The damus lightning node made $116 from routing $18,194 worth of payments this year. We also made $21,000 from lightning purple subscriptions, which helped paid a portion of daniel's salary (our only part-time employee).

It aint much, but it's a start. With purple, HRF, and OpenSats, Damus has been able to build out slowly without VC funds. Hopefully we can keep this up. I thought this was going to be our last year but the LTS funds kept the dream alive a little longer.

Clients have got a *lot* better, but we're still insanely early. nostr is going to continue to get better and better. People will continue getting deplatformed on bluesky, activitypub and the big tech silos. We are one of the few lines of defense against internet censorship and government tyranny, and the first large scale experiment that enables true value for value transfer between sovereign individuals online.

This movement is just beginning, and ya'll are on the front line.

️Looking forward to spending another year with you psychos 🫡

The only problem with Nostr is it’s too nice here…

I feel like this is more my home, community, and people; which is wonderful and a space I really needed, but I need a bit more of a fight. I’m considering returning to X in 2025 so I can keep fighting the retards and do my part to help get more people on the lifeboat of Bitcoin and Nostr before it’s too late.

I know it’s bad for my health, but so are all wars.

Merry Christmas Nostr. Running around this week so wanted to get this out there early as posting will be at a minimum.

Enjoy time with family.

Blessed are those that found BTC & understand it.

Blessed are those that found Nostr & use it.

Be smart. Be safe. Next year is going to be a truly amazing year. 2024 was pretty good as well.

I’m a huge survivor fan (the tv show)

It always blows my mind that the prize money hasn’t been increased at all over its 20+ year run.

It should be basically double to keep up with inflation, but it’s still $1,000,000, and most would take home maybe $600,000 after taxes, which can’t even afford a decent house these days.

Can’t even go on a goddamn tv show to change your life anymore! 😂

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my sun iz coming over/*****Time to count my blessings/Bless this mess/*).....nostr.....luv.....uP/*****

The airline lost 1 of our bags. It was the bag with all of our Christmas gifts. Oof. It's been 5 hours and it hasn't been found yet. But I just bought some beer. So I have that going for me. Which is nice.

Same thing.

Invalid token error

I'm assuming so. I can't even get one. 😭

The last person that found a block on solo CK 30hrs ago already has 464 full coins...

😭😭😭

It's not formal, it's more like an ancillary feature of my legal practice that I am trying to build into a formal part of my legal practice. Lawyers will often go out and do talks in their subject area that aren't formal paid for legal services in order to self promote. So like, we have a lot of bankruptcy lawyers here who will go out and give talks about credit risk or bankruptcy alternative strategies, etc.

Re: Doxx, I made the decision to be an educator in the bitcoin space in real life ,and it's hard to give talks to rich boomers with a balaclava on, so I just have to keep my shit locked down and excercise my constitutional carry rights (lol but seriously) and I keep my home very tight.