nick
Nick Slaney

c= lead

Public Key

npub18psflzah8gjq54t4zyjhezghzg9pvpjhm894f4yex9wpl79t3uxq03v73m

NIP-05 Address

nick@www.tbd.website

NIP-57 Address

nick@ln.nickslaney.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsrscyl3wmn5fq22463zftu3yt3yzskqetanj656jvnzhqllz4c7rqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46qd3yxku

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relay.nostr.band

relay.primal.net

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub18psflzah8gjq54t4zyjhezghzg9pvpjhm894f4yex9wpl79t3uxq03v73m

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Last Notes

2025-04-18 14:27:45

What happened to Nostr Wallet Auth?
Why do I see the worst open source dev hell when I try to find out if this is a nip now?
This was the best way to connect with nwc by far, and it looks like the spec was nitpicked to death for no reason

2025-02-18 22:03:35

What bugs me about the van eck guy
He just wants to know what’s going to happen to satoshis bitcoin?
Uncover satoshi so we can shore up the prospectus?
Unhinged

2025-02-18 17:05:46

> Spend hours telling an AI what to do
> Talk to my two year old
It’s all just carefully asking for the right thing

2025-02-18 16:25:46

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Skinner boxes all the way down

2025-02-18 15:48:50

I don’t spend a lot of time in the libertarian meme of picking your exact genre but I’m pretty sure at this point I’m not an ancap.
Don’t get me wrong I have friends who are, and I love everything about the ideology, but it’s hard for me to get behind the real end goal, which appears to me to be burning it all down and replacing it with ~not much~
I rarely pick the “mid” option but I think I’m much more of a minarchist. Or rather I’d love to see ancap work, but I’m not going to let that prevent me from trying to influence our institutions today.
What I see right now is a huge push of the Overton window towards liberty. Doge could very well be the minarchist dream and it seems to be driven by the same sort of thought.
To have many libertarians say “that’s not good enough” and “I’m not aligned with any politician,” …while I understand the sentiment, I think it’s a bit of a shame.
The bitcoin community could stand to get a lot out of the current US administration. I’ve seen x posts about going back to the gold standard, negativity around debanking. Questioning regulatory overreach.
I’m going to do my damndest to try to push these conversations, and at this point I have no shame in working within the current political system.
I half think ancap is a psyop to get libertarians locked in a “I’m more anti state thou” loop instead of actually doing something. It’s performative, and to let it get in the way of changing something at such a prime time would be a mistake.

2025-02-08 19:39:40

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Yeah it’s more real than I thought

2025-02-08 16:38:54

Damn vibe coding is real

2025-02-06 14:29:21

Writing calls on etf btc for every month we don’t get sbr— not a bad strategy

2025-01-30 14:19:56

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Makes sense. Matt is right that phoenix handles offline payments pretty well even pre-async payments.

2025-01-30 14:16:01

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Based

2025-01-30 14:13:52

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I don’t want to be dragged into any of Roger Ver’s BS, why are you so involved and going around calling me dishonest and a liar? I literally just screenshotted what someone said and said it was silly, and it is.

2025-01-29 21:02:15

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I’m not on a custodial zapper.

2025-01-29 19:49:18

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I’ll update, Fiatjaf told me that yesterday

2025-01-29 19:30:33

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It would be a shame, nostr is built on owning your voice, your identity, shipping the money part off to shadow custodians so quickly doesn’t feel right

2025-01-29 19:19:49

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Async receive takes that need away. The payment goes through from the pov of the sender and is held trustlessly at their lsp / wallet provider. When the receiver is available, they sign and receive it. No need to be online at the same time

2025-01-29 19:18:09

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#note1m67…nmdj

2025-01-29 18:58:17

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Just out here posting :)
Okay okay I’ll build I’ll build!

