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Bitcoin and laughter fix all of this. ✌🏼☺️ San Francisco, CA

I haven’t opened X in five days!

I’m in love with Ricky Martin and always have been.

I want to continue my life as a digital representation of myself when I die. And I want to be in control of my private keys at all times. This way I’ll be able to meet all of the future members of my family and make sure they are upholding the family name positively and that we are doing good for the world. I only have about 40 years left max. Not nearly enough time.

Figure it out, nerds. Thx in advance.

And I’m HIS friend so follow me too! Gotta pump up these rookie numbers.

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Truths are rattling the cosmos.

Bullish!

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Replying to Avatar Gigi

I was just walking down the street, coffee in hand, suddenly realizing how "normal" it all is already. Like most days, I went to a coffee shop that accepts lightning. Like most days, I paid directly with sats that someone zapped me here on nostr. Like most days, neither the merchant nor myself thought twice about it, or took a minute to marvel at what just happened.

So, allow me to do just that. Marvel at what just happened. While everyone is having a fantastically crazy time at #nostriga, uncountable people are using bitcoin in a myriad of ways. Some for savings, large and small; some for transactions, large and small; some for other stuff. Bitcoin is slowly but surely entering the world stage. Some commentators will tell you that this is good. Some commentators will tell you that this is bad. Whatever the case may be, it is unavoidable.

I see nostr under a similar light. As platform-based manipulation and censorship ramps up—which it inevitably will—the usage of nostr will ramp up too, and with it the usage of zaps and everything else that comes with it. And soon enough, buying a coffee (or breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with zap-based income will be normal. Just like it's "normal" to be an "influencer" today, or a "YouTuber" or whatnot... It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's a normal thing. Anyone can do it.

Back to my coffee. I remember when I had the "oh my god, I can live on bitcoin here!!!" experience for the first time. It was in Bitcoin Jungle, a couple of months after the initiative was launched. I stayed there for 2 weeks or so, buying the necessities of daily life with sats outright. And it worked. Flawlessly. I had zero payment failures, and was exclusively using Zeus with my own node. It was incredible.

Why is this incredible, you ask? Shouldn't stuff just work? Yes, it should. But building out the tech and the infrastructure to make it all work is BLOODY HARD. I remember the first Lightning Conference in Berlin, in 2019. Everyone came, everyone had all their channels and wallets and everything prepared, and ~50% of payments failed. For... reasons.

Fast-forward to today: I go to one of the 100+ merchants in the city that accept bitcoin, a quick tap on the PoS device & QR code scan, boom, done. Is it always perfect? Of course not. Will it get better still? 100% it will. Very soon these merchants will have NFC-enabled devices, and the tap-to-pay experience that people are used to with cards & Apple pay will be normal for bitcoin payments too. If you are in Riga right now, you'll experience this first-hand thanks to Bolt cards and BTCPay Server. It's awesome, it's open-source, and it works. And it will get better still.

We are truly living in the best and weirdest timeline; a timeline where shitposting on the internet can buy you lunch and dinner; a timeline that spawns amazing technological movements like #nostr; a timeline that, every ~10 minutes, allows for a small miracle to happen. A timeline where "magic internet money" is a normal thing; a timeline that, thanks to the magic dust of cryptography, enables anyone to speak about anything, without having to ask for permission. I'm grateful.

Thank you, Satoshi. 🙏🧡

Great post Gigi!

Can we get polls on Nostr soon?

A. Yes!

B. No!

C. GFY!

D. See results

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I’m not crying, you’re crying! 😭

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#Bitcoin is just casually improving every aspect of my life. ✨

Oops

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I do want people to follow me, but just because I’m hilarious. Would hate for anyone to miss out.

Not remembering which twin you hooked up with is really problematic when you see one of them on Hinge.

“Oh hey…..don’t I know you from somewhere?”

Replying to Avatar Phil

It’s been a super educational process these past few days getting a lightning node up and running on nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct. But I’ve learned a ton and now it looks like I’m fully synched on nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm and nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5. And with sufficient outbound and inbound liquidity on a channel I opened on Zeus.

Can a lightning newb get a test zap? Thanks to the support teams for their patience and responsiveness!

Congrats! Are you collecting decent fees?