10 posts in the last 7 hours from people I follow. I notice if I click on the search there is lots of recent posts but there appears to be a lot of spam. nostr:note1vlqy7ugkak8sndmhpf0u4ct92wmcdz27ugqkttc7p20mjwer4cpskd4eaw

Any bank stocks to buy?

It is shitty and nonsensical to answer "no problem" when someone says "thank you".

What things are important enough to you that you would protest over, or practice civil disobedience over?

I just payed 5000 sats for a relay:

I chose wss://nostr.bitcoinplebs.de (random choice to experiment)

My feed looks exactly the same... Are there any good resources anyone can point me to to learn what I just did?

#BTC #confusedrich

Correct sir! Just 4 replies. Not as much grift on here yet so interactions are smaller and more personal for now. Blessing and a curse depending on how you look at it! :)

rofl.

lmao.

lol.

welcome to #nostr, where the limit does not exist

So reddit has kicked out my app of choice, twitter is rate limiting me. Go #nostr

The most FOMO I ever had for a conference was not going to Oslo this year. Had too much stuff clustered around this time to make it easily workable.

Most bitcoin conferences are great, but there's different energy in Oslo. Feels more like the essence of what this is all about.

I've also found, when talking to some (generally wealthy) American media personalities and so forth, is that the inflationary/authoritarian country use-case for bitcoin is generally off their radar until someone really gives them examples. They just think, "Visa works fine, why do I need the BitCoins?" and when you explain, "Well look at the underbanked percentage in this country" or "Look at how these democracy advocates had their bank accounts frozen" or "You're not a fan of Putin, eh? Well let me tell you about how Nalvany's organization used bitcoin to circumvent Putin's bank freezes for quite a while." or "Imagine you're in a small country with hyperinflation and decide to leave. You can't bring a lot of cash or gold with you. What asset do you bring to get more of your wealth out? And when getting that asset, wouldn't it have been better to hold some as a permanent part of your savings before you need it, rather than try to get some after things fall apart and capital controls are more firmly in place?"

Alex Gladstein's books, Check Your Financial Privilege and Hidden Repression, or his associated talks/presentations on those topics, are I think really powerful to showcase to normal people who don't think about this stuff too often why this technology is important.

So, all this Twitter rate limiting nonsense is almost certainly having to do with reports from France — probably getting that here (for better or worse) will grow the users dramatically.

A couple times per year, I have to fuck around and find out.

Because otherwise, what are any of us doing here.

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

I've been busy on a retreat over the past several days, and thus not on social media.

Meeting developers, learning, and building knowledge for my next wave of content in the months ahead.

I couldn't be more bullish on what people are working on.