OK I can't keep up with the Nostr drama. What's the conclusion? Do we hate Alby or not? Just saying, because I just recently installed Alby Hub (which wasn't a happy process, as I posted), Alby extension is how I log in, Alby wallet is what I use for LN, and my NIP-05 Nostr address is with Alby too. It's nothing insurmountable I guess. I just want to know if I should switch or not. #Ask_Nostr #AskNostr

If you don't see me here so often anymore it's because

OK, so while the pro-censorship voices and maneuvers on Nostr keep getting stronger and prevalent, X is self-cleansing. Censorship for censorship, I may even create an account again. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/guardian-quits-x-social-media-platform-citing-racism-conspiracy-theories-2024-11-13/

These fucking pieces of shit xD

Yesterday I helped two people buy BTC (on a centralized exchange). They asked. I gave them "the speech" and made them listen to my collection of cautionary tales, and only then I showed them. I'm 100% sure they will miss the peak and sell at a loss, or maybe they even sell next time we have a dip. Reminder that if you're "convincing" people to get into BTC now, you're not "orange-pilling" them. Convinced them to stay during the bear market, and we can talk about it.

I've never understood how any *good faith* progressive person can possibly be against this. I have no doubts the intellectual leaders of the fake "progressive" movements are against it because their goal is always and everywhere to turn citizens into cattle dependent on the State by making their lives unsafe (and forfeiting some of them in the process). In my country, what this woman did would be impossible, since she would not have a firearm that she could legally use to defend herself. Even in her own home. Even if she did have a firearm for "sports" reasons (as I do own several). Too many *good faith* Americans are way too frivolous about the vital importance of the 2nd Amendment, and refuse to understand that you can't have "common sense" regulation of the right to defend yourself.

There is a fine line between this very correct statement down here, and the edgy incel pseudo-stoic positions that dominate the right-leaning, young man-focused new internet discourse. View quoted note →

In this case a more realistic (mock) headline would be: "China finds ancient documents that indicate 3rd century BC hut dwelling tribe of fishermen from Manchuria sailed 300 miles close to Japanese island, thus confirming Chinese ownership". View quoted note →

- Stay hum... - No. Not today.

I just thought how utterly fucked CoinBase, the Twinkerpinkle twins, Crypto.com are gonna be if the Trump administration makes amends with Binance, and I could help but feel a smile on my face.