How does nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 source the initial scores for these quality/cost of life metrics for different spots?

I'm already checking and comparing some destinations
- it would help having some direct comparison mode (location vs location in columns next to each other)
- current version is cool and sufficient too, but it would help if all the line items are sorted the same way across the cities


In #Kenya thousands are marching against corruption and new tax laws. The government answers with abductions and brutality. Now bank accounts are being frozen.

That’s the prime example of bitcoin’s utility.

Self-custodied #Bitcoin can’t be shut down or frozen. It’s free speech money.

#Nostr has the potential to become the free speech protocol.

#RejectFinanceBill2024
https://m.primal.net/IxLb.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IxLc.jpg


Still no responsibility taken for the state crimes he helped to reveal.


They owe him so much.

And we owe him even more.


gif/meme marketplace 👀 nostr:note1kvkw3hznt5vkvg5fggfg9ty6fw48e07txhm68ntt0ml4rtw3j32q0jy6ea


Well said 💯


Napr kdyby Groupon shipnul nejakej produkt na sbirani loyalty bodiku v btc, to by si mohli ukousnout zpet nejakej business.


Asi jo. Confirmo jsem zatim nikdy v akci nevidel, ale asi staci dostatecne.

Pro ten Groupon by to mohlo byt i financne zajimavejsi pro shareholders. Automaticka akceptace btc u milionu zakazniku by z nich mohlo automaticky udelat meme stock.

Sice strasne fiat reseni, ale investori by na to asi slyseli. Narozdil od ostatnich memes, by se tam dali najit zajimavy synergie a produktovy reseni.


Pokud do toho Cupr jde, tak si nedovoli to UX ani PR odflaknout ✅

Muze z toho byt hodne zajimava case study (a PR) i daleko za hranicemi CZ.

Navic pak CZ bude mit pokryti moznosti BTC plateb na ~50% ecommerce obratu? To snad bude na zapade #1. 👁🗨👁🗨

Pokud se to povede, tak bych se divil kdyby do toho nepraskl i Senkypl s Grouponem a dalsi. Hlavne pokud by byl i bull market.

CZ e-commerce threatening Bezos 👌🍻


Nostur keeps getting better. Some of my favorite features in no particular order:

- integrated GIF search/post
- WoT spam filtering
- multiple account support, including reply from any account without having to switch profiles
- video uploads
- custom feeds
- it recommends other apps if content is not natively supported in Nostur
- change app color theme
- customizable buttons under posts
- gallery/grid view for media
- long form articles support
- preview post before publishing
- low data mode
- nostr wallet connect support for zaps and shows connected wallet balance


It looks like a solid UX with good security.

https://image.nostr.build/9be74e96ab8dec06b005458f08a380b5764d937c5291047fac1894266d2f9530.jpg

Got any experience with Casa/Unchained to compare with?

I have no hands on experience, but Unchained's 2-of-3 looks similar, maybe just harder to access/use co-signing. So more positioned as a stone cold storage than a bank. Casa seems similar, although the variety of setups described on their site makes it quite complex to understand how the cosigning actually works.


The metaphor of the "Late Soviet America" is so vivid by now.

Most Eastern Europe has better quality of life than most of the US.

Bitcoin is its last hope to avoid a total ruin in the cities.


Way to hijack the post! 😅

Both are two of my favorite places in the summer.


To never take any debt.


Still, quick plumbing/electrician bootcamp might be a worthy investment for many. 🙂


You would need the loans to be collateralized by some stronger promise than the house itself.

A secured promise of future cashflow of your family/company at higher than the real market rate.

Mortgages for sure would become less ubiquitous.


When I used to visit new cities, I always googled for "best hipster things/places to do in XYZ", and hoped to find some local bloggers reports.

Never particularly fond of hipsters, but it helped to curate the search good enough towards a young traveler/nomad types.

Satlantis vision was instantly clear to me. Replace these search hacks with actually personalized, trusted, and up to date recommendations.

I'm avoiding all the cities and opting out for nature these days, so I'm curious if the concept will carry out in the future for outdoors enthusiasts as well (camping spots, MTB hubs, Colorado 14ers, etc). Nostr has a lot of potential to better organize the web and make all public infos much better searchable, and more useful.

Keep up the momentum 🔥


OUR CHILDREN WILL LIVE FREE.

GOOD MORNING. 🫡


This is The Hill. 🫡


I don't like the thinking because it's contradicting itself.

On one hand, these people *say* they prefer Bitcoin so much more over fiat that they would never spend any if they have fiat to spend.

On the other hand, they obviously still somehow always have fiat to spend.

🤷♂


Correct!


Germany and CZ are pretty strong contenders for #1 out of the West. ie out of the countries where it's still not a necessity for survival.

Otherwise, Nigeria and others alike have probably much more wode spread actual usage.


I love the idea of streaming sports here!


Check out the original Parallel Polis concept. A network of local nodes in diverse aspects of life and civic society routing around the state/censorship/regulations.

I've been looking for a while for a good contemporary overview, and finally found a pretty solid one here:

https://www.themoralimagination.com/p/ep-49-flagg-taylor-phd-the-parallel-066

Maybe just add to it little more explicit localism focus. It's kinda just implicit in the original concept.


Mining in Germany? Why/How?


Sure, that's the MVP. But little more async app with leaderboards would be great.

Maybe next time.


Can you post a long form on Habla and then just keep editing it?

Or maybe the Pablo's wiki can be tortured into such use case as well.


Would be cool to add some zap-based betting on the tournament.


Now it works on zap.stream:
https://zap.stream/naddr1qq9rzde38q6rwdfkxucqygxsm6lelvfda7qlg0tud9pfhduysy4vrexj65azqtdk4tr75j6xdspsgqqqwensq070xp
nostr:nevent1qqsfgsy292gux2hg5x34xdg74najx6ds6rsls8jgxlx6w46u8lpwpmspz3mhxw309akx7cmpd35x7um58g6rsd3e9upzp5x7h70mzt00s86r6lrfg2dm0pyp9tq7f5k48gszmd42cl4yk3nvqvzqqqqqqy7gsy5y


Beautiful!


Week 46 with #SaturdaysForSatoshi. Since I’m attending nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r, today’s protest took place in front of the Czech National Bank.
Security seemed utterly confused, while I was watching them, amused. https://image.nostr.build/62ffed9fdd318d90bd12f95b2884c2ca9ecfd2ec3c1a53524400b76a443f2b48.jpg


Charles IV 🤝 nostr:npub1ndketdm2qyv35nrhsxzks8kh7w7w6tll4rjp29hv0qjqkgfjsh6snmgk2v

Shaking hands to commence the next Golden Age of Bohemia at nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r.

https://image.nostr.build/d7142538ea53c3569c04f3068327aa2c8aa635d6f4227e094018514c1e1c2d9c.jpg

#BTCPrague #Madex


Oh, nice. Effective purple pilling.


How?


One interesting fact:
Currently there’s about 25k weekly active users on Nostr.


Really well done 👌


When I got from #Prague to ATX ~10 years ago, I was impressed by how young, healthy and wealthy the people and the city felt there.

By now, the first thing that smacks Americans (even Austinates, and myself) into the face when coming to the summer Prague is how much younger, healthier, wealthier and *happier* the people in the city are.

Maybe it's my vacation buzz, but the contrast in the happiness is so vivid to me.

A big corollary I see here is the difference in the wealth concentration across the two. While there's undeniably been great opportunities and wealth creation in ATX over last decade, it seems increasingly more concentrated to the few.  In Prague, it's been more distributed.

Another corollary - the breadth and quality of the services. In the US, it's hard to find a good service, yet they demand minimum 20% tips. In Prague, if you avoid the tourist traps and don't behave like the bad kind of tourist, you can get anything you ask for.


#Bitcoin privacy panel at nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r.

"To be honest, privacy for my generation is near impossible with the current tools" Lykke Dale

"The past generation of devs failed you. We will build better tools with privacy defaults" nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt

🔥
 https://image.nostr.build/251d8484b41e1aa13a18d0af96f1e1511c2482aaebb65d488356ff3f4c6df487.jpg


Works the other way around as well.


Disrespect in #Prague
 https://image.nostr.build/66c43a777a0ecd3cdc56db17ac6454195ed19dfcff5f4143b329fbc812efd196.jpg


It comes along with an actual freedom to do shit here. The opposite of an HOA or an uptight US or European old rich neighborhoods.

There's more communists in Brussels or in the Elizabeth Warren's suburb than in Prague, but no grafitti there.

Freedom doesn't come in a uniform, and isn't maintained by following the old rules.


Cold storage in a crypt?


*POUR gold from Czechia


Shilling #Prague to the Bitcoiners.

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

Braains Propagandists nailed it with this one.

*Certainly download the Qerko app to be able to pay w/ Bitcoin at hundreds of pubs and places around Prague. If the check-out sticker is on the table, they accept Bitcoin (often without even knowing it).


2 summer months there; you're not gonna need the return tickets ;-)


Definitely not in cash before the bitcoin bull makes its run.

Maybe, if I can take a 10+ year fiat denominated loan for it.

Also, depends on the size of the property size. If it's worth too much, they will tax it harder than a small apartment, so there's more to gain (if you trust the other party on the deal)


There's been 7(!) different state currencies within 100 years in Czech between the 1890s - 1990s.

Every single one of the monetary reforms stole money from the savers. The communist one was arguably the worst, but it's myopic to think it was the only bad one. And it's myopic to think that they steal your savings only during the volatile reforms. The steady times standardly come with a substantial dose of inflation.


A summary of the currency reform that took place in Czech Republic in 1953 under communism.

History repeats itself, doesn’t it?
https://m.primal.net/IeaC.jpg


The Tech rubric is pretty telling.

https://image.nostr.build/644d2905078ab1afd926ac5fa2e12ed5a8d84dafdeb002e2d1b599b827b61075.jpg


What BusinessInsider has done is online rape.

They used the excuse of "fascism" to write a doxxing article, exploiting individual's private information for their profit.

I feel for my fellow developer  nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6. It's absolutely unfair that you have to endure this.

https://m.primal.net/Ibgx.png

The biggest accusations they could come up with is that fiatjaf "built at least two webpages devoted to disseminating the work of the far-right conspiracy theorist Olavo de Carvalho" and "said some things about Nazis".

