What is the most valuable thing that you can buy for 1 satoshi?

The peak of stupidity 🤦‍♂️

"Nostr is lacking in content and I believe this could be the primary reason people are not sticking around after trying it."- @Karnage

As a content creator I find Nostr incredibly exciting. This, I believe, is because I find the concept of flash payments incredibly lucrative and a vehicle for fair value exchange of art and written content.

I'm an artist foremost and I draw an enormous amount of satisfaction from simply writing. After several years writing to the void I also like to present it to the world. It would be awesome to entertain other folks and it doesn't get much better than if I can be compensated while doing it. In today's internet I have 3 vectors of approach to get "compensated" for my writing:

1. Write on Medium. I have to pay $5/month to be a member for privilege of "maybe" making money... You can only make money if another member reads your writing. The majority of other members are writers... So naturally, the best performing content is pieces about writing or how to make money on writing. Its ridiculous.

2. Start a substack or subscription service. Again, I have to pay the provider some fee for the "opportunity" to get a newsletter in front of people. I still have to work my own traffic to it. Then, I have to expect people to fork over $5 or $10 to me for my exclusive writing. Not the best vehicle for value exchange because I could just be a shit bag for a few months and you might just forget that you've been paying me!

3. Start my own blog... Not a good option. I have to pay for the domain, pay for a web hosting site like WordPress, then spend more time promoting the website than actually writing. Brand new visitors don't want to spend money right away so I have to find a clever way to sell something like come up with a line of merch. This doesn't sound like writing, its running a business.

And that's just it. Writers, painters, film-makers, most artists of any kind want to make art not necessarily run a business. So if I manage to make someone smile or laugh or fall into a deep thought from something I wrote and they feel like that was worth a couple hundred sats that's fine with me. I'll do my job of growing my network and if I can do that at scale, now I have an opportunity to make decent money and no one is paying an exorbitant fee to consume it. Best of all artists are forced to make content about how to make money as artists to make money. It just sounds so dumb saying it but that is the state of the other platforms right now.

The last balance patch of StarCraft was in 2001. That means you can watch a game that was played 23 years ago and everything will make sense as if it was played today.

If you watch a movie from 2001 and there are prices of things mentioned anywhere you'll have no idea of whether these prices are high or low since inflation has changed the value of money so much in the meantime.

If you open a Nostr note published in 2001 with a client of today you'll still be able to read it without any issues. And if you use a Nostr client written in 2001 you'll still be able to browse the notes people are publishing today.

If Germany, France and the UK assist Ukraine in blowing up the Kerch bridge to Crimea, would be be a fair retaliation for Russia to blow up the chunnel between the UK and France? Would the West accept that as a fair retaliation and de-escalate?

I'm not sure what to think of this, but ever since about 2014 the world's "thinking" has bifurcated. We have narrative bifurcation. On many issues there are two camps with extremely different beliefs. Sometimes I take one side or the other, and sometimes I think that the actual truth is a complex mixture and both camps are wrong, and yet most people fall into one of two camps holding views with little nuance which are severely bifurcated from each other. Some examples:

Trump is a criminal and Putin puppet -vs- Trump is being taken out by the system he threatens

Climate change is real and damaging -vs- Climate change isn't happening or is all for the good

Canola and other seed oils are very healthy -vs- Seed oils are toxic and very unhealthy

Plant based diets are very healty -vs- Carnivore diets are the healthiest

Russia is going to invade Europe next -vs- Russia won't go much further and only wants to disable Ukraine

I'm less interested in these particular topics as I am in the general pattern of having two very different sets of beliefs on so many issues.

I don't remember it being like this in the past.

I'm tempted to conjecture that some outside force is trying to divide the West ideologically in order to collapse it, and is taking advantage of our free speech to do it, and is laughing about it over vodka and baijiu.

My abstinence of an choice is not agreeance.

Sorry, I thought you were advocating that Bitcoin was helping kill, and that sanctions were minimizing death.

Your logic is a bit off. Its kinda like saying i use knifes to spread jam, but they are also used to to kill people. Is it good for knifes?

Bitcoin & knives are both tools, their use regardless of the user’s intentions simply proliferates the tool.

Bitcoin is for enemies.

testing out Strike Europe we just realized our USD/EUR cross-currency payments are way better than Wise and everyone else.

was a total accident. we haven't even spent time optimizing or taking a closer look. we're initially focused on core functionality like buy/sell/dca/free on-chain payments/core lightning wallet/etc

this is just the outcome of Strike having:

USD/BTC <--> BTC/EUR

we also support SEPA instant in Europe and we'll be turning on RTP payments in the US this month. so soon not only can we do cheap & instant USD <> EUR but then customers can also have the payments instantly cashed out to their bank

Lightning as an open value transfer protocol is insane. it still blows my mind every time. crazy to see it all come together too. exciting

Maybe you should spend some time curating who you're following.

Cull some noise & add a little signal.

Sometimes I get the greatest value from notes posted by npubs I generally don't agree with.

Let me make my stance on Iran vs Israel explicit:

1. Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis are NOT Iran. They may be funded and supplied by Iran, they may get advice from Iran, but just like Ukraine is not the United States, these groups are not Iran and legally speaking, according to the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and other international law, Iran is not culpable for the actions of these groups. The groups themselves bear full responsibility for their own actions.

2. Iran recently attacked Israel. This was the first time Iran ever attacked Israel AFAIK. They were very careful about it. They followed Chapter VII Article 51 of the UN charter, and reported to the Security Council their exercise of their right to self-defense before they attacked. They compiled with the proportionality rules of the 1949 Geneva Convention, and furthermore limited their attack to military targets, and not even to people but things like airstrips where nobody died. They didn't have to be that careful, but clearly they are trying to only send a signal, rather than escalate. They clearly announced afterwards that their attack was over and there would be no further retaliation, that the matter is now resolved.

3. There is no right of self-defense for a strike that was itself fully legally compliant self-defense. Israel has no right to respond.

It's here, but it doesn't tend to readily propogate.

The lack of algorithms make propoganda easy to identify & avoid.

Propaganda makes use of individuals as relays (repeaters/reporters) to disseminate the noise.

Nostr allows you to tune in to divergent sources & hence expand our consciousness rather than coalesce around a lie.

I watched what happened as reported. I listened to the UN proceedings. And Iran and Russia are absolutely right. And the West is full of shit. I am frankly embarrassed to be a citizen of Western nations.

> Anyway, Israel should feel free to just nuke Iran from existence

This shows same lack of empathy and respect for other humans that Peter Todd accuses evil countries like Russia, Iran, ... of.

Bitcoin may makes war unaffordable but it won't fix the cruelty some humans.

Peter does not care about wiping out millions of innocent kids, women, men that just happened to be born in the wrong country and not in a peaceful one like himself.

By his logic how many other countries - of people not overthrowing their evil regimes - should be wiped out to get rid of all the evil people? Wipe out 500m, 2bn, 4bn?

This has nothing to do on which side you are. This is about being human or being a soulless warmonger that has no problem wit killing hundrets of million innocent people just because he thinks to know every aspect of history, powers at play and also has the moral high ground about that topic.

Batshit crazy and disgusting.