Same here. I was bored and wanted to look at some of the new socials. I refuse to go on FB or the platform formally know as the bird app. Looked at Bluesky, but that was a waitlist, I tried and disliked mastadon years ago and gave it quick glance to confirm it still wasn't my jam.
Found nostr in a google search, downloaded Iris.to and down the rabbit hole I went.
The bit-bro thing was a bit offputing, and talk of orange and purple pills made me leary that there were going to be "alpha" red pill douches ( the ironies of them using that are legion, but that's a dif rant) here, but the I saw artst trending and that was cool, and the devs being right there was cool, and i wanted to see what was going to happen next. And cool things keep happening next.
I had some experience with bitcoin ages ago, like 2012 or 13? But basically wrote it off at the time (really, even now lighting as a functional payment system is the only reason I'm paying it any attention now).
nostr feels a lot like the early web. There is so much potential here.