BTCminstrel
BTC Minstrel

https://player.wavlake.com/btc-minstrel

A shantyman for BTC. Occasional purveyor of cypher-funk. I save Satoshis, because Satoshi saves

Public Key

npub12ezcwnc736grnfgxsxy4ea9tj5n60xl5pp59c7d82gfec80qmfrqayafkm

NIP-05 Address

[email protected]

NIP-57 Address

[email protected]

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs9v3v8fu0gaype55rgrz2u7j4e2fa8n06qs6zu0xn4yyuurhsd53spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dslhrly3

Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub12ezcwnc736grnfgxsxy4ea9tj5n60xl5pp59c7d82gfec80qmfrqayafkm

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2024-09-05 16:40:33

Here's the thing about a store of value...
you eventually have to SELL at least some of it, otherwise you're not STORING it, you're DISPOSING of it. You're locking it up and then throwing away the key.
The question is
how much to sell,
when to sell, and
for what purpose.
And that's an individual value judgement.

2024-08-30 00:05:48

I just rode every single subway train in NYC in a single afternoon with my 7yo, including the rare and elusive Z train.
Massive achievement. Core memory.

2024-08-28 00:32:26

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God only knows. It’s hard for me to stay plugged into more than one social app. Just time and attention and logistics.
And the news of the world is on X so there’s such a strong pull (and real alpha to be gained) there.
But nothing beats nostr for Bitcoin and freedom.

2024-08-28 00:28:00

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Thinking of words the rhyme with nostr
🤔

2024-08-27 19:19:50

I missed this place. Nice to be back.

2024-05-29 23:15:09

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Thanks Vic!
Plenty more where that came from:
https://wavlake.com/album/07b50c99-1395-495c-a724-94adb90f4f25

2024-05-29 23:14:09

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I gotchu
https://wavlake.com/album/07b50c99-1395-495c-a724-94adb90f4f25

2024-05-10 17:30:35

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Can’t believe I didn’t reply to this. Check my wavlake. It’s literally called Moscow Time.

2024-05-04 05:32:38

It was that kind of day, friends.
https://wavlake.com/track/850567ef-73d4-43d8-91c5-1c7a56317b3d

2024-04-19 18:15:51

What's the best way to stream on nostr?
Want to do something for the halving. Stream originating from OBS --> into restream.io --> how to get that into nostr?

2024-01-12 16:05:42

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Appreciate the feedback.
Anytime I see "solutions" in a title I'm skeptical. It's a long-time strategy for covering up the negative connotation of sales, when signaling to clients or buyers.
Seeing it creep into the IT world is disappointing.
Not sure how you feel, but I think the Level 4 aspect of your previous role is pretty important and useful as well. It's crystal clear that you have a higher skillset than a Level 3, 2, etc. and that does affect the way people engage (if they don't know you already).
Reducing the numbers to vague "senior, junior, executive" etc just makes everything more vague and everyone else unsure of whom they're really dealing with.

2024-01-12 16:00:30

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100%
Wish more bitcoiners would dig deeper into the concept of Use Cases and Job-To-Be-Done.
It's a big world out there and many people are in many different situations with different constraints that need different approaches.
I think the underlying fear many are reacting to is that the ETF will subvert the use case for holding your own keys and put the fundamental decentralization and censorship-resistance of bitcoin at risk.
This is a good thing to always be concerned about, and we should remain vigilant. But the ETF will grow an entirely new crop of BTC maximalists, who will help maintain that vigilance.
And exposure to BTC, while surely getting some rekt, will save many many more from financial destitution with money that cannot otherwise be used to hold their own keys.

2024-01-12 15:53:57

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Blech! 🤢
Curious what specifically you find frustrating about this title?
I only ask because I work in the talent development sphere and titles are always a tricky tangle of specificity, hierarchy, compensation, and signaling.
I have some assumptions of my own as to why this is a fiat BS title, but I don't want to taint the waters before hearing your thoughts.

