Question…. Why do people pay for, boob pics, dick pics, feet pics, whatever when there is an endless supply of all of these things online?

Technically it's already possible, many websites already implement it.

The problem is majority of internet users don't have Bitcoin or a lightning wallet.

And because of that, the majority of websites arent using paywalls.

Lightning will be on every website.

It will replace Google's doubleclick trackers.

Website publishers will earn more receiving streamed sats directly than paying Google 35% of all their ad revenue.

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

I muted an AI reply bot that claimed to be Satoshi. I’m torn, because what if it’s him.

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What are you building?

I don't see the difference between libertarian and anarchists personally, just sort of want maximum freedom and be left alone? I don't see the left and right thing

Nostr is the open ecosystem alternative to the super app.

hello world.

Going to start utilizing this platform more, especially for more nuanced bitcoin talk.

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I had a long conversation with my buddy who grew up in Dominica. He made a good point; savings is a western privilege people in developing countries and many don’t have all basic necessities and can’t even think about saving until they get their basic necessities.

At the end of the call we agreed the “bitcoin is savings” narrative needs to evolve into earn bitcoin. People in developing countries need to earn before they can even think about saving.

Going to try to record a podcast on the matter, who would be interested in this?!

Antonop? Writing Mastering Bitcoin 3rd Ed.

The United States government plans to liquidate more than 41,000 #Bitcoin seized as part of a case connected to Silk Road. This past month, they already liquidated over 9,000, showing that they're ready to begin dumping the rest.

By the end of this decade, this move will be looked at as a huge geopolitical blunder. The United States government should HODL.