Thereβs the Jersey city meetup this Thursday and Brooklyn meetup on next Monday. Thereβs also this great little Somalian restaurant in Harlem nostr:npub1uf7kwrgnacpzuer9n0jtuau4jkhs8r4zsk7g83y9h8k39rxpy42ql9ehfe
awesome! iβll try to make it to as many as possible!!
yo dion, iβm gonna try to make it out! any other recs for a bitcoiner in the city besides pubkey?
Join nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qqsrjxqeute0zwusetrjp9qeadt5aa7q686wsxr8lsjvg73uuh52yjq7qs24c and nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpzamhxue69uhk2cmvd9c8xefwwp6kytmjv4kxz7gqyr9utmmtq89arlazew26j48sfsu94ymvr2rwrwuuehev7r6wh6kvkuycn9n as they react along to nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqg9rg869l7t43ats5gdsqrqh6njn5wjf0jpe0unvpekkredvllr6nqwfmhjz' latest interview with Jordan Peterson as he talks about his journey into bitcoin, history of company building and investing wins, and final realization that he needs to discover what is money
best part of interview was βslurping them offβ commentπ
I'm very excited to finally launch Opportunity Cost today!
You can now price the internet in bitcoin!
It's extremely rewarding to take something from a nagging idea in your mind to a working product.
Here's how we did it:
As someone who has been focused on educating people about bitcoin for 8 years, I'm always thinking about the "top of funnel" and how we can bring more people into bitcoin.
As a bitcoiner, I'm always looking for tools to make my life easier.
Opportunity Cost tries to solve for both.
For people to understand why they need bitcoin they need a way to recognize it's value prop quickly. By enabling them to download a simple extension that allows them to track the price of things in bitcoin over time we hope that people begin to recognize the power of hard money.
Those who already live on a bitcoin standard need a simple tool that can easily help them understand how much bitcoin they're spending on a day-to-day basis. Opportunity Cost solves for that.
I've often had ideas for informational bitcoin products/tools that never made it to launch because I never felt comfortable taking the risk to pay a developer to build it from scratch.
AI completely changes the game. In a span of three hours one Saturday afternoon I was able to build a working prototype via a combination of ChatGPT and Replit.
After playing with the prototype in my browsers I was successfully able to convince myself that this product was something worth pursuing. I then found nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqgq4mqax94enxcx4ez5h2sjt4hthkqj3y5vnccj3yv0nn5w03tp5usehgwej here on Nostr, reached out to him, showed him the app and asked if he thought he could turn it into a fully functioning product.
He liked the idea, understood how I wanted it to work because of the prototype I built, and took the reins from there.
Within two weeks of Moses using his spare time to work on the app, we had a fully functioning and stable product.
The longest part of this process has been getting the app approved by the app stores. Google approved this morning and Firefox is still pending.
We're entering a brave new world in which "idea guys" who have been scoffed at historically have agency to bring their ideas to life in the form of a prototype and then hand it off to a dev who can do the rest.
Huge shout out to nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqgq4mqax94enxcx4ez5h2sjt4hthkqj3y5vnccj3yv0nn5w03tp5usehgwej and Ed, Head of Ops at TFTC, for their work on this. Also, nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqgq3hx5fgpxm7vp5ulscs6afm3xx6dm0ywdprqn3h5hv2eag3xzsecaq8aww and Anthony Ronning for their advice along the way.
Go download the extension and let us know what you think! The extension is only the first iteration of Opportunity Cost.
wow amazing work marty and team! i love it!
the people who have some sort of expectation for you or ANYONE to respond to them on the internet blows my mind
Understanding grows when scientific knowledge is shared.
Yet in 2025 some journals still gatekeep important research.
Like this review of links between depression & inflammation.
$35 if you aren't at an institution with a subscription.
Imagine if a library that charged $35 to read a book?
That's enough friction to keep the knowledge from most of the globe.
Every time I encounter knowledge gatekeeping in a health related journal I wince.
I wonder if the American Journal of Psychiatry has considered the costs to the field, and our global mental health, of staying closed?
The thing is, I can personally read these articles thanks to my institutional affiliation.
But the momentary friction as I cross through the paywall reminds me that most people can't.
The article: https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20250289
the likelihood thereβs anything in that article that actually advances our understanding of depression is highly unlikely
iβve had my fair share of lightning node issues throughout the years, most of them related to LNbits, but i have to say LND has been very reliable for me as a pleb node
i donβt know why, but custodial lightning just feels less sketchy than cashu
I think I mentioned I am a saxophone player. Here's a clip from gig at a local club a couple months ago on a tune called "Alone Together"
...And there's a file size limit. Ok. I have to cut it back a bit. Sorry for an abrupt ending.
https://blossom.primal.net/3b382671995792ec3746a330e78f083f3e317e01585f3ec2691c6e64e6477e66.mov
love to see it. we need more music like this. would love to zap u but it looks like your wallet is not set up yet
seeing a lot more people seem to care about self custody, which is good. itβs like they feel where things are going and soon those zaps are going to be of material value