90% of the article is just doxxing fiatjaf.

I encourage everyone to fight back on the "fascism" of Business Insider and report what they did as a completely unjustified violation of privacy.

h/t  nostr:npub103a6vk43crw497dlaptwfmhctxqu22mwepshjcvvp29fzwrhtx4q675n6p

https://x.com/BitcoinBRS/status/1798804354322796589

https://m.primal.net/IbhC.png


Nice! I was thinking about something simple like that, just a bit smaller. We got unusued narrow tall nook next to the kitchen that would be great for it.


It is very pathetic.

Realizing that another human is willingly earning a living by writing such hit pieces is just sad (and gross).
 https://image.nostr.build/889db2fc9f788e6d39f287c473092d4d962642110fd7bd862b81880bf40e4907.jpg .


How does the full setup look like?


Not there this weekend, but visiting Paralelni Polis might be interesting. MoneroKon is scheduled there.

https://monerokon.org/


Paradoxically, with the current tech, it's been seemingly easier to isolate people (and their thoughts) than in the previous decades.

But I'm pretty confident that's just transitory. The feedback loupes are shortening and you can't shield yourself from them.


#campstr season upon us 🔥⛺🥩

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The cucumber looks fake, no? What about the rest?


I hope we learn from other PTSDs in the history, and front-run its societal tax by discussing it out across the bubbles, instead of everyone harborong their own sets of injustices and guilts for generations.

For sure, the way to lead is to humbly admit the mistakes.


The Great Communist Experiment.


Covid Derangement Syndrome will prevail at least for 1-2 generations.


# of deaths vastly underestimate their crimes.

In life-years-stolen, the 2020-22 US goverment policies (Trump-Fauci-Biden) stolen more lives than all other years since 1776 combined.

And we're nowhere the final toll yet.


Thanks, will check it out.


👁🗨👁🗨 what is it? The link got cut in half.


There's only one direction this could go. 🦩


May 19th, I landed on a plane in Fairbanks, AK.  Exhausted after a full day of traveling, the task at hand was to bring my dad down to the states with his 12 year old dog, in a camper van RV..  On the flight, the sun was perpetually setting the entire time.  This photo was taken at 11:45pm.  It was immediately apparent to me, and a familiar weird feeling, I had arrived in the land of the midnight sun and my body was wildly rejecting the fact that it was midnight.  I slept a restless sleep, with my sweatshirt covering my eyes as I contemplated what I had gotten myself into.  I steeled myself and knew I would not be seeing darkness again for a week.

https://i.nostr.build/EnjeK.jpg

(This is a microblog replay of my journey, powered by highlighter.com, scheduled posts will go out daily)


GM 🌞 who else is joining. Is for Austin Bitcoin Club this Thursday?

nostr:npub1hxwmegqcfgevu4vsfjex0v3wgdyz8jtlgx8ndkh46t0lphtmtsnsuf40pf  will be telling stories of the #bitcoin delegation to El Salvador for Bukele’s ceremony and nostr:npub1j4u5gjzjyggr3h96x3gjy4akdgwxuk7mgvumv72gym2qyje7fn5s47d6x9 will remind us that everyone’s a scammer…

Stay humble and stack sats. ⚡

 https://meetu.ps/e/MMVFm/YdG95/i


Those who don't risk won't learn how to fly. 🦩


Good morning ☕ ☀ 🌊 you wonderful Nostr people 🫂💜

This morning on the way to work.

#Bitcoin #Coffeechain https://video.nostr.build/9202952541f4279dff674741d7c6158067ecf761dc93b26c3a0f2473a316721d.mp4 https://image.nostr.build/a64148a77aa8faae934e6ca3f8295ce8b15c55652a67d169d16e1acb38bf5468.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e6c6a948c6864c8140dba2de65e0e68d46aa40bb8f0282ff5ab0f04fd4be1d17.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8695d0be73a03c1a531834fa95c9f49239307355b33840737a52ba2132163fc0.jpg


Leaders lead 🫡


Great concepts there; will be using for sure.


Too good to be true


That's my recommended style. Sometimes bringing also the 🥜


Used Bisq for the first time recently and it was very smooth


This is the very reason nostr:npub15dc33fyg3cpd9r58vlqge2hh8dy6hkkrjxkhluv2xpyfreqkmsesesyv6e exists. #JustBuildIt, ESPECIALLY on #Nostr, where the cost is learning something new, iterating is cheap, and the content is already there for you. nostr:note1ysvtzxc9a94pln2y363rld2kzavgpu93swp7dgfsyu9vlf8mx68quv5hss


I had the #millionSatsIdea hashtag on Twitter a long while back, maybe I'll bring it back.


My kids are naming their booth for farmer's market "Cookie Comrades". nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyrv3ry0rpcqygju59s8g9jk5wzej4ut3wexzyad7uz7ejdm7l4q82nv0ehg  would be so proud.


Show us


What's the opportunity cost, though?

Fiat is the guaranteed rug;
onchain is too expensive for small frequent payments, and too public.


Decentralized FDIC insurance.

I'm thinking along the same ways, if the trust is the bottleneck here, let's think about how to minimize the trust while preserving the benefits ecash brings. You don't have the reject the whole experiment right away.


Curious; send it over


Did we need a legal right to defenestrate the politicians out of the windows before doing so?

Nah. It's always implicitly there. Same as the gravitation.


EU is fucked, Europe is blossoming.


To anyone who thinks Europe is a lost cause, I introduce the orange square: nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r, #TheBitcoinMeetup, Bitcoin Amsterdam, Lugano Plan B. And it doesn't even include Bitcoin Atlantis, Cheat Code, Oslo Freedom Forum, Bitcoin Filmfest,  Surfin' Bitcoin, or any of the hundreds of #Bitcoin meetups happening every month 💪
 https://image.nostr.build/bdcc7b75184435f0847714c37cac63e473fd185b68a0d54bf924d4a1e8d7df69.jpg


Or "weight", don't invert, and let it grow to infinity.


GM,

Friday around the corner; how do we create a fun feed algo?

In the spirit of K.I.S.S., I was thinking about iterating on  nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg's Trending algo - alongside having the "Trending" & "Most Zapped", can we fetch notes the "Most Laughing Emoji Reactions"?

Maybe we could also just add a filter option to  nostr:npub13myx4j0pp9uenpjjq68wdvqzywuwxfj64welu28mdvaku222mjtqzqv3qk's custom feeds. Filter based on the custom engagement conditions, so that it can still be bounded by your WoT instead of going too global.

#fridayfunfeed


Neocons vs woke to me is a parallel to malice vs stupidity.

*"dumbest retards" is too nice of a judgment for them. "The most evil retards" fits better.


It's all just about postponing the blow up


Tether


Crypto is not here for you to make money. But for you To free yourself from your economic savery. And all the money in the world ... Will never free you Unless you first Leave your fucking cage.


In what ways?


"I like to say that WhatsApp is the operating system of the region, so it makes sense that we build something on WhatsApp to make it super easy,” CEO Manuel Godoy told TechCrunch.

💯

Strong moves. Expanding through WhatsApp integration is the way to go in Latam.

If they avoid going down the PayPal path of the compliance nightmares and frequent random account freeze, they could take a strong foothold there IMO.

Dollarizing Latam the sly roundabout way.


Exchanging messages is a good metaphor, but maybe too atomical.

I think that describing it as a neverending word game with defined closed set of moves can be a level closer to their understanding, and yet reveal your point.

Word Chain Game is the best example (the one where you have to come up with a word startomg with the last letters of the previous word). Traditionally a spoken game, but can be played on computers, in online multiplayers, ...

Playing Bitcoin is like playing the Spelling Bee PR the Wordle.


🚬🥃 THE CONFAB 02 🚬🥃
Still Here 💪 w/ @Diverter_NoKYC & @BTCxZelko

Diverter & Zelko speak with Max about what happened to Samourai Wallet and TDevD , the broader implications to #bitcoin    and where to go from here...

#FREESAMOURAI
#WHEREISTDEVD

https://video.nostr.build/bf27c4952a37e0ea6fe1061c63427ce9cc460aa32647fd9f800399a30bd3ca39.mp4

LINK: ungovernablemisfits.com/latest/


It will get worse, sadly. Enjoy each day while you have it. Pick the hill that you are willing to die on and don’t ever budge from that spot.

I believe that peace, love and freedom will win in the end. 💜 nostr:note1m4u6c39v5nyvksa80mmjm27x2df7yf4swj8pn767nkgdgadk0q2shh22f8


But hey, it's just the money that we owe to ourselves.


GM

Feeling very bullish, we're going to fight and we're going to win

https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-fight-for-bitcoin-carman-and-giorgio


What a way to unite the nation - send your kids to labor camps and wars.

Glad to see the kids are laughing the proposal out loud. But still, Europe is walking down a thin rope.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/27/national-service-rishi-sunak-memes-election/


Thank God for Hodlbod. nostr:note1l5ketk6lzufcvxfwl7fds4ck5vk3u3cervx8glpcm64p8m90u8nql4lrcc


Audio books biggest shortcoming is that they aren't on podcasting platforms. The format is much better UX, and bigger reach. Innovate, or perish.

If you add some up to date discussion and bitcoiner's pow commentary, that's a great added value. But most of the time, re-reading out loud the content could be eliminated if they come up with better distribution models.


That's really fast. Nice work. 💪

It took me 70min, but finished ✅


What could possibly cause such a drop 2 halvings from now? Hard to imagine anything. Unless we manage to nuke the internet.


When this one starts spinning, the only option is to join.


Do you know why Berlin is one of the few cities with no curfew? 🤔

In 1949, with the cold war it's infancy, Berliner Hanz Zellermayer convinced the Allied authorities that closing the bars too early was bad PR for the free world.

Legend has it that Zellermayer brought a bottle of whisky and kept the French and Americans drinking until they agreed that there should be no closing hours.

The British tried to intervene, but to no avail. Berlin's curfew was scrapped forever and the world's greatest night life was born.

So stick it to the commies by joining our after hours program at #TheBitcoinMeetup 😎

Kongerik.et/the-bitcoin-meetup


Drop the capital gains taxes on everything and guarantee no attacks on self sovereign usage, or don't even bother begging.


No clue.


