Today we released Part 1/3 in our new Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin.
Today is “Why Bitcoin?” with npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs.
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/beginners-guide-part-1/3-why-bitcoin
Nice one… are you planning to release any podcasts that go into the recent ordinals and inscriptions, and the BRC-2.0 fungible tokens now riding on Bitcoin?
This smells like a popularity contest between the cheerleader and the honors student.
The first question I have is “why”? The excitement with NOSTR to move away from centralized control to a democratically distributed network that implements a hard money like Bitcoin that is censorship resistant goes counter to having a client that censors notes or other stuff (including zaps). I vote No.
I love this concept. Maybe @Jack can help make it a reality.
Guessing they are talking about “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health” by Robert F Kennedy jr -2021, #1 best seller on Amazon in Public Health Administration
Mempool looks a little stuffed
I think some people are just hedging that Nostr takes off, without putting in the work to help give it wings.
Excited for @BtcpayServer to add support alongside @ZeusLN, as the pairing of BTCPay and Zeus is immensely powerful for self-sovereignt Bitcoin and Lightning usage.
More on the BTCPay Server progress here: upvote if you want this as well!
https://github.com/btcpayserver/btcpayserver/discussions/4642
Biggest drawbacks right now are around Lightning receive privacy and the difficulty of non-custodial Lightning Addresses, but the traction of Nostr will put serious positive pressure on the improvement of both, I hope!
Another big issue facing Nostr is the plague of custodial LN wallets being the first to support LN addresses, leading to the vast majority of Nostr users that I've seen so far using custodial wallets to receive Zaps.
Need more focus and education on non-custodial LN!
Pretty damn sure Nostr has the potential to be the future of social media + blogging.
The combination of paid relays, Zaps with Lightning, and future Lightning privacy improvements are going to make it an incredible combination.
Bullish on Nostr.
His receiving an education from my tax dollars is half the equation, the value it generates is the full equation. A PhD isn’t kickstarter; we aren’t investing our tax dollars in students to reap a free reward from every idea that springs out of their mind. IP is still protected in this country.
An oldie but a goodie
Screenshots should be fine here. Also, there’s no need to post a link to jump over to Twitter unless you’re interested in the tweet comments, or interacting over there by posting yourself.
This is my FIRST Nostr message. My public key is : npub1uk65nftw3p9m4zthmx6rvtkpaqar258u3hjcn8vmllm967qq264sq0ltjg