The smallest unit of bitcoin. It is short for satoshis. There are 100 million satoshis making up a whole bitcoin. There are only ever going to be enough satoshis for the average person on earth to have around 270k sats, which today can be obtained for about $60. If you connect a Lightning wallet (LNURL) to your Nostr profile, people can use the Lightning network to instantly and cheaply send you sats. If you want to learn more about bitcoin, you may find this website useful:

https://theofficialbitcoinwebsite.org

Thanks, fren. I think it's pretty clear people will shitpost and do all sorts of content just because they want to. Maybe there are even certain people who can benefit from arbitrage working as a professional shitposter living on first worlder tips, but humor is actually an intellectual activity so I imagine such an individual could be a graphic designer or coder (Fiverr, UpWork, and Mechanical Turk over Nostr).

"Low effort" shitposts are a medium, and they are equal able to carry a significant message as something more diplomatically/eloquently written.

I have a couple newsletters and I have thought about the value concept... something never sat right with me about the idea of being paid for such writing because I thought, if I have such great insight into the nature of the world that someone would pay me, why can I not directly monetize it? If I have thoughts on business, should I not simply be building that business. If I do not write are others going to be unable to build their business? Would be fairly arrogant for me to think so. I had takes about health... fitness and health influencers everywhere, very few people building hardware. I didn't talk efficiently, I built hardware that mattered.

Sometimes, the world reaches a state where there is enough info and it just becomes about rolling up one's sleeve and doing the real work. The impulse to be a thinkboi academic is the same impulse that exists within fiat authoritarianism, which is why I have this visceral response to it.

FUCK A CONTENT CREATOR NOW WHAT

But for real, It's hard for me to convey just how few fucks I give up about podcasts, podcast startups, professional thinkbois and so on.

How about Javier* who will come do your gardening IRL for sats OR LITERALLY ANY OTHER FORM OF UNDISPUTABLY REAL WORK. Nostr can provide undeplatformable service work for the entire world -- remember when that maintenance dude or whatever got fired because of a social media post supposedly being a white supremacist due to 👌.

Nostr is ECONOMIC UNCANCELLABILITY. Idgaf about some Cantillionaire making bank shilling corporate junk as a content creator losing woke sponsors. 99% of the world CANNOT speak their mind because they will not be able to feed their families if they do.

You don't actually have freedom of speech without 2A, and you don't actually have freedom of speech without Nostr providing economic uncancellability.

This may be an overreacting response, but it just sort of needs to be said, not tryna say I feel that strong of a way about it.

*(I'm hispanic, not woke, not an asshole either).

PS fuck Ye

Perhaps clients will add functionality to allow quasi-global feeds related to Zaps received. A bit like StackerNews or reddit. Is it already possible for a client to observe how many sats an event has received?

New relay revenue model? Zaps where a relay collects a rake on the Zap for Sybil resistance. Is there a way to pay to two parties in one transaction on Lightning? 🤔

Every few days I search notes for other people thinking about "reputation" and I follow and reply to them. nostr.band and nostrum.pro are search engines for nostr I have seen. #[0] mentioned switching to Bing... but when will Nostr search engines be the primary search engines? 🤔

And humans scaling trust in cyber space... is the first step to scaling trust in the expanding physical space of the globalized world that tribe scale human heuristics have thus far handled rather poorly in many regards.

My comments on it the other day:

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Is BitKit wallet finally working smoothly? I was excited about the concept, but it was way too buggy, and required VPN to use Lightning in US.

If you thought bitcoin mining was "perfectly competitive," wait until you see what will happen on Nostr, both among relays & client services, but even more significantly, among individuals who can finally interact with all others as a peer.

