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Christian. Bitcoiner 🇦🇺 #AUSTrich

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Last Notes

2026-07-14 03:05:36 UTC

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Same

2026-07-08 02:28:55 UTC

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Dunbar's number.
At the moment there people holding the protocol together as a single community. Newcomers either join the community or post into the void until they give up.
We need to focus on educating community leaders that nostr is a tool that empowers them, and developing the tools to do that in a way that doesn't have the security flaw of corporate platforms harvesting their data and having power over them.
Let nostr grow as thousands of communities.

2026-07-05 10:36:44 UTC

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Way to make the VPN pay for itself

2026-07-05 02:16:10 UTC

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Neither 😂. I'm watching this space because there's still a lot of development.

2026-07-05 02:10:55 UTC

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I am trying to build a client that let's users post in different layers, public ally, to selected read restricted relay groups or into a Marmot group or similar encripted group chat format. - Still researching the best solution.

2026-07-05 01:52:26 UTC

Social media and bank accounts are transparent by default.
Individually, that may not feel like a major risk. The bank that knows your wealth probably is not going to rob you. Facebook reading your messages probably will not create an immediate problem for you personally.
But the risk is at the aggregate level.
A small number of institutions can see liquidity, sentiment, relationships, political energy, social coordination and emerging grassroots movements. They can trade against it, shape it, throttle it or intervene before it reaches critical mass.
That creates an enormous asymmetry of power.
“Private” accounts are not truly private when the platform itself can still see everything. A private Facebook profile is private from other users, not from Facebook.
Nostr needs more read restricted relays and encrypted notes that only the intended audience can see. Something closer to a private social graph, without a Facebook like entity sitting above it all.
Privacy is not just about hiding individual secrets. It is about preventing aggregate surveillance from becoming a control system.
#nevent1q…w893

2026-07-04 12:11:42 UTC

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To worship God and enjoy him forever

2026-07-02 10:01:38 UTC

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Amethyst has been smooth amd fast lately

2026-06-30 08:23:31 UTC

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Yeah, you should add nostr relays to the pubkey indexer and publish it as a nostr indexer relay that treats home servers as inbox/outbox relays.

2026-06-29 10:37:05 UTC

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Ver needs an apology.
It should be pretty clear by now that the divisions in bitcoin are state level bad actors forcing a choice between 2 compromising solutions.
BCHs modest block increase wasn't as reckless as it was made to be.

2026-06-27 23:41:51 UTC

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Memory remains single was the second CD I bought too 😂. I bought Load of a friend for my first.

2026-06-27 23:31:06 UTC

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This is probably the first time since 2017 they bitcoin cashers and bitcointer have united for something.
https://blossom.primal.net/80faa1a9e6b46880626e0d45c0ecc2c7fd622698de420c1beb164d5375e8b5ce.jpg

2026-06-27 23:13:18 UTC

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Its good to see nostr growing out of a bitcoin echo chamber and being used by other coins.

2026-06-27 07:09:23 UTC

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Love the Nixon moment on the tv

2026-06-27 07:05:29 UTC

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This is great

2026-06-25 11:04:32 UTC

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There are a few

2026-06-24 23:52:54 UTC

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Is this rugging covenants and therefore trustless and permissionless scaling?

2026-06-24 21:28:00 UTC

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Its not called being wrong when you know.

2026-06-23 06:32:36 UTC

Someone make this a skin for @nprofile…07tq
https://blossom.primal.net/9dcf658d630bc6a956614d9cc6ef0bdeea3e27c9dd608c1d4fc14aa144906ca8.jpg

2026-06-18 09:44:37 UTC

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2 should say thinking what they care

2026-06-16 02:32:27 UTC

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@Grok is this true?

2026-06-13 06:37:48 UTC

Pirate Teddy #yarnstr
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2026-06-10 20:34:04 UTC

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Thanks, I can install it again

2026-06-09 03:33:19 UTC

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2026-06-09 03:33:17 UTC

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2026-06-07 23:15:01 UTC

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Sorry. I'm guilty of seeing this and not responding. Hope you are feeling better. I appreciate you being here 🫂
It is something to think about. We can build anonymous, permission less networks, but building trust and human connection requires something else. Nostr could benefit from a more closed way of sharing notes that will allow vulnerability and intimacy, so we are not pouring our hearts out into the void.

