ShortFiat
Short Fiat

Building Fanfares.io.

Nostr is the next layer of the internet.

Bitcoin is what stands between us and financial self destruction.

When you zap me I will zap you back 🤝

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2024-11-08 13:23:06

can anyone recommend a good nostr podcast?

2024-11-06 22:24:00

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They tried so hard to stop him.

2024-11-05 13:37:02

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I hope that you are right.
But if it were that smart, then it would itself well hidden 😉

2024-11-05 13:21:00

What we are about...
https://fanfares.io/about

2024-11-04 19:53:01

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If you post a link to this note on your Twitter account and copy the link in here, then yes.
The objective is to get more distribution for the film amongst free speech crowd on Nostr, but also to get more people into Nostr and Bitcoin from outside😉

2024-11-04 13:38:29

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Then zap me!

2024-11-04 12:28:59

500 sats zapped for reposting this film.
It is very important film that everyone should see.
Also, copy a link to repost on X or Facebook as a comment to this post and I will zap you another 500 sats
https://rumble.com/v4krzak-climate-the-movie-the-real-truth.html

2024-11-04 12:28:38

2024-11-03 17:23:47

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healthy body, healthy mind.
I see this tendency across a number of bitcoiners
We are getting ready for the fight! 💪

2024-11-03 17:17:33

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Bitcoin is an Internet currency.
The thing that we consume most on the internet is digital media.
Perhaps we should pay for access to podcasts, videos and music?
Has someone built a tool for that?
FanFares.io

2024-11-02 17:38:19

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yes sadiq is up front and central with this one. Along with George soros, Bill gates, the pope, the king of England and John Kerry.
how many of them were on the epstien island?

2024-11-01 15:41:14

Please tag this to any podcasters that you know.
We will zap you with sats!
At FanFares.io, we are a small team of 4 people building a Nostr client. We are creating the ability for podcasters to put specific items of content behind Bitcoin lightning paywalls.
This can work well for premium content, of the type that might be put on Patreon or a Substack subscription.
Listeners can use Bitcoin lightning as a currency to buy an episode by using zaps on Nostr.
Payments for individual items of content, without the need to be doxxed makes it much easier to support a creator.

2024-11-01 02:37:46

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defend democracy Donald. bitcoin will look after itself

2024-10-31 15:28:07

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We are working on this Erik.
FanFares.io is pay-as-you-go Patreon .
Premium content that is encrypted, unlocked with zaps on Nostr.
You can use v1.0 on the desktop now with your alby extension.

2024-10-30 19:35:13

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can someone repost it to his twitter. I deleted my account 4 months ago and I now feel less like a crack addict 😉

2024-10-30 15:51:52

Dominic Frisby hasn't made it to Nostr yet, but I recommend this short audio piece.
https://www.theflyingfrisby.com/p/hodl-gone-wild-meme-stock-mania-in?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=741404&post_id=150905963&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&r=1o55r7&triedRedirect=true

2024-10-29 20:53:54

Paper is the only fair and anonymous solution for vote counting.
With the electronic counting machines, you only need to bribe one developer.
When you have a room full of people counting votes, double and counting and representatives from all parties observing, people are going to know if something is going on!

