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Welcome. LFG!! nostr:nevent1qqsrws2pajmrxsqmvug39sa47ndjgw22dlthtvmt2nn6hayg3xpqhwspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyrxep2ynhfd2vxedm4t2p69h6kavx00885pp7qf2d7yvfc8hk579yqcyqqqqqqggstun3

Happy Thanksgiving!! And a special thanks to all the vendors working with me on our upcoming WAGMI Holiday Gift Basket. It's got 12 items made by merchants on Nostr who accept Bitcoin. The coolest part of it IMO is you can give any of these items to someone and be confident it will improve their lives. No seed oils, no toxic ingredients, no compromises. And you know what? I didn't have to pick and choose these merchants. Everyone on here is just like this by default. It feels magical and underappreciated. My hope is that these baskets spread the incredible spirit of this community through tangible goods that make peoples' lives better. Let's show our family and friends that Bitcoin and Nostr are more than nerdy technologies with idealistic goals. All items are finally in-hand. I'm finalizing packaging, a point-of-sale system, and some other details. Baskets will be available for purchase very soon 🤠

This is high up there on the list of best-named goods ever nostr:naddr1qpqx2cfsxvmrzepsxvmkxdp3xpsn2vpe8yurxe3kxccrzcejv3nx2cmrvyeryv34xqurserzvceryv34ve3kxc3kxgukvvmzvsenxwfnvgq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6tczyqm5a6f6x0emdugpgvnqrq7n2l0prp9tt5cuvhdtva6feeekvge5wqcyqqq8dsskdhu40

The dollar is the end of the line for fiat currencies and fiat life. Maybe that's why in vim the dollar symbol takes you to...the end of the line.

Really wished zapsnags and/or some kind of native Nostr way of selling stuff worked more reliably. Feels superfluous (but also necessary) to create a whole new separate e-commerce flow from scratch merely to use the same Lightning infrastructure I'm already using for zaps on Nostr.

50-year mortgages and 15-year car loans aren't surprising when financing basic consumer products over many months has been happening for years now. What struck me about this ad is that they're saying there's a sale but don't even mention the actual price...highlighting only the monthly installment amount. Are these pay-over-time arrangement things really that prevalent?? 😬

Had to be away for a few days unexpectedly. ICKNO suffered. I'm sorry. In the mean time I've expanded vendors I'm tracking to include home improvement items, furniture, and more meat. Updates on the gift basket coming soon. Most items received, but a couple of stragglers still stuck in USPS hell 🤡

Only good for a few more hours 👇 nostr:nevent1qqsprpmfkzsha6jfsk8emhd06lhdc8xw4ktmxnwu9x9dttp7n3766yspz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsygx9nsh9hf0hhwzsx7ftgxky3snskkv0u7y6v7yeakptaceq3d3mp5psgqqqqqqsuzfat3

What a win, for all of us. Need moar. nostr:nevent1qqsxknuc0pfqmuytjlh4yfh9ed5n0v9e24mzkd89xe06qmyhc9epmqqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyp45le52g7tsqq47a72w4nqs7zxldagx08ntz62p0r5xcr3sx3rycqcyqqqqqqguyrsa4

Ice Cream for Bears was one of my favorite Nostr discoveries...I want to say nostr:nprofile1qqs22v8h7adk97rqwvrcl5xcyvp9pryjw0kggmgeweh0g9qhawpqv3qpp4mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7tcpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcts5nnj was the one who posted about it but it's been a while so I could be wrong. Went out and got every flavor the next day and loved all of them haha. nostr:nevent1qqs8up7ucycqfcthp3wshznulyzn7t683mumrku0kyduvvc3xmev6zcpzamhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctczyrzectjm5hmmhpgr0y45rtzgcfcttx870zdx0zv7mq47uvsgkcas6qcyqqqqqqgvrxra8

Last Christmas I received a gift basket from a company I work with. It was a nice gesture, and it was full of sample-size packs of things that (5 years ago) I would have enjoyed. Crackers, cookies, honey, mustard, pretzels, and 10 other items I can't remember. But this time, I couldn't eat a single one of those things. Everything had seed oils, refined flour, refined sugar, fillers, preservatives, or some other junk in it. Wish I had taken a picture of it but at the time it seemed so unmemorable that I didn't see the point 😂 That junk was better off in the trash than anyone's stomach. This year, I'm working with a dozen of the best merchants here on Nostr to make a Nostr+Bitcoin Only Gift Basket. And you know what? Every single thing in this basket is the exact opposite—NOT shitty. Great, in fact. Great for you, and great for everyone you care about. Great for your health, wellness, mind, and body. Stuff you can give without guilt. Incentivized by the hardest money ever and the freest media ever. It's interesting how the default here is to not be shitty. Funny how incentives work. Final details being worked out now. Can't wait to share more soon. (yes this is the announcement of an announcement)

