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Sounds like you're afraid to debate and/or can't formulate your own thoughts.

Par for the course here, though still disappointing.

Have fun with the endless circlejerk.

Nah, nobody cares about that. It's all about zaps. As much as people distrust dollars, they sure are quick to jump onboard with something equally as shady.

It's also funny how nobody here likes to talk about how Bitcoin is doomed to deflation. The moment someone's key is lost or Bitcoin is sent to a defunct address, that Bitcoin is effectively destroyed permanently and forever.

Then the people holding onto it continue to "hodl" since it becomes more and more apparently valuable, while newcomers don't even bother with it, since they're just fighting for the few scraps that are left in circulation.

Look at the events leading up to the Great Depression for more information on the best-case fate of Bitcoin. But you won't, because that interrupts the circlejerk.

I've read tons of near-death experiences. Some talk about the big ball of light and love at the end of the tunnel that absorbs you into ecstatic transcendence or whatever, while others talk about the perfect meadow with Jesus and past family members and pets, with crystal clear living water and total perfect harmony with everyone around you and an endless adventure ahead.

More and more I've come to appreciate and hope for the second one.

The Bitcoin fan club is a pointless waste of time.

How many posts are about learning to actually be self-sufficient? Farming methods, preservation, self-defense, case studies from collapsed nations throughout history, etc.? How many posts really dig in to the demonic underpinnings of the system we're in right now?

None of them. But if you want to see some nonstop Bitcoin cheerleading, you've certainly come to the right place.

Internet money is not a personality. Money is the root of all kinds of evil. Seek God. Enhance the portfolio of your mind by filling it with thoughts of God, not thoughts of money (no matter what form it takes), or you will be spiritually no different from the people who own the current system.

If this post helps just one person to break out of the hypnosis they're in from talking about crypto all day, then it's worth the effort to type. Otherwise I'm just casting pearls before swine...But I don't think that's the case. People just need to snap out of it.

Yep. All anyone here cares about is money. The few posts that aren't about money are mostly from the Mostr bridge.

I think Nostr would do a lot better with a stronger sense of communities instead of the giant, faceless borg that it is currently. Right now, one relay is basically the same as every other relay. Maybe that's just something that will improve over time.

Clients could push the ball forward a little by making it more prominent which relay(s) a given post came from. Maybe more relays would benefit from whitelisting pubkeys or identities instead of blindly forwarding everything, etc.

Because nearly everyone on Nostr is retarded, but I have faith that one day it will have a critical mass of non-retards.

One can dream.

Half the posts from Fedi aren't showing up on Nostr. I guess a lot of admins are blocking mostr.pub? Or maybe Iris is just breaking even more than usual lately

I'm still not convinced MTG isn't a tranny

Replying to Avatar Alex Gleason

Sounds like she doesn't want a boyfriend but a girlfriend

It's because of all the phytoestrogen in it. Drinking beer is advertised as manly but actually makes men less manly over time. See also: beer gut

The response is "I need to switch to a different beer!" and not "Maybe I should just not drink beer" hmmm

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I wrote you a book:

It's good to see Nostr is getting mainstream enough to have people that don't know about that parlance. Let me explain. Well, first there was Bitcoin. Nobody expected it to work, as all previous attempts at digital currency had failed. Therefore, nobody quickly found a way to make money. Also, it was quite a while before Bitcoin found monetary value. Once it did, the next project copied Bitcoin's code, changing a few parameters and wanted to claim it had value too (so the creator could print free money) now a term needed to be invented for what it was. Cryptocurrency was a term to take shelter under Bitcoin for other projects created by people, some with good intentions, some with not as good intentions. However, they, unlike during the creation of Bitcoin, all knew, that it was now possible to create a currency that would catch on. Cryptocurrency therefore means 'Bitcoin-like' and is used, in my opinion to trick people. FTT, for example, could be issued at any point by a centralized company. Dogecoin has no hardcap; there is literally no limit on its supply, stablecoins can be censored at any point, Ethereum's POS causes a situation where if you have more Ethereum, you can stake more, and literally get more and control the protocol, an exaggeration of our current monetary system.

A word to put a memecoin in the same category as Bitcoin is gaslighting on purpose.

So, in the Bitcoin-only community we say crypto, we mean non-Bitcoin. Truthfully, Crypto conferences, Crypto News websites barely even have much Bitcoin stuff anyway, besides negative stuff. People from the altcoin space are generally surprised to find out that Lightning works because their media tells them it doesn't.

Web 3:

So the joke is Web 3 is a funding mechanism looking for a usecase. Meaning Web3 is an example of some horrible incentives regarding VC funding, frequently involving a16z. Out of all the Crypto startups they funded, you know how many Bitcoin ones they funded? 1. There was 1 that involved David Marcus who was from the failed Libra project from Facebook. Anyway, usually a VC invests and it takes a while to find product market fit. However with Web3, a premine gives VCs tokens in exchange for investing, when the token pumps after listing, they dump on retail, the token tanks. Horrible incentives.

Jack Dorsey wrote a few antagonistic tweets about a16z and these incentives. Web5 is a play on that. Nostr, Web5, TBD, Impervious. Ai, bitkit and slashtags, Bluesky all don't use a blockchain. They all have some connections to Bitcoin. Whether that be Lightning Network, or DIDs (Decentralized IDs), but a thing about Bitcoiners is that besides Bitcoin, they actually really don't like Bitcoin-shaped things (aka blockchains).

So, Nostr is a Great example. Here we have something where the growth is so organic, because it's not around a token we hope will pump. It's Bitcoin. But you don't need it to post. Or to start an account. In fact you don't have to touch it if you don't want to. But if you do, it's super easy. (Last I checked, alot of the Asian users still need to get aboard using Lightning on Nostr.) Also, unlike Farcaster or most Web3 things, there is no Nostr company. EVERY person building on Nostr is doing it because they want to. Just like Bitcoin. Which is also a bit different than most other communities, besides maybe Monero, although they are much smaller.

But yeah, it is cryptograpically signed keys, but it is not a blockchain, there is no token, and there is no VC interest. It doesn't feel like Web3 to me.

That being said, I have heard a Bitcoiner say Nostr and Lightning is the real Web3. Everyone has their own opinions.

Nice wall of text, not reading all that

Cope however you like, but just because Bitcoin was the first internet money doesn't mean it's in a special, distinct category from all the other internet money.

It's true everywhere, if you think about it. Once your message is out there and you try to "delete" it, you're relying on the goodwill of whoever holds your data to actually do so (hint: they don't).

I still think most of the Nostr natives could be replaced with ChatGPT bots tuned to specific personalities, and the network would be more interesting and actually attract real people to join instead of having the pure autism drive them all away.

mumu ogun thunderstrike you!

Also doomed to deflation over time but we don't like to talk about that