100% I left banking where I was working 60-70 hour weeks for a non-profit job working 30-40. It hurt at first. Loosing half your income when all your life plans and purchases were based on what you used to earn is HARD. I had to refinance my house and sell my 2 year old car for a 15 year old car I got with $2000 difference in what I owed on my new car and what I sold it for. But my life has been so much better. Now I work from home with so much less stress I practically feel retired.
Mine has tripled (quadrupled if my neighbor actually gets what they’re asking for their place) in the 20 years I’ve had the place. The equity I had 10 years ago is the only reason I was able to have my income cut in half so I could get out of banking before I killed myself.
I could care less about what anybody else is doing. I really could care less about the badge. It's neat to have a low membership number, but it's just a number. Before this I had zap splits setup for Damus, and I've said in the past I'd subscribe if Will set one up. I like to support the devs. I usually give Vitor at least 1k sats each release (and god know Amethyst has at least 15 releases a month) and if there was a similar subscription for Amethyst I'd sign up for that too.
I pay for relays and storage on nostr.build because that shit ain't cheap. If we don't support them this goes away. Nostr infrastructure without income will not scale. it's semi manageable at 10k users. 100k? Without some sort of income stream to offset the server and storage cost? We'll just rotate through different people trying to make it work and bankrupting themselves. Or worse some corp that slowly become 'The' relay and slowly slide into centralization.
I'm sure not everyone here gets that, but I'd like to think the majority do.
And I think people aren't giving more in general because thinking is sats is hard. 10,000 sats is sooooooo much. But thats like $4, which isn't that much.
And if no one says We need this much, people don't know how much to pay them for their work.
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User #49,
Ugh, if just 20 more people would have signed up first!
Damn me and my early adoption. nostr:note1wy7sy00lgakmu0xnk6samq24ggstdk24nnd0ltelng6xh0d6gqcqxcx574
there's this really small side note in the Neil Stephenson near future book The Diamond Age where most of the people that decide to get first gen neural interfaces get infected with spam bots and get constant popups ads that quickly drives them all insane and that has always really stuck with me and there is no way in hell I'd ever get an implanted neural interface.
I think of custodial lightning as cash I'd keep in my pocket. Not even wallet, just pocket. I'll trust rando website #472 with holding on to $10.
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I also always feel the need to point out that the verses usually used to try to say masturbation is bad are in fact about pulling out.
Yahweh demands cream pies!
Trying to move accounts out of Big G and I can't even remember half of these accounts I'm finding in my password manager. It's a good opportunity for me to either update my password or delete the account (or remove it from the manager for defunk websites), but JFC.
The outcome is worth the work tho.
#coolhashtag
Sure :)
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It uses Cashu Mints so it's non-custodial if you have your own mint and custodial if you use someone elses.
Encore!
GM :)
yeah, I live in Alaska and need the SUV.