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“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.” - John Gall

2023-09-09 20:27:00

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Building lightning into AirDrop is too obvious not to do. Eventually.

2023-09-09 14:13:18

Nostr is built on too many assumptions

2023-09-08 03:07:49

Hate to say it guys, but the more I learn about how the economics of decentralized apps are actually going to be built on top of bitcoin layers the more skeptical I get that nostr is going to work.

2023-09-08 02:47:58

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This photo makes noise
IYKYK https://i.nostrimg.com/f8cf9544073dc570f4e53f44c1919f36c327006fa3c1a0b4051e925ec66f294d/file.png

2023-09-05 03:23:21

Tweet less. Smile more. https://sjh.fyi/tweet-less-smile-more/

2023-09-03 13:36:53

https://i.nostrimg.com/27ba9e7171a8b1ec15e5b7e23cd6513628937f0999105cac034c1b7b7f500bb2/file.jpeg

2023-08-31 13:11:28

all the top posts on primal show as being zapped over a billion sats lol

2023-08-31 05:10:31

2023-08-29 22:44:21

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This is a good meme

2023-08-28 13:05:32

So if one doesn’t want to post unretractable stream of consciousness here, the way to do nostr is to just meme?

2023-08-26 11:57:42

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Yes

2023-08-26 11:55:04

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https://i.nostrimg.com/dc9cfd59750a0568b5856a6d387bc072c25575007ec362693fbaf3f0084cb5da/file.gif

2023-08-24 00:40:22

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Where’s my thank you 😔

2023-08-17 02:15:09

Lots of bitcoin people canceling their X checks today

2023-08-16 08:17:48

I'm moving my Substack to Ghost so that I can add $0.25 Lightning paywalls to all my longform content.
If you sign up before September 1st you'll be grandfathered into everything I write for free forever.
https://sjh.fyi/planting-sequoias-has-moved-to-ghost/

2023-08-13 19:41:02

Need to do a demo for a guy. Can you guys tip me some single digit sats?

2023-08-12 18:09:15

Alright I’m thinking about trying to quit the twitter/X drug again
Can you guys be my Twitter anonymous

2023-08-12 17:38:14

Feels like we’ve reached the part of the cycle where the noobs start flowing in

2023-08-12 16:11:08

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I cry ever tim

2023-08-12 16:02:37

My twitter account is worthless now. https://i.nostrimg.com/ae74d6803c6c7f6177c3c60438b195bf1be828b68ed4c8350efcff5d6d964fef/file.jpeg

2023-08-11 02:03:18

The post button doesn’t work for me in Primal iOS lol

2023-08-02 19:12:21

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yes which is why lightning is necessary to pay humans for training data from here on out

2023-08-01 12:16:39

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What about collaborative multisig self-custody where they themselves are eliminated as a single point of failure?

2023-07-29 19:58:01

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Username and password
OR
Log in with Alby

2023-07-25 13:13:53

Somebody else with a corrupted contact list? @npub1cjw…j2rh @npub1xts…kk5s @npub1xv6…xea6 https://twitter.com/hodlonaut/status/1683766062901342209?s=46

2023-07-24 03:05:02

good evening.
Apple Vision Pro is a Zeppelin.
read: https://stephenjhall.substack.com/p/apple-vision-pro-is-a-zeppelin https://i.nostrimg.com/578f09a2df24a24a7b576dd5c1674affb8d82751c4bfd56aea56638bdab1dec7/file.webp

2023-07-23 22:46:22

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Truth exists, Guy. Hal either was Satoshi or he was not. And he was.

2023-07-23 22:04:26

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“And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.””

2023-07-23 13:55:21

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The truth relentlessly persists on a long enough timeline

2023-07-23 03:12:56

more and more it seems to me the biggest thing you can do for your health is just read books

2023-07-20 17:18:46

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Didn’t work

2023-07-20 17:13:48

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Is this a different extension from alby?

2023-07-20 16:08:05

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I posted the above (and this) from Damus

2023-07-20 15:51:39

Primal web is telling me I can’t post because I’m “not declaring any relays”
Any ideas?

2023-07-20 15:37:01

I’m basically the Finney of nostr #note123m…r86r

2023-07-08 01:51:51

https://i.nostrimg.com/26af4d77d480d35c2beca7648c0ceb120304aa7e3dbcc4cdf29f4017ea924cb0/file.jpeg

2023-07-06 04:43:49

Nostr is a terrible name for a protocol. Sounds too much like an app.

2023-07-06 04:02:43

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Every relay needs to be a paid relay and the clients need better UX to manage this

2023-07-06 03:32:55

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To be clear I’m talking about client UI/UX specifically. Threads will ultimately run on nostr and bitcoin, just gotta give it time.

