The underappreciated and relentless march of demographics. Every day/week/month some of our older generations die, and a new cohort of babies are born. For whom a digital age is second nature, and Bitcoin has always existed.

I’m going to try to have a budget of £8/$11 a month on nostr to contribute zapping for paid relays etc, developer projects, articles, memes, and good old fashioned sh*tposting. Good idea? Shout with any potential causes for support. And why £8/$11?Just feels about right, doesn't it? 😉

Not enough attention is being paid by the outside world to the Bitcoin hashrate. Currently a staggering 330,000,000,000,000,000,000 (I think!) hashes per second. Unforgeable costliness, right there. Want some? You’re either going to have enter this ferocious competition for newly created bitcoin, or exchange something of value for bitcoin already mined at an earlier stage.

Zaps need to get zappier. It won't fully work until it's as quick to zap as it is to like. It's still about 3x as much effort even with a default zap? New goal is not to like posts, just to zap them.

I seem to have lost most of the people I'm following, and also relays have been disappearing - is this likely a damus test flight issue? Any solutions?

̶N̶a̶s̶s̶i̶m̶ ̶T̶a̶l̶e̶b̶ ̶-̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶t̶e̶l̶l̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶,̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶w̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶a̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶p̶o̶r̶t̶f̶o̶l̶i̶o̶ ̶ NOSTR - don't like my note.. Zap it. h/t #[0]

“I actually talk about real estate investing ideas in my paid course (on my website) but you should not buy this, you should buy Bitcoin instead.” Matthew Kratter Such a legend. If you haven’t checked him / trader university (very misleading name) out yet on YouTube, do it! Is he on Damus??

Very approx number of houses in UK - 30m Number newly built per year - 200k (generous to the upside) Housing stock to flow therefore ~ 150. Bitcoin’s current stock to flow ~ 55. But rising. Housing is being used as money. Bitcoin fixes this.

FT article headline over the weekend - “The untold story of the world’s most resilient currency” (referring to the baht in Thailand) Thought experiment - if more nations adopt Bitcoin as a currency, how resilient will it prove? The article below considers it in these terms

Bitcoin Magazine

To The Bitcoin Skeptics, Are You Sure You Figured It Out?

Bitcoin is in the top 10 of largest base monies in the world. Demand for it will increase as fiat currencies debase. Are you sure it’s heading to...

It’s just dawned on me why Nostr is such a positive experience (even right now, with so much likely more to improve) - On Twitter, all of the costs were generally hidden - the advertising, the promoted content and accounts, the algorithmic feed to keep you scrolling.. On Nostr this is now all accruing to the user. There’s still a cost to using it, but it will be defined and known.

All my replies and some posts seem to disappear. Any ideas why? Using Damus and just 4 paid relays.

Bitcoin is both the carrot… and the stick.

Happy New Year to all on Nostr! A quote from John Vallis on #Bitcoin from BTC sessions xmas show “..the most persuasive thing to do is embue your life with the benefits, the principles, the ethics of Bitcoin, and let that show.. people will observe you and whoever is in your life and they will say - why are they so optimistic about the future? - why are they engaging in work they find meaningful - why are they so happy to be hanging out with other [like minded bitcoiners] ..That’s what everyone wants. Everyone wants a happy, meaningful, peaceful, stable, secure life and family. I think Bitcoin is a tremendous tool for creating those things in your life and so I think it’s upon us to maximise its potential.. that will be a very strong incentive in itself.”

SBF released on a $250m bond secured against his parents house and… and? 🤔

So @jack if some of us wanted to voluntarily contribute.. oh I don't know.. say $8 per month, where is that best directed to help this concept fly?

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