Everybody gets fucked after 35.

It’s beautiful. The corporate bullshit social media era is slowly dying and it’s fucking beautiful. 🥲

Every social media platform I’ve been part of has had its plateau of signal to noise: digg, Reddit, slashdot, hacker news, Twitter, etc.. all “died” for me from a mixture of the same fatal ingredients: popularity, corporatocracy and closed source inflexibility. Nostr can truly fix all of these.

I fully expect the open relay model to “die” once Nostr gets more popular but I’m super bullish on the flexibility the platform provides to create paid curated type experiences that improve signal to noise.

They fail to mention a couple of things: the fact that the health system was already on the verge of collapse prior to this nonsense. And secondly the fact that many health services fired thousands of experience staff. In my state alone, the number was close to 10000 healthcare workers that either resigned, took long service leave or were terminated due to the vaccine mandates. I am one of them.

Yeah definitely lots of scammers to new people. It’s like that every where. Bitcoin has influencers that feed off the ignorance and try to pump their bags. Gotta be vigilant.

For years I’ve believed the zip code one chooses to live in is super important from a health standpoint…..I now believe it is super important from an everything stand point.

If you want to understand bitcoin you first need to understand the problem it solves. Creature from Jekyll Island is probably the best look into the problem of the central banking cartels.

How to achieve generational wealth:

1. Inherit wealth

When you bubbled up the price

With your ponzis & grifts,

You got our attention.

Some of us paid attention,

Understood,

Became true believers.

We bought what you sold

And held

All the way down.

Now you’re about to find out

What absolutely scarce means

In our hands.

#bitcoin

Don’t forget good old NY and CA

Living in US is like watching a train wreck unfold in slow motion over the course of years. Brutal

Running a test..

lnbc100u1pjqfr6qpp5t0tt6ytg2pxulj2q69n5z8534xdznm25vg8qx6fz5t7t5l7a36nsdqu2askcmr9wssx7e3q2dshgmmndp5scqzpgxqyz5vqsp5nm2czphvm7c58paedcjm29f9ss50plxysqxq886lckh39eptfd3q9qyyssqlxrnf2qhgx22rcch28tdpsfn0arnemq4qec8rdspx4dq24xsq6f389y4dx3uecf578wcdjtazswjrv5uu6zjdq80c7f3rw54klqgr9cpgdv2zu

I’ve been leaving a bunch of comments about badges, and wanted to tie it all together in one note for anyone who cares. Here are my evolving thoughts:

Obviously there’s been a bunch of hype, and that’s cool, but a bunch of people are still confused and some are even upset. Worry not, badges are harmless and much of the hype is likely to die down fast anyway.

First of all, I’m not a game designer, but I’ve played enough games to know that badges are mostly useless. For a badge to feel special it typically needs to:

1. Be difficult to achieve

2. Be available for anyone to try to achieve it

3. Come from some important central entity

It’s not to say that friend to friend badges are useless or won’t last, but I’d wager the hype on those will be the first to die, and fast.

I think the best use of badges is if it comes from important community entities or people who are central to Nostr’s ability to keep going. For the most part this means clients, and perhaps the founder of the protocol. Some developers can also command that kind of influence. One off events might also be good candidates for badges.

The main issue with nostr badges is that they can be created by anyone - and that makes them less special. Also, the fact that the playing field is not even (anyone can create a badge only for a specific subset of people and not everyone), makes them double ineffective. A sense of mission, struggle and achievement is required for badges to feel special. Again, this is where I think clients will be good candidates to issue them.

All that being said it’s still good fun, though I don’t expect it to last long.

#[3]​ is here too 👌

If the zap genie appeared, what would your 3 wishes be? ⚡️

shocked to see that even here where i least expected it

some people believe that the fake disease hoax was real

the criminal corporations will be able to do with those whatever they want in the future

embarrassing