That time I made the nostr news.

Still bullish on nostr building the internet without walls.
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The biggest story around Nostr isn’t censorship resistance.

It’s the total reshaping of the incentive structure on the Web. The platform silos currently hold most of the power, but Nostr will shift it to users and content creators. This will become more obvious as we build out the tools for users and content creators. Zaps are just the starting point. Exciting times ahead.

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Oh, the Bitcoin bush bash. Would have loved to go to that but couldn't.


Great time of the year to be there


:keks:


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Videos:

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https://youtu.be/aA-jiiepOrE

Take the Nostr 101 course with nostr:nprofile1qqsqqx9hacelkffcgd3ecchzjtlvwq9xn2fmprhrwnzmm2t3exee2eqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqrswwax
https://youtu.be/_jrkUXDReqI

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https://youtu.be/mXLK4kWFEgc

Tear down your technical and social silos with myself and several Nostr developers https://youtu.be/SSFVR5ZXOuA

Podcasts:

Listen to nostr:nprofile1qqstsw3gkljwt5stm9svt7htvcjlj4ffze4chkcyt4pxxj30xkgeg5qpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdux3wqdz and nostr:nprofile1qqs9kqvr4dkruv3t7n2pc6e6a7v9v2s5fprmwjv4gde8c4fe5y29v0spr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t08zskr9 on Plebchain Radio. Many of their episodes are Nostr focused and very informative.
https://fountain.fm/show/0N6GGdZuYNNG7ysagCg9

Take a more technical approach to Nostr with nostr:nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgspr4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mf0adfqrk on the Thank God for Nostr podcast. https://fountain.fm/show/vnmoRQQ50siLFRE8k061

Articles:

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https://river.com/learn/what-is-nostr/

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https://www.lynalden.com/the-power-of-nostr/

Guides on Nostr:

Browse the #HOWDONOSTR hashtag on Nostr and follow my notes explaining several Nostr concepts and features.

Ask your questions with the #asknostr hashtag.

Browse the ecosystem:

Visit https://nostr.how and explore all the ins and outs of the protocol yourself.

Nostr has dozens of other applications and use cases beyond Twitter like social clients. Nostr gives us a portable digital social identity that we can take with us and hop from app to app across the ecosystem. Fine your next social app here https://nostrapps.com


Russell Brand on free speech & decentralization 🙏 #bitcoin2024 https://video.nostr.build/6edee57abbf3a3a807e5e30d964317ed9b8713436fad7e04463b2ec0b812d249.mp4


Yes, it doesn't mean it's necessary communist. But it's not individualistic.


You don't need to be a hardened node running Bitcoiner for Bitcoin to affect your vote. Most people I know have Bitcoin on a crypto exchange. If the government were to ban it and the value went down, they would be pissed enough for it to swing their vote.


Bitcoin


Monero is only a shotcoin if Bitcoin resists capture. I'm happy for others to fund competition to keep Bitcoin from complacency


A friend of mine had some nostr:nevent1qqs8yzxg9cflzygr7trhe0ywjktpxlqepz65swz2zkv0twnu7qn0x0qpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnrdakjuct49upzquchlyfu8hnnn6p6ktwuvuq23aw27306ckszc65gdd27lxm7xn2pqvzqqqqqqyrshflp


My sister has written off two of my cars. One a tree fell on when she borrowed it, and the second she had at her place after dropping us at the airport and it got stolen. She has only borrowed my cars for about 10 days in 15 years, but that's the odds.


You gotta be pretty strong to be Japanese and think you can do a good Elvis impoesonation.


Followed 🤙


Why do you think Bitcoin still has shit privacy?


Why is Jacks talk in Italian? I sent it to my Italian wife, I hope she gets it.


#meme #MtGox #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/86ecbdede1536f83b687c6b92d5048de18823869f759144d753d6a585c0b35c2.jpg


#meme #MtGox#Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/86ecbdede1536f83b687c6b92d5048de18823869f759144d753d6a585c0b35c2.jpg


Yeah, kill it so it hardens.


Didn't you read the Bitcoin Standard? There can be only one. Hopefully Monero helps Bitcoin achieve privacy on the base layer.


I thought he was doing cones with the hand position.


Welcome new Nostriches! Welcome to Nostr! Nostr has a large and passionate community with an equally diverse and thriving ecosystem. Use this note to help navigate this decentralized and censorship resistant communication protocol.
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Take the Nostr 101 course with nostr:nprofile1qqsqqx9hacelkffcgd3ecchzjtlvwq9xn2fmprhrwnzmm2t3exee2eqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueqrswwax
https://youtu.be/_jrkUXDReqI

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https://youtu.be/mXLK4kWFEgc

Tear down your technical and social silos with myself and several Nostr developers https://youtu.be/SSFVR5ZXOuA

Podcasts:

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https://river.com/learn/what-is-nostr/

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https://www.lynalden.com/the-power-of-nostr/

Guides on Nostr:

Browse the #HOWDONOSTR hashtag on Nostr and follow my notes explaining several Nostr concepts and features.

Ask your questions with the #asknostr hashtag.

Browse the ecosystem:

Visit https://nostr.how and explore all the ins and outs of the protocol yourself.

Nostr has dozens of other applications and use cases beyond Twitter like social clients. Nostr gives us a portable digital social identity that we can take with us and hop from app to app across the ecosystem. Fine your next social app here https://nostrapps.com


If it can be done 100% remotely it can be done by someone in India for 10% of what a westerner would cost.


Slight political views one way or the other way probably correlates with maximum ignorance and minimum Bitcoin ownership.
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It's just belief in the superiority of Bitcoin over other monetary units, so maximizes exposure to Bitcoin


Have a NAS with Synology. Thinking about setting up jellyfin instead. Mainly for photo backup.


 https://image.nostr.build/236ed80a8e84007f6b8551513631923766f36e29efa6d9541bc93a646989eb07.jpg

Sorry

alt One does not simply ban memes from the web


Slightly more at both extremes of politics
https://image.nostr.build/29f2adca18e5210f3b006ca3e1db0f24ec386b5d3c9cbe97830130a16c49e46a.jpg

alt Bitcoin ownership by political views


I always failed to see the value proposition of Swan. They get people to pay them to hold their keys with a custodian while telling people to hold your own keys?


Yeah, if NWC could be enabled to sweep cash from your inbox into your wallet.


It doesn't come with a static address does it?


#Welcome


We nearly burnt down the house when the bbq caught fire in the garage, melting the gas hose, making a flame thrower. Fortunately the hose stayed directed on the table and the sound of the falling bbq got out attention. If the hose had fallen off and ignited the car it could have been a lot worse. We managed to save the roast by cutting off the outter layer.
https://video.nostr.build/9456a6777b8e0e6dab9154763ade77b34e7cb605a2133c778245e9392435d617.mp4

https://video.nostr.build/09501384bc3591b450938b1f6f8b41730a93410edb7894ae4c75279083fd83eb.mp4

https://image.nostr.build/957d08d71c22260a671904e37d0e94f8d12ed339256312062137812eaa52399b.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/1d70844c52562642298b93cf7b30ef538473e4cc92ba2c4896a08de237539050.jpg


The toughest battle https://image.nostr.build/46cf770b27d18c4a9ac6f42d3c2468e28ee71eb839ac95058de60188c0e5e12d.jpg


It's pretty frustrating to have a channel close for a 21 sat zap because you zapped too much and overwhelmed your  lightning wallet


This is great. I feel like an idiot explaining nostr to shitcoiners and how it doesn't need a blockchain to work, then tell them you need to use Bitcoin. Let the free market sort it out.


Monero was much steeper


Not pre mined, but check out the distribution curve. Lots of coin for early miners.


🚀 Introducing Nutsack 0.1!

nutsack.me -- Don't load too much money; this is highly experimental!

A NIP-60/61 nostr client.

This is a wallet that lives in nostr and is can be accessed from any nostr client that chooses to implement it.

Nutzaps are OPT-IN -- if you don't opt-in to nutzaps, a NIP-60/61 client that zaps you would just do a LN NIP-57 payment; it would just be paying from ecash but you would receive it on your LN wallet.

With these two NIPs we'll get a few cool things:
* unified balance across your apps
* pocket-change that follows you around
* new users are immediately zappable 🤯
* verifiable nutzaps
* faster zaps and zaps that can't go missing

and so much more cool stuff; just watch the video and let your mind wander with the possibilities...

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


Yeah, Bitcoin needs better privacy. Just ask Roger Ver. If Bitcoin gets mimblewimble it will be hard to justify monero


Stagnates against gold, but it has to complete with Bitcoin


It pumps and dumps initially but stagnates long term. https://image.nostr.build/6e8fc4726d1be5b042be156a1a61a254e94dbb0157fe1ccbda8d863b0d2b9858.jpg


Extremely rapid initial distribution favours founders, just like a shit coin. Tail emissions forever dilutes store of value. Good to swap Bitcoin into and out of for privacy. Shit store of value. Once Bitcoin gets decent privacy it is dead.


Except that you can compare copies with the originals after for as long as the original survives. By that time there are hundreds of copies that have been checked.


They should just use Arnold Schwarzenegger and make the terminator


Great article. Would an elephrich be private, invite only relays on nostr?


I'm freezing today


:keks:


Yeah


#welcome


Have Fun Staying Poor


What would you recommend for back to complement pushups? Squats?


Would have been a lot of pressure taking the shot. Probably just snatched the trigger and pulled it off target. 150mm group at that distance is reasonable for a non professional.


