making poor people perform for entertainment by using their desperation as motivation.

we are well in dystopian collapse

I spent another 100,000 sats on a zap-vertising experiment…

And I think I proved that advertising on Nostr actually works…

Here’s:

1️⃣ What I did

2️⃣ The results

3️⃣ What I learned

1️⃣ What I did:

I sent 4105 zaps over the course of 3 days for a total of 112,000 sats.

Each zap contained a link for a blog post:

zapvertising-experiment.carrd.co

My goal was to see if I could get a reasonable cost per click (CPC)…

2️⃣ The results:

During the campaign I had a total of 71 unique visitors to the page.

CPC was 1578 sats or $1.50 usd.

I also gained 245 followers from that campaign.

These CPCs are in line with other ad platforms which validates the overall concept for me.

3️⃣ What I learned / brain dump:

- Results were better than expected.

- I thought there might have been a bit of negative push back (however none received).

- There is a chance I am significantly underreporting and google analytics isn't picking everything up (surprised to see 3-4x the number of new followers vs. clicks 🤔)

- THERE IS SOMETHING HERE. I still don’t know exactly what the model looks like, how it scales, but there is something to be uncovered.

- Right now, this can’t be done at scale… in the future it could. I spent ~$100 and it took me multiple days. In the future there will be ways to allocate +$10,000 per day here. For context of where we are at right now, Nostr daily zap totals are around 750,000 sats - about $675 - see stats.nostr.band/ for that data)

- Something feels off with the format… simply paying someone and sending them a link… The p2p model feels right, but the format feels off.

More to come 🫡

Let me know your thoughts 👇

If the #USA sells the ₿69K #SilkRoad stash, #China will be the largest nation-state holder of #Bitcoin / #BTC & it will literally mark the end of the American empire. 🤯

Might wanna brush up on your Mandarin, kids. 🤙

If you truly want to see something happen, you won’t make excuse after excuse for why it can’t be done. You’ll just solve for those obstacles and then do the thing.

This nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 episode is currently #2 on nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 ⚡️⚡️⚡️ nostr:note1v7xykz7dj2sgdvqsgjn8ld8uytr0haala8l0p7n98fl7m79tsa8qkstrdk

I told my mother about bitcoin for years and she was like “yeah, cool, nah.” She’s in her 70s.

And then I was like “The HRF eg @gladstein is doing cool shit for human rights with bitcoin.”

And once I showed her some examples, she was like “holy shit” and joined their newsletter and is like 110% onboard with their mission. She reads their newsletters more than me now, and asks me questions about them, so I have to catch up on them to answer her stuff.

She still doesn’t own Bitcoin but is like, reading every HRF email and asking me about them and totally onboard.

I'm here on nostr because of nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx thank you for being the change in the world you wanna see

Yes sir! 🙃

I am building furiously trying to get my backend prep things in order; I assumed I was gonna hit 270 around my birthday (April). 💁‍♂️

I was off by miles & I was not prepared for this, but it's been fun working against a deadline that keeps sliding forward. 🫠

Feels like I'm in startup mode all over again; I love this shit! 🤙

I’m thinking of a number between 1 and 100. First person to guess it I will zap 50,000 Sats. 🎰

1 guess max per soul obvs.

Question: if bitcoin is all about financial freedom, why do so many bitcoiners advocate for going into debt to acquire more bitcoin. Debt has wrecked far more potential bitcoiners than it has made. I get the spend in weak money and save in hard money, but I think it’s foolish to advocate so hard for indebtedness for the common person.