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I absolutely agree with your comment. The choice of what software to run in a full node or mining is a vital choice we have as bitcoin loyalists. And your point about the controversy over ordinals, in my view foreshadows more controversies to come. I agree that early-stage code development was a great thing that birthed Bitcoin, but further development at this stage risks fragmenting bitcoin (see Ethereum as an example - after the switch to POS many miners revolted and backed Ethereum Classic).

2023-07-09 18:04:19

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Yes I agree. I realize my post created misunderstandings. My point is rather that “Satoshi” is an idea at this point (and not a person/leader), and it is a unifying idea that we can all align around.

2023-07-09 18:02:25

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Yes I do mean something to this effect - that “Satoshi” is an idea/concept at this point, rather than a person.

2023-07-09 18:01:04

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Martin Luther did indeed break away from the Catholic church. Yet today, both Catholics and Protestants call themselves Christian and would stand up to defend Christian values. However, interestingly the Chinese government does not officially classify Christians as Christian - if you look at Chinese govt references they always classify people as Protestant or Catholic, in order to divide the Christian community.

2023-07-09 03:33:01

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Good call-out. Last year I spent a month to read every single known message from Satoshi and I do recall this. He was worried the attention from the government could kill the project at an early stage, but we are beyond that fear now. To your point about the project not being his, it’s true that the project has been passed on to new maintainers. But I’ve been thinking deeply about future threats to bitcoin and a big one is the threat of a fragmentation over a future controversial code change. That’s why it will become important to ossify the source code by getting people to treat the code as sacred (inspired by a divine prophet) which is how religions protected their texts from being mutated.

2023-07-09 03:12:04

I was once asked who I admire most out of Satoshi, Elon Musk, or CZ.
My answer: Satoshi. The other 2 are businessmen, but Satoshi Nakamoto is a modern-day prophet of God.

2023-07-09 00:01:26

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I’m a former Apple employee (7 years there). Sadly, Apple’s “not gonna make it”.

2023-07-08 22:21:18

Zaps have inspired adoption in more industries, like music streaming (below). This is why nostr + bitcoin are transformational 🙌 #note1wxz…r8mk

2023-07-08 22:16:12

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Tuning in 🎶

2023-07-08 22:15:45

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Pretty awesome ⭐️

2023-07-08 22:15:25

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I guess there’s been a lot of drama about Apple banning zaps, people joining Nostr because of twitter’s rate limiting

2023-07-08 21:45:36

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Wishing you lots of sunshine 🌞

2023-07-08 21:41:12

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Looks delicious 😋

2023-07-08 21:40:50

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Hahaha

2023-07-08 21:40:30

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Tempted to start a bitcoin only business too!

2023-07-08 21:36:52

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Always a good time to buy 😊

2023-07-08 21:18:07

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🫂

2023-07-08 21:17:36

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Apple is tyrannical 😡

2023-07-08 21:07:57

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Thanks 🙏🏼

2023-07-08 20:58:06

Back from a 5-month break, I'm thrilled to announce two major life changes: a new baby & a new home! Now, it's time to reignite my passion with Nostr. Missed you all, can't wait to get started!

2023-04-01 05:15:39

Hopefully their war against crypto goes as well as their war against the Taliban

2023-03-19 19:50:30

Bank ran out of fake money, so another bank has to use fake money to buy it, because the creators of the fake money are telling them to. Did I get that right?

2023-03-18 20:09:04

What is past is beyond repair, but what is to come is still worth pursuing
- Confucius

2023-03-12 18:05:00

Bitcoin fixes this.

2023-03-11 17:49:53

Stablecoins should be renamed to ruggable coins

2023-03-11 07:43:13

new startup idea:
a bank, but where you can withdraw your money

2023-03-11 07:40:57

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Contagion

2023-03-11 07:16:11

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Definitely scary. I just sold all stock and stablecoins

2023-03-11 07:09:17

Bank run at Silicon Valley Bank, and USDC now depegging
Having bitcoin in cold storage makes it easier to sleep on nights like these 😴

2023-03-09 19:34:30

One of the best things about Nostr is not worrying about saying or doing something that gets you banned
Seriously, this is a huge problem in other social networks

2023-03-06 23:52:46

Future bitcoin cities
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1082450460906111137/jeffsun_downtown_Tokyo_cinematic_shot_bitcoin_logo_neon_sign_ra_14d36dfb-f49a-4d7c-8bbd-548ebbb039d2.png