2026-06-06 07:56:04 UTC

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Boom.
I had a better start, bun unfortunately lucked out on the 50:50 #nevent1q…wdep

2026-06-06 07:54:41 UTC

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2026-06-05 13:37:54 UTC

Well done. Respect.
#nevent1q…ftxc

2026-06-05 04:56:55 UTC

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I set up a Linux server relying on AI to help me figure it out.

2026-06-05 02:37:53 UTC

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2026-06-04 10:40:55 UTC

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I'm surprised that your starter word has 2 A's

2026-06-04 08:04:22 UTC

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But if you are attracting buses who you wouldn't otherwise have, charging 3c a note would note would more than cover the marginal storage costs at no additional fixed cost. .

2026-06-04 07:54:53 UTC

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Set your price. If its content I really want to see 50c isntna lot.

2026-06-04 02:40:34 UTC

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I don't do paid relays because I hate subscriptions. I don't know if I will use it or not.
How hard would it be to give users a couple of free posts a week, then make them pay per note? With nwc set up, this could happen automatically, if they give their wallet permission right?

2026-06-04 01:54:36 UTC

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Awesome

2026-06-02 08:22:00 UTC

Social media sold us reach.
Reach more people. Grow your audience. Build a following. Go viral. Be heard.
But the part they left out is that reach works both ways.
Yes, social media gives us reach into the world.
But it also gives platforms, advertisers, governments, data brokers, AI models and manipulation engines reach into us.
That is the trade.
We get a bigger microphone, and they get a bigger window into our lives.
They see who we know, what we care about, what makes us angry, what makes us afraid, what we are starting to believe, and what kind of movement we might drift toward before even we have fully realised it ourselves.
That is why private profiles do not solve the problem.
Private from who?
Private from other users, maybe.
Not private from the platform. Not private from the algorithm. Not private from the ad system. Not private from AI training, behavioural prediction, leaks, subpoenas, policy changes, partnerships, or whoever buys the company later.
That is not privacy.
That is a one way mirror.
And once people know the room is bugged, they change how they speak.
They become guarded. They perform. They self censor. They stop thinking out loud and start managing an image.
Something human gets lost.
Because in real life, we do not speak the same way to everyone.
There are things we say publicly. There are things we say around acquaintances. There are things we say to friends. And there are things we only say in confidence.
That is not secrecy.
That is normal human trust.
Social media flattened all of that into one giant public stage, then built machines to measure, rank, nudge and manipulate whatever happened on the stage.
The result is not just surveillance. It is social manipulation at scale.
The algorithm does not simply show people what is happening. It decides what gets amplified, what gets buried, what gets mocked, what gets normalised, what gets repeated, and what gets injected into the public mind.
So maybe the next social network should not be designed around maximum reach.
Maybe it should be designed around limiting reach.
Fully encrypted social media, shared only with the circles you choose.
Public when you want public.
Friends when you want friends.
Small circles when an idea is still forming.
Confidence when confidence is required.
That would not kill the spread of ideas. It would make them spread more naturally.
A good idea could still move from person to person, friend group to friend group, community to community. But it would move through trust, not through an engagement machine. It would be tested, challenged, refined and approved before spreading widely.
That is how human culture is meant to work.
Not every half formed thought blasted into the open for every scraper, bot farm, journalist, activist group, platform, agency and machine learning system to harvest before it has even had time to breathe.
Inside the trust path, the idea is alive.
Outside it, there is nothing to collect.
That is the missing piece.
Not just decentralised posting.
Encrypted reach control.
Human sized speech.
The ability to speak differently in different rooms without every word becoming raw material for the machine.
#nevent1q…24kp

