To whom are you giving your time and energy?

Are you building a better world?

Or contributing to and further entrenching the current corrupt system?

What are the benefits? What are the costs?

(I’m currently wrestling with such questions.)

Anyway, good morning.

turns out bitcoiners are super sensitive and reactive

There are some people out there, very terrible people, who are operating a disgusting propaganda campaign trying to convince people that I’m not zapping.

This is fake news. Everyone knows I’m a very generous zapper. Some are saying the most prolific zapper. They are.

Don’t believe the fake news media as they attempt to tarnish my reputation.

What if you could explore nostr from a wider perspective #damuslabs

The more you value your time, the more you should appreciate (and accumulate) #Bitcoin.

BET THERE A TON OF BLUE CHECK BITCOINERS SAYING ELON SHOULD USE BITCOIN FOR THIS.

HE WILL NOT BECAUSE HE WANTS TO HARVEST CREDIT CARD DATA.

the influencer wears no pants

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

The way I‘ve been feeling lately:

FUCK BAIL-OUTS

FUCK (CENTRAL) BANKS

FUCK MONEY PRINTING

FUCK FAKE PAPER MONEY

FUCK POLITICS

FUCK CANTILLIONAIRES

I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS SYSTEM.

good morning

GOOD MORNING NOSTR, LOVE A GOOD PROTOCOL WAR, THIS IS HOW OPEN SYSTEMS IMPROVE, LETS FUCKING GO 🫡

the 🪨 is now shipping!

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Moral of today: never read your comments. People are mean.

Use on desktop. Mobile isn't very useful.