Imagine a BTCPayServer point of sale receiving Cashu ecash to the merchant's Lightning wallet.

- no rug risk for merchant

- can accept ecash from a million different mints

- merchant pays LN fees

- users can remain offline while paying

Ecash is Bitcoin's credit card killer.

A 17 year old murdered some little girls. The riots are of an anti-immigration and anti-muslim nature, stirred up by nationalist right wing groups.

Still amazes me how strongly people identify with the concept of #nation. The idea that all Americans/Russians/Slovaks/Papuans have the same nature, interests, intelligence, etc. is completely off. People should be seen primarily as #individuals and not as members of a group. For example, what does an IT engineer from a city have in common with a pensioner from a rural area?

The next level is the idea that #nationalism is some kind of traditional value. A hundred years ago, the farthest an average person went was a horse ride to the nearest village. He had no idea of any "nation". A nation is a purely political invention.

Who’s ready to boo all the dumb shit the politicians say at Bitcoin2024? 🤣

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Stop sucking up to politicians and bankers.

Where we’re going, we don’t need ‘em.

The most interesting cultural result of this past weekend is that shy Trump voters are no longer shy. Theyve taken their lead from Trump and are now being bold about their beliefs.

I don't like what Trump did with covid and the vax and not draining the swamp his first term. but his courage is infectious and it's wonderful to see in a population that was acting from fear for the past 4 years.

One time I went snorkeling in the Red Sea at Sahl Hasheesh, but my phone was accidentally set to selfie mode, which I didn’t realize until later.

And so instead of taking dozens pictures of all the fish I was looking at, I took dozens of pictures of my own dumbass face.

Made a bet today with a skeptic that Nostr will have more than 1M weekly active users by Jan 31, 2026

We are at ~35k today

That’s about 18 months from now

LFG 🚀

I was at an extended family gathering for the Eid al-Adha holiday today. At these gatherings, the older generation in this family tends to not speak great English, so they normally speak among themselves in Arabic, while the younger generation speaks English, with some periods where we all speak together and my husband translates.

The center of this gathering was a newborn baby. My husband’s cousin had a child, and he was so cute and we took turns holding him and playing with him.

The oldest uncle is a retired doctor and although he normally speaks in Arabic among his peers, he actually speaks fluent English as well when there is context for it, since he used to live and work abroad. But he rarely speaks at these gatherings, in either Arabic or English. It’s a running joke that he is grumpy and rarely has much to say, and just kind of zones out at these things. Sometimes when people ask him what he is thinking, he makes a dry concise joke or a funny brief criticism of someone with like a stone cold expression. So usually at least once someone asks him, just to see what kind of grumpy thing he will say in response, since you never know what it’ll be but it’s never boring.

When the family was figuring out which coast town we should take a vacation to in a couple weeks, the uncle was quiet and eventually someone asked him what his choice is, and he sarcastically said “El Arish” which is the Egyptian coast town right near Gaza, to be a buzzkill. The joke being that it’s an obviously bad choice for a vacation.

A while later when people were talking about movies, he was again doing his zoned out expression, so my husband and cousin were whispering to me to ask him what he’s thinking about this time. I was hesitant but they were like, “do it, it’ll be great.”

So I asked what he’s thinking about. With his perfect English, he’s like, “You and Mohamed should have a child by the time you visit us next year. You’re getting old.”

Everyone was like, “…oh shit” since they thought he would say a bad movie or tell me I watch too many movies or something. One cousin was like, “uncle, they will when and if they are ready!”

But the uncle continued. “You two think you are busy now, but it only gets worse from here. The older you get the harder it will be, and you’re already getting old. Both of you are too smart and overthinking it, waiting for a perfect moment that will never come. If you two wait too long, you might not be able to do it, or there’s a higher chance the child will have health problems. Just do it now, while you are still in your mid-thirties, don’t let yourself get any older. And if you don’t do it, naught but regret and darkness awaits.”

So everyone was facepalming, since this was not the direction they were expecting. I was like, “thank you for the blunt advice, we will consider it! 😅”

One aunt who doesn’t speak English asked what he said, so one cousin said, “He called her a hag, basically.”

The positive energy is infectious! 😂

Is there a nostr client focused on #Instagram idea? Asking for a friend who would like to build something like that on top of #Nostr, is someone interested in using it? #asknostr

Until I moved to this property I never knew that birds have both a sunrise song, and a sunset song.

What's your opinion on "picking the lesser evil" (e.g. voting)?

On one hand, it can potentially prevent more harm to you relative to the "worst evil".

On the other hand, it legitimizes the power of the pickee over you, when you also despise it.

Discuss! #asknostr

Trump went to the libertarian national convention trying to court votes and got booed. 🤣

Lots of jubilation about Trump coming out with a pro- #Bitcoin script, but I’d just like to remind everyone that Trump’s DOJ indicted Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, he didn’t free Ross when he was President, and he didn’t pardon Snowden.

Actions speak louder than words.

Anyway, goodnight.

Yea…but he didn’t laugh when I told him 😅