twiX is a cesspool.

I did not know that, thanks my man. Appreciate you. Never heard of it. Best.

Thank you, I like this kind of stuff. But you do know it is Grammar, not grammer in you profile, right?

Hey, thank you for the sats, totally appreciate it. I am a massive language guy, I chuckled when I saw "Grammer Chef" in your profile. Come on man, laughter.

Dear NOSTR/Bitcoin Core Developers,

This is a thank you note. To you. Keep going. Chin up. You are critical and appreciated.

As a long time code pounding developer, now off the hamster wheel, I know how many of you feel. It's tough to be a developer, the negativity, the bashing, the wet blankets thrown right away on your fire idea. I feel for you. Developers are SO important. In the restaurant, there is a term FOH/BOH (Front of House, Back of House).

Developers are BOH, the cooks, the ones doing all the heavy lifting, if the food is crap, the FOH doesn't get their tips. But why don't the cooks get the tips?

Developers do it because of the code, the thrill, the solutions, the logic, but most bosses never will look at your code or understand, so it is a game.

Now, couple that with other Developers, I dreaded 'Code Review' at times because most of the time the feedback was utter CRAP. Damn near opinion or semantics. Ever wonder why Developers can't stand working with QA or Code Management? Seriously, when the effort to make the change is 5 seconds, but you know there will be hours of paperwork and ridiculous meetings and installs over the weekend?

So, with Open Source, I know some of this won't resonate, THANK GOD, but the Bitcoin Core and NOSTR development is made of a lot more Hell, than Heaven..

You have to dig within, for the motivation, but it will probably only be intrinsic and not extrinsic (money), temporarily, perhaps never at all.

It's frustrating as Hell, hearing Jack explain how none of the top Tech has given back to Open Source when Open Source code, was the top chefs in the world coding.

All I can think of, all the time, when it comes to Satoshi, is thank God he didn't go through the normal Coding Life Cycle, Alpha..Beta...then production.

He went right to production. I did it all the time...SHHHHHHH

Sometimes you have to be a Gangsta coding BAD ASS.

Thanks NOSTR/Bitcoin Core developers, I hope to give back to you some day, some how.

BOH/Developer/Thankless/Chefs <--- Most appreciated, most important, but a small subset of us understand completely. Keep going.

Sign me,

-Odesa the Dog

How can altcoiners listen to fools like Richard Heart?

Fountain is my favorite Podcast App, not only to earn sats, but if you are walking and talking on a iPhone (sorry) or Android it doesn't stop like YouTube or any other crAPP out there. The only knock is the search function is temperamental.

Anyway, check out Natalie's podcast, the last 15 minutes were amazing, Lightning Round etc.

https://fountain.fm/episode/gBgqilZGdksy0I2gX7KI

The very first Bitcoin podcast I ever listened to was your interviewing Mallers.

Hooked.

One of the greatest parts to listening to the presenters at Bitcoin Atlantis, was Saylor and Dorsey. In hindsight, they are overlapping in much of their messages. Saylor saying how Bitcoin is for everyone, Dorsey saying it too, and explaining how the more people out there using it helps everyone, Saylor repeated that on a Natalie Brunell podcast launched today.

There were two parts to something Dorsey presented that hit me between the eyes:

1) This 7 minutes where he explained the importance of Open Source, how Big Tech has taken so much but never given back, starting with Linux. The importance of NOSTR and Bitcoin

https://www.youtube.com/live/bikLdxCKQjc?feature=shared&t=19740

2) How he said how 'empty' online interaction really is, I am still trying to find that section. How ridiculous, numbers of followers, money, essentially all of Social Media, influencers etc. He said it way better but I suck at Video editing.

I was off twiX then on NOSTR only for six months, got dumb again and went back to a hybrid of twiX and NOSTR, got dumber and got the Blue Check.

I need to ultimately be on here only, but I paid for the entire year to save some stupid FIAT. Punish me.

But, if you see me on twiX, not how FREAKING long my posts are though.

I am the TLDR Bitcoin King.

Thanks NOSTR. I do shy away a bit because I know you all don't want Bitcoin only and that is all I want to discuss, so I have the one last Social Media anonymous account on twiX. I ditched LinkedIn six months ago. I am not going back to FIAT.

Very proud, grateful for so many of you, Derek, ODELL, Will, Gigi, Jack, etc.

