nicorama
Nicorama

☕️ Design, Art & Engineering
🧡 Class of 2012 - always learning
🇬🇧 London

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2026-02-10 07:03:43 UTC

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One of the best way to reflect on the present is to dream up future and alternative worlds… I can wait to read what you have been working on, congrats 🎉

2025-10-01 17:30:00 UTC

https://video.nostr.build/7acc3cb19c86bacfb06ce805041abc4ac03135146eeb124dd1aeda330d063a04.mp4

2025-04-25 10:02:13 UTC

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Quick napkin math with chatGPT
🧠 Takeaways
• 🔄 Solo mining has ~52× better odds of hitting a jackpot than playing the lottery 50 times.
• 💷 Expected value is over 4× higher with solo mining.
• 📉 Both are long shots, but solo mining is a more favorable “lottery” if you’re in it for the fun of low-odds, high-reward experiments. https://image.nostr.build/1ee8d0f0292dda11db9844b5e745ad2962a22d665e30f28bbf726e250b521340.jpg

2025-04-25 09:50:42 UTC

Braiins solo miner 🤜🤛 Umbrel
https://m.primal.net/QchT.jpg

2025-04-24 11:29:12 UTC

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Still think this is too confusing… But it the idea really gained momentum…
IMHO would make more sense to keep sats and have 1 million :1 ratio eg rename bits (100sats) to bitcoin.
At $1m usd we get 1 btc = 1 usd and 1 sat = 1 cent
1 BTC becomes1 000 000 BTC
21 trillion bitcoin
100 sats for one bitcoin
And maybe some among convention for old vs new, maybe with upper lower case? Or rename to MBTC?
1MBTC = 1000000 btc = 100 000 000 sat

2025-04-13 17:27:09 UTC

🏆 🏆
https://m.primal.net/QONB.jpg
https://m.primal.net/QONC.jpg

2025-04-12 07:40:08 UTC

After so many years being in the space, finally attending a conference - I could not have picked a better one - has felt like coming home and reconnecting with friends that I actually had not actually met. Super inspiring, fun and signal-rich day of talks, and great events around the town, with ⚽️ 🏆and ☀️🍻 later today.
Kuddos to @nprofile…yaqs @nprofile…z52m and team for putting together this very special event while putting Bedford on the map by just doing things.
https://m.primal.net/QLfu.jpg

2025-04-02 09:37:37 UTC

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Within p2p payments imho the most asymmetric opportunities for Bitcoin at this stage are micropayments and “megapayments” eg very small or larger than average transactions which are often hard, slow, insecure, complex and sometimes impossible (eg sending 1c, or sending a remittance instantly) with fiat rails - and most importantly often unavailable to the unbanked.

2025-03-30 19:01:51 UTC

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Really amazing to be reading this archive

2025-03-30 19:01:24 UTC

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“I should have set the initial BTC price higher, it was only 1€ / 1000
BTC in the beginning.” 🤣 🤯

2025-03-30 16:36:49 UTC

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“I plan to work on the escrow feature next, which is needed to make
actual trades for physical stuff safer and before backing the currency
with fiat money can begin.”
What was Satoshi referring to here ?

2025-03-27 17:50:02 UTC

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Great to see DID & nostr devs working together, makes 100% sense to me to have a standard for multiple type of identifiers with different trade offs, nostr being one of them. For high security applications like gov or corporate identities anchoring the identity on btc timechain might still make sense? Also curious about the dht method and if it has gained traction.

2025-03-27 14:38:04 UTC

https://m.primal.net/PvIn.png

2025-03-27 12:47:47 UTC

https://m.primal.net/PvCp.png

2025-03-26 09:53:19 UTC

GM and happy refining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnDYB28bL8&t=600s

2025-03-22 13:13:16 UTC

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I vastly preferred ‘the fountainhead’ btw, and I think it painted a really compelling story around creative work ethics, and the challenge of pursuing ideas that are outside the status quo.

2025-03-22 13:10:56 UTC

“Rand's heroes use roads they did not build, communicate through language they did not invent, and benefit from scientific discoveries they did not make. Yet somehow, in Rand's mythology, they owe nothing to the collective enterprises that made their individual achievements possible.”
This excerpt from @nprofile…vrls last essay explains a lot of the discomfort I feel with an almost Darwinian view of economics and how bitcoin is sometimes viewed as the expression of it. I think it isn’t - all it is is money that treats everyone the same - and we have to figure out how to take advantage of it not only as individuals but as communities and society, to reinforce the commons not destroy them.

