Jonk

Jesus lover, Father, Bitcoiner, home miner, Graphene user, music lover.
Working on leveling up as a Bitcoiner.

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2024-04-17 23:38:51

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If anything close to this exists, please refer me!

2024-04-17 23:37:51

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I'm leaning towards nay, but I need to do much more learning about lightning.
It would be my dream for opposing strong technical minds to debate this in some long-form medium.

2024-04-17 22:14:58

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Pants are ok if you are going commando though. Also, don't trust, verify? what?

2024-04-17 21:38:30

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That guy has a habit of arrogant high-horsing in general. Smells of ego.

2024-04-17 19:18:12

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We die from moment to moment, and are reborn from moment to moment.

2024-04-17 18:52:18

It is unfair to say people asking questions are arrogant or spoiled. In fact, I think they are humble and brave enough to keep the community healthy by asking the hard questions.
Corruption via VC funding and influence centralization is definitely a threat avenue to the space. When I see more prominent people close to the VC money try to shutdown the conversation, it makes things smell worse.

2024-04-14 14:41:07

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I used to get in lots of fights when I was a kid cause I wanted to be "a man", but then I grew up.

2024-04-14 14:24:59

Say no to Xitter. It makes you a dumbass.

2024-04-12 23:09:15

@npub16as…g2tf's emojito + nostrudel = DREAM TEAM
https://emojito.meme/a/naddr1qqr9yetpvd68xqgkwaehxw309an8yetwwvhxummnw3erztnrdaksygxhvp6xggju32mppk5ef9duwry28fz6q0u2y2547phukk7yy8jh8gpsgqqqw48q447449

2024-04-12 22:37:30

Some thoughts form the last few days of chaos in this world:
1. Ossification is on a gradient. Nuance matters.
2. Saylor is great but the war at hand dictates that his reputation be sacrificed. He has already done his part imo.
3. Lightning is not at a dead-end, even with lots of VC money flowing around it corrupting at the fringes.
4. I need to learn so much more about BTC/LN from a technical standpoint.

2024-04-12 13:23:09

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Where can I read about the specifics of SBF's "days off" clauses? I hadn't seen tha before.

2024-04-11 18:44:38

Twitteresque engagement farming has spilled over into the nostrati.

2024-04-11 18:43:24

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Nuance > tribaiism. Both are good and bad.

2024-04-11 18:28:09

Peter Theil:
"One “philosophy of science” argument that I like is that science is supposed to fight a two-front war against excessive dogmatism and excessive scepticism. And so excessive dogmatism is like, say, the decayed Aristotelianism of the medieval church, and that was what science was in some ways fighting in the 17th and 18th centuries. And then excessive scepticism, if I can’t trust my senses and I don’t know whether I’m sitting in front of you, if you’re too sceptical, you also can’t do science. This two-front war is in tension, it’s actually hard to get that balance. The early moderns were more anti-dogmatism than anti-scepticism. If we fast forward to 2023, there are all kinds of things where the scientific establishment would caution us against being too sceptical. We’re not supposed to be vaccine sceptics, we’re not supposed to be climate science sceptics. It’s fighting scepticism in all its forms. I’d be hard-pressed to come up with a single instance where a scientist would say, “this is an area where science is too dogmatic today in 2023”. Surely that tells us that somehow science has degenerated into something that’s more dogmatic than the medieval church. If you’re just fighting scepticism it tells you you’re dogmatic. The totalitarian “science” of the early 20th century was like this. It pretended to be anti-dogmatism, anti-supernatural, anti-that sort of stuff. But in reality, the anti-scepticism dominated."
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/01/john-gray-peter-thiel-discussion-post-modern-world

2024-04-11 17:47:55

"Or, the thing that I think unfortunately happens a great deal, is you just lie and the and the institutions become sociopathic. They pretend that the growth is still going on and then it’s only years and years later that people figure out that there are no jobs."
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/01/john-gray-peter-thiel-discussion-post-modern-world

2024-04-11 15:04:56

Nuance over tribalism, my friends.

2024-04-10 14:46:37

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No disagreements with that.

2024-04-09 20:35:55

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I really appreciate what you do. However, let's be real - if there's an approval process then there by definition are strings attached.

2024-04-09 20:21:08

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Build your own small reasons to be more hopeful. Over time they accumulate and build off of eachother.

2024-04-09 16:35:53

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100% the path bitcoiners need to be on.

2024-04-09 16:33:42

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This is something I would love to see @odell openly discuss and address. it would give me much more confidence in him.

2024-04-09 14:39:36

So basically, there will be a "corporate SOV" bitcoin and then there will be fork wars over this and any grassroots attempts at improving the decentralization and privacy properties of bitcoin that threaten the WEF.

