My Dad was stung by a scorpion while he was in Vietnam, drafted for the war. He nearly died.
Yeah, the moment I saw him issue a shitcoin, I knew I couldn’t endorse or vote for his shit.
Thanks to small blocks this reality will be years, maybe decades from now. For now, I enjoy low-cost running full nodes. Also can have pruned. Cheers!
If you mean cracker barrel the restaurant, you’re wrong. My parents may be rednecks but they are well-educated rednecks, both of them, and the mom likes cracker barrel.
I don’t like a lot of things people say, but damned if I wouldn’t fight for their right to say it.
GM
Still waiting for my money at the bank to be available after depositing a check last Friday.
If this were a Bitcoin payment, I’d be able to use it within an hour of when it was sent.
No waiting for the mail, no questions asked.
Yeah, that was around the time I stopped doom scrolling fb.
Sometimes I go see how the fam is doing, but it’s pretty rare.
Mahomes started buying up ownership of local teams and brought whataburger to kc. Further proof that the $150MM contract would have been debased just sitting in dollars.
Why Bitcoin?
Because the department of education won’t teach you basic financial costbenefit of using sollars and wants you to be a wage slave.
That’s why.
Did you know there’s software that can judge cattle nearly as well as a cowboy that’s been doing it for 5 decades?
It is annoying that the new IRS defi document does not contain page numbers. (source: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-30496.pdf) But pdf readers do.
And I note that on page 41, they clarify that a software developer is not a broker unless they get "consideration" (i.e. money) for their code. Yay!
Also, zaps should not be considered as payment for any code written.
We are just testing the protocol here.
Ok, give me all the protocols.
No offense, but I will use it.
My Nostr predictions for 2025
Exactly one year ago I published my Nostr predictions for 2024. Some came true, but most were, shall we say, aspirational, and, if we want to be generous, directionally correct. Happy to continue in the same vein and go out on a limb for 2025. Here we go, ordered by likelihood of coming true:
1. Primal will become much, MUCH better. Primal 3.0 will be a bigger leap forward than Primal 2.0 was. We will surprise everyone by the features, speed, level of polish, and ease of use.
2. Many other Nostr clients will impress by their progress in a relatively short time frame. If I had to pick one, I have a really good feeling about Highlighter.
3. Way more bitcoiners will join Nostr. While we currently only have a small subset of bitcoin enjoyers on Nostr, the new features and unique content will make Nostr irresistible to anyone interested in bitcoin.
4. Bitcoin-adjacent communities will start to discover and join Nostr. This will include health & wellness, financial twitter, human rights, libertarians, and other communities. As a result, the network will grow and become more formidable.
5. Spammers gonna spam. With the growth of the network, spammers will return in force. They will be sophisticated and relentless, putting all of our spam mitigation services to the test.
6. The Blossom protocol will make media hosting on Nostr much more robust and resistant to censorship.
7. Long form content will start to hit its stride on Nostr. This includes textual long form content (blogs, essays, articles, etc.) as well as long form video content.
8. Multiple Nostr projects will find effective and ethical ways to monetize, marking a watershed moment for the protocol. We will witness the formation of the first cohort of real businesses on Nostr, signaling the inevitable changing of the guard and the eventual extinction of the Legacy Web.
9. Nostr will experience a glimpse of what a ‘suddenly’ mainstream adoption moment looks like.
10. By the end of the year, everyone - even the haters - will realize that Nostr is going to win.
11. nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx will accuse me of not being bullish enough.
One thing is certain: we will keep pushing until we will this thing into existence. 🤝
Anyhow, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Pura Vida, and Peace and Love to you all! ♥️☀️
I think it will not just be Bitcoiners who willjoin nostr.
I think everyone who values truth will want and NEED to be here, whether they have gone down the monetary rabbit hole or not.
Being a child of a vietnam veteran who wasn’t treated for ptsd although he should have been… take care of yourself, but push onward.