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Paul Allen
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"A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight."
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PaulAllen 1 month ago
This will ruffle some feathers but I believe it's a disservice to keep pretending that the reason for nostr's dwindling usage is due to the absence of dopamine-feeding algos when - at least in my experience - it's the least reliable and consistent social media that most people will ever try. When I try to zap someone through primal web, my default zap amount gets arbitrarily changed to 42 with no explanation. So in the back of my mind I'm thinking, if it can change it to 42 without my knowledge, what's to stop it from changing to something like 42K and empty my entire wallet in my first zap of the day? Zap, Like and Repost icons that just sit there spinning all day after you click them. Home feeds whose chronological order is randomly dependent on relay connections, caching servers or who knows what? To my mind, the only people who will endure this for much more than a year are those with an ideological desire to see nostr succeed, and that has to be a much smaller number than want to see bitcoin succeed.
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PaulAllen 1 month ago
Ever convert a pre-coiner by giving them a gift card purchased using sats through something like bitrefill?
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PaulAllen 1 month ago
Countdown to the "While everyone was distracted by ICE shootings and Epstein Files, the government did this" headline...
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PaulAllen 1 month ago
If Claude's calculations are correct, it would take an hour for 10 kW worth of bitcoin miners to melt roughly 38 cubic feet of snow. 🤔 I assume compacted piles of snow in a parking lot would probably take longer.
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PaulAllen 1 month ago
April 1988 Hit Parader metal magazine revisit
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PaulAllen 2 months ago
Is that all? 🤣 How to become a whole-coiner: 1) save 1 million sats 2) do that 99 more times
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PaulAllen 2 months ago
Primal web be like "F-you, we sending 42 sat zaps today" 🤡
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PaulAllen 2 months ago
Just heard what would have been a perfect P2.0 end of show ISO. Some lady on FRS told her companion vehicle: "Hang on, I gotta find a podcast." 🤣
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PaulAllen 2 months ago
If you give your wife a node, there's a good chance that one day she'll come home from work in an already sour mood, her phone will auto-reconnect to her node (which she's still not convinced needs to be kept in her purse), and will then get hammered with public channel notifications. If your wife is like mine, the ultimatum will be something like "fix this or I'm deleting the app." Apparently, this is the fix 🤣 image