did world-coin scam time their creepy launch to be a bit buried beneath all the x-hate?

nostr will outlive all its current clients and their logos

decadent state of post-peak-pre-fail-civilisations tend to give rise to extreme expressions of excess

some (most) are perversions and aberrations and others are works of lasting beauty

worldcoin and every other shitcoin are the former

bitcoin and nostr - the latter

not reading it now - but i recommend "The Music of the Primes"

prune some trees, smoke a cigar, cook some beef ribs and write some code

When you've spent your career in the the guts of the existing financial systems, knowing how money actually moves, how much code is written every day to keep it moving and how many operators are required to fix all the breaks..

and then you run a bitcoin node and a lightning node on a raspberry and an ssd drive and then see it work

it is a cathartic experience and I highly recommend it

Not actually advocating good-will, just a kind of symbiosis in the form of low-time preference with common hope of good long term outcomes.

Any short term 'good will' would actually just be more like bets on longer term good outcomes.

It's the inverse of what we see in places with low hope (low confidence in the future), where hit-and-run is a better bet than stay-and-grow.

Re: zaps - i think of them as baby steps towards the idea of paying-for-value, they're not a silver bullet, but they hopefully lay the experiential foundation for #value4value commerce.

i agree it's natural that every client-service relationship contains an element of the juxtaposed objectives, but they must be balanced by the low-time preference belief in the good of long-term sustainable symbiotic relationships or else we're kinda doomed

so i think the relays / businesses that will win are those that offer better service and establish long-term credibility even at the expense of short-term gain that might have been possible through adversarial pursuits

its also true - it's basically a total self-own of the corrupt nature of the fiat-borne VC industry and a lame attempt to orange-wash it...

ok so Damus is broken and I went back to my old android.. only to discover my lightning wallet's been receiving zaps all this time.. so cool

agree, though most people care not about either their privacy or security or sovereignty or truth

and have been made addicted to free shit over agency, comforts over conscience and mindless entertainment over truth

we've all been made comfortably numb

the challenge is to build business that emancipates the battery chickens that we've become yet is also useful and attractive to us with feeble legs and fat breasts

nostr is more of a cold-turkey boot-camp experience right now

i agree, #value4value is so important to re-establish, and zaps, as nano-payments are a way to do so gradually, but we also need to work on the other side of the equation - how to better align the incentives to increase the value of content, ie the credibility and quality, not just attention-hooking that's been the game in capture-the-eyeballs

something bothering me lately - being primarily a store of value, as bitcoin succeeds, will it not hurt the most vulnerable - those who have no value to store and live hand-to-mouth as their currencies degrade their value?

rock on

nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s any reason my Damus stopped when I started using snort?

maybe the answer is simpler - "Walled Gardens" are businesses... nostr is all made by hobbyists and no one even bothered to think about how to make a business out of this yet, since peeps like nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m just pick up the tab?

https://void.cat/d/MUayHyCzXRr8Q5mtywNuVg.webp

appreciate you brother

How can I strap a miner to this?

Cheesy worms.. yum https://nostr.build/av/7c9bf7c4c9024cfc70156aa68594af9bc3d8dcc2f36b867d91c612bf7581173b.mov

Pump and dump is not a crypto invention. VCs have perfected it long before.