Wow, you wrote that in 2014 and in the past decade of covering bitcoin, you’ve stayed completely out of it. I’m curious though, couldn’t the same argument be made about financial journalists who accept fiat as payment? Is it posible that journalists who write about central bank-issued currencies or equities hold biases toward the vehicles they choose to denominate their net worth in? If a writer covering the stock market has an IRA or 401(k), they are holding assets with an expectation of future appreciation.

Maybe it’s time to consider revising your thesis, or at minimum, turn on the breakthrough feature of #nostr that replaces worthless likes with something of real value. It won’t make anyone rich, but it may provide a better perspective on why so many here see the native currency of then internet as simply a better form of money.