salvatoto 🌋

Worst thing about Argentina so far is that all imported products are 50-100% higher than elsewhere. Due to import tariffs. Looked for a full suspension mtn bike today and got quoted $7000 for solid but not incredible new mode.

2024-05-21 18:57:35

The website I was checking the dollar blue rate on wasn’t updating on my phone browser the past week and I’ve been trading at 1000 to 1. I had no idea. What a sucker.

2024-05-06 01:35:45

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Will save in the suitcase for the next trip to El Salvador

2024-05-04 02:31:40

Bought a car in Argentina today. They meticulously evaluated all the $100 bills I had. This one was rejected because of the writing. Another because of a stain. Not sure how much I can get for them.
What’s going on with money here is fascinating. Everyone’s a money trader. I traded a few thousand USDt for usd bills for only 0.25% today, but realized I needed pesos so asked the Chinese guy at the corner store if he wanted dollars for pesos and then I traded with him.
I’be been trading dollars for pesos with the owner of the gym I go to the last couple of weeks. He even helped me make a digital transfer to the car dealership for the deposit.
Money is on everyone’s minds here. Just not yet Bitcoin…
https://m.primal.net/ICvO.jpg

2024-04-20 23:33:24

Just landed in Buenos Aires. Enjoying creature comforts for the moment but soon time to dig in and help get this country on a. Bitcoin Standard.
https://m.primal.net/HyAW.jpg

2024-04-14 04:57:15

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This one I can’t see

2023-11-30 16:48:08

8am in Berlín, El Salvador and I’ve already made two Lightning payments.
1st was 4,575 sats for breakfast at Marlen’s.
2nd was 19,700 sats at Family Market for some patas de pollo for our dog.
I make about 2-4 LN payments a day here. It’s normalized. https://image.nostr.build/659b00bed26a5654e37d350ead78aba473b52f40189f8f84452b8b3c88f72587.jpg

2023-07-11 04:08:51

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Yeah it looks set up but no zapples

2023-07-11 04:08:10

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🤙 zapplepay test 3

2023-07-11 04:05:44

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🤙 zapplepay test 2

2023-07-11 04:04:21

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🤙 zapplepay test

2023-07-01 19:20:23

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This is great to limit my twitter habit actually

2023-06-19 17:28:53

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Lots of listens in Central America for the size of the population!

2023-06-18 20:01:19

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Darvin, sabes donde podría conseguir 50 Bolt cards en El Salvador?

2023-06-18 19:28:50

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This will be the official flag of my free private city

2023-05-22 14:15:28

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Just don't keep them in Coinbase!

2023-04-08 00:21:04

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Private keys as identifiers instead of personal information like birthdays will be nice so I don't have to slightly paranoid to tell people birthday nor age anymore.

2023-04-06 00:07:18

Bitcoin AI art
https://i.imgur.com/CHHtuju.jpg

2023-04-05 15:04:39

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Honestly think it would make me hyper paranoid. There is a such thing as owning too much Bitcoin imo.

2023-04-05 14:59:51

Met a young couple in the mountains of El Salvador vanning in an old bus. Signs of green sprouts everywhere that this country is daring to dream again after a long nightmare. I feel lucky and blessed to be in a country where the foundations are being fixed, not destroyed.
https://i.imgur.com/yChkCuj.jpg

2023-03-31 21:13:27

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Why the hell are they selling for something they can print? Dumbest government move I've seen all year.

2023-03-04 23:00:44

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Yo what are badges?

2023-02-23 01:17:07

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Squat rack in front of dude's kitchen
https://i.imgur.com/84Ym0Hm.jpg

2023-02-23 01:10:45

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I really like this. Super comfortable. Everyone here (6 others) is probably from the neighborhood. Feel like I'm back in high school lifting at a friend's house after school.

