Why did one of my nostr accounts change to deleted account without me doing that?
I think nostr wine does that DM reminder thing. BOLT12 will also enable subscriptions.
So, the US army spy who is openly trained in psychological warfare and keeps discussing the tricks he uses in public has had his thesis censored, and now everyone wants to get their hands on it, buying aftermarket copies for thousands of dollars.
Hmmm... 🤔
Nostr relays are starting to shut down. It's unsustainable without zap subscriptions, which I'm okay with paying if they're reasonable.
Say Hello to my Little HODLer. Collect it at Raretoshi https://raretoshi.com/a/say-hello-to-my-little-hod-ler-ed33a
I have such bad timing in my life.
I've chosen the worst period in bitcoin's life to become a maxi.
I keep talking to people who use chatgpt regularly so much, that I will begin to wonder if I'm talking to chatgpt when I email them or text them at some point.
I think Google is broken.
I have to admit that it seems I don't know how to do SEO in 2023. Yes, it's in a competitive market, but I swear that my techniques used to work just fine a few years ago. I never got massive traffic but at least it was trickling in in whatever project I worked on. Now it's not, only ranking for random keywords that my project isn't even focused on.
So either Google switched up their pagerank values a lot to avoid people gaming the system, or they don't deliver traffic anymore except to the top 1% of the websites.
And with the advent of AI generated splash pages where the user doesn't even get to see the content he was inquiring about, it's going to get worse.
Adding a mature content tag on art and books is a great way to filter out idiots. A while ago a person said to my face, "I checked out your books but saw the adult content warning so I stopped."
What a great heuristic.
Dungeons and Dragons, Honor Among Thieves is finally the D&D movie we deserved. It's absolutely bonkers. It's like a crazy campaign derailed by an insane party and the DM just going along with it. All the wacky spell effects, the monsters, the player actions. Wow. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Show Up to the Bitcoin Meetup In Style With Some Quality Apparel
Here's an organizer tip from @Dimitris , a veteran organizer of our Athens Bitcoin Meetup: Get lots of pizzas for your bitcoin plebs.
And then tell everyone how many sats you bought them for 10 years later.
True story. My family imported the Elna Press in Cyprus. It's a high quality product that once demonstrated properly had a 100% success rate in making a sale. It was and still is quite expensive, making it a major purchase for a household, not as much as a small car but enough to consider it carefully, more like renovating your kitchen. In Cyprus the banks offer financing so that makes it easier.
As for the quality, it's Swiss made, built to last. The relatively few repairs we had to make were done by us for free because we offered years in extended support, so we didn't earn money on that.
Our competition was Singer which is a household name, and still we dominated the Cypriot households selling basically one per home in the entire country. Back then Cyprus was close to a mere 600.000 in population.
It was a hard money standard business in a fiat world.
We couldn't expand to new markets, our importing license was just for Cyprus. We couldn't charge more for repairs, everything was under warranty. We couldn't sell more, the market was saturated.
The product did need repairs every now and then, which I also helped repair as a child. I had learnt how the electronics worked by heart, even identifying common issues. But in general the Elna Press was a beast, it might work for years without any issues whatsoever.
But we didn't charge for them, so in a fiat world, this became unsustainable.
There was no planned obsolescence build in to need spare parts after a year or to upgrade to a new model.
A hard money business in a fiat world simply cannot compete.
Fun fact. Said is an invisible word. Use it.
If you try and get clever about said and try to use other words in its place, your writing will suck.
I've never bothered with the comics but the novels Rivers of London are amazing.
For the past two years lightning has simply worked, and that's what the end user needs.
One of the most successful pivots I've ever seen is @plebstr .
They went from a useless Twitter app alternative that tried to integrate zaps to a great nostr client that everyone recommends for newbies and one that helps with mass adoption.
Good job.
Your next step is to give every user a random lightning address upon sign-up. You'll have to either run it yourselves or partner up with a NIP-enabled lightning wallet. Eliminate the steps needed for a casual user.
Web 4 is just a trillion internet of things devices with tiny heating elements hashing some sats while machine learning algorithms keep them alive, buying them electricity in exchange for adding value.
Yes but there are no seed words. This string of random numbers and letters makes it easy for someone to mishandle the keys.
Yes, nostr is fucking annoying. It has a steep learning curve, things don't always work right, you have to wait for stuff to load.
It's so annoying.
But you know what's really annoying?
Losing your audience that you've worked on for YEARS because some corporation decided to block your account.
Google digital sharecropping. Own your audience. Start building your personal brand on nostr, even if it's just a backup solution (it won't be).
I know that as a creator, being told to expand to yet another social network is annoying. I know full well what that means. But it's not yet another social network. It's your escape hatch for when things inevitably go wrong.
Amazon has started cracking down on explicit content again. At the same time Song of Ice and Fire has fucking incest in it but it's on the best seller list, so they're hypocrites.
Your little bookshelf is gonna be buried or banned and there's nothing you can do about it. Not your keys, not your audience. Nostr lets you retain some of that control.
Chatgpt do my invoices for me.
Artstation has a sale on my art and story bundles. Get them here https://www.artstation.com/glowleaf/store
Facebook just blocked me from posting on my personal account, which controls five of my business pages and groups. There's no way to see what caused it and no disagree button. Thank you so much for proving why we need nostr.
Ever since I got a nostr account I've been using bitcoin every single day. This is the vehicle that will orange pill the first billion people.
People who are against custodial lightning wallets sound like this, "you shouldn't use that email service, you need to run your own email server."
Most users won't run their own email server. I'm a computer guy and I don't wanna run my own, even though I do run a lightning node.
The only time email achieved the necessary network effect was when Hotmail started giving out free email for everyone. It had a signature back to Hotmail in every message and it went viral. That's how lightning is gonna get the mass adoption it needs.
I have a screenshot of peach bitcoin with the corn price at 15k. That should age well.
https://void.cat/d/G4F6y4JuK3zPvJmLg4yDqg.webp
Heading tonight to our #BitcoinPizzaDay event in Athens!
Can't wait to see you all there.
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I need to cut down on the subscriptions I'm paying each month. Now I've just added calendly.
Sooo... Half the bitcoin space kept suggesting muun every damn time I suggested someone use a wallet like stuck up reply guys and muun broke down as soon as bitcoin... *Checks notes* had some actual normal usage which we are all actively striving for.
Hm.
Imagine the Eurovision contest with zap voting and text messages.
After having to verify accounts with video and following the instructions, look left, smile, don't smile, tilt head up, I want to write a short dystopian story where you have to verify accounts by doing tik tok dances or else you get a fine.
"I've moved on to other things. It's in good hands with Gavin and everyone."
~Satoshi Nakamoto.
And I ask you this. WHAT THE FUCK COULD POSSIBLY BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN BITCOIN?