hey, not saying the middle of england didn't do great things, i mean, really, really great things

but i think also that what nostr has achieved was something that was in thousands of people's minds after they grasped what bitcoin was, i cite as evidence the sheer volume of efforts to create decentralised social networks and the many models that were proposed that finally some crazy brazillian used to devise a client and a relay and the rest was history

it took a LONG time for this to happen

partly, i think, because the people with the brains to do it were driven outside of the education system by marxist ideology, btw.