technically speaking, NOBODY self-custodies 100% of their stash.

what, your Primal wallet, Alby, Strike/River balance is self-custodied??

yeah, right.

I think I should do whatever I want with my property 🙂

I was called a bitcoin maxi yesterday. I don’t live out of a van, I am still banked, I don’t shop much but when I do, I love my sales and I still mine fiat money.

Do I count? Am I a #bitcoin maxi? What is a bitcoin maxi?

#btc #bitcoin #bitcoiner #bitcoinmaxi #asknostr

Web of Trust feels a lot like Proof of Stake 🧐

Trust is like social capital: the more trusted you are, the more influence you have, which can leave new users stuck in the shadows. Their less trusted (but often valuable!) opinions barely get noticed.

Trust works as a resource—it’s built and extended through explicit endorsements (like Alice following Bob). But here’s the catch: the early adopters hold all the cards. If you weren’t here first, your influence depends on whether the big players decide to trust you. And trust? It’s scarce, especially the kind that matters most—follows from users with high social capital. These endorsements aren’t handed out easily.

The system has a built-in centralization problem 😬. Popular users with a ton of followers tend to grow their influence exponentially, while newcomers struggle to get noticed. People are incentivized to follow others they trust to protect their reputation, which just makes the rich get richer in terms of trust.

And let’s talk about power imbalance 🔥. A follow from Alice, who’s been on Nostr for two years and climbed her way to the top, is a big deal. Compare that to a follow from Charlie, who just signed up and posted a humble #introduction . Alice’s social capital makes her endorsement hit way harder 🥊.

To top it off, there’s some “pre-mining” going on. New users often automatically follow certain developers, making them super-trusted by default. It’s like trust farming for the OGs, giving them a massive head start over everyone else.

I speak Cantonese、English and Mandarin .

being bitcoin-only in 2025 will be only about defending the ticker and trying to pump your own bags

from a cypherpunk and utilitarian point of view, you should start looking into other coins

experiment with privacy/scaling/contracts tech, embrace a world beyond the 21m meme

Nostr is already supercharged RSS.

The music is unlikely to stop.

The name of the game is this:

How much #Bitcoin will you own once the fiat music stops?

just had a nightmare about my database having performance/contention issues due to a mutex I added to the codebase. what the fuck.

gm

people who dont like Roger Ver ‘s opinions on Bitcoin, and therefore ignore what the US government is doing to Roger Ver, are low quality humans.

GM GA GE GN!

You alls mind sharin’ your favouritist password manager?

#asknostr

Everyone does 😂

I just realized there is an enormous database of people talking about RSS on the internet, teaching others how to use RSS, learning how to use RSS, talking about the advantages of RSS, conducting user research on RSS first impressions.

All of this applies almost unedited to Nostr.

I just realized there is an enormous database of people talking about RSS on the internet, teaching others how to use RSS, learning how to use RSS, talking about the advantages of RSS, conducting user research on RSS first impressions.

All of this applies almost unedited to Nostr.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reportedly considering resigning.

My heart is with the victims, families, and everyone impacted by the school shooting tragedy at Abundant Life in Madison, WI. It’s hard to put into words the grief and shock so many here are feeling right now.

I registered my daughter there this year but pulled out at the last minute. Many of my employees and co-workers have kids there, have spouses that work there, work there part-time, or are deeply connected to this loss. It’s a pain and horror that feels so close to home.

I’m not sure how to support everyone, but trying my best. At work we’ve arranged for counselors to come on site, and set up posters for messages of love and support for the team, and candles for the vigil tomorrow. These small acts feel so inadequate in the face of such heartbreak, but they’re a way to stand together, to honor, and to remember.

Please hold the victims and their loved ones in your hearts tonight. 🙏🤍

#nostr #schoolshooting

That makes a lot of sense.

So about these drones sighted over the USA.... it's a red cell op, right?

What does new ATH mean? Seeing it a lot here the last few days.

I have to admit, I don't know what this emoji means: 👀

Does it mean "I'm looking at you" like "I'm giving you the slant eye" or "I'm watching you buddy"...

... or does it mean "hey everybody, look at this!"

... or does it mean "I saw this but don't want to emote anything other than this simple fact"

... or something else?

I'm so old.