V4V = Good

right now, the bitcoin market seems to be immune to good news but very reactive to bad news

two years ago, we would say that etfs will take us to a million dollars

that never happened and is even less likely to happen now

bitcoin needs a narrative change and some upgrades

No matter what they say, having a technical background is the ultimate competitive advantage.

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The white paper is hidden on every Mac as well for those that didn’t know.

The Godfather of Bitcoin: Mr. Nick Szabo tells it like it is regarding the OP_RETURN controversy.

He doesn’t agree with Core30 and has discussed alternatives with nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7hzudvv on X.

WATCH ANNOUNCEMENT!

Since I began my journey in Nostr, I have met an amazing group of people, a number of them in person. I have been planning for this moment for a long time.

Small businesses and entrepreneurs are not only encouraged by the Nostr community, but I know more than a few that thrive in the Bitcoin-backed economy that has developed organically here.

They bring not only their enthusiasm but genuine and verifiable knowledge of their craft. The appreciation that is rewarded them comes not just from likes and follows, but by actual support of their businesses with Bitcoin.

I am thankful to the wonderful folks who have encouraged me as I’ve posted to #artstr and have supported me by paying with sats. This financial support has allowed me to bring this project to life.

Now, I am excited to present to you the Nostr watch.

With simplicity and functionality in mind, I began with the timeless classic Casio dive watch model I wanted since I was a kid.

This was THE watch to have in the 1990s, when my friends and I rode our bikes to the arcade to play Mortal Kombat with our friends. When James Bond still wore a Rolex.

This was a time before cell phones, before social media, before AI-generated music. Your watch told you the time, not how many calories you burned on your way to the neighborhood cookout.

This watch has no alarms, no digital display, and no excess complications which could distract you from living your real life. There is no heart rate monitor on this watch, no WiFi or Bluetooth connectivity, no software to update, no reminder to stand up if you’re sitting down.

Want the time? Look at this watch.

Want more? Go look at a phone.

I designed the dial, which features Bitcoin logos at every hour, the Nostr ostrich at twelve o’clock, the word NOSTR at three o’clock, and NOTES and OTHER STUFF TRANSMITTED BY RELAYS at six o’clock.

A friend of mine engraves the dials for me, and I assemble the watch myself.

It has a 44mm stainless steel case, is water resistant to 200 meters, has a screw-down locking crown, a 120-click unidirectional rotating bezel, and a screwdown caseback.

Lug width is 22mm, which can accommodate a variety of straps. The watch comes with a standard 22mm silicone strap, which can be easily changed.

I lightly sand the caseback and engrave the block height when it was completed. Then I package it up with a handwritten note signed by me and send it to you.

The battery will last a couple years, after which it’s easy to get changed. There are no proprietary parts. You can change the battery yourself with one tool if you want.

The watch is 200k sats plus shipping.

I also offer a bespoke watch dial design service where I create custom dial artwork to your specifications and have the artwork engraved. In this case, your watch artwork will be used only for your watch.

This one-on-one design collaboration between myself and the customer is available for an additional 200k sats.

Thank you, Nostr, for helping me to realize this dream that I have had since I began my interest in watches.

#nostrwatch #artstr

#bitcoin #plebchain #watchstr

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Things are so bad that the Communists on threads don't event want to garden for themselves anymore.

⁉️ You want my opinion on Charlie Kirk, I'm none the wiser I've never watched one of these videos because I'm not an English speaker. Btw, according to Charlie Kirk's logic, his death is his own fault, not the shooter's… (I don't agree, but that's his logic.)

In the entire original Star Wars trilogy, no two named female characters ever spoke to each other.

In fact there, were only four named women across the trilogy, throughout six and a half hours of content spread across multiple worlds, and for most people they can only name Leia.

I'm not bringing it up as a criticism; just an observation. Sometimes guys wonder why their girlfriends/wives don't love their favorite fiction quite as much as they do.

It's not to say a given story *should* have more characters of XYZ demographic, but basically if a guy tunes into a movie and no two guys ever speak to each other in it, and it's ladies everywhere with hardly any men around, you'd basically just get the vibe pretty quickly that this wasn't written with you in mind at all. If you like it, that's great, but it's kind of by accident since you just weren't really considered as part of it being put together. I do like Star Wars, for example.

I love the Breaking Bad show, too. The premise didn't appeal to me on the surface (middle-aged guy with cancer, young drug maker guy, and to the extent that there are women in the show it's mostly the wives of the important characters), but my husband told me it was great so I watched it with him and loved it. Wouldn't change a thing about it.

And then of course, since we can't have nice things, over the past decade the attempts to put more diversity into fantasy or science fiction have been pretty ham-fisted. Rey is a trash character, basically. Almost any attempt with this sort of stuff is lazy. Books have generally done it better because it comes from one author's mind rather than some committee.

I think part of why the TV show Arcane was so well-received (especially the first season) was that it had a ton of different characters in it but it wasn't *about* that diversity. It just happened naturally as a byproduct of good writing and care. A bunch of very different characters dealing with themes that are about technological progress vs safety, economic disparity and sovereignty, extremism to achieve goals, etc. Young and old, male and female, rich and poor, all different colors. Rather than feel forced, it just seems obvious in that setting.

I've put some thought into this when writing fiction. Men and women, and people of various cultures, do have a ton in common in the fiction they like. Probably more than most realize.

-My number one priority is to just write good stuff and tell the story I want to tell. By default there are a broad range of characters in a story like that, at least in my head. Otherwise it would feel boring. Unless I was writing a specific period piece (something like Saving Private Ryan set in WWII battle zones where obviously it would almost all be men), I'd have to go out of my way to write a story where no two men ever speak to each other, or no two women ever speak to each other. That would take effort.

-My second consideration is to of course think about my audience (which a lot of current media trends ironically don't do- they just create a piece to fulfill their own grievances and forget about the main demographic that would actually want to watch/read what they made). How would different people experience it? That's where beta readers are helpful, but also just a basic 101 test of imagining like five different people reading it and getting the vibe of whether it's written with them in mind, or not. The goal in that case is certainly not to write for everyone (eg most stories I think of tend to be quite dark and violent, and with substantial complexity, which is a combo that already excludes a lot of people), but to at least be aware of the types of people I might be writing for. The natural state of things in a sufficiently complex setting is a broad range of character types.

Basically when I exclude types of readers, I want it to be a conscious decision rather than "huh, I hadn't considered that."