omekau
Omekau

“Beauty will save the world.”
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2024-10-16 16:47:26

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Depends on the context. It’s like an atheistic way of saying it’s God’s will.

2024-10-16 15:04:35

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If your wife is already pregnant then that means you’re already a dad 😉 congratulations! God bless 🙏

2024-10-14 23:07:02

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And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” - Job 1:21

2024-10-04 17:24:28

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Stoicism is ok (to a point) but Catholic is better 😉

2024-09-20 02:47:18

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Proverbs 9:10

2024-09-12 19:51:02

“Vox Populi, Vox Dei” is an illusion. We live in a monarchy. Christ is King. ✝️ #note10q9…jgtn

2024-08-21 19:27:24

Modernism is “the synthesis of all heresies” -Pope St. Pius X

2024-08-19 18:15:35

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God bless!!

2024-08-19 17:07:26

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As someone with plenty of liberal atheistic friends, I know my position on birth control and NFP would break their brains. Life as a 21st century Catholic, hah

2024-08-12 01:42:15

The biggest and most wicked conspiracy theory in history is the denial of the Incarnation.

2024-08-05 12:24:01

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If you’re looking for more practical aspects of the faith, I suggest exploring “Catholic Social Teaching” and diving into Rerum Novarum. Much of it is postliberal/integralist/distributist thought. New Polity fleshes this out as it is a wonderfully thought provoking channel and magazine that delves into a variety of more practical topics instead of staying only in the theological which is more abstract.

2024-08-05 12:17:23

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All glory to our Lord Jesus Christ. Have you been baptized? Also, beware the spiritual attack you’re going to undergo now. The devil hates this. I recommend the St. Michael prayer.
St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan,
and all the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

2024-07-30 21:53:54

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Orthodox could also be Bitcoin Cash 🤔

2024-07-30 19:33:39

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Thanks to Christ, we already are. Now it’s just up to us to cooperate with His grace 🙏

2024-07-01 04:16:32

While this platitude sounds nice, it’s paradoxically causing so much harm in modern society. Strive for virtue. Don’t be a slave to vice.
#note1w2w…3hck

2024-06-26 00:04:55

Last year I made the eager mistake of reading the Imitation of Christ straight through as if it were a novel. Much better to read a chapter a day while smoking a pipe.

2024-06-06 20:54:04

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Never heard of Olavo de Carvalho so I looked him up and here’s a quote from Wikipedia:
> As described by an obituary, Carvalho's political views were summed up in one of his tweets: "Capitalism is the godfather and protector of communism. The war is not between capitalism and communism, it is between CHRISTIANITY and communism."
He’s 100% right. Capitalism leads to Communism, we’re seeing it now in the US. Just based on this, I imagine he’s in line philosophically with Juan Donoso Cortes and Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira ✝️

2024-06-06 16:01:02

Stellar interview of President Bukele. I pray bitcoiners realize the problem isn’t simply fiat vs hard money. In Bukele’s own words, this is a spiritual warfare. This is about good versus evil. Bitcoin is a great first step but now that we can be outside the grips of money printing, we need to help course correct or even rebuild a virtuous society in whatever capacity we can. El Salvador is leading by example. May God protect Bukele and keep him in His favor.
https://youtu.be/U5n8R9lq8SI?si=5JFEJgmbX7flHIEK

2024-05-20 23:44:56

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This is why we bitcoin.

2024-05-20 15:04:23

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Apologies for the mischaracterization. That’s what I understood from your sentence “Live the life that works for you”.
And if my post came out as a word salad it’s simply that virtue is a habit we form. “Doing the right thing” will never “be easy” all the time but it gets easier and is even what you desire (which brings happiness) as you build that habit.

2024-05-20 14:49:59

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Ultimately, freedom is a harmony of reason and desire. While through reason you may know something is right, it can take time for your desire to be reordered towards the good so that you not only know the good but also have a willful disposition towards it.
Plus telling people “live and let live” is telling people how to live anyway 😉

2024-05-20 13:14:51

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Freedom is about being able to do what you ought, not about doing whatever you want. We have an obligation to first follow that ourselves, then help guide those we’re responsible for to do the same, and then be a witness for those around us.

