Think it will work?

Taxation IS greed.

It is literally the desire to extract money by force, justified by the arrogant belief that your chosen cause is "too important" to leave others free to choose. There is nothing more arrogant & greedy than believing you know better & can force others to serve your ends. It is people who think exactly like YOU who are the problem. Your argument demonstrates that you're the greedy control freak who wants to treat others like children.

You might believe it's security that is too important, others believe it's climate change or healthcare. You are all operating under the same belief that your values trump the property rights & freedom of everyone else.

A reporter emailed at 5 pm on Friday requesting a comment for their article. They gave 3 hours to respond before publishing.

I honestly don't know why you'd even bother reaching out unless you wanted to be able to disingenuously print "he didn't respond when asked for comment."

How can we encourage the allen to post higher standard things more on nostr

Every fucking day I lose money to this shit, I can't take it much longer

100% of fraud risk is on the merchants

After I already shipped the product I get money taken back plus a $15 dispute fee.

This system is fucking TRASH

Bedford is the top citadel at the moment.

I don’t make the rules.

Got some ideas on that killer feature, coming at it from someone more on the “outside” and not as technical as all of you.

Publishing thots on highlighter next week 🤝

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

WAZZAA WAZZAAA WAZZAAAA WAZZAAAA NOSTR

I managed to login to primal without accidentally leaking my nsec 🎉😅

Allen what’s going on with Scotland. I thought yall liked freedom

I'm used to reading stuff that you put out. Listening to you in interviews is weird.

Btw I'm a few chapters into Bitcoin is Venice. It's a tough read and I love it precisely because of that.

Welcome to the club of 10 Beyoncé fans on Nostr sir!

cowboy carter is 🔥