Big news! We've got merch!
Designed by the amazing nostr:npub12hcytyr8fumy3axde8wgeced523gyp6v6zczqktwuqeaztfc2xzsz3rdp4

Get then over here: https://store.zap.stream

Also if you're going to nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r i will be selling them there too.

https://blossom.nogood.studio/03098935083418cffb2fd0213e7b1d01a36f94d261f47c78c213f6c4f09eef0f.png
https://blossom.nogood.studio/f98bc742ba24b2c729420148d736c3c0f58e6551d7dc0e4bd263d78bf2ab58b8.png


Good dream, I hope it works out for you 💪


Testing grounds?

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Pokud nechcou jit cestou Nemecka, tak staci deregulovat a snizit dane.


By now, it's hard for me to believe that he's not telling the exact opposite message at some Wall St conference.


Ignoring expert consensus, feeling no shame following exposés showing tech lobbyists shaping these EU surveillance proposals, EU politicians are at it again

So, we'll reiterate: Signal would rather leave the EU market than subject our users to mass gov surveillance. FULL STOP

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/internes-protokoll-belgien-will-nutzer-verpflichten-chatkontrolle-zuzustimmen/

https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/112/495/921/158/967/226/original/8b0d0983f03a5849.png


Support the circular economy!!

My value for your value.

Then we win.

nostr:note10f8wfecl3f6mugeufvmnscgvy6rd27783g9uvltpe6sylx7h60nqrzws3u


A dedicated section in the npub profiles - for what services you could provide.

Aggregate it, make it searchable, and voila - we have our v4v yellow pages.


Wild!


That's pretty malicious at some point. And he's pretty safely in that zone now 👎


USSA?


Fiat to stablecoin and back KYC free?


Personal social media feed aggregator - interesting. Especially for businesses and creators.

For me, I would be much more in need of something like that for all the messaging apps. But that's a different story.

What it does if I try to repost some external protocol source to nostr? Is it possible? As a screenshot + link or something?


Maybe, avoid talking about best allocation for your money, and rather lean into trying to defend the future of your kids and grandkids against the increasingly thievy governments.

Then you can at least sound apocalyptic and negative. Way to set the mood for a hood chit chat. 👌


We need stickers and yard signs.


Bitcoin 2024: Make Money Great Again


What is he selling now?


$14 is really bad. But might as well very possibly be in hundreds in our lifetime 🤯


We should get nostr-based p2p delivery service for all the community goods people can't just ship across the ocean.

10k sats shipping fee, I'd happily pack it in the bags when hopping to EU or back.


No Mutiny mentions here? 👁🗨👁🗨


This is honestly such a hard question and it shouldn't be. What Lightning wallet do you recommend to brand new non-technical Nostriches that want to experience Zaps?


Money managers and investors are captured in the make believe nominal world. Real conditions increasingly point to an inevitable money printing avalanche hitting us at any minute now.


Could be a good tradeoff for some people in some comoanies as their "work computer" if strictly used for that.

The good old desktop sitting in the office running just Word, Excel, Outlook, not coming across any PII or sensitive data.


For custom apps on nostr, instead of random event kinds like 33442, let's use descriptive and human-readable "f" tags (for "folder") such as "apps/market/item" and corresponding "d" tag "apps/market/item/[uuid]".


I'm starting to think nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx was right..
 https://image.nostr.build/858435ccd3aafa8ece08194fb59230e2ff763e0ab5dadac65a98428654794f44.jpg


What's the good way to generate the lnurl-w?


Sales at silent.link Dec’22 - Mar’24

#BTC   4% ⬆ #XMR 5% ⬇ #LN 2%⬆ https://image.nostr.build/999bc15e9541296f206e3976ff08629b7677979d198d00a2a7cc84055f4d1dd5.jpg


👇 A simple recipe from the Cook bros for keeping the big-ass conference relevant.
 https://image.nostr.build/0aa286fb913e8beeb2ee4075cd8e67d46fe0d12bac9311cd853d95046cef3913.jpg

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BTC Prague dev/hack/day – this could be its own 2-day conference with fewer parallel tracks.

🔥

https://m.primal.net/IJup.png


Shamir or Seed XOR will allow you to keep analog and more resistant to physical damage. But I like the idea of some distributed set of rings or something. Maybe ideally something rather subtle than too flashy and appealing to dumb thieves.


Insulated and flooring down.

#tinyhouse #grownostr

 https://image.nostr.build/81b3d507007653fe9c1002d20a371834956b645606dc8c0db099a7daa2d154bd.jpg


That's maybe what the ego people tell themselves and that's why they have such a big problem to look into Bitcoin again more deeply after the initial dismissal.

But it's a keynesian/communist/technocratic bias - thinking that smart people do smart things and dumb people do dumb things.

The real world is not so deterministic.

The underdogs always have the fighting chance. And that's what's so beautiful about it.

You can never guarantee a win to anyone. But you can guarantee a loss to the guy who chooses to never play.


CUSTOM FEETS!

🦶🦶

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Beastie Girls


Yes, and I would say that again.

Join us.

#Bitcoin
 https://image.nostr.build/01c0eb5256ba0faed9ed76579c5455442f891bf2980c2bfd1cfcb8ddf4757099.jpg


What happened? Died suddenly?


3.125 is enough now
1.5625 in 4 years


Longer blog post from Arthur Hayes, but greatly explains the current macro shenanigans and  (YEN/USD swap lines; Yellen's China visits; US Gov Debt; ...), and its implications (shadowy money printing behind the curtain; liquidity flood incoming; weaker USD)

tl;dr - sell all your chairs

https://cryptohayes.substack.com/p/the-easy-button


EU is a crazy monster. The ever more failing economic, industrial, agricultural, immigration, ... policies are always leading to to even more centralization and freedom restrictions just to keep the parasite alive.

In the old communist past, anyone could at least easily compare the centralized communist model with the much more free western capitalism model. Nowadays, there's virtually no states left standing to provide the contrast.

On the other hand, we have the parallel shadowy communities and individuals growing strong and shining even stronger signal than any state example ever could.


What are the odds that the Epstein's banker will become the White House banker next year?

https://image.nostr.build/6caedca5ae0128a221914bd52e5f5ef539c035fd4935f5e567cb7de3bbb66cb6.jpg

Either FED chairman or Treasury secretary. No matter who wins the election, I bet they'll put him in.


Thanks for the summary; nostr will become what "peer reviewed" was supposed to be.


Many years from now people are going to ask you what this period was like.

Make sure you can say you were actively supporting the community and resisting power. ✊

nostr:note1wkry6zzr0gvmhssm665gve7vf2g76cj0p9l3gt2gpdxrfs5c7n0shtt76c


How loud are these? And can you easily control the wattage on them?


I always liked the Basecamp guys writing style. Never been too pedant on it, but they always stood out to me with the clarity of both writing and thinking.

Lately, I'm enjoying their content more and more as well. Maybe there's some thought cross-polination since they rediscovered the Bitcoin.

What they do on the software development side is also pushing the boundaries and disrespecting the moat of the zombie trch monopolies.

👌


Open source is neither a community nor a democracy - DHH

https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-is-neither-a-community-nor-a-democracy-606abdab


You mean this soon?

https://m.primal.net/IIST.png


Ready to get promoted to the Central Bank.


Still, I agree, it's often better than spending millions on the quantitative data. Ideally, great complement to each other.


Now when you can get AI to read the customers feedback, it can actually scale and be "read".


Lol, yea. Smart, but not humble = hfsp.


Definitely. Value can be much better defined and specified on the client level than on the protocol.

On the protocol - maybe active & returning npubs having repeatedly more than single type of engagement signals...

My point is more conceptual, you can always draw some sort of this schema for any tool or product:
https://image.nostr.build/3e634a49b948e7e718d07aca25c0d175f99594ef73e0373ab455f24c7cdd91ed.png

*it's from this product development keynote "The alchemy and science of product metrics" - personal favorite recommendation for PMs; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPT28IGDP_M


Lol, yea.

I mean, for Damus/Primal, I would go with the couple of the composite metrics as a bundle to keep track of for the longer progress. I don't think you can come up with a single north star bullet metric. But there is somewhat clear hierarchy in the quality of the metrics, and their proximity to LTV.

Ex.
- Unique users with a click (comment, zap) are better than total clicks (comments, zaps)
- zap is better than like

For individual iterations, I'd still lean more into UX feedback and product intuition.

The composite metric might be
Distinct(npub HAVING (note + comment + like + zap)>0

You can do >1; >10; >100, and over different time frames, to measure higher, and more repetitive and lasting levels of engagement.

...
At different stages of the product, you want to use diffently advancing metrics. The simple ones are good for the start, but can be skewing you towards the cheap engagement baits. At more advanced stages, you want to counterbalance them with even more quality, and that gets progressively harder to define and measure.


Every single product should try to optimize for the users' LTV (life time value).

Easy to say, hard to measure. But the closer you get with the measurement, the less noise there is, and the harder it is to game the metric.

- clicks: lot of noise, loose correlation with LTV
- zaps: less noise, higher correlation with LTV

So the question always is - how to define the LTV for the user of the product in a measurable way. Simple concept, hard execution.

I would probably go with some composite metric for engagement. Daily, weekly, and monthly unique engaged users.

Extra tricky thing here is that each user has different things in their LTV, and mostly they are unable to express it even if you ask them.


Yes, those are cool, apparently trendy now, but relatively expensive if you do bigger sections since it requires nicer straight wood (~$200 for 30 slats here). Most of the rest is basic lumber, and I reused most I had lying around.

Pegboards are pretty simple. You need the little space between the pegboard and the wall to be able to attach the hooks, so just two parallel horizontal slats to the wall, and attach the pegboard to those. I added the little trim around to give it a nice frame.


workspace progress; just missing the drawers now

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True, 40B is peanuts for the US Gov


Well done!


Fair point. But what do you recommend to the noobs to make them experience the zaps?


Look, the money printer never sleeps either, and it doesn't complain to everyone on nostr. So don't even dare to think about missing a shift.


Bounty for whoever hacks their voting machines.


🎯web2 clients got captured by maximizing engagement metrics at all costs, and became ideal products for the sensational Breaking bots and for Elons. And less ideal for others.

It could be fun, and informative, and definitely pairs up well with the attention milking ad model. But it's just a sliver of utility and value which people seek on the internet.