Yeah, but if they capture it, another currency will out compete it. At the end of the day


Does this only work when using nos or can you use any client and this cross posts your notes?


FEELING BULLISH. MIGHT NUT. 🥜

REPOST AND DROP YOUR LIGHTNING ADDRESS FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A 1000-SAT ZAP. ⚡

WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT BLOCK 852258. 👀
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Berlin!


Where is that from?


They will threaten to lower tariffs on chinese goods to undercut his profit margin.


No


The masters of the world are not the presidents of nations, nor Bill Gates, nor Elon Musk, nor the president of any multinational, not even Larry Fink.

The masters of the world are the owners of the central banks, you will never know their names, these documents are private and have never come to light.

The master of the world is not the one who earns the most money, but the one who has the power to create it.

Anyone who brings #Bitcoin to the table and threatens the status quo of the bankers will be destroyed.

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By half an inch


The Four Primary Functions Of Currency

“Money as a System-of-Control”
Andreas Antonopoulos  🐜
YouTube: @aantonop

#education #money #economy #bitcoin #nostr https://video.nostr.build/0bd35cc712655b32ab6b0e6f4677e29fc89e11896281aa806ed6fd5f9b2acc33.mp4


This is very cool


Is the wallet balance public?


Called is so good sometimes I think he is FBI


⚠ WARNING: May attract cougars.


I plotted it the other day and we are pretty much where we would be if we plotted a 40 year trend.
https://image.nostr.build/4225034eac3621d4d4b48b244c48758f0b0ebcd35743ad955e3ad8f878daed79.jpg


Stolen clown car #AUSTrich
https://video.nostr.build/25106c6a0bfdd9cf74b9e6caed09cfe5cb5498eb070988e10606c7399289ba0d.mp4


How do I use that? Or is it a possibility only at this stage?


My parents looked into moving into a +55 community. The cost of a 3 bedroom house in the complex was about AUD $500k plus 8k pa for body corp. You don't own it, just lease it. When you move out you pay 32% of your initial cost for refurbishment. There is a second option where you get 50% of any capital gains but you have to pay for the refurbishment yourself.

It is peak fiat.

Hotels send busses there to pick them up to play the pokies.


Not really, especially when they are mostly large accounts. Find people who react to notes you are interested in and follow them. Follow 500 plebs and you will have more engagement.


Why not? Just need a small rocket boost to compensate for the kick back.


:keks:


Here's your problem, if you don't follow many people, why should they follow you back? https://image.nostr.build/7874c224e13646ba383a55077096885a9b75a0f2eb2c787ae8ec8c633e03e929.jpg


Meater plus. It's the best.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/266852827294?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-154756-20017-0&ssspo=pxHYahaZTOS&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=cNZJNo3uShO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY


This means hope https://video.nostr.build/9ea8b25d9b3f6a051a7601cc9333e3a99e30ae912109dc2f80dd186c9cb44f6c.mp4


that's 100% the goal

when I'm done we'll be able to:

* have a single balance across all nostr apps
* no QR codes / NWC secrets
* zaps are immediate -- no need for a zap receipt -- if you send the zap the zap is received -- sending money will be exactly as fast as publishing a note or creating a 👍 event
* there's no need to signup for a wallet, your nsec is your wallet


I've signed up for a half marathon next month, I'd never run more than 12k before signing up. 15k is my new longest run. https://image.nostr.build/7b6d7c8ce87e1f7e870989dcd76ecaf49d021975e29a8e30033fd7aed2a4f448.jpg
It was actually only two runs, a 15k and a 10k but I stopped after the first lap before starting a new run. #proofofrun #running


Short-sighted bro.

Once the lawyers prove the business model, they'll head to where the biggest fortunes are to be looted.

And that is KYC BTC exchanges.

Kycnot.me fixes this, but only if you start early...


Hard landing incoming?


Rook moves to beside king. Checkmate


Couch scooter https://image.nostr.build/70df174b3d0a4cb2c1c05aed8d526811450b3ba7481de3bcdfbff0199775dbfb.jpg


What about Yahoo email. They have the largest free storage


There is a guy in my town who has a couch on an electric scooter and he drives around on the road like a Harley


Aren't Mt Gox people getting some Bitcoin this month?


Actually seeing the conversation rather than it getting buried by the algorithm.


As long as you let them down gently...


We need some people to get the word out


WoS is just temporary. I'm expecting them to resolve the issue soon?

I love minibits, just if it had NWC.


While this platitude sounds nice, it’s paradoxically causing so much harm in modern society. Strive for virtue. Don’t be a slave to vice.

nostr:note1w2ww37v7s5vexvatjjjvvkqpv94rhgkn6v6sd53jes6837vr7cdq003hck


Too deadly


Amethyst needs a web of trust implementation, like followed by your followers https://image.nostr.build/f8bc3ab40006031a4ec81a33c28a78f9e33df83d03004a52f3d49f4386b1d500.jpg . Looks legit until the reports load.


I had that a few times but managed to get most out a few days ago. Just got the red X again trying to move the ast 20 sats


I can't receive zaps so I swapped back to WoS


Can a UASF give privacy or would it need a hard fork?


🫂 thanks for the support, but I have accepted the fact that it's on me.


https://www.nostrapps.com/apps/badges

You have to accept the badge to display them. I only just worked it out.


Make sure you have incoming liquidity in your channel then swap to lightning to get those SATs out of the fedmint.


Falling in would hit different too


Kopi Luwak, otherwise known as cat poo coffee. The green beans are fed to the Luwak animal, which digest the bitter taste but pass the beans. The beans are then washed (hopefully) and roasted, resulting in a less bitter coffee.
As an espresso the beans tasted slightly too acidic and would be better suited for a flat white or cuppa chino.
#coffee #coffeechain #Bali #catpoo #kopiluwak #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/d8e231f7992389b19d1b9fc63a97d244cc260872ba97dfd46f9f514572911e92.jpg


:keks:


I should add it was in a bullshit spot. It was a 50k zone that should have been a 60k zone in front of a school on a Saturday when there was absolutely no one around.


Question for nostr:

If you drive your family everywhere and you get a speeding ticket, should you pay out of the shared bank account or your own discretionary account that is about 2% of your joint income? #asknostr


I thought Mutiny would be the go, but nearly got rugged.


I'm considering paying into life Liquid and transferring back once there are enough SATs for a UTXO


I think most contracts require some trust in a third party to uphold the agreement. For example if you purchase property, everyone in the area needs to acknowledge that. If someone doesn't recognise your ownership, you need to appeal to someone to help you enforce your rights.

I think that nostr signatures and eCash mints can handle smart contracts if all parties recognise the agreement as binding.


AND… WE ARE SOLD OUT! No more USD cashu tokens...!

What started as a proof-of-concept (POC) test last month with stable channels and Cashu mints turned out to be a huge success!

TL;DR: If you want us to keep this going and add more liquidity, please like and repost this for visibility.

We are actively working on increasing liquidity to continue this initiative. If you are interested in providing liquidity and earning some satoshis (sats), please DM me!

Stable Channel: The goal is to maintain a balanced channel by pegging the amount of sats to $1000 on one end. From May 13th until now, the stable channel has remained exceptionally stable, maintaining $1000 while the BTC price fluctuated from $63,000 to $71,000 and back down to $60,887. The channel balance on the stable receiver side never fell below $1000.

Stats on Stable channel:

Days uptime: 44
Payments made: 10,333
Largest Stable Receiver Amount: $1,014
Smallest Stable Receiver Amount: $984
Cumulative Payments: $17,912
Mean Payment: $1.73
Median Payment: $1.52
Standard Deviation: 1.26

Almost $18,000 in payments back and forth!

Cashu Mint: umint.cash is the only cashu mint that supports USD tokens now. Anyone can use a supported wallet to mint tokens by paying a lightning invoice. While many big stablecoin projects struggle to show proof of reserves/liabilities, we provide that info real time on the mint website. Dollar balance stays the same and not subject to volatility...!

Stats on Cashu USD Mint:

Casu tokens minted: 18,059
Cashu tokens melted: 13,997
USD value of cashu tokens minted: $5,500
USD value of cashu tokens melted: $4,501
Number of cashu wallets supported: 3

And the good thing is that these statistics are available real-time on the mint website https://umint.cash/ All we need to do now is to keep increasing the liquidity..! We are not bounded by exchanges or treasuries.. All within Bitcoin...

Please like and repost for visibility…!

Thanks for everyone involved in making this a success…!

Stablechannels by nostr:npub1m0st2r43ph6ftu9az8sm69n5357jx5qkcyj09jmaucr6vvy3w5yqueqp5h
Boardwalk cash wallet by nostr:npub1cd0l3s6qgj0s6690rtkys39mgj5upwxpm4856nhmce0pyqu6xj9qh7xlvx
Master of cashu nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg

 https://image.nostr.build/aa74abdf95129240e0ae85995e59571c677d45c9b79a023623b0f364a221e872.png


Friday for me 😁


Easier ways to top up SATs would help fix that.


GM! ☕

Soon you will get an alias mail service over nostr.

Share and get 21sats to spread the info! ⚡

Not sure who would be interested.

#grownostr #plebchain #email #alias #mail #nostr


Managed to swap to lightning last night and this morning


Follow conversations of your follows, not just posts.


