How many of your NIPs have been adopted and merged? I know Vitor has picked up a few, but most NIPs emerge out of developers solving their own problems, not other people offering solutions.

I began my nostr journey by writing my own protocol. Fiatjaf dismissed me as an academic, until I gave up on my ivory tower and started writing real software - on nostr, because I realized I couldn't build a protocol on my own. I think he was right to do so.