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2023-03-02 05:30:56

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UHHH ACKTUALLY

2023-03-02 05:27:39

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Like I said before, the vast majority of trading activity isn't represented by on-chain transactions. That's all happens on exchanges.

2023-03-02 05:22:35

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I've got no clue as to the particulars of what it's being used for, or how they even classify which crypto transfers count as remittance payments. But ultimately it's being used for something.

2023-03-02 05:15:10

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I mean, cross-border remittances take about 3-5 days, and charge something like a >6% fee. So using Bitcoin or a stablecoin ends up being a lot cheaper and faster.

2023-03-02 05:09:29

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Well wash trading isn't happening via on-chain transactions, that would be exchange volume which isn't measured here (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-usd). There's a lot of cross-border payments it's used for. I don't know what else.
And as a point of reference, Visa was ~38.6 billion USD/day for 2022. So 2 billion/day isn't several orders of magnitude off.

2023-03-02 05:01:19

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It's currently doing ~2 billion USD worth of daily transactions, which doesn't count exchanges or the lightning network, so someone's using it.

2023-03-02 03:33:11

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YOU LIE

2023-03-02 00:36:18

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There's something to them successfully operating a payment network for the last decade without any downtime.

2023-03-02 00:12:52

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Yeah, that's the thing. If the relays are all carrying the same redundant information, then there's not really much incentive for most people to join a ton of different relays, so it'll centralize. If they are unique, then it'll eventually fragment and not be much different than fedi.

2023-03-01 22:17:18

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It was a rare 1916 mercury dime youve spent years looking for to complete your collection. Fortunately your neighbor is a friend of a dealer and knew how much it meant to you. Good timeline restored.

2023-03-01 22:16:08

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It was a rare 1916 mercury dime you've spent years searching for to complete your collection. Fortunately your neighbor is friends with a deale

2023-03-01 22:00:35

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I wonder if that will contribute to a reversion to cults of personality. E.g., the anti-crypto relay blocking posts from accounts subscribed to the Monero relay, and so on.

2023-03-01 21:43:52

I am curious as to the incentives for joining multiple relays. The majority of people, who have no interest in violating social norms, don't really have to worry about censorship. So all those people will ultimately centralize to a handful of relays. That is unless relays become themed/branded entities, with local feeds catering to people subscribed to that particular relay (e.g., the fediverse bridge relays).

2023-03-01 21:36:42

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I was trying to figure out how to query someone's lightning address, as I'd be willing to host a node so long as it blocked anyone zap-capable.

2023-03-01 21:32:26

Does anyone notice weird threading on amethyst? I reply to a comment, and my reply goes to the OP, instead of to the comment.

2023-03-01 21:31:12

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Excellent post. I agree. Have a dime.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_f9b6f45f6dc6d1c8bf61f02b08b1db0d896cefd24341d2146feb6743d5d60f7b.jpg

2023-03-01 21:30:21

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Excellent post. I agree. Have a dime.
https://i.imgur.com/WIc3tdO.jpg

2023-03-01 21:26:55

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Of course it is. Imagine having a conversation with your neighbor, and he hands you a dime every time you say something he likes. It's super dystopian.

2023-03-01 19:24:53

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Regarding the arguments made in this thread, it seems like a bit of a mixed bag. I mean, I see Bitcoiners talking about how they'll destroy the centralized welfare state while at the same time pursuing institutional adoption. Yet when it comes to things like Monero building the tools you actually need create a hidden, parallel economy, people like Saifedean or Trader University brush it off, or treat the loss of darknet markets as not a big deal. I see the value in Bitcoin as a black hole into which everyone dumps their money. But when it comes to the topic of subverting the state or being a parallel currency that's actually used, it seems insufficient.

2023-03-01 17:43:48

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it's the:
while(true) {
🫂;
}
loop that's running

2023-03-01 17:39:01

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The exact same thing 99% of Bitcoiners plan on doing, sell some as it appreciates in value, hold some for the long term.

2023-03-01 17:15:32

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I mean, I think I understand pretty well given the majority of my holdings are in Bitcoin. But at the same time the whole cult mentality, unironically referring to yourself as based, or posting laser beam eyes is pretty anti-self-aware.

