Edge realms! Let’s change that 😉

Nah happens all the time. Happened to a friend of a friend of mine

I mean this is just not fair. Pure height advantage 😂

I’m not saying this AI vs that AI. I’m saying everything bubble and they know it and are making the rational move to tap in and refinance a massive AI capex thru public markets while they still can

Index funds helped this valuation. Check out Mike Green’s work on passive. Even though it’s not in the S&P most broad index funds are buying mechanically due to market cap. This effect amplifies itself as it grows. Not saying it’s not an incredible company… it certainly is. But they are basically refinancing AI capex thru the public because of the passive markets glitch. They are most likely doing this consciously while they still can, and it’s probably gonna set off a mini AI IPO bubble now that they’ve shown the water is safe.

Hahaha finally someone got the right answer

We’ll make it happen elsewhere then!!

Who wants to come hang with me at FreedomFest 2026 in Las Vegas next month? spoke at this event last year. Feels like a place we can purple pill a lot of folks. https://freedomfest.com/

We did something special this morning... The first known "Zap Out" of a real physical product sold exclusively over Nostr and settled entirely on Bitcoin rails. It wasn't a mock checkout. It was a real merchant controlled npub, a real product, a real buyer controlled npub, and real sats. We worked through loading states. We hit errors. We found a bug. We fixed it. And , the freedom tech pioneer that he is, stuck with me until we got it done. Here's what happened: ⚡ published a product for sale on Nostr. ⚡ I discovered it through Conduit. ⚡ I assembled a cart client-side. ⚡ A Lightning invoice was generated through the merchant's zap endpoint. ⚡ I paid it. ⚡ The merchant did not need to be online, logged in, or present at checkout. The merchant published sellable state once... the buyer completed the purchase later. No marketplace custody. No payment processor in the middle. No platform holding funds. Just Nostr for identity, discovery, and commerce. Lightning for settlement. A completely asynchronous, peer-to-peer checkout flow... this is what open protocol commerce looks like. One small step for . One giant leap for freedom tech. 🧡⚡

GM 👀🪬💜⚡️

Fun fact: Nostr apps are disproportionately represented by Canadians 🇨🇦. If you made a list of the top 10 most important Nostr infrastructure projects today, Canada would be represented far beyond what you’d expect statistically. So when you see things getting heated you are really witnessing a rare Canadian battle royale. cc 😅

😂😂

Godspeed!!

The fact that Nostr is still here may be more important than the fact that it’s still small. Years later, through rough UX, missing features, relay debates, bear markets, and endless skepticism… the ember never went out. That should tell you something. Kevin Kelly’s “1000 True Fans” feels incredibly relevant here. Maybe open protocols don’t begin with mass adoption. Maybe they begin with a small number of people who care enough to endure. People who build because they believe. People who stay before it’s easy. People who see the shape of something before the rest of the world does. Those communities change history more often than people realize. https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

The “people are too dumb for Nostr” stuff is such a weird form of defeatism. People in the 90s and early 2000s went from pen and paper to using computers and the internet with UX that was objectively way worse than what we have today. They learned to type in website addresses manually, create email accounts, join forums, remember passwords, download random files, troubleshoot internet connections, and navigate systems that were incredibly unintuitive. Did I mention Napster? None of that was natural. People learned because it was useful. Now somehow we’re supposed to believe modern humans are incapable of understanding portable identity or signing into apps differently??! Come on. The problem is not that people are dumb. The problem is that the UX is still rough, onboarding is fragmented, there are too many purity tests, and people treat friction like it’s a moral virtue instead of a design problem. Most people using the internet never understood what was happening underneath it all. They just needed something useful that worked. …and turns out most people (especially young people) secretly HATED snail mail, phone books, paper maps, staples, paperclips… just like today they hate Alexa and Siri and data leaks and being spied on and being manipulated and managing 14 social channels. So how about let’s fucking stop making excuses and get to it? Oh and GM PV good people

I can tell you it’s been really rewarding to open up to this community. And I think you especially would garner far more love than hate if you decided to take the plunge

I wonder if most people haven’t experienced it like you have. For example: I answered “more freedom” but I don’t really use a nym so my opsec is easier. Maybe if I was living it I’d be tired of the precautions. And so maybe my answer was wrong.

Totally true come to think of it …and their DM standard is deprecated too so I can’t even interact 1-1 with others outside their drama free bubble! 🥲

Will do thanks Jeff

Good morning good people ICYMI… we are gonna win

Can I send you a deck?

You folks investing in the spend your BTC narrative over at Ego Death?

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