2024-10-29 19:42:51

Many worry about Nostr's open data being exploited by corporate bots harvesting data for advertisers. But let's think about this - what real value would advertisers actually get from this data?
Nostr clients do not give advertisers any ability to push ads on the users. If they did, then we would all quickly move to another client that treats us with more respect.
There could be nostr users that include ads in their posts, but data collection and analysis is only cost effective when it is done on a large scale. It works for platforms, but not for individual influencers. Also, those who do spam their followers with too many ads? Watch how quickly their audience vanishes as people hit that unfollow or mute button!
Zapvertising - sending promotional zaps with messages under posts - might be the one clever exception. Imagine a VPN provider strategically zapping a video about WIFI security. That's actually pretty smart targeting!
What makes Nostr revolutionary is how it completely flips the script on personal data exploitation. Unlike X and Facebook, where the platforms control your feed and sell access to your attention, Nostr puts you in the driver's seat. You will only see content from people that you follow. Want to fine-tune it further? Clients like Primal let you filter for the content with most engagment.
Discovering new accounts on Nostr happens organically - you see someone interesting shared by someone you trust, and you decide to follow them. It's human-to-human recommendation, not some black-box algorithm pulling strings.
Here's the kicker: your individual data on Nostr is worthless to advertisers because no platform can control what you see. No control means no incentive to collect, analyze, or sell your data. Game over for surveillance capitalism!
Traditional social media platforms optimize for clickbait because it drives their profits. They're essentially dopamine dealers, crafting addictive experiences to maximize their advertising revenue.
Looking ahead, Nostr clients will need sustainable business models. The most likely path? Taking a small cut of zaps sent through their platform. Since people typically zap content they find valuable - whether it's quality, creativity, or education - clients are incentivized to promote genuinely appreciated content. Instead of clickbait, we get quality curation through real user value.
This system rewards merit over manipulation, substance over sensation. That's the Nostr difference!"

2024-10-29 16:33:42

Halloween partying, Paraguay Style!
https://m.primal.net/LmEN.jpg
https://m.primal.net/LmEK.jpg
https://m.primal.net/LmEL.mp4
primal.net/p/npub1595t77atn8w25hhept92hpmv5ql0rj3h7nsxncttp4557yg0h4usj0fn85
primal.net/p/npub1rwr2mn7vl3vw2gd7sf56tqptn8k6r8dwltm3mzy7qv0ta03flcrqrpmknk

2024-10-26 18:12:16

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Looking forward to that day.
Building and promoting easy to use cold storage solutions is going to be the most effective way to make the price go up 😉

2024-10-26 12:38:10

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Welcome

2024-10-26 09:52:46

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Thatr is one option. The is no correct way. it's open source

2024-10-26 01:58:52

this is one to share with your normie friends
https://youtu.be/5W-jtbbh3eA?si=NjvwiUMUEoJO6O0d

2024-10-25 18:57:32

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Yep, everyone wants free speech when they are criticising the rulers.
The rulers don't want free speech, because they don't want to be criticised.
The thing that is strange right now is that the rules are trying to use the interests of minority groups in the form of virtue signalling to shut down any form of debate.

2024-10-25 18:51:50

If a government wants to shut down free speech, then the most effective way that they can do so is through the money system.
Many media creators receive sponsorship money from advertisers, which means that they can be de-monetised. Governments can put pressure on advertisers that sponsor content creators that say things they don’t like. The advertising companies are susceptible to government pressure as they have a physical locations and they have revenues in fiat money.
A independent creator might be geographically un-locatable, but their sponsors can be located and threatened with legal action, imprisonment or with the cessation of their card processing facilities. There are not many companies, that currently do not depend on the fiat money system in some way for the continuation of their operations.
Creators that depend upon subscription revenue are even more prone to censorship as they can be directly de-monetised through the banking system by the removal their card processing facilities. The international banking system is controlled by the USA and if they feel that the speech of a specific creator is a threat to them, then they can de-monetise and effectively silence that creator.
The fact that almost all creators are currently publishing their content through centralised platforms makes it even easier for authorities to bring an end to the right to free speech of any creator that they choose. We have seen censorship and demonetisation on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Rumble and Locals are alternative media platforms that are used by a number of creators that have been demonetised by the mainstream platforms, but they still have sponsors and fiat money subscription systems that could be used to shut them down at some point in the future
If a creator is distributing their content through Nostr and are being funded by their listeners using Bitcoin, then they can’t be shut down through government control of the money system. If they are publishing anonymously, then there is no way for the authorities to know who they are or where they are in the world.
FanFares is an open source application and the source code will be stored on decentralised services. If the primary FanFares application is shut down, then anyone can spin up another version of the software and customers can access it from the new ip address. The new ip addresses can be distributed through encrypted messaging services.
An instance of FanFares will take a spit of the payments made to creators from their audience, so anyone that runs a version of fanfares will be able to add their own wallet address to the application and earn a fee split. This is the incentive for multiple instances of FanFares to exist across the world as nodes in a network and therefore the service can never be shut down. Every Nostr relay could run a version of FanFares and this will help them to monetise and cover their storage costs. Any node runner that does not respect the creators of FanFares and tries to cut them out of the fee split, should not have their IP address shared by the community.
If governments want to monitor content published through FanFares, then they will have to pay to do so using Bitcoin.

