Winning doesn't mean you are number one. That's being first.
- There's a lottery with 10 same prices, 10 winners.
- Sports game, who scores more wins, not the first eho scores.
Just two examples.
Bitcoin doesn't win if 8 billions people using it.. it doesn't care.. YOU WIN WHEN YOU START USING IT, AND EVERYONE WINS AS YOU DO WHEN THEY START USING IT TOO.
Winning doesn't imply there is One only winner while the rest die.
Winning means you are number 1, it means you are the best, you are just reframing “winning” as a personal journey, like you win when you opt into something good, not necessarily when you beat everyone else.
What you are saying is "woke" talk. Everyone is a winner!
That’s a feel-good, inclusive view. It is like the same mindset that gave everyone participation trophies.
In most competitive systems, business, sports, platforms, winning = being #1. It means dominance, reach, impact, survival.
What you are describing is more like benefiting or succeeding individually, not “winning” in the classic sense. Bitcoin doesn’t win because someone starts using it, that person wins. But for Bitcoin to win, it needs to DOMINATE the financial game.
Bitcoin is not winning yet. The corrupt fiat system is winning.
Saying “everyone wins” dilutes the meaning of “winning.” It’s a comforting message, but not how reality works when stakes are real.
You are making an argument basically on how I am using the word winning, and ehat concept is attributed yo it, saying winning is not succeeding, and restraining the meaning to "the only one who succeed".
Also, calling me woke, and putting words in my mouth (everyone wins, I don't care of everyone, and that's what I said, didn't need everyone to be here to feel I am winning).
Yes because you are trying to make yourself feel better by trying to avoid the fact that Nostr is not winning.
Nostr is not winning. Facebook is currently number 1 and that's the reality.
That's your view of seeing things, and in my opinion that's FIAT, counting the number of users as the only parameter first, and secondly thinking that "To Win" does imply you are the first and only.
NUMBER 1.. of what? For who? Lol! A platform where basically only 50+ years people interacts.. there's 5billimns profile ok, but I don't interact with my one in 15 years, thwy still count me as user. Lol!
I get your point, but you're kind of mixing personal benefit with system level dominance. Sure, you win personally when you use something good like Bitcoin. No argument there.
But when we talk about platforms or protocols “winning,” it does come down to adoption, network effects, and influence.
That’s not fiat thinking, it’s just reality.
If a tech platform is dead in user engagement, it’s not winning, even if it has 5B ghost accounts. But if it’s still shaping culture, news, or global policy, that says something.
It’s not about “only one can win and everyone else dies.” It’s about who’s leading, who’s setting the rules, who has momentum. That’s what “number one” means in this context.
Nostr is not number 1 yet and that's reality.
