I have €165.50 in my bank account, and I've never been richer or happier

Perhaps last year's World Shitcoin Championship match should have included treasury companies. View article →

GM

Put this song on repeat and vibe straight through Monday...

How to develop a Nostr client in 10 simple steps: 1. Visit the Nostr GitHub repository and get familiar with the protocol. 2. Write down all the NIPs on pieces of paper, put them into a hat, and draw 13 random ones. Use ONLY these to build your client. 3. Prepare for marathon code sprint by drinking 2.5L of GM. 4. Publish code, then use a stable client to write a post asking for help from real devs. 5. Buy 3 large rolls of duct tape to perform fixes for version 0.0000001. 6. Post memes to collect enough zaps so you can buy another 2.5L of GM. 7. Embark on a dev quest with two close allies. To reach version 0.000001, you must slay Pubki, the Nightshade Troll, and reach the town of Aldenmorrow. You are armed with a bluetooth keyboard, a faulty relay, and an ostrich feather. 8. Call Jack Dorsey. 9. Appear on 250-300 podcasts to and reach 1 million repetitions of the word 'decentralization'. 10. Launch version 1.0 and wonder how to increase your userbase from 3 to 10. *** How accurate is this on a binary scale of 0 to 1? #asknostr #nostrdevs #builders

What cheers fiatbrains up: 👉 buying shit they don't need from familiar online brands. What cheers nostriches up: 👉 zapping magic internet money to complete strangers who posted a funny meme. ... we are not the same. GN.

AI-generated books are published in service of egos, not in service of readers. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

GM. Time to step into nature and find some goats. #GranCanaria

ROLL UP, ROLL UP! 🐘🦜🦏🦒🦁🦓🦩🐑🦍 Come and see the BITCOINER zoo! Think of another, and I'll zap you 100 sats too. *** Adam Bat 🦇 Gnu Svanholm 🐃 Saifedean Ammoose 🫎 Catt Odell 😺 Elkrik Cason 🦌 Lynx Alden 🐆 Larry Lepaardvark 🦣 Satoshi Nakameerkat 🦝 Natallama Brunell 🦙 Andreas Anteaternopoulos 🐜 Isabella Sansloth 🦥 Gigiraffe 🦒 Jack Horsey 🐴 Nick Szaboa 🐍 Cathy Woodpecker 🐦‍⬛ Samson Cow 🐮 Alex Gladstemu 🪽 Robbear Breedlove 🐻 Mikoala Saylor 🐨 *** Add a bitcoiner animal pun that makes me chuckle, and I’ll zap 100 sats. #earnsats #winsats #puns.

Buy a $1 book direct from the (genius) author. Come on, Nostr. Let's stick it to Amazon.🖕 Zap me 694 sats, with the number of the book you want (info below) I'll send a digital copy in the DMs. Just a fun experiment, really. Books (all fiction), from top left to bottom right. 1. Foreign Voices - short fiction of various genres set all around the world. 2. The Fisherwoman - deep stories, reflecting on the theme of 'home' 3. Fifteen Shades of Time - A philosophic novella with mind-bending presentations of time. 4. Before. During. After. - A thrilling 20-character interwoven narrative set in an American high-school. 5. A-Z of Rotten Uncles (illustrated children's book) - 26 funny character profiles of terrible uncles. Also available in Italian. 6. @21 Futures : Financial Fallout - Dystopian fiction from 21 authors on the theme of monetary collapse. Includes artwork. Make sure to follow me, so I can message you. #v4v #books #p2p

To celebrate 500 notes posted on Nostr, I have deleted the X app. GN

My personal Facebook page just got banned. No fucking idea why. I opened the account in 2006. 20 years of Meta sucking the value out of my content and data. If my 'appeal' is unsuccessful, they will just 'delete' everything. (Of course, they will keep all the data, but will deny access to me). The 'appeal' involved uploading a photo of myself. Surely anyone could do that with a quick google search. Anyway, if I lose access, I don't really care. Could be a good time to cut ties with that shit. 2026 is pointing me towards spending more time in the parallel spaces that can't revoke your access. Carry on, Nostr. Nothing to see here.

GM. Another hike to start my weekend. Arucas, Gran Canaria.