2024-10-25 12:25:55

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I agree, FOSS is not universally capitalist.
You have to admit though, there has been a shift.
We all know how bitcoin changes us!

2024-10-24 18:27:16

The early open source developers were almost universally very left wing. They were anti private property and believed that everything should be free.
Bitcoin is the most prefect form of private property ever invented.
40 years on, the open source movement is almost universally capitalist.
Did Bitcoin change us?

2024-10-24 17:03:46

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Nice one Jeff. Congrats! 🤗

2024-10-23 12:33:22

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Hey Max, we are building a nostr client that allows better monetization for creators.
Bitcoin lightning low transaction fees are the key to delivering micropayments.
Encrypted content, where nostr users can pay with lightning for the decryption key. They then own a copy that is only accessible with their nsec.
Digital content ownership that is not dependent on a centralised platform.

2024-10-22 10:23:36

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Britain FIFO industrialisation

2024-10-22 09:56:47

I tried to zap this note with MSTR shares, but it didn't seem to work 🤔
#note1t6u…llcd

2024-10-22 09:48:21

GM Nostr!
Has the ECB declared war on us?

2024-10-22 02:50:28

MSTR is a shitcoin!

2024-10-22 02:29:02

A reputation can take years to build, but it can be destroyed in a two minute clip from an interview where someone makes the mistake of saying what they really think!

2024-10-22 01:18:42

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not yet, do you recommend it?

2024-10-22 00:00:09

The banks threaten to shut down our bank accounts for what we say on social media.
At the same time, we build an uncensorable social media with an integrated, uncensorable payment system.

2024-10-21 19:19:53

I used to think that people might not like my on Nostr because I pointed out that he was a spook. Now I feel vindicated!

2024-10-21 19:13:30

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He has always been a spook!

2024-10-20 14:00:40

Bitcoin is money that you can own.
You can hold it on your own person wherever you go and you hold securely in a way that nobody can see that you have it. Robbers or governments can search your house for gold.
If you hold your bitcoin securely, then they can’t take it.
This facility has never existed before in history. There has never been a form of money that you really own for yourself without relying on a bank or a legal system to protect your ownership.
In the past many people have resorted to storing their gold in a bank vault. The problem with that is the fact that the bank can be robbed by people with guns. Bank alarm systems are much more sophisticated than they have been in the past so they now rarely get robbed. Though some would argue that the bank robbers have become more sophisticated. They have in fact taken over the government and they are slowly and quietly robbing us of our savings in way most people cannot see.
Bitcoin doesn't require a third party to store it securely.
Bitcoin doesn't require armed guards to securely transfer it to someone else.

2024-10-18 21:41:11

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WTF, how could they turn you down?

2024-10-18 16:35:04

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The 95% that think it is a store of value, not a currency?

2024-10-15 15:55:53

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Very true, but if you want to exist in the normal world these days it is very difficult to do so without having access to the internet.
If you have a farm, you produce your own food and you trade cash for medical supplies etc, then you can be off grid, but for most people, an online presence is essential.
The fact is, that with the current centralised structure you have no ownership of your data online. You give up control of your data, the moment you share it and large companies store it, analyse it and they will earn money from it.
Bitcoin and Nostr have the potential to fix this.

