And yeah, I can't zap, FFS
My dumb ass will figure it out eventually. I thought it went more or less seamlessly yesterday, but I guess not.
Migrated to my Alby hub yesterday after having just used the browser extension since I created this account, and it's been a been of a mixed bag.
Good things: sense of satisfaction at having my own lightning node with super low barrier to entry both from a technical and monetary point of view. Managed to fund it using Binance which I had never successfully got lightning withdrawals to work with before.
Bad things: the transition was far from seamless as I lost ~400 sats, which yeah isn't a fortune, but for a humble zap farmer that's a lot of lost work. Not to mention it cost me 3X what I have in my zapping wallet just to fund the lightning channel to even use the app. Otherwise it all looked normal yesterday, but today the browser extension and the app don't seem to be synced properly, as the app shows the correct balance but the extension shows a 0 balance.
They reserve the right to tell you to go fuck yourself, because it's not your money.
I met Satoshi, and he was me
100K baybee!!
Arbitrary yes, but still feels significant in a symbolic way.
Another mental barrier destroyed.
Just found out on reddit that I'm apparently now living under a regime of martial law.
It feels... not good. 🤢
It's pretty similar to the pitch for bitcoin in that I think the fundamental selling point requires your to come off as a bit paranoid and conspiratorial, but for me the core selling point is ownership and control of one's own digital identity.
Freedom as a principle, not as a political buzzword or a moral cudgel. People are so quick to react negatively when you frame things like a kind of moral crusade or a political movement, but freedom tech is fundamentally amoral and alignment agnostic, if only people understand why that is so important.
The current rift between left and right in social media could be a good way to illustrate the issue: the left wants to have control over their feeds and not be harassed by trolls and chuds, but the only way they can achieve that is by massive censorship and active moderation, meanwhile the right is reveling in their platform designed to allow them to spew out every hateful thing festering inside them while amplifying the juvenile delusions of their brain-rotted nerd emperor, but the heavy-handed algorithmic manipulation and exodus of people to be trolled has killed the vibe.
Imagining a person who wants to control their feed and honestly speak their mind, it could be pitched as simply: "Hey, wouldn't it be great if there was a platform where you have total control of your feed but no one could ever be banned, and user-generated value could be rewarded directly without having to rely on corporate money which unduly influences moderation decisions? Oh it would? Yeah lemme tell you about..."
I think the vast majority of people would still think you're pitching a delusional paranoid fantasy, but as people increasingly understand the control-based economy and its wide-reaching effects, its appeal might catch on more. Like Bitcoin, I think the mass adoption will happen when people feel forced to do something to protect themselves.
If so, hope they heard a better pitch for nostr than "it's a twitter clone supported by Jack Dorsey" which is a literal quote I saw on reddit the other day
...perfect example of Hegel's thought: the coincidence of opposites.
It's also the key to understand class warfare: the upper and lower classes do as they like, while the middle classes fret and conspire over their class anxiety.
Just be free, and remember that judgements based on social status are a form of mental slavery.
Done, you can zap me the retard tax anytime bud
I'm your Nostr therapist, but unfortunately the diagnostics manual that I'm working from is very limited. Please choose whichever of the following applies to you:
1. Not bullish enough
2. Not humble enough
3. Too much slobber applied to cantillionaire ballsack
4. Not enough corn
5. Fiat-based time preference
X
Interesting take. I was wondering if it has anything to do with the massive unrealised losses sitting on the balance sheets of America's banks, the massive shadow QE that's going on behind the scenes to pump up the deflating commercial real estate bubble and bail out all the worthless low-interest government bonds that the banks were all essentially forced to buy in 2021. Warren Buffett dumping bank stocks is the symptom, but the FED is the disease.
I'll never forget the feeling of early 2023; FTX being purged and the banks failing just felt so good. I'm ready for round 2 👊
The plebs salute you, mini Saylor. 🫡
Um, OK, this candle is not fucking around.
