Is there a client that won’t show me hell thread notifications if the conversation is muted?

I love yall but…

You know it's Patagonia when they are drinking mate out of a horn and scooping with the tip of that horn.

the less you need the more you are uncontrollable

Correct, but do pickup the entire check when out with multiple parties simply to not have to go through the humiliation ritual that is splitting checks.

If you have everything in bitcoin then you have to spend as well as save. If you don't have everything in bitcoin and spend in dollars that is still an opportunity lost because you could have bought sats with the money. So, whether you pay in sats or dollars you still have the same loss in growth potential as bitcoin increases in vaue. It's unavoidable. Yes there are cap gains tax but that just means you made money. Also if you are sitting on a potential loss because the price is down then spend the fiat. It's a dance.

I was fifth bitcoiner that visited this coffee place today, but first one to pay with bitcoin.

We have more bitcoin merchants than Bitcoiners willing to spend. We don’t need more merchant adoption, but spenders adoption

As btc goes mainstream, companies will get captured and products compromised. Nowadays, most who LARP "trust don't verify" are unable to interact with the bitcoin network without "help" from 3rd parties. Asserting your sovereignty is more important than ever!

If you're not validating your own receiving tx privately, YNGMI. Visit my YT channel and get your shit together.

So how much is a privacy preserving *budget* BTC node accessible from anywhere in the world through clearnet/tor/i2p that you can remotely manage and point your wallets to?

Intel i5 8GB used mini-pc: 80€ (used)

SSD 2TB: 100€ (new)

anonymous VPS: 2€/month (lnvps)

i highly recommend trying an actual nostr client instead of just a nostr frontend. much cooler when your app actually speaks the protocol

damus android is written in C and Rust and directly renders to your phones GPU. it will be the fastest app on your phone by a large margin. this is likely one of the first Android apps written this way. it's cutting edge tech

Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. “Keep Austin Weird” feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

If you sell your Bitcoin at this point you are selling to either BlackRock or a government..

GM Bitcoin fam ☕️

“The value of bitcoins would be relative to the electricity consumed to produce them.”

– Satoshi Nakamoto ⚡

2140 – The year the final Bitcoin will be mined. But 99% of BTC will be in circulation by 2032. The supply squeeze is coming.

~1,300 MWh – That’s how much energy it takes to mine just 1 Bitcoin today.

Enjoy the math 🥰

The idea behind nutzaps, not the way they are used now, is that you rarely settle them over lightning. This way SATs can circulate between npubs as zaps with no fees. You keep them on the mint you recieved then on and trade them around for free. You can settle them once you have enough accumulated on a particular mint. You can also move them from one mint to another (maybe move them off a public mint onto your own mint), or you can simply use it to pay for things. The power of nuts is you can consolidate small zaps into one large LN transaction and/or an on-chain uxto.