Shortfiat
Short Fiat

Relationships are the true basis of community.
And community is the true basis of civilisation.
Platforms turned relationships into proprietary assets:
your followers belong to the platform
your DMs belong to the platform
your social graph belongs to the platform
If the platform dies or bans you, your relationships vanish.
This is not a communication system.
It is a hostage system.
Nostr breaks the hostage model.

2025-11-03 21:18:19 UTC

This guy has it right!
https://youtu.be/AHVtVcJsPwM?si=eyxeXuKq6np4fBM5

2025-11-03 15:36:59 UTC

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It seems that like YouTube are blocking your access for some reason.
Try to copy the link and paste it.
That is not fanfares tech, just a presentation about fanfares posted on YouTube.

2025-11-03 13:37:51 UTC

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This one is worth watching.
@nprofile…zyc0 identifies the risk of someone embedding an image of the prophet Mohamed onto the blockchain.
This would have the unfortunate effect of turning much of the muslim world against Bitcoin and against Bitcoiner full node runners.
#nevent1q…szyn

2025-11-03 13:06:21 UTC

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https://npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9.blossom.band/329678a8eb996d27323c0c52090050f23eb6a0df7ae2ba162c808216f1f287b3.png
Yes he does!

2025-11-03 11:51:22 UTC

Gm nostr

2025-10-31 16:21:59 UTC

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Any your suggestion is to sit there with your feet up and do thing.

2025-10-31 10:56:40 UTC

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I agree with everything that Matt says in this video, with one slight caveat. The way to get the bitcoin that you want is to vote with your money. That is your power.
If the BTC444 fork starts with just 5% of the mining network, then it can start to get traction. The thing that will make the miners switch, is if the price of the new fork is higher than its relative hash power. For example, if the price of BTC444 is 10% of the old btc price and it has only 5% of the hash, then it is twice as profitable for the miners to mine BTC444 rather than the old one.
Miners are economically incentivesed actors, they will produce what people will pay for.
After the fork everyone will have both versions of bitcoin in their wallet. You can sit tight and play it safe, that way you will certainly end up with the winning bitcoin either way.
Alternatively, you can become an active part of shaping the future of bitcion by selling some of your spam chain bitcion for some clean chain bitcoin. It will be quite cheap at first.
Pay for the bitcoin that want to own and miners will produce what you pay for.
This is how capitalism is supposed to work.
The core devs are attempting a coup, but we have the real power.
If you think about how almost all of the OG bitcoin hodlers really don't like ordinals, then you can probably have a good guess as to who is going to win!
Peter Todd hates bitcoin and he wants to tear it all down.
He made a film in which he pretended to be satoshi.
He persistently proposes that we extend bitcoin beyond the 21m limit.
He is bullying the bitcoin core devs into expanding OP_RETURN. I have been to bitdevs meetings and I've seen it happen.
The only thing that we can do with 100KB that we can't do with 80 bytes is put more non financial data on the blockchain.
The CSAM threat is real. That is what central bankers want, it is what governments want, it is what shitcoin projects want and it is what Peter Todd wants.
They want to see bitcion fall.
Thank you @nprofile…j8ly for highlighting this topic for us.
#nevent1q…sfgx

2025-10-29 01:14:49 UTC

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Everyone should read this.
#nevent1q…ptyd

2025-10-24 16:27:13 UTC

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@nprofile…d7ya there is a possible solution to this. Let's chat.

2025-10-23 12:13:46 UTC

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Wise words

2025-10-21 21:49:22 UTC

Computation as the Geometry of Truth
A blockchain is not a database; it is a geometry in which every participant sees the same surface from a different angle and can still agree on its shape.
Consensus is the new form of objectivity.
Instead of one central observer deciding what happened, a network of witnesses tests one another until agreement becomes irreversible.
The cost of rewriting the past grows until it exceeds the energy of denial.
That cost is what gives digital truth weight.
In this architecture, truth is conserved energy.
Every block confirmed is entropy spent to make history unchangeable.

2025-10-19 14:24:48 UTC

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Accept reality, fiat money is going to die!

