You can run a node in your phone 😉

Avoid client-side moderation, rely on relays.

I don't get why people think Android is not safe and will start censoring apps any day, but somehow the "browser" is safe and the best place to write apps.

sooo whats a good android phone

Damus will be removed from the app store in 14 days, apple says zaps are not allowed on their platform because they *could* be used by content creators to sell digital content. This is right before I’m about to give my talk at the oslo freedom forum on how decentralized social networks with lightning integration are bringing financial freedom to the masses... pretty sus… 😕

This would be a watershed moment: If people can’t transact freely p2p on their platform, this has huge implications for the entire ecosystem of apps with lightning integration and v4v.

There's no such thing as a benevolent dictator. If there was, we wouldn't need nostr or Bitcoin.

These protocols exist, because benevolent dictators don't exist.

We need op codes, not block space.

We must squeeze out every single byte of block space as efficiently as we can.

It looks like the so-called bitcoin community is splitting, with people who failed to make a commercial success at bitcoin because they were too scared, or didn’t have any ideas all moving to Nostr; a place where there are no challenges to serve anyone and make a profit rather than stay in bitcoin and tread water forever, collecting likes on Twitter and other ephemeral nonsense that doesn’t change anything.

Meanwhile, a group of hard-core Bitcoiners is dedicated to spreading it all over the world are remaining behind, accumulating funding and building a generation of tools that will propel bitcoin to all the ends of the Earth; and they’re going to leverage all the thinking and all the tools that have been accumulated over the last 11 years to make the promise of bitcoin come true.

Meanwhile, the people are hiding away in Nostr, gushing about it, as if it’s going to be something that changes the world because it creates a space where people can misbehave without consequence we are going to be left behind to wallow in the ghetto they created which won’t feed a single mouth or have any effect on the things that are making the world a dangerous place.

You can talk until the cows come home about why nuclear weapons are bad or why Russia shouldn’t invade Ukraine, and you can say it in an unfettered way, but simply talking about things is far less likely to change those things than spending money to change them.

This is why bitcoin is more important than Noster and everybody who is in bitcoin who understands this is putting all effort into bitcoin, because that is the fundamental change that needs to happen, not Noster and not freedom of speech. Freedom of speech without money in a Fiat world is a sub optimal world; unfortunately, because money is so fundamental, people who have been brainwashed in government schools don’t have the wherewithal to attack this problem and solve it and prioritise it properly. That’s why they’re easily distracted, And Noster is one of those distractions. Its faddish and infantile.

And look at the clients; second rate dull imitations of Twitter with nothing new save the deluvery system. Is this the best people can come up with? Really? Things are much worse than anyone imagined.

And there’s nothing wrong with having hobbies; nothing wrong with building outside of bitcoin. There’s wrong with being a normal human being; part of the reason why bitcoin was written is so that people can be normal human beings, but every man has to work, and we are better off with everyone working towards the goal of making bitcoin ubiquitous, and if dividing your time between Noster and bitcoin means bitcoin gets less attention, that’s a bad thing, and remember; there are people who are not aligned with bitcoin’s aims who are now being given prominence in the so called “community”. Those people who are promoting polluting the chain of blocks and making everything slower because it’s “cool”. With those people being seduced by Noster, a power vacuum is developing.

The only way we’re going to get out of the problem is if it’s possible for a tiny fraction of men to cause the changes to happen, just like WhatsApp and Signal. If there are enough people to do it who can’t be distracted by things like Nostr and NFTs then we’re going to win. If not, then we don’t deserve to win and Larry Summers and those people will remain in charge indefinitely, and you deserve it, so don’t complain about it!

zap on a post rather than likes are great economic signal

unforgeable costliness.

Now let's get Rand Paul and Thomas Massie

Here’s what Gensler should have said: “Yes, ETH is a security.”

Dancing around the question is never a good look.

Checking in for flights is dumb. Just issue a boarding pass automatically. I paid for the ticket so assume I'll be there. You'll know if I've changed my mind because, in that case, I won't board the plane.

I think that airlines bother everyone with stupid check-ins to estimate how many seats they can offer last minute or to reduce the food/staff allocated. Those are fine goals but consider, instead, offering an incentive for no-shows to relinquish their ticket and leave the rest of us out of it.

Damus will never implement delete

The most touching act of charity I've had a bitcoiner show me was by Roger Ver in 2017 when he air dropped a stash of Bcash to me. It's been locked in my cold bitcoin wallet ever since i converted it and will serve me well in my twilight years. 🙏

#hodloncomrades don't trade #bitcoin

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.