Be conscious about this tradeoff, and optimize (at least some) clients for the real people, not for the Breaking bots.


And this concept provably worked.

Benda pretty much just described the dissent to the ruling communist party happening across all spheres of life (not just the purely political ones), and he gave some theoretical concept to it.

The parallels with the Bitcoin and v4v communities are strong. You don't need loud revolts and conflicts, it's more sustainable to build and relay your activities all throughout and around the official/mainstream pathways, up to the point that they can't single you out with any force without destroying themselves.

Definitely a concept worth studying more.

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Champions League next!


Alright assholes I'm back in this bitch because I've had it with the Twitter shithole censoring my links and telling me i cant say fuck, no idea if anyone is reading this but if you do read nostr:npub15dnln6cukw3yrflnv3hnrntdt9amh0uw466u6tns05ymqp3nal4qzz3lfc 's fantastic new piece speaking to US regulators on open-source arrests:

https://www.therage.co/us-officials-sour-on-biden-war-on-privacy/


I liked the tough question segment; always good to practice skepticism; keep it in.


Is there just one state side?


He's on the Orban side. So yea, the simpletons would say he's been pro-Putin.


I agree, it's not easy.

I'm just saying there's a lot of very costly and unproductive ways to revolt, and the government would be more than happy if you choose those.


Juetified - Whenever they don't allow you to opt out. So, long time ago.

The question is whether it's the most efficient way to achieve the goals.

Declaring indeoendence, peacufully opting out and building parallel structures and processes which shield you from interacting with the goverments is pretty effective way to revolt.

Jan 6 style revolt is just a massive trap.


Why the wait? Just the unspecified "compliance holdout period", or did they provide any explanation of their own?


Progressing renovating the workspace.

- new slat wall on, bike mounts, pegboard properly installed

Waiting for the lumber rack. Then got to figure out lightning, the desk drawers, maybe some cabinets.

Ain't much, but it's an honest work 🫡

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Why is everything falling apart?
The wrong "plan?"
The wrong "leaders?"
Not enough "funding?"

It's actually far simpler and more fundamental than most realize...

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


So good!


Also, don't misjudge other people's curiosity for the judgements.


Immutable ledger 💪


If you have time, there's some event in Berlin the weekend before. Easy and cheap train/bus to Prague then.

The btc Prague itself has side events before and after.

And Europe in summer is just chill, and cheaper to enjoy than the US.

https://btcprague.com/side-events/


Good point. I expect real estate would be a whole level up. This one would be just a personalized consumer goods category.

Maybe if crowdsourced, then you can get a public datasets of prices od many goods over the time, that would be some cool hard data to have access to for anyone.


Idea - good or bad?

Personalized CPI tracker based on your past Amazon purchases.

- scrape / or request data from Amazon order history
- look up today's price of the products (if the very same ones still exist!)
- calculate the inflation

Would you expect it to be useful given the caveat of dropping the missing data and no (hedonic) adjustments?


GM Nostr ☕

90% Bitcoin users are KYC'd up to the eyeballs.
On chain privacy is severely kneecapped.
Mining is heavily centralized.
The ETFs are rug pull tech.
Self custodial LN is a ball ache.

We haven't won, not even close.

Have a great day 😜


vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaP7qmsQbSI


It is not about based vs woke.

It is about independent vs subservient.

Think for yourselves. Pursue truth. Build your life as though society and supply chains could be disrupted for several months.

It doesn’t mean being a prepper. It means understanding what your life relies on for a moderate amount of time, and thinking for yourself.


Damn, how long till the agents open their own cash flowing startups?


Good context.

Still, making buying low and selling high illegal unless you give them a cut is outrageous.


Yup, not all can be saved.

https://image.nostr.build/d6c783cebcbb291773c59fe64698bca66df0d80ed7ae4aef9155e7a7b16146d3.jpg


That the lower time preference spreads from economic (finance) aspects of life beyond, and then you get ever stronger conviction that there are more important things than money.
?


No way he's gonna trust the third parties again.


And they didn't even menrion the rising peoperty taxes here.


"9 to 5" is a nice euphemism for the pods and gulags.


~60 USD, that's a lot more money than I would expect. Many people in the West would sell their votes for less I think.


Helicopter money


Would be a pity if this Idaho RV/Ranch gig doesn't land w/ some Bitcoiner.

https://m.primal.net/IFTq.png


Would be interesting to slice it by age groups. Curious if we're really losing the gen-z or not.


NGU is the trojan horse for the bottom quintile to respect private property.


+1 for the Second Realm book shills. Very insightful chat overall!


Intro to nostrability, and nostrCI talk + slides below. Followed by other stuff overview, wikifreedia live demo, q&a.

Thank you in no particular order:
nostr:npub1e4qg56wvd3ehegd8dm7rlgj8cm998myq0ah8e9t5zeqkg7t7s93q750p76 for amazing nostr overview art
nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s and nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 for zaps, damus, zap stream
nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr primal and nostrability
nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft everything
nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5 for meme
nostr:npub1r7gx3827sllljwlplmwh6a43h4fghv4l3vycg96w95r2fccndumsy55pxy for providing me with alby invite keys in time for the presentation
nostr:npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9 for zap.store
nostr:npub16dhgpql60vmd4mnydjut87vla23a38j689jssaqlqqlzrtqtd0kqex0nkq shopstr.store
nostr:npub1fkvjh50p9amcvce5eclalcszqduehlhmsjm76hx3zy5sx3g40ddqqednwk for opportunity to workshop
nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 for compelling nostrCI pitch

https://youtu.be/I3Qld_HXQuM?si=i9yMpCwBTtIKSkWw

https://slides.com/alltheseas/nostrability nostr:note16avgv7578gg6063zdw8stqlj8sr3w9c554uuak5lmm8arrdrzvrq68zd2z


I always hated the history back in school. All just dates and names to remember, minimum reasoning or explanation.

Then I took a course from one toxic libertarian about the ~"evolution of US economic policies and politics in the 20th century~", and it blew my mind.

Telling history like an economic story with incentives and reasons makes the it much more interesting, useful, and "real". Without it, it's just a "nominal" history.


Which pixel? Got something older unused here.


Wow, lots of juicy details in this article.

UK full speeding into the 1984.

"The government has repeatedly said it wants the U.K. to be the safest place to go online in the world."

- age verifications via digital IDs and facial recognition matching before accessing range of online content
- social media and search engines, and their algos are the prime targets

"Whether it will be any more successful at preventing digital slurry from pouring into kids’ eyeballs than it has actual shit from polluting the country’s waterways remains to be seen."

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You gonna need money transmitter license to send tips and social media license to send memes. If the meme causes depression or discomfort to anyone, you're in trouble.


Solid work. Practice some wallet restoring and if he starts asking around privacy, challenge him to try to get some KYC free SATs, and ask how much more he likes them.


From 1920 until 1933 alcohol was prohibited in America. The prohibition was abandoned because no one stopped drinking. World governments are close to prohibiting crypto. They can expect the same result.


Sell it at the conference right next to the beer stand. Will be sold out in first few hours.


KYC = tax cattle registry


Normalize the term 'tax cattle'


Time to focus on Cashu v2 (offline ecash, atomic p2p trading, bitcoin-backed fiat, multinut payments). No company, just a large international network of Chaumian ecash mints. Privacy by default.


No one's gonna be as happy to see you after few hours away as your dog. Not even your mom.

Makes dealing with the smelly crackhead parts a better tradeoff.


All the europarlament elections should have the Exit option amongst the lists of career bureacrats there if they would want to maintain some legitimacy.

The fact that they don't do it shows they are aware they have no legitimacy.


Just let the tables to have their QR codes as a first step. Not as a replacement for physical menus, but as a replacement for waitress having to show up with the bill, card reader and receipt in 3 separate steps.


#Amethyst font size is too small for me; would be nice to have options.

#ux


Another page under Evidence of the Wikimedia Censorship and State Intelligence Ties would be handy for storing the receipts as well.


how is this possible?

ok, how about we bring some of that risque content nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx  asked for?

50k sats to the best wiki article about JStark on nostr.

Write on wikifreedia.xyz

Repost for visibility 🙏

https://image.nostr.build/db17a387d54c918171884bb08d40b6ac174aa285b9e36df207ce7ee731487664.png


Raising the bar on all of us. Thanks!


Replace 4year stock options vesting with 4 year cold storage options vesting. Soft-forced hold instead of the 401k match.

Better employee retention, family happiness, health, better business results.

Education comes along with that.


What a puppet.


To all monero reply-guys pinging all my notes:
* Yes I've heard about it
* Yes I also use monero sometimes
* Yes I still use, believe and root for bitcoin
* No, I don't need to read the same monero talking points over and over again, I get the gist
* No, you're not being helpful by commenting about monero everytime bitcoin privacy is discussed, it's just annoying and not helping your evangelical cause
* You are being just as obnoxious and a smooth brain 40 IQ Saylor-loving Bitcoin maxi
* No, don't leave nostr, we still need diverse povs here


Let's imagine a better future. This doesn't consist in making stuff up, but in recalling to mind what we already know to be good. It isn't done only by speaking, but by doing and being. It isn't done according to our designs, but according to God's. It isn't accomplished by the effort of our own labor, but by God's work in us. We are not the architects of a better future — through hope we are the product of it.

nostr:nevent1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kytcpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mf0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejz7qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qg6waehxw309a4kummnw3ezumn9w468y6twv5hxxmmd9uq3wamnwvaz7tmzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq32amnwvaz7tmyv4ekx6r0dakxjmn89e6hxtcqyrqw77dtnq70w8x0pnvpn3gdujqnmfp9wawns4p5dfj7xumdyve2c0l4mq0


Shorter and sweeter dessert here for today. My favorite to repeat once in a while.
 https://image.nostr.build/cf71d6d15b062104ddd50797e792e9d26f14ac3d8ed6800c6f4adba5a615f4b1.jpg


Damn, who is that? Sounds dope.


Paid my dry cleaner in bitcoin ⚡ https://image.nostr.build/9d7525359f8949e86126d4958de870a2b88c5dd9c01ffbede943bafa9ad837c0.jpg


Wow, what happened there?


Tldr?


To me, principle = anti war libertarianism & preference = not being on the same side with Che Guevara lovers.

But are you saying it's the opposite?


