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2024-08-14 01:36:55

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“This all sounds too good to be true”
Don’t despair, with your friend saying that there might be a chance the seed was planted.
The impending bull market is fertile soil for it to thrive in

2024-07-29 03:00:05

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I’m hopeful about nostr, but I feel like this is rose coloured glasses during the honeymoon period before it becomes mainstream
There was similar positive sentiment during the early Internet when it was just the early adopters, and then we saw a gradual shift as the mainstream came online
Maybe it will be different with nostr, decentralisation, and changed incentives, but I remain cautious yet hopeful

2024-07-27 13:56:49

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Hey friend, I know things seem scary right now but…
Things are going to get way worse

2024-07-27 13:53:45

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Hope they self-custodied and consolidated UTXOs…

2024-07-26 12:08:59

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Depends on the app/client
I can see the emoji on Damus, but not Primal

2024-07-26 11:30:28

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I enjoyed Project Hail Mary audiobook, if you like hard sci-fi like The Martian (same author)

2024-07-26 09:50:13

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I guess, choose your relay operators carefully then?
Or just run your own relay?

2024-07-26 08:01:38

Can we just stop for a minute and appreciate that there’s an entire unregulated online economy and money transmitters operating outside of the purview of any government and there’s nothing they can do to stop it

2024-07-26 07:55:15

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Can’t fix it
Centralised platforms like X are fundamentally broken
Open and decentralised protocols like nostr are the future
Front end application removes a feature you value on nostr? Drop it and use a different app
No such choice with sites like X

2024-07-26 07:52:16

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Stuff like this is just the beginning
Bitcoin, LN, and potentially other L2s are going to fix the Internet with a free flowing digitally native money

2024-07-26 07:26:04

#Bitcoin

2024-03-07 10:57:55

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Another paradox: You can trust Bitcoin because it’s trustless

2024-03-07 10:53:54

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I feel this is particularly bad for those who value constructive criticism, but need to sift through the toxicity to find it. Would be easier to just ignore everyone, but then you miss the diamonds in the rough.

2024-03-06 12:02:03

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I opened the dishwasher and it was just a bunch of clean dishes waiting to be put away

2024-02-20 23:11:59

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"what do i desire?"
i can't even answer that, other than a vague notion of "create beauty", but maybe that's enough to get started...

2024-02-20 13:07:12

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Sad to hear that. I really like your work and wish I could afford to support it

2024-02-17 01:51:08

Test

2024-02-08 05:47:47

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I think the other important part of agnosticism is to be passionately uncertain about the *definition* of god, which plays a large part in the uncertainty of existence/nonexistence

2023-12-14 12:07:51

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A statistical analysis of “crises” over the years would be interesting
Is there a correlation with “anxiety inducing events” and election cycles?
Or maybe some other cycle?

2023-12-13 07:47:28

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Enjoy it while it lasts
It’s like the early internet

2023-11-08 00:10:01

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Sell the plum so they buy the orange? ;)

2023-03-10 14:19:12

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US govt should adopt Bitcoin as a reserve asset and subsidise energy generation and mining to ensure write access to the ledger

2023-03-10 14:13:35

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If they’re smart they’d run their own cluster of nostr relays and leverage its existing network effects

2023-02-26 23:06:49

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I’ve been thinking the same thing
Feels like people have been very loose with doxxing themselves on nostr

2023-02-25 10:03:41

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Pepe!

2023-02-23 03:52:27

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Everyone cares about price because it’s a fairly good indicator of purchasing power, and that’s the main thing people hodl Bitcoin for
The faster purchasing power increases the earlier I can retire from my fiat mining job

2023-02-23 03:48:40

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Netflix is dying
I’d say nostr is more like torrenting

2023-02-19 03:22:09

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What’s a better word to use here than “account”? Doesn’t seem to fit the way nostr works, but I can’t think of a better term

2023-02-17 21:17:50

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They’ll find a way to make money out of the effort people put into this for free, they’re just slow on the uptake

2023-02-16 23:35:33

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They’ll gravitate towards large, well-connected relays that manage the safe space for them

2023-02-16 08:08:16

This might seem obvious to everyone else, but it just occurred to me that the permissionless nature of nostr means that people can’t be doxxed by a court order

2023-02-16 08:06:20

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Central bankers
It will free them from the prison they’ve created for themselves and everyone else

2023-02-15 08:13:59

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⚡️@⚡️

2023-02-15 08:12:50

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It really is the best choice
All the other options are “cute” or “quirky”, but ⚡️ is the simplest, most practical, and most meaningful one

2023-02-14 07:08:16

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Bitcoin

2023-02-13 11:51:58

I want this emoji on a shirt
🤙

2023-02-13 11:43:17

Animated avatars in Damus give me early Internet 90s vibes… I’m not sure it’s in a good way either…

2023-02-13 11:40:24

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⚡️@⚡️

2023-02-10 12:43:55

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Sorry, 2386

2023-02-10 12:43:01

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Added all the same relays you are connected to and the number jumped up to 2836

2023-02-10 11:56:03

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That’s what I was alluding to

2023-02-10 10:20:52

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I can see 853 on your profile

2023-02-10 10:18:58

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Yeah, but what if 87% of Bitcoin holders like it and don’t think it’s dumb? Will you support it for the business opportunity it provides?

