Hahahahaha big vibes 💯

A couple thoughts on badges after playing around with them yesterday. When I first heard about badges my initial knee jerk reaction was to equate them to NFTs, and since NFTs are just scams used to steal money from idiots, I wasn’t too keen on the idea of badges if that’s what they amounted to. Yesterday, badge chatter on Nostr went from zero to 100 in no time, so I wanted to see what it’s all about, and figure out whether I needed to recruit #[0]​ and go all gorilla warfare on badges?

I’ve come to the tentative conclusion that badges do not equate to NFTs, because there is simply no “T” (token) involved. There is no blockchain masquerade, no token being minted and sold or traded. A badge is a signed Nostr event, not much different than this post with a meme attached to it. That doesn’t mean badges aren’t dumb in many cases, but dumb is in the eye of the beholder. Badges are more like passport stamps, membership cards, post cards, stickers. I can think of some fun, dumb, and maybe even useful ways they could be used.

In some ways I think Nostr badges take what could have been useful about NFTs and, by removing the scammy token aspect, are actually useful for certain things. Not a replacement for ⚡️zaps⚡️ but badges aren’t entirely useless.

Just don’t be offended if someone doesn’t accept every badge you offer them. The gesture counts, but not everyone may like the taste of your digital fruitcake 😂

Happy weekend! Gonna visit some marry locations with the fiancé

I’m pretty sure in heaven there will be pocket steak and fresh powder.

Ok the results are in.

#[1]​ takes the cake with his bid of 100,001

Runner-ups:

99,999 #[2]

50k #[3]​

35k #[4]​

22k #[5]​

And there is a leftover pot of 249.1k to distributed equally to 5 nostr devs, chosen by the people tagged in this post.

What sound should a wallet / nostr client make when it receives sats?

210k sat bounty for the best one, as determined by the nostr hive mind!

GM ☀️

So proud of my daughter ❤️

She makes me want to be the best version of myself.

So proud of my daughter ❤️

She makes me want to be the best version of myself.

Everyone is talking about nostr at the Bitcoin ski summit.

I just talked about zapping nips on stage while explaining how to get started on different clients.

What a time to be alive.

Why does one need to win and the other to lose? I like both but hope nostr gets more traction (outside of our Bitcoin bubble 😅).

Pura Vida 🌴🍍🦜🦩

The classic “Hey mom, I have ___ tomorrow at school” the night before.

If I had a Sat for every time my dad angrily took me to Walmart at like 9:00 at night to get poster board or something.. 🤣