Hello! My immediate intention is to help creatives in my sphere understand the 'why' of the chaos in the world. Most people jump straight to the 'what' (as in 'what is bitcoin?'). It amazes me how few people understand basic economics, despite that the economy touches everyone's lives in some capacity literally every day. There are many resources that make a good case for why broken money is the root of tension in society. One obvious example is the book Broken Money by @lynalden, which is fantastic. However, even though it explains the root of the problem in simple terms, that book (and others like it) tend to attract people with an explicit interest in finance, economics, etc. The average person, such as my girlfriend (a doctor, who has the brains to understand the book), won't pick up that book no matter how clear and terse it is because economics does not interest her. On the other hand, she listens to music. My belief is you have to meet people where they are at. Music is a universal language. It is the common denominator. Last time I checked, #Metallica sold out a stadium in #Brazil with fans singing every lyric even though most of them probably did not speak a lick of English. With this in mind, I think #music can be used to simply explain concepts such as decentralization, privacy and broken money in today's world, which gets people to eventually understand bitcoin. So that is my intention; to use music to get the broadest audience possible to care about the things people on Nostr care about. If you start by trying to explain 'what is bitcoin' without first explaining 'why have we arrived at this point of dysfunction', you lose the audience from the start. I want to change that. I just happen to believe music is one of the better vessels out there for doing so. To your other question, yes I have heard of @Wavlake, though admittedly have not spent much time with it. There is so much to explore with Nostr, but I'll be dabbling with Wavlake more and would love to help their cause. I do have experience advising companies that were trying to do something similar to them. The biggest obvious hurdle for Wavlake is achieving critical mass, which is a little trickier with a service like that compared to Nostr due to the sheer volume of IP owned by the major record labels, which is difficult and expensive to license, and minimizes the incentive for the casual listener to check out the service (and ultimately, those are the listeners needed for critical mass). Of course, there is much more to this. If you know anyone working on Wavlake, I'd be happy to speak to them!

This post by Riddy made me smile and inspired me to write an intro myself, as I too am new to Nostr. So here goes.

Hi! You can call me Bosstone. Music has always been a huge part of my existence. I am the co-founder of a music service that has grown to 10+ million users over the past 5 years, primarily in Latin America where we are #2 behind Spotify in Mexico's Google Play store music rankings.

Before my entrepreneurial journey began, I spent 7 years in finance. I was an analyst at an investment bank when Lehman collapsed and I remember that period of time well. Years after the GFC, I was considered an upper earner in society, but buying a home still felt like a stretch. Hence began my path down the 'what is money' rabbit hole that eventually led me to #bitcoin.

Like Riddy, I am also not a developer, but I am in a position to influence the music community's understanding of bitcoin, decentralization, privacy, etc. In fact, I consider it an imperative as "starving artists" are in the class of people most affected by worsening inflation, yet most are oblivious to the underlying dynamics affecting their quality of life. Moreover, the bulk of "#crypto" activity (that music execs and artists wrongfully associate with bitcoin) in my industry has revolved around awful Web3 investments and the like. Unsurprisingly, few music people - from record label workers to rights administrators - actually understand bitcoin.

To that end, I hope to contribute to the Nostr community for now by onboarding members of the creative and creative exec class into our movement. I may sneak in a few music-related things along the way.

Many aspiring artists are anti-establishment by nature. Nostr jives perfectly with their world. They just don't know it yet. Let's get them there.

Bosstone

#introductions

#music

#grownostr

#plebchain

#introductions

#creatives

#finance

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Gm #nostr 💜🫂 it’s my birthday today🎂 woo yay me 🚀

Hi everyone, thought it’s about time for a proper introduction here on Nostr!

My name is Riddy, I’m a photographer, sailor and surfer from Australia.

As a photographer, I’ve always felt slightly uncomfortable sharing my content on traditional social media. Largely because I don’t want to feed the beast but also because I know that my audience is being tracked and manipulated.

After listening to quite a few @Jeff Booth interviews, the message of putting your time and energy into the systems and networks you believe in hit home.

I’m not a developer /coder but I can contribute my photography to this growing community! Hoping to connect with other creatives and artists out there ✌🏽

Cheers,

Riddy

#introductions

#grownostr

#photostr

#photographer

#australia

#austr

#photography

#art

#artstr

#plebchain

#introduction

#surf

#sailing

No, it is an Ibanez, but really similar sound wise. I forgot which model. But basically, like a Gibson ES-335 just a bit less expensive and still a good player!

Devs like food 🥹

Been three days on #nostr and there is so much to learn. Kind of too addicted to it! But now, back to work, proof of work-style, put my phone away and work this beautiful instrument for a few hours.

#grownostr #music #guitar #musician #jazz #jazznostr #practice #motivation #bitcoin #plebchain

As a personal KPI it's good. It's not about judging, I'm not saying there's anyone who would not come. I personally prefer quality over quantity and striving for numbers is not the best approach.

Value is always subjective and it's good.

For some people even Facebook is good.

Growth is not my KPI.

Freedom and cool people is.

Fully agreed, the price has prematurely pumped ahead of the assets fixed algorithmic price trajectory due to unprecedented adoption levels from the ETFs and related anticipation. I would say that we would be looking at around 40k naturally without the extra adoption.

Maybe they really want us to work on WoT and more advanced spam filtering 😅

Muting reply guys is not effective, they are creating a new pubkey for each reply

Today I closed my Twitter account. I felt it like an irony.

Also Elon.

Good morning fellow pleeebz

The world we live in huh? 😞

spam sandwiches are particularly good when the spam is pan fried and paired with something aciditic and/or bring freshness to balance out the fat of the spam. only toast one side of the bread and orient so the untoasted side on the outside. This way, any sauce used doesn't make the bread soggy while simultaneously keeping your mouth safe from cuts.

Which hardware you started with?

How do you access it? I’ve only found the forums so far

I have less followers on #Nostr yet way more engagement.

Quality over quantity.

GM, what low time preference actions are you taking for your future self today?

I'll go first:

-eat healthy

-workout

-first steps of adding a new Sessions team member

Let's hear yours!