Dearest Chinese Spammer,

50+ Nostr Purple accounts equates to a lot of sats. Bitcoin is a scarce asset. You should probably stop. We thank you for your sats, but please stop registering IDs! I am starting to feel bad taking them from you. 🤙

As I was typing this you bought 2 more. Sigh.

-Derek

Good morning Nostrovia 🦦☕️

pura vida, stay humble and stack sats 🤙

pura vida, nostr! it's time to start stacking notes. 🤙

GM おはよう🤙

gm free people☕️🤙

pv 🌞

pura vida, stay humble and stack sats 🤙

I spent several hours tonight in an Ordinals Space speaking with them. It was me versus 12 Ordinal fans. I felt like I was in enemy territory.

I mentioned during the space that I don't want my financial transactions sitting next to an image on the Bitcoin timechain.

I mentioned that I don't feel right about Ordinals and Inscriptions essentially taking up 4X the block space, but not paying 4X the fees. They are consuming valuable space, but not providing the value to the miners. They're getting a discount and that's not right, because it feels like an oversight or an exploit. They're abusing the system.

I mentioned that Bitcoiners want to help the developing world by providing them with financial freedom. We don't want to draw all over them.

My main concern was that there are several worrying trends that are starting to pop up and we aren't even two weeks into this yet. I hope that if this trend continues that the Ordinal and Inscription fans will come together with the vast Bitcoin community and fix the problem before it gets worse.

Their main counterpoint was that Bitcoin is free speech and that includes artwork. While I don't fully agree there, I understand that argument. I also understand that no one controls Bitcoin and Bitcoin can do whatever it and people want it to do.

While I do not agree with all of this, I am looking at this as a win for Bitcoin. Yes, it's actually good for Bitcoin. I have had a dozen Ethereum maxis DM me so far and ask me how to run a Bitcoin node and how to run a Lightning node. I'm looking at this as an orange pilling moment. This is how we win.

Goodnight. PV!

Are paid relays not grabbing info from the larger unpaid relays? Seems info is getting dropped left and right. Half dozen paid relays on Amethyst, missing replies, and showing 10 followers as opposed to ~300.

Twitter feels like toxicity and fake news pumped into my brain.

In stark contrast, Nostr feels like a place for civil conversation to build the future, with an overarching feeling of common ownership.

The last time I felt this excited about a technology was when I found Bitcoin in 2013.

Before that was pocket computers / smartphones in 1998.