Are any of my followers here into mining? May have an interesting opportunity due to my background in aerospace & materials with an interesting gen technology that no one else has.

Seeing disgusting content on Twitter from charlatans really shows just how important Nostr is. A lot of info will get wiped and Dark City'd. People will play into false narratives and affinity scam since there will be no chain of costly signaling. I wrote before about the idea of relational contracting on Nostr within very narrowly defined sorts of business relationships, and even there, I couldn't fully grapple with the mechanics of how it would work. What will be more interesting however is to see cryptographic proof of what a pubkey has been thinking or at least claiming to think for a decade. Nostr may end up being just as critical to rooting out fraud in the world as bitcoin. Imagine a world in which no one alive has ever posted anything not on Nostr. The people who think Nostr has fallen off in importance are fools who do not realize monetary transactions take place via contracts, that contract scalability is tied to relationships, and failure to have tools that sufficiently scale relationships to capture the total economic capacity in equilibrium is how the state weasels its way into existence i.e. Nostr is what outcompetes and supplants statism.

@jack will you be making it out to the Age of Light event in a couple months? Seems I may have the opportunity to speak there.

VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO!!!

I installed new Zeus Lightning app. Combines power user features with ease of use. Among other things, they have cracked the usable contact book payment UI/UX, and they also make it simple to generate an LNURL. Any zaps sent to me will now go to my self-custodial Zeus wallet. ⚡

ZEUS Blog

The ZEUS v0.8.0 open beta is here

Updated 12/01/2023: rc2 release We're proud to announce the availability of beta builds of ZEUS v0.8.0 on both Android and iOS. The new ZEUS intr...

What are some bitcoin or nostr non-profits worth donating sats to?

Do you also hate toxic seed oils? Tell people about bitcoin, and they might buy some. Tell people about this, and I might be able to restore human health in the world. We'll see. https://trylola.com

Nostr bear market Do you call it a "nobear" market or a "bearstr" market?

Verifying my Twitter handle is @GhostOfDirac

They got bye-nanced! What's gonna happen with Swan Bitcoin now? 😂

You should see Jeff Booth's VC profile. He literally calls himself a visionary under his bio and he named his firm "EgoDeath Capital". Can't make this shit up. Expect a lot more people trying to call themselves geniuses for being 2020s bitcoiners. 🤦‍♂️🤡

Breaking: fake conservative plays victim and cries about rising interest rate reducing his access to the money printer. 🤡

$boost ?

Oh you thought El Salvador was based? This is Javier Milei proclaiming "leftist sons of bitches, liberty advances, long live freedom, motherfucker". He is not a fringe candidate. He is the favorite to win Argentina's presidency this November, with >70% on Election Betting Odds.

Shortly before my Twitter account was obliterated by a fiat egomaniac, I wrote a thread laying out my predictions for how a bitcoin ETF could underpin a fiat 2.0 that purports to be atop (fractionally reserved) bitcoin. Here is the 12 part synopsis: 1. Operation Chokepoint 2.0 made Utah ILCs and other banks of the style that underpin lending startups unwilling to touch "crypto". 2. Before that, it would have been plausible to start a business that originates fiat loans for the purchase of bitcoin (sort of a layaway/mortgage style). 3. If the bitcoin were held in a 2-of-2 deadlocked arrangement between customer and lending company, it ensures company cannot rehypothecate, and ensures the loan is at least eventually paid off. 4. It is a great business, and as the calculator on https://faucet21.com shows, it allows people to end up with a lot more bitcoin. 5. As companies like Swan, Unchained, Strike, and River with mediocre business models chase greater revenue for investors, those companies and others will build lending tools like this, but for a bitcoin ETF rather than bitcoin. 6. In this way, they can gain 10x higher fees on 10x the investment capital (note, this is effectively the money printer getting connected directly into bitcoin purchasing) all the while triggering NGU. I anticipate the ETF will actually be 1:1 for a long time because there is an end game. 7. It will become the standard for noobs to get in this way and the bitcoin price will rise into the millions -- most influencers, podcasts, and conferences will dismiss the problems due to NGU. 8. Then when the bitcoin ETF rivals the pension or housing bubbles, perhaps even just low tens of trillions, the 6102 will be announced, and the ETF will turn into fiat 2.0. 9. There will be a conversion window turning all fiat 1.0 into fiat 2.0 (maybe all tied to a central federal reserve account that individuals have access to), so there is your first large chunk of devaluation. 10. There will be top down attempts to force all contracts to be denominated in fiat 2.0 -- large companies will pay salaries in it, BlackRock will rent houses in it, and fiat cash will be eliminated for total surveillance. 11. If it does not fall within days to weeks, fiat 2.0 will fail shortly thereafter as it trades at a significant discount on the international markets due to its market estimated amount of underlying bitcoin combined with huge counterparty risk and lack of auditability. 12. Nations that minimize the violence and theft they carry out in this tumultuous time may emerge as new global Schelling points and private companies will step in to further stabilize these regions by providing voluntary rule of law and insurance services. Many will be rekt, bitcoin will be fine Tick tock, next block

All you idiots fuddding FedNow -- it will singlehandedly do more to destroy the US dollar and banks than 97% of bitcoin startups. Y'all have not thought this through, at all.

TechCrunch

FedNow’s legal terms contain a game changer for digital wallets and payment apps | TechCrunch

The potential reach for nonbank payments providers who leverage this provision in the FedNow legal terms could be significant.

Anyone have an idea of what will bring more users to Nostr? Based on NostrBand Stats, the real users have been about 8k for past 6 months or so. Totally sideways.

Dry machining tile without a mask is a really bad idea. Imma start telling people walking around with masks outside they're killing low income workers by making masks harder to access. 😂

Well, it finally happened, that fiat scumbag kicked me off his grifting platform. Has Nostr improved much in past couple months? Seems it's been a bit sideways in terms of adoption.