Permission-less and open cross-integration. For me, the big picture of nostr is how clients can talk to one another without requiring an API key. You accrue audience on one client and carry it over to the next without having to rebuild it.

You don’t need to wait to be approved to build, you just create what you’d like to see in the world and make it be a part of the global nostr network right away. The networks effects from that are pretty powerful imo.

Right now all of the platforms are segmented and you have to cross-post physically to reach different audiences. Your Twitter, Youtube, TikTok followers are in different places and most likely don’t know about each other. With nostr, they can be on separate clients but be a part of the same core following. This enables better content discovery across client types (music to social, video to social, long-form to social, social to ecommerce, ecommerce to social etc…)

Now throw in the lighter fluid aka zaps, and you have instant payments between everything and everyone. Makes transactions more fluid, faster, more satisfying and empowering (money in your hands much more quickly to circulate back into the network or into your wallet). Massive shift in exchange of value!

For merchants that means

- Faster payments to expand their business more quickly

- Closer social ties to their customers

- Faster feedback to improve offers

- A more powerful marketing engine (now instead of showing your product in one place, it can show in many).

- Targeted advertising (zapvertising - zap the people with audiences that match your customer base and they’ll see the zap comment).

Just one powerful economic engine that will keep growing and accrue value directly to people participating in it.

But honestly, we probably haven’t even scratched the surface on what use cases will be unlocked.

Yes, they can. They just delete the approval event.

Do you know what season and episode number it is?

In the latest Futurama episode, Bender buys a donkey for 13 micro-Bitcoin, names it Rusty and gets abducted to the Bitcoin mines while the rest of the crew try to find rare metals to build mining machines.

so what happened to all the new nostriches, are they still here or did they fly the nest?

If you are doing strength training start with one of those handheld grip gadgets and get your grip up to 60kg before doing any strength training.

This has massive benefits for your form and control of resistance, and will really help you avoid injury.

Nobody really tells you this.

Check out #grownostr as well

Following 15 people is way too little. Following a lot of people early and eventually unfollowing them later if you are not interested is a great way to get the initial traction.

Also you can try exporing hashtags and global. #plebchain #grownostr and #zapathon are a good place to start.