Congratulations on launching! Looks like a good fit for #bookstr. nostr:nevent1qqsq03y5udqtqg58ffk76k9vyy8ggwna8qfzjxfs7dtt6ag4q4jcsnqpzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuum5v94k27fwdejhgtczyq3y3ls9rzjqaafqzw4anpszh7m3zr2l23x58at0u4fzucnntqhakqcyqqqqqqg24mx3g

Bitcoin IS the signal. nostr:nevent1qqsflttax8g5v8ynrxncndxxrlyzxzwn0e2cnxzh80ru7rezgjpus4spz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7sx0wla

YES. Just now discovering hashtags and the way they're implemented on Amethyst is super slick. nostr:nevent1qqs0yg656qserwjpdvc8f92zp2lwe3zrl7lhwxn5jfu5t9dm5ufwqzgpr9mhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet59upzqdtgwhlaw2dsdm45c8t6wzslw5qyt5r8waxjrs86llj272ledghgqvzqqqqqqy8h29fx

Just about 1 week in with zero marketing outside of Nostr, I'm consistently seeing >20 clicks over the course of 24 hours for a single ICKNO post. Total lifetime post click count is about double that. I'm positively surprised at that level of activity. I take it as an encouraging sign for this project and for Nostr as a whole. To be honest, I can't imagine doing any better on any of the mainstream social platforms, which is kind of insane. Buying from an ICKNO link doesn't earn me anything. There are no affiliate arrangements. There are no PPC arrangements either. Clicks are the only metric I have, and that's what I work to maximize. This means what I post must be consistently compelling. Eyeballs and glamour and sensationalism don't matter when it comes to pure quality products and sats. You're either getting uncompromised quality and/or you're saving sats. There's really no way around that. In the medium term I'd like to be able to drive 100+ clicks to a product quickly, like within an hour. I think that could be a useful service: offer a quick boost to a merchant by getting them 100+ clicks from a crowd of self-selected folks who are likely customers. Along with a quick increase in sales, the merchant would blast their name to the ICKNO crowd for future name recognition. Maybe that could be worth a few sats? The legacy social platforms, especially Instagram and TikTok, have all adopted a model of discovery and sponsored posts. This means they don't actually show users a whole lot of what they're following, but rather all kinds of other influencer junk that their algorithms decide to push on people. This means brands probably don't know who's seeing their posts, to some extent. Also, who's going to Instagram to follow all the latest happenings of beef tallow chip companies? Instagram in particular has become the go-to platform for brands to communicate to the world, but for many brands, and for many customers of those brands, it just doesn't seem like the right fit. It's kind of hilarious (and sad) to see the extent to which brands are going to make their protein bars sexy. It's all so tiring. Just tell me what's in your protein bars and how much it costs. Everything beyond that is fluff at best or malicious (i.e. hiding something) at worst. I don't need a barrage of pictures and videos making a protein bar look like the solution to all my problems. So now you know why all ICKNO posts, emails, and even the website (to a large extent) is simple text. Small, single pictures. Value proposition & price up front. Just what you need to know and nothing more. Anyway, I'm going to start telling the normie world about ICKNO. Maybe some of them will see the world like this too.

Generally speaking 10% off on something isn't a screaming deal, but when it's a higher-priced item where you could save 20,000+ sats, we figure it's worth putting the word out. nostr:nevent1qqsdt59sc3w4h299jz2fwd4y7pju3jvej079edjfwaw6nzekm7zyslgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsttrtt8

Of 12 DMs I've initiated in the past 4 days, there were 2 confirmed undelivered and 1 with no response (that user isn't super-active so it's possible they just didn't see it). I used Gossip to send all of these, which somehow decides which encryption standard to use before sending. Not sure how it does it, but it seems to work around 80% of the time, which is way better than having me flip a coin 😂 nostr:nevent1qqsyel4rnd5usgvlydf2k2zmn94rzfemwxz9a3rgstl74n0elrulmygpzamhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcpypmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjj7qg4waehxw309ahx7um5wghx77r5wghxgetk9u5pza6c

Big fan of this device 💯 nostr:nevent1qqsxtmengjka2q06gspewu6023lcc2rjzh9lpdxh5j959398s5snedspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyr4aa6ffghhs22pmuzkrmcjhslyp56jc5y84druuddsanh238td66qcyqqqqqqgjmlep7

What's the best book to introduce someone to Bitcoin? Something simple and approachable? Childrens' book ideas also welcome. There's The Little Bitcoin Book from a few years ago but I wonder if anything else has come out since then.

Two small improvements pushed to ICKNO today. 1. The website makes expired links obvious, but Nostr does not. So expired links now show a notice before rerouting you to the product page, so you're not in the dark or annoyed when you don't see what you're expecting. 2. Mobile view was pretty bad for most phones. So now lines wrap and you can see everything. Especially useful for items priced in sats because we're still early and a few dollars is still thousands of sats 🤡