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Richard
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Founder of Bitcoin Runners and LightningPiggy | Co-founder of the Running Bitcoin Challenge | Running Bitcoin for Hal. Sub-3 marathoner, Chartered Engineer, passionate about freedom tech and proof-of-work.

Lol hopefully, since we’re only a few headlines away from Greenpeace claiming that #bitcoin is “boiling the universe”.

Extract from Normal Island News, The UK's second most reliable news source after Gbeebies…

“I’m going to mark all CIA accounts with dildos, but I’m going to make it so they can’t see the dildos so they don’t know, but we do. I’m going to make it so bot accounts can only see other bot accounts so they troll each other until the heat death of the universe, and I’m going to make it so Elon fans can only see those bot accounts and no one else, so they can engage in discourse with their intellectual equals.”

Laura K

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/twitter-is-getting-a-new-ceo-and?r=x15ao&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Spooky kind of tweet 👻

Anyone here also have a Duolingo habit?

Love the gamification and refined social incentive system other educational platforms need to adopt.

https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Bitcoin3us?via=share_profile

Zone 2 heart rate running. It’s a pleasure while listening to pods, and spending time in nature.

Hi Dave, Thank you for your questions, here are my responses:

1) What is your favorite feature or aspect of Nostr?

The fact it’s a lightweight, easy to integrate, open protocol built for free speech.

2) What improvements or changes would you like to see on Nostr?

* Fast and easy account switching.

* Open and closed group chats with admin functions including the option of skin-in-the-game style (sat based) deposit and reward mechanisms.

* Multi-account hierarchy for deterministic keys, similar to how Bip 44 works, so that it’s possible to have an offine back-up for multiple accounts.

3) What topics and discussions do you enjoy engaging in the most on Nostr?

Bitcoin, memes, daily discord, and keeping in touch with friends.

4) How has Nostr positively impacted your life, if at all?

I spend less time worrying about a ‘big brother’ style despotic future.

5) What are some ways that Nostr could be utilized more effectively to build community and facilitate positive interactions between users?

* The introduction of open and closed group chats as mentioned above.

* Lots of libraries for easy integration with other apps and services.

Good to see corporate media superpowers gently encouraging users over to #nostr

Replying to Avatar Leo Wandersleb

Daniel suggests a nation state could buy enough bitcoin to price out all legit use of the network for a month or 20 by just pegging the fees above $100/tx.

https://twitter.com/csuwildcat/status/1655399304268218369

How realistic or damaging is that? What would happen?

So miners would be happy and expand their capacities for sure but would the price crash? Would adoption drop?

The profitability to mine will usher in new miners, which will increase network security, which will make #bitcoin more valuable.

From a usability perspective, it will drive more users to layer 2 technologies such as Lightning and Fedimint, thereby driving innovation and opening up new markets, which will also make #bitcoin more valuable.

The genius of Satoshi is playing out in real time 🍿

Reflecting on my trip to The Gambia 🇬🇲 What a beautiful, unspoilt, wild country, with incredibly kind, free spirited people.

Thanks to Angelika and Michaela from IN-US* for embracing #bitcoin, and inviting me to present & deliver a workshop with community and business leaders.

There were multiple additional meetings and workshops, with an endless stream of interested parties wanting to learn more.

The Gambian economy is cash based and the currency, the Dalsai, is free-floating and trending to zero relative to the dollar; and we all know where that’s going!

Thanks to the team’s efforts, the event outcomes were as follows:

✅ Local core team formed.

✅ Monthly #Bitcoin meet-up established (first meeting to be held on May 1st and repeated monthly thereafter).

✅ Logo and website WIP.

✅ First hotel to accept bitcoin onboarded.

✅ First group of restaurants and bars identified.

✅ First national visitor experience operator onboarded.

✅ First taxi group onboarded.

✅ First bitcoin ATM planned for the country.

More to come!

The project placeholder links are as follows:

BitcoinGambia.org

Nostr: npub1dzyzfkhcue9gz2plwx666pv90mhrzs4u7ae9lyulpypqehx9szysfqdgkp

*Angelika and Michaela are not active on Nostr (yet).

IN-US: https://www.in-us.world