I think the dollar will still be around. Bitcoin on the other hand will be around for a long time but not forever. See the govs already trying to control every pos to bitcoin & it's blockchain will be monitored heavily eventually probably 2032 we will have some tech that will make the whole blockchain & public ledger be obsolete & some new protocol will emerge then the cycle will repeat itself only instead of people saying bitcoins the way it will be something else.

Meanwhile people will argue protocols, alternatives to the leading mainstream internet currency, & methods which could create a new implementation which will be open sourced, flawed, exploited, & reconstructed. Meanwhile cash will still be printed on paper & exchanged with paperwork & the banks will still be around.

Why because paper does not require a protocol, paper does not have to be open or closed sourced, paper does not require maintainance, updates with modern coding technologies, & paper will not be an open discussion to debate about which is better because there is no alternative to paper. The paper company made sure of that when hemp paper became illegal.

Nobody is going to create a new alternative to paper, nobody is going to challenge the paper family, paper is truly supreme in the modern political society. You can emp the world & wipe out electricity, the internet, & your money is gone but paper will still be there. You can renew paper & even keep paper intact when wet can you keep your digital wallet intact after you dump the harddrive in a pool of water it's stored on?

The real question is who is challenging the paper & plastic family?

Thought of something today…

People like to compare Bluesky and Nostr because they are built around a similar idea. But it’s claimed Bluesky has more users, a few million apparently. But Nostr supposedly only has 100k or so active users.

Yet today I went searching for real world events and groups around each. What did I find?

Couldn’t find a single event about Bluesky.

Yet the first search found numerous conferences, meetups, and other gatherings for #Nostr

I think this is actually a decent litmus for telling the difference between an app with some users, and a movement. One is cheap, the other lasts.

#Nostr is a movement. We aren’t going anywhere. 🫡

I can’t believe I forgot about these guys again. Even had them on the show to talk about CoinOS and it was the first wallet I ever used that integrated Liquid, Lightning, and Onchain. In fact, it’s how I got my very first L-BTC.

It has Lightning address and even Nostr pubkey by default. Pretty dope. Just registered to see the whole flow. If you save it to home screen as a web app it’s super simple flow. This is how simple a wallet should always be, love the extremely minimal design. nostr:note1zt4tjhzfsvnyryq6w5ac0rx3huw78tgccz7pphnd8v00etrua9xqzw95dt

I made a volts wagon.

#grownostr #solar

"You're the definition of tinkerer"

"Huh?"

"The sounds you were making. *tink* *tink* *tink*. You're tinkering."

😅

Yes

I do like Damus on iPhone other than zapping. Great client.

I use Primal mostly.

Yes, everything except the game are tools in actually using. The game was just a test with some devs who are experimenting with things.

This is all very new so a lot of the apps are in beta and some are still in development. I’m working on an application myself and have been for quite a while (hoping to have something soon). But this is very real and it works, that’s why I’ve started a pod about it. 🫡

Amethyst

Welcome, I'm not techie either... Just start using it and figure the rest out as you go. Maybe put something in your profile about your interests and you'll get more followers... Biggest thing is to record you nsec in a safe place. That is your key to logging into your profile as you for all the various applications that nostr devs have made.

Also never give out your nsec ID to anyone, anyone that has it can basically become you...

You npub is your profile and your nsec is how you access it.

Also consider getting a lightning wallet to be able to accept and send zaps!

ok, I'm a brand new non technical user, first heard of NOSTR in a libertarian chat on Telegram, a few months ago. Yesterday on X, Reason posted an article "Nostr is a community-run digital network highly resistant to censorship and corruption." It caught my attention, so I found and joined this new platform for me. My interest are Canadian libertarian politics, general economics, general trucking as I'm a simple truck driver for a living, the carnivore lifestyle for my health and my family is most important to me.

As a non technical user, I must engage in my own learning curve and discover how I and this platform community can mutually benefit from my limited participation.

Cheers

Sort of hard to imagine people being sad about 60k Bitcoin but I guess many newcoiners have joined

I only just realised how much #bitcoin #marketing is based on #eyes.

The #memes. the laser eyes in avatars. The gifs. I wonder why?

Obviously the actual ledger doesn't look very exciting :)