Haven't been on here a while. First thing I see is a popular message from somebody claiming censorship.

It's weird how very many people claiming censorship and suppression of their messages are able to get their messages to me. It's almost as if they have the ability to say what they want and get their messages to me.

Anyhoo, given that, and after a long eyeroll, I may disappear from Nostr again....


Ugh. Typo. How to delete?


Bitcoin doesn't need Trump. Good people who need to learn about BTC are, instead, turned off because of this conference. The damage done today could prove to be very long lasting.


I've seen some other people on here speaking against the orange today, and the replies are frequently dripping with misogyny.

Bitcoin ain't gonna fix that.


Bitcoin doesn't need Trump. Good people who need to learn about NTC are, instead, turned off because of this conference. The damage done today could prove to be very long lasting.


Lots of people advocate 9. I’ve done a little 9.


If one needs to post an untraceable message, this seems a good place to do it. But how will the right eyes ever see it?


Reminder:  Despite introducing a bill to our liking, Matt Gaetz is still a sexual predator, an insurrectionist, and an embarrassing ninny.


Feature request: I would like to be able to click on the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links on my iPhone.

I can see that there are links as I make the bottom of the Wallet screen appear by holding my finger to the screen as I scroll up, but the moment I try to click a link, I have lifted my finger from the screen, and the links disappear below the fold. It's impossible to visit those links. Please design for all resolutions, including iPhone SE screens (375x667).

A bigger comment: This Wallet screen is baffling to me. It asks for highly sensitive data and does not say why. There is no help, no docs. Somewhat of a worst-case scenario for KYC, trustworthiness, etc.

I will continue to use Primal on the web and hope Primal for the phone gets there. I see the improved design on the phone and remain hopeful!


What if wide-spread adoption requires choosing another body part besides the nostril to name this thing after.

Armpi
Eyeba
Rectu


Transactions that are not for payments are rich nerds noodling with Bitcoin, or somebody trying to scam somebody, or both.

Am I missing something?


Damn. I’m stuck trying to figure out if runes are scam, sham or spam.


Important journey.


Spam seems like the right word. Except it also seems like spam for a scam.


Feels like Halving Day has been somewhat ruined by whatever the heck is happening now with fees. Booooooo.


We're looking at you, Strike.


And thus was issued the cursening.


Wait, you're predicting a meteor for block 1,050,000? I mean, a meteor that wants to celebrate, naturally.


I couldn't figure out how to ZIP this post so I zapped it.


Primal on the web, I use with my wallet via Alby Chrome extension and it's all good. It's the web app I keep using the most.

Primal iOS also has my wallet "email" address in Settings, but then wants me to fill out what seems to be a KYC form right there prominently in the middle of the app for ... the same wallet? I don't get it. What is happening? Where are the docs? Can I figure this out before the halvening?


If you’re celebrating Halving Day without zapping this post, are you really celebrating fully?

Halve the subsidy,
double the love.
Zap me now
Says the good lord above.

🧔🏻♀⚡


footstr,feetstr,boobstr,nudestr,baseball,sports,football,fifa,cricket,nfl,sport


Shoot, I missed today's #Zapathon.


From the stats I can find, all the other socials have many more users than Nostr, like 100x or more. Despite the good work of Primal et al, I wonder how much is UI/UX.


In your opinion, as of today, which web client (desktop browser) offers the best Nostr UI/UX?


Counterpoint. It matters mightily who you vote for. The national debt and money supply is very very important but a transition to a better way might take a long time and that shouldn’t make people think voting doesn’t matter meanwhile. That misguided way of looking at things facilitates corruption, incompetence and other such things.


Putin is the worst human on the planet. Tucker seems to lack redeeming qualities and definitely has an obnoxious voice. I won't watch.


I like the animation that happens when I zap. Primal is going to cost me more zaps ... happily! ⚡


I want Abby Stone (judge on current Night Court) to suddenly puh-reach the bitcoin.


Wait, I'm reading this announcement via Primal web. 🌀


I've listened to plenty of Radiohead, but not these particular songs very much at all. Thanks for the faves!


I hope #1, in particular, turns out to be an accurate prediction!


Yes, this is one of my central hopes for BTC. Also, l’m hoping number goes up.

It’s like two physicians. You know, paradoxical.


(For improving current mostly-centralized email.)


I’m hopeful that micropayments will help. It’s not really viable to get 1¢ payments online but small lightning payments are viable. And if spammers and scammers have to pay 10x more to send to a list of 10,000,000 addresses than a list of 1,00,000, that will be a big step.