Some thoughts on @Jeff Booth's approach to socials. I saw one of his X posts yesterday. It had hundreds of likes amd reposts. But he didn't even write it. The tweet was a soundbite composed and published by his custom AI. It's designed to engage the 300k humans of X that follow him while he spends time on Nostr (where he wants to invest energy). Part of me thinks this is smart. It's a win-win. X gets retweetable soundbites true to Jeff's vision, and Nostr gets pure Booth energy! I can't help thinking that this only works for those who have already built a big position (300k followers) amd want to syphon the value into the new digital economy. It's like Saylor's strategy to transfer fiat's energy into bitcoin. This act also fortells how legacy socials will die. Bots will post, and eventually, only bots will read. But humans will always need a place to congregate, a place to spend their energy. We will do it in the places that offer real value, i.e. networks which aren't owned by tech billionaires and Mag7 corporations. Everyone on Nostr is moving to #nostronly, even if they don't know it yet.

"Hey, mom. I've finally become a journalist! My topics? I write about bringing down Big Tech and building parallel systems outside the bounds of hideous government overreach... you proud?" View article →

GM On my way to a hike in Agaete. 21k steps here I come.

What's the best book on Nostr? Explanation of the protocol NIPs Development of the eco system Potential uses etc. Looking to get up to speed, but please, for the love of God, don't send me to GitHub. I like to read prose, not code. Videos welcome too. #asknostr p.s. GM.

Just cancelled my subscription to Google One Drive. Proton migration complete. 👌 Next up, buy a Google phone, so I can escape using Google's operating system 😂

This store's name makes me absolutely furious! They have 200+ locations in Spain and I see them EVERYWHERE. (I also live near a motorcycle accessories shop called Helmet's World 🤣)

CHAPTER 14 - The Orange Pill Five years ago, I knew nothing about finance. I couldn’t even answer the question ‘What is money?’ Then, one of my clients asked me a different question: “Do you know what causes inflation?” @Niko 📚 Konsensus Network was one of my first coaching clients. I was targeting publishers who wanted to improve the quality of their English writing, and he runs an independent press for Bitcoin and self-sovereignty books. In the Bitcoin community, we talk about the concept of ‘orange pilling’ — helping others to understand the benefits of Bitcoin and escape the Matrix of our financial system. In reality, it’s not as easy as taking a pill; the necessary knowledge requires a long process of learning about economics, history, fiscal policy, computer science, game theory, money, energy, maths, and other topics. There is often one ‘unlock’ moment (for me, it was suffering through 20% Covid inflation and finally taking action to combat it). After that, the real learning starts. Niko guided me towards many books on the topic, and I began to ask questions about why our financial system is rigged against us. Bitcoiners favour open-sourcing everything and are against gating ‘intellectual property’. The fact that Niko would provide all his eBooks to me for free made me question my approach to publishing (and the whole industry itself). Perhaps I’ll reflect on this in a later issue. A few months after we finished our coaching sessions, I hit upon an idea. I’d just been ghosted by a publisher who had initially shown interest in an anthology idea of mine (a book of nomad stories). Instead of giving up on the idea of editing a book of stories, I suggested the concept of Bitcoin fiction to Niko. He is a big sci-fi fan and saw the value in ‘orange pilling’ people via stories (almost all Bitcoin books at the time were non-fiction theses). In late 2022, @21 Futures was born. I only wrote one of the stories in ‘21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain’, but bringing an anthology to market requires a LOT of time and input from the editor. I defined the concept, advertised the call for submissions, communicated with all the authors, drew up terms and contracts, selected and edited the stories, worked with the Konsensus Network (the publisher) on the book design, cover, and images, created a marketing plan, set up socials, then a website, blog submissions guidelines, merchandise, and more. I travelled to a conference in Madeira to promote the book and meet the publishing team (including Niko). While the book has not sold thousands of copies, it’s an important proof of work that furthered the concept of stories and fiction in the Bitcoin ecosystem. 21 Futures has become a bigger project, with podcasts, merchandise, a second book, and an animation in development. All of this became a flywheel of momentum for my involvement in the Bitcoin space, generating more opportunities, leading me down countless rabbit holes, and allowing me to make plenty of friends along the way. Those sessions with Niko changed my life, and I’ll be forever grateful to him for his patience, guidance, and support (even though he was the one paying me, LOL). I used to wonder what it took to become an editor, a publisher. For years, I had corrected and edited my students’ work, as well as my own. Essentially, you take the leap and learn as you go (taking courses, reading books, listening to authors). I’ve since edited several books in the space. There is another saying in Bitcoin that rings true for me: “You can just do things.” *** Catch up on previous issues of Unphiltered - the first 20 years of my writing life on Substack and Nostr reads. https://unphiltered.substack.com