Was going to wait a bit but no better time than the present. I get no value out of this place or bitcoin twitter anymore. Deleting the socials. It's been fun I guess, going to focus on building.

Peace.

The number one thing I learned building a product is that people do not know how to read.

That is completely reinforced by people's inability to read product shutdown announcements too and coming up with their own conclusions in their heads. It's wild.

I appreciate every one of you who has helped us get this far and for the words of encouragement.

From my perspective, it's not a sad day at all. There's a lot of relief in this months-long resolution.

I have many thoughts about my burnout in this space that I'll save for a future personal blog post.

For now, I'll say that I'm grateful to have met some of the best people in this space and in this world.

Thank you.

Going to be using Creatr exclusively for awhile, and keep most of my content behind one of the tiers there: https://creatr.nostr.wine

Really cool to see how much as been built up over there. It doesn't work with every Nostr client but luckily they have their own site for it to help bootstrap the adoption of subscriptions and paywalls. I believe any client that supports AUTH will allow you to subscribe, add the creatr relay ( wss://creatr.nostr.wine ) and see my content.

https://creatr.nostr.wine/subscribe/npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv

Nice work on it @Mazin and @Katie - really excited to try this out.

Really excited about more private cloud computing setups like this.

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

Not sure who needs to hear this, but starting up a new fedimint isn't complex or intimidating.

These scripts take about 5 minutes to run through.

https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint/pull/4269

Economic Advisor to Biden: "I don't get it"

Yeah, neither do I. Opt out, and fight back.

If you think lightning nodes might be MSBs, just wait until Lightning Labs builds fake USD into the protocol.

GM

If people can't depend upon Bitcoin, then they won't use it. They'll use something else. Who can blame them.

I don't know a single non-profit that is more open than @OpenSats.

Go venture out to the real world if you want to see how things normally run. We're spoiled here. Be humble and grateful.

This feels so nice.

Paid for a group of friends to see Monkey Man later today and just told everyone to zap me. No invoices, no sending everyone payment details, no need to be online, just "zap me"

The future is now (or at least tomorrow when we launch LNAddresses)

Lots of trust, no verifying here.

Especially if you're on damus, the client that only trusts. Relays should periodically send invalid signature events back towards clients with the message:

"THE APP YOU ARE USING IS BROKEN, PLEASE INFORM THE DEV"

Might do this with blastr.