2024-01-11 19:52:37

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This one feels appropriate
https://wavlake.com/track/79812530-0803-45db-82e5-1e6de36f55d9

2024-01-11 17:10:51

Took a long hiatus from nostr. Good to be back.
What did I miss?
Are we EVER going to get a Bitcoin ETF????
sheesh

2023-10-16 15:42:48

If it pumps, I post. Them's the rules.
https://wavlake.com/track/850567ef-73d4-43d8-91c5-1c7a56317b3d

2023-10-12 21:03:40

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We shall call it "the red light district"

2023-10-03 21:22:50

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Tagging some known shanty singers... @npub198a…0p3g @npub1der…xzpc @npub1us0…frqv @npub17hm…rrvv @npub1ntv…s7r9 @npub1sfh…ymqt @npub1az9…m8y8 @npub12ud…pcun
Who am I missing?

2023-10-03 20:07:37

🚨🎶 NEW SHANTY ALERT 🎶🚨
New bull run soundtrack has landed.
And the nostriches get to hear it first.
https://wavlake.com/track/79812530-0803-45db-82e5-1e6de36f55d9

2023-09-28 01:16:26

I'm going to be at Pacific Bitcoin and want to meet moar bitcoiners. Hit me up if you'll be there too. Perhaps there are shanties in our shared future.

2023-09-20 03:45:45

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My notifications are other people liking and commenting on this post, which means I now have to scroll through it MULTIPLE times.
Congratulations, Minstrel: you played yourself.

2023-09-20 03:44:17

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It's actually not that bad if your client doesn't show the images. But if it does...

2023-09-20 03:43:06

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LOL

2023-09-19 17:28:35

I had to scroll through the entire thing, so now you have to scroll through the entire thing.
#note163e…ux6k

2023-09-19 17:26:26

Is there something going on with the dust limit right now???
Just tried to make an on-chain transaction to a segwit address. ~$350 USD
Sparrow wallet telling me "too low, below the dust threshold for this type of address"
A $350 dust limit???
I know fees are high rn, but... DAYUM.

2023-09-14 15:07:19

St. Augustine on why shitcoiners hate the Truth.
https://m.primal.net/HLMS.png

2023-08-29 20:02:05

I'm a simple minstrel.
If it pumps, I post.
https://www.wavlake.com/track/850567ef-73d4-43d8-91c5-1c7a56317b3d

2023-08-29 20:02:01

I'm a simple minstrel.
If it pumps, I post.
https://www.wavlake.com/track/850567ef-73d4-43d8-91c5-1c7a56317b3d

2023-08-25 04:02:06

LMFAO 🤣
truly #note1fd7…7xf8

2023-08-23 04:17:05

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What is the spirit of bitcoin?

2023-08-21 17:39:36

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I think we’re saying the same thing. No one should be experimenting with the base layer at this point. Too much real pain on the other side of failure.

2023-08-21 16:25:53

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Fiat mentality on display.
Or surreptitious attempt to sow discord.
He can HFSP with his ordinals

2023-08-21 14:35:29

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So is life, in many respects.
Risk of ruin is still real.
There are consequences to failed experiments, with both life and wealth.

2023-08-21 13:03:08

Canada is on fire because...
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...
...
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... the money is broken.

2023-08-20 18:06:42

It's like Stack Overflow via nostr.
Get in there and start contributing to the hive mind, nostriches.
#note13sj…f5gk

2023-08-20 18:03:54

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If you use a ColdCard (or any cold storage wallet that supports BIP-39) you can create multiple wallets on the same set of keys using a passphrase.
This makes it easy to segment your bitcoin holdings while simplifying your key management. Assuming you already hold BTC for other reasons, such as retirement, emergency fund, etc.
So, with this approach, you could set up a cold storage wallet for your child (congrats!!) and then just transfer BTC to that wallet, direct to cold storage, without needing to "plug in" the CC or anything.
It's secure, convenient, and clean.

2023-08-20 12:54:28

Help me out nostriches:
I’m looking for blog posts, articles, Twitter threads, etc that talk about the numbers that play a significant role in bitcoin.
I’m looking for symbolic importance more so than financial importance.
So numbers like 21, 2016, I’ve seen a few posts on 3, 6, 9 as a sort of universally reducible pattern for much of bitcoin.
Numbers that are relevant to bitcoin but also seem somewhat mystical.
Working on something here. Thanks for your help.
#asknostr
Cc @npub1der…xzpc

2023-08-20 03:10:02

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Holy shit... I'm streaming on @npub1kuj…jw3z !
https://zap.stream/naddr1qq9rzd3exg6rjvehxscsygzkgkr5785wjqu62p5p39w0f2u4y7nehaqgdpw8nf6jzwwpmcx6gcpsgqqqwens5dnxx4

2023-08-20 02:54:14

Getting set up now. ETA 5 minutes.
#note14ac…kyda

2023-08-20 02:53:48

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I have a key from Vida that I'm supposed to paste into zap.stream and then I'm streaming on both, apparently.
But I assume that means OBS is going to Vida, then Vida sends to zap.stream.
Hope it doesn't sound like a copy of a copy.
Might try straight through zap.stream tomorrow.

