at least we’ve moved past the retarded ‘HODL, don’t spend’ memes, but using/accepting bitcoin as money is still incredibly rare amongst ppl that spend 90% of their day thinking about it.

I decided I was drinking too many cappuccinos, so for the month of April I am drinking zero coffee.

Felt vaguely “down” for a couple days but now feel better.

Think that's getting too generic. Nostr ends up as any other cloud storage... with a super generic application protocol on the data. But maybe that's the way - don't know.

Changing naming conventions doesn't fix anything. A relay is still a relay even if you call it peer.

But in Nostr, peer is not a good name. Clients and Relays connect with each other, sure, but they are not "peers". Relays can't pull information from clients. They can't simply reverse roles.

#earthquakstr over here in the northeast US

correct, nostr relays don't talk to one another. It's always a client making the bridge.

mood

Relay is always a DB shared among clients, local or not. There is no other definition for a relay. DB is the only thing Relays do: they save events and allow you to filter it.

spooked by this episode. Starting to think we won’t pass the great filter. There are well planned protocols in place that guarantee our self destruction. one small mistake and we’re done for. nostr:note1thf4eksayecnpy2djzk3xqvrd0x7ufw60p0r43c9n8xkvvjf2zaqt7hff2

Isn't that what central banks already do when trying to maintain maximum employment?

Debase the value of your time, labor and savings so that you have no other option but go to take out a loan and work to death to barely survive.

Spoiler alert - most people hate that already.

Companies accepting or operating on Bitcoin have to adjust their prices down, as well as salaries paid in BTC, and honestly that's a non-issue as growing purchasing power more than offsets it and you have an increasingly stronger capital base to work with as time goes by.

GM

I've been reading up on different text-based encoding schemes yesterday. Anything above base64 is really getting esotheric. There is base85 which is apparently used by adobe PDF. It maps 4 bytes of binary data into 5 ASCII characters which is a few percentage points more efficiency than base64.

Then there is Base2048 and Base65536 where it gets really weird because they use a much larger part (or the entirity!) of the unicode character space (all international characters, all the strange symbols etc). I don't know what these tokens would look like but Base65536 can encode 2 bytes of data into a single character. That means a 100 byte Cashu token could be 50 chars (that's insane). I don't know if all compures would be able to render these characters but if so, you could basically fit ~2.85 Cashu tokens into a single 140 char SMS.

Wonder why I haven't seen people abuse this to store large chunks of data on Twitter or other text-based media. I've seen projects that abuse Twitter as cloud storage (by storing data in forms of tweets) but they usually use base64.

It all sounds cool in theory and I'm glad it works for you but I'm sticking with Bitcoin as it has perfectly stable and predictable issuance curve unlike anything else out there.

Also, I think it's reasonable to argue that vast majority of people prefer prices going down rather than up or being stable.