2026-06-01 08:53:58 UTC

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The longer I watch Nostr, the more I struggle to believe the8 stagnation is accidental.
It reminds me of what Bitcoin Core did to Bitcoin. The project still exists, the language of freedom is still there, but the useful parts get narrowed, constrained, and redirected until only a very specific version is allowed to survive.
Nostr should be much bigger than a Bitcoin social network. Its core design is powerful because it does not need a blockchain. It should be a neutral social and identity protocol that can support any app, any community, and any payment rail. That is the whole point. It is not beholden to one cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Yet in practice, payments are treated as if Lightning is the only serious option. That immediately limits the appeal to a niche market.
And if we are going to have Lightning forced into everything, then at least use it for what it is actually good at.
Micro payments could be powerful because they break the subscription model. You should not need an ongoing commitment just to read one article, access one feature, boost one post, store one file, use one service, or unlock one piece of content.
That is the point. Pay once. Pay per use. Pay for access when you need it. No account lock in. No recurring charge you forget about. No platform sitting between the user and the service provider forever.
A good Nostr app should be able to say: here is a useful service, here is the price, pay however you want. Use Lightning for instant small payments where it makes sense. Use Monero where privacy matters. Use fiat, cards, bank transfer, or anything else where that works better.
The payment rail should serve the application. It should not dictate the entire culture of the protocol.
Instead, whenever people talk about monetisation, everything gets dragged back toward value for value.
Value for value has its place, but it is not the same as charging for a service. It does not reliably fund infrastructure, support, moderation, development, storage, bandwidth, discovery, or long term product work.
The same issue shows up in the apps themselves. They are trying to chase normies by compromising privacy and censorship resistance for convenience. But what normal person is going to accept worse performance, a smaller social graph, and a niche culture just to use a protocol they do not care about?
That is what makes me suspicious. The obvious path is to build real apps that do something useful, charge directly for the service, and use Nostr as the open social layer underneath.
But the path promoted by the influencers always seems weaker: Lightning only, value for value, half baked social apps, and endless appeals to ideology.
Maybe it is just bad incentives. Maybe it is ideological capture. But when the same weak ideas are pushed over and over, and every commercially useful path is treated as impure, it starts to look like containment.
The best way to stop Nostr is to fund and promote versions of it that absorb the dissidents, keep them busy, and never become useful enough to threaten the platforms.
Nostr should be the open social layer for applications that cannot be captured and don't give away more user data than necessary. Right now, it feels like it is being steered into becoming a harmless Bitcoin subculture.

2026-06-01 03:17:43 UTC

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Thought I had that in the bag

2026-06-01 03:14:20 UTC

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2026-05-27 02:04:50 UTC

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2026-05-26 23:40:05 UTC

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I haven't found a good one. But I agree, algorithms should be like changing channels on TV.

2026-05-21 22:23:50 UTC

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4D chess. Kill the protocol so the ops go home thinking they have succeeded, then build something that is actually good.

2026-05-19 11:47:04 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/12097e2c0b87ba015a62eed18d630a0f32bb3e1b489d9ef522b2c8ad36cd4040.jpg

2026-05-18 12:10:44 UTC

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Why not full social app?

2026-05-18 03:09:05 UTC

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You do not win that kind of war by matching the enemy resource for resource. Look at the example of early Christianity. Rome had the money, the armies, the law, the prisons, and the power to kill. The Christians had truth, discipline, community, sacrifice, and refusal to become what they opposed.
So the answer is: endure, tell the truth, do not return evil for evil, build something stronger underneath the empire, and make the enemy defeat itself morally.
You win by being harder to corrupt than you are to crush.

2026-05-17 11:49:57 UTC

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Why not make it so you can post your regular notes and reactions in a MLS group with friends. Like Facebook restricted profiles, except unlike on Facebook no one can see what is posted except those given permission?
Is it too much work for the client to collate hundreds of MLS groups (for all your friends) into one feed?

2026-05-17 02:00:04 UTC

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Thanks

2026-05-17 01:37:33 UTC

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Yes! What's the point of Bitcoin identity if you can't receive an onchain zap.

2026-05-14 10:40:13 UTC

Birds of Tokyo https://npub1wvtljy7rmeeeaqat9hwxwq9g7h90ghavtgpvd2yxk400ndlrf4qsytjhd0.blossom.band/128ce0e76d6c02f462738acc3db9906cdd32fd8e57c0885f08b543d89b7fef99.jpg

2026-05-12 03:21:09 UTC

Is there anyway to add tap and pay for cards on graphine? Google wallet seems to reject adding cards that I had on my old device.

