GM

AFTER A FEW WEEKS OF X THE MOST VALUABLE THING IVE GAINED WAS TIME

I SPEND LESS TIME PICKING UP MY PHONE TO READ BULLSHIT

Gm! Hank Williams on the record player and cofffee with a cat in the lap. ❄️🤙

Merry Christmas Nostr! 🎄

GM Fren 🌞 and Happy Christmas 🎄🎁 to you and your family 🤗

GM AND MERRY CHRISTMAS #NOSTR FAMILY! ☕️

I’M THANKFUL FOR EACH OF YOU WHO IS READING THIS.

Thx 🙏 and…

Peace to the world and all people!

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Good morning! Merry Christmas to you and your close ones!

Merry Christmas friend 🫂

If value for value #v4v is legit, then the content creator is acting out of need to create, and zapping is a personal reaction.

The way zaps are displayed and promoted, v4v is in danger of being a jumping on the bandwagon gimmick.

Seeing a mega sats count for a post puts me off zapping. The post has been validated, well done, moving on.

I get the validation value of seeing a high paid post, so I'm not dissing the concept of zapping, but displaying how many #sats are received for a post is rather vulgar, nouveau riche.

Why not display number of zaps and not the value? This also adds to #privacy

Contrarían view from someone finding their way.

I thought this was interesting, and reminded me of our conversation. nostr:note1p6ayyr7g7qtd87fg0z9keck2ql93ml7xhrrlpp5esrjx8mkke23s5729v3

I suspect few people in the world have interacted with more individuals who lost bitcoin than I have.

I answered support tickets for a non-custodial web wallet that, at the time, was the most popular in the world.

I'm talking about 100,000+ tickets over five years, many from users who lost access to their funds. Not just tiny amounts, mind you.

Sometimes hundreds of bitcoin.

My inability to help them still weighs on me.

We added warnings and info about the importance of backups. It's not that I could have done more. The nature of the old Blockchain(.)info wallet made that impossible.

The bottom line is personal responsibility demands extraordinary effort, and not everyone is up for the challenge.

Lost password? Sorry, I can't help.

Lost seed phrase? Sorry, I can't help.

Funds stolen by a phishing site? *Sigh*

What troubles me most isn't the sadness I felt from doing this daily for so many years. No, eventually you grow numb to it.

That's what truly hurt.

I imagine this is a lesser version of what people in the medical field have to do to cope with their jobs - learning to stop caring so much.

It takes a toll on your humanity if you live this way for too long.

I could have stayed in that job. Stacked more sats. It made sense, financially. I'd have a lot more bitcoin today if I did.

Instead, I left, choosing to be with my family and focus on self improvement.

Anyone who has worked during the early years of a startup will understand how incredibly burnt out you are once you finally step away. It took me years to push through that.

But I still think about those users.

The ones who made all the mistakes of the past that you, the bitcoiners of today, would learn from.

Almost seven years have passed since I left, and I'm no longer numb to their pain. I feel sadness for them again.

And I'm grateful for that.

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas, and take some time to reflect on the things that truly matter in this life. 🧡✌️

El Salvador and bitcoin

It's just annoying. IDK why but humans tend to dislike being criminalized 🤷🏻‍♂️

Gm ⚡⚡⚡

THE REASON THERE IS SO MUCH DRAMA ON X IS BECAUSE INFLUENCERS DID NOT STACK HARD ENOUGH AND IN A WORLD DOMINATED BY SAYLOR, FINK, THE PAYPAL MAFIA, AND TRUMP THEY ARE MOSTLY IRRELEVANT NOW.

how does that scale to the next billion people on chain?

GM 🫂☕✨