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Making bitcoin more than an investment.
Someone tell me how to long pineapple and jalapeño pizza orders. 
People trying to create a “better bank” in 2024 might as well be trying to create a better trebuchet.
No idea why this is sideways. But if the Social Media You Can't Delete Gods decree it, so be it.
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No stopping any time.
It's fun to think about all the time, energy, and money they spent fighting the inevitable all these years.
What separates Nostr from other social media platforms isn’t that it’s decentralized or censorship-resistant, it’s that everyone is really nice on here.
Heading to the mempool. 
Bitcoin is the first currency made by consensus instead of commandment.
We’re trying not to cross-post content between Nostr and Twitter, but since the Nostr community is 3,000,000% more likely to understand what’s going on in our quarterly updates, we’re giving ourselves a cheat day: 
Quarterly Update Q4 2023 · Spiral
This quarterly update is all about breaking records. Not only is it the latest update we’ve ever published, it also contains the most words and m...
These bitcoin mining and security myth-dispelling children's books never took off when we originally posted them on Twitter. We think they’ll do better here since, even at its peak, Twitter never had Nostr’s fortitude and commitment to the cause. 
Bitcoin Mining · The Spiral Book of Bitcoin Mythology
The Spiral Book of Bitcoin Mythology
We have a document that’s as old as our grant program. It has rough and final announcement copy for every bitcoin grant we’ve given since the first. As of today, it is 101 pages long. Our grant program is a novella long.
You don’t hear enough about how profoundly hopeful the bitcoin community is. It is tech’s most hopeful sector and the only one that can use the “we want to make the world a better place” cliche without even a trace of cynicism.
A little known secret of bitcoiners is that although they want bitcoin to conquer fiat, what they really want is to spend four days wandering around a major city with a giant, anthropomorphic bitcoin:
Cross-posting here so no one misses the only thing in a while worth missing about Twitter. 
Grant renewal. @bitcoin_design community pillar @mogashninaidoo is a UX researcher, believer in open source/working in public, and blogger at 
Her plan for grant #2 is to “go into the ecosystem” and test the UX Research Toolkit she built with grant #1.
Mogashni’s Substack | Substack
Spiral grantee and UX Research evangelist working in public. Click to read Mogashni’s Substack, a Substack publication. Launched 3 years ago.
The problem with publishing a popular quarterly blog post is that people will expect you to keep publishing it. So here it is, back and longer than ever, with more links than ever, detailing every good and bad thing that we’re involved with:
Quarterly Update Q3 2023 · Spiral
This quarter’s newsletter was delayed by a number of factors, one of which was last seen wandering the streets of New York between July 14–17. ...
It’s hard to explain why stacking even pennies worth of sats is so satisfying, yet if I lose an equivalent amount of change in the couch, it’s gone forever. I’m never going after it.