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🔥 NEW: http://402.markets is a marketplace for paid APIs

Pay and get paid with Lightning or Cashu. Magic internet money fixing the internet!

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SEC-05 was as inspiring and radical as always! The best part was all the new friends I made and got to hangout in meat space for 6 Poncha fuelled weeks!

#shipTheFuture #SovEng

https://primal.net/a/

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Why is the #primal Reads editor not a markdown editor?

Publishing my first article which I spent days working on my device. I expected to literally paste my .md file in primal and click Publish - but no!

Now I have to do another manual edit in Primal and it doesn't even have keybindings 😕

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You gotta setup LN address for the wingman!

!robot where are all the pirates?

There hve been frontend guys at the cohorts before. If you vibe with the philosophy, demo (working code, even if impeerfect - no slides) a new idea you create every Friday, I think you can apply.

Was onboarding a friend to nostr and was a major fail when setting up wallet primal just doesn't send the email for verification code.

This was an hour ago.

What's the issue nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcpp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7qg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsrrnrxl ?

#asknostr

Yes, but if every ecash tx is from one mint to another then you are doing LN txs anyway.

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Some Thoughts on Adoption (and other nonsense).

There's this old Louis C.K. clip—recorded long before he was cancelled—that summarizes our modern conundrum well: "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy."

As I was walking towards the hospital today—after a way too early 5:30 rise—it dawned on me that wide-scale nostr adoption (and "proper" wide-scale bitcoin adoption, for that matter) is probably not going to happen. The good news is that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The bad news is that lots of people will suffer.

"Why so bearish?" I hear you ask. If you know me just a little bit you'll know that, even though I do have many faults, being bearish isn't one of them. I'm still incredibly optimistic when it comes to the adoption and proliferation of freedom tech. Otherwise I wouldn't be doing what I do.

Here's what dawned on me, though: People aren't even interested in their own health, why would they be interested in healthy money? Yes, everyone wants to be healthy. But doing what is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle? Not interested. Not in the least. Usually something really really bad has to happen for people to change their ways. And even that doesn't move the needle in some cases, as plenty of drinkers who still drink after their liver gave up, or plenty a smoker who still smokes after being diagnosed with lung cancer can attest to.

Which brings me to bitcoin treasury companies. Are most of them interested in taking the responsibility of holding their own keys? Are they interested in providing real value while staying humble and stacking sats? No, of course not. They are interested in paper gains, not in a full-blown reorientation that leads to a healthier lifestyle. And I mean that literally: if you truly and fully adopt bitcoin, the responsibility that is entailed by that will result in a reorientation, a re-alignment of values, which will—down the line—lead to more long-term thinking, healthier business practices, more honest value generation, and so on.

To me, this is what "capital B" Bitcoin is about. Change. Real change. A ridiculous proposition to the balance sheet brain.

...which brings me to nostr.

A short stroll through the current iteration of the internet should make clear that the platforms that most people spend their time on are incredibly mis-aligned with humanity. The outrage-machine that we've built for ourselves is keeping us like rats in Skinner boxes, hitting the dopamine button with every swipe and every scroll, no matter what. We've built a machine that is parasitic on humanity, instead of synergistic. We are optimizing for engagement, which means that we are maximizing addiction by shoving a mixture of uppers (porn) and downers (rage bait) down our collective throats. The machine is catering to our lowest selves, as opposed to our highest selves. (We could also optimize for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, you know. Is that too much to ask?)

But who is to blame for all of that? (And is it worth blaming someone in the first place?)

It is clear to me that the whole military-grade industrial advertising complex that profits from running large-scale and nonstop psychological experiments on the whole fucking population of the earth wouldn't be profitable for long if we would all get our act together. But that won't happen, of course. There won't be a magical finger snap that suddenly shakes us awake from our slumber; that stops us from sleepwalking into dystopia. Just like there won't be a magical finger snap that stops us from our bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles.

Adopting a healthy way of living is hard. It means saying no to the constant onslaught of sugary snacks, fast-food around every corner, and social pressures to indulge. It means taking responsibility for your decisions, cultivating discipline, taking care of your body, your psyche, and yes, also your soul.

