#introductions删了又装，装了又删

Hey everyone !

Checking out Nostr, let’s see what this is about !

#introductions

Wondering what goes on here?

#introductions

The ones with wires are easier to find, more difficult to lose, and don’t zap your brain with wireless signal.

Plus they are cheaper

Anybody think that we might have an AI candidate for office within 20 years? #asknostr

What kind of technical?

new feature idea:

an option to automatically zap all quote-reposts of your notes (with the ability to choose a daily cap to prevent bot-spamming)

i want everyone who helps boost my notes to get a "thank you" reward, without me having to keep an eye on notifications

more advanced settings could include a filter where you can choose which accounts get the auto-zap, such as how many followers they have, as those boosts are more valuable. (or make it scale, so the more followers they have, the bigger the zap. this would make it so bigger accounts are incentivized to boost more high-quality smaller accounts, as they earn an immediate zap for the love)

thoughts? #asknostr

At the $120 pricepoint of a 16G R-Pi 5, there are better options. An 8G R-Pi 4 might be adequate, but I'd still opt for something better if you can swing it.

Who steered you to using an R-Pi these days? You're going to want something a bit better, especially in the RAM department. Like others mentioned, I would bet it's failing and restarting because R-Pis just aren't going to cut it for a node option anymore.

I say this as someone who was using an R-Pi Umbrel as my node for a few years and finally broke down and upgraded to a Start9 last year because of all the issues I was having. If I didn't restart the node every couple days, it would simply stop syncing new blocks. When I first got it, my Umbrel took over a week to sync the chain, and it was a good chunk smaller then (May 2021). When I got my Start9 last year, it synced the chain overnight. RAM makes SO MUCH difference, it's ridiculous.

After being here on Damus a few days, I feel like I need to get this Bitcoin thing out of the way. I’ll keep it brief. I got into Bitcoin in 2016 after a web dev friend mentioned it.

As soon as I heard about it, I understood the potential. Ultimately though, I’m big on vibes and Bitcoin just made so much sense.

A little later in 2017, my business partner and I bought a laundromat in Echo Park, LA. We had a lot of ideas for this place - much more than a laundromat for sure. I immediately pushed for us to accept Bitcoin as payment, so we did. I was really proud of that—it felt important, like we were becoming a part of something bigger. But it wasn’t easy. We had to explain what it was to everyone, and some people thought we were being elitist. “WTF is Bitcoin?” blah blah blah…  I get it — we were trying to do too much at once, not just with Bitcoin but with the whole concept of this laundromat.

(I often express myself with songs so of course I have a playlist that I played there at the laundromat on the daily, if you are interested, I will share it with you - for once I can see why people ask questions like this one - perhaps this is a ridiculous story to you lol.)

Anyway in the end, it didn’t work out. We sold the place at a loss a year later. (Still not ready to get into the details of that.)

People always ask me if I’d recommend buying a laundromat as an investment. My short answer? NO.

So, Maxis—what’s your Bitcoin origin story?