I noticed recently that each time I go on legacy social media

I get content from men in their late 30s with huge digital audiences

Chatting through a range of interesting subjects

But none of them are married, or have kids

Now each to their own. You do you.

But my experience having been blessed to become a father

Means I now struggle to take advice from people who aren’t

It’s impossible to explain the deep connection to a child

Plus the newfound sense of responsibility that you now have

Whilst of course a family being the most important investment of all

🤔

I can confirm that juggling a newborn (needs to sleep), a 2 year old (needs cuddles), & a 4 year old (needs games)

All at the same time

Is a whole new level!

🤯😅

In the same way that substack helps convert email subscribers into paying community members

Could you have a Nostr client that converts followers into a paying community member

On upgrade the customer gets access to private insider info and messenger groups etc

#asknostr

There is circa 5 Bitcoin focused VC funds that I know and respect

Where are they domiciled? Where are their investments domiciled?

Investing in freedom tech with a nation state limited company equity structure surely has to have risks associated with it

Corporations get pressure from governments all the time

I wonder the best place to setup?

I love that some people you meet in Bitcoin & Nostr are so freedom oriented they are “unemployable”

They reject the concept of the requirement for a fiat employment contract

Good reminder: history shows the intransigent minority has an outsized impact

In the same way that the high priests of Keynesian economics aim for a 2% inflation rate

Is there a deflation rate that is optimal?

(Assuming 2% inflation is actually optimal, which I would strongly argue it might not be… forgive me not a great question! 😂)

“Nostr is an echo chamber”

Was a reason someone gave not to look into it recently

They had just sold an email newsletter list they built via Twitter

What’s the best way to help this kind of creator take another look at Nostr?

Had a good reminder today of the difference between permissionless & permissioned money

Moving AUD from a bank account to a crypto exchange my withdrawal got blocked

It took 4 days for the bank to contact me and try to resolve the situation

“We’re writing in reference to recent unusual activity on your ANZ Internet Banking/ANZ Mobile Banking.

As a precautionary measure your Customer Registration Number (CRN) has been temporarily suspended to prevent unauthorised use.”

After a single phone call it was resolved, but wow the questions their fraud team asked were strange

- first it’s all the kyc confirmation. Dob. Addresss. Phone number. Full name. They’re the ones calling you btw..

- then the all questions: is this for crypto? Is it just yourself? Have you done this a long time? This seems to be a new platform??? Etc etc

What’s frustrating is

1) how slow to notify me they’d stopped the withdrawal 2) the amount of info they already have that they need repeated back to them 3) the info they already had but didn’t look for (I’ve only ever used this exchange in the 3 years I’ve had the account eg, so it can’t be new, and also I’ve clearly done it before)

In short, when you have to ask permission to move your money, it creates so many hurdles

& hence the ability to opt out with Bitcoin is so important, valuable, and needed

🙏🏻

Is there a way to DM all your Nostr followers at once?

Akin to a bulk email list

#asknostr

Got an analytics report from my producer as we analyse the Bitcoin Mentor Podcast I’ve been creating

“Regarding the drop in Twitter/X numbers, I get worried about shadowbans sometimes, but could just be a quiet period. Let's see what this next month brings.”

Nostr fixes this

Indeed, the more I think about it, the more content creation on anything but Nostr is a miss-allocation of capital

You’re building on quicksand with poorer property rights than you ever thought was the case

Not being de-platformed is the edge Nostr has on everything else which I believe speaks to creators most

I have a Business Management BA from a top UK University

Austrian economics was never mentioned…

Why?

What are the chances of Bitcoin being at $450k usd in 12 months from now?

#asknostr

The more I look at Nostr, the more I see the strongest network effect of any digital ecosystem I’ve ever studied