2025 is going to be a ₿anger. Nobody is ready.

Do what you can.

Where you are.

With what you have available to you.

🚨🚨 Zap Challenge Alert 🚨🚨

GM 🐸

I'll say it again for people in the back that didn't hear it.

We're all here because we recognize what's wrong with legacy social communication.

Nostr is an open protocol. There is no correct path forward. There are only user choices.

You can also tell me to go fuck myself if you don't believe me or like what I said.

That's the beauty of all of this.

Keep building.

I’ve seen it used as a currency countless times across the world.

People use it as a currency every day on this platform.

Almost 5 years is about a third of #Bitcoin’s existence

He also owns about 2% of the supply of bitcoin.

I’d say he’s had his time and reason to study what Bitcoin is extensively.

Not that new

this is the best day of my life, ive been dreaming of holding my own electric guitar since i was a little girl.

Running #Bitaxe!

Remember Black Mirror and West World? I feel like we were in a communal high-tech trance for half a decade. The pandemic broke the spell and since then I can't really enjoy distopian high-tech shows anymore. I don't know.. maybe it's just me. But reality now feels different than back then.

Includes me 😅

One thing I am wondering about lately:

Does anyone still expect serious #halving effects or was it just a nothingburger this time? #bitcoin #asknostr #plebchain

I sent 60,000 sats today as a test…

Here’s what happened, what I learned, and what I want to test next:

First off, I’m new to nostr, but things here excite me - I want to experiment, connect, and build.

In the last 24 hours I sent:

-199 zaps

- 60,000 sats

- Average of 301 sats per zap

- Second most sats zapped on the day

What happened:

- Gained 87 new followers

- Cost per follow 689 sats (~$0.65)

- Super high signal followers (people building on Nostr, Founders, etc.)

After doing a bit of research, it appears follower campaigns on X average around $1-2 per follow 🤷

I decided to mainly use “testing something…” as the text that goes along with the zap… not super direct, but was hoping that it was enough to peak curiosity…

I almost decided to go with “quick question” which probably would have performed better, but also pissed more people off at the same time…

That’s another thing I noticed, there is definitely a % of users who really hate all things related to this zap-vertising concept.

My next test:

Today I zapped 199 total zaps with an average of 301 sats per zap.

Now, I want to try sending several thousand zaps, with an average sats per zap around 10 or so…

We’ll see how it goes 🫡

Is Zap-vertising effective on Nostr?

And is bringing advertising $$$ to Nostr a potential catalyst for network growth?

Advertising $$$ —> More creator compensation —> more creators —> more users —> network growth? 🤔🤔🤔

I’ve found myself spending most of my thinking power concentrated on Nostr recently.

Feeling like a kid in a candy store on here with all of the possible things to build.

I wanted to get an experiment up quickly to get my wheels turning…

So here’s my simple experiment to kick things off:

I’m going to spend 500,000 sats in the next week, using the zapvertising model, measure the results, and provide updates here…

Tracking new followers, cost per follow, and eventually website clicks, email opt-ins, cost per click, etc.

What I’m looking to answer:

Can "zapvertising" become a viable model?

Let's find out.

Follow along for the journey.

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In 2025, I’m going Pro. I want to help 1 million people start saving bitcoin in self custody, and create 10,000 sovereign wholecoiners.

I’ve started a media company and assembling a team.

I’ve hired the key players and put the foundation in place in the last quarter.

We’re ready to roll Q1 2025.

I love what Saylor is doing for Bitcoin, but we need to work harder than ever to espouse the values of self-custody.

I’ve put my money where my mouth is over the last epoch and deployed a lot of funds to bitcoiners building tools for self-custody Bitcoining.

Now it’s time to put my mouth where my money is 💪