2023-03-01 16:54:38

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It's nice to see iris devs give full support for the username.

2023-03-01 16:53:49

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It's nice to see iris devs give their full support for your username.

2023-03-01 16:47:30

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No but the Mistigris ANSI group has an account on fedi that I follow. I commission my stuff from ZEUS II, who does art with them.
https://i.imgur.com/lf84v38.png

2023-03-01 03:29:58

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Its that you can view anyone's feed and notifications using their public keys, though not DMs and you cant post.

2023-03-01 03:26:41

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Same, cancerposting was fun for a couple days. But maybe it's worth restarting.

2023-03-01 03:20:11

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I gotta make a Gemini site, been doing a BBS now that the last of the art I was waiting on came in.
https://i.imgur.com/JX9yuMl.png

2023-03-01 03:17:52

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Somehow I doubt that.

2023-02-28 21:18:05

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PRAISE BE TO THE FEDIVERSE! FOR THEY WAGE RIGHTEOUS JIHAD AGAINST THE NOSTRITES!

2023-02-28 21:16:55

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BARNS ARE FREE, YOU CAN JUST PICK ONE UP AND CARRY IT HOME WITH YOU
https://youtu.be/qOpjHm6WzVg

2023-02-28 21:15:52

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I suppose that is the underlying principle on which we differ then.

2023-02-28 21:13:47

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I will, and I will start a farming commune.

2023-02-28 21:13:16

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Humans shouldn't have to adapt to the sub-par vision of techbros who are so socially illiterate that every platform they make only does further damage to normal social interactions. Especially if their shit vision requires a couple wars to pull off. There's a reason Bill Gates and Zuck kept their children away from phones.

2023-02-28 21:09:34

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You don't like me distributing cultural meth? Don't smoke it then.

2023-02-28 21:05:17

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You and I should both know humans don't work that way, if people can get at them, they will use them. It's not about me not having access to them. It's about yet another techbro taking advantages of all the greatest weaknesses of human behaviour because they can, and because it gets money/users, without any thought given to how they're fucking up the collective psyche. Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit did it, and now they're doing it again. But it's okay this time because Jack said "Bitcoin good".

2023-02-28 20:57:03

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#[9] should answer my previous question
#[3]

2023-02-28 20:53:05

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THEY HAVE FINAL SETTLEMENT ON THE BLOCKCHAIN YOU IGNORANT SHITCOINER! FUCK! 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂 🫂

2023-02-28 20:52:03

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Jack can only post the 🫂 emoji so many times before his peons stop getting hyped by it.

2023-02-28 20:47:03

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TRY ZAPPING YOUR BALLS IT INCREASES PRODUCTION BY 120%

2023-02-28 20:44:58

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Like the long-term implications of turning everyone into mindbroken dopamine addicts via zaps?

2023-02-28 20:44:18

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2023-02-28 20:41:01

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Absolutely genius, we should call it something catchy, like Nostroma, Nostbox, or Nostadon.

2023-02-28 20:37:17

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*taking a little time, God damn why can't I edit posts

2023-02-28 20:36:13

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>devs are throwing everything and the kitchen sink at their codebase without taking a time to consider the long-term implications of their choices

2023-02-28 19:47:59

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I guess it's part of the Bitcoin ethos, that they've spent the last decade and a half being shit on, so developed a complete immunity to all criticism whatsoever. At least the fediverse people came at it from the perspective of wanting a conversation, instead of a specific conversation, even if the protocol there is more easily abused.

2023-02-28 19:25:48

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It doesn't seem likely you're going to get much of a reply to opinions that go against their already decided-upon consensus.

2023-02-28 17:39:02

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They love the addiction. Getting more people addicted means more people to pump their bags.

2023-02-28 17:10:18

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I don't claim to be immune, but I'm exposed to way more right-wing thinking from 4chan/fedi/etc. So this serves to balance out the edges. I also used to like listening to the Japan Times English shortwave radio broadcasts when I was able to get them. State media, but they were less partisan than Canadian news at least.

2023-02-28 16:56:18

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I don't take a lot of it seriously, but it's nice to have a news feed in my RSS reader. Also fedi for news of course.

