Great idea! Got some good ones from different regions to recommend?
Cold beverages and hot conversations = the best.
We will do it!
Very cool. Whatās going on there at the moment? I mean, I know thatās sort of an impossible question to ask, since itās a whole country of many places, towns and cities. But whatās going on that the rest of the world should know about.
This, by the way, is one of the most important uses of Nostr, in my opinion: to give voice to the suppressed.
Yeah! To me it feels shaggy and sproinging with new possibilities.
Halloo, my friend! Glad to see youāre experimenting with Nostr. Iām relatively new here but I am very happy it exists and is developing and being developed.
Personally I think heās just trying to maximize the grift and attract maximally gullible noobs and rubes so he can pump his BSV bags, not so different from Richard Heart with HEX.
Oh man, BVM, thank you! I really enjoyed this one. Gotta give a big thanks to the other Andrew Bailey (the philosopher/Bitcoiner) for suggesting this one.
You know what? I had kind of a mental āsea changeā listening to a Jeff Booth podcast about three months ago. Canāt remember which one (there are so many!). In it he was talking about the kind of engagement Bitcoiners have with legacy finance people and he was explaining that bitterness and vitriol is kind of an irrelevant response because they either just ignore Bitcoiners or dig in harder in their prejudices against us.
So since then Iāve been *trying* (not always succeeding) to be less caustic and more ābemusedā in the tone in my letters. I also tried it with the letter to the New York Times that I wrote in May. I actually *feel* better in my heart (not so angsty) afterwards.
Smaller thick book rocks. Paper or hardbackā¦ itās cool either way.
The letter is also available on my Substack: https://cosmocrixter.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-andrew-bailey-governor
Posted this Open Letter two days ago on Twitter, but with the way things are going, who knows if my Twitter account will last or be taken down because Iām a rabble rouser. So Iām also posting it here. Anyway, this is my most recent Open Letter and itās to the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey. As a Bitcoiner and node runner, Iām addressing him banker to banker. 
I'm a Linux beginner and already I feel a deep affinity. Open sourced software to heal the world.
Simon & Garfunkel
What you are saying makes good sense. I guess a decent intermediary step towards full Nostr functionality on iphone could be the hobbled zapless version. And users can find out that users on other platforms can express value freely and openly, and be sad, and perhaps push apple to change their silly ways.
I understand your position, but I'd rather use Nostr on Iris in a web browser on iphone (or use Android or desktop) and send zaps that way to enjoy the full functionality of Nostr. It seems like capitulating to me to say "okay, we won't express value on a system that was designed to allow us to express value."
Disagree, Stu. I don't think quarter should be given to totalitarians.
