I didn't realize how early we are here. As I understand it, Nostr is only 4 years old, and development has only really been happening, in earnest, for about two years. In Bitcoin terms, we're in like 2011 to 2013.
And maybe it's just me, but using Nostr today, it already feels better, in terms of accessibility for a relatively non-technical person, compared to Bitcoin in 2013.
I’ve always been a big reader and I’d heard about bitcoin in 2010. I called a broker for Merril Lynch and he literally laughed at me on the phone and said “are you fucking stupid”. Ended up just buying Google and not learning much more about Bitcoin. I didn’t have much computer experience. When I got to the point where I had to download some exchange and send money on a CC I gave up. I didn’t know enough about it and that sounded too risky for me so I did what most people did. Nothing. The first time I bought it was off an ATM because for whatever reason it trusted the ATM. They way overcharged but I was ok with that because I got a wallet off the App Store and stuck a few $100 in the ATM and my bitcoin showed up immediately. I still didn’t understand it but I was pretty comfortable with the idea that I did have some. Felt more real than the Google stock.
