-= JOHNBNEVIN =-
All My Links:
johnbnevin.com/all-my-links
Website:
johnbnevin.com
Nostr:
johnbnevin@getalby.com
Nostr npub:
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WavLake:
wavlake.com/john-b-nevin
Stemstr:
stemstr.app
Odysee:
odysee.com/@johnbnevin:5?view=content
Support Me:
johnbnevin.com/support
Bitcoin Lightning:
johnbnevin@getalby.com
Bitcoin Lightning LNURL:
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Bitcoin:
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-= JOHNBNEVIN =-
All My Links:
johnbnevin.com/all-my-links
Website:
johnbnevin.com
Nostr:
johnbnevin@getalby.com
Nostr npub:
npub1vvlnzl5eh3d9tjzassncfxy690xuxxl283xqrl0usr7ngravegaqk9la5v
WavLake:
wavlake.com/john-b-nevin
Stemstr:
stemstr.app
Odysee:
odysee.com/@johnbnevin:5?view=content
Support Me:
johnbnevin.com/support
Bitcoin Lightning:
johnbnevin@getalby.com
Bitcoin Lightning LNURL:
LNURL1DP68GURN8GHJ7EM9W3SKCCNE9E3K7MF0D3H82UNVWQHK5MMGDE3XUETKD9HQPTYPKE
Bitcoin:
bc1qzsle2lxjave6d7r3xuzqfzahdkypmw2nhx53zr
Except that on stemstr, artists can get paid with 2-click lightning network bitcoin payments by anyone that appreciates it -- at any amount, with no middleman, permissionlessly.
https://stemstr.app/thread/07a56a0dcc71ad57bf2a95e40ea11251ed5cba3ed202f5f973a38c598505fac0
^^ R E M I X R E M I X ^^ nostr:npub1fnn2h0tgm2mwnl0kar5ez25wztum2w0q0rrrf326n0ljn999znwsqf4xnx
#tunestr #stemstr
Or even collapse individual posts as 'read'
If there were a threaded view, and ability to collapse sets of related posts, and save / archive them?
These quotes are less institutional than you asked for, but I figured I'd post what I found anyway:
“We’re seeing another wave of Bitcoin interest, largely driven by business and institutional adoption... It’s not fueled by hype. This year’s bank failures and bailouts have been a wake-up call, revealing the cracks of the traditional financial system and reminding us why Bitcoin is so important — it’s a secure path to a stronger and more transparent global economy."
Alex Leishman, CEO of River Financial
“The technology has evolved significantly over the last two years, driving an impressive 80% rise in the number of Lightning nodes during 2020. In the last month alone, the number of nodes grew by 7%, and 2021 will surely see a spectacular rise thanks to Bitcoin’s appreciation.”
“Not very long in the future, many gamers will be running nodes on their mobile device with zero cost of attention.”
“New services and layers being built over the Lightning Network, such as LSAT or RGB, promise incredible functionality to the gaming ecosystem — such as owner traceability, co-ownership, parental control and, overall, a much more flexible and powerful economy of users’ engagement in games.”
Carlos Borlado, CEO of Satoshi’s Games
“It’s getting easier and easier for consumers to run their own node at home with services like Umbrel, which you can connect to a wallet like Zap. For businesses, there are services like Voltage — a noncustodial hosted node — which we use at THNDR.”
“Most of the stacking sats websites and services pay users via Lightning, so the pay-outs can be small and incur near-zero fees. The user acquisition efforts of these services are focused on onboarding new users to Bitcoin. Potentially, sites where you earn BTC will be the first jumping-off point for someone new to Bitcoin.”
“I believe that Bitcoin is the only network that is truly decentralized money. The games we make at THNDR reward users with real money prizes, so Bitcoin is the obvious fit. Lightning also has the advantages of being almost instantly settled with near-zero fees. Both are important features for gaming.”
Jack Everitt, Founder of THNDR
“We are very excited to be partnering up with OpenNode to bring Bitcoin payments and payouts to our esports tournaments and eventually the esports industry as a whole. We are strong believers in pushing out Bitcoin [lightning] adoption and integration to our community and believe this is a big step toward achieving that.”
Sam Kijak, Founder of professional esports team Mazer Gaming
"The Lightning Network has the potential to transform the world of payments, making bitcoin more accessible, faster, and cheaper to use. Lightning is the scaling solution that brings bitcoin into the everyday lives of everyday people. Whether you're a business owner, investor, a bitcoin user, or just a curious person, the Lightning Network is worth paying attention to."
Martell Fox, COO of IBEX and Founder of Layer 4 Talent
"[The fee for sending 1 BTC across the Lightning Network is] equivalent to $0.84 to send $28,800 worth of value... which is a fee of 0.0029%."
James Check, lead analyst at Glassnode
Yes! thanks~
#[0] brought everyone on the #[1] team to tears this morning with his beautiful blog post about his experience 💜🥲 John, your words have captured more about what we’ve tried to create with this tool than anything we’ve ever said about it https://www.johnbnevin.com/music/stemstr-music-collaborations/
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Authenticity leverages attrition
https://www.johnbnevin.com/music/stemstr-music-collaborations/
Stemstr is a music collaboration platform that allows users to upload songs, samples, tracks, beats, takes, outtakes, and other experiments to mix, remix, sample, revise, restructure, and otherwise combine with personal labor to create unique derivatives. It is built on the uncensorable social protocol known as Nostr. You aren’t ready for it.
