Well folks I'm tapped out!

I'd call that experiment a success and it's very nice to meet you all. Looking forward to a future on #nostr

I'll post some stats on everything later on, interestingly received over 13,000 sats which I also paid forward...

Thanks!

Good Morning Nostr, PV and smile 😁

Dear Bitcoin haters,

Check the scoreboard. We are right. You are wrong. We’re like Mozart and you’re like that guy that was ALWAYS jealous of Mozart. This isn’t checkers, this is motherfucking chess. Be serious. This isn’t Halloween. Grow up Peter Pan. Count Chocula. You don’t get to make believe that you’re a good investor too. Most of you can’t even outperform the S&P. This is the big boy table for big boys. You can’t sit here. We don’t have height chairs for you. Get real. Be serious. Stop being delusional and start engaging with reality. We are winning and you are losing.

Sincerely,

HODL

Photos that don't look real but are - thread 🧵

1. Cranberry harvest by Kristina Makeeva

i must disappear for now. it’s time to lock in

Geez is it hard to buy BTC in the UK via lightning now. So much KYC

Made more money on Twitter than on Nostr ⚡️

AGAIN.

#nostrvstwitter #Value4Value #V4V

GM ☕️🥶🫂💜

Stay humble and stack sats. #Bitcoin

GN, friends. This is the week we’ve been waiting for.

🫂💜🤙

pre seed oils.

> Anyway, Israel should feel free to just nuke Iran from existence

This shows same lack of empathy and respect for other humans that Peter Todd accuses evil countries like Russia, Iran, ... of.

Bitcoin may makes war unaffordable but it won't fix the cruelty some humans.

Peter does not care about wiping out millions of innocent kids, women, men that just happened to be born in the wrong country and not in a peaceful one like himself.

By his logic how many other countries - of people not overthrowing their evil regimes - should be wiped out to get rid of all the evil people? Wipe out 500m, 2bn, 4bn?

This has nothing to do on which side you are. This is about being human or being a soulless warmonger that has no problem wit killing hundrets of million innocent people just because he thinks to know every aspect of history, powers at play and also has the moral high ground about that topic.

Batshit crazy and disgusting.

This a really good post from Jack.

Part of the answer might just be time. The tech is real, people are building on it, and it takes time for people to be burned by permissioned systems to discover permissionless ones now that they exist.

I do think that bitcoin wallet + social graph is a big combo in the long run. The fact that you can just look up and pay anyone you know without that person taking action to tell you their payment details, especially in an open source and international environment, is a pretty big deal. Not just zaps as tips on posts, but zaps for Nostr marketplaces or for saying “pay me on Nostr” for products/services unrelated to Nostr per se.

And for the social network part, I just like the fact that Nostr is permissionless and open. Twitter has a huge network effect and I have plenty of friends/connections there, so I still post there a lot and use it for research as well. That is irreplaceable until it is not. But Nostr feels different. The tech feels right, the group that adopts that tech early feels right, and so to me it feels right to post things here that I would not otherwise post to 675k Twitter followers. Less filtered, for better or worse.

I used to be involved with individual small forums back before widespread social media was a thing, and was an administrator for one to help run it, and that type of smaller community was valuable. In fact, I inadvertently met my now-husband there 13 years ago, who was also an administrator. The forum had fewer than 50,000 people, with only a few thousand active at any time, but in context that is the size of a significant town.

But while Nostr still has the “feel” of a smaller forum now, its open source and permissionless nature gives it enormous expansion opportunity. While programmers do their best to build new features and capabilities, I try to seed this current smaller version of Nostr with unique content that doesn’t feel right to post in a larger centralized setting but feels more right for a smaller decentralized community of adventurers.

Because I want permissionless and open source tech to win. nostr:note19aldr26lyw2lqatcgqscyt3kpq76hcpwtwmglypvqqgx3m27fsaswa8rr6

Sorry not sorry.

