Hi nostr! I'm here to be with my people, and to spread the spiritual word of bitcoin. Hope to find opportunities to build on nostr too! #introductions

Hola! I’m Mariell, a professional yoga teacher, healer and graphic designer.

I take any chance to walk barefoot, ride waves, and stargaze ! ☄️

I’ll be sharing glimses of my life in Costa Rica and my travels. #introductions

if you ever get the chance to visit Australia, I implore you to check it out; it is an oasis here

a belly full of wagyu and a bottle of 25yo wine deep and just want to say I love you #nostr

I'm so glad we're making social media great again

thank you for giving me renewed purpose in life

Hello, Primal family!

After years of building a beautiful community on IG, I’ve realized that the long-term freedom of expression I value so deeply might not thrive there. So, here I am, stepping into this revolutionary platform with excitement and hope for a space where authenticity and freedom are celebrated.

I’m Melissa – a mama of two little wildlings, living the dream in the lush Costa Rican jungle. My family and I built Rainbow Lodge Costa Rica, a sanctuary for travelers and adventurers, and we’re on a mission to help the planet break free from plastic while paving the way for abundance for future generations.

A little about me: I’m a bitcoin believer, Ashtanga yoga devotee, natural health enthusiast, and freedom addict. My family and I are journeying toward a more primal lifestyle – living closer to nature, embracing simplicity, and nourishing ourselves in alignment with the earth.

Still needing to figure out how this app works but thought this was a great start.

Who else here is passionate about freedom, nature, and creating a legacy of sustainability? Let’s connect, share, and grow together!

Testing this space out as an alternative to other social platforms. Curious to see what the vibe is.

Any people here into art/audio-visual stuff?

#grownostr #artstr #auidovisual

Immortality — The Time Compression Problem

Sci-fi books and movies often explore the topic of immortality, and modern medicine is constantly extending the human lifespan. But what would immortality be like? The problem I keep running into as I ponder this, and other related ideas, is what I call the Time Compression Problem.

We've all experienced it. When we were children, Summer used to last forever. 20min in the doctor's waiting room felt like an eternity. Time seemed to move very slowly. But as we get older, our perception of time changes. It speeds up. And it continues accelerating the older we get. I'm in my 40s and months already feel like weeks to me. I can only imagine what time must feel like to people in their 60s and beyond.

In considering immortality, this compression in our perception of time must surely become intolerable as we reach 150, continuing on to our 2nd century. What must that be like to the person living it? At some point, a year is going to feel like a day. And this time compression is only going to continue as infinite years roll by.

I don't think our human minds could handle it. While we may live forever, the realities of time compression could render our minds broken and useless as we exceed the limits of our evolved brains. And how would that manifest? Madness? Breakdown? Perhaps some other debilitation?

At this point, it's just a thought exercise, or something to think about on the afternoon train. But as we live longer, as our technology, and our mastery of the world increase, the reality of time compression in the human mind will become a real issue that scientists and doctors need to aim their talents at. Because keeping the body going may be the easy part. Maintaining the integrity, and healthy functioning of our minds may be quite difficult, and certainly something to think about if you're writing the next best-selling sci-fi novel! #blog

Does anyone know if there's a full list somewhere of all the cities that are planned to become "smart cities" next?

There's so much noise around these search terms on google, and the algorithms may be obfuscating results intentionally as well since so many are starting to catch on...

I’d like to hear other opinions on the acceleration of time passing - why it happens.

I think of it as compartmentalization of information less pertinent to awareness. Basically forgetting because it wasn’t useful at the time.

Like when you drive somewhere new for the first time and see all the things along the way, you tend to remember that, but commuting on the same road, you can drive for 10 minutes and wonder how you got there. It’s just muscle memory at that point. You’re still looking around obviously, but that information doesn’t register at the same depth as new things. Eventually, entire days become compartmentalized away into less pertinent experiences to essential of surviving- thus making time go by faster.

Thoughts? nostr:note1pjqqzh5ty2rn4ze7ucft6mhvfgv24924hprg9g6u30pzjtm762cqdgptvp

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr. It's time to create notes and send zaps. 🤙🏻💜🫂

Sick. Enjoy your Friday. I'm going back to bed.

So the Trump's 'crypto* EO is out, and I'm seeing lots of weak bitches cry that its a shitcoin reserve.

Given the fact that the proposed digital assets stockpile would possibly be built on *seized* coins, let me give you a quick introduction to forfeiture law, and why crying for daddy to please please make its pile of flying horseshit "bitcoin only" *literally* the most retarded thing you could be wishing for, ever.

Forfeiture law – or civil asset forfeiture, to be precise – is this fun little game the government plays in which it does not have to accuse you of a crime to confiscate your property.

Instead of accusing you of a crime, the Government claims that the asset itself has facilitated a crime, and can therefore be seized by the Government.

In civil asset forfeiture, there is no innocent until proven guilty. To get your property back, *you* have to prove that the Government is wrong – which turns out pretty complicated seeing how its impossible to prove a negative.

Civil asset forfeiture results in cases that are not filed against a person, but filed against the property itself. This results in fun little cases like US vs. Binance Account XYZ, or US vs. 123 Wilmington Drive.

To extend this idea to Bitcoin, in a civil forfeiture case, the US Government is in theory able to seize *any bitcoin* that has *ever* come out of a criminal transaction.

Made some bitcoin for selling a service? Bought some bitcoin on a P2P exchange? Unless you checked that the UTXO you received has never touched a criminal transaction in its entire history, your coins can be confiscated, and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it.

As Cato Institute points out in its piece on civil forfeiture reform, forfeiture law is routinely misused to enrich the Government – Philadelphia, for example, has seized over 1000 homes, over 3000 vehicles, and over $44M in cash over an 11 year period. In 2010, the city tried to seize *an entire fucking house* because a woman's grandson sold less than $200 of weed out of the basement.

If you think that taxes are bad, civil asset forfeiture is straight up evil.

It doesn't matter whether you participated in a crime. It doesn't matter whether you know that someone else participated in a crime. If it involved your property, even if said property was fully legally acquired, the Government will come and take it.

Civil asset forfeiture is the most insane Government funding technique that is out there, and you most definitely do not want this declared as a strategic means to pump the Government's bitcoin bags.

You are *literally* asking the Government to steal your coins with a practice that *every* libertarian advocate wants to see abolished.

Banks want your corn.

#AskNostr: I was thinking about this yesterday...

Would you consider #Nostr a "rabbit hole" in the same way we often attribute #Bitcoin?

My personal opinion is no, because despite it being a paradigm-shifting advancement in the core pillar of communication, it's actually quite simple in how it fixes the problem, by replacing a centralized structure with a decentralized one.

Not that this makes it any less amazing of course...it just doesn't seem like there are as many tangential threads to pull on as BTC, outside of perhaps studying how the early internet/centralized Big Tech platforms have failed, and how decentralizing the stack will enable free speech and infinite buildability.

Perhaps my opinion will change as we see more and more applications emerge, and it completely transforms how the internet itself operates. Time will tell.

Curious of everyone else's thoughts - do you consider Nostr a "rabbit hole"?

Ross Ulbricht, freed by a Trump pardon, reunited with his family after years in prison.

"So much gratitude, love, and hope for what's to come."

Welcome nostr newcomers. Many of you might ponder or debate on the correct pronunciation of our bizarre language.

Nostr - No. Stirr. Like the peanut butter. This is not debatable.

Nostrich - Nah-stritch.

Make sense?