I love Nostr more every day!

Why do I feel that having 10,000 followers here is much more

meaningful than having 200,000 on X?

Also, I'm not following enough people here, tell me why is posting the most valuable content here so I can follow them...

I made a mistake during my Bitcoin lecture last week in the university of Bologna. One I’m not going to repeat. I assumed something. And I shouldn’t have.

Since I was talking about my job, I told the students that a big part of it is debunking myths around Bitcoin...

You know, the usual stuff: Bitcoin is a Ponzi, it’s going to zero, it’s killing the planet. I built like 15 slides for this. I was ready to fight. Ready to debunk every single one of them, one by one.

So I asked them: “What’s something negative you’ve heard about Bitcoin?”

Silence. No one raised their hand. No one mentioned pollution. No one said anything about volatility or scams. These were 22 years old, curious, open-minded, and genuinely there to learn. They didn’t have myths to unlearn.

So there I was, spending the next 20 minutes talking about gas flaring, carbon-negative mining, and all the reasons Bitcoin is not what “they” say it is. But “they,” in this case, didn’t even exist. The only person bringing up those narratives was me.

And that’s when it hit me. All these years in the Bitcoin scene have trained my brain to always be on the defensive. To expect resistance. To anticipate criticism. And that mindset slowly killed a part of the joy I used to feel when I first learned about Bitcoin.

Back then, no one had told me it was bad. I just found it exciting, revolutionary, empowering. My brain wasn’t busy filtering negative takes it was busy being amazed.

That beginner’s energy, that childish awe, that sense of discovering something precious, it’s something I want to reconnect with. I don’t want to be the person who walks into a room full of open minds and immediately starts talking about the bad things people say.

I want to talk about freedom from banks and government, creativity, women empowerment, potential. I’m not saying I’ll stop responding to critics when necessary. But I want to stop assuming that everyone is a critic.

There are way more people out there who are just curious, interested, open to learning, than there are loud contrarians I’ll never change the mind of anyway.

From now on, I want to speak to the curious ones. Not the ghosts in my head.

you are a retarded copedriver

GM, Twatter is now stopping the Wayback Machine from archiving content, have I mentioned that I hate this place

boycott all scientific journals that aren't open access

Gm to bizarrely sunny bedford 🌞

Time to sweat out yesterday’s madness on stage 🕺

Where do you get custom or generic icons for your software? #asknostr

I may have don't the math wrong

A 20% tariff on wine sounds simple.

But in the U.S., wine moves through a system designed to multiply cost:

Producer → Importer → Distributor → Retailer → You

Each layer adds its margin.

So when the base price goes up, the whole chain compounds it.

Here’s how imported wine moves through the system:

→ Producer sells the wine for $10

→ Importer adds 35% → $13.50

→ Distributor adds 30% → $17.55

→ Retailer adds 40% → $24.57

That’s how a $10 bottle becomes $25—before any tariff.

That’s just the system.

Now let’s add a 20% tariff to that $10 bottle:

→ Producer + tariff = $12

→ Importer markup → $16.20

→ Distributor markup → $21.06

→ Retailer markup → $29.48

The price didn’t rise by just $2.

It rose almost $5—because each step adds margin to a higher base.

That’s the multiplier effect.

This system what put in place after Prohibition.

The government banned direct sales to control alcohol.

They split the chain into tiers to make it easier to tax and track.

It’s not efficient. But it is law.

And that’s just the sales chain.

Even American wine relies on foreign parts.

Most bottles come from China.

Most corks come from Portugal.

Many barrels come from France.

So tariffs raise production costs here too.

A $10 bottle doesn’t become $30 because of a tariff.

It becomes $30 because of the system.

Tariffs just amplify the effect.

If this helped explain wine pricing in America,

please like or repost to help spread the word.

Tomorrow: how we ended up relying on foreign glass.

Fiat Food leads to chronic disease

Fiat Money leads to this current mess

Where else is Fiat destroying human happiness?

#bitcoin conferences are always full of politicians, statists fiat normies, web3 blockchain shitcoiners, and devs pushing for all kinds of new protocol forks. The worst of the worst, and absolutely zero cypherpunk vibes.

Should I try nix?

Walking Thoughts:

The idea that Ai will take over everything and humans will have nothing to do is the same as saying there will be nothing left to learn.

Currently, all Ai is trained on words, images, code, and tools that humans have produced. This is sort of fundamental to what Ai is in its current structure. Without human input there is no Ai.

But in reality there is an infinite amount to learn, and what can be learned actually EXPANDS with new technology, it does not contract.

— What I think it actually means for how our economy changes:

In the coming decades, if you aren’t actively learning something new and producing/testing results of those new ideas, then you most likely aren’t producing any value. Our job as humans may end up being to brute force our different corners and perspectives of the world to produce information that can train Ai. (Imagine it like everyone contributing their own little piece to a giant code repository). The uniqueness of our perspectives and our applications of them will provide unique counter/supporting data for building models of everything in our world.

Just my random 2 sats

I haven't done true web development in 20 years. Back then, I used to use PHP includes for headers, footers, and the main body. Generally, the header and footer were static, pulling in some basic information like title and tags, active page etc. The body and content would be pulled in from another page. What are some modern methods of doing this for basic website design. I see people mention using 11ty or Astro for this today. I know nothing about it. What do you use?

Use apps instead of websites. Use local LLM instead of search engines. Use RSS feeds for all your news/blogs/articles/changelogs.