The biggest change Ive made in the last year is prioritizing sunlight.

Shirt off in Seattle in January is an absolute blessing!

I WENT VIRAL ON INSTAGRAM AND THIS IS MY REFLECTION:

There have been 600k views, 40k likes, and 3k comments thus far.

Not because I wanted to. I was walking into an event, and this guy came up to me to interview me. He asked me what my ideal girlfriend would be like, to which I responded:

"I want a woman who respects roles and wants to have lots of children." Then I make it clear that green-haired lefties didn't stand a chance.

Now, I am receiving thousands of comments from leftists who are criticizing me and sharing their opinions about my persona and ideas.

While it doesn't bother me, I find it intriguing and disheartening that the content that receives the most engagement frequently elicits anger and criticism, often overlooking valuable content and those who genuinely contribute their unique perspectives.

I have dedicated thousands of hours to research and hundreds more to developing my ideas, all with the goal of enabling others to access the knowledge I have worked so hard to acquire, which I believe is so critical that it spreads.

I would rather have a thousand followers who respect and value my work than hundreds of thousands of mediocre ones who follow me solely because of my appearance or luxurious lifestyle.

Traditional social networks discuss people and what they do, which I find mediocre and unproductive.

I want NOSTR to be a place where we can elevate the conversation, exchange ideas and arguments, strive for excellence, and break free from the mediocrity that envelops us.

I will continue to improve in every aspect of myself and keep doing my best at my work, knowing that I am in the right place with the right people at the right time.

Nostr or mediocrity!

I spent another 100,000 sats on a zap-vertising experiment…

And I think I proved that advertising on Nostr actually works…

Here’s:

1️⃣ What I did

2️⃣ The results

3️⃣ What I learned

1️⃣ What I did:

I sent 4105 zaps over the course of 3 days for a total of 112,000 sats.

Each zap contained a link for a blog post:

zapvertising-experiment.carrd.co

My goal was to see if I could get a reasonable cost per click (CPC)…

2️⃣ The results:

During the campaign I had a total of 71 unique visitors to the page.

CPC was 1578 sats or $1.50 usd.

I also gained 245 followers from that campaign.

These CPCs are in line with other ad platforms which validates the overall concept for me.

3️⃣ What I learned / brain dump:

- Results were better than expected.

- I thought there might have been a bit of negative push back (however none received).

- There is a chance I am significantly underreporting and google analytics isn't picking everything up (surprised to see 3-4x the number of new followers vs. clicks 🤔)

- THERE IS SOMETHING HERE. I still don’t know exactly what the model looks like, how it scales, but there is something to be uncovered.

- Right now, this can’t be done at scale… in the future it could. I spent ~$100 and it took me multiple days. In the future there will be ways to allocate +$10,000 per day here. For context of where we are at right now, Nostr daily zap totals are around 750,000 sats - about $675 - see stats.nostr.band/ for that data)

- Something feels off with the format… simply paying someone and sending them a link… The p2p model feels right, but the format feels off.

More to come 🫡

Let me know your thoughts 👇

Hey, you could use coinos.io, get a nwc connection secret, then go to your getalby.com/dashboard , then Wallet Configuration, then click on link your wallet and choose the bottom option, a manual nwc connection, past there the string of the coinos.io wallet. Then you can transfer the funds.

Legacy internet will get worse and worse.

Nostrnet will get better and better.

On Instagram, you are eligible to monetize your account once you reach 10K followers and meet some other eligibility requirements.

On nostr you are eligible as soon as you add a lightning address and start posting.

Years ago, I reached out to a much larger account than mine to share/enquire about an idea. I rambled a bit in my explanation (*gasp!* I know). He came back with roughly:

"Dude, you gotta figure out how to get to the point faster. I don't have time for this."

Now, while i had rambled, it wasn't THAT bad. But i remember really wanting to get defensive and feeling a bit gutted by the response. I had a lot of respect for them.

However, I did stop and think about his perspective. Probably getting an avalanche of DMs, has no idea who i am, busy with 100 other things.

I felt stupid and *wanted* to be angry at him, but i also could see it.

That has stuck with me to this day, and every time I'm writing something, I stop and think "how many of these sentences are really necessary?"

While i still tend to over explain, I've actually been way more conscious about it (and also less insecure when i do ramble 😆). I actually think about the interaction fondly now. It was actually really helpful.

Lesson:

Be frank with people. Staying comfortable and unchallenged only makes you stagnant.

(i deeply feel the irony of a long post about explaining too much, lol... i cut like 3 paragraphs out of this)

Alby has been about as vocal that they would be retiring the custodial wallet on January 3rd (Proof of Keys day) for some time now. Months and months. I don't know how much more they could have done to make sure their users switched in time. They even chose a date that would be significant for Bitcoiners and associated with taking your coins into your own custody so we wouldn't have a hard time remembering when we needed to do it by.

I get it. We all have a life and aren't always tapped into what is going on, but they really did make every effort to ensure their users were aware it was coming well in advance, and the deadline for moving their funds. This was absolutely not a rugpull or an effort to grab users' sats for themselves.

I encourage you to give Alby Hub a try, especially if you have your own node you can run it on. It is a fantastic product, and a massive improvement over the custodial wallet, even without taking into consideration that they no longer hold the keys to your funds.

If you would rather stick with a custodial option, I would recommend CoinOS.

LFG 🔥🔥🔥 Welcome back to the fray, my friend

who were the greatest scientist/poets?

My votes go to Oppenheimer, who read the Bhagavad Gita in its original Sanskrit, and opened the Atomic Age with deep poetic symbolism (Trinity from John Dunne's Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for example.)

and

Omar Khayyam who defined the Persian calendar for a millennium and linked algebra and geometry together in fundamental ways, while writing enough quatrains to form the Rubáiyát.

Very open if others have suggestions!

They said January but I don't know what date. I heard it on a podcast and it took me a while but I got mine out on time. Hope you didn't get locked in for credits.

#asknostr

I think that online exposition should be managed through each age by choosing the appropriate device/online filtering:

1st stage - offline tablet with selected apps.

2nd - laptop with internet content filter in a separate device (e.g. router openwrt with adguard).

3rd - Smartphone with parenting control

But the most important part is education. This is just as using that helping wheels when learning how to ride a bicycle, you need to ensure that your children is ready when you take off the safety, so they don't fall.

I think the age depends on the parent’s parenting style.

Our kids both got devices very young. That said, the devices weren’t meant to be baby sitters or replace our roles in their lives. We still read together, eat together, learn together, laugh together, volunteer together, hang out together, but importantly: they hear the word “no”, frequently from my wife and I. Phones don’t say no.