Self-custody your own bitcoin keys but make sure you add in a real-world hassle to accessing them. Like splitting multisig in two different houses. Op vault codes where there's a time delay might help as well, allowing you to sleep on it. I know I am prone to impulsive decisions, I can imagine a scenario where I can be psyoped to do some transaction in haste. Honestly that's the only thing that scares me with self-custody.

Which one of these looks like progress?

I have to finish my to-do list in time to travel to Riga.

Moved on to what? Moved on to what, motherfucker?

Imagine if all the miners go to the US, then they get shut down and we're left with the S9 space heaters and the nerdminers.

I published my first new book in over a year. I haven't checked my stats in months now. Seems like my books had hundreds of sales in all platforms without me doing any promotion.

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.