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Bay Area Bitcoiner, dad, pets galore, enjoying being a part of the Nostrevolution.

LFG! Nostr doesn’t need to be everything for everyone. And FFS not a twitter replacement. Something new and wonderful - it will take time to evolve. And BTW, time (and development) is moving at a rapid pace…

GM Nostr Peeps

Getting ready for pool party, celebrating our dog, who survived a scare recently, and our daughters who are both back off to college soon.

And also ran into this classic - Dad’s Life video. https://vimeo.com/12714406

Hope you’re able to celebrate some good shit in your life today!

GM Nostr Peeps

Love those colorful umbrellas. Usually some fun stuff under them. Hope your Friday has plenty of color in it!

Not gonna end well. Strange move. Literally.

Replying to Avatar Max DeMarco

You arrive at a party and don’t know anybody.

People are slowly showing up but it’s still slow but the party seems promising.

You feel lonely and a bit lost. Everyone knows their people and is talking to them. Having insiders, showing family pictures, referencing things that happened a year ago. What should you do? Yeh feels weird right?

At this moment you’re thinking to leave the party. “I’m super lonely - don’t have any friends - I don’t understand anything that they’re talking about. All of these people must be nerds right? If I don’t fit in I probably won’t like it at this party anyway. “

You’re about to leave. But you take the courage to talk to the woman getting a drink next to you.

“Hey there how are you I’m new here.” You tell her.

And suddenly her eyes glow up and she starts responding: “omg awesome.. tell me about yourself”

You introduce yourself, your hobbies and why you came to the party. She immediately nods and introduces you to her friends group.

“Hey look who just came to the party.” Her friends start to slowly communicate with you and you can quickly identify who you click with and who not.

You’re so much in conversation now that you didn’t even notice the girl left and moved on talking to other people.

You’re slowly finding the right people with the same interests. Sometimes you’re involved in the conversation sometimes you aren’t.

But that’s how parties work right? If people have something good to tell or share a lot of people gather to hear the story so sometimes you’re just a listener sometimes you’re the one telling the story. You’ve been to parties before and understand that it often takes time to get to know your crew.

In the end this party turns into an amazing evening. You met a couple new people who you exchanged contacts with and you promised to stay in contact. They also invited you to join the same party tomorrow again.

You walk home and are amazed of how this evening evolved. Sometimes being pro active and trying to get to know people actually works and this way you find the people you want to interact with.

Before leaving the girl who initially introduced you to her friends told you that the parties get better and better the more often you show up and the more you talk to strangers and show interest.

A week ago there was someone coming from another party called x or smth like that she didn’t fully remember the name of the party he normally went to. But this guy basically was just shouting into the room.

Literally standing there not talking to anyone but shouting into the void. Apparantely it worked for him on other parties. He left promptly because he said that people are mean here and that he felt really lonely and not appreciated.

Funny you think - that’s almost what happened to you when first joining the party.

You get into bed pretty happy about the day. Something within you urges you to simply scream GM into the void.. you don’t really yet know why but it feels amazing. In the distance you hear other GMs but you must be hallucinating… You close your eyes with the plan to join the party tomorrow again.

Maybe you’ll find some friends for life there 💜

Now read this again and exchange “party” with “nostr”

GM Party On LFG

GM Nostr Peeps

Turns out, they’re gonna talk about some stuff at work I’m not all that into, so I’m gonna just not work for the rest of the week. But you’ll still pay me, right? And no demerits? And I can still come back and just start working again? Awesome! I just love my job as an elected representative.

Replying to Avatar FLASH

⚡️💬 GRATITUDE - I've kept my word. It is with great pride that I announce that I have reached the 10,000 mark, just as I promised.

This message is going to be long. Some passages may not please you. All I ask is a little indulgence. These are the words of a mentally exhausted man, who has given about 1,500 hours of his life to this project.

I didn't make fun of you. Neither in form nor in content. I've put everything I know into Flash. I count less than a dozen errors out of 10,000 publications, giving us a reliability rate of 99.91%. This is the fruit of invisible work: hours of searching, checking and cross-referencing sources. It's all about making sure that every note is readable, verified and well presented, in line with my self-imposed DA: always an image or video, never text alone. Otherwise it's too simple...

I worked like a craftsman, a pioneer, often at a loss, but with a vision. I even sent out publications while driving, without ever stopping.

And that's the price of the avant-garde: the first build the roads that others will follow... sometimes for much better pay. And I sincerely wish them every success.

At some point when I humbly estimated that I had become the number 1 hybrid media in the entire Nostr protocol, I put my Bitcoin address in bio, frantically opening my wallet 20 times a day, hoping for... a large donation, from a mysterious stranger who would have recognized the value of my work. But... nothing.

I'll let you in on the other side of the iceberg: I've gone through major periods of self-doubt, fatigue and, at times, depression. Covering the news isn't easy. Seeing suffering, war and misery. And to make the choice, every day, to spare you the worst. To censor myself, so as not to offend you too much.

