I just tried Whitenoise, an encrypted Nostr chat app. It's making me way more bullish on Nostr. Wow.

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Two years ago

Real sovereignty is the ability to create something from nothing. Everything else is a notch below on the sovereignty hierarchy.

If I didn’t love nostr, I’d keep my (true) feedback and constructive criticism to myself

The President of the United States is reposting our boy Dylan LeClair on X. He’s reading our posts which means you could potentially influence the future of America (and the world) by posting on X. He’s not reading your nostr posts.

Elon is hiring back Big Balls! Why is that relevant to Nostr? People are used the Woke regime where journalists would dig through old tweets to find dumb/racist things you said to use as leverage to get you fired/cancelled etc. Elon and the Trump admin might have just ended that practice by rehiring Big Balls to DOGE. So how is it relevant to Nostr? The fact that notes live forever has a chilling effect on free speech and leads to self censorship because we have grown up in this culture of cancellation. Permanent notes make the threat of cancellation even worse since someone somewhere has a record of your wrongspeak. Democrats/Leftists/Wokes have learned nothing from this election and have only doubled down on their desire to cancel Americans. So if they ever get power again, they will use these permanent notes as a record of all your “wrongspeak” against you. If this remains the status quo, I don’t think people will feel comfortable speaking freely on nostr.

🤙 mahalo. Say it back

Using the bitcoin symbol and color so explicitly lacks sophistication—also it's confusing because it audibly reads like "Strategy B". Strategy missed a big opportunity to bring in the icon from the legacy MicroStrategy brand to convey "bitcoin" without being so obvious. I do like the idea of using ₿ as an exponent "Strategy raised to the power of Bitcoin" is smart and accurately communicates the company ethos, but the visual expression does not come across as smart. Instead you could bring in the icon from the legacy MicroStrategy brand to convey bitcoin. It also conveys alternative, layered meanings like navigation (compass), guidance (star), and energy (sun).

Thank you for disappearing, Satoshi.

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