2025-01-29 18:56:43

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Have to deal with async receive yes
👀
https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning/pull/3440

2025-01-29 18:40:13

Hosted channels were originally thought of as being custodial all the time, which probably explains why proponents of them went on to build ecash (and why they weren’t taken up much by self-custody wallets)
But I think hosted channels do have a place among LSP assisted self-custody wallets, because simply, you can’t self custody 20 sats of bitcoin.
The biggest benefit of hosted channels is to provide a lightning native experience that upgrades easily to self-custody. An LSP just needs to not broadcast the on-chain txn
The wallet client operates as normal. When you have a big enough balance, you can upgrade.
Hosted just for the period of time you need it. It’s a real path from zap onboarding to full bitcoin ownership.
Products for real people need to pick and choose from what we have for the best experience. More on that here
https://sats.build/self-custody-lightning-2025/

2025-01-29 18:35:29

I miss the old @npub12rv…85vg
Though easy to see how this morphed into cashu https://image.nostr.build/5179cb9833377041c87535220f958015ef3fe3944cf349a72e1aacf0f54eefdf.jpg

2025-01-29 18:28:38

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We can change that Calle :)

2025-01-29 18:08:55

Trust is a spectrum 🚩
You own it or someone owns you.

2025-01-29 18:08:03

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(You were using a custodial wallet the entire time)

2025-01-29 16:40:39

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Let’s lock in on why you don’t lock in

2025-01-29 15:42:31

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Can’t get the ammo for dirt cheap anymore

2025-01-29 15:39:02

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https://youtu.be/p0dfxvMd-lw

2025-01-29 15:00:16

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This is referring to Greg Maxwell

2025-01-29 14:33:20

Oh olas is very cool

2025-01-29 14:25:01

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Core is not the whole ecosystem, because real people will rarely use core directly.
There will always be things in bitcoin to fix, and they are being fixed, but overly focusing on the engine when there isn’t a car is how you start focusing on theoretical problems instead of real ones.

2025-01-29 14:06:10

“We need more bitcoin core development to make Bitcoin work / popular.”
It’s like saying we need to change HTTP to make the web popular. HTTP did not make the web, websites did.

2025-01-29 14:02:33

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Big word big smart

2025-01-29 13:40:12

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Sucks to see, also it always seems to end up at some sort of conspiratorial conclusion. I’m most impressed by the people who work around the constraints.

2025-01-29 13:36:30

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Wow how does this always happen https://image.nostr.build/e128b37c50104c8a9d8f1af92979e2e372be4ed68469bfc6dda900f39737be60.jpg

2025-01-29 13:22:22

This guy just spews poison now https://image.nostr.build/d5bec2565efb574a7671992f0dd995c1686b534e5474d3ff0c2989209bc616d0.jpg #note1mcz…0fre

2025-01-28 14:38:24

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“Lightning is good only for custodial services”
It’s easy with custodial services, but lighting was designed for non-custodial.
“Fiatjaf and Paul would like to onboard people in a non-custodial way”
Fiatjaf just said people should use custodial cashu 🤷🏻‍♂️. I think he wants that but has taken doomer / motivated reasoning ideas from Paul too seriously.
“Spark”
Spark is statechains with extra steps. Federations are not worth much unless you’re a member, but then you’re faced with higher interactivity requirements than lightning. In the end, it’s back to custodial trust that can be bent against you.

2025-01-28 14:19:42

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Thanks, I was looking into this. I think you all were ahead of the times.

2025-01-28 14:18:26

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The best bit with this is we can use existing tech and upgrade seamlessly. You can just run an lsp that supports hosted channels, the wallet does not need to know much more.

2025-01-28 14:17:21

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Eh, we can seamlessly upgrade to self-custody from a hosted channel by broadcasting an on-chain txn and use a lot of existing tooling to get there.

2025-01-28 14:15:54

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Paul’s Math™️ around Bitcoin not scaling, that he says justifies drivechains. He is the OG “attack lightning tech so people see that my idea is the best” guy
Lightning and Bitcoin are not perfect, but we are no where close to hitting their limits. If anyone presents any bitcoin app that 500 million people onboard to this year I’d be amazed, yet this is not good enough for someone who wants drivechains, and is a reason to throw it in the trash. Afaiu, this “math” is what caused Fiatjaf to ragequit lightning, despite being an early, very promising contributor.
https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/lightning-limitations/

2025-01-28 14:00:34

It’s too bad Fiatjaf took Paul Szortc so seriously. At least we have nostr now.

