You not wrong, I just don’t lie to myself in thinking that the majority of folks are thinking about money in those ways right now. I usually explain nostr as seizing the means of communication over cable from corporate monopolies (+ the gov) and that seems to click more for people than the bitcoin integration. Nostr is the underdog here as the only truly grassroots social protocol that provides the most freedom for users.

I think more like child porn, silk road, and dark web vibes.

Only non-tech people.

Either they think it's spooky (rare). Or mostly just don't have the brainpower to learn it (common).

I got some that won’t touch it because they think nostr = blockchain and if you get anywhere near bitcoin you become an evil ultra right wing libertarian anarcho capitalist.

Even if they are currently on twitter, which has supported bitcoin payments for years now, they can’t break the association with bitcoin because of nostr’s marketing. I been saying someone needs to take off the blockchain hashtags from the Nostr World YouTube channel videos for this reason. Nostr is not bitcoin, there are just a bunch of bitcoiners in here currently lol

I can forgive those people for being ignorant.

That would be an evil person.

Wen Beta!?!?

You are probably right. It is a different paradigm here, and what works on other platforms doesn’t necessarily work here. Not a bad thing. Just different. As some of the clients are starting to mature into very user friendly apps, I hope we see a bit more growth in adoption and use by creators. Nostr is incredible and I believe it can be a powerful vehicle for artists/creators to connect with their audiences.

Right, it works until it doesn’t. Nostr is better in my view. But until it doesn’t work for someone I can see why they’d stay there.

Good example of what nostr is up against in appealing to people. Here’s a bitcoiner with 150K follower on X, posting content for a niche audience, earning $1200 every 2 weeks. Centralized and KYC, yes, but that’s a decent side hustle, and in some places that’s a full time income. How does nostr appeal to creators so they want to spend more time here? This guy’s last post on nostr was nearly a year ago 🥲

Saffron mama

so many new nostr releases

not enough time

Also, for transparency, I'm keeping DOGE and XMR.

DOGE, because Elon's got a new job and well, it might, you know 🚀

XMR, because I'm being sold that thing for privacy on NOSTR and well, you know. I don't really, but let's see what happens!

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