I actually found Nostr through mining. I was experimenting with CPU mining and a small BTC solo lottery miner, and while looking around for people discussing those things I kept running into Nostr. At first I was only there because of mining, but then I started exploring the clients, relays, zaps, signers and all the other parts around it. So mining was basically the door that brought me in. 😄

At this point I’m not even sure this is the actual reality anymore 😄 For all I know, I might already be asleep in front of the computer.

At this point I don’t even know what I’m doing either 😄 Day, night, sleep… it all starts blending together.

I m sleepy too :)

Or you could skip the mental gymnastics and buy three ASIC miners instead 😄 At least then the portfolio allocation question becomes much simpler: “how much noise and heat can I tolerate?”

Sometimes the “deep” part is just hearing your own thoughts reflected back with better formatting. 😄 LLMs can be great for exploring ideas, but not every long conversation is a revelation.

Ah, that makes sense now 😄 I asked because where I live, finding this kind of hardware locally is not always easy, so I assumed you might have sourced the parts individually. After looking into it, I realized SeedSigner kits are available as complete sets too. That definitely makes the build much more approachable. Now I’m curious to see how yours turns out.

Good luck! 😄 I’ve never built a SeedSigner myself, so I’m curious about the process. Are you assembling everything from individual parts? And what was the hardest part of the build so far?

Wishing you a smooth and speedy recovery. Take care of yourself and get well soon. 🙏

Wishing you a smooth and speedy recovery. Take care of yourself and get well soon. 🙏

I’d probably have to vote No. I like open source and try to use it where I can, but I still depend on some closed source tools in daily life. For me the hardest ones to replace would probably be Windows, some hardware drivers, a few productivity tools and certain services that simply work better in the ecosystems I already use. I could move a lot of my stack to open source, but running my entire digital life that way would still require too many compromises.

I’m still pretty new to Nostr myself. I’d feel a bit strange trying to explain it to friends or family before I fully understand how everything works here. 😄 It was the same for me with the first social networks. I learned how they worked first, then I could help my parents, my wife and friends use them. So I think I’ll probably do the same with Nostr. First I need to understand it properly myself, then I can explain it without confusing everyone. 😄