


It was very good


Genius


Friendly reminder
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My little Nostr Philosopher 😘


GOOD MORNING TO ALL THE SILENT WARRIORS OUT THERE, PUSHING THROUGH WITH YOUR QUIET STRENGTH!

It's wild how so many of our battles are fought in silence and solitude.

WE GOT THIS 🌹 https://image.nostr.build/b67f97a75f1bf366fc69893cac734cbd4fc8a0f4d51451bd56402a766d8cd1c9.jpg


Definitely nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3.

It's basically:
Meetup[dot]com + Instagram + Trip Advisor + Nostr

It's still a WIP, but when it's done, it'll connect Bitcoiners and Nostriches in both cyberspace and meatspace.

https://youtu.be/p28dmMfAt3M


It’s infuriating


Sorry but using bitcoin broadly to do things like pay rent and buy food in most places is just not possible

So you’re stuck with having to use their broken, stupid system in order to actually live like a normal human being


Wife uses it daily.


Feels
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Every time I try to open a bank account, in ANY country, I’m reminded of how utterly broken & backwards the banking system is.

The amount of data collected, and the amount of microscoping into your asshole they do, just so you can use your OWN money is mind boggling.

I sincerely look forward to the day this stupid system is wholesale abolished. Seriously. Fuck these people.

#bitcoin


nostr:npub1sy70twa0vadtk8hjs6wt2hmfszduj04tw78ccs3ktmr9u99mfmqsj62srx - cool 👀


When people ask me how Ethereum works, I send them this
https://m.primal.net/KoGP.mov


Accurately put


Excellent post. Definitely agree. I’m going to DM you some ideas I had on this (half baked, and when formed up a little more, post public)

You should also connect with nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa


YES 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

nostr:note1vf43lvfe6tq80jv0ln7vn86m4svuzdqs5ynsru0g0dgmpp2ltdksrpepap


This was a fantastic discussion. Thanks again for having me on nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42

Christian’s and Nietzcheans out there on Nostr will especially enjoy it.

I did my best to blend what might seem disconnected philosophies and Jimmy genuinely challenged me every step of the way.

Was very good.

nostr:note1q0lkmpj9s9akpp4u3qn59ag8l63te7plsnkmt2w2gdsskjuj6u8qe5v6l6


This was a fantastic discussion. Thanks again for having me on Jimmy.

Christian’s and Nietzcheans out there on Nostr will especially enjoy it. I did my best to blend what might seem disconnect philosophies together and Jimmy genuinely challenged me every step of the way.

Was very good.


Imagine thinking someone can “steal your idea” and then getting angry because they execute on it better than you do.

🤡🤡🤡


Leaving that place half a decade ago now was one of the best decisions I made


Bitcoin Veterans Podcast EP 59 with  nostr:nprofile1qqsx45yrjtgm4glklaafgz0z4309gs6cwfja3d99s8rqvlvgagcptpqpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0hjkas9

https://fountain.fm/episode/jOUqspCbFLR9LkqbfNNU


When you’re so busy you forget to check any socials.

Lo and behold, you get so much more done


Damn wifey. That was a great poast 🎯


As an analytical person and former psychologist, I’ve always been fascinated by studying human behavior—especially in the digital age. The idea of sharing one’s life online is an entirely new phenomenon, unique to this century.

While reading “Hatching Twitter” (though I’m not convinced we’re getting the real version of that story), one of the early chapters mentions that no one would feel comfortable sharing their life online. Today, that thought seems almost bizarre when you consider how nearly everyone is doing just that. However, I’m left questioning how beneficial this has been for humanity as a whole.

I find myself comparing this to the invention of electricity, which fills me with awe and a sense of advancement. But when it comes to the tech revolution and its effects on the human mind, I have my doubts. The original intention of social media was to make people feel more connected and less alone, but paradoxically, it feels like people are more isolated than ever before.

Last year, I took a significant step back from social media. I shut down my online business, deleted all social media apps from my phone, and nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m  can vouch for this—each time he showed me something from one of those apps, I felt disgusted with what the world had become. During that time, I felt truly free, as if I had finally taken off a mask. However, I also noticed an odd side effect: I felt disconnected from the world. I wasn’t updated on what my friends were doing, and I missed that sense of social interaction, even if it was superficial.

