Eric FJ 🪬⚡️

Who wants to come hang with me at FreedomFest 2026 in Las Vegas next month? nostr:nprofile1qqsq3ppke5pel7ysw3rgl5e8lt8ky7zwavm5jrs2zx9tnu2vn5nydnqtnjel6 spoke at this event last year. Feels like a place we can purple pill a lot of folks. https://freedomfest.com/

We did something special this morning... The first known "Zap Out" of a real physical product sold exclusively over Nostr and settled entirely on Bitcoin rails. It wasn't a mock checkout. It was a real merchant controlled npub, a real product, a real buyer controlled npub, and real sats. We worked through loading states. We hit errors. We found a bug. We fixed it. And nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7cm0dej826t5dsezuenv0yhxgetk9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qqswp94gnm4epqsgjkndl4lnd8krzdj5u4mzuppdtxksdymkty63g7gmjgjwf , the freedom tech pioneer that he is, stuck with me until we got it done. Here's what happened: ⚡ nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7cm0dej826t5dsezuenv0yhxgetk9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qqswp94gnm4epqsgjkndl4lnd8krzdj5u4mzuppdtxksdymkty63g7gmjgjwf published a product for sale on Nostr. ⚡ I discovered it through Conduit. ⚡ I assembled a cart client-side. ⚡ A Lightning invoice was generated through the merchant's zap endpoint. ⚡ I paid it. ⚡ The merchant did not need to be online, logged in, or present at checkout. The merchant published sellable state once... the buyer completed the purchase later. No marketplace custody. No payment processor in the middle. No platform holding funds. Just Nostr for identity, discovery, and commerce. Lightning for settlement. A completely asynchronous, peer-to-peer checkout flow... this is what open protocol commerce looks like. One small step for nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7cm0dej826t5dsezuenv0yhxgetk9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qqswp94gnm4epqsgjkndl4lnd8krzdj5u4mzuppdtxksdymkty63g7gmjgjwf. One giant leap for freedom tech. 🧡⚡ https://blossom.primal.net/66790f960eeb558e2926e193dd2645aed88e1a5b5614bb77546597ec25779147.png https://blossom.primal.net/c060d7ff7775c47c4f560b03d9a7b260093abad680172dd4435011e4fa5657f3.png

Fun fact: Nostr apps are disproportionately represented by Canadians 🇨🇦. If you made a list of the top 10 most important Nostr infrastructure projects today, Canada would be represented far beyond what you’d expect statistically. So when you see things getting heated you are really witnessing a rare Canadian battle royale. cc nostr:nprofile1qqsw9n8heusyq0el9f99tveg7r0rhcu9tznatuekxt764m78ymqu36cprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucnfw33k76twwpshy6ewvdhk6qgjwaehxw309amk7apww468smewdahx26syw0s 😅 https://blossom.primal.net/d05d52795aa7490853b2732dc8211ac314b8c39431fd0fd837c24f0ef6a0ce08.png

The fact that Nostr is still here may be more important than the fact that it’s still small. Years later, through rough UX, missing features, relay debates, bear markets, and endless skepticism… the ember never went out. That should tell you something. Kevin Kelly’s “1000 True Fans” feels incredibly relevant here. Maybe open protocols don’t begin with mass adoption. Maybe they begin with a small number of people who care enough to endure. People who build because they believe. People who stay before it’s easy. People who see the shape of something before the rest of the world does. Those communities change history more often than people realize. https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/

I can tell you it’s been really rewarding to open up to this community. And I think you especially would garner far more love than hate if you decided to take the plunge

I wonder if most people haven’t experienced it like you have. For example: I answered “more freedom” but I don’t really use a nym so my opsec is easier. Maybe if I was living it I’d be tired of the precautions. And so maybe my answer was wrong.

Totally true come to think of it …and their DM standard is deprecated too so I can’t even interact 1-1 with others outside their drama free bubble! 🥲

nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hsz9nhwden5te0dehhxarjv4kxjar9wvhx7un89uuv2x8p the marketing dept responded with the following: https://blossom.primal.net/45aea44aca23c693923fe872091c91601d04b25d2ecd5161d08eb7094a4ec611.png nostr:nevent1qqstcxdgk3klurz92uqx5vkcx9rqtsxfpal0pa33fdh6qc9e3aueydcv8xvp6

They’ll make a movie about Nostr one day called “The Anti-Social Network” nostr:nevent1qqs2hvw740sft9uaufvw7h697m7cxrfh2tscl9sadmeysguup9pnkfqa0zsan

Seen some people complain about lack of algos but damn sometimes the latest posts are just pure fire. Like an organic synchronicity of awesomeness. Sure it’s rarer, but sweeter than any curated feed when it happens.