2025-10-19 14:14:58 UTC

I used to spend three hours a day on Twitter.
One year ago, I deleted my account.
Now I’m only on Nostr, and I spend maybe ten minutes a day scrolling. 
The difference is extraordinary. 
The noise is gone. 
The manipulation is gone. 
And when I leave, I don’t feel drained, I feel uplifted.
That’s when I realised something important: the new system isn’t just technically superior.  It’s psychologically healthier.
But the real question is this: how do we help people transition?
The answer is monetisation.
When creators can earn directly from their audiences, without platforms, advertisers, or banks, they will come. 
When they come, they’ll bring their communities with them.
 And when those audiences can earn by promoting what they love, the migration becomes inevitable.
That’s what Fanfares makes possible : a media economy where the network itself becomes the discovery engine. 
Every person who finds something valuable becomes a paid promoter of quality. 
No algorithms. No ads. Just trust, consequence, and value flowing peer to peer.
Decentralised, open networks are not just better technology.  They’re the next phase of human communication. 
They are where attention becomes aligned with meaning again,  and where we finally reclaim our time, our minds, and our freedom.

2025-10-19 04:13:29 UTC

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Eventually

2025-10-05 13:48:21 UTC

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Thanks for the heads up. I have DM'd you.

2025-10-05 13:40:02 UTC

Gm nostr

2025-09-29 17:00:35 UTC

Digital ids being rolled out simultaneously across multiple counties.
It is not about controlling immigration, it is about controlling population.
They will be used to control access to platforms and banking.
Bitcoin and Nostr are the escape route!

2025-09-27 20:32:19 UTC

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No it is real.
I have spent the last 3 and a half years building the app. My dev team of three people have worked very hard on getting the first release functional.
You can buy the audiobook and own it forever.
You can earn 4000 sats for every sale that comes about from your recommendation.

2025-09-27 19:45:11 UTC

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Here is an interesting one for you https://api.fanfares.live/s/axRQkZ

2025-09-26 13:12:44 UTC

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Another day for notes and zaps!
Looking forward to @nprofile…nkw2 🚀

2025-09-25 18:07:23 UTC

This one goes so deep that I had to write a book about it
https://v.nostr.build/tsY4AofvcRh9eQe0.mp4

2025-09-24 11:14:59 UTC

Gm nostr

2025-09-19 11:53:13 UTC

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He might have funded the application level tho?

2025-09-16 15:24:39 UTC

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Buy this book!

2025-09-09 11:53:25 UTC

Does anyone have any short videos where people are complaining about the capture of centralised social media?
I will zap 10,000 sats for good ones.
Please post as a comment to this note.
I will be using them as part of a documentary film that I am making about Bitcoin and Nostr.

2025-09-04 12:55:47 UTC

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They have been working in the shadows for over a century!

2025-08-27 12:29:41 UTC

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@nprofile…4ar9 @nprofile…etdn

2025-08-24 16:48:07 UTC

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It's working!

2025-08-24 12:01:01 UTC

You can now publish your audiobook outside of the platforms, outside of the banking system and not give 75% of the revenue to Audible!
https://api.fanfares.live/s/axRQkZ

2025-07-31 13:43:53 UTC

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A great event yesterday.
Thanks to everyone that helped put it together.
@
#nevent1q…xzla

2025-07-17 10:01:08 UTC

Check out this Nostr podcast with @nprofile…xm6g and @nprofile…7943
Real Nostriches putting out some content about Nostr!
https://youtu.be/RhgX__k0bqw?si=aqBvJrz9KGU_woUD

2025-06-30 21:41:48 UTC

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Don't let Mr Saylor sell you a wooden horse.
Bitcoin is the real thing. It is a currency!

2025-06-13 11:06:34 UTC

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We are building it. Planning to launch in July. @nprofile…muec
You interviewed @nprofile…4ar9 out lead developer nearly a year ago 😉

2025-05-31 22:55:46 UTC

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Good job Ross.
It is interesting that when you got started, Bitcoin was currency that could be used to enable criminal activity.
Since then it has become increasing clear that fiat is a currency that is used to enable the criminal activity of governments stealing the fruits of our labour.
Bitcoin is the escape hatch from the hostage situation.