That's a really solid argument for him.


Will have to.


Oh man! This is how it looks if the product/dev can't say no.

Chief of compliance deserves the promotion to the EU, though.


Elon should have out these with all manual knobs and dials into the cybertrucks.


Banning was the first level thinking.

Forcing Bytedance to sell (ie confiscating), under a permission renting it to some of their stooges like Mnuchin, meanwhile openly threatening the rest about their destiny if they transgress is the second level.

Win win game for all their friends, lose lose for all their enemies.

No need for bans when you can squeeze the juice (ie fully KYC-ed Bitcoin surveilled with AI).


This plus being able to control and limit the visibility of the items/services in my storefront across different groups.

- selling chairs - all public
- renting my car - friends
- unlicensed stuff - group of closely vetted friends and family.

Basically encrypting my storefront to certain permission thresholds. Could be also good forba private price discrimination (heavy discount for the family, etc)


Sound idea. We got to put those steaks at work.


Thanks, Derek; that's a lifesaver. Restored to ~2months old backup.

I wonder what happened there, I followed one new npub on primal, and seemingly at the same time, it over written any existing ones.

btw, who's running the metadata.nostr.com?


🤔🤔🤔

Did I just lost all npubs I've been following??

Looks like some  nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg bug to me...

#asknostr


Exactly! I was in a total paralysis even for the simplest jobs around the house since everything was just *somewhere* in the hoard of boxes downstairs. Clean and organized space/schedule/codebase makes you so much more productive.


I don't know if you can avoid the algos being black boxes. They are that even for people closely working on developing them.

But you can observe and measure their effects and outcomes, and make it easy for people to switch or curate them.

It's time to usher in the algorithm arbitrage.


yesterday i unfollowed everyone on twitter to reset and test the algorithm.

my experience generally stayed the same, with a pretty high quality of signal. it will only get better, towards what tiktok was able to do.

the algorithm isn’t the problem. the problem arises when the algorithm is a black box, can’t be turned off, or can’t be replaced by another one someone else wrote.

being able to choose if an algorithm is used, and which one is used, is key. no one is done this well yet. twitter is the only one that allows a choice in the first place.


Already understanding money more than most recent Nobel Prize Economists.


Absurd and idiotic - exactly what we should expect from the governments.


GM.

Feels good to rein in the clutter. Still plenty to do to finish it up, but getting usable here.
#woodworking

1)  https://image.nostr.build/fa4ab262dea70da634195c71ec0f709dddb2a082bb676f2b6bcffe444e34b3c2.jpg

2)
https://image.nostr.build/48ac458af3fc4263da49eb6a8ba11ac16c1297b7acdd3f647a5117d191546716.jpg

3)  https://image.nostr.build/7eea7fef35580f8dab3620d82d26e5332ec28f9f11ffd80295b254f31e7af05d.jpg


Endless patience there.

Low time preference isn't the path to survival on a leaky boat.


+1 for the US. The local real estate and stocks shot up regardless of the logistics inputs.


Man, do we need these videos here? 🤷♂


KYC bitcoin + monopoly on violence = a perfect CBDC.

Technically, a permissionless protocol, but practically 100% surveilled and permission-requiring.


State is a 0.1% pass-through organization that you're not allowed to not fund.


Call me naive, but my abiding hope is that this act and those like it spurs the next generation of protocol designers and developers to create a means of financial privacy that *cannot* be stopped.

Let a hundred cashus bloom.


Better save the next Costco trip to the market top; or buy smaller as you go


I want to be able to easily discover and seek these Conversion-adopting sellers (and also to pay them via BTC/LN directly).


Yes, that was probably it! Just no cherries back there.

I bet you can imagine how the soviet-old Czech pub version was like. 😅


Lol!

If you "remember", then you handled it better than 90% people who ever drank that 💪

But once I met a bartender in the US who was having a version of it on the menu. It was actually perfectly balanced, delicious, and still strong as fuck, but not necessarily knocking people off right away.
- champagne, some honey syrup, lemon juice, and some vodka or maybe bourbon with it. Don't remember, the bar shut down long time ago...

We gonna need @nostr:npub16secklpnqey3el04fy2drfftsz5k26zlwdsnz84wtul2luwj8fdsugjdxk to help us reimagine this good old polar bear drink. 🥂


Very dangerous species, though.
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Hmm, to me, the number one would be the threat of government persecutions defending their fiat monopoly.

Necessity of inflation was always rather something that economists learn to repeat, but don't really think through the deflation fears there.


No more inflation by nostr:npub18hyl92mmr8uypkz4dc0w5d55uqa7ym8rqc3x2esmjjnj3s8vf6ds0zeavz is going to be a beautiful movie, this guy knows how to shoot...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn5TXYkPus8


Spinning class - FED meeting


Keynesians would measure the economic output at the rate the legs are spinning. Sound economics is measured in the miles you ride.

Their favorite hack is to keep downshifting whenever not necessary, or loosening the chain.


Could DVM replace super-elsat here?


True.


What a frustrating experience. The karma works for everyone. You did all great.


Idk who said this first but it's crazy how you can:

"buy real money with fake money" -someone idk who


Looking forward!


Austin #bitcoin halving brunch is today, the twenty first.

We’ll have bone broth for this Cooler day in TX, along with steak and eggs, the best natural wine, locally roasted coffee and more…

Learn about how inflation has destroyed our food system and how we can take responsibility for our health. #FiatFood

Expecting over 100 Bitcoiners for this one!

 https://meetu.ps/e/N1Q2g/YdG95/i

Come by Sapien Center 11-3pm!


Bomb dropping thieves.


Your elected representatives are waving the flag of a foreign nation as they cheer for the billions they will send to fund a war you never agreed to pay for.

The money is broken. The incentives are broken. The kleptocrats are in charge. The system will not be fixed from within.

No one is coming to save you.

Save yourself and your family.

Study #Bitcoin and start building a parallel system. https://v.nostr.build/8GneE.mp4


China vibes


Check out Juraj's podcast to dive more into the Optionality concept. (He's pretty active on Nostr as well; I just can't find the npubs now..)

https://fountain.fm/show/y0gebGFAwiozvBv8VDac


That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

Hopefully achievable.


CT shilling borderless money ✅


Is truly trustless even theoretically possible?

Even Bitcoin (L1) is just trust minimizing solution.

We'll see how it turns out, the markets will decide what are the acceptable tradeoffs.


Would you rather turn your utxos effectively to a dust (near dust)?

What's the alternative you would use if, let's say, a fee would be 1-10x of the stated transaction price?


Why is the RHR the only 'ended' recording on zap.stream that doesn't load?

@npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49


It is falling on its head big time. Watch out for newly manufactured division attempts in the society.


Epic epoch.

An easily verifiable shitton of proof of work was committed to the time chain forever. A direct equivalent of the shitton of memories we created to be forever remembered in our hearts and minds.

Accelerating is exhausting, but we must. And we will.

Thanks for guarding our humbleness, Odell. 🫡


I'll leave this here for now ✨🎶
https://v.nostr.build/OEK5.mp4
Happy Halving #Nostriches 💜


Besides the point, but Telegram UX sucks.


I see... Hard pass for me. I don't think UBI can ever be fair or sustainable. And I think it's pretty anti-civilization to be taxing the technical progress (which makes goods cheaper).

I think the best pro-progress and the most fair policy is to stop taking money from (all) the people in the first place.

If all the government theft stops, then you won't need no UBI with corruptible rulers.


Yes, but not evenly distributed yet.


Hmm, what do you mean? Automation? 🤔🤔

First on my mind - That if the workers use electric drills over screwdrivers, they (or their employer) should be taxed more?

But I'm guessing you meant something smarter?


Does paying taxes = stealing from your family?

#asknostr


Instagram got in 2 years to 50M monthly active users. 13 employees there at that time.


Zaps are the near-term killer feature. Openness is the long-term killer feature.

Let’s not talk about zaps in the past tense. They are absolutely the killer feature that makes everyone’s eyes light up. We need to double down on that. Lightning can scale globally through a combination of custodians and self-custody, which is fine. We are totally in the process of winning here, let’s lean into it.

Creating a better public square, powered by zaps, is the correct opening move. An ecosystem of apps built on the same open network will seal the deal. Nostr will replace the legacy web. Agreed, censorship resistance is important, but it alone won’t bring in the masses. But using the same identity and social connections in an ecosystem of beautifully executed apps that work well together? Everyone will dig that. That’s Nostr’s checkmate move.

IMHO we have a lot of work to do, but everything is moving in the right direction.


p2p doesn't have taxes. You can still use money.


The barter system doesn't have taxes.


Where's this?

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scammer, and impersonator


Compounding every participant's utility with every aingle transaction.

- the gap between that and what we have now is acivilization scale tragedy.


A few facts about Primal:

- We have 4 devs: 1 iOS, 1 android, 1 web, 1 backend
- We open source everything we build under the MIT license
- We’ve raised a small seed round from mission-aligned investors
- We optimize our UX for onboarding new users to nostr and bitcoin
- We’ve always been friendly and supportive of other nostr projects
- We will continue building and shipping; that’s a promise

Our goal is to build a profitable business that serves nostr users and no-one else. We expect that to be a long process, spanning many years. We are here and ready to grind.

Anyhow, GM. ☀


Absolutely soulless schoolyard logic.


Nice. How did you cut these out? CNC?


Raced armadillos by blowing on its butt.
Best Bitcoin meetup activity ever.
Welcome to Dallas y'all. https://video.nostr.build/c2337e9b79c610be4cca2b4f0296124cdb47573b525a2682364c95592bb01593.mp4


Godspeed 🙏


Seems like a good time to re-up this clip of nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8

Who are the real terrorists? https://v.nostr.build/AaM97.mp4


If you create a functional circular Bitcoin and lightning economy where you live , you will have done more damage to the state than a standing army. And will have brought options to those who go had none.


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Listened to Michael Saylor on the nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk podcast. It's 3 months old, but sheds some light on the ARK funding story.

https://youtu.be/_QN0RcQFf6w

TL;DW: Saylor strongly believes in *OSSIFICATION NOW*. From that POV, protocol development is a liability.

