But how to do it? Do you have a tutorial?

Hi Andrew! How do you put “andrew” in your npub?

I was just walking down the street, coffee in hand, suddenly realizing how "normal" it all is already. Like most days, I went to a coffee shop that accepts lightning. Like most days, I paid directly with sats that someone zapped me here on nostr. Like most days, neither the merchant nor myself thought twice about it, or took a minute to marvel at what just happened.

So, allow me to do just that. Marvel at what just happened. While everyone is having a fantastically crazy time at #nostriga, uncountable people are using bitcoin in a myriad of ways. Some for savings, large and small; some for transactions, large and small; some for other stuff. Bitcoin is slowly but surely entering the world stage. Some commentators will tell you that this is good. Some commentators will tell you that this is bad. Whatever the case may be, it is unavoidable.

I see nostr under a similar light. As platform-based manipulation and censorship ramps up—which it inevitably will—the usage of nostr will ramp up too, and with it the usage of zaps and everything else that comes with it. And soon enough, buying a coffee (or breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with zap-based income will be normal. Just like it's "normal" to be an "influencer" today, or a "YouTuber" or whatnot... It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's a normal thing. Anyone can do it.

Back to my coffee. I remember when I had the "oh my god, I can live on bitcoin here!!!" experience for the first time. It was in Bitcoin Jungle, a couple of months after the initiative was launched. I stayed there for 2 weeks or so, buying the necessities of daily life with sats outright. And it worked. Flawlessly. I had zero payment failures, and was exclusively using Zeus with my own node. It was incredible.

Why is this incredible, you ask? Shouldn't stuff just work? Yes, it should. But building out the tech and the infrastructure to make it all work is BLOODY HARD. I remember the first Lightning Conference in Berlin, in 2019. Everyone came, everyone had all their channels and wallets and everything prepared, and ~50% of payments failed. For... reasons.

Fast-forward to today: I go to one of the 100+ merchants in the city that accept bitcoin, a quick tap on the PoS device & QR code scan, boom, done. Is it always perfect? Of course not. Will it get better still? 100% it will. Very soon these merchants will have NFC-enabled devices, and the tap-to-pay experience that people are used to with cards & Apple pay will be normal for bitcoin payments too. If you are in Riga right now, you'll experience this first-hand thanks to Bolt cards and BTCPay Server. It's awesome, it's open-source, and it works. And it will get better still.

We are truly living in the best and weirdest timeline; a timeline where shitposting on the internet can buy you lunch and dinner; a timeline that spawns amazing technological movements like #nostr; a timeline that, every ~10 minutes, allows for a small miracle to happen. A timeline where "magic internet money" is a normal thing; a timeline that, thanks to the magic dust of cryptography, enables anyone to speak about anything, without having to ask for permission. I'm grateful.

Thank you, Satoshi. 🙏🧡

he's not correct because arresting nostr app CEOs is irrelevant. The value is in the nostr network and governments will not go after the app CEOs because you can plug in another app and reduce the efforts of governments to garbage. So governments will not even attempt going after a CEO of some app with 50,000 users.

I just don't understand your point and also Parker Lewis clearly doesn't understand the value proposition of nostr.

I am in favor of the historical deplatforming people who are actively promoting the holocaust while it is happening during WWII. You might want to give Hitler and his supporters a platform while they were running death camps. But I’m not. Mass murder is wrong and if jailing them for that mass murder is justified the so is taking away their megaphone.

You don't need everyone to agree with everyone to understand why we're here.

#figstr

Here? Or somewhere else? I can't find it.

You'll find the seed phrase in settings. Keep it somewhere outside the device. Recovery from seed is last resort, mostly in case you lose the device.

For other wallet hiccups that might come due to heavy both protocol and wallet development, there is still local backup of ecash in separate database that can quickly help in some cases.

Enjoy and keep only small amounts in ecash and in r&d focused wallets.

I had my seed phrase backed up but restoring it didn't solve it. As it's custodial and I didn't have a large amount in the wallet i didn't pursue it further. so idk

Be careful with updates. I had some sats in there and the app updated and then the sats were gone. Thankfully it wasn't much

Yum yum

It will be eventually. They don't want to give away everything they are working on until it's all working. The behavior of the app makes it pretty clear that it's p2p. Telegram is spyware, Keet is fine.

Yes, holesail/liveport are built on Pear & Peardrive is also being built on Pear. Holesail is already usable.

The entire pear stack that makes Keet work is open

Pears.com

The GUI isn't but the underlying pear stack or holepunch/hypercore protocol is.

OPEN SOURCE IS NOT OPEN CONTRIBUTION

Just because you can do anything with the code does not mean they have to accept your contributions

Bitkey is MIT with Commons Clause though, so not really “open source” nostr:note1990dlx5crnnveyrumcy94ky6zamfx03gsjsdasyyzclfrk6gtz2sch9epn

Wayyyy better than first one IMO

What are some of the best movies of the past five years?

[This was written this morning from my gut, and can be relevant for many people from many nations or tribes. Identify your tribalism, and read on]

Israel is an abused collective, in a state of perpetuated generational ancestral trauma, topped up with constant fresh trauma, sustaining a routine state of fear, which sparks shame, divide, hatred and revenge, leading to a constant state of war. Internal and external. Spiritual and physical.

Humans who are able to break out of this matrix can see it.

I don’t care if my view is popular or not.

The only way to bring about change is to engage in personal trauma healing, to break down, to experience an ego death, to allow oneself to be in the void, in the unknown, unfamiliar, unsafe. From that void, a new kind of visceral knowingness is born: a knowingness that you are your own source of power, you are the divine. From that knowingness - humbleness is born, and a new space can unfold, making way for inner peace, compassion and love. Making way for a new, ascended consciousness that embraces the true essence of who you are.

If we won’t be the ones acknowledging this, finding the courage to say: “this generational trauma, this pain, this victimhood - it stops with me, and my kids” then we won’t be able to change.

I stand here declaring - this stops with me. Not on my watch.

I don’t have to carry the conformity, the compliance, what I am conditioned and expected to carry.

I humbly drop this weight, and choose a new armor: the vulnerable armor of truth, freedom & love.

💪🏻♥️💔

What is it?