#[2] is the dev, tagging for visibility on this

Same here. Zapping on desktop is better. What android client are you using,

Not an android user so I’m just guessing but it’s likely just copying the bolt11 invoice string and expecting you to manually open your wallet and paste…

Thank you for bitcoining! 🙏🧡

Jack was in a no win situation with Twitter. Once the too big too fail banks own all the voting rights and have the seats on the board it’s very hard to implement change…or stop change for that matter…. Jack is a tremendous asset for spreading freedom and equally and someone we need to keep fighting the good fight. Most people that have amassed his net worth and stature can’t empathize with the plight of the normal person. Look at all the other people in big tech & big banking, it’s pathetic. The Eric Schmidt’s, Larry Summers, Bill Gates, Jamie Dimon etc. of the world are the one’s wrecking havoc while performing fellatio on themselves and their egos.

I've been thinking about how to crowdsource funding for the continual development of NostrGram and it's hardware costs (which will be rising soon as Nostr grows in popularity -- 150gb in bandwidth used so far this month!). I'm thinking of doing something like a Patreon where people can support the project and get a badge on their profile (if they want) showing their support, along with a higher priority for feature requests, that kind of thing.

If you are willing to support NostrGram in this way, what kind of benefits would be nice to have for doing so? I'm all for value-for-value, so those willing to pony up even a few dollars a month/year in support of the project certainly deserve some preferential treatment and priority.

I want to keep all the features free for everyone if at all possible. Some folks simply can't afford it. I get a lot of traffic from a lot of countries.

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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If you think send Zaps is significantly growing a Bitcoin circular economy here on Nostr, just wait until clients launch built-in marketplaces. We'll be buying and selling products and services from other Nostriches. No more Ebay. Not more Facebook Marketplace. This is the "Other Stuff" that I'm really looking forward to seeing come to fruition. 🚀 ⚡

I don't think amethyst has that built in yet, very early days

You mean android share functionality to a client like amethyst?

Imagine a future where I can visit your profile and see the coffee that you're selling and purchase directly from your profile 😉 It's coming.