2025-03-26 12:12:43 UTC

GM Nostr
News that Gamestop is going to invest their $4.6bn cash pile into bitcoin is insanely bullish for Bitcoin, but the price has not moved at all.
This is just one of many bits of news that would have sent the price soaring in 2021.
Does anyone have any thoughts on why this might be the case?

2025-02-28 11:25:59 UTC

GM Nostr

2025-02-27 14:06:26 UTC

GM Nostr
Another day of building a new economic system
https://v.nostr.build/uheJZPX2PvdQkGhm.mp4

2025-01-26 22:06:01 UTC

Throughout history, the ability to own and control property has been intimately linked with literacy. In medieval times, when most people couldn't read or write, they were effectively excluded from property ownership - unable to read contracts or verify their rights. They had to rely on others to interpret and validate their property claims, creating a fundamental power imbalance where literacy itself became a tool of control. The spread of literacy democratized property ownership by enabling people to directly understand and engage with their property rights without intermediaries.
Today, we face a similar junction with digital property. Just as traditional literacy enables understanding of written contracts, cryptographic literacy enables true ownership in digital space. Without this new literacy, people remain dependent on platforms and institutions to mediate their digital rights, just as illiterate people once depended on others to interpret their contracts. The path to true digital property rights requires not just technological tools but widespread understanding of how to use them.

2024-11-02 17:19:53 UTC

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Epic podcast.
Keep upthe fight Tom.
For anyone that is unsure about the climate crisis scam, take some time to look at the data for yourself. There is no science to it!
#note1npe…3hk2

2024-10-29 20:53:54 UTC

Paper is the only fair and anonymous solution for vote counting.
With the electronic counting machines, you only need to bribe one developer.
When you have a room full of people counting votes, double and counting and representatives from all parties observing, people are going to know if something is going on!

2024-10-25 18:51:50 UTC

If a government wants to shut down free speech, then the most effective way that they can do so is through the money system.
Many media creators receive sponsorship money from advertisers, which means that they can be de-monetised. Governments can put pressure on advertisers that sponsor content creators that say things they don’t like. The advertising companies are susceptible to government pressure as they have a physical locations and they have revenues in fiat money.
A independent creator might be geographically un-locatable, but their sponsors can be located and threatened with legal action, imprisonment or with the cessation of their card processing facilities. There are not many companies, that currently do not depend on the fiat money system in some way for the continuation of their operations.
Creators that depend upon subscription revenue are even more prone to censorship as they can be directly de-monetised through the banking system by the removal their card processing facilities. The international banking system is controlled by the USA and if they feel that the speech of a specific creator is a threat to them, then they can de-monetise and effectively silence that creator.
The fact that almost all creators are currently publishing their content through centralised platforms makes it even easier for authorities to bring an end to the right to free speech of any creator that they choose. We have seen censorship and demonetisation on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Rumble and Locals are alternative media platforms that are used by a number of creators that have been demonetised by the mainstream platforms, but they still have sponsors and fiat money subscription systems that could be used to shut them down at some point in the future
If a creator is distributing their content through Nostr and are being funded by their listeners using Bitcoin, then they can’t be shut down through government control of the money system. If they are publishing anonymously, then there is no way for the authorities to know who they are or where they are in the world.
FanFares is an open source application and the source code will be stored on decentralised services. If the primary FanFares application is shut down, then anyone can spin up another version of the software and customers can access it from the new ip address. The new ip addresses can be distributed through encrypted messaging services.
An instance of FanFares will take a spit of the payments made to creators from their audience, so anyone that runs a version of fanfares will be able to add their own wallet address to the application and earn a fee split. This is the incentive for multiple instances of FanFares to exist across the world as nodes in a network and therefore the service can never be shut down. Every Nostr relay could run a version of FanFares and this will help them to monetise and cover their storage costs. Any node runner that does not respect the creators of FanFares and tries to cut them out of the fee split, should not have their IP address shared by the community.
If governments want to monitor content published through FanFares, then they will have to pay to do so using Bitcoin.

