As an iPad user, Damus is waaaay better than Primal. As someone who wants to sent zaps, I keep trying to figure out how to do so on Primal. The learning curve for this shit is ridiculous. And I grew up in a time where Newsgroups were a thing and jpegs took 2 minutes to slowly download. We are SO early.

JULIAN IS NOT A FOOTNOTE! View quoted note →

Moar Cloud Cult: "Someone tell the Devil we don't need no Hell, We're all pretty good at beating up ourselves."

Personally, I absolutely LOVE watching @Britishhodl23 [redacted-not-on-Nostr]. So fabulous! He's that guy who discovered Bitcoin and instantly knows SO much more than the rest of us do about Bitcoin. And will hard-core school us about it. ...and yes I KNOW so, so many of you have seen this before, but this is kinda new for me....so let me have my moment to eat popcorn and smile!

Posting music is a thankless bit of egoism, but talking today with some Gen Z'ers who loved all sorts of stuff I loved at their age, I had to ask them if they'd ever heard Jane's Addiction's "Three Days". They hadn't. Maybe soon they will. Here it is if YOU have never heard it.

Ugh...ok for the thing of saying a thing if it's a thing: Evidently Bill & Ex Foundation are dumping a LOT of minor holdings. GIF for source:

"In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock’s Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be “ETF’d” and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to be traded on a single, universal ledger. … “We believe we’re just halfway there in the ETF revolution…Everything is going to be ETF’d…We believe this is just the beginning. ETFs are step one in the technological revolution in the financial markets. Step two is going to be the tokenization of every financial asset.”"

Unlimited Hangout

Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock's Plan To Own The Fractionalized World

In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock's Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be "ETF'd" and tokenized,...

Little help here: Supposedly Blue Wallet has a relatively new ability to interact with LNurl. From the website: "Allows you to have an easier interaction with services that support LNurl. Pay and Withdraw." Yet I don't see any way to establish/link my LNurl in Blue Wallet. Are the terms 'receive' and 'withdraw' somehow different? I would ultimately like to manage my LNurl address thru Blue Wallet.

"A new class of “encrypted RNA” vaccines are being developed where the RNA would piggyback onto an existing wild virus and spread from person to person without any person’s knowledge or consent. Although this may sound like science fiction, it is far from it. Two companies involved in this research have received millions of dollars from the federal government."

ICAN - Informed Consent Action Network

ICAN Uncovers a Potential Next-Level Threat: “Inhalable” Self-Spreading Vaccines that Spread Like a Virus - ICAN - Informed Consent Action Network

New “encrypted RNA” vaccines are being developed to allow for spread from person to person without any person's knowledge or consent.

I’m ‘bout to get salty but explain to me like I’m NOT SOMEONE WHO RUNS TWO DIFFERENT NODES AND A NUMBER OF MINERS why I cannot fucking figure out how to get zaps on Nostr on iPad. I reluctantly ditched Damus because Zaps were borked, and went with Alby for Damus (I think) but then Zaps were definitely being sent but I never received. I got Primal. I’ve spent too many hours trying to figure out why (w/ a Bitcoin @ address) people are zapping me and again I don’t know where they go. I clearly need to link my node to an Alby or Primal @-account but can’t find any info how. This should be front and center on either of their websites. (again, salty, excuse me) What SPECIFICALLY is the obstacle course everyone else has figured out but I can’t find anywhere online that I have to make through Primal and linked evidently thru Alby, pointed at my node, into Primal (which is worse than Damus imo, but whatever). I just want to post on Nostr (on iPad) and receive Zaps. Also, I fucking appreciate you all! Thx in advance!

As someone who penned a fairly influential blog in the early 2000's on surviving the coming crisis of modern civilization... ...now as a Bitcoiner I read this and think "we've hit bottom, the bull market for Humanity is not far away."

Bunkers Built by Billionaires to Survive An Apocalypse: Cost, Features

Moguls are investing millions for bunkers that include a fiery moat, rotating fireplaces out of 'Indiana Jones' and water cannons

This video was fascinating for me, as someone who loved San Fran 20 years ago, but is shocked how far it's plummeted. Excellent on-the-ground account. Reminds me of when NYC spawned "Escape From New York", the story of a city walled-off into a prison because it was unsalvageable. But NYC salvaged itself w/ a strong Mayor and plentiful fiat money...

Sharing music. I know, no one cares. But if you don’t know Cloud Cult…I hope you listen to this and many other songs by this amazing group

Bitcoin transaction fees are the new Interest Rates. Except obviously no small cabal can set them. But they (will) fundamentally matter, and future economists will chart them and predict them.

Yep. But bring on the Layer 2 Wars. Ossify Layer 1. Let’s fight it out in a board-gaming convention. View quoted note →

We live in a time when there is no money for general healthcare (a bloated inflationary system), no money for education (ditto), no money for retirement (ditto), no money to promote entrepreneurialism, et al, ad nauseum. And yet there’s ready money to build Large Hadron colliders, and the next gen of the same, and Webb and Hubble telescopes. Projects which generate no revenue. And doubtless money to fund countless other scientific projects not tied to a verifiable income stream. This tells me - at the point I’ve reached in my life - that these advanced, expensive “humanitarian” projects being funded are ones that move forward Defense projects already underway. Not the school-children Neil Degrasse Tyson bullshit no country has actual money for. Which I’d therefore offer means: DARPA is far, far more advanced than any of us have any idea. They’re fucking around and finding out far beyond University quantum physics. Just a shower thought….

Clown-world does have its precious moments… “This is the shocking moment a boat full of undocumented migrants landed on a beach in San Diego before running into the wealthy La Jolla neighborhood. More than 20 migrants were filmed storming the beach on Wednesday morning and disappearing into the southern California enclave, where homes go for a median price of $2.2million.” […] “More than 42,000 asylum seekers were released in San Diego from October through December, 2023 - an average of 637 a day, as reported by The San Diego Union-Tribute. That number does not include migrants who cross illegally, like those seen landing on the La Jolla beach. The county has already spent $3million caring for the asylum seekers, and has allocated another $3million. ”

Shocking moment boat full of migrants arrives at San Diego's famed La Jolla Beach before sprinting into neighborhood where average home costs $2.2M: City saw more than 43,000 migrants arrive in 3 months | Daily Mail Online

More than 20 migrants were filmed storming the beach on Wednesday morning and disappearing into the southern California enclave.

Chinese Gov’t Paper admits that many biotech firms there are working to create biological weapons of war not “permitted” by International Law.

Remember when Bethesda announced Starfield's release on Twitter, then minutes later said they weren't releasing Starfield...then a day later released Starfield? And it didn't cause $50million in wiped trades?

I’m reposting this Note To Self from the first day of the ETFs that when “everyone” is pointing to a bull-run, things overwhelmingly have a way of disappointing “everyone”. Market Sentiment is a powerful indicator. (I was referring to the FEELING or sentiment at the end of Bull Markets, fwiw, not a belief that we are actually at the end of a Bull Market. Far from that.) View quoted note →