She asked if I had ideas, so just sharing. Did not mean to offend!
I would suggest focusing just simply on how Bitcoin works. None of the stuff about freedom money or any of that Libertarian jargon. Just the instantaneous transfer of value, digitally, with no overhead except incentive-based mining capacity
Pretty good presentation. Not sure if they covered this, but I think another tactic should be to explain what happens if we don’t act to enable it. What’s the downside? Too many policymakers see #Bitcoin as interesting but not essential
Best advice my mom ever gave me: “Always assume people are doing the best they can with the information they have.”
Worst advice my mom ever gave me: “People will continue to use Blackberries, not this silly new iPhone.”
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Great suggestions
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Whenever I see someone playing Wordle on the subway and they make a dumb guess, I experience a burst of schadenfraude
Brown bear, brown bear, what DO you see? Like, for real
If I could give you all one piece of advice, it would be this: never volunteer to be the President of you HOA. NEVER
Omg this reminds me of that scene in Monty Python’s Life of Brian where they keep saying “Jehovah”
I’ve met interesting people here who talk about Bitcoin a lot as well as many who don’t. I agree it’s weird to only care about one thing. I just think it’s understandable that this early in the adoption curve, people who love the most successful decentralized money protocol would also naturally gravitate to an incredible decentralized social messaging protocol (or whatever the right term for #nostr is!)
We agree. I’m not saying “don’t talk about Bitcoin.” Just saying talk about more stuff. Same as you said. And I think #[6]‘s idea about a bootstrap relay list that hides bitcoin references could be a good approach for some. Relay curation in general feels like an area of huge potential for experimentation.
I’m curious how the early days of Twitter compare? I wasn’t using Twitter then, but maybe it was also uninviting to new users because of echo chamber effects? Or maybe not? Obviously bitcoin wasn’t a thing yet…
I think nostr is still waaayy early in the adoption curve. It has the potential to take on S-curve adoption, like Bitcoin has done to some extent, but that may take time. So from that standpoint, I’m not surprised that a lot of the content centers on topics like Bitcoin and decentralized protocols.
For Bitcoiners, it can be tough to find community of people to talk stuff out with. Bitcoin Twitter is terrible, yet the mainstream media doesn’t have an educated approach to writing about Bitcoin. So I get it. At the same time, Nostr won’t reach S-curve adoption if it remains a “Bitcoin thing.” So let’s all try to stack notes about other random shit 😜
Oh I see. The quote is arguing that requiring people to work in a job that can be reported to the government in order to receive Medicaid makes no sense.
The Republicans want to force poor people off Medicaid and are using the work requirement thing as an excuse.
Matt Yglesias in peak form on #Medicaid work requirements:
“If you’re imagining some horde of people getting off their asses in response to a work requirement and getting a job, you’re dreaming. What’s going to happen is some people with serious barriers to employment that would maybe qualify them for an exemption aren’t going to understand how to get the exemption and will lose their Medicaid. So Medicaid spending will be cut without anyone needing to stand up and say “what I’m saying is I want poor people to lose their health insurance so if they get sick they go broke and then get treated at public expense anyway in the emergency room.”
This ain’t news. Just a workaround due to US sanctions against Russia. Arbitrary capital controls by the CCP make the yuan a completely impractical challenger to the dollar except in these one-off examples involving authoritarian regimes. Sorry, but Bangladesh isn’t going to lead a de-dollarization revolution.