I'm working on making it easier so sorry for the non obvious UX. For logging in right now you need to use Alby extension on desktop or nostore on mobile to store your nostr key. Once you have that, click Login and select "Nostr extension" and you should be able to write, repost and so on.

This will get easier in the future and more options will be available.

This is amazing - thank you, and thanks for the information and transparency.

On a related topic, does anyone know if the hundreds+ of awesome - and green - anecdotes like these are being documented in one source/repository? Having hundreds+ of these anecdotes available might be helpful the next time Elizabeth Warren or Greenpeace start yapping about how bad Bitcoin mining is for the environment. As one-offs each of these instances can be dismissed as nice little stories but dozens or hundreds of stories like this, altogether, create a powerful fact base to help fight the soundbites and misinformation.

I posted about our on-grid strategy at Standard Bitcoin.

Now let's talk about our off-grid strategy, which aims to tackle the stranded well problem in Appalachia with bitcoin mining data centers and generators produced by Upstream Data.

Appalachia is filled with shallow oil basins that were drilled years ago. At the time, it only made sense to extract and transport the oil out of the area. There were very few nat gas pipelines built to bring the associated gas to market because it wasn't economically viable.

This has created a massive stranded well issue. When the oil wells went dry producers capped the associated gas wells and left them behind with the land owners. A lot of these wells are poorly maintained, degrading, and sometimes leaking methane into the air.

The only profitable solution to this problem is bitcoin mining because bitcoin mining is location agnostic. Meaning that miners are willing to show up to the well to monetize the gas on site. Nothing else makes much economic sense.

Our ability to leverage this gas to mine bitcoin has some positive knock-on effects; it ensures the wells are properly maintained, prevents methane leak, and turns a stranded asset into the hardest money on the planet. Turning waste into bitcoin is a boon for economic prosperity.

Beyond this, we are exploring ways to make sure the land owners benefit from allowing us to come on their property to monetize the gas. Aligning incentives to help them become more economically secure.

In the long-run we believe this alignment will strengthen rural America economically and breathe life back into a part of the country that has been cast aside by the coastal elites. Strong rural economies are desperately needed if we're going to right the ship in the US.

I should caveat this with the fact that not every stranded well is equal. We may not be able to save all of them, but we can certainly make a material dent to begin turning waste into prosperity for those who desperately need it.

Another caveat, stranded wells are just one subset of abandoned wells that are scattered throughout the country. There are ~120,000 orphaned wells out there. These are wells with no current owner or maintainer. This is another problem that bitcoin miners can help solve.

There are many problems to solve before we perfect our off-grid model at Standard. Many of them have to do with logistics. However, they are very solvable problems at the end of the day and we plan to work our hardest to tackle them.

We're very passionate about what we're doing because we believe deeply that the work we are doing both on-grid and off-grid to turn wasted resources into sats is going to have many compounding positive effects on the areas we operate in.

Bitcoin is a powerful tool that is revitalizing neglected areas of the US. Most do not see it yet, but they will in time. We plan to highlight the benefits of bitcoin mining on energy systems through our work as we stack some sats along the way.

We're going to win.

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Can the devs be trusted?

I don't really care what people do with their sats.

I mind my own business-->> Sovereign Welder LLC

As for me? I stack them & Only invest them in myself/tools.

I'm not blowing them on junk food just to be cool on the internet.

For me, #BitcoinPizzaDay is a day of giving back to people who are struggling with hunger, homelessness, and economic injustice.

We like to say, “Bitcoin fixes this,” and “Fix the money, fix the world.” I think a lot about how things get fixed, and from my perspective, it makes even more sense to say, “Bitcoiners fix this.”

Eight years ago, what almost feels like another lifetime, I tried an experiment in giving back. I used a long-forgotten app called ChangeTip to raise about $240 in one day from plebs around the world, which was the cost of one full bitcoin at the time. As soon as the goal was reached, I bought 10 pizzas on Foodler (the first food ordering app in the US that accepted bitcoin) for delivery to the Bowery Mission, a charity and temporary residence for homeless New Yorkers.

I did all of this publicly on social media, and people just had to trust that I was being honest with them. Experiences like this one have shown me that the global bitcoin community has overwhelmingly had its 🧡 in the right place, and its generosity has inspired me to keep doing the work.

And if you ever wondered what 1 BTC worth of pizza looked like in 2015, here it is!

You know it’s only a matter of time before you can feed your app design to a chatgpt / image analysis tool and it will recommend an improved UI/UX…

Everyone will be a designer. 

As a follow-up, it’ll plug into Figma and generate the designs for you.

Don’t have a design? No problem. Just describe what your app will do and refine with a few follow-up prompts to get full designs and code for each color palette you choose.

Gm! #coffeechain

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Pandemic fear waned off. Climate fears subsiding. Back to good ol terrorism fear.

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I see the dilemma, it's the Byzantine General's problem. I claim to have the key published to a text file which is behind a paywall. Purchaser sends sats, no key exists. Seller won't unveil key before payment. So it is rife for scammers on both sides. Perhaps a multi sig solution but a third party signer needs to verify that the key is valid and we're back at "trust" scenario.

I'm glad you challenged me on this, it has become a curious puzzle that I'll continue to ponder, in the solution will be something that can be used beyond ticket scalping 😎

Cheers

Since the btc conference is already steaming on YouTube, it would be cool to all have the live audio stream in the new podcast apps.

Jim Beam warehouse floor boards all assembled and stained on this beast of a table. The gel stain I used evened out the tone of the various wood species, when the Jim Beam warehouse was built in the early 1900s, the floorboards were made from whatever was close by in Kentucky: oak, fir, spruce, hemlock, and some poplar. All of these pieces came from floor boards that were 2” thick and some of them smell like bourbon when they’re cut.

#grownostr #woodworking #furnituremaker #woodworker

Been offline camping in the woods for the past two days. Did I miss anything?