Nathalie is one of the highest character and brilliant people in Bitcoin (is she on Nostr btw?). This is a must-listen episode of WBD, with quite a bit of history I was unaware of of. The line "technologies (of oppression) that are employed in colonized countries always come back to the mainland" is going to stick with me.

I can feel the beginnings of a second Nostr adoption wave forming. There is a new energy 💜

My favorite feature of the old twitter was lists - being able to curate my own subject-specific feeds. I'd love to see this on Nostr. Especially with all the human rights activists joining, it would be great to be able to just create a list with all of their content.

I like to think @`Blockstream` has just put some seven year old in charge of zapping. "See all those lighting bolts? Click them all as many times as you can!"

GE

@Blockstream is doing some superb, zap-based marketing 🧡

Rarely does Spotify actually recommend a band that I end up liking. MS MR is the rare exception. Almost every song is incredible, and the darkness of the lyrics fits our present moment well.

Spotify

Hurricane

MS MR · Secondhand Rapture · Song · 2013

I will never understand this level of degeneracy.

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Coracle is the best desktop Nostr client. It's not even close.

GM.

Hyperbitcoinization will usher in a second golden age of art patronage. Creatr is already helping to make that a reality (and they are a Bolt12 away from being an extraordinary experience). https://creatr.nostr.wine

GM

@Leo has been writing a great daily journal chronicling his trip in El Salvador: https://stacker.news/items/552530

Revisiting the Hong Kong of my childhood through cinema.

The larger threat to Bitcoin is not core devs adopting a central planner mentality and trying to force through an aggressive protocol change. It's a lack of experienced developers familiar with the codebase, who are capable (and willing) to do deep code review on even the smallest updates. The inflation bug of 2018, for instance, was not the result of some radical soft fork. It was the result of a minor optimization to bitcoin core that got merged with barely anyone looking at it. Central planners are easy for even most non-technical bitcoiner to spot. What few seem to grasp is that by creating a culture that is hostile to developers - that treats every core dev as though they are an attack on bitcoin - you end up with insufficiently reviewed and maintained, yet vitally important software. The worst of all worlds. What we should do is welcome developers with open arms, assume good intentions, and trust ourselves to be able to spot anyone developing a Mike Hearn complex.

There’s nowhere better than New Zealand in fall 🍁 GE.

Never forget the 23rd of May. The day the big blockers tried to steal it all away.