Unpopular Opinion: Bitcoin is hard money. This is a very good thing, but some people read too much into it. If you live somewhere, you are only ever as sovereign as the laws of that state allow you to be. Bitcoin doesn't change that.

Music : The Belle of Belfast City as it should ALWAYS be done.

Serious Question : If there are so many tens of thousands of people here on Nostr, why does my Nostrgram Global show me the same modest number of people?

I see the BTC Spring Sale has started. Fill yer boots :-)

PROMO : Are you an English speaker? Have you got a UK Relay yet? No? nostr.naut.social 4000sats - for speed if local, reach if elsewhere in the world

I have been asked about my language. A twat, or Twazzock, is a particularly idiotic type of twit. They are toddlers in grown ass bodies. It's not their fault they are like this, but you give them wide berths at parties, and mute on Nostr.

Also seeing a lot of Failure to Update Contact List after 5 seconds. Related?

So that's weird. Both Nostrgram and Snort have me following only 4 accounts. It should be a LOT more than that. If you have interacted and I'm NOT following you, I almost certainly should be (except that Zoltan Putin Puppet guy and the Latin crypto pusher, obvs). Meanwhile, these are the days Snorts FOLLOW ALL button was built for I guess :-)

Book Review : Current reading, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. 5 stars.

Yesterday someone said they missed long intro's. OK :-)

Post the tunes that are bonkers brilliant. Me first? Sure.

POT : Proof of Time A variant of Proof of Work where you require the device owner to spend time doing something. Would be useful in social media. Maybe. I just know someone will now come with a K.E.T.T.L for the process :-)

Uk Politics (there is more in the world than Nostr and BTC). Dear Rishi, it costs £100 per person per day to keep a migrant in detention. No country is going to accept them, so you aint sending them anywhere fast. Rwanda said they'd take what, 200? We have 40000 a year in small boats. So you clock up a Billion year one, rising to 7 BN year 5. Me, if i wanted to stop small boats I'd invest a few tens of millions in flooding the migrant route with undercover cops pretending to be migrants. I'd also offer all migrants who help nail the traffickers, citizenship. This would be cheaper and more effective, as the crims would simply go back to importing drugs instead of witnesses. But what do I know. I'm not trying to dogwhistle the dump racist fucks who will mistake your bullshit for a policy that could work.

Yea! I have been awarded, and accepted, a Badge. Relay Operator. Which I am. Thank you JohnOnChain. Now what happens?

Books for Boys (aged 7-10). The Adventure Series by Willard Price. Got to respect books by someone who actually pretended to be a birdwatcher in order to travel through the Japanese Pacific just before WW2....

Every time BTC goes sideways people start writing that "THEY" are out to get it. Mate, there is no great conspiracy. There ARE people doing their job as they see it, and they really, really, really don't like seeing people they don't trust having power over billions of other peoples money. They think those people should get out of town. And you know what. That translates to "not your keys, not your coins". And who here would argue with that? I used to be in finance. The business models that are based on "holding other people's money" have long attracted EXACTLY the people who can't be trusted with other people's money and will, whether by design or carelessness, lose it, UNLESS hemmed in by tight regulations.

How to make a small fortune, 2023 style. Start with a large one, and open a Paid Relay :-)

Nostrgram : Failed to validate Nip05 address. I see this quite often, e.g. when trying to edit profile. I've had one through snort since day 2 of or so of their existance.

I'm a Brit. Polite but with spikes is just how we roll :-)

Badges. I stopped caring about them when I was 11. Why is now any reason to change?