Giving away admissions to my paid relay at wss://nostr.uselessshit.co 🤙

Just comment with ⚡️ for a chance to get one.

I’ll pick 5 people at random in about an hour 😉

Goodnight, Nostr. It's been a great weekend. Tomorrow starts the fiat grind again. 🤙

Needed: A Nostr TikTok with native Breez-style streaming of sats

Thank you! I'm looking forward to it. Lots planned, so I may not be around all that much.

Pura vida, Nostr! It's time to stack notes and zaps. 🤙

I spent several hours tonight in an Ordinals Space speaking with them. It was me versus 12 Ordinal fans. I felt like I was in enemy territory.

I mentioned during the space that I don't want my financial transactions sitting next to an image on the Bitcoin timechain.

I mentioned that I don't feel right about Ordinals and Inscriptions essentially taking up 4X the block space, but not paying 4X the fees. They are consuming valuable space, but not providing the value to the miners. They're getting a discount and that's not right, because it feels like an oversight or an exploit. They're abusing the system.

I mentioned that Bitcoiners want to help the developing world by providing them with financial freedom. We don't want to draw all over them.

My main concern was that there are several worrying trends that are starting to pop up and we aren't even two weeks into this yet. I hope that if this trend continues that the Ordinal and Inscription fans will come together with the vast Bitcoin community and fix the problem before it gets worse.

Their main counterpoint was that Bitcoin is free speech and that includes artwork. While I don't fully agree there, I understand that argument. I also understand that no one controls Bitcoin and Bitcoin can do whatever it and people want it to do.

While I do not agree with all of this, I am looking at this as a win for Bitcoin. Yes, it's actually good for Bitcoin. I have had a dozen Ethereum maxis DM me so far and ask me how to run a Bitcoin node and how to run a Lightning node. I'm looking at this as an orange pilling moment. This is how we win.

Goodnight. PV!

Should I keep 2 APKs, with and without Google libraries? One would have auto translate and qr code scanning and goes to the PlayStore, the other one would not offer such features and goes to F-Droid.

Looks like a lot of work. But hopefully an Android buildscript mastermind knows how to structure such a thing in automated CIs.

It's a bit of a juggle and a struggle. You'll want to use ones that your friends use and also ones that are fast for you, but you'll want to use ones that people you follow use too.

Nostr starter pack

If you’re new to Nostr (regardless of which client you use — Damus, Snort, Iris, etc.) it’s helpful to follow a few quality/active accounts to get a feel for how it all works and to find conversations you can participate in.

Since a lot of apps don’t have good discovery hubs I thought I would write a note for people who are new here to help you find some quality/active accounts to bootstrap your feed to begin your journey.

Tap any of these and tap “follow” on the profile pages to start building your list:

fiatjaf - #[0]

jb55 - #[1]

jack - #[2]

snowden - #[3]

nvk - #[4]

rijndael - #[5]

grubles - #[6]

odell - #[7]

martybent - #[8]

leishman - #[9]

bitcoinjungle - #[10]

mags - #[11]

susiebdds - #[12]

derekross - #[13]

corndalorian - #[14]

adamcurry - #[15]

0xtr - #[16]

shawn - #[17]

max - #[18]

dk - #[19]