Recently I receive the question a lot, why I’m not Nostr first, or whatever that’s supposed to mean. I went to MIT two years ago and at a debate at the MIT Media Lab about new laws for media and content distribution and decentralized alternatives hosted by a Harvard professor and professor Sandy PDangerous Crow was answering everyone. I missed Nostrica and Nostrasia, because of work and obligation to my team and their families. But still went to and supported all Nostr events at all the conferences. Only for those same people to ignore me when we needed Nostr in Suriname. I had dinner at conferences wiHigh Elk Vanessa Avi Burra The only person who showed up was calvadev⚡️ and we couldn’t even reach the amount of people we could have. Heck, we almost had to cancel the whole thing after a year of work (for a measly budget for the whole thing, $20K) if Bitcoin Beach hadn’t jumped in. It was severely downscaled. Nostr is supposedDerek Ross I am 1 person.. without help. We live in a totalitarian police state. The masses are silenced. The nurses, the teachers, they’re paid $175-200 a month in salaries and if anyone talks, the government threatens them and they lose their jobs. Political actiMarce sabotages me any chance she gets. Me participating in these elections as a political activist almost cost me and my child our lives last weekend. In the hospital, I was taken off IV and left to die. While I felt my pulse plummet. And cried while I begged GDaedalus Labs was uninvited from Madeira, we were going to pitch FOSS, thanks to discussing nepotism in a private group. There is so much centralization and unethical competition in the Bitcoin conference echo chamber/bubble fuck fest, that I skip all of them. Because