Some of the comments here are so disappointing. There are many great advocates for nostr who are not devs. Creatives, writers, marketers and other professionals need the right incentives to donate their time and effort. Bitcoin itself offers enough stored value to free up time - that's why it attracts time-investment from many deep skillsets (not just technical types). Nostr is great. It offers a wonderful network of freedom-minded people. It offers hope for a decentralized better digital world. But, at the moment, it does not incentivise experts to invest time without any ownership in the clients and services they promote. I hope this changes in time. But rather than create a pile on by pointing the finger at those not donating their life to nostr, why not ask what they need to come on board?

Bitcoin needs stories to win. I am absolutely convinced of this. Today, I see virtually zero new stories emerging. Not from conferences, not from educators, not from companies, not from builders. Not even from writers. Problem ➡️ solution is NOT a story. No characters. No struggle. No happily ever after. ... no one cares about your product, service, or app. Most people in the world are not economists, developers, or even realists. They only care when something hacks their emotions. Give them a good story, and you make them care. Yes, we must build, but without stories, we are just idealists writing code for solutions that will never be implemented.

A friend 3D printed this for me. Thinking of putting it behind a forcefield to stop the vandals...

Come on. Which one did you get wrong?

I keep getting an error on the Lightning invoice. Insufficient fee.

Well worth a watch. Well done to all involved.

I don't have solutions. Only complaints, haha

We these stellar powers of deduction, you'd be perfect for the role.

Incentives: Own your identity - this is free on nostr, and requires no time investment. Earning zaps - this is great, but it requires an investment in making zap-worthy content. Most people can earn more from working a fiat job. Running a relay - this is not incetivised at all (how many people pay for relays?) The lack of monetisation for nostr infrastructure is perhaps the biggest problem of all in the economy system. Yes, you can own a little of the network if you become an advocate for it, but the only ones with a real stake currently are those who build tools which may scale as monetisable services later.

563 sats is more than the salary budget!

What do they get for investing their precious time? We need more discussions like this on nostr.

📢 *** WE ARE HIRING *** 📢 Head of Content (Bitcoin company) Are you a laser-eyed marketing rockstar on a mission to flood our feeds with incessant 30-second reels and monetary catchphrases? 😁 (We also accept writing ninjas, social gurus, and growth wizards) Our company is on a mission to orange-pill the world through an untested and unsustainable education model consisting of 80% huff and 20% puff. 🌬️ We recently received an endowment from a Bitcoin Whale, and if all team members cover 3-5 jobs each, we’re hoping we can eek it out for an entire cycle. Many educators have tried before us (and have found Bitcoin is a bit too complicated to explain in a few snappy tweets and 30-second reels), but this time it’s different! No Signal. No noise. Just buzzwords! 👌 🤓 THE ROLE - Managing all the content, flows, and diagnostics for our education platform - Managing our 7 social accounts — high-volume content, interaction, performance reporting - Content strategy and customer acquisition — funnels, email marketing, conferences - Newsletters, blogs, interviews, and presentations for our CEO Weekly podcast production, editing, and repurposing - Video automation — script production, editing, distribution - Attending daily meetings with operations, dev team, CMO, partnerships team, and our 15 freelancers OUR COMPANY Our company delivers innovative edu-tech solutions like telling the world about Bitcoin and disrupting the industry (we just don’t know how yet). We’re thinking of harnessing more rocket-ship emojis. 🚀🚀🚀 We operate in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. By ‘dynamic’, we mean that awkward meeting at a conference once per year, ‘fast-paced’ = 60-75 hours work per week (inc. weekends), and the environment is mostly Slack, Telegram, and Google Meet. 💡 THE IDEAL CANDIDATE You must be specialised in pre-AI systems and thinking, an expert marketer and writer, a self-starter, sovereign individual AND team coordinator who is also immensely proficient in running AI teams and agents. You are likely a technically minded engineer who was mining in 2010-11 but sold/lost all your bitcoin and is now desperate to spend 60 hours a week working for 150 Bangladeshi takas per month (salary to be discussed). Come on. What do you expect? We’re in a bear market, and WE ARE STILL EARLY. HOW TO APPLY Do two days of work for free to deliver a full 2026-7 marketing strategy dossier and two 1500-word blogs on our brand new platform (no information provided). Or maybe there will be no writing tasks at all. We've never actually hired anyone before, so we’re not sure how it works. 🤷‍♀️ Don’t bother with a CV or cover letter; we just look at how many followers you have on X. Tell us your salary expectations. To help you match our ballpark figure, we’ll give you a hint. There is no formal contract, you get paid in Bitcoin, and you’ll receive no benefits (LOL pensions). Just to let you know, we have no more capital to hire coworkers until 2030. In fact, if you know any investors, put us in touch! The best candidates will be invited to meet on Zoom separately with each of our 4 team members at intervals of 4-6 weeks. After this process, the team will discuss whether hiring you or buying more Claude tokens is more beneficial to our company’s strategy and bottom line. Good luck bitcoiner. And remember, we are all Satoshi. 🙏 #jobs #hiring #bitcoinjobs

