GM ☀️ What's better than one color t-shirt to choose from?

I'm in one of those 'I need to create more stuff' moments.

Currently thinking of simple Sovereign Electronics worker shirts. You know, as if you're part of the staff.

Would be a very limited run, probably around 50 shirts. Maybe I'll set up a zapgoal to cover some of the costs.

Interested? Not interested? Let me know ✌️

hey nostr, can anyone help me figure out how I can host some Bitcoin meetups in Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam over the next few weeks/month or so?

yep. Europe will have everything the US has

we also should be one of the cheapest places to stack sats immediately as well from what i’ve heard

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?

do we need more education around bitcoin forks, consensus, the role of nodes, etc.?

Bitcoin education has gotten so much better but maybe we’re a bit underinvested in education around how the network itself works? very important. we the market determine its future

i’ve collected a bunch of tweets over the last week regarding open source devs killing bitcoin. going to spend this Mailbag Monday episode dispelling what seems to be a lot of misunderstanding.

curious if yall have any thoughts or requests before i record

Merry Christmas dear #plebs! May your holidays be filled with joy, love, and bullish #bitcoin  conversations! 🎄🌟 💜

Frohe Weihnachten liebe #plebs! Mögen eure Feiertage mit Freude, Liebe und bullischen Bitcoin-Gesprächen gefüllt sein! 🎄🌟 💜

#MerryChristmas #FroheWeihnachten

Us on #Christmas:

🎄 Die erste Tür wird geöffnet

Auf Twitter gibt es nichts zu gewinnen, nur hier auf Noster. Good luck! 🍀

In der ersten Tür wartet das komplettes Einundzwanzig Magazin Set mit allen drei Ausgaben und ein Sticker Set von @Hodlcat21 auf euch.

Einfach hier kommentieren

investment real estate is a shitcoin

- can be rugged by local governments incredibly easily

- lack of liquidity, hard to buy or sell quickly

- overvalued due to decades of people trying to escape the losing purchasing power of their shitty money

- will trend to zero when priced in bitcoin

owning your own land is the exception - can still be rugged and will also lose value over time but can provide significant benefits for family security and well being

Did y'all see this one…

good morning nostr, freedom tech is hope 🫡

good morning nostr, freedom tech is hope 🫡

We are studying this.

If we do, it will follow same model as bitkey and mining hardware. nostr:note146d8pnasc9adnwfdgapdx29vl47urtduy39pd2gvwyytk2gefm3qpw8kfj

Ok this has some UX issues and the name isn’t great but overall pretty solid. Going to move more of my signal conversations here. nostr:note1g5l7s2433554veddkajkqsg629e0nfpl64vjzeht8uj542lwdvhqdgcx78