2024-05-18 15:23:16

Being a saint isn’t hard. It’s impossible. We can only be one through God’s grace.

2024-05-17 15:50:00

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I limited my contributions to only what is matched a few years ago as well. But given where the money goes, I’m having a hard time justifying the returns when it doesn’t seem like I’m truly loving my neighbor through it.

2024-05-17 01:53:25

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Oh I see what you’re saying. When I say beauty I meant it as the spectrum of “how beautiful”. So for example an ugly apple would have very very little beauty because it is created and creation is good. Just like how an evil human being is still a human being that deserves dignity by the very nature of being a human despite being evil.

2024-05-17 00:58:27

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The opposite! A subject/object’s beauty is an inherent trait by the fact that it exists.
For example we can think of a “good” apple (goodness being convertible with beauty) that is round, symmetrical, and seems ready for consumption. Whereas a “bad” (ugly) apple would be one that is deformed, rotting, pestilent, etc.

2024-05-16 22:57:58

Has anyone here stopped contributing to their 401k out of moral obligation? My conscience is telling me to stop supporting the corporatocracy but it’s a difficult decision to make.

2024-05-16 22:52:58

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Beauty is inherent to a subject or object. There cannot be a disassociation between the material and its beauty just as color is an accident of a substance. Just because people may have different tastes regarding beauty, doesn’t mean there isn’t beauty or that there’s no space for reason in discerning beauty. Quite the contrary. We can know what is ugly, through our functioning faculties of reason, and correct someone that thinks it’s beautiful by concluding that their faculties of reason (I’m including intellect here) are impaired, sense perception is impaired, and/or they have a disordered will.

2024-05-16 20:10:29

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Theosis, deification 🙏

2024-05-16 13:29:01

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“[I]n reality, every person defines where their value comes from for themselves”
This is not reality. In reality, value and meaning are inherent to beings and actions. For example, every human being has value by the very nature of being human, not because people decide if their life is valuable. At that point there’s no argument against suicide which we all inherently know is bad (because meaning and value cannot be disassociated/overwritten). People can also be wrong about what they value.
This modern nihilism is very pernicious.

2024-05-15 16:15:21

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I would call it “Deuterocanonical” but either way, the sentiment is appreciated 😉

2024-05-09 02:38:53

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Totally agreed.
Wow excellently condensed form of presenting the differences of localism through a positivistic lens. Sometimes movements are defined by what they are not but I like that you described it in a way that it can be worked towards instead of haphazardly working away from something else.
Regarding your last point, how does momentum build to overturn or eliminate wide sweeping regulations, especially federal ones? It seems like for those there’s a ton of inertia/precedence already in place that making a push to eliminate bureaucracy can feel “revolutionary” or “forcing redistribution” which people are very much turned off of (and rightly so). In other words, how does localism really gain influence in the political sphere when it hinges on short term losses by not playing the game as the crony capitalists and corporatists want it and played?

2024-05-08 13:49:31

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Moments like these are the reminders of what life is all about. 🙏 Congratulations!

2024-05-08 13:46:01

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I’ve heard about the recent push for “Localism” as well which I think is certainly more appealing.
To make sure I understood then, you do think it’s a system to itself, separate from today’s definition of market capitalism? And when you say “freedom of trade” you don’t mean freedom in the sense that there’s no regulations, correct? More so that regulation is structured such that the incentives favor the local?

2024-05-08 02:52:33

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Any thoughts on distributism? Not sure if it would be considered an “alternative” to capitalism necessarily.

2024-05-07 21:06:27

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I’ve got one but haven’t found a use case for it since I switched back to analog notes. What do you use it for?

