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image I wrote a short rant called "fuck easy" a couple of days ago. I've been listening to podcasts and after the 5th person complaining that nostr is too hard (is it, really?) I was fed up and typed this out on my phone. I hope that we can return to a point, culturally, where "hard" is okay, just like the first level of the original Super Mario was hard. Coddling everyone's mind has led us to the upside-down clown world we're currently living in, and coddling everyone's body has led to less-than-optimal health, to put it mildly. In the Bitcoin world, coddling users and making things "easy" has led to Coinbase-by-default and other stupid bullshit, and I truly am fed up with all of that. There is a better way, but the "better" isn't necessarily "easy."

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Logical is necessary, and it often contradicts easy. That's the real grit in the lube of all this. People's minds have been shrunk from 60+ years of counterintelligence cultification of everything. Then the food and drug companies come along and make their FDA advocacy and the food is now also making people more retarded. It's really hard to reach people who have suffered through all these things, and more. It's also why I am usually happy to read another awake human being who has managed to wrangle a decent following without playing the charismatic cult leader game so hard.
Well, I'm just after setting up my account, so I am by no means a power user πŸ˜… The opposite of ''hard'' doesn't have to necessarily be ''easy''. It can also be soft as in child's play, the soft focus of being curious, having an open mind, the joy metric of wonder, discovering something exciting, fascinating & new, making mistakes, learning through breaking things and embarrassing yourself, falling into the void abyss of public relays and picking yourself up again... Stepping into the unknown is like a micro death. The death of the ego.
I started stacking not long ago, and it is extremely easy. Saylor, Saif and Jeff Booth just explained the basic in 3 hours. Taking self custody is super easy with the coldcard + sparrow and buying BTC is easier than banking with strike. IMO builders and the minds on the BTC space hava already paved the way and made it easy. No excuses. P.S. I am very dumb, if I can, anyone can. But they won't.
I think the upcoming Satellite drop is going to impress most. The newly retooled back end protocol makes it super fast and the front end UX has new features most people have been waiting for. Your bud @Stuart is about to impress us all. I've been following his progress IRL and got sneak previews of what's coming. Can't say more until it's drops. It's a culmination of 15 months work. Gonna be amazing. Watch out Damus and Primal it's about to get real.