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I think timing couldn't be more perfect for Telegram to go FOSS under Pavel's instructions.
Seems like apps should have emergency plans like this.
If Pavel gets arrrsted, Telegram goes fully FOSS and thousands of clients go live.
Bitcoin is always on sale when you can buy it with paper.
That will not always be the case.
Grateful that today you can buy Bitcoin with paper money.
nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgmwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxy6t5vdhkjmnsv9exktnrdaksz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdaks9hhj2c you need to check this out: https://geyser.fund/project/nostrmeetme/goals
Exactly what you talked about
Meet Me On Nostr needs funding
What would happen if we all stopped using platforms and products that KYC/AML people?
Bitcoin changes everything
Gm Nostr
Today is a good day for coffee, utxo management and deleting your twitter account.
Onwards ⚡
Great fireside between nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m at Nostriga. I got a chance to listen to it now.
Regarding the question of whether Nostr will have more users than Twitter/X in five years (~500 million), my base case would be no, actually. And I say that as a huge Nostr fan and daily user.
In the long arc of time, Nostr's addressable market is nearly unlimited (basically everyone who uses the internet could be using Nostr in some form), but I expect somewhat of a slower burn. Infrastructure build-out type stuff. And breaching a network effect with a better solution is generally quite a long uphill climb.
To me, Nostr is successful once it starts serving tens of millions of people well. I expect it to be more of a quality over quantity thing for a while. Bitcoin is almost 16 years in and still isn't at 500 million users. But for many of those people, it was lifechanging.
I'd like to be surprised to the upside, but I also don't want people to think that if Nostr is "only" at tens of millions of people in five years, or 100+ million but still sub-Twitter, that it underachieved. It's tiny right now, and numbers anywhere approaching that would be a huge increase.
Nostr is a great improvement for everyone using it. But sometimes it takes people time to see why a given solution is better than what they have, or to realize they have a problem at all.
So in the meantime I monitor Nostr's success by the quality and quantity of developer activity, the capability of the protocol as a freedom tool or the shortcomings it still has for that use case, the quality of the conversations throughout the ecosystem, how many people consider it to be lifechanging tech compared to centralized social media, and in time, steady growth.
Lyn, I think onboarding will be a massive improvement for Nostr.
1- onboard friends and family with a link to follow you.
2- design the invite so that you build their profile for them: suggested accounts to follow based on who you follow and recommended relays.
3- preload their wallet with ecash
nostr:nprofile1qqsd7ele5ljpzft5tjl84naae5pkj9uqcepa77adwr6ayyy0948uyqqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qtxwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tmwwp6kyvtdv9hxcmnxd3uh57t2dpnkswfhxp6rsmtddenhyerew33hqvm2wfkkzcfkxe6nsdpkvankwdm5xgcxxem3w9m8jm3ew3hr7cnjdaskgcmpwd6r6arjw4jsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshsavanjs is working on this and we need to get him some funding. Can you help spread the word so he can push out the MVP?
NOSTR needs this: https://geyser.fund/project/nostrmeetme/goals
Normies will find Bitcoin through Nostr first.
Nostr will be every Normie's first interaction with Bitcoin.
Let's improve onboarding shall we?
Badass Panel with nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx & nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m.
BTW, super cool aesthetics at #Nostriga…nostr:npub1y67n93njx27lzmg9ua37ce7csvq4awvl6ynfqffzfssvdn7mq9vqlhq62h & nostr:npub1yul83qxn35u607er3m7039t6rddj06qezfagfqlfw4qk5z5slrfqu8ncdu
All the branding is amazing! ⚡⚡
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