I wonder why someone would make these bots lol. Maybe they really enjoy NYE? 🥂

Happy New Year 🥳!

Some 2024 predictions:

-Federal Reserve will start to lower interest rates in Q1.

-Unemployment rate starts to spike due to AI advances and automation of more lower skilled jobs.

-UBI becomes normalised and a trendy discussion topic in 2024 as a result.

-BTC spot ETF launching is a sell the news event.

-BTC doesn’t make new all time highs this halving cycle.

-Jeffrey Epstein names list still is not revealed to the public.

-Julian Assange remains in jail.

-More Bitcoiners see the appeal of Monero as their favourite influencers start to shill KYC custodians and federations as the solutions to the high fee environment. Yes, L1 fees are going to $50+ at some point making lightning network unusable.

-CTV and other soft forks will not be activated in 2024 because some crazy btc core devs will say something trivial like fear of unintended consequences.

-Ocean Mining pools will end up mining every txid as their investors learn the hard lesson of its “go woke, go broke” policy.

-Argentina doesn’t make bitcoin legal tender in 2024.

-Bitcoin Culture becomes even more extreme and divided especially on Twitter.

2024 will be a great year for sovereign individuals. Freedom, sovereignty and privacy will win as more nation states lose their influence/control over its citizens.

P.s. Oh yeah I forgot to say, there may might be a CyberPandemic this year. Theres me a lot of preemptive programming in recent Hollywood movies and simulation events led by WEF like Cyber Polygon in 2022 (cyberpolygon.com).

Best to keep positive though. 😃

yes, fiatjaf is confused about what this is all about

Seeing a lot of YouTube links with the tracking id still in them on Nostr. Maybe clients could auto-strip it before the phone even tries to get a preview card. This could also be a pro feature… though maybe not since it might generate more frustration for normal users #featurerequest #damus

I'm no good memer, but I want some 'congestionoor' meme.

Force closed channels hurt a lot. 425k sats in a week lost due to them.

Its gonna take a lot of routing to make up for it considering in the same week I only made 2770sats routing.

Not to mention that redeploying capacity to replace FC channels would be another big bag atm

All our collective efforts in 2024 must be employed in developing a Nostr app with a single button. Users won't have to think, they will just press that button and they will be fed with content selected to them by an amazing algorithm. When they are hungry they press the button and food will be put inside their mouths. Whenever they feel a little bit of discomfort in their bodies they just press the button. The app cannot mention relays, keys or the word "Nostr" because that will intimidate users, it should have a familiar name, maybe it should be called "mom", since that word is very familiar to all normies since when they were babies.

#goodnight Thanks for lifting my spirits yesterday

And as it is tradition

Should you want to cheers and part the year singing Auld Lang Syne with me here is my version of this traditional Scottish Tradidional people sing at the closing of the year to wish a prosperous one.

youtube.com/shorts/Nou7Lf-F3RM?si=0qpC5tnW_WSkWI

the urge to delete all my memes from my gallery, and start anew

🤔

For the end of the year I deployed a new beefy relay at:

relay.nostr.net

Runs strfry, no hard limits on the infrastructure with plans to keep it as a public good.