Every day, in my "fiat" job as a Economics, Business and Technology high school teacher I'm faced with the very real opportunity (and responsibility) of opening minds and perspectives. To the truth.
I take this very seriously.
The educational "system" has some deep flaws but I do my best within the frame work (bitcoin fixes this BTW...)
I've put my personal and reputation on the line in supporting #Bitcoin... since 2018.
It can heal and fix many things in the world.
I couldn't be more proud of nostr:nprofile1qqsxugjjylrmak4hvhn5k2ddnqgvsereprgq9sdeunp3jhxa58dgafcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhskum55f and nostr:nprofile1qqs0q59vcumcyaeef3urp0ywaq3t6h730vuzsa9xevaetp0ky5vkxqspr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmd9u4prkfg ... esp. Lightning Sparx - the first Kids Guide Book that's FUN for kids, and the first Uno Style Bitcoin themed card game!
To us, meeting people, and kids, 'where they are' means to make things FUN and COOL first and foremost. Money and Bitcoin can be so overly serious and technical...
I imagine the 13 year old doing chores, or the 17 year old getting their first job ๐ what would they need to be introduced to?
If this resonates with you... all Zaps go directly towards materials, and we're actively looking for other educators and artists to be on our label ๐ nostr:nprofile1qqs0q59vcumcyaeef3urp0ywaq3t6h730vuzsa9xevaetp0ky5vkxqspr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmd9u4prkfg
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https://video.nostr.build/a78a797c02aa4211d066fa7a7387c2c69da70f0cb7ba2b33f6a1be047b22d3cb.mp4
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.
KEY PAIR ๐ IDENTITY.
FEW.
Reminds me of when I got my first Lightning Tip/Invoice on Reddit years ago.
Had no idea...
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Ran out of time to do more zaps today. Keep posting your #bitcoin sticker spots and I'll zap them all next week.
Thanks for continuing to spread the word, and for your patience getting zapped!
Get stickers here: https://bitcoin.rocks/stickers
Awesome work, as always โก๏ธโก๏ธโก๏ธ
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I'd like to do a writers' #NostrNest group chat... ๐
Bitcoin can bring about global peace, human connected one-ness, infinite compassion, ease of suffering and unbounded happiness!
Bitcoin fixes "_________"!
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