2023-08-20 00:21:58

Streaming tonight at 2am UTC / 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific on @npub1g2e…8cz7
Join me in the practice room and see how the sausage is made.
https://vida.live/room/7fFs0MS5V
Will also try streaming on @npub1kuj…jw3z but no promises that I can figure that out. If I can, I'll post the link below this post.
Music is a game. Come play.

2023-08-19 22:30:09

This is my rain dance
https://www.wavlake.com/track/850567ef-73d4-43d8-91c5-1c7a56317b3d

2023-08-19 21:35:25

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I saw you in there and even said "hi" but sounds like you weren't able to connect.
It seems to always ALMOST work. Most consistent problem seems to be a glitchy stream connection, on my end at least.

2023-08-19 19:39:48

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Could that be measured in zaps perhaps?

2023-08-19 16:12:50

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I’m still struggling to get the audio balances right in the stream. So many different elements to reckon with getting all this to work. Oof. Let me know if you have any playback problems. I’m considering a different streaming platform. Really want Vida to work but I keep struggling with little things around the UX and the tech.

2023-08-19 16:09:13

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Don’t know about the fishing but those things are fun as hell.

2023-08-19 15:58:03

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Did that even work? Everything seemed okay on my end during the stream. But I can’t play it back. When I do there’s no sound and it keep flickering.
Let me know if you can watch the replay of not. I hope you can because It was a banger.

2023-08-19 14:33:53

If you're awake, This is happening.
Last minute. Need to stretch my soul on a Saturday morning.
Come hang.
https://vida.live/room/63CRGD0H3
CC @npub1g2e…8cz7

2023-08-19 14:25:09

WARNING / REMINDER
Your phone disconnects you from your body.
You are flesh and bone. You have perceptions.
You are a body in meatspace, not an idea in cyberspace.
Do not let the matrix cause you to forget this.
Do not let it dull your perceptions.
Do not let it strip you from time and space.
Do not let it draw you into the realm of the mind for too long.
If you let it, it will steal what you love...
your goals
your memories
your relations
even your agency.
At times you may live THROUGH it.
But do not ever, ever, ever live FOR it.

2023-08-18 23:17:10

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It's been the same for me for the past month. And I'm mostly carnivore too.
Dinner around 6-7, usually a steak.
Coffee in the morning around 6.
Lunch is usually bacon and eggs btw 11-1
Lemon ginger tea in the afternoon
That's literally it.
Used to do lots of desserts at night with wife. Moderate drinking in evening.
Don't really miss it at all. Cravings are very minor and rare.
I think the stomach adjusts and will power gets stronger.

2023-08-18 15:28:31

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Buzzword hopium as at the core of the front-row, elitist ethos.
Possessed by their own intellect, they revel in complexity and mental aesthetics.
They are titillated by clean frameworks that are pleasing to the eye on a giant PPT slide, pontificating on "the implications" of "implementing these ideas".
It is the definition of bullshit in the most technical sense. A complete disregard for the truth in service of their agenda, which is ultimately intellectual satisfaction at seeing themselves as smarter than most and thus deserving of power (by their own sad logic.)
AI is the new buzzword. It is the new "blockchain, not bitcoin". It is the intellectual shiny object, purveyor of ivy league shibboleths.
These turds will trip over their own excess midwit grey matter and, if allowed to, crush the lives of millions in the process in pursuit of their own confirmation bias.
They will cry, "My name is Front Row, intellection of intellectuals. Look on my frameworks, ye Back Rows, and despair."
[I am kind of in my feels right now]

2023-08-18 14:47:16

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It is pure communistic mentality, the assumption that "the right smart people", given enough power, can figure out the solutions of humanity.
It was hubristic (and catastrophic) applying this thinking at a nation-state level, 80 years ago.
To apply it at the scale of all humanity is some combination of moronic, insane, and evil.

