Time for another daily sats giveaway - but this time with a twist. 😎

I have preallocated 20 payments for amounts between 500 and 5000 sats. These will be paid out, in the order I listed them, to the first 20 people to reply to this message.

The question is, do you feel lucky? Reply now to find out!

P.S. I've noticed that occasionally a nostr client will not display Lightning info from a profile, even though it's present on another client - meaning that occasionally the Lightning info is missing. If you want to ensure yours is not missing, add a Lightning Address/LNURL to your reply.

Time for another daily sats giveaway - but this time with a twist. 😎

I have preallocated 20 payments for amounts between 500 and 5000 sats. These will be paid out, in the order I listed them, to the first 20 people to reply to this message.

The question is, do you feel lucky? Reply now to find out!

P.S. I've noticed that occasionally a nostr client will not display Lightning info from a profile, even though it's present on another client - meaning that occasionally the Lightning info is missing. If you want to ensure yours is not missing, add a Lightning Address/LNURL to your reply.

Can Zeus be used without running a lightning node?

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Thank you. The whole reason I stack is for him and his sister! (And my wife!) The kids need to be prepared.

Proud parent moment. My son wrote this article for a school assignment. 🧡 (Any Zaps earned on this post will be sent to his Muun wallet.)

What is Bitcoin?

There are only 21 million bitcoins. Currently, the price of each coin is worth 23K, but the real price is infinite.

Bitcoin is a digital currency, which means that it exists only in digital form. It was created in 2009 by an anonymous person under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin is not backed by any government or central bank, and its value depends entirely on people’s belief that it has value.

Bitcoin works on a blockchain, which is a public ledger of all transactions that have ever taken place. The blockchain is distributed across many computers so no single party can control or manipulate the system. Each transaction must be verified and approved by the network before it can be added to the ledger.

Bitcoin is a digital currency, which means that it uses no physical money to be transferred. Bitcoin is decentralized, meaning that there is no central authority or bank that controls the money. Instead, all transactions are made through a peer-to-peer network of computers.

Bitcoin is a digital currency that can be used to buy goods and services or held as an investment.

What is bitcoin mining

Bitcoin mining is the process by which new bitcoins are created. Mining requires special computer hardware and software as well as knowledge of technical specifications. Miners compete with each other to solve a puzzle which is 67 digits long in order to verify transactions and earn bitcoins for their efforts. This process also creates new competition among miners.

Mining started out as a way for early adopters to get Bitcoins at no cost but has since evolved into a business with specialized hardware and large-scale operations that consumes lots of energy.

Why is bitcoin better than banks?

The idea behind bitcoin is that it should have no centralized authority like a bank or government controlling its creation or its value. This decentralized nature makes bitcoin appealing to some people who don’t trust banks, governments, etc.

Bitcoin is better than banks because banks can print and make their own money out of thin air. This makes their currency worth less. Bitcoin has a fixed amount and will only get more value over time because it is digitally scarce.

Bitcoin is good for the world because it allows people to save that were never able to save before.

My love for Nostr is real, not fade away.

Lots of talk about Elon waving his magic wand and granting a decentralized Twitter with lightning payments. A few thoughts…

No way in fresh hell he’d pay $44 billion for a publicly-traded software platform and decentralize/demonetize it.

Let’s say he enables and promotes lightning in the near term. Most likely it would be limited to a tightly surveilled integration with an app like Strike or CashApp. Not ideal, but it does drive some adoption. It would be interesting to know what he thinks of the seemingly lackluster tipping test-run with Strike.

He’s also not shown to have any real interest in the lightning network. He has a love/hate relationship with Bitcoin and its community, and seems just as willing to integrate Doge payments as he is Bitcoin payments.

Another downside is that whatever adoption lightning payments creates and enables, the network would be in more of a prime-time FUD spotlight (more of Liz Warren & Jamie Dimon squawking that — only drug dealers and terrorists use the network.) All that, along with “Twitter Payments™” being “Elon’s project” and all the political baggage that comes with it.

The alternative? A sly and roundabout way that scales slowly but steadily over time. One that doesn’t bulldoze the legacy system overnight, but slowly erodes from without and within. After all, isn’t this how all truly revolutionary protocols scale?

#Nostr

Nostr Clients to try?

I’ve been strictly on Damus all this time .

Caption this.

#CatsForSats

All zaps and donations will go to attitude adjustment.

That's OK. I'm not here for the Zaps. PV 💜

Nostr is so much more fun than Twitter!

I'll zap 100sats to everyone who comments a "zap" pun on this post until my lightning wallet is empty!

#ZapToIt