It's underappreciated how important @Bolt Card is for the future adoption of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is by far the most convenient and fastest way to make payments online. No need to enter in credit card information, addresses, etc. For purchases outside of the gated gardens of Amazon and FB marketplace. But IRL, tapping a card is faster and easier than scanning a QR code. I'll use Bitcoin online, but I'm still reaching for fiat at brick and mortar because it's a faster transaction experience. We need tap to pay with Bitcoin.

View quoted note → Nostr as social networking should be the least interesting use case. What can be built on top of it, such as @Team Soapbox is doing with Armada and other tools, what @hodlbod is doing with Flotilla, as a sign-in like what @Club Orange and @SOUND HSA are doing, or what @routstr is doing with AI transacting with Bitcoin, and of course the Nostr VPN, are much more interesting uses of Nostr. Speech isn't just the words we use. It's how we express ourselves, the associations we make, the money we use, how we choose to reveal information. You'll see the ebbs and flows of posting activity less relevant as the possibilities for permissionless internet expands.

I was at a conference speaking with a couple of guys from tech. One works on data centers the other software. One thought I was weird for being into Bitcoin. The other for using GrapheneOS. Actually both thought GrapheneOS was weird. At what point did surveillance become so normalized, those subjected to it themselves insist upon it for others?

I read somewhere that LinkedIn is for posers and X has an inordinate number of actual successful people engaging on there, just hidden behind avatars. Nostr has a select number of people who have figured life out, are themselves here, and hidden behind avatars in real life.

I open one Nostr app: no new notifications for a month. Cool. Sounds about right for me. I open another Nostr app: 50 updates and @HODL now follows you. JFC- I can’t tell if I’m now finally Bitcoin cool or if Nostr standards finally fell to my level I slop around in. More likely second app is probably broken. Stay classy and predictable Nostr!

View quoted note → I’ve not seen @Jake Woodhouse content pop up in my feed in a LONG time, but his podcasts have always been one of my faves. This was a great one.

Technology that has shifted human civilization typically has been in the realm of advancements in communication. Or in other words, reducing friction between people coming together. Tech we consider standard or even obsolete spurred an immense amount of innovation which typically did not build upon them the way we would consider layer 1 technology, but influenced societies all together. Airplanes, automobiles, telegraphs, phones (in all their forms), were time machines that catapulted the user forward faster and farther than they would have ever reached otherwise. They reduced latency between people interacting. Even more recently, going from 2g to 3g to 4g and now 5g, we saw humanity propelled forward because the reduced friction, measured in latency and bandwidth, allowed for us to communicate and collaborate faster. AI is a lever that will undoubtedly help more men and women move the world, but it's not yet in the same category as the technology that reduces friction between human interaction. It's a productivity gain that magnifies what one person can accomplish. I am not yet sure if it will be a net positive on humanity, though. Depends on how we address property rights in a brave new world and whether income becomes conditional on foregoing civil liberties. Getting incentives right to spur innovation and stabilize society will be tough. I think technologies like Neuralink may actually be more positively impactful on societies, because it resembles other innovations in the past that have done the same, in that it can reduce latency and increase bandwidth in communication. It will have its dangers at first, undoubtedly, but within a few generations, I have faith those will be worked out through an anti-fragile system, because we share incentives, regardless of class, for it to be, and it can become ubiquitous.

I woke up this morning and promised myself I wouldn't think about Bitcoin today. After all, Bitcoin is presently boring and today is a day for higher priorities such as family. But I awoke at 3:00 am still adjusting back to my own time zone. Family was still asleep. And Bitcoin runs 24/7. What. Was. I. To. Do.

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I used to think Bitcoin was the mind virus and we're the freaks. But then I came to realize as I spend more time with more Bitcoiners, we're the only sane people in this world. View quoted note →

When America outsourced manufacturing, it lost the know-how of manufacturing. When humanity outsources thinking, are we going to lose that ability ourselves? View quoted note →

Since sticking to open source apps on my phone and paid services from big tech companies, I've not seen an ad in ages. I hadn't even realized it until speaking with a normie whose online experience is defined. He mentions something, and is flooded with ads for it everywhere he goes online. I'd forgotten ads were even a thing. Advertisers probably had forgotten about me, too. This is what dying in obscurity looks like and it's beautiful.

Does @Hodl Hodl escrow the fiat in a P2P transaction? Or must the buyer trust the seller?

Using #YakiHonne on iPad now that they have a proper landscape mode. This was my first client on iPhone because it had the easiest onboarding experience, and they just keep on improving.