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A non-technical deep dive into NOSTR with onboarding for beginners based on an in-person presentation and workshop ran tonight with @Cripto Panas a fellow Bitcoin educator ⚡️ We onboarded a few new Nostriches 🙌🏼✨ Would love for this video to become a reference in the space, if you can help make that happen thank you! I open-sourced the slides, you can use them at your own meetup!
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 This resource includes: - What NOSTR is, how it works, and why it is unstoppable - Why Bitcoin is a key component to freeing the internet - Why you own your account (messages, followers, content...) entirely - How to see only see the content you want and with no ads - How to "program" your own algorithm - How to move your content history from one platform to another - Discover what is being built on NOSTR and how you can participate - What Bitcoin has to do with this (zaps) - Why NOSTR is already changing monetization strategies (v4v) - Steps to onboarding and so much more! :) About the presenters: Cripto Panas For more than four years, Cripto Panas has been creating educational content about Bitcoin through his videos, focusing on security, privacy, and practical use cases. His mission has always been to help people understand and safely adopt Bitcoin as a tool for financial freedom. https://www.youtube.com/@criptopanas Daniella Daniella is an interdisciplinary Bitcoin educator and facilitator with a background in Economics (HSD), Corporate Law (LLB), English (BA), Teaching (MA), and has spent over fifteen years of her career in Technology and Digital Marketing. She recently published the non-fiction book "Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity" about where Bitcoin could be taking humanity ✨
📙 Book: “Beyond Money” by Daniella Liberati
You’ve been programmed to accept a hidden monetary system designed to steal your time and keep you trapped—but what if you could break free?
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I'm working on a video and in-person presentation about #Nostr for non-Bitcoiners. Been digging into the numbers ( let me know if you spot any errors) and it's pretty fascinating to see: #YouTube Creator: - 30% cut to YouTube - 20–30% Income tax Leaves about $25 for every $50 earned. If you save that $25, after 8 years at 10% inflation YoY, it would be worth about $12 in today’s purchasing power. #v4v Model: - No middlemen - 20–30% Income tax - No capital gains taxes if you don’t convert to fiat (most places) - +45% CAGR if you hold it long term If held for 8 years, $25 of sats would be worth ~$553 at a 45% CAGR. Considering 10% inflation YoY it could buy $258 of goods in today’s purchasing power in 8 years. It’s clear v4v isn't sustainable short-term without savings or another form of income, but it operates on a completely different timeline. YouTube ads and other mainstream monetization models are firmly rooted in the fiat world while v4v is about manifesting the reality in which we wish to live; a higher timeline ⚡️✨
Tired of #YouTubeAds and fiat incentives? I was too - but haven't paid for Premium or seen a mainstream ad online in the last 2 years. I also broke the fiat incentive by de-monetizing my channel #v4vOnly Find out how to never see a YouTube ad again without AdBlock, Premium, giving up privacy, or wasting any time or money. And please share this video, because YouTube probably wont lol
Made my post into a video, hopefully it's better than a wall of text ^^
Been thinking about the Core/#Knots debate. Going back to first principles and Satoshi's Bitcoin Whitepaper: 📄.pdf - First Principle 1: Bitcoin is a monetary network "peer-to-peer electronic cash" - First Principle 2: "Honest" nodes secure the network "The system is secure as long as honest nodes collectively control more CPU power than any cooperating group of attacker nodes." - First Principle 3: Nodes keep the network decentralized "peer-to-peer" - First Principle 4: Bitcoin must remain decentralized and secure to function as a monetary network Bitcoin, as it was originally intended ("peer-to-peer electronic cash"), dissolves the false illusion of fiat by imposing Universal Laws in service to humanity and thus transforms the world. Bitcoin Core v30 Related to: - First Principle 1: Violates Bitcoin as a monetary network by welcoming larger non-monetary data on to the blockchain - First Principle 2: Compromises Bitcoin's security when nodes become public data storage forced to hold and relay illegal content uploaded to the blockchain by bad actors - First Principle 3: Compromises decentralization when it becomes too expensive, too complex, or illegal for regular individuals to run a node because the blockchain is bloated with non-monetary / illegal data - First Principle 4: Bitcoin is no longer a decentralized or secure monetary network if the previous first principles are violated Bitcoin, as storage for .jpegs and other non-monetary content, becomes a shitcoin. Core is not Bitcoin; we are Bitcoin. There is a thin line between "Bitcoin will be fine" and "we need to act to keep Bitcoin fine." The simple solution is to vote with your node 🧡 On a positive note: - This debate is strengthening Bitcoin as a monetary network; it is getting more plebs involved, running and actively managing their nodes. - It has made the issue of centralized mining more visible to the community and invited more plebs to run solominers. - It has also provided excellent signal! I'm grateful to be connecting with a lot more nodes who deeply care about this protocol for humanity and know what Bitcoin entails far beyond "1s and 0s"⚡️✨ For more info, would recommend these videos:
Running Linux 🙌🏼 :D Been an avid MacOS user for over a decade but could not stick around for 'Apple Intelligence' and relentless surveillance tech. This is such an exciting and welcome change to #FOSS. Just the initial install not having a bunch of bloat apps you can't uninstall is so 😘👌🏼 Feels empowering ⚡️✨
What if one of the biggest hurdles to grasping Bitcoin is the willingness to unlearn systemic programming? A few days ago I mentioned that I'm writing about the mental shifts Bitcoin demands of us. Turns out, there is far more to unpack than I thought; one article turned into three! 😅 Hoping to share next week 🙏🏼 Also, if book quality is something you appreciate you may enjoy this somewhat nerdy video ^^