Dorian

The bungee cord holding up my muffler not only signifies that I’m a Bitcoiner, it’s also a metaphor for my life.

“Are you a good person and do others want to see you succeed?” The most meaningful insight I’ve received from a friend in the music industry.

⛽️ Touring is fucking brutal and unsustainable for most. Only 2% of the time is spent performing and connecting, which is invaluable. The rest is spent at gas stations and watching the highway go by - the same as our opportunity cost in life. BTC/NOSTR exposure allows young artists the chance to modestly monetize from creating and the tools/literacy to begin saving for the long term. To actually own something.

⚪️ IG user : “People will call out others for still using Spotify while still using IG, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Temu, Shein …the list goes on. Stop demonizing people and start telling them ‘Hey look, I got this cool new app that’s better than the other one. Why don’t you give it a try?’ Don’t Condemn.” 🟣 Me: “Great take. For those willing to do the work, there are open source protocols replacing all of these companies.” ⚪️ IG user: “Not what I meant, I wish you all the best, though. Thanks for taking the time to respond.” 🟣 Me: “Same to you. Consider looking into them sometime.” ⚪️ IG user: “I don’t use Spotify.” #grownostr

🥧 Price & Politics again? Don’t forget to mention where you were during the AWS/Cloudflare outages of 2025. 🥃

Has anyone been able to find U2’s “Songs of Innocence” on any NOSTR music clients?

Prince had a saying about living in Minnesota - “It’s so cold, it keeps the bad people out.” Seemingly the technical barriers of entry to NOSTR might be the thing, at least for awhile. Discourse is unfamiliarly constructive here.

Again, sharing for context. I think it’s important to recognize how folks in other spaces, particularity those without a background in software, view and respond to issues that are being addressed in this space. I went in the trenches about TIDAL today - I’m trying to humble myself with how to best convey new concepts. I’m not very popular. This was my response: “Tidal developers have hinted that they will implement the Bitcoin lightning network, as Block has recently shown with Square and Cash App. These moves have been some of the first from major platforms to implement open protocol standards. For Tidal, this tech could mean real time royalty settlements or the ability for users to tip artists directly without 3rd parties. There has been much talk on this page about legislation reform and justified criticism of currency systems, but little mention of the open source developers who have been making strides from Napster to now. My advice to any serious young musician, would be to reallocate a fraction of practice time to studying computer science, particularly the history of decentralized systems. It’s unreasonable to assume everyone can become a software expert, but the fundamentals will help anyone recognize new tools when they arrive. I hope this message comes off as nothing but constructive.”

Just the messenger here… Patreon CEO posted this today; “I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain.” I’m sharing for context, as this brand of rhetoric seems to resonate with many outside of this space. Releasing an Op-ed behind a closed NYT paywall is also telling. Curious how Nostriches might respond? I’m in the trenches myself. #asknostr https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EO14wPQw89c

Constructive advice to give any modern musician, would be to reallocate even a small fraction of practice time into studying computer science. Specifically the history of decentralized networks. “Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own". — Satoshi

Never play to the gallery — David Bowie https://blossom.primal.net/4c0e8204fb4b4c68beb96de0c0fede921ac09f6ba51f873d453db91b203775b1.mov