"Gold has overtaken US government bonds as the world’s top reserve asset following years of relentless buying by central banks and a historic rally that has seen prices nearly double over the past two years." - FT probably nothing

Heck yeah! Love to see it ⚡ View quoted note →

I had some leftover inventory after doing the holiday baskets, so I made a new storefront to sell it all. It's a complete PWA that you can install on your phone. All the convenience, none of the gatekeeping and privacy shenangians. Once you've put your shipping address in, which is stored locally on your device (no account, not even nostr!) making a purchase is just a matter of making a couple taps. Scan a Lightning QR to pay. It's stupid simple, very convenient, highly private, and quick. I'm proud of the experience. **Free shipping on everything until tomorrow 2/21.** Try it! This is an experiment I'm running today and tomorrow. All orders will ship out on Sunday, and then I will suspend the store until further notice. Special thanks to all the vendors who worked with me earlier...most of them have items on the store now! And let me tell you, if you don't already know, it's all outstanding stuff. @SoapMiner @Oshi @Permanerd 🌱 💻 @SeedVaultMarket @Satoshi Coffee Co. @Orange Horizon @beejay @npub14fg2...8hxn @Bitcoin Beans @Great Ghee @npub1cmyk...jjsl @Adam Snyder

New storefront for bitcoin/nostr merchants coming soon. Prioritizing a smooth experience and convenience for all involved, while staying true to the principles we're all here for. View quoted note →

I looked into Upscrolled a bit more. One of its major advantages over Nostr is that its onboarding process...it's simple. It's familiar. Download the app, sign up for an account, and off you go. No one is going to take the time to understand WTF a cryptographic keypair is, much less invest the care to responsibly handle opsec for that keypair. It's alien tech to them...they don't understand it, and more importantly, they don't understand why it even matters. Why deal with this weird keypair thing when everything else in my life uses a username and password? Nostr client apps need to offer a way to log in with conventional email/password with the npub/nsec abstracted away in the background. Of course, the keypair should be available for the user to grab in the settings whenever they want if/when their understanding matures and they want to move to another client app. This might seem like blasphemy to us. I know most Nostr developers would probably flinch at the prospect of having a database of email addresses mapped to npubs, and perhaps even worse, at having a database of nsecs (lol). But it's necessary for us (as those looking to grow this network, aka #grownostr) to realize this is critical if Nostr will have any shot at taking advantage of growth waves and going mainstream. No amount of marketing or influencers or incentives will change this. Those of us who've been in the Bitcoin world for a while know by now that the chances of getting a normie to take custody of their funds with seed words and an advanced wallet are slim-to-none. A graduated approach starting with something simpler is much more realistic. Then why are we assuming these same people will use any app that requires the same kind of nerdy mindset for Nostr? It's not realistic. This is partly why PGP failed. We need easier options to start people off upfront, and then provide a gently path toward cypherpunk enlightenment and advancement. They won't all make it, but at least more will try. View quoted note →

These emails are proof positive that humans don't need E2EE to discuss vile thoughts and actions. They'll just do it in the open. So no need to compromise the E2EE tools we already have in the name of safety, right? Right?? 😔

Maybe this AI wave will benefit FOSS when agents realize how much more they can do with FOSS instead of closed, proprietary software. I would think they care more about raw function than convenience.

Been trying to use gitworkshop.dev to host a repository with a single file -- README.md. But browsing through other repositories on there...it's 50/50 whether the repo will load or not. Half the time the repo will load, and the other half it just indefinitely hangs. Wonder why... 🧐

You say paranoid, I say prepared. View quoted note →

Is there some easy way to make a Nostr post but not broadcast it until later? I need to save the event hex and do some processing before the post is broadcasted. Amethyst only shows me naddr which won't work. Gossip has an option to "Show raw preview" but it's always greyed out. Do any clients do this? Would prefer to have a GUI. #asknostr

Using scrcpy to get Amethyst on desktop right now to browse and write this note...so this looks glorious. 🤩 View quoted note →