Same, 58k sats


#GN nostr https://image.nostr.build/a0b06112f7e6453cbfb5607416a6182303757082de88d62f85f65641f8b5e344.jpg


My wife's friend is a 35 yo Dr who is thinking of going it alone


It's there now


Welcome back. I'm loving Queensland's weather at the moment.
https://image.nostr.build/adc442d80442dec7fd257d0e064cba5b471af49822190aa802df60c6a7043a92.jpg


That's the point. It's a preference. If you can be content to forgo immediate luxury, you can invest in quality which may bring more comfort longer term.

I'm not sure what you don't believe.

It doesn't mean that always forgoing pleasure is always wise. You can live a boring life and die with all the plans you worked towards wasted.


Seems to work for me


Zapstore still has old version
https://image.nostr.build/5f6de4b477c38be44e73e9b0d9ce121b5ed5f15b0e341d747c8c7d2e0e9192fb.jpg


#meme https://image.nostr.build/7e916cbd60cb0fa8ae302a038b476feb48330901b7d22e6fd5f67625216b40c4.jpg


"We believe that focusing on “the blockchain” as the component of Bitcoin worth emulating and extrapolating is effectively “cargo cult innovation”: replicating the form of something that works without understanding why it works in the first place."

https://www.axiombtc.capital/stack


It allows you to create an internet identity permissionlessly. By using cryptography your actions can be verified without the need to trust a platform to relay your information. This allows you to use anyone to relay your data, freeing you from being at the mercy of the platform you use.


Yeah, I think without algorithms nostr will always be a 'flatter' social network. This is both a feature and a bug.

The benefit is that every note is equal and has to be organically good to get shared and for the user to gain followers.

The downside is that many good notes are lost.

An ecosystem of open source algorithms may be the solution to let users choose their filter. But this introduces gaming of the algorithm and a less authentic experience.


I feel like when I post something on nostr I have 1 minute for it to be seen or it goes into the never. Typical I will get one or 2 likes almost instantly, then nothing. I don't believe everyone only scrolls 5 minutes deep in their timeline. Is it that we are more prone to press like on the first story then just scroll? Is it a client issue displaying notes? Ordo people post pity likes on notes without many reactions?


#GN, Wife brought this for me from Bali.

https://image.nostr.build/d8670d9e3d7d9da7182533a5b59b0a12fd2859dc613b811e70f6433c98f33dba.jpg


From now on, every new Bitcoin Takeover podcast episode will get livestreamed here on Nostr too via nostr:npub1eaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsqarcgz

Find all livestreams here, make sure you follow the channel:

https://zap.stream/p/npub12qz56plzehejkyp4waaannmnny4y4c30j8q55a3wlk49haslga2snypdx8


Yeah, you can buy it in supermarkets.


Savage 🤣🤣🤣


#GN nostr
https://video.nostr.build/a1e425accc33f8aad93d08f1b1365131b2b2262de186eb43d2d1ca52d8098224.mp4


They have a $1.6 fee and charge an international transaction fee on my bank account


Yeah, I was thinking about the same thing today. Missing nostr:npub1el3mgvtdjpfntdkwq446pmprpdv85v6rs85zh7dq9gvy7tgx37xs2kl27r
I noticed a shift in atmosphere when Wassabi guys got arrested and Phoenix left the US. People were notably agitated and more arguments happened. This is understandable, but we need to get back the Pura Vida vibes and make a conscious effort to create a positive culture. The fight stage is here. Would be good if nostr could be a refuge.


I don't really want kids posting on nostr, but everyone else who doesn't want their ID linked to social media.


But there is a top limit which is the total global wealth. The market cap of Bitcoin can't exceed this.


Aren't adoption modules S curves?


Just dropped my T-bone on the pavement, in my hast to pick it up, fumbled and flipped it over on the ground 😭😭😭

Still going to eat it obviously #proofofsteak #meat https://image.nostr.build/e389705a74aa9e944166704dd25f3778f691f3226c9a6c7fcd88d06ce8350df9.jpg


Hi


I can't see this one


It's the number of transactions that can generate a UTXO with Bitcoin in it. There are a limited number of transactions per block. This can't increase, more demand raises the price and makes it unaffordable for some people.


Yeah, I don't know if it's a deliberate way to get people to diversify wallets. I used to use eNuts, then switched to Minibits for the ln address, but it doesn't have nostr wallet connect which looks awesome in cashu.me

I am using Mutiny Wallet currently which does both, but it needs to be open to run. Would be great if it could run in the background for seamlessly zapping.

Right now they are all very close, but none are quite the killer app.


Bad actors only get caught out if it it feasible to self custody. If the fees are so high that it's not possible then any custodian can make a killing by running a fractional reserve and bankrupt good actors. Bitcoin gets captured by the banks, just as if the block size was too large for non specialised people to run a node.

If this happens I think Bitcoin will fail to dominate and we have an ecosystem of shitcoins


Agreed, but in 50 years bandwidth might not still be as significant?


Yeah, but a $10 transaction fee will stop daily transactions but it would be ok for transaction greater than $1000, which most people can afford. If fees exceed $1000 transaction would need to be greater than $100000 which would exclude most people.


22 years between average transactions is a bit long. However, we are decades away from having that many people using it. By then a 10x block size increase may be trivial, which would bedrop it to 2.2 years, which is a decent savings frequency.


You are collating two things
1. Everyone can own their own UTXO
2. Use it for everyday transactions

1 is important, 2 is not.

Most people should use e-cash for everyday use. A UTXO would be used in a similar fashion to moving money into a high interest term deposit - where you hold the majority of your money but only make a transaction once a month to once every few years, depending how wealthy you are. A lightning channel to the eCash would allow the balance that's held by the custodian to be minimal.

If a transaction fee exceeds the $10 -100 range even this breaks down.


When you have an open, public social graph and the ability to filter spam, the incentives change to the point where the advertising industry gets fixed.

Yes, advertising will still be a thing, but you won't be forced to watch ads because you can't be captured.

Companies that optimize for attention will be disrupted by those that optimize for value.


Right, I chewed up my annual data, pluss all the data I had banked up in under 9 months. I bought 30 gig and used it in days.
My work booted my ip address off the wifi because it used too much data. 😳


The Web is taken.

They control your data: Servers can change anything you send at any time: E-mails, medical records, private family pictures, social media posts, orders etc. You won't even notice it. Not only they can change, but you can also create new content as if they were made by you. Your history is written by them.

Servers do too much: They convinced us we don't have enough processing power and moved all the logic from our applications into servers. Even though a phone has an equivalent processing power than a single server today, we believe we must use complicated server architectures to achieve anything in the web. Phones are the cloud.

Everything is a rental: You don't own your domain name. It's a rental. Your server is a rental. Your digital certificate is a rental. You don't own anything. Your digital identity is a rental.

Data Silos force you to stay: Moving is too hard. They profit on making things just difficult enough to keep your around. After all, it's just 9.99 a month.

Enter the Verifiable Web

Own your keys, own your content. No one can write for you. No one can change what you write.

Sign everything you send. Every little like, every little key press. If it wasn't signed, it didn't happen.

Verify everything you receive. Trust the signer, not the servers in between.

You decide how data gets to you and where it stays. Your digital history is assembled by you.

Welcome to Nostr


Relay list to store private content from this author


My dad is of the generation where men sit on the couch with a beer while their wife cooks every meal.

Mum: "oh, I think the meat is going to be tough".
Dad: (launches off the couch and races into the kitchen)
Mum: (casually) "can you just mash the potatoes"

Master


Only of you run a relay that saves the notes you reply to.


Just use a client other than Primal


Welcome


Lyrics are often great


Not to send. It is bearer held, so you can send it to someone while being offline. Only they need to go online to verify the proofs with the mint. You need permission to swap to lightning Bitcoin.


Done, don't need sats to do this.
https://image.nostr.build/19ada4e4eab8c302924a3e8f4366320d92a9fabcda31a38d776e2fbf190960bf.jpg


This is the Achilles heel of the Scientific Naturalism world view. A sound defeater which destroys the rationality of the believe system.

For those looking to go down the rabbit hole, this problem isn't new. It was postulated by Darwin himself, refered to as Darwin's doubt. Nevertheless, naturalism was an attractive proposition for statists looking to capture the religious mind. The worldview of naturalism was promoted as the rational conclusion of scientific enquiry. The results was to sift the focus of minds from the transcendent to the imminent. Fueling consumerism and hedonistic fulfillment which can be harnessed and led into debt slavery.
#christianity #Atheism #Darwin #statist #fiat #grownostr #rabbithole
nostr:nevent1qqstfu4gtwrljwjj70vzd0gmwnufqw87zawlnr6lz227cv54zqug6ycprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnrdakjuct4qgs8x9lez0pauuu7sw4jmhr8qz50tjh5t7k95qkx4zrt2hhekl356sgrqsqqqqqpk4q0h6


Nostr is a protocol for censorship-resistant social media, allowing seamless audience transition between apps and monetization via Bitcoin's Lightning Network.

It combats centralized social media flaws like ad-based revenue models, bots and "walled gardens".

Nostr uses cryptographic key pairs for secure identity and data transmission through decentralized relays. It emphasizes interoperability, open-source development, and user-driven content moderation.

Despite lacking the best privacy features, Nostr offers potential beyond social media, including P2P markets and alternatives to established platforms.

# Nostr: Decentralized Identity for the Internet
[Nostr](https://nostr.com/) is a protocol enabling censorship-resistant social media.

Bring your audience seamlessly from one app to another.