2023-07-06 03:23:20

Genuine Q: what is keeping nostr clients from being perfect like Threads by Instagram

2023-07-01 23:09:45

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Come on in Derek

2023-07-01 22:36:51

Verifying my Nostr Nests identity: lO8nokWkDyWJ3f3ZbzEKyYqj1Yyx1TVquotLrak75-w
https://nostrnests.com

2023-07-01 22:35:14

Anyone want to nest it for an hour or so? https://nostrnests.com/883l3p

2023-07-01 22:32:25

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Is this an official Verge account?

2023-07-01 22:28:31

All the normies are flocking to BlueSky for who knows what reason
Could BlueSky become a nostr Trojan horse eventually?

2023-07-01 22:25:24

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Couldn’t figure out how to log in there

2023-07-01 22:23:01

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I’m surprised no one has tried to make some kind of algorithmic feed on top of nostr yet, though.

2023-07-01 20:47:21

is elon speculative attacking centralized social media?

2023-07-01 20:42:07

Really great article on the twitter situation. Elon is so bad at deductive reasoning it’s embarrassing. https://waxy.org/2023/07/twitter-bug-causes-self-ddos-possibly-causing-elon-musks-emergency-blocks-and-rate-limits-its-amateur-hour/

2023-07-01 20:31:19

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Far west Texas?

2023-07-01 19:48:25

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Bitcoin fixes this

2023-07-01 19:19:19

I swear elon is intentionally pressure testing that site’s user base

2023-07-01 19:18:33

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Maybe we can henceforth celebrate today as seppuku day ?

2023-07-01 19:01:04

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grrr I hate being forced into healthier incentives #note1ggl…sefp

2023-07-01 18:53:50

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So annoying that California has a monopoly on natural beauty 😒

2023-07-01 18:50:55

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This guy visited west side of Austin this weekend eh?

2023-07-01 18:45:31

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rate

2023-07-01 18:44:38

Imagine owning a car that could be remotely rare limited by this guy

2023-07-01 18:08:31

grrr
nostr pushes me to write my most controversial thoughts in long form somewhere when I can control the server where those words are hosted and think through my thoughts more closely before saying them
grrr
so annoying to be constrained and be forced into alignment with healthier incentives.
#bitcoin

2023-07-01 18:05:34

also I’ll be honest, I’m still swayed from saying as much stuff here as I would otherwise because I can’t unsay.
probably a net positive for the world. but not a net positive for nostr being an addictive and fun place to socialize.
words have consequences.

2023-07-01 18:02:48

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yeah, and most of the network I had over there are still nocoiners and precoiners and so don’t understand anything I tweet anyway

2023-07-01 18:01:31

the trajectory is too obvious at this point: unless elon starts thinking about his business(es) through a bitcoin lens soon enough, he’s going to run them all into the ground

2023-07-01 17:59:58

I haven’t been able to resist wasting my time on twitter to the degree I wish I could have over the last half year, the existing network I had there being the only reason

2023-07-01 17:56:05

gotta be honest, I’m a little sad to say goodbye to the twitter network I built up over the years

2023-07-01 17:54:43

elon is a total 🤡 show

2023-07-01 17:40:14

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Beauty

2023-07-01 17:38:05

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anti fragility is a wonderful thing 🫂

2023-07-01 17:29:26

Twitter is dying

2023-07-01 15:05:53

Sup

2023-06-26 01:25:27

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Reading twitter is like it’s 1861 and the civil war is kicking off and you’re reading predictions for how the war is going to go down from people who have never even heard of the telegraph

2023-06-26 01:25:04

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only two types of people who have anything of value to say about current world events:
- people who have begun to grok bitcoin
- people who have not begun to grok bitcoin, but are commentating primarily on the basis of some kind of ancient, timeless wisdom

2023-06-26 01:07:39

#bitcoin’s implications are so far-reaching and of such magnitude that almost all commentary on contemporary events reads like people trying to bake a cake without flour 🎂

2023-06-24 05:24:27

Will AI and bitcoin take us forward into the past?
https://open.substack.com/pub/stephenjhall/p/will-ai-and-bitcoin-take-us-forward

2023-06-23 02:06:06

Imagine, just imagine, a world full of sandwich shops that had never sold a single one slathered with soybean oil mayonnaise

2023-06-22 12:35:48

#bitcoin is The One Ring and fiat is Gandalf’s pipe weed
few

2023-06-22 12:25:57

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Fiat is more like Gandalf’s pipe weed

2023-06-22 11:50:10

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I actually think it’s the perfect analogy for bitcoin