Thank you!
#[1] Damus 1.3.0 (1) is working fine but something in 1.3.0 (2) seems to be causing the error above
I don’t think TestFlight version is working for me (I’m posting from App Store build right now). On TestFlight I can get Global to work but Home, DMs, all notifications are empty / not loading, relays are much fewer than they should be, and I can’t add new relays - it’s unresponsive when I try to add relays.
“The companies accepted to Wolf’s inaugural cohort, include teams working on topics such as:
1. Bringing self-custodial trading to Lightning using Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs)
2. A WeChat-style “super app” for Nostr and Lightning
3. Automated Lightning node management
4. Instant payments and remittances in MENA markets
5. Integrating payments into esports tournament organization
6. Lightning-monetized content delivery infrastructure
7. Lightning infrastructure and education for enterprises
8. Non-custodial wallet, node management, and Lightning services”
The average person has probably spent 5 seconds thinking about Bitcoin.
I agree with this in the sense that the “culture” I grew up in seems to be inhospitable to great artists doing great things, and if everyone was like myself I would have no hope for the future of art. But thankfully the world is much more diverse than this!
“Artists almost anywhere in the world are living in almost the same culture.
But compared to the ancient cultures no great art is being produced today anywhere, and I am not hopeful of the future, unless artists stop going on ego trips, stop being perverted by dealers and the press, and stop producing potboilers, and playing to the public.”
— Alastair Martin, Guennol: Reflections on Collecting p. 107
How many book sales does it take to get that much?
billions and billions
Obviously more people than myself, but that’s up to them to take matters into their own hands and support these artists themselves with their own funds
I think the AI is just reinforcing something that I find to be self-evident, which is that the masterpieces are where most of the attention and resources should be going.
No the ones that are doing top-shelf work will be working for me
Vladimir Chupin holds “Hibana” to be a Top-3 BAND-MAID song, out of more than 100 songs in their 10-year discography:
The sats that you acquire now can do exponentially more in the future.
Or walking into an art gallery and Zapping a particular work a living artist made.
I don’t log in or anything there I just use it as an external “Twitter search” for nostr