2023-02-09 03:48:38

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Good question… I have no idea
I assume that eventually the mempool clears and all transactions get processed eventually. If the mempool never clears it might stay there indefinitely?
Unless there’s some node parameter that discards old “stale” transactions?

2023-02-09 01:33:20

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Holy shit… that was instant and like magic…

2023-02-09 01:32:44

Testing self-hosted nostr relay…

2023-01-27 21:51:42

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GIMP for image editing?
Graphic design specifically? Not sure… try your favourite application here: https://alternativeto.net

2023-01-18 03:27:41

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Just being here

2023-01-18 03:25:08

Running bitcoin

2023-01-06 02:05:49

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They’d just want to shitcoinify nostr and Damus with some kind of new and pointless token

2022-12-26 06:27:25

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FYI, jb55 developed the Damus iOS app (which is a nostr client), but it was fiatjaf who developed the nostr protocol

2022-12-23 03:34:42

Something to think about… https://twitter.com/tdryja/status/1605812234520858625?s=46&t=2pzBOcPnexB3JodPxvwP4g

2022-12-22 12:30:55

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No political home is a good way to put it. Political alignment is not something your ARE, it should depend on the topic discussed.
The one topic I would describe myself as staunchly libertarian on is bodily autonomy. That is a fundamental level of freedom that I won’t budge on. For wont of a better word, it is “sacred”
So on that topic I’m “libertarian”, but am I libertarian in general? No.
On other topics I might take a more authoritarian stance 🤷🏻‍♂️

2022-12-22 10:56:29

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There’s a thread of libertarianism that is closer to authoritarianism i.e. freedom for me, but not for thee
And I think that turns people off
Also the problem of negative externalities leaves a bad taste in the mouth
At the end of the day people also have the free will as individuals to coordinate as a collective in a common goal. Seems contradictory as a libertarian to be against people’s freedom to do that
I think for the libertarian movement to be successful they should discard the mountain man fantasy and instead focus on attacking big government in favour of smaller government
Luckily Bitcoin is the perfect tool for this and allows non-libertarians to coalesce around a libertarian goal

2022-12-22 00:38:13

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Nostr has the advantage of bootstrapping itself on top of the established Bitcoin community
And Bitcoin did it on top of the cypherpunks

2022-12-21 22:47:49

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also HN is very strongly left leaning, while Bitcoin advocates are typically right leaning… put them together and you get fireworks

2022-12-21 22:43:23

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https://www.citadel21.com/why-the-yuppie-elite-dismiss-bitcoin

2022-12-21 12:23:15

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I’m no expert but my understanding is that relays provide resilience through redundancy, as your last part eludes to
On mastodon you can still find yourself at the mercy of one person or a small group of people running a server

2022-12-21 12:19:24

This honeymoon period is fun, but the best bit comes when people start building

2022-12-21 11:04:20

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Nah, buying Bitcoin of course ;)

2022-12-21 09:56:59

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Digital and social pioneers

2022-12-21 07:14:01

It’s pretty cool that Bitcoiners are in the forefront of a new and better form of Internet
We get the steward it in these early stages, protecting core properties and values until it’s ready for the big time and is well-hardened against attacks
There are lots of lessons we can bring from the early years of Bitcoin

2022-12-21 06:41:50

Some benefits of a decentralised web I hadn’t considered…
No ads, no cookie popups, no GDPR popups
It’s nice… who knows what other benefits will emerge from decentralised Internet services

2022-12-21 06:17:19

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i don’t think relays talk to each other. There’s only a relationship between clients and relays

2022-12-21 02:57:34

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With decentralisation comes a level of OWNERSHIP that participants don’t typically get with other centralised platforms
It feels like WE are building this for ourselves, rather than having it served to us on a platter by a corporation with its own agenda
This is the mind virus that makes decentralised solutions like Bitcoin/LN and nostr succeed

2022-12-21 02:43:24

how do people give their profile an avatar in Damus?

2022-12-19 05:54:16

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test2

2022-12-19 05:52:35

test

2022-10-11 18:58:24

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👍🏻