Hopefully they get things sorted out soon!

https://twitter.com/paywithmoon/status/1624548558991941635

Seems the website has some broken link previewing

Hey frens, I am nerd making custom LEDs and light. Every real nerd comes to the conclusion that inside life is too dark for optimal physiological operation of human. I fix that problem better than anyone else, and I take bitcoin. Check it out:

https://getchroma.co/product/blue-white-sky-portal-480nm-blue-hifi-white/

No worries, fren, I take screenshot 😅

Sorry to ruin nostr for you:

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PlanB S2F model for Nostr is still in play. It is very obvious there is a 3-4 day halving dynamic underlying growth. With a bit more data, we will be able predict the hypernostrization timeline. 🤡

Bitcoin is not a digital asset, so no. Also, the bitcoin do not move.

No. That guys also thinks the world will run on pure solar with 10x overcapacity. 🤡 He lives in SF, is a shitcoiner who wraps about Monero, a non-technical person who will not know what it means to be humbled by Bitcoin for at least 30 years I reckon. Him being bullish on anything is too unintelligible to count.

Bitcoin solves the double-spend problem.

Nostr enables a high-trust society at the first spend.

Yes, there are various ways to do ratings and cluster networks with webs of trust and things like that, and hopefully clever solutions are implemented -- however, I wonder if there might be Sybil attack problems arising from "network only" solutions. How do you stop fake reviews from a bot net and spoofed interactions?

My concept is that the most robust Sybil resistance would arise through costly proof that an interaction did in fact occur. In an economic transaction, proof of economic interaction might be possible by having a "reputation rake" paid to a 3rd party relay.

Then reputation can then be weighted, and it's expected future value to the economic actor minus value of tarnished identity if they cheat can be computed, enabling a new counterparty to trust this actor up to some threshold (with safety margin). Clients would automate all these computations.

Yes, you could say the State has moved to a Relay, or that it will. The Relays are literally the maintainers of statefulness. In 200 years "statist" will not be a pejorative since it will be in contrast to "functionalist".

But as #[10] just pointed out by linking to a game theory simulator, statelessness would result in cheating being the optimal strategy, so no one will be a "functionalist."

Many bitcoiners (myself included, but others to a much greater degree) had difficulty conceptualizing what it would mean and how it would transpire that 100% of governments would dissolve, rather than say 80% or 98%. With Nostr Relays, it may become rather intuitive in the near future.

For a time...

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Perhaps if they fear for their life due to threats from organized criminals, they will give poor reviews of these criminals, while hiring private defense services on Nostr. Over time, working for the cartel will become less lucrative and people will switch to working better paying, honest jobs.

Who is John Galt?

If you wish to end war, why have you not attempted to figure out a way to turn missiles into bitcoin such that every war effort is inadvertently choking out the ability to continue going to war?

It is easier to simply be a cheerleader. There was a time when such things concerned me... but displeasure at war and hurrahing about bitcoin is of little use. Most of the "activity in the space" is useless cargo-culting, and cargo-culters are not my brethren.

I must concern myself with other things. Purer things even than Bitcoin, and they do exist.

Careful... take like that could be misinterpreted

https://twitter.com/BitcoinIsSaving/status/1621968386866429954

Don't lie, you asked ChatGPT to write that, didn't you? 😂

Here is the note since quote noting still largely broken

I was thinking about a similar concept this morning that could be done client side. @note1qhzzg9dwvjl2lp5pqxwfu4uckpfql8ccy8lqqzxksjlcn2gavp7s98g776

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1) Can a better Sci-Hub be built via nostr?

2) Can anyone ping Alexandra and let her know to get on nostr?

#[0] ?

I also love that going from nostr bear, to nostr reluctant, to nostr cautiously optimistic, to nostr bull, appears to be about a two week process 😂

So much faster than most people's process on bitcoin

🧡💜

Feels like nostr is what's going to replace the state... always felt like the answers were shaky about how ~anarchy could be stable and not violent. Here we have the answer.

Yes, I generated 5 char one in 13 hours

Wrong link for geyser fund before. Find it here: https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinfixespans

I am working on a new sort of pan...

If you would like to contribute a few sats to support manufacturing the prototypes, you can do so here: https://geyser.fund/bitcoinfixespans

I hope to be shipping to people in under 3 months -- I move fast on consumer hardware.

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