Another NostrGram FYI: the stats script is very database intensive (it scans all events to aggregate a bunch of things). I've been running it ever 4 hours but have switched it to once a day at 3am ET (the least busy hour). So your followers will only update once a day now instead of every 4 hours until I can make that script more efficient.

If you weren't able to connect to NostrGram since the big update yesterday, try again now. I think I may have discovered why at least a few people couldn't connect. If you are one of them and try, please let me know if you can now connect or not.

Nostr now is a rare gift. I remember when the web was brand new. There were only a few sites, everybody knew everybody, it was a small community of people who appreciated each other and built together. Then it got huge and that disappeared. Nostr is in that birth stage. Enjoy it. It won't last forever, but the memories will. 💜

🙏 to the generous users that have sent a ⚡ 💜

NOSTRGRAM PERFORMANCE UPDATE - PLEASE REFRESH YOUR BROWSER Hey everybody. NostrGram has a major upgrade that should help stop the lag and slow times that have been off-and-on today. The site is getting a lot more traffic now (good problem to have) but that means I've had to work to improve things so they run smoothly. Please refresh the browser to get the update. That will put you into the new system. I will be cutting off the old system from working either late tonight or early tomorrow. I believe the lag is coming from that old system so it's important that everyone switch to the new one. As always, thank you for using NostrGram and thank you for the ⚡ support. You are all greatly appreciated. 🙏

Big performance update planned for NostrGram this week. I have to get some things installed and configured on the server but once it's all in place it should allow lots of room for user growth. And NostrGram use is growing!

