Generally speaking 10% off on something isn't a screaming deal, but when it's a higher-priced item where you could save 20,000+ sats, we figure it's worth putting the word out. View quoted note →

Of 12 DMs I've initiated in the past 4 days, there were 2 confirmed undelivered and 1 with no response (that user isn't super-active so it's possible they just didn't see it). I used Gossip to send all of these, which somehow decides which encryption standard to use before sending. Not sure how it does it, but it seems to work around 80% of the time, which is way better than having me flip a coin 😂 View quoted note →

Big fan of this device 💯 View quoted note →

What's the best book to introduce someone to Bitcoin? Something simple and approachable? Childrens' book ideas also welcome. There's The Little Bitcoin Book from a few years ago but I wonder if anything else has come out since then.

Two small improvements pushed to ICKNO today. 1. The website makes expired links obvious, but Nostr does not. So expired links now show a notice before rerouting you to the product page, so you're not in the dark or annoyed when you don't see what you're expecting. 2. Mobile view was pretty bad for most phones. So now lines wrap and you can see everything. Especially useful for items priced in sats because we're still early and a few dollars is still thousands of sats 🤡

This is the long-term plan for ICKNO. We're going to show them the aggregate demand from bitcoiners for high-quality products. And demand that they accept high-quality money. View quoted note →

When Bitcoin dumps, it means your USD is relatively more valuable than it was before. So better to hodl your sats and dump dollars. And when the price of a product denominated in USD dumps at the same time, it's doubly good! View quoted note →

What did she expect, lol Pick the wrong kind of maximalism and HFSP

I really hope NIP-17 adoption doesn't go like IPv6 adoption 😬

FYI. Right now the process to be added to the ICKNO feed/website is highly subjective...basically, if I see you announce a new product, discount, or restock, I'll post it if I think it's something people will find notable. Restocks are extra-subjective because some products are more scarce than others. If a product is generally in-stock (or regularly restocked), alerting everyone to a restock isn't useful and dilutes the feed's signal. ICKNO needs to remain high-signal or it's useless. As another example, in the fiat world, product launch dates returned by the Shopify API usually aren't very reliable, so I've had to use my own judgment pretty heavily on what launches are worthwhile to post about and which aren't. I'm sure we'll figure out a better way to do this over time.