Definitely the mastermind.
It's true. Cut off the on/off ramps and you will scare away the institutional money, Bitcoin price could drop pretty quickly. NGU drives adoption, our security budget, and pays for development. As much as people like to think we don't need, we need as many developers as possible.
Okay, because I had an idea... I was trying to think of a way that didn't require both the receiver AND the sender to have the client that had support for requiring a dm fee. Only the receiver needs to have the client that support paid dms if you do it like this I think.
-sender using any client sends mail to me
-since his npub isn't on my whitelist, my client autoreplies via DM with a lightning invoice set to whatever fee I set it at.
-he pays invoice
-my client let's me view message
Since on his end, it's all happening through DMs, it should work no matter what he uses.
Do you know anyone who is thinking about adding this?
Yeah, it's a problem. Like Nostr, we are seeing how addictive things can be when sats are added.
Yeah! I got one too! Not only do we get the badges for Nostr, but THNDR Games also have you win sats. I have joined a couple of paid relays with the sats I've gotten from those games.
Yeah! I've come back around to it. It used to crash on me a bunch, so I stopped using it for a few months, and looks like they got it more stable.
You know...
I was gonna post about bank runs and CBDCs
But that's Twitter stuff.
This is Nostr!
I'm about to listen to "Stacker News Live"
(Stacker News is a message board mostly about Bitcoin, where you need/can earn sats for posts. They have a podcast called "Stacker News Live" about going ons of the website and Bitcoin in general.)
I am listening to it in Fountain, where you can stream sats (set a rate of sats/minute to send the podcast creator) OR send them a "boost" (known in Nostr as a Zap) with a message that is viewable to the creator or other listeners on other podcast 2.0 (bitcoin lightning enabled)
Yeahhhhhh. If nothing else, every time a bank shuts down, there's more consolidation. Eventually all commercial banks will be owned by 3 or 4 banks anyway, which just happens to be the same banks that are the shareholders to the federal reserve.
Maybe check out your local laws and make sure your VPN is as good as you think. I think inciting bank runs is frquently illegal. But I think you have to get specific about which bank for it to be a problem.
No bank can handle a bank run.
I don't know what really starts them, I guess.
Confidence?
Bank runs in the post-social-media world will spread, well... virally.
So, I got this badge for making it to #1 of a league (only the 5th one so far) of a THNDR game that gives me sats for playing. I used the sats from THNDR Games to join a paid relay, and keep the zaps going.
Apparently people in China preferred Tether over USDC because of USDC's proximity to US regulations. Just like Russia had their assets sanctioned at the beginning of the conflict, many Chinese worried their USDC could be similarly seized.
Even with stablecoins, when there is even a threat that the tool of money can be fashioned into the weapon of sanctions, it becomes less useful as money.
I think it's got early internet vibes. I feel it, at least.
Early to mid thirties. Alot of late 20s, but some mid-40s evening it out.
Nice William is an enemy of the state.
Oh jeeze. Wonder what that's about, maybe they were comparing it to... something else. You know Farcaster? It's generally what people Nostr to because its... the one that Ethereum people like. So it's a blockchain. It's got a global state.
Was doing some casual Google Dorking and stumbled on this PDF (look closely at the text): https://www.newworldtimes.us/newspaperfiles/20230224/440_NWTB_18_C.pdf
It says 'Damus' so many times, 'William Casarin' once and 'Jack Dorsey' twice.
So this badge is from the new THNDR game 'Bitcoin Blocks', I'm starting to rise through the leagues. So far, played all together, about two hours. Earned probably 300-400 sats and a couple of Nostr badges. A cool thing about the badge is... it's mine. Everyone with one ALSO earned it, NOT possibly bought it, like an NFT from most crypto games.
