Bitcoiners love to over-analyze

Why is MSTR ripping higher than bitcoin?

CONVENIENCE.

These are only the publicly visible nodes. Some estimates suggest that there are over 200k nodes that are not publicly visible, many of which are located in Asia, including China.

#Bitcoin is not a captured market and diamonds are a scam.

Yes you or your wife can desire whatever you want including diamonds, like many others you can pay a lot for diamonds and think whatever you want about marketing campaigns. Lots of people spend lots of money on things other people don't value. Yes value is subjective.

Everyone is free to think what they want but not everyone is free from the consequences of those thoughts and decisions.

In a war zone bitcoin is objectively more useful than diamonds because it is easier to move and harder to steel. But some people still might choose to hold diamonds in a war zone instead of bitcoin. Who has a better chance storing their value successfully, the person holding diamonds or the person holding bitcoin?

There are other similar, critical reasons why educated people on diamonds and bitcoin would choose bitcoin as an asset, as property, as a medium of exchange and as a store of value.

One critical reason is scarcity, like with gold most people cannot tell the difference between counterfeit and real diamonds, they rely on what experts tell them. If you trade diamonds for something without an expert available, say you need something in exchange for your diamonds, how can that person know the value of those diamonds and if they are real?

Diamonds are only becoming easier to counterfeit and can be indistinguishable from manufactured diamonds. Gold is counterfeiting is also advancing with technology. Scarcity is critical.

Also diamond markets, technology and areas to mine diamonds are captured. Inhuman mining practices like forced labor are utilized.

And yet there is no known capacity for diamonds, they are common within the earth. It's fictitious scarcity at best and a crime, an objective monopolized crime syndicate. It's a crime because of the slave labor, the monopolized market and captured mining. Scarcity is critical.

And scarcity is a big reason why bitcoin is better than gold, diamonds or your favorite land etc. Yes if you are in the desert with no water source water becomes more important like Saif said.

Water is incredibly abundant and drinkable water depends and your knowledge and ability. Your ability to distill or otherwise purify water. Your ability and know how to find clean water and or knowledge of clean water sources. You can make more water drinkable. You cannot make more bitcoin.

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The Nostr marketplace era is nigh.

No, diamonds are a captured market.

Also the original idea behind diamonds came from giving something of value to your spouse in case you cannot provide for them.

The use of diamonds in place of a dowery was objectively a marketing scheme by debears.

They partnered with hollywood and media outlets post ww2 during an economic boom in america.

"Diamonds are a girls best friend" and "diamonds are forever" were massively successful marketing campaigns preying on hearts and minds of women and men, from many angles and perspectives.

The diamond market is essentially a monopoly (though artificial diamonds could change that) and mining diamonds has often been inhumane imposed and motivated by a marketing scheme (as referenced above) for imagined value, to show your wealth or what someone was willing to buy for you and for glamour, you know, fiat bullshit.

A thought enters my mind "yes i want people to see my love for her" or "ma woman wants a diamond to show of "how much he loves me" but upon further thought, is that it really? Flaunting your riches could be accomplished in other ways if thats your thing.

If i get married, i will buy my wife jewelry or a diamond ring (ethically sourced). But i hope she'll value bitcoin and want it more. And i think then jewelry will be even more symbolic in value and less monetarily valuable

So it's not working with Alby, right?

#Funny and smart law proposals to keep your government efficient:

1. Personal tax rate = body fat percentage. Increase the tax rate again below a certain percentage of body fat. The healthiest body fat percentages = lowest #tax rate.

Why: drastic simplification of the tax rate, fair and good incentives with higher productivity and less costs for health system as side-effects and abolition of the cold progression

2. Expiration date for laws (not for the Basic Law).

Why: Certain laws always have a generational context + helps you keeping your governmental apparatus slim + keeps your country relatively liberate and focused on the important things

3. If the state budget is more in #debt than X percent, the entire parliament may no longer stand for re-election.

Why: solves the dilemma of „the election winner is the one who promises the most“.

4. If the average citizen is not able to understand a #law (chosen randomly), it may not be enacted. E.g. 50% of the test subjects must have understood it.

Based on my made-up categories, this is how I would split our most known apps. Also... Microapps are clearly not getting the marketing they deserve

Super Clients

- amethyst.social

- nostrudel.ninja

- coracle.social

Clients

- habla.news

- damus.io

- primal.net

- 0xchat.com

- snort.social

- yakihonne.com

- iris.to

- satellite.earth

- highlighter.com

- hivetalk.org

- flare.pub

- zap.stream

- shopstr.store

- gossip

- lume.nu

- flockstr.com

- cornychat.com

- nostrocket.org

- docstr.app

- rabbit.syusui.net

- satshoot.com

- Nostur

- Coop

- stemstr.app

- freefrom.space

- wavlake.com

- nos.social

- wikifreedia.xyz

- flycat.club

- fountain.fm

- nostrnests.com

- blogstack.io

- go.yondar.me

- formstr.app

- chesstr.pages.dev

- plebeian.market

- memestr.app

- zapddit.com

- Nostrmo

- wherostr.social

- npub.pro

- nostrchat.io

- degmods.com

- npub.cash

Mini Clients

- listr.lol

- amber

- citrine

- alby extension

- no2x

- zap.store

- badges.page

- oddbean.com

- dtan.xyz

- nosta.me

- pinstr.app

- lowent.xyz

- pollerama.fun

- swarmstr.com

- noogle.lol

- ostrich.work

- emojito.meme

- nostree.me

- joinstr.xyz

- heya.fund

- zapplepay.com

- nosbin.com

- ostrich.work

- shipyard.pub

- anonostr.com

- getwired.app

- tunestr.io

- sheetstr.amethyst.social

- crafters.amethyst.social

Micro Clients

- nosdrive.app

- zaplife.lol

- zapper.fun

- nostrends.vercel.app

- wavman.app

- notestack.com

- nostr.watch

- lazereyes.nosfabrica.com

Continuing to get cancelled on the #Fediverse. lmao what the hell is going on??

Not sure if nostr "must" follow anything, but yes, I do think it's more productive this way. Clients trying to be super apps will exist, as they should, I love amethyst for it.

Too many developers trying to make the superapp of Nostr when the best approach is too have smaller apps doing less things and a better compatibility layer between them.