After a brief conversation about #nostr with a normie-adjacent, I'm again thinking that a very helpful and needed tool to drive massive #normie adoption of #nostr is a (sadly) custodial web/app/service that takes care of onboarding for you. It keeps your keys, creates a #Lightning #Wallet for you, creates a #NIP05, and either connects you to, or directly acts as, a relay. It risks a centralization tendency, but I sadly believe we're not gonna get your neighbour Karen and your grandma here otherwise. Thoughts? #asknostr

@Schmidt I've been following you and your #Monero content for a while. You seem pretty knowledgeable so you might be able to assuage my doubts. Is there any plan in order to manage Monero #blockchain size (not block)? The blockchain size would explode, were Monero to see massive adoption. Reading up on community proposed solutions I see a lot of mentions of cheapening storage and processing costs but the way I see it that's just kicking the problems ahead. Would there be any way to "summarize" the Monero blockchain and "restart" it at a lower size? Maybe this compression could be done once a year or something, keeping archival nodes just in case.

How the fuck does @Vitor Pamplona manage to pump out #Amethyst updates at this rythm? Coder goes #brrrr

You heard it here first - #Zapathon is a consumist festivity promoted by Big #Bitcoin and goes against honest #Zaps

So this is like a circlejerk but throwing money at each other, right? #Zapathon

I invoke thee #zapathon #zaps

This is my first #Zapathon. My fingers hurt. Send help.

Hey guys! A quick #asknostr question and a bit of a story. Not long ago I met a Congolese kid on #Telegram, from an impoverished part of the DRCongo. I've been wanting to help him and send him money for a while. He first offered to use #WesternUnion, or directly a #SWIFT transfer, but I have serious privacy concerns regarding both of those methods. Plus, obscene fees. I offered to send him #crypto (preferably #Monero, but #Bitcoin or #zaps would work as well), but he forwarded two messages (two different wallet addresses) from accounts easily recognizable as international crypto #scammer accounts. Could be that this kiddo works for them or, more likely based on his behaviour, that they are trying to take advantage of him. Keeping in mind all of this, I'm trying to setup something for him so HE can receive crypto (any of the aforementioned currencies), and so he can easily and relatively cheaply convert that crypto into either #USD or #CDF (Congolese Francs) in his Fnbank (FirstBank, I believe) account. He has access to an #Android smartphone - receiving crypto is the easy part. I'm a bit of a newcomer to this level of involvement with the crypto world, so I'd love some help on how to set this up. Tagging @Max DeMarco as your African Revolution documentary partially inspired me (plus, you might have some useful contacts for this). Thanks everyone!

I can't help you with dinner MOM, people are WRONG on the INTERNET!!1!11!!!! #shitpost