Tell me why I shouldn't zap you in the wallet right now.

I hear zap train a-comin’

It’s rollin’ round the bend

Getting the nicest messages sent along with zaps. Thank you, everyone 🙏💜

7,777 sats to whoever can guess what my first MySpace profile song was⚡️🥳

Nostr as a protocol, and the community in the Nostr ecosystem of clients, are absolutely incredible.

Little capital provided, and yet here it all is.

Keep building. This is awesome. A technology whose time has come.

he’s distracted by many other things

have to be looking in order to find something. if you’re not looking, could be right in front of you and you’ll never see it

Pura Vida Nostr friends.

In seemingly chaotic times, the parable of the investment banker and the fisherman is a good reminder that we all create our own lens of the world.

The fabled Purpura Libertatum

Yessss 🗡️🌹🐍🩸

Numerologist just entered chat

It’s definitely keeping people from contributing to bitcoin core and maybe more. Could mean even worse things for general open source projects.

Fighting the case with the Bitcoin Developer Defense Fund we (Alex Morcos and I) set up and funded some time ago to defend these developers. Considering opening fund to allow others to contribute.

But I think current path is going to be quite costly.

It’s super dangerous and he’s winning. Down 4 core maintainers in 15 months.

Shocking. And its shocking that the justice system is so bad that a trivially easy to prove liar and fraudster can cause innocent people to spend millions of dollars defending themselves against blatant lies, and that Patents are rewarded to provable liars that will bake millions to have revoked. Clearly the “justice” systems are not fit for purpose when it comes to matters of software; a real and present danger and existential threat to everyone. YIKES.

He already did a few weeks ago

The Bitcoin Network (often shortened to Bitcoin, or simply BTC) is the central banking system of the Internet (or internet).

It was created on January 3rd, 2009, when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin Block, after a series of financial panics (notably the Global Financial Crisis of 2008) led to the desire for a distributed monetary system without central control in order to alleviate financial crises, improve financial inclusion, and enhance human freedom.

Over the years, events such as the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, hyperinflation in emerging markets, tyrannical monetary oversight from authoritarian regimes, and the Covid Inflation in the 2020s have led to the expansion of the value and use of the Bitcoin Network.

The Bitcoin Network is the only monetary system in history to have never transformed its monetary policy, be governed by a network of distributed peers, and issue an instrument bounded to a relationship with energy as opposed to a relationship with a nation-state and/or country.

This gives the Bitcoin Network properties that are unique and also unusual when compared to the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of China, and other Central Banks where monetary policy is centrally controlled, specific entities are given the privilege to inflate the currency, and objectives are centered around a given country’s employment, prices, and interest rates.

I think I can receive sats, can someone test that?

I am writing a public article that is partially about Nostr.

What are some easy-to-miss Nostr details that would be worth mentioning? Audience will be a mix of bitcoiners and general macro/investing audience. Mostly I sm writing for the latter- people who may not have heard about it yet.

I already included a Nostr section in my latest private research report, and included a slide about Nostr in a guest lecture at Princeton last week. I am spinning up my research on it over time, with public articles and broader reach being the next phase.