I volunteer 1000s of hours as a Cancer Patient Advocate, that is my passion offline. This is my hobby, but I want to help.

Just know, Health over Wealth. There is no price tag for the first one, mental, physical, or spiritual.

Wealth is a 'nice to have.'

Accurately predicted, yesterday by this guy. Amazing.

@`jack`on stage right now being incredible with his NOSTR hat plugging the only reason he is on the stage is because of Open Source: Live Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bikLdxCKQjc

https://void.cat/d/X4YRscwUP7HG9UkCKiqLhN.webp

This literally just happened to me, I was out walking around, and it hit me, I was smiling like a crazy lunatic, to myself, because of Bitcoin. Period.

I agree, nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u though? (Laughter)

Halving too by the way, "Halv-ing" (2 syllables)

HODL is HAW-DULL not HOE-DULL (ETF ad said it the latter)

I am 3 months and 5 days younger than Saylor. One thing that bothers me with Bitcoiners is their loose language at times.

I have super thick skin --- the past few days I blasted Bitcoin Magazine and Fred on TwiX -- but I have to tell a story. It still makes me feel bad.

One time I used a word, a word I used often, and a new aquaintance's face dropped. I asked then apologized profusely.

The word?

"Retarded"

I found out, his wife, whom I had known longer, had two kids, one was named Ben (it happens to be my name too) and how he had Down (no S) Syndrome.

I then learned how hard it is for families like them with a child with Down. Brutal, they had mental health issues just raising a really difficult child.

Before you accuse me of being Woke, go watch either "Down With Love" or "Love on the Spectrum" on Netflix.

Can Bitcoiners have a little more compassion, for not just promoting NGU or using 'Retarded' or 'Regarded' thinking you are so smart and witty?

Satoshi created Bitcoin for the underserved, the under priveliged, the unbanked or underbanked.

Can you all just be a little cooler? Yeah, that is an old man term.

Further, some of you could get a lot better tips on how to treat women from the Down/Spectrum people.

Be cool.

Be a cool Bitcoiner.

Don't be a Douche Bag like Craig.

Be self aware.

Care.

This is so excellent.

I am 27 year Patient Advocate for Cancer. That is my passion and way of giving back to help those diagnosed with a terrible disease. In those 27 years, and having a brother in law with debilitating mental health issues - Bi Polar with Schizoaffective Disorder, the other BIL died by suicide. Depression - even though there is slow progress in cancer we are so far behind with Mental Health.

Talking about it with others is great but we are in the dark ages, much like being in the dark by not embracing Nuclear Power. We need a Nuclear Power level push for the Mentally Ill. My brother in law is known to the Seventh Floor Lockdown at HCMC in Minneapolis. One day, with their backs to me, I simply leaned in to speak through the little slot at the bottom of the bullet proof glass to say one thing.

"Thank you. Thank you for what you are doing for these patients as families like ours are not capable of providing this type of care you do. "

What they did and said next blew my mind, they all turned around slowly to stare at me. One said:

"I have been here 20 years and no one has ever thanked me."

That is sad. Our society needs to change in so many ways, starting with compassion.

Especially for the mentally ill. I applaud you and if anyone has a terrible cancer diagnosis. I can help. For free like I always have, I am grateful for the nurses and the doctors for saving/extending my wife's life from an incurable Stage IVb diagnosis when she was then 31.

We are all one blood test away or one episode away from your family being devastated. I am happy to pay for my high Medical Premiums. Stop bitching. Be grateful.

Peace.

FIAT job Vibes

MicroStrategy has always been a BI, Business Intelligence Company, but now it can say it is a BI, Bitcoin Intelligence Company (MacroStrategy)

I can't wait to see what MacroStrategy is going to bring to the Bitcoin L2 table? Helping overcome some of the LN absolutely normal software development issues.

I really wish many of you could back to the early Internet days at 300 Bps.

Ed Sheeran tells a story to packed audiences about one of the songs he still plays live how he played for years to the backs of people's heads.

Craig Wright is a human ordinal who clogs up the courts with toxic garbage, harmful to people and Bitcoin.

Sadly, our world is really messed up right now. I blame social media, especially FakeBook and InstaScam. People posting 7x24 online how wonderful their lives are but people are miserable IRL.

Social Media is a disease, I need to NOSTR way more... https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a46595062/best-elmo-memes/