I think one of the most shocking facts I have learned as I’ve educated myself on how money works is that banks create new money out of thin air. I knew that the government could do this but I didn’t know private banks could do this. When you buy a home with a mortgage and the bank pays the seller, that money is created out of nothing - it isn’t a matter of the bank taking other peoples deposits and using that to fund the mortgage. Think about that, private banks can just print money and then profit off the interest. And if they get in trouble because the mortgage payments start failing, they just transfer that debt to the public through a government bail out.

Working on an explorable shared game-of-life simulated world, I dream of it being zap powered ⚡️ ⚡️

Could someone zap me, I want to see if I fixed my wallet, and also comment that you zapped me so I know in the event that it didn’t work! Just one little sat will do please and thank you!

I like the idea of using nostr as a blogging platform for my website, so on the blog page I would just show my posts and replies to my posts, and people how visit the site in a normal browser can view this but if you have a nostr id you can interact with/ reply. I don’t see anything out there to enable this but maybe i’ll start a little project around it

Having some trouble with my @Alby wallet and can’t send zaps, I miss it! So much more satisfying than “likes”. Alby support has been fantastic so far, made it much easier to get setup with a LN wallet. I just ordered “Mastering The Lightning Network” very curious how this magic works ⚡️⚡️

Good morning ☀️ testing out video sharing from nostr.build, some game of life art ☯️

I wanted to share some thoughts about the lightning network. but before I write anything, I just want to admit I’m coming from a place of ignorance here. i’m a software engineer and I’ve had a lot of experience building distributed systems, particularly event processing systems so I do understand the space broadly and I worked in finance for many years. that said I have a lot to do before I can claim to really understand the lightning protocol and infrastructure. One of the things I think @Lyn Alden got just right in her book is her description of how the bitcoin network has a real simplicity to it because it can rely on proof of work. On the other hand, proof of stake networks are much more complex both in code and in their written description and their operation because they cannot rely on proof of work so they need to come up with other mechanisms of enforcement. i’m having a similar feeling about lightning. It feels very complex and I do wonder if it’s because it cannot rely on proof of work so it has to twist itself into all sorts of loops to enforce good behavior. Again, this is just my low information take on this so far. I’m going to spend time over the next few weeks trying to really understand the lightning network at a technical level. I know there is a lot of interesting history here including the block size wars, I guess the engineer in me wishes that l2 could just be built using the same core PoW infrastructure as l1

Good morning ☀️ starting today with some gratitude for my family and my health ❤️

Im so impressed and excited by Nostr, I only heard of it because I read @Lyn Alden s book and then found her @primal link. I’m 45, I remember in the late nineties early aughts when xml and web services were coming out, there was this feeling that the web was going to be this messy organic system of services communicating, but what we got was more and more centralization. I think the key is to start with signed messages, that’s the core, then figure everything else out, that’s the antidote to centralizing (and also the antidote to generative deep fakes). Nostr community really got this right. “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly” I love the mess, we will figure it out as we go!

My recent trip to Glacier natl park, testing this nostr thing out ❤️

First note! Getting started on Nostr / Bitcoin lightning feels like the old days of finding Doom bbs’s, I love it!