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One kick it's over for those guys

Pay for Hetzner VPS / VDS or Contabo VPS / VDS instances with #Bitcoin or #Monero

It's just another form of KYC:

1. If it involves a cell phone number, it's usually tied to a sim card which is tied to your "real" ID.

2. Email is normally extremely compromised and can usually be traced back to you.

Therefore, it's pretty friggin easy to for any nosey party to come after you for some dumb notion of "tax evasion."

Plus, it's only another means of adding more attack vectors to possibly compromise your security.

In short, it's dumb AND dangerous.

1. The progressives arrived to school us and brought their bots to monitor us so we stay in line.

2. The state created a chill effect by going after bitcoiners (who may or may not have breached some regulation), and doing it in a cluster to give credence to a narrative... basically 'get your bitcoin from BlackRock not from each other'.

3. The halving was hyped up to ridiculous levels, giving noobs a feeling of euphoria and immanent moon, only to hit an anticlimax in discovering that the real price action comes next year (first time meme.jpg)

4. The protocol and tools are changing rapidly, not yet settled, and there's too many options and combinations right now, mostly half baked and buggy with health warnings attached, so it's taking a while to figure what all this is good for... one person's amazing use case is another person's waste of time.

5. Custodial or non-custodial and risk of rugging put a dampener on the joy of zap.

6. Changes in how relays do their relaying, and the need to pay monthly for anything half decent that isn't fediverse level spam, means the content of your feed is harder to predict. No algorithm but also little control or predictability unless you hunt for stuff and change up your client and relay combos.

7. Impatience about wanting to monetize effort invested here, since the early promise was earning megasats for memes, comments, and takes.

8. Pura Vida, Good Morning, Good Vibes, Biblestr, Coffee Chain, Pleb Chain and Nostrich love all displaced by 'GFY'... we came to find our tribe but now there's division based on tribal markers, and you're guilty of something if you're not in the right tribe.

9. People thinking this is social media.

That's for starters 💜

Good morning #nostr fam 👊😄

Unfollow the ones that causes that

Happy cat..

I've added so many and changed so many already.

This is fair enough, but what happens when you are meeting up with a friend? Do they stay in? 🤔 That's the bit I'm finding confusing lol

My wife says she wears them outside so that people don't try to talk to her :) But maybe she's really as tricky as you :p

You might laugh at me. But something I wear earphone with nothing playing. I'm just wearing them so I can pretend to be listening to something. You'll be amazed what people are saying around you because they think you aren't listening.

People who don't take their ear pods out when socialising, are they also listening to something on them? Lol #asknostr

Is this generally acceptable now? Is it considered rude to ask them if they're listening to something lol? Is it just off and jewelry?