The moon is cool.

Sometimes I forget people get scared from #Bitcoin’s price volatility, especially if they have yet to see a full cycle.

Don’t worry interest will return!

When it dissipates you should take that as your opportunity to accumulate more.

I do this but only loosely, a better description for what I’m doing is: if I’m generating value, I’m accumulating #BTC.

I don’t mind people selling their stack. They think they are taking profits, I’m excited because they are putting sats back on the table.

All of the people getting in have yet to prove themselves as diamond handed individuals, ETFs won’t make people shakeout proof.

I’m convinced buy pressure will always outweigh sell pressure in the long term when it comes to ultra finite assets like #Bitcoin.

If you don’t hear from me for a while, it’s because I’m in mourning.

Just lost my baby girl.

It was a beautiful 12 years. Shred in peace 🙏🙏🙏

We have no framework. They gravitate more towards starlink than setting up lorawan. Which is stupid cause the entire Italy and Spain is now mesh nets

I want to get them but I have no idea if the frequency will work here as there is nothing closely Lora related.

History teaches us that kings, wars, and things written on paper are what achieve human progress, but that's false. It's technology.

I read the entire Time and Wind series.

"An Acceptable Time" and "A Ring of Endless Light" and "Many Waters" were especially good.

Well, let's say, the days of kings weren't any better.

Did you really? She's one of my favorite authors.

That's something I can't offer you, sir. I can only offer articles as a substitute for Kind 01.

That's something I can't offer you, sir. I can only offer articles as a substitute for Kind 01.

# Why Nostr needs writers

... and how you can be one.

## Literary art deserves a suitable frame

I have repeatedly suggested that people who are inclined to truly write, in an informative or artistic (a.k.a. "high signal") manner, switch from merely posting micro-blogging (kind 01) notes to long-form notes, wiki pages, and community notes.

These OtherStuff articles are contained within new types of events and are handled differently by potential readers and algorithms. It is true that the engagement you receive will be much lower (at least, initially), and this content may not be very popular, but:

- the articles will be more long-lasting on the relays and others will likely pay to archive them for you,

- the direct responses will tend to consider the article in its entirety, rather than merely using them to grandstand or straw-man,

- the articles are easily editable and will soon be versioned, to allow for both change and traceability,

- articles will increasingly be moved to the forefront of new types of clients, so you will be part of the pioneer subset for those clients,

- the complex structure encourages you to write more complex material,

- the notes will draw more attention from those arriving late to the conversation,

- and they will create a gallery of your "best of" and "essential me" for potential followers to peruse.

## Expand the knowledge base

Nostr developers are an exhausted and harried group, that is trying to build under duress on a rather thin budget, with mile-long roadmaps and nagging users hounding them the whole way.

The last thing these devs want to do is write software documentation. But documentation is actually one of their most important forms of marketing to new users and documentation writing and maintenance often inadvertently uncovers bugs and workflows that need to be redesigned.

The simple solution is to have their most-enthusiastic users writing the documentation for them, which is now simple to do, with the wikis that are being built. Simply find your favorite apps and begin documenting things you typically do with those apps, or write an overview page showcasing your favorite features, including screenshots.

Not only is this useful for later users, it's free advertisement for those apps and it lends the weight of your WoT (Web of Trust) to their endeavor. You are showing, through proof of work, that you care enough about this developer and their efforts that you'd spend your free-time writing about them. That is the strongest recommendation you can make.

## Make Nostr more attractive to search engines

Search engines are the gatekeepers of the Internet. Applications don't necessarily rise to popularity because of the "clout" of the people who write there. They rise because readers from outside of those applications found the content within them useful, entertaining, or informative.

Although social media drama and influencing can make for a fun read, if you like that sort of thing, it isn't generally what someone who isn't familiar with the actors in the argument would bother reading. It looks like squabbling, mogging, tribalism, and gamesmanship, to outsiders. Which is what it is. Most people eventually weary of it or being involved in it.

Much more useful is the a compendium of ideas pulled together by an individual npub (human or not), and forced to go head-to-head with counterarguments contained in a separate, but jointly-listed compendium. This format eschews the more emotive forms of rhetoric (pathos and ethos) and encourages someone to engage and debate on a more intellectual level (logos).

This is the idea behind the Nostr wiki, and I heartily support it. Make dialectic great again.

## Escape the scourge of AI

Don't bother telling me that AI makes human writing obsolete. It rather makes it a more-exclusive endeavor, by reducing the scope of the content to something more reflective of the person writing.

Yes, ChatGPT can write articles, but whether they are "better" is subjective. They have fewer minor flaws and cater more to general tastes, and can be produced quickly and in high numbers, at relatively low cost. The same way that robot-created art is "better" than most human-created art, or factory-produced food is "better" than most home-cooked food.

I'm only writing for the sort of person who prefers human art. Writing can be an expression of the self and a window to the soul. Read what I write because you want to know what I really thought.

I thought this.

In those days there was no king in Nostr; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Keep #Nostr punk. 🤙

That would be good.

I use follows to curate access to me, and then I read from a favorites list. Similar idea, but even my faves are often just shitposting or fighting and I occasionally need a break from that.

Or, as Madeleine L'Engle wrote:

Someplace warm.

Someplace warm and sparsely populated.

Many express apathy or indifference, but it seems to be almost a political depression.

Even protest voting is less attractive because the fewer people vote, the less voting matters to politicians, so the less-effective protesting is.

"The Egyptian Blue"

Egyptian Blue is the oldest known artificial pigment. The Blue color has been throughout the history of humanity one of the most quoted, identified by it with royalty and divinity, due to the difficulty of its obtaining.

Blue pigments were used from very old, but more late than others such as red, Black, brown or ochre, easier to get in nature and used already in the art art. But the most quoted blue pigment came from minerals such as lapis, scarce and rare, and therefore very expensive. The largest lapis deposits are located in the hindukush of Afghanistan, where they are still exploited with procedures very similar to employees more than 3.000 years ago.

The Egyptians cared about those mines large amounts of lapis to obtain the azurite, the dust that provided the blue pigment with which they adorned their artistic works. Its price was so high that even in medieval times still cuadriplicaba the gold. That's why towards 3000 BC they sought a way to make their own blue pigment. Little by little they were perfecting the technique, which consisted of grinding silica, lime, copper and an alkaline base, and heat it at 800-900 degrees Celsius. The result obtained is considered the first synthetic pigment in history.

The Egyptians used it to paint wood, papyri and canvases, coloring enamels, inlays and vessels. But especially in the funerary field in masks, statues and paintings of the graves, as they believed that the blue color protected the dead from evil in the other life. The oldest known example of the pigment dates from about 5000 years ago and was found in the painting of a tomb of the reign of ka-Sen, the last Pharaoh of the first dynasty. In the new kingdom the Egyptian Blue was used abundantly as a pigment being found in statues, paintings of tombs and sarcophagi.

A summary of the currency reform that took place in Czech Republic in 1953 under communism.

History repeats itself, doesn’t it?