Nostr is just a communication protocol. The reason it isn’t generating revenue right now, in my opinion, isn’t because of the protocol itself. It’s simply that the people using it haven’t found the right ideas yet, or many are comfortable with the status quo. Nobody thinks today’s internet industry is profitable because of how the HTTP protocol was designed.

But if by nostr you mean the Twitter-like kind 1 clients, then I have a genuine question: what is the actual goal of a nostr kind 1 client?

A. Become the next Twitter.

In that case, we’d need to spend money bringing in influencers and give them ways to monetize on nostr, stronger ads, storefronts, creator tools, etc.

B. Become a place where ordinary people can speak freely and post their everyday, boring, normal lives. A platform where the main characters are regular users, not influencers.

If that’s the goal, then we’ve already achieved it. On Japanese and Chinese relays, most of the content is exactly that, simple, mundane posts from normal people.