2025-01-28 13:59:25

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https://sats.build/self-custody-lightning-2025/

2025-01-28 13:59:03

Gm @npub180c…h6w6 (and @npub1rvg…xrck )
Thanks for making hosted channels a thing (actually thanks for this whole suite of tools and ideas). I think these make a comeback https://image.nostr.build/89b4cd14318f77fd372d4abcd9a24189b92d279f597dc8269ab96504ca604828.jpg

2025-01-25 19:34:27

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It turns out the future is nonlinear
#note130w…92lq

2025-01-25 18:57:00

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https://image.nostr.build/5c2fa516515df88b59b86364a0324ea17a0e08c6f0f32d485375fb45af9dc536.jpg

2025-01-25 18:32:53

I gave up on the internet a long time ago. The Math is Simple, there won’t be enough IPs for everyone unless we make some Big Changes

2025-01-24 15:47:47

People were asking, and I don’t want to hide it. I’m no longer with Block.
I am eternally grateful for the opportunity @npub1sg6…f63m and others gave me. Thank you.
Basically all I will say on it for now– we built an amazing team, we did all we can. I can say with 100% certainty Block and Jack are doing all they can for Bitcoin. This was the first job where I left it all out on the field to the very end.
To any engineers or otherwise out there, if you have an idea that you are truly passionate about, speak up. You either are at a great place that will elevate you, or you're not, and you deserve better anyway.
It was a leap of faith, but I was lucky to have the former for a long time. I met some great people and got to do soul aligned work I truly believed in. Anyway, good things don't always last.

2025-01-23 17:40:15

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BITS MENTIONED

2025-01-22 14:42:27

Zoom out
https://sats.build/self-custody-lightning-2025/ https://image.nostr.build/58f5fc6f6e61266ec3a520a4bc3ce94e4ad1557b14c25c26d366f42b108522be.jpg

2025-01-21 23:49:01

Full pardon wow https://image.nostr.build/6f15a3f494e00f8ad955da6c9774a4cf1da2421e32c1096e98bfee7c24ff5c2f.jpg

2025-01-21 23:12:55

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Help https://image.nostr.build/cee690301039cb785de20d95b6c5cd0040beacc7e2567f4034a8b904837bed4a.jpg

2025-01-21 21:06:44

“Campaign donations” are insane because they appear to be one of the most legitimately dangerous things with the potential to gigafry your stack but are exclusively done by literal 100+ coiners who unironically want to “start a btc space race” and basically get oneshotted by them

2025-01-21 20:55:25

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I can fix him

2025-01-21 15:12:43

What’s going on with bitcoin and lightning in 2025? When did shadow custodian become self-custody? I know 2024 was rough but it’s a new year and it’s time for self-custody to make a comeback.
Some thoughts below on how to make that happen, and a tweet thread for those of you who can’t read.
https://sats.build/self-custody-lightning-2025/
What spawned this? 2024 was a rough year for Bitcoin. We literally lost a year.
Regulatory was one thing, but tech was a whole other story. Lightning developer brethren, when did we give up and accept shadow custody over self-custody? smh
Ecash and liquid are custodians with extra steps. S/o to @npub12rv…85vg for being the most intellectually honest out of all the ecashers.
Instead of retreating to custodial solutions, double down with me and try a little harder. I can’t defend ecash or federation mumbojumbo. I can absolutely stand behind an LSP.
The details are in the post, but the gist is this– we don’t need 100% off-chain yet. NFTs lost (again). We have not pushed the Bitcoin blockchain to the point of needing to scale (yet, but if we make a compelling Bitcoin payments application, maybe we’ll actually have a reason to). We don’t need op_codes we need thoughtful design.
I’m thinking of building this, but in the spirit of Bitcoin, Satoshi’s vision etc. I want you to think of building this too. Maybe we can do it together?

