Every time amethyst crashes and I keep opening it again I'm reminded of that test Facebook did on Android users to check their addiction and to see how many crashes they would tolerate before giving up. The answer in both cases is infinite.

We're all gonna look so dorky in 20 years with our excited posts about buying stuff with bitcoin.

I make a note to add my nostr to my links in bio. I edit the page, it's already there. Magic.

George Saoulidis

Links - George Saoulidis

Made with love by a digital mythmaker.

We got paid for marketing work, 2 separate payments. First in bitcoin onchain, the second through a bank. First one went through, got the sats, sent them to someone else already. 2nd payment through the bank doesn't go through and has been lost.

Nostr relays are starting to shut down. It's unsustainable without zap subscriptions, which I'm okay with paying if they're reasonable.

I have such bad timing in my life. I've chosen the worst period in bitcoin's life to become a maxi.

Adding a mature content tag on art and books is a great way to filter out idiots. A while ago a person said to my face, "I checked out your books but saw the adult content warning so I stopped." What a great heuristic.

True story. My family imported the Elna Press in Cyprus. It's a high quality product that once demonstrated properly had a 100% success rate in making a sale. It was and still is quite expensive, making it a major purchase for a household, not as much as a small car but enough to consider it carefully, more like renovating your kitchen. In Cyprus the banks offer financing so that makes it easier. As for the quality, it's Swiss made, built to last. The relatively few repairs we had to make were done by us for free because we offered years in extended support, so we didn't earn money on that. Our competition was Singer which is a household name, and still we dominated the Cypriot households selling basically one per home in the entire country. Back then Cyprus was close to a mere 600.000 in population. It was a hard money standard business in a fiat world. We couldn't expand to new markets, our importing license was just for Cyprus. We couldn't charge more for repairs, everything was under warranty. We couldn't sell more, the market was saturated. The product did need repairs every now and then, which I also helped repair as a child. I had learnt how the electronics worked by heart, even identifying common issues. But in general the Elna Press was a beast, it might work for years without any issues whatsoever. But we didn't charge for them, so in a fiat world, this became unsustainable. There was no planned obsolescence build in to need spare parts after a year or to upgrade to a new model. A hard money business in a fiat world simply cannot compete.

One of the most successful pivots I've ever seen is @plebstr . They went from a useless Twitter app alternative that tried to integrate zaps to a great nostr client that everyone recommends for newbies and one that helps with mass adoption. Good job. Your next step is to give every user a random lightning address upon sign-up. You'll have to either run it yourselves or partner up with a NIP-enabled lightning wallet. Eliminate the steps needed for a casual user.

Web 4 is just a trillion internet of things devices with tiny heating elements hashing some sats while machine learning algorithms keep them alive, buying them electricity in exchange for adding value.

Yes, nostr is fucking annoying. It has a steep learning curve, things don't always work right, you have to wait for stuff to load. It's so annoying. But you know what's really annoying? Losing your audience that you've worked on for YEARS because some corporation decided to block your account. Google digital sharecropping. Own your audience. Start building your personal brand on nostr, even if it's just a backup solution (it won't be). I know that as a creator, being told to expand to yet another social network is annoying. I know full well what that means. But it's not yet another social network. It's your escape hatch for when things inevitably go wrong. Amazon has started cracking down on explicit content again. At the same time Song of Ice and Fire has fucking incest in it but it's on the best seller list, so they're hypocrites. Your little bookshelf is gonna be buried or banned and there's nothing you can do about it. Not your keys, not your audience. Nostr lets you retain some of that control.

Chatgpt do my invoices for me.

Artstation has a sale on my art and story bundles. Get them here https://www.artstation.com/glowleaf/store

Facebook just blocked me from posting on my personal account, which controls five of my business pages and groups. There's no way to see what caused it and no disagree button. Thank you so much for proving why we need nostr.

Ever since I got a nostr account I've been using bitcoin every single day. This is the vehicle that will orange pill the first billion people.

People who are against custodial lightning wallets sound like this, "you shouldn't use that email service, you need to run your own email server." Most users won't run their own email server. I'm a computer guy and I don't wanna run my own, even though I do run a lightning node. The only time email achieved the necessary network effect was when Hotmail started giving out free email for everyone. It had a signature back to Hotmail in every message and it went viral. That's how lightning is gonna get the mass adoption it needs.

I have a screenshot of peach bitcoin with the corn price at 15k. That should age well.

Heading tonight to our #BitcoinPizzaDay event in Athens! Can't wait to see you all there. Join the meetup and find the details here Checkout this Meetup with Bitcoin & Blockchain Tech Meetup (Athens):

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Bitcoin Pizza Day Party!, Mon, May 22, 2023, 8:00 PM | Meetup

Join us in celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day on May 22! On this day in 2010 Laszlo Hanyecz, a core community member within Bitcoin, traded **10,000 BTC...

I need to cut down on the subscriptions I'm paying each month. Now I've just added calendly.

Sooo... Half the bitcoin space kept suggesting muun every damn time I suggested someone use a wallet like stuck up reply guys and muun broke down as soon as bitcoin... *Checks notes* had some actual normal usage which we are all actively striving for. Hm.