Hot take: Cashu is not well named for becoming widely used. Lightning is.

Perhaps more significantly, I don’t yet see a non-cringe-named Cashu wallet.

OTOH maybe silly names or appealing to niche audiences is the key to getting off the ground, so what do I know!


Sorry, don’t know who this is. Is she in a position of some power?

I’d like her to learn about hard money, though.


She gives the impression of always preaching her made-up mind. Maybe that's the best way to be senating these days, maybe not, but it does make me wonder what it takes to introduce thoughts to her before she's made up her mind.


I see what you did there.


Mostly for friends who are not going to not use a custodian. I know plenty of people who will not be getting a hardware wallet any time soon.


Seems that way, though maybe only for short or medium holding periods.


Yes, true, but seems a way to not pay Counbase’s higher buy/sell fees. (Though if you hold long enough, the ETF fees will exceed the Coinbase fees.)


You wish me loss? Mm. Ok. Happy Thursday to you too.


For somebody who will be using a custodian, at this point buying an ETF that uses Coinbase seems better than buying BTC on Coinbase.


I'm not sure important notices like this should be expected to be released on one social media. The announcement will probably come today at close of market, and I wonder if it won't be announced via many forms or media at once.

It also seems rather craptastic that the Elon Funky Odor doesn't allow best security practices for all accounts.


Why is this place devoid of posts about bitcoin miners?

CleanSpark, Iris Energy, Marathon

#CLSK
#IREN
#MARA


New year, new default zap amount.

’24 sats


Hey, a social media that benefits the users sounds great, I said to myself. I hopped on and learned a lot about the smart things going into this platform. And as the year winds down I’m seeing posts about importance of Nostr. So, sure, I concur. But I’m not seeing posts about how to increase adoption. Maybe people want it to stay niche. But if not, here are some ideas. You may not like these or you may not agree, and that’s fine, but I do not see much discussion about why adoption has not gone up like you want it to, so I hope this helps.

Better name than the first 5 letters of nostril
Better design
Better UI
Better UX
Better sign up
Better sign in
Less time making new users figure stuff out
And don't make users select between a list of seemingly random relays with weird names


Choose one:

a - This social media network sees relatively flat user count during the year 2024

b - This social media network adopts a new name

You can only choose one.


On a YouTube ad just a few minutes ago, I saw Michael Saylor say he is raffling off 5,000 BTC and 1,000,000 ETH. Just send BTC to the address at this QR code! I was doing some other stuff at the time, so I only realized it was almost certainly a scam after I stopped seeing the very realistic video intro but continued to hear the audio. Very realistic. I can't imagine how it's not a scam. But then again, I can't imagine how it could be so easy to run scams through Google ads. A massive indictment of shame on Google, is my current conclusion.


Iris Energy shares are up today. If I want to see chatter about that here, what works?

#IREN
$IREN

Or just searching for “IREN” or “Iris Energy”?

In any case, seems worry over shares being diluted has been replaced with confidence they will not.

(Share dilution. It’s like inflation but often worse and highly capricious and it sure seems like theft in the way Jeff Booth uses that word.)


Rin Tin Tin, among other barkers


Never mind, I got a sat! Paid spam is back, baby.


Is the 1-sat-per-spam thing over already? Oh Satogram, I hardly knew ye.


Also the p in 'up'


As Billy Squier sang, 🎶 Strike me, strike me. (Say you're a winner but man you're just a sinner now.) 🎵


Is there a tool that helps one improve their relay settings in Nostr?

It’s up to date on relays, it looks at your relays, it asks you a few preferences and it suggests changes and/or makes changes.

Something easy peasy. I’d use it. And new people will want to not have to know about relays and use a super simple tool instead.


And yet I suspect both Warren and Dimon personally have some coins.


Lion


If you’re a SAG-AFTRA member, please vote yes on the contract! Deadline is Tuesday. Why not do it now.

Also, a hearty welcome to #actstr I believe it’s called.


My first real transaction was in Jan 2015. I bought a piece of software.

(I still use that software but I wish I'd paid cash and HODL'd!)


That's a lot of snow.


You can't spell sats without @s.


Sure seems that way!


This Liverpool game has been well worth the early wake-up.


Congrats to Emma Stone for great acting, good character work, on her 5th SNL last night. Several of the sketches seemed extra bizarre, meaning they tickle me more and/or left me nonplussed. Perhaps Mama was my favorite of the wackadoodles.


