I had a guy start renting one of my rooms a few months ago and he’s with a small startup trying to build some kind of “Hope and Kindness” blockchain as a smart contract into Solana where companies like Publix would participate and hand these tokens out to their customers for their loyalty rewards programs and it’s beneficial because then customers own their own data. I don’t really understand the whole pitch yet but the questions I’ve been asking lead me to believe that whatever they’re building doesn’t need a blockchain, it can be built into Nostr and instead of their bullshit 170 billion “Hope and kindness” tokens that will be pre-mined, they can introduce Bitcoin rewards, which will interest a lot more customers like me. It’s starting to irritate me how committed he seems to be to this project that I’m 95% sure is going to go nowhere and end up stealing a lot of his time and energy. But I think I also just see things very differently because I have adopted the Bitcoin standard and no longer have any care in the world for what fiat does. Maybe I’m missing something and I’m just being an asshole but on the other hand I don’t see how a shitcoin like Solana is even going to be around in 10-20 years so to be building an application on that platform seems like a stupid idea to me.

Been a while since I’ve been on Nostr. I keep thinking about how much better this product is than any other form of social media but unfortunately X and Facebook do a much better job of keeping my attention. BUT, if I just make a commitment to form a new habit of posting here every day and engaging for 30-60 minutes, this platform will be keeping my attention a lot better. Not to mention the raw power of actually owning my data here and being able to send and receive sats is an opportunity I’m sick of missing out on.