GM 😎 Asked Grok to make a picture of someone "moving to the brave new world of nostr and away from X" and here's what I got. Nothing to do with either platform but it's a nice pic.

I AM A NOSTR NOOB, TEACH ME WISE ONES I want to love Nostr and use it more. My problem is discoverability - it’s very hard to recreate a social graph + algo that beats Twitter. I see less content here and people see my posts less, so I have fewer conversations. How do I bootstrap the nostr graph without so much drudgery? Help @ODELL @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 @Lyn Alden @JeffG and anyone else I know in this place

YubiKeys have quickly become a very popular hardware device for Casa users. Since we released it 3 weeks ago, 25% of new users are using a YubiKey as one key in their vault. Already the third most popular hardware device. And the top 3 are very close - number 1 is 33% of users. YubiKey could easily be number 1 in short order. Cool keys are cool 😎

There is one reason people decide to use Casa more than any other: **someone they trust told them Casa was the best.** So we recently evaluated our marketing spend and decided to cancel all paid digital advertising, and redirect all that effort to making our **referral reward ridiculously awesome**. Now, when you refer a friend to Casa, they get a **full 3 months** (😱) off their first year of membership, and you’ll get a credit on your next renewal. When we talked to Casa members who had referred other people to use Casa, they always said the same thing. “I don’t really care about getting rewards myself, I just wanted my friend to have the best security.” So we kept the reward for you (because obviously you do want a lil something), and really jacked up the benefit for your friend. Now you can give the gift of bitcoin self-custody that is simple and safe, and solves major problems in bitcoin security for your friends and family. With the new Casa Inheritance, the ability to use a Yubikey as the simplest key in your multisig, global availability, and no KYC, we’ve finally made self-custody easy and safe at Casa. And as the next bull run builds, there’s no better time to get more bitcoin into self-custody. To get your personal referral code and share with friends, just grab it from your Settings in the Casa app. If you want to try Casa and don’t know any current Casa members, shoot me a DM. I’ll hook you up with my own code (no complaints here getting some renewal credit and stacking more sats 😉).

Casa Announcement Nakamoto Stage, 10:20 am, July 26 Gonna be a good one - game changer for private key UX. Come Witness History 👀

Blackrock CEO has done a 180 on #bitcoin. But he says something here that I think is completely wrong. He says bitcoin is a tool for expressing the viewpoint of being "more frightened of the world, more frightened of your existence" - and that bitcoin is not a tool for optimism. This couldn't be further from the truth, and shows that Larry has a couple more steps to take down the bitcoin rabbit hole. Bitcoin has many optimistic use cases as Freedom Money. - Savings and money that you can hold yourself, without having to trust a third party to keep it safe for you - A fast, cheap way to move money anywhere in the world ~instantly - A method for activists to fund and run their organizations when they are cut off from the banking system by corrupt dictators, see work being done by @gladstein - And finally, having money that protects you against hyperinflation by a poor government can be pretty optimistic. Follow us a few more steps down the rabbit hole here Larry - lots more to see if you're looking for an optimistic case for bitcoin.

Most people think of bitcoin as a protection against inflation risk. But just as importantly, it protects against systemic risk - IF you hold your own keys.

Happy 4th 🇺🇸