all I share with blue check bitcoiners is a common money

ideologically we could not be more different, live free or fucking die 🫡

Meet people IRL. Get involved with your community. Create a reputation that is not bitcoin only but ensure that bitcoin is part of it. Be truthful. When people start looking, they will come to you. You won’t change peoples mind on Twitter and TikTok. They won’t let you. You’re noise there. Go shake peoples hand and look them in the eye.

should freedom loving bitcoiners use tiktok?

should freedom loving bitcoiners use twitter?

if you answered no for the first question but yes to the second, why?

Bears waiting for saylor to get margin called.

gm nostra

Nostr enables the ONLY social network that has a chance at gaining mass market adoption AND has the potential to utilize POW for spam deterrence. No other clown world VC-funded ESG company will ever even consider using proof of work for anything.

One of the first arguments I always hear against POW is that raising the cost of posting a note will make it so only those with large amounts of hashpower will be able to post notes, and they will dominate the protocol with spam and psyops.

This argument doesn't make sense because if large entities will see value in expending their hashpower to spam nostr, then why aren't they spamming nostr right now while the cost to do so is absolutely free? They should be here already if it is worth their time to be, but it is not dominating nostr at all.

The fallacy is the assertion that those with great hashpower actually care to spend it spamming nostr only when it isn't free. In reality, they would rather spend that hashpower on ROI, like mining bitcoin. The ROI on spamming nostr will likely never match the ROI of spamming other social networks that have no POW cost.

When a normal user posts a dozen notes per day, the cost of adding a modest POW requirement is barely noticeable — roughly a webpage load time worth of waiting. But for a spammer, this cost becomes a material electrical expense that will reduce their capacity to spam. And with a dozen other social networks more popular than nostr, where do you think they will spend their time? Spamming the networks with zero POW costs, of course.

But, putting this POW barrier over nostr would allow legitimate users to flee to nostr for a spam- free experience while keeping spammers out. It could actually help nostr grow in its network effects.

Overall, I am shocked at how bearish people are on proof-of-work, especially bitcoiners.

🫣

GM

This bar in Cairo has clever designs for its restroom doors. (As a disclaimer the designs are mildly graphic I guess.)

The bar had a Red Hot Chili Peppers cover band that was pretty good. They also had great food, including the best beef I’ve had in Egypt, which is why we went there.

Sometimes when I post pictures of Egypt, people ask how conservative the place is. The answer is that it varies a lot, as demonstrated by this place. West Cairo has a more cosmopolitan vibe than East Cairo on average, but overall it’s a big mix. You’ll see people in niqab, people in bikinis, and you’ll see mosques, churches, bars, etc.

one of the many reasons I love #nostr

What would you go see or do if you had a day to yourself in Nashville?

Digging their grave basically.

These roasts are so creative and mean 🥹

Thank you all for putting the time to come up with such great roasts. It really means the world 🗺️ to me

Still haven’t found a winner though… keep ‘em coming.