This a really good post from Jack.

Part of the answer might just be time. The tech is real, people are building on it, and it takes time for people to be burned by permissioned systems to discover permissionless ones now that they exist.

I do think that bitcoin wallet + social graph is a big combo in the long run. The fact that you can just look up and pay anyone you know without that person taking action to tell you their payment details, especially in an open source and international environment, is a pretty big deal. Not just zaps as tips on posts, but zaps for Nostr marketplaces or for saying “pay me on Nostr” for products/services unrelated to Nostr per se.

And for the social network part, I just like the fact that Nostr is permissionless and open. Twitter has a huge network effect and I have plenty of friends/connections there, so I still post there a lot and use it for research as well. That is irreplaceable until it is not. But Nostr feels different. The tech feels right, the group that adopts that tech early feels right, and so to me it feels right to post things here that I would not otherwise post to 675k Twitter followers. Less filtered, for better or worse.

I used to be involved with individual small forums back before widespread social media was a thing, and was an administrator for one to help run it, and that type of smaller community was valuable. In fact, I inadvertently met my now-husband there 13 years ago, who was also an administrator. The forum had fewer than 50,000 people, with only a few thousand active at any time, but in context that is the size of a significant town.

But while Nostr still has the “feel” of a smaller forum now, its open source and permissionless nature gives it enormous expansion opportunity. While programmers do their best to build new features and capabilities, I try to seed this current smaller version of Nostr with unique content that doesn’t feel right to post in a larger centralized setting but feels more right for a smaller decentralized community of adventurers.

Because I want permissionless and open source tech to win. nostr:note19aldr26lyw2lqatcgqscyt3kpq76hcpwtwmglypvqqgx3m27fsaswa8rr6

When I was a kid, I was interested in aerospace engineering.

My half-brother (who is 30 years older than me and was therefore old enough to be an uncle and had that kind of relationship to me) spent his career as an engineer and then an executive at a major aerospace defense contractor.

He was the most accomplished person of my family and was raising a happy family, he always kind of represented a role model of who I wanted to be. Hard-working, successful, well-off, and with good priorities around building a happy family.

As I studied math and science in high school and engineering in college, I assumed that would probably go work for the same company as him one day (which two of his three kids do now). As a teenager, I could tell you how many aircraft carrier groups the US had, roughly how many B-2 bombers the US had, how much they cost, the technical pros and cons of various fighter jets, comparative missile arsenals among global powers, etc.

But when it came time to graduate and go into engineering (during the Iraq War which I opposed), I couldn’t do it. It’s not that I am opposed to advancing aerospace or making weapons for sovereign defense per se, but rather that I didn’t agree with how the US military structurally uses its weapons globally.

I began focusing on industrial automation instead, and then ended up in civil aerospace engineering (with a focus on electrical engineering). That area captured some of what I liked about the field of aerospace engineering, but was focused on making aircraft safer and more efficient, rather than more deadly. I spent a decade there in a rewarding career, and followed a similar career path as my half-brother, meaning that I went from engineer to senior engineer to management and finance for the engineering facility, and so forth. But for peace rather than for war.

I eventually left the work due to my financial research business growing and overshadowing my engineering work in terms of scale. I had always done financial research work part time as my passion, but at some point it took off and that made it uneconomical to work in engineering/management anymore.

After several years of focusing on financial research, I got into bitcoin venture investing in part to help fund engineers and assist them in building things, which was basically what I was doing in my prior role in aerospace and is something I am still strongly drawn to.

Anyway, I thought of this as escalations flared in the Middle East this weekend. It’s amazing how small decisions or pivot points can affect where we end up in life.

Your favorite Bitcoiner calling for state sponsored genocide 😂

This is what I see lol. nostr:note1ez2l0lgpqkv8gdwszj0xk0jszy4zz53a7800w4taw38zqj033wasz76eug

got nvm installed and up and running so smoothly