I know that would keep me out.

Beautiful note.

I reflect also we know little about the unfathomable universe and its multidimensional characteristics science is only beginning to explore.🌌

I observe and believe in our spiritual existence along with the small essence of humanity we share. 👨👽🕊️

I believe in the spiritual and supernatural, and God of my understanding. 🙏🫶

Love these words.

I disagree on the soul part because I can't prove nor disprove it. I want to be there a meaning and something beyond material. For long time I'd say that BS, but now I simply can't deny it.

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This was the design or management team that demanded that ugly logo to go on a group of icons.. not the engineers

A lot of people have heard my moped story, but heres the math on it.

In 2016 I needed $5,000 to pay my wife’s master’s school tuition.

I didn’t have $5,000 cash at the time, but I did have bitcoin.

Bitcoin was trading at roughly $500, so I would have had to sell 10 bitcoin in order to pay the tuition.

I didn’t want to do that so I sold my car instead for $5,500.

I took $500 of that and bought a shitty moped and used the rest to pay my wife’s tuition.

So I rode the moped around the rest of the year and everyone made fun of me. Usually I play this part of the story up, but tbh it didn’t bother me. The people making fun of me were poorer than I was, they didn’t understand bitcoin or the market or even basic budgeting.

When people would make fun of me I would tell them why I was doing what I was doing. Then I would start peppering them with questions about their financial life.

“Oh so you financed your refrigerator? You’re still paying that off huh?”

“You have a timeshare you’ve never been to? How’d you get talked into that?”

People would generally go from laughing at me riding the moped to feeling shell shocked by me popping their bubble of comfortable delusion.

Still I drove the moped and everyone thought I was being weird and ridiculous and silly etc…

At 100k that decision was worth a million dollars.

At a million it will have been worth 10 million.

And at 10 million it will have been a nine figure decision.

100 million dollars.

I only rode the stupid moped for 8 months.

Ask yourself? Would you face 8 months of sacrifice and ridicule for 10 million in the future?

Because there are things you could be doing today that would generate that for future you.

My advice is to have your own moped moment.

Do something a little weird/cringe/out there in order to stack more sats and then check in on the sats in 10-15 years.

I think you’re going to be happy with the results.

Nice Idea!

HBD🧡 #bitcion

Best tips for buying back your time in 2025?

I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but if you want to suffer less…desire less.

Primal clients read from the caching service and write directly to the user’s relays. We chose a set of tradeoffs based on what we are trying to accomplish: best UX possible. We’ve been very transparent about it from Day 1. See my blog post from March 13, 2023 - the day we launched Primal. I still think that caching services are not only great for UX, but also a legitimate way to help scale Nostr once we hit millions of users. They could even improve censorship resistance, since anyone can stand them up and create more copies of Nostr events.

Having said all that, the Primal stack is evolving and becoming more capable on the client as well. One can imagine peer-to-peer transfers between clients that have client-side databases, like Primal for Android. I think Nostr will have it all: relays, indexers, caching services, client p2p transfers. It will be very hard to stop.

Claiming that there is only one way to properly build Nostr clients and that everyone must choose exactly the same set of tradeoffs is silly. For example, gossip/outbox purists might take issue with how Damus works.

Everything we build at Primal is open sourced under the most permissive MIT license. I believe we offer the only open source indexer for Nostr (someone please correct me if I’m wrong). Anyone can stand up and run their own caching instance. Other projects have done so in the past. Primal users hold their keys and can move to another client at any time if they don’t like how our product evolves.

On a personal note Will, you constantly fud Primal. You tried to cancel us before, joining semisol’s cEnSoRsHiP nonsense campaign. Your latest initiative - trying to impose rules on what can be called a Nostr client - is also an attempt at cancelling. I don’t know what to make of it because you are always very friendly in person. We spent a considerable amount of time together, and you never raised these issues with me face-to-face. Why not? On the contrary, you always seem to have kind words for Primal when we talk.

I’ve never said a bad word about Damus or any other project. I want to be on good terms with all Nostr builders, but you are making it hard with posts like this.