1st day I’ve felt 1/4 human in 2 weeks. Lungs are still rocked. C’est la vie.

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 🤙🏻💜🫂

If you want any printed My First Bitcoin student workbooks for your project let me know. I can get some to you next time youre in England.

Good luck mate! What were you doing to mine cuckbuckz?

I just thought of this because of the LA fires. Hope any Bitcoiners affected by the fires had backups for their backups secured in another location. Otherwise they’re going to have to search through the rubble for their steel plates.

How were bitcoiners orange pilled before books and podcasts? The white paper, mostly.

I tried reading it in 2011, but found it too technical and boring. Yup.😂

So what worked?

A bitcoin-only auction site called Bitmit. A place where I could sell baklava in 2012 with minimal fees.

I had a website at the time, but I also had listings on eBay & Etsy for extra exposure. The listing + PayPal fees sucked, so I sold at a markup to make up the difference.

BitMit allowed me to sell my baklava at a discount while taking home higher profits. Not bad, but it didn't stop there!

I could then flip the bitcoin on LocalBitcoins at a slight markup, earning profit on my profit!

Profitception! 🤯

I was an idiot in hindsight, of course. Had I known then what I know now I would have HODLed every sat, but that's not the point.

These experiences taught me the true value of Bitcoin, and it had nothing to do with a fiat price.

People were willing to pay over spot for something permissionless, with low fee transactions, that entities like PayPal couldn't stop.

I never could have gleaned this from the white paper.

By mid-2012, I saw that this was something to hold on to. I decided to move off the fiat standard, and on to the Bitcoin standard. That's exactly what I did before the end of the year.

And it truly started 13 years ago today.

Thanks, Bitmit. ✌️

135 AI Images created in the last month from our AI Studio.

Don’t have further stats, but this is a close monthly average. nostr:note1y34ggxr4kkq6zmhxuremdj6cajgs7zxk60t9yan3y5ewvegk0jfsdlkrsv

Both Fountain and Wavlake want V4V Music Playlists to be interoperable between the apps using Nostr.

Discover a playlist on Fountain - listen to it later on Wavlake.

Create a playlist on Wavlake - add a track to it from Fountain.

Spotify / Apple will never do this because app lock-in is part of their business model.

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This is the coolest and most advanced piece of software i have ever worked on. the amount of optimization and engineering that went into this thing is nuts. The beginnings of a nostr browser for all platforms, with p2p and bitcoin wallet capabilities built in.

You won’t have to be a bitcoin or nostr wizard to build the next 100,000 nostr apps.

A future where apps automatically interoperate with each other and have bitcoin+zaps integrated with zero fuss.

A future where users are in control of all their data across all the apps they use.

The only way this will happen is if making a nostr app is as easy as making a webpage with a few lines of code. That is the longterm goal of #notedeck, and we’re just getting started.