2023-02-28 16:55:14

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Well if you're happy to have a conversation, have you at all thought about the warped incentives zaps cause? Look at the global timeline, it's a hive-mind of lowest-common-denominator thinking, where everyone's just there to farm endorphins and money. I mean, Twitter was designed to be addictive, so maybe that's what you're into. But in terms of fueling real discussion it's counterproductive.

2023-02-28 16:41:23

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https://www.slowernews.com and 4chan

2023-02-28 01:02:01

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It is what true decentralized social media & free speech look like.

2023-02-28 00:53:28

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We need Michael Burry to come on, post a bunch of dumb shit, then freak out when he realizes he can't wipe his account.

2023-02-28 00:50:13

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I had thought of that afterwards, tried deleting it, but lucky for me nostr won't let me chicken out.

2023-02-28 00:21:27

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I mean, you guys will figure it out. ActivityPub has features like MRF policies that blocking or hiding posts that exceed a certain number of mentions, length limits, etc.

2023-02-28 00:17:30

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I mean, this is why the nostr people should have paid at least some attention to the fediverse (pleroma, misskey, mastodon, etc.) before launching their platform. Since the ActivityPub people have been working on this "problem" for over a decade.

2023-02-28 00:12:42

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I will email the iris.to devs immediately and report him.

2023-02-28 00:11:30

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2023-02-28 00:10:17

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Cause shitty = fun

2023-02-28 00:09:40

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Don't worry. When the price is up they'll start posting about it nonstop.

2023-02-28 00:08:08

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Urbit is basically like nostr, but it's less shitty and better at filtering people.

2023-02-27 23:53:37

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They merely adopted decentralization, we were born in it, molded by it. We didn't see decent threads until we were already mindbroken by schizoposting and bussy spam.

2023-02-27 23:49:15

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🫂🫂🫂 Feel free to zap me fellow Bitcoin bro 🫂🫂🫂

2023-02-27 23:41:37

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This is our social media now. Go back to Twitter.
https://youtu.be/PX-d804JmzQ

2023-02-27 23:37:20

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Do you not like fun?

2023-02-27 23:25:53

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Nice
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_ed23681f9e9158a476b17c0d946e03289666f13edfb6aa752a6b93d24a82afd0.gif

2023-02-27 21:08:30

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I named my first violin Yin after the Darker than Black character.

2023-02-27 21:06:58

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I did notice a bunch of SJW's posts come through like a cum firehose.

2023-02-27 21:03:40

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Or people can just press the block button themselves instead of crying for someone else to do it for them.

2023-02-27 21:02:44

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I noticed that too. I think the default iris media uploads just does images. I used a different client and non-image uploads worked fine.

2023-02-27 20:37:47

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Groovy, thank you!

2023-02-27 20:37:26

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I remember a few years ago when I still worked at a university, a bunch of the students were using "hashtag" in normal speaking conversation. Like they'd make a normal statement and then append "hashtag yolo, hashtag love" to the end of it.

2023-02-27 20:35:28

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What ones do you have? I have 17 and need to drop a bunch of the default relays.

2023-02-27 20:33:37

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Somehow everyone forgave him for all his shit with Twitter, the second he quit and said he liked Bitcoin.

2023-02-27 20:32:12

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It seems like they're arguing about it right now:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/298

2023-02-27 20:31:14

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But yeah, it's probably something I definitely need to work on more discipline with too, since it's a easy trap to fall into.

2023-02-27 20:30:10

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Kek, I mean, I don't really mind likes that much. It's just the zaps thing that bothers me, since you're monetizing people's views.

2023-02-27 20:25:26

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Well I can't solve stupid people

2023-02-27 20:24:40

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Unironically, no likes/zaps/upvotes at all, where the important thing is discourse, not farming dopamine. But that way of doing things isn't as profitable, harder to apply an algorithm to.

2023-02-27 20:20:07

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Likes/upvotes are one of the major problems with social media. They incentivize people to not say what they think, but what they (subconsciously) think will get them the most likes (endorphins). It creates a hive-mind mentality where all social interactions degenerate towards the lowest common denominator.
Zaps are even worse, since in addition to dopamine, people are also being incentivized with actual money. It's the worst aspect of social media, but on steroids.

