Good morning, Nostriches.
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Gm peeps 🤙🏽
Here’s the series of events that led me to Nostr, in chronological order:
- tried to pay for X's blue checkmark but was unable to do so without linking my bank account, instead of paying with a card.
- read the terms of connecting my bank account and realized I would have to agree to share my account number, routing number, interest rate, recent transaction history, etc. No way I was agreeing to that, so I closed the tab.
- opened a YT tab to watch some random videos, and a conversation between nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m at Nostriga popped up on my feed.
i had never heard of Nostr before clicking on that video. It took me all of two minutes to go from typing the name 'Nostr' into my browser to opening an account.
nostr:note1xeja7p4uhvuk9wkdudjhqcdc46579j4he3dyufmtsh9djvydjdss0mj8g2
A warm welcome to you 🫶🏼
I took your advice and built a gif nostr companion app:
You can download the PWA to your home screen, search for your gif, copy the address and paste it into your client
On the back end, for every gif that gets copied/clicked, an API request is made to upload to nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 by nostr:npub137c5pd8gmhhe0njtsgwjgunc5xjr2vmzvglkgqs5sjeh972gqqxqjak37w
From there a nip94 request is done so that the content can be accessed by any client in the future
Now, anyone who searches for gifs using this tool is also helping to build the gif repository for nip94 and adding fallback urls to nostr.build
And all they did was click to copy #gifs
In the last week, I've used Bitcoin at my local butcher, my barber, and I just used it to purchase a delicious juice freshly made from all kinds of wonderful ingredients. I feel empowered, and emboldened to onboard even more businesses in my local town. 
GM 👋🏽
Good afternoon, you beautiful people.
Thanks! I felt the same for many years, and a friend got me started. It was so much easier than I imagined. I highly suggest trying. Happy to share my recipe if you want? I expect a local baker may be willing to give you a bit of their starter to get you going.
I visited Copenhagen for the first time earlier this summer and while there, my wife’s and I celebrated our wedding anniversary with a really nice meal out.
We raved to the waiter about the sourdough rye bread (and other courses!) and ended up getting a tub of the starter used to make the bread.
The starter made it home safely (after several questions at security 😅) and yesterday I made my first load with it.
So satisfyingly good! Just thought I’d share. 😋
I visited Copenhagen for the first time earlier this summer and while there, my wife’s and I celebrated our wedding anniversary with a really nice meal out.
We raved to the waiter about the sourdough rye bread (and other courses!) and ended up getting a tub of the starter used to make the bread.
The starter made it home safely (after several questions at security 😅) and yesterday I made my first load with it.
So satisfyingly good! Just thought I’d share. 😋
#foodstr #grownostr
Sam Harris’s ‘Waking Up’ app is excellent - highly recommended. It’s also free or discounted to those that can’t afford it.
I’m still thinking about the amazing pleb somewhere in South Africa that called the pub (where we hold our meetup, in England) and tried to buy us a round of drinks using Bitcoin🍺 🔥
Spotted in the wild.
Well, alright then. 🙏🏽
