Shameless boosting of our own show. This one deserves it!

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

Open Markets Podcast • #13 The return of Gzuuus | Open Markets Podcast • Listen on Fountain

Eric and Sync are joined by Gzuuus, an early Nostr builder whose work connects several important threads in open markets… from Plebeian Market an...

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GM. How can it be so over when we are so back? Awesome discussion innit👇🏼 View quoted note →

Fear is the mind killer

You wanna know if I know why? I can't say that I do Don't understand the evil eye Or how one becomes two And I just can't recall what started it all Or how to begin in the end I ain't here to break it Just see how far it will bend Again and again, again and again I wanna make it I wanna make it wit chu -QOTS

Feed cleanse

When everything digital seems compromised it’s unusually comforting to have the ability to work in the physical realm. This too shall pass and we’ll all be better off for it but damn I wanna grab a power tool for comfort right now.

West coast late ish gm hope everyone’s doin ok

GM. Great convo to listen to. Got me even more stoked to meet everyone in Chicago next month!

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

Local Bitcoiners • Chicago Bitcoin Collective w/Jon, Brady & Foise: Chicago, IL | Ep. 020 • Listen on Fountain

Chicago Bitcoin Collective co-founders Jon, Brady, and Foise join the show to tell the story of buying a building in Portage Park and turning it in...

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I know so many people are experiencing pain at many levels right now. It probably feels like you need to do SOMETHING right now for your community. … but adding dice rolling and other such things to the overgrown list of Bitcoiner purity tests will NOT lead to more self custody, and definitely not lead to more people becoming Bitcoiners. It is totally rational to expect a professional hardware company to do their fucking job. The vast majority of them are. We need more user friendly products- not less. …and FYI a properly designed piece of hardware will likely do a better job at creating randomness anyway. If you do decide to roll dice and that’s the only way you feel safe at this point- that’s understandable. Please do it properly and follow a proper protocol. Keep taking care of each other. Much love. GM. View quoted note →

Breathe. Great positive discussion @STACI and Brandon https://fountain.fm/episode/TV6YiVuOSSznZzKk3ELg View quoted note →

Is the mission to build great freedom tech products? …or to perpetually optimize our harnesses, purify our workflows and perfect our comms channels? Engineering minds tend to drift toward work that is objective / measurable / intellectually satisfying… but doesn’t require confronting users. Productive procrastination? I’m guilty of this too…

GM/GA #foodstr #brunchstr

Nostr fixes this. Host a relay and post your long form notes on your own website. Distribution + ownership. Fin.

Substack writers, you need a website! – Elizabeth Tai

Rather than presenting Bitcoin as an act of rebellion, Satoshi presented it as a better tool. He never once called himself a “cypherpunk”. Why? Probably because he understood that freedom tech spreads farther when it’s introduced as an open-source innovation rather than a political revolution. We can learn a lot from this IMO.

Is freedom tech marketing too reactive and missing opportunities to help people BEFORE they need it most? cc: @npub1a3um...mdj6 @Turiz

“Nah- it’s not another blockchain, but it does use cryptographic signatures and a distributed network of relays that anybody can run. Relays? Oh, those are just simple servers that store, serve and bounce events around the network…” …then she proceeded to walk away

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This store made me feel like a kid again