Ben Arc

nostr.com

Nostr is the everything app of freedom | lnbits.com | nostr.com | first nostr twitter clone maker | bitcoin tinkerer

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2025-06-14 18:18:22

Why I think it's lovely people on nostr say GM.
A little philosophy I've held for a long time (that has served me well) is that a happy life comes from exposing yourself to more little uplifts than downlifts.
Living in a rough area, have a job you hate, and being unhealthy relationships, life becomes full of small downlifts, and before you know it, you hit rock bottom and feel horrible. It can be everyday things, like neighbours shouting at each other or your boss treating you poorly. Not one thing is terrible, but together they make you burn out.
IF you tip the balance and expose yourself to more uplifts, like finding a safe place to live, building healthy relationships, or having a job you don't hate, then before you know it, you're on top of the world.
The beauty is that you can create uplifts for others through simple gestures, like saying GM, and in fact saying GM is a two way uplift.
I find traditional social media is full of downlifts, whereas Nostr is full of uplifts.

2025-06-12 01:38:44

This note was signed from my phone, yet my nsec is safe and sound at home 🤗 (as it should be)
#nevent1q…kezm

2025-06-12 01:08:48

The Nsec Remote Signer by @nprofile…guym is absolutely outstanding. A game changer. Keep those nsecs safe without sacrificing convenience 💜
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16T_Psc8Qn4

2025-06-11 10:44:35

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I'd say it's just a thing you can use with lnurl. Lnurl is very broad, which also gives it the scope to be 402.

2025-06-10 11:19:26

Set up a brick-mortar shop not long ago to inform LNbits development, we have a load of irl merchants using it, and it's important I also use as a merchant. Gonzo development.
It’s fascinating doing irl sales, converting people to customers. The smallest tweak can turn a passerby into a customer, from the position of the shop door to the shirt I wear. Has reframed doing online sales for me.

2025-06-08 12:14:59

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Senior. How about now nostr.com ?

2025-06-02 16:20:54

Bitcoin price about to go bonkers. The impression lag effect (lots of bitcoin talk in the zietgiest and humans catching up) + basic supply and demand. These Strategy type entities are hoovering up bitcoin, and exchange reserves are at an all time low.
https://image.nostr.build/3664e28d4eda8fa71f4acd6f39186c3dee0f33f8b28c6a540dfded51e2b38303.jpg

2025-06-02 14:24:04

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Idk. He is a doofus, but a bunch of companies getting bits on their balance sheet, and Tesla was first corp selling cars for bits

2025-06-01 19:39:38

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Any input on making less confusing is very welcome, we are but a small under resourced team.
It is bonkers how such an importnat site everyone lands on first, has only had me doing a focus group with my father in law, on the side from my other projects.
It's about making it useful, sustainable, newb friendly, not evil and capturing newbs (so couldn't just be a client, which it originally was).
More resources are needed to make that site everything it should be, hence why it's now added to LNbits Inc raise, and has started to have some products on. One day.

2025-06-01 19:26:14

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It's true tho right? Take a technical thing and add a cute creature. Boom, no longer scary.
A capybara also makes sense, the creature all the other creatures like, nonthreatening apolitical capybaras.
https://image.nostr.build/b16dc6f05822d5f0b2b3b6187934dbfabfa5394f57decc0d640b6883cfd74ea3.gif

2025-06-01 19:09:17

Soooo public/private key, likely schnorr?
The power move would be a nostr integration (seeing writing on the wall).
https://image.nostr.build/8bcc2ac11760069ab12443ea19a4c6fb39e9a26d61af755a613f9665b8f7aa53.jpg

2025-06-01 19:00:40

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I tried to make nostr look less intimidating for newbs, as that's most of the traffic, people googling nostr - hence the capybara. Took a leaf from Golang, put a cute creature in there to make it look less technical.
We also can not of course make it too commercial.