2024-05-07 15:26:37

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“Love is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.” - Ven. Fulton Sheen
Cliches like “falling in love” or “like liking someone” misplace love. They separate the intentionality that love requires and imply it’s something that happens to us instead of something we strive for. Love is not an extreme form of like. You can love and not like. That can even be a higher form of love, like mercy. That’s why no fault divorce (and divorce by its very nature) is mistaken (and I would argue, not actually possible). When one gives themself completely to someone in marriage and says “actually, never-mind, I want a divorce” then what they implicitly say is they never actually fully gave themselves over or are trying to take back something that is no longer theirs.

2024-05-07 13:54:56

Corporatocracy. Further evidence that bitcoin won’t “save” us. Fixing the money will not fix the world. #note1xlk…8plh

2024-05-05 18:40:20

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Totally agree with that last sentence in your first paragraph. The end should be the pushing out of all weaker currencies (USD as the last bastion) from the quotidian transactional economy. If the intent is instead to acquire bitcoin for the end of a larger amount of USD (or other currency), then that’s speculative and should be avoided given its inherent uncharitableness (wasn’t sure if that was a word lol).
Yes hopefully! And there needs to be a culture that promotes broader distribution of bitcoin, not to just drive up buyers for the sake of “number go up”, but for the good of our neighbor that they may benefit from sound money that can’t be debased.
I wonder if an argument can be made that Bitcoin is in line with the virtue of poverty. Poverty, not in the mistaken sense of being in a state of miserable want, but in not desiring the superfluous and in cheerfully accepting shortage or discomfort, as St. Josemaría Escrivá puts it. With bitcoin’s USD price fluctuation, it can certainly be a bit nerve wracking to depend on that for long term savings but that is the short term cost of relying on a money that can’t be weaponized for certain political agendas (especially those that are anti-Catholic) all while throwing you a bone of x% return on investment.

2024-05-05 06:11:13

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Linking a thread where I had a similar conversation with @npub1nf9…xa3x
https://primal.net/e/note1f73x842633u75l3sf7mee4r96jqp84nk9g8pmg9a69w2chf6k5kq0uxsel
I think I’ve reached a similar conclusion as Fr. Nick Blaha. Opting for bitcoin because of its nature as sound money for people of all nations and creeds, regardless of future price action in dollar terms, is the most moral option available. I think the key distinction to make is the principle of double effect which I mention in that thread above.

2024-05-03 23:10:06

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Agreed. Religion is the habit of virtue that inclines the will to render to God that which He deserves. (Which of course requires one to seek to understand the true God, aka the Christian God)

2024-04-23 01:32:00

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Not quite in the official process yet but been doing initial scouting of areas to see what’s the right fit. Hard to nail down a particular location given there’s so many variables, not to mention how it all comes down to market availability.

2024-04-22 01:20:34

What’s your favorite Psalm and why? #godstr

2024-04-21 13:43:16

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Capitalist markets are made up of human participants. Governments are made up of human participants. The problem isn’t “government” per se but the sinful human nature of its participants. Capitalism also has its own faults given its misunderstanding of human relations. It produces socialism.

2024-04-16 17:18:34

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When people cease to believe in God, they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
-G. K. Chesterton

2024-04-16 02:36:55

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Totally agreed. While I haven’t really spent time learning or getting familiar with Kant, I don’t know that I want to because of the reality disconnect. I’m much more intrigued by Husserl, Stein, and (I think) JPII’s explorations of phenomenology.
Society is made up of people, not money. Take away the money and there’s still a society. Can’t say the same about the inverse.
Granted, “fix the perverse incentive structure of fiat currencies” is nowhere near as catchy. Time will eventually come to show how broken humans will be able to misuse even bitcoin, to the dismay of many maxis (who may even find themselves being the very people they sought out to oppose in the first place).

2024-04-16 01:37:28

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Words and phrases are more important than most people realize. Many of today’s debates come down to the words we use to frame differing positions, often times ceding ground unintentionally. Erroneous translations and definitions were at least a large factor (if not the biggest factor) in the Great Schism!

2024-04-12 22:23:32

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Incredible. That’s prayer without ceasing, I love it!
Reminds me of “The Way of a Pilgrim” where the main character ingrains the Jesus prayer so deeply that he prays it while inhaling and exhaling.

