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Nostrization #نسترة

I do believe that bitcoin is one super app away from mainstream adoption. The open source app should theocratically allow for cheap sats stacking, be user friendly, non-kyc and international with multiple languages.

The person/people who figure this out will be awarded the highest peace awards for sure.

It's still in beta. Why?

The public outrage against Twitter while solutions like Nostr exist reminds me of the whole fiat system and those who are screaming at it.

As learned from #[0]; Don't fight the broken system, exit it.

Is it normal that I listened to pretty much every single podcast that #[0] did and that I do a YT search for him every week to see if he did a new pod?

Any idea why Nostr quickly got traction in Japan of all places?

I tried it but got stuck with KYCs. An official ID was not enough apparently. Those frictions, while understandable, are what hinder progress I think. But overall I liked the interface and ease of creating a purchase. Better than Moonpay for example.

If fees/spread are similar to those of P2P platforms (3-4%?) but come with direct single option to just buy BTC & send to wallet, without dealing with 3rd parties, I think it will be a huge deal.

Many people would stomach the high fees if it means they can buy easily at anytime/anywhere.

I envision it as a last resort portal to escape fiat for those who are unable to use centralized exchanges.

An international KYCed or non-KYCed platform, open to all nationalities, where you can use your day-to-day credit/debit cards or wire transfers to buy BTC through Lightning and sell back to it. It can also host a marketplace (think ebay) where people can sell their stuff for BTC and start accumulating it.

Sounds too extreme to be feasible but this is the only way for a wider adoption and ultimately a true open & decentralized world.

I wonder how #[1] sees Nostr in relation to Block's other projects (Bluesky, DID included). Is it part of it? Or did Nostr change the way those projects are being built?

Replying to Avatar Jameson Lopp

Contagion evaded?

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

People are quick to forget that Twitter is a privately owned company now. It's a private platform therefore. Why are we surprised to see such things?

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Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

Perhaps he's just a flawed human being.