There are so many emojis and most of them no one uses, I don't know how you manage to find the ones you want to use in that enormous (and tabbed) pile of icons. Even worse, my two most common emotions when reading stuff online are not represented at all.

Looks like a scam to me. Also next time please use direct references instead of links to a particular client's URL.

A very cheap offline device that every humble merchant could easily acquire would be ideal. I'm sure will do something and save the day here.

Most of the videos of Bitcoin being used in commerce in backwater places I see involve a phone with a shitty wallet interface in it. This setup is kinda bad as it has way too many requirements: - a phone - internet access for the receiver - internet access to the payer - a setup that is casual enough for the receiver to take his own phone out of his pocket and type numbers in it - the guy with the phone must also be the owner of the shop and mix his finances with those of the shop The last one is the most absurd to me. If we assume everybody has a phone, though, I don't see why there couldn't exist an app that worked offline where every employee of a small business could type a number and generate a QR code that the payer scans and gets the amount already converted in his wallet to pay. Or, if we assume the receiver will have internet, we can skip that part and let the employee generate an invoice that will be paid but the money will go to the shop's wallet, not to the employee. These are basic things, so maybe they do exist and I'm just uninformed. I would do these apps myself if I could, but it doesn't really help if they "exist" but the people in the trenches evangelizing Bitcoin to commerce aren't aware of them.

I paid for a meal with Bitcoin recently. The place was very modest and they just had a WoS QR code glued to wall. When I told the old woman at the cashier that I wanted to pay in Bitcoin she just told me the amount and trusted me to type that on my phone and trusted that my wallet would know how to convert that into satoshis at a reasonable exchange rate (she didn't know anything about Bitcoin I'm pretty sure). Can't we make this better? There could exist a device with buttons where she could type the amount like she did with the credit card machines all other customers were using. She would just press the amount there and handed me a QR code to scan with the amount included, and exchange rate conversion done at some server trusted by the restaurant, it could be fully offline. I'm just saying this because I was amazed by the fact that so many years have passed and I barely hear about these kinds of issues or the solutions to them. Makes me feel that no one is thinking about the problems of grassroot Bitcoin commerce adoption, which is the most important thing.

What if we had a relay where new people could manually submit content to and pay a "curation fee", then some smart humans would pocket the fee and manually vet each submission and only allow in those that were deemed high-signal? Would you browse that relay in order to discover new high-signal content and new people to follow? Would you put it in your default relay feeds list or somewhere like that? Please let me know if you have a better idea.

Go on wss://subnet.relays.land/. What number do you get? Mine is 177.

Every part of Nostr that relies on hardcoded "big relays" is a bug and a gate to spamland waiting to be used. Spam gets to everything, whether it's malicious, automated spam or just someone handwriting something in the wrong place because they were confused. Even the relay reviews section isn't exempt:

No comments until you prefix your references with "nostr:".

New name: "Tico-tico".

I've read it, I can see why're you having this reaction, but what is written there is just a logical follow up to all the things Paul has been saying for years. I don't think it is hilarious, the success of the Bitcoin project is a very serious matter to me and Paul happens to be very correct in his diagnostic of the problem. There are no easy solutions unfortunately, maybe no solutions whatsoever.

Nostr promoting reunions of old friends, beautiful to see.

Why do you think eCash hurts Bitcoin at all? It's either going nowhere so you can just ignore it; or it will serve as a testnet with real money for technology that can be easily adopted by Bitcoin; or, if Bitcoin decides to die of apathy, people can switch to eCash and still reach the ultimate goal of Bitcoin in the end. It's a big win for all sides.