Just updated NostrGram to show the total sats ⚡ to a note. It's displayed beneath the ⚡ icon rather than the number of zaps. Now I'm off to bed. Goodnight all! 🛌

50,859 ⚡ totaling 110,902,053 sats have been sent over Nostr to date.

I should be in bed but I'm waiting for the ⚡ aggregation to finish so I can see how many sats have been ⚡ on Nostr so far. It's got about 20,000 more to count and it's already at 51,298,848 sats. 🤯

Now that I'm aggregating the ⚡ data and badges are officially in Nostr (Nip58) I can create badges for people who support NostrGram and display the badge on the profile. Having that data also allows me to code in rewards for supports (though I don't know yet what those would be). Thoughts?

Aggregating all the ⚡ events so I can show the sats total under the ⚡ icon on notes.

🙏 for the ⚡ anons. I say it often, but you're literally buying me time to work on NostrGram instead of other things. I appreciate all of you.

Reached 2,000 followers in less than 2 months on Nostr. How? Because there's no algorithm leading people to the loudest, most controversial posts. On Nostr if you work hard to provide value, people see and pay attention. Just another reason Nostr is better than any other social media platform.

NOSTRGRAM UPDATE - USER LISTS! Back with another update Nogs! Lots of people have asked me to implement custom user lists into NostrGram, and at last it's here! Watch the brief video to see how it works (it's really simple to use even if it was *anything but* simple to code lol). Please remember to support my work on NostrGram with a ⚡🙏

Progress being made on custom user lists for NostrGram.

Working on custom lists for NostrGram. A big 🙏 to everyone that has ⚡ me in the past hour since I wrote the post on freedom and support. You are much appreciated. 💜

FREEDOM OR CONTROL - YOUR SUPPORT SHOWS YOUR CHOICE I saw a long thread discussing another spam attack on Nostr last night. That's not going to stop for free relays. Spammers will always use free services with large audiences to spam. Stopping them is a game of whack-a-mole that even the big Social Media companies have failed to win despite their deep pockets and teams of engineers. The solution is value-for-value: pay for what you use and find valuable. If Nostr benefits you in some way, be willing to pay for the tools you use that provide it to you (relays, clients, etc). If you can't pay but you can build or support it in some other way, that's great, too. I had a person (jokingly I assume) say they were sad I didn't ⚡ them. The first thing that jumped into my mind when I read the note was "What benefit are you providing?" I had never seen any other post from them before. If you want to live in a free world, you need to ask that question often, both of yourself and of others: what benefit are you providing? Because any time you're getting something "free", it's not free. Somebody is paying for it. If that person isn't you, then someone else is setting the agenda for what you consume. Is that what you want? For many, the idea of freedom is like the idea of owning a boat. They daydream about how great it would be to have a boat, take it out on the water, fish, swim and enjoy it all. But they never buy a boat. Why? Because boats cost money and take work to maintain. All that pleasure has a price. Either you're willing to pay it, or you're not. Freedom is no different. I hear a lot of talk about freedom today, and that's good. Freedom of speech is a big one. But what are you doing to support those that are building the tools that give you that freedom? Are you content to daydream about that freedom and how nice it would be while never taking any action, or are you willing to put some skin in the game to turn that dream into a reality both for yourself and others you care about? We've been conditioned to get things for "free", but it's a lie and a trick that's resulted in us selling ourselves and our choices to the highest bidder. For me, Nostr is the path to freedom, but Nostr is not free. It costs money to run the relays, servers and services, and it costs time (which results in lost earning power) to code clients that provide the experience you want and create great content on an ad-free platform. So if you believe in freedom, and I know you do (that's why you're here) then support the builders that are providing value to you. Show that freedom is not just a daydream. Governments and nefarious actors have long taken advantage of the masses just daydreaming about freedom. Let's wake the world up from that dream and make it a reality. This is our shot. Let's not miss the target. My deepest thanks to all of those that are supporting the builders already. You are true heroes. 🙏

Another one of my #Bitcoin videos dropped on the Konsensus Network channel today. Check it out and see how your brain is geared to pay attention to the distractions of "crypto" but how you can avoid that trap.