I sometimes wish I could #zap creators on other platforms. Yes, some of them have Patreons and such, but the fiat money system is fractured enough that I have to go through hoops to use Patreon, and the UX of zaps is just so much easier. Hopefully the Bitcoin adoption will rise enough to fix that.

I think I got the hang of this...what do they call it... #zapvertising? #zapvertizing? I have no idea how it's actually spelled lmao

@Snort has a nice workflow around zaps, without even having to connect a wallet. I like being able to pay a lightning invoice in any way I can instead of fiddling with my phone or something like that, or having to connect my Nostr client directly to my lightning wallet.

#Bitcoin node, fully synced on block 811710 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

TIL Primal has the ability to follow mute lists. Very commendable! Now if I invite like-minded people to Nostr, I can tell them to follow my mute list so they don't see spam or things that neither of us want to see.

I still find the concept of #money absurd. In my opinion, money in its current form is creating more problems than it solves. But it also patches over the problem of humans inherently mistrusting each other due to assuming malicious intent (not unreasonable — evil is in humanity's nature, as I learned in my existence in this world). A perfectly efficient world would not have scarcity that is currently created by hoarders of resources and money. But humans will probably not achieve that any time soon. Any system that tried collapsed because of evil intent — either from inside, due to bad or outright malicious planning, or outside, due to jealousy and greed. That's not to say we shouldn't attempt to build such a world. But it's going to be a long journey. Will I live long enough to see such a possibility unfold?

No matter the system and theory of the origin of money (be it the classical theory that modern "economists" promote, or several alternative ones of your choice), #Bitcoin as a system of money and unit of account just makes sense. Finite money for finite resources (nothing is infinite, endless growth is impossible, impractical and also simply unnecessary). No way to dilute the supply by inflation whenever your government's coffers are emptying. Options for privacy (reveal addresses for no privacy and transparent cashflow — though for transactions with counterparties some amount of trust is required for introspection; or hide your addresses and use coinjoins to obfuscate your money flow). If money is needed for a functioning society (and it seems like our current society is addicted to the concept of money), it's a nice option. And the only one which works. Besides, governments are scared of it. Mine is, too. And if your government is doing something against your interests, anything it is scared of might help you.

Also I caved in and created a temporary custodial Lightning wallet. Will most likely replace it with a self-custodial solution once my node syncs.

Currently syncing my own Bitcoin node 🎉 Decided to, in addition to using Tor proxying, also isolate it in a container that cannot access the internet outside of a single port on the host — the aforementioned Tor proxy. Mostly for fun. It makes for an interesting setup, even though it doesn't actively increase my anonymity. The host machine, of course, has full access to the container, especially the RPC port. This might be useful to configure Sparrow to connect to the node — though, of course, it doesn't show me much since the node is (for now) stuck somewhen around 2015. Next step would be a lightning node and maybe Fulcrum so I can use more common wallet apps than Sparrow, e.g. Electrum on my phone. I also think that maybe getting a cold wallet would be nice. Perhaps a @SeedSigner? 😝

wait twitter is going to be paid now? did emerald boy ran out of his emeralds to pay off the huge ass loan he took to buy out twitter at an insanely inflated price which he baited himself into while trying to pump-and-dump the stock?

I hope the only people actually calling Twitter "X" are doing it sarcastically. Worst rebranding of the 21-st century.