There's only one waffle on nostr 😁

Thank you nostr:nprofile1qqsverg89m7ucem0ewkpfakddqj7ms6hde27k7r292t4acp556szdjcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqyvhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn6v43x2er9v5hxxmr0w4jqz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuetj9eek7cmfv9kq5s0prg for my first sats! Feeling part of the Nostr fam already :D

Thanks :)

Thank you <3

We can still co-exist together no?

GM zv1689! Thank you 😃

Not of Waffle House, but I am a connoisseur of Belgium waffles ;)

Hello EthanTuttle! Sounds interesting. I'll take a look in due course.

Thank you karnage :)

Happy to be here!

To compare Cardano with government money is a massive oversimplification. First of all, Cardano is deflationary like BTC, not inflationary, so you can't just print an infinite amount of it.

There's over 2000 independent validators on Cardano. You can also see how ADA is staked and is distributed amongst those many validators. In other words, there is no single actor or group of actors that have enough ADA to decide unanimously the future of the protocol. You could try to purchase a lot of ADA until you control 51% of the stake or more... but good luck, hope your wallet is large enough (it isn't).

Cardano has smart contracts, using the eUTXO model, a very interesting paradigm in and of itself. Cardano has a treasury system where every tx fee goes to that treasury, which is then used to fund projects which build on Cardano (ADA holders get to vote on which project gets selected). In essence, it is a self funding mechanism. Cardano also has native assets, either fungible or non-fungible tokens. Anyone with ADA can create and trade those.

We have Dexes, lending platforms, synthetic assets, privacy protocols, layer twos, sidechains, video games, identity solutions and many more are building on Cardano. It's not a perfect ecosystem, but it is alive and growing.

There's just too much for me to cover in one post, but i highly recommend you take deep dive into the subject. Having been in that ecosystem since 2020, I have seen firsthand how much it has grown since, and how it is not stopping.

Check out taptools.io - a coinmarketcap but for Cardano projects/protocols

cexplorer.io - a Cardano explorer. Also contains analytical data and educational content.

I personally like YouTube channels like @learncardano, @kaizencrypto, @bigpey, @AndrewWestberg @ArmyofSpies, and of course, @CharlesHoskinson and @IohkIo

Let's all learn from each other and co-exist peacefully. This is not a zero-sum game.

Thanks Tony, will check it out :)

Thank you tigs :)

Happy to be here!

Hello! I'll look into it, still need to read all the relevant documentation. As for selling my ADA, no way haha. I do have BTCs but I believe in the long-term roadmap of Cardano. I highly encourage you to look at our ecosystem, its growing and getting more interesting every day. In fact, would be cool to integrate ADA with Nostr. The more options the merrier.

Either way, happy to be here and learn with everyone :)

Me! and so are many other people! It's a great blockchain!