Explaining the incentive structure for participation in the bitcoin network is difficult. People's conceptions about internet services are trapped in a linear "producer-consumer" mental model. When there is no centralized entity producing the entire experience, their conceptual grasp weakens. The assembly line or energy transferrence of a watch mainspring across a gear train are easy to grasp, but what about when no component in the system gives a damn about the purpose of the other components?

The best that I have come up with when people ask me "how does bitcoin work?" is that it is like an ecosystem. Bees and wolves don't care that they are vital components of the food chakn; they are just following their base instincts. Similarly, miners, node runners, and users, by pursuing their own benefit (while constrained by the rules of system), and in doing so create a complex emergent machine.

Yes they did - which is why we need to constantly remind that this is more than simple social media

First one to name my favorite #Oasis song

W/ YouTube video - 5k sats

I’m not able to zap though. Do zaps still appear if notes are zapped from another client?

Who can help me upload an avatar to my getalby wallet/profile? Please . . . .

You can zap by selecting someone’s avatar & then selecting the lightening bolt…. Even on Damus

Yup, zaps need a second chance.

I suggest the Twitter clone UX will suffer a roadblock for iOS zaps for a while. But other UX designs will emerge to obfuscate and circumvent it.

Fwiw, when I joined Damus there were no zaps on notes yet.

A few waves of newcomers came before the feature existed.

It was still f’ing awesome 🤙🤙🤙

This is the most satisfying $12 I have ever made. This was my profit from the last farmers market where my kale and Swiss Chard were sold. Half sold. Today, I have a few more items in the market. Starting something from seed and seeing it all the way through to making money is awesome! 🌱🌻💲

#grownostr #gardening

Twitter VS #Nostr

What a difference a week can make! These two sets of tomatoes were all grown from seed by me at the same time. I planted 6 on May 15 and the rest on May 23. The first 6 are 2 or 3 times bigger than the rest. The other differences are the bigger ones are in raised beds with a layer of hay and horse manure under the soil and and mulch on top and they were the 6 biggest seedlings when they were started. Gardening is an experiment. Lots of things to learn and improve upon next year. Zone 6a

Additional pics in the comments because Iris refuses to attach more than one picture tod.

#grownostr #gardening #plantstr

😂😂 I’m zapping from notazap.lol

Fucking pirates. The whole fucking lot of us.

It feels really good when a large, powerful entity tells you can’t do something, and then you go ahead and do it anyway.

Nostr will be a new generation of platform enterprises, and the owners of platform enterprises are Nostr participants. In ten years, Nostr will become the largest platform company, surpassing FAAMG's platform company. Nostr is everywhere like water, be water #Nostr.