People will ridicule you as the first person to see Bitcoin. And it’s ok. The time will come.

#Nostr is where it becomes normal to use #bitcoin for transacting.

You'll need to use a web browser extension. Several exist. I use Alby on desktop and nos2x on mobile with the Kiwi browser for Android. If you're on iOS, you can use the Nostore app with Safari.

good morning nostr, learn useful skills, build strong communities, stay humble and stack sats 🫡

Yes, will be there drinking #coffe as well.

I’m a daydreamer

Good night, magic internet friends. 🎩🪄✨🌙

Well, I sure do love my hometown. And I had this idea of #bitcoin  as a local/global currency that would draw international attention. But of late I’ve been realizing this is a s-l-o-w process.

#Mendocino

Today I had coffee with a neighbor. He lives here but works for one of the big Silicon Valley tech firms. His specialty is encryption. He ‘understands’ Bitcoin but he doesn’t ’get it’ with Bitcoin. For him Bitcoin is a novelty, a clever use of technology.

My meeting today taught me something which is hard to articulate but it’s something like one of those visual puzzles. With bitcoin you either see the glass or the faces (I’m not sure which one bitcoin is in this analogy.)

Ultimately adoption of bitcoin is slow. You have to have a low time preference. People find bitcoin when they’re ready.

Good morning 🚂☁️

I think btc or bust for nostr’s success will not be as successful as one might hope. Mainstream users (aka normies) want key features/unique experiences, value props (does it solve a key problem) and then economic incentives.

Few probably think btc is the key to anything in their immediate futures.

It is not even clear that 100s of million of people care enough about owning their data, privacy, and the ability to carry on without govt control at this point.

While really important issues those are more complex conversations which take time and application maturity to have.

Explaining everything nostr/btc can do is likely to overwhelm normies.

Start with the basics of a conversation, the hello. Help them solve their problems in a unique and engaging way, then you have the trust needed to expand the conversation.

Think about chatting on a 1st date vs asking someone to marry you. You cannot start there. You have to put in the time and earn the right to ask that question.

Crypto has made the same error. Everything is on chain and this is the best way to live and work. So far that narrative is not getting 100s of millions or billions of users to adopt those apps.

I think it can once the conversation moves to simpler and less significant buy in requirements. The same is true of Nostr.

Humans like to nibble, to dabble. Put their toe in the water. Etc. So first experiences will make or break things from a repeat use perspective.

While the same few 10-20 million people (total swag) like to jump into the deep end of the pool you need 100s of millions more to change how the world works (in terms of adoption)

So build new types of apps on nostr along with cloning ones that need to be cloned/improved. Make the UI/UX seamless, beautiful, idiot proof.

In addition to the above UI/UX work I would say Relay scaling and Relay economics is a key pain point. A hobby network wont scale to 10s or 100s of millions and the bills have to be paid.

GM☕️🫂