NY Strip

It’s Friday night, I’m having a beer and bitcoin is on a tear. Haven’t had this feeling in a long time. 🍺🤙🏻

Going forward all social networks have to start with Nostr and either provide better experience or brand. The incentives are clear. If you could get a million users from a day one on your new app - would you say "nah, I don't want that"?

This really underscores the massive difference between protocol and a platform. With platform there are artificial bottlenecks, like deplatforming, API limits, competition prevention, worry of being rugpulled in future. With protocol you can't get de-protocoled, anyone can handle as many API calls as they can handle, etc.

And somehow magically this just so perfectly fits in the current geopolitical and econ situation. With the current interest rates, money is no longer free and so we are no longer chasing the biggest captured userbase, but rather the profits & time-to-sustainability.

"Captured userbase" just doesn't matter as a metric anymore. It no longer makes any sense. Do you have userbase? Yes. All applications can have userbase of millions in a single day if they choose so. And what does that remind me of? Yes, that's why we bitcoin!

#[0], #[1], I'm interested in whether this is completely wrong take :)

Hello from iris.to! I haven't used this client in a couple weeks. It's so damn smooth! The only thing it's missing is **image upload** and **Lightning support** on profiles and posts.

The new Astral is 🔥🔥🔥

I haven't used Astral that much over the past week or two, using Snort as my go to on both mobile and desktop. However, Snort has been extremely slow and laggy for me the past few days. The experience has changed. I'm sure they'll fix it. In the meantime, it's back to Astral for me!

I think it's a good time to ask it again:

what has been your go to nostr client in the last 2 weeks?

The White Pill

Weeks worth of development happens in just mere days here on nostr.

What *killer* feature would you love to see on your favorite nostr client?

I'd love to see built in **GIF search and GIF embedding**.

Clients could have a GIF button near the post or attach image button, that once pressed opens a modal for searching Tenor via the Tenor API. Once a GIF is found, the URL to the GIF URL is entered into the post.

Is this a killer feature? Yes. Most people love GIF responses. No client has this feature *yet*. It would be a client first.

It looks like Twitter Coins are Twitter's version of Reddit Coins. Use can use them to buy awards and give them to people.

Happy Bitcoin Genesis Block Day! Happy 14th Birthday, Bitcoin!

works on Astral. /shrug

Followed ✌️

**NOSTR is already starting to feel like home.** Everyone seems very comfortable. Many familiar names and old friends are showing up. New friends are being made. Let's keep this energy going and never stop building.

GM nostr! Let's get after it. Build. Fight. Win. Just like Yellow says. And speaking of that crazy puppet, why isn't he over here?