Some quotes (and thoughts)👇

"You only get to play God once. And Satoshi played God. And you can say 'well Satoshi got to do it, why can't I?' Well the answer is Satoshi did it, the reason we're talking about Satoshi is 'cause the other 100,000 would-be Satoshis failed. If you read the history of the world, work your way through 10,000 pages of Western history, there will be thousands and thousands and thousands of episodes of 'alpha male thinks he was put on this earth, you know, to change everything', full of hubris [...] he's gotta do more, change more, etcetera.'" (53:34)

"Bitcoin Core developers, or protocol developers, they want to fix something, or they want to make a contribution, because it's in their DNA, but developers are just the lawyers of cyberspace. When a lawyer shows up at the capital, they gotta make a law to save you from yourself, and the more laws they make, the more they cripple the economy, until eventually there's so many laws that the entire civilization collapses under its own weight." (58:06)

"The world is full of people that need something to do. I would say, the real key to wisdom, channel your energy constructively. If you're gonna do something, improve Lightning, build an application, persuade someone to adopt Bitcoin as a reserve asset, educate someone… these are all constructive things. Destructive, dilutive, distractive things are: fight with random people 'cause they want to fight with you, attack the core network and make it confusing and introduce anxiety, and confusion and fear, uncertainty and doubt into the base layer. Right? And then attempt to imprint your ego, you know, on the base protocol, you know? Like, 'I gotta introduce this so my name will go down in history forever'." (2:38:55)

My view: it's understandable to want Bitcoin to behave like the granite under Manhattan (his analogy); a solid bedrock that never changes. Especially if you truly believe Bitcoin will take over the world as SoV-only and "there is no second best". But IMO this is wishful thinking. While I agree it's near-impossible for an alt to overtake Bitcoin, I do think adoption could stall.

Luckily, Bitcoin isn't really a natural element. It's spontaneous order, more like language. Hard to change and no one can dictate changes, but if market wants it to change, it can.

Furthermore, despite Stephan asking a few questions in that direction, Saylor mostly failed to distinguish between protocol upgrades and general software maintenance.

Arguing against any hard/soft forks is one thing, but Bitcoin Core 26.0 can obviously not last for centuries...

Having said that, Saylor is of course free to not upgrade anymore and stick to Bitcoin Core 26.0 for as long as he lives.


In the land where we always boil the world oceans for the sssssound money 🐍


Got to rethink the enclosure, but also, might put them to sleep until the heat is needed again.


GM,
- was checking on the space heaters
- grabbed one to move it
- snake crawls out

Pura Vida 🤙


Every capital allocation which is not keeping up with Bitcoin is wasting energy. We still have sooo much more waste to go around.

People don't see it, but all of it means capital misalocation, and somewhere down the line, someone has to work twice as hard for the same profit.

Imagine what moral it creates in a single team if you know someone is getting paid 50% for their efforts vs someone else. Then translate it to the macro level... No surprise everyone is so disillusioned and nihilistic all the time.


Free Bird


Upper two looks a bit like 🔒


DeNarco Trafficante 👀


 nostr:npub1m2mvvpjugwdehtaskrcl7ksvdqnnhnjur9v6g9v266nss504q7mqvlr8p9

Watch out, Jamie is observing! 👀

https://m.primal.net/HtjJ.png


The blocksize war wasn't so much about the blocksize (or, even, scaling Bitcoin). It was really about who controls the consensus rules and how we upgrade the protocol.

For context, a bunch of startups raised tons of money between 2013 and 2016 based on ridiculous user sign-up projections and then we had a long and painful bear market and they were looking for scapegoats (the developpers that were "throttling the network") to justify the lack of growth. I am thinking here specifically of Coinbase, Bitpay and Blockchain.info.

The vibe I got is that they thought of Bitcoin itself as a corporation, that they were the equivalent of Bitcoin's board of directors because they represented the interest of VC investors, and thus they were entitled to decision making power over the network.

I don't doubt that a few people were genuine about scaling p2p e-cash (e.g. Roger Ver) but I suspect what really motivated them is that they believed control of the Bitcoin network would be an asset to their business interests, and lack of control was being used as an excuse to why their interests weren't being satisfied.

There was also a bunch of developers that I believe may have been afraid of losing their relevance (Gavin and Garzik specifically). Regardless of their intentions or psychology, it seemed clear to me that the consortium of vc-backed startups (particularly Bitpay, Coinbase, blockchain(.)info and Roger) had picked a team of developers they thought they could control and wanted to appoint them as a technical management team whicn would execute their strategy, and these guys were willing to step up for that role.

I was physically in the room when the CEO of Blockchain.info (with the very obvious support of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong) announced that Bitcoin Core devs were being fired and would be replaced. This was after a couple days of failed discussions with other industry people. This was the moment when I realized what was really going on.

And finally, you had a Bitcoin mining giant (Bitmain) controlling both asic production and mining pools with a vested interest in promoting the idea that Bitcoin was a democracy and the way to vote was to buy hashing power. The main ideology being pushed here was that a formal governance mechanism of the protocol needed to be established and that hashrate was the only objective measure of who makes decisions.

The underlying big blocker ideology was that the chaos of spontaneous consensus of nodes is unpredictable, flimsy, bad for business. The absence of a formal governance process was seen as the root cause of the issue.

These companies really believed they could control the protocol, and controlling development of the protocol was seen as a very valuable asset to your company. I imagine they thought of themselves as the founders of a new consortium that would solidify itself into a permanent institution. The business interests would pay developers and set the goals, and the mining interests would ratify their decisions with hash power voting. That was their plan.

This became blatantly obvious when Bitmain used its refusal to activate segwit as leverage to get what it wanted (a blocksize increase and recognition of its hashpower as a vote mecanism) even though Bitmain iself acknowledged it was not really opposed segwit.

It was classic traditional politics: I'll give you segwit if you give me something in return.

This is the language the VC suits, investors and tech startup people understand and they were very happy to "negotiate" and find "consensus".

This eventually materialized into the New York Agreement, negotiated literally as a backroom deal during theConsensuss shitcoin conference. I was there and I refused to attend.

This (private) meeting consecrated the alliance of startups/investors and bitcoin mining interests in their appointment of a technical management committee. If you think this sounds like Jekyll Island, you're not alone.

They packaged segwit with a blocksize increase (Segwit2x) and decided to force a hard fork as a condition to "allow" us to have Segwit.

We know the rest of the story: we ended up activating anyway via UASF (or more precisely, the miners activated Segwit after they New York Agreement signatories became scared UASF would lead to a chain split which they were going to lose). And the blocksize increase was also abandoned shortly after when they realized their hard fork would cause a chain split and that they would not be able to claim that their new shitcoin is the real bitcoin.

All these people were subsequently were very pissed off they couldn't control the network, which they thought they were entitled to. Some ragequit, others created a bunch of shitcoins out of spite, Roger went on to spearhead BCH as the real Bitcoin, all these fools realized they might as well make some money off of it, everyone went all-in on the shitcoin casinos after that. The "small blockers" eventually went on to evolve into the Bitcoin Maximalists and cypherpunks that today tell you to run your own node and own your own keys.


 nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev any thoughts on making your audiobooks v4v in public RSS?

Would there be maybe some older titles where you can convince the author and publishers to test it out?

It can help reaching new audience, and even revive the dissipating revenue streams.

Could be a nice case study at minimum costs.


Saifhouse or Guy Swan should hop on the opportunity and experiment. I want to have the way to pay the authors (with fair split to publishers, void actors) *directly* for the audio versions.

And if I can just easily find it in my podcast app, that's the ideal distribution UX for me.


I want them in RSS v4v style


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

#dangate


You know how all family has to stick with using the WhatsApp / iMessage because mom would never switch.

Soon, the whole world would have to use Nostr because Dan would never switch.

Moms and Dans are the most important intolerant minorities.


WE'RE GONNA BUILD THE HYPERLOCAL WEB AND WE'LL MAKE OURSELVES PAY FOR IT


My higlights there:

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Aah, good context to know. Thx


Nostr becoming the spot for the actual breaking news.


Yes, nothing wrong about the first two. They would be stupid to play it otherwise and not leverage their media platforms.

NVK point - Still, no Ten31 company is getting the OpenSats grants.

So the concern is that few votes on OpenSats might have incentive against funding opensource projects potentially competing with Ten31 companies? (Seedsigner)
- I take that. But there are measures (Odell and NVK are 2/9 board members) and community and donators pressure on the whole Board to minimize the risk of them playing favorites

I would not be surprised if the two retire from the Board at some point, and the criticism will of their influence won't stop... I guess the open market for donations is the only solution.


Furthermore, from the angle of passionate Bitcoin devs who are NOT YET able to work on Bitcoin full time because it would not allow them to secure their families like slaveing in the fiat mine does.
- there's probably a 10x bigger pool of these than the pool of the devs we are fortunate to already have on the project.


Any actively Ten31-funded (or other VC) entity which received grant from OpenSats out there?

I'm pretty sure it's one of the factors which pretty much disqualifies you from getting the grant. Respectively, the funds are targeted for not profit seeking projects (unlike the standard VC investments).

- https://ten31.vc/home#portfolio
- https://opensats.org/blog/2023-year-in-review

I agree that people with lot of influence across community media, VCs, Debs, plebs are centralizing factors, and you should have increased skepticism and scrutiny against those. Especially if they start monopolizing their influence over whatever part of the ecosystem.

But this seems like baseless shitting over all the OpenSats work and contributors - Gigi, and dozens of others, who are donating their time for no money... 🤷♂


Yeah and some make good rules and some make bad rules. I am working on Bitcoin thanks to a grant and I'm hiring people to help me work on Bitcoin thanks to a grant and "the rules" are basically "keep doing what you've been doing".

The ETF commitments were towards for example nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f which probably gave nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx the insights that lead to the recent rants without naming specifics. Yes, OpenSats "makes the rules" but as long as "the community" considers OpenSats a good actor, ETFs can just donate to them to support Bitcoin in a good way. If we all get up in arms against OpenSats because they screwed up, things get more complicated. If ETFs decide to hire their own armies of devs to push their agendas, it gets more complicated and of course, pouring billions of $$ onto OpenSats raises the stakes and attracts more ambivalent administrators and devs but it's not inherently a bad thing. Problems users have will get resolved either by open source solutions or by closed source, corporate for profit solutions and I fear the latter will remain the norm unless we scale up the efforts for the former.


