Sky looked like a Turner painting today 🖌️

Meanwhile in the land down under, someone is patiently waiting for their dinner 🦘😂💜💜

I wonder if I have the flu. I worked for two hours today then had to go back to bed because I was weak AF. At this point I just need to continue to ride it out. I haven't done much besides sleep in my bed the last 3 days.

Are there stats anywhere on how many click ‘show anyway’ ?

FIREPLACE QUESTION

WHAT IS THIS?

It slides left and right a hair, seemingly opening and closing a vent. But there's no exhaust there, it's just some kind of compartment. No clue what it does. Open when fire or closed when fire? Anyone?

#asknostr

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11 years ago, snowden put everything on the line to expose the surveillance state. not only is the government spying on its citizens and storing all data for future access, every big tech company is in on it too.

11 years ago we were told about this.

your ip address on nostr does not matter. the entire digital world is owned.

educate yourself, determine your threat model, move accordingly. the internet is the birthplace of surveillance capitalism.

So there's this progression. First you see something like Cashu when you say, "Oh, it's a custodial lightning wallet with better privacy for users and no accounts." And then you realize, "Oh, I can use this to pay someone who is offline. I just send them a string and that’s the ecash note.” And then you realize, "Oh, this works over long range radio with very low bandwidth. And then you realize, oh, if we trust the same mint, we can actually use it to route lightning payments without open channels to the mint (the channel is the trust). And we can use it as a lightning wallet for ourselves. And then you can say, oh, we can create these community mints for “islands” that are not connected to the internet.

And then you realize, "Oh, there can be more than one Uncle Jim, and we don't have to trust this one person. We can have shared custody, and this thing has better privacy." And suddenly you realize you are were not expecting anything like this at all when you first saw it, when it began. It has completely different implications than what I was expecting previously.

It's the same with Nostr. It's like, "Oh, this is not a very good protocol. It depends on a few relays and you can’t even store images on it and who would use it." And it's cumbersome. Now there are blogging platforms and communities and marketplaces and AI communicating over it. And there's this innovation that no one was expecting when they first started. It was like thinking about the protocol and trying to judge it by its design, but its use (and implications) is discovered, not designed. Same way you can send a calendar invite over email, or do encrypted group chats over it (DeltaChat).

It’s interesting to see, how we use technologies that in theory should not have worked, but in practice, they do. Bitcoin is one of them. The probability of its success was very low.

A friend of mine said in a podcast with me that Bitcoin’s risk adjusted value is actually better than a decade ago. Yes, you could have bought cheap Bitcoin. But its success back then was very improbable. Now you are buying the asset of the parallel financial system, back then, it was a membership card in a club of geeks. After several that have failed…

Will MiniBits be available on F-Droid?

Just easier that way for non-google android phones then manually installing the apk & updating.

When CTV?

#Bitcoin adoption here is so high.

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#Bitcoin adoption here is so high.

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But to exchange that much gold the same argument applies, the need for channels of communication and security, or use a custodial company.