Exactly one year ago I made my first post on Nostr using #[2]'s branle client. It was horrible, but good enough to demonstrate it.

Back then, most of the discussion happened in the telegram group because nostr was painful to use. The group was already big (500+ IIRC) but only like 20 people were active and all were developers, from memory I think #[3] #[4] #[5] and a few others.

The protocol was very simple and solved a real problem for real people. There was no funding, no "team", no leadership, just people having fun - the opposite of a cult.

It felt like the Linux community in my small town when I was a kid. It also kind of felt like the very experimental early days on Bitcointalk.

A year ago, these things made me feel like nostr was where I needed to be and what I needed to be working on, but what's happened over the past 12 months has been mind blowing to experience, and more than validates everything I thought back then.

I've been using my free time to work on nostr stuff for a while now (Nostrovia, nostrocket, nostr HK, etc), but now I've decided to drop everything else so I can focus **all** of my productive time on nostr development.

Many people are fearful of the problems that we are rapidly approaching as civilizations and as a species, but there's nothing to worry about if you understand the potential of open source, Bitcoin, nostr, and the human spirit.

Let's f*cking go!

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