2025-06-01 18:55:35

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Brutal 😂
I spent a week on that.
The idea was to make it easy enough for my father-in-law to use.
What is it you hate the most, feedback is always welcome 🙏

2025-05-26 07:26:04

GM Monday 🎉
https://youtu.be/aTafZRecy2k

2025-05-26 06:44:39

Having the LNbits bot DM notifications is really useful, but it also spams my notification feed.
Could notifications be npub batched or something @nprofile…pyug, so I'd see the bot at the top of the list with a little number next to it? I understand if my usecase is too fringe 🙏
https://image.nostr.build/240ca59111275d513755796d992d8392220e35f7e8d87a5ca807d6133da2c6a1.jpg

2025-05-24 17:39:42

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£30, easily enough for 2, was piles of North Sea goodies. Amazing. There was another for £50 that fed 4, with lobsters, resisted. The muscles were £5 I think 👌

2025-05-24 14:32:33

Yesteryear was full of what we now call "mindfullness". Even taking a dump was just a time to think, no doom scrolling phones.

2025-05-24 12:20:42

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👌
https://image.nostr.build/44429cf756831d7466c84cb388ab94ea544270f2a850c648eb1c7a48c9550ae9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3ae9377bcbf06b6028ae0e0b9a8e9688d71730387608fb057204934a061662d2.jpg

2025-05-24 12:10:56

The "Local Shellfish" food stand in Oban pier on West Coast Scotland is the best sea food. Just a meters from boat to plate.
https://image.nostr.build/3cd8806a9474576ccaf0ef8e41ccc96c1bcfbaeeddbc7d20019906c2a5137742.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7688bb521c0f21dc103e617c36aa68740adb5dda17f8d708a88e7a198bb65d7a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/22373e2afb168139a77fbd3f64d9643ab4643a111eeacaae231a049e1be4f904.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3cd8806a9474576ccaf0ef8e41ccc96c1bcfbaeeddbc7d20019906c2a5137742.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7688bb521c0f21dc103e617c36aa68740adb5dda17f8d708a88e7a198bb65d7a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/22373e2afb168139a77fbd3f64d9643ab4643a111eeacaae231a049e1be4f904.jpg
#nevent1q…8fu0

2025-05-23 17:17:38

Have fun in Vegas you lot, Instead i'm off to Isle of Mull, Scotland for a wee break.
A week of lobsters, whiskey and walks 👌
https://youtu.be/3DB-uJ0TxKQ

2025-05-23 16:47:33

Anyone fixed nostr reputation yet?
I liked Vlads idea of an open timestamps type paid "weighted" reputation.
Also a dvm AI checking posts to see if someone looks like a legit human.
Missing piece for lots of nostr goodies 🔥

2025-05-23 16:34:53

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Whatever fits best.
I use lnbits to connect to my alby, also works well 💜

2025-05-23 16:25:35

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In our bitcoinised future.
While we are at it, you could elect what department of gov those sats land from your wallet (10% military, 40% education etc), then every transaction becomes act of direct democracy.
We can but dream..

2025-05-23 16:23:03

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Does it? That's fiat thinking.
With mocropayments this can be done at point of sale.

2025-05-23 16:19:52

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LNbits has the nwcprovider extension, works great. Doing a video later on how to run.

2025-05-23 16:15:34

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A fav game me and my 8 year old daughter play is fighting to the Mortal Kombat theme.
You start by shadow boxing in the intro, then when the dude shouts "Mortal Kombat" you run in and start fighting (she always wins).
https://youtu.be/EAwWPadFsOA

2025-05-22 12:58:34

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New nsec, new life

2025-05-22 12:53:33

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Beautiful chaos.
https://image.nostr.build/a58e0cbde61553fa86d5fcec5ee0979dbb3b46ed5cbb2ef46b772835b5998ffa.jpg

2025-05-22 12:51:25

A true marital commitment would be exchanging nsecs.
"with this nsec I thee wed..."

2025-05-22 12:47:44

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If you reach "fiat escape velocity", and are able to keep outgoings down to maintain, it's fine to sell a little, otherwise your hodl gut feeling should be listened to.
Of course advice I completely ignored, a lifetime if regret awaits 😔

2025-05-22 12:42:58

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🤣

2025-05-21 02:07:44

I just met a bloke called William Hill. What are the odds?

