Almost done, should finish by flights end. Somber reality. Eye opening and worth the read especially for any Bitcoiner.

Succinct and well researched/articulated! Great work #[1]

I understand that. Zaps could be implemented the same way anywhere. Damus isn’t special in that sense, Twitter could do the same. You only need to look at 90% of the the big influencers on Twitter who moved and promoted Nostr… they always say something like “it’s better there, and zaps are a motivation”. And those are just the influencers… most common folk come for the same reason, by

Nostr, and Damus especially, aren’t proof of work, they centralised in the same way shitcoins are.

Sure they’re more resistant to censorship than you average social media. But are they some bitcoin-esque decentralised? No. Therefore I don’t get why we worship this protocol so much. Sure I’m being pedantic, but people are acting like it’s going to save the world. Our standards are low it seems

That doesn’t seem to be a very well-attended class…

Happy earth day from MIT. Did you know Bitcoin uses more energy than small countries? 😱

Clouds of smoke and flashes of zaps, and that’s the weather today! #Zapathon

only thing missing is bitcoin lightning payments

Might fuck around and go after EVs after I’m done with the NYT

GM doc! Gearing up to go to war against your ABEM brethren.

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the gaslighting from inscription promoters is exhausting and starting to really piss me off

if you are thinking about buying an inscription consider staying humble and stacking sats instead

☀️ mornin you beautiful degenerates 🫡🏴‍☠️⚡️

Thanks to Nostr I now know what pura vida means.

Yo #plebchain & #docchain. I’m trying to simultaneously 🟠+🟣 💊 a colleague with me in the trenches.

Would any of you mind trying to melt his phone with micro⚡️s? He deserves to have his battery drained. 🫂

haltingnerve78@walletofsatoshi.com

So who's gonna be in Miami? Trying to figure out what I'm doing Friday evening!

If you're going to Miami, are you also going to the official after party?

I wasn't cool enough to get a free invite so wondering if it's worth blasting sats on

I'm a Millennial technology teacher. I have something I think is important to say. I'd appreciate feedback. Hear me out...

I teach high school in a rough/tough neighborhood in Canada. Most of the students are nice and appreciative kids. But there are a lot of them from hard home lives, and in tough situations.

2 weeks ago a student tried to hang themselves in an alcove right outside my classroom. Luckily a maintenance worker in the building found the student and resusitated him. They saved his life.

Then this week an ex-student was killed by some other teens on a bus down the street. And one neighborhood over another teen was stabbed.

After 10 years of teaching at the school, I've personally taught 4 students, that I know of, who were murdered via involvement in the local drug trade.

Despite all this... I'm a fairly upbeat and positive person. I genuinely enjoy my job and strive to make a difference and impact kids lives for the better. Most of my days are good!

I strongly believe what we do as parents, and as plebs and citizens MATTERS.

How we interact on Social Media - it matters! It sets the tone of how OFFLINE interactions will go. I'm 40. I grew up THROUGH the invention of the Web. The Web inherently feels like it's my generations "thing".

Siloing ourselves into echo chamber tribes and yelling anonymously at each other on one app (Twitter) while pruning and manicuring our highlight reels on another (Insta) while catering to the lowest common demoninators on the biggest one (Tik Tok) does not set up a very healthy foundation for the things we desperately need - compassion, connection, empathy.

And the corporations who design their algos to prey off us and sell us stuff are a part of the problem.

I don't blame social media. But I do think WE can all do better. It's why a lot of us are here.

Nostr righted so many of these problems. No algos. No arbitrary gatekeepers. No single points of authority.

Nostr is a shining example of how Social Media should be!

And it was just on Joe Rogan's podcast.

What a cool, chill, friendly, accepting, helpful place this mostly is! #Plebchain, 🤙 and #GM on the daily.

Pura Vida is the whole vibe.

Too awesome to witness everyone treating each other with kindness and good vibes.

Jack paved the way and helped set the tone. And the permanence of Notes makes us think a second longer before saying something.

I'm doubling down on open protocols. Yes, it won't all be sunshine... but we're all a part of the fabric of this. We're all nodes. We all choose how we want this experience to be - and it's up to us to show others.

Elon attempts some of this on Twitter, but is getting it wrong. He's sort of a bully too and despite being funny sometimes, lacks self awareness of being a modern day Ozymandias.

The internet is mine. It's yours. It's OURS.

#KeepNostrChill. Keep #Plebchain moving and most of all, look after each other when needed.

Thanks for reading. What are your thoughts?

Now.. Here's the Thai dinner I made haha.

I can’t zap people with Damus. Is there an issue with zapping? The lightning bolt turns sideways but nothing happens beyond that.