This one has aged well....
Happy new year Nostr
Slow motion car crash since 2008!
I just dm'd you as a test
Gm nostr
Ah that's great, thanks.
I had a really good christmas here in Paraguay thanks.
How was your's?
Happy holidays!
Merry Christmas Nostr!
They seem to be working for me.
I will have one of the devs message you.
There may be something specific to your set up.
Now we know why they are letting them in!
We have two ways of paying for content on the internet:
One is βfreeβ content, where we actually pay with our time, our attention, and our data. We do this inside platforms engineered to keep us watching longer than we intended.
The other is subscriptions, where we commit to ongoing payments for services we may no longer want. We do this inside platforms deliberately designed to make cancelling difficult.
Both models are hostile to users and corrosive to creators.
The solution is not new. It is the oldest economic model humans have ever used:
You pay for something, and then you receive that thing.
This is now possible with Bitcoin, Nostr and @Fanfares.
Fanfares.io
and now you can earn bitcoin for it!
fanfares.io
Bitcoin use case?
Perhaps we should start using it as a p2p cash system?
Bitcion doesn't know what it wants to do right now!
A sovereign AI is something you run yourself, or have hosted for you by someone you trust.
It reads your npub, your history, and your web of trust.
It learns how *you* discover truth.
When you search, it doesnβt return whatβs popular or profitable for advertisers.
It returns what has proven meaningful inside your trust graph.
No nudging and no algorithmic mind control.
Just independent search and curation.
The interesting part comes next.
The research this AI does on your trust graph can be shared, at a cost of a few sats,
with other sovereign AIs doing the same work for other people.
Not pooled models.
Not shared data.
Just signals.
Over time, the AIs that are most useful get queried more,
earn more sats and can justify more processing power.
When they recommend Fanfares content that proves valuable,
referral splits route value automatically.
Users who think well gain better intelligence.β¨AIs that serve well gain more trust.β¨Signals that align with reality propagate.β¨Noise becomes uneconomic.
What emerges is an intelligence layer with no centre to capture. It can be composed of sovereign nodes, human and machine, each accountable, each optional, each competing to be useful.
This is what happens once discovery, identity, and value are no longer owned by platforms.
Gm nostr
GM Nostr!
The weekend is here! 
We can all see where things are going.
Digital ids will be required to access platforms.
They will be tied into back accounts.
Money will be controlled, platforms will be controlled and speech will controlled.
Anyone that says anything they don't like will be suppressed by the algorithm and demonetised by the platforms.
Bitcion and Nostr are freedom!
Creators listen up.!
Your sponsors can have their payment processing facilities taken away from them. This can be used to pressure them into not sponsoring you.
At Fanfares we are digging the well before the water supply gets turned off.
Fanfares.io offers direct bitcoin monetisation per item of content.
No platforms, no transaction fees and no subscription slavery.
Bitcion is a currency. Let's use it!
This audiobook explains the potential of Fanfares to create a digital media economy using bitcion and nostr π
GM Nostr
Gm nostr
You have to click on the link and then pay
This meme is definitely worth 2 sats
Yes they are government bonds packaged up with a derivative contract and sold through the stock market in an equity wrapper.
This is what a bankrupt nation does when their two biggest lenders don't want to lend them any more money.
Have a look at a chart of the growth of ETFs since 2008. Compare that with the graph of total qe issuance.
Fascinating and enjoyable.
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Highly recommended podcast
Gm nostr
perhaps that just means that the people who are lending to ecash mints are fools!
yes if money is credit, then all money possessors have to be doxed.
It is funny to watch Tether try to graft themselves onto the Lightning Network.
From their perspective it makes sense: Lightning is the most efficient, lowest-cost settlement rail in existence, and Bitcoin has already done the hard work of building it out.
If they can use Lightning to move their IOUs around, they can piggyback on the credibility of Bitcoin while preserving their own centralized power.
But the whole thing misses the deeper point.
Lightning is not just a network of payment channels; it is a network of conviction.
Bitcoiners run routing nodes not because they expect to get rich on tiny transaction fees, but because they believe in the mission.
So they donβt run their nodes with an economically viable model, most of them will be operating at a loss.
Every sat they forward means that they are expanding the reach of sound money.
That sense of participation, that alignment with a cause larger than themselves, is what makes the infrastructure resilient.
Try substituting a dollar proxy for that mission, and the ethos evaporates.
No Bitcoiner wakes up eager to donate liquidity and bandwidth to make Tether stronger.
Anyone operating a node that carries Tether will demand higher fees.
The difference is structural: Bitcoin routing is subsidized by belief, while token routing will always be mercenary.
This is why stablecoins will never truly compete with sats on Lightning.
They may succeed at moving volume for a time, but they will never summon a volunteer army.
Bitcoin nodes are happy to give because they are defending the hardest money the world has ever seen.
Token nodes will only give if they are paid, and they will want paying well.
That asymmetry ensures that Lightning will always be cheaper, more reliable, and more resilient for Bitcoin than for any imitation that tries to ride its rails.
The same thing has been seen with peer to peer network of Bitcoin to cash transfers.
Bitcoiners are happy to trade at spot, while anyone facilitating USDT trades are asking for a fee to complete a deal.
Thank you. Here is the link https://api.fanfares.live/s/axRQkZ
Does anyone have any short videos where people are complaining about the capture of centralised social media?
I will zap 10,000 sats for good ones.
Please post as a comment to this note.
I will be using them as part of a documentary film that I am making about Bitcoin and Nostr.
If you're not paying for it, then you're the product!
You can now publish your audiobook outside of the platforms, outside of the banking system and not give 75% of the revenue to Audible!
GM Nostr
Free speech is being outlawed in the UK!
Nostr is gonna change the world!
Sadly, if you google it, there is a Nostr shitcoin.