I spent several hours tonight in an Ordinals Space speaking with them. It was me versus 12 Ordinal fans. I felt like I was in enemy territory.

I mentioned during the space that I don't want my financial transactions sitting next to an image on the Bitcoin timechain.

I mentioned that I don't feel right about Ordinals and Inscriptions essentially taking up 4X the block space, but not paying 4X the fees. They are consuming valuable space, but not providing the value to the miners. They're getting a discount and that's not right, because it feels like an oversight or an exploit. They're abusing the system.

I mentioned that Bitcoiners want to help the developing world by providing them with financial freedom. We don't want to draw all over them.

My main concern was that there are several worrying trends that are starting to pop up and we aren't even two weeks into this yet. I hope that if this trend continues that the Ordinal and Inscription fans will come together with the vast Bitcoin community and fix the problem before it gets worse.

Their main counterpoint was that Bitcoin is free speech and that includes artwork. While I don't fully agree there, I understand that argument. I also understand that no one controls Bitcoin and Bitcoin can do whatever it and people want it to do.

While I do not agree with all of this, I am looking at this as a win for Bitcoin. Yes, it's actually good for Bitcoin. I have had a dozen Ethereum maxis DM me so far and ask me how to run a Bitcoin node and how to run a Lightning node. I'm looking at this as an orange pilling moment. This is how we win.

Goodnight. PV!

Where can I get a good icon for each relay?

I was told umbrel sucks, true or nah?

What is Umbrel up to? Selfhosted relays? Selfhosted nostr client? both?

The inconsistency of Google's approval process is mind-blowing. It's as if they don't see what every other reviewer has already asked. 🫤

Our track record is that if I send the version at 11pm, it passes. If I send during the day, it doesn't.

Last version was accepted for Beta release and rejected for Production 6 hours later. It's exactly the same file. I didn't even uploaded it again. Same Google policies apply to both. It's 🤯

I was thinking this yesterday. I had to scroll down global 1-2 days to find a note that came to mind. I didn’t remember who posted it, and didn’t follow the user. A bookmark would be great

I miss being able to save or archive notes like this. I don't know if it is something that has already been implemented in other clients.

**Lightning is the hidden killer feature of Nostr**

Yes, being censorship resistant and decentralized are both incredibly important, but most people won't realize why those two aspects are needed and important until it's too late. That's why I keep saying that the Bitcoin Lightning network and how it's tightly integrated into various aspects of Nostr are *the* hidden killer features. It's a way to micro-dose orange pill users onto Bitcoin in a friction-less and stress free, and fun manner.

I've had dozens of Nostr Plebs customers reach out to me over the past 5 weeks and tell me that they've never used Lightning, that they've never downloaded a Lightning wallet, or that they've had a Lightning node, but never opened channels. These Nostriches are now setting up their nodes, they're opening channels, and they're sending sats from their Lightning wallets to strangers around the globe - in seconds, with minimal fees, and no third parties are involved!

Keep the Lightning "Tips" are "Zaps" flowing. It's a great way to on-board new users. Even if it's just a few sats, it's always appreciated and always welcomed. It brings smiles to the faces of plenty of Nostriches.

short for bullshit

I’d say we are probably not far from a bitcoiner critical mass off twitter.

Also twitter new algo making the home feed too “dark”, grumpy, angry. I think ppl are getting burned out there.

Theoretical exercise:

Lets imagine that you are put in a bunker, with no TV access, no social networks, no internet mempool explorers or anything.

But you have a Bitcoin node with internet capabilities only to receive blocks/payments and make queries.

How would you know that what you receive is real #bitcoin?

No se que es lo de 101. Tiendo a las parrafadas, en resumen: "explicame Nostr como si fuese un chaval de 15 años"

Like a Nostr 101?

I own nostr.website

Any idea what to do with it? 🤔

I think it's a good time to ask it again:

what has been your go to nostr client in the last 2 weeks?