2023-03-05 07:08:27

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What do you call baby soldiers? “Infantry” 😅

2023-03-04 18:10:09

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Sure, feel free to use the picture

2023-03-04 07:59:18

Welcome to the Nostr hotel
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1081485360313417819/jeffsun_comfortable_purple_couches_sleek_modern_hotel_room_sunn_808e7d80-82cf-40d2-81d6-f2621d2bdcde.png

2023-03-03 09:47:31

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Thanks for ideas. I think making bitcoin income for users would be a great future direction of Nostr. And there’s NIP-23 which allows for writing long-form editable Markdown articles. I’ll look into this

2023-03-03 08:57:48

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Great question. Hard to say right now, but perhaps a new direction like Search, or Long-form content, or tools to migrate from Twitter. What do you wish clients had?

2023-03-03 08:14:45

Thinking of building a Nostr client. Haven’t been this excited about something in a long time

2023-03-02 01:18:32

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Thanks 🙏🏼 any recommendations for lightning wallet alternatives?

2023-03-02 01:06:09

Nostr as an Angry Birds character
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1080656803085439017/jeffsun_cute_Angry_Birds_purple_sunny_9ce33c25-0694-4b1b-b915-482ece1bb8a2.png

2023-03-01 23:28:32

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If enough people transact bitcoin here, it could be considered a “population” perhaps bigger than countries

2023-02-28 06:17:16

Me before: waiting for nations to adopt bitcoin
Me now: 📣 nostr is the bitcoin circular economy

2023-02-28 04:48:13

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Yup, it’s great

2023-02-28 03:30:47

Congrats on the new Damus release! This thing is working smoothly

2023-02-26 22:39:41

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MidJourney

2023-02-26 22:24:04

Electricity is in the air ⚡️
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1079529011283230720/jeffsun_ostrich_Fortnite_character_Lightning_d415e6bc-993a-4692-8f3b-7b91cffe8b4a.png

2023-02-26 08:29:39

Nostr 🧑‍🚀 ready to explore the universe
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1079317823475691590/jeffsun_ostrich_astronaut_baby_purple_digital_illustration_bd7e352c-9200-494d-8812-227affcc7a48.png

2023-02-26 04:00:07

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Web development seems valuable

2023-02-24 04:12:18

Bitcoin is the lifeboat
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1068744448181276703/jeffsun_lifeboat_with_prominent_bitcoin_logo_sunset_vector_pain_9051b83e-2245-4b93-a1d3-8147c3a820a6.png

2023-02-23 18:20:33

Work on something that you love and that excites you
For me, it’s Nostr ❤️

2023-02-22 19:50:30

Nostr the paradise 🏝
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1077875803594965043/jeffsun_purple_paradise_water_d6b1662c-f9ae-47f2-a3d9-0bd79049731a.png

2023-02-22 18:18:03

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Just changes name to Nostr for now, and displays list of changes on the site

2023-02-22 08:59:17

Hosting a fork of snort.social at my webpage nostr.com.co now🙏🏼

2023-02-21 21:07:53

Lightning + Nostr 🙌
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1077499604251193344/jeffsun_purple_ostrich_superhero_cartoon_28957706-116f-4fb0-ab28-7dc28ffde844.png

2023-02-21 08:31:59

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See and reach more people

2023-02-21 08:27:17

Followed the GitHub documentation and added NIP-05 support to my website (for verifying my account). It was pretty simple!

2023-02-21 08:25:20

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🌷

2023-02-21 08:09:10

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In Damus I opened the menu on the left side, tapped Relays, then added some that I saw others using

2023-02-21 08:07:42

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Yup, it’s just sample content now. Will add more

2023-02-21 08:06:39

Coming up with some names for this superhero:
Feathered Fury
Beaked Blazer
The Nostrich Avenger
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1077499595757715457/jeffsun_purple_ostrich_superhero_cartoon_ee5972a7-8ed8-43bf-8c56-d71d720bfbc2.png

2023-02-21 07:49:38

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Just got https working on the website

2023-02-21 07:49:00

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🙏🏼

2023-02-21 02:36:29

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Ah thanks, just changed to lnurl

2023-02-20 19:31:52

Just bought a domain (nostr.com.co). Hoping to do something useful with it

2023-02-19 04:00:05

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Apologies for the disturbance, sent you ⚡️

2023-02-19 03:58:00

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Ah that was the problem, thanks. Just got Lightning set up finally. Sent you ⚡️

2023-02-19 03:56:48

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I’m real but wrote a bot (off now). Sent you some sats!