2023-08-18 14:41:30

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For every complex problem there's a simple solution... and it's always wrong.
This is why #scientism works as an ideology, and fails as a solution.

2023-08-18 13:57:32

It's times like this for which this shanty exists.
Sing it for strength, plebs.
https://www.wavlake.com/track/b688ec68-f3e3-4798-94c8-73b1dac2d88b

2023-08-18 13:10:02

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There’s no one answer, and it depends on the intention of your digital identity.
If the intention is to subvert existing power structures and challenge authority, then you likely never want to transfer that to the real world. The anonymity IS the value. The change you are able to affect in the world through that anonymity IS the value.
If the purpose of your digital reputation is to build something that is not influenced or affected by your real world identity, that’s different. Think of a nom de plume. in that case you build, whatever you’re building to such great value that at some point, revealing your identity is shielded from the reputation, you’ve already built and the value thus transfers. In other words, you billet something to the point where the value is so great and so many people appreciate it that when they discover who is really behind it, they don’t really care because the value is self evident.

2023-08-18 13:02:42

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To find meaning in life.

2023-08-18 13:00:23

☀️Good Moooooorning☀️

2023-08-18 05:19:55

Good night

2023-08-17 20:24:40

It’s hard not to feel like this is the cycle where things finally crack.
But I’ve been around the block a few times now.
We’ll see. #note1hgu…l083

2023-08-17 18:02:59

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You bet. Dm me with the details.

2023-08-17 18:01:44

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It’s definitely not controlling my life. But I don’t want to be dragged into pointless debates because of a connotation I’m not aware of.
It’s interesting how consistently cultures rise to empire and then attribute success to genetics. When what it really is, more than anything, is an alignment of cultural practices and values with a technological environment at a particular moment in history.
The quest of historians and philosophers is to find that set of values and practices that are immune to the changes in technology and environment over time.

2023-08-17 16:16:46

Does anyone know the backstory on "vril" as a term?
I love the idea of a punchy, novel word to indicate vitality of spirit. The opposite of "I feel so dead inside". The anti-zombie juice.
But it seems to have "master race" connotations, which I abhor.
What's the cultural disambiguation here?

2023-08-17 14:40:41

This is absolutely delightful.
https://watabou.github.io/city.html

2023-08-17 14:24:19

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This post walks through it
https://primal.net/e/note1xtrkffqpysezkhkx8kvdzn30yqdrempj0s7ta6f3mtgeajznx36ssgddpg

2023-08-17 14:23:48

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doesn't mean it ISN'T practically useful. #typo #ugh

2023-08-17 13:51:15

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It was @npub1rye…c2xh
Grateful they noticed it and took the time to reach out to me.

2023-08-17 13:45:10

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Probably about bitcoin too.

2023-08-17 13:44:36

Just because it’s logically false, doesn’t mean it is t practically useful.

2023-08-17 12:51:00

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”

2023-08-17 12:12:21

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Would be honored.

2023-08-17 04:19:41

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Whoops. Ignore that last stub of a sentence. It's creative detritus. But since it's nostr it's gonna be there foreva.

