If you take your foot off the gas during the bear market you will regret it exponentially later.

What you do over the next year may come to define the next few decades of your life.

Don’t allow doubt to creep in, don’t allow emotion to override discipline.

Stay the course.

#Bitcoin is for Bears.

Even I wake up to a “this is broken” message every day so I can’t imagine what it’s like for the big client developers.

The worst part is it’s almost never broken so it makes you doubt people too. Takes a lot of patience and I appreciate the devs who handle this so well. I am not always so graceful.

Talking with #[0]​ this morning. He’s an expert on banking, Bitcoin, ETFs, and fixed income. Send us your questions, Silvergate, Signature, Silicon Valley Bank, and DCG are already on the agenda.

Life hack:

Keep binoculars in your vehicle at all times. You never know when the opportunity to birdwatch will present itself.

🕊️🦆🦜🦅🦉

What’s your favorite bird?

GM beautiful ppl 🤍🕊️

It’s a critical take on Nostr, but if we distill the core innovation - it’s the simple cryptographic Event JSON payload - and the protocol’s openness.

Websocket relays are ok, but Nostr can work over hybrid p2p or REST. The query engine is ok, but it’s basic and has design faults and limitations.

So why write this post?

I think we can expand on todays relays and evolve the event transport layer, likely to many simultaneous methods including a p2p layer, and greater privacy.

I think we can reimagine the event query engine, allowing for more performant and expressive queries. Perhaps GraphQL, maybe feature from new streaming databases like SurrealDB.

I think if we open the box a little more, we can start to explore new and powerful innovations that can expand upon the NIP-01 primitives.

If we start to experiment and challenge ourselves to discover new ways to make Nostr unstoppable, I think we will find amazing new capabilities are possible and bring forth a wave of communications innovation.

Damus really needs the ability to mute threads. The app is becoming useless with all these huge stupid notes with hundreds of tags. I’m missing lots of important notifications.

(and before anyone says, ‘but app xxxx has this feature’, yes, I know, I’m talking specifically about Damus here, thank you for your concern)

Besides nostr-related stuff, what’s the coolest app on your phone?

Purple sweater 💜

GM 🌞☕️

The first postcard graphic I ever created…made as a special tribute to #[0]​..

#postcardvibes 🌅

HODL

69 days till Bitcoin 2023.

Prices go up today.

See you all in person in Miami May 18-20 🤙.

I thought it was funny!

Gm ☀️

Howdy y'all! Mornin' to ya! Happy Friday! ☕🌈

The weekend's just 'round the bend now. 🤙

To all you fiat miners out there, keep your grit up and stay strong! ✊ And to all you builders, keep on crafting what we all love! 💜

Let's all come together and have ourselves a rootin', tootin' good time! 🤠🧡

GM (say it back)

PV and happy Friday Nostr fam. I get to walk on some glaciers today.