the stripper doesn't love me :(

Good morning.

Scammers are gonna scam and I hate it but I must accept it

winner of the day

Trump is a businessman, a showman and a politician, there is no denying that he is good at what he does.

He doesn't think about Bitcoin, Bitcoin doesn't give a damn, the fool is you for believing him, during the next months you will prove me right.

Communities matter.

I helped my 95 year old neighbor shovel out his driveway. I refused to let him pay me.

He has been a great neighbor to my family for many years.

Help someone in need today.

Don’t zap this post. I do not need it.

Zap someone in need.

Much love 🫂 🧡

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I spent another 100,000 sats on a zap-vertising experiment…

And I think I proved that advertising on Nostr actually works…

Here’s:

1️⃣ What I did

2️⃣ The results

3️⃣ What I learned

1️⃣ What I did:

I sent 4105 zaps over the course of 3 days for a total of 112,000 sats.

Each zap contained a link for a blog post:

zapvertising-experiment.carrd.co

My goal was to see if I could get a reasonable cost per click (CPC)…

2️⃣ The results:

During the campaign I had a total of 71 unique visitors to the page.

CPC was 1578 sats or $1.50 usd.

I also gained 245 followers from that campaign.

These CPCs are in line with other ad platforms which validates the overall concept for me.

3️⃣ What I learned / brain dump:

- Results were better than expected.

- I thought there might have been a bit of negative push back (however none received).

- There is a chance I am significantly underreporting and google analytics isn't picking everything up (surprised to see 3-4x the number of new followers vs. clicks 🤔)

- THERE IS SOMETHING HERE. I still don’t know exactly what the model looks like, how it scales, but there is something to be uncovered.

- Right now, this can’t be done at scale… in the future it could. I spent ~$100 and it took me multiple days. In the future there will be ways to allocate +$10,000 per day here. For context of where we are at right now, Nostr daily zap totals are around 750,000 sats - about $675 - see stats.nostr.band/ for that data)

- Something feels off with the format… simply paying someone and sending them a link… The p2p model feels right, but the format feels off.

More to come 🫡

Let me know your thoughts 👇

Somehow the Minecraft movie looks worse than the Borderlands movie.

What if it's a sustainable Ponzi scheme 🤯

Delete lights and phone 2 hrs before bed

2 kiwi before bed

Meditation

Warm shower in the dark

Sleep naked

Open window

Why do you never see elephants hiding in trees? Because they’re so good at it.

The wildest fucking professional story of 2024 is that this old CTO of mine reached out and asked for a quote for evaluating a project he had been working on.

Turns out the guy had just basically Howard Hughes-ed himself up in his new PNW mansion and had been jam sessioning with ChatGPT for 10 months, inventing some new cryptography-centric product.

All of his notes were basically transcribed conversations with chat GPT. All of his pitch decks were AI slop. When I gave him a quote on how much equity I wanted to evaluate the work, he replied back with a ChatGPT consultation, saying I deserved way less.

I personally think the guy was already a sociopath who didn't truly believe other people actually existed, but went legit peeing-in-jars crazy once he met ChatGPT

Trying not to get ahead of myself with the job search, but I am already fantasizing about giving extremely short notice.

"Sorry boss. With the shortfalls in my target revenue over the past 3 bonusless years, I have had to suspend my two-week-notice policy. Please accept this $100 Amazon gift card as a token of my appreciation."

Yeah if all devs stopped working on maintaining it, who will be around when something breaks and then people lose faith. Bitcoin is not magic, it’s like any other software system. It keeps working well because people are maintaining it.