jb55's avatar
jb55 _@jb55.com 9 months ago
a huge reality check for me is searching nostr and/or lightning network on reddit. tiny subreddits and mostly skeptical posts that Lightning doesn’t work and nostr is full of criminals. these are such obscure technologies that i have decided my life to for the past 7 years and the majority of people have no idea exists. I keep going because it’s obviously the right *technical* solution, and i can’t imagine working on whats popular vs what is right.

Replies (30)

7fqx's avatar
7fqx 7fqx@ditto.pub 9 months ago
I think the few people who do comment on the ewlsewheres seem to be impressed by it technically, but for now not interested in it culturally. Which is quite good really.
LightningBuck's avatar
LightningBuck 9 months ago
Anyone got some criminal npubs to follow?
jb55's avatar jb55
a huge reality check for me is searching nostr and/or lightning network on reddit. tiny subreddits and mostly skeptical posts that Lightning doesn’t work and nostr is full of criminals. these are such obscure technologies that i have decided my life to for the past 7 years and the majority of people have no idea exists. I keep going because it’s obviously the right *technical* solution, and i can’t imagine working on whats popular vs what is right.
View quoted note →
elsat's avatar
elsat elsat@habla.news 9 months ago
When you think of reddit as an extension of cnn, cable tv, nyt inauthentic top down monoculuture it all makes sense.
jb55's avatar
jb55 _@jb55.com 9 months ago
there are like 12,000 lightning nodes, is that centralized? I think the usage of custodial nodes on nostr is pretty bad, but that just means we have more work to do.
Nunya Bidness's avatar
Nunya Bidness nunyabidness@primal.net 9 months ago
Many such case I see of being called to "do something", whether by God or the Universe . . . doesn't matter. I am driven to spend time on ideas that have a 1% chance of being something I see happen in my lifetime. I don't really have a choice because NOT doing that thing means anything else I do will be polluted by it. Something is going on because I ain't the only one who's been "called". IYKYK View quoted note →
n's avatar
n tami1A84.github.io 9 months ago
「たとえ、全世界を手に入れても、自分の魂を失ったならばなんの益になろうか（マタイの福音書16章26節）
Marc's avatar
Marc marc@primal.net 9 months ago
I had the same experience, so I started writing about using the lightning network because it seemed like people thought Inwas crazy. A few years ago, most bitcoiners I talked to didn't have a lightning address. It would be nice to change this criminal image though. Maybe we should design a charity NIP. Back in the day, dogecoin dorks donated dogecoin to various causes back in the day. I think charitable zaps might help our image.
PBS News
Jamaican bobsled team raises $30,000 in Dogecoin for trip to Sochi
Jamaica's national bobsled team qualified for this year's Winter Olympics in Sochi, 12 years after their last berth and 26 years after th...
Zaikaboy's avatar
Zaikaboy Zaikaboy@cosanostr.com 9 months ago
Depends what your definition of a bitcoiners is. Most "bitcoiners" are in it for the fiat gains, it seems to me. Too many others follow the Church of Saylor!! Lightning has had great potential for years now. Never fulfilling that potential because the vast majority of Bitcoin holders don't understand a circular economy, nor do they care. It's an unfortunate truth. Go to Africa, they understand that Bitcoin is money. If the US didn't just pretend it liked btc, then we'd see change. Unfortunately for us, the White House can't weaponise Bitcoin.
Default avatar
Rand 9 months ago
most country/moutain oldeschool heehaws grew up in circular econ/no middle men - p2p,p2b back when your words were good for sumthing/th@ has been erodED
↑