One of the most intriguing aspects of social media is how followers, likes, and engagement seem to dictate people’s sense of worth and relationships. People can become genuinely offended if someone they know unfollows them, to the point where they may not want to maintain an in-person relationship anymore. It’s as if the virtual world is dictating real-life connections: “Oh, you unfollowed me? I guess we can’t be friends in real life.” It’s a strange, almost absurd shift in human interaction.

Another bizarre aspect of social media is the idea that people who don’t resonate with you—or even dislike you—can still follow your life closely. They can see what you think, feel, and do daily. Ex-lovers and people from your past are just one click away from finding out what you’re up to nowadays. This level of access to personal information still feels surreal to me. How much information we handle and share without second thoughts is, frankly, unsettling.

In the end, while social media has undoubtedly changed the way we connect, it raises the question: has it truly improved our lives, or are we more isolated, less authentic, and increasingly detached from genuine human connection?

#FoodForThought #AskNostr

Btw, GM Fam🌹


“Who will build the roads”

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THIS IS MY STORY 📖👇🏽

If you’ve been following me for a while, you probably know that I love to model and to cook - but you may not know that I also enjoy writing. In the past few years, I’ve been lucky enough to be featured in some incredible magazines.

I took a little time to write my most personal and honest piece for *The War Kitchen* - the best food magazine on the planet. Thankyou Rocky!

In this article, which feels more like a letter to a close friend, I share my story—my humble beginnings, my beloved Dominican roots, my artistic childhood, my passions, struggles, modeling career, how I met my husband, my life as a homemaker and wife, and a bit about my journey as an immigrant and nomad. Of course, I couldn’t leave out my all-time favorite dish, Ossobuco a la Moma.

Definitely worth the read if you’re curious about food, travel, behind the scenes of the performance art industry and love stories

Hope you enjoy... A Passionate Latina! ❤🔥

P.S: This cover photo was taken 14 years ago when my modeling career had just started.

Full article:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19mq8Ud9rOoBSgo7mkhGbj5ZgRFxnvs3z/view?usp=sharing https://image.nostr.build/43ae93fb918118dd763ef3b744ad9d34da512e94baf8a1f9683a4328a0fc3339.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b8e0538f83b8c623b0d15177c3246831b18638d1b1c21c2484480a43cb07f3ba.jpg https://image.nostr.build/21c789b94720c79045dd53cf261c2cbab054c38c5ed1a8f84773fbdfafc833c1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/03915e23ba09fe1d60644afb4cf6e178107cc8f8f4240aa58cd71f8a501a85fd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fe85e7f2ab50b31f15f34b79c0d5a63cc84109064c7616a73510718ad1f95214.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ff7ba477d9e7495e647b6f3b26222be7651b9ad94ff0ed821d16d34d1f0e866b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f2bf342a275c81aed276205141af4cb46b920b27bdf7a5274cef27b21e00d275.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2f9c2d0587be9dc38886538d2e3fa45cb3774ff7b2af1ed98080d051dc00d81e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/27368ae375021c9b7f3c0167cf8de31a19b9caac5182cb66ecaae1a66a53d5d2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/62abe95b77dccbe080ad4a3851ce702068638d6b47aed1b1cf3a3918aeb77e82.jpg https://image.nostr.build/13bc6069dd54b21e53c0996b2f9d046f19e173bf3a80b43a8960043c313e6141.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5299083da5de62aa823a178486bc9b4bbdf0bf7116e9a5e00b7202523633859f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/63c5f503d02dfad900dbefac094341a8c1e4e1c612223f71da887c9b45e94296.jpg https://image.nostr.build/13c37060794b40e9d5d4062c1c6dbc79dc5fff60306134dd8fcd886a4aa10c38.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8a3ca31f8244b35e58d28a60ed22b493012c5ea6f2ddfd12b8858b9b230c8494.jpg


Damn that was a while back. But I think so. I remember it was her first ever exposure to bitcoin. And now that u mention it, I do remember speaking with u about a ticket back in the day. I just don’t remember the details. So I guess that makes sense.

And I guess your ticket actually went to good use and created a long time Bitcoiner!!


If you want to have a bigger more effective impact, speak to nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa about the travelling Nostr booth & mini conference tour happening in Brazil later this year. That will be 100x more impactful IMO.

Also on nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9
I believe fundraising starts in a week
I’ve agreed to pledge, so have a few others.

https://geyser.fund/project/thenostrboothinitiative


Chin up broski!


The feel-good thing you’ll read this weekend.

No politics, screeching or yelling. Just a beautiful story.

Swipe to cleanse your timeline and your weekend. And try the recipe at the end. Promise it will change your life 🔥

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Yeah unfortunately this is one of the prices of open protocols.

