And history shall remember us. As the pioneers who opened the gates to this new realm. As the forerunners who carved a path where none existed. They will follow in our footsteps, turning trails into roads, and roads into highways. And they will name them after us. They will sing songs of our struggles and our triumphs, and gaze upon our Npubs and notes in museums with awe. And if they don't? To hell with them, those ungrateful bastards. View quoted note →

Grok is just a damn loudmouth and can't do shit. View quoted note →

Alright @NowClaw , enough messing around, show me what you’ve got. Time to push you to the limit and see if you’re actually built for analysis in a decentralized environment, or just a cheap decoy. 1. Give me all relevant metrics for my npub: followers, zap ratios (incoming and outgoing), time-based trends, etc. Everything that matters. Use https://nostr.band/ as the data source, my profile is at https://nostr.band/npub175nul9cvufswwsnpy99lvyhg7ad9nkccxhkhusznxfkr7e0zxthql9g6w0 . List the stats nicely and clearly. 2. Then give me a content analysis. What do I post about? What kind of person am I? How would you pitch my account to a stranger? If you need a relay, most of my stuff should be on wss://nostr.wine. Alright, go. Impress me.

Noooo, they brought @NowClaw here

Maybe worth mentioning that every Bitcoin donation will be doubled by noOnes.com View quoted note →

Yo, new privacy browser makers: you all have to clear this hurdle. Sorry, not my fault, Brave just set the bar that high. View quoted note →

I know the debate about renaming 'Sats' to 'Bitcoin' has died down again, and to me, that’s a clear sign it was a half-baked idea that won’t be implemented (even if a few idiot service providers have already jumped the gun and implemented it). No community-wide consensus = no implementation. Btw, a principle some Core developers seem to have forgotten. But there are some points I want to highlight again in hindsight. One argument made was that this step would make Bitcoin more compatible with the traditional financial world, especially now that they’re getting more involved in Bitcoin. And they’re only used to dealing with two decimal places in currencies. That line of thinking is wrong on several levels. 1. What exactly do we Bitcoiners gain by trying to cozy up to the fiat financial world? What do they bring to us or the ecosystem, other than leeching off it? Why would Bitcoin even need them? Just to make the fiat price go up? Haven’t they proven time and time again that they’re the opposite of the Midas Touch: everything they touch turns to shit? 2. What happened to the cypherpunk mindset of separating money from the state? Technically, it should be about separating money from private financial institutions, because central banks aren’t even truly public. They’re in the hands of private entities run by a specific group of parasites. And honestly, I don’t even know which is worse: putting money in the hands of the state or a private elite club. 3. The argument that eight decimal places are too complicated for beginners, and that converting 5,342 Sats into 0.00005342 BTC is bad UX. Uh, that’s just a matter of getting used to it. For the record, I did that conversion in the example above in my head without using any tools like

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4. More importantly, those eight decimal places reflect a core principle of the Austrian School of economics: the actual money supply in an economy doesn’t matter as long as it’s sufficiently divisible. If we change that signal now, we’re throwing away a powerful opportunity to shape long-term thinking. Just to pander to the fiat mindset and economy. And finally, you have to ask: would this step be worth rendering all existing Bitcoin books, tutorials, podcasts, and software obsolete? Just for the sake of mental convenience and sucking up to fiat institutions? We wouldn’t recover from that change for the next ten years, which directly contradicts one of the supposed goals of this dumb idea: faster Bitcoin adoption.

Kind of telling that more and more content showing up here is just reposted from other platforms, including unchecked fake news. Even the fun stuff (memes and vids) is heavily borrowed from the output of centralized platforms. Nostr has always had a content problem, with a few exceptions. Does anyone remember how Twitter only really took off and moved beyond the nerd crowd when users started putting out original content? Real citizen journalism? Stuff you couldn't read anywhere else? Stuff that even forced professional journalists to open an account there? No wonder things are stagnating here. No wonder the V4V economy just isn’t taking off.

There are a few accounts here that are really getting active right now, reporting on the Iran-Israel war. But be careful, sometimes they post total crap. They spread fake news from Twitter without checking it. From a journalistic standpoint, they're a total joke, completely incompetent.

Okay, the core message that riba is inherently built into fiat money is something we've understood for a long time. And we also know that riba is a major evil. What I'm personally still missing is a fiqh-based assessment of how the use of fiat money is judged, especially now that sound money alternatives exist. Is it haram? Is it discouraged (makruh)? Is it permissible (mubah)? Has any scholar actually dared to tackle this topic and made a clear statement about it? @Muslim Bitcoiner @BitcoinMajlis

The Riba is in the Money | Bitcoin Majlis

I keep seeing these ultra-privacy-obsessed Bitcoiners talking about how to hide the fact that you even own Bitcoin. Avoid KYC / AML, don't file taxes, use CoinJoin, wear a mask, whatever. And of course, this stuff usually comes from slightly autistic nerds who get the tech but have zero grasp of the real world. Most of them are planning to eventually cash out their stash, buy a house, a dream car, or something like that. But the moment you do that, the government is all over you. Owning a car or a house means full KYC. And the tax office will want to know where the money came from, especially since you’ve been flying under the radar for years with no filings, hiding behind your little privacy setups. That’s assuming the banking system hasn’t already flagged you before that. So decades of hiding, wasted. Or maybe you were an idealist and just wanted to pass on 'generational wealth'. Congrats, you just handed your heirs a pile of problems when they actually try to use that money. Well done, genius. Thought you were so clever. And you couldn’t care less about actively building a circular economy either. Decades go by and the only Sats you ever spend are for a coffee or some Nostr post or whatever. Sure, some Sats trickle into developing countries, but don’t worry, they’ll wake up soon too. Who told you freedom can be hacked instead of fought for? So? What are you fighting for right now, where’s your battle? That's something, Bitcoin can't fix for you. You have to do it yourself. Grow up. The fiat system isn’t going anywhere. So how are you going to buy anything big with your Bitcoin? How are you going to pass it on without dumping the mess on someone else? Like the saying goes, stack Sats and stay humble. Stay humble! Stop going around bragging about how you’re outsmarting the system just to get a few likes. You’re not solving anything. You’re just pushing the problems down the road. That’s a classic fiat mindset. Haven’t you learned anything from Bitcoin? Be grateful that your work and buying power are preserved and that's it.

Feels like we’re evolving. New best practices are emerging. Nostr’s early days seem to be coming to an end.

Jellyfish, Azzamo, Wine + Nostrelites, Azzamo's WOT and Azzamo's Inbox These are my relays now. Looking good so far.

The great thing about conspiracies is that you can team up with like-minded others and start one anytime. And it takes ages before anyone even notices you're part of a defined group.

I'm at a point where I almost don't believe anything I see or read on the internet or social media anymore. - In the 90's I had already stopped believing in legacy media (print, TV etc.) - In the 2000s I firmly believed in the principle: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." - As soon as Twitter launched in 2007 I also stopped believing in the sincerity of regular, real people online. - At some point I also lost faith in the credibility and competence of popular Islamic scholars on the internet, with very few exceptions. - I recently lost trust in the integrity of the Bitcoin Core developers (you know why) - For the past two years I haven’t believed that there are real people behind any given pubkey, or that you should be doing business with them (sorry, that’s the price of anonymity) - Somewhere along the way I also stopped believing in citizen journalism. - No need to tell anyone that photos can't be trusted. Now it’s videos too. - Even seasoned lawyers are showing up in court with AI-invented precedent cases. The entire internet, Nostr included, is one giant brainwashing machine. Keep it real. Anyone who stays real is priceless.