avoid directing too much energy to ppl who make a living from engagement

HODLing Bitcoin is easy mode.

Profitably growing a business in bitcoin terms is hard mode.

Umm….. no? Dafuq u mean?

I don't think it's wise for him to brag at this point. His successes should speak for themselves. Bragging may destroy everything he built.

Youd need 21M btc zap to get close to the value of parenting. It's insane. Good luck and have fun.

Don't forget tho...it's soooooo much better when they're pooping. When they stop pooping -no bueno!

CTRL, ALT, DELETE, 69.

"I’m in."

The thing about kids that people don't tell you is there is so much poop. Like...so much. You have to clean it all up. You might think it tapers off once you potty train them. It does, but the poo incidents just become more unpredictable and more problematic.

So much poop.

The biggest mystery of nothing is the mystery of it being something.

What amazes me about firm rationalistic atheists/scientists is their reliance and faith in the Big Bang. Science is so heavily dependent on rational and objective truths that supernatural and subjective truths are dismissed. But have they ever come to the rational conclusion that the primate monkey mind is not sufficient to understand reality?

Science has essentially become a religion of faith, while religion has become too dependent on truth. In my humble opinion, religion, spirituality, and shamanism seem to have a broader understanding of consciousness, one that enriches life further.

I posted last week about how fast the number of users on Nostr was growing and had a bunch of clarifications to the number I pulled from Primal, essential saying the number was too high.

Been thinking about this problem/opportunity all week.

1) I understand that it is really hard to get accurate numbers in a protocol like this - similar to how lightning growth is difficult to accurately gauge. (But are we making the problem worse by fighting over the number - that we can’t know?)

2) We all know and take for granted that the other bird app wildly overstates their users because it leads to more users. We know this from the court docs on a) Elon transaction, b) Elon constant drumbeat on “how fast it’s growing” c) our own user experience - ie - engagement per # connections (followers) is much higher here d) All of the bots and scams needed the reply to posts on x.

And here’s the thing - it is going to get far worse on X. I still pop in on X to see what’s going on (even though I rarely post) and besides all of the bots and noise, now most of what you see is AI driven clickbait to “win” more followers, drowning out some of the great voices I used to find there. Searching for real content is becoming increasingly difficult.

3) I suspect many of the early users here are early adopters in other areas of their lives. They could see the risks of the other centralized services and/or they wanted to be on the leading edge of something far better.

That being said, a core driver for the majority is that they feel comfort in “what everyone else is doing” meaning that a) if they think Nostr is stagnant (because people here are more honest/critical with real #’s) while b) X is growing (because of “marketing” - I wanted to use a different name for it but stopped short) then c) they will stay for longer on X, because they won’t investigate what you already know…….this is a far better experience, that is getting better every day. (While the competitor(s) are getting worse)

Users and Developers are much more likely to move their valuable time and content here if they think there is a growing community of engagement (there is) versus a stagnant one.

What restaurant are you attracted to? the one with a line of people or the empty one?

Our natural biases are hard to break and for all of Elon’s faults, he sure knows how to use these triggers to drive people to do what he wants them to do.

This is why i nostr.

On anybody trad platform, this would be a classic hate fest of “I like hot dogs” met with “what do you have against hamburgers” and it is such a wonderful relief to see people just have a normal conversation 🤝

If you want to see how divided the world is, scroll Twitter.

If you want to know what boomers are up to, scroll Facebook.

If you want to see how lost society is, scroll TikTok & Instagram

If you want to know what the future looks like, scroll Nostr.