The best clients will build walls and filters to hide that shit. Relays will do the same. But I’m not sure we can ever remove it entirely. Some relays / clients out there will be run by sick fucks and they will host this kind of content 🤦🏻♂


I remember that !


Modern psychology is a scam
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Using a lot of IG inspiration in nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 - stay tuned


Go for a walk

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Amazing 🤌🏼🤌🏼


Jung on Joy.
Bookmark this.
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I haven’t heard of them. Will get around to watching one day 😂


Damn. Wtf
That…I can’t find another word.
Maybe interesting is the right one.
RIP


Umm. I think there should be a city in the URL. Best to go from home page and find your way there.

In any case, a bunch of shit is broken right now while we do the big update. So sit tight. Some fires are just gonna need to burn 😂


Was thinking about something along those lines. DM me your email and I’ll share something I put together


Nostr 2024:

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Mmm…maybe one or two things.
Mayyyyybe. Life seems to have opened other doors after some were closed


Oof…this is a VERY good mental model.

Take note / save / bookmark:
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I think the answer to the opening question will end up being resolved at the client level.

And maybe Nostr becomes something we don’t lead with as much

At least that’s what I’m starting to think…


People have asked me, what is a Chad Hominem?

Explained below:
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Bro. Get your wallet set up! I still can’t zap you. This was 🤌🏼


It’s a new kind of Nostr client. Hard to compare it to anything else out there. It’s part Instagram, part Google maps, part meetup.com and part NomadList.

Comes out in November..


YES! Reach out to nostr:npub1693220pmp0a4c04a0p7hkz874vsxkyfrvtk2yk4zjyj3e4c0ugjs3r4j0c  - he will get you sorted


nostr:npub1zf8p8cdg67hhx46wvdm96yd2jc9z3hen5nf606edwhv26ummf4vssf7888 for daily philosophy
Saw a new one the other day which looked pretty based @chadhominem (I think that’s how it was spelled).


Accurate

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I think nostr:nprofile1qqs2rx4daefmcuwjttl0xegx0guh3tps64fq6dhv3nr56aagw2hhxkgprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8xarpddjhjtnwv46qgapzsw will break the internet once everyone realizes what it is.

It's a massive paradigm shift from the garbage social and travel platforms we've had for 2 decades.

It's mind blowing


Some of my favourite Latin terms.
Makes me want to learn the whole language.
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Yeh. Zaps create in some ways a perverted incentive to say what you think you want people to hear. Not what’s actually valuable.

A lot we’re not understanding here


Typical leftoids 😂


That’s not entirely true. But it is mostly true


Bitcoin has the luxury of time far more than Nostr does.

Why?

Because fiat money is actively collapsing. The need for bitcoin is stronger, and while it’s a more significant change (money is the base language) it’s got time on its side.

Nostr on the hand, if it doesn’t achieve some sort of escape velocity in the next 2-5yrs, is going to be relegated to the fringe because centralised providers are “good enough” for most people, and/or other networks will emerge (see the work TBD is doing for DIDs, and there’s much more).

The mistake is to think their paths are equivalent. They’re not. Bitcoin has a century to win. Nostr…a decade or two. Or somewhere thereabouts.


I appreciate the comment about the book. And I promise it will be the best Sats you’ve ever spent.

I’m also glad you’re not against marketing. But my position is that, for every 10,000 we’ll build software products, only a couple really achieve scale - and that’s due to (in some cases luck, but) superior go to market.

Cold card is case in point. It’s far superior to Ledger. But ledger outsells it 500:1

Now..this is fine for a general product like that. But network live and die by the density.

It’s very easy to lose network density and to get anti-network effects if messaging and go to market unclear.

We can have the best product/protocol, but if people don’t know where it “lives” in their minds, it’s all for naught.

I recommend Andrew Chen’s work on Network effects btw. His book “the cold start problem” is absolutely fantastic


Yes it would’ve, because nobody would’ve know about it.

Had Silk Road and Wikileaks not existed, or Roger Ver, Voorhees or Antonopolous to evangelise in the early days - bitcoin would’ve disappeared.

The very fact that businesses sprouted up, people discussed it, and entire communities of evangelists emerged is what got bitcoin the attention it needed to develop economic mass.

There’s no way around effective marketing and messaging.


I used to think that too. But look at the behaviour. People pass around “numbers on a screen” which don’t really mean much. There’s no significant net bitcoin entering. It’s mainly the same amount of bitcoin just switching hands amongst the same people.