2025-03-22 09:20:14 UTC

Gm 888888
On my lil’node
https://m.primal.net/Popy.jpg

2025-03-20 21:44:58 UTC

https://m.primal.net/PnAn.jpg

2025-03-20 19:50:01 UTC

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Funny how so many of us here created our first nostr key years a while ago just for testing and it might become our most important digital identity down the line. That might seem far fetched but so did Bitcoin becoming the internet money 15y ago.

2025-03-20 09:18:22 UTC

https://medium.com/@jasminemooney/youre-not-a-criminal-but-you-re-going-to-jail-my-ice-detention-story-as-a-canadian-citizen-08b4fa77a15c

2025-03-18 18:42:20 UTC

Bank of England museum.
Surreal and quite fun to visit as a bitcoiner.
https://m.primal.net/Pkbi.jpg
https://m.primal.net/PkcA.jpg
https://m.primal.net/PkcD.jpg
https://m.primal.net/PkcF.jpg

2025-03-18 11:44:53 UTC

Economic value flowing from centralized fiat institutions into Bitcoin.
Social value flowing from centralized social platforms into Nostr.
Hyperbitcoinization.
Hypersocialization.
Community computing.

2025-03-18 09:06:03 UTC

GM
https://m.primal.net/Pjzf.jpg

2025-03-17 17:11:28 UTC

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Book reading clubs could be an interesting thing to build on Nostr. Just like playlists, reading lists would be great for users to own and use in different apps.

2025-03-17 17:05:46 UTC

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Started the same thing few months ago - used to read lots and past few years online reading perhaps reduced my ability to focus. What app do you recommend to track your reading?
Last 3 reads -
The Bitcoin age (really enjoyed, it’s very different than layered money and revisits Bitcoin from first principles its cypherpunk origins)
The internet of money (Bitcoin classic for some reason I had not read- mostly aged superbly with some early and incredibly spot on predictions)
Nexus (some really interesting ideas there about stories, information networks and how AI might become a central part of that

2025-03-15 10:32:38 UTC

Good morning.

2025-03-15 10:04:39 UTC

Nostr will provide value converting to IRL interactions.
Legacy social media provides advertising converting to online transactions.
Last day at work yesterday. New chapter starting.

2025-02-09 07:51:23 UTC

If you hold it long enough, Bitcoin becomes part of your personal story - mentally, socially, emotionally and financially. Then of your family story.
At that stage you start feeling the need to make it part of your community’s story.

2025-02-09 07:41:36 UTC

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the speed of language seems to really be the speed of thought indeed
https://meisterlab.caltech.edu/documents/30100/Zheng_2024_The_unbearable_slowness_of_being-_Why_do_we_live_at_10_bitss.pdf

2025-01-31 11:13:04 UTC

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Patience

2025-01-06 16:38:49 UTC

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Looks like it works now - thanks @npub1kje…4x4r

2025-01-06 08:35:48 UTC

Got a zap notification from Damus but no zaps in Damus or primal - weird. Using my primal lnurl to receive zaps, what might be the issue?

2025-01-06 08:01:15 UTC

So what I still miss from X is the research and creative communities I follow around graphics, design, AI and robotics. How do we get them here gradually then suddenly? What can make nostr a better tool to share and discuss artistic and technical progress?

2025-01-06 07:00:13 UTC

Just deleted X. Time to shift to more positive vibes.

2025-01-02 17:22:51 UTC

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Nostr giving us a chance to be early again 🧡 💜

2025-01-01 17:44:54 UTC

HNY
https://m.primal.net/NNxA.jpg

2024-11-25 21:14:45 UTC

Is there a top? Think about it… does fiat have a bottom? I guess zero is the bottom. Always has been.

2024-09-24 19:10:07 UTC

https://apnews.com/article/visa-antitrust-justice-department-debit-card-fees-d139de6d803e55a00ab4987ef867c3a4