2026-05-08 22:21:14 UTC

When you sit across from your friend
https://blossom.primal.net/1a593b87fbed835e25d0912ae3a2f1ab27c77b264bb19c2be802c9818a7401fc.jpg

2026-05-07 23:34:55 UTC

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Make it so the reciever can receive whatever the sender wants to send. An npubs should create a default L1, lighting/cashu, monero or anything the reciever wants to enable and scan for. Ideally the default is silent payments address. Even if the reciever has not selected an option the sender should be able to send it after a couple of warnings that the user has not set this up and it might be lost.

2026-05-07 21:59:24 UTC

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That's how you end subscriptions and free the internet from corporate control

2026-05-07 21:15:28 UTC

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Mutiny wallet

2026-05-06 06:51:56 UTC

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It does if they are controlled opposition sabotaging the only form of resistance.

2026-05-05 10:48:22 UTC

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But also with birth rates below replacement, only migrants will want to buy houses soon. If immigration falls, so will property prices

2026-05-03 12:57:31 UTC

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Yes

2026-05-03 05:24:33 UTC

Feast of the 3 Saints, Silkwood Australia. A tradition imported from Sicily by migrant cane cutters. https://blossom.primal.net/fdd8032268626368f9222c7ce3865d7e5cb353ae3c59a20ad86c485110ca7313.jpg

2026-05-02 18:48:52 UTC

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Been here all this time but only just found you through word 5. Good to find fellow Australians.

2026-05-02 04:02:50 UTC

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Nice work

2026-05-02 04:02:07 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/fa93b9f4e5e2784ad98f180890c5093f4fcf741ce0e43e49abf74b75380f1efe.gif

2026-05-01 02:27:33 UTC

Timing the Bitcoin market is very easy.
1. Tell your friends and family about Bitcoin. If they don't listen / laugh / ignore you - buy
2. When they ask you about Bitcoin - sell
This method outperforms any technical or macro analysis.

2026-04-30 07:41:23 UTC

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I forgot that orange meant it was in the wrong place until the last line

2026-04-26 02:59:03 UTC

New android phone recommendations? How does Oppo compare to Samsung?

2026-04-25 13:15:22 UTC

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Appreciate your efforts. Nostr made me change my attitude towards monero

2026-04-25 12:46:53 UTC

Quite concerning
#nevent1q…gdpd

2026-04-24 09:19:06 UTC

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Similar to mine

2026-04-23 20:25:53 UTC

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I had an older tablet and felt the same. Maybe production has caught up with demand and they have had a longer shelf life?

2026-04-22 01:12:16 UTC

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Nostr clients need free market for algorithms that give a useful feed free of grifters.

2026-04-21 06:24:54 UTC

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Pretty much the site of Sodam and Gomorrah

2026-04-19 00:00:01 UTC

Good to see Australian products on nostr. Any others?
#nevent1q…xsxy

2026-04-01 00:28:31 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/e4c4b55d6208e498b1d99020663591a098233b4999c0ae4339559477856329e8.jpg

2026-03-30 10:22:49 UTC

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Its been pretty stable for me

2026-03-30 02:25:49 UTC

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Where in Amethyst?

2026-03-25 23:59:21 UTC

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Birds aren't real

2026-03-25 02:17:48 UTC

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That's impressive

2026-03-25 01:51:23 UTC

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Even if V4 is a dud, it only buys time. AI is priced as if they own all the data and rent access. To achieve that they need to create a global police state, which they are trying to achieve. But information longs to be free. It is only a matter of time until it reaches the marginal cost of production.

2026-03-24 11:37:38 UTC

Just moved Wisp into the position that Primal was in on my phone's home screen.
Edit: the post delay helped me catch a typo before sending. Well thought out app.

2026-03-24 04:53:52 UTC

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Looking great

2026-03-23 06:01:56 UTC

The only way to get traction on nostr is to complain about nostr
https://blossom.primal.net/215c6fe1cd3bfe7e6a6e49e34a2e85ea568db91bca9c13c67f6362cc644430f7.jpg

2026-03-20 12:44:18 UTC

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SSD, but only 250 gig. I might expand with some HDD for media and maybe a 1-2TB SSD so I can run a full node.

