If you're a provider of a service utilising the value 4 value model, know that you can't easily link your specific actions with zaps.

What I've found is that there's often a big lag between providing value & then receiving the value in return.

Yesterday I received a zap for a V4V BBQ I put on 2 months ago. I only knew it was for that because they wrote it in the zap. That zap made my day yesterday. The longest lag has been about a year & it was a pretty fat zap.

Providing services that have a real cost beyond my time, takes a bit of trust in the universe & bitcoiners. I've not been let down & always seem to get more value than I give. This is partly because I really enjoy cooking meat for people.

Although I don't keep tabs of who does & doesn't pay me, I've gotten to know who the generous Bitcoiners are. People's comments tend to give them away.

I'm very grateful for those generous brothers & sisters. 🙏🫂

"What does it do?"

"It doesn't do anything. That's the beauty of it."

~25 years ago my former partner was briefly the center of a weird internet thing surrounding the "quote" above. She is pretty sure she's the first person to put it on the internet, after a person in her social circle asked what movie (or book, etc.) it was from and started a discussion among their friends.

This ended up being a Big Deal on the internet for a while (and maybe led to the longest single thread on IMDB... ever?). As the person who (arguably) put the the pseudoquote online, she was contacted by various people asking if she'd found the source or reporting what the search for the source was doing to their worlds.

One person said the search for the source of the quote had shut down an entire floor of a skyscraper in NYC as virtually every worker in the area spent the day looking for, or arguing about, the source.

Former partner never found a satisfying source. Best guess: it's like the Mandela Effect; a Berenstain Bears or "play it again, Sam" thing, but more extreme: nobody is misquoting a source; it just sounds like it _should_ have a source. Lots of people (including me) felt that the movie it was from was right on the tip of our tongues. I personally felt like it must be from an 80s movie in which two dudebros marvel at some ridiculous thing one of them invented.

A near match can be found in an episode of Burke's Law and a nearly exact quote appears in a play called "Apocalyptic Butterflies." But how many people ever watched or even heard of those? Certainly very, very few of the thousands who have a strong feeling that they *know* this from somewhere.

The mystery, as it turns out, isn't where the quote is from; it's why so. many. people. are absolutely certain they personally know it from somewhere, only to find out they don't.

I love this.

It has gained its own momentum, now appearing in some art works, in dozens of threads on boards and forums, and... yeah, I'm going to put it in my profile or something because I was just reminded of how much I love it. Keeping the meme alive.

Here's a piece from The Verge in 2017 summarizing the saga.

This track gives me chills mad props to the widdler

I took your advice and built a gif nostr companion app:

I'm excited to announce the first release of NWS, a resilient connectivity solution that leverages NOSTR as a transport for TCP. NWS enables seamless communication between devices without public IP addresses. Below are the key features introduced in this release:

- **Exit Node Internet Relay:** Exit nodes can relay public internet traffic, allowing entry nodes to access the internet using the exit node's outgoing IP address.

- **.nostr Domain Support:** NWS now supports `.nostr` domains, which are valid RFC 1035 domains. This feature ensures compatibility with most existing clients.

- **Reverse TCP Connect Mode:** We've added a reverse TCP connect mode where the exit node initiates a TCP connection to the public entry node upon receiving a request. This mode utilizes NOSTR for service discovery while forwarding data packets through the reverse connection, enhancing connectivity and reducing load on public NOSTR relays.

This is just the beginning. With many more features and enhancements on our roadmap, we are excited about the future of NWS and its potential. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to develop NWS.