GM #plebchain

Anyone have mattress recomendations?

Looking for that sweet spot of price and quality sleep.

I’m thinking firm is the way to go.

Even worse is the fact that most Australians were on the cops' side.

You’ve got a great life 🤙

Is there an appeals process over in the UK or does the buck stop with this ruling?

Stay strong 🤙

GM nostriches! 🌞☕💜🧡 #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr

#Bitcoin fixes inflation

...is a message simple enough to penetrate the mainstream. We just have to repeat it enough.

#meme #memestr

What changed?

Is it just me, or does it seem like everyone is super reluctant to monetize services and relays on #Nostr?

If we can’t make these things sustainable then we will either lose them, or they will stay nothing more than a weird little corner of the internet with lots of hope but no chance of ever scaling.

I still haven’t seen the basic model of zap sharing tried by any major client or relay. But I DO see regularly comments about how expensive relays are. I mean it might not work, but can’t we TRY it?

I want to make the distinction here too that this doesn’t mean we are closing off the network, we are adding permissions to the protocol, this doesn’t suggest at all to used closed source code, we simply need the services necessary to keep this ecosystem robust, to be profitable and have the resources to thrive. If they aren’t, then NONE of this works. Economics is everything.

I know building features is more exciting. I know we all want to make everything that we can free, and I agree all of the *code* should be shared. However, I think there is a natural insecurity (and I say this because I have this problem personally) with charging a fair price, and fearing criticism or the ire of people who believe everything should be free (as in price) when we need things to be free (as in Liberty). They are not the same, and confusing the two could stifle, or drastically slow down, the insane potential of this place.

TL;DR We have GOT to divert some energy to thinking about how to make this ecosystem sustainable, or we will lose it.

(Disclaimer: this isn’t a judgement on whoever is thinking about this problem. It just *seems* like few are. If you are building in this way please share your ideas or what you are trying. I’m extremely interested)

I must admit I’ve never been able to listen to a complete #MichaelSaylor interview/video/pod. And I’ve tried multiple times with a range of hosts and a range of mediums. Jumbled thoughts, ‘American waffle’, hyperbole. In my view a very poor communicator. Not my ambassador that’s for sure. Happy to be challenged on this too.

The gatekeeping is a bit much

Nobody is saying you mustn’t give up your privacy to ZBD (and anyone who subpoenas them).

We’re saying it’s stupid to do so.

"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down."

~Frederick Douglass.