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Making bitcoin more than an investment.

What separates Nostr from other social media platforms isn’t that it’s decentralized or censorship-resistant, it’s that everyone is really nice on here.

Heading to the mempool.

Bitcoin is the first currency made by consensus instead of commandment.

We’re trying not to cross-post content between Nostr and Twitter, but since the Nostr community is 3,000,000% more likely to understand what’s going on in our quarterly updates, we’re giving ourselves a cheat day: https://spiral.xyz/blog/spiral-quarterly-update-q4-2023/

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Nah. Never got around to it. Don’t think there would have been huge demand for them.

These bitcoin mining and security myth-dispelling children's books never took off when we originally posted them on Twitter. We think they’ll do better here since, even at its peak, Twitter never had Nostr’s fortitude and commitment to the cause. https://bitcoinmythology.org/

We have a document that’s as old as our grant program. It has rough and final announcement copy for every bitcoin grant we’ve given since the first. As of today, it is 101 pages long. Our grant program is a novella long.

You don’t hear enough about how profoundly hopeful the bitcoin community is. It is tech’s most hopeful sector and the only one that can use the “we want to make the world a better place” cliche without even a trace of cynicism.

A little known secret of bitcoiners is that although they want bitcoin to conquer fiat, what they really want is to spend four days wandering around a major city with a giant, anthropomorphic bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvHUOr8ruMw&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo

Cross-posting here so no one misses the only thing in a while worth missing about Twitter.

Grant renewal. @bitcoin_design community pillar @mogashninaidoo is a UX researcher, believer in open source/working in public, and blogger at https://mogashni.substack.com/. Her plan for grant #2 is to “go into the ecosystem” and test the UX Research Toolkit she built with grant #1.

The problem with publishing a popular quarterly blog post is that people will expect you to keep publishing it. So here it is, back and longer than ever, with more links than ever, detailing every good and bad thing that we’re involved with: https://spiral.xyz/blog/spiral-quarterly-update-q3-2023/