Lightning Network is quietly becomming where commerce and exchange happens, but you can't tell because it's impossible to know how much volume is being transacted on there. Each channel can be used millions of times in each direction with a single onchain transaction View quoted note →

Spend the change you want to see in th world. View quoted note →

The Ego is the Enemy

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Ego Is the Enemy

Check out this great listen on Audible.com.au. "While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world ...

The what hole?!? View quoted note →

AI generated - but awesome video on NOSTR. 19k zaps. That would pay for the compute and some of the time to make it. Economics stacks up. Way better than on a centralized platform.

Self custodial lightning is not broken, Pheonix wallet works perfectly. However, noobs do not appreciate, and are therefore unwilling to pay for their own privacy and sovereignty. We must use any tools we have which get noobs as close as possible while being as cost effective as possible until they have used and understand Bitcoin enough to then value their privacy and sovereignty.

Price is going down because we have too many miners.

The Bitcoin custody model is a delicate set of tradeoffs and reducing it to "selling out users" is wrong and completely unhelpful. Everyone wants self-custody but the reality is noobs aren't ready to pay for it. The question is how close can we get while maintaining noob friendly UX View quoted note →

How to future proof your usefulness against incoming AI. Be competent at what you do. A competent tastemaker using AI will always win out against an incompetent one.