2025-01-21 14:19:29

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Google has been calling me 2-3x a week to tell me about unauthorized access to my account 😑

2025-01-20 20:57:45

Sometimes I think maybe a magazine shouldn’t be the tip of the spear of our industry

2025-01-13 16:56:43

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THE CURVE OF CHAOS?

2025-01-13 16:54:26

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Room temp iq bros 😂

2025-01-10 17:53:56

This time right now is a once in a lifetime moment.
What other movement makes all of your like minded, high agency, convicted peers financially independent? I’m not a moon boi but this is relentlessly powerful.
It’s the self selecting long play of the century.

2025-01-09 22:53:26

I was sad to see Nick Szabo sign off in 2021. It’s good to see him back in the fray somewhere.
Don’t take the old heads for granted. Many have come and gone 🫡

2024-12-22 16:44:11

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How many people use chargebacks, dispute settlement? Most I hear is people who use those mechanisms for fraud. IE. buy something, chargeback and say you didn’t get it, repeat.

2024-12-19 14:44:28

Pushing stablecoins as a way to increase dollar hegemony is strictly worse than the SBR.

2024-12-19 14:38:20

El Salvador did always have a bit of an asterisk where businesses were forced to accept bitcoin, never really felt right.

2024-12-18 23:06:14

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Soon™️

2024-12-18 23:05:09

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🔥

2024-12-18 21:16:05

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Cool to see you digging into this

2024-12-17 23:04:57

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Appreciate your viewpoint, have also been a little uneasy about bitcoin reserve.
I think you might agree that more reasonable (in line with previous guidance) money transmission definitions would be the most helpful for bitcoin usage.
Should the gov not buy bitcoin though?

2024-12-17 12:47:57

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Save for gt3

2024-12-17 12:46:50

Imagine 2025 the year of ripple, xrp the standard. Who stops this?
https://x.com/_crypto_barbie/status/1868683551774007668

2024-12-16 16:25:24

https://image.nostr.build/66f81d6f3af7640039c7d88631e0b66b57d27d5ae68d0a7356474ff6a1e3d006.jpg

2024-12-13 01:43:54

Timeless, true heritage. https://image.nostr.build/a310a9c479f4f6ad17ae5492435a55d78cfe9f1613ea3c78a57bd487e037bac0.jpg

2024-12-12 13:58:26

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And in the darkness bind them
😳

2024-12-12 04:41:32

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> X dot com the everything app

2024-12-11 13:31:28

Balkanize then bridge https://image.nostr.build/d83f50a47f8f1f122ccfc7546a9bb01b6051413d4812de576c0bfbdd6c0b344c.jpg

2024-12-11 13:29:20

@npub1q3s…d26p always bringing the gang back together https://image.nostr.build/195f686fcc2e2e1b2e396d6cc44e810195c30adf8745b64438010d2a9e62d5d9.jpg

2024-12-09 16:23:27

Protocols, protocols, protocols
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/08/apples-iphone-security-suddenly-under-attack-all-users-now-at-risk/

2024-12-08 21:08:45

Had to go sort of deep in the Amazon seller list to find this but they didn’t say it had this https://image.nostr.build/7c7d6e69ca13443c9277a3c6329c837bf9e2c930efc1765a14c670c659bfc6b3.jpg

2024-12-08 16:22:55

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Dvorak

2024-12-07 14:00:37

Idk how many more times I can allow myself to be shown Elon shooting his shot on x the everything app

2024-12-06 11:12:04

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Nice, hope you’re getting your electrolytes in

2024-12-06 00:13:18

https://youtu.be/lWpRJK_z08I

2024-12-05 17:27:40

🫣 https://www.nostrzap.com/npub18psflzah8gjq54t4zyjhezghzg9pvpjhm894f4yex9wpl79t3uxq03v73m

2024-12-05 16:23:05

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Thank you

2024-12-05 16:18:43

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Do it

2024-12-05 15:02:03

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Also needs to be self-custodial

2024-12-05 15:01:35

I need to zap again. How are people zapping in 2024 post apple zap take down?

