Yeah that tracks with me. I shut mine down, but for a while it was in the 7-800 top ranked nodes on the network, and I didn't make enough in fees to even pay to open one channel, and I opened them all back in the 1sat/vb days.
Do it for privacy, security, enthusiasm, but there should be no expectation of profit (nor should there be?)
Damn who is this Zapple Pay guy?
Suddenly he's all over the place, zapping mfers left and right.
Is that you Tim Apple?
Here's hoping this remains true.
If you don't sign your life away to Meta, how will you get your ZuckBUXXX airdrop?
HFSTP chumps
Damn, who's got the tea on this one?
Elon's goin' after our man for shitting all over his worthless data collection app?
Anyways, to quote a wise man, "Stay humble and stack sats."
Hanlon's razor compels us to look at Elon's blue check crusade as a misstep, or perhaps a bug, and given his proclivity for boneheadedness, I'm willing to accept this narrative.
But either way, don't verify yourself for his stupid/mad agenda.
Musk has a head full of crickets for sure then.
That's kinda the beauty of nostr; even if one client or relay or whatever gets waylaid or blacklisted or just goes down, there are endless other options.
In this case, Apple users can just use a web client and have all the same functionality as Damus used to offer. Also, I heard that there is some kind of 'light client' feature that allows iphones to load apps independently of the app store, which could be an option for people who are wedded to Damus for whatever reason.
As a tangent, I find all nostr clients drain the shit out of my battery and so I never use it on my phone, but if I did, I would just use a web client.
Who can put a price tag on hope?
Who can see the value of a currency that resists humanity's worst tendencies?
I mean, you can, by zapping the shit out of this note, but otherwise I'm just talking rhetorically.
https://void.cat/d/M6uAGX5JSByr3XPJW1poF.webp
Who can source energy, capital, hardware cheaply enough to justify competing at these difficulties?
Is the hash rate surge from corporations exploring economies of scale? US investors desperate for Bitcoin exposure in the absence of a bone fide ETF? Or from nations excluded from energy markets through sanction or blockade? Or the proliferation of drastically more efficient hardware? Or something else?
Graphs like these, and the rationale behind it that you bring up, kinda shuts down the paranoid theory that Blackrock is going to fork off Bitcoin for their own PoS-based CBDC or whatever.
It seems like enough serious players are betting against that scenario that it becomes even less likely, despite everyone's general distrust for fiat-brained businesses.
I think people are well and truly learning that corporations are bad for Bitcoin.
Not everyone though. Can't believe the mindless salivating I'm seeing over on bird app for big daddy Finkie's big black boot.
millionth zap gets a million sats?
#zapathon
#zaplottery
damn, you guys are out here breeding? I gotta step up my game...
no video on snort.
works on VLC though yeah.
Social media is having its cyclical moment of revelation, as corporate greed and mismanagement reveals in real time the aims of all corporate and bureaucratic bodies: divide and conquer, erect ideological barriers and paywalls, and leverage any and all accrued power in order to gain more.
Reddit, twitter, Facebook, Tiktok, etc. We've all known that they exist to control us, but we wager that the "connection" they afford us is worth our loss of freedom. That horrible freedom: ostracism from the imperial aegis of power structures that so many cling to in a desperate attempt to be "relevant". The fight over money is more difficult and entrenched, and even the bravest, freest Bitcoiners still resort to a fiat-brained outlook from time to time.
I think it's important to maintain perspective: being part of a counter-cultural movement doesn't make you important or morally superior in any way. This is what I hear when I read "stay humble, stack sats": Freedom is a dangerous thing that most people will gladly trade away, especially for status, but it's uniquely precious because once it's gone, it can only be won back through horrible, almost certainly violent, sacrifice.
To a certain extent, saying that you "love freedom" when you use social media and fiat currency is a LARP, and that should make us humble. True freedom must be feared and respected for the demands it makes on us, and the powerful enemies that it has, not the least of which sits in our skulls and drives us to be proud and status-seeking.
I've brewed and consumed ayahuasca many times, though this was all pre-Bitcoin.
The essence of the experiences, if I had to boil it down, was the ambivalence at the core of binary divisions. It broke down the barriers I had between polarised concepts, but made me question the values that I had attached to those concepts.
I would love to go to a Bitcoiner's ayahuasca retreat because there could be some epic shared moments of clarity.