2024-10-22 00:00:09 UTC

The banks threaten to shut down our bank accounts for what we say on social media.
At the same time, we build an uncensorable social media with an integrated, uncensorable payment system.

2024-10-20 14:00:40 UTC

Bitcoin is money that you can own.
You can hold it on your own person wherever you go and you hold securely in a way that nobody can see that you have it. Robbers or governments can search your house for gold.
If you hold your bitcoin securely, then they can’t take it.
This facility has never existed before in history. There has never been a form of money that you really own for yourself without relying on a bank or a legal system to protect your ownership.
In the past many people have resorted to storing their gold in a bank vault. The problem with that is the fact that the bank can be robbed by people with guns. Bank alarm systems are much more sophisticated than they have been in the past so they now rarely get robbed. Though some would argue that the bank robbers have become more sophisticated. They have in fact taken over the government and they are slowly and quietly robbing us of our savings in way most people cannot see.
Bitcoin doesn't require a third party to store it securely.
Bitcoin doesn't require armed guards to securely transfer it to someone else.

2024-09-30 21:30:30 UTC

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WTF??
#note1g6a…2rl9

2024-09-19 21:29:49 UTC

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Building the future!

2024-09-19 13:59:33 UTC

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A world where memes are illegal...
can I create a meme for that? 🤫
#note1c0p…62fa

2024-09-19 12:22:47 UTC

GM Nostr

2024-09-12 13:36:20 UTC

If posted the source code of my web site as a nostr event, then a desktop installed client that recognised that event could show the website when a user types in my npub.
Over time, that desktop client could replace a web browser and we would have an whole new internet that is uncensorable.

2024-09-09 17:34:57 UTC

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Small dogs!

2024-09-05 16:30:21 UTC

I feel like the BTC price is about to take a bath!
I know that I am not going to be popular for saying this on Nostr, but please hear me out.
My reasoning is that there is too much expectation built into the price right now.
1. Every man and his dog, thinks that we are going to have an upwards price spurt in the 6 months post halving. Everyone that would be buying over the next few months to make that happen has already bought.
2. New people into the market don't self custody. Back in 2013, the people that discovered Bitcoin were the type of people that would study and learn how to self custody. We are beyond the inner circle now and most new adopters are going to see the ETF as the best way to hold Bitcoin.
3. The supply change as a result of the halving is not that big anymore. Relative to the total amount of bitcoin already mined, the impact on supply of a halving is reduced.
4. There is an unknown amount of new supply of Bitcoin IOUs. Anyone that buys bitcoin and keeps it with a custodian is getting a bitcoin IOU. Funds held on exchanges, within ETFs or in custodial wallets are all basically just IOUs. There is no limit to the number of these that can be created. Re-hypothication is real, it has been going on in the gold market for decades.
5. In past cycles interest rate cuts have been positive move for Bitcoin. The fed has clearly signaled that interest rate cuts are coming and the bitcoin price just isn't responding to it.
6. The fact that so many people expect the price to go up means that there it likely to be a lot of leverage in the system. When the expected price spurt does not arrive, some of that leverage will get unwound. For some people this will be by choice, for others it will be a liquidity event.
7. The mining network is now less profitable than it was at the bottom of 2022. The hash rate has gone up by more than the bitcoin price since then and we have had a halving. The ordinals boom has been and gone and they are no longer paying the miners for assets that have no intrinsic value. The miners are going to have to consolidate if the price does not go up some time soon. They are sitting on a lot of bitcoin that they have mined and chosen not to sell. They are, by their very nature, leveraged players in this industry and when they chose to keep their working capital in bitcoin, they are increasing their leverage. Their costs are in fiat and revenues are in bitcoin. A squeeze is not going to pretty for them and it will feed upon itself as they are forced to sell.
I hate to say it, but I think that it is different this time. The 4 year cycle is over.
The good news is, that this could be a new era of relative price stability for bitcoin. If that is the case, then it could smooth the path to adoption as a currency, as price volatility is a major barrier for many people.
Bitcoin acting as a currency is the real route to price increases in the long run. Let's keep building.

