Am I the only heathen who prefers lined paper to dot grid paper in my notebook? Is it a left handed person thing? I want nice quality paper and lines, I know it's probably out there, but until then I'll suffer through dot grid.

NWC is easier for connecting your own node and doing self custody. If we are giving up on self custody then sure cashu is better. I am not gonna give though and I am surprised so many bitcoiners on nostr are like this. What happened to not your keys not your coins.

We should be building better self custody tech, not tech that is optimizing for custody.

Nostr is more than just a social media platform.

It is a protocol that allows you to prove your identity, sign multisig contracts, borrow or lend money (using other protocols like Bitcoin), express yourself freely, and have sovereignty over your digital life.

Use systems like Nostr and Bitcoin keep you sovereign. Remember to run your own nodes. It's cheaper and easier than you might think.

If you would like a easy guide on how to run nodes for people who aren't very tech-savvy but need it, just give this post 5 boosts, and I will create it for you.

> Boost it.

#nostr #btc #node #zap #boost #sovereignty

The national embarrassment was having a President who was in bed at 8pm and needed handlers to get around. That only answered pre determined questions from selected people. Who actually ran the country the past 4 years? It certainly wasn't dementia Joe.

The nodes enforce the consensus rules.

GM from beautiful Colombia.

With all the chaos and nonsense going on in the world right now, I wanted to share something that I believe is critical as it relates to what is happening on #bitcoin (the first global free market that can’t be cheated) versus a system of corruption (trying to stop that system) Either 1) through willful intent or 2) lack of knowledge.

(*the majority of people fall into the lack of knowledge group)

According to game theory and playoff matrices: even when there are very high rewards and low punishment (they wouldn’t get caught) approximately 10% of people won’t cheat - no matter what!They place a higher internal value on integrity that overrides external rewards. I’ve seen this number as low as 2.5% and as high as 20%.

Why is that important:

Although everyone wants to see themselves as one of the honest, the math says that between 80 - 97.5% of people will cheat depending on the rewards. Now enter money - the ultimate pot of gold with high rewards and low punishment for cheating because people don’t understand it. Most people will cheat - a mirror of the world we see and have seen in Bitcoin since its inception. Need inflation, bad for environment, drug money, doesn’t scale, crypto, meme coins - the list will go on and on because if people can “get rich at someone else’s expense - most will. Those are simply the numbers and always have been.

In fact, in prior periods of history, the honest were at a massive disadvantage because and would often be killed by the cheaters. Because the integrity was so rare, society would often celebrate these people after their deaths as lessons of what we wanted our higher selves to look like.

#bitcoin has changed the equation. Giving those with integrity the power. Why: because 2.5 - 20% of people that won’t cheat is a massive number - especially if many of those people are decentralized and can’t be “found”. Those are the people who eventually run nodes, contribute their time and energy to keeping #bitcoin decentralized and secure, watch for attack vectors, build value on top of this protocol, call out the cheaters, teach and advocate to help others see it. Those people simply can’t be bought, and more are joining every day.

That decentralized and secure protocol bounded by energy is repricing everyone and everything from the other system and it will continue to do so as that system tries to grapple with: the cheaters no longer make the rules.

It will be chaotic, many more will try to cheat (don’t be afraid to slay your heroes) but in the end…..Satoshi unlocked a way to put the best of us into a protocol that was best for all of us.

What a time to be alive.

I made my first oil painting and it was surprisingly good, seriously I never expected it

I’m thinking of leaving it like this or finish it up.

Donald Trump's after midnight posts are the best.

Sorry I seem to have offended you.

It would be great to have a standardized wallet across apps so I don’t have to transfer zaps around as I swap.

I just wish the option to buy #zaps in @Primal would start working again. It stopped quite some time ago, and I've been left without an alternative to turn printed colored paper into #zaps.

🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤🫤

Still haven’t figured out zap 😅

I’m in NY and on iOS. So most lightning wallets aren’t compatible.

Looks like only option is NWC wallet or Alby on Damus but haven’t figured out setup yet.

My name is Olawale Moses, a Nigeria artist.

Here is my pencil drawing titled Light Play Portrait iii.

Let me know what you think!

I can say whatever I fucking want to and no one can stop me, and anyone, anywhere in the world can read it unfiltered and unmediated by corporations, institutions, or governments.

People really don’t understand that this is the first time in human history this is really possible and how big of a deal it really is.

From this alone, another world becomes possible. One where the radical power of truth-speaking electrifies itself as the spark that initiates real thought and the possibilities that entails.