This can still be frustrating on Nostr: Amethyst on mobile is my go-to client. I just went to Primal desktop and saw many notifications and messages that didn't come through on Amethyst. Now, I want to reply in desktop with Primal, but I repeatedly get the message "No relay confirmed reception of your message within 8 seconds." 😵‍💫 I think if we dream about Nostrs widespread adoption, besides anything else, these things gotta work more seamlessly. Does anyone know if I myself can do anything better in terms of relay management to prevent this? #asknostr #amethyst #primal

Black metal is a very personal affair. You listen to it yourself, you feel the depth and beauty yourself. It's subtle, honest, not so easy to share. But atmospheric black metal bands have stayed with me over many years now. One of them, Winterfylleth from the UK, just released a new album 'The Imperious Horizon' - how ominous 😄 Songs like 'Dishonour Enthroned' make your forearm hair stand up nicely. They also explore different ways such as in 'Silent Grace'. One may say it's dark, yet powerful and optimistic. An unpretentious band that won over my heart completely when they also released a beautiful full on clean folk album 'The Hallowing of Heirdom' in 2018. Good stuff! #blackmetal #tunestr #winterfylleth #power #atmospheric #beauty #nature #music

This was a very worthwhile podcast with @Saifedean Ammous and @Michael Saylor because it opened the debate of credit in a future Bitcoin world 🙏 It raises my eyebrow when Michael speaks of putting consumers' BTC into custody of "trustworthy banks" to earn yield 🤔 - Why would banks alone provide such services? In a real Bitcoin world, can't there be peer-to-peer, decentralized, self-custody borrowing and lending? Wouldn't that be worthwhile to build and support? It's being done, but the Bitcoiner resentment is strong. It also makes me listen carefully when Saifedean responds that credit eventually only works with a lender of last resort and that with a deflationary currency credit will be less and less attractive over time. - I would have loved if Michael had given Saifedean more opportunity to elaborate on that. However, at the moment, I also see credit as driver for economic activity, for sure in a transition period, but even in a Bitcoinized world. Interest rates play the role as the price of money. There won't be that massive fractional reserve lending anymore ... but still, especially on a peer-to-peer decentralized basis, simple lending and borrowing seem like natural activities, no?! Now, even with Bitcoin as deflationary currency creating abundance in society through falling prices all around, wouldn't there still be the demand for credit finance? @Jeff Booth I think that's a highly relevant topic for Bitcoiners to wrap their head around and I'd be glad to read/hear more about it and go through possible scenarios 🙏

This is a lovely short video about your daily proof-of-work, about the power of being present, about not caring about reward and success, about faith, about stoicism, about what it means to be human, about the power of love ... and how all this is connected 🧡🌿 - Use NewPipe app on Android from the F-Droid store to avoid the ads ;) #Krishnamurti #love #freedom #awareness #success #fear #onward #marcusaurelius #stoicism #awakening #proofofwork

Good morning from a city apartment ☀️ I'm living off grid since a few years now and I find myself wondering with amazement: People living for rent in the city don't have to and mostly don't know how to provide for their food, water, electricity, shelter. The most essential things for survival are being taken care for them by external authorities ... ... This frees their time for doing other less basic, mostly mind-based activities and entertainment. We call that civilatory progress, division of labor. Yet, it also makes us numb, dull, dependant, drowned in a world of ideas, disconnected from nature which our existence depends on. I was once such an unaware city dweller myself. And in my world of ideas, education and societal reward system, I thought I knew what was necessary to protect the environment and to live in a sustainable way. I knew nothing! Now, in my view, real civilatory progress will be when most people know how to take care of their basic needs, and are highly aware of and grateful for who and what provides for their existence. Technology will be used to more easily take care of basic needs AND enhance the freedom and autonomy of the individual, not to create dependencies and to centralize power. Division of labor will be organized on a more communal level and in decentrally organized global networks. A deep revering connection with us as part of nature will be common sense. Everything else is digression. The rapid technological progress of the last 200 years coupled with the centralization of powers was necessary for humankind to wake up to what freedom and responsibility really mean and for us to max out our human potential. Now onwards! . . . #freedom #sovereignty #humanpotential #creativity #technology #decentralization #community #thriving #farmstr #environment #nature #awareness #consciousness