2023-02-27 20:14:38

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I assume they'd start start blocking the entire relay, if that's where all the fun people are coming from.

2023-02-27 20:11:48

Can I embed an entire webpage into a nostr post as an iframe?

2023-02-27 20:10:37

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Oh like this?
#[39]

2023-02-27 20:08:41

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Oh, and it's already happening:
https://iris.to/post/note1vt2syjxjm8a2ek7agy5sxffs35vs2h83q5xwdzlkyza6zhlyqamswq9q9f

2023-02-27 20:03:22

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lmao

2023-02-27 19:53:07

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Finally Bitcoiners will learn what a REAL cryptocurrency looks like.
https://youtu.be/_0quuoARcaU

2023-02-27 19:26:45

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I said "all anyone ever talks about on Nostr so far is Bitcoin, which is boring". I mean, Bitcoin is and can be an interesting topic, but looking at the global timeline it's largely people asking for zaps, offering zaps, and saying how great nostr & Bitcoin are, without much more depth to the conversation. I sent you a thread where dozens of people are all posting hug emojis at each other, they're taking the term "hugbox" literally.
And I am used to sorting through people, I'm usually on the uncensored side of the fediverse where there are plenty of retards. But at least the retards there are interesting, and have more to talk about than "zap me, Bitcoin to the moon". I think the problem isn't nostr itself, since the relay structure is a good idea. It's that the whole zap thing incentivizes the lowest common denominator type of thinking, where a lot of people aren't here to have an interesting, two-sided conversation, but farm endorphins and sats.

2023-02-27 17:36:39

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I don't appreciate Bitcoiners appropriating Costa Rican culture.

2023-02-27 17:32:17

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No one can dox you if you dox yourself.

2023-02-27 17:29:31

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I mean fucking look, these retards are starting hugchains:
https://iris.to/post/note1z4a009qmepy966k207eug2t440hrug090rswhdhtr7ymm5p09x6q35wul7

2023-02-27 17:27:56

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Just make your own instance. And don't worry, I'm sure there will be an informal blocklist shared between relays soon enough.

2023-02-27 17:26:41

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You're kind of strawmanning here. Regardless, it's not that Bitcoin itself is boring, it's that the majority of retards on here are boring, and use low-effort Bitcoin memes to fill in for their lack of a personality while they beg for zaps. At least you two guys are somewhat decent, since we're having an actual conversation. Most people just post that emoji of two people hugging, before retreating to their echo chamber.

2023-02-27 17:19:39

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You mean to say the best part of nostr is the fediverse? Then maybe we just go back to the fediverse.

2023-02-27 17:12:00

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Maybe
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_7fea0b84d77001fdf17f20894bcca38d8a80408a965037008f1f438f0a0cbab3.gif

2023-02-27 06:56:58

I thought you Bitcoin people were all about freedom, yet you pussies won't even call each other nigger. Fucking weak.

2023-02-27 00:40:48

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Think about platforms like Reddit. They gameify social interactions through upvotes. You're not incentivized to say what you really think, but what you (subconsciously) think will get you the most upvotes (dopamine). So all social discourse degenerates towards the lowest common denominator. Zaps are like that but with money, in addition to dopamine. They're like Reddit gold/upvotes on steroids.
And sure, I like Bitcoin too. But it's not a personality. And the entire global feed is Bitcoin, Bitcoin, zap, zap, Bitcoin, etc.

2023-02-26 22:54:52

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I'm actually just messing with you, seeing how easy it is to bait maxis on here, and mentioning Monero since a lot of them are unreasonably dismissive of it.
In reality I like Bitcoin and hold a fair amount, but all anyone ever talks about on Nostr so far is Bitcoin, which is boring, and the whole zaps thing is an awful idea.

2023-02-26 21:34:31

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I love how hard they were dunking on the fediverse's "terrible design" a couple weeks ago, without understanding the years of retard-wrangling that went into those design decisions.

2023-02-26 21:32:36

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Bitcoiners WILL read the entire Bible in post format.