It's funny how everything ends up becoming an infamous business.

Bitcoin conferences have long since become a business, they really serve no purpose.

Now the same thing is happening with controlled dissidence, it is becoming a succulent business.

There are no prophets, everyone has their own interests, never believe anyone, no matter who they are.

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

“If your father hadn't meet your mother, would you be here? Now of course somebody would be here, because he might have met somebody else. Would that be you? Of course it would. Don't you see, you can only be you by being someone. But every someone is you. Every someone is 'I'. That's your name. You say it’s 'me.’ 'I' am here. And everybody feels that 'I' in the same way. It’s the same feeling.”

— Alan Watts

Stop trying to relate bitcoin to christ. Mammon is not compatible

Why can’t I sleep in anymore👀

Okay, let me get this right #democracy is good on #Earth but the concept of #Heaven is a #monarchy? That's some amazing #CognitiveDissonance.

🤔

#NOSTRiches #AMthoughts

The largest #bitcoin known holder (Saylor/MSTR) is anti-Medium of Exchange.

We're going to make it a MoE anyway.

Are you prepared for over 1% of the supply to be dumped on the market causing a 90% fiat price drop? I am.

We need to shake all these Wallstreet suit retards off.

> Kill your heroes

If Saylor was ever your hero, you seriously need to reevaluate all your life decisions.