Oh they're bringing that back. That's nifty. A little upgraded from the originals they had. Back then, it was my first iPod. Got it for a birthday. It was the first time I'd learned what an app was. I spent a week playing Angry Birds on a tiny little screen with tiny little buttons.

So in this respect, a person is broadcasting from a location they own and control alone, but rather than the only people within physical range being able to detect, tune in, and hear it, that signal is available to anyone who has the digital address of that signal.

Each person has a broadcasting tower of their own. Anyone with the digital address of that broadcasting tower can "hear" the content broadcast from it, eliminating physical limitations like mountains or radio wave range.

Person = Person

Broadcasting Tower = npub address

Speakers = relays

Right?

Tell me if my Internet vs. Nostr analogy is correct.

Today's internet is basically sending information through a path that all goes through a central point and then back out again to wherever it wills. That central point (regardless of what it is) is controlled and owned by a regulating authority or business license of some kind.

Nostr is like talking on a CB or a Ham radio. You send messages out from you, from your location, and some people in the surrounding area within range picks up your message. If needed, they'll repeat that message from their CB or Ham radio to their surrounding area where some more people in their range picks it up... and so on.

Is that the right way to describe it?

I also could not get Mutiny to work. Try BlueWallet.

When Bitcoin first came on the scene, I worked with a group of developers on a temp job.

When asked if I was mining Bitcoin too, I remember saying no. I didn't have the technical knowledge at the time, didn't understand, and thought it was fake money.

I remember being laughed out (but politely).

I can only imagine how rich that guy is today.

I've never forgotten that.

Hahhaha. I forgot I sent this earlier. That's too funny. I'm glad it worked.

Let's try this again. Testing.

Any chance you know how to undo this link once it's linked?

I linked it, but then saw how it appears on X and I think I want to unlink it for now.

I can't find instructions on how.

Before your employment ends, you'd have to set up an account with a company that offers rollover 401k or IRA accounts involving Bitcoin.

When your employment ends, they're pretty quick to ask where you want your funds moved. If you open one up ahead of time, you'll have the information to provide without having to scramble for it.

Then, you'll fill out the paperwork and have it moved over.

You'll get tax docs at the end of the year for both the closing out of the 401k you have now and the deposit and opening of the one you moved it to.

It feels wrong to close it out because we've had it drilled into our heads for decades, and we don't touch the money, so closing it out is always a mistake. It's the messaging behind it.

Someone can show you the math why this is, but future accumulated math doesn't always match boots-on-the-ground needs today.

I also want to say you can have payroll stop the current contributions to it and you can potentially withdraw or move the funds once that completes without having to end your employment. You'll have to check.

The Black Hills and the Badlands are pretty amazing. I stayed the summer out there two summers ago. Beautiful picture.

There's hope that because sometimes a popular person suddenly hops on or endorses a different platform, that suddenly there will be growth to the new platform.

I've seen popular individuals talk about some of the smaller or web3 platforms but it rarely infuses true growth into the new platform they discussed.

It’s been fun trying the different interfaces/clients to access Nostr.

Don't post while sleep deprived.

Primal on the web.

How do I sign out?

I thought I was able to sign out yesterday, now I can't find where that is.

Yes. Thank you for that.

I was able to see how it went to the address and ended up in the "wallet" provided by Alby, which means it's all going to the same and correct place.

Here's what happened:

I started out in Primal and set up an initial account. This created an address.

Then I tried to setup Alby, but initially did not have the invite, so I tried to configure nos.

Then I got the invite.

During set up, the workflow in Alby was a bit different than the document I was reading and I wasn't sure what to choose. It said in order to connect my wallet, I had to choose how I wanted to do so - cloud, self-host, and a couple of other options.

I hadn't planned on spending considerable time setting up everything that day, so I chose the cloud-based one.

This, I think, spun up a node which provided a lightning address (another address), wallet (the UI says "Wallet" in Alby Hub), the Hub itself which contained a wallet, the ability to create channels (to send and receive money, I think like its own payment processor? - details are still a bit fuzzy), and a place to manage connections to various Nostr apps.

But I had to agree to a subscription plan to connect everything (I had to Google how much sats actually cost and what that all means), then I had to fund the wallet to open a channel to send payments and buy another channel to receive payments. These channels all costed various amounts of sats.

There was nothing in the setup process Alby was asking me to perform to let me know all of that really wasn't necessary.

Somewhere in it all, I ended up changing the connections in Alby to get it all to point to the right place (to the first address, not the new one).

I noticed the Alby extension and the hub/node-thing it created each had their own keys (which is why I thought they were all different).

I still have a lot of questions.

The other stuff, I still do not understand, but will continue to work my way through the documentation to learn.

I'm trying to read different docs, but I'm not fully understanding what I'm reading.

There's Alby, GetAlby, an Alby Chrome extension, AlbyHub, a node, a wallet, an open channel that has spending and savings, hooked up apps, each with a spending limit, but I have to buy another channel of something to receive payments? I subscribed to a cloud plan of some kind, but I don't know what place that's coming out of.

I think I have everything linked together right, but something is telling me I don't.

I clicked like on a post, but the heart didn't stay lit.

I'm signed in, but I'm not sure if this will post. (It didn't the first time I tried.)

I'm feeling a little lost.

I spent about 4 hours yesterday getting setup, saving keys, buying Bitcoin, but I still don't understand everything.

Where can I go to see the relationships between all the "things" in complete newbie speak?

I want to make sure I understand and that I'm doing things in a way that won't wreck anything important.

Alp has been encouraging us to get on here for a bit. I thought I'd take care of that today.

First note here. 👋

Hello World!