Many older men friends told me I should do that but I fell like it was weird so I went against their advice. So far 11 years (and four kids) in and I don’t regret this at all. And my wife and I fight a lot. We are from very different cultures and different personalities.

I’m convinced that once you have kids, there is no way back.

I’m sure there are some crazy exception cases when divorce is the only way out but I like to keep that option terrible, expensive and unknown. Burn the ships!

This is brutal

Haha

Amazing! Thanks for posting the progress.

The zap amount is all-time (ie since the beginning of nostr)?

How are the nostr users counted?

Awesome!

Great response! I think this is why its so important for all of us who are technically able to understand and help to really talk to people who trust us, and help them self-custody.

When “everyone else” does it, you also wont look as stupid if anything goes wrong. That’s my observation how people work.

Yep, I think its legit concern. In today’s fiat system in the US, any significant income to your bank account, ie if you wanna buy a house, is scrutinized (ie where did you get this from?) and its reasonable to assume that centralized exchange will be forced to do the same. So if you need to sell it on an exchange (finding someone peer-to-peer requires a lot more work and danger to get screwed, especially to normal people who trust the institutions), you will need to prove where you got it from and it will be easier when the institution can prove when you bought it.

Not saying I endorse this, just my attempt to explain.

Love Kevin Kelly. Thanks for bringing this interview to my attention!

Very impressive that he adapted to you being different and embraced that. So wonderful and inspiring!

Connecting people. He would support local business, join various social groups, just to support them. He would often volunteer time to help with whatever these people needed. He would rarely pick sides and instead always try to explain why the other side wasn't completely wrong.

I used to think that he was just doing things for others without having strong opinion on anything... but later I realized that he became so respected in the community that he would often be the only person that all sides of an argument were willing to talk to, and as a result he had more influence than the opinionated people fighting for their causes.

I still haven't learned it :-)

Just to close the loop, I distributed 100k sats across the most useful answers, as promised. Thanks everyone for participating!

This is incredible. And yes you basically called out most of my private notes on this so far. Yes, we are thinking about this in a very similar way. I will keep you posted!!!

Very good point!

Thank you. That API is what I need, very helpful!

Yep, private communities are very popular. I just think WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram group is good enough for most people and open protocol doesn’t add as much value.

I like to be generous to SN:-)

I was thinking about it as yet another nostr app:-) one that gives the user better control over what content they get. None of the apps that I tried so far allows me to do that or at least I haven’t found it yet. I can follow specific users and get all of their content, or some apps allow watching specific hashtags but I think there is much more control one could get.

You could call it content curation I guess but I’m thinking about it from a single user-consumer perspective, not a community content moderation. Although those two might be similar I guess.