Japan’s super power is elevating the mundane until it becomes extraordinary. Perfect fried chicken at a convenience store, a simple slice of fish becomes sushi, trains so comfortable and fast you prefer them to planes.

Trust the #bitcoin bull crab.

Seems like everyone thought replacing the global financial system for 100s of millions of people (let alone billions) was gonna be easy and we would wrap it up in 10 years.

Dips are for buying #bitcoin. Or ignoring. The thesis is unchanged.

A powerful story and a reminder of everything wrong with healthcare in America.

The democrats really don’t want to win. Passing on chances to sway an active and wealthy voting bloc is just stupid.

Germany, Mt. Gox… anyone else got some cheap seats for us?

At least we live in interesting times.

An early idea, would it be useful for relays to decorate notes with tags/info and sign those with their own nsec key? Clients could then read the tags and decide what to do with them. Like NSFW, X rated content, detected language, etc. The note remains unchanged, but certain relays could become specialized at certain content detection and tagging.

It would be too funny if the #bsod outage is because they forgot to rotate a security certificate…again.

Bitcoin is an open source, censorship resistant protocol for money. Nostr is the same for identity/speech. What else needs an open source, censorship resistant protocol?

Nostr paradigm shift: you are responsible for your own long term storage. If you want your posts to last a long time, you must store them in a trustworthy relay (or three). Free relays will work for a bit, but running your own relay (full self sovereignty) or paying a relay or two is a good idea. What do you get? - no one can turn off your account - no ads unless you want them - no algorithm to enrage you

Feels a bit like a why not? It's an interesting experiment and I think it's likely it could find some powerful use case and also pretty likely it remains a niche experiment. Question: what are we replacing or new capability are we unlocking? Maybe removing DNS... though the point of DNS is to make websites easy to find vs IP addresses, and npubs are at least as hard to know/remember as and IP address. If that's the feature, instead of the bug, it could enable routing around firewalls or even the great firewall as long as there is some way to learn the npubs.

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Huge milestone: First demo of Nostr Web Services (NWS) bringing TCP to Nostr. With NWS, you can host any existing web application on Nostr without...

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They are just trying to throw the election at this point.

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President Biden Archived (@POTUS46Archive) on X

I’m sending a clear message to corporate landlords: If you raise rents more than 5%, you should lose valuable tax breaks. Families deserve housi...

Did he really just say rent control? https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/biden-call-5-cap-annual-rent-increases-show-111967281

Microstrategy outperformed Nvidia by being on a #Bitcoin standard. Incredible.

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To outperform $NVDA - get on the #Bitcoin Standard.

Look at Metaplanet's homepage:

Metaplanet

メタプラネット - ビットコイン財務企業

日本を代表するビットコイントレジャリー戦略企業であり、国内最大のビットコイン保有企業

It's hard to even tell what they used to do before deciding to be Japan's $MSTR.