Elon ist ein Shitcoin
This the most biased thing I've read today. Didn't expect to find it on NOSTR. Sad
Every night, without fail, a single bottle appears in front of my house (more exactly, in one corner of the public garden). A humble offering from the city itself—worth exactly 8 cents, or in our preferred currency, around 80 satoshis.
To understand why this happens, you need to know about Germany’s Pfand system. Here, bottles and cans aren’t just trash; they’re money. When you buy a drink in a plastic or glass bottle, you pay a deposit—usually between 8 and 25 cents—on top of the price. Once you return the empty bottle to a supermarket, a machine scans it, recognizes it, and spits out a receipt you can redeem for cash. It’s an efficient recycling system, but it also means that lost or abandoned bottles are like tiny coins scattered across the streets, waiting to be picked up.
And so, every morning, I wake up to find my own little deposit refund sitting outside. I don’t know who leaves it there or why. Maybe someone always finishes their drink on the way home and forgets to take the bottle with them. Maybe it's a secret benefactor, unknowingly sending me a daily micro-payment.
8 cents might not seem like much, but in the world of Bitcoin, that’s 80 satoshis—a few drops of digital gold. Every day, without lifting a finger, I receive a tiny stream of sats, courtesy of the Pfand system. Free sats, gifted by the habits of an unknown passerby and the German obsession with recycling.
At this rate, I’m stacking 2,400 sats a month. Not enough to retire, but in Bitcoin terms, every sat counts. And who knows? Maybe one day, that bottle will be worth a whole lot more.
Anyway, GM.
If only I had thought about this before embarking on a shitcoin journey 🫠
And this is the market's response:
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Is this app available in the nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgzqtdq0?
Worst generation ever. No drive
Nice, next step is nuking your account
You can just not do things
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This is an extremely basic prototype that only barely works (user beware!). However, I think it highlights what is amazing about building on Nostr. I was inspired by this post, and then able to build a client in 3 days almost entirely with AI.
The opportunity to bridge social behavior with "other stuff" (in this case, books via Open Library API) is huge. This concept could work for any type of content, not just books. Music, Movies and TV, games, etc. — all on Nostr.
The process of building on Nostr with AI also demonstrated a few gaps in the ecosystem where AI-ready tools were missing or failing, so there is definitely opportunity to grow there.
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Overall, I'm extremely impressed by what can be done with AI on Nostr and all the doors this will open! I'm excited to keep working on this. #bookstr #GrowNostr #AI #Nostr
For me it stays like this forever. Running it on brave in an Android device:
Zap me ⚡
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