2024-04-08 18:03:58

This some of the most soul-touching, clarifying, and entrancing music I know of. I found it many years ago and often come back to it:. Please share it if it does the same for you.
(Bon Iver - Jagjaguwar session)
https://piped.video/watch?v=A9Tp5fl18Ho

2024-04-08 17:51:19

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You might love this:
https://piped.video/watch?v=A9Tp5fl18Ho

2024-04-08 16:42:15

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Get on https://wavlake.com/artists

2024-04-08 15:17:39

We are at the seed of the new renaissance.

2024-04-08 13:24:18

GM yall. Feeling super inspired this morning. WE are going to win.

2024-04-05 19:07:11

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Whatever the electricity costs to run my clippers for 15 minutes. I usually listen to Odell or some audiobook like "The Creature from Jekyll Island". This is much better than driving somewhere to pay money to someone to small talk me with mindless drivel.

2024-04-05 19:03:45

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Thanks for sharing. Very disappointing.

2024-04-05 14:59:49

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Agreed, I am paranoid of "free".

2024-04-05 14:56:24

Is it possible to login to primal with nsec bunker?

2024-04-04 19:28:05

I've been pondering the potential value of a "non-bitcoin" client that comes prepackaged muting a large list of bitcoin keywords. This way when someone complains loudly, we can just link them to that client.
Another idea would be to have a big "NO BITCOIN" toggle available on a client somewhere that does the same thing....

2024-04-04 18:03:03

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I was wondering why btc was pumping!

2024-04-04 15:39:17

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Maybe something to work up to lol

2024-04-04 15:38:43

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This is the winner.

2024-04-04 13:24:19

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A lot of intellectualism is born out of arrogance and aspiration rather than humility and curiosity.

2024-04-03 20:36:46

I want to hear more thoughts from folks who think that lightning can succeed in widespread adoption WITHOUT ecash.
If you believe this, what are the people missing about the future of lightning? Some hidden Uncle Jim incentives or something else?

2024-04-03 20:32:39

I have like only 1 real friend left in real life (outside of my wife), due to going through a massive spiritual awakening during my later twenties. I have tried since then to make new friends but I basically cannot find folks that I share much in common with and am beginning to realize that bitcoiners are my only real hope.
There is a city not too far from here but again I am thinking I might still be the only "serious" bitcoiner within an hour. I have kind of half orange-pilled my one friend as he does own "some" bitcoin, but he definitely doesn't have the crazy that I do.
Anyways, my wife and I are thinking about moving to a beachtown on the Gulf of Mexico. Does anyone know of any decent "bitcoin" communities on the gulf anywhere? Maybe I can bootstrap some semblance of a social life that way 🙏

2024-04-03 20:22:18

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Yep, that DOES NOT look fun!

2024-04-03 20:16:20

Has anyone started any form of a nostr-based P2P exchange? I thought I remember some folks talking about ideas around this....?

2024-04-03 20:14:04

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I'm not sure I know what you are referencing lol

2024-04-03 20:13:27

Someone give me some good metal / grunge bands on wavlake.

2024-04-03 20:11:36

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I can start FUDing if you are feeling empty over it?

2024-04-03 20:07:27

hey yall, post some more stupid shit. Nostr needs spice.

2024-04-03 16:58:11

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Because of your funny memes! I wish there were more funny accounts here. Also, people here are very insightful and positive and constructive.

2024-04-03 16:54:13

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While you are in it, it feels like it will never end. It will pass. They say it usually starts to pass around 8 weeks. For us it went from 100 to almost 0 during weeks 9 and 10.

2024-03-30 23:00:53

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I have always had a favorable view of tokenization of assets. If done correctly, couldn't it remove trusted middlemen from the proof of ownership and transacting of assets like stocks or even real estate? What am I missing?

2024-03-30 22:52:43

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LIVE BIG. LIVE FREE. SET OTHERS FREE.

2024-03-30 22:47:34

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Yeah, but going fast is more monkey-brain limbicly rewarding.

2024-03-29 14:00:13

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Well, I hope you feel better.

2024-03-29 13:44:08

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Nonsense. Well I guess I'll have to throw away all of my thoughts on the matter. 😉

2024-03-29 13:39:58

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Democracy facilitates divine growth in society from the roots. Sometimes it becomes arrogant and needs to be humbled, but it will be. Nothing exists in perfection, but perfect is the enemy of good.

2024-03-29 13:36:32

Meditate on the idea of opportunity costs and the incessant onslaught of potential wasted no matter your actions. Do this long enough and you may free yourself of the burden of seeing all the things "not done" in your life.

2024-03-29 13:32:35

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Or some flavor of democratic republic etc

2024-03-29 13:31:53

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These things are true but not in the absolute. Democracy is still the best form of government. The peasants have never had a system that tilted the balance of power so favorably.

2024-03-29 13:29:26

Majestic dawn y'all!