And earn bitcoin for the content you create!
![](https://imgprxy.stacker.news/3RxAeL8Kcognch3qOzUNw-gBbrurCxiEktH5gfTWPLg/rs:fit:2560:1440/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8zMzQ2NA)
## Why Do We Need Nostr?
Because.. social media is broken. Centralized oligopolies control the public square of free speech. These companies control (often in ways they don't even understand) what we read, who we talk to, and what ideas gain traction in our culture.

Social media as we mostly know it today:

⚠ uses your attention to sell ads

⚠ uses psychological tricks to keep you addicted

⚠ decides what content to show you based on a secret profit algorithm you can't inspect

⚠ can ban you

⚠ is filled with bots and spam

Traditional social media thrives on engagement, attention and outrage. This has had negative effects on society. Trust in media (and institutions) has plummeted, and people are increasingly valuing free speech, something which centralized platforms can't provide.
## What is Nostr?
Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) fixes this!
It's a simple protocol that allows users to sign and share notes (passed around as plain JSON text).

Using websockets, a client software relays these notes to a distributed set of servers (relays).
Or to define Nostr even more simply:
"Signed messages relayed".
![](https://imgprxy.stacker.news/wS7mtY2SwPbummLbFem35i7f4Ta01hkfEtu7VEhQv1s/rs:fit:2560:1440/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8zMzQ2Mg)
### Clients, Relays, Public/Private Key Pairs
Nostr is a protocol that you access via a client. A client can be a web, mobile, or desktop app. Some popular clients are e.g. nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg  and nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 .

Users have cryptographic key pairs (public and private key) to sign notes and to verify a note source. The public key is presented as a string with a prefix "npub", and the private key with a prefix "nsec". You can also think of your "npub" as a username and "nsec" as a password.

But on Nostr, there is no tech support to recover your password, so you have to take good care of it either with a password manager, browser extension such as e.g. nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm   or write it down on a piece of paper.

"Npub" looks like this and you can follow users on Nostr on any client by searching for their npub:

"npub15vxdlmhftkh452a06vnr3mmks2dy8hqejeuxuv6sgy5rgtf0jllsccfzg7"

You can also search users by a more readable "NIP-05 identifier", such as "teemupleb_at_getalby.com"

For a step-by-step guide on how to create an account on Nostr, you can watch [this tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn-Zp491t4Y) by nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 .

### Permissionless, Interoperable and Open-Source
Using Nostr and building on it is completely permissionless. No need to provide phone number, email, ID card etc.

Cool thing about Nostr is that your private key (and your audience) follows you from one client to another. E.g. if you have built a large following on a microblogging client built on Nostr, you can bring that following to the new video streaming client that just launched.

Nostr is not an app that you sign up for, but an open standard on which anybody can build! This takes the power of "walled gardens" away from centralized web behemoths!
Also devs can access an existing user base easier in order to bootstrap new apps.

### Relays Receive and Send Data
Relays are like back-end servers for Nostr. They allow Nostr clients to send them messages, and then broadcast those messages to all other connected clients.

Relays are very simple and "dumb". Their only job is to receive and send Nostr data.
For this reason, you can easily run your own relay with e.g. a Raspberry Pi single-board computer (but of course, you don't have to run your own relay to use Nostr).

Relays don't have to be trusted. Signatures are verified on the client side.
Because Nostr doesn't rely on a small number of trusted servers to relay data, it's very resilient. The protocol assumes that relays will disappear and allows users to connect to multiple relays that they can change over time. If you notice that your Nostr client feels slow, try adding more relays.

### Notes
Notes can be text, links and other media types. They are digitally signed and timestamped. You can also like, repost, reply etc.
![](https://imgprxy.stacker.news/6BvDqwE0TF41l_RGN5krm6yDjomW9M8OMLFX2jEyHSE/rs:fit:2560:1440/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8zMzQ2Mw)
There is no character limit on notes or replies, but if you upload videos, there might be limits (then you can just host the video somewhere else and link to it on Nostr).
Notes can't be edited (encourages accountability!)

### NIPs for Interoperability
The Nostr protocol is defined in a set of NIPs (Nostr Implementation Possibilities).
These standards allow different clients to communicate with each other. Only NIP-01 is mandatory (describes the basic protocol), and others are optional.

NIPs exist to promote interoperability. It's not a good idea for developers to implement ideas only in their own client app. It's better to come up with compatible solutions, and NIPs coordinate this process.

### Bitcoin Lightning Network to Monetize Content
Nostr uses Bitcoin's Lightning Network to monetize content value. Users can instantly tip (zap) small micropayments in bitcoin to creators, and their npub works as a Lightning address.

Great idea: let's pay with sats instead than with our personal data and attention!

This value4value model is a revolutionary concept. Creators don't have to rely on advertising, subscriptions and paywalls, and followers can only pay for the content they like. Most followers won't tip anything, but some tip a little and the hardest fans tip a lot.

For the first time in history, we can link information to value. As the volume of information becomes infinite, the supply of bitcoin (value) remains scarce. Attaching this value to information will highlight the highest quality information (web of trust).

Nostr + Bitcoin search engine that indexes all information on a decentralized internet could be a real Google killer.

nostr:npub1sx9rnd03vs34lp39fvfv5krwlnxpl90f3dzuk8y3cuwutk2gdhdqjz6g8m   is trying to do something along those lines, indexing the entirety of Nostr and making it searchable.
![](https://imgprxy.stacker.news/jFLejrtQ9bUOhJt55FKvg4un2QH80sLd3A9zxyIXOoo/rs:fit:2560:1440/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8zMzQ2NQ)
[https://twitter.com/MaxAWebster/status/1614003577730760704](https://twitter.com/MaxAWebster/status/1614003577730760704)

Nostr infrastructure providers can also monetize their services via Lightning payments. When Nostr gets more users, relays may have to scale up their infra and charge clients for usage (worry not, there would most likely still be free relays and clients for the end user).

### Orange Honeybadger and Purple Ostrich
Nostr doesn't need Bitcoin, and Bitcoin doesn't need Nostr. They're completely independent protocols. However, each one makes the other one better.

Bitcoin decentralizes money, and Nostr decentralizes free speech. With Nostr npub as a Lightning address, Nostr can become a directory for Lightning payments.

The creator of Nostr, nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6   and many early Nostr developers are also Lightning developers, which seems to make the synergistic relationship inevitable.
![](https://imgprxy.stacker.news/MGp-5467ruCnS3mszUbUzOJkA71vXvQJCvTRVZSpV5s/rs:fit:2560:1440/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8zMzQ2Ng)
Bitcoin Lightning payments could be integrated to ANY app with nostr:npub19hg5pj5qmd3teumh6ld7drfz49d65sw3n3d5jud8sgz27avkq5dqm7yv9p . Once an app connection is created, the app can request bitcoin payments through a Nostr relay! 🤯 Open-source and non-custodial!
![](https://imgprxy.stacker.news/0q-azJrfSwyn58ohBiyycxoN2v3jW8zPFAoAye2r_Is/rs:fit:2560:1440/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8zMzQ2Nw)
With Nostr, all messages and commerce could be done in an open-source and self-custodial super app.
Send remittances as an instant message!
Sell goods via a tweet!

### Crowdsourced Content Moderation?
What about content moderation? All humans should have the right to free speech, but no one should be obliged to listen.

Nostr relays can ban users, but these users can always find another relay to publish, or host their own. Since users are identified by their public key, they don't lose their followers if they get banned from a relay.

Bitcoin tips can also work as a crowdsourced content moderation tool. If a wide majority of users think that e.g. posting some images is unacceptable, maybe users wouldn't even see those posts because the web of trust doesn't grant them any tips.

### Lacking Privacy Features
The downside of Nostr currently is the lack of privacy features. DMs on Nostr are encrypted, but the metadata (who you DM with and when) is public. This obviously currently hinders the prospect of secure bitcoin payments on apps using Nostr.

Also, relays and clients can collect users' IP addresses. The intention of this feature was to tackle spammers and bots (if enough spammy data comes from a single IP address, that address can be blocked.) Maybe best to normalize using VPN with Nostr?

### Not Just Social Media
Decentralized social media is just the first instance: there are many Nostr-based competitors to established web2 corporate platforms:
Twitch-alternative, GitHub-alternative, Meetup-alternative.. even a P2P bitcoin exchange nostr:npub1m0str0d7z2ww8rdh20t2n9lx520xjwhaq24p68umqp06wwrwtsnqen40un!

X (Twitter) could also benefit from becoming a Nostr client. It could partially solve the content moderation problems it is having:

→ If the user-generated content was on Nostr, maybe X wouldn't have to resort to censorship when facing government pressure?

### Easy for Developers
Are you a developer? Starting out with Nostr is easy. Any junior dev can build a functioning simple client in a couple of hours.

Here's [a great website called Nostr Apps](https://www.nostrapps.com/) to discover the world of Nostr:
![](https://imgprxy.stacker.news/12Zwfp5XkcshHZUoAIDztyL7dHgZe3KS1c7N7Td1Z7g/rs:fit:2560:1440/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8zMzQ2OA)
What do you think about Nostr?

Will it replace the internet as we know it today?