Why didn't I crack? Because in addition to the intimidation, harassment and threats, I received a lot of support and encouragement. And from time to time, anonymous donors gave me a few donations that enabled me to see something other than the negative side of the situation. To them, a big thank you, because without it, I don't think I would have lasted.

I created Flash on December 26, 2024, 0 subscribers and -73500 sats on my wallet to pay Primal OG to get a name back. As I've already said, I hesitated between ALERT, BREAKING or FLASH. I chose Flash for its echo of lightning and the spirit of the network.

Today, June 26, 2025, 6 months later, I have around 8,200 subscribers and almost 2 million sats in my wallet, but let's take a closer look at my POW ⤵︎

➤ Key figures:

• 10,000 notes

• 182 days active

• 1,921,817 sats

• 8 hours of work per day

• 6,789 replies

Breakdown:

• 10,000 ÷ 182 = ~54.9 notes per day

• 55 ÷ 24 = ~2.3 notes per hour

• 182 × 8 = 1,456 total hours of work

• 1,921,817 ÷ 182 = ~10,560 sats per day

• 10,560 ÷ 8 = 1,320 sats per hour of work

→ That’s approximately $0.14 per hour.

I'd like to thank a woman who contributed enormously to this result, without her I might not even have reached the million satoshi mark in 6 months of hard work. I'd like to thank you in particular, even though I know you want to be discreet, you deserve my public thanks!

90% of my activity was done on nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzynhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43q9w4ut3, a solid app. I also used nostr:nprofile1qqsraldwhvwcjgltmxwfu7kw8dqef2692yhzheuurd7k3kfy8cxjdqgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3jamnwvaz7tms09exzmtfvshxv6tpw34xze3wvdhk6q60hrm for notifications, and tested nostr:nprofile1qqsfhc97plq8j4yzxv33v98yu8hunu5tpkeesqg7lmk0qhl9wrja6vcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshe39pt, nostr:nprofile1qqszpxr0hql8whvk6xyv5hya7yxwd4snur4hu4mg5rctz2ehekkzrvcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vpj9eukz6mfdphkumn99e3k7mgpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vp39eukz6mfdphkumn99e3k7mgfu86qj and nostr:nprofile1qqsgajr2e8ssj7vesefqdrhxkqpz8w8ryed2hvl79rakkwmw999de9sppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyw8wumn8ghj76r0v3kxymmy9e3k7unpvdkx2tn5dahkcue07ws9cg. Thanks to all these customers.

My opinion of the protocol: Nostr is the best social network of my life. It has made me lose all interest in X, Instagram or Facebook. Nostr is a drug.

I've enjoyed reading your posts. Some of them blew me away with their intelligence.

What drew me here? The resistance to censorship. I'm not a technician, NIPs, relays, I only half get it. But that word: censorship, that was my way in.

And yet... I'm a little disappointed. I thought I'd be reading things you'd never read anywhere else. In the end? A lot of slick content. I expected more boldness, more unfiltered opinions — instead, I often found cautious, curated content. A far cry from the courage of Satoshi Nakamoto. But it takes all kinds to make a world.

At first I'd cover tech, bitcoin and current affairs in the broadest sense, but as I refined my sources I'd have to pretend to ignore a major current event like the situation in Gaza? I couldn't do it. Then came the situation between Iran and Israel, and each time I decided to cover the events, because that's my role and my responsibility now that I cover the news.

There's nothing to stop me covering a volcano eruption in Peru, a flood in France, a blackout in Spain, bitcoin conferences, discussions on AI and wars in the Middle East. I've shown that I can do just that, centralizing all the world's news on a single account and on Nostr.

Over time, I began to be a divisive figure. Some people love me, others hate me. This is no doubt the price not of glory, but of a job done with integrity, and I accept it.

I hope I've delighted you. I hope I've left a mark, and that when you hear "Flash", you'll think of me.

I’m just a simple guy, with no sponsors or partnerships, who likes to try new things in life. I’m a sensitive person, and if at any point I lacked tact or delicacy toward you, I sincerely apologize.

But one thing is certain: from now on, Nostr will no longer be my priority. I left a lot of energy and time. The most important currency isn't bitcoin: it's time, supply is limited and it's impossible to buy back lost time.

I feel like that miner with a pickaxe who's digging and is this close to finding diamonds and turns back ... or maybe I could keep digging for another ten years and find nothing. I don't know.

I just wanted to prove that it was possible to succeed here, from scratch, without friendship among bitcoin celebrities. It's up to you to judge whether it's a success or a failure. I've got my answer.

Maybe this is the end of a chapter. Maybe the start of another. In any case — thank you for reading me.

Our time on Earth comes to an end. No matter how long you live, your life will be short. It is very important to decide on your path. Thank you all again. Respectfully, Flash.

Thanks Flash! Good work done. Don’t take any of it personally and best of luck with next and next and next! LFG

GM Nostr Peeps

People wonder… is there a heaven?

I submit, at least once every 5 years, yes.

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