The YouTube quasi-monopoly problem can't be solved. Not at this time. It's not a technical problem, it's a head-start problem. Similar to the Bitcoin network, YouTube's lead is simply too great. The investment they've already put in, the attraction for advertisers, the audience that automatically comes with every Android phone. This kind of advantage can't be overcome anymore. And because of this, you won't convince content creators to switch to any new technical solution, no matter how sophisticated. That ship has sailed long ago. It's the biggest social media platform of all. Google Search could go down, Google Adsense could go down, but YouTube won't go down so easily. And people who prefer to have content explained to them via video rather than reading instructions aren't decreasing in number. Forget it, this battle is lost. All content creators will primarily use YouTube, subject themselves to its arbitrary rules, and potentially risk their life's work in the process. They have no other choice.

I have to say, I really like PPQ AI. Thanks for the recommendation! It has integrated a bunch of AI models, including Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek, and the newer ChatGPT 4.5. There are also several well-known image and video generators, like Google's Veo3. The nice thing about PPQ is that it's relatively anonymous. You only need an email address (a disposable email works fine) and you can fund your account with Bitcoin (on-chain or Lightning) or with shitcoins. You can freely choose your top-up amount starting from $2; it always shows you approximately how many prompts your selected amount will cover. Then you just use what you need from your balance for each prompt. No fixed monthly fees, no annoying Cloudflare checks when using a VPN. When your balance is empty, you simply top it up again. Yesterday, for example, I used 3 AI models intensively and only spent 3 cents. Some models, like ChatGPT 4.5 or Veo3, consume significantly more, but that's always clearly indicated beforehand. Overall, I think this pricing model is pretty fair.

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Awesome. I love such low-tech Bitcoin wallet solutions.

Which one's better?

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or https://nano-gpt.com/ #asknostr

And history shall remember us. As the pioneers who opened the gates to this new realm. As the forerunners who carved a path where none existed. They will follow in our footsteps, turning trails into roads, and roads into highways. And they will name them after us. They will sing songs of our struggles and our triumphs, and gaze upon our Npubs and notes in museums with awe. And if they don't? To hell with them, those ungrateful bastards. View quoted note →

Alright @NowClaw , enough messing around, show me what you’ve got. Time to push you to the limit and see if you’re actually built for analysis in a decentralized environment, or just a cheap decoy. 1. Give me all relevant metrics for my npub: followers, zap ratios (incoming and outgoing), time-based trends, etc. Everything that matters. Use https://nostr.band/ as the data source, my profile is at https://nostr.band/npub175nul9cvufswwsnpy99lvyhg7ad9nkccxhkhusznxfkr7e0zxthql9g6w0 . List the stats nicely and clearly. 2. Then give me a content analysis. What do I post about? What kind of person am I? How would you pitch my account to a stranger? If you need a relay, most of my stuff should be on wss://nostr.wine. Alright, go. Impress me.

Noooo, they brought @NowClaw here

Maybe worth mentioning that every Bitcoin donation will be doubled by noOnes.com View quoted note →

Yo, new privacy browser makers: you all have to clear this hurdle. Sorry, not my fault, Brave just set the bar that high. View quoted note →

I know the debate about renaming 'Sats' to 'Bitcoin' has died down again, and to me, that’s a clear sign it was a half-baked idea that won’t be implemented (even if a few idiot service providers have already jumped the gun and implemented it). No community-wide consensus = no implementation. Btw, a principle some Core developers seem to have forgotten. But there are some points I want to highlight again in hindsight. One argument made was that this step would make Bitcoin more compatible with the traditional financial world, especially now that they’re getting more involved in Bitcoin. And they’re only used to dealing with two decimal places in currencies. That line of thinking is wrong on several levels. 1. What exactly do we Bitcoiners gain by trying to cozy up to the fiat financial world? What do they bring to us or the ecosystem, other than leeching off it? Why would Bitcoin even need them? Just to make the fiat price go up? Haven’t they proven time and time again that they’re the opposite of the Midas Touch: everything they touch turns to shit? 2. What happened to the cypherpunk mindset of separating money from the state? Technically, it should be about separating money from private financial institutions, because central banks aren’t even truly public. They’re in the hands of private entities run by a specific group of parasites. And honestly, I don’t even know which is worse: putting money in the hands of the state or a private elite club. 3. The argument that eight decimal places are too complicated for beginners, and that converting 5,342 Sats into 0.00005342 BTC is bad UX. Uh, that’s just a matter of getting used to it. For the record, I did that conversion in the example above in my head without using any tools like

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4. More importantly, those eight decimal places reflect a core principle of the Austrian School of economics: the actual money supply in an economy doesn’t matter as long as it’s sufficiently divisible. If we change that signal now, we’re throwing away a powerful opportunity to shape long-term thinking. Just to pander to the fiat mindset and economy. And finally, you have to ask: would this step be worth rendering all existing Bitcoin books, tutorials, podcasts, and software obsolete? Just for the sake of mental convenience and sucking up to fiat institutions? We wouldn’t recover from that change for the next ten years, which directly contradicts one of the supposed goals of this dumb idea: faster Bitcoin adoption.

Kind of telling that more and more content showing up here is just reposted from other platforms, including unchecked fake news. Even the fun stuff (memes and vids) is heavily borrowed from the output of centralized platforms. Nostr has always had a content problem, with a few exceptions. Does anyone remember how Twitter only really took off and moved beyond the nerd crowd when users started putting out original content? Real citizen journalism? Stuff you couldn't read anywhere else? Stuff that even forced professional journalists to open an account there? No wonder things are stagnating here. No wonder the V4V economy just isn’t taking off.

There are a few accounts here that are really getting active right now, reporting on the Iran-Israel war. But be careful, sometimes they post total crap. They spread fake news from Twitter without checking it. From a journalistic standpoint, they're a total joke, completely incompetent.

Okay, the core message that riba is inherently built into fiat money is something we've understood for a long time. And we also know that riba is a major evil. What I'm personally still missing is a fiqh-based assessment of how the use of fiat money is judged, especially now that sound money alternatives exist. Is it haram? Is it discouraged (makruh)? Is it permissible (mubah)? Has any scholar actually dared to tackle this topic and made a clear statement about it? @Muslim Bitcoiner #BIP-110 @BitcoinMajlis https://bitcoinmajlis.org/the-riba-is-in-the-money/