How do you know we aren't transacting with them already?
The second half takes a lot longer than the first.
Driving to my next job tonight, there was this SUV in front of me that can not stay in their lane. I'm thinking they are drunk or something, so I stay behind them so I can see what they are doing. We approach a red light and are slowing down, so I take the opportunity to pull up next to them and look in to see this woman starting at her phone in her lap. I yelled "are you fucking drunk!" And the sight of her jumping halfway out of her seat at my voice absolutely made my night guys. She was upset enough about it to follow me for a couple turns, and when I pulled over and waited for her to start whatever shit she was thinking to start, she barely slowed down as she drove by yelling something. I hope I ruined her night. Nothing pisses me off more than dumbshit drivers like that.
Snapped this pic awhile back you might enjoy:
Their customer service got back to me in about an hour when I had a problem.
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π€Β Dive into the latest Nostr trends that are making waves this week:
β’ 4,324 new Nostr users // βΒ 6.84%
β’ 459,817 new public keys generated // βΒ 49.37%
β’ 46,084 zaps made, with 13,919,220 sats zapped // βΒ 6.20%, Β βΒ 14.93%
β’ 559,000 public notes created // βΒ 3.33%
β’ 85,858 reposts // βΒ 6.71%
β’ 274,318 reactions // βΒ 8.81%
β’ 1,644,525 events // βΒ 12.15%
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What's the difference between new users and public keys generated? Aren't keys "users"?
I shut my LN node down earlier this year because it was having issues. I was debating spinning up a new one on different hardware or even cloud based, but I'm having a really hard time justifying it when there are simpler self custody lightning solutions like Phoenix. Stories like this make me want to do it even less. It really seems like running a lightning node is not really something worthwhile for a casual hobbyist without an extensive technical background and significant resources to keep it maintained. π
Prediction:
nostr:npub1hq0kkf67h5n63uz0l5zac94un73jnjudn3ryh3aahagx3qvwq0qq8wf9mp will win the next presidential election.
Unless he (or we) can orange pill 50 million people in the next year and a half, I doubt it.
I haven't watched anything from Miami because I know it would drive me nuts. I saw a clip of some news desk type thing and it was super cringe.
I'm always watchful for people/businesses that are only interested in self promotion. From what I've seen and heard from Bitcoin Magazine in the last year, I think they have become less interested in the future success of Bitcoin and more interested in the future success of themselves, and that made me lose trust in them (not that I had much to begin with). As the organizers of the event that attitude will permeate through everything. I mean they are trying to sell copies of their magazine for as much as $2,100! I wouldn't be surprised if they were all on board for the ordinals crap that's happening right now.
He could be the most mainstream candidate and he wouldn't get elected on his voice alone π
Oh you're talking about Miami. I thought you were talking about nostr.
Ah, you mentioned vanlife so that's what I thought you meant.
I'm not trying to dis on these people btw. Many of them have interesting views worth considering. The type of people I'm describing are the homesteaders, anti-vaxxers, carnivores, conspiracy nuts, etc. that I see posting a lot on nostr. They've lost trust in mainstream institutions and maybe veer a little too hard in the other direction imo.
The influencer thing is just what happens when people seek to rise to a position of social prominence in a community. I find it a bit irritating too, they all come across as a little phony to me. Like they feel they have to constantly post something to stay relevant. They end up just being cheerleaders at a perpetual pep rally, chanting slogans we've all heard a million times. When they get enough followers it's self reinforcing because there's always someone out there liking and zapping even their lowest quality posts.
Anyway I think that's all just a product if the incentives that social media creates, especially when there is no way to show dislike for a post besides commenting. How is someone to know their content is crap if no one has the heart to tell them?
It appeals to counter-culture types of people. Half of them probably only got interested in it just because it's a dark horse and being contrary to the status quo is part of their identity.