2024-09-06 21:45:48 UTC

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👀

2024-09-06 17:37:53 UTC

The flippening has happened for me. I am spending more time on Nostr than any other social app. I very rarely post on X and when I do, the signal gets completely lost in the algo. Nostr made me comfortable to post again and many posts give me joy or new insights.
I had my account over a year but only last week I started playing with all the different apps using a signing extension. That was a true rabbit hole moment, like seeing my first transaction on the timechain over 10 years ago. The ecosystem is already so rich yet it’s only starting. The talks from Nostriga have really inspired me as well.
I am starting to feel better, more positive, whereas sessions on X leave me somewhat anxious. It’s still very useful tool to follow technical fields, hopefully we can engage with researchers, artists, musicians and technologists to build their own communities here.
So besides this post which is about Nostr itself, I will try to add value in the future.
Interesting to think about more and more content that could uniquely becontributed to Nostr. There could be different level of ‘signal’:
#nostrfirst: first posted on Nostr.
#nostronly: only posted on Nostr
#nostrnew: only posted on Nostr and content that previously was not available anywhere on the internet, accessible to any algorithms, AI etc. That could be new content, or posting pre existing analog media that was never posted online.

2024-08-30 18:08:57 UTC

https://m.primal.net/KVgL.jpg

2024-08-28 14:13:22 UTC

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_franc

2024-08-28 13:39:57 UTC

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I am half expecting 10:1 or 100:1 exchange ratio for future CDBCs, unit bias is a great way to debase quickly.
Price of bread going from 0.1 to 0.2 just doesn’t feel like 10 to 20.

2024-08-28 13:14:51 UTC

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And right on cue a NIP just dropped to address this 👍
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/d31a1490537db439dd853269781955f6a0cdf78e/102.md

2024-08-28 07:22:32 UTC

I guess all of us created our nsec with a quick tap when first testing nostr - not releazing we’d get so much value out of it. Would suck to lose it now, is there a process to switch to a new key and preserve social graph? Probably very tricky to design way to do this without opening up new vulnerabilities.

2024-08-27 20:32:00 UTC

Getting this error sending a zap on @npub12vk…pugg - any ideas what is the issue?
‘The receiving wallet returned an error: invalid user name’

2024-08-27 20:29:25 UTC

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Ordered 👍

2024-08-27 20:18:30 UTC

My kids got bitcoin so quickly - I think one of the traits needed to cross the chasm is a child like curiosity

2024-08-27 06:08:20 UTC

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For pensions etc where spot is not an option

2024-08-27 06:06:50 UTC

UK bitcoiners are all in on MSTR. Come for the stash, stay for the accumulation. Also we don’t have etf yet so we just had to.

2024-08-26 19:41:12 UTC

Before summer a lot of nostr content was also posted on x. Now most of it is Nostr only which completely changes the value of that growing network.

2024-08-26 19:37:12 UTC

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Same here - it’s now my first recommendation for anyone new, along with @npub1a2c…w83a excellent video summary. After that I tell them there is a lot more I can recommend and my next list is usually
- check your financial privilege
- the price of tomorrow
- layered money

2024-08-26 08:44:57 UTC

Is there a good instagram replacement built on nostr? Is it just potentially a different viewer for notes or something different?

2024-08-25 21:18:13 UTC

Nostr devs are on 🔥

2024-08-25 21:08:25 UTC

It feels good here.

2024-08-25 13:59:22 UTC

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Wonder if anyone tried to fit power law to btc priced in m2 or m3

2024-08-25 13:58:10 UTC

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Interesting - another option is to price in m3 to try and normalize. Even priced in oil, one OPEC meeting would be enough to break any model.

2024-08-24 21:05:11 UTC

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Good luck fitting to this 😅
https://m.primal.net/KLKs.jpg

2024-08-24 21:01:26 UTC

Did you notice bitcoin price models are always for BTCUSD? All models will fail because BTCUSD is measured in fiat which is controlled by small group of humans with their own incentives.
A one time devaluation for example would break the models.
We don’t see power law fitted to BTCX where X is a weaker currency like Lebanese pound.
The rate to trust is BTCBTC = 1.

2024-08-13 20:32:20 UTC

https://m.primal.net/JyjY.jpg

2024-08-10 09:02:25 UTC

https://m.primal.net/JueK.jpg

2024-06-30 17:42:01 UTC

Why is every supermarket always out of parchment paper? We need to ramp up production 😂

2024-06-16 09:57:14 UTC

Happy Sunday ☀️ 📖 ✊ https://image.nostr.build/acb49ea589e49daf59e618bd044b135e0b7a6672a3052ba945d043dbecdd9719.jpg

