Destiny should go to 7/11 at night and debate the crackheads in the parking lot.

It sucks so bad I feel dumber every minute I look at it

Happy New Year! People need nostr and bitcoin. Let freedom ring in 2025 💜🚀

I'd check out bluesky so I can give a first hand account of its problems I always hear about but I am NOT giving them my phone number

wanted to thank everyone in an entire thread, made me think about adding a thread reply-all... that could be dangerous though

It's gonna be like having diarrhea while driving full speed in a sports car. On LSD.

Which one?

Any good conspiracy theories?

Here is why Republicans are better for the economy:

People THINK Republicans are better for the economy, so when a Republican is President they ACT like the economy is better by spending money. And because they FEEL the economy is better, it inspires a sense of optimism that MAKES the economy better.

apparently only trustworthy people deserve to enjoy trustlessness

It makes sense to me that lightning becomes a decentralised version of ACH but for bigger payments or settling between bigger players (the future of interbank transfers).

While Cashu is used for all the day to day spending of everyday people.

Then on-chain is mostly for governments, rebels, wealthy folks, and banks.

The damus lightning node made $116 from routing $18,194 worth of payments this year. We also made $21,000 from lightning purple subscriptions, which helped paid a portion of daniel's salary (our only part-time employee).

It aint much, but it's a start. With purple, HRF, and OpenSats, Damus has been able to build out slowly without VC funds. Hopefully we can keep this up. I thought this was going to be our last year but the LTS funds kept the dream alive a little longer.

Clients have got a *lot* better, but we're still insanely early. nostr is going to continue to get better and better. People will continue getting deplatformed on bluesky, activitypub and the big tech silos. We are one of the few lines of defense against internet censorship and government tyranny, and the first large scale experiment that enables true value for value transfer between sovereign individuals online.

This movement is just beginning, and ya'll are on the front line.

️Looking forward to spending another year with you psychos 🫡