I can't 😂

He might be coming around.

I would have had no idea what you were talking about

Whoever needs to hear this... the bitcoin community throws a lot at you and can feel overwhelming in terms of shaping your views of everything. You don't need to accept any of it if you don't want to. Stay vegan, ingest seed oils, do all the shit people tell you not to do here, your sense of identity and mental health is more important.

I guess it's a problem to have no signalling which nips are supported by the recipient. Many users are on Damus only and might find the DMs much later if at all.

I had earlier suggested to have a profile field that signals readiness for certain nips but maybe much more helpful would be to signal when a certain nip was actually last used. Instead of me trying out some obscure client once resulting in my profile getting amended with a claim that I now support some obscure feature forever, show "Leo used nip4 recently" or "Leo never signaled to have used nip44 ever. Consider asking via nip4".

While nip4 sending is already trivial to detect for third parties, reading or nip44 is not. As an instant read receipt can be a privacy issue, clients should not signal this instantly or granularly but some daily update on messages being read could be ok from a privacy perspective. It could be updated even absent new messages, so it would signal more the use of a client than the reception of actual messages.

I know at least Amethyst, 0xChat, and Coracle have nip 44 support of some kind. I believe some others have added it as well. I'm not sure how others do it, but in Coracle I merge both types of DMs, and ask the user whether they want to use new or legacy messages. If they've already received a nip 44 from their contact, I just auto-upgrade the conversation. It's a pretty sticky UX problem, I have some ideas for how to improve this but haven't had time for them yet. One being a flag on the user's profile that says "I accept nip 44".

If E pushes the stone, who experiences the worst outcome?

This reframe seems to work.

I am a history buff and can't unsee it.

Reminder ! Hookers and drugs aren’t your friends ! Stay healthy and safe out there 😉

Yes. At least one stack was 50 bills and the others looked no different.

You know what fuck it I'm ordering the large coffee today instead of medium

Yesterday I went to a "cueva" - informal money exchanges in the streets of Buenos Aires. A guy told me the address. A jewelry dealer he said. It was a store front with an all opaque window except for three little boxes featuring three pieces of jewelry. The door was locked and had a button. I pressed the button and was let in and found myself in a tiny entrance, a gated window to my right and another locked door ahead. I was let in again. Inside people were busy counting bills, I actually did see gold jewelry and a young guy sitting at a table was busy slicing silver for another client. Or at least he was clipping strips of some silver color metal sheet. Others came in and left with bags full of bills - near worthless bills of 1000 or 2000 Argentinian Pesos or $1US to $2US.

It was my turn. As they had a big neon Bitcoin sign with the Bitcoin price in USD, I assumed it would be smooth sailing and said I'd like to sell some sats, please. The young guy quoted me a price - a 3% markup - but only wanted stable coin USD. I insisted I don't have that and he asked what wallet I was using - maybe to check if it had a swap to USDt option or something and I kept insisting that I only had BTC and would rather not show him my app (Yeah, Phoenix, please let me hide my balance from the main screen, please). He referred me to another guy in the room and they both were giggling about that hodler they had here.

That's where I felt really not very secure. Around me 3 guys I had to assume were best friends, with two locked door separating me from any public audience. In the end they gave me 400 bills of 500ARS and I asked if they don't have at least the 1k bills. He just smiled and said "it's all yours". Needless to say I was not comfortable counting 400 bills right there, so I left with a stack-of-bills sized paper bag and waited some 10 long minutes for an Uber.

Does anyone have any recommendations on which relays I could add (paid or free) to improve my Nostr experience?

My experience is okay, but some days there is not much happening in my feed. I would also appreciate more non-Bitcoin content.

Maybe people can also share this note so more people can see it and increase the quality of responses. I'll add #introductions & #plebchain so newbies can get a head start.

#asknostr