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f(₿) = peaceful transfer of power from the state to the people + 10x humanities collaborative potential + incentivizes abundant & clean energy production

These people are also directly responsible for all the negative perception the public has for “crypto” and, by association, Bitcoin. 😔 Vitalik and Eth insiders as well.

finally! but horse, y u no zaps?

The future of gossip: Gossip will always be free and MIT licensed. I have no plans to monetize this situation at all (I am doing okay in life already). I will not start building private paid-for extensions, nor will I set up any public relays that charge. And I will continue working on gossip in my free time for the forseeable future.

[For those who which to monetize their clients somehow, I am not saying that is wrong, for many people will have different situations and make different choices and I'm in a good position to do it this way.]

I started this project with full knowledge that if I wanted gossip to succeed, it's best chance was to be MIT licensed and fully open, and that I would not make money doing this (as it turned out, donations far exceed my expectations). And I wanted gossip to succeed for many reasons, the first and most selfish of which is that I wanted a nostr client for myself that I fully understood and had full control over. But I also take pride in doing my part to save the world from government tyranny and corporate walled garden tyranny.

The heavy lifting happened over Christmas break 2022, and ongoing work will probably never be as intense. But it doesn't need to be. It works pretty damn well as it is, and the spare time I dedicate to it should be enough to keep it viable and competitive on at least some grounds with other clients. And we have a handful of other developers helping out. If other clients supecede it on all fronts, bravo to them and I will quit. But I don't see that happening anytime soon. So I'm here to stay.

I love this community. Pura Vida! 🤙💜

thank you for this amazing desktop client! 🙏

If the fiat / Keynesian / shitcoiners have their way (here’s looking at you Vitalik) we will be drowning in an endless sea of tokens, airline miles, and centrally controlled government IOU’s.

yes, especially if it can be implemented well and demonstrate Bitcoin + Lightning’s superiority over the alternatives.

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😂👌

Little do people realize, but this visually depicts the amount of (virtually free) energy every human will have access to when Bitcoin becomes the unit of account. 200 petajoules for running your AC all summer if you want.

This post was written by the kind of person who must also believe they should be able to “own” a jpg published to the internet. 🤦‍♂️

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For those wondering what went down at paxful, Watch this https://www.tiktok.com/@lgfgfashionhouse/video/7109497056158567726

Been dueling with a shitcoin lord for 7 years and had enough. The fool made his money with bitcoin and LOST it all on shitcoins

good for you, these people need to be exposed for all the harm they have done to individuals and the industry as a whole.

if you set up a lightning wallet on your nostr profile, you could at least collect some sats via zaps. and the tech is moving quickly so there will likely be even better (fully private) ways to do p2p exchange in the near future.

same! insta follow whenever i see Block or TBD in the profile. 😊🤙

😭 sounds like hell on earth. you might want to look into projects like Cashu and Fedimint which run on top of Bitcoin and Lightning, but provide huge benefits in terms of transaction privacy. cc #[3]

some ppl working on it over at lnbits I believe. cc #[2]

#[0] and #[1] you are both doing such great work educating the pre-bitcoiners of the world and was wondering what you think about writing a piece on the recently announced IMF Unicoin?

When we step back and ask ourselves, ok why are they not just building on top of existing coins like #Bitcoin, Ethereum 🤮, Solana 🤮, etc. etc? Whenever someone starts a coin new project it's always about **control**. The creator wants to do something different and give themselves control over the protocol, control over the money supply, etc... because, they just can't change Bitcoin. The fact we have so many sh*tcoins just goes to show how perfectly unchangeable Bitcoin is.

So now to the recently announced IMF Unicoin. It utilizes a Proof-of-Stake like consensus protocol, and of course they promise the world while not mentioning the fine print that this would give them unilateral control of the ledger this coin utilizes. How much will be created? Who decides on monetary policies? Who decides on when the protocol changes? Of course they don't describe any of these things in their announcement, because it would hint at the awful truth behind the whole project. More control and even more power over money, the foundation of our civilization.

https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-10/IMF-unveils-Unicoin-A-global-legal-tender-settlement-CBDC.html

cc #[2]

followed and zapped for these promising movie recs. still blows my mind that i can zap nostriches with freedom money so easily. 😭💜