Today I feel thankful for nostr. It’s not perfect, but it’s a small life raft in a sea of people who want to control what you say and think. Not sure where I would be without this place, probably depressed on twitter watching the latest doom&gloom video that got injected into the top of my feed. Thanks for sticking it out here for this long! It’s everyone here that makes it worth coming back to every day.

Put together this bot that notifies whenever someone submits new code to damus. This allows me to never open GitHub or email which is nice. nostr is slowly becoming a productivity tool for me. Lots of use cases to explore. nostr:note1wznt5vhv7m9hy8eur98df67jwp3ls54eyrc82lpr3py5du4r7nxqrnm2rn

Asking for a fren.

4.20.23⚡️OnlyZaps

You don’t have to enable OnlyZaps. Its optional. There are plenty of people on the network who still like likes.

I find it bizarre to get upset at someone because they don’t want to receive likes 🤔

Maybe its a false perception that that person is doing it to get more zaps? Zaps are not a like replacement. Reposts and comments are.

Welcome new folks! I’ve been getting these questions a lot in the past couple of days so here we go:

1. What are zaps?

Zaps are receipts of bitcoin lightning payments to posts or profiles on nostr (the name of the underlying protocol). By attaching a lightning address to your profile via a wallet like wallet of satoshi, you can send and receive any amount of money to anyone in the world in under a second. This is all possible without any intermediaries. Its uncensorable money over an uncensorable speech protocol.

2. What are relays and why do we need them?

Relays are regular servers and regular databases. When posting notes or following users, it sends your notes/contact list/profile/etc to multiple relays at once controlled by different people. We do it this way because we believe no one should have the ability to unilaterally deplatform you.

3. How do you make money

Still trying to figure that out.

Study #Bitcoin