## Additional Resources
[nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays by Nostr's Creator fiatjaf](https://fiatjaf.com/nostr.html)   nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6

[A 2-Minute Video Introduction to Nostr by LNbits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W-jtbbh3eA)

[Nostr, an Introduction](https://wiki.wellorder.net/post/nostr-intro/)

[Why I'm Betting Big on Nostr by Max Webster from Hivemind Ventures ](https://hivemind.vc/nostr)  nostr:npub18lzls4f6h46n43revlzvg6x06z8geww7uudhncfdttdtypduqnfsagugm3

[Why Nostr Matters by Jameson Lopp](https://blog.lopp.net/why-nostr-matters/) nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp

[The NOSTR Protocol: Social Media 3.0 by Jessica Chasteen](https://medium.com/@jmchasteen/the-nostr-protocol-social-media-3-0-2c23e290bcb3) nostr:npub1r8wdfruydenz84fxfespcswuhcvyatx6umtd5xguexup49u500xskf50hn

[Nostr Resources by Dollar Parity](https://dollarparity.com/nostr-resources/)

## Project Information
[Website](https://nostr.com/)
[GitHub](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr)


This is the Achilles heel of the Scientific Naturalism world view. A sound defeater which destroys the rationality of the believe system.

For those looking to go down the rabbit hole, this problem isn't new. It was postulated by Darwin himself, refered to as Darwin's doubt. Nevertheless, naturalism was an attractive proposition for statists looking to capture the religious. The worldview of naturalism was promoted as the rational conclusion of scientific enquiry. The results was to sift the focus of minds from the transcendent to the imminent. Fueling consumerism and hedonistic fulfillment which can be harnessed and led into debt slavery.
#christianity #Atheism #Darwin #statist #fiat #grownostr #rabbithole
nostr:nevent1qqstfu4gtwrljwjj70vzd0gmwnufqw87zawlnr6lz227cv54zqug6ycprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnrdakjuct4qgs8x9lez0pauuu7sw4jmhr8qz50tjh5t7k95qkx4zrt2hhekl356sgrqsqqqqqpk4q0h6


Ages of the floundering father's
https://image.nostr.build/fd1c02a485944290c64277ef892463e0cf352cd3571c82a72827b73f95139491.jpg


That's a drop bear


How do badges work. How do I display them on Amethyst?


We are building a future where people will have the CHOICE to select from an open marketplace of feeds.

#FreeWill on #Nostr
https://m.primal.net/IYnQ.mov


Good to see Alvin Plantingas Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism trickling into common use.

It's spelled out more in 'Warranted Christian Belief', which is one of the best books I have read.

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:AP:a52ce508-937c-4967-9868-0b0e73fa9994

#bookstr #Christianity #atheism
nostr:nevent1qqsy5up5pt4u0xh5s376uyxq4rr44vjdkmpf46w0uvjz7alw0wgjnnqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzpfhglz3t2jxetyluxzcfeh2uh0520qk48v2mp70kh4u4rp6maew4qvzqqqqqqyunaqp6


Good to see Alvin Plantingas, Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism, trickling into common use.

It's spelled out more in 'Warranted Christian Belief', which is one of the best books I have read.

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:AP:a52ce508-937c-4967-9868-0b0e73fa9994

#bookstr #Christianity #atheism
nostr:nevent1qqsy5up5pt4u0xh5s376uyxq4rr44vjdkmpf46w0uvjz7alw0wgjnnqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzpfhglz3t2jxetyluxzcfeh2uh0520qk48v2mp70kh4u4rp6maew4qvzqqqqqqyunaqp6


Ouch


Yeah, she was on here every day with some mischief. Hope she is doing well and joins us again soon.


Wouldn't want to slip


I have badges, but don't know how to make them show in my profile in Amethyst


https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/c2daead15a6ce011392a72c41ba3780b6d29a297655c1caeacd22959ecf21bb8.webp

But is it actually not INSANE how MSM has successfully divided practically every person in the country into believing Trump is either (A) the scummiest sack of shit who ever lived or (B) a literal gift from God who will single-handedly save the universe?

Almost exactly down the middle too for PEAK tribal animosity keeping the anger flowing and eyeballs glued to the "good team channel" on TV. As a marketing-mind it's impossible not to be impressed.

Never underestimate the power of emotionally-charged propaganda on a mentally-compromised population.


A nip05 service


Welcome. It is an exciting place to be


Me ordering fish burgers today.
Girl: how do you want your fish cooked
Me: medium rare
Girl: starts giggling
Me: er, battered 😳

#proofofsteak #fail


Specific to highly contaminated areas


💯 following lots of people is key to a rich nostr experience


Welcome


I had some in Belgium, they were great


What happened to nostr:npub1el3mgvtdjpfntdkwq446pmprpdv85v6rs85zh7dq9gvy7tgx37xs2kl27r? Haven't seen her post in weeks.


Haha, dad bought home a laser printer from work that they were getting rid of as it was leaving streaks on the paper. He tried to clean it out with compressed air, it looked like a bomb went off in his shed 🤣.


#artstr
#reclaimdemocracy
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Yeah


Just some plebs
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I've started following 3 new interesting accounts this morning. Feels good discovering like minded people in the web of trust.


If you run your own node you need to manage liquidity. If you use a custodian to manage liquidity, cashu gives privacy. The mint doesn't know your balance and can't stop you spending the tokens.


Then why are you arguing against it? What point are you trying to make?


If you think one side of politics is better than the other you have been played. Once your vote is captured there is no incentive for them to act on the issue you want. They need to ensure the issue is always a problem and that they appear to be the only side fighting for it.

In Australia it was the conservative party that took away guns, that introduced GST, that introduced same sex marriage, that introduced some of the harshest COVID lockdowns and that increased the money supply by 40% in one year in response to COVID.

They do this because the goal is open because everyone thinks they are fighting against those things.


Holy smokes!

Has anyone else seen this? This post was made May 17th.

"One might ask how AdBlock Plus and uBlock became payment apps. The answer is: five hours of work on each of them. That’s the time it took to integrate NWC and WebLN and bring full payment functionality to the most downloaded browser extensions today."

https://blog.getalby.com/block-ads-and-pay-in-bitcoin-today/


Hey fellow dreamer. Welcome


Cry? Bitcoin is a threat to the political system. Both sides will try to nerf it and subjugate it into a permissioned system they can control. Bitcoin is about building a system that is outside of government control and defending the ability to use it.
That's not saying one side is not better than the other. But we need to stay critical because it doesn't align with their incentives.


Reality is that returns on extortion are decreasing in the digital age. The political class is becoming less relevant.


Why are they not interoperable? Why can't a cashu mint be federated?


The mint can't see your wallet, can't stop you sending the tokens. That's the cool part.


I'd take on a kangaroo over a bear
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Cryptocurrency COMPANIES


Welcome


Followed 🤙


Welcome. I'd love a salt and pepper pool are but I'm in Townsville, so a bit for for your cement truck to travel. All the best!


Know the truth and the truth will set you free.


You need to pay to get a Mutiny account with a static address. You need to pay with lightning to get that. Do you have Bitcoin?

You can use Mutiny Wallet without the Mutiny pluss, send Bitcoin to it and open a lightning channel to pay for the subscription


Thanks. Can't seem to zap you.


I know hot women with ugly men, they are a constant drama.


Note how the study only says the women are happier. They didn't mention the man's happiness for a reason.


Unfortunately this usually means the woman is cray-cray


Can anyone attest to this? #ADHD #carnivorediet #asknostr
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why do people want money?

freedom

like pavlov's dog they chase the bell because they forgot what they want is food


Community where the people know your faults but love you anyway. You know they will always have your back and help you see things you are blind to.


Yeah, I think Damus has a delete function


Just ordered 2 large pizzas delivery. Happy Bitcoin pizza day.


1 billion AUD


Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table at which he's fed.

Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes are the rule.

Tax his work, Tax his pay, He works for peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat. Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work, Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he tries to think.

Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries tax his tears.

Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways to tax his ass.

Tax all he has, Then let him know, That you won't be done till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers, Then tax him some more, Tax him till he's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the sod in which he's laid.

Put these words Upon his tomb, 'Taxes drove me to my doom...'

When he's gone, Do not relax, Its time to apply the inheritance tax.


GM ☕

It seems like engagement with social media heavily depends of feedback and following user gets in early days of adopting the platform.

This dynamic is perfected in game apps - you get flooded with engagement rewards in your first days, level ups and more until you learn how to play and start doing things on your own.

This is why one fun app on nostr could be something called "Our Nostr" or "Our Attention" - a 'communist' (🤣) Nostr client or feed within a client that showers Nostr newcomers and real accounts lacking engagement with attention - like some sort of incubator to better the experience for real users with low following.

It would have to use some sort of mechanism to filter real users from spam bots, having a Lightning address might be an OK indicator but likely not perfect. Global used to serve similar function in early days until it got spammed out of relevance.

So yeah, real communism hasn't been tried... yet 🤣


Church legalities aside.


But that is effectively just paperwork.


"Of the 2,800 young adults represented in Figure 1, all married early by American standards, from ages 18 to 26. Those who divorced (about 20 percent of this sample) had relatively short marriages."

This outcome is not much worse than a failed cohabitation, but skews the statistics.


What do you mean by not going down the rabbit hole?


👀
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I don't know why communities didn't work out. A Reddit style nostr client would be great for discovery and plugging into like minded people. The UX is a bit glitchy on Amethyst for communities.


Yeah, there is not enough of a user base to get a reasonable network of people with interests other than nostr and Bitcoin.


That's a great idea


:thinkguy:


I use this as my daily driver, almost never use anything else.


What happened in 1971?


Few things are more satisfying than swatting a fly mid air. 🪰🎾🎯


Welcome to nostr


What do you think about what keychat is doing?


:funkycat:


Just like speaking in public. Isn't that the idea?


When the good counts finally turn up on nostr in the future, don't forget who was posting crap for you whilst you waited for them. 🥹


Port Pirie, still shit.