Now my Lightning wallet needs to mark payments (payment messages) as read or unread. I’ll read your spam once. But on the second time I feel ripped off!


I am just realizing that I’m getting spams with a 1 sat payment for several days now. Hm. What to think? Well, it’s better than the rate I get for spams over at Gmail and Yahoo!

Actually, spam and scam excludes, I think micropayments to contact people is a good thing. We’ll see where this takes us!


I’m trying to zap your reply using iPhone Nostur but can’t see how? (I’ve been away from this iOS app
for a while.)


Not as fun, I agree. Themed zapathons? Text-only zapathons? Fresh-material-only zapathons?


Thank you negotiating committee! I’ve been in those rooms before. I know the rooms where it happens have long hours and heightened emotions. It can be a lot, frankly. So
thank you,
Thank You,
THANK YOU.

#SAGAFTRAStrike
#SAGAFTRAStrong

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sag-aftra-deal-reached-studios-union-contract-terms-1235607563/


But also because they are (probably) surrounded by sycophants, and have a bunch of biased things going on, they forget these first principles. That is, I’m far less sure than you are that EM or EW are thinking from first principles. They’re doing mental gymnastics.


TIL there's a team called Cockfosters.


Yup, your odds are probably better. But I know people where self-custody ain't a great choice for them.


Not your keys, not your coins. Yup, very important! You're not wrong. I hope everybody understands that and what it means. But on the other hand I'm not 100% sure about fire, earthquake, stroke, the years go by and forgetting things, other disabilities, break-ins, $5 wrenches, getting hit by a truck, screwing up 12/24 seeds, whom to trust with multisig, the secondary location, and so on.


Re self-custody: I feel less likely to lose coins stored on River or Swan or such, than on Ledger or Trezor or such. For a lot of people I know, this feeling is the truthier truth.


🎶 When she gets there she knows,
If the stores are all closed,
With a zap she can get what she came for. 🎵

#zapathon #zapasong #stairwaytozaps

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


🎶 When she gets there she knows,
If the stores are all closed,
With a zap she can get what she came for. 🎵

#zapathon #zapasong #stairwaytozaps


How many landlords are not landlords because it suits them and they want to be good landlords, but because they heard it's a good way to earn money or a good store of value?


Difficult days. I don't feel like posting for #zapathon. (Well, I just did, but normally I'd post a song or a rhyme or a pun or such. And I'd do it on time, instead of 55 minutes late.)


A coworker's friend offered to buy a car in BTC, but the dealer wouldn't accept it.

Predict the year by which a majority of car dealerships will accept bitcoin.

My guess is that despite increased adoption, it won't be a majority of dealerships until the bull run after the next bull run.


🎶 I've been selling my soul working all day
Overtime hours for non-zap pay 🎵

#zapathon #zapasong #richmen


Yes


🎶 Who let the zaps out?
Who, who, who, who, who?
Who let the zaps out?
Who, who, who, who, who? 🎵

#zapathon #zapasong #dogstr


🎶 But it's all right now
In fact, it's a zap
But it's all right
I'm Jumpin' Jack Zap
It's a zap, zap, zap 🎵

#zapathon #zapasong


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🎶 Here I zap again on my own
Going down the only road I've ever known
Like a drifter I was born to zap alone
And I've made up my mind
I ain't wasting no more time. 🎵

#zapathon #zapasong #whitesnake #zapsnake

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


Is it just my own perception, or do you sense that the posts on Nostr are getting more diverse, covering a slightly bigger slice of life?


We say bitcoin because we hold them deer.


🎶 People are people, so why should it be
You and I should Zapathon awfully? 🎵

#zapathon #zapasong #depecheZap


🎶
Here comes the zap (doo doo doo doo)
Here comes the zap, and I say
(🎵 - ♯♯♯-♮♮♮-♭♭♭-🎵)
It's all right

#zapathon #zapasong


Just to support


A well-designed spreadsheet template


Zappadeedoodah!


There’s much value we all get from this progress. But at what price. Maybe the question is, how to keep powerful psychopaths away from this stuff?


An excellent response to a little drop in price. 📉


Sometimes I dance. I’ll see morning sun coming through the window, turn on Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles, and let some full-body motion happen as inspired by the music.


Buy the dip, baby!


I sometimes find it sad to remember that I use to think positively about the guy.


Gotta say, I like "normie finance" a lot more than "tradfi".


Nightmare boss.