This is the only way we get to have personal identity and control of that in the age of advanced autonomous AI agents. Npub + zap is proof of human.

nostr’s identity system is underrated. especially when combined with zaps. it’s far easier than anything else out there, gives its owner full agency, and comes with micropayment funding.

“login with nostr” buttons on every service out there should be a goal.

Your money is on your keys, not on any plastic.

Conversely if people keep using these things in permissioned, custodial, registered ways and then get rugged or reported they're worse than if they'd used cash.

Instead of fixing issues at the protocol or even app layer, "solution as a service" gets promoted and then people give up trying to fix the original issue. Influencers and service providers use the social layer to promote their products and say people who are critical arent trying, which is disingenuous.

I don't care about having Saylor or the general public validating my choice to acquire and use Bitcoin. I care that it works when I need it.

Why is "maximizing adoption" the goal? Good ux without sacrificing privacy and sovereignty should be the goal. If 80% of normies are never gonna use it correctly anyway, why are we chasing them down and making sacrifices to get them to use it poorly? When the goal is popularity you will get this kind of product.

There are bitcoin apps you can download and "just use" without sacrificing sovereignty if you use onchain, even without your own node (though it's better with). Fees are low. There's little need for lightning. I don't outright hate lightning, but it has yet to deliver what it was advertised as and it's almost 10 years old.

Also Mary had other kids, she didn't stay a virgin.

I don’t think anyone here will argue with you on this one 😂

I did. Okay so sender privacy is better that's fair.

Still think it's off the mark to brag about things being permissionless and working flawlessly with a larger than average payment when the receiver is on a custodial solution with a bitcoin bank. I have strong doubts that would have worked if he was using his own node.

The fact that there’s no other place where you can get zapped 1000 sats with practically no friction from anyone in the world ought to dampen that skepticism.

Go somewhere else where you can do that. 😘

The thing is, we will be able to do things with Nostr that can’t be done with other centralized platforms. This isn’t just a competitor that looks similar to the other options. This is a protocol where numerous things that literally no centralized platform can offer will be widely available and easy to use.

Nostr will win because it will simply be better. My experience in the Nostr verse is already so much more seamless and earns me way more sats per unit of time invested than anything else I do. This is super early stages, we’ve barely gotten started.

Dan's a bitter wanker. Among the worst

I was fifth bitcoiner that visited this coffee place today, but first one to pay with bitcoin.

We have more bitcoin merchants than Bitcoiners willing to spend. We don’t need more merchant adoption, but spenders adoption

trees are so underrated

ICYMI: On 11/5/24 a trader on X (after turning $2.1M into $20M via MSTR options) declared that the price of bitcoin would be $84,000.00 on 3/14/25.

Bitcoin closed at $84,000.00 on 3/14/25 (depending on the app you are using it may be off $10), on the nose.

He has said the (super?)cycle high will be $444,402.75

Buckle up!

This doesn’t help protect you against state actors having access to your device.

This #Bitcoin cycle is driven by corporate adoption. The next will be driven by nation states. Prepare accordingly.