2024-03-27 14:57:51

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Whew....ahem... that was hot!

2024-03-26 14:56:31

Functional false flag attacks popping up on both side of the fence. Things are escalating.

2024-03-26 14:52:49

I am starting to get to the point where cannot tell you who my favorite bitcoiners are. Not because I do not know them, but because they value their lack of exposure and I feel compelled to protect them in this way.

2024-03-21 14:20:16

29 days to the halvening. The halvening has become some sort of spiritual thing to me. I can't yet explain it, but I'm going to reflect on it. It's like reaching a new milestone in my life or something.

2024-03-17 13:01:26

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Congrats! Keep stackin babies! Babies > bitcoin

2024-03-15 12:42:52

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GM GM GM GM GM GM GM!!!!

2024-03-15 12:39:25

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zapparino here guy!

2024-03-14 19:40:06

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Where might I look to see how real it will be?

2024-03-14 11:46:44

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This is just the one of many more "bans" by governments. They will happen more and more over the next several years. Nostr is just getting started but will end up growing huge due to it's censorship-resistance tech.

2024-03-14 11:43:49

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Happy to have ya here. 5 kids! Nice work!

2024-03-13 17:29:56

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SHHH.

2024-03-11 16:05:39

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Very interesting take. Do you have any recommended interviews where he has given you this idea? I really think we are underestimating this man still.

2024-03-09 13:42:11

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This book is amazing. Paints clearly the corruption that bitcoin is fixing.

2024-03-08 21:07:38

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Sexy kinda.

2024-03-08 14:11:44

Today we advance the substrate of society yet once again.
https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcHRpcWw0cDc1MjVkdm1zN250bmV3Mmdoc29kajJhM2RkYTdzdDZ4eSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/VG89qvC27mPcyNs3Aq/giphy.gif

2024-03-08 14:04:40

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Make it your own. Get spicy with it like we all know you will!

2024-03-07 19:24:10

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I'm assuming he knows that the node runs on the device and believes there are other factors that make it functionally custodial?

2024-03-07 17:13:24

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Lovya Nunya

2024-03-07 16:59:55

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"New York Community Bank said Thursday it lost 7% of its deposits in the turbulent month before announcing a $1 billion-plus capital injection from investors led by former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s Liberty Strategic Capital."
Yes, I'm sure the injection was from "investors".

2024-03-06 22:39:44

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Keep coming with the hard facts please. I am in the middle of ramping up on the lay of the land and whats what in the lightning ecosystem. Your opinion is contrary to most people that I have been listening to up until recently, and I value it. The stakes are too high to let VC money corrupt the btc/ln network's future potential, if that indeed is what is happening.

2024-03-06 13:28:49

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Doesn't he own the majority of Microstrategy? If so, he can delegate whoever he wants (including himself) to own the keys to Microstrategy's corn, no?

2024-03-06 13:19:23

The "devil's comet" will reach it's brightest point in our sky right about the same time as the halvening. Coincidence? I think not.

2024-03-06 12:51:22

Sometimes people post really stupid stuff on my feed but I love them anyways because I can feel the freedom in their souls. ⛅

2024-03-06 12:42:09

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Are you guys just playing it safe with the potential that graphene has unknown bugs in it's app sandboxing and network shutoff security? Maybe I'm being too trusting.... 😕

2024-03-06 12:28:01

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howdy 😃

2024-03-04 13:23:14

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Man, that thing is the size of a horse

2024-03-04 13:08:02

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Solid bet, I agree.

2024-03-04 12:59:15

So the narrative for this bull market has pretty clearly materialized:
ETFs unlocking huge swaths of demand
FASB accounting standardization paving way for huge swaths of demand
Recent inflation spikes throughout the world
ATH in distrust in Govts around the world
What does the next epoch/bull market look like? Give me your crystal ball projections.

2024-02-29 21:14:41

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Took me a minute. hah:)

2024-02-26 21:50:05

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Idiocracy.

2024-02-26 20:43:34

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"Letting incompetent companies fail, and letting better companies replace them." Baby Lopp was precocious!

2024-02-26 14:06:57

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🤣 Amazing!

2024-02-24 13:54:52

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🥜 Where do I go find it again?

