I was on Reddit just now for a bit. I Feel like Stacker News reminds me of that. Lay-out-wise, its message-boardy. I like Stacker News ALOT more. I will say, I am confused which subredddit is the right one.

r/btc is a bcash subredddit? Why? It's such a rough community. They like to talk about Blockstream conspiracies.

That's great. Self custody and coin distribution. Rather than all the coins being in only a thousand or so whales wallets.

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BTW, this comes to $106.32. I am so pumped about this. I can't describe how much of a shitshow Twitter was today with Elon banning linking to the free speech blog, Substack including the ability to 'like' Matt Taibbi's, who released the Twitter Files' Substack.

Yeah I keep the overwhelming majority of my bitcoin noncustodially, even most of my lightning funds, but I do have under $10 I keep custodially just because it's so fast, and low fees. I may get rugged on this but it's a very small amount of money, I have more of my 'wealth' in Starbucks Gift cards.

But I agree about encouraging WoS. I'm especially worried about the entire Global South getting rugged at once. That would be really bad.

Elon decided to work on a Substack alternative so he removed the ability to like or retweet Substack, even Matt Taibbi's who released the Twitter Files. No warning.

Matt said something.

Elon unfollowed him.

Fees, I guess, certain usecases in my opinion kinda priced out with noncustodial lightning (and thats ok. I don't have to stream 1sat/min, I can just send a bulk amount at once) Also, less resources, for those paying for data, since Phoenix is running a node on your phone.

Hey wanted to point out this account brings you to a fake site which is not associated with the real scammy token, it's an even more scammy situation where they are trying to get you to connect a browser plug in wallet (such as metamask or brave) and they steal your shitcoins.

Anyway, they got into my global feed by 'interacting' with my follows by retweeting people I follow. Suprised its that easy though.

I mean, they were being journalists, there was some news to be revealed. Of course, it means half the country hates you, the government hates you, and the other half the country doesn't like you either, because you spent the first part of the career writing bad stuff about them (for example Matt wrote a book called Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus about Trump)

Matt Taibbi released the Twitter files, (causing the Left, which has been his audience to hate him) because it was the right thing to do.

Elon just banned links to Substack.

Matt spoke up.

Elon then unfollowed Matt.

These 'dictators' have too much power over content creators and their ability to support themselves. People having a Twitter account with daily engagement that links to Substacks that can accept money for content have been how many get by, including Matt, who had alot to do with Elon's popularity due to the Twitter Files.

Of course, Nostr and Lightning can fix this. We have a ways to go though.

I wrote you a book:

It's good to see Nostr is getting mainstream enough to have people that don't know about that parlance. Let me explain. Well, first there was Bitcoin. Nobody expected it to work, as all previous attempts at digital currency had failed. Therefore, nobody quickly found a way to make money. Also, it was quite a while before Bitcoin found monetary value. Once it did, the next project copied Bitcoin's code, changing a few parameters and wanted to claim it had value too (so the creator could print free money) now a term needed to be invented for what it was. Cryptocurrency was a term to take shelter under Bitcoin for other projects created by people, some with good intentions, some with not as good intentions. However, they, unlike during the creation of Bitcoin, all knew, that it was now possible to create a currency that would catch on. Cryptocurrency therefore means 'Bitcoin-like' and is used, in my opinion to trick people. FTT, for example, could be issued at any point by a centralized company. Dogecoin has no hardcap; there is literally no limit on its supply, stablecoins can be censored at any point, Ethereum's POS causes a situation where if you have more Ethereum, you can stake more, and literally get more and control the protocol, an exaggeration of our current monetary system.

A word to put a memecoin in the same category as Bitcoin is gaslighting on purpose.

So, in the Bitcoin-only community we say crypto, we mean non-Bitcoin. Truthfully, Crypto conferences, Crypto News websites barely even have much Bitcoin stuff anyway, besides negative stuff. People from the altcoin space are generally surprised to find out that Lightning works because their media tells them it doesn't.

Web 3:

So the joke is Web 3 is a funding mechanism looking for a usecase. Meaning Web3 is an example of some horrible incentives regarding VC funding, frequently involving a16z. Out of all the Crypto startups they funded, you know how many Bitcoin ones they funded? 1. There was 1 that involved David Marcus who was from the failed Libra project from Facebook. Anyway, usually a VC invests and it takes a while to find product market fit. However with Web3, a premine gives VCs tokens in exchange for investing, when the token pumps after listing, they dump on retail, the token tanks. Horrible incentives.

Jack Dorsey wrote a few antagonistic tweets about a16z and these incentives. Web5 is a play on that. Nostr, Web5, TBD, Impervious. Ai, bitkit and slashtags, Bluesky all don't use a blockchain. They all have some connections to Bitcoin. Whether that be Lightning Network, or DIDs (Decentralized IDs), but a thing about Bitcoiners is that besides Bitcoin, they actually really don't like Bitcoin-shaped things (aka blockchains).

So, Nostr is a Great example. Here we have something where the growth is so organic, because it's not around a token we hope will pump. It's Bitcoin. But you don't need it to post. Or to start an account. In fact you don't have to touch it if you don't want to. But if you do, it's super easy. (Last I checked, alot of the Asian users still need to get aboard using Lightning on Nostr.) Also, unlike Farcaster or most Web3 things, there is no Nostr company. EVERY person building on Nostr is doing it because they want to. Just like Bitcoin. Which is also a bit different than most other communities, besides maybe Monero, although they are much smaller.

But yeah, it is cryptograpically signed keys, but it is not a blockchain, there is no token, and there is no VC interest. It doesn't feel like Web3 to me.

That being said, I have heard a Bitcoiner say Nostr and Lightning is the real Web3. Everyone has their own opinions.

Crypto/Web3 is evil.

I give you Exhibit A:

Gm, people on Twitter talking about Microstrategy owning too much Bitcoin.

Block. one, (the EOS guys) still own 24,000 more Bitcoin than Microstrategy does, and a growing number of Bitcoiners have never even heard of them.

Microstrategy is a great company to own that much, they have pretty strong hands, and they are putting money into development.

Also, we have a great, clean cut spokesperson who is pretty good at orange-pilling normies.

So Nip 38 an Nip 48 are not official approved, But are for group chats, except they seem like they are actually private unlike the current DMs.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/168

Would love to see a Bitcoin Wallet add this as a communication layer... for example coordinating multisig signing.

Ever see Starbucks do that? It makes your screen a flash light, it's so bright.

Yeah, Jack is kinda a big target. Block (formerly Square) is basically a bitcoin company now. And CashApp is definitely how the most Bitcoin are sold to Americans.

It's like how Saylor got sued for tax evasion. It's time to start to DDoS Bitcoiners.

Swan actually lost their Texas banking partner this month. Don't think they got it back yet, last time I checked.

Cashapp ran into trouble too, but they have more resources to recover faster.

April 12th is the latest official date of the Shanghai upgrade. Not saying it won't be pushed back any more, because it was originally February, then March, but it's looking like it might stick.

This is Ethereum vs BTC during the last month. Soooo. Yeah, usually everything just follows Bitcoin price moves, but people seem to assume there will be alot of dumping when the Ethereum Foundation enables withdrawing.

Haze (Any real haze super whispy stuff like a pretty girls eyelashes you never see it anymore because haze yields really undense stuff so nobody wants to grow it. If it doesn't look like a bunch of hairs twisted together, and has the same structure as other stuff, it might be awesome, but its not the same)

NYC Diesel (classic.)

SAGE (there was this stuff that was called Sativa-Afghani-Genetic-Equilibrium, it was crazy.)