2026-03-20 11:14:57 UTC

Started setting up a server today. Installed lunix and now playing around in Portainer. Hopefully have a relay online soon. Any recommendations what to do?
https://blossom.primal.net/ba998fff15539342f899b0620c8b3ecaa45ddad547e7ba55ab65b1d2d184ddc1.jpg

2026-03-19 09:38:32 UTC

Finally got the dough to be fluffy and crispy under the toppings.
Fresh dough.
Stretched, not rolled.
Hot stone ~380-400°C
https://image.nostr.build/e056fb8c77c13777b9c29b93fbcc43ce6682454265ed6a020d5a4da2b87c1ecf.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9dde2c9945163a386b9ba101ca8d63aedca14d3e35aa3221cc5705ce3abf9126.jpg

2026-03-18 02:42:57 UTC

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People land, don’t get a good feed quickly, don’t find their people, and churn.
Main issues:
1. slow time to value
2. weak discovery
3. fragmented client/relay UI
4. no clear must have use case
On top of that, it’s been a bit hamstrung by being too Bitcoin-only.
Zaps are powerful, but locking payments to Lightning narrows the funnel. The NIP should really allow users to choose any payment method and route to the best match between users. If someone prefers Lightning, fine. If someone else wants fiat rails or something else, that shouldn’t break the interaction. Payments should expand the network, not segment it.
It also started backwards.
Nostr tried to be a Twitter replacement first, then bolt on DMs and groups later. That’s backwards for how networks usually form.
I think I'd we focused on communities, private over MLS like, @nprofile…radp and @nprofile…p4uv can possibly do or public over specific relays.
The ability to cover privacy DM or open public notes grows naturally from the social graph that developes from the group's.

2026-03-17 06:30:05 UTC

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I suspected the same, but think hes probably a hobbiest who exaggerated his resume #nevent1q…58lw

2026-03-16 13:40:48 UTC

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2026-03-15 07:31:57 UTC

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A constant migraine is understandable with the current state of Bitcoin.

2026-03-15 05:58:07 UTC

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How you know if a relay has auth?
https://image.nostr.build/364747379592a5da981fdb5e2b63a859bc3c466e65e0a289596fcc9d52e2c877.jpg

2026-03-14 22:22:51 UTC

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Yeah, I'd love to get one. Hopefuly my S21 can hold long enough/ development happens fast enough

2026-03-14 22:04:14 UTC

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How usable are they for non technical users? Last I heard they were a bit buggy.

2026-03-14 13:38:36 UTC

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I think there is more genuine activity

2026-03-14 11:16:36 UTC

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No Book, who I thought was a wasted character. So much back story for a lame death.

2026-03-14 11:15:56 UTC

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#nevent1q…km53

2026-03-14 11:13:46 UTC

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Walsh was at the end of the trailer...

2026-03-14 09:07:44 UTC

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Bring back MySpace

2026-03-13 11:31:34 UTC

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Bitcoin removed the centralised money printer, but a fixed supply doesn’t stop wealth concentrating. Over time, money still tends to accumulate with those who lend it, speculate on it, or control liquidity. That is basically the old problem of usury playing out on a harder money base.
What the broader crypto ecosystem did was introduce a different escape hatch: anyone can start a new monetary network.
That means new communities can form their own “squad wealth” outside existing power structures. Instead of fighting over one fixed pool forever, people can bootstrap new ones around new ideas, technologies, or cultures.
In that sense, crypto isn’t just “everyone gets a money printer”.
It’s everyone gets the ability to start a new economic network.
If freedom is tied to social mobility, that ability to create new systems matters just as much as having sound money inside one system.

2026-03-13 09:55:47 UTC

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Is it possible to make citrine save all bookmarked notes from anyone indefinitely? It can it only accept my own?

2026-03-13 08:26:55 UTC

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Celebrate it. Hopefully you only do it once. Don't worry about fancy, but do think about being comfortable. Don't try to do too much yourself or you will be exhausted before it starts.

2026-03-13 01:03:51 UTC

Those who live by the sword die by the sword
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