2024-05-17 06:47:46 UTC

Debt to GDP as core metric is already looking bad in most countries but seems very misleading. For a household you would take all debt (liabilities) vs income. For a mortgage here is an example guideline for DTI (debt to income):
100% or higher DTI - these prospective borrowers represent a huge risk and do not show an ability to make regular mortgage payments. Almost all lenders will reject an application in this instance.
75% to 99% DTI - borrowers who are very high risk. A select few specialist lenders will be willing to look at the application and make a positive decision where other factors are given more weight, such as credit score and a clean credit history or substantial deposit.
50% to 74% DTI - high risk borrowers. Some specialist lenders are willing to accept applications at this level, but terms are less favourable and larger deposits are required.
40% to 49% DTI - moderate risk borrowers. Specialist lenders will want to see good credit history and may ask for larger deposits.
30% to 39% DTI - acceptable risk. Most specialist lenders will offer a mortgage at this level at standard terms.
20% to 29% DTI - good borrower. Almost all lenders are happy to approve mortgage applications at this level.
0% to 19% DTI - very low risk borrower. All lenders will consider an application
Now let’s look at US as a virtual household:
Gov income is not (yet) 100% of GDP! More like 17%. So 25.4 * 0.17 = 4.3T
Total liabilities are more like 100T, this is current and future outgoings the gov has committed to even though not all of it is funded - which doesn’t mean the liability magically goes away. Current low estimate for this is 100T.
So the debt to income ratio is about 23.2 or 2300%.
Buying gov bonds is like financing a mortgage for that household.
You know how this ends 🟠.

2024-04-20 16:48:13 UTC

https://youtu.be/ETxmCCsMoD0?si=iXPZvDrXLJB9z6Iu

2024-03-28 09:27:42 UTC

Argh… UK is soooo not getting this and keep braking on all 4 for the past 10 years, missing the biggest opportunity of all time to become the new center of modern finance.
- avail to HNW / accredited investors only
- not SPOT !!! Paper bitcoin 💩
- also approved ETH etn, not protecting investors from exposure to a scammy unregistered security
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/03/28/london-stock-exchange-bitcoin-etns-edge-towards-market-demand-response/

2024-03-14 12:55:35 UTC

Proper link this time - t-30 https://x.com/spacex/status/1765037578343121372?s=46&t=Meq1xhH1dVb1i9ZvdoQjAg

2024-03-14 12:50:07 UTC

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Actual launch is in 30 mins broadcast starting soon

2024-03-14 12:49:43 UTC

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So so sorry this was a scam link ! Fake spacex channel w 400k subscribers and YouTube not taking it down 😤

2024-03-14 12:20:45 UTC

T minus 4mins https://www.youtube.com/live/vhP--YgvZ7w?si=m0Y96quxce4-SUAy

2024-03-14 07:36:18 UTC

@npub12vk…pugg why does your lightning wallet activation require PII like email, country and DOB ?

2024-03-11 14:42:05 UTC

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Smash buy on weekend, dry up the OTC desks, build up huge price gap for ETF Monday open, ETF fomo, BTC ngu, MSTR ngu, raise debt or sell stock, repeat.

2024-03-11 12:03:58 UTC

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Confirmed “MicroStrategy has acquired an additional 12,000 BTC for ~$821.7M using proceeds from convertible notes & excess cash for ~$68,477 per #bitcoin. As of 3/10/24, $MSTR hodls 205,000 $BTC acquired for ~$6.91B at average price of $33,706 per bitcoin.”

2024-03-11 11:56:27 UTC

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They smashed the buy button already 🤣
“MicroStrategy used the net proceeds from the sale of the notes to acquire additional bitcoin.”

2024-03-11 08:36:52 UTC

As soon as the 4y price cycle model is being accepted more broadly it will be broken since everyone will start to front run it. That would explain why we are already making ATHs. What happens when we start to front run ♾️/ 21M ?

2024-03-09 09:38:08 UTC

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🔥

2024-03-08 08:40:35 UTC

Bitcoin return last 10y+ are face melting but also totally comparable to returns from a successful startup investment from seed to IPO (for bitcoin, basically from pizza day to the ETF).
From now the baseline is now the “IPO” price (45k) and TAM is a one quadrillion SOV market, of which BTC currently has about 0.1% market share. Public companies have done 10, 100, 1000x from their IPO prices (eg market share going from 0,1 to 1 to 10 to 50%+ saturation) so not breaking new ground in that sense but doing so with the largest market of all.
Only by accepting the enormity and binary aspect of the endgame (the number zero or a number with 6+ zeroes) is someone able to overcome the ‘being too late’ mental block, overcome their ego and jump in.