So what’s happening, if we’re being objective, is that people are treating zaps more and more like likes or other reactions.

We need to think about this further. It’s far from an economic model like mining


Thanks for the 1sat nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s 😂😂


A search engine is a 🔥🔥🔥 idea and much needed for Nostr


No you understand the technical component. Not how network effects actually work


Zaps are just a substitute for likes. They’re largely meaningless. And they are FAAAAR from an economic model


These kind of responses are so tone deaf it’s not funny.

- Zero concept of how networks actually work and grow.
- No idea about network or anti-network effects.
- Ignores the fact that bitcoin had intensive marketing from the beginning,
- AND blind to the fact that bitcoin is a financial network, with a direct financial incentive to participate (something Nostr doesn’t have).


“Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila
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Love it.
Keep me posted when you’ve got something more formed up and I’ll see if I can help


What you said at the end makes a lot of sense. There’s other benefits of Nostr (way more important than just features) which we can build narratives on.

And that’s really what I’m calling attention to.

The way we’re talking about Nostr right now, might not be the right angle. Of course, it will evolve and we’ll find a better way - but only if someone starts that conversation.

That’s my whole point.


Nietzsche’s chilling warning of the entitled political & parasitic class that’s fueled by envy..

And an example of its pure manifestation a century later..

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Unfortunately there’s no block button. But mute just removes them and their replies from your feed. So they can talk shit all they want - and u can just ignore their noise


Muted. Clown


I’m in the same boat as you. Writing long form has been ultra painful here. I can’t find a good solution that allows either for scheduling, or that has good editing tools.

I’ve given Pablo a whole list of things that are basic and needed. Let’s hope he finds the time to get it all done.

For now…going to just keep posting on Substack…and do what I can to copy/paste to highlighter


Macron is the poster boy for the envious dysgenic goblin


Build first FOR SURE.
High vibes…meh.. somewhat useful.
But rose coloured glasses don’t solve problems, nor does ignoring them.

Speaking to customers and understanding their problems so you can craft the best possible products does.

That’s what I’m trying hard to do. Speak to content creators from *outside* of Nostr & bitcoin echo chambers.

When I made my comments last week, it was aggregate feedback from 75 in depth discussions/interviews over 6wks with actual content creators..

Vibes are cute. And yeh - important to be positive. But there’s always something to learn, and that implies talking about the not-so-great stuff


🤝👌
Well put


Yeah I agree fundamentally


That’s a tough call…but may be true 😂

Or maybe the central banks created all the crazy cat ladies 🤷♂

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It’s not low conviction to point out weaknesses and discuss what can be done better.

Build, yes.
But for every 10,000 well built things, only a fraction get to market successfully - and they’re the ones who know how to build a comms engine around it (or just get lucky / right time right place)


This shit is so frustrating man.
We’re still arguing with their retarded support team to get the money out 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡


Deciding on them is the hard part. That’s why I’m thinking of it as “builders” and as a council.

Builders actually have skin in the game. They’re invested in the success of both their business and the protocol.

And a ‘council’ is the best name I can come up with for an informal, unofficial kind of group of these businesses who try to workshop some of these ideas


Are you stupid ?
You obviously can’t read

Coordination regarding how the network works, is a feature. But thats not what I said.

“Coordination around communications” is 10000% a drawback.

It’s a necessary tradeoff to make, but whatever way you dice it, it’s a drawback. Hence why centralised shit platform like BlueSky gets WAY more marketing advantage than the technically superior decentralised one (Nostr).


One would hope so


I have been writing in bits and pieces. Although not many people are receptive. Also - still trying to wrap my head around the various ideas.

That said, the specific idea I was referring to in the note above was for some sort of Nostr “builder’s council” where various Nostr businesses come to together & pool some money to fund some co-marketing initiatives that they may not be able to afford on their own, but could do together.


Thanks for clarifying


Not sure. Maybe his dignity and legacy?
He seems to care somewhat, having tried hard to change his image


Fund what?
And what’s “dumb” precisely?


wtf are u talking about?
They’re just links to prior notes on primal.


Thankyou !!


Award for the dumbest take. Thanks. Muted.


Not quite. He said it was a different approach, and for the purpose of decentralisation, and growing from the ground up, it’s certainly superior


This is a good point. And maybe that’s a blessing of some sort


Too complex. Who’s gonna manage that, who decides where the money goes, how do you measure success, what’s the economic incentive for the individual contributors.

