Disney does not care about profit.

They take marching orders from the intelligence community.

This is about messaging.

Twitter account suspended because I posted “eat the glass” in response to a do hard things entrepreneurship post.

This apparently encouraged self harm and now I’m on read-only until a faceless bureaucrat in San Francisco clicks a button.

The use case for Nostr was always obvious but now it is increasingly tangible.

The censorship will continue until the protocols and tools improve. Thankfully that is why we are all here.

It pains me to say it after 3 years of building on it but I think lightning is ngmi, at least for non custodial pleb payments.

I think ark and liquid are fundamentally a more sound approach to L2 for end users.

If it REQUIRES the end user to run infrastructure, even if that is just a phone, it's going to be too janky to actually scale.

Not to mention that somehow lightning is already more ossified than L1...

If we continue down the custodian route people will get rugged or KYC d

I am ready for your hate, but this is my current take. Also would be happy to be proven wrong.

Now back to sshing into my node and working on chantools to recover a force closed channel utxo that lnd didn't report.

Totally easy for everyday users to solve if they run into this problem...

I am getting close to giving a more detailed assessment on Israel/Hamas, as it drags on.

And it will probably be Nostr-only since other platforms can’t handle it. It is too polarized. Everyone is tunnel-visioned.

My husband is currently in Cairo dealing with some property work we are doing for our extended family. They are only 250 miles from the problem, and Egypt’s acute currency crisis brings it closer to home if military or refugee shit hits the fan. Most of my extended family is geopolitically or financially close to the Israel/Gaza issue and is Muslim. I am thus both close and far from the issue. And I grew up in the US in a diverse region with Jewish and Muslim peers, but more-so Jewish overall.

Suffice to say, I don’t want civilians on either side to suffer or die. I am pro-humanity first and foremost.

Before I give my eventual analysis, I am happy to see Nostr comments on the issue. What are your thoughts and questions on the topic? What would you like to see addressed from a diverse or as non-biased source as possible?

So I got an update from this gentleman named Goldfinger.

-Yes, it is his birth name.

-He is a masters’ level chess player.

-He likes sci fi novels.

-He is (imo) the sharpest dressed guy at the conference.

-He is super nice and friendly.

A goldbug’s goldbug.

Worst part about quitting cannabis is that my IBS came back with a vengeance. I forgot how much it sucks.