2024-04-12 15:26:36

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Looks like Primal put my comment back to the original post instead of replying to your comment @npub1thl…juq6 🤔

2024-04-12 15:24:19

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I recently watched the Pints w/ Aquinas episode with Gabiafterhours and now I’m fired up about it. I’m working on having all the mysteries down pat! Still need to reference my “how to pray the rosary” at the moment but I’ll get there 🙏

2024-04-12 13:55:07

Pray the rosary 📿

2023-07-22 05:04:58

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Leaked?!

2023-07-21 21:19:59

Is there a way of knowing when an account was last active? Thinking I need to clean up my list of follows.

2023-04-21 01:31:49

Do you think aliens exist? Why or why not?
My mind recently changed to thinking they don’t as I’ve started to see that humanity was created in the image of God, everywhere else in the universe is sterile.

2023-04-18 16:37:45

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Preface - it seems unrelated to Robosats as a platform but still worth noting from an end to end user experience perspective.
I found an order to take on Robosats with Strike as the payment method. I locked up a certain amount of sats as a hold throughout this transaction and joined a chat with the seller. I confirmed the amount as it was being sent as USD but using USDT so the seller would receive just over 99% of what I was sending due to exchange fees. The problem happens when I click send but Strike shows the tx as (what we’re assuming to be) pending. Instead of the green or white font, it’s grayed out. So we’re in a tricky situation because we can’t collaborative cancel as there’s a possibility the tx send is successful. And there’s no way for me to cancel that tx to try again. And of course I don’t want to try sending another tx as then we’d be relying on trust (if the first tx is successful) which is the whole point of using robosats. I did test a $1 tx to the seller and that was successful instantly which the seller then sent back to me.
Unfortunate because it seems like RoboSats, the seller, and myself (unless I made some mistake somewhere as a first timer) are all working as we’re supposed to but the error fell in the one segment of the handshake that’s out of our control. I’ll update this thread with the outcome, at the moment we’re waiting for Strike support which I opened in the app. I also sent a message to them through Nostr and the seller sent a DM using Twitter. Fingers crossed I guess!

2023-04-14 14:12:01

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I see it on the UI! A 21 sat zap and a 22 sat zap, thank you! What client are you using? Damus, Iris, Amethyst, etc?

2023-04-14 13:08:02

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Pura vida 🤙

2023-04-11 19:23:12

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Weird, not seeing an account for that npub even after searching on nostr.band

2023-04-11 19:20:26

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I’m in that section of the book now. He clearly needs to read the Bitcoin Standard.

2023-03-17 18:55:29

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I think they’re doing exactly that to themselves. Don’t know that they need any additional help 😜

2023-03-16 16:04:29

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Seconding the notion to love and find truth. Onwards and upwards!
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
C.S. Lewis

2023-03-14 15:58:06

What is the incentive for keeping money at a small/regional bank vs a too big to fail bank? Supposedly higher yield on deposits?

2023-03-13 21:20:22

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Do you know who is developing this?

2023-03-13 21:15:45

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You’ll need to prove you do them somehow😛

2023-03-12 12:53:27

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Which service?

2023-03-08 14:40:33

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As in relays will check account level PoW for spam prevention or accounts in the client will set what they expect from accounts they follow among their relays? Or both?

2023-03-02 21:20:56

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I don’t see a LNURL in your profile 🤔

2023-03-02 17:07:27

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By this logic should newborn babies be the most trusted decision makers?
Incentives, moral judgement, expertise, cognitive ability, etc. are all pertinent to evaluating a person’s decision making. Not someone’s remaining life expectancy.

2023-03-01 21:05:38

Jack Spirko from the Survival Podcast is looking for a guest to come on and discuss Nostr. Could be a great way to reach another audience.
Around 1:02.
https://podverse.fm/episode/WeTkoA1Fy

2023-02-28 18:08:31

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Honestly, I think it’s right! 👌

2023-02-28 18:06:48

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I should’ve checked 😓 joined in October

2023-02-28 18:01:41

#[0] how do you know what Damus user number you are? 👀

2023-02-25 17:06:38

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npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct

2023-02-25 16:36:07

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What do you use for note taking?

