I would call myself a part-time digital Nomad. #bitcoin and #travelstr on #nostr 🧡💜

Someone spoke about adding torrent like files to Nostr. Is that possible? Can Nostr be a file sharing platform too?

there might be more fish in the contaminated lake, but does that mean you should fish there? 🎣💜

anyone met a #nostrich IRL?

i don't mean intentionally met, like at a conference or something, just in the world, unexpectedly

#asknostr #askingnostr #grownostr

⚡️🤖 NEW - Reddit and Wikipedia are the "top sources" for current AI models in 2025.

Met a guy recently who claimed he was mining BTC way back in 2005...

I didn't bother calling him out

I just accepted that this was my punishment for trying to talk to normies about #Bitcoin

I'm maturing

I have no clue what I’m doing here but .

I will make content that’s cool idk how

Media: Great Barrier Reef devastated!

Reality: After hitting unprecedented highs in 2022-24, coral cover in 2025 is 'only' the 4th highest ever recorded

Look at the data, not the headlines

Bitcoin is everything people don't know about computers,

combined with everything they don't understand about money.

BULLISH OVER BEARISH

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⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - European Commission: "Independent, free media stands at the core of democracy."

🚨 Researchers found that single-serve coffee capsules release harmful phthalates and heavy metals into your brew. #CoffeeSafety #Pollution

☕️ Phthalates like Di (2-ethyl-hexyl)-phthalate were detected in all coffee samples, with levels varying significantly. #FoodSafety

⚠️ Heavy metals such as lead and nickel were found in all tested coffees, with some samples exceeding the tolerable daily intake. #HealthRisks

🧪 The study highlights the urgent need for better regulations on food packaging materials to protect consumers. #PublicHealth

💔 With these findings, we must reconsider our coffee choices and the potential risks associated with single-serve products. #ConsumerAwareness

Sipping @ #coffeechain

GM! ☕ The road to forced equality is paved with lost lives.

We are legion 🫂💜

I can see Apps going the way of email in public sentiment, ie associated with boring and tedious admin.

Want shifts at work, get an app

Look at your payslip, there's another app

Booking time off, that's yet another app

Hospital appointment, get an app to see the details.

Appointment at a different hospital, that'll be different app

Oh you want to see your GP, there's an app

APPS NEED TO FUCK OFF

#rant

This wasn't the type of boat I was expecting a Bitcoiner to own 😂

The Woman Who Saved Reality With a VCR

Marion Stokes understood something most people missed: whoever controls the narrative controls reality.

So she did something about it.

This former librarian and civil rights activist started recording TV intermittently in the mid-1970s. But when the Iranian Hostage Crisis erupted on November 4, 1979, she hit record and never stopped—capturing over 33 years of 24/7 coverage across 71,000 VHS tapes.

Every single day for three and a half decades, Marion ran up to eight VCRs simultaneously. News programs, sitcoms, commercials, breaking news coverage—everything that flickered across American television screens.

Her family thought she was obsessed. Neighbors called it hoarding. But Marion saw what was coming.

She watched TV networks erase old shows to save money and space. She witnessed how stories changed when they were retold years later. Without permanent records, truth becomes whatever the loudest voice claims it to be.

As someone who'd fought for civil rights and worked as a librarian, Marion believed information should belong to everyone—not just those with power and money.

So she turned her Philadelphia home into a fortress of truth. Tapes stacked floor to ceiling. Multiple properties filled with archives. Her son Michael rushing home from dinner to swap out cassettes because "Mom's recorders couldn't miss a minute."

When Marion died in 2012, she left behind the most complete record of American television from that era. Not because she was paranoid. Because she saw what was coming.

Now the Internet Archive is digitizing every tape. Making 33 years of TV history searchable and free.

She wasn't hoarding. She was protecting.

Because Marion Stokes understood a fundamental truth..

In a world where information is power, someone has to guard the gates of truth.

Leverage your #bitcoin to Wall Street?

Guaranteed rug pull.

Fiat around and find out.

#FAFO

No bitchatters on my AMS > RIGA flight 🥲

One of the biggest things weighing on me right now is the financial trade-off I’m making. I left a well-paying consulting job to build my stained glass business, and while I love the freedom and lifestyle, I’m only making about 20% of what I used to

I’ve been in Bitcoin since 2020 and have built a solid position, which gives me some peace of mind. But with how things are moving in the market, it feels like now is the time to be stacking and saving aggressively, and I just can’t do that while I’m growing my business

I believe in what I’m building,

I feel authentically myself, but it’s hard to ignore how big the opportunity cost is right now by not being in my old job

Would love to hear some perspective?

