A few facts about Primal:

- We have 4 devs: 1 iOS, 1 android, 1 web, 1 backend

- We open source everything we build under the MIT license

- We’ve raised a small seed round from mission-aligned investors

- We optimize our UX for onboarding new users to nostr and bitcoin

- We’ve always been friendly and supportive of other nostr projects

- We will continue building and shipping; that’s a promise

Our goal is to build a profitable business that serves nostr users and no-one else. We expect that to be a long process, spanning many years. We are here and ready to grind.

Anyhow, GM. ☀️

Did you attend in person or is this available online?

The more you reinforce a system based on theft, the more it steals from you, divides you, and then controls you.

From that system, war is inevitable because it is a requirement that you believe it is someone else’s fault to retain its power over you.

With the chaos from the existing system bound to expand over the next number of years, it will be easy to get pulled back in.

The more you reinforce a system based on truth, the faster the world changes to hope and abundance. We are early, but our actions matter more than we realize. Every node (we) matters.

Keep the higher ground, and help others see it.

#Bitcoin

#Nostr

And soon….#Fedi

exactly. to me nostr has brought new friends, meaningful and interesting conversations, all without the noise of algorithms, ads or influencer bs. we finally have a place to build a better and freer place for online discussion. nostr enables us to pave our own path free of any corporate interest. I don’t care if this is not a popular sentiment, it’s the fucking reason I’m here. All i hope is that I can find enough likeminded people to build out and grow this vision. Thank you everyone still here who hasn’t given up on this. You’re the real ones 🤙 nostr:note18zx3zpdrx0xyvu0wn89z4w9n7lpj23cu5ne2au3tl75vhwjhaseqj7lhty

It’s not just the food but becoming increasingly sedentary. Granted you can’t out exercise a bad diet.

The killer feature is the people.

It’s you.

I don’t come here to dick around on an app. I come to talk to all of you & see what you’re building. 🧱

Having come to Bitcoin in the last couple of years from the meat/health side of things I have spent my reading time almost exclusively in these writers. Socialism is my favourite Mesis so far. You are exactly right though, everything flows from the private ownership of property.

BITCOIN IS THE ONLY GLOBAL FREE MARKET. 24/7/365 LIQUIDITY. NO CIRCUIT BREAKERS. FEATURE NOT A BUG. STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS.

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

Yes depending on which country you’re in and current rate/term

There is a responsible amount of debt when you’re buying assets

Boomers: believers in the scientific directorate, believers in socialism, believers in "democratic institutions", lovers of the British monarchy. They entrust the financial system with one man with one knob, then declare him the savior after the country recovers from an absolute fleecing.

The boomers entrust the medical establishment with 1/4 of the federal budget, allow pharmaceuticals to be advertised on the airwaves, allow doctors to take bribes for prescribing "life-saving" medications that turn out to kill, allow them to dictate whether their grandchildren should have their genitals removed, and they thank them while their heart beats its last.

They entrusted their children to the state's prison-like indoctrination day camps, insist they graduate to further and more comprehensive brainwashing in state-sponsored laboratories by hopelessly captured and embonded "experts" with high-sounding letters after their name and imbued with the title "doctor." Then the boomers sputter indignantly when their children return, spouting hatred for everything their parents held dear and hoped to pass onto their progeny. But no, they stand rejected, then discount the whole affair as "independent minded" with the mindset it was all an unavoidable destiny due to their "personality."

They consume poisons, knowing better in their youth, but in their old age they accept mercury laden HFCS, Frankenstein fish-corn plants sprayed with highly toxic fish-tank cleaner, petroleum, and plastic off gas and diffusate, not-fit-for-human-consumption soy products and refined seed oils, never expose their skin to the sun, or their feet to the earth, never feel the warmth of a wood fire or even an incandescent lightbulb, never sweat in a sauna, instead fly above the troposphere and expose themselves to high-energy radiation while breathing perfume solvents and jet fuel. Then they accept that people "just die of natural causes" with cancer, embolisms, and heart failure.

If given the choice between an adult child who speaks these truths, and one that spouts the directorates' authoritarian declarations of indisputable scientific truth, they will trustingly follow the guide rails all the way to the slaughterhouse.

- Zaps are fun, but not the as important as we thought (maybe in the future?)

- Normies don't care about censorship resistance

- Social payment (Venmo like) is really good here, it will get much better

- DVMs are really really far out, testing with Unleashed.chat not even 1% of the userbase uses it.

I think the cross application of the network graph is the best supper power Nostr has.

An example is long form note with note replies, Nostr likes, Nostr zaps, being discovered by a Nostr backed site completely unrelated to Nostr twitter.

It's when ppl have no idea Nostr is the rails.

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Bedford is the top citadel at the moment.

I don’t make the rules.

There is a hotel and pub on the outskirts of Bedford that has 5’10” ceilings.

Like, imagine walking into a restaurant and hit your head because you are 5’10”. I am under 5’8” but was still kind of being careful since certain parts of the ceiling were surprisingly low.

It’s basically the Shire.