2024-09-01 17:21:15 UTC

The Bitcoin etf gives institutions the ability to short the bitcion price.
Every time a unit of the etf is shorted, a new unit is created that is available for sale.
An etf it's a derivative and institutions can create as many of them as they like, without necessarily increasing the issuance of the etf itself.
This is why net outflows from the etfs have been occurring since March 13th.
Fake supply can be created at the brokerage level. Nobody really owns the shares that they think they have in their brokerage account. The shares are owned by a nominee company. The customers have a derivative contract with the brokerage for the difference in price in Fiat money. The contract itself, f is in fact a debt obligation.
The contract is treated as colateral because the price moves in line with the equity that it pretends to be.
Does anyone remember collateralised debt obligations from 2008? That is what you are getting if you buy the bitcion etf.

2024-08-28 01:03:49 UTC

I getting some dms claiming to be relays asking for money.
If they were real they would say which relay they are.
Don't pay

2024-08-16 20:28:32 UTC

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They should pay sats to receive them 😉
@rleed

2024-08-15 19:54:25 UTC

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When do they temporarily suspend the convertability of the dollar into Bitcoin?

2024-08-15 19:20:08 UTC

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You can run your own relay!

2024-08-15 18:45:46 UTC

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Disovery is real killer app of Nostr.
People will pay to have their time wasted by the fire hose of information.

2024-08-15 18:12:14 UTC

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How much would you pay to access a Bitcoin lightning gated podcast?

2024-08-13 17:02:42 UTC

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Looks like a robotic dragon plane!

2024-08-13 16:59:47 UTC

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The future of entertainment!

2024-08-13 15:28:42 UTC

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Perhaps we need the penn and teller of politicians

2024-08-13 12:35:39 UTC

If everyone that thinks they own gold, actually bought physical gold, then where would the price be?

2024-08-10 18:19:44 UTC

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Uruguay is nice in Jan and has amazing beaches. I hear that florinopolis is pretty amazing too.
Maybe even a bit of hiking in patagonia could be on the cards

2024-08-10 18:12:01 UTC

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That when we head south for the beaches 😉

2024-08-10 17:35:50 UTC

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Asunción it's the plan b that Bitcoiners are looking for

2024-08-02 14:35:25 UTC

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@npub1crj…zysa
@npub1ark…h43w

2024-07-31 23:06:29 UTC

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This is true. There could be loads of people out there that we just don't know about because they have never posted
#note1y20…63qa

2024-07-28 01:59:10 UTC

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There's a big sell order above there.
It's called ETF rehypothication

2024-07-13 14:38:42 UTC

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Great to have you on Avi!

2024-07-12 20:08:28 UTC

It turns out that Joe Biden doesn’t know who his enemy is!

2024-06-14 10:49:58 UTC

Nostr!
https://m.primal.net/IkPV.jpg

2024-05-15 14:19:02 UTC

If you leave you bitcoin on an exchange, then it can be lent to someone that will sell it in the market in the hope that the price will go down.
Self custody bitcoin is the only real bitcoin.

2024-05-04 22:14:24 UTC

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Fanfares.io currently working only on Web browser on desktop

2024-04-18 11:18:16 UTC

Before life on earth there was a lot of carbon in the atmosphere.
As life evolved over many millions of years, some of the carbon was slowly taken out of the atmosphere and put it into the ground.
If this process were allowed to continue without correction, then life would eventually die out because there would not be enough carbon in the atmosphere to sustain life.
It is fortunate that a form of life would eventually evolve, that would dig up some of the carbon from the ground and put it back into the atmosphere.
Isn’t nature great!

