i've been testing a new payment flow at @nprofile1q... all morning, and every time i got to the point of choosing fiat or bitcoin i picked bitcoin, not because of ideology, but because i didn't wanna type a credit card number

bitcoin is, objectively, a superior payment system

it just needs to be everywhere

all a man wants is a couple of great friends and a good wife

Thank you sir!

if you remove all the flaws from fiat you get bitcoin

if you remove all the flaws from gold you get bitcoin

Is this the right way to use #nostr?

Free trials attract spammers & scammers.

But when you sign up you get 1,000 sats from and 2,100 sats from @npub12vkcx... that you can withdraw anytime.

So essentially it’s a free trial. 😉

The silver lining of me spending days explaining to Apple & Google what is Nostr is that eventually i’ve learned a little trick:

You can just resubmit an app update until you find a reviewer that doesn’t care.

@note1jum0y...

Yep. Every single time they wanted to add their own login methods.

But we never caved in. 💪

Because we don’t offer other “social” logins

Essentially they wanted us to add gmail or apple login in order to keep the Nostr one.

The amount of time Apple and Google wanted us to remove Nostr login has been very eyes opening.

@note1rgj0u...

Nostr is everywhere.

After spending 10 years thinking about Money & Bitcoin, here's the simplest explanation I can come up with:

Money is a technology to move Value across Space, Time, and Scale.

Value is the utility humans derive from Goods & Services.

Value is highly subjective, and it changes across Time and Space.

Unbeknownst to them, Economists have defined these functions as:

- Store of Value (Time)

- Medium of Exchange (Space)

- Unit of Account (Scale)

Throughout History, no monetary system has managed to satisfy all 3 functions of Money at once. This is where the idea of Backing Money and the necessity of separating Money and Currency come from.

This trade-off can be described as a Money Trilemma: you can optimize for 2, but not all 3.

Gold is great at Time & Scale, but not Space.

Fiat is great at Space & Scale, but not Time.

Until the invention of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the first form of Money that successfully excels at all 3 functions simultaneously.

It achieves that by perfecting all the properties of hashtag#Money, with no extra room for improvement:

#Bitcoin is:

- Infinitely Divisible
- Instantly Portable
- Forever Durable
- Mathematically Finite (what is mistakenly called Scarcity)
- Perfectly Fungible

Bitcoin is the final Evolution of Money.

The World just hasn’t figured it out yet.