Bought my first cast iron pan 🍳 yesterday.

A small one, just for eggs.

How does one take care of it? Total newb here.

Same here. Also damus relay. Weird.

The ending 😂😂😂

0% interest rate under a bitcoin standard doesn't mean money would be free. You totally missed his point.

Yes, government control and surveillance.

It's not so much about relays being "junk".

It's more a question of where do you want to hang out?

You can join a private relay where only you and your friends exist, or a paid relay where only people who paid exist, or a public relay where most people go to.

Or maybe a combination of those. Maybe you only want to read global posts from paid relays but you still want to participate in public relays.

Read about how Nostr works. It's very different from the social media we're used to.

Are you playing around with your relays? Like adding or removing relays?

Perfect, now I see your avatar and overall information. I didn't know who you were hehe.

No, just do a minor change to your bio, change a word or something, and save it. It should publish your bio to the orangepill dev relay.

I can't see your profile picture or your lightning info or anything. You probably joined the orangepill dev relay after setting up your bio. Can you make some edit in your bio so that it publishes those changes to orangepill dev?

Because you're using more relays than me.

If I make post right now, it will only reach about 37 people.

Yes, my followers count went from 250 to 33.

I suppose if I add my old relays again then I would "recover" those followers.

I'm still learning. I have no idea how Nostr is going to scale worldwide with how relays work. Normies are not going to make it lol

Are you reading this on GLOBAL right now?

If you are, please follow me.

I just did a relay cleanup and I'm sticking with only 5 paid relays or so moving forward.

But wait, don't follow me if you think spending bitcoin is bad or if you're ok with KYC.

Check out nostr.band/stats.html

And check out relay.exchange to see a list of paid relays.

Probably better performance from the relay (it only has posts from people who paid for it instead of thousands of spam bots and users) and probably better visibility for your posts in that relay (people using only that relay and not free ones will see your posts more often).

To me it's very simple.

A like means I liked the post.

A zap means I really liked the post.

A comment means I feel the need to say something.

I'm considering switching to paid only relays.

I want to do whatever it takes to improve the quality of my Nostr feed and interactions.

The bitcoin bottom was $15,479 back on November 21st, 2022.

Accept it in your heart and move on with your life.

Make peace with it.

And GFY.

There are some people that don't spend their Bitcoin because it "triggers" a taxable event.

😂😂😂

If you bought a cup of coffee with Bitcoin, why would you tell the IRS about it?

I can understand maybe not buying a house or a car with bitcoin, but come on, you can buy regular stuff with bitcoin. No need to tell anyone about it.

Hahahah this was funny

Looks good on Amethyst.

Mempool back to normal

The Ordinals fad only lasted one month.

I was never worried even in the slightest.

You cannot spend millions of dollars in fees forever.

RIP Ordinals.

How do I filter global to one relay? Can’t see that option on the mobile app.

Mempool is pretty much back to normal. Ordinals is a fad that lasted less than one month.

It's impossible to sustain. They have already paid more than 1 million dollars in fees lol.

Zaps are always welcome of course! I just don't like asking for zaps hehe

STOP!

If you see this note, please like or comment.

I just paid a couple of relays and I'm testing my organic reach.

I have mixed feelings about Nostr so far.

Mempool back to normal.

Ordinals fad didn't even last one month LMAO

It's showing to me buddy, thanks! It says 126 days total. 3 zaps of 42 each.

MY LIST OF RECOMMENDED BITCOIN WALLETS:

This is my opinion only. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of bitcoin wallets out there. With that said, these are the ones I'm sticking with at the moment.

Before we begin, I would like to say one thing: I don't believe you need a hardware wallet if you have less than 0.10 BTC. Hot wallets in general are pretty safe as long as they're open source and/or reproducible. Having people buy hardware wallets when all they have is $800 worth of BTC or so is overkill IMO.

So don't bother with a hardware wallet unless 0.10 BTC represents a lot of money to you and it would be devastating to your well-being if you lose that money.

If you have much more than that, I would probably go with something like 95% cold storage and 5% mobile wallets for regular spending and receiving bitcoin.

With that said, these are the wallets I recommend...

Green Wallet (mobile): Developed by Blockstream. The ideal on-chain wallet for someone starting out. It is fully open source. Allows you to connect to your own node. Allows you to have several wallets (seeds). Very modern and intuitive UX. This is the wallet I have my friends and family members install when they want to begin stacking sats. So if you simply want to buy and hodl, start here.

Samourai Wallet (mobile): For intermediate/advanced users. It's a privacy-focused wallet. On-chain only. Fully open source. This is the wallet you use once you start going down the privacy rabbit hole. It lets you mix your coins with other people coins to eliminate traceability. It spends your coins in a way that make it harder for others to trace you. If you spend your bitcoin regularly and you really care about your privacy, use this wallet.

Phoenix Wallet (mobile): A self-custodial Lightning wallet. This is the one I use for lightning network. Amazing user experience. Intuitive. You control your own keys. Fully open source. Very up to date with bitcoin development. Fast and sexy. What else can I say? Try it out, it's pretty awesome.

BitBox02 Bitcoin Only Edition (hardware): My favorite hardware wallet, the one I recommend to all my friends. Very well designed and easy to use. The developers are extremely transparent and they put a lot of effort to make sure it's as secure as it can be. It has the "anti-klepto" feature which protects you against the nonce covert channel attack. You can create your own seed using dice. It simply ticks all the right boxes for me. The only thing I don't like is how they force you to use an SD card when setting it up. I prefer to store the 24 seed myself.

SeedSigner (hardware): For more advanced users that want to minimize trust as much as possible. It's a DIY wallet, which means you build it yourself using generic hardware. Completely airgapped. Fully open source. Great project overall. The best option if you don't want to "trust" any company. Also good if you want to avoid giving your personal information when purchasing a wallet online.

Sparrow Wallet (desktop): Oh boy, this one is something else. This is the wallet software you use along with your hardware wallet. Absolutely magnificient. Allows you to do pretty much everything, from managing your UTXOs, mixing coins, using multisignature, etc. So it doesn't matter if you have a Trezor, a Coldcard, a BitBox02 or any other device, you simply link it to Sparrow Wallet and voilá, the power is yours. Don't use the software that comes with your hardware wallet (for example, Ledger Live App). Use Sparrow Wallet. It's for intermediate/advanced users, but it's totally worth it. Watch YouTube tutorials if you need to.

That's it, that's the list.

Honorable mention to Zeus Wallet for those that run their own lightning nodes and want complete control and also to Trezor Model One for those that want a hardware wallet but aren't tech savvy at all (ie: boomers).

Hope you liked my post, what's your favorite wallet?

PS/ Before you ask me about Coldcard, I think it's a good option, but it's just not my favorite. It has way too many features that most users don't need. It also has a higher learning curve for the average person getting into bitcoin.

PS2/ I used to recommend Muun Wallet to beginners, but I don't do that anymore. Their lightning network implementation is buggy and problematic. Their backup system has 3 steps and you must do all 3 if you want true self custody. I love their UX and how they make it easier for everyone to use both on-chain and lightning, but I just don't feel it meets the requirements I'm looking for.

Yes, as long as the other person is open minded and willing to listen. Otherwise it's a waste of time.