Ironically, i have no credit card. Hence why i could only accept in Lightning / other cryptocurrency.

Paypal does not like me without credit card, so it freeze my account.

You can use any diet you want to try to avoid cancer. Some diets and exercise seem to reduce the risk.

But once you get diagnosed with cancer, for god's sake listen to your oncologist. The strategy at that point changes entirely, and diets are not going to reverse your cancer. Steve Jobs might be alive today if he hadn't dicked around with alternative approaches for so long. My mom survived because although she wanted to try alternative approaches, all 3 of her kids insisted that she listen to her oncologist.

Hi Mom!

Oh, various things: comics, writing, alternative history, fantasy world building, conspiracy theory, working out. My post wasn’t a complaint, just noting how little I know about the tech and crypto world. But I like being here. Feels fresh.

I am working on zap.store (not a fork of Obtainium though, but aiming to completely replace it)

Also just FYI the mutinywallet relay is a blastr, so in a sense you’ve picked all the relays for broadcasting 😂

I updated the list of relays that gossip offers new users. This was difficult. Not many relays meet the requirements, and I wanted 20 of them.

Even after filtering out a lot of relays, more than half of the ones I tested don't accept notes from the public. We have a lot of relay specialization now.

That is fine and good. BUT it makes writing a client more difficult.

Well, in particular, it makes selecting INBOX and OUTBOX relays more difficult. I guess I client can just punt that job to the end users like we do now, but it sure would be nice if a client could figure out which relays are suitable for such jobs. And to do that, clients either need to get relay information from some relay testing service, or do the relay testing themselves (which might be expensive, and the probes might clutter nostr a bit).

The link appears broken (from noStrudel).

I assume it would be quite a bit of work to switch the UI to a Reddit style one?

but i saw it crash it for 2 times in a day recently, mostly on scrolling things.

Looks like I'm gonna have to stop using NOSTR. It seems that in the last month or so (roughly since I started actively posting from my travels) NOSTR has eaten up so much data that it's financially unsustainable for me.

I only operate on local 4G SIM cards when I travel and don't have access to public wifi very often - I'm not a digital nomad going from coffee shop to coffee shop and coworking space to coworking space, 95% of my time is spent somewhere in the woods or desert.

I'm terribly sorry about this, as NOSTR is my favorite platform and if I had any real enthusiasm for growth anywhere, it was here (unlike Twitter and Facebook). So if anyone happens to have any ideas on how to avoid this huge data consumption (like only using 1 app? Or just on a laptop in a browser? Or somehow remotely? Or do some magic with relays?), I'd love to get back to actively posting on NOSTR. But I'm shutting down for now, because realistically I don't have the money for more internet this month, and next time it'll be a decision between food and internet and guess what wins based on the opinions of the rest of the family :D.

So see you guys. For now...

Think again

I feel terrified by the price increase tbh.

- I earn Bitcoin, which means I earn less each month.

- Developing in a bull market is way harder than in a bear.

I'm not ready for this.