We don’t need a Nostr marketing team
We do need a Nostr growth team.
nostr:npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8 just published a good essay discussing whether Nostr needs a marketing team. I believe the answer is yes—but not marketing in the same way cryptocurrency projects have typically approached it.
https://www.curiousdk.com/p/6885aeab-251e-412b-bbba-1a0b09896558
We don’t need people running around buying ads. While having booths at conferences is beneficial for a community-driven project, I'm skeptical about the value of billboards or sponsoring athletes as ways to promote Nostr. It’s fun, sure, but it mostly reaches people who are already aware of it.
What we really need is a focused initiative to grow Nostr—distinct from the fantastic teams already building Nostr itself. In a typical company, this would be the Growth Team. They’d focus on how people discover and learn about Nostr, the path they take to join, how they choose their app, what their experience is when signing up, whether they find engaging content, and how to ensure they stick around and invite others. This is not to dismiss the great work OpenSats and HRF are doing, but a growth team is something distinct.
Each app can handle some of this, and that's working to an extent. But Nostr is more than just a collection of apps using shared code. It’s a network that becomes more valuable with every new app built on Nostr. For example, when a user joins Primal, it enhances the experience for Amethyst users, but it also becomes much more interesting for someone using YakiHonne or Zap.streams.
So, we need people focused on cultivating the Nostr ecosystem. This isn’t marketing in the traditional sense, like buying ads, but more of a Nostr Community Growth Team. We need people who can work with creators and community founders to help them get started on Nostr. There’s a lot to grasp, and some hand-holding will be necessary.
We also need better internal Nostr news—something like nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk but aimed at two different audiences. First, for users, fans, and developers on Nostr: how do you keep track of all the projects and what's happening? There’s so much going on that it’s hard to follow. The second is external: we’re doing tons of incredible stuff, and we should be building excitement about Nostr by showcasing these amazing projects and content to the wider world.
The team at nostr:npub1w9wuqc3s6lr25c4sgj52werj3tngvt43qrccqrher4wvn7tjm32s2ck403 does cover Nostr, which is awesome, but their focus is on multiple social media protocols. Journalists write when they feel there's news to break, and we haven’t been doing a great job feeding stories to them. We can improve on this. One initiative coming out of Nostriga is better coordination on getting Nostr folks on podcasts, especially beyond the Bitcoin bubble where most people have heard of Nostr.
At Nostriga, I talked to a lot of people about how Nostr keeps being framed as an alt-right protocol in the media. That’s simply not true, but we need to work on changing that narrative. Nostr is for everybody, how Nostr is framed does matter. People don’t join a social app because of its functionality, they join because of the other people who are already on the app. Projects like Trustroots.io, Causes.com, and Protest.net will help showcase a different side of Nostr and build new communities beyond our Bitcoin-focused core.
Nostr has already grown in new languages and communities, thanks to creators sharing about it on centralized platforms. We saw this with the Thai community—it’s fantastic. Let’s develop a program to support these creators. We’ve been discussing with nostr:npub13qrrw2h4z52m7jh0spefrwtysl4psfkfv6j4j672se5hkhvtyw7qu0almy how she wants a space to onboard her fans into a community together. There’s a lot of promise in Ditto, which I’m excited about—I’ve set up an instance at social.protest.net. What if we helped each of these creators build their own communities on Nostr? From that initial onboarding, their community would be able to connect across all Nostr apps.
This isn’t exactly traditional marketing—it’s more like cultivating and nurturing a healthy Nostr ecosystem.
If we make it easy for communities to create their own spaces on Nostr, we can grow organically in countless directions. Every new user will feel ownership and be inspired to bring more people along. To achieve that growth, we need to lay the groundwork. We’ve got the apps, but we need to work with the people. After all, we’re building social software, and both the technology and the people are equally important.
why trying to zap you it says you have no ln address, but clearly your note has lots of zaps. using primal.net here
bom dia fml
querendo achar brasileiros pra seguir! cadê vcs?
you can use a HDMI to Ethernet adapter. it takes the video and turn it into a mpeg stream
I think you all know that, but here it goes: DO NOT SELL YOUR BITCOIN TO THE ETF GUYS! HODL! THEY WANT IT CHEAP!
