It helps to have good controls and good partnerships on your supply chain. Times are a changing

Honestly, working in Supply Chain has never been better. Embrace the chaos

One of the great tragedies of life is that there is no money to be made in bitcoin purity

“Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”

Gm

I've wish Nostr had different metrics, something new for a new protocol. Followers is something borrowed from legacy social media. It makes it like a game to build that number higher.

How about stats that focus on interaction and building community?

Other npubs conversed with per week/month, or comment reprocity % - am I active in the community, actually conversing with people, or just posting notes and not interacting?

Number of mutual follows - am I just collecting follows? Or am I engaging with people and building connections?

Post vs comment ratio - am I just posting notes, or am I also getting involved with other people?

GM 🔥 (it's 9 o'clock somewhere!)

🤣🫂

The GM came first then Jack enlightened us with the PV.

If legacy social media gamified the worst parts of human nature to maximize screen time and serve ads, how can Nostr do the same with the best parts and encourage community, communication, and connection?

#asknostr #grownostr

I went to the Ramses the Great exhibition.

#japan

I just saw John Stamos

Need merchants to realize that bitcoiners are a powerful customer base to lean into.

Wine is fragile and difficult to ship.

Bitcoin is volatile internet money.

Neither seemed like a foundation for a business—

until I found my best customers: Bitcoiners.

🧵 How I took my winery from zero to all-in:

2021

I’d just started selling my wine at farmers markets.

One day, a guy asked, “Do you accept crypto?”

I said, “I’ll take your bitcoin,” and had no idea how I’d actually do that.

He walked away.

But it stuck in my mind.

The first person who ever asked.

I was a Bitcoiner, but didn’t think that had anything to do with wine.

Bitcoiners were 0% of my sales.

2022

I joined Twitter. Went to my first Bitcoin conference.

And the people in it? They were my people.

Honest. Curious. Genuine. Driven.

A few folks started asking if they could buy wine with bitcoin.

I said yes—not because I saw a business opportunity.

I just wanted more bitcoin.

I added a little Bitcoin logo to my wine bottles.

Put up a “Bitcoin Accepted Here” sign at the farmers market.

But that was mostly for my own obsession.

I mostly had old men come up and warn me about bitcoin’s volatility.

But sometimes, real ones would trickle through.

One woman saw the sign and said:

“You accept Bitcoin?? I HAVE TO GO GET MY HUSBAND.”

I could tell she was married to someone who couldn’t stop talking about bitcoin, like me.

Sure enough, I now consider him a friend.

Bitcoin sales still felt more like a fun side quest than a real channel.

Bitcoiners were ~10% of my sales.

2023

This is when I felt the shift.

Early in the year, bitcoin sales started covering my living expenses.

By the holidays, the momentum was undeniable.

Still not everything—but enough to make me pay attention.

Bitcoiners weren’t just buyers.

They were thoughtful. Loyal. Fun to talk to.

It didn’t feel like marketing—it felt like alignment.

Bitcoiners were ~50% of my sales.

2024

Things got wild.

I released Satoshi’s Reserve, a wine I’d quietly been setting aside since 2021.

The auction blew past anything I’d seen before.

In dollar terms, it beat the entire prior year of online sales.

Then I dropped HIGHER, my second bitcoin-focused wine.

Another record. Same story:

Enthusiasm. Loyalty. People telling other people to support me.

Meanwhile, I was still at farmers markets.

Twelve-hour days every weekend.

Pitching the same story to strangers who’d never come back.

Bitcoiners were showing up, rebuying, and selling for me.

That made the decision easy.

Bitcoiners were ~75% of my sales.

2025

No more farmers markets.

No more trying to reach “everyone.”

I’m all in on Bitcoiners now.

I’ll probably make less money this year.

But I’ll be fired up by everything I do.

And I’ll have complete alignment between my job and my mission.

Selling wine for bitcoin isn’t just good business.

It feels like doing my part to make the world better.

And the fact that I get to do that with wine from my family vineyard?

That’s about as soul-filling as it gets.

Bitcoiners didn’t just become my best customers.

They joined my mission.

Bitcoiners have high expectations, are discerning and HATE deception, but if you have that, then they are dying to become your best customers.

Plant a Flag.

Bitcoin Preferred.

PeonyLaneWine.com 🍷

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film: Ilford panf 50

#photography #keepfilmalive #believeinfilm

#dave was going to be our april fools joke but the more I work on it the more I realize how amazing this is as an anonymous lightning LLM frontend. I totally went offroad and am 100% focused on making working on a prototype instead.

dave is the nostr assistant variant in damus, but there's no reason we couldn't have a standalone iphone/android app that uses this backend as well. starting to think this is a bigger product than damus itself.

i "downgraded" to an iPhone 16e.

i’ve learned:

- always-on screen is dumb

- dynamic island is dumb

- camera button is dumb

- new modem is great

- one camera is fine

- magsafe is dumb

- titanium is dumb

- battery is great

- 60hz is fine

Right.... is this just "digital gold" for "number go up", or is this actually something people will use to pay for actual things in meatspace?

That's the question.