supposedly the Western Union CEO got so triggered last cycle he sent his lawyers to try and find an angle to come after Strike and me personally. a former WU lawyer told me some crazy stories

someone tell this tough guy to come join us on nostr. we can talk about Lightning and hash it out like grown men in public with no lawyers 🤣🤣🤣

we are winning 🫡

Very recently on two occasions the United States weather radars, half of them were down for hours.

Now many states are having 911 emergency service outages.

What is going on? #nostr

What's next?

rights aren’t given, they’re taken.

bitcoin and nostr help you take and defend them, peacefully.

Searching for excavators on facebook marketplace

My facebook feed:

Not sure. I think anyone or any country using bitcoin is likely a good thing in my opinion.

Looks like I was able to get this working again, sort of. It says I'm connected to 9-11 relays, but only shows that I have 100 followers (and even Jack only about 40, so it has to be a data gap), and very few notes on timelines (with obvious gaps even for hugely active accounts). Relay.damus.io never seems to pass me any data (0kb both up and down) to me, which j assume is due to my connection coming via Tor, but honestly I don't know. I'm connecting using Amethyst, if anybody sees this and has any ideas—what's the best, biggest relay for Tor users right now?

Secondly, and most importantly for anyone who sees this note, please make some noise to try and stop the passage of RISAA (the FISA 702 reauthorization) that's about to hit law as soon as this Friday. Please read about it and push it out on all of your socials, if you agree it's a problem. It's going to be hard to stop this thing, even with all hands.

Whoever sees this, thank you for hearing me.

GM!

If you can’t clearly see your dogs ribs, you’re not stacking hard enough.

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

How about we build on principles instead of just recreating the existing system.

People don’t care about eating healthy either but that doesn’t mean we should shovel them garbage just so that they will consume our product.

KYC is the illicit activity and fuck anyone who is bringing that shit into the future with us just to comply with the state or to win in the short term. nostr:note1ajazmpwymp2xu7200968qd6256a9gyuyj5t5vx8uhxwhmacyrvjskwet8u

correct

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i love nostr but do you ever consider a life without social media?

thanks to #Bitcoin we will have the freedom to choose a sovereign life of fewer screens & epic outdoors in the near future.

I am working with some amazing people to build a real Citadel, where we will build and become nodes in a self sustainable bio-community in one of the world’s last frontiers.

It’s going to take years to get this right but there is nothing more exciting or better suited for me.

when we launch nostr users will be the first to hear of any lodging openings or news, and their applications will be prioritized.

Stay tuned freedom lovers 🤙

Waaaay above my pay grade. Is there a public place to post bounties so it’s on record?

The ability to strike and grapple competently is way more important than raw strength. Unpopular opinion maybe but I’ve seen big / strong dudes get absolutely torn to pieces by wirey dudes half their strength in the gym time and again.

Technique, speed and timing > strength every time. I don’t make the rules.