2024-10-15 14:51:04

A great podcast. Really interested in the concept of building intentional communities.
It seems that if you want to build a community that uses a common currency and has a common idology, then the thing to do is to build it around Bitcoin.
Bitcoiners will come and stay if they know that Bitcoin is being used as the currency. The shared values of Bitcoiners are generally very strong and cohesive.
There really is no need to engage with alt coin smart contracts that could be rugged at any time. Land ownership can be divided and legally bought and sold within the existing legal structure of whatever duristiction the community exists in.
Essentially what I am proposing is a property development where lots are sold to people with the stated intention that Bitcoin will be used to trade amongst the community members. The community members will likely build shops, bars, cafes, and trading systems that use bitcoin. There is no need to re-invent the legal structure of property ownership using smart contracts.
It is interesting to hear that so many intentional communities have failed in the past. I would like to research this more, but my first instinct would be that many of the communities created in the past were philosophically against money. Sadly, civilisations depend on money to keep account of the contributions of individuals and to operate as a fair medium of exchange enabling the specialisation of production. It is possible that the denial of the need for money as a key element of civilisation has been the reason for the 90%+ failure rate of intentional communiities.
Perhaps bitcoin fixes this?
https://fountain.fm/episode/Mzpxdg9o9nu5OhuZ5QpK

2024-10-15 12:29:50

Great podcast.
A really good story of triumph over adversity.
I need to find that same volition in my own life.
https://fountain.fm/episode/LIqKd15kkcC8tp3R81ia

2024-10-12 13:58:15

This is what we need!
#note1s70…qlqu

2024-10-12 13:57:14

Bitcoin is the future currency of the world.
Paraguay is the future Bitcoin capital of the world.
@npub1l57…645x

2024-10-11 15:12:58

The internet has started out as a communist place.
Digital ownership has been restricted to a handful of large tech companies.
Subscription is credit
Advertising is slavery
Bitcoin is digital money that you can own
Nostr is digital content that you can own
Without private property there is no freedom

2024-10-10 11:01:19

The internet is under attack by the British government!
https://youtu.be/d725BsbsYqw?si=kDu7Pz7JElF7hPHj

2024-10-09 20:28:28

Does anyone have a problem with having to regularly reset relays on primal desktop?

2024-10-09 15:47:10

Nostr is to digital media what bitcoin is to money.
Decentralised storage gives ownership of data.
Anything you think you own in twitter is the equivalent of fiat money.

2024-10-09 10:26:30

Gm Nostr

2024-10-08 13:22:43

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Thanks Gigi, for putting a force field around our project.
'There is nothing to see here, please move along!'
We will let you know when we are ready to open source our new developments.

2024-10-07 18:05:37

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The bitcion company

2024-10-07 12:42:37

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You can pay for it with lightning from a device where you have not registered any personal details

2024-10-07 12:42:30

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You can pay for it with lightning from a device where you have not registered any personal details

2024-10-06 13:16:11

The EU is trying to woke up the world while there is no one at the wheel in the USA...
https://youtu.be/s5cx56CDHLY?si=H6uI0H1mEYtyx1vd

2024-10-03 15:02:07

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Yes I don't want to think, I want the algorithm to do it for me.
Why would I use frictionless money to reward a creator, when I can use centralised fiat systems to enslave them.
Please take my data, use it manipulate me, rob me of my time and make me think that getting free shit is freedom!

2024-10-03 14:55:54

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How many times did someone try to build a digital cash system between 1983 and 2009?

2024-09-30 21:30:30

WTF??
#note1g6a…2rl9

2024-09-30 12:27:22

GM Nostr

2024-09-27 16:40:38

Looks like coinbase might not have all the btc that their customers think they have.
If they don't have all that they owe to their customers, then they are short the price of btc.
A run on coinbase will squeeze them and force them to buy BTC.
This may be what has been happening to the btc price for the last week.
ETF providers are publicly asking coinbase for more liquidity. Who knows what they are asking them for in private?

