Yes. Thank you 😂

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Would it be possible to build a desktop Nostr client that you can simply sign into by scanning a QR code with your mobile client, the same way you link Signal or Telegram?

Using a browser extension still seems overly complicated for most new users.

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close your eyes a little and tell me if you see yourself

My husband recently observed to me how important conditioning is for people to accept things as normal.

He said that when he first began reading my articles, he was like “Okay but I mean, fiat currency censorship isn’t really *that bad* as you describe”. But then in the years that followed, he was like “oh shit, it actually is. The fact that we have to ask permission to access significant amounts of our own money at banks and say what we will do with it is fucking insane. Why is this normal now?”

In Europe especially but also elsewhere, it’s increasingly common to make cash transactions illegal above a certain threshold value. Above that value, you have to go through centralized, surveilled, corporate/government systems, or you’re doing an illegal transaction.

That seems absolutely insane if introduced out of nowhere, but instead it has been introduced gradually through conditioning and so people are like, “well I don’t use cash anyway so that’s okay I guess, in fact I don’t even know that’s a law now”.

The same is generally true for social media. Filtering communications through centralized pipes is actually a radical position but it’s increasingly the new normal. In fact, the centralization of banking and communications in the hands of the state were two of their ten steps proposed in the Communist Manifesto.

BET THERE A TON OF BLUE CHECK BITCOINERS SAYING ELON SHOULD USE BITCOIN FOR THIS.

HE WILL NOT BECAUSE HE WANTS TO HARVEST CREDIT CARD DATA.

It's all about "free" speech. Right?!

That's why we #nostr

I think balancing channels is generally not necessary. We have a pretty hands off approach and keep fees low, they rebalance themselves quite well. The idea is to have substantial capacity (and we’re not even at 1BTC yet)