2025-05-21 02:00:28

I just got a magic tractor. It turns into a field.

2025-05-21 01:55:36

I just went on one of those once-in-a-lifetime holidays.
Was shit - not doing that again.

2025-05-21 01:16:43

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Because I'm a twat. Damn

2025-05-21 01:16:07

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Oh to be single digital nomad types just living on some beach, and never having to sell.

2025-05-21 01:13:42

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That's true, it's far worse when you yolo into a deal on a pump, then by the time you have to sell it's on a dump.
Selling bits is just sad☠️

2025-05-21 01:07:32

When you're locked into buying house and have to sell in a price pump 🙁

2025-05-21 01:00:06

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But that's not the point of op
Taxes are very interesting.
This is good, by our quirky bitcoin pal: https://image.nostr.build/8f1d8f8649660bf4d1befac8552f79ae4f9f68c5a689d395392d65e4c38e53a0.jpg

2025-05-21 00:57:13

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It does make tax collection harder, which historically leads to fairer taxes.
Value added tax is the least shit I think, and easiest to collect if everyone was using bitcoin.

2025-05-19 12:10:18

Or 1btc #600bn
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-historic-600-billion-investment-commitment-in-saudi-arabia/

2025-05-14 13:04:13

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Build it! Take the lnurlpay it creates and use for the popcorns lnaddress 🔥
https://github.com/lnbits/bitcoinswitch

2025-05-05 06:15:40

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OR makes better stuff US. Cars that actually fit on normal roads, meat without the roids, films that don't have Nicholas Cage in.

2025-05-02 09:01:43

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Americans and their confs 🙄
Some btcconf tickets go for $25k, madness.

2025-05-02 08:49:32

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Isnt it in Austin, I think they're just calling it an Oxford debate

2025-05-02 08:31:34

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So these stamp things my meetup buddies get all excited about will stop working at some point (unless counterparty is maintained), bougey castle built on sand?

2025-04-28 11:36:22

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That's the fallback scheme, used to be core flow of lnurl and first thing on protocol repo, most wallets supporting lnurl support it.

2025-04-28 11:25:24

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Chinese Yuan. Keynes wasn't all bad, burned out and died pushing apolitical world reserve post Bretton Woods in fact.

2025-04-28 10:43:38

The battle for next world reserve currency is ramping up with weakening dollar/de-dollarization. Brics, yuan, will start making play.
If you think the US over-reached during era of greenback, the Brits were far worse with pound.
Keynes was right, for lasting peace what come next must be apolitical. Bitcoin really is the only option that makes sense, and likely successor when you play out incentives: brics nations are too competitive to collude, redbacks will just have too much resistance to be international. Bitcoin as contender for world reserve currency will soon start being a more prominent narrative.
https://image.nostr.build/bf16ec851b20816cd346cc427c921492b3864cbffd40fe3bf519a6ce602c9de0.jpg

2025-04-22 14:49:22

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For some reason it reminded me of this guy. You are our most family friendly bitcoin educator 🤗
Much needed with all the crazy eyed bitcoin evangelist types out there.
https://image.nostr.build/1de4210ec1f6eaf9d67d3a6aa1ed8e037b63e92915b3ec18e10932405d3f7668.jpg

2025-04-22 13:15:14

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It really is like a Greek tragedy (the Ttump octupos with multiple chainsaws giving most some reason not to support, unable to back down from conflict, the late night disruptive posting). We know the flaws of the character will be his undoing and yet all we can do is watch anxiously. Unless he changes who he is, which he can't do.
I can't really see a way out for him, he's locked into his fate.

