One amazing thing I learned about (out of many) at the ecash conference

A router for sharing internet

Someone from India, living in a place with a lot of internet access problems, built a set-up where people can buy internet without having any internet in the first place. 1 sat per minute

He built a captive portal that you log into and the page says — I take ecash from this one mint, get ecash from there and paste it into this text box — you paste it in, hit enter, and you’re online

You’ve made an offline payment and voila, you're now online

There are many exciting Bitcoin developments happening but it's becoming more clear that ecash is a wholly different, complementary technology that does different things, including many things that Bitcoin can't do no matter how many upgrades it gets

This type of response to #nostr by decentralized thinkers like Dr. Jack Kruse is kind of baffling to me. I have learned so much from him and I am so surprised he can’t see the value of a decentralized communication protocol. Akin to language, it is arguably the base layer upon which to build decentralized health.

People like Jack Kruse should be acting as bridges to #nostr. Instead they are captured by centralized plateforms. Prisoners of their audience.

Maybe it’s about time to write a book called FIAT TECH and how #nostr fixes this. nostr:note15edh9wx8j2xe3ysfgkwx4frfvfm36mu0gm7ns68ehjgck3lewshsgc60gv

Love is the highest frequency

Yesterday evening I lost my grandfather. He was the most sincere and intelligent man I knew.

For years it had been on me and my family’s bucket lists to see the Northern Lights. Last night, shortly after my grandfather passed, the sky shined with the colors of his spirit.

I will miss you forever. You may now rest in peace Dusan.

Nietzsche, prophesying the future,120yrs ago. 🎯

I’ve gotten 116 emails so far today. Email is a shitcoin

I’ve gotten 116 emails so far today. Email is a shitcoin

less “Who is Satoshi ??”

more “Thank you, Satoshi”

Even if you don't feel the urgency, grind anyways.

The default state of nature is competition. If you are not moving, you are dying.

My barber, a middle aged black woman without me instigating brought up weather manipulation and her recent investment in Bitcoin.

The world is waking up.

#bullish

Does anyone have recommendations on an ideal way to buy bitcoin in Dubai?

I have a friend there asking for recommendations.

The Tao Te Ching was libertarian like 2,500 years before libertarianism became a thing.

Chapter 75: Stephen Mitchell translation:

When taxes are too high,

people go hungry.

When the government is too intrusive,

people lose their spirit.

Act for the people's benefit.

Trust them; leave them alone.

The hardest part of my random crappy sci-fi novel hobby project, is going to be the first half of the third act.

The first two acts were very well outlined ahead of time. This story idea has been bouncing around in my head for a long time, and so when it became time to write it, most of it flowed easily.

And the climax of the third act has also been pretty well figured out for just as long.

It's that late-middle part that's still kind of a black box. The first half of the third act. It's not that I have nothing planned there, but rather it's like I have three potential paths to choose from, and various combinations between those paths.

Going to have to put a lot of thought into that section to tie the whole piece together.

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