Always a good idea to add a blastr relay to your relay list. Mutiny has a free one. It broadcasts your notes to all major relays.

wss://nostr.mutinywallet.com

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I've had a similar outcome as mandrik, but with a somewhat different context. It's something I still think about a lot.

When I was an engineer/manager, I worked in person, and had a great social group there. After I left it, I became inherently remote-work based in my home office, which has a lot of advantages but also some social isolation-related challenges.

I then gradually drifted away from work-friends I knew for a decade. Between work and family, we just gradually could barely find time for a group lunch anymore. Actually it was more on their side than mine; they have longer commutes, children, etc.

And my US family is small and dispersed around the country. So aside from my husband, a lot of my social interaction is online and at events within the past few post-covid years. The big exception is the part of the year I spend in Egypt, where I am surrounded by in-person family and friends every day, but have less overall productivity (bad internet for starters, problematic time zone, plus it's also vacation time and social time).

And the most notable part of each year is when I come back to the US first to take care of things here, and my husband is still in Egypt for another month to finish taking care of things there, where I risk turning into a solo cat lady.

So that makes me really focus on genuine internet dynamics, treating people online similarly to how I treat them in real life, building real connections there, going to events to meet my "tribe" despite the travel hassle, etc.

It also has prioritized having children to me recently. I've been focusing on work, focusing on elder care, etc. Due to my starting point, I have been in the position of having to support a parent and then in-laws since my 20s, while also being a workaholic to reach the positions I've gotten to. For years I was simply too busy for anything else, but increasingly the next generation is an element of life I think about a lot.

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Hueristic: Your greatest weakness/insecurity is often your greatest strength/asset.

Here’s mine. I have severe ADHD. Which obviously causes many issues with tasks in daily life.

The plus side is of constantly being in a low dopamine environment is that when something increases my dopamine levels I figure it must be important.

I then follow that instinct where it leads me.

This superpower is the thing that allowed me to get into bitcoin in 2014.

Greatest weakness/insecurity became my greatest strength/asset.

What’s yours?

Be me.

Have a house ✅

Have kids ✅

Fly first class ✅

You can have it all friends. You truly can. You just gotta ignore dumb old cat ladies.

Some will be left behind….

It’s been a long time since I updated my relays. I don’t want to pay for a bunch of different ones, but I’d be happy to pay for a 6 or 12 month subscription to one or two.

What are the best relays these days for reaching a general audience?

There is a pubkey who has uploaded over 6500 files to nostrcheck.me

Many of these files with adult content, I have reviewed each upload by hand, one by one.

Two days ago this ‘person’ started uploading illegal content involving underage children.

I'm tired, very tired. For me #nostr is a breath of fresh air, but this is beyond me, this is an abuse to all of us, from the victims of the pictures to myself.

#asknostr we have to do something about this. Seriously

P.S: never donated a single satoshi because of the indiscriminate abuse of my server, never.

Imagine if you didn't listen to the idiot MSM and bought #Bitcoin around then

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Heather Morgan, AKA 'Razzlekhan' is a self proclaimed social engineer who pleaded guilty to laundering funds her husband hacked from Bitfinex (120,000 BTC) back in 2016.

I crossed paths with her in Nashville this week. After asking around I discovered she has been spotted at multiple Bitcoin events over the past year.

It's extremely suspicious that she is still walking free and hasn't been sentenced for her crimes.

I recommend that all Bitcoin event organizers treat her as a threat actor and DENY ENTRY.

Eeeek. I have surgery in 3 days. It’s a good thing because I’m in pain, but I’m starting to get hella nervous.

Mainly about the IV (I have the worst needle phobia), but the whole thing is freaky.

If you have any spare positive energy or advice on how to stay calm/make the process easier, I would appreciate it🫂

Who is still in Nashville?

WTF!! 🤦🏻‍♂️

My neighbor just told me that he owns a couple of pounds of gold, between coins & bars.

I said, “That’s awesome! It’s less-fuckable doomsday money.

Do you store it in a safe in your house?”

He said, “No, I have it all in a safety deposit box at my bank.”

I said, “Dude, at the bank? That totally defeats the purpose of owning gold.”

He says, “How so? What’s wrong with the bank?”

Had a batshit insane moment happen in Nashville:

Heather Morgan AKA Razzlekhan had the gall to show up. She's one of the people who pleaded guilty to hacking Bitfinex in 2016.

I've asked around and folks have told me she has also showed up recently at events in NYC and Stanford.

Suspicious AF that she's walking around freely... smells like she's flipped to working with the feds.

Sure the end details of who will actually have it might be an opinion but the logistics involved with any one entity acquiring 4M BTC is not. 19% of all existing Bitcoin, and that's assuming we use 21M of available BTC rather than the much more restrictive supply estimates based on the amount that has been permanently lost (some estimates are anywhere between 4-7M permanently lost). Like the screenshotted post breaks down, it would be an immense, almost impossible, challenge for any nation to acquire that much.

Agree, I think when people talk about open source, they probably are referring to software rather than hardware

It’s good to have a hardware that can be verified (harder in practice), but I get your point.