at #Bitcoin Tokyo...

can you imagine a better lunch at a conference?

Here’s a shitty picture of the moon I took through the window.

GN 🫂

I try not to judge Nostr clients too hard in any given month on this early basis. They're all working on novel tech to increase speed and usability. They generally raised little capital or in some cases no capital, compared to what so-called Nostr competitors raised in the crypto space. How many bitcoin companies are around from a decade ago?

I use a given app, and rotate to what is gathering momentum to see if it works better, while still using what I used before, to test things as they come and go, because rarely does one client just go away. Multiple clients develop out of that trough and keep competing. But as one app goes through a period of weakness, I don't write it off. I ask what's happening and how it could be better, or what apps should look like.

I'm happy to see so many clients pushing hard and competing. That competition is what makes Nostr more interesting than Twitter/X over time. And indeed if none of the current clients provide what you want, you can enter with your own code and/or capital.

It's open. That's what makes it beautiful. That's why we're here.

It's important to note that intelligence in one domain doesn't inherently translate to others.

The shock comes when you assume an expert on topic X is somehow impervious to bias, propaganda, cognitive dissonance, and bad takes on topic Y.

Know this and know peace.

Emerging from the darker months here in Australia 🌘

#spring

#surf

#lineup

#photostr

#tasmania

#photography

#artstr

#art

#bird

#moon

#winter

#grownostr

#australia

#Austrich

#AUStriches

#noicemag

awesome, I run one on my network for my son & I as well!

This post by Riddy made me smile and inspired me to write an intro myself, as I too am new to Nostr. So here goes.

Hi! You can call me Bosstone. Music has always been a huge part of my existence. I am the co-founder of a music service that has grown to 10+ million users over the past 5 years, primarily in Latin America where we are #2 behind Spotify in Mexico's Google Play store music rankings.

Before my entrepreneurial journey began, I spent 7 years in finance. I was an analyst at an investment bank when Lehman collapsed and I remember that period of time well. Years after the GFC, I was considered an upper earner in society, but buying a home still felt like a stretch. Hence began my path down the 'what is money' rabbit hole that eventually led me to #bitcoin.

Like Riddy, I am also not a developer, but I am in a position to influence the music community's understanding of bitcoin, decentralization, privacy, etc. In fact, I consider it an imperative as "starving artists" are in the class of people most affected by worsening inflation, yet most are oblivious to the underlying dynamics affecting their quality of life. Moreover, the bulk of "#crypto" activity (that music execs and artists wrongfully associate with bitcoin) in my industry has revolved around awful Web3 investments and the like. Unsurprisingly, few music people - from record label workers to rights administrators - actually understand bitcoin.

To that end, I hope to contribute to the Nostr community for now by onboarding members of the creative and creative exec class into our movement. I may sneak in a few music-related things along the way.

Many aspiring artists are anti-establishment by nature. Nostr jives perfectly with their world. They just don't know it yet. Let's get them there.

Bosstone

#introductions

#music

#grownostr

#plebchain

#introductions

#creatives

#finance

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I think about these Nick Cave lyrics a lot

The bright horses have broken free from the fields

They are horses of love, their manes full of fire

They are parting the cities, those bright burning horses

And everyone is hiding, no one makes a sound

And I’m by your side and I’m holding your hand

Bright horses of wonder springing from your burning hand

And everyone has a heart and it’s calling for something

And we are all so sick and tired of seeing things as they are

Horses are just horses and their manes aren’t full of fire

And the fields are just fields and there ain’t no Lord

And everyone is hidden and everyone is cruel

And there is no shortage of tyrants and no shortage of fools

And the little white shape dancing at the end of the hall

Is just a wish that time can’t dissolve at all

No, I don't remember, you have to listen to all of them.

Remember when your government stopped you taking your kid to the cafe to have a milkshake, because you didn’t want to take a trial medical procedure with significant evidence to suggest it was neither safe nor effective?

Yeah those were fun times.