I wrote a script to find everyone that has ⚡ me so far so I can thank them all by name. You are all very much appreciated. 🙏 There are some not in this list because they sent a non-Zap LN payment. Thank you all as well. 🙏 🙏 #[0] for the 615000 sats 💜 🙏 #[1] for the 501388 sats 💜 🙏 #[2] for the 500000 sats 💜 🙏 #[3] for the 100000 sats 💜 🙏 #[4] for the 50000 sats 💜 🙏 #[5] for the 50000 sats 💜 🙏 #[6] for the 35000 sats 💜 🙏 #[7] for the 34455 sats 💜 🙏 #[8] for the 21000 sats 💜 🙏 #[9] for the 15000 sats 💜 🙏 #[10] for the 11552 sats 💜 🙏 #[11] for the 10000 sats 💜 🙏 #[12] for the 10000 sats 💜 🙏 #[13] for the 7506 sats 💜 🙏 #[14] for the 6666 sats 💜 🙏 #[15] for the 6420 sats 💜 🙏 #[16] for the 6084 sats 💜 🙏 #[17] for the 5028 sats 💜 🙏 #[18] for the 5000 sats 💜 🙏 #[19] for the 4200 sats 💜 🙏 #[20] for the 3021 sats 💜 🙏 #[21] for the 3000 sats 💜 🙏 #[22] for the 2926 sats 💜 🙏 #[23] for the 2660 sats 💜 🙏 #[24] for the 2626 sats 💜 🙏 #[25] for the 2469 sats 💜 🙏 #[26] for the 2111 sats 💜 🙏 #[27] for the 2100 sats 💜 🙏 #[28] for the 2100 sats 💜 🙏 #[29] for the 2069 sats 💜 🙏 #[30] for the 2000 sats 💜 🙏 #[31] for the 2000 sats 💜 🙏 #[32] for the 1814 sats 💜 🙏 #[33] for the 1521 sats 💜 🙏 #[34] for the 1500 sats 💜 🙏 #[35] for the 1464 sats 💜 🙏 #[36] for the 1300 sats 💜 🙏 #[37] for the 1273 sats 💜 🙏 #[38] for the 1260 sats 💜 🙏 #[39] for the 1256 sats 💜 🙏 #[40] for the 1100 sats 💜 🙏 #[41] for the 1100 sats 💜 🙏 #[42] for the 1087 sats 💜 🙏 #[43] for the 1050 sats 💜 🙏 #[44] for the 1021 sats 💜 🙏 #[45] for the 1021 sats 💜 🙏 #[46] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[47] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[48] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[49] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[50] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[51] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[52] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[53] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[54] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[55] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[56] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[57] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[58] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[59] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[60] for the 1000 sats 💜 🙏 #[61] for the 840 sats 💜 🙏 #[62] for the 814 sats 💜 🙏 #[63] for the 777 sats 💜 🙏 #[64] for the 766 sats 💜 🙏 #[65] for the 700 sats 💜 🙏 #[66] for the 627 sats 💜 🙏 #[67] for the 615 sats 💜 🙏 #[68] for the 500 sats 💜 🙏 #[69] for the 500 sats 💜 🙏 #[70] for the 500 sats 💜 🙏 #[71] for the 500 sats 💜 🙏 #[72] for the 500 sats 💜 🙏 #[73] for the 500 sats 💜 🙏 #[74] for the 500 sats 💜 🙏 #[75] for the 500 sats 💜 🙏 #[76] for the 500 sats 💜 🙏 #[77] for the 421 sats 💜 🙏 #[78] for the 420 sats 💜 🙏 #[79] for the 406 sats 💜 🙏 #[80] for the 404 sats 💜 🙏 #[81] for the 401 sats 💜 🙏 #[82] for the 300 sats 💜 🙏 #[83] for the 279 sats 💜 🙏 #[84] for the 256 sats 💜 🙏 #[85] for the 252 sats 💜 🙏 #[86] for the 231 sats 💜 🙏 #[87] for the 200 sats 💜 🙏 #[88] for the 200 sats 💜 🙏 #[89] for the 177 sats 💜 🙏 #[90] for the 150 sats 💜 🙏 #[91] for the 142 sats 💜 🙏 #[92] for the 138 sats 💜 🙏 #[93] for the 128 sats 💜 🙏 #[94] for the 123 sats 💜 🙏 #[95] for the 121 sats 💜 🙏 #[96] for the 121 sats 💜 🙏 #[97] for the 121 sats 💜 🙏 #[98] for the 114 sats 💜 🙏 #[99] for the 103 sats 💜 🙏 #[100] for the 101 sats 💜 🙏 #[101] for the 100 sats 💜 🙏 #[102] for the 100 sats 💜 🙏 #[103] for the 100 sats 💜 🙏 #[104] for the 100 sats 💜 🙏 #[105] for the 100 sats 💜 🙏 #[106] for the 100 sats 💜 🙏 #[107] for the 100 sats 💜 🙏 #[108] for the 100 sats 💜 🙏 #[109] for the 100 sats 💜 🙏 #[110] for the 84 sats 💜 🙏 #[111] for the 84 sats 💜 🙏 #[112] for the 77 sats 💜 🙏 #[113] for the 77 sats 💜 🙏 #[114] for the 74 sats 💜 🙏 #[115] for the 69 sats 💜 🙏 #[116] for the 69 sats 💜 🙏 #[117] for the 69 sats 💜 🙏 #[118] for the 57 sats 💜 🙏 #[119] for the 55 sats 💜 🙏 #[120] for the 54 sats 💜 🙏 #[121] for the 50 sats 💜 🙏 #[122] for the 50 sats 💜 🙏 #[123] for the 50 sats 💜 🙏 #[124] for the 48 sats 💜 🙏 #[125] for the 42 sats 💜 🙏 #[126] for the 42 sats 💜 🙏 #[127] for the 42 sats 💜 🙏 #[128] for the 42 sats 💜 🙏 #[129] for the 42 sats 💜 🙏 #[130] for the 42 sats 💜 🙏 #[131] for the 25 sats 💜 🙏 #[132] for the 22 sats 💜 🙏 #[133] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[134] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[135] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[136] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[137] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[138] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[139] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[140] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[141] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[142] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[143] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[144] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[145] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[146] for the 21 sats 💜 🙏 #[147] for the 20 sats 💜 🙏 #[148] for the 10 sats 💜 🙏 #[149] for the 10 sats 💜 🙏 #[150] for the 10 sats 💜 🙏 #[151] for the 10 sats 💜 🙏 #[152] for the 9 sats 💜 🙏 #[153] for the 7 sats 💜 🙏 #[154] for the 3 sats 💜 🙏 #[155] for the 2 sats 💜

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.

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.

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.

PSA: If you don't like the multi-column layout of NostrGram but love the features, click the Twitter icon under the note editor at the top and you'll get a single column layout that may be more your speed.

🙏 so much for the sats, especially the 200,000 sats that came through! Much appreciated. 💜🙏