need to get back to food pictures.

2023 was the best year of my life so far. I am very grateful for all the amazing ways my life changed this year. #nostr was a huge part of this.

It all started when I surrendered my lame ambitions, failed company, and dead-end projects to Jesus. Everything I thought I wanted to do, I gave it up. I just resigned myself to trust in what God wanted to do for me. Within a week I had the idea for ONOSENDAI. A month later I launched it, beginning my career as a nostr developer. The reception was amazing and a catapult for the rest of this year.

I did my first hackathon. Then I did another. Then I did a third. Then I won! First place in the Yakihonne Nostr Hack-On!

I created a community for ONOSENDAI and garnered almost 100 members. I've never run a community like this before. Everything just happened so naturally and it's been incredible to see it grow.

I went on a podcast for the first time ever -- Nostrovia, the OG nostr podcast. I made friends with G and Bitkarrot who are very amazing people that I love!

I was made an admin of the nostr telegram group. This came as a great surprise, because I simply discovered this by accident one day.

I was recruited as a consultant for a bitcoin/nostr company and got paid in bitcoin for the very first time! Thank you Arcade Labs!

I know follower count is a shitcoin but I got over 2500 followers on nostr, which is more than I've ever had on any social media, and that's pretty humbling to me that so many people want to see what I have to say.

I got recruited for another hackathon, but this time it was for something I did not expect -- a video game publishing platform on nostr -- CRASHGLOW! I love video games and I'm so grateful that Jon reached out to me to work with him. Bringing gaming to nostr is definitely a passion of mine that the Crashglow project opened up for me, and Jon has also become a good friend!

I went on a SECOND podcast -- Thank God For Nostr -- which was very appropriate because God was the source of my entire nostr journey. Getting to know hodlbod has been an absolute gift!

I figured out a way to bring Yondar into the nostr ecosystem and launched the new nostr-powered Yondar at #nostrasia, making a decentralized Google-Maps-like experience possible for the first time on nostr!

I got an OpenSats grant for working on cyberspace!!!

I traveled internationally for the first time to #nostrasia in Japan, which is a place I've wanted to visit my whole life.

I got to meet Gsovereignty, Jack, Rabble, Pablo, Will, Max, Jeff, Shaun, Sherry, hodlbod, NVK, WaterBlower, Awayuki, Millie Mays, Steven Mosher, and so many other amazing people. I made tons of new friends!

I was on a panel that ended up being all about cyberspace. I gave a talk about nostrocket and Yondar. I presented the Crashglow hackathon project. And I did these with almost zero anxiety, which is amazing because I used to be a shy and nervous person.

I worked closely with G to grow Nostrocket and launched Yondar on it, which is a huge deal.

I hosted my first dev call for Yondar and saw a huge amount of interest in it. I've been merging pull requests from other people who are passionate about making Yondar better! It's so cool!

I've learned incredible things, read incredible books, had incredible ideas, met incredible people, and it's hard to believe it all happened in 2023. But all of this is simply a reflection of the incredible mission that I have been put upon. Freedom technology is my calling. I have never felt so at home, so comfortable, so excited, so driven, so passionate, so creative, so hopeful, or so at peace as I feel right now being a nostr developer. I feel as though there is no place in the world I could possibly be that would be more perfect than where I am right now. I am so grateful, and humbled, and optimistic.

Whatever happens in 2024, I am ready for it. God is leading me on this journey, all because I let him, and although the world is full of uncertainty, I fear nothing.

I can only imagine the blessings and victories that await 2024.

I am humbled and grateful for each moment with you all.

Happy new year 👾💜

worst dancer on nostr 🙋‍♂️

that's why I'm taking dance lessons soon

A few months ago I wrote this on twitter.

Figured I would bring it back here.

Bull runs tend to make everyone feel like a trading genius so you might be inclined to trade shitcoins.

Here we go 👇

If you're trading shitcoins to make more bitcoin, here are a few things to reflect on you might have overlooked:

If you currently own bitcoin you already have "enough" bitcoin; whatever trading you do for 99.9% of people won't make a difference. Of course, you think you are the .01% because that's human psyche, and casinos would not exist if this weren't the case, so you can probably stop reading.

Trading shitcoins is WORSE than any other kind of trading/gambling: if you subscribe to the idea that bitcoin is a technology for freedom, your trading shitcoins (i.e. giving them liquidity) provides oxygen to the most successful attack (to date) against bitcoin: generating confusion about what it is, and making people believe it's yet another speculative/trading vehicle. If you know this, then you, willingly or not, are participating in exploiting financial and freedom illiteracy.

We are where we put our attention; is your attention on something worthwhile, or is it focused on trading? Even if you just use X% of your attention, are you happy paying a (X%+context-switching-costs) tax to delay the world you want to see just because you want a slightly better position in a hyperbitcoinized world?

Your attention and time are WAY scarcer than bitcoin; are you protecting/respecting these as you do your cold storage?

You probably don't agree with this; otherwise, you wouldn't be trading shitcoins, but I'm writing this on the off-chance that you haven't considered this before and you were just too focused on the "I want more bitcoin" ambition.

TL;DR:

* You are wasting your life-force/energy on something that doesn't improve anyone's life, including your own.

* You are financially supporting scammers creating chaos.

* You are helping delay a tectonic shift in the amount of individual freedom.

I grew up in a low-income family where we could barely afford basic necessities, until the 2014-2016 crisis in Venezuela hit and I had to drop out of university to work construction so we could have enough food to pass the month. Luckily, we never went hungry because everyone in my house worked.

One day, I got tired of working construction and saw an opportunity to sell bread outside my house because bread was scarce due to the crisis. The bread business was successful, and the flexible hours allowed me to have free time to research different ways to "make money online." I discovered a few forums that paid a little bit of sats for creating posts, and that's how I slowly started to get into the world of bitcoin. I began creating my first content to upload online and be rewarded for it. Unbeknownst to me, I had started to monetize my hobby of photography, which eventually became my way of surviving the crisis and even helping my poorest family members, who needed it most.

In the midst of all this crisis, many Venezuelans began to leave the country in search of a better future. Even all the people I grew up with in my home left, and today, I am the only one left in Venezuela from my family nucleus. My mom, dad, aunts, siblings, and cousins are all outside of Venezuela. I am the only one who stayed, and it is because of the power of bitcoin that I am still able to pay for my life in Venezuela. In some way, I am "living the dream" because I am living off of what I love to do, and that is thanks to bitcoin tecnology and all of you too.

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#bitcoin #birthday #venezuela #photostr #life #story #itchangedmylife

$100 per month 1 2h session a day

how many people here actually enjoy dancing?

just curious

2023 was the year for nostr.world conferences! What was your favorite moment from #Nostrica and from #Nostrasia ?

We just love getting together and watch #nostr develop in the meet space 🫂

Ready to keep breaking the system during 2024?

Happy New Year Nostriches!