But check in on us from time to time 🫂


I've been listening to this song on repeat for 2 days. It's funny because I was never that into it back in the day. Can't get enough of it. #nostalgia https://youtu.be/XCbAEkfXSDE?si=DqzjPF8kR2qWFEdc


How? The buy Bitcoin button is on the android version but not the IOS


Because the people that want to be free of centralised control of social media also want to be free of centralised control of money.

There are other interests too, but most people are open to Bitcoin. Not that's it's a requirement for using nostr.


#meme #memestr https://image.nostr.build/3c7083f43a7b77c6b11962780fccce4922903ba70a9fd95efc8f4433c954ae25.jpg


Philips Smart Pasta Maker with Integrated Scale isgame changing. A bit of effort to clean, but the time to prepare it is offset by time to cook. https://image.nostr.build/b9cf8c03c6cf088c40fc59c2bbbcb6deb329c99d22d75b23a5f8e47c76f3b67d.jpg

alt Philips Smart Pasta Maker with Integrated Scale


The phenomenon of people pursuing mediocrity and complacency as a deliberate choice has been observed in various societies throughout history. This essay will explore how this mindset may impact individuals and society as a whole in the long run.

Firstly, it's essential to understand why some people choose mediocrity over excellence. Fear of failure, lack of motivation, or simply being content with their current status quo may lead individuals down this path. While it's natural for people to seek comfort in familiarity, pursuing mediocrity as a deliberate choice could have detrimental consequences for both individuals and society at large.

For individuals who choose mediocrity over excellence, they may experience stagnation in their personal growth and development. By settling for less than their full potential, they limit their opportunities for advancement in their careers, relationships, and personal lives. Over time, this lack of ambition could lead to feelings of dissatisfaction, boredom, and even depression as they realize they could have achieved more if they had pushed themselves harder.

On a societal level, widespread mediocrity could hinder progress and innovation. When people choose complacency over growth, they may become resistant to change and new ideas. This resistance could stifle creativity and prevent breakthroughs in various fields such as science, technology, arts, and politics. In turn, this lack of progress could lead to economic stagnation, increased competition from more ambitious nations, and ultimately, a decline in overall quality of life for citizens.

Moreover, mediocrity could also have negative implications for social cohesion. When people prioritize their own comfort over collective well-being, it may lead to increased inequality, division, and social unrest. This could result in a society where only a select few enjoy prosperity while others struggle to make ends meet, creating resentment and discord among citizens.

In conclusion, pursuing mediocrity as a deliberate choice may have severe consequences for both individuals and society as a whole. While it's natural for people to seek comfort in familiarity, settling for less than one's full potential could lead to stagnation in personal growth, hinder progress and innovation in society, and exacerbate social inequality. To avoid such outcomes, it's crucial for individuals to strive for excellence and embrace change in order to create a more prosperous and harmonious society.


Your back! 🫂


I have used minibits


“If physical cash was invented today, it would probably be illegal.”

Learn about the past, present, and future of #Ecash with nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg
#Titcoin
https://youtu.be/cit4-edRl70


Also this. Nostr is the printing press that enabled the reformation for the digital age. Most churches are technical Luddites, so it's good to see ones that gets it.
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Not sure if you already follow these, not really obscure, but just in case.

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In minbits it has an off devive backup for if you lose your device. I assume that means the state data is backed up on nostr relays and you can recover with bip-39 seed?

I don't know how you can do offline transactions and prevent double spend. If you pay someone offline, but then restore your wallet from a backup before they come online and connect with the mint, wouldn't the money you gave them be invalid?

If you transact offline are you trusting the other person until you can connect to the mint?
https://image.nostr.build/01cb0574e4a82412cec96b804ba2eca7c5580a5c86d355f31a55db45e88ac7a2.jpg
#cashu #asknostr


I think altcoins have a place in keeping Bitcoin accountable. If Bitcoin fails to develop and incorporate valuable features it will lose ground to them. If an altcoin develops a genuine advantage, the features ought to be adopted by Bitcoin. The altcoin will then lose value as the network effect of Bitcoin wins out.


How does the backup seed phrases work in Cashu if the tokens are bearer held. If you lose your phone, how can you recover the tokens that were on that device?


Is this nostr:npub1h0uj825jgcr9lzxyp37ehasuenq070707pj63je07n8mkcsg3u0qnsrwx8


Waffles with Nutella, ricotta, raspberries and chocolate sauce for breakfast


The Devs want to eat, either they need to charge more or grow users. Otherwise it won't get developed or maintained.


What happened?


Objective data on why it is not a good idea to print money and how during all this time we have lost purchasing power.

- Our parents could afford solid wood furniture, production processes have improved, therefore we should be able to buy the same furniture as our parents, and we are not. This applies to many building materials.
- By extension, it should be the same with housing, now a house is built faster because the production processes have improved and yet our parents had to spend many fewer years to afford it.
- The same applies to vehicles.
- Food has been especially sensitive to this. Many foods that were once considered poor people's foods, such as sardines, are now almost luxury delicacies. Many people can only eat cereal by-products, which is real garbage for the body, and cannot afford meat or fish in the necessary quantities.
- The only thing that has remained more affordable for a while, and even dropped in price, is electronics, because the deflationary advance of its development has been greater than the loss of purchasing power generated by the printing of currency.

Therefore, objectively, the printing of money has only served to impoverish those at the bottom and make those at the top richer, the present concentration of wealth is the greatest ever known from historical series, surpassing the period 1870-1914.

One only has to understand how the CPI works to know how evil Harari's words are. Normally wage increases in all countries are associated with the increase in CPI, this metric is manipulated downward, not reflecting the actual level of inflation, is the great swindle of the system, if this metric was associated with the real level, no one would gain anything and no one would lose anything, for someone to win someone else has to lose. This leads to salaries always lagging behind inflation and to the loss of purchasing power over time. If we distribute all the printed coins equally, nobody wins, everything stays the same, the coins have to be distributed only to a few, the Cantillon effect.

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Play a round of Shitcoin Sweeper and try not to step on any shitcoins. #Bitcoin only

https://bitcoin-explorama.com/cryptos-3


This is awesome, would be great to have a nostr login and leaderboard. https://image.nostr.build/bba6b45ac9b0e8e6653382a201f6a1da5b2f941b0da212aa04c21c714f6e9a73.jpg


Oof


Hello #Nostr!

If there is any institution that should be interested in preserving free speech, particularly in parts of the world that actively seek to suppress the gospel of Jesus Christ, it ought to be the Church, and we haven't ever had a more effective tool for preserving that right in the public square than Nostr.

#introductions


Is this the best aurora photo? No. But it's impressive that it's taken in the tropics, 7000km from the poles on a phone. https://image.nostr.build/ef730b81c498ef7ae9721d7335cb63eaa757b14a346dcb110c0fa6b55e83ff77.jpg


I had a mate ask me about Bitcoin, because most of the girls he talks to on dating sites are into crypto. I was like, those are not girls...

Don't underestimate how many crypto scammers are out there muddying the water. Save Bitcoin for the third date.


Whenever I try to teach someone Bitcoin I go back to 2014 material.


Yeah, I use bitaroo. They are great but the bank charges $2 fee for every transfer. Not bad for big amounts but not great for anything under $200


No one ever sells for AUD. WoS was great because they didn't have a fee to transfer fiat, you could buy small amounts at the same rate as large.


Can you buy Bitcoin with Wallet of satoshi IOS app in Australia? I got my friend to download it but he doesn't have the button. #AUStrich


He potentially doxed his mate and by extension, if it's true that they hang out together, himself. Finding the guy who owns the name Coinbase on Minecraft shouldn't be that hard. If they have all the crypto they claim to have, him and his mates are a honey pot for other hackers and extortionists.


Mutiny Wallet semiautomatic is like a muzzle loader
 https://video.nostr.build/f252a5e4e108c0a330d2248d86b5be576c57eaccdcb5f3865442a9f2efbf00db.mp4

alt Nostr wallet connect with Mutiny Wallet


Current chat applications and email have forgotten that an address is not the same as an ID, treating the ID as the address. Emails and current chat applications send messages as [from: Alice's ID to: Bob's ID]. Regardless of how your geographical address changes, when Alice sends an email to Bob, it’s always [from: Alice's ID to: Bob's ID]. This compromises metadata privacy.

However, letters work differently; they are [from: Alice's current geographical address to: Bob's current geographical address].

Keychat separates the recipient address and sender address from the ID, and the recipient and sender addresses are also different. Keychat messages are [from: Alice's one-time address to: Bob's almost one-time address]. This makes it difficult for outsiders and relay administrators to determine who is sending messages to whom. nostr:note1h842qj25shjm8yrl20y6nlm8yxynlmn33ggu2fj5mh9nmsyjnkgs8pgse4


https://image.nostr.build/c84218c02186158e1590e111acee9bac3de5cc5151af05a71ce1b006ae689269.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2075eaaa5adae9b6432f4e1d29b128244d46d16e692f0ef4d9906abf86b9867a.jpg
#meme


Yeah, I noticed that too. I'd be happy to pay more for one that held notes forever.


Always https://image.nostr.build/f1c0ce209fe224df6ae82a62f264f5a786158226cf7e685e15e148f2aa76eebf.jpg


By assessing testimony


Disagree. History gets to be written once those in control of the narrative have died. Historical accounts can be written by people with agendas, but other historical accounts can explain those agendas, it becomes an iterative process towards truth as multiple sources are referenced.