2024-03-31 19:14:04 UTC

In the UK election, many people are voting Labour by cause they don't want sunak or the tories. They currently see reform UK as a wasted vote.
Reform are likely to flip the tories in the next month or so. When they do, many ordinary working British people will sit up and take notice. They will see that reform represent their views far more effectively than either of the other two parties. The effect will be a landslide, as a large part of the Labour vote switches to reform. At the same time, many of the tories will switch too out of fear of losing their seats.
Key reform policies:
End gender ideology in schools
Less inward migration
End climate alarmism and investment in wasteful projects that is making energy bills higher.

2024-03-20 15:38:40 UTC

When trading slaves across the Atlantic was the most successful business in the world, the slaves ruled.
When banking became the most successful business in the world, the bankers ruled.
After the bitcoin revolution succeeds, the bitcoiners will rule the world.
From kidnappers, to accountants to forward thinkers. We are evolving!

2024-03-20 09:22:40 UTC

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it has been confirmed. thanks for your help 👍

2024-03-19 20:37:14 UTC

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it was a channel closing from phoenix

2024-02-22 20:02:03 UTC

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Thanks Derek, it was great meeting you in Costa Rica!

2023-12-13 16:50:50 UTC

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That is a question that has been asked all my life.
Now we have group of people who have claimed that title.

2023-12-06 11:57:49 UTC

This is one to listen to while you are at the gym 👊
https://fountain.fm/episode/CG0oVdoJQdCGtLNgxSqZ

2023-11-17 21:42:11 UTC

All CDBC issuers will be able to delete units and create more units at will.
The dollar is losing trust because they deleted dollars held by Russians and they are creating more for themselves to spend.
#₿TC is the only currency that can facilitate international trade without the need for trust.
#BRICS

2023-11-17 04:38:14 UTC

Bitcoin Merchant Onboarding
Merchants in El Salvador are broadly faced with two options, take payment in cash dollars or in Bitcoin. If they take payment in cash dollars then the customer will often leave them the change. I have been in El Salvador two weeks now and I am finding that the bitcoin payment process is rarely making it easy for me to leave a tip.
In the USA the POS terminals have been very effectively engineered to have the customer pay a tip. They screen is swivelled around to the customer, where they are presented with the 15, 20 and 25% options. There is an option for ‘no tip’, but this is very small and at the bottom of the screen. The system is set up so that the least friction option is to just pay a tip.
We need to have Bitcoin payment experiences where the customer is finding the least friction path is to pay a tip to the merchant. If we can do this then we will find that many more merchants will want to adopt bitcoin.

2023-11-09 08:30:10 UTC

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Eating them could be considered a disposal. The value you have derived from eating is twice what it would have been relative to the fiat money that could have sold them for.

2023-11-02 01:20:50 UTC

The takeaway !
#nostrasia
https://m.primal.net/HPFY.jpg

2023-08-26 22:45:13 UTC

A credit card has your private key written on the outside of it.
No wonder the card companies have to charge back 2.5% of all transactions as fraud.
Bitcoin enables you to make a payment without exposing your private key.
Payment fees are virtually nothing.
What an upgrade!

2023-07-24 22:46:20 UTC

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I agree, not just the bitcoiner techies.
Also the bitcoiner economists, bitcoiner philosophers, bitcoiner film makers, bitcoiner meme creators and the bitcoiner podcasters!

2023-07-24 18:49:26 UTC

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I agree Caitlin, on-chain Bitcoin will at some point go ‘no offer’. At that time, the futures ETF will be bankrupt.
The unlimited short exposure that the ETF issuers have to the BTC price could take out the clearing houses.
This would be a systemic issue. It would be an opportunity for fiat institutions to renege on their promises and blame Bitcoin as the trigger.
They have additional cover from Covid as the reason for enormous public debts that will not be repaid.
The spot Bitcoin etf could be a set up for draining liquidity from exchanges and causing an exponential price move in btc. The crash in every other asset class that results from the failure of institutions that have unlimited short exposure to btc will be horrific.
This could be ‘the great reset’!
Blame Covid and blame Bitcoin, none of it will be blamed on reckless debt accumulation for the last few decades.

2023-07-09 06:04:17 UTC

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It is true Twitter and other apps will shadow ban you for saying things that a minority don’t like enough to block you.
I would be interested to know if a nostr relay would kick you off?