2025-04-22 12:53:52

Gave nostr.com lick of paint over weekend (overdue). Went for as simple as possible.
Added a capybara, as a Golang play, to make something technical look less scary by adding a cute creature.
Afterall, Nostr is for everyone including capybaras. Made a simple animation of the capybara sending the ostrich a note further down page.
https://image.nostr.build/9d2c3b363b5e7f4d064ac3dfbd027497e954deceb7386e95f00583d098525c1d.jpg

2025-04-22 12:13:29

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Markets will pump hard just after exodus, if that's your thing.

2025-04-22 12:02:32

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Jerome Powell stuff could be a catalyst, wall street bros like him, and it gives them an excuse outside of campaign policies that they backed.

2025-04-22 11:58:41

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He'll be pretty fooked I think

2025-04-22 11:56:02

When Caesar derailed, each took a stab to avoid blame. Same about to happen to Trump, but with his powerful supporters. A coordinated wave of them about to jump ship, enough so he can't use executive branch to retaliate. No one will want to be complicit with markets tanking.

2025-04-21 18:29:56

Wow, @nprofile…gsy4 is amazing! 😍

2025-04-18 08:10:12

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She really is awful

2025-04-18 08:09:34

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Perfect 👌
For context:
https://image.nostr.build/68fea406ca184fe0ce7cdbc5b5c9a08b1ca10fa29e7741978623c0f0e30cfbd9.jpg

2025-04-18 07:52:14

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Why wouldn't you dump bonds, Trump is destroying US economy. Prob calculated attack, but also very justified as just dumping an investment gone bad.

2025-04-17 10:58:09

LNbits v1 has a VERY powerful new User Area API/token system for stack developers (replacing the Usermanager extension) 🛠️🚀
Checkout the overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDwNgHz8v7M

2025-04-17 05:36:54

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Looking forward to it 🙏
I'm actually waiting until we add LNcalendar into nostr.com. We have the branch pretty much ready, just need to do a little tweaking of ui.

2025-04-16 22:20:18

Doing paid support/consultancy for sats? Checkout the LNCalendar extension in LNbits 🚀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8VXjp83sdc

2025-04-13 16:06:55

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That's kinda where lnbits came from, the Sinclair Faucet, which I guess was first ever lightning faucet.
https://image.nostr.build/59b08bfc682a9e6795db4fef27c51adf39563fca0982558e272c8d0229928484.jpg

2025-04-10 11:23:40

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The actual moment of release ❤️❤️❤️
https://video.nostr.build/543043b7f6ae4c4b7c2d34b5d2b607cb3ad81008b4506f5b33ef927b48ad38f1.mp4

2025-04-10 10:59:18

Annnnd LNbits v1 is released!
🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
The worlds most powerful suite of #bitcoin tools.
Thank you to all our contributors, users, and community members.
After five years of blood, sweat, and tears, we’ve built a beautiful piece of software.
https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/v1.0.0

2025-04-06 11:07:59

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Interested why you think nostr is a scam, do you also think it has a shitcoin or something? I was amazed to find a few people recently who also assumed that.

2025-04-05 22:30:46

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In lnbits we have the boltz extension, which you can set to loop out every x sats. Limits risk, keeps channels healthy 🤌

2025-04-05 22:29:00

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Perceived exceptionalism. Same with Brits when we had an empire.

2025-04-05 22:21:06

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Was a great time for builders, without the gains crowd, kinda miss those days.

2025-04-05 22:17:55

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I'd say go cloud for any professional service, unless your devops is very tight. For the brewery usecase you're likely operating clearnet.

2025-04-05 22:09:31

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Good man. Is there a nixnostr list of flakes somewhere, like nixbitcoin?

2025-03-28 14:08:54

My mate Philip had his lip removed last week,
now we just call him Phil

2025-03-28 14:03:34

Its importnat people take ownership of their LNbits and theme it however the wish.
We have made themeing in the upcoming v1 release easier than ever 🎨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD7cMX1FTbs

2025-03-28 12:42:58

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Your hand holding them towards being self-sovereign (as that requires work), you can certainly make money consulting them towards that, and that's the preferred outcome. Although many merchants are busy and are happy to outsource.