Bitcoin Fixes This:

- Figure 14: High income earners are much more likely to receive wage increase even without asking.
- Figure 18: High income earners (and Democrats) are much more likely to blame businesses for the inflation.
(Lower income earners, and republicans are more likely to blame the Government or Biden.)
- Figure 19: Low income earners are stressed about being able to afford essentials and rent; high income earners are stressed about investment losses.


Fake names are names too. A single email address you have access to should be enough.


I just published a new book, this one is specifically on Lightning network. From basic use-cases to explanation of how it works, and a few things that I see coming in the future (or hope for).

The Orange Flash of Freedom: Understanding and using the Bitcoin Lightning network

Bitcoin has created digital gold - empowering many people to freely transact using a non-inflationary, non-manipulable hard form of money. The Lightning network builds upon this innovation, offering a fast, scalable payment network, that can be used to instantly send and receive money over the internet. It is a basic protocol of the internet, similar to e-mail for communication, or web for accessing information or apps. Lightning network can be as complex as you need it to be. Installing and using a current generation bitcoin wallet that supports lightning can be learned in under three minutes. This book gives you an overview of various wallets, the inner working of lightning, bitcoin fees, and proposals to make Lightning scale and be an interoperable payment protocol, even beyond Bitcoin blockchain.

Whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, you'll discover that installing and using a modern Bitcoin wallet with Lightning support can be mastered in just a few minutes.

My web:
https://hackyourself.io/product/the-orange-flash-of-freedom-understanding-and-using-the-bitcoin-lightning-network/

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D13HQ6L4/

(Amazon is better for paperbacks outside of EU, possibly even within EU. But you can pay with Lightning on my web)

https://image.nostr.build/f63ccef25fcd9b9a181ad465ae40d282eeadd8a4f5c752434423cb0539f73e69.jpg


Hmm, minimum change, but the 5th gen looks better.


So refreshing when you compare nostr with the average level of innovation in the big tech.

Nostr is the zombie slayer.


Shellenberger? Why?

Don't know his work that much, but feels quite honest.


Frens Union


The first step in preventing people from fucking up our money, is acknowledging that people could fuck it up.


Community banks? Credit unions/co-ops?


Everyone will miss the old HR Karens.

https://image.nostr.build/e75b06750a955c0efd21f8a4a26f446d441e8b37e7aca4c16594e7d63e3189fd.png


It’s happening https://image.nostr.build/6d410185afd79b2902ea9bf05c17a85dfefc7c1734e289f331bdfaa8068e6b84.jpg


Je to takova tragikomicka ceska paralela, ze borci co vyrustsli za komunismu, po revoluci dobyli svet a uzili si kapitalismus, se na stara kolena vraceji ke komunismu (s lidskou tvari), jako prisavky na stat, lobbujici za dotace a za nove urady pro sebe a pro kamarady.

Snad to stejny za 20-30 let nebudeme rikat o "Bitkoinerech".


Would love to query my RSS feed one day, including the podcasts.


We stopped by there too; what a great venue there actually; will be back in the future.

He didn't disappoint at all, and as you say, voice like a bell, and super humbly filling the folk hero role that people demand.

Speaking of the voices like a bell. When his buddy joined for the Simple Man cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd, that was when you could hear all the remaining jaws dropping in unison. And the the lyrics ... 🤌🔥

==
Forget your lust for the rich man's gold
All that you need is in your soul

And you can do this, oh, baby, if you try

All that I want for you, my son, is to be satisfied
==

 https://image.nostr.build/1d7028695744955cdc8ef08af97f603dbe2f1d1a3db1991372bf3307e64d4456.jpg


A diversity policy that HR departments would never think of.

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What's the next big feature you want Amethyst to have?


Shellenberger with a good summary of the #Brazil Twitter censorship.

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

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it's still punk

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A food forest is a perennial garden modeled after a forest. Each plant filling a niche amongst the 7 forest layers. The food forest I have planted is 7 years old and the largest fruit trees are now starting to produce. I'm growing apples, peaches, plums and cherries. Below are hazelnut and elderberry. Then raspberry, gooseberry and currant. Below that, rhubarb, asparagus, horseradish, comfrey. Finally strawberry ground cover. I am growing hops and grapes trellised in nitrogen fixing black alder trees too. Everything is commingled in rows and in-between the rows of perennials I plant subsistence crops like potatoes, squash, and garlic while I can still get enough light before the canopy of the fruit trees close. There are more plants in there that play a more supplemental role like mulberry, black locust, cup plant, yarrow, and zizia. Hundreds of pounds of food come from the 1/10 acre area every year without watering. I weed/fertilize less each year and spend more time planting, harvesting and managing the existing plants. It's a low time preference way to grow a diverse and large amount of nutrition in a small space. Just takes years to establish.

#permaculture #permies #homeateading #meshtadel #foodforest
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Just don't. No one does.


What might be the trust and privacy tradeoffs of these silent payments in comparison with paynyms?

unleashed.chat tells me it's "using the coinjoin tech" for receiving, but idk, sounds maybe like too much simplification or hallucinating.


Different identities optimized for different use cases makes a lot of sense. For the very least, it's the easiest way to personalize and control your feed and experience for now.

Just the switching between the npubs could have a smoother UX in the clients.


Event of kind 34235 can be opened with this application: highlighter


Julián Asssange was here - Paris, France https://image.nostr.build/93edf21e3632a289d5e2e4a54cae96d4c2f0a3463c05896a5e96cbe58a8bedd3.jpg


It's called cypher 👉punk👈 for a reason.


Only the shitcoiners might be better in this.


Space heaters are all cool, but if I can get some sats from blasting the AC, that would be fire.

❄🔥


Looking forward for the wartime energy. 🔥

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We didn't get them to pay enough yet.


Yes, I guess that's the main message. I'm kinda nerding out a lot on her decomposition of the economic and cultural downfall. the interactions between the two are hard to notice in steady times, but when things get volatile, you suddenly realize the impact the sick money has on the society.


Lol, somewhat, yea.

But the crucial difference, AFAIK, Strike let's you send to anyone. This UMA sounds more like a KYC sponge; allows you to receive from anyone, but send only to their addresses.


Not really. I didn't read anything about this Coinbase deal.

I think most people just want to hate on Coinbase.

But, there might be more rightful reasons too. I recall Lightspark showing off with this KYC-ed lnurl (UMA) - a proprietary, compliance friendly lightning solution for corporations...

I'd assume Coinbase will be using that tech as well; and I wonder about the interoperability with the actual lightning...

See here:

"Secure and Compliant
Through UMA, Lightspark's solution supports a full range of compliance messaging for anti-money laundering, sanctions reviews, and travel rule purposes."

https://www.lightspark.com/uma


The Conversation tab (replies) in Amethyst is good for stumbling upon new people.


Like Voltage for Fortune 500 Fintech


The Unreasonable Effectiveness of PabloFz7

Read this to learn how and why some people accomplish so much more than others

While attending the first cohort of Sovereign Engineering I was able to observe how some people are able to accomplish more in a week than others do in a year.

We all have varying levels of intelligence and capabilities, but adopting a professional approach to life is like taking these gifts and strapping them to a rocket.

**The best way to describe what this professional approach looks like is to compare it to that of the amateur:**

Amateurs think knowledge is power. Professionals freely pass on their wisdom and advice.

Amateurs blame others. Professionals accept responsibility.

Amateurs believe that the world should work the way they want it to. Professionals realise that they have to work with the world as it is.

Amateurs focus only on speed. Professionals focus on speed and direction.

Amateurs clutch to a safety net which holds them back. Professionals let go.

Amateurs are intermittent. Professionals are consistent.

Amateurs focus on the very next thing. Professionals ask "then what?".

Amateurs worry about what they can see. Professionals worry about what they can’t see.

Amateurs focus on being right. Professionals focus on the result.

Amateurs wait until they feel like it. Professionals do it when they don’t feel like it.

Amateurs rely on willpower. Professionals focus on creating an environment that turns desired behaviours into default behaviours.

Amateurs value doing it once. Professionals value doing it consistently.

Amateurs focus on the outcome. Professionals focus on the process.

Amateurs see feedback and coaching as someone criticising who they are. Professionals know they have blind spots and seek out thoughtful criticism.

Amateurs wait for someone to recognise them, tap them on the shoulder, and give them a big opportunity. Professionals just go out and show people what they're capable of and DGAF if people recognise them or not.

Amateurs want to win the battle. Professionals want to win the war.

Amateurs stop when they achieve something. Professionals view the initial achievement as a launchpad for the next step.

Amateurs focus on dividing the pie. Professionals focus on growing the pie.

Amateurs have goals. Professionals have a system.

Amateurs are kinda-in. Professionals are all-in.


SELF HELP INFLUENCERS WILL NOT TEACH YOU HOW TO LIVE A FULFILLED LIFE.

THEY ARE ADDICTED TO SOCIAL MEDIA LMFAO.

GOOD MORNING.


Haven't heard seen or heard of him for a while; probably on a psyopping sabbatical. I just thought of him as a perfect example.


The nuance is necessary. Blanket statements don't do anyone's justice.

You can still think that men tend to do better with running businesses and women with running household, but that itself doesn't imply anything about A being more valuable than B. Or that A can do better in B's role or vice versa.

Given that to me, it's a rather obvious statement (same as the "tend to" does not mean absolutes), then it's rather derogatory to women when people get automatically mad about anyone saying that women tend to be better with households.
- it has stronf fiat focused mindset; "making money is the most important thing" - spoiler, it absolutely isn't.


Nice pivot; this sounds really valuable 🤌


The book is underhyped. Read it first.

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I had some thoughts about the (mis)application of the broader concepts Kahneman/Tversky helped introduce.

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In retrospect, it would not matter at all.


Centralized media bubbles?


Trust aside, it's little too abstract concept by itself.

But I like the sliders as an idea for a simple personalization control for the feed algos. With it, you can signal to the algos
- give me more Gigi, fitness, and cooking content
- give me less Bitcoin, github, and finance content
- and give me zero Trump/Biden drama

It will offer more flexibility than a single synthetic algo personalizing your feed without your explicit inputs just based on your zaps, likes and some mysterious WoT score.


Did anyone say Udi?


