Braiins solo miner 🤜🤛 Umbrel

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After so many years being in the space, finally attending a conference - I could not have picked a better one - has felt like coming home and reconnecting with friends that I actually had not actually met. Super inspiring, fun and signal-rich day of talks, and great events around the town, with ⚽️ 🏆and ☀️🍻 later today. Kuddos to @Peter McCormack @Danny Knowles and team for putting together this very special event while putting Bedford on the map by just doing things.

GM and happy refining

“Rand's heroes use roads they did not build, communicate through language they did not invent, and benefit from scientific discoveries they did not make. Yet somehow, in Rand's mythology, they owe nothing to the collective enterprises that made their individual achievements possible.” This excerpt from @Mike Brock last essay explains a lot of the discomfort I feel with an almost Darwinian view of economics and how bitcoin is sometimes viewed as the expression of it. I think it isn’t - all it is is money that treats everyone the same - and we have to figure out how to take advantage of it not only as individuals but as communities and society, to reinforce the commons not destroy them.

Gm 888888 On my lil’node

Bank of England museum. Surreal and quite fun to visit as a bitcoiner.

Economic value flowing from centralized fiat institutions into Bitcoin. Social value flowing from centralized social platforms into Nostr. Hyperbitcoinization. Hypersocialization. Community computing.

GM

Good morning.

Nostr will provide value converting to IRL interactions. Legacy social media provides advertising converting to online transactions. Last day at work yesterday. New chapter starting.

If you hold it long enough, Bitcoin becomes part of your personal story - mentally, socially, emotionally and financially. Then of your family story. At that stage you start feeling the need to make it part of your community’s story.

Got a zap notification from Damus but no zaps in Damus or primal - weird. Using my primal lnurl to receive zaps, what might be the issue?

The flippening has happened for me. I am spending more time on Nostr than any other social app. I very rarely post on X and when I do, the signal gets completely lost in the algo. Nostr made me comfortable to post again and many posts give me joy or new insights. I had my account over a year but only last week I started playing with all the different apps using a signing extension. That was a true rabbit hole moment, like seeing my first transaction on the timechain over 10 years ago. The ecosystem is already so rich yet it’s only starting. The talks from Nostriga have really inspired me as well. I am starting to feel better, more positive, whereas sessions on X leave me somewhat anxious. It’s still very useful tool to follow technical fields, hopefully we can engage with researchers, artists, musicians and technologists to build their own communities here. So besides this post which is about Nostr itself, I will try to add value in the future. Interesting to think about more and more content that could uniquely becontributed to Nostr. There could be different level of ‘signal’: #nostrfirst: first posted on Nostr. #nostronly: only posted on Nostr #nostrnew: only posted on Nostr and content that previously was not available anywhere on the internet, accessible to any algorithms, AI etc. That could be new content, or posting pre existing analog media that was never posted online.

How do we get research community on nostr? If some are on mastodon what are incentives for them to switch network? public global research 🤝 public global protocol