I am buying a Pixel 8 because I need another phone to test our P2P stuff. It's not because I want the shiny new thing, okay? It's about business... it's an investment. Cool?

Great.

I am not going to use the push server for P2P. There is going to be no server. Thats the whole point.

Brave Browser… And if not Brave browser, why even bother with a “news” website in the first place since is majority propaganda 🤓

I had the very first one back on 2012 🥹 And been on them ever since, until 2022 when I went with a Fitbit for irregular heartbeat tracking. The original pixel watch did not have that. However the second version does.

The shitcoiners have better tooling.

The kids were making bets and paying invoices at lunchtime today 🥹 Though, this could also be because I wouldn't let them on their phones, but told them creating invoices and paying invoices were acceptable use cases.

Date night with my better half

Ok, so that is a coherent view. That aligns with Mearsheimer's "great power politics" view. In Mearsheimer's view, this would be the case irrespective of who was who. Once China dominates the world, they will behave similarly.

I guess I lean towards that belief.

So let me see if I have this right.

The Soviets (Russians) were our allies in World War II, and they made very significant sacrifices in terms of humans killed to fight Nazi Germany. And then after the war, because they stole the secret of atomic weapons (?), they became America's mortal enemy and are still America's mortal enemy 74 years later? Is that right? I know socialism plays into this but that ended in 1991, and they are still America's enemy.

The point of simplex is the async queues which you can’t replace with p2p tech. Nostr is missing the ephemeral push-pull queue idea

There are so many amazing online communities that could use Bitcoin to power their initiatives and take us to civilization 2.0.

Some of these communities:

- Ancient history

- Health & Nutrition

- Mycology

any others?

First comment gets 39 sats 👇🏻

I remember you could burn 700mb to a CD and that felt like a LOT, but it took like 20 mins.

Still felt like magic tho

airport beer at 11am is always the move

There’s something irresistibly absurd about 7 men in a queue waiting to pay $7 USD per gallon for fuel at the gas station here in NZ, quietly waiting because a lady ordered a caffè latte, at 7pm, turning the only attendant left into a fucking barista.

We are beginning the development process for transmitting Nostr events in a peer-to-peer fashion, away from relays. This will start with Gift-wrapped DMs, Private Attachments, Private zaps, Private Text Notes, and Private Reactions; and will be the preferred transmission choice if both users are online, falling back to relays when they are not. Our Push Notification system already transmitted over 500,000 GiftWrapped Nostr events that relays will never see. With a full P2P this will get even better and will open the doors for voice and video calls directly inside Amethyst. Side-stepping relays won't be easy or quick. And I am sure we will get strong pushback from relay operators. But we will get there. And while this might start as an Amethyst feature, it will be a NIP and other clients will be able to join the privacy train.

Nostr is just starting.