I impromptu interviewed a social engineering hacker. https://m.soundcloud.com/junsethsworld/interview-with-a-social-engineering


Oh well, you should write up all the things you tried and their response. Sometimes being censored is the best advertisement.


When we did it there was a company taking 4x4 ofroad busses up then hiking the last little bit. It was awesome. I love Sicily, enjoy. https://image.nostr.build/d6a379c534747b47a61a12b2e74cf95b5a97e1a993c88ff84bb65a64ef77180e.jpg


Did you hike to the crater?


Will be good to play that at the 20 year reunion


Yeah. A short intro on the incentives to violence would have made the Bitcoin pitch a lot more palatable.


What about HDL cholesterol?


Reply and repost if you want to be in the video on the billboard, the spot will last for 15 seconds.

Only people who reply will be added to this one.


That would be cool


Reasons to KYC
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alt Attention burglars please carry ID so we can notify next ok kin


At the Feast of the Three Saints, a Sicilian festival in Silkwood, Far North Queensland.  Featuring analogue zaps. #zappathon #zaps #Sicily #Italian https://image.nostr.build/8da88772b63a1ac4c74bc56d35f5cb8b28bbe4734c4830b741d964503ceb6acd.jpg
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I had the beach to myself for my #100adayuntil100k pushup challenge in the morning sun. Sets of 33, 33, 25 and 10 with a swim between each set. 🌄 🏖 💪 https://image.nostr.build/efb73850cadb35ed7bc1ab8b082dd4aa6770391d5bab64961713104ba8670af9.jpg


My ideal car until Bitcoin stops going up https://image.nostr.build/2c16cbc1115aea1b7891580b9c75ce42570fff391598719782fbb46da5989d5e.jpg


This is true #AUStrich


They would be flat out with the new version to debug, and a massive influx of people to debottleneck for.

Mutiny have a matrix chat. That's what they get you to use when you go to GitHub to raise an issue. 🤷♂


I saw something like that one night, it was more blue but lit up the sky. It was amazing.


Right. Talking with my boss is harder now she has almost finished her MBA because she knows everything, but her thinking is rigid, not understanding dynamic forces that lead to the current equilibriums.


It always strikes me that Joseph is a hero in the story, but his actions led to the enslavement of his people.


It's funny reading the sovereign individual talk about the Y2K bug


No


I think this saga is going to damage the American credibility in the eyes of everyday people. Hopefully he is still loaded and can get excellent representation and make a song about the unjust laws.


I guess they put that warning that you may loose all your sats on the eNuts app for a reason.


Yeah, I knew they were shutting it down, that's why (I thought) I emptied it. I didn't know they were hacked.


I thought I emptied my lnbits eCash balance, but accidentally sent nuts instead of lightning. Have I been rugged? #cashu
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Is there any way to buy SATs KYC free in Australia? Robosats consistently has no orders #AUStriches #bitcoin


My daughter borrowed a book from kindy called 'Jungle Friends' #bookst #books #hiddenmeaning https://image.nostr.build/1d4b8d4b3db75e6c340c5608fa9811e01e2c022fda97c25dd80cd968e4fb1720.jpg
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Some of you guys would be so much smarter if you spent an hour a week listening to Bitcoin Takeover podcast.

You’d understand what’s going on beyond the circlejerking and the petty tribalism.

But you do you, I guess…


Trying to refollow everyone that follows me. Repost if I do not follow u.


Welcome


If it was illegal, another social media would be forced to stop.


My brain: ma I sa derob....?


The US has ts own Berlin Wall


Open Mutiny Wallet and leave it open for a bit. I think small invoices go to their fedmint. They show up after you open your app. It isn't the fastest app.


Literally my wife's paycheck


I know that's excessive, but don't know best practice
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Fellow #AUStrich


See the nostr nip05 in the journalist bio 🔥
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Great article. Great to see nostr nip05 used on Forbes https://image.nostr.build/146558d5d8543aeb3f4a9811854dc950ea409179d6386a131763ad8f81ddc418.jpg
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I love Flight of the Concord. I watched them for my first date with my now wife to make sure she had the right sense of humour.


Is this just a rehash of the sovereign individual


Just started reading 'The Sovereign Individual' can recommend.#bookstr


We watch new episodes as a family


https://image.nostr.build/cb105dcfda11b6dbf403a591b7431a4c2b365ee91677b759be4862785f76d1e5.jpg
 #meme #memestr

alt I like a guy who uses toys during sex


Bitcoin is more akin to shares in ford company than buying a model-T. This doesn't mean that it is immune from disruption by a more initiative competitor. However, without intellectual property protection, disruptors don't have a very large advantage. They rely on an ignorant majority of shareholders in their competition resisting change for too long.


Hard to search which ones to use. If you make it plural you are not following half the group. There are plenty of alternative words. If you know a hashtag it's ok, otherwise you are stabbing in the dark.


Yeah, me either. But getting engagement on a Bitcoin post is difficult because there is lots of competition. You have to be really good to get engagement. On other topics they will likely be a miss with most people. A nostr based Reddit would probably help, but that didn't seem to stick when it was tried. Probably just needs time to iron out bugs and reach more people.


There is a saturation of Bitcoin content and sub critical mass for other topics at the moment.


The Noshole's own words.

Be kind to one another 🫂

"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."

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🫂 I loved seeing your stuff on nostr. It was easy to tell you were very intelligent. Hope you come back when you are ready.


100% chance of that.


#welcome #introductions
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I had the same issue too. I'm giving them some grace as they just made some major changes, but the last one hurt at over 5k SATs.


I think everyone is on edge after the FBI recommend not to use non KYC wallets and arrested the Samurai team. I have to admit it did leave me feeling somber and irritated.


You can choose what mint you want to use. There is some risk, but you also gain privacy from the eCash that's under the hood of the fedmint and it is a lot more easy than managing channels.

I hope they will let you add multiple mints soon and open channels to them. That way you can push only enough liquidity for daily spending. Like carrying cash in your physical wallet.


I only have the memes I stole 🤣


I wish I could open Atral ninja one more time to get a screenshot of where we have come from.


Withdrawing from US app store


Rumour is that king Charles is giving a press conference at 3am Australian time. #royal


Yes. It is a bit slow than other wallets, but I also have encryption on it and not on others.


RHR AT 1800 UTC TOMORROW.

https://rhr.tv

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Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.

The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

Onward.

Eric Hughes

9 March 1993


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#meme #memestr


Why hasn’t anyone who laundered money for Jeffrey Epstein been arrested? https://i.nostr.build/nWkQE.jpg


Would covenants help eCash to be trustless?


I would expect that. It fits a population growth model.

People don't like this but Bitcoin has done most of its growth in terms of % gains.

Assuming Bitcoin could denominated the total global wealth of 500 trillion. That's 23.8 million per Bitcoin. If you say a sound money could increase this real wealth by a factor of 4 it is topping out at 100 million per coin maximum possible. This is the most moonboy prediction possible. This is about a 1000 x gain on the current price.

To come from 7 cents per Bitcoin to the current price it has already come 1,000,000 x gain or 2/3 of what it possibly theoretically could if it captured the entire world's wealth and grew it.

This just means that Bitcoin will loose the gamblers and gain more serious sound money advocates. Which is why we are here right?


I like Mutiny Wallet


:thinkguy:


It's not just the supply. It is also about minimising trust that some people can come to control it. Solana is extremely centralised, ETH is proof of stake, which rewards whoever holds the most with more. It creates an exponential feedback of more money, gives more money.


:drakeyes:


Yeah, but better than going quietly


Are there any online petitions about this?


F


Yeah. Literally life with ADHD


Draw 25 cards of debt


:funkycat:


Not the majority of Bitcoin users. Not that you need a majority, just that if you don't, you will have a shitcoin that loses value.


I use Amethyst on android with nos2x and Mutiny Wallet with nostr wallet connect.


The users of Bitcoin collectively decide that they want a protocol that is useful for money and decide on improvements that will ensure that bugs that inhibit that purpose are corrected.


A good day for Zelinsky, a bad day for Russia citizens.


You used it or you used something someone holds and runs for you? https://image.nostr.build/4aae3ca488b5d43c468c820abbfce7e00b8324656d96a2472723c081e198ae59.jpg


Households Debt in Australia decreased to 109.70 percent of GDP in the third quarter of 2023 from 110 percent of GDP in the second quarter of 2023.


It is interesting market dynamics. Like bidding on eBay, but all bids are taken, even if they loose.


Miners are pretty happy for it, but if they are subsidising it, it has a real cost when someone else mines a block. This is unlike NFT mints giving 'millions of dollars' worth of NFTs to celebrities. It is short sighted because in the long run it is going to drive more custodial approaches. I think ETFs are more likely to be behind it to drive down self custody.

Part of me wonders if this is some 4D chess played by court jesters to make a point of pain so that users are accepting of a scaling solution.


Margareta on dusk 🔥🔥🔥 #foodstr #alcohol https://image.nostr.build/955ad5a50c89c165149132eb4fc6c76fe3b532e12d626206d3fa1dda50cca375.jpg


Margareta on dusk 🔥🔥🔥#foodstr #alcohol https://image.nostr.build/955ad5a50c89c165149132eb4fc6c76fe3b532e12d626206d3fa1dda50cca375.jpg


The runes are giving the miners 6 times more Bitcoin to dump at the moment. The price probably factored in a decrease in miner supply. I can see a short term dump.


:drakeyes:


Yeah, I think it froze the app. I was zapping from the fedmint so I'm not sure what happened.


