The plans that were never the plan but you fall into anyway are almost always the best plans. 😆

Why does #[1] always look unhappy?

Oh wow. Got the NIP57 configured and seeing the zapp’d sats associated with various posts -crazy! Great job Vida on the implementation.

We will never get freedom and autonomy through another big platform or big corporation taken over by “better leaders.”

If you’re trying to build the next big platform that’s going to be “The Ebay of Bitcoin” or “The Uber of Bitcoin” etc, I think you might have an incorrect framing… in other words, I think #Nostr is going to be the “Ebay of #Bitcoin.”

What we have to do is build *communities* and private, secure means of communication. Then with those tools we can share and offer any service, product, work, liquidity, & anything else we need. This IS the circular economy, and zaps are just the proof-of-concept.

Like #[2] said: Nostr can monetize dissent.

The economic revolution isn’t simply “going to be grassroots,” it’s only a revolution because it IS grassroots.

I don’t know how someone can be hardcore Bitcoin and NOT hardcore Nostr. It almost makes me question their core values and whether they’re in this space for sincere reasons (beyond NGU reasons). But I know we are very early with Nostr and maybe it’s just me. Anyone else feeling the same way lately?

When I look at pictures of the great pyramids in Egypt all I can think about is the tremendous amount of slave labor that would have been required to build those things (the pyramids were originally covered in white *polished!* limestone so it would glimmer in the sunlight). More than half the population would have been slaves to these crazy rulers who thought they were gods on earth. What the world doesn’t realize today is that when 90%+ of the global population is in debt up to their eyeballs with no glimmer of hope to ever pay off their rolling and ever increasing debts, we are living in a very similar situation. One difference between then and now is at least the Egyptian knew they were slaves.