Absolutely. We need more people like Derek. He straddles both worlds (devs and non-devs). Our challenge is to offer the right incentives to attract 100 more. Unless he can clone himself...

New operating system installed. Giving another run. Node now syncing (500MB wired connection). Guess how long it will take to complete. (1 guess per npub) Closest guess wins 2,100 sats #giveaway #bounty #asknostr

GM. I am now a rabbit.

Worth a look for any freedom or Bitcoin authors. #writestr #books #author

GM Working on a little something for Bitcoin Ireland conference...

GM!

I will be there. Looking forward to covering the art gallery, meeting some folks, and maybe recording a few podcasts for . As nice as that quote is from Maupassant, he wasn't a very happy chappy!

Hey I live in Las Palmas and help run the community here. What info do you need? Feel free to DM or check out bitcanario.com

Great great episode. Roger always seems half asleep, and he drops a pearl of wisdom like 'where Bitcoin lives is with the living'. If there is one thing I miss about Britain, it's Indian food haha.

It was inspired by a real life job description I saw! I'm thankful that I'm not desperately looking for employment. Many are. I'd love to work as part of a team on a long term project, but only if it's right for me and I'm right for them. Still, I empathise with bitcoin job hunters right now!

BOOK REVIEW The Age of Time by Scott Dedels As someone who is a fellow time and Bitcoin enthusiast, the premise of this book immediately resonated. I was lucky enough to read an advanced copy, and the thesis, examples, and interwoven personal stories did not disappoint. This has shot straight to the top of my most valued works about Bitcoin. The amount of time, thinking and distillation for the framing of our troubles is heartening. The author has transformed deep scientific learning (accurately summarizing notable works on time) and spirituality (his own personal journey) into a sound-time sound-money thesis so engaging, I read the book in under a week. The book creates new frameworks and presentations of our time-obsessed Western society: the Chronometric Cube, ChronusOS, the Great Returning, Lantern Keepers. These ideas distil mechanical time's impact on our health, work, money, family, and long-term thinking. The thing I liked most about the book is that it doesn't preach action ('Take these 10 steps and WIN at life!'). Nor does it propose Bitcoin as the solution with its new form of time. The book summarises our journey in time throughout and builds towards a conclusion that is positive, hopeful, and showing that Bitcoin is a mini-reset and a new beginning. The only negative I can find is the cover. As much as the author warns against the dangers of exponentially speeding AI-processes, the cover seems hastily made and does not capture the brilliance of the ideas within. It would be such a shame if this affected potential readers' perception of the book. Overall, this book is fascinating, poignant, and is something I will display on my bookshelf with pride (when I get a physical copy). If you value your time, invest some of it in reading this book! https://theageoftime.com/

UPDATE. 36 hours and it is 68% Going extremely slowly...