I’m in Buenos Aires and someone has painted the raw Bitcoin genesis block on a house near where I’m staying. Love it.

Just arrived in Buenos Aires, it’s a beautiful city and the people are very friendly (even when I attempt my broken Spanish 😅) Does anyone have advice on how to pay with Bitcoin or how to exchange Bitcoin for pesos to spend locally? It’s easy to be eaten alive by exchange fees out here.

People are finally catching on! Fuck seed oils.

Anyone got a sense of why the CEO of United Healthcare was assassinated? I’m no fan of pharma, but it’s usually not the good guys doing the assassinating

Just built a little air quality alert tool. You pick a location, get daily forecast or an alert if the forecast will go above a threshold you set. It currently sends text and email alerts. Would anyone want me to add Nostr DMs as a delivery mechanism for their use?

This is amazing high quality, high signal, low view count podcast about bringing about abundance in the world by leaning into capitalism. Seems right up this community’s alley! Love the tagline: “prosperity is energy intensive”

On the bright side, Bitcoin having a relatively stable price means it’s actually a good store of value… The best stores of value are stable with upside so I’d say Bitcoin is maturing into that role. Which means more folks with lower risk profiles will eventually pile in. Just seems like day to day we’re in that old adage of “a watched pot never boils” but progress is being made on all fronts.

Is there a zap only client? Just find someone by npub and zap any amount? This is particularly difficult on iOS because of the AppStore I think.

Is there a good explanation of the outbox model somewhere that I can share? @PABLOF7z @cloud fodder maybe? Having more convos about it as the way Nostr can scale and don’t have a great write up to share.

Brown noise is such an unlock for helping get into flow state. Heard about it on the Lex Fridman podcast, tried it out and BAM. Just spent like 12 hours coding today.

Was watching this #Nostriga talk on funding Nostr I think it’s ok that there aren’t a ton of VCs investing yet. It’s not the role of investors to donate money. It’s also not the role of protocols to be profitable. One of the great side effects of capitalism is that you get talented, smart people who get wealthy and can afford to donate when a technology is too young to be profitable. That means a lot of folks are contributing without being supported enough to do it full time. This isn’t ideal but it does force contractors to be ruthless with their time. Only working on what is critical in their estimation. From my understanding of history we are on the blessed timeline, and things seem to be happening in the right timing to build something truly great. Once we can build profitable businesses on top of the unique capabilities of Nostr THEN we will see investment rolling in. I have every faith Nostr will continue its rapid improvement and we will, in time, eat Big Tech’s lunch.

Anyone know if there’s a VPS provider in El Salvador? Seems like a jurisdiction that may be safer than Europe for hosting apps. I can’t find one with a data center actually located in El Salvador.