Resolution: Alright! It seems that I wasn't able to pay a invoice, so the withdrawn failed every time. Using a WalletOfSatoshi LN address worked!
Not sure why the deposit failed.
https://m.primal.net/IdMS.mp4 This doesn't even make sense! If I try several times, it eventually says it was sent but never really work... help anyone? The LN channel is facing problems? What is going on please?
Trying to withdraw and not succeeding.. looking not good
Great 🫠
Huh.. it failed 😥
It just changed to failed right now 😕
GM
Please, help me out I got a LN payment stuck on primal.net! It was sent more than a hour ago and still nothing show up. On the other side I can see the payment was sent and still not confirmed. 🫠
#Zap #Nostr So guys... I have a stalled LN payment here in primal.net. It was sent more than a hour ago and still nothing... what is happening?
The bitcoin snowball: In software, many vulnerabilities stay unknown because there is no financial incentive to even exploit them, worse yet fix them. As bitcoin is money, it has value which attracts attackers, which failing to exploit it, makes it more valuable yet. Which them make it more valuable to buyers. Which makes attackers wanting to exploit it even harder. Which gives opportunity to make bitcoin even more difficult to exploit. Which make it even more valuable.
It feels like a perfect feedback loop when you need the money to be like that: secure, reliable and independent.
And what really blows my mind is that, Satoshi didn't moved his coins. So there are several blocks with full block reward unmoved, the oldest ones. Satoshi didn't moved it and no attacker were able to figure out the private keys.
I think many might have, at least, thought about moving Satoshi's coins. But no body is able to, if that was possible it would have happened already.
We're excited to announce a new initiative to get creators and journalists on to Nostr. This is a project organized by nos.social with nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg, nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x, nostr:npub13myx4j0pp9uenpjjq68wdvqzywuwxfj64welu28mdvaku222mjtqzqv3qk, nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955, and nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q. The goal is to get a diversity of content on to nostr and show those creators and journalists that the nostr model of zaps and the new subscription content over nostr is a better alternative to centralized advertising driven platforms. #value4value
Please share this with creators and journalists you know who are already on Nostr and also those who might want to join. This will include both getting these folks on to the nostr apps which make sense for them, setting them up with a wallet, teaching them how to be successful on nostr, and importantly promoting them through a bunch of channels on nostr so they can build and audience.
We don't have the deep pockets of meta and tiktok, nor their powerful AI driven algorithms, but we've got something that can be more powerful, people.
Creators and Journalists know they're stuck sharecropping on centralized platforms that can demonetize or delete or just shadow ban their accounts. One day their content gets broadcast to the world, the next the algorithm doesn't even show it to their followers. Their revenue is dependent on getting a cut from an opaque and arbitrary advertising system.
So, share these links, if you're a creator or journalist sign up, and when we start promoting these folks on nostr, check out what they're doing and if you like it, send them zaps. This is open to both existing nostr creators and journalists and new ones we'll onboard.
Nice!
the true is that most of us can't get Asics to contribute. I'm in Brazil, getting an Asic here is not about having the money to buy, or actually it is, you gotta be rich. BitAxe have be doing a great job being a small miner that you can actually build from scratch. but that is a individual in a small group, we need people that can make it happen in a large scale
Twitter is done. Elon closed the API by the weekend. Asking $100 for API access. What a joke!
The Fed Proposes A 4th Function Of Money: Means Of Social Control https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fed-proposes-4th-function-money-means-social-control
Wtf "blockchain enhanced by quantum computing technologies" even means
Fear not #hacker, your weapon is the definitive weapon: Knowledge. Be truthful and fair, and you'll be fine.
Great article!