2023-08-17 04:15:28

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PART 2
Well I've spent the better part of an hour pouring over the @npub1get…0nfm website and you all have done a damn fine job. It's an incredibly difficult task to explain lightning, nostr, and v4v dynamics on a marketing website.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm still struggling to understand what Alby is, just a little bit. Probably because it can be so many things to so many people.
But from my point of view, I think of it like a wireless key fob for my car. Cars used to require keys... to unlock them, to lock them, to start them. You had to always be fiddling with them, turning them, jiggling them in the lock.
But wireless key fobs come along and just turn it into a smooth experience that, for a while, feels like magic. The car can literally sense when you're there and unlock for you, turn on with the switch of a button. Turn off if you walk away too far.
It just removes a ton of mechanical friction from the experience.
Alby does this for nostr, and for lightning, and by extension, the v4v ecosystem. So, like, that's pretty brilliant you all should take a fucking bow, because you're killing it.
To stretch that analogy beyond rational limits, you might think of your nostr account as the car, the nostr network as the highway, bitcoin as the gas, and alby as your wireless key fob... if key fobs also paid for gas, I guess.
Anyhoo...
If someone asked me (and to be clear, no one has asked me) to tweak the UX a bit so that it fit better into the bento box of a beginner's mind (see above post) here's probably how I'd frame it.
Make it a two-step process:
1) create your account
2) install the browser extension
Right now they seem positioned as two separate solutions or products. And maybe they are? I don't know, can I use the extension if I don't have an account? Can I use my account without the extension?
Anyway, the dominant UX pattern for all SaaS products is the first thing you do is create an account. Everything else flows from there.
This implies that there is one "back-end" for my user and account data and settings, and that the extension sits atop this information, or is another lens through which I can view and manage.
(Important caveat: it's possibly I am gravely misunderstanding Alby still)
Right now my confusion was that there was an extension, with its own account settings, which mostly helped me send and receive bitcoin seamlessly via other apps. And then there's the account, which does the nostr verification and key management for logging into accounts.
I think what threw me is how you're managing the HTML page for the extension. When I click on the extension I get that rather large pop-out window showing my transactions (and other stuff). But if I go the menu in that window and click "settings" then a full on browser window loads.
Now when that happened I assumed I'd "left the extension" and gone "to the main site". But, much later, when I looked closer I realized that it's just the HTML page for the extension. But since the ar has changed so much in the browser it looked very different.
So my initial, gut reaction is to just have one page/interface where you change the settings to your account (which presumably flow through to the extension) and open THAT page rather than loading the HTML extension page.
On the other hand, if there are actually two different sets of settings (one for account, one for extension) then my recommendation would be to clearly indicate on each page which is which. So label the extension settings page "Extension settings" and maybe put a small link right under that which says "change your account settings here" or something. And maybe even have a tool tip next to that label that explains there are two different classes of settings to help the user grok it.
Anyway, my 2 cents. As before, I'm very impressed by your product and look forward to years of frictionless sending of sats to where they are most deserved.
Now it's possible there's an excellent reason for doing this. And that

2023-08-17 03:41:01

Black dog has come round to visit.

2023-08-17 03:39:21

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I’ve orange pilled people with Opendimes. Trouble is it takes four years.

2023-08-17 03:29:53

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Confessions of St Augustine.

2023-08-16 23:49:12

Okay @npub1get…0nfm i'm going to try this in two parts. First I'm going to try and walk through my UX when I first encountered Alby. I'll lay out the JTBD I was trying to accomplish and map out my mental state.
Then I will actually RESEARCH Alby and try to better understand what you do. Then filter that back through a suggested UX (or some changes) that might better support the beginners experience.
Obviously this is just me. I'm just a humble minstrel. Not necessarily representative of a specific wider community. Mileage may vary. Yadda yadda.
PART 1: The Minstrel Tries Out Alby
So I joined nostr maybe 6 months ago? it was before the nostr conference in the Caribbean. Anyway, I read up about nostr. Seemed exciting and cypherpunk af. Just what social media needed. I was in.
Somehow I created my account using Damus maybe?
Then discovered that your nostr keys are similar to your bitcoin keys... never enter them directly anywhere.
Found out about the nos2x extension. Loaded it. Started using it. Felt much safer. But it was really basic and felt kind a clunky. I often had to copy and paste the public key. (1st world problems)
Then people started verifying their identity. Somehow they were getting an email address with their handle @nostr.plebs or something. This was mysterious and confusing to figure out and I didn't have time at all.
And of course I was zapping, which was awesome. But could only do this on mobile, as that's where my lightning wallets lived. Plus I didn't like having to tap like 7 times to complete the zap process (zap, select wallet, select amount, add message, send zap, close window, close another window, now up a level, do the hokey pokey, turn yourself around...)
So at this point I had three vague friction points with my nostr experience: nostr key extension, verifying identity, and smooth zapping.
I honestly don't remember how I found alby. I'm sure it was some post in nostr about how cool it was, new shiny thing, smart and handsome dev team, etc.
But I remember what caught my eye is it seemed like an easier way to verify my nostr identity. Seemed like a sleek UX, and I didn't have to ask some other nostr user to "add me to the list and I'll get the email address" or something, which is how it seemed to work at the time with the other service.
Then I remember the UX looking really great. It felt professional. Which is I guess what I needed at the time, since I was just too busy to be the intrepid early adopter.
As I was going through the verification process (i.e. signing up with alby) I discovered it apparently solved these other problems too, with the public key sign in AND was a client-agnostic lightning wallet with a smooth UX.
At that point it seemed like a reliable 1-stop-shop for a lot of nostr/lightning stuff I wanted an easier way to do.
It's a little fuzzy, but I recall going straight to installing the browser extension and only interacting with Alby through there. it's a pretty large pop-out window that's almost the size of a mobile interface. So it seemed to me like "that's all there is to alby".
And it's mostly worked for me that way this entire time. I remember a couple times looking at the menu and noticing there's some other features that I'm not taking advantage of. But my nostr exprience got noticably smoother after installing it, and I had other priorities than becoming an Alby power user. So I just coasted.
Until this morning (yesterday?) when another #nostrich told me my verification is actually not verified. so down the rabbit hole I go and here I am now writing a fucking novel of a UX narrative, which I hope is at least mildly helpful.
Now I'm going to go do some formal research on Alby and will write up PART 2 later tonight. I'll tag you but will post it as a reply to this note.
Cheers!