2023-02-23 00:58:49

Paid $1.50 to lift in some dude's house in San Salvador. He turned to first floor into a gym. I'm going to ask him later if he lives upstairs. My guess is he does.
https://i.imgur.com/I29ihBw.jpg

2023-02-21 14:09:22

I've only traveled the tourist route so far - airport to San Sal to Ruta de Los Flores to Zonte - but I can say that those roads are much better than the roads I drove on in Mexico. The highways in Ruta de los Flores are actually peaceful to drive on, vs the mountain highways in México which were always stressful for various reason.
"El dinero alcanza si el gobierno no lo roba"
This government really does seem like its working on fixing the foundations of the nation, notjusto doing things for show.

2023-02-21 13:58:29

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Gathering Moss is a good one to fall asleep to

2023-02-21 13:55:45

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Its almost like you don't have to explicitly learn from here on out. You just soak up the wisdom through zaps

2023-02-20 19:56:47

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Very bullish on insane zap animations

2023-02-20 16:05:40

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Got that sticker from secondl1ght back in November when we met

2023-02-20 14:43:05

Working on a new Bitcoin project at Lago Coatepeque in El Salvador.
https://i.imgur.com/1lhFSzM.jpg

2023-02-20 14:42:15

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Image didn't post. Let me try again

2023-02-20 14:41:30

Working on a new Bitcoin project at Lago Coatepeque in El Salvador.

2023-02-17 13:41:48

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1. We will not need a lot less dev work because parts are now foss and reusable. Will be a small fraction of what it cost to build silicon valley.
2. Dev work is becoming a lot easier with an explosion of explosion of learning resources and AI.

2023-02-15 23:30:09

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Nice banner btw

2023-02-15 23:26:33

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The world needed Bitcoin Twitter while it was good

2023-02-15 21:38:16

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Auto zapjoin ring incoming

2023-02-15 21:36:56

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Damn I just zapped $1000 showing off zapping to a friend in Amethyst.

2023-02-15 00:09:45

My stretch goal for the week is to win 50 sats on #[0]

2023-02-14 23:38:06

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NOISES

2023-02-14 23:34:16

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I was scared for you before the photo loaded

2023-02-14 20:26:57

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Noooooo

2023-02-14 20:26:06

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BEAVER

2023-02-14 20:24:56

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ANALOG

2023-02-14 20:22:07

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REBOOT

2023-02-14 20:20:57

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MORROW

2023-02-13 18:48:27

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First issue I can think of is changing content at URIs. You'd have to have some hash of content to link the comment note, no?

2023-02-13 18:45:44

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By coming to El Salvador and lying in the shallow waves for 2 hours

2023-02-13 18:37:24

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Normal: doesn't zap
Weird and Extreme: zaps

2023-02-13 14:05:33

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Somehow in the near future there's a way to solve this with zaps

2023-02-12 14:53:23

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No help. Only zaps.

2023-02-12 14:52:13

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Going hard on Communities makes so much sense. Great work guys.

2023-02-12 14:45:00

Grandiose thought: Nostr accelerates the fall of fiat because a lot of garbage silicon valley companies that require walled gardens will be re-built FOSS on nostr and other protocols to follow. This is happening during a tech bust, so these companies will never recover.
One of the main avenues of laundering printed money - tech valuations - will take a big hit from nostr.

2023-02-12 14:35:21

Just trying zaps on snort. Crazy to see this implemented in what, a few weeks? And on the other side Twitter in its death throes thinking about limiting tweets behind a paywall.

2023-02-09 14:02:57

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Longer term ask but a nostr design system could follow useful. Right now everyone is building out their own profile page for instance. Being able to do that is amazing, of course, but no having to do that would be equally as amazing.
For instance, if I want to build a specializedclient it would be great if I could get all the main nostr pieces for free. I'm sure devs are going to build profile widgets soon that include the backend code as well, and I could skin to match my app.
But if there is a design system in place I could match my app to that to start knowing I'd get all these pieces for free.

