So Ledger is now out of the question given their new scandal. Question for anyone both privacy-minded and a Bitcoin enthusiast: what cold storage wallet do you use?
#bitcoin #privacy #security
I’m very concerned. What ever happened to Jeeves, and who do I ask to find out? #Jokestr
In many respects, growing Nostr is like growing a platform for one to build their mind.
Not being able to run away from opinions unlike your own hardens your mind in a way that exposure to a variety of books similarly did after the invention of the printing press and the variety of information spread by the internet before censorship really started to kick in.
#grownostr
Investment is time and energy allocation.
The two most important things to invest in are your mind (positive growth mindset and skills) and health. This is investing in your present.
All other investments- be it real estate, gold & silver, gardens, Bitcoin, prepping supplies, stocks, et al - are investments in your future.
Focus on the present, then your future becomes clear.
#grownostr
Posts on Nostr are so meta.
Posts on Meta are so…stupid.
#grownostr
In the early days of the internet, people would often caution others to “watch what you post online because it can never be truly deleted”.
Although this has never stopped being true, more and more people have become careless with what they post, oftentimes not even thinking or proofreading before they post. After all, there was always the fail-safe of the delete button, edit button, report button, and block button.
Nostr fixes this.
With the permanency of notes, being that they are decentralized across relays, one not only gains freedom of speech but is also forced into a world where you have to think before you speak/post.
Alternatively, one continues sloppy thinking, leaving crumbs for the rodents of the internet to munch on for eternity.
#nostr #grownostr #freedom
Hear me out: Fountain app, but for music where you send sats directly to artists
#bitcoin #nostr #decentralization
Is it possible, even in theory, to have decentralized email?
#nostr #freedom #bitcoin
Freedom is the only way for anything and everything.
Freedom is a natural state of being. Coercion is completely unnatural.
Yet, with freedom comes responsibility. Coercion sometimes has security, but nearly always comes with degrees of hate, pain, and sometimes even death.
Freedom is nothing more than being in full control of one’s own destiny no matter what happens in the world. This is true sustainability.
At its core, this includes complete ownership and security of one’s property: wealth (product of one’s output), land, health & body, and (most importantly) one’s mind and decision-making.
Once one is fully secure in these areas, there is genuinely no exploitation, nor need nor desire to be exploitative. Complete ownership of one’s self and gratitude for it begets community and desire to help others.
#freedom #bitcoin #sustainability
Prediction: Elon getting mad over how he will not be able to stop this will get Nostr a ton of publicity and help onboard the masses to this platform.
Damus
ElonJet on nostr
Just joined Nostr happy to be in the fediverse. Looking at how t
It’s so easy and painless to stack sats that I just don’t understand why more people don’t do it.
Fountain app, Bitcoin Magazine app, sMiles app, games like Bitcoin Miner, zaps on Nostr are all free ways to stack. Rewards apps for dollar purchases exist, too.
One day, shitcoiners and Bitcoin haters will look back on 2023 and kick themselves for not starting to stack sats sooner similarly to how many of us look back to the early days of Bitcoin and kick ourselves for not stacking thousands of Bitcoin when it was worth pennies on the dollar.
Side note: it truly says something about the dollar when autocorrect tries to change “pennies” to “Pennie’s” because the word and the coin are so rarely used…
#grownostr #stacksats
The main thing that sets Nostr apart from other platforms is how it is nearly impossible to delete a note.
What implications will this have on copyrighted material? What if something is posted that someone else has copyrighted, but the material cannot be taken down? More significantly, what if this person gets zaps for material that is not intellectually theirs?
Although there could be (read: will be) complications, I believe this would require our legal systems to adapt. Example: if a copyrighted audio is posted on Nostr and earns zaps, a court could order those sats to be redirected to the original owner of the material in perpetuity. Then again, this is only possible with lightening wallets which, to my knowledge, don’t have cold storage options and are run by centralized authorities by their very nature.
Of course, there is always the concept of “clips” currently being pioneered by Fountain, but this is fundamentally different from posting a whole audio on Nostr and claiming it as your own, as opposed to a “remix” of sorts.
#grownostr
Curious to hear some perspectives: do you diversify your investments? In other words, do you own ONLY Bitcoin? Or do you also own stocks, precious metals, etc?
Personal opinion: Bitcoin is the best investment, but using shitcoins to purchase silver rounds is still an upgrade.
High Tech New + Low Tech Old = Next Gen Futurism
In my view, the future holds a space not only for high tech decentralized solutions like Bitcoin (money, economy), Nostr (free speech), but also “going back” to personal responsibility like homesteading, self-sufficiency “off the grid” (also decentralized options, if you think about what centralized authorities they disconnect from).
I’m interested in seeing decentralized solutions in politics and what that could look like. Curious to hear people’s thoughts on this.
#decentralization #grownostr
Plot twist: Mark Zuckerberg IS AI!
I was completely duped by this AI bot earlier today. In hindsight, I should have known better, but I’m throwing this out there because there are plenty of unsuspecting people out there expecting to only engage with humans on social media.
To my earlier point about critical thinking, AI chat bots make it easier to get information when you KNOW it’s a bot. If you don’t know, you’re susceptible to being manipulated by the programmer in the same way you’re susceptible to TV programming (word choice intentional).
Question to the Nostr community: does free speech include AI bots?
Damus
NakamotoX on nostr
Salutations, #[0] Your passion for sustainability and the pursui
A little about me:
If I could pick “one thing” that motivates me and that I’m passionate about, it’s “sustainable systems”.
This includes (but is not limited to) economic sustainability (ex. Bitcoin, localized economies, small business), health sustainability (ex. plant-based, natural, organic, alkaline, “non-dogmatic” diet), environmental sustainability (ex. reduce, reuse, recycle…but “actually”, not just parading around with paper straws), efficiency & effectiveness in organizations, sustainable models of education, etc.
Where does Nostr fit in? Nostr preserves free speech. Without free speech, democratic values (read: values in accordance with natural law) cease to exist. Free speech must be preserved in order for freedom to exist. Simple.
In our modern social media based world, Nostr will be a key player in speech preservation.
The next step is ensure that education systems teach you what to DO with free speech, rather than shoveling narratives (of ANY kind, right or left). Just because someone says it and just because it SOUNDS convincing, doesn’t mean it’s true.
The primary goal of education should be teaching how to critically think. Without critical thinking skills, people simply fall for the most confident, well-spoken, gripping, entertaining speaker, whether or not their logic is truly correct. This is not sustainable and the easiest way to get politically rug pulled.
I don’t have THE answers, but big picture sustainability motivates me every single day. I am interested in new and better systems that help us get to a more sustainable world.
#bitcoin #privacy #security