2024-03-07 09:40:18 UTC

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Ideas > Opinions

2024-03-06 19:05:06 UTC

Fiat is the volatile asset.

2024-03-06 16:54:57 UTC

Fiat rug pull in Egypt today https://image.nostr.build/267efd5088f25dc0fbac07d9236821e035593d2c44ea3b0b6e36b8fb6010aa11.png

2024-03-03 10:22:06 UTC

🚁 💰 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/02/tory-peer-calls-for-10000-citizens-inheritance-for-all-30-year-olds

2024-03-02 21:39:10 UTC

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🤣🎯

2024-03-01 07:48:09 UTC

Fiat is IOUs backed by the promise of future IOUs paid in those same IOU units. After 10+ year trying to ‘understand’ it that is the best way I can describe it and it still doesn’t make sense 🤣

2024-02-29 07:53:44 UTC

When you press ❤️ to see who liked a note and you end up liking your own note and can’t undo 😳 @npub12vk…pugg
Awesome client overall !

2024-02-28 21:17:18 UTC

@npub1cj8…rz4u @npub12rv…85vg your podcast on ecash / cashu is amazing 🤯🤩👍

2024-02-28 14:01:34 UTC

This is right outside the LSE (London school of economics) building 😉 https://image.nostr.build/c428411676bd6680d4bf52901706d0df1658a67c71492738b1a89cd45d9004fe.jpg

2024-02-23 17:01:00 UTC

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🎯 https://satsymbol.org

2024-02-23 16:49:35 UTC

From Satoshi / Malmi email archive
(…) My choice for the number of coins and distribution schedule was an
educated guess. It was a difficult choice, because once the network is
going it's locked in and we're stuck with it. I wanted to pick
something that would make prices similar to existing currencies, but
without knowing the future, that's very hard. I ended up picking
something in the middle. If Bitcoin remains a small niche, it'll be
worth less per unit than existing currencies. If you imagine it being
used for some fraction of world commerce, then there's only going to be
21 million coins for the whole world, so it would be worth much more per
unit. Values are 64-bit integers with 8 decimal places, so 1 coin is
represented internally as 100000000. There's plenty of granularity if
typical prices become small. For example, if 0.001 is worth 1 Euro,
then it might be easier to change where the decimal point is displayed,
so if you had 1 Bitcoin it's now displayed as 1000, and 0.001 is
displayed as 1.

2024-01-27 14:51:58 UTC

Wired magazine in 2024 still without basic understanding of the bitcoin time chain 🤦‍♂️ congrats @npub14mc…frlx for great coverage though! https://image.nostr.build/916fa6e1cbd2b541a380b31b15d5651cd6396bafb35fb33dc9abd688df39470f.jpg

2024-01-27 12:31:38 UTC

US corps will indirectly begin ‘buying’ massive amounts of BTC via combination of 401k matching & ETFs - contributing to the speculative attack on fiat 😂

2024-01-27 08:35:59 UTC

Bitcoin is more than twice the age of the Euro on genesis day.

2024-01-12 18:51:31 UTC

Reverse god candle > dog candle ? 😂

2024-01-12 08:37:40 UTC

🍿 https://blockworks.co/bitcoin-etf

2024-01-03 10:29:24 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/0e6221cc13f4accf893b9292e00dcf8d978bf635a727c1100035c6e62b56c695.jpg

2023-12-17 09:27:56 UTC

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In a nutshell - how do you transfer ownership of an unspendable utxo ?

2023-12-17 09:25:51 UTC

Is there a graph showing global percentage and total value of utxos which have become unspendable eg tx fees > market value ? Is that about to become a massive issue if tx fees go x10 or x100 and opening lightning channel becomes prohibitive ?
Would there be a way to transform / mint them into bearer instruments ? Does cashu / fedimint possibly help there ? Could a custodian issue physical notes backed by real but unspendable utxos?
If the minting has a tx cost then it’s time sensitive to mint before minting cost exceeds utxo value.

2023-08-31 05:07:36 UTC

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On that road we had to wave them goodbye. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/403cab575775fe2a3f74de51e4f3c128a62a1bd4f6ccffb18b9b13edb9ac9bd4.jpg

2023-08-31 04:58:41 UTC

It’s all about the journey https://cdn.nostr.build/i/98ec18c5c93eeda0e773324772980f6168819db7cf6d236fbd8acd859fd0c2e5.jpg

2023-08-29 07:27:54 UTC

Is this the only community with a positive outlook on the future and a non-coercive plan to get there?