One amazing thing I learned about (out of many) at the ecash conference

A router for sharing internet

Someone from India, living in a place with a lot of internet access problems, built a set-up where people can buy internet without having any internet in the first place. 1 sat per minute

He built a captive portal that you log into and the page says — I take ecash from this one mint, get ecash from there and paste it into this text box — you paste it in, hit enter, and you’re online

You’ve made an offline payment and voila, you're now online

There are many exciting Bitcoin developments happening but it's becoming more clear that ecash is a wholly different, complementary technology that does different things, including many things that Bitcoin can't do no matter how many upgrades it gets

Every time the price of a shitcoin pumped low conviction bitcoiners, in it for the wrong reasons made bad trades.

Every bear market we shedded even more.

Yet, bitcoin is top dog. No centralized marketing. Just best product and time.

Stop whining that some other project *claims* to have more users.

Focus on your shit, build the best shit, stop being a pussy.

The real freedom tools with the right incentives will take many many years to find adoption.

Linux took for ever to capture its market.

Bitcoin took forever, still battling gold from behind.

Lower your time preference, or just ring the fucking bell and quit. The loser mentality drags everyone down.

I have nothing else to do but grind on bitcoin and Nostr for the next 20 years.

Learn to have FUN.

I'm gonna bet they're using Primal and haven't tried other clients. Primal is brutal for setting up wallets (many issues on email confirmation denying request) on client and won't connect to anything else (nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm is still invite only... speaking of which? got any invites?)

I've used Amethyst for a while now with WoS but also have Speed Wallet and then theres nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5. Also playing with FreeFrom. nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg falters on zapping others without being able to connect. Fine for receiving. And they all have strengths and weaknesses. All these hookups show is how early we all are. But it's all getting so disjointed.

damus had a spike of 1000+ new downloads yesterday. welcome nostrich hatchlings!

It doesn’t have to be this way, Europe. nostr:note10l92pjw5tygwelkfv5wm6xxz8xxc0gz4gwjm9x5rwfs68tqkl3jqlqff3r

Not really. Most clients have image uploads built-in, or you can use nostr.build, just upload and copy-paste the link.