This happened when I zapped the 77 user prism. I didn't realise it didn't go through. Going to be a while now 😢
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Happy halving. Proof of run. Does the halving mean I only need to run halfway next time?
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I switched to eggs and ham for breakfast and not have much more focus throughout the day.


I grew up on a sheep farm. I have to say the memories of the sheep being herded into the pens stuck with me and contributed to my mistrust of authority.
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Have now


I have cleaned up some of the ones that weren't working and removed some that seemed to be duplicating
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R https://nostpic.com/media/7317f913c3de739e83ab2ddc6700a8f5caf45fac5a02c6a886b55ef9b7e34d41/4205c531031c30378a9c7e41a4944c4f6460833492cff3ef018d6ca94ac45e17.webp


A friend of mine lost money in MtGox. They recently got the cash component of the creditors payout. This small portion of their payout was a 90% profit on their initial investment. It has beat inflation by 300%. It is more than 200% better return than the ASX200 over the same time period.

Moral of the story: Getting robbed in Bitcoin gives better returns than fiat investments.
#bitcoin #MtGox


I did that during uni.


I have used 176 gigabytes more mobile data than my wife in 9 months. She is asking how that happened. #asknostr
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If you hate war, you should hate fiat currency.

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


I like Mutiny Wallet, but you need to pay to receive a ln address at the moment. Worth it. It has great privacy and uses a federated custody model, until you have enough Bitcoin, then it opens a self custodial lightning channel.


I'm not worried about screenshots, most people understand not to do that.  Rebroadcasting because they didn't realise it was a private relay that I had given them access to is more of a worry. If that can be stopped that's great. We probably need a way for people to buy virtual relays. I don't want to share pictures of my family publically, but if I could get them onto nostr I would like to in a way only they can see.


:funkycat:


Follow mine! I try to make engaging videos about many different topics and I'm barely getting started! Here's one I made to onboard more people on #nostr: https://m.primal.net/HnUB.mp4


Recently came across #Cashu, WOW! Incredible! Made this short vid to do my part in spreading the word. Feel free to share! Also shout-out to  nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg for contributing to it's development and putting me on to this awesome protocol!  https://m.primal.net/HsMt.mp4


Yeah, but privacy means the ability to reveal one's self selectively.


Can that prevent the notes being broadcast by others?


It would be good to have the ability to make some notes only readable by people you follow or even a paid content list.


Why?


racism


:keks:


:thinkguy:


Is there a Bitcoin beach / Bitcoin jungle equivalent in South East Asia? #asknostr #plebchain


I don't think so


Hmmmm, it should. Should just go to the Mutiny Wallet fed mint. They might be having issues.


#meme #memestr https://nostpic.com/media/7317f913c3de739e83ab2ddc6700a8f5caf45fac5a02c6a886b55ef9b7e34d41/52c08d903768c2df2c4981775f358091567927b1788e0ab1d367f3870953a1f3.webp


It's a lemon. I love in the tropics in the southern hemisphere se we are coming into the cooler time of year, but it's also the best part of the year to be outside.


We spent the afternoon in the garden too
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Afternoon in the garden https://nostpic.com/media/7317f913c3de739e83ab2ddc6700a8f5caf45fac5a02c6a886b55ef9b7e34d41/627dfad3f78b9809ec1892c33edaf60b00df664df9d728fae574757dc0d87959.webp
#garden #grownostr


Still does a bit


nostr:npub1au23c73cpaq2whtazjf6cdrmvam6nkd4lg928nwmgl78374kn29sq9t53j used to post on nostr


It's Tuesday in Australia


Religious groups already have networks, you only need to get a few leaders to say "we are going here" for everyone to follow. For this I think private groups need to be working well.


Religious groups


Good luck


Much damage?


Games like chess, dominoes, connect four, checkers, guess who, and battle ship just to name a few should be nostrfied.

Literally anyone of these games paired with cornychat would be a stone cold killa app that would get people using nostr without even knowing that they are using nostr


The game play is too hard for a beginner. Needs an easy mode


Nostr is good for real world relationships because you see who you follow without getting burried by an algorithm. However, it is very text focused. Facebook grew by using games, then once you had built a network of friends you could see what your friends were posting. This overcame the chicken and egg scenario with building a social network.

A daily challenge game like sukudu or wordle where you can see your friends score would be great. It could be embedded into websites like the NY Times have done to wordle, but because it's nostr the same game could be played on different sites or dedicated apps and you could see the results of all your friends, wherever they played the game. This could easily get a greater network effects than wordle. Every site that's not NY Times has an incentive to get on board to offer something that doesn't take people to their competition.


I agree but most of the pay services are subscription. I don't want a subscription. I want eCash NWC that will zap a few sats to use something seamlessly.

The emphasis is value for value and donations. I think micro paywalls will be a game changer. Clients can add a small percentage zap split on top of content producers paywall. Users can set a budget with an auto approve, or one tap approve if paywall less than a certain amount.


What happened to SatsMcd? nostr:npub10chlkc62tk7yr5m9qjc2u7rs3ufhhrq8yukeey0c5lysqkp2gumq93mnex

Couldn't handle the Saylor hate?


Is there a way to know what relays when this happens? #asknostr
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alt Event can't be found in your relay list


If 100k takes another 5 years we will be able to do this.


CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx TO CLEARLY EXPLAIN NEW FEATURES.

HERE HE IS GOING OVER THE PROS, CONS, AND TRADEOFFS OF FEDIMINT IN nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg
https://m.primal.net/Humz.mov


so on here can I show my boobs for sats or is it frowned upon?  not full frontal nudity just maybe a plunge swimsuit.  because as previously mentioned I’ve run out and I can’t remember how to buy more.  or will I have to come up with a heartbreaking post of staggering genius and post to more relays and mine bitcoin, stack sats and the rest?

just wondering … 💭


You can show your tits, but most bitcoiners are too stingy to hand over their Bitcoin. It's probably easier to learn to use robosats and just buy it.


How is your trade going?


But worth it. You are paying for them to build the custodial portion of Bitcoin in a private, trust minimised way. The other cool thing is that for transactions over 200K SATs it opens a lightning channel so you are self custodial of significant amounts of Bitcoin.


16000 sats.


Unfortunately it wasn't to be 😢


Interesting, it is showing on nostr but hasn't come through yet.


They have a federation mint that custodes small amounts, if you get over 200k SATs they open a channel. This means most of your zaps come and go from the custodial balance and you only open a channel to self custody a significant amount. It helps avoid small utxos


Yes, that allows you to use nostr wallet connect. You can set a daily limit and auto approve zaps until you reach your limit.


Download nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg


Can someone zap fe a sat or 2 to test my wallet.
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#memes #memestr #travel


The #Bitcoin  simps waiting to see what their hero wants them to think next. https://video.nostr.build/c3883127c7514291b8a6c901e5cef31d1bb6230c5af55e74ded6ae5e93c00dd5.mp4


Yeah. Mutiny is pretty new, but I imagine an ecosystem of fedmints like nostr relays. You could have dozens of mints that you trust. When you send a transaction the wallet could look for the best routing option, if the recipient and you shared a common mint the transaction would only need to be a eCash balance transfer. This would make regulatory pressure on custodians difficult. If a mint rugs, you are only risking 5-10% of your balance


Wouldn't the lightning fedmints be better than liquid? With a wallet like Mutiny you can have lightning channels to some mints.  This keeps you connected to the lightning network to spend and receive SATs. The fedmint gives privacy, but multiple mints gives greater decentralisation, like nostr relays.


Mutiny is such a cool wallet. Self custody with a small amount in fedmint for privacy and ease of use. Nostr wallet connect. 🚀


Nice


This is the way


I'm not trying to argue, just verifying the trade-offs wth a back of the envelope calculation.

The goal is to maximise participation in running nodes, but there is not much point running a node if you can't afford a transaction.

The block size means there are a maximum of 4000 transactions every 10 min. That's 210,240,000 transactions a year with full blocks.

Even if you saved up to add to or withdraw from your retirement savings once every 10 years it only allows 2 billion people to use Bitcoin onchain. What are the other 5 billion meant to do?

I'm not arguing for larger blocks. It's an inefficient scaling solution and one that is not beneficial for a long time. We should develop the scaling solutions cautiously first, because these could become more different to implement as time goes on.


Yeah, only up to a certain point because if people use custodians and lightning, miners receive very little revenue from the occasional channel opening and closing.

That's why the miners supported big blocks in the block size wars.

Decentralisation is maximised by minimising the total cost of using Bitcoin in a permissionless way.

Total cost = capital cost of a node + transaction cost x number of on-chain transactions.

Currently you can run a node with a $100 second hand computer. At a fee cost of $1 per transaction you can do one transaction a month for 4 years before the cost of the transactions exceeds the cost of the node.

If the block size was increased to reduce transactions to 10 cents but the node now costs $1000 it would cost more overall.

But if fees go to $10 per transaction, you can only do about 2 transactions per year before the cost of transactions exceeds the cost of the old computer you are running the node with. This could be managed with just opening one channel to a fedmint and splicing once a year, but that comes with some tradeoffs.

Where to go once fees continue to rise, say to a theoretical $100 per transaction?


Great work


Lets, try this again. Check out this video I’ve been working super hard for it. Hopefully you enjoy it as much as my team and I did making it 🙏🫶

https://v.nostr.build/Enm4n.mp4


Only up until people stop transacting. Larger blocks have more transactions so overall miners can get more revenue.


New lightning address
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Do you lose your address if you stop your subscription? I'd happily pay for a custom address, but can't afford the ongoing subscription for ever.