2025-03-28 12:27:07

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You can of course onboard as fully self-sovereign, but most prefer dipping their toes then moving towards no ttp

2025-03-28 12:25:50

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It's a journey, get the hooked on sats, then they make the effort to run their own shit.

2025-03-28 12:04:39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6qZ2heAYs
Monitise your LNbits in minutes and start stacking sats from customers within the same hour! 🚀

2025-03-20 22:55:05

Have you tried that new coconut shampoo?
It leaves your coconuts looking fabulous

2025-03-18 12:28:03

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It seems he thinks nostr is a shitcoin project:
https://image.nostr.build/4ac643caacf35c8ad8c66c05ad8d325de440d0191e1743d0d03228eac1ef2d7a.jpg

2025-03-18 07:43:49

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It's that slow inoculation toward freedom, like adoption of foss in general, where you occasionally give it a nudge to see if it's dead.

2025-03-18 07:14:14

Dan "IM AN OG" Held, clickbait nostr fud
And a perfect response comparing bitcoin use 👌 (by an actual og)
Building freedom technology takes time.
https://image.nostr.build/32a2c6e02f5940240f30a7b212be06c887fac99ad0453b6c6191e4bf938ae0c0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bfbb56f187d40c9fbb66bdad07019b6b5e980c2f0553dd2ad882bbb63c65081a.jpg

2025-03-17 23:21:49

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I mean, did you actually tho?

2025-03-17 22:42:41

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Blossom?!?!
... yeah me neither

2025-03-17 22:41:32

The Americans are an odd bunch.

2025-03-17 22:08:28

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Hahahaha

2025-03-17 22:06:56

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Aren't these those little books you used to get in the shitter or holiday home bedside table in the 90s?

2025-03-17 22:03:14

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Some say he's a bond villan 🤷🏼
I cant keep up

2025-03-17 21:57:46

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https://image.nostr.build/fafec6a82436c9c759e06174927a8b24639500afcb8637ecc96cc4b63342a77d.gif

2025-03-17 21:55:00

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You got my hopes up. I thought I could zap and shoot the plasma canon.
(im going to make this tomorrow)

2025-03-17 21:52:13

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The windows pipe screensaver?!?!
That's like saying you don't remember this cheeky chap
https://image.nostr.build/549a25402252485afefed816bafe64bd6f15338fd55ed080be2c45374bd9cb02.gif

2025-03-16 11:07:25

Why nostr is one of humanity's most critical projects. Let us proceed together apace
#nevent1q…csun

2025-03-16 10:55:39

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Everyone is excited the trojan has been deployed... aren't they 🙄?

2025-03-13 09:41:34

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Could be mutually beneficial for both. I'm sure it's on the table.

2025-03-13 00:19:27

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Yes. It's why the best play for US is to adopt as the official USD digital currency, rather than trying to build some cbdc nonsense.

2025-03-13 00:16:44

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Interesting.
Ive started to think where I live in the UK (where most peoples wealth is in their house) the amount of houses constructed is carefully managed to ensure prices don't go down. Any "housing crisis" could easily be fixed (build more houses), but the supply/demand economic incentives are out of whack. It's a covert lever of the economy.

2025-03-12 22:53:16

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A list of strawmans. Not untrue, but doesn't excuse the OP of for-profit incentives to snoop on users, harvest data, coerce users into buying crap and capturing user attention even if it's detrimental to the user.

2025-03-12 20:05:11

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No. Surveillance Capitalism, believe it or not pursuit of profit isn't always aligned for what's best for humanity.

2025-03-12 17:12:27

Bypassing surveillance capitalism is critical for humanity.
#nevent1q…en45

2025-03-11 02:07:25

Being DMd updates by my LNbits server is game changing. V1 LNbits can DM me for restarts, balance changes, when admin settings are accessed and much more.
Also works with a tg bot and email. DM a single user or team managing a busy server 🔥. It's just so useful.
https://image.nostr.build/700a9f413a3dc1a3e2060e55644524c465724f9c6a065b675a281c20a84ee7cd.jpg