That's why no one is worried about US government crackdown on cryptocurrency.

🌊 Like water, Bitcoin is decentralized and can flow freely across borders and boundaries. It is not controlled by any single entity or government, and its supply is limited, which gives it value.

1 billion transactions processed on the Bitcoin blockchain!

1 billion and 1 ⚡️

if you could wave a magic wand to help nostr succeed faster, what would you want to see done?

I suspect it‘s only a matter of time until encrypted messengers and bitcoin wallets disappear from app stores.

I hope for push back on the policy front but I‘m not hopeful here. There are a growing number of boogymen to invoke, and there seems to be little to no political incentive with a lack of awareness and public discussion.

I suspect the only way to use Signal or wallet apps will be using open source mobile OSes and app stores. This is one area I‘d love to see more grants funding for.

Re PWAs … they are a nice short term backup to get your funds out in case of an app store ban of wallets. But they are not the answer longterm as they rely on trust of web servers and SSL CAs. nostr:note13m6sh5tggy6uk4gntnhfu6zkz45ekxq9c3qphw5pfurzy82j22gseu5lv4

My missus has been branching out finding new friends but spent the afternoon with 3 of her old friend group.

Two 7s and an 8 - all very eligible girls.

All 3 of them single.

One of the 7s recently so - she’d been dating a fella for 2-3 months and he found out she was still on Tinder so he split. Her excuse was that they weren’t committed/engaged so he shouldn’t have had a problem - the other 2 girls agreed.

All 3 of them have ridiculously high expectations of what they want in a man. Basically nothing less than a multimillionaire rich guy with a sweet car and a six pack who will take her on regular holidays on a yacht.

These girls are broken. There are 9s and 10s coming up behind them who might actually snag this level of man, the handful of them that exist; these 7s and 8s who aren’t spring chickens any more are simply living a fantasy.

They only talk about what they want and have very little concept of what they can offer in a relationship.

I know there are plenty of broken fellas, expecting girls to behave like pornstars and put up with their adolescent behaviour - this is not some one-sided problem.

But this problem is unhealthy for all of us. Society’s stability is based on people pairing up, having children, and trying to produce value so they can create a better world for their offspring.

The whole thing breaks down when the pairing stops. I think a lot of the social issues we see around us are downstream of this point. It explains why statism is at all time highs. Why people buy in to existential crises like climate cultism or Covid. And why populism has returned.

The older I get the better I understand why religion has been so important to humanity; that institution is what anchored this part of the social order in every society for centuries and it’s absence is now acutely felt.

I hope those girls find a man, a suitable partner, and that we all benefit from them contributing to the extended order but man I really think this generation is going to have a big miss.

i own one, yes. and i'm saying don't depend on it or any

Google is changing their search results a lot based on their LLM experiments. This feels like a fundamental shift in how the internet works for people. It’s drastically reducing links to third party websites and focuses on both the AI driven results and then tons of links to video content mostly on youtube.

So we’re seeing both LLM’s summarizing content hiding the original sources and also creating a environment where a huge portion of the content on the web is LLM created.

This is a mess that threatens to break the internet as it currently exists. The shift is going to be massive, disrupting most internet businesses and by extension the broader economy.

About half of people on Nostr calling themselves bitcoiners have only slightly better critical thinking skills

Money has meaning. It means work. Take the meaning - the work - out and you have meaningless money. And when you work for something that is meaningless that shatters the meaning of your life. Put meaning back into money. Put it back into your life.

Choose #Bitcoin.

I am somehow very good at bikeshedding my own projects and this is bad

this time it’s about whether I should use Rust in my control plane or Go, except that I know shit about Rust

To all monero reply-guys pinging all my notes:

* Yes I've heard about it

* Yes I also use monero sometimes

* Yes I still use, believe and root for bitcoin

* No, I don't need to read the same monero talking points over and over again, I get the gist

* No, you're not being helpful by commenting about monero everytime bitcoin privacy is discussed, it's just annoying and not helping your evangelical cause

* You are being just as obnoxious and a smooth brain 40 IQ Saylor-loving Bitcoin maxi

* No, don't leave nostr, we still need diverse povs here

The devil knows more for an old man than for a devil.

I'm glad my recommendations are coming to fruition, here 3 of the ones that have ended up settling down over time.

- Simplex

- Start9

- Joinmarket

Simplex over any existing messaging app for several reasons, the first one does not use phone numbers or identities, and very important, decentralized, and you can set up your own server in 5 minutes.

Start9 for being an easy, simple and clean solution, a very well finished and robust product. I manage a lot of projects and I don't feel like wasting time setting up the basics, in the same way that I run away from linux distributions like gentoo, I don't like having to do the whole process manually, it's fine for a newbie, I haven't had to prove anything to myself for a long time 😂.

Joinmarket because centralized coordinators have never been a solution, in just one week your whole world of centralized coordinators has collapsed, and the nonsense I had to put up with from the Samourai cultists.

Now I am looking forward to the arrival of Joinstr and ARK, do not doubt that I will be the first to test it and report, I hope to get it right, as always 😂.

This last one is a joke, I am wrong many times, look if I was wrong that I decided to abandon the fiat world for Bitcoin and now I am bald from headaches.

Agreed. Your agency and the tragedy of the commons are in conflict.

I researched my feelings when not picking up some trash:

- disgust towards the thing

- disgust towards the person who („)lost(“) it

- grateful that the city will clean it for me

- doubt if I didn‘t delegate too much power to them.

Have u completed the Satlantis ambassador survey for Isla Mujeres?

If not, let’s go kiddo. You want it on the global bitcoin-destination map right?