#asknostr

It is absolutely critical for believers to understand, to internalize, and to study the reality that God is more than just love. God is just. God is sovereign. And God is severe.

#ToChristAlone

The Knowledge - Lewis Dartnell

My next review for #bookstr is a good short book which provides a guide for how to restart civilisation in the event of a major collapse. The book specifically uses a pandemic scenario from which very few survivors remain but essentially the rest of the world remains as it is, just without people.

This will be the only content in the “prepper” category I’ll be consuming for 2025. Once you’ve assessed and weighted the risks of major catastrophes which would lead to such a scenario, and then factored in your chances of being a survivor, you realise how little of your attention this subject actually deserves as interesting as it might be.

However I did enjoy this book, it tickled my autistic mind in a similar way to Exactly by Simon Winchester. But where Winchester is passionately describing history and how technologies evolved, The Knowledge is briefly outlining critical technologies and how to re-discover them and get humanity back to a cyberpunk technology level without spending centuries going through trial and error.

This is the kind of book you’d want in your pocket if you could time travel back to the 1200s and wanted to blow people’s minds.

There is much focus on chemistry and engineering processes to get to higher levels of chemistry which I did find interesting. Some of it you will likely know, and there are no doubt better books specific for that domain, but tying those advances together with what other tech unlocks it gives you is cool. It’s like a more detailed tech tree from the video game Civilisation.

The aspect for which I give the author great credit is his acknowledgement of socioeconomic factors and the impact they have on society’s adoptions of technologies. He doesn’t dwell much on the point, but he does note that China for example had a lot of tech discoveries well ahead of Europe but they didn’t progress because they didn’t have the right incentives simply by how they had their society structured, whereas Europe innovated on that institutional front and then went on to technologically leapfrog and then colonise the world because of better alignment.

This today, is the main thing holding humanity back - the Managerial State. It’s why we don’t have abundant, unmetered nuclear energy. It’s why our food is poison. It’s why they import millions of immigrants to prop up their fake economies. Yes it’s all run on and enabled by fiat, but you cannot have fiat without this Managerial State and Bitcoiners must realise, we cannot replace fiat with Bitcoin and keep the same Institutional Structures in place - it’s all gotta go.

i'm curious what went wrong (besides the 1000 obvious things that can go wrong quickly)

I like Noatr for the idea of it being decentralized and you can be anonymous. But at the end of the day when I want something said, I usually post it on #x because it reaches out to more people and I get to hear out what people are thinking. People on #NOSTR are mostly about technology and Bitcoin. After a while, it gets tedious to keep talking about the same two things all the time.

that’s not how you do it. it would also not know it’s for a channel.

when you start the hub and have your alby account setup you automatically get into the flow to get the first channel.

you’ll not even see the invoice.

it needs ~20k

If you have a reference I'd appreciate it. I believe Paxos is the first solution invented way back in 1989 but published in 1998. And Raft is technically equivalent to Paxos. I'm sure he's proud that such a solution is now widespread in bitcoin, but bitcoin blockchain isn't the first and only solution.

But these are solutions to the problem of consensus among bad actors. Do we need consensus in social media applications? The only reasonable place we might want consensus is usernames, not that we need them, but that users seem to want to declare and own a globally unique one and you would need a consensus system to give users what they want. But I'm not sure the juice is worth the squeeze, and petnames avoid all the trouble.

If you are going to bother building a network of peers, a consensus algorithm, and an ever growing blockchain, you'd better be solving a problem that is worth all that trouble. Bitcoin clearly was. Usernames in a social media protocol don't seem to be worthy of such a heavyweight solution. I shouldn't have said "ugly", I should have said "heavyweight."

Solutions to the Byzantine generals problem such as Paxos or Raft are more general than blockchain. And other solutions to distributed computing problems exist like conflict-free replicated data types. My problem with blockchain is that it is an infinitely-growing public ledger, and that while bitcoin needed it, not much else needs precisely that. Many things may benefit from something *like* blockchain, but not actually blockchain. And for a decade people have been running around with a beautiful hammer (blockchain) looking for nails to hit, and not finding any interesting nails (problems) so they started creating nails so that they would have a use for their beautiful hammer.

Take git for example. It is both distributed and it has a blockchain. But it's not a bitcoin-like blockchain requiring some network of nodes and Raft to operate. Most problems can be solved more like git and less like bitcoin. Bitcoin is the only real problem I can think of that actually needs what bitcoin did.