Some lucky person just became a millionaire by opening a pack of cards for the game Magic The Gathering. According to reports It’s a 1/1 card of “The One Ring,” meaning there’s only one like it in the entire world.
Rich fans have been offering up to two million actual dollars for it, which is roughly 68 Bitcoin at current rates.
Crazy to think some piece of cardboard would be worth that much
https://gizmodo.com/magic-the-gathering-the-one-ring-card-lord-of-the-rings-1850595558
Post Malone likely rich. So to him the price might not be a lot. Plus rare magic cards have only increased in value over time.
I think it's a part of the human condition to appreciate pieces of nostalgia and sentimentality. Some people will pay more for this.
Just popped in to sift thru some post Diaz/Paul post fight chatter. I like the aggregation of trending topics for the breaking news and top issues. It's been unmatched historically. I was watching covid begin in China over Twitter before most people in my immediate circle. Also cool to see random celebs or popular figures converse about topics I like, for example the fight this evening.
Nostr doesn't have any of that tbh. So principles aside. I keep X/Tweet installed.
*Diaz *greeted
Opened Twitter/X to see some post Nate Disz vs. Jake Paul fight chatter. Was gretted with this. Um... interesting take. 🤔🥴
Super helpful. I've been learning more and more about coinjoins, mixers etc but keep coming back to Blockstreams Liquid. Yes, there's trust involved. But there also is with hot wallet mixers. This is where Liquid wins, in my limited understanding of the backend code... blockstream is Adam Backs, and he's super legit from all accounts. An old school cypherpunk. IMO Liquid is low key very powerful. The fees are ridiculously cheap and it seems like a decent way to coinjoin.
I keep coming back to this. Sparrow and Wasabi wallet seem like decent iterations but without having the acumen to vet the back end code, I'd gravitate to trustchain of an original Bitcoin guy like Adam. Throw this post of Stacker and I'm sure it'll garner a tonne of Sats.
Lol, love the grandiosity of this, yet... it's not implausible.
Biggest question. Will there be a Pope?
Also, X/Twitter IMO isn't that 'right'. It feels pretty balanced more than not. Same with Threads.
I'm speaking in reference to users and feel. Not backend algos.
Reducing this issue down to a binary answer is actually not helping. No more tribalism plz! How we frame things matters.
A bit reductionist, but I get the drift overall.
Nostr is a pinch of chaos at the moment comprised of lateral, contrarian, dreamy, tradiontal, futuristic thinkers.
The gravitas and power of #Nostr feels so heavy right now. Back in Spring it was like a fun theme park. Now it feels much more important. In many facets.
The biggest push seems to be how to get normies to care about Web5 and these decentralized ideas. #educstion #care #empathy #freedom #censorship
Cross posting / gateway between social media protocols is an important way for open protocols to get critical mass. I just came back across the micro.blog service that has support for activitypub, bluesky, and now nostr!
https://www.manton.org/2023/05/31/introducing-nostr-crossposting.html
Great concept... web5 fully realized is everything is streamlined, cross compatible and fully customizable.
Friends who realize you’ll never take the time to do it yourself so they book a mani/pedi for you and pick you up 😍😍⚡️ love you nostr:npub17da4z8u5tgygzwu52vtm54fhcsjs77gdvzgqyrk765ha0yuu363s6jfr79
Wholesome 🫂
*informed, researched and empathetic opinions.
Woah. Cool look into your work flow. Stay on it 🤙
"Meta data trend setter".
Yes. I like that hahaha check out nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 s post about dxos. It's over my head but I think speaks to some of what we're experiencing and change we're hoping for.