PSA This place will likely be overwhelmed with trolls, morons, and angry and bitter people one day soon like all the rest. Muting will be a very necessary tool in your toolbox (and it even helps other with your web of trust), don’t forget to use it before getting angry and fighting with people trying to trigger you. This is also how you can keep the vibe up indefinitely, curate your graph deliberately. Use the network, don’t let the network use you. GM 😁

I can understand people not abandoning traditional social networks where they’ve made big investments of time & energy to build an audience… BUT I cannot understand refusing to invest ANY time and energy into a protocol that can’t be shut down. It’s like buying a huge, expensive house, filling it with your favorite things, then putting candles in every room, but refusing to add a smoke detector or buy insurance. You’re just begging to lose everything. Any investment made into a centralized service, ESPECIALLY one that is known for censoring people and shutting down accounts for no reason, should at MINIMUM require an equal investment into a decentralized alternative. If everyone who was aware of the problem did this, #Nostr wins.

Have you ever read the original Wired magazine from 1993 that revealed the Cypherpunks to the world? Well now you can listen to it: https://fountain.fm/episode/FExVWCrHTGsH3WfTasSt

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Between this and what we are doing with the pear stack, we are going to solve all of the connection, latency, encryption, and authentication problems for all of our tools and I'm fucking HERE FOR IT!! 🔥🔥 This is SO awesome to see. I dont think people realize how huge this will be for UX and app design. View quoted note →

The killer app of #bitcoin is re-pricing the capital of the world.

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Who wants to help with a Core fork CTV client with a 2 year activation flag day? With a 90% support for early lock in. There’s just no other proposal that has the length of testing, use, and extremely clear limits as CTV. It’s 100th the change that taproot and Segwit were and it just feels silly that we’re just sitting around waiting. At least starting something so people will discuss it seems like the way forward, imo. #Bitcoin

I wonder what could be done to fix this? 🤔 ⚡

#Bitcoin is my money. Dollars are just a payment network that I use to interact with the US economy.

This is like a Who’s Who of govt bullshit propaganda to control people. They literally go down the entire gaslighting checklist Drugs ✅ Child Porn ✅ Terrorism ✅ Trafficking ✅ Then add the horrible crimes of “providing cryptology for…” in a list of terrible crimes that he was complicit in, because without his “cryptology” such things obviously would be impossible. View quoted note →

You should be embarrassed if you actually believe the French govt has attacked and arrested the CEO of Telegram because they care about stopping scammers and criminals. Seriously grow up. Stop believing total nonsense because it sounds pretty.

This is exactly why I could never justify making a serious investment in YouTube, and also why I have stopped spending any time or resources on Twitter too. It always felt like an impossible gamble. It’s like building a house in a hurricane zone that you KNOW cannot survive a hurricane, and that there is no way to insure. Life might be great, but eventually, and inevitably, a hurricane WILL come and you are just going to lose it all. It is literally slavery if something you invested years of your life and tens of thousands of hours into can be taken from you by someone else arbitrarily, unilaterally, without recourse, without difficulty, and without even the mildest of concern from the person who can basically destroy your social existence and livelihood. Everything is ultimately worthless if we don’t have freedom. View quoted note →

Simply explaining to people that you live on a #Bitcoin standard causes them to stop and think. That I could both get paid, and then pay others in bitcoin and only use dollars when i need to pay fiat bills or work with other vendors/businesses, and immediately convert back to BTC otherwise. Every time I have explained this to people following their inevitable, "Oh you trade bitcoin?" and I answer with "No I never trade, that's for people who want to lose money, I simply use Bitcoin as my money, I don't keep any value in dollars that I care about over the long term," — they are always surprised and it clearly shifts their view of what bitcoin is and how it works.

Am I the only one that actually wants to be in a jury? 😂 To my wife and sister-in-law it was literally the most hellish and awful news ever. (Both were able to avoid it luckily) View quoted note →

When science becomes politicized it ceases to be science.

To put it more simply: You are paying taxes on your asset gains because you got poorer, not richer. View quoted note →

#asknostr Who knows of an actually decent time lapse camera that has good focus ability and a wide angle of view? (ie. can grab a whole room, but also a close up of a plant or object without needing to be 10 feet away? - 5 ft is workable) I've been using my phone for time lapse stuff which certainly works and I really love it, but its an enormous pain having to have your phone inaccessible while you are working on stuff, or to have it set up somewhere for hours where its using10x the battery it needs for timelapse because its updating 100 other things in the background and vibrating like crazy every time i get a text or call. It's just not optimal and I do a TON of time lapse video these days so it's time to get a dedicated device I think. Especially with some work I'm planning after the studio is together. If anyone has experience with this let me know.

State of the Basement/Studio. Day 5 of framing/layout/concrete prep for plumbing I'm going to try to do regular updates and progress reports on this just so you guys can know what's happening if interested. And I've got an @Asanoha piece on the way that I am super stoked to have hanging in my studio one day soon 🔥 Fully laid out our very complicated stairs setup to make it fit. Not what we originally designed but it'll look nice.

GM 🫡