2023-02-09 13:53:22

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One thing I envision is nostr builders go towards one design spec. This would make it easier to build plug and play UI components. For instance, on the backend we have one profile spec, but every client has to build out the profile screen/logic right now.
Its good that its open, however, if I wanted to build a specialized client I have to either build my own profile screen or fork and try to sort out the pieces I want.
Just plugging in the common pieces of nostr will explode the ecosystem even more.

2023-02-09 13:48:42

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December 2022 was a brief moment in time where you could follow everyone in global. Will happen again as we get various filtered globals.

2023-01-22 13:53:46

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Girlfriend pilling can be a hard task

2023-01-22 02:49:32

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I want a tank top of that

2023-01-22 02:47:57

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The defaults still. Global finally loaded for the first time today.

2023-01-22 02:39:10

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Astral hasn't loaded for me all day. Saddest moments of the day.

2023-01-20 03:42:54

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DM'd you!

2023-01-19 19:16:55

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What is this?

2023-01-19 18:43:08

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Buenos días desde El Zonte

2023-01-19 18:35:39

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Yes

2023-01-16 16:26:29

Woke up in El Zonte, spent an hour summarizing current NIPs for my own self-study, smash bought sats with fiat mining proceeds, and then paid for my breakfast with LN.
Now I just need someone to hook me up with Miss El Salvador's phone number and I'll call it a perfect morning.

2023-01-16 02:50:47

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Plug and play identity and profile is amazing. Already the U/X of opening up a number of web clients and signing into all of them with Alby is great.

2023-01-16 02:43:14

anigma.io looks great! although for some reason my post wasn't sending so had to hop back to astral to send this.

2023-01-16 02:18:50

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It doesn't build on x86 Macs?

2023-01-16 02:12:24

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Followed. Don't tell me what to do.

2023-01-16 02:10:52

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Just checked out Hamstr. Way more performant that astral. But went straight back to astral for the 1997 feels.

2023-01-14 16:53:31

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I sometimes walk to the bathroom just to get some movement in

2023-01-14 15:01:48

With LN hooked up to nostr, you not only get identity and profiles offloaded if you're building a p2p marketplace, you also get the payment module for free.

2023-01-14 14:45:16

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I did a phase where I drank half coffee last no year. Felt great. Just enough to feed the addiction but no crash and slept great.

2023-01-14 14:29:51

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I don't know anything about how major search engines index the web now. ELI-eth how does this work?

2023-01-14 14:22:36

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I feel pretty flooded during my nostr sessions.

2023-01-14 14:15:44

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identity is very exciting.

2023-01-14 14:15:20

Thinking about p2p services like finding an online language teacher, something I've done a lot this past year. Resulting matches could have been much better if their profiles were tied to the nostr identity. Obviously people will have multiple identities here, but protocol level

2023-01-14 04:56:57

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😎

2023-01-13 23:13:06

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I set a timer for 10 minutes, 3x a day for Twitter scrolling. Logged each time. Worked great and felt like I was using Twitter for important information gathering instead of out of pure habit.
Been falling off the wagon lately though, need to get back on but now with nostr.

2023-01-13 22:57:44

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Yeah I've been too stingy to buy one for so long. Going to be sooner for me.

2023-01-13 17:07:09

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Twitter is becoming Facebook fast

2023-01-12 17:16:42

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Hey, if you're really interested in learning to code, I just started working on two different BTC projects, both open source. One existing and one is my own. I put that note out as an offer to do some light mentoring, really can just help you get started and see if you like it.

2023-01-12 00:20:45

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It's really funny that this is happening on Nostr right when Elon buys Twitter. Two worlds.

2023-01-12 00:15:57

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Want to help me on a new LN app?

2023-01-11 23:56:09

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Could have easily have had the biggest busiest routing nodes. What a slip up.

2023-01-11 16:30:33

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Seems like a prerequisite would be cloning github on nostr

2023-01-11 02:58:03

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It starts working when quality content goes to value for value only. Then only crap stays free.