2024-12-05 02:55:37

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Long live Bitstein

2024-12-05 02:47:59

100k!
Back to work

2024-12-04 13:53:09

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💪💪

2024-12-03 14:12:51

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Looks like social sciences to me. I think he’s just trying to fit in 😁

2024-12-03 14:06:39

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Did you know he has a PhD? https://image.nostr.build/e3aae1552e8190c1ffdb1d46d2936aaca147d0199e1d00e411ae63863742aefa.jpg

2024-12-03 14:05:12

@npub12rv…85vg cultivating his anti Calle bluesky persona https://image.nostr.build/57f63cf0880d416de4f4522794be37acdd9fb95801598c02a62e63fbf17d2602.jpg

2024-12-02 23:19:45

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IOW, to make a protocol play, you don’t have to actually make the protocol. Probably even preferred if what’s out there is being used and meets your requirements

2024-12-02 23:18:41

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Heh you took the hard route!
Not aimed at you but from what I’ve seen, what’s as hard as having the balls to try a different path than building a platform is resisting the urge to build an n+1 protocol (and essentially reverting to making a platform anyway)

2024-12-02 18:23:54

Platform Benefits
- $
- ego
- as big as you can build
Protocol Benefits
- access
- $ for real value
- use cases you could’ve never imagined
- that you benefit from
- less all or nothing and picking from two bad options. More options, more benefit for more customers

2024-12-02 18:16:09

How does a protocol play differ from a platform play?
Platform Play
- we own the ecosystem
- you connect through our own APIs
- you play in our sandbox
- we decide who gets to play (fragile)
- if we go down, you go down
Protocol Play
- we play a part in a larger ecosystem
- you use open source code for your use case
- you can use our services, or anyone else’s (but ours are the best)
- we decide who uses our services (no one decides who uses the protocol)
- the ecosystem’s growth is not limited by us
Protocol plays are the future, they’re not controlled or limited by any one entity, they are bigger than the sum of their parts
Platforms are monopolies, will likely be treated as such in the future. Platforms don’t have the growth / access potential that protocols do. Since platforms are monopolies, they become captured and corrupted over time

2024-12-02 17:41:49

Protocols, not platforms

2024-12-01 12:29:03

Apple trees you order now are holes you have to dig come April

2024-11-28 02:01:36

This is good https://image.nostr.build/18cadee3044fd5f8ae658e3fa42ee2a58354e7de688c4a36b0c66d3beb949451.jpg

2024-11-23 20:40:05

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👁️👁️

2024-11-23 13:07:06

The Case for Bits
One thing that can make us certain Satoshi was an American was his based disregard for the conventions of the SI unit system. Unit bias is a powerful thing, so what if on the eve of 100 million Satoshis becoming worth $100k USD dollars we chose a different path? What if we changed to something that could fit within the worldview of the European Union?
Bits the Standard
Ever since the inception of the itsy bitsy spider we’ve known bits has had legs. Nothing conveys the seriousness and depth of Bitcoin more than telling someone they can own “a bit of Bitcoin.” So what is a bit?
1 bit = 100 satoshis = 0.000001 BTC
10^-6 BTC. Simple, powerful, microbitcoins. Shouldn’t Bitcoin be as relatable as the Planck constant?
Consider this:
- In a 100k world, 1 bit would be 10 cents. Bit 10 cent parity is here now
- if we switch to bits, we could rename bitcoins to Megabits
- in lightning, we can replace msats with mbits
Bits the Movement
The conversation for bits has been going on for a long time now. While some would say satoshis won, we’re still early, and support for bits is growing. Here’s some good ways to advance the bits cause
- follow @npub1ate…mf3z
- introduce yourself as “a bits guy” (or girl!) at your next bitcoin meetup
- ask your favorite wallet devs when they will support bits
- remind people of the importance of SI units
- recalculate any sat numbers with bits and explain the benefits
With your help we can make our bitsy dreams a reality. Let’s make bits happen!