2023-02-25 15:36:40

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Good point regarding creating other profiles. I appreciate the ideas and the zap 🙏

2023-02-25 08:42:39

Need to figure out how to start making money in the bitcoin-sphere 🤔

2023-02-25 03:08:43

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It’s a habit to react, I’d rather it just go away 😅 zaps have slightly more friction still but I think they’re at a point where we can do away with reacts already

2023-02-25 01:32:50

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Define “non-reusable”?

2023-02-24 18:52:39

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Is he not on Nostr yet? 🤔

2023-02-24 04:59:25

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It’s different, but in a good way? UI is definitely very dated but that also gives it a slight charm. There seems to be far more granularity in how you interact with relays which I’m liking. Need to learn more but I could see myself using this over the web clients.

2023-02-24 04:41:16

Running gossip 👀 testing it out with another set of keys

2023-02-24 03:35:08

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Sitting and not doing a thing. Time moves so slow, we’re just constantly filling it up with stuff. ⏳

2023-02-24 02:32:11

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BlueWallet will continue to improve! They’re just eliminating one feature offering which is their lndhub.io which was a custodial fashion of creating a lightning wallet in their app. If you click the top right dots of your lightning wallet and it says lndhub, they’re going to shut that down so you should move it to another wallet (non custodial preferred)
https://bluewallet.io/sunsetting-lndhub/

2023-02-24 02:29:53

As time goes on I wonder if “followers” will change to “active followers”. Some way to determine a profile isn’t just running a script to create profiles and follow their account 🤔

2023-02-24 02:18:07

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You can still use BlueWallet! Especially for onchain stuff. It’s still a great app to manage several onchain and/or lightning wallets

2023-02-23 14:39:22

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Having second thoughts on stacking sats now… because I’m thinking of shorting Coinbase 😂

2023-02-23 04:38:15

Who is selling their bitcoin? I don’t imagine it’s retail investors… after the recent crypto shenanigans I imagine the non-maxis have scurried away. Whales maybe? No one knows the answer of course but it just struck me as odd.

2023-02-23 04:31:46

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I’d also enjoy a client like that, focused purely on the original post’s content without the conversation around it. I still think there’s a time and a place for knowing what others comment on a piece but there’s an advantage that gets lost when we go into a post/article already knowing if it’s generating a lot of discussion. If you create a noise free client that you’re willing to share, I’d happily try it out.

2023-02-23 00:55:24

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Still not private. It’s far better from a censorship standpoint though as you always have the ability to use any client with your own relay that anyone in the world could connect to.

2023-02-22 02:20:37

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Someone like Mr. Beast would be huge. I don’t think he or anyone in that community is on nostr (yet)!

2023-02-21 19:46:05

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Someone the youth knows. I would be surprised if anyone under the age of 18 knows either of them (unless they’re into software or data)

2023-02-21 18:24:36

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A must follow for people wanting to improve their privacy game.

2023-02-21 01:17:48

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We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
Improve your health through diet and exercise, build new and/or improve your relationships (that includes yourself, and explore hobbies, activities, and skills that you enjoy and/or are profitable.
Rome wasn’t built in a day.

2023-02-20 22:47:22

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Currently working on setting up a BTCPay Server with my own hosted domain to have a non custodial LNURL 🫡
#[0]

2023-02-20 21:42:44

What email service do you all use to create a burner/anonymous address? Looking to make one for BTCPay Server account creation.

2023-02-20 16:57:09

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2023-02-18 06:16:08

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That will populate when people zap your post directly instead of through an invoice! I’ll zap ya 50 sats to demonstrate

2023-02-18 06:15:26

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Hmmm. What client are you using and send an emoji then that’s good enough for me!

2023-02-18 05:56:38

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You meet the criteria (barely) but you look a lot like a bot… how do I know you’re not one?

2023-02-18 05:52:38

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太厉害了！如果你跟着我，我会时不时地做这些赠品。也许我将来会做更大的 😉