2024-09-27 12:56:31

I just figured out the point of ditto.
They can never shut us down as anyone can spin up a client!

2024-09-24 01:40:25

GN Nostr

2024-09-23 11:59:30

Gm pioneers

2024-09-20 18:56:26

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Those are fiat businesses.
Bitcoin businesses do not touch the ground.

2024-09-20 18:54:29

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Correction, I meant coinbase and fidelity are the only two custodians.

2024-09-20 17:58:47

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There are really only two custodians, Microstrategy and Fidelity

2024-09-20 16:15:31

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That would be a reason to go PWA, rather than app store

2024-09-20 16:12:37

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apps should be using lightning

2024-09-20 16:08:38

Could we at least censor the reply guy out of the search results?

2024-09-20 16:01:34

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If you had 17k bitcoins in self custody, would you tell the world about it?

2024-09-20 15:47:36

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It seems that a number of high profile atheists are changing their views recently.
Could that be due to the number of enormous existential threats that we facing in the modern world?

2024-09-20 15:46:01

He claims that he is taking his BTC to his grave
And yet he has already given it all to coinbase!
#note1apd…cxs4

2024-09-20 15:43:27

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What is the modern day equivalent that we might pay for?

2024-09-20 15:20:29

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Looking forward to the book Lyn!

2024-09-20 14:36:19

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And off Twitter and all in on Nostr!

2024-09-20 13:38:58

Loving this podcast!
https://fanfares.io/player/07ca3c93c895845023ad86c88ae2b265844d1fc7762e287128d0fa8fb7367fa4

2024-09-20 12:57:21

#note13hv…agz8

2024-09-20 12:53:20

GM Nostr

2024-09-20 12:52:58

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The ordinals did a great job of getting people on lightning and making us all think about scaling options ahead of when we would need it

2024-09-20 10:44:31

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Ok thanks for the update

2024-09-19 22:41:19

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Make sure that you hold the keys to your coins.
Bet on yourself to look after your money.

2024-09-19 22:10:03

This guy looks like CIA operative sent to discredit Tucker Carlson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOTgPEGYS2o&t=1777s

2024-09-19 21:29:49

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Building the future!

2024-09-19 21:10:54

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Hello, loved your podcast with Arkinox

2024-09-19 21:10:10

Is The Donald on Nostr yet?

2024-09-19 20:56:03

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@npub1qqq…ctgs

2024-09-19 20:53:06

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You should stop and say hello to us in Asuncion Paraguay on your way through!

2024-09-19 20:41:29

Now that is art!
#note1c5j…a2lj

2024-09-19 20:31:19

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Good question, I do know someone that is working on that. I will find he details and get back to you.

2024-09-19 13:59:33

A world where memes are illegal...
can I create a meme for that? 🤫
#note1c0p…62fa

2024-09-19 12:49:48

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Very true.
You wont change bitcoin, but bitcoin will change you.

2024-09-19 12:41:23

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When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws are free!

2024-09-19 12:22:47

GM Nostr

2024-09-18 15:29:57

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If you are the yield, then that is not a good investment.

2024-09-18 14:54:06

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Am listening to it now. Thanks for the recommendation

2024-09-18 13:02:04

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I just got the card working. I found the way to access the CVV number and have tested it by subscribing to a substack. It works!
The fees are high if using outside of the US, but if you want anonymous digital payments in the tradfi systems, then it is now possible.

2024-09-17 13:10:25

GM Nostr!

2024-09-17 00:09:49

Has anyone tried the bitcion company prepaid visa card?
I have bought one and it appears to have no cvv number.
I'm not sure where I can use it without that?

2024-09-16 12:27:45

GM Nostr