Bringing back #Bitcoin #SkepticismSundays 😎 One of the things that showed me the intellectual honesty of the Monero community and helped to force the community to stay grounded in reality and always laser focused on their core ethos was their weekly "Skepticism Sunday" Reddit threads. These threads allowed the community to come together, ask hard and skeptical questions about the design of Monero, the privacy provided, the economic approach, and much more. In my time in Bitcoin I've never seen anything similar, but the nuanced and high-signal crowd on Nostr seems like a perfect fit to fire things up and see how it goes. The goal of this thread (which I'll post weekly on Sunday's) is for discussing the uncertainties, shortcomings, and concerns some may have about Bitcoin. Things like what makes it difficult for you to use Bitcoin, what pain-points you have, etc. NOT the positive aspects of it. Discussing things with a critical thinking approach and level-headed discussion helps us learn where Bitcoin and its community can improve and go from there. P.S. -- I try to take a break from social media on Sundays so I will follow up and reply whwre I can tomorrow!

NGL, loving the overall @primal experience so far! Favorite client I've used to date.

This FUD is super confusing, literally no one has to KYC to use X, and you can easily use things like SMS verification services, email aliases, and crypto-funded debit cards to even have a blue check without giving personal info. I understand people want X users to move to Nostr, but lying to them isnt a moral or effective strategy. If that changes to require KYC, of course everyone sane should leave and invite every follower off to Nostr. But let's please not lie to try and bring people to Nostr. View quoted note →

Is anyone building this? View quoted note →

💯 And that's something heavily underrated about Nostr that is usually an issue with centralized social media -- it is generally Tor/VPN friendly. That could change if relay ops have issues with spam, but for now it's true at least. View quoted note →

Two things can simultaneously be true: 1) I want Nostr to succeed. 2) I don't love what it is today. Thankful for all those continuing to work on Nostr and the broader ecosystem 🫂 I only criticize out of love and to be sure that people understand that there are actually tradeoffs with Nostr! We need dissenting opinions on here.