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I've been wanting to host a local Bitcoin meetup for years. I am finally doing it. I had to sign into Facebook and create an event though. That's the only way to get locals in my small town. Besides the dirty feeling of using Facebook, I'm feeling optimistic. Hopefully I can get a couple people to show up.

so much signal on here lately, here’s a grainy photo of my incredible phone case ☺️

currently running Amethyst on my mobile, Damus on ma iPad and then 3 tabs of clients in browser (Iris, Snort and Nostrgram)

The experience vary quite a bit and as for zapping, hmmm, doesnt like working properly across them all ... more learning to do!!

Gotta say tho, waaaay better than Twatter.

#plebchain

on track for one of the largest hash rate increases of all time and bitcoin mempools have yet to clear…

Nostr is eating up bandwidth which is a huge problem over cellular networks. I suspect a lot of content is downloaded simultaneously from many relays over and over again instead of having clever caching and optimization. Are devs working on solutions to this?

pv 🤙

What’s your take on the view counts on notes, and in general?

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Nostr as a protocol, and the community in the Nostr ecosystem of clients, are absolutely incredible.

Little capital provided, and yet here it all is.

Keep building. This is awesome. A technology whose time has come.

Iris works with #[4] and other extensions where you can have multiple keys so the switching is pretty convenient and you're not exposing your private keys.

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pv 💫 What’s the feature you ❤️ the most in Iris? What would you like to see changed / added (and why)?

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Some of you noticed what we did a few days ago:

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Pura Vida is the way.

No more censorship.

No more hidden psyops.

No more invasive ads.

Just good vibes, zaps, and plebs helping plebs

Banks are closed but I just zapped hard money to the other side of the world without needing permission.

Biggest flex ⚡️

As someone that likes to clear browser history, post history, and scrub things clean. NOSTR frightens me. Once I send, it’s relayed forever. Typos and all.

Honest break down of where things are today:

#1 nostr 🔮 has a user base that is accessible from any nostr client. Currently that user base is approx 10k DAU of high quality pubkey ie pfp, banner, completed NIP-05.

There are approx 100k DAU of all pubkeys. This has happened organically. No paid downloads, not even any ads. Nostr has had quite a bit of attention and this has spiked awareness several times. 😁

#2 Content, naturally we spend a lot of time talking about nostr, protocols, Bitcoin, Twitter, this is great and these subjects are well served here but whilst we are all very enthusiastic about this stuff, we should also engage broader subjects too. People love travel, clothes, food, etc. Don’t let other subjects whither before they get established.🤔

#3 Zaps ⚡️, the integration of money into the network is a game changer and a huge achievement by everyone involved. The potential here is almost unlimited… if the community grows. But we have to collectively earn that community growth, all of us, together.😏🙂

What can those of us already here do?

#A we should make a big effort as a community to help new people landing in a chaotic Global feed to navigate the showers, find some follows and crucially; set up their pubkey. By setting up their pubkey they are making a small investment of time and closing the “I feel like an outsider” gap. 🥹

#B Try creating a new pubkey today and see what the experience is like for a new person coming over without the signal tuned. It can be difficult to navigate the rawness of Global and find active engaging people. Let’s be mindful that it’s very early for nostr, setting up a pubkey and tuning signal is a learning curve and requires effort, I try and spend some time each day fishing people out of global and helping them. 🎣

#C New users are the fuel, as nostr has passed various milestones new friction has emerged that we should seek to address. For new pubkeys there is a lot of spam, this chokes onboarding and poses a threat to the network. Nostr needs growth and to achieve that we must overcome onboarding, that means:

i) Pubkey set up, pfp, banner, bio, NIP-05

ii) Spam filtering, make this easy / default

iii) Signal tuning, aka discovery 📡

It’s important to try out each client as a new pubkey and see what the experience is like, whichever has the nicest experience is likely to be the most used client after a year.

I feel like there is a valley of death to cross where the network isn’t quite large enough to support some things but needs some things to attract more users. Let’s be honest about this and continue working for it.

… and keep the zaps ⚡️ flowing that’s basically the community bootstrapping itself to the world 🌎

The most powerful thing about Nostr is that it reverses the server model of the last 25 years. Instead of users going to services and signing up for yet another account, services can now come to users.

Few.

If you think send Zaps is significantly growing a Bitcoin circular economy here on Nostr, just wait until clients launch built-in marketplaces. We'll be buying and selling products and services from other Nostriches. No more Ebay. Not more Facebook Marketplace. This is the "Other Stuff" that I'm really looking forward to seeing come to fruition. 🚀 ⚡