As an update, I finished a very early draft of the book I am working on.

Glad to see zaps on Damus. Very cool.

Hah, I wasn’t sure how involved you were in the details at that time.

Yeah, it’s an unfair comparison with malicious and misleading intent.

This makes me want to post all of the roadmap and work from back then with Twitter, actually. Could be useful to the nostr community? Still have all the work (designs, etc) 🤷‍♂️

If you want to understand censorship then just think of it like an in person conversation:

• Me and you are talking... you are being a belligerent asshat and screaming at me. I walk away or shut the door so I don't have to listen to you anymore. [mute/block]

––– not censorship. I have no olbigation to listen to your bullshit.

• Me and you are talking... we want to have a conversation about something controversial but we are at a dinner party in someone else's house. They ask us to leave. [banned from relay]

––– not technically censorship, but getting into an area where an outside party is controlling the conversation. Unfortunately the architecture of the internet makes this an increasingly difficult grey area.

• Me and you are talking... 10s of millions of people have all gone to the same "house" with millions of conversations & where each person explicitly chooses to receive messages and posts from a self-curated list of people. The state, funded by all of us and external both to any and all conversations being had, plus not an owner or stake holder in the house, threatens the host with shutting it down or fines if they do not put tape over our mouths so we cannot speak... specifically we cannot speak about how corrupt this external party is. [Social media censorship]

––– this is censorship. This is a problem. And this is why #Nostr exists

If you are moaning about someone blocking or muting you, then cry harder. 😁

This wouldn’t be nearly as much fun if our adversaries in the legacy system were somewhat decent people. But they’re not, and that’s what’s going to make this so badass.

People are always asking what they can do to help the cause, but it’s really simple. Just buy Bitcoin and hold it. That’s the single most important action you can take to suck their monetary energy out of their cesspool of lies and activity.

What do you think the chances are that bitcoin takes over that role compared to the role of digital gold ? 20/80?

That’s why it doesn’t work. Download wallet of satoshi and add your lightning address from there

Bitcoin is resilient and eventually will price them out

These are the paid relays I have the rest you should be able to see if my relay list are the free ones

Paid relays

wss://nostr.milou.lol

wss://nostr.plebchain.org

wss://nostr.wine

wss://nostr.inosta.cc

wss://relay.orangepill.dev

wss://relay.stonez.me

wss://relay.nostriches.org

But muh smart contracts are the future!

Agreed. In this community setting blocking removes the noise and secures signal.

I’ve engaged a few times prior and just thought it was a net negative.

There are no wins empowering noise.

Glad you asked! It’s an instant Bitcoin payment run on the lightning network sent as a tip. Value4value we call it, information is valuable and should be rewarded via tips! Download wallet of satoshi, add you lightning address they give you in the receive section to your Nostr profile, and you can then start receiving tips via Bitcoin lightning rails!

What should I build next?

- Zaps

- Custom feeds

- Polls 😅

Boing for example is a company that wouldn’t exist anymore. Over the years trillions of printed money have gone into subsidizing and rescuing it. Competition and innovation thwarted. In a free market, people would have out their capital on the highest probability ROI enterprise, because the rescue piece of printed money would not be there and the risk equation would have looked different. Boeing is 1950s technology snd has ethics issues. Who knows, if perfect capital allocation using a BTC standard would have been in place all along, we would already have quiet, clean, individual drones or something and a better world.

Anyone opposing BTC spreading as fast as possible, working with/for the State, or trying to call it a weapon, should not be trusted.

The collective whose incentives align to the State are against Bitcoin. Even if good actors try to persuade them, they will fail.

Bitcoin kills the parasite leeching off the productive economy. The parasite is genetically programmed to fight back. Expect it.