I'm noticing my nip05 from nostrplebs is red. Also nostrplebs.com is down. Most likely related.

Even the security tools on Ethereum (Tornado Cash) are a fractal; embody the same issues of the platform they are a part of. I do wish him the best though. He's been in jail since August due to being a 'flight risk.' His next hearing is in April.

I was talking smack about Taro on Twitter a while back and a bot just today gave me a link to a Taro testnet wallet. It's, alright, it's not like... a16z money, (aka print-your-own-money) but it's alright, I mean, it's just a very simple front end. Not sure what's going on behind the scenes, whether it's a Testnet Bitcoin blockchain with Testnet Bitcoin in a Testnet multisig lightning channels with Testnet assets swapped... you get the idea, or just nothing going on behind the scenes besides some code meant to emulate that. I guess if it's the first one, then it's basically ready for prime time. Cool. https://testnet.tarowallet.net/walletapp/

Teaching a 'digital hygiene,' or 'online privacy' class in late-elementary or middle school would be beneficial to the national security of our country, but perhaps our government doesn't wish to change our citizens behaviors.

I've been mining a vanity Nostr address for the last 18 hours (on a different phone). I finally figured out the app settings so it doesn't stop the mining if I let it go inactive for a bit. I am trying to get one that starts "npub1tmchn..." for Timechain. If I get it, that would be pretty sweet! I might sit on it and wait for Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets (xpubs kinda things) although, that would be sad, because, nobody could see the address, lol. Hmm.

Just like Google adsense gives you the opportunity to market your product to someone who is already interested in a given subject... We have hundreds of thousands of Chinese and HK users who started using Nostr for free uncensorable speech, who have not yet enabled LNURL and don't know anything about Bitcoin, free uncensorable money. This is quite an opportunity. Remember, go slowly, not forcefully, and let them know how it could help THEM out. (Wish I knew Cantonese & Mandarin)

I just made this, if anyone are fans out there.

@Rabble (ex-early twitter legend) said on last Nostrovia that 40% of outbound links on Twitter is to Only Fans and 80% of searches on Twitter is for porn. The fact that that could be happening on a website I was on every day without me seeing any of it accidentally shows some great engineering decisions. Relays should make it known what content they accept and what they don't accept and make the statements clear. Soon, Nostr will have similar 'NSFW' and 'SFW' areas. Different relays will choose different moderation policies. The free market loves variety. Perhaps different monetization strategies will flourish simultaneously as well.

You know Bitcointvdotcom ? Well, you know what would be awesome? Bitcointvdotcom but we could comment with our npubs. And zap and stuff. The current monetization is just usually a link to a site with a bitcoin address. What you think, #[0] ? ...Actually does the site still exist?

#[0] so it's not the biggest deal. But if you're typing something, then you stop and want to paste some text, you long press after the text you typed, it (the cursor) for some reason jumps to the beginning. Anyway, great work! You definitely have the best Android Nostr App.

This happened last Spring. It's interesting, because of reasons of cultural pride, some people may prefer not to deal with USD, even in digital form. However, since the US dollar (although also destined to die) will die the slowest, Tether can make some profit by holding US Treasuries, but issuing other countries stablecoins instead.

Little known secret.... Adam is totally a degen trader, lol. Shirt token? lol.

Yesterday's stablecoin destabilization caused people to find stability where they could. This chart is for (the original) USDT on Bitcoin's Omni Layer (yeah, it still exists) which got just under $4 million of transaction volume in 76 transactions yesterday, which is quite a significant spike compared to it's normal volume.

FREE Madeira posted a video of their meet-up with Pablo Fernandez, Head of R&D at Swan and Advisor at Ego Death Capital