I would love one!

POW would be trivial for clients to implement in various places in the nostr protocol. Python-nostr and the bija client have live implementations of event ID POW. I agree that pay to play (sats instead of POW) seems cleaner, but there is something to be said for the accessibility of POW. Setting some static level of POW would effectively remove most mobile clients unless the work was delegated elsewhere.

The nice thing is that event-based POW is more easily delegated than public key POW since the private key isn’t needed for the hashing

My podcast feed below

Bitcoin podcasts:

- What bitcoin did

- investors podcasts

- Blue collar bitcoiners

- the kevin rooke show

Non-bitcoin:

- techmeme ride home (daily tech news)

- lex fridman (as titles interest me)

- the realignment (haven’t listened in a long time)

Never take technical advice from anyone that can’t spell “lightning”

Sounds like a great idea. I think extending that to broadcasting events you reply to would also help your followers have a more robust experience.

Anti-anti-fragile

From what I’ve heard this is not a difficult achievement.

Alternatively you can follow less people, but optimize your global feed with client/relay options. This is obviously more difficult depending on the clients you have access to.

Unless this is a different account I also don’t think this is actually Alex Jones

I should stop nostring before coffee. I read “this” (Damus) not “Iris”. I need to try Iris on desktop - and gossip for that matter. I’m way behind on testing clients.

Damus is far and away my daily driver. Current is new and interesting as well, but the lack of an external wallet was a no-go for me

Agreed. I also don’t think all adverts are scams. I do think adverts that shill a token with no clear use case in mind should be interpreted as a request for exit liquidity. That type of advertising is so prevalent nowadays (as OP pointed out) that we as bitcoiners shouldn’t want similar ads that make bitcoin look like everything else (a Ponzi)

This guy has been around a while. But yes, blocks/mutes are very much necessary now.

I think part of the “bitcoin IQ test” is eventually understanding that the need for advertisements is fundamentally driven by the scammy nature of these other projects and the need to exit quickly. Organic adoption doesn’t need mass advertisements and IMO they could actually hurt bitcoin by making it seem more like the other projects that are just hunting for quick exit liquidity. Bitcoin is the long game and it’s advertisement needs to be through actual use for it to be fair and successful. These companies should act like what they are - for-profit companies. Running ads for themselves but explaining that they are built on bitcoin tech is probably better than trying to shill people to buy bitcoin outright.

Have heard some really good things about nostrgram.co especially if you want to try something less like twitter

#[0] 💜🫂

Combination of Muun and ln.tips linked to blue wallet covers a super wide base of functionality and self-custody (via Muun). I also have telegram installed to ping ln.tips directly

Technically it’s the same tax penalty as if you just move your BTC so it might not be that big of a deal. In the US at least, when you transfer BTC you have to report the transaction in USD terms anyway. Not sure how it would work if they actually passed a de minimus law that allowed for small purchases in BTC

Long press for options is supposedly on the way

This might help. My personal preference is a small number of popular public and paid relays, but before I had the ability to turn relays off just for global I was using paid relays only and nostr.wine filter/broadcasting to keep good coverage. #[11]