From my comment on Stacker news to the common question of when and how did you find Bitcoin?
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You know how they say you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink?
Well when exactly I found or heard about Bitcoin was less important than the deep curiosity that I've always had. When I found it, I went down the rabbit hole with eyes wide. It only took a few days to see that it was interesting but only after months and years has it proven to be resilient against many of the proposed threats I had read about. The key was to withhold judgement and let my curiosity guide me to understand and verify as much as I could. Bitcoin holds up well to this approach.
It's more fun writing on nostr than in a journal. Written hundreds of thousands of words and have the hardest time publishing anything from it. Back in the day I'd have an idea work on it over a few days and get it out. Many duds but a few winners and sometimes you only know which after years.
So why not just put stuff out and let the global brain figure it out? Ego for one. Ya don't want to get a reputation for putting out garbage, right? Well with few followers that's perfect too because nobody's gonna see anything unless it gets a boost or three. So no need to filter at the beginning. I trust this makes sense.
These days the goal isn't anything but causing many neurons to fire with positivity.
Yes! (channeling the art teacher I never had) Anyone else?
Why is this the first word in the BIP39 word list?
Art may challenge the consumer.
The challenging aspect can be anything. Durability, think of the banana or performance art. The canvas, so many sculptures made of canvases. Scale, from umbrellas on a landscape to microscopic images carved in silico.
What is art? It's unanswerable isn't it?
Then, what is real art?
What's happened has been internet scale and I agree there's a ton of garbage out there, but it is similar to real world art.
For every gallery showing $10k+ pieces there are thousands of private works sitting in basements and attics and home studios.
What we see now is democratization of art publishing, crowdsourced curation, and if art is a social phenomenon then who am I to say what you or your bros or society should like?
I haven't bought any NFTs but I never liked the idea that the digital real isn't real. To a similar extent the physical world isn't real, ultimately constructed in our minds and proven more real by shared experience.
#Nostr has that quality of being hard to measure, a certain unknowability which was written about in Sovereign Individual, which gives it strength as something which is close to nature.
Less value judgment. More protocol development.
Collectors exist in the real world. Admissions to events also.
I agree. Today's information consumer has to be on the lookout for agenda and emotional manipulation and stay curious to research when needed and carefully curate incoming sources.
When you turn off the MSM you turn off the negativity and hysteria they use simply to sell ads. As a result, other more positive interactions weigh more highly and you end up feeling more positive and constructive.
You know it's getting serious when you start to plan your life with #Nostr
GM. Tuesday is the most active day of the week at the fiat mines so enjoy the ride whether you need to be there or not.
GN #nostr
