Gn for those zap me tonight🫰

Do they sell ostrich-specific saddles?

There are now over 800,000 user profiles with a bio on Nostr, up 67% in the last month.

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Is it not dreadful and humiliating to think that Moses went up on Sinai, the Greeks built their lovely temples, the Romans waged their Punic Wars, Alexander, that handsome genius in a plumed helmet, fought his battles, apostles preached, martyrs suffered, poets sang, artists painted, knights shone at tournaments—only that some French, German or Russian bourgeois garbed in unsightly and absurd clothes should enjoy life “individually” or “collectively” on the ruins of all this vanished splendor?

— Konstantin Leontiev

Yes that would absolutely make sense. It was clunky and at that time maybe only a thousand or so ln nodes online globally. Balancing channels was a pain. And you would have channels go down and lose what was in them. I learned really early not to have a lot in them. 😅

I can only measure my experience through what I have witnessed. I first began researching btc heavily in mid 2015. Finally committed capital in 2016.

Back then reading about the ln as something that was soon to be rolled out was amazing.

I ran a ln node in 2018 off a casa raspberry pi and it was clunky af. Syncing chains took forever.

To be here now and seeing the growth of not only btc, but the lightning network as a whole, and now Nostr and the incorporation of LN… wow. It just blows my mind how far we have come.

And if the past 7 years tell us anything, it’s this…. by the time 2030 rolls around I don’t think any of us will quite believe what’s been accomplished.

Thank you to the builders, the dreamers, the memers, the s-posters, the plebs and the entire community.

I don’t say or write all that much about btc anymore. I prefer to listen these days as the vast majority of the people here on Nostr are far more knowledgeable than I.

And I am grateful for that. 💜🫂

I wish there was a way to zap-back.

Like if someone drops a nice zap I'd like to zap something back in gratitude, but they didn't leave a comment for me to zap.

Like on Uber eats you get a message "thanks for the tip", something like that.

I don’t know if this happens to anyone else but since the last Damus update the client will bring back online all of the relays I have deleted in the past and I need to manually shut them off again.

I’ve only been without it for a week on Damus 😅💜

Should experience Damus without it for a day, as a reminder of how good I have it 💜

It’s really amazing, and I’m glad you love it 💜

If you already haven’t joined nostr.wine and and nostr.wine’s filter relay, you’re really missing out. 🫣

The speed and clean experience on global especially is something else 💜