One thing that I have noticed using nostr over the past month is that notes aren’t able to go ‘viral’ without any sort of algorithm in place. An important or popular note has its 15 minutes of fame at the top of the stack, but is then quickly buried below the most recent notes. The information quickly becomes hard to find if you weren’t online shortly after the note was posted. I’m not commenting on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, just an observation of mine #[0]

I just closed Damus app and flipped over to instagram and had a terrible realization… It’s all well and good for the plebs on here to be begging for zaps, but I’m going to cringe when the multinational corporations finally put their two brain cells together to get on nostr and start asking for plebs to zap their posts

Zapping is the definition of putting your money where your mouth is ⚡️

The Bitcoin Lightning Network White Paper: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments Complete the message and the zaps will come⚡️ “The bitcoin protocol can encompass the global financial transaction volume in all electronic payment systems today, without a single custodial third party… “

Zaps are flying around like absolute wildfire tonight ⚡️⚡️ The energy here tonight is something else, feels we are all apart of something big being built in front of our eyes

It’s not going to be long before I’m zapping my landlord the monthly rent money

I have started cutting some of the free relays and replacing them with paid relays… Slowly but surely the global feed is becoming more useful and less of a constant stream of garbage

Anyone have any thoughts on the Toronto Maple Leafs going all in on the season, trading first round picks for bonafide guys? Jake McCabe and O’Reilly are solid pickups

Listening to Saifedean describe the USD as a ‘token’ and comparing the modern banking system to the monetary mechanisms of a shitcoin in the FIAT Standard is surprisingly entertaining