TLDR: Meet people where they are at. That is how we win. nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg

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Gracias! Let’s spread the vibe. Meet people where they are at. That’s how we onboard them. You don’t explain to a professional chef what the state of

the reverse repo market is if you want them to care about the M2 money supply and how it impacts their day to day life. No. You find a way to use the ingredients in their meals as an analogy for introducing those concepts. This is how we win.

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!

great to meet you! i’m loving the energy so far on nostr. the positive vibes and all. what do you do in the music industry? do you play? what type of music are you into? so many questions, i know. i can nerd out in this stuff. feel free to share your stuff if you play. i’m always down for a listen.

excellent stuff. appreciate you sending this over.

Thank you Sergio.

my man!

thank you!

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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loved this intro. you’ve inspired me to write my own!

I came across some cool #nostr #statistics today. as of today, there appears to be ~1.8M users on nostr. interestingly, there are 39M public keys. some of you guys must have a lot of identities! Even more interesting? 19.88 total #bitcoins have been zapped, representing over $1.1M USD, with each zap averaging 554 #sats, or approximately $0.32. Notes written seem to outnumber reactions by 2.7x, which is to say I hope people can be as generous with their reactions as they are with their willingness to write. I haven't been much of a poster in my past social media life, but nostr makes me want to engage more with you awesome people and that is what I plan to do.

if you can see this, you can also see the tip below:

a gentle reminder that people’s inability to understand bitcoin is part of the human condition

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last time i had this feeling was when btc was on its way down from $69k to $20k. when it went to $16k, i felt a sense of doom like many probably do now (especially first cyclers or those who have significant skin in the game for the first time). it had crossed below the previous ATH and my mental model was pinning btc going to $5k. it made for poor mental health, but it did not change my willingness to ride the thing to zero. what i should have done then instead was go deeper and harder than ever. this is a good time for everyone to revisit this sweet vid from nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs . ingest it. share it. spread the Positive Mental Attitude (or PMA as popularized by hardcore icons Bad Brains in their song ‘Attitude’; check out their music). if you’re not being laughed at by no-coiner friends right now, you’re not stacking (or Hodl’ing) hard enough. have a good weekend everyone.

https://m.primal.net/KhMQ.mov

so many typos woops. on a gym machine.

my roommate at duke was most recently the chief investment officer at Global Endowment Management (fund of funds in Charlotte). he started at CBRE and also comes a value investing background. i am slowly attempting to educate him on btc and his his podcast was fantastic for someone w his background. well done. unrelated, but to others reading this, start paying attention to the 200w SMA on btc. have we forgotten preston’s legendary tweet last time we were around those levels? not saying we’ll get there, but it’s not a bad time for multi-cyclers to put their education to use. survive and advance. that’s the game.

I’m with you though I do kind of miss the macro insights of Felix Jauvin and Quinn Thompson

It’s pattern recognition, Lyn! No different than how you seem to seamlessly look at a few basic financial charts from the 70s, 40s and prior periods and confidently say ‘Yea I think we are living through a period that resembles X with characteristics of Y.’ As a musician with a finance background, that is probably the best analogy I can think of. The basic melody can be figured out quickly - for example, the progression from an E to Am to D. The details that make the song great take more work, like you digging deeper into obscure data. For example, the E may actually be an E7 hammer on or something. Anyway, funny how the human brain works. I’m more like your husband, and equally amazed at your fluidity with econ/finance analysis. On the topic of music, are there any particular artists that have your attention these days?

whales don’t become whales by losing trust when problems happen. hodl on.