2023-08-16 15:10:45

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Excellent question. I will think on it today and try post my thoughts tonight.

2023-08-16 14:36:40

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Would that I could direct bitcoin with my music alone! Alas!!

2023-08-16 14:19:26

Years later and this still impressed me and fires my imagination.
To normies this must seem like science fiction: an energy-based currency ledger broadcast from space for the benefit of all mankind. #note1xl6…tv4k

2023-08-15 22:30:45

It's incredible how hard I will work, sometimes, to not do the thing I know I must do.

2023-08-15 22:27:36

"Xitter" is perfect because in the Yucatan it's probably pronounced "shitter"
#note1ukt…nq94

2023-08-15 20:41:02

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Great post. It’s human nature to want to evolve past your current identity at some point.
No one wants their entire past being dragged around with them like a ball and chain.
Reinventing oneself is, to some degree, a psychological necessity.
Nostr should perhaps enable this explicitly at some point: the user’s ability to claim “I am no longer that person.”

2023-08-15 20:36:47

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This is why protests and political activism is encouraged by the state. It is still just an appeal to authority. It retains the frame of those in power.
What the state hates is people just solving their own problems without the state. As that represents a true challenge to state authority. It exposes the state as unnecessary within a specific domain.
The food system is a great example of this.

2023-08-15 20:30:32

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Oh wow! Will have to check my upright. There’s a debate about how old it is. Thanks!

2023-08-15 20:28:44

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Great framing.
And the great challenge of science is that there is no “view from nowhere” so it’s always fighting against our inescapable first person-ness.

2023-08-15 20:03:43

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Note to self —> next time TRY the thing before pontificating about the thing. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/aff127f574e9b44b4e496acf2987a3ee148af970142097af91e13befe6d2c0fd.jpg

2023-08-15 20:00:30

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💯🎯
Was pondering this very thing this morning.
https://damus.io/note1kql5ntv4w9ja2h8krszu64dqe0gn4rjj449sf0wtw0g9ylfqqjds2azfuf

2023-08-15 19:59:44

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🤣
I’m not laughing AT you.
I’m laughing WITH you.

2023-08-15 19:29:55

Okay, question... if I "report user", to whom am I reporting, exactly?
#nostr is decentralized. Is this just sending an alert/flag to relays, and the relay operators can do as they wish?
Which leads me to the next observation that relays will likely become a sort of subscription based filter to which users can subscribe.
Tired of pr0n on nostr? There's a relay for that.
Had enough of conspiracy theories? There's a relay for that.
Interested in Muslim-only values? There's a relay for that.
nostr is a bastion of free speech and very important safety valve for future society.
But people inherently nest. They curate their environments to meet their goals and satisfy their psychological needs.
nostr will be no different. And relays seem the likely vector for this to happen.
I'm surely not the first to think of this. What's the current status of this idea?

2023-08-15 19:23:41

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This is in no way an advocation for porn on nostr.
But historically it's the crucible on which businesses clarify their ethics.
The goons are coming, I assure you.

