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Travis West
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Bitcoiner, investigator, combat veteran, alleged operator of nodes, cadre member of the Bitcoin Veterans.

I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

I couldn't not order a copy after such great episodes about it on #WhatBitcoinDid. nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx and nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a doing good work as usual!

Looking forward to diving into this.

Too much booze in my body. I would say something that would inevitably add me to more no fly lists.

Scammers are stealing private property from others. Fraud is a form of theft.

It ultimately depends on where the scammers reside and where the victims reside. Even with current legal systems involving governments, it gets really hard and often nothing happens.

But sometimes you can send people after these thieves. I happily hunt down scammers and I get super excited when they are in the USA; Within reach of cooperative enforcers.

I bought a commercial property with a large down payment and a carry by owner contract. Renovation costs are covered by other funds, my salary, grants, sponsors, etc. A lot of the renovation is just sweat equity: us doing the work in our spare time.

We found that unless the commercial property is occupied already with a revenue stream, loans from banks weren't likely. There are private loans out there. There are also hard money lenders that can loan enough to acquire property, then you renovate and occupy it, with the idea that you will qualify for a traditional loan to cover the hard money lender quickly. The hard money loans are interest-only, short term loans (like less than two years).

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Explaining nostr to traditional folks:

Nostr has no team, no leadership, no funding, no foundation, no token, no Blockchain, and no one has ever seen the creator of the project.

And yet, it's the fastest growing network of humans the world has ever seen.

It's simply an idea - some very simple words written in a markdown document. It can't be stopped, it can't be controlled, it can't be owned.

There were less than 50 people using it when I first started dabbling about a year ago. I had solid reasons for believing it would work, and that turned out to be right. Today there are around a million people using it.

It's open and permissionless, so don't trust me, go and verify these numbers yourself. Look at everyone's data, and see for yourself they are real living humans interacting with other real living humans. See the economic activity for yourself as you witness money moving though this human network.

There's no indication that this is going to slow down, and every indication that it's already started eating all other forms of social graph.

Traditional social graphs like facebook, twitter, Spotify, Uber, TikTok, Telegram, etc cannot leverage off each other's network effects because their business models prevent them from being able to share data and users. They believe this is a feature that protects their feudal estate from all the other feudal estates.

Nostr is the opposite. When you build something with nostr, the network effects of what you build are *multiplied* by the network effects of what I build - and there are currently about 20,000 developers building all kinds of crazy things. It's like a super app that anyone can build on without asking permission.

If you're a half-decent developer and you've got an idea to test out in the market, building anywhere else is a total waste of time (unless the idea is very specific).

The chicken and egg problem is solved because the users and data (and the payment mechanism) is already there ready to use. I could never go back to the old way of doing things, it would be soul-crushingly frustrating after building with nostr.

At the core of nostr is a very bright and hopeful view of the future. We as a species are approaching a variety of non-trivial challenges. The institutions we used to rely on for sensemaking and problem solving at this scale are in liquidation, there is *no hope* for them, it's *over*, there is *no coming back*.

Nostr is the rallying point for people who are completely unfazed by this. It's for people who believe in the human spirit and understand that we have have all the tools we need to handle whatever challenges come at us, and if we need new tools, we'll figure it out and build them.

Well said!

I learned that my conference number this year is four. I think this would change depending on whether I am attending as a speaker or not. The expenses sure stack up.

Not too technical. Short. Explains some differences between bitcoin and crypto.

Good one to view before they get into the multi-hour long deep dive videos.