Do not try to help or do favors for those who envy you, they will think you are condescending to them.

Nostr is open, but let’s stop romanticizing it. No company owns the protocol, true. But somebody still owns and pays for the relays, clients, servers, domains, media hosting, search, notifications, moderation, bandwidth, backups and streaming. And yes, those operators can still face legal pressure, takedown demands, app-store rules and hosting restrictions. “Anyone can build on it” is technically true. Economically, that’s a different story. The bigger problem is incentives. The people paying to keep this infrastructure running often have little financial incentive to keep doing it forever. If users expect everything to remain free, eventually somebody has to charge, monetize, centralize parts of the service, rely on donations, or shut it down. Protocols don’t pay server bills. People do. And the moment you want Discord-style communities, voice, video, streaming, discovery, moderation and a polished UX, Nostr stops being “cheap decentralized social” and starts becoming a real infrastructure business. Nostr removes permission at the protocol layer. It does NOT remove cost, infrastructure, legal pressure, moderation, economic incentives or centralization from everything built on top of it. A protocol can survive while the infrastructure people actually use disappears.

Let’s play a game. Name a Bitcoin narrative everybody was screaming about that later turned out to be completely wrong. I’ll start “Institutions will never sell.” 😂 Your turn. Best answer wins.

Disaster. Put a bunch of emotionally unstable Bitcoin plebs with anxiety in one building and you didn’t build a venture studio… you built an asylum with a Lightning node. 🤣⚡ View quoted note →

All them account yall muted you should unmute and mute the account you have unmuted 🤣

They told you it was the best hardware wallet because it was open source and “verified by the community.” Now ask yourself, who actually verified it, how was it tested, and what did everyone simply assume was secure? Do you still feel protected by the words “open source”?

A hardware ID might show that a vulnerable Coldcard generated a seed. It does NOT prove who owned the device, who funded the wallet, or who legally owned the Bitcoin. That is supporting forensic evidence, not proof of ownership. View quoted note →