I just bought 243 bitcoinsssssss

My husband’s 8-year-old niece is having a birthday party with relatives and friends invited. But all seven friends declined to come, one by one, either due to getting sick or family issues or because some of them have big tests.

And the mom was hesitant to tell her about the last ones, including her best friend, being unable to come, since that final piece of news is devastating. So when we arrived, the niece was super happy, dressed up like a princess, showing us all the decorations and picking which colored forks each of her friends would have for the cake.

Basically, the expectations and reality couldn’t be more starkly different. It was like a comedy show setting up for a sad punchline. And eventually the mom dropped the bombshell, crying ensued, etc. The niece said this would be awful since her party would be all adults talking.

So, now I’m playing My Little Pony with her for damage control. Next, I’m going to blow up a lot of balloons to throw around with her and challenge her to see how many she can keep in the air at once. And then she wants to watch Inside Out 2 together.

How’s your day going?

Here’s an idea for an experiment: leave ecash (e.g. cashu) tips as comments instead of zaps. A user has to click the link to claim the sats (whatever website you’re trying to promote). This is nice because you have direct feedback on how much money it takes to generate a click. The user decides directly on whether the link appears worth a click. Ecash can be made redeemable only by the npub to whom it was sent. Based on my understanding of cashu, I believe this is technically feasible.

I received a couple of your zaps with the link but didn’t click. I didn’t know what it was and didn’t care to find out. Nothing was in it for me except simple curiosity. I’d already been paid.

I spent another 100,000 sats on a zap-vertising experiment…

And I think I proved that advertising on Nostr actually works…

Here’s:

1️⃣ What I did

2️⃣ The results

3️⃣ What I learned

1️⃣ What I did:

I sent 4105 zaps over the course of 3 days for a total of 112,000 sats.

Each zap contained a link for a blog post:

zapvertising-experiment.carrd.co

My goal was to see if I could get a reasonable cost per click (CPC)…

2️⃣ The results:

During the campaign I had a total of 71 unique visitors to the page.

CPC was 1578 sats or $1.50 usd.

I also gained 245 followers from that campaign.

These CPCs are in line with other ad platforms which validates the overall concept for me.

3️⃣ What I learned / brain dump:

- Results were better than expected.

- I thought there might have been a bit of negative push back (however none received).

- There is a chance I am significantly underreporting and google analytics isn't picking everything up (surprised to see 3-4x the number of new followers vs. clicks 🤔)

- THERE IS SOMETHING HERE. I still don’t know exactly what the model looks like, how it scales, but there is something to be uncovered.

- Right now, this can’t be done at scale… in the future it could. I spent ~$100 and it took me multiple days. In the future there will be ways to allocate +$10,000 per day here. For context of where we are at right now, Nostr daily zap totals are around 750,000 sats - about $675 - see stats.nostr.band/ for that data)

- Something feels off with the format… simply paying someone and sending them a link… The p2p model feels right, but the format feels off.

More to come 🫡

Let me know your thoughts 👇

F*ck.

My next video is ready but a little delayed because I am not sure if I could get sued 🤣

I went a bit hard on the whole “crypto is a scam” stuff

What’s something that will be this from today, 10 years from now? nostr:note13u9kf96aguwgnvc9scmrvxk4ka8t26gh2h7lk85r3ay3v67p68psj7rk2w

I see you, quaint old man in thatched house 👀

I will accept your invitation to visit your ancient home 🏠

But you will in turn, accept bitcoin for your kind hospitality ⚡️

(Full video on this mini side quest soon 👀)

Yea that's what nip-47 does, it's just that as it stands the make_invoice request is behind auth like all the other requests. But for this it would have to be made public. Anyone with my wallets pubkey should be able to request an invoice. Would have to build in some spam mitigation though

Why not?

When I tried to help people become rich they laughed at me.

I’m not upset about the laughter, it doesn’t bother me personally, but I do find it extremely confusing.

Here’s a question for the more advanced #BTC enthusiasts out there:

I’ve been hodling various cryptos in a self-custodial manner for years, so I’m not completely new to the world of #crypto.

Initially, when I knew even less than I do now, I tried day trading to get a feel for things, thinking it would lead somewhere. While I didn’t make a loss, it didn’t take long to realize all I was doing was generating a crazy number of meaningless taxable events with little to show for it. That’s when I switched to a HODL strategy.

In the meantime, an increasing number of vendors and service providers have started accepting BTC and other cryptos. Even #NOSTR seems to be promoting the use of BTC in everyday life via the Lightning Network.

That’s all great and definitely the way forward, but how do you guys—especially in the US, where crypto is considered property rather than currency—deal with the attached tax admin nightmare? Creating a taxable event every time I buy a pizza seems to create more hassle than it’s worth.

Does anyone have any tips or tricks for integrating small BTC payments into everyday life without creating an administrative #tax nightmare? How do you keep track of transactions? I’m not asking for loopholes or anything illegal; I just want to know how others manage it and whether I’m overcomplicating things.

One of the rare days I’m dressed in black. They say black is not just a colour, it’s an attitude. And I decided to embrace it. My usual favorite is white: a symbol of purity, light and endless possibilities 🤍✨🪐

But black with its power and simplicity holds a unique energy too. What colours resonate with you? Do you have one that reflects your confidence?

WHAT COMES AFTER?

How does it make you feel knowing that over half of the current bitcoin UTXOs are worth 1,000 sats or less?

I did a pcap (network capture) of my Android when the device boots up and it's been shocking to see how many apps phone home when I boot my device.

Dozens of apps. It's bad. Very bad.

Is it just me…

Or is nostr everything that all web3 crypto coins promised they would be?

Amethsyt users, do you use this button?