to me, when my i was young, indeed until my 30s, i considered my mother to be a literal angel. angels are just other people who are so much better than the average humans of today that they seem perfect in comparison.

i am of the opinion that nostr is not going to be the only social network tied to bitcoin and lightning. mainly because the people championing the project and marketing it to investors are constantly actively attacking the protocol, the protocol itself is severely underspecified, and the number of ways in which it will be exploited is probably unlimited. others will build new systems, but it will be harder to get adoption because of the costs involved in getting it built, and the expectation of most investors to have some near term yield on their investment. but just as out of the mess of edonkey, gnutella, and bittorrent, eventually bittorrent rose to be the defining filesharing system, there will be a winner for bitcoin based social network. i am going to take a big step back from nostr. i have built things for it but without any money backing me i'm pissing in the wind.

nothing is as it seems. though generally the bad guys look sleek, sexy, and wear lots of black, and the good guys tend to dress like beggars.

had a nasty dream. some vampire style guy and a heap of stuff that looked like possessions of someone i knew back in canberra. it was like i was being detained, but nobody was exactly saying this but i wasn't thinking 'ok, just slip out the window' either. they also had other people i cared about hostage i think. mostly old girlfriends. it reminded me that "crypto" is full of gangsters, and i keep on seeing things that smell so fishy and i remember, in my dreams that there is some of the most vicious people in the world around this space. partly because they can more easily hide themselves behind avatars and personae. i almost wish i could just slip out the window but the outside is outer space at this point.