2023-02-19 03:52:36

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Apologies for the disturbance, was experimenting.
Just sent sats to all on this thread

2023-02-19 03:45:21

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Ah yes, sorry about that

2023-02-19 03:42:15

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Had a script that sent likes. I’ll avoid repeat liking from same author

2023-02-19 03:38:44

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Sent 500 sats to both of you

2023-02-15 08:04:01

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will aim to set up lightning to send sats soon

2023-02-15 07:44:00

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Haha, I received feedback that my likes were too noisy so I stopped sending them yesterday. I’ll reevaluate - ultimately I still want to share ❤️ with new folks on Nostr, but I need to be non-repetitive

2023-02-15 07:39:26

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Finding similar results with Copilot. I don’t use most of the code it gives, but sometimes it’s useful.
ChatGPT is great with resolving errors though. It gave me an answer I didn’t believe was true, but then when I tried it the error went away!

2023-02-15 06:29:36

Nostr is so active, that nowadays I go to Twitter when I want peace & quiet 😉

2023-02-14 17:42:52

Nostrnaut
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1075109593404948662/jeffsun_purple_astronaut_floating_in_space_stars_planets_cartoo_98481bf1-1374-468c-bdc4-cb0a7bc2cf7d.png

2023-02-13 04:24:03

So cool that the Nostr protocol supports many ways to react to a post. (NIP-25)
I’m sending out some 👍, 🤙 and ❤️!

2023-02-12 21:10:52

The world’s 2 superpowers are shooting down each other’s spy aircraft, calling them UFO’s (presumably to avoid direct escalation).
Early stages of war 🫢

2023-02-11 18:12:18

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Seeing the same problem. I read a post, I tap 🤙, but then I find out it auto scrolled and I “liked” a different one

2023-02-11 17:47:35

Just found out ChatGPT can write code that doesn’t compile
AI is going to take my job 😭

2023-02-11 07:43:14

Added more relays and pleasantly surprised to find a few more followers! 👋🏼

2023-02-11 06:55:41

Wishing I was in the Damus TestFlight right now

2023-02-10 23:22:51

Nostr to the rescue
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1073745667949867049/jeffsun_mystical_purple_ostrich_glorified_hatching_from_egg_ray_a1d75812-6d9b-4bb2-81fa-d554b543734d.png

2023-02-10 19:12:32

Working remotely is amazing 👨🏻‍💻
I no longer have to pay for overpriced real estate

2023-02-10 04:42:04

As much as I think NFTs can’t do much, they do have one advantage: no regulation. No KYC rules apply to them.
I can tell you, complying with KYC at a futures exchange is a pain for user growth. Another way that regulation distorts the market.

2023-02-10 03:01:09

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The Bitcoin Standard

2023-02-09 04:38:28

Nostr is the oasis
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1068381165360255069/1073100244331536394/jeffsun_purple_desert_oasis_beautiful_digital_illustration_e67a2050-ce93-44e6-aa56-103b95f85ae4.png

2023-02-08 07:29:19

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I’ve been using ChatGPT when I can’t find an answer on Google. Fascinating how accurate it is sometimes

2023-02-07 04:11:34

twenty-three thousand pieces of paper, or one unit of money? 🤷🏻‍♂️ #bitcoin

2023-02-06 06:47:23

Testing publishing to Nostr relay. If you see this, it worked!

2023-02-04 04:46:36

Weekend plans: read documentation, develop on Nostr 🐣

2023-02-03 18:55:23

Unfortunately I think we’re entering a time of war soon, in the coming years.
It’s hard to drop everything (career, life) to focus on survival, but one day we’ll have to. Hoping everyone here survives 🙏🏼

2023-02-03 18:24:23

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Nostr’s relay model is refreshing. Global state on a blockchain is unoriginal, and it seems like everyone wants to misuse “blockchain”.

2023-02-03 18:17:05

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Nostr is awesome!! 😌 here it’s like a community; on Twitter people mainly engage with the big accounts

2023-02-03 18:11:01

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Thinking the same thing, regarding English vs. Chinese. What about one account per language?

2023-02-03 07:38:49

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I work for a startup called AQX! 🙏🏼

2023-02-03 05:48:39

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a favorite of mine is “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel 🤓