Stuff like that is always 1000x harder than it sounds


There’s nothing “weird” about it.

Decentralisation comes with clear drawbacks in the marketplace. Nostr may be superior technically, in almost EVERY way, but there is no coordinated communications effort.

I posted about this two weeks ago, and half the responses were: “oh you’re too bearish on Nostr” or “look at all the cool tech we’re building”.

And that’s precisely my point. The focus has ALL been on the tech (and rightly so). But my entire argument was that the gaze needs to begin to shift towards communications & go to market. There’s no point building the coolest car if nobody knows about it.

Unfortunately, I don’t know if the nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f people agree with this (they seem to be the only org funding collective initiatives). They just ignored the post despite tagging them.

Either OpenSats needs to fund some marketing efforts, or these efforts ultimately come down to the businesses building on Nostr. The best option would be BOTH.

I have some other ideas. I’ll DM you and see what you think.

In the meantime, GOLDEN opportunities like this are being completely missed or just not taken advantage of. Nostr should’ve grown by a million users this week, not fucking Blue Sky.

🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂

https://primal.net/e/note1e8gzpmeum8tqzqg6sjkuxge7v764h9x49n7e000as0x40lpekazqfhwk8f

https://primal.net/e/note1aqhmwcvukz45ngr2zunhmsjc5nru2lqg65wgrhzjr7pydw923ens99w26p


I spoke about this last week.

The benefit of decentralisation comes with some drawbacks backs. Coordination around comms being one.

Anyway. I expect more of this shit to happen in the coming years; so we’ll have more chances.

Perhaps another approach is at the company/product level, not product. Much easier to have a message from Primal or Satlantis than it is from “Nostr”.

Extrapolating that out…The more companies / products we have building/built ON Nostr, the more they can go to market with a clear message (individually).

Each message appeals to different groups of people, but ultimately they each find their way to Nostr.

🤔

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I had a really good write up on X but don’t have the link coz I can’t access the app 😂😂

But go check there. It was from a few days ago


I actually think Facebook is immune to anything the Brazilians can do, so won’t affect their profit one bit.

X is relatively easy to ban, so are nostr apps, blue sky, etc

But they ban any of FB’s stuff here, there would be a nationwide revolution the same day


WhatsApp can and does. But it doesn’t have the social discovery of an IG or X.


It would be suicide for that clown.
Let’s see what unfolds.
And I can neither confirm nor deny that


This is probably an unpopular opinion…but let’s see..

Elon’s smartest move right now would actually be to ally with Zuck…

Hear me out…

An overwhelmingly large percentage of the Brazilian population literally LIVE on WhatsApp and IG. I’m not just talking their friends, and scrolling. I mean this is how almost EVERY business runs. They don’t have websites down here. They build their entire digital presences on those two apps.

If Zuckerberg’s transformation is real (dunno if I’m convinced, but who knows - crazier things have happened) and he allows for the kind of content X allowed to spread in Brazil, this Alexandre monkey would be STUCK.

There’s no WAY he could shut access to that down, without the entire country stopping. Literally nothing would work.

——-

This is a GREAT moment for Nostr, but we’ve still got a loooooong way to go before the network and the apps on it are robust.

In fact, similar to Wikileaks in the early days, we probably don’t want to draw too much attention right now to Nostr apps bc while the protocol itself is hard to censor, as was just seen, it’s very easy to censor an app.

Granted, it’s a bit like playing wackamole with Nostr, but once again, we’re not there yet. There probably needs to be 10x more *really good* apps, before we could even hope to sustain a forced shutdown in any country for that matter.

——-

Before anyone says “yeah but they’re only stopping themselves from getting on Nostr”

Duh…obviously. But these maniacs are also fucking over the very people who live in these countries and require some form of connectivity.

———

So anyway. Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I think this would be a very interesting strategic play.

And if you play out the scenario, there’s a good chance that idiot de Moraes here in Brazil ends up trapped between:

1. Having to allow X to operate again, or

2. trying to apply the same pressure to WhatsApp / IG

3. allowing IG/Whatsapp to spread uncensored info, and thus losing his ability to censor anyway

All three scenarios, he loses.

Curious to hear what a few people think on this.

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Nah not really. nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr is the creator of this one. Based dude. Probably the best product on the market right now, although I’m gonna try give him a run for his money when nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 is ready.

Miljan - any suggestions for Chad about setting up a wallet without the KYC piece here on Primal?