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@NostReport | Physician | Bitcoiner | #plebchain | #docchain Think about it, do it.

What an incredible first operative day on our mission trip to the Philippines 🇵🇭! We had 4 great cases taking care of kids… 3 cleft palate repairs and a cleft lip, all under 2yo, and all a huge success! I’m fortunate to be working with such an awesome team (including my amazing wife). #FacesOfTomorrow

https://www.facesoftomorrow.org

It took 36 hours, but we finally made it to Bohol, Philippines 🇵🇭 My wife and I are volunteering for Faces of Tomorrow - we’ll be helping to repair kids with cleft lips and cleft palates this week. Tomorrow we have our preop clinic. Pray for lots of patients! 🤙

https://www.facesoftomorrow.org

Thank you Sam for all your kind words and support. I agree, it’s easy to switch clients, and some definitely did a better job than others. I like to think that we pushed the envelope of early development by creating difficult to render notes that challenged developers and their design choices.

This was eye-opening experience for many reasons, especially seeing that #v4v is probably not a reality at this point. None of us wanted to pursue traditional models such as advertising and it became hard to justify the amount of time we were putting into the project compared to the engagement that we got back. nostr:npub1h882a66p0zj5n69s2u8nfzev4f97lzfnlcej84z78p6uqxge5tpqlupz20 had a great take on #V4V recently discussing multiple income streams for content creators. I agree with his sentiment that while value-for-value is ideal, and made possible with #bitcoin, it probably doesn’t work as the sole source of revenue for content creators (yet!).

And while grants are nice, they don’t make for a sustainable project like we want to pursue. I actually did apply for an open stats Grant, but since we are not an open-sourced project, I don’t think we qualify. I even went so far as to discuss, turning the nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk into a NostRocket project with nostr:npub1arkn0xxxll4llgy9qxkrncn3vc4l69s0dz8ef3zadykcwe7ax3dqrrh43w to partially open-source it. I still think that would be cool, but certainly something we would have to think long and hard about.

Like corn said, we are still committed to our mission of being the human algorithm keeping everyone up-to-date on Nostr, but we need to find a path of growth that is sustainable and worth the significant amount of time put into it. I’m not quite sure what that means just yet, but we are working on figuring it out. If you have any ideas, or want to give a hand we’d love to chat 🫂

Proud dad moment 👨‍👧

Taking my wife to Madeira for her 40th. Azores airlines breaks down the price for each ticket 🤯

Flights: $160

Taxes and fees: $590

Jfc how many commercials in Travis Kelce in?

Replying to Avatar Sai

I’ve quietly watched as something quite ugly has developed on #nostr.

Going back almost a year, I’ve spoken about the future of nostr, the inevitable beginnings of bots, fake accounts, trolls.

Even then, I realized nostr was resilient to these things, thanks to layer 2, and the portability of the core values of Bitcoin.

However, there is a separate issue that I did not give much thought to, and now I’ve seen it grow as a trend and I feel I should speak on it.

I’m talking about begging by proxy. I’m prepared to start using my end user power of filtration to mute these npubs.

I’m tired of seeing pity me posts, I’m a victim of circumstance posts, poor me posts. It’s pretty ugly to watch certain users climb in popularity by virtue of association, to later use their exposure to appeal to other users sense of pity or empathy.

I remember a conversation with a male role model in my life during my 20s where my response to his questioning as to my lack of employment, was to say “ I can’t get a job because I don’t have a car, I can’t get a car because I don’t have any money, I don’t have any money because I can’t get a job…”. This was when he explained to me that I was a victim of circumstance, but that the fault was my own.

No matter the cycle, you must find the most viable attack vector to break the cycle.

All the users on nostr have their own hardships too. This isnt a “rich ppl chatroom” where you can cry about your hardships hoping some wealthy person will have sympathy for you.

Proof of work.

Not, beg for bitcoin.

There are a few users who need to scroll back up and read this again.

Or, don’t. But you risk becoming the first person I mute.

Sorry, not sorry.

Love you plebs…

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TL;DR

You need to bring value to receive value

What’s the explanation for that? I’d think it would be directional for all places, up or down.

nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg - I had another force close that said it was initiated by me and want to figure out why. Any ideas what happened? It occurred at the same time I attempted to zap someone.