On a scale of 1 to 10, how annoyed are you with @buzzbot?

Been watching this buzzbot thing with amusement. Pretty wild that people can pay for engagement without relying on any central parties. No need to rely on the twitter API or payment processors when we have Nostr and Bitcoin.

I think we can make Nostr the best place to publish long form content. There’s a lot of work ahead to make this happen, but it’s totally doable, and dare I say, inevitable.

X vs. Nostr engagement:

what a great day

Just listening to a random lecture by Rudolf Steiner. At one point he says: "The hungry vegetarian, in contrast to his state when satiated, is likely to be far more savage than the hungry carnivore." 👀 The context is the idea that the abdominal organs have the ability to temper the ego. I wonder how controversial that statement was in his day (early 1900s).

Great article by @Juan Galt. Coinkite really does define cypherpunk aesthetics; there is no second best.

Bitcoin Magazine

How Coinkite Defines Cypherpunk Bitcoin Security

Advancing the standard for hardware wallet security and cypherpunk aesthetics, Coinkite, a small Bitcoin company out of Canada, is the third largest

Zap messages are awesome. They enable high-signal short replies with attached value. That’s a new form factor and definitely a keeper imho.