For anyone new to #nostr , welcome! If you’re curious or confused about the whole purple ostrich thing, here’s the story of how the #Nostrich came to be. Welcome to the purple side, friends 🤙🫂💜⚡️
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The #[0] Origin Story by #[1] December 14, 2022: I used #[2] for the first time. #[3] & #[4] gave me a warm welcome. December 16, 2022: I discovered #[5] and, naturally, asked it “can you write a joke about #nostr?” #[7] responded: Q: What do you call a nosy ostrich? A: A nosTrich! The joke wasn’t great, but you can’t blame a bot. Regardless, I loved the idea of a visual identity for nostr, and ostriches are cool birds. So I took to Midjourney and created The #Nostrich December 17, 2022: I created a new key pair for my purple ostrich creation and just like that, #[9] the Nostr Ostrich was born. I set up a Twitter account as well to try and bring over more folks from the blue bird app > @Nostr_Ostrich December 18, 2022 Only a day after The Nostrich was born, it faced the threat of censorship from Twitter with the policy change and attack on nostr promotion (which they later walked back). Nostrich shared ostrich facts on Twitter to fly under the radar. December 20, 2022: #[10] proposed The Nostrich to be the official nostr mascot and logo. #[11] tweets The Nostrich image. #[12] was happy. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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Josua Schmid 2 years ago
I have my own origin story: I asked ChatGPT to make word plays with „nostr“. It said „nostrich“. And since I‘m from Switzerland, I wanted to register the domain nostri.ch. That‘s taken sadly.
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FreedomRock 2 years ago
Urban myths can be fun and all that but t's good to know the origins. And the purple ostrich is brilliant!
Grab yourself a lightning address and add it to your profile instead of that invoice you have 😉 - blink.sv , or - getalby.com , or - walletofsatoshi.com
Its a work in progress. lol. Thank you for your advice. You seem to know a bit about these things, so I would like to try my luck and ask you another question if I may. I have a small business and would like to turn online payments into #Bitcoin. Do you perhaps know if there is a payment gateway where a customer can pay online with lets say a Visa/Master card in fiat currency, then the payment gets automatically converted into #Bitcoin and delivered to a wallet?
That's a tricky one, I haven't heard of any I expect it'll be difficult though because visa/mc payments usually settle days/weeks after the actual payment, and in batches. Would be hard for a service to pay out hard money (bitcoin) against soft receipts (chargeback-able credit card payments)