Last Notes
I run a Bitcoin node, a Nostr relay, a Blossom relay for my content, a website on my own Mac mini.
I've been painting for many years, and it's only since joining Nostr that I sell them for Bitcoin.
It took months. Study, attempts, failures, starting over.
Sometimes I don't even think about it.
Then I stop for a second and I can't quite believe I got here.
https://isolabellart.it.com/
I know what you mean, it’s really frustrating.
But Wisp on iOS is a good thing: it’s more accessible, there are more users, and it’s livelier. And anyone who wants Tor can easily use a VPN.
Sometimes it seems like people just want to make everything more complicated.
Gm
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DESPITE
Oil on board - May, 2026
40×40 cm
Outside it was raining.
Inside, jazz.
DESPITE painted itself.
That day when the colors were there but nothing worked, I put everything away and came back another time.
Today it spoke.
Sometimes a painting needs rain and jazz to find its way.
The fruit of good labour. Painted with care. Sold for the only real money.
Available here 👇
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1 €
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Legend has it that Salvador Dalí paid for dinners by drawing on the back of his checks.
Nobody knows if it's entirely true. Maybe it was Picasso. Maybe the details grew over time, as beautiful stories tend to do.
But the mechanism it describes is real:
Dalí had turned his name into a currency.
The check wasn't worth the money written on it, it was worth something because he had touched it.
The restaurateur didn't cash it because he understood something fundamental:
value doesn't live in the object, it lives in the consensus around it.
This isn't some quirky principle of contemporary art.
It's the principle behind every currency in history.
Gold is valuable because enough of us decided it was.
The dollar is valuable because we trust whoever issues it.
Bitcoin is valuable because a sufficient number of people chose to believe in it, with no one forcing them to.
The difference between a banknote and a random piece of paper isn't the material.
It's the shared story we build around it.
Dalí may have known this. Or maybe he didn't.
But the legend knows it on his behalf.
GM 🫂🎨
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BOE NEL LAGO
Oil on board canvas - August, 2023
Dimensions: 30 × 30 cm
The fruit of good labour.
Painted with care.
Sold for the only real money.
Available here 👇
https://isolabellart.it.com/product/mikfn5xk-txc386
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Møns Klint in Denmark
Yes, but you unfollowed me.
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Compliments don’t put food on the table.
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To paint it or not to paint it?
GM
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My Instagram profile, visible anonymously 👇
https://imginn.com/isolabellart/
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Completely agree — these bridges are what turn freedom tech from a niche experiment into something people actually use daily.
I'd add one more to your list: a Nostr client with read-only follows of Instagram accounts. Services like imginn.com already let you browse Instagram anonymously — imagine that built into a Nostr feed, so you could follow your favorite painters or artists without needing an account or feeding the algorithm. That's the kind of onramp that makes people stay.
The daily usage numbers you're seeing are the proof.
More bridge-builders needed! 💪
GM
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Bitcoiners on Twitter make me laugh.
They want a monetary revolution, but can’t take the smallest step: switching apps.
“Bitcoin will change the world”… yet they stay where the only thing that changes is the algorithm.
On Nostr, they might get paid.
On Twitter, they are the product.
But hey, at least there they feel “seen.”
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- Andrew Barrowman #art
Chissà, magari un giorno.
Grazie mille Daniele 🙏
Per me sarebbe un vero piacere che tu fossi il suo custode.
Se vuoi ci mettiamo d'accordo 😊
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EVANESCENZE
Oil on board - February, 2025
Dimensions: 40 × 40 cm
The fruit of good labour.
Painted with care.
Sold for the only real money.
Available here 👉 https://isolabellart.it.com/product/mikh5os9-29m4xj
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BLINDING SUNSET
Oil on board - March, 2025
Dimensions: 40 × 40 cm
The fruit of good labour.
Painted with care.
Sold for the only real money.
Available here 👉 https://isolabellart.it.com/product/mikhaz4q-rk375c
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WHERE THE DAY ENDS
Oil on cradle wood panel - February, 2026
Dimensions: 30,5 × 23 cm
The fruit of good labour.
Painted with care.
Sold for the only real money.
Available here 👉 https://isolabellart.it.com/product/ml9bqg45-tgw950
True wealth does not lie in what you manage to keep for yourself.
But in what you manage to give away.
And, sometimes, the most precious things in life cannot be measured in terms of money.
I stack sats. I sell paintings for Bitcoin.
I believe in hard money.
And yet.
The things that stay with me the longest are never the ones I can measure.
A sincere comment under a painting.
An unexpected compliment from a stranger.
Someone who stopped, really stopped, to look.
That's not nothing.
That's everything.
Notifications are also better on iOS.
I like that there is a preview line of text.
How does the blue circle come off?
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art · /s/art https://substr.network/s/art
This photo looks like a Flemish painting
It's nicer than the Android version, great job 💪
My favourite word in English, because of the way it sounds and the way it rolls off the tongue, is ‘Unbelievable’.
What’s your favourite Italian word? 🇮🇹🤌
Experiment: I asked Claude to compare the main Nostr clients and rank them.
I didn't suggest anything. The result:
🥇 Wisp — "the best features/simplicity ratio in the category"
🥈 Amethyst — the protocol's lab, but heavy
🥉 Primal — great onboarding, but outdated DM spec and minimal relay control
Even AIs keep up.
👉 https://wisp.mobile/
Thanks @nprofile…n638 🙏🫂🎨
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I don't paint Bitcoin art.
My paintings are landscapes. Light. Silence.
But I sell them for Bitcoin, because it's the only money I trust.
Someone noticed. And made an exception for me.
@npub1zrc…mvxc has dedicated a page to my work.
In a moment when sales are quiet, this kind of recognition means more than I can say.
Thank you to everyone there for seeing something worth including.
👉 bitcoinartmagazine.com/artist/isolabellart/
#art #artstr #isolabellart #bitcoin
Wisp will become synonymous with Nostr very soon as well as Primal, I have a feeling.
Maybe the fact that I had to bring home money that art didn't give me. I don't remember.
Even if you appreciate my art and have been following me for a long time, there is something about me that you may not know.
After making my first paintings in 1989, I stopped making art in 1992 for no particular reason. It was only the love for my wife that prompted me, exactly 30 years later, in May 2022, to pick up my brushes again. I have not stopped since then.
The most surprising thing is that by a simple stroke of luck my first painting was sold almost a year later, in March 2023.
Right around that time, @npub10qk…q8pc created the #zaps on Nostr.
This event ignited in me the idea of selling my paintings in Bitcoin.
The rest of the story is encapsulated here, among my notes and other stuff.
https://isolabellart.it.com
Breez liquid or Breez Spark?
Congrats! 👏🫂
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