What if I propose to use the Nostr network to bootstrap a global decentralized P2P order book to exchange between fiat & Bitcoin? To no longer serve as a backup to centralized social media, but also as the defacto, natively decentralized and non-custodial way to onboard people to Bitcoin? Ensuring the on-ramp & off-ramps can never be closed, at least until the entire world is using Bitcoin natively in every single transactions.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a perfect encapsulation of....something.
Nostr is actually about what people think they represent; "Freedom, self sovereignty, Bitcoin".
It doesn't have to solve a real problem; all it has to do is make people feel good about themselves, so that they can, "identify" with it.
Meanwhile, in the real world that they're hiding from, access to Bitcoin is being made harder and harder by the EU (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R1114&pk_keyword=Crypto%20assets&pk_content=Regulation) while they Virtue Signal and spray around tiny amounts of "Sats", the origin of which is never accounted for.
Nostr is an easy place to be and hide; you don't have to take responsibility for what you're doing (or failing to do) in the real world, and you can openly Virtue Signal in several areas simultaneously. It's crack for Virtue Signallers.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with the idea behind Nostr, which is just software. This is a "people problem", a problem of the character of some users, and obviously, this brush cannot be used to paint all Nostr users.
It's endlessly fascinating!
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