That's his Nostr profile, right? Unless I'm being dumb, it doesn't verify it's him

Excited to be on Nostr and engage with the community. Many shared ideas!

To pay for university and my travels, I spent ten years working in the bush. We were a roving band of gypsies. We would move camp every few weeks. A cook would make us meals from a kitchen trailer and we pulled a shower shack. Most would sleep in tents and the rich folk would have vans or truck campers.

There were usually about 60 people in camp. 60% male and 40% female. We would wake up at 5:30 to a truck horn, to frozen ground, and the smell of bacon.

The work attracted many different types of people, because you could make a lot of money in a short period of time and then head back to your “real” life. There were some like me who loved it so much that they extended the season and worked for 6 months.

There were musicians, photographers, ski bums, Canadian national ski racers, students, African migrants, travellers and even a few criminals. Evenings were spent around a fire dancing, singing, and exploring the world without any inhibitions or expectations. Days off were spent by a river, a dugout sauna on the beach, and naked frolics through the forests. Sometimes on beds of moss.

We were free. The locations of the places we went provided us with freedom, but it was also the people. It was the lack of apprehensions, expectations, and the willingness to coexist with people I would have never been exposed to otherwise.

I’ve never been able to recreate this feeling or experience. I’ve been searching for something like it for the past 15 years.

I’ve always lived my life in the “real” world and have always sought to feel and experience as much as I could.

Bitcoin brought me here, but it’s not why I stay. I stay because I’m back in the bush. I’m with my band of gypsies, around the campfire making music. I didn’t think I would find it again but here we are.

Someday you may learn that man is only an ego. Both are mortal.

We are more than the human vessel within us all.

They own a sat that came to a wallet address from a tx hash that has data to form a jpeg.

At the end of the day a sat is a sat. The value of the history of how it got there is subjective, but it has zero utility. Physical collectables are arguably more valuable because at least trading cards are still actual paper.

They're not inherently bad but they are only worth what people will pay for them. My guess is 99% of what people will pay over zero is all speculative gambling. Degenerates.

What would you choose?

This too shall pass.

What worries me is that it can be easily instigated again by those with deep pockets.

I would love to hear why that would not be the case.

This has always been good advice but more so now

I think this could also tie into gifting a paid relay, but the note has to be stored somewhere the client can grab it with out a pubkey yet so onboard (where the note is stored) & bootstrap (possibly a pre paid gifted relay) would be separate tags.

A paid relay / filter that gives users sats back on purchases

been looking through my legacy new media following, definitely some people I could pitch

Could we have a way to compose personalized onboarding workflows

option to include a specific bootstrap relay

auto-follow inviter

maybe 3-10 suggested follow accounts

some I might point towards accounts that are focused on censor-resistant side

Some I might point towards stemstr & other musicians

some I might point towards habla & long form writers

Exaclty, hence why im struggling to see why it would: “possibly eroding trust”

I’m not sure if we’ve considered all of the implications of mixing money with social, but it’s a fun experiment regardless.

The people that say zaps are the new likes… I like your adventurous spirit, but feel maybe there’s more to money and social than meets the eye.

When you introduce money into an app which doesn’t have a primary goal of sending money, it can get weird in terms of social dynamics and perception.

For example, content may become tailored towards getting zaps, drowning out other types of interactions and possibly eroding trust and cooperation between people.

There’s also the weird dynamic of comparison. Even if you don’t try to, your mind may drift into “oh, they are making more than me on their notes”. I know likes elicit a similar feeling of envy (even if you are not actively envious), but I am curious how money changes things. I don’t have all the answer and suspect there are deep psychological implications.

There may be misalignment of goals as well. This is already evident now where we have some people who are solely focused on stacking. We have automated accounts who post AI generated work that wasn’t created by them — presumably for the sake of stacking sats (otherwise why not credit?) And this is just the start. I don’t know how many of you are familiar with Steemit, but it’s basically a shitcoin website that monetizes content. If you go to the site now, it’s a steaming pile of shit. I doubt anyone actually reads anything. Maybe a few.. but you don’t see this website in the headlines or popping up on any meaningful channels online. As far as the world is concerned it’s invisible. Not saying zap-powered content will end up in the same boat, but there are probably lessons to be learned there and things we can observe.

Social serves a larger goal than just weeding out signal in noise. Not everything needs to provide value all the time. People come to be heard, to feel part of a group, to laugh, to hate… and none of those things involve money. I’m not saying they couldn’t, but we don’t know the full consequence of introducing money into these types of interactions.

I’m not advocating for something being right or wrong or how to do this or that, but more generally curious about the intersection of social and money. I’m here for the ride to see how things play out and how the world reacts to it. 

If you have any knowledge on this subject (psychology of money in social interactions), I’d love to hear your thoughts and perspective.

Freedom is messy and it isn’t always safe. People need to stop worrying about protecting new #nostr users from this or that topic or feature. Let everyone who tries Nostr be as free as you were to enjoy and discover it. Just help them when they need it.

I have no way to know if this is a brilliant idea or a terrible idea.