Users upload their work and anyone can remix. This wide open, permissionless culture begets innovation – as with the beginning of hip-hop and its famous sampling/resampling. It has opened up possibilities and inspired creations from myself and others.
#stemstr #musicstr #music #tunestr #grownostr
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gm #plebchain
Waking up with a big of a glow today. Time for a #longform post. #TLDR at the bottom.
So I've been participating in my first #nostrcypher thanks to the invite from @`Gek`. It's gotten me back in touch with a piece of myself that not long ago I was almost ready to completely let go of.
Like so many people, I've always gravitated to #music from a young age. #Piano at 5, #drums in elementary school, #guitar in middle school, a lot of #classical #percussion as I graduated high school and entered college. It was supposed to be my meal ticket, my soul, the whole deal.
But right alongside, I was fascinated with computers. My mom's job required that she have one at home since I was little, so I was super fortunate that we had a PC at home before Windows was a thing. I learned enough DOS to play some BASIC games my mom came home with.
Then one day she came home with a disk someone at her work told her I might like. It was called "Visual Player" and turned out to be a DOS visualization for MOD files. The disk also had a ton of MOD files. I spent hours loading up each MOD file and watching what happened when I loaded it in -- which, incidentally, included scrolling through the MOD code as the song played.
Eventually I discovered Impulse Tracker, which absolutely blew my world open. Suddenly I could open the MOD files in Impulse Tracker and reverse engineer how they were created. I could save the samples from the MOD tracks and rearrange them into my own stuff. I was instantly hooked and went down the rabbit hole hard.
I still have a lot of stuff I wrote with Impulse Tracker when I was in middle/high school. A friend of mine even surprised me with a CD he burned with it all of them on it -- which was one of my surprises to learn that other people listened to them too. It felt like a calling.
In parallel, I was playing drums in the school jazz band and also playing drums along to a lot of my favorite songs at home. I was super into metal and grunge and eventually nu-metal at the time. So I also started to pick up guitar. I discovered a thriving local music scene (how lucky was I?) and went DEEP playing in bands and going to shows. I made pretty much all of my lifelong friends during this period.
I ended up playing drums in a band called Trace Fury (very much NOT metal or grunge, but more like gothic piano-based stuff with two lead vocals) that was doing pretty well in the local scene. I was in college for Music Composition at the time, but left to give the band a shot. We got picked up by a manager who had just prior gotten another local band a multi-million dollar deal with J Records. Suddenly we found ourselves in a local studio cutting a demo we were going to shop to labels. I felt like I was living the dream.
The problem was that this was also where we had to bastardize our music to make it commercial-ready. It's not that I didn't still like it, but I didn't have the same love for it anymore. But I started to find myself loving sitting next to the #producer and being a part of that process. I ended up leaving the band, picking up a "cheap" Pro Tools rig and a few mics, and opened my own little pop-up studio in a storage container. It was a really fun time, but I didn't have the discipline to run a proper business. I did a lot of #recording, and there's a long story there, but suffice to say I got kicked out.
I had a couple stints at other studios in my 20s of varying quality. But to pay the bills, I picked up a job as a cable guy. That job went very well. I'm still at that company in a leadership role and it's sustained my entire life since.
Eventually I met my now-wife 12 years ago. We have two kids. Life is really good right now. But music got totally left behind in the process. I couldn't balance playing in bands, recording, working, and being a proper husband and father. It just became working and being a proper husband and father.
There's been a huge part of me missing for a decade because I couldn't balance it. I have so many half-done projects, and still have friends waiting for me to finish mixes we started years ago. I got very depressed and almost sold all my shit -- I actually listed a couple things on ebay and one sold, but I chickened out and didn't ship it (got the ebay slap on the wrist too lol).
I didn't mention that I also had a fascination with coding from a young age that I didn't properly explore, but it ended up helping me fall into #crypto and then #bitcoin a few years ago. Roundabout, I found #nostr, and very recently, #stemstr.
So I posted a song on Stemstr a couple weeks ago called "Room for Error," one of the few I had allowed myself to begin working on over the past couple years. I really liked it and didn't want it to die, so I put it up and thought "hey everyone, here's a thing I did. This site is cool."
To my amazement, almost immediately @`Gek`and @`manlikekweks`dropped VERSES for it. I was like WTF. This song is suddenly a thing again.
What followed was an invite to produce a beat for nostrcypher. I pulled out one I wrote like 20 years ago. And last night I was posting Alpha 3 on Stemstr with loads of community contributions on it: https://stemstr-client-ten.vercel.app/thread/887c9552f7ef2fa2118ae52eaddec0584d9527a5917bdb640026649376c6657c
Guys, I'm in heaven. I feel awakened. The huge missing piece of me is filling in. And it's all thanks to the nostr community. Thank you all. And especially, thank you to the army of #devs putting in all the good work. You are changing lives.
TLDR: I have music in my soul that I lost over the years, and nostr is bringing it back to life.
#grownostr
Similar paths! Thanks for sharing your story.
Very good~