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 Lots more people seeing the purple light today.

Every 3rd post on my Twitter feed is about NOSTR. 
 Everything I bought at the conference was with bitcoin, using Lightning ⚡️ 
 for you, or everyone? 
 nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8  what distribution of BSD d... 
 apple is about to be on the wrong side of history.  
 Stop using services that require you to provide:

•Full name
•Email
•Phone number

We don't require those anymore.

Instead use serives that offer:

•Lightning login
•Anonymous registration
•NOSTR NSec verification 
 Did you workout today anon? 👀 
 not yet. it's 9:30am here. I don't workout in the mornings. 
 I couldn't get an answer on X. let's see what you got, NOSTR. Educate me.

https://m.primal.net/IIfg.jpg
 
 Is Bitcoin held in Lightning provably scarce? 
 Is ecash provably scarce? 
 When NOSTR has been your side chick, but now X is down, so you pretend like she's your main squeeze. 
 Is x down? Did the Taiwan invasion begin?  
 I have a friend who has been in and out of Bitcoin for the past few years. Told him to buy when it was $3,900 and he waited until it was over $50K. Sold it all.

Called him yesterday and told him to buy more. He won't. He's very smart and would understand it if he tried. But he can't get past it as anything more than a volatile, fiat investment.  
 Why can't I zap from Amethyst?  Am I missing something? 
 Just worked for me. 🤷‍♂️ 
 I still can't believe Nostr works. 
 So I figured out the shortest cashu token I can create comes in at 419 bytes, which barley fits i... 
 Might be a bit expensive for 1 time use.  
 It's crazy but I think nostr feels better than twitter and it's only been a few weeks of people r... 
 I'm guessing you are on iOS/Damus? 
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 Trying it now. Thanks. 
 It feels like a beta. 
 I really wish we had Damus. 
 Bro... not the same. It's rough. 
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 Nah. I won't allow it. So we good.  
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 How do you do this?