2024-02-22 16:58:34

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I'm not sure how easily coopted SIDC in Belgium is but they are showing confirmation of solar flare activity but then say no expected impact on Earth expected...
"Solar flaring activity over the past 24 hours was at high levels, with two X-class flares and one M-class flare. The largest flare was a X1.8-flare, with peak time 23:07 UTC on February 21 and the second largest flare was a X1.7-flare, with peak time 06:32 UTC on February 22. Both flares were associated with NOAA AR 3590 (beta-gamma-delta). A M1.6-flare, with peak time 00:14 UTC on February 22 was produced by a yet unnumbered active region behind the east-limb on the southern hemisphere of the Sun. There are currently 2 numbered active regions on the visible disk. NOAA AR 3590 (beta-gamma-delta) is the largest and most magnetically complex region. NOAA AR 3586 (alfa) has been stable and inactive. The solar flaring activity is likely to be at moderate levels over the coming days with C-class flares expected and M-class flares possible and a low chance for an X-class flare. A south-east partial halo coronal mass ejection (CME) was observed in LASCO/C2 data around 16:12 UTC on February 21th. The eruption was related to an activity behind the east limb. No impact on Earth is expected. A second westward partial halo CME was detected in the LASCO/C2 data at 18:36 UTC on February 21th. The CME is associated with a filament eruption seen in SDO/AIA 304 & 193 at 17:37 on February 21th in the north-west quadrant of visible solar disk. The CME has an estimated plane-of-sky speed of around 450 km/s although the bulk of the ejection will miss Earth, a glancing blow arrival is possible on February 25th. A third south-east CME was detected in LASCO/C2 data around 00:24 UTC on February 22th, associated with the M1.6-flare peaking at 00:14 UTC on February 22. Two negative polarity coronal holes have started to cross the central meridian. One in the northern half of the Sun at high latitude and the other in the Southern half at low latitude. Over the past 24 hours the greater than 10 MeV GOES proton flux was at nominal levels and is expected to remain so over the next days. Some enhancements are possible in the case of an eruptive activity from NOAA AR 3590. The greater than 2 MeV GOES 16 electron flux was below the 1000 pfu threshold and is expected to remain so in the upcoming days. The 24h electron fluence was at nominal level and is expected to remain so in the next days."
https://www.sidc.be/

2024-02-22 13:44:22

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Yup, no connection here.

2024-02-21 15:10:40

So dual-funded lightning channels look pretty amazing...?
"v1 lightning channels: one side funds a transaction to make an open, funds are all on their side
v2 lightning channels (dual-funded): both sides collaborate to make a transaction, funds can be in any amount on either side. it’s basically a mini coinjoin/payjoin onchain for every lightning channel that uses it
you can multifundchannels in CLN; if every peer uses v2 opens that will let you build basically your own decentralized coinjoin that results in channel opens 😎
no coordinator, all in one tx
add in liquidity ads and you can get multiple inbound channel capacity, again all in one tx with the payment for that liquidity being just more available inbound.
it’s a huge game changer on lightning’s onchain footprint
splicing builds on this and will let you do even more complicated liquidity movements in one transaction. move liquidity between channels, fund a new channel from an existing one, etc. All in one transaction"
https://stacker.news/items/423884/r/jonk?commentId=425041

2024-02-21 13:35:42

So the Bank Term Funding Program is expiring in March again I hear.
When next regional bank circus?
https://imgproxy.iris.to/insecure/rs:fit:1138:1138/plain/https://telegra.ph/file/ac76269a1329d0addad95.png

2024-02-20 21:14:02

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Just practice gratitude.

2024-02-20 20:49:16

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Time to punish the plebs for getting us into this mess.

2024-02-20 15:33:56

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What is this picture even from, some kind of prison "intake" class lol

2024-02-20 13:08:33

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GM BOSS

2024-02-19 20:51:34

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You sound like you need a good cry my dude. I hope you work your anger out somehow.

2024-02-19 17:30:04

Don't trust, verify. This is tough advice because our time and energy are limited. Being able to discern where to put your time an energy is the crux of the matter.
I admit that I don't know much at all about lightning in spite of being a software developer by trade and a bitcoiner for quite some time. Oddly enough as a software dev, I am not a bottom-up thinker, more of a top-down thinker that looks for disconnects in reputable views and opinions and then tries to prioritize my time from there on what I perceive to be the most fruitful, low-hanging fruit.
Recently, I found an account on stacker.news that went hard against everything I have been trained to believe about the lightning ecosystem. This perplexed me deeply as he made a decent amount of sense talking about all of the VC money acting as a corrupting influence on lightning development. This guy was an infrastructure engineer and had very technical grounding in his views. I also sensed, he could possibly be too strong of a personality and maybe got rejected from VC money and is jaded as a result, etc. So now, amidst my massively overflowing plate of things I want to get done, I feel a strong need to deep dive into all of the lightning tech to build out a cohesive mental working view of the various tech. My gut tells me that the lightning network is going to be the next space for "shitcoinery". Big money, big ideas, but poor implementations getting over-marketed, etc.
There is a very visceral "builders culture" on nostr, and I think it's good but needs to be balanced and refined by embracing deep critique of solutions. Not just on a superficial low level code level, but on a high level purpose and architecture level. The projects that do this will attract my attention, usage, and potentially even my development time.

2024-02-19 17:04:49

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Take life seriously, it's precious. Don't take yourself too seriously.