2023-08-15 19:03:14

I'm thrilled to see this.
First, that it's a formal business model built around nostr (we're growing up!)
Second, that everything is priced in sats. (Take that, cuck bucks)
Now just waiting for the inevitable inflection point --> what will they do when the porn purveyors show up? 😆
#note1lfe…cv8r

2023-08-15 18:57:57

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What's most important is that more people start playing the piano. Whatever approach helps people get there is just a means to an end. :-)

2023-08-15 16:27:16

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That would be a sad sight to behold.
Having said that, I'm feeling my way toward a sort of musical rhetoric, specifically around the bitcoin ethos. This is what my livestreams are focused on.
It's tough to make soulful music about monetary economics. Smacks of those "educational rap battles" (shiver).
But there's a deeper, more symbolic language to #bitcoin that people respond to and inspires artistry.
"To know where you must travel, but not to know the way"
Music is a game... let's play!

2023-08-15 16:16:09

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As far as my music is concerned, I've been doing that for some time now. 🤣

2023-08-15 16:05:49

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This is an instance where we trade. Grammatical, clarity for linguistic convenience.
Properly speaking, we play music ON the piano. But for the sake of expediency, we just say, I play the piano.
Now you might ask, why don’t we say “I play the hockey stick? “ This is because hockey is a much more regulated game in terms of the instruments used to play it.
A better analogy would be to say, I play goalie, or I play center. Here you are stating the position that you play when playing the game. And so the instrument that am musician plays is more akin to the position they play when playing the game of music. But one would not confuse goalie for a game itself

2023-08-15 15:30:26

I'm nearing the end of my exploration of B-T-Sea Shanties and will be heading in a new direction.
Here is a taste of things to come. Will be adding more to this "album" regularly.
Almost exclusively edited excerpts from interactive livestream shows.
Music is a game. Let's play.
https://www.wavlake.com/album/d893b5f7-c597-4d66-b03f-91697be03615

2023-08-15 15:21:54

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But I just have one account!
Anyway, onward. Thanks again for your help, @npub18am…p424 🤝
https://media.giphy.com/media/521JLj0YGzz6AEWsZ5/giphy.gif

2023-08-15 15:17:43

Brought this book home the other day and it is DELIGHTFUL in every regard.
If you have school-age children, this is a perfect bulwark against the stultifying state education.
Regardless of your schooling, it's becoming painfully obvious that a solid grounding in grammar, logic, and rhetoric is a basic inoculation against the ills of modernity, especially those contracted from social media.
The trivium is the fundamental toolset of clear thinking and effective speech.
https://www.amazon.com/Trivium-Classical-Liberal-Grammar-Rhetoric/dp/1632864967/ref=sr_1_1

2023-08-15 15:10:39

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Okay, I think I fixed it. Apparently I was in the wrong @npub1get…0nfm site for adjusting my settings???
Had to log in to the "web account" to find the right location. Only entered my public key there and it SEEMS to have worked.
While I've been thoroughly impressed and satisfied with almost every aspect of @npub1get…0nfm since I started using it, this is one area I found very disorienting as a user --> a differentiated sense of "location"
There are, from what I can gather, at least THREE different "locations" where I can fiddle with my Alby account:
1. The extension. The actual little popup window you see when you click the browser extension icon.
2. The browser page that loads from the extension (???). An actual webpage that loads when you click "Settings" within the extension.
3. The web account (??). The actual getalby.com website, to which you must sign in, and which is, apparently, separate from the browser extension.
I was trying to accomplish the nip-05 process in location 2 when I should have been in location 3.
But there are plenty of menus, pages, and fields in location 2 that seem to indicate I can sort out the nip-05 situation in that location, but only if I enter my private/master key?
I finally, through sheer dumb luck, stumbled upon location 3, which had ANOTHER settings menu, wherein laid my nip-05 salvation.
Just a little UX feedback for the fine folks at @npub1get…0nfm, who are doing God's work and have built a brilliant, important product for the future of digital value, and whom I fervently hope will continue in their efforts.
#grownostr #valueforvalue

2023-08-15 14:49:26

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They know it's all crumbling and are looting the republic as fast as they can before the imminent reset.
Like the looter who grabs all he can carry as the sirens draw closer.