New year comes not always with good news.

Here's what the Open Dialogue Foundation office building in Kyiv looks like today after the Russian shelling and bombing.

Bankova street, center of Kyiv. December 31, 2024 VS January 1, 2025.

My favorite will always be how they load women's hair with hairspray to make it look like it's floating around, but it ends up hard as a rock and moves with their head 🤣🤣 (example: 00:25)

Pure comedy. #NASA

all i'm saying is that #gamestop never actually squeezed in jan '21, shorts just kicked the can, and yes i know the stock market is a huge fiat scam but the underlying math is so absurdly ridiculous that there's just no way they can keep a cap on this nuclear squeezebomb much longer, and when #GME #MOASS finally occurs i'm going to be making fatter #bitcoin buys than saylor

strap in and study up because the fiat stonkmarket finale of the next few months is going to be a wild ride 👇💎🙌🚀

My Nostr predictions for 2025

Exactly one year ago I published my Nostr predictions for 2024. Some came true, but most were, shall we say, aspirational, and, if we want to be generous, directionally correct. Happy to continue in the same vein and go out on a limb for 2025. Here we go, ordered by likelihood of coming true:

1. Primal will become much, MUCH better. Primal 3.0 will be a bigger leap forward than Primal 2.0 was. We will surprise everyone by the features, speed, level of polish, and ease of use.

2. Many other Nostr clients will impress by their progress in a relatively short time frame. If I had to pick one, I have a really good feeling about Highlighter.

3. Way more bitcoiners will join Nostr. While we currently only have a small subset of bitcoin enjoyers on Nostr, the new features and unique content will make Nostr irresistible to anyone interested in bitcoin.

4. Bitcoin-adjacent communities will start to discover and join Nostr. This will include health & wellness, financial twitter, human rights, libertarians, and other communities. As a result, the network will grow and become more formidable.

5. Spammers gonna spam. With the growth of the network, spammers will return in force. They will be sophisticated and relentless, putting all of our spam mitigation services to the test.

6. The Blossom protocol will make media hosting on Nostr much more robust and resistant to censorship.

7. Long form content will start to hit its stride on Nostr. This includes textual long form content (blogs, essays, articles, etc.) as well as long form video content.

8. Multiple Nostr projects will find effective and ethical ways to monetize, marking a watershed moment for the protocol. We will witness the formation of the first cohort of real businesses on Nostr, signaling the inevitable changing of the guard and the eventual extinction of the Legacy Web.

9. Nostr will experience a glimpse of what a ‘suddenly’ mainstream adoption moment looks like.

10. By the end of the year, everyone - even the haters - will realize that Nostr is going to win.

🥜🔊🥜 👀

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