Once you assume every election is existential, you're perilously close to taking the next step of convincing yourself that allowing another free election once you have power, is a risk you can't afford to take.

UX has to be really good. Will check it out later.

Consider,

Twitter could've implemented lightning tips, or honestly payments of literally any kind YEARS ago. But they didn't. Why?

#Nostr on the other hand has accomplished this in no time, and everyone who has experienced it immediately feels what a big deal this is... but why exactly?

Numerous features implemented in Nostr could've been on Twitter all this time.

• Do you think it's because they didn't want to?

• Was it too technically difficult, even though Nostriches pulled it off in a matter of days or weeks?

Of course not, it was POLITICALLY infeasible. Remember how Facebook spent *years* and bookoos of capital trying to create a *whole new currency* just to enable it because there was no chance of doing it with dollars? They were even dragged before Congress to explain why they would do such a thing as enable payments on social media! How dare they! It was easily squashed despite the fact that the list of those backing it was essentially a Who's Who of Silicon Valley fintech.

And what did the Twitter Files teach us? That not only would the suffocating regulatory environment make tips and payments on social media virtually impossible, but the political leviathan refused to even allow them to freely TWEET to their followers! Intelligence agencies were both *funding* social censorship & had direct communication channels to shut down people's accounts, shadow ban, & ensure that "unapproved" opinions simply can't travel through the network.

Like @#[0] said, "this has the power to monetize dissent." Consider the insane power of sharing an "unapproved" opinion to millions of people and being directly rewarded with 1000s, maybe 10s of thousands of private, instant payments while the post has unfiltered, free flow to every last user in the network.

No more "donation services" or "patreons" that take 10% and will preemptively shut down anything remotely against the establishment. No more Go fund Me's fuck stealing millions going to protestors to donate to a "charity of their choice." They are all immediately redundant & pointless.

Instead we are walking into a world with unfiltered, free flowing information and unfiltered free flowing money.

The simple fact is that no large, centralized social platform of any kind CAN do what Nostr does so easily. Because they have a gun to their head & they know it.

This is the 10x value add that is going to wake people up, and it's going to start with ALL the dissenters. We need to find all of them and bring them here.

The simple ability to have direct access to millions of followers, and be able receive payments and tips from them directly, unfiltered, untaxed, with no middle man & no authority whatever involved...

They are afraid as FUCK of that power. And they absolutely should be. Think of what a staggering problem the mere existence of someone like Joe Rogan has presented in the past couple of years. Now consider they attacked him through his network, his advertisers, his payment processors, and a huge targeted propaganda campaign (and fucking LOST despite, 🤣). Now think about the 1000s of others we watched get attacked, banned, deplatformed, canceled, etc...

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Now imagine the past 3 years done over again, except without any of that being possible anymore...

Guys, we are right in the fucking middle of the revolution. It's right now.

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Maybe it’s time to ditch Twitter entirely?

my use case was: instead of those lame 🇺🇦 flags in your profile name to show support, you could have actual badges that you buy that shows support and helps fund the cause you find important.

Also achievements, etc. any user can make these badges so they would need nip05 indicators on them (minted by #[13] , etc)

What the hell are Zaps? Or what's the difference between Lightning tips and Zaps?

Simply put, Zaps are Nostr aware Lightning tips. They are integrated with Nostr in a way that allows the sats sent to be tallied and displayed on an individual user's note. Everyone can then see the value of that individual note. That is the key point.

If your Lightning wallet does not support Zaps, you can still send Lightning tips, they will just not be counted and displayed on Nostr. You can still send and receive sats! This is the whole point of Value for Value.

The only Lightning wallets that support Nostr integration (NIP-57) are the following:

strike.army

vida.page

stacker.news

bitcoin jungle

ln.tips (LightningTipBot)

Many others are working on adding support for this. This includes Wallet of Satoshi, BTCPay server, Bitcoin Beach, and probably many more.

Here are the relays the spammer is posting to for the relay operators who care about that kind of thing:

wss://nostr.drss.io

wss://nostr.cercatrova.me

wss://nostr.swiss-enigma.ch

wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social

wss://nostr.mom

wss://relay.nostr.bg

wss://relay.nostr.info

Welcome. I'm glad to see other non-Bitcoiner users popping up here. Everyone deserves the freedom to communicate and be social without having to worry about censorship or being banned.

Relay settings page with arcane options and stats:

Damn.. looks like I have to go out on a limb and predict again.

We will never see bitcoin below $23k again!

Gossip 0.4.0 has been released!

This is the first release branch that will be supported with bug fixes. I created packages for Debian and Windows and signed them with a PGP key that even I can't seem to verify (damn sub key nightmare!), so here is the SHA256SUMS.txt file signed under my nostr key:

a03207e4f357dc71e474b7cee6348031e5e3486c319a39f026b867ac50d29915 gossip_0.4.0_amd64.deb

30ea3089e1c01341aeab703d41b335c12f3a906b120ee543f7af35f2602ab0d0 gossip.0.4.0.msi

This packaging/release process could use a lot of improvements.

Personally I still recommend pulling master and compiling. I'll try to keep master on stable working commits. But for those who like releases, well, there you go.

Cheers!