Mark Zuckerberg will dox your true name, and sell it back to you for $11.99 per month. No thanks

Pura Vida Nostr friends.

In seemingly chaotic times, the parable of the investment banker and the fisherman is a good reminder that we all create our own lens of the world.

Amethyst + Zeus, anyone know how/where to change the 1k default zap amount?

Please welcome a freshly minted nostrich #[0]

Don't mess with the #Bitcoin 2009 bull!

The Famous Photo of Bullfighter Julio Aparicio Getting Gored by a Bull (NSFL)

Anyway, he lived!

On 21 May 2010 Aparicio was severely injured during a performance when a bull gored him. Aparicio was participating in the San Isidro Festival in Las Ventas, performing with a 530 kg (1,168 lb) bull named Opiparo when he lost his footing and was gored through the neck and out of his mouth by the bull's right horn. The incident happened as Aparicio was attempting the faena, a series of passes in which a torero uses his cape and sword before delivering the estocada, or death blow. The bull immediately withdrew its horn from Aparicio's neck, and Aparicio attempted to leave the bullring, but lost consciousness and had to be carried out. Two other matadors stepped in and slew Opiparo. The result of the injury was a punctured tongue, a fractured hard palate, a fractured upper maxilla and several broken teeth. Doctors at Las Ventas operated on Aparicio for an hour and performed an emergency tracheotomy to stabilize him. He was transferred to the 12 October Hospital in Madrid where he underwent six hours of surgery to repair his fractured jaw. He left the intensive care unit on 24 May after recovering from surgery. He went back to the hospital in critical condition on 28 May due to acute respiratory failure that required ventilation through a breathing tube due to swelling from an infection. He left the hospital on 6 June after recovering once again.

Consider,

Twitter could've implemented lightning tips, or honestly payments of literally any kind YEARS ago. But they didn't. Why?

#Nostr on the other hand has accomplished this in no time, and everyone who has experienced it immediately feels what a big deal this is... but why exactly?

Numerous features implemented in Nostr could've been on Twitter all this time.

• Do you think it's because they didn't want to?

• Was it too technically difficult, even though Nostriches pulled it off in a matter of days or weeks?

Of course not, it was POLITICALLY infeasible. Remember how Facebook spent *years* and bookoos of capital trying to create a *whole new currency* just to enable it because there was no chance of doing it with dollars? They were even dragged before Congress to explain why they would do such a thing as enable payments on social media! How dare they! It was easily squashed despite the fact that the list of those backing it was essentially a Who's Who of Silicon Valley fintech.

And what did the Twitter Files teach us? That not only would the suffocating regulatory environment make tips and payments on social media virtually impossible, but the political leviathan refused to even allow them to freely TWEET to their followers! Intelligence agencies were both *funding* social censorship & had direct communication channels to shut down people's accounts, shadow ban, & ensure that "unapproved" opinions simply can't travel through the network.

Like @#[0] said, "this has the power to monetize dissent." Consider the insane power of sharing an "unapproved" opinion to millions of people and being directly rewarded with 1000s, maybe 10s of thousands of private, instant payments while the post has unfiltered, free flow to every last user in the network.

No more "donation services" or "patreons" that take 10% and will preemptively shut down anything remotely against the establishment. No more Go fund Me's fuck stealing millions going to protestors to donate to a "charity of their choice." They are all immediately redundant & pointless.

Instead we are walking into a world with unfiltered, free flowing information and unfiltered free flowing money.

The simple fact is that no large, centralized social platform of any kind CAN do what Nostr does so easily. Because they have a gun to their head & they know it.

This is the 10x value add that is going to wake people up, and it's going to start with ALL the dissenters. We need to find all of them and bring them here.

The simple ability to have direct access to millions of followers, and be able receive payments and tips from them directly, unfiltered, untaxed, with no middle man & no authority whatever involved...

They are afraid as FUCK of that power. And they absolutely should be. Think of what a staggering problem the mere existence of someone like Joe Rogan has presented in the past couple of years. Now consider they attacked him through his network, his advertisers, his payment processors, and a huge targeted propaganda campaign (and fucking LOST despite, 🤣). Now think about the 1000s of others we watched get attacked, banned, deplatformed, canceled, etc...

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Now imagine the past 3 years done over again, except without any of that being possible anymore...

Guys, we are right in the fucking middle of the revolution. It's right now.

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This is my first NOSTR message. My public key is:npub1d3f4m9dgvkdjxn26pqzsxn6lpfn78sxwllxyt8mp76q0a9zyyjlswhr4xv

If you deleted the Twitter app let me know. Give me strength.

#plebchain #iamthisclose

I've lived through just over 50 years of typhoons and now am about to experience my first "clockwise" storm in Southern hemisphere. 😎

A few sats for the first person who can tell me what the fundamental difference is between the storm system pictured here and a typhoon

Bitcoin Transaction Fees and UTXO Management

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- when bitcoin blocks are full, highest fee transactions are confirmed first

- your bitcoin wallet may show a single balance but the reality is that it is made of many different unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs)

- when you make a bitcoin transaction your wallet will select as many UTXOs as necessary to reach the amount of bitcoin you wish to send

- onchain transaction fees are calculated based on size in bytes not the amount of sats sent

- the more utxos required on the input side the higher the fee paid

- from a cost perspective you want to consolidate utxos, fewer utxos with larger amounts

- consolidation has privacy tradeoffs though: you link any UTXOs you consolidate as owned by the same person + larger UTXOs mean you will dox more of your stack to anyone you pay in the future

Therefore you want to reduce the number of UTXOs you have while being mindful of the privacy concerns.

Lightning Transaction fees are calculated differently: based on the amount in sats sent. Opening lightning channels when fees are low can enable you to save money in the future when fees rise. 🤙

Likes can be gamed. Likes can be spammed. Zaps are the real indicator signal. You could game or spam a Zap, but it's going to cost you.

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Mad respect to npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z for being active here! Another one of my favorite pods.

Public Relays Broadcast List

These are the relays we are currently broadcasting events to in real time (if you include ?broadcast=true at the end of the filter.nostr.wine relay after your npub).

wss://relay.damus.io (down for maintenance)

wss://nos.lol

wss://nostr.oxtr.dev

wss://relay.nostr.bg

wss://relay.current.fyi

wss://nostr.fmt.wiz.biz

wss://nostr.mom

wss://nostr.zebedee.cloud

wss://no.str.cr

wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social (changed to paid relay and switched domain. permanently removed)

Last updated: February 17, 2023

Anybody know how to fix this?