We need more  nostr:npub1g4lp0dl2j75ytgx3l287m2vhvktx0r363t6xm3n8r4qwq5xws47swgxt9c writing on nostr 🙏


They don't have if they use their fiat bazookas as a threat deterrence.


Someone paying $389 to move $1.94.

547,000 sats to move 2730 sats.

Why?

Because this has nothing to do with Bitcoin and doesn't make any sense from the network's perspective.

People who take comfort that behaviour will remain predictable thanks to economically rational decision making need to know it goes both ways when you start taking in external factors.

You have to do it with miners too.

If a miner can make more money in ways that have nothing to do with bitcoin then you can no longer rely on simple assumptions like "miners will do X because if they don't then they will make less than a miner who does"

The simple example I've used many times is compliance.

If you have a choice between expensive legal battles and exclusion informed by government blacklists (i.e censorship) then it's economically rational to do what's economically irrational.

"You left $500 in TX fees on the table! Why?"

"Because our lawyers advised us that this would save us several million dollars."

We have a case-study of this exact scenario with Wasabi Wallet.

So if this is true, what does it have to do with spam? From a miner's perspective, spam is simply a free lunch.

What's the downside?

The issue is we've been standing on shaky ground when it comes to the assumptions we've made about the choices of miners. Myself included.

It turns out there are instances when economic rationality works *against* the interests of the wider network. It's obvious, but apparently we're all surprised that this it the case, or straight up in denial about it.

Spam is that exact scenario. Blocks are far larger than was ever supposed to be possible with the introduction of witness-discounted data. We see block after block at what was meant to be a theoretical maximum of just under 4MB.

There is no room for interpretation. This is simply harmful and the result of a nasty attack.

The entire basis on which the blocksize wars were fought was that encumbering nodes with way more data would lead to centralization. (Along with a host of other issues, like centralization of mining & pools).

The simple solution is that it needs to stop. Blocks cannot be stuffed with arbitrary data placed there by ambivalent miners.

The way this stops is as a natural extension of a bitcoin community that recognizes attacks and responds accordingly.

It means using node software that isn't designed to hurt its users which is already happening with migration away from Core to Knots. The most popular plug-n-play nodes have all begun offering this.

They did not this time last year.

It means miners choosing pools that at least give them the option of not participating in the attack -> currently well under 1% of the hashrate, 6 months ago not even an option. Hard for me to talk about because obviously I'm employed by the pool in question.

It means people who never mined doing it for the first time.

And mostly it means maintaining an understanding of what makes bitcoin bitcoin. That in itself has always been enough to evict crypto scammers to something other than Bitcoin. Those who wanted to turn it into "paypal 2.0" with the same disregard and contempt for nodes that the spam apologists display now forked themselves off to bcash and craigcoin.

The one thing that will *not* solve this problem is high transaction fees. This is an argument made by those who at least understand an attack when they see it, but are in denial about what surviving it actually involves.

Throughout the last few months the conversation has rapidly progressed and the tide has been turning.

I am under no illusions that this is an easy fix, but that is because of the nature of politics and how much larger the ecosystem is now.

But it's also just history repeating itself.

Bitcoin keeps having to fight the same battles again and again. Always in service of importance of being able to run *and use* a node, affordably and trivially, by complete noobs.

To maintain decentralization.

To resist the corrupting of what we have.

Bitcoin is money. Other features cannot come at the expense of that.

OP RETURN wars, bcash, segwit2x, shitcoins, coloredcoins, hostile BIPs, malicious devs....

We've done it a million times before. Every single time the "laser-eyed toxic maxis" win.


Given what the gold does last weeks, the 100k by halving day is becoming more and more likely.

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Hopefully it's one of the last things EU does.


Backups * Backups * Backups

Because if you don't have backups, it's not a question of "if" your data will get lost, but "when." Remember, data loss is like a bad salsa dancer - no bueno!

#WorldBackupDay


That sounds fun; and so much utility for the things which are irrelevant on global/national level.

I can see correlation between how centralized the "internet town squares" became and how contentious they are.

Big cultural conflicts are now silencing most of the debates and any space for nuance or the actual diversity.


Odell getting reeducated about online etiquette.

Golden! 💜💜

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GM boost 🚀☕🚀

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🔥

Locally gated shopstr/foodclubstr for neighbors/friends only.

Or, similar to these mini srreet library boxes common in the US, have one with a webcam streaming how much of what is left.

Suggested donation based (ecash safer than leaving cash).

When Karens or pawns show up demanding to know who is selling the eggs here -> "We don't know, officer. It just appears here every morning, it's magic. We don't even wanna know. Get fucked, and setup your own in your street. Thanks for your inquiry."


That right here, is the definition of shrinkflation. 😅


Hard not simp here.

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Thanks! yea, I like the simple exposed wood projects. The only difficult part might be making sure that all brackets are square and leveled, but I got it done quickly with some ad-hoc sanding ;-)


I tested it in the early days, the calls quality blew my mind back then already.


Little #DIY portal revamp.

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#woodworking


They are sending just The Big Guy. He's optimizing for paychecks, definitely not for speed.


Haha, yes!

Progressivism is as if an ad agency would be asked to market communism to Californians.

When the whole world is dying for a dream to become just a bit like you, then you have to make up some even artificial struggles to fight, to get some self actualization.


A subtle confirmation that closed platforms can't compete. We're winning 🚀


Financial Times #paywall - such a horrible landing page #UX.

What might be the concersion rates on these paywalls for new users on mobile?
- 1 in 1,000 would be a stretch.

I'd love to see the meeting where they agreed that pissing off 999 users for potentially satisfying 1 is a good tradeoff.

The old web and fiat is so fucked. Fewer readers and less revenues day by day, yet they can't snap themselves out of it. Incremental evolution straight to the graveyard.

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*people should be fined for linking these


Reposts for sure don't scale, algos are needed.


I got one question for him.
- Does he like it when polititians steal from him and his (future) family on his watch?


Bitcoin is 'fuck you money'

Everything else is 'fuck me money'


Nice. Clear priorities. No bs.


100%

Austin is filled with these Chive-Atmoshphere TVs which are just looping funny videos non stop. My favorite brewery put them on all over; not a favorite brewery anymore.

Apparently they get the bar owners to install because they tell them the stat that patrons stay 16% longer if the TV is on at their place.
- I'm suprised anyone believes that, or thinks that it's something their bar has been missing.

The startup installs the TVs and then sneaks ads in between the videos. $1 Bill valuation apparently (sad state of the world).


Nothing ruins conversations like a TV playing nearby.


The levels of zombification across the big corps offices speak for themselves. It's already here.


It's funny-sad that the suit and tie potemkin village known as LinkedIn is now by far the best platform to reach the nocoiners.


Great discussion!
I would love more in-depth long form bitcoin podcasts.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bCJR7v73r3Q&t=6722s


"Settlement gives merchants the ability to impose surcharges on customers, depending on what kind of Visa or Mastercard card they use. Those surcharges would likely hit cardholders who get rewards such as cash back and airline miles, since those can carry higher swipe fees.

On the other hand, some cardholders could get discounts on goods and services, since merchants would be able to make deals with banks to get them to use what they consider to be a preferred card."

- Time for the Satscards

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Time to raise our demands.


Matt should be sending cease and desist any second now.


One of the first economists who made sense to me.

Midwits have interpreted his Thinking Fast and Slow (and most of the Behavioral Economics) as a call to arms against the intuition and common sense.

In the subsequent years, it was almost guaranteed that any mention of the world "bias" comes hand in hand with a technocratically planned solution. Behavioral Econ became just a justification for the central planning.

Fortunately, it has phased out, and we're living in the uprising of the left curve in last years.

I think Kahneman must have been enjoying this rebalancing.


"Plus, this would actually require government that can do IT"

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


In alternative universe, people go shopping on Silk Road instead of Amazon, and the profit pie is overgrowing and shared with all its users.

We should make that vision true for Ross.


Once in history opportunity to cannibalize on the outdated platform prisons. The sooner the better.


Doufam, ze si tohle vymyslel a sepsal nejakej Tonda z osmicky a hodil to na internety v ramci kybersikany pani reditelky.


The American dream isn’t dead, you just aren’t on a Bitcoin standard.


Wow, that's a lot of care.


Aspen-Dallas blend


Aspen vibes


My grandparents lived under communism.
My parents lived under communism.
I didn't have to.
No matter what, my kids won't live under the communism.

🫡


Many of those who do realize the role of the luck then guilt trip themselves and everyone around as a collateral damage about their "privilege" and thinking that communism will save us.

Thank god for the immigrant hustlers there.


If you are a NEW USER, please say HELLO with a post to #introductions and feel free to ask questions with #asknostr 🤗

I see many new accounts joining but most of them stay quiet. We'd love to hear from you! 💜


Daaamn!


Doxing yourself as a holder while giving up the ownership.

It's crazy how out of the box bad it is.


I don't know the Mountain Project, but the the AllTrails always came to me as a prime target for a public good.

Maybe with some features for gating the discoverability just for the locals would be nice.

It's annoying how all the nature gems have been getting increasingly exploited in last few years. Can bitcoin/nostr fix that?


Bench under the tree on a sunny day is the peak wealth.


Wealth often gets confused with only money.


Everything that can be taxed will be taxed.

State is the TgU tech.


Announcing Orange Summer!

TLDR: Bitcoin prolongs time preferences. Fiat mine (job) is short time preference. Bitcoin class of 2018+ have experienced Bitcoin, and what it leads to - peer to peer instead of hierarchy, decentralization, becoming ourselves. Now it's time to take away the mental fog of fiat mine, step out and take one summer to think about our lives via the lens of decades, assert ourselves, tune in and possibly drop out to the parallel orange world. For details, read on!

I invite you to join us!

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2024/03/23/orange-summer-slow-down-turn-on-tune-in-drop-out/


Key takeaway for me:
- It takes just a few random people (freaks) living in truth to shatter the darkness of lie/ignorance/apathy/resignation.

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You see any money here?

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Comeback soon?


Everyone would as the difference in utility of the grows.


Me, trying to explain the #Nostr at a bar:

“Well, everything on the internet sucked, so we started over.”


I recently started measuring CO2 in my room and discovered a direct correlation between CO2 levels and tiredness + brain fog.

I wonder how many people are using caffeine to fix a problem that can sometimes be solved by opening a window.


I can't wait until we make this true for all the messaging apps.

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