William Shatner is 93 but looks and acts like 73. Always impressed when I see him in interviews.

Probably not a bad idea to do whatever he’s been doing.

steak dinner w bitcoin friends 🧡

Just recorded a monster rip with nostr:npub1g0587hzzckcncxfm78n0996qe2s58nspy29wf02tqcj5sdzcpj4q6j40hv and Mark Goodwin. Drops tomorrow morning.

We’re going to win.

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?

#BTC hashrate hits record highs, signaling a secure and robust #Bitcoin network.

Investors seek security – a strong hashrate delivers confidence.

Bcash had its halving four days ago and nobody even noticed.

App Store, Apple Books, Apple Sports, Podcasts, Apple Business Essentials, Apple Business Manager, Apple School Manager, App Store Connect, Apple TV, iTunes, and Apple Music for some users, seem all to be down right now 💀

i love nostr

The crazy bitcoin security side of me can’t really use bitkey in its current state but damn it’s cool and easy to use. Feels like a more streamlined version of nunchuk. I wish it was a bit more transparent. Right now it’s completely opaque, you can’t see the multisig wallet descriptor. The rock could just be a fancy blinking light with for all i know.

It’s clearly an all-in-one solution. It doesn’t seem that it’s intended to be used as a standalone signer. I would totally use it if I could use it that way. Maybe thats coming in the future.

Right now you have to trust that the on-device key, bitkey, and their server is all securely separated. The whole point of multisig to me is to have compartmentalized trust, but bitkey seems to be using it mainly as a recovery scheme if you lose your device, since there is no seed phrase import step

I was at least able to verify that it is using multisig, but was only able to by sending a transaction, otherwise it’s all a black box and I have to trust them.

One thing you can’t deny is that if you trust that they have implemented everything the right way, it’s a very slick and simple solution for most people.

Would I recommend this for people looking to store their life savings? Probably not, at least not until it becomes more transparent.

Zapping and getting zapped is a magical experience ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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Zapping and getting zapped is a magical experience ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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A lot of people say they are in favor of market forces, but then if the market goes in a direction that they disagree with then they think the market was wrong or it was rigged and needs to be managed now.

It’s not every day you get to meet one of your heroes.

PEOPLE ARE TOO NICE ON NOSTR. WE NEED TO ONBOARD MORE ASSHOLES.