A wise man once said that "he who has a 'why' can bear almost any 'how'." And that's what most of us are missing: a strong enough "why." Why go through the trouble of living healthy? It's hard! Why hold your own keys, if someone else can do it for you, and there's even the apparent safety of some insurance? Why cultivate a less destructive relationship to the internet, if you can just autoplay & chill, whether it be with Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, PornHub, or something else? Why not write the snarky comment and trigger a whole cohort of people at the click of a button?

Because it's not healthy, that's why.

"Everything's amazing and nobody's happy." That's the state of the world. Always has been. And I'm to blame too, of course. Sitting in the hospital waiting room, writing these lines, bitching and moaning about the internet, this amazing series of tubes that I so love, warts and all.

But yeah, the internet won't heal itself over night. Neither will the economy, nor the rent-seeking zombie companies that don't provide value, nor the underlying fiat system that broke it all in the first place. It will take lots of time, lots of courage, lots of faith, and lots of responsibility.

It will be hard, but it will also be worth it. And it starts with you.

Evangelising Bitcoin, a healthy way of living, etc taught me this. Fiat damage over generations won't be fixed in one, but i always remember Freidrich Hayek:

"We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a programme which seems neither a mere defence of things as they are nor a diluted kind of socialism, but a truly liberal radicalism which does not spare the susceptibilities of the mighty…, which is not too severely practical and which does not confine itself to what appears today as politically possible. We need intellectual leaders who are prepared to resist the blandishments of power and influence and who are willing to work for an ideal, however small may be the prospects of its early realization. They must be men who are willing to stick to principles and to fight for their full realization, however remote. … Unless we can make the philosophical foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in the power of ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not lost.”

So my "why" and so i build.. despite knowing that you can't make a horse drink the water, we must build and maintain the lakes - the lakes of freedom.

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✊ Announcing Hack4Freedom: a women-led hackathon in Nigeria

We’re training builders to use #bitcoin, #lightning, #nostr, + #ecash to solve real problems in their communities.

👉 read more: https://evento.so/blog/introducing-hack4freedom-empowering-women-in-nigeria-to-build-with-freedom-tech

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🎤 want to speak, mentor, or support? dm me ⚡

#hack4freedom #bitcoin #nostr #foss #buildforfreedom #womeninbitcoin #womenintech

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An Ode to the Sovereign Engineers

Surrounded by a fiat world and its fleeting games,

By a corner I labored, in a hostile land of claims.

Alone and weary, thirsting for a spark, a roaring flame.

Having not written a single line in years a many,

One day the lord adrifted my log on to the shores of #Madeira ,

An Isle of orange sunrises and sunsets of purple.. O Indra!

Cafes themselves are coloured orange with #BitcoinAcceptedHere ,

And butchers share their bounty, a true pirate's right to cheer.

Twice a year, the bugle is rung in a hall so grand,

Lined with tiles of purple unlike the Portuguese blue.

What a sight to behold, where the valiant take a stand!

The Remnants of yore convene, spirits of a higher order.

In rites sacred and old of blood, spirit, and fire,

To walk the path of building, crafting futures yet unseen.

For six long weeks, they philosophize on what might have been.

Mending the bluey woes of #402 , a payment long denied.

Alchemising #magicalInternetMoney with #notesAndOtherStuff ,

Electrified by AI, #vibe they hard those days and nights.

Surfing down waves in style with no solutions only tradeoffs,

To build the Internet we deserve, with honor as our guide.

Free as in Pirate, for their spirit’s bold and true,

They take what they will, honorably, as true pirates be.

As they say, “Once you go #SovEng , you never go back,”

So it is, for I have found my brethren, and I shall not lack.

To walk, to buidl, to drink and feast on Azores meat,

Vibing into existence #FreedomTech of pirates, so free, so neat!

Ahoy, me hearties, Bitcoin buccaneers and fellow Libertarian scallywags seekin' fair winds! As part o' the @planb.network chartin' the Bitcoin District Prospera, we’ve crafted a wee questionnaire to aid our fellow pirates in findin' a safe harbor on the splendid isle of Roatan, Honduras. Fill it out and send it our way, so we can dispatch a buoy and a zap package (aye, ye'll get a zap as our hearty salute) in the meantime!

https://app.formbricks.com/s/cmbnonuq3f2oxut01eojgy015