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I love Bitcoin and I applaud its progress and achievements and respect its dominance. But to be honest I think there is another technologically superior money out there called Monero.

Congratulations to you, hope to follow along on your footsteps.

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Twitter was paramount in bitcoins growth and its battles. Was a very cool quirky place eons before that too. Even though I have a very old account, bitcoin was the reason I started using it more frequently.

I met an incredible amount of good ppl there. Some of the best ppl I know was directly or indirectly because of the bird app. Hired ppl. Connected ppl.

There was/is absolutely nothing like it.

It's hard to imagine how the direction of my life would have gone, it was greatly impacted by it.

Crazy place! A true public square, I'm incredibly grateful for it.

Covid killed it, or at least accelerated its dystopian trajectory.

US politics gravitational force also doesn't help. Nothing on earth can scape use politics, everyone and everything deal with its consequences.

Even decentralized things. But they fare better. See bitcoin.

Anywho... Being with the X account deactivated over the weekend was quite nice, it had been a very long time since I fully disconnected. It is still a lot of signal, a lot of Lindy. But is also became an open sewer. (Why?)

The algorithm evolved for maximum conflict. It's hard to even describe how much it makes your skin crawl. It finds all the shit you don't want to read by the ppl you don't even knew about existed and vomits on you. Even with the large muted word list. It's not a healthy place.

Maxium engagement = more ad views?!

I don't want the firehose all the time. Humans are not designed for that. Different moods different content. Different types of engagement. Maybe even different clients for different sub network graphs. It's time time evolve. I think Nostr takes us there.

BUT I think Twitter's value can't be ignored. It is still a ginormous network.

That's aside from good ppl I know there, where it is our only comms channel.

I plan on drastically decreasing my use of it, truly limiting to posts about Nostr, projects I like and amplifying bitcoin things I believe in. The goal is to trend towards end of use. Hopefully it gracefully coincides with Nostr rising as the new public square. Protocols must be open. There must algo choice. Or we are doomed to doom scroll and ad target conflict.

I no longer will allow myself to scroll.

And will try to starve the beast as much as possible.

GN

Same here, I only start using Twitter cuz I got into Bitcoin and nothing else.

non custodial? what does that mean exactly coming from Mastercard?

Tell me, who's the criminal here? Who's really burning babies alive? FUCK ISRAEL.

#Free_Palestine #Fuck_Israel

And yet again the censorship of speech and freedom of expression against any unjust crime is happening again and again on X, Bassem apparently pissed off the "wrong" people, didn't he. This is why we Nostr.

#Centralized #Censorship #Free_Palestine

yes but like the .com bubble. it'll be everywhere in different implementation and ways

I honestly won't ever call Monero a shitcoin, but I won't own it or recommend it to people who ask for my recommendation. I like how Monero is all about privacy and Bitcoin needs stronger privacy in the coming years otherwise I'll seriously consider owning and transacting in XMR

Having a hard asset that is programmable, limited in supply, divisible, portable over a communication channel, censorship-resistant and border-less but "currently" volatile on the short term -due to yet a small market cap- doesn't make